Chapter 21 - : Abandoned Hospital (5) (2/2)

As he listened to this introduction, Cheng Zhi Chu slowly picked the photo back up.

Turns out, the other man in the photo was Dr Luo. But for some reason, his face was burned off in this photo. Maybe the person who did it had some sort of grudge against Dr Luo but if that was the case, why didn’t they just directly burn the whole photo? Why would they go out of their way to just burn off his face and then put the photo back into the drawer?

“Xiao Chu……….”

A small voice that sounded sorrowful suddenly appeared next to Cheng Zhi Chu’s ear. The voice sounded like it had come from far away, yet it also seemed like it was extremely close to him.

“Xiao Chu, come here………”

“Look back, look at me……….”

Cheng Zhi Chu could tell that this voice was the same voice that he had heard before. His entire body tensed and the hand holding onto the photo started to sweat.

His body trembled slightly while he didn’t dare to make any movements. At this moment, there were also some changes occurring to the photo that he held.

The teenager in the photo looked like he had suddenly come alive. He moved his eyes around slowly and he tilted his head and smiled at the Cheng Zhi Chu outside of the photo. His eyes, however, were empty, and it didn’t look like he was really smiling.

He pulled away from Dr Luo’s arm and looked at the doctor for a second. His face gradually morphed into a disgusted and cold look before he pushed the doctor away. Blood burst out from the doctors’ neck making the burnt off hole look like his head had been removed. The headless body then proceeded to fall straight down onto the ground.

In an instant, bright red blood was sprayed onto the whole photo. More and more blood spilled out, drowning the teenagers’ figure and then, with a trickle, fresh blood actually flowed out of the photo and fell into Cheng Zhi Chu’s hands.

<Xiao Chu, come here.>

“Ahhh———”

Cheng Zhi Chu screamed. When he recovered from his initial fright, he found himself covered in cold sweat. Once again, he threw the photo away.

“Zhi Chu?”

A warm hand rested onto his shoulder. Cheng Zhi Chu fearfully looked back and saw Bai Yi’s handsome face appearing before his line of sight looking at him with concern.

“Ph-photo…….”

Cheng Zhi Chu’s face was deathly pale. He pointed at the photo on the ground with trembling hands, but suddenly stopped.

As if everything that had happened earlier was just his imagination, there wasn’t a drop of blood on his hand and there wasn’t anything strange about the photo. It remained the same photo of the teenager holding onto the doctor’s arm smiling brightly with a hole burnt out where the doctors head was supposed to be.

Bai Yu gently patted his back and then bent down to pick up the photo. Seeing the smiling teenager on it, the look in his eyes deepened and he asked quietly: “Is this child you?”

“Yes, it’s me.” Cheng Zhi Chu replied, still a little shaken. “This is a photo of Dr Luo and me, his face was burnt off. Not only that, earlier I saw……..”

He described the hallucination earlier involving blood spilling out of the photo again. Hearing his words, Meng Ke also revealed a scared expression. She said: “The same thing happened to me. I also saw a very terrible hallucination. There definitely is something triggering it……”

As she said this, a black shadow suddenly fell from above her head. It brushed against her nose as it fell to the ground causing Meng Ke to let out a short cry and take a few steps back before managing to regain her balance.

“………..Another teddy bear?”

Da Gao saw this and immediately frowned.

It was another teddy bear and was very similar to the one from earlier only that it was a little smaller, cleaner and newer. The limbs were still intact and there were basically no damages to it.

He raised the flashlight and directed it to where the teddy bear fell from but saw that there were no shelves or anything above their heads that the bear could have possible been sitting on. It was as if the bear had appeared out of thin air and they couldn’t tell where the bear had fallen from.

“When you two saw the hallucinations, a teddy bear appeared.” Da Gao furrowed his brows, “Could it be linked to those hallucinations?”

“But it’s definitely just an ordinary teddy bear.”

Meng Xin once again confirmed it and even carefully picked the bear up an examined it. No matter how you look at it, it wasn’t a prop or item and there weren’t any relevant hints.

“They may just be ordinary toys.”

Bai Yi looked at the bear and hooked up his lips. He whispered: “Their appearance probably just means……..that something had come here before.”

Hearing his words, the other people’s expressions changed. They felt their backs go cold and Cheng Zhi Chu trembled terribly. He couldn’t help but question whether his ring really worked or not.

