Chapter 66: The Reason For His Scars (1/2)
The hospital corridors weren't so dark anymore. The faint light coming from the lightbulbs beside the doors of the nearby sickrooms illuminated the corridors. Calvin took out a walkie-talkie that he had in his hand all this while. He turned to look at Hugo and said, ”Why did you not use this thing when you realized that you had strayed away?”
Hugo shook his head, ”I don't know... I can't seem to remember why... Maybe that thing slipped past my mind? To be honest, I was so scared earlier that I didn't even know what to think anymore.” Hugo revealed a pitiful expression and Calvin couldn't help but sigh.
”Perhaps...”
”Are you afraid of ghosts because you dream of them every night?”
Hugo's deep footsteps came to a halt.
”No... I'm not... That's not true!” Hugo suddenly flailed his hands in a panic.
Madness appeared in his eyes as they went bloodshot.
Calvin furrowed his eyebrows and let out a low growl, ”Calm down! Calm down, Hugo! I understand! I believe you.” The hospital suddenly became quite noisy, all sorts of rapping noise and the sound of something repeatedly banging on the walls could be heard from the distance.
But Hugo seemed to have ignored those noises as he stared right at Calvin.
”I believe you...”
Calvin spoke.
”Actually, we are not so different from each other. We both have a past that the two of us do not wish to bring up. That is why you don't have to worry about me finding out your true nature. I won't disdain you because of that. I mean, who in this world can say that they are clean?”
Calvin shrugged as he said these words in a matter-of-factly voice.
Hugo dramatically calmed down. The madness in his eyes had disappeared and was replaced with seriousness, ”To tell you the truth. I came here not because I have a lot of debt.”
”It's because I am being pursued.”
Calvin was astonished that Hugo was suddenly willing to speak about his past.
But he didn't say anything about it. He just stood there and quietly listened.
”I'm a hired mercenary from Africa. My job involves looking the other way when something happens. It gives me good money, but several years of working with those bastards took a toll on my mental health. In the end, I was dishonorably dismissed from the service for some reason still unknown to me.”
”But I have an idea why...”
”My immediate supervisor should be the one that dismissed me from service. I know... Because that night, I saw him! I was the only witness! I saw him taking several girls from the nearby ethnic tribe to his underground dungeon! There were four of them that went into the dungeon but he was the only one who came up...”
”When he came up, he noticed my presence and immediately gave me a warning. Of course, I was obedient. I never said anything to anyone. In fact, I tried forgetting what happened that night, but they...”
”They appear in my dreams!”
”Those girls...”
”They visit me in my dreams every night!”
”I can see from their wretched faces that they wanted justice!”
”At first, I thought that I was just thinking about it too much, but eventually...”
”Those hauntings started affecting me outside my dreams.”
”I would sometimes find my shoes in a different location than I remember, and my car keys, as well as the remote to my television, would suddenly disappear from the place where I thought I placed them.”
”In the end, when they realized that such subtle hauntings weren't enough for me to notice them. They became even crazier! Whenever I'm about to sleep, they would pull the sheets covering my body down to the floor! When that happens, I would vaguely feel a chill slowly creeping up my spine!”
”It was so scary that in the end, I became a whistleblower!”