Translator: Reina Editor: Killian
They are doing something very, very dangerous…
Dean Chen and Liu Qin had provoked ‘it’ who had been asleep in the chasm. Tonghua Hospital had touched the taboo of manipulating life and death.
The person holding the tape recorder was still panting and rushing along, letting out a series of tapping sounds. Lu Xia who was on the other end of the tape was about to speak, when the expression on his face suddenly froze.
He heard a door creak, as if it was slowly being opened.
However, the sound was clear because it came from just outside the door of the observation room.
He hurriedly hit the stop button, and the sound came to a sudden stop at the same time.
The emergency room?!
Both men came to the same conclusion at the same time.
What was wrong in the emergency room? It was pitch black all around, and all they could hear in the all-encompassing silence was their breathing.
Click.
Lu Xia switched on the flashlight first, and the gradually brightening light source illuminated a corner of the observation room, making the rest of the hospital appear more gloomy and dark. He picked up the flashlight and wanted to walk slowly towards the door.
Sun Zheng held him down and switched the flashlight off.
“Do you want to lure ‘it’ here before knowing what it is?” Sun Zheng whispered.
Lu Xia obediently sat back down. He didn’t know if the flashlight would really attract anything over, but Sun Zheng’s intuition had always been right so far.
The two of them sat quietly in the dark for what felt like quite a while. Maybe it had only been a minute, or perhaps it had been ten, but for them, the dense silence at this time was more tense and scary than any previous moment they had experienced. Even the hair on their heads seemed to be standing on end, alert to the changes in the surrounding air.
They did not dare to move.
Sun Zheng clutched the giant clam key tightly in his hand, the layer of cold sweat on his palm clinging to its surface.
“There is no more movement now, I’m going to resume playing the tape,” Lu Xia whispered in Sun Zheng’s ear. The tape started to spin. The whirring sound of the tape was very loud in the silent hospital, so loud that the both of them flinched at the same time, becoming even more restless.
The two men in the tape were running, and the background noise in the hospital gradually became louder. Patients and nurses could be heard walking around, and the clinking of bottles and cans could be heard.
Eventually, the sound of running came to a stop. They had already passed the third floor and reached the first floor.
“Over there, I saw him!” Yan Yang’s voice seemed very anxious. “Lu Xiang!”
The sound of the device shaking came through the tape as the person carrying it took a few hurried steps. “Lu Xiang, are you there?”
“Xiao Yan, are you looking for Dr. Lu?” A soft female voice suddenly sounded. “A few emergency patients just came to the emergency room, and Dr. Lu is busy, come back later.”
Yan Yang ignored her and continued hurrying down the path. “Lu Xiang!”
The sound of the wheels came faintly from the tape, approaching from far away, and several pairs of leather shoes pattered against the ground.
“Lu Xiang!” Hearing Yan Yang’s tone, it can be inferred that Lu Xiang had probably appeared amongst the group who came by with the stretcher just now.
“Xiao Yan, why are you looking for me?” It was the voice of a man in his thirties. It sounded gentle and deep.
(Lu Xia was startled, this was…
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Although this voice was a lot younger, but it was…
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“Itfcu, atlr lr Gfjc Oe’r nblmf!!” Oe Wlj rqec jgbecv. “Ktf vbmabg Tjc Tjcu kjr ibbxlcu obg, atlr Oe Wljcu, lr cbk Gfjc Oe. Qts vlvc’a P mbccfma atfrf akb cjwfr fjgilfg… Itfcu!!”
Oe Wljcu… Oe Wljcu…
Lu Xia turned, only to see Sun Zheng shaking all over, trembling very violently.
Even his teeth were rattling.
“Zheng?! Are you alright?” Lu Xia panicked.
“What?” Lu Xia’s voice seemingly snapped Sun Zheng back to reality. “I’m fine… maybe it’s because of what was at the door… I don’t know…”
Lu Xia wanted to say something, but Yan Yang had already continued talking in the tape.)
“Lu Xiang, listen to me…”
“Doctor Yan, if you have nothing to do, you can just wander around the hospital. We still have patients to deal with here, and Dr. Lu has no time to waste with you,” a nurse snapped in a bad tone.
“Xiao Yan, this patient was personally accepted by the dean. After I’m done, I will come back to find you,” Lu Xiang said, raising his voice. “Quick! Send the patient to Ward 315A, hurry up!”
The sound of wheels and footsteps sped up.
“Ward 315A?” Yan Yang’s voice sounded startled for a moment, and then he shouted angrily again. “The thing I need to tell you is the important business!!”
Lu Xiang and the others naturally had no time to pay attention to him.
Yan Yang had no choice but to turn to another person: “Lu Xiaoyun, we can’t pin our hopes on Lu Xiang. Quick, tell me who is that patient? I will go to the emergency room to find him myself!”
“It’s the patient with the red line on his wrist just now,” Lu Xiaoyun said unhurriedly.
“What?!” Yan Yang started running. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier!! Then why did they send the patient to Ward 315A instead of the operating room?!…Lu Xiang!!”
The tape recorder was shaking violently. It was full of buzzing noises.
According to Lu Xiaoyun and Yan Yang’s previous plan, they originally wanted to take advantage of the timing of ‘it’ coming out, to destroy a certain plan of Chen Zhiwen—that is, the operation on the corpse which was about to be performed in the operating room, but now, they realised that the patient who was being pushed to Ward 315A seemed to be playing a key role too… If they weren’t able to stop it before then, everything would be in vain…and it would become impossible for them to cast a trap to get the solution from Liu Qin…
As for Sun Zheng and Lu Xia, their last hope would also be dashed.
Quick, catch up! Yan Yang!
It was the first time that Lu Xia placed such high hopes on Yan Yang, and the situation they were currently in was even more critical than that of Yan Yang at that time.