The original role of the ring was to heat up to remind him that there is a ghost or monster within five metres but until now it had not reacted a single bit. Whether or not this function of it really worked, it’s side effect however worked very well.

“If it is like what you said,” Meng Xin looked worriedly at the bear in her hand, “Then would the bear be of some importance? Maybe I did something wrong earlier and shouldn’t have destroyed the bear?”

“We can hold onto it first.”

Bai Yi said this and stored Cheng Zhi Chu’s photo into his pocket in a very natural and smooth motion. He then raised the brain CT scans: “I found some clues here.”

He walked over to the broken light box and hung the scans up in a certain order. He then placed the flashlight inside the box and used it as a light source. The broken glass from the light box and the shapes from the scans morphed together to form a strange projection onto the opposite wall.

“Ah, it’s a password…….”

The two sisters opened their mouths slightly and showed a slightly surprised expression as they looked at the projection on the wall.

Several words and numbers were projected, and it was reversed like they were looking at a mirror. After flipping it around, the words very simply said ‘password’ to indicate that it was a password for something, somewhere in this instance.

The remainder were a total of four digits. The first number was a flipped ‘6’. If you flipped the entire thing over, it should be the number at the end. Like this, the code that was presented was…….

“Password: 0, 5, 2, 6….”

Meng Xin read the characters on by one. As she read it out, Cheng Zhi Chu’s face became paler and paler by the second. His birthday just happened to be May 26th. How can it be so coincidental?

“………”

Seeing these numbers, Bai Yi’s eyes darkened, and a sneer formed at his lips.

“Do you remember if there are any places where this password could be used?”

Meng Xin asked Cheng Zhi Chu. In the absence of a map, they can only rely on his memory and hope that he remembered something. Otherwise, in this vast and spacious hospital, it would be difficult for them to search for a location where the password could be used.

【You recall that there is a locked cabinet in the conference room on the second floor that people use for storing items. Perhaps this password corresponds with that cabinet.]

“Yes…….”

Cheng Zhi Chu swallowed and suppressed the fear in his head. He nodded his head and reported his findings: “There is a locked cabinet in the conference room on the second floor.” He thought for a moment and added, “The conference room is at the very end of the left corridor.”

The others nodded. When they confirmed that there were no other clues left, they left room 105 and found a set of stairs leading to the second floor. They didn’t move very fast as Meng Xin and Cheng Zhi Chu needed to use their clue prompt skill to check along the way to avoid them missing important clues.

The surroundings were very quiet and seemed oppressive and daunting. Cheng Zhi Chu had been constantly mulling over the password and photo as well as that voice. Everything was closely linked to him, but he had no clue about what the connection could possibly be.

But he could faintly tell that the human or ghost that did those things must be very close to him. They knew his birthday, used his birthday as their password and only destroyed Dr Luo’s half of the photo whilst leaving his half intact.

Could it be that the person who did those things was the one who has been calling him “Xiao Chu”? If this is the case, then that would mean that the voice indeed exists yet he has no memory of this person………..

As he thought about this, the ground reached the door leading to the conference room on the second floor. The conference room door had already been smashed open and you could faintly see the furnishings inside.

“There’s a piece of paper pinned here.”

A paper pinned onto the door attracted Meng Ke’s attention. She held her flashlight and started to read its contents.

“‘Notice: Due to recent renovations outside, the road between the inpatient and outpatient department is temporarily closed. If required, please go around through the hospitals east gate or through the underground passage. We apologise for any inconvenience.’……..This was a construction notice”

Is it hinting that they would need to go to the inpatient department afterwards?

This thought flashed through Cheng Zhi Chu’s mind briefly. At this moment, the system spoke up again.

【While you were hospitalised, the place that you feared the most was the hospitals’ underground passage.]

【The structure of the hospital is very strange. The inpatient and outpatient departments both similarly have an underground passage with mortuary. In order to reach the underground passage, you would need to pass by the mortuary.]

【Only hospital personnel can enter the underground passage but usually very few people would choose to use this route.]

【The doors to the underground passage in both the outpatient and inpatient department are all equipped with a lock. If you wanted to go through it, you would need two keys to let you go in and get out.]

【These were things that you had heard from the nurses that took care of you. They liked you very much and would tell you a lot of interesting things. By chance, they also mentioned some ghost stories circulating around the hospital.]

