Chapter 636 - Come and Find Me (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“When did this get there?” The middle-aged man held the medical history, and his eyes were bulging—he had no memory of this at all.

“I…” The boy was deathly afraid of his father, so he cowered behind his mother.

“Why aren’t you speaking now? It’s time for you to speak, but you choose to be silent‽” The middle-aged man yanked the boy out from behind his mother. He grabbed the boy’s shirt and shook him. “When was this stuck there? Where were we at the time? What did the person who left this look like?”

“On the first floor, when we passed one of the sickrooms, the door was left half ajar. I saw a hand reach out and place the paper on your back.” It was unclear whether the boy was more afraid of his father or more afraid of that hand. “I wanted to tell you at the time, but then a face showed up behind the door. His skin was ashen, and he whispered to me to not reveal the secret because this was supposed to be a fair game of hide-and-seek.”

“When have you ever been so obedient? He told you not to say anything, so you didn’t say anything?” The middle-aged man raised his arm and was close to slapping his boy’s face. “Trash, all of you! You’re as useless as your mother. One day, I’ll die because of both of you!”

He stared at the paper that he was holding, and the uneven handwriting on it made his hair stand on end.

“It’s my turn to come and find you? Only an idiot would follow that order!” The middle-aged man crumpled the medical history into a ball and tossed it on the ground. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but the picture of the patient poked out from the ball, and it happened to stare right at the middle-aged man.

“So damn unlucky.” He stomped angrily on the ball of the paper. The middle-aged man glanced down the corridor. “The monster from the road didn’t chase us into this place—it should have given up already. We should venture deeper into the building. When we ran in here, I remember seeing a backdoor on the other side of the building.”

After hearing what his boy had to say, there was no way the middle-aged man was going to retake the route that they had taken earlier. He looked at the sickrooms that lined the corridor on both sides, and his palms were sweating.

“Aren’t we going to find that big brother?” asked the boy cautiously as he raised his head.

“Find him? Do you want to die that much? The most urgent thing we need to do now is leave this godforsaken place.” The middle-aged man grabbed his wife’s shoulders roughly. “Look after him carefully and don’t let him wander off. The people inside the ghost apartment have two different attitudes dealing with adults and children…”

As he spoke, he moved forward, but the edge of his pants were pulled back by the boy. “What is it this time?”

“Daddy, he’s playing hide-and-seek with us.”

“F*ck, of course, I know that.” The middle-aged man kicked the boy back. “Do you really plan on playing hide-and-seek with a ghost in this ghost-ridden place?”

“But if we didn’t go and find him, he’ll come to find us instead.” The boy used a serious tone to explain the game’s rule. However, his innocent voice transmuted into an indescribable sense of terror when it fell into his father’s ears.

“The ghost… will come and find us?” Based on the rules, there was indeed a chance of that happening. The middle-aged man’s face fell immediately. Whether it was looking for the ghost or being looked for by the ghost, both of these things were something hard to accept for him.

“No, this has to be a trap. Even if we find the ghost, after the role changes, it will still come and find us! We need to leave this place! We cannot stand here anymore.” The middle-aged man picked up the boy, called after his wife, and raced down the safety corridor.

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