The central hospital is very large and spacious, and the smell of disinfectant is everywhere.
It is understood that the central hospital has a total of five floors. The third floor is directly reached after entering the ground lobby. The first and second floors are underground and are used to accommodate and treat patients with confused consciousness. They are deliberately separated and placed underground for fear that they may pose a danger to other ordinary patients.
From the third floor up to the fifth floor is where ordinary people go to see a doctor, which is no different from general urban medical facilities.
The only special thing is that the hospital has surrounded the doors leading to the second floor with three layers of super thick metal mesh inside and outside, and they are usually electrified to prevent those with confused consciousness from coming into contact with other people.
Qi Mi was a moderately disordered patient and was placed in the treatment area on the lowest floor. He brought three children with him, so the nurses were afraid that they would disturb other patients' rest, so they placed them in a separate ward at the end of the corridor.
Because it is underground, we can only turn on the lights for lighting.
This ward seemed to have not been cleaned for a long time. The smell of dust hit me as soon as I opened the door. There were spider webs in the corners of the walls. The white walls were corroded by mold and turned an ugly gray.
Looking around, there were only two empty camp beds. Although the room was not big, it seemed a bit empty because there were so few things in it.
"I'm sorry, no one has lived in this room for a long time. I'll find someone to clean it right away." The young nurse covered her mouth and nose. The dust made her cough continuously, and she quickly turned around and left.
Qi Mi fanned away the choking dust with his hands, and waited at the door with the children, but did not go in yet.
"Hey! You're new here, right? Hello!"
Just as he finished speaking, a half-eaten apple core suddenly flew over and hit Qi Mi's feet.
Qi Mi was stunned for a moment, and looked in the direction of the sound. A girl's face was squeezed in the small window on the door of the opposite room.
The reason why it is called crowded is that the window on the door is too small, only the size of a palm. When the girl puts her whole face against it, the flesh on her face is squeezed together and her facial features are deformed.
In the dim light, even the fans were frightened when they suddenly saw such a face, not to mention the children, who all shouted "The old witch is coming".
"Who are you calling a witch? You rude little brats!" The girl rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction. "I'm the base's purification officer. I'm just temporarily imprisoned here. Once I recover, I can leave this damn place!"
Qi Mi looked at her and didn't say anything.
Although her mind was in a mess, she still realized one thing——
What confusion of consciousness, what low SAN value, in fact, to put it bluntly, these people are patients with mental disorders. These two floors are actually a mental hospital, and she... is now a mentally ill patient with unclear mind.
She knew she shouldn't bring these children to this kind of environment, but there was no other way. She didn't know how long she would need treatment, and she really couldn't feel comfortable leaving the children with those people outside, so she had to keep them with her.
Perhaps Qi Mi's silence piqued the interest of the "Purification Officer." She continued to chat with a smile, "From now on, we'll be neighbors across the street. My name is Song Chun, and they all call me Xiaochun. What's your name?"
Qi Fan glanced at her and saw her looking at him with two big eyes flashing. It was not easy to offend her again and again, so he had to reply tactfully: "My last name is Qi..."
"Seven?" Song Chun seemed to be hearing this surname for the first time. He tilted his head and asked, "Seven in tangram? Then I'll call you Xiaoqi from now on, okay?"
"what ever."
Qi Mi was extremely tired now. Although he didn't feel any pain all over his body, he was indeed uncomfortable. Just standing took all his strength. He really didn't want to talk to this "neighbor", so he stood on tiptoe and hoped that someone would come to clean the ward as soon as possible.
As if he could see what she was thinking, Song Chun curled his lips and looked in the direction she was looking. "Don't look at it. Even if you stare at them, they won't come to clean up for you. Just clean it up yourself. Everyone is very busy. You can just be self-reliant... But as a kind and friendly neighbor, I'm still very happy to help you."
Qi Mi was still pondering the meaning of her words when he heard a knock. Song Chun opened the door and walked out of the room smiling in his hospital gown.
Qi Fan: “???”
"Don't look at me like that. I'm a purification officer. The hospital should at least give me some small benefits, right?" Song Chun smiled and shook the key on his wrist.
Without waiting for Qi Mi to react, she swaggered into Qi Mi's room, picked up the broom standing by the wall and started to help clean.
Qi Mi is usually least good at dealing with two types of people.
One is the crybaby because she really doesn't know how to comfort her children. Every time the children cry, she just hugs them and waits until they cry enough.
There is another type of person like Song Chun, who is so enthusiastic that he doesn't even consider himself an outsider. He is so familiar with others that he has no sense of boundaries. This type of person can also make Qi fans feel at a loss.
Just like now, she was standing at the door watching Song Chun sweep the house into a mess, completely unaware of what she could do.
"Don't just stand there stupidly. Go get a basin and get some water to moisten the ground." Song Chun instructed.
"oh."
Qi Mi finally reacted, pulled the children aside and asked them to wait, then went into the house and found a plastic basin under the bed.
The basin was very dirty. Not only was there a layer of dust, but there was also a dried-up spider that had died.
“…”
She frowned slightly, shook the basin on the ground, washed the basin from the bathroom next door, and took a basin of water.
