Chu Ping frowned, followed behind Lao Xie Tou and the bald man, and looked in the direction where Ah Tou disappeared.
It is now past four in the morning, and there are not many people in the city center hospital. Even the nurses on duty are in a drowsy state and have not noticed what happened just now.
After confirming that Ah Tou's appearance had no impact on this place, Chu Ping breathed a sigh of relief.
"I just don't know where A Tou ran away."
While Chu Ping was still thinking about how to find Ah Tou, Lao Xie Tou's voice came over.
"Boy, can you hurry up? It seems so rude of us to keep the old man waiting."
Chu Ping calmed down and then looked at Lao Xie's head.
"Coming, coming." Chu Ping, while dealing with Lao Xie, quickened his pace and walked towards the two of them, but kept a certain distance from them.
When Lao Xie saw Chu Ping coming, he stretched out his hand to grab him, but Chu Ping subconsciously dodged away.
"It seems like everyone here is in the emergency room."
After Chu Ping dodged Old Xie Tou's hand, he asked before Old Xie Tou could speak.
In fact, Chu Ping had already noticed something was wrong when he first entered the Central Hospital. As a large general hospital in West China, the Central Hospital does have a lot of people coming to see the doctor every day, but there are always emergency calls.
There's something wrong with this, not to mention it's still four o'clock in the morning.
Just when Chu Ping came in, he saw about ten people lining up at the window.
If those people hadn't been so listless, people would have seen Ah Tou just now when he got out of Chu Ping's backpack.
"I always feel like everything here is weird."
Chu Ping muttered softly.
"This is a hospital. It's normal for someone to come to see a doctor. Let's go and see his old man quickly. Dalang, your old man is on the third floor."
Old Xie Tou looked completely impatient and kept urging Chu Ping.
"Yes, Ward No. 315 of the Psychiatric Department on the third floor," the bald man called Dalang by Old Xie responded, and then looked at Chu Ping, "There has been something strange here in the city center recently. People often have accidents.
Not to mention anything else, it’s only been two days since my dad moved in, and I’ve already seen about ten people, all of whom came to the emergency department, and they either broke their arms or legs, and all kinds of weird things happened.
, If my father wasn't seriously ill now, I would have wanted to transfer him to the hospital in Ninghai. Something is really wrong here."
Chu Ping also felt a little weird after hearing what the bald man said.
"The broken arms and legs...how come they are similar to the warning illusion given by the cursed doll before?"
After Chu Ping came out of the police station, he went to the central hospital once, but at that time, Chu Ping saw some things because of the cursed doll's abilities.
Chu Ping remembered very clearly that in the illusion, those people wearing hospital gowns were more or less disabled, and their disabled parts happened to match the phenomenon mentioned by the bald man.
"It's getting weirder and weirder. Reality seems to be overlapping with the scenes in the fantasy."
Chu Ping took a breath of cold air. If it was really what Chu Ping thought, then things would seem to be very bad. Thinking of this, Chu Ping subconsciously glanced at the emergency room window, where he was waiting in line.
The people waiting in line to register seemed to have felt Chu Ping's gaze, so they all turned their heads and looked at Chu Ping.
Chu Ping was obviously not used to being stared at by more than a dozen pairs of eyes, and his body could not help but shudder.
Perhaps because of the light in the lobby of the city center hospital, the faces of those people were completely hidden in the shadows, and their appearance could not be seen clearly. Their dull eyes looked so dim in the shadows, so straight.
Staring at Chu Ping, it was as if a seductive ghost wanted to remember Chu Ping's appearance in his heart.
Chu Ping was a little frightened by the sight and hurriedly turned his head. The cold wind blew by, and Chu Ping realized that he had followed Lao Xie and the bald man to the corridor of the hall.
There are two elevators in the city center hospital, one is the passenger elevator in the left corridor of the lobby, and the other is the freight elevator in the deepest part of the right corridor, and now several people have arrived at the deepest part of the right corridor.
Chu Ping looked at the freight elevator sign hanging on the elevator door and couldn't help but frown.
"How did you get to the freight elevator?"
Before Chu Ping could ask the question, Lao Xie Tou asked the question.
"The passenger elevator is broken, now we can only use the freight elevator."
The bald man smiled and pressed the up button, then stood there quietly waiting for the elevator to come down.
"The elevator is broken? What a coincidence."
Chu Ping's eyes moved back and forth between Lao Xie and the bald man, as if he wanted to see some problems with them.
