Chapter 99 Monitoring
They walked a few more steps and could see that the chain locking the door to the rooftop had been sawed off, indicating that someone had gone up there before. They had no reason to go back to the third floor.
Coleman reminded from behind: "Our goal is not to figure out what's going on here."
Don't meddle in other people's business.
But Lu Jiamu still said, "I can go alone."
If he didn't need help from others, they had no right to stop him.
Coleman nodded: "Okay, we'll wait for you on the top floor, come quickly. Be careful and don't let them come up."
Lu Jiamu responded and stopped at the entrance of the third-floor staircase. He waited until they were all on the rooftop before walking into the corridor on the third floor.
Compared to the first floor, this place was much quieter. Lu Jiamu looked over and saw that there were no strange shadows in the area he could see.
He tiptoed to the monitoring room and opened the door.
After the power supply was restored, the large screens in the monitoring room were all lit up, and all the monitoring in the hospital had resumed operation. In the split screen, monsters were recorded wandering around in various areas of the hospital.
On the computer desk in front of the screen, two figures were sitting swaying with their backs to the door.
Hearing the door opening, they could hear a "cracking" sound of bones twisting in their bodies. They sat up in a strange posture, twisted their heads half a circle, and looked at Lu Jiamu who had just come in.
Judging from their clothes, they might be security personnel.
Lu Jiamu closed the door gently, walked over, grabbed one of the monsters and threw it to the ground, then sat on the chair himself.
The security guard next to him turned his head as he moved, and when he saw him sitting next to him, he pounced on him with his teeth and claws bared, but missed and fell to the ground.
Lu Jiamu pretended not to notice its behavior and swiped the mouse to look through the surveillance dates.
In the date column, only the dates with monitoring records are on it, and the rest are blank, so there is a large span between dates.
Before today, the previous date was a year ago. And the date before that was even further back.
Lu Jiamu scrolled forward a few pages before he finally found the place where the dates no longer jumped and the spans were in days.
But looking at the date, that was sixty years ago.
The security guard turned into a monster and stood up again in an awkward posture and pounced on him.
While hiding from it and looking at the screen, Lu Jiamu chose the morning of the last day when the surveillance was stable and randomly selected a surveillance position. The video started playing, but it was just an empty corridor.
Seeing this, he immediately exited and changed the monitoring position. This time, he clicked in and saw the monster wandering aimlessly.
Lu Jiamu exited again and changed the date to three days before this surveillance. After entering again, he still saw monsters wandering around.
He quit again and pushed the time forward another three days, but there were still monsters in the surveillance.
Lu Jiamu continued to switch, and finally, fifteen days before the last stable monitoring, he saw a living person walking back and forth in the picture.
They looked very ordinary and normal, walking around the corridor with their medical records and test reports. Some of them had anxious expressions on their faces, while others looked relaxed and very natural.
Lu Jiamu didn’t know much about this world, and didn’t know whether it was normal for them to be like this.
He continued to watch, jumping back and forth, and finally determined the date when the hospital was filled with monsters. Then he began to watch it in different time periods to determine the specific time when the anomaly occurred, and then watched the surveillance in different areas one by one.
Lu Jiamu watched it at double speed for a while, and finally turned the surveillance video of the emergency room back to single speed and rewound again.
14:38. In the video, someone rushed into the emergency room with two stretchers, and together with the medical staff in the emergency room, they hurriedly but orderly transferred the patient to the bed, connecting the equipment and performing various rescue operations.
At 14:55, their movements slowed down and gradually stopped, which meant that the patient was already beyond help. The doctor checked the patient for the last time and moved away from the bed, seeming to be talking to someone else. But there was no sound on the surveillance camera, so I couldn't hear it.
At 14:57, the two people who were lying on the bed moved suddenly after being quiet for a moment, and it seemed that they were not dead yet.
The nurse standing by the bed noticed and immediately went to call the doctor. The doctor looked back, gave up what he was saying, and walked back to the bed.
At exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, the two patients moved violently again, as if they wanted to sit up.
