Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-Pierce, Proofreader-adjective
“What’s wrong?”
Ren Jianmo caught up with him in two steps. When he saw Ji Dong’s pale face, he reached out and gently asked, “What happened?”
Ji Dong turned his head; his pupils slightly dilated due to the excessive secretion of adrenaline. “There’s someone behind us.”
“Someone?”
Ren Jianmo confirmed again, “You mean, someone was following us just now?”
Ji Xiao’niao nodded vigorously.
He was absolutely certain that he hadn’t made a mistake just now. There was indeed an extra shadow on the mirror.
Ren Jianmo’s brows furrowed.
He was confident in his powers of observation and perception. Although Ren Jianmo never saw him as weak, there was still a noticeable gap between their strengths.
In fact, Ren Jianmo was well aware that among all the participants in this [Film], including the Fan siblings who had already reached the A-level difficulty threshold, there was still a vast distance between them and him.
However, as he looked at Ji Dong’s pale face, devoid of color even on his lips, he didn’t think for a moment that this was just a child’s imagination.
So…
If there really was something “following” them that Ji Dong could see but Ren Jianmo couldn’t, then that thing must be extraordinary, even more challenging than he imagined.
“You go to the middle.”
Ren Jianmo pushed Ji Dong, who was originally at the forefront, into the center of the group, while he himself went to the front.
Mo Tiangen followed silently, understanding the situation.
The five of them continued forward and arrived at an empty hall.
At the entrance of the hall, there was a faded sign that read “Internal Medicine Clinic” in bold letters.
At that moment, they heard a rhythmic “drip, drip” sound.
The sound was not far from them, and it was particularly noticeable in the empty ruins.
“It’s here!”
Fan Luming immediately exclaimed, “The essential dripping sound in horror movies!”
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The group followed the sound of water and quickly found its source.
The dripping sound was coming from the examination room in the rightmost area.
Instead of rushing in, they first felt around the door and found the light switch. After turning on the lights, they peeked inside.
This examination room was not big, only about 10 square meters, and you could see the whole view at a glance.
On the right side of the room, there was a sink installed in the corner, probably designed for doctors to wash their hands after examining patients.
However, it seemed that the faucet of the sink was either not tightened properly or the metal components had aged over the years. At this moment, water was leaking down, making a “drip, drip” sound about every two seconds.
Moreover, the drainage pipe appeared to be blocked by something, so the water couldn’t go down. It had already accumulated about half a sink’s worth of water.
Mo Tiangen first took a deep breath, then slowly walked towards the sink, gripping the folding stool that was pinned to his waist.
The surroundings were quiet, and everyone unconsciously held their breath, their eyes fixed on the eerie sink, their nerves stretched to the extreme.
But the faucet that everyone feared continued to drip water at a steady pace, showing no signs of anything unusual.
Mo Tiangen slowly approached the edge of the sink, and cautiously reached out, touching the knob of the faucet and turning it clockwise for about half a turn.
The sound of water dripping stopped.
“Phew.”
Mo Tiangen breathed a sigh of relief.
After waiting for another half a minute and confirming that there were no abnormalities, they all entered the examination room.
There were still several pieces of furniture left in this room.
Upon entering, there was a table and a wobbly chair directly in front of them. In the corner, there was a storage cabinet with a broken door.
Behind the table, there was a dirty curtain hanging, revealing a high-legged wooden bed without a mattress. It should be a diagnosis and treatment bed.
Fan Luming walked to the table and opened every drawer, discovering that there were many uncleaned miscellaneous items inside, especially a lot of papers, including some poorly written prescriptions and blank laboratory request forms, as well as scattered receipts and stubs, and even a few medical records.
He took out all the medical records from the drawer and quickly flipped through them. They were all about minor ailments like headaches, fever, colds, and stomachaches. Nothing special was found.
While Fan Luming, the aspiring doctor, was examining the desk, the others scattered around the room, gradually falling silent.
Just then, Ji Dong suddenly heard a very faint “gulu” sound.
He immediately shuddered and abruptly turned his head toward the source of the sound.
The sound was coming from the sink in the corner.
Ji Dong widened his eyes and stared intently at the half-filled pool of water.
After waiting for a few seconds, there was another “gulu” sound.
This time, he finally saw clearly—it was a bubble rising from the drain, passing through the water, floating to the surface, and then bursting.
