Chapter 32: Dont Leave Me Alone (1/2)
The hospital was massive.
Although no lights were turned on in the hospital. The moonlight cascading through the windows served as enough illumination for the others to see that the hospital was indeed quite massive, and...
Terrifying.
But it wasn't terrifying in a sense that there were mutilated bodies strewn across the floor similar to the Main Hall of the Administration Block. Instead, it was terrifying for you would always have that feeling of being stared upon by the unknown upon entering this place.
”We are now at the hospital of this asylum. The medical ward, according to the map that I got from that custodian is still a few corridors away from the decontamination chamber. He also gave me a certain tip. He said that if we somehow entered this place. We must never bother about what we hear nor see...
”We must continue without any care for what is happening around us...”
”We should only stop once we've arrived at the Medical Ward.”
”A-All right...” A pale-faced Jane struggled to answer.
The others nodded their head, but it was clear from their soft whispers and slightly trembling bodies that they would rather stay in the gory and morbid Administration Block than stay in this place.
Unlike the Administration Block where the danger has a physical form, yet could be avoided with a steadfast mind and quick wit...
The terrifying part of this hospital seemed to be omnipresent.
”Before moving, I suggest that we should whisper a calming mantra to ourselves.” Calvin proposed.
”A calming mantra? What is that?”
”Anything... You can even chant song lyrics, so long as it can give you that sense of security. You are free to chant anything, just don't be too loud.” Calvin explained.
The others didn't say anything anymore.
Once they started moving, they also started chanting.
”Pie is 3.1415926535...”
”The nipa hut may be small, the vegetables there are assorted, turnip, eggplants, and some winged beans...”
”When you're happy and you know it, shake that ass...”
”What the fuck is that weird chanting, Nicholas?” Ray complained upon hearing Nicholas's chanting.
”Oh, shut up, man... Calvin told us that we can use anything as long as it calms us down...”
”That makes sense....” Ray was speechless.
He didn't say anything anymore and just started his own chant, ”Come, dear fellow stewards of the earth... Planting rice is never a joke...”
”To become the perfect predator, one must never become the prey. I cannot make the same mistake that I did in that battlefield a few years ago.” Hugo walked forward along with the others. Since he could be considered as the main source of physical strength and security for the newbies. He took the responsibility of protecting the others from behind.
As someone who slaughtered his way through that battlefield a few years ago, Hugo was never afraid of bloodshed. But behind this strong man was a fear that he had never managed to get rid of. In fact, contrary to the expectations of everyone, Hugo was never a cold-blooded killer.
Whenever he killed a person, he would always, without fail, dream about that person.
Haunted by his nightmares, Hugo almost went crazy.
In the end, he resorted to drinking himself to sleep as well as gambling.
In just a few years after that gruesome battle, Hugo lost everything that he had to his addictions.
Fast-forward in today's time. He had no other choice but to accept that tantalizing offer.
A chance to clear all of his debt and start anew.
But Hugo knew that no matter how many times he prayed for forgiveness and no matter how many times he started anew. The nightmares would never stop. He would forever dream about the people that he mercilessly killed and they would forever haunt his dreams.
Hugo may not be afraid of a life and death battle, but there was something that he was absolutely scared of.
And that was ghosts.
In the Administration Block, he showed no substantial fear on his face and his movements never lagged no matter how scary nor terrifying their position was. But inside this hospital, everything changed.
Hugo's entire body was now shivering in fear.
”I can't panic... If I panic and lost my mind here, what will happen to them? I can't lose it here... They are relying on me to support them. How can I let the situation be reversed at this moment? I must never be a deadweight for them!” Hugo told himself, but he found it difficult to even move his feet. His body was instinctively protesting against him.
”Don't be afraid... Ghosts are ghosts... There's a popular idiom in my hometown that one must be more afraid of a neighboring thief, than a neighboring ghost! What's more, they can detect your fear, so if you are afraid of them, the more they will try to come and haunt you...”
”You can do this, Hugo... You've endured through countless life and death battles, and even killed a hundred terrorists back in that war at Country A, yet how can you falter here in the face of intangible ghosts?!” Hugo tightly clenched his fists, he raised his head up and discovered that...
Everyone had disappeared.