"It doesn't matter what my name is, you can call me whatever you want."
Li Leping gave this answer to Xu Jin's question.
He knew better than anyone else that his situation was special and that it was meaningless to tell Xu Jin his name.
Rather than doing useless work, it is better to maintain the status quo and save trouble.
However, Xu Jin, who did not understand the situation, was a little embarrassed.
Not knowing what to say further, he finally chose to shut up on his own initiative, not intending to continue communicating with this difficult person.
The elevator became silent again, except for the sound of the elevator rising.
"Ding dong."
With a crisp sound, the elevator stopped at this floor.
"We've arrived at the third floor."
Xu Jin glanced at the elevator buttons.
This old-fashioned elevator does not have an electronic display screen. The only way to judge whether it has reached the floor is to judge by the light that lights up on the edge of the button.
As he spoke, the iron gate in front of the elevator slowly opened.
The iron gate made a "squeaking" friction sound when it was retracted, making people worried that the sound might attract the attention of something.
Fortunately, everything is still fine.
When I stepped out of the elevator, I looked around and saw an old corridor connecting the left and right sides.
The lights are also on in the corridor, but many of the light bulbs have been broken. Among the remaining intact light bulbs, some of the lights are very dim and may go out at any time.
Under the dim light, you can see the doors on the right side of the corridor. These doors are all closed. The three words starting with "Observation Room" are hung on the door numbers, followed by the corresponding house numbers.
Observation room 301, observation room 302...
By analogy, the deepest observation room in the corridor is 304.
Observation Room 304, Xu Jin claimed to have woken up in that room, and there were several survivors in the same room as him.
"What is that place?"
Suddenly, Li Leping seemed to have discovered something and immediately focused his gaze on the left side of the corridor.
That was something Xu Jin had never mentioned before.
On the left side of the corridor, two huge doors were closed tightly, preventing Li Leping from peeking deeper.
Under the dim light, you can see a house plate hanging on the two closed doors.
operating room.
It's another place you can see in the hospital.
"I don't know, how can I dare to go into a place like this to check?"
Xu Jin looked at the place marked "Operating Room" with a look of fear.
His timid appearance didn't sound like he was lying, but he was genuinely afraid of this place.
This is not surprising. It is impossible for a normal person to calm down quickly the first time he is pulled into a supernatural place, let alone wander around in a supernatural place to check the operating mechanism of this place.
"Ding dong."
At this time, the elevator behind him suddenly made a sound.
It seemed that the elevator had not received control instructions for too long, so the elevator door slowly closed.
Immediately afterwards, the elevator that had just taken them upstairs began to move downwards.
Li Leping took the opportunity to look at the top of the elevator.
It was empty, and nothing strange appeared there.
"At least it can be assumed that the ghost is not on the elevator, but it cannot be ruled out that the ghost exists in a special way, so I cannot see its existence."
Without focusing too much on the surface of the descending elevator, Li Leping withdrew his gaze and glanced at the operating room on the left side of the corridor, then looked at Xu Jin again: "Lead the way."
"well."
Xu Jin did not dare to delay. After making sure that there was no danger around him, he immediately headed towards Room 304 at the right end of the corridor.
"Is this...the smell of alcohol?"
Li Leping, who was following him, suddenly moved his nose.
A smell very similar to that of alcohol common in hospitals permeated the corridor, and as they went deeper, the smell became more and more obvious.
soon.
Xu Jin came to the door of "Observation Room 304".
Then, he stretched out his crooked fingers and knocked lightly on the door three times.
The intervals between knocking on the door are very long, and there is a deliberate pause for a few seconds after each knock on the door.
This should be a secret code agreed upon in advance, used to identify whether the person knocking on the door is a human or a ghost.
“A very smart move.”
Li Leping said nothing, silently watching everything in front of him and evaluating it in his mind.
But as the knocking on the door ended, the person behind the door did not open the door immediately.
A few seconds passed.
There was still no movement behind the door, and the door still stood there, unmoved.
"Um?"
A trace of confusion appeared in Xu Jin's eyes. He subconsciously raised his hand and re-confirmed that he had not knocked on the wrong door.
