Chapter 30 - Abandoned Hospital (14) (2/2)
The nurse gave the family members a few instructions and then leaned over to remove the original card from the bedside slot.
On the card were the words “Cheng Zhi Chu”.
No…………..
Xie Yuan Huai’s face went pale. He wanted to grab onto the nurse’s hand and take the card from her but his fingers passed through her wrist and he could only watch the nurse put card inside her pocket.
“This bed is quite comfortable.”
The patient sat onto the hospital bed and tested its firmness. He then said that phrase to his family with a smile.
That bed originally belongs to Xiao Chu.
Xie Yuan Huai’s entire body started to tremble. His pupils constricted as he watched them take out their belongings and busily arrange the room. Little by little, they occupied the remaining space and the room was soon converted into an unfamiliar place.
Although he was clearly already dead, but at this moment, he felt coldness and pain down to his very bones. Like cracks had formed over his heart, in an instant, it felt like it was fragmented.
His chest broke open and turned into a void of nothingness.
Dark, twisted and dangerous desires rushed out and slowly spread through him.
[Why are you letting him leave?]
[Clearly, he belongs to you.]
[His gaze, his smile, his breath. Everything, everything should belong to you.]
[Can you endure seeing him throwing himself into another person’s embrace, forget you completely