Chapter 20 First Hospital (19) [VIP]
"Is there such a thing?" Doctor Fang leaned back in fear. "Uncle, I only heard from my mother that something happened in this area before, but she only told me that it was related to a certain hospital. How come there is also a haunted house? Isn't this area too disaster-prone?"
He had no memory of the origin of the hospital, but he still vaguely remembered that something must have happened in the hospital before.
"How can these be two different things?" The old man who was playing chess nearby leaned over and asked, "They are the same thing."
"I lived downstairs from his house at the beginning, and I was the one who called the police," he ignored the provocation of the old man opposite him who was a bad chess player, put down the chessboard and said, "The son of that family was misdiagnosed with cancer, and he couldn't bear it at home and committed suicide. The blood flowed all over the floor and dripped onto the clothes drying pole on my roof. If I hadn't discovered it earlier, the ceiling would have been soaked with blood."
"Why are you telling people about your trivial heroic deeds again?" laughed an old man passing by carrying a birdcage.
"That young man almost rented the haunted house across the street. I told him about it, but I didn't tell you," the chess player said disdainfully. "If I hadn't discovered it quickly, who knows what would have happened later."
"It's just someone committing suicide," Lu Changfeng saw someone pouring cold water on him, and was afraid that the chess master would not continue to talk, so he hurried over to provoke him, "We are all young people, hot-tempered, and don't believe in these things. If it really doesn't work, just rent it. There is no cheaper price than this."
[Lu Changfeng's Schrodinger's mind is back again. 】
[I also learned how to provoke others. ]
[He even learned his brother's nonsense.]
【Suddenly I feel relieved.】
"Hey, young man, why don't you listen to me?" The old man playing chess was really anxious. "I'm telling you, you can't live in that house. Whoever lives in it will be unlucky. The son who committed suicide in his family is a very evil person. Don't be so skeptical."
"How evil can it be?" Lu Changfeng looked unconvinced.
"After his son died, his family members collapsed when they learned about the misdiagnosis. They dragged the body to the hospital gate and held up banners demanding compensation. As a result, the hospital has been haunted since that day!" The chess-playing uncle turned around and stopped playing chess. Instead, he began to speak earnestly, "There are many rumors about the hospital being haunted, but his son was particularly evil. On the seventh day, the hospital started to receive emergency cases as soon as it was past midnight. More than a dozen people came in one night, and the doctors on night shift were not enough to perform the surgery. In the end, we had no choice but to call the doctor to wake him up from his bed and come to the hospital to perform the surgery."
"Seven or eight?" Lu Changfeng exclaimed, "Could it be a coincidence?"
"How is it possible?" The chess-playing old man waved his hand. It was obvious that everyone nearby knew about this. He had rarely received three surprised looks when he talked about this topic over the years. He felt extremely satisfied and immediately started talking. "It's not just the emergency room. Just going to the emergency room is not a big deal. Let me tell you, that night, all the wards in the hospital had a lot of critical illness notices, and the ICU was pulling people out one after another. Everyone said that the deceased who was left at the door of the hospital felt that the hospital was not paying compensation to his family and was protecting the doctor who misdiagnosed him, so he came back on the seventh day to claim the life of the entire hospital!"
"Did you lose money in the end?" Bai Jinshu seemed to be fascinated by what he heard and couldn't wait to ask.
Seeing him so supportive, the old man playing chess's heart's complaints about his weird hairstyle faded away, and turned into a kind of smugness that only people who know the inside story can have: "Of course not. The law was not as perfect as it is now. The hospital revoked the doctor's license and suspended him from work. The family had no intention of taking the case to court, so in the end, nothing happened."
"But the evil things have just begun." The old man lowered his voice mysteriously.
"Although the hospital didn't pay compensation at first, the doctor felt guilty for the misdiagnosis and couldn't stand the torment of conscience, so he wanted to compensate the patient's family. But the doctor didn't have much money, so how could he afford to pay for a life? He had no choice but to support the patient's parents as if they were his own. Guess what happened?"
The chess master spoke word by word: "Day after day, year after year, this doctor is becoming more and more like the dead patient."
Lu Changfeng was horrified.