Qi Mi sprinkled water while Song Chun swept the room, and soon there was a place to stay in the room.
The two of them could just shake off the dust on the sheets and use them.
"I'm confused, Xiao Qi. Aren't there several wards ahead? Why did you have to be assigned to this room?"
Song Chun sat on the camp bed. Every time he moved significantly, the bed would creak, which made Qi Mi very worried about his sleeping problem.
But Song Chun seemed to have gotten used to it. He sat cross-legged on the bed, not at all affected by the sound of the thing about to fall apart.
"There's no other way. It's inconvenient to bring the child with you. This is the only single room." Qi Mi replied.
Song Chun looked at the children and nodded in understanding: "That's right, no one wants to be in the same room with children, it's too noisy..."
She casually glanced at the ward number on the door, and suddenly thought of something. She sat up in bed in shock, and in such a hurry that she didn't even put on her shoes, she pulled Qi Mi aside.
Qi Mi pulled his hand away: "What for?"
"I just realized this is Room 101!" Song Chun said with wide eyes, "Haven't you heard that Ward 101 of this Central Hospital is haunted?"
Qi Mi shook his head and subconsciously looked at the door. It was indeed 101.
"Let me tell you, this room is weird. None of the patients who stayed here recovered. Their SAN values kept dropping, and in the end, they all became sources of pollution and were secretly executed!" Song Chun explained to her mysteriously, his body unconsciously leaning towards the door. "No, I can't take it anymore. Why do I feel a cold wind blowing in your room? I'm going back first!"
She ran a few steps, then seemed to think of something. She turned back, took Qi Mi's hand, and said in a low voice, "I also heard that people living here can hear "dong dong, dong dong" sounds coming from underground at night. But think about it, we're only on the first floor here, and there's no underground floor under the hospital. How can there be such sounds?"
Song Chun patted Qi Mi's hand twice, and before leaving, he kept reminding her to "think carefully", then he gently closed the door of room 101 and left the ward.
The next second, there was a bang and the sound of a door being slammed shut came from the opposite side.
Qi Fan: "..."
Qi Mi was speechless and suddenly regretted talking to her for no reason.
It would be fine if she just listened to this information normally, but now her mind was still confused, and she heard these ghostly and weird things, and goose bumps appeared on her back.
Combined with the way the young nurse turned around and ran away just now, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong with this house. When the strange and familiar tinnitus sounded again, her heart skipped a beat. She hurriedly took out the bottle of blue pills from her pocket, tremblingly poured out four pills and swallowed them.
The nurse asked her to carry this bottle of medicine with her at all times. The sedatives in it could make her brain less active. When she felt her consciousness and cognition changed again, she should take it quickly to prevent her SAN value from falling further.
After a few minutes, the tinnitus became weaker, and everything around me finally returned to a normal environment without any distortion or change.
Qi Mi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Teacher Qi, are you feeling better?" The three children stared at her eagerly.
Perhaps because they cried for too long, the children's eyes were red and their voices were hoarse to varying degrees.
Qi Mi curled his lips, squatted down and hugged them: "Don't worry, the teacher is fine..."
The doe-eyed boy placed his head on her shoulder and choked up, "You're the only one we have now, Teacher Qi. You must take your medicine and get better soon."
Qi Mi's nose felt sore for some reason, and he hugged them even tighter: "Yes, I will."
The little girl with pigtails sniffed, tears welling up in her watery eyes. "Teacher Qi, don't you remember us? You haven't called our names since you woke up."
Qi Mi's heart sank.
She stammered and just opened her mouth when she heard the sound of metal rollers in the corridor. Knowing someone was coming, she quickly changed the subject and carried the children to sit on another cot.
The young nurse came in pushing a metal cart and knocked on the door politely. Seeing that the room had been almost cleaned, she did not ask any more questions and let Qi Mi lie down on the bed with the quilt covering him.
Qi Mi lay down obediently, briefly told the nurse what had just happened, and asked in a low voice whether the room was really haunted.
Unexpectedly, the nurse just smiled after hearing this and said, "How can you believe what she said when she's in a confused state of mind?"
"Too……"
Qi Mi couldn't refute it. It was very strange to judge whether the words of a mentally ill person were true or false.
The nurse then brought some medicine and watched Qi Mi finish it before giving her a black headset. "Listen to some music and have a good sleep. Keep a calm mind and you'll recover soon." She deliberately turned to look at the children and warned, "Your teacher is sick and needs to rest. Don't disturb her, okay?"
The three kids nodded obediently.
After putting the things away, the young nurse pushed the metal cart out the door, locked Room 101 from the outside, and smiled from the window: "If you need anything, press the call bell at the bedside. I will come quickly."
Qi Mi nodded and lay back on the bed with his headphones on.
The sound quality of the headset was excellent, and the gurgling sound of running water lingering in her ears truly made her feel like she was in a tranquil forest. Her mind gradually calmed down, and the chaotic thoughts in her head disappeared.
Qi Mi opened his eyes worriedly, and seeing that the three children were all lying obediently on the bed, he slowly closed his eyes...
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