Four hundred and thirtieth eight chapters in the name of love (thirty-seven)
the other side.
Park Yunjin was walking towards Director Li's office.
What's different from other colleagues is...
Because Director Li wanted to have a good view of the entire hospital's activity venue.
Therefore, Director Li’s office was set up alone on the fourth floor...
Distance from the fourth floor.
It's not that far.
But you can reach it by climbing a few more stairs.
But at this time Park Yunjin.
Just like Yang Xiaohui, standing quietly in the middle of the dark corridor with only the light of the green passage sign...
He was a little out of breath.
This was obviously the result of climbing the stairs quickly.
"What...is going on?"
"I remember I was already on the third floor. Why is this still on the second floor?"
He stared at the label with a slightly dusty "2" number on the wall in the corridor.
His face doesn't look very good.
"What the hell..."
Park Yunjin took out her mobile phone and illuminated it.
Continue to climb a few more floors...
But after passing the corner of a staircase again, he looked at the "2" floor sign that had not changed.
Can't help but feel a little weird.
"What's going on?"
He looked down at his phone.
Unlock the lock screen and prepare to find the contact information of the doorman and call him to ask if his location can be seen on the surveillance camera.
But.
Just like most ghost stories.
After he dialed the phone.
Under a few harsh sizzling sounds of electricity.
Only a gentle female voice came, indicating that the other party's phone was on a call...
In doubt.
Park Yunjin called other colleagues again, such as Xiaodai who was patrolling the hospital.
But there is no exception.
Can't even make a call...
The green light of the signboard in the originally dark corridor looked particularly scary.
Can't help but.
Pu Yunjin remembered that the new patients who arrived a few days ago always complained about seeing supernatural things.
Various strange ghost stories.
Plus the patient who died in the room not long ago and was told it was suicide...
Those horrific images stuck in my mind.
At this moment, Park Yunjin's imagination surged out uncontrollably.
Unknowingly.
His breathing started to get heavier...
"No, there are no supernatural events. I'm just scaring myself. I should just take two steps up and get there..."
Pu Yunjin comforted herself.
Although under the scene in front of me.
This kind of comfort seems very pale and feeble.
But he still gave himself a shot in the arm and walked upstairs...
Time is passing.
The clock on the wall has turned countless times...
Park Yunjin and Yang Xiaohui.
Just trapped in the corridor.
Until the sky outside the hospital turned white for the first time.
They haven’t come out yet…
…
"That day."
"I've experienced something I've only ever imagined in my life."
"In that dark and depressing corridor, no matter which direction I walked, I couldn't get out."
"It's like a Möbius strip."
"Up and down."
"Everything will go back to the starting point..."
"The stairwell door disappeared."
"There are only endless dark gray stairs..."
"I'm starting to get scared."
"Starting to get panicky."
"In this corridor where I can never seem to get out, I seem to be going crazy..."
"The last battery of the mobile phone has been used up."
"I lost the last light source I could control."
"I couldn't control my emotions, and even hit the bare wall with my fists, trying to punch a hole in it."
"But this is obviously impossible..."
"The walls are stained with blood from my fists."
"Red and enchanting."
"I remember someone once asked me whether, as a psychiatrist, I would be stronger internally and less likely to be emotionally affected by the outside world."
"This is the misunderstanding most people have about us."
"No, it should be a misunderstanding of me..."
"I often deal with those patients."
"I don't know when my state of mind started to become extreme..."
"After I found out I couldn't get out."
"What I did was not calm down and think seriously."
"Instead, he vented his senseless violence..."
"I know this is wrong."
"But I."
"Can't control it..."
…
…
In the corridor covered with some dust.
Pu Yunjin stared at the "2" floor sign with helpless eyes that made him want to vomit.
The wound on his fist had already scabbed over.
Look from a distance.
It's like dark red leather armor wrapped around the fist...
The mobile phone is turned off.
He also had no way of knowing how much time had passed now.
I can only judge by the constant feeling of hunger in my stomach. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for too long...
The end of fear is the unknown.