The doctor wanted to help them, but when he saw the two ECG monitors that showed no movement at all, he shuddered and took two steps back, and waved his hand to stop the nurse who wanted to move forward.
No one could come back to life five minutes after more than ten minutes of ineffective rescue efforts, all vital signs completely disappeared, and the person was clearly confirmed dead. Even if there were medical miracles, it would not happen to two people at such close distances at the same time.
The reason why a miracle is called a miracle is because the probability is small.
And neither of them has a heartbeat... Could it be that the monitors are malfunctioning at this time?
The medical staff beside the bed were all very scared and took two steps back. However, out of professional ethics, they did not run away immediately, but instead observed the situation carefully.
The two "people" on the bed suddenly opened their eyes, their mouth corners pulled stiffly upwards, revealing a weird smile.
This sudden change was so shocking that several medical staff members were so frightened that their legs went limp and they retreated a long distance.
But they didn't run just now, and now it's too late to run.
The two "people" turned their lifeless eyes and looked at them. They struggled for a long time but failed to sit up. However, their necks suddenly stretched out like a turtle and stood up straight. Then they quickly wrapped around the necks of the two nurses and tightened them.
The nurse's head was tilted to one side at a strange angle, and Lu Jiamu guessed that his neck must have been broken.
Some people in the emergency room had already fallen to the ground out of fright, and some had even tried to run away.
But the doctor had seen the world, so he picked up his instruments and hit the two monsters. The monsters threw the nurse to the ground and strangled him.
At 15:05, there were no living people in the emergency room.
The two monsters on the hospital bed still didn't sit up, but their limbs were stretched abnormally. They walked out of the emergency room step by step, dragging the ECG monitor in a strange posture.
Several medical staff who had fallen to the ground with broken necks and were obviously dead began to twitch after a few minutes. Their bodies underwent varying degrees of mutations, and then they stood up and walked out together.
After reading it, Lu Jiamu wrote down the time, kicked the security guard who kept rushing towards him further away, and then switched to the corridor surveillance.
The person who escaped from the emergency room rushed into the corridor and ran wildly, shouting something, and took many patients in the corridor with him.
A moment later, a strange monster with long arms and legs rushed out in a twisted posture, strangling all the people near the emergency room who had not yet escaped.
Although no one knew what was happening, the sight of this monster with abnormal proportions and strange appearance filled the entire corridor with fear, and everyone was pushing and shoving each other and running back.
The emergency room was next to the door near the stairs. Several medical staff who escaped from the emergency room wanted to escape from the hospital, but someone locked the door there. They could only run up the stairs.
A monster with long legs and feet chased them up the stairs.
In the corridor closest to the corner, people heard a commotion and screams, and saw people running towards them frantically. They walked over to see what was going on, not knowing what was going on.
Then they were also startled and immediately closed the iron door in the corridor and locked it.
Those who were locked behind the door and did not go upstairs either fled into the departments on both sides or died quickly, but stood up again after a few minutes.
Although many patients closest to the exit on the other side did not understand what was going on, they decided to leave the hospital and walked out on their own after hearing the screams in the distance.
At 15:10, some patients who had witnessed the abnormality began to try to escape from the door farthest from the stairs, but the surveillance camera at the hospital entrance captured that they had not run far when they were hit by something and fell to the ground one after another.
Those who were still in the hospital were confused, but soon the hospital gate was blocked and someone outside asked them to go to the other side.
They did not leave the hospital for the next ten days. Occasionally, someone would suddenly turn into a monster, and they could only rely on the iron gates in the corridor to block the monsters. This continued until the hospital completely lost power and the surveillance cameras could no longer capture them, and they could no longer continue to record what happened afterwards.
The situation on the second and third floors is similar.
Lu Jiamu fast-forwarded through all the surveillance footage and pinched his brows.
Who are those people who blocked the hospital gate? Do they know what happened here?
And although something unusual happened in the hospital, it didn't seem to be exactly the same as the situation they were facing.
Those people seemed to have just seen a monster, but their fear and escape were all from the bottom of their hearts, and their behavior was very natural, as if they were not affected by... any other rules.
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