He could hardly help looking at Dr. Fang.
Isn't this exactly like what the story says? The doctor becomes the patient!
"Why are you looking at me? Are you scared?" Doctor Fang acted as if he had a very good relationship with him, without any of his previous indifference and grudge-holding attitude. "Xiao Lu, how dare you live in a haunted house?"
Lu Changfeng: ...Who is Xiao Lu!
After seeing the paper figures of Xiao Liu and Xiao Li in Fang Shaoning's pocket, he now has to Ptsd when calling people like Xiao x!
"They have a good relationship," his brother Ao was even trying to smooth things over, "Uncle, please continue."
On the barrage:
["The life of Lu Changfeng who was targeted by others"]
[Forever young, always crooked, always pissed off by Dr. Fang.]
[Although I really want to show my sympathy, I just can’t feel any sympathy towards Lu Changfeng’s face.]
[This old man was talking about storytelling before, and he told the story in a rhythmic way. ]
[This melon becomes more and more interesting the more I eat it. ]
[Oh my god, who would have thought that I would be watching a live broadcast in the office early in the morning and eating melons immersively. It was so immersive. The grandpa and aunt downstairs in my house were chatting like this. I even wanted to pick up a plate of melon seeds and watch the live broadcast. ]
[I've already cracked some melon seeds and even washed a plate of grapes.]
[Come to think of it, this patient could be the reason for the formation of this unknown space. Now both the rules of illness and replacement can be found in his story. Shocking.]
[I was even more shocked that Skao was actually a member of the exploration team of the tracing back to the origin stream. I saw him progressing so fast yesterday, and I thought he would become a rising star of the Foundation speedrun stream in the future.]
[It's only the second morning today, and so many rules have come out, and the prototypes of the rules have been dug out. How can he not be considered a speedrunner? 】
【To be honest, it is true. 】
【really. 】
Being called "Xiao Lu" by Doctor Fang, Lu Changfeng gritted his teeth and swallowed his anger. He looked at Mr. Xiaqi with a forced smile: "How similar can they be?"
"Exactly the same." The old man playing chess slowly uttered four words.
"His appearance, clothes, hobbies, body shape, hairstyle," he listed them one by one, "even the son's accent is the same as before. It's like he has completely turned into the dead patient. Even the people who knew the doctor before can't recognize who he is."
"I went out that day and saw the family moving their belongings downstairs to move out. At first glance, I thought it was the son who came back," said the old man playing chess with a lingering fear. "The doctor had completely changed into a different person. He quit his job and left his family behind. He moved with the family to their hometown and I heard he even changed his name in the end."
The chess master lowered his voice, looked around, and whispered, "But I lived downstairs from their house at that time, and I knew a lot of things that others didn't know. This is weird. I only told you about it. I wouldn't tell anyone else before that."
"We will never tell anyone." Lu Changfeng swore quickly.
"When his son was still alive, his family prayed in all the temples and Taoist temples around them, but it was useless," said the chess master in a low voice, with a mysterious look, "Then I heard from someone that there is a god that is very effective, as long as you are sincere and burn incense every day."
He sighed, "When people reach a dead end and have run out of options, they will try even the most outrageous things. His daughter took a long vacation, took a train to some mountain, and brought the statue home in person."
Bai Jinshu's eyes lit up.
That shrine.
Among the rules he knew, there had been no clues about the rules belonging to the shrine. This was the first time he had heard about this shrine from someone else.
"Have you seen what the statue looks like?" he asked, looking at Mr. Xiaqi.
"How can I see it?" the old man spread his hands. "The family kept the statue of the deity in their home and covered it tightly with red cloth when they moved. I'd be surprised if I could see it."
"But you don't know that his son's mind is not clear because of worshiping this idol." He glanced at Doctor Fang. "Everyone in the local area knows that when the police received the call and opened the door, they were greeted by blood all over the floor."
"His son was lying in the middle of a circle of candles. His body was already stiff. The red candles surrounding him had not yet burned down, and were flashing orange light. The police who opened the door were so scared that they took several steps back."
It's so scary that it can be called an urban legend.