The unknown end is powerlessness.
There is no way to know how to get out.
Park Yunjin's heart has become numb...
Don't know why.
He would often think of the days when he and Qianye competed for a kite with their naked buttocks when he was a child, and the teacher's criticism of his cheerful and unserious learning attitude when he was studying, or the strange patients he faced after work.
All this.
They all began to appear in his mind like a revolving lantern...
"Am I going to die..."
He murmured to himself.
He at this time.
Suddenly, I really miss listening to those unreasonable and disgusting private thoughts outside, and the gentle scum who appear to be gentlemen but are actually villains.
This is an endless staircase.
Brought to him.
It's despair...
Since his lips were dry and cracked due to not drinking water for a long time, Park Yunjin couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his lip skin, hoping to moisten it.
But just when he was unable to make this move.
A familiar voice.
Suddenly it sounded in his ears...
"Pu...Pu Yunjin? Why are you here?"
He looked for the sound subconsciously and turned his head.
He found Yang Xiaohui standing behind him with a tired look on his face.
"Is it you?"
Pu Yunjin shouted loudly.
In this almost desperate environment.
Being able to meet a second living person is undoubtedly a glimmer of hope in despair...
He supported his sore body and stood up, looking at Yang Xiaohui standing in front of him from top to bottom.
"Are you trapped in this stairwell too?" He asked Yang Xiaohui.
"Yes...yes."
Yang Xiaohui nodded with difficulty.
Her current condition is not much better than Park Yunjin's.
Even if it's just talking.
It can make her feel pain in her throat...
"I don't know what to do anymore. I've been stuck here for a long time. I can't contact anyone on my phone. I feel like I'm going to die here, so I just walk down the stairs with the mentality of giving it a try."
"Unexpectedly...I saw you."
Yang Xiaohui said in her hoarse voice.
between words.
There were faint, unstoppable sobs.
Park Yunjin noticed it.
There were several conspicuous tear stains on Yang Xiaohui's face under the corners of her eyes, which looked a bit funny.
He understood without thinking.
The other party must have cried several times because of this matter.
"Wait a minute, you said you were walking down the stairs and met me?"
Pu Yunjin caught the key point of Yang Xiaohui's words.
I asked rhetorically if I wanted to be sure.
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Yang Xiaohui answered truthfully.
She raised her head and looked at Pu Yunjin. Her face, which was actually quite good-looking, looked pitiful...
"The reason why I was trapped in this stairwell was because I wanted to go upstairs to find Director Li." Pu Yunjin thought quietly, thinking about the reason why he and Yang Xiaohui met, "So after being trapped, I basically walked towards the stairs.
Walking up, even if I thought about going downstairs, I would go back upstairs soon."
"When we separated before, we were on the second floor. You should have gone to find the doorman and chose to go down..."
Yang Xiaohui heard this.
He nodded firmly.
Looking at Pu Yunjin's appearance, she felt that he must have thought of something.
"Logically speaking, the two of us are going in completely opposite directions, one up and the other down. There is no reason for us to meet..."
Park Yunjin also felt that he had figured out something.
My heart, which had already sunk, started to fluctuate again.
"What kind of situation would cause us to meet in opposite directions?"
He looked up at the sign on the second floor.
Raise your hand and point to the sign.
Asked Yang Xiaohui.
"Can you keep seeing this thing no matter how you go down?"
"Well, yes!"
Yang Xiaohui looked in the direction pointed by Pu Yunjin.
He nodded and replied.
Seeing that Yang Xiaohui's answer was similar to what he had guessed.
Pu Yunjin felt as if he had caught a hint of something.
His eyes narrowed.
No more words were spoken.
Instead, he is constantly deducing the layout that can cause this series of situations in his mind...
The atmosphere became quiet again.
Yang Xiaohui did not dare to disturb the other party.
I could only look at Pu Yunjin's face that was now calm...
Her mentality and Park Yunjin's are actually similar.
Meeting another person in this stairwell of endless despair is like touching a glimmer of hope in the darkness.
It's just that it's a little different.