This door does have the door number "Observation Room 304" on it.
He didn't admit his mistake.
"problem occurs?"
He instantly thought of this possibility and looked at Li Leping with a pair of puzzled and frightened eyes.
"what happened?"
Li Leping frowned slightly and walked over.
He originally thought that staying here deliberately was also a precautionary measure, something Xu Jin had discussed with the survivors behind the door in advance.
This is an extremely cautious measure. Even if the person knocking on the door matches the code, the person behind the door will delay opening the door for a while.
After all, if you really encounter a supernatural incident, you may not be able to tell whether the thing outside the door is a human or a ghost just by relying on the code.
In the face of supernatural powers, it is not difficult to steal memories or command the dead to do things in life.
But looking at it now, Xu Jin and the others obviously didn't think about the problem so deeply.
"I don't know either, but no one opened the door." Xu Jin lowered his voice.
"Boom!"
Suddenly.
The next second after Xu Jin finished speaking, Li Leping clenched his fists and knocked hard on the old door from the side.
Then, he turned sideways and leaned his ear against the door, as if eavesdropping.
Under the huge force, the sound of knocking on the door was not as gentle as Xu Jin's.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A sudden knock on the door resounded in the corridor, instantly breaking the tranquility of the place.
"ah!"
Suddenly, a scream could be vaguely heard from behind the door.
"Shut up! You damn woman!"
Immediately afterwards, there was an equally high-decibel rebuke.
"Step aside."
The moment he heard the noise coming from behind the door, Li Leping immediately pushed Xu Jin aside who didn't even know he had been betrayed.
"boom!"
Without hesitation, he kicked over and the closed door was kicked open by him.
"These patients of yours don't seem to be very friendly to you."
Li Leping walked into the room and said to Xu Jin, somewhat mocking his naivety.
At first glance, this is a ward, but it is different from ordinary hospital wards. This ward has a large space and four conspicuous beds. All of these beds are covered with white bedding, and there are even separate ones beside the beds.
There is an IV stand.
Just take a closer look and you will find that there are no infusion bags hanging on these infusion stands, just empty shelves.
The bedding on the bed was all stained with blood. Judging from the traces, the blood stains on these bedding should have been stained recently, and the color has not yet turned into the dark brown color after blood dries.
Apart from the beds in the ward, all Li Leping saw were three people huddled in the corner.
Those people were dressed in a very special way. They all wore the same blue and white striped hospital gown as Xu Jin, and their faces were also wrapped in a thick layer of gauze, as if they had just undergone plastic surgery, making it impossible to see.
The appearance of these people.
However, these people all had their pupils shrunk at this moment and looked at Li Leping with horror, as if they had seen an evil ghost.
There is no doubt that these people are alive.
"Who told you not to open the door?"
As soon as he entered the door, Li Leping was the first to ask.
However, while he was asking questions, his eyes were fixed on one of the three people.
Although these people's bodies were covered with bandages, their appearance was enough for Li Leping to tell whether they were men or women.
A woman, a man, and a child.
The person he was eyeing was an adult man covered in bandages.
Although this man was huddled in the corner like the other two, as the largest person here, he must have the greatest say.
He must have been the one who scolded just now, because at this moment, although this man was still clinging to the wall, his bandaged hands were firmly grasping the neck of a child who was also covered with bandages, and pressed him down.
Standing next to the wall, the child was so tight that he could hardly breathe.
Even though Li Leping had kicked in the door, the man still maintained this posture, with no intention of letting go.
Looking at the man's furious look, it's not difficult to imagine who it was that screamed just now.
However, no one answered Li Leping's question.
Xu Jin didn't speak, because he had just figured out the fact that he had been sold, and at this moment, he looked like his worldview had collapsed, and he was frozen in place.
The child didn't speak either, because his neck was being held tightly by the irritable man, and he couldn't make any sound at all. He could only scratch the big hands with his small palms, and the intensity became smaller and smaller.
At the same time, a little hoarse struggling sound was still coming from the open mouth.
As for the woman, she looked at a loss as she looked back and forth between Li Leping and the man beside her.
Her eyes were moving, as if she was making a decision or hesitating.