That is to say, the Internet was not well developed at that time, otherwise this matter would definitely become a hot post on certain forums.
[Oh my god... this feels like déjà vu. ]
[It feels like a sacrifice.]
[I feel like this could be used as the beginning of a ghost story. ]
[The one in front of me, this is the beginning of a ghost story! ]
"This..." Bai Jinshu frowned, "Did he believe in some evil cult?"
"Of course, that's impossible," the old man shook his head. "Later, this doctor looked more and more like the dead son. I told my family that his son must have believed in a cult and his mind was not clear. He knew he would not live long, so he chose an auspicious day to commit suicide and wanted to possess someone else." The old man became more and more mysterious as he spoke. "It just so happened that this doctor who misdiagnosed him ruined his family, so he leaned on this doctor and wanted to ruin his family."
"Then the whole family moved out," the chess-playing uncle had gone so far off topic, but he was able to get back to the point. "After they moved out, the house became haunted. Everyone who moved in had bad luck, either losing their jobs or getting seriously ill. Some even nearly lost their lives. No one dared to live there, so the house was left empty. Every year, real estate agents cheat young people like you who don't know anything about the place."
"Neighbors all left or moved away when they saw something was wrong. I have lived here for so many years and I couldn't bear to leave. I simply sold that house and bought a house in the community across the street. Now it's nice to play chess every day."
"Uncle, you really saved the lives of the three of us." Lu Changfeng sighed half-heartedly, "If it weren't for you, we don't know what we would do."
"It's just a small matter," the chess-playing old man waved his hand, looking very casual, "You can rent any other house anyway. Just listen to my advice, don't rent the house across the street. That house is too fierce, no one can control it."
"Okay, we will definitely listen to your advice." Bai Jinshu stood up and said with a smile, "This is really troublesome."
He took the two of them out of the neighborhood and sorted out the whole story.
More than 20 years ago, a patient was misdiagnosed with cancer. After failing to find medical treatment, he worshipped an unknown evil spirit. Knowing that he had not much time left, he prepared to commit suicide and possess someone else's body to continue his life.
After the suicide, the family couldn't believe it and asked for a forensic autopsy, only to find out that he didn't have cancer at all. The family went to the hospital and demanded compensation but failed. So on the seventh night after the death, the hospital had a series of accidents. The doctor who misdiagnosed the cancer felt guilty and came to take care of the patient's parents. Unexpectedly, it was exactly what he planned and he was possessed by the patient, and the family was also broken up.
From then on, the house where the family lived became a haunted house, and the inpatient department of the First Hospital also became a strange place.
"Fang Shaoning," Bai Jinshu suddenly turned to look at Doctor Fang, "I have always wondered why the other buildings in the First Hospital look so modern, but only the inpatient department looks so old and outdated from the 1980s."
Doctor Fang thought for a moment and said, "The reconstruction of the hospital happened after the medical reform. After the reform, the First Hospital had money, so it started to build a new building in the old building. However, the inpatient department was always overloaded with beds, so it couldn't be stopped rashly. It was also inconvenient to move patients, and there was no new land to build a new building. So in the end, the reconstruction of the inpatient department was left unfinished, and this is the oldest one."
As they were talking, they had already returned to the gate of the First Hospital.
Looking at this hospital again, the patients busy at the entrance and the brand new and imposing buildings all give me a new feeling.
The inpatient department, which looks out of place behind the magnificent new building, is emitting a spooky aura, waiting to devour everyone who enters.
As they were talking and walking, they arrived in front of the inpatient department and bumped into Zheng Yunyun, who was like a headless fly.
"Brother Ao," she felt like she saw a savior when she saw the familiar figure. It seemed that last night's experience had indeed made her rely on Bai Jinshu a lot more, "Meixin is missing!"
Liu Meixin is now a mentally ill patient who suffers from epilepsy all the time. How could she disappear for no apparent reason?
"I..." Zheng Yunyun saw Fade Chen standing next to Scarlett with a leisurely attitude, and her words were stuck in her mouth before she continued smoothly, "Before I went to the cafeteria this morning, she was sleeping in bed. After I brought her breakfast back, Meixin disappeared."
