Seven people died in the hospital in a short period of time. Each of them died in a strange way and had no obvious similarities.

"Doctor Sun asked me to pay attention to the way they died, but I can't see any major problems from the way they died. Could it be that Doctor Sun wanted to tell me through the stories of these seven people that ghosts really exist in the world?"

Chen Ge had too little information, and he could not get much useful information from Dr. Sun's story. He could only force himself to remember Dr. Sun's story in his mind.

There were lightning and thunder outside the hospital, and the heavy rain was like a hysterical patient, hitting the glass windows frantically. Raindrops as big as beans fell down, and the sound of bangs was endless.

The four of them arrived at the entrance of the corridor of the fourth ward. Doctor Sun did not ask Chen Ge any more questions and directly led him upstairs.

After entering the corridor, Chen Ge's heartbeat began to speed up. He felt as if he couldn't breathe, and his mind began to recall the story that Doctor Sun had just told him.

"The doctor who was watching the surveillance video once saw a strange person in red clothes appear in the corridor. After that person went upstairs, she never came down again. It was too strange tonight. Will we meet her?"

Logically speaking, this was a very terrifying thing, but when Chen Ge thought about it, his heartbeat just kept speeding up and his body produced an indescribable emotion.

It's very complicated, and I feel more curiosity and excitement than fear.

"Curiosity kills the cat. I have to calm down."

Going up to the second floor, Chen Ge found a headless rag doll placed at the corner of the hospital stairs.

The doll is hand-sewn and its body is torn to reveal the black and red stuffing inside.

"How come there is something like this in the hospital?" Chen Ge was about to go over when his hospital gown was grabbed. He looked back and found that it was patient number two: "What's wrong?"

"You're so brave even though you broke a leg? Don't run around, follow us closely." Patient No. 2's tone was full of worry, and it could be seen that he was really thinking about Chen Ge.

"Well, I'll just go over and take a look." Chen Ge didn't know why, but his eyesight was very good. Even in the dark, he could see many things clearly. This might be caused by some kind of eye disease, at least that's what he thought.

Coming to the corner, Chen Ge slowly frowned. The rag doll seemed to be filled with animal organs, which looked a bit disgusting.

"Don't get too close to it. There was a pregnant woman in our hospital before. Her child died due to the obstetrician's mistake. After the pregnant woman was rescued, her mental state became problematic. She was sent to the third ward and has been looking for her child during her hospitalization." Doctor Sun stared at the doll on the ground expressionlessly.

"Are you saying that the doll was placed here by a pregnant woman?"

"I can't think of anyone else except her. She's actually quite pitiful. Maybe because she suffered such a huge blow, she has been unwilling to admit the fact that her child has died. She always tells people around her that her child is still alive and by her side, and even crawls next to her pillow at night." Doctor Sun pulled Chen Ge away from the headless rag doll.

"Is her condition considered delusional?" Chen Ge could be considered a doctor after years of illness.

“Yes, and no.” Doctor Sun turned around and smiled. “The pregnant woman’s situation is very similar to yours. She refused treatment. Perhaps she knew that once she was cured, she might never see her child again.”

"It's very similar to my situation?" Chen Ge was a little confused.

"If the price of your cure is to forget the story you made up before and forget everyone in the story, are you still willing to accept the treatment?" Doctor Sun said casually, but Chen Ge felt that the other party was testing him.

After thinking carefully for a while, Chen Ge did not answer. He did not want to reveal his true thoughts.

"No matter how hard the doctor tries, it's useless for a patient who doesn't want to be cured from the beginning. The pregnant woman's condition is getting worse and worse. She often tears up the sheets and curtains, makes some simple dolls, and then puts those dolls on the stairs. She thinks that by doing this, her child will come back. I still don't understand whether what she meant by coming back was that the child was attracted to the doll and came back to find the mother, or that the dead child would get into the doll's body and come back to accompany the mother."

