Liu Qingjiang's face was pale, swollen, and slightly bloodshot. He was wearing a safety helmet and had a shovel dragged beside him. He was looking at the center of the pit, at Lu Ban who was in the center of the pit.

Liu Qingjiang raised his hand, held the shovel high, and then smashed it down.

When Lu Ban raised the shovel, he dodged to the side, tightly gripping the crowbar in his hand, while loading [Last Words].

However, Liu Qingjiang's shovel fell into the gap between the heads, cracking the ground. The aged cement turned into rubble, which was scooped up by the shovel and pushed aside.

Afterwards, Liu Qingjiang picked up the shovel again and repeated the previous action, seemingly not noticing Lu Ban's presence.

"He can't see me?"

Lu Ban stood diagonally opposite Liu Qingjiang, with his back against the wall, motionless.

Liu Qingjiang just dug the ground with a shovel after another and dug out the bodies of the workers inside.

"The designer of this hospital was a foreigner who committed suicide after designing it. The person in charge of the construction team also seemed to be mentally tortured. They used the workers who died in accidents to create human stakes to try to suppress something, but is it really effective?"

Lu Ban was also a person who had witnessed all kinds of strange and bizarre things and evil gods in foreign lands. In his opinion, the custom of using living people as stakes was probably a serious feudal custom in most cases.

If there really are those monsters and demons, they are not afraid of living people, so why would they be afraid of you, the dead?

If we talk about ghosts fighting ghosts, these workers have been harmed by you and their bodies cannot even be buried. They will be sealed in cement forever. If it were Lu Ban, he would haunt them every night and seek revenge on the people who buried him. Why would they help you protect the hospital?

The so-called "living stake" is probably the result of another ritual, the purpose of which may not be to suppress something, but to summon something.

The rituals of evil gods in various exotic lands always involve human sacrifice. Only the scent of death and soul can attract these strange, evil and indescribable beings.

"It seems that the missing people have entered this strange space. Is this the other world?"

Lu Ban thought of the setting in a horror game he had played before. In that game, humans were likely to enter a different world due to the influence of supernatural forces. One of them was the other world, which was full of anomalies and monsters and was very dangerous.

"It can be seen that they may have survived for a while after entering here, but with the erosion, they eventually transformed into monsters, and these monsters seem to act according to their obsessions in life. Liu Qingjiang felt guilty about the death of the workers, so he wanted to dig out the remains of the workers. Xu Xiao wanted to escape from here, so he kept asking for help at the nurses' station?"

He saw Liu Qingjiang dig up a pile of soil, put it in a cement bag, and drag it out of the room. His movements were stiff, like a machine that had been out of repair for a long time.

"As for the doctor just now, maybe he had a failed operation before his death or something else and became obsessed with it, so after mistakenly entering here, he repeated his original work?"

Lu Ban thought of the obstetrician and gynecologist.

However, new questions arise.

"Wait, but this hospital shouldn't have an obstetrics and gynecology department, so where did this obstetrician and gynecologist come from?"

Lu Ban began to suspect that the obstetrics and gynecology department of this hospital was hiding a secret, perhaps closely related to the deepest secret of this hospital.

"Is he the kind of private doctor who delivers babies for rich people?"

He thought that some doctors would secretly deliver babies for rich people, some of whom were popular stars, some were mistresses or third parties of rich people, and some were even darker and more immoral illegitimate children.

"No, it shouldn't be that simple... This hospital used human stakes when it was built, and the human stakes should be part of some kind of ritual. The designer of this hospital committed suicide. The investors of this hospital are foreigners and the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce. In other words, this hospital may have been built for some purpose from the beginning?"

Lu Ban left the room and stood against the wall near the window. The world outside the window was pitch black. He couldn't see his hand in front of him and couldn't see anything.

"Moreover, judging from what happened just now, there should be more than one or two missing people in the hospital. There must be more people lost here. However, with so many missing cases, it is impossible for the police not to intervene in the investigation. According to the information Song Yunyan gave me, Nanhua Private Renji Hospital has not been subject to similar investigations."

He saw Liu Qingjiang enter the room again, keep digging, and then leave with the rubble. However, the hole was getting bigger and bigger, but he could never reach the end of it, as if it had life.

"From the outside world's perspective, I should have disappeared by now. If I want to get out, I have to uncover the secret of this hospital."

Lu Ban saw that two hours had passed since he came in, and it was still early before six o'clock.

"Where will the fragments of Du Danping's melody be?"

He walked through the hallway and saw the nurses' station on this floor.

There was a nurse sitting in the nurses' station. The nurse had nothing in her hands, as if she was knitting, but in fact, she had nothing in her hands. Even the eyeballs were just two holes left on her rotten face. She just sat there woodenly, as if nothing had changed.

Lu Ban returned to the stairwell and saw that the footprints, which looked like the traces of a baby crawling, stopped here. It seemed that if Lu Ban didn't go upstairs, this thing would not follow him up.

"Or does it need to be guided by someone before it can climb the stairs?"

While Lu Ban was standing there thinking, a sound suddenly rang out, which was particularly harsh in the silent corridor.

That is the sound of machinery running.

Lu Ban looked up and saw the elevator next door, which suddenly lit up without him noticing.

The floor above was shown as the first floor, but soon, accompanied by the sound of mechanical operation, the elevator arrived at the second floor.

But the elevator did not reach the third floor immediately, instead it made an arrival sound.

Ding Dong——

This surprised Lu Ban.

Because according to the working mode of the elevator, the only possibility for it to operate like this is that someone pressed the elevator button on the second floor.

But, in this hospital, besides myself, who else can control the elevator?

Lu Ban heard the sound of the elevator door closing and the sound of the steel cable being pulled.

The number on the elevator changed to 3.

Ding Dong——

The elevator arrived and made a crisp prompt sound.

Then, the door slowly opened.

Lu Ban saw a doctor in a white coat standing inside. He was not wearing a mask and the degree of corrosion was not serious, so his appearance could be seen.

Looks very familiar.

Lu Ban remembered that this was the person introduced by the doctor when he saw him at the nurses' station on the first floor.

The director of Nan Hua Private Renji Hospital, Zhao Gongping.

"He's not the one who disappeared here, how come he's here?"

Lu Ban hurriedly stood by the wall. Since he didn't know the dean's behavior pattern, pretending to be dead was the best option.

He saw the dean walking slowly towards the nurses' station and passing in front of Lu Ban.

Lu Ban discovered that the dean was holding a surgical hammer and scalpel, as if he was going to perform an operation.

Holding his breath, Lu Ban watched the dean walk by.

However, Dean Zhao Gongping did not take any further steps.

The figure in the white coat stopped and did not move, only his head turned almost 180 degrees to look at Lu Ban.

"die……"

"die……"

"die……"

He uttered fragmented words, raised the hammer in his hand and smashed it towards Lu Ban!