"I thought she just woke up and walked around, but I searched the entire inpatient department and couldn't find her." Zheng Yunyun had a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and it seemed that she had been searching for a long time.
"Have you looked elsewhere?" Bai Jinshu asked.
"I looked for her in the outpatient department," Zheng Yunyun answered quickly. "I was afraid she was having a mental breakdown and wanted to go back to where she was last night, so I went to the examination department to take a look."
But looking at her current state, you can imagine what the result will be.
She is not a very brave person, but she will stand up and reassure Liu Meixin when she is scared. She does not have a strong sense of responsibility, but she will frantically look for her everywhere after Liu Meixin disappears. She is really a girl with extraordinary resilience.
Lu Changfeng sighed inwardly. After listening to Skao's analysis of the rules, he felt that Liu Meixin was most likely in danger.
"Little Sister Zheng, think back," he said, "when you took Liu Meixin home last night, was the hospital bracelet on her left hand still there?"
"The hospital bracelet..." Zheng Yunyun seemed to really trust them. She didn't ask why and immediately began to recall. "I don't remember. It might be hidden in my sleeve, or it might be lost. I didn't notice these details at all last night."
She bit her lip and thought for a while: "Is this important?
Lu Changfeng looked at Bai Jinshu with an inquiring look.
"It's very important," Bai Jinshu nodded calmly, "You should be prepared."
He didn't say what the preparation was, but the meaning of his words was obvious.
After excluding those people he classified as his own people, the life and death of the rest of the team members actually didn’t matter to him.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have attacked Chen Fei from the beginning, and remained indifferent after Chen Fei was replaced by Doctor Fang.
Zheng Yunyun took a deep breath, obviously unable to accept this result.
She secretly encouraged herself in her heart and said hopefully, "I haven't been to the other buildings yet, nor the small flowerbed under the hospital. I'll go take a look."
"It's up to you." Bai Jinshu had no obligation to persuade him, and only reminded him lightly, "But there are no medical consultations during the day, so this is a good time to explore the rules."
"I know," Zheng Yunyun agreed quickly, "Thank you, Brother Ao, but Meixin is timid, and I'm afraid she'll have another epileptic seizure if she's alone outside. I'll find her and explore the rules!"
"If you can find it." Doctor Fang, who was pretending to be Chen Fei, was at the end, tapping on his phone and answering nonchalantly.
Hearing this, Zheng Yunyun suddenly raised her head and looked at Chen Fei fiercely. She had not forgotten that this man tried to snatch their bracelets yesterday.
Why did he suddenly appear today as if he was not injured at all, and follow behind Skao and Lu Changfeng?
She stared at Fade Chen's back fiercely, and suddenly, Zheng Yunyun noticed something.
Why are these three people wearing private clothes?
They all changed into hospital gowns yesterday after Lu Changfeng informed them of the rule that they must wear hospital gowns, but now these three people are wearing casual clothes.
They... left the hospital?
*
In the orthopedic ward, Lu Changfeng sighed with some worry: "I wonder how Liu Meixin is doing."
"Do you care about her a lot?" Dr. Fang asked during a break between games.
"Not really..." Lu Changfeng said tangledly, "I just think she's really pitiful."
He has now figured out what happened last night, and he also knows that Director Sun deliberately made them go out after 11:30 to make them mentally collapse. Liu Meixin did nothing wrong, and even denying her illness was a normal response. She just accidentally walked into the trap.
"I thought when you saw her going crazy yesterday, you should have known that she wouldn't live long." Bai Jinshu came back from outside, pushing open the door, and said very rudely.
"Tsk, how can I put it," Lu Changfeng scratched his head, "Little Sister Zheng and the two people from the oncology department took good care of her last night."
Xu Ze and Lu Mingcheng from the oncology department treated her condition in a very professional manner when she had an epileptic seizure. Zheng Yunyun took off her coat and gave it to Liu Meixin, and when she returned to the ward, she crawled forward and brought her back with her.
He thought Liu Meixin would be taken care of safely in this way until the end of the exploration.
"Wait a minute," Bai Jinshu suddenly interrupted, "Repeat your last sentence."