Her character has been relatively dependent on others since she was a child.
In this case, I met Park Yunjin.
Undoubtedly, without realizing it, she used Park Yunjin as a shield for her inner uneasiness.
Park Yunjin gave it to her now.
It's an indescribable sense of security...
She is in this silent atmosphere.
I even feel like I can hear the other person’s heartbeat…
Park Yunjin on the other side.
He doesn't have so many strange thoughts anymore.
After finding a clue and falling into thinking.
He vaguely recalled a story that Qianye had mentioned when chatting with him.
It's about a group of people trapped in a tunnel with a ghost wall.
The story that happened...
Although the story is just fiction, it was an inspiration for Chino to add plot to his own.
But there’s a circular principle involved.
Park Yunjin can recall a few things in her mind...
"If such a thing really happens, then judging from the actual situation, Qianye said that there is only one situation that can explain it."
"Like the story of polar opposites, the cycle I entered was actually just shrunk into a small circle..."
"A circle has no end."
"No matter how you go, you will always come back to the starting point..."
"My goal is to go south, but I still want to go north. I think I can reach the south if I have enough transportation. This is based on the basic concept and confidence of the circle."
"This stairwell is not a circle. From a certain perspective, it is a starting point and an end point with practical significance. Under normal circumstances, such a cycle would not happen at all."
"Have a beginning...and an end..."
Park Yunjin suddenly caught something.
His thinking became broader.
The originally squinted eyes relaxed and opened, focusing on the bare dark gray cement wall.
"That stingy Qianye mentioned..."
"The shape of a Möbius strip."
"It is obtained by twisting a piece of paper with a starting point and an ending point and connecting the two ends together."
"A piece of paper has two sides."
"Under normal circumstances, if you just go from the starting point to the end, it is impossible to come into contact with another hidden side."
"But it will be different if you twist it and then fold it in half..."
"If an ant is placed on any point to crawl, it will crawl from the starting point to any visible surface on this so-called Möbius strip, and finally fall into a loop and cannot get out."
"Chino mentioned that the ant's perspective is only two-dimensional."
"It has no way of seeing three-dimensional things."
"That is to say, if no one takes down the ant, it will crawl on this road until it dies..."
Park Yunjin thought of this.
He took a little breath.
Then he raised his palm and patted his face twice, trying to keep his mind clear.
Under this seemingly complicated reasoning, it is actually extremely simple.
He has figured out the reason why he and Yang Xiaohui can't get out of this corridor...
When the starting point and end point are connected.
As an ant with a two-dimensional perspective.
It can only circulate continuously on the plane...
When Yang Xiaohui saw Pu Yunjin slap her face, her heart trembled slightly. She didn't understand what the other party was going to do.
How could it have reached the point of self-destructive behavior such as beating oneself...
[Is it possible that he thinks this is a dream, so he wants to use pain to remind himself? Finally let himself wake up?]
[Or maybe he feels that he has done something wrong and uses slaps to encourage him? 】
Yang Xiaohui turned her tear-stained face.
I scanned the surrounding area, which was plunged into darkness, and contained an inexplicably strange staircase scene.
A bad thought emerged from the bottom of her heart.
[Could it be that... Park Yunjin can no longer bear this kind of torture and is starting to have mental problems? 】
【He won’t go crazy and attack me?!】
While she was thinking this.
He also turned around and glanced at Pu Yunjin.
What a coincidence.
When he saw Pu Yunjin's mouth, which had not smiled for a long time, he raised it slightly.
In a dark and dead atmosphere.
This smile brought only weirdness and fear to Yang Xiaohui...
【No, he is really going crazy!】
[I have to help him with something to make him think about the good things he has to do...]
[What should I do? It’s just the two of us now. He’s crazy. What should I do?!]
【By the way...ring!】
[That wedding ring Park Yunjin accidentally dropped!]
Think of this.
Yang Xiaohui took out the ring that she had picked up before from her pocket.
"Yunjin, you accidentally dropped the engagement ring. I picked it up at the stairs before. You must be worried, right?"