"No matter what the situation is, I think we shouldn't hate this doll. Although it looks scary, it embodies the obsession of the pregnant woman." Chen Ge stood in front of the doll, dragging his plastered leg. His words made Patient No. 2 and Doctor Sun a little unresponsive.

"Are you sympathizing with the pregnant woman?" Dr. Sun wanted to confirm.

"We can't say we sympathize with the pregnant woman. Let's analyze it rationally. Is there anything wrong with what she did? Even if the child turned into a ghost, is the child at fault?" Chen Ge's thinking was different from the doctor's: "They are all victims, and the real perpetrators are the ones who killed them."

"Do you think this tragedy was caused by the doctor?" As soon as Dr. Sun finished speaking, Dr. Gao, who looked like a walking corpse, frowned slightly.

"It may not be the doctor's fault, but it is definitely related to him. So many things have happened in this hospital. No one can guarantee whether the doctor was disturbed by something during the operation?" Chen Ge looked at the headless rag doll at the corner of the stairs: "If it must find a result, it should be the fault of something in the hospital."

"Are you trying to reason with a ghost?" Patient No. 2 also couldn't understand Chen Ge's behavior.

"It's not certain whether there are ghosts in the world. I'm just expressing my opinion." Chen Ge looked away: "The hospital will be cleaned during the day. The appearance of this rag doll in the corridor now means that the pregnant woman may still be alive. There are other survivors in the hospital now, which is good news for us."

"The pregnant woman died in the third month of treatment. When she died, we found a cabinet full of dolls in her cabinet." After Doctor Sun finished speaking, Chen Ge and Patient No. 2 were stunned.

"The person is gone? Who put the doll here?" Patient No. 2 still doesn't believe there are ghosts in the world: "The one who knows about the pregnant woman should be the doctor. The murderer is imitating the pregnant woman's behavior at that time. Could the murderer be a doctor?"

After saying that, he looked at Dr. Sun with confusion. To be honest, he was very suspicious of Dr. Sun.

"When Zhang Jingjiu was injured, Doctor Sun and Doctor Gao were with us. Even if the murderer is a doctor, they can be ruled out as suspects." Compared to the doctor being the murderer, Chen Ge felt that the probability of a returning ghost was higher.

During the argument, several people came to the second floor. There were many photos of doctors posted in the empty corridor. This scene made Chen Ge feel familiar.

"In the past, hospitals would post photos of outstanding doctors in their wards and the honors they had won. Xinhai Central Hospital spent a lot of money to hire many famous doctors in the beginning, which was also a form of publicity."

"The hospital had good intentions, but later a doctor died unexpectedly and the hospital felt it was not good to have his photo on the wall, so they took it down. Then one night a nurse on duty found that the photo had reappeared on the wall."

"She looked carefully for a long time and finally came up with a somewhat horrifying answer. The thing hanging on the wall was not the doctor's photo, but the doctor's face."

"She reported the incident to the hospital, and the hospital manager arranged for a nurse to check on the incident, but the photo never appeared again."

"Everyone in the hospital was in a panic at the time. The leader approved a long vacation for the nurse to rest at home. Just when everyone thought the incident was over, they didn't expect that the doctors who posted the photos on the wall would have accidents one after another."

"Later, the hospital took down all the photos of doctors and was determined not to hang photos of living people on the walls."

After hearing what Dr. Sun said, Chen Ge became even more confused: "You said that the hospital would never hang photos on the walls, so what about these photos on both sides of the corridor? Did someone hang them up tonight?"

"I've said this before." Doctor Sun pointed to the door of the ward next to him. "After you walk through a door, inside and outside are two different sides of the same place. You are in the hospital now, but not in the original hospital. By the way, I want to tell you one more thing. The doctor whose photo still appears on the wall after his death is the doctor who performed the surgery on the pregnant woman before."

Doctor Sun particularly emphasized this point. Chen Ge thought about it carefully and found that most of the dead in this hospital had contact with other dead.

Their deaths were not accidental, but more like a necessity disguised as accidental.