"I just think she is pitiful?" Lu Changfeng repeated in confusion.
"No, next sentence."
"Little Sister Zheng and the two guys from the oncology department took good care of her last night."
Before Lu Changfeng could finish his words, Bai Jinshu and Doctor Fang looked at each other and said in unison: "Oncology Department."
They actually ignored the biggest problem and clue.
The misdiagnosed patient is misdiagnosed with cancer, and oncology, is cancer.
All the speculations from last night were overturned. Bai Jinshu originally thought that because the Oncology Department was the department that admitted the easiest conditions and required the least cost among the four departments, it was divided into two floors and the two patients were placed separately.
But now it seems that this is not the case at all.
The members of the oncology department have the same condition as the rule prototype, so they are the most dangerous.
【It’s a highlight! 】
【Blind student, you found the highlight! 】
[Oh yeah, I didn’t realize that either. A tumor is cancer.]
[Tumors can be divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. Malignant tumors are cancers, while benign tumors are not considered cancer as long as they do not turn into cancer. ]
[I think it’s a bit difficult not to develop cancer in this place…]
[Xiao Ao and Dr. Fang reacted so quickly that our landlord's silly son Lu Changfeng was still confused.]
[Fools have good fortune. If he hadn't said that, who knows how long it would take Xiao Ao and the others to remember this.]
"Then Brother Ao, let's..." Lu Changfeng was stunned for a few seconds before he reacted.
"No." Bai Jinshu answered immediately.
"A normal oncology department can't find anything, otherwise the two oncology doctors would definitely find the rules earlier than us," he glanced at Dr. Fang, who was giving him an innocent look as if he had lost his memory. "If you want to find the problem, you have to pick the right time."
"And there are more important things to deal with tonight," Bai Jinshu obviously had a priority list in his mind, "I will go check the department again tonight to see what the statue in the office is."
On the way back, he asked Fang Shaoning questions about the shrine, but the other party replied that he originally remembered what the statue in the shrine looked like, but when he began to recall and wanted to describe it in words, he suddenly couldn't remember what it looked like, and he just felt that there was a fog in his mind.
There were two nurses at the door of the daytime examination department, so it was not convenient for him to sneak in. In addition, the big hole in the wall was too obvious. Once he walked into the examination department, people downstairs would be able to see him. It was obviously not suitable for him to explore.
By contrast, the night when everyone goes to bed is obviously more suitable for this activity.
"Let's get ready for bed first," Bai Jinshu pulled back the quilt, looking like he was going to lie down in the next second, "You should go to bed too, because tonight will probably be a tough night."
"By the way," he stared at Lu Changfeng as if he was worried, "Don't knock on my door if you can't sleep."
Otherwise, he really couldn't suppress Bai Jinshu's bad temper when he woke up, and if Scaro was woken up again, he would definitely jump out of bed and strangle Lu Changfeng to death.
"I promise I won't." Lu Changfeng was startled and almost swore to heaven.
"The window won't work either." Bai Jinshu suddenly came up and added.
"Brother Ao, I was wrong. I was really wrong." Lu Changfeng wailed.
*
Half past one in the morning.
Three people appeared downstairs in the hospital outpatient department.
With the help of moonlight and street lamps, Lu Changfeng climbed out of the third-floor window and climbed up to the large hole on the fourth floor where Yang Pei had blown up with his bare hands. Then he climbed into the inspection department and opened the locked fire door in the corridor from the inside.
Not far away, on the eighth floor of the General Surgery Department of the inpatient department, Yang Pei, who had not yet fallen asleep and was planning to go out and kill someone under the moonlight, suddenly heard a knock on the door.
He opened the door carefully, and at the door was Liu Meixin, whom Zheng Yunyun had been looking for all day.
Isn't this a head delivered to your door?
Before Yang Pei's smile, which indicated he was about to take action, faded, Liu Meixin suddenly spoke.
Her voice was cold and her expression didn't look like that of a timid girl.
"Yang Pei, right?" "Liu Meixin" said, "I can tell you a special rule in the hospital and why you were targeted last night."
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Ha, tomorrow we'll have a metal night raid on Lao Gong (is that how the term is used?
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