"Isn't it just a coincidence that the passenger elevator was fine yesterday, but I don't know what happened, but it suddenly broke down."
"Ding--"
The elevator door opens. Logically speaking, the space of a freight elevator should be larger than that of a normal passenger elevator. However, the freight elevator in front of you looks very "normal". It is even much smaller than a normal passenger elevator. At most, it can only
There is room for two or three people to ride together.
“This is the first time I’ve seen such a small elevator.”
"I don't know what the hospital was thinking about building such a small elevator."
The bald man also followed Chu Ping's words and complained about the freight elevator in front of him.
"When I saw this freight elevator for the first time, I was shocked. How could such a small elevator transport anything?"
The bald man walked into the elevator as he spoke, followed closely by the old man.
It's strange to say that since Ah Tou ran out of Chu Ping's backpack, old Xie Tou rarely spoke. However, Chu Ping had to admit that the silent old Xie Tou sometimes really had a little bit of trouble.
An inscrutable taste.
Chu Ping was the last one to enter the elevator. As he had just seen, the elevator space was very small. After Chu Ping entered, there was no room to fit the fourth person.
The wings of his nose twitched, and a pungent and unpleasant smell poured into his nasal cavity. The bald man on the side seemed to notice something strange about Chu Ping, and hurriedly explained:
"This is a freight elevator, so the smell is strong. The first time I made this elevator, I almost fainted from the smell inside."
As if to lighten the atmosphere, the bald man made a fainting gesture, which made the originally small elevator even more narrow.
"Actually, once you get used to it, you'll get used to it."
Although the bald man said this, Chu Ping's brows never loosened, because he knew that the smell here was not just the remnants of transporting garbage cargo, but a putrid smell, like a rotting corpse.
That pungent smell.
With his eyes slightly narrowed, Chu Ping began to look around at the elevator.
The elevator was very ordinary, but the number buttons on it made Chu Ping curious.
"How many floors does the city center hospital have?"
The bald man seemed to have guessed Chu Ping's purpose in asking this question.
"The Central Hospital has a total of four floors, but this elevator has a button for the fifth floor. I was surprised at the time, and I pressed the button for the fifth floor, but there was no response. I guess it was broken or for some other reason.
.”
The bald man didn't seem to take this matter seriously at all, as if everything was normal.
Chu Ping nodded slightly and said nothing more, but his eyes kept staring at the button with "5" written on it, as if it had a great attraction for him.
The number on the elevator changed to "2". Just when Chu Ping thought it would continue to change, the elevator stopped.
Old Xie Tou, who had been absent-minded since Ah Tou ran out of Chu Ping's backpack, also frowned at this time. He and Chu Ping looked at the bald man together.
Although Chu Ping was a little confused, he didn't say anything after all. Old Xie Tou on the side just asked: "Didn't you say that your old man's ward is on the third floor? Why did it stop on the second floor?"
Chu Ping squinted at Lao Xie, and he clearly saw a strange look in his eyes, as if he was worried that something would happen.
"Is he scared?"
Chu Ping had no idea why old Xie Tou had such an expression.
"If you have a chance, come to the second floor to see what's there."
After the elevator stopped, the bald man beside him began to panic.
"I don't know why he stopped."
The bald man kept pressing the button on the third floor, but there was no response from the elevator at all. The bald man was a little surprised, and then he started pressing the door button, but there was still no response. At this time, the elevator was like a stuck machine.
No matter what you do, it won't help.
"what to do?"
The bald man still didn't give up. He pressed the button twice more to make sure that there was no response from the elevator, and then he finally gave up.
"It's broken? Call the hospital quickly and ask the maintenance man to come over."
Chu Ping urged the bald man, and at the same time he began to look for the alarm button in the elevator. Only Lao Xie Tou still stood there blankly.
"There's something wrong with Lao Xie's head. It's better to be careful."
Just when Chu Ping was about to press the alarm button, the elevator suddenly shook, and then the elevator door, which had been unable to open, slowly opened at that moment.
The cold wind rushed in the moment the elevator door opened, like a river that had been blocked by silt for a long time. The moment the silt was dredged, it was like a wild horse running away from the reins, running towards its own freedom.
The dark wind surged into the elevator, causing the three people inside the elevator to shiver.
"This is where?"
After the three of them calmed down, they realized a problem, that is, everything in front of them did not seem to be the hospital they were familiar with.