"Let's not stay here too long." Lightning flashed across the corridor, illuminating the pale faces on both sides of the corridor. Chen Ge even had an illusion that the things on the wall were not photos at all.

Several people came to the fourth floor in one breath, and Dr. Sun walked in front: "I remember the emergency medicine storage room is the seventh room."

It seemed that few people had been to the corridor on the fourth floor, and most of the department doors here were locked, with the locks covered with dust.

"After the accident of the first dean, the fourth floor of Ward 4 was basically abandoned. Doctors and nurses would rather take a longer route than pass through this corridor."

"Is it that scary?" Chen Ge found that he was somewhat insensitive to fear.

"There was a cleaner who didn't believe in superstition. He was cleaning the hospital in the evening when few people were there. He saw a man holding something in the corridor on the fourth floor, writing on the wall. He thought it was a doctor because he was wearing a white coat. When he walked over, he found that the man was holding his own severed finger and was writing the word 'death' on the wall."

"The cleaner saw the old dean who had committed suicide?"

"That's right." Doctor Sun's voice turned cold: "Do you know what's more terrifying?"

"The cleaner also died unexpectedly later?" This was the most horrifying thing Chen Ge could think of.

"The cleaner resigned and later went to a small private hospital to make a living. On the seventh day after he went to the hospital, he died in the office of the director of the private hospital. His death was very similar to that of the old director. When the police went there, they found the word death all over the room. Not long after, the private hospital closed down, and the relevant personnel who operated the hospital disappeared. It is said that the doctors and nurses of the hospital no longer work in medical-related jobs."

"It sounds like some kind of curse to me. The hospital is the curse itself. All those cursed will continue to spread bad luck unless they leave the hospital forever." Chen Ge himself found it incredible: "Using the hospital as a medium for the curse, turning the place where people are saved into the source of disaster, the person who planted this curse is really vicious."

"Evil spirit? Curse? Your ability to accept and think divergently is too strong." Patient No. 2 shook his head. He did not agree with Chen Ge's idea. In his opinion, the source of all weirdness is human. But he was not going to refute Chen Ge. After all, Chen Ge was a patient.

Holding on to the wall, Chen Ge followed the two doctors into the corridor on the fourth floor. At first, nothing unusual happened, but after walking for more than ten seconds, Chen Ge felt something was wrong.

The corridor didn't look very long and the end could be seen at a glance, but they walked for more than ten seconds and still hadn't finished it.

"How strange." Chen Ge stopped. The other three looked at Chen Ge in confusion, as if wondering why he stopped.

"What's wrong?"

"Didn't you guys notice?" Chen Ge pointed at the door of a nearby room. "This sealed door has appeared for the second time! We seem to have hit a wall."

After hearing what Chen Ge said, Patient No. 2 finally reacted: "Indeed, I also felt like I had been walking for a long time. I thought I was just too nervous and had an illusion."

"It may be because of this door." Ever since Chen Ge heard the story of the first dean, he has been very curious about the dean's office. He especially wants to see what this secret room looks like.

Before the two doctors could stop him, Chen Ge gently pushed the door of the dean's office, but found that the door was not locked.

A pungent stench came out from the door. Patient No. 2 covered his mouth and nose directly. Doctor Sun and Doctor Gao also took a step back. Only Chen Ge stood stupidly at the door.

** Chen Ge took a deep breath, the stench that almost suffocated him stirred up his memories, and countless horrific images flashed through his mind.

"I've smelled this smell in other places!" He was so sure that his brain began to recall involuntarily and the pain came again.

Grabbing the door frame, Chen Ge gritted his teeth and entered the dean's office. He looked at the word "death" all over the room, and his brain seemed to be torn apart.

"I'm familiar with this smell! I've smelled this smell on the brink of death! Every time I smell this smell, something bad happens!"

With his back against the door frame, Chen Ge managed not to fall down. He struggled to open his eyes and finally identified the source of the stench.

On the middle table in the dean's office, there was a glass jar with a heart wrapped with black thread in it.