Translator: Reina Editor: Killian
Where did the people go? Where did the mirror go? What happened to the hospital?
Why was the atmosphere so scary?
Boundless darkness and silence enveloped the unfamiliar fifth floor.
“Listen, I’ll count to three. Let’s close our eyes and sprint across the corner of the elevator to the dean’s office,” Lu Xia whispered to Sun Zheng.
“Hey, was there a mirror opposite the elevator?”
Lu Xia suddenly turned his head and stared beadily at him, as if trying to discern something, then finally coldly replied after a long time, “There was never a mirror opposite the elevators in this building.”
Nonsense! Sun Zheng grumbled to himself. What about the mirror on the sixth floor then?
Or could it be… that there had never been a mirror on the sixth floor since the start?
“Let’s go!” Lu Xia patted Sun Zheng’s shoulder. “I’m going to start counting.”
“One, two, three—”
The two took their first step at the same time, darting towards the corner. A gust of eerie wind trailed behind them.
Here, here it is! Sun Zheng thought, and opened his eyes.
They ran past the elevator.
Sun Zheng was closer to the elevator.
The elevator doors were not open.
So which floor did the “ding” come from?
Did that mean there was someone else in this hospital?
Sun Zheng had countless questions in his mind, but he had no time to think about them while running.
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“Pulling out a whole bunch of keys will make a sound like a bell. Let’s ram open the door instead,” Lu Xia said in a frustrated tone.
“Bell?”
“For summoning spirits.” Lu Xia narrowed his eyes.
As soon as he finished speaking, he took a few steps back and rushed towards the office door like a boulder.
Bang!
Sun Zheng stared dumbfounded at the door which was knocked wide open and was still swinging back and forth on its hinges.
Lu Xia clapped his hands together proudly. Next, he shoved the door open completely and pulled Sun Zheng inside.
As soon as he entered the room, Lu Xia immediately moved a chair and rested it snugly under the door handle as a makeshift bolt, not leaving a single gap.
“Nicely done.” Lu Xia dusted his hands off.
Sun Zheng surveyed his surroundings. Under the dim light, they could only vaguely see some anatomical diagrams of various sizes pinned to the four walls.
“Zheng, check if there is a flashlight or something else at that desk.” Lu Xia slowly retreated to Sun Zheng’s side.
Sun Zheng opened the drawer and flipped through its contents.
It was full of documents and Sun Zheng tossed them all out. With the first drawer emptied, he reached out to pull the second drawer, only to find that he couldn’t open it.
“The second drawer is locked,” Sun Zheng said to Lu Xia who was rifling through the other side of the office.
“Look through the drawers on the bottom first,” Lu Xia said without looking up.
Sun Zheng pulled another drawer open while continuing to question Lu Xia, “Why did you say that this the safest place?”
“There are countless stories about this hospital,” Lu Xia said with a sigh. “But did you know? A ghost can’t come through the wall if it is in a room with things hanging on all four walls.”
How can there be ghosts in this world! Sun Zheng muttered in his heart, feeling as if Lu Xia was being ridiculous.
“Found it!” Lu Xia suddenly exclaimed excitedly.
A beam of orange light shot out and the office suddenly brightened up by three degrees.
Feeling as though his negative emotions had disappeared in an instant, Sun Zheng happily said, “Great!”
Lu Xia shook the flashlight rather complacently and scanned the surroundings, before saying, “Sit down, I need to explain our circumstances clearly to you.”
Sun Zheng pulled the cold wooden chair over and sat down. Lu Xia sank down in the seat opposite him.
The hospital was still eerily quiet.
“You might be thinking that I’ve been irrationally and hilariously paranoid since just now, right?” Lu Xia leaned forward and asked Sun Zheng.
Oh, don’t tell me you think so too?! Sun Zheng jeered in his mind, but merely offered Lu Xia a silent nod.
Lu Xia showed an understanding smile, then switched the flashlight off again. A blanket of hazy darkness fell upon the entire office again.
“—We have to save battery, so I’d have to trouble you to get used to this darkness— Actually, it might even take a while for me to explain it all to you— Sigh, Zheng, you’re really troublesome.”
“Speak.”
“This is not the first time for Xieji Hospital to encounter this, nor is it a mere coincidence. In fact, this hospital on Tonghua Road has had many of such occurrences. Didn’t you feel a sense of oppression when you came in?” Lu Xia’s voice is a little ethereal and distant, as if it was coming from the other side of the ocean.
“Yeah. I thought that the lighting in this hospital was too poor.”
“That’s another aspect. In fact, the last hospital closed down because of it—too many strange things happened one after another. My uncle originally asked me to come here to investigate this matter.”
“Strange things?” Sun Zheng inclined his head.
“Ah, it started a long time ago, and finally attracted attention about three years ago. Since the previous dean, there were some records of these incidents.”
“Why you?”
“Me? You seem to have forgotten, Mr. Sun. I have been studying folklore since I was in C University, and I have also been investigating paranormal events.”
“But there are no ghosts in this world, right?” Sun Zheng let out a helpless chuckle.
“I don’t know for sure. But aren’t there a lot of things that science can’t explain? I always thought it was better to be careful.”
“Okay, alright, so what should we do now?” Sun Zheng waved his hand, interrupting Lu Xia’s words.
“I don’t know why you would come across these things—although it’s my first time too, but you have always been a clean and independent person. How did these things cling onto you—well, perhaps you could try to see if you can open the drawer which was locked just now. Inside of it should be the ‘records’ I mentioned earlier.”
Hearing this, Sun Zheng stretched out his hand to pull the drawer on the second floor, but he was unable to open it still.
Lu Xia said in the darkness, “Pry it open.”
For Sun Zheng’s convenience, he switched on the flashlight. The dean’s office was dimly lit again. Soon after, the sound of Sun Zheng prying open the lock sounded.
“Just like a thief—” He smiled lightly and pulled the drawer open with a creak.
Lu Xia came over with the flashlight. With an appreciative smile, he stretched his hand out and placed the contents of the drawer down onto the desk one by one.
“As expected, all the things I was looking for are here.”
Two worn-out notebooks wrapped in red paper, along with six blueprints, in the order:
Tonghua Hospital Dark Incident Records (1999~2002)
Tonghua Hospital Dark Incident Records (2003~2005)
Floor Plans of Private Xieji Hospital on Tonghua Road Middle Street, from the first floor to the sixth floor
“Blueprints, huh?” Lu Xia muttered as he flipped through them. “Just what we needed. Look, they are even annotated.”
“What?” Sun Zheng leaned over.
“Look, the rooms which are circled should be like this: with pictures hanging on all four walls. Those rooms with red crosses, if I’m not wrong, should be some inauspicious places… We’ll look at the map later, let’s flip through the records first!” Lu Xia closed the blueprint, reached out and opened the first red book.
Sun Zheng: How many times must I tell you not to call me Zheng!
Lu Xia: Would you prefer if I called you Sun instead 
(The ‘sun’ in Sun Zheng’s name = grandson)
Sun Zheng:
Maybe calls MC “Sunny” is cute
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