【For example, the red-clothed woman’s body in the mortuary, the invisible ninth floor of the inpatient department, the man-eating monster in the sewer…….]

【You were so scared by these stories that you couldn’t sleep at night. Curling up in your blankets late at night, you didn’t dare to close your eyes.]

【But whenever this happened, you would always be looking forward………..come……]

【As long as………..you can sleep…….very……]

【……….you……..]

Suddenly, the systems notification started becoming muffled. Like an old tape, it was intermittent and unclear. Cheng Zhi Chu tried to decipher its words to figure out its contents but, as if it was blocked, he couldn’t do it at all.

It said come. What come? Was it a person? Dr Luo or that person who calls him “Xiao Chu”? But who would enter someone else’s ward in the middle of the night………

Cheng Zhi Chu didn’t know why the systems sound would become like that. He was already very flustered and now, because of those words that seemed like it was hiding something, the more he thought about it the more he was scared.

Da Gao took the lead into the conference room, and Cheng Zhi Chu and the others followed in behind. The interior of the conference room was very wide, and very messy. Chairs and tables were overturned, papers were scatted across the ground and the metal cabinet next to the walls had mostly been smashed up. Only a small number of the storage spaces remained in good condition.

Using their clue prompt skill, Cheng Zhi Chu and Meng Xin both confirmed that there was a source of light coming from one of the spaces. With no other clues in the room, they all moved over to the cabinet.

An old-fashioned code lock hung from the iron cabinet. It was like those that you find on suitcases where you just needed to turn the dial to the right number for it to unlock. Putting in the password, Da Gao turned the dials and changed the code into “0526”.

With a slight click from inside the lock cylinder, the door to the cabinet opened to form a small gap. After slowly opened the door, it revealed the papers inside it.

Da Gao took the paper from the top of the pile and looked at it. It was a note. He scanned through it and then started reading from the beginning.

<Dammit, I lost the keys to the underground passage. It may have been lost in the second-floor men’s bathroom. I’ll go and look for it, you can go ahead and have lunch.>

“This probably means that we need to go to the men’s bathroom to find the key.” The two sisters muttered.

Da Gao stored away the note and pulled out the other pieces of paper from within the cabinet. When he looked at it, he frowned and said, “It’s something that doctors write. Seems to be a medical record. I don’t understand.”

As he said this, he passed them over to Ji Yun Xiao: “I’m troubling you, boss.”

“Okay.”

Ji Yun Xiao nodded. Like Cheng Zhi Chu, he also had the text interpretation skill. He received the paper over and looked down at it seriously. Gradually those beautiful eyes of his widened and he looked up at Cheng Zhi Chu with slight surprise. His cheeks were a little flushed and he seemed to be a little shy.

………..Wait. What on earth is it?

Being looked at like that by Ji Yun Xiao, Cheng Zhi Chu suddenly had a bad feeling. He stepped forward and glanced at the paper.

It turned out to be his medical record.

【Patient Name: Cheng Zhi Chu]

【Age: 14]

【Diagnosis: Moderate paranoia, mild nymphomania, mild intimacy obsession]

【Aetiology Analysis: The patient grew up in a relatively indifferent and cold family environment and has been lacking in family love leading to his longing for intimacy with others.

Due to his issue of sexual orientation, a large disagreement broke out with his family and, as a result, he was also subjected to bullying at school. It ultimately led to tremendous mental pressure and triggering of the disease.]

【Signs and Symptoms: Likes to be intimate with good-looking same sex individuals. Eager to get their attention, touch and love. In severe cases, would fantasize about the other party having a special relationship with him and make intimate and loving actions. May even start imagining that he has a close relationship with something non-existent.]

Cheng Zhi Chu: “………”

He wants to die.

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Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 21)

Zhi Chu is so cute. He actually thought that I would be angry about him kissing me.

I am a little angry——–at myself. Why didn’t I turn by head a little more so that he could kiss me on my lips?

When he licked my mouth, only God knows how much I wanted to embrace him and kiss him fiercely.

This kind of Zhi Chu can only be mine. He is mine alone.

…..

I’m not sure whether the “me” here still retained his memories but he still remembered Zhi Chu’s birthday so clearly “he” still desires him

I really want to kill “him”.