‘It’ was coming out!
On that day in 2001!
Right now!
After catching up, Yan Yang’s footsteps slowed down.
“Lu Xiang!” His voice suddenly choked up, “Listen to me!! What… What happened to him…” ”
“Dr. Yan!” The nurse next to Lu Xiang seemed quite impatient.
“Lu Xiang, let me speak to him. That guy…he is my cousin!!!” Yan Yang’s voice was choked up, full of sorrow.
The sound of the wheels stopped suddenly, and so did the clacking of leather shoes.
“Your cousin?” Lu Xiang’s voice was very surprised.
“Yeah! This guy came to inform me just now that something happened to my cousin, and he asked me to follow along to take a look, so I came to you!”
Yan Yang, a master of acting at this moment, gestured to ‘him’, the silent person who had been standing behind him all this while, Lu Xiaoyun.
“Lu Xiang, what on earth happened to my cousin?”
“Your cousin…this…”
“Dr. Lu, we don’t have time!”
Hurry up…Yan Yang…
Hiss.
Hiss.
The voice in the tape suddenly jumped again, as though it was suddenly thrown on fast-forward, and what Lu Xiang said next became blurred out.
Hiss. The noise in the tape was unbearably loud, as though it was from a magnetic field which was being violently disturbed.
Lu Xia smacked the device. He pointed the light at it, only to realise that the tape was still spinning normally, and the fast-forward button had not been accidentally pressed.
It was just that the battery displayed on the screen was flashing. The device was almost dead.
The sound on the tape was still muffled.
Lu Xia pressedthe stop button.
He exchanged a glance with Sun Zheng. Their faces seemed to be covered with a dark aura.
Hiss.
The device made another sizzling sound.
What happened?!
Both of them had such questions in their bewildered expressions, but neither of them voiced them aloud.
‘It’ is coming…
Will it be attracted over because of me? Lu Xia’s other hand subconsciously moved to his leg. It felt cold to the touch.
Sun Zheng’s expression remained a little stiff, and his eyes stayed on the tape recorder.
Lu Xia gritted his teeth, took out the tape, put it back, and hit the play button again.
The hissing sound finally disappeared, and the sound on the tape returned to normal.
“Xiao Yan, you go back first. Leave your cousin to us.” Lu Xiang seemed to have just finished a long period of persuasion and explanation. “Let’s hurry to Ward 315A, we are already late!”
There was a rushing sound from the tape and the sound of a gurney rolling.
“Ah?” Yan Yang let out a sound of surprise that was so light that it could only be recorded by the recorder on his body.
The voices of the group stopped abruptly.
The tape suddenly became very quiet.
What happened?
Listening to the brief silence, Lu Xia and Sun Zheng had countless guesses in their minds.
“Liu Qin…” Yan Yang whispered again.
Liu Qin appeared?
“Don’t go to 315A. I’ll go see that person, that patient.” It was the voice of a middle-aged woman. Her voice was neither light nor soft, it was as sturdy as a straight old tree, and even the grammar and sentences were very rough. In the minds of Sun Zheng and Lu Xia, they visualised the sight of an aunt wearing a shirt with horizontal stripes, staring straight at them talking with bulging eyes.
The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.
The patient was not in 315A, but in front of Liu Qin.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
There was a loud ear-piercing scream coming from the tape. It seemed to have penetrated through time and space, piercing right into the ears and brains of Sun Zheng and Lu Xia.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
Another scream sounded. The hospital seemed to be wrapped in utter chaos for a split second. The wheels of the gurney spun fast, hurrying off somewhere.
Bang.
A door somewhere opened with a loud bang, followed by the sound of dozens of chaotic footsteps. Some sounded from a distance away, some sounded close by.
The volume of the rushed, panicked footsteps seemed to be shaking the entire hospital, and noise in the tape was louder than ever. It was just like the gurney, the nurses with infusion tubes, and everyone in the hospital were all simultaneously rushing over towards the recording device.
Over to Sun Zheng and Lu Xia.
There was a rumble under their feet. There was a movement around them, as though there were many, many people suddenly moving around in this silent night. The darkness shrouding the hospital felt like a giant cage that was splitting up into groups of black shadows, all rushing along with the lurking undercurrent, pushing their way to the front, to them.
“Zhiwen, Zhiwen!!”
Liu Qin’s stammering voice brushed past the recorder.
“Liu Qin!!” Yan Yang exclaimed. The recorder shook, hissing. He caught up with her.
Liu Qin likely ran over to the operating room on the third floor.
As a result, those nervous and panicked human voices were transmitted through the device as well. Glass shattering, nurses screaming, people moving their feet.
“Calm down! Keep silent!” Lu Xiang’s voice was almost in front of them, tinged with urgency, but it was quickly interrupted by a groan.
Yan Yang was still running, slipping his way through the crowd. There was another pair of footsteps behind him, following closely and quickly.
Bang!
The door opened with a bang. It was almost akin to an illusion interlacing time and space.
Sun Zheng snapped his head up sharply.
This was not from the tape! The sound is coming from upstairs!
A cacophony of human voices, a bout of realistic footsteps, it was all just upstairs!
“‘It’ came out!”
“‘It’ came out! Zhiwen, aaaaahhhh!”
Liu Qin wailed.
Before the end of her ‘aaahh’ could be dragged long enough, the tape suddenly fell silent.
It was akin to a howling baby which suddenly got its mouth covered, falling silent instantly.
“‘It’ is coming, Zheng.” Lu Xia fumbled to hold Sun Zheng’s hand. He was trembling so much that his nails almost scratched Sun Zheng’s skin.
AAAAAA THE CLIFFHANGER TT
thank you sm for the chapter!
Ahhh I’m so anxious for them! 😭😭