This kind of situation was actually very common in life.
Whenever something blocked the drain, the gas would often flow back and come out of it.
However, such a normal scene, when placed in this eerie abandoned hospital, would make anyone feel unnerved.
Ji Dong cautiously took a step forward, slightly bending down, and looked towards the drain.
The room was not well-lit, and the coin-sized hole was pitch black, with no bottom visible, so it was impossible to tell what was blocking it. Just as Ji Dong was debating whether or not to find a pen or something else to poke into it, he suddenly saw something move quickly beneath the drain.
Ji Dong: “!!!”
In an instant, his back was covered in goosebumps, and a chill ran from his spine to the top of his head. Because, at that moment, he finally saw it.
It was an eye!
Right beneath the drain, there was an eye!
The eye blinked, gazing at everyone in the room through the half-filled water.
“AHHHH!” Ji Dong exclaimed, his voice trembling.
He took several steps back, retreating until he reached the partition with a curtain. The others were startled by his cry and turned to look at him, asking, “What’s wrong? What happened?!”
“Th–Ther–There’s an e–eye, an eye in the drain!” Ji Dong’s words were fragmented, like static.
Several gasps filled the room.
Everyone’s gaze involuntarily focused on the water pipe beneath the sink.
The U-shaped pipe was only as thick as a wrist, impossible to hide a person.
“Are you– Are you saying…there is a dismembered body?” Fan Hemian pointed to the half-filled sink, trying to maintain composure, but her voice betrayed her true feelings.
“Could it be that the sewer is filled with… bodies?”
“But, that eye—”
Ji Dong wanted to say that the eye in the drain blinked, but before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle.
Then, he was forcefully pulled and thrown backward, entirely out of control. Everyone, including Ren Jianmo, who was still standing at the door, couldn’t react in time.
They watched helplessly as Ji Dong suddenly fell and defied the laws of physics by flying backward towards the medical bed, and with a “whoosh,” he disappeared under the dark bed.
“Xiao’niao!”
The four people in the room rushed towards the medical bed. However, at that moment, the curtain hook unexpectedly came off, and the filthy curtain fell, covering the bed and blocking everyone’s view.
At this moment, they could only hear Ji Dong’s panicked screams and the sounds of struggle, but they didn’t know how he was doing or what he was fighting against.
“Fuck!”
Mo Tiangen pushed forward in one step, ignoring the curtain covering it, and directly grabbed the headboard.
With a “clang,” he lifted the entire bed frame.
After the bed was lifted, the force restraining Ji Dong also disappeared. Ji Xiao’niao scrambled to his feet, grabbing Ren Jianmo’s outstretched hand in a panic, and hiding behind him in a state of terror.
Ren Jianmo supported Ji Dong’s shoulder and carefully looked him up and down, “How are you?”
Ji Xiao’niao didn’t seem to be suffering from any injuries, but he looked extremely unkempt, covered in dust and spider webs, and almost scared half to death.
He was trembling like a sieve. “Just now, someone… someone…”
He tightly held onto Ren Jianmo’s hand, as if trying to gain strength from it.
“Someone grabbed my foot and pulled me under the bed!” As he spoke, Ji Dong lifted the hem of his right pants leg, revealing his ankle.
Ren Jianmo and the others could clearly see that there was a dark bruise on his skin, in the shape of a handprint, with four long fingers and one short finger, each one distinct!
——Fcking hell!!
Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t speak. When Mo Tiangen lifted the examination bed just now, all four of them saw clearly that there was only Ji Dong under the bed.
But Ji Dong’s backward flight, which defied the laws of physics, and the clear five-finger imprint on his ankle, couldn’t be faked—he must have been attacked by something hiding in the hospital!
Ren Jianmo wanted to brush off the dust stuck in Ji Dong’s hair, but as soon as he moved his hand, Ji Dong firmly grabbed it.
“Don’t be afraid,” Ren Jianmo gently comforted, “Did you see what exactly attacked you just now?”
“I… I didn’t see clearly…”
Ji Dong tried hard to calm himself down, but his mind kept replaying the hand that grabbed his ankle and the figure he glimpsed under the dark bed.
“But, it should be a person…” His fingers unconsciously intertwined with Ren Jianmo’s, as if seeking strength.
“And, the clothes on him… they were… white.”
worthy of a horror movie…