That's when.
The man in the middle of the three seemed to sense the woman's hesitation. He turned his head sharply and said nothing, but his vicious eyes were enough to convey intimidation.
If you don't want to die, just shut up.
That's probably what it means.
"Looks like I found the one."
Li Leping looked at everything in front of him with a calm expression, and finally locked his eyes on the bandaged man again.
Xu Jin had unintentionally complained about his fellow patients before.
Among them, the man's evaluation was that he had a "bad temper".
Now it seems that this man is not just irritable.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
The moment he heard Li Leping's cold tone, the bandaged man spoke.
His voice was hoarse, like a ferocious beast, and his eyes were full of vigilance towards Li Leping.
In his eyes, this strange man who suddenly broke in was obviously not simple.
No matter how poor the quality of the hospital door is, it will not be kicked open with just one kick.
A living person cannot do such a thing.
"So you told them not to open the door? Or, in other words, you threatened them and didn't allow them to open the door?"
Li Leping did not express his purpose of coming here, and it was impossible for him to express his purpose to a guy who was about to die.
"it's me."
The man noticed Li Leping's hostility. He suddenly shook off the child in his hand and looked at Li Leping with hostility in his eyes.
"What do you want..."
Immediately afterwards, he stood up suddenly, trying to intimidate Li Leping with his tall body.
However, the man hadn't finished speaking yet.
next moment.
The man with his face covered with bandages saw the stranger who was at least ten meters away from him suddenly sway and then appeared in front of him.
Suddenly.
Unable to react at all, a cold hand without any warmth suddenly stretched out and strangled his neck.
The palms of his hands were stiff, like a dead man with rigor mortis, unable to break free at all.
"you……"
The suffocating feeling of his neck being strangled suddenly flooded into his mind, and the man felt that breathing instantly became a luxury thing.
He stared at the stranger who appeared in front of him with wide eyes and disbelief.
"Click, click."
The palm holding his neck was tightening little by little.
The man also clearly heard the sound of bones moving.
This is his cervical spine.
His cervical spine was being crushed bit by bit in the hands of the stranger in front of him.
"Ah...ah..."
At this point, the man changed from the perpetrator to the victim.
Li Leping just looked at him coldly, watching the man struggling in his hands, without any emotion in his eyes, as if he was looking at an ant that was about to be trampled to death.
"Click."
Suddenly.
With the sudden burst of force in his palm, the man's neck was completely crushed by Li Leping in an instant.
The man's hands hung down helplessly, and his head tilted to one side.
"thump."
As soon as he let go, the man's body fell limply to the ground, motionless and breathless. The light in his eyes was gradually becoming dim, and the body's body temperature was also rapidly draining in the cold environment.
"Well……"
The moment she saw the lifeless man, the woman huddled against the wall suddenly widened her eyes and instinctively covered her mouth with her hands to prevent herself from making a sound.
At the same time, her bandaged feet kicked back, ignoring the pain of the wounds, and shrank toward the wall.
"You killed him?!"
Xu Jin, who also witnessed the whole process, looked dumbfounded. He looked at the man's wide and gray eyes and felt that his legs were weak.
Looking at the man on the ground whose head and body were not in a straight line, Xu Jin's eyes were filled with confusion.
He never expected that the guy who came up in the elevator with him would be such a ruthless person.
If a person is told to kill, he will be killed.
After the killing, there was no expression on his face.
It's like accidentally stepping on an ant.
"He blocked you outside the door, pretended not to hear him behind the door, and left you to fend for yourself outside. Are you still going to speak for him?"
Li Leping looked at Xu Jin expressionlessly.
"But...but...this is a human life after all..." Xu Jin seemed to be frightened and replied blankly.
Today, he saw a lot of corpses and dead people.
However, this was the first time he witnessed the entire process of life passing before his eyes.
A person who was alive one second was killed the next and turned into a gradually cold corpse.
"too naive."
Hearing this, Li Leping just shook his head.
He had already looked away, not wanting to argue with Xu Jin or explain anything further.
Don't argue with irrelevant people.
This is a conclusion he came to after being ignored countless times, and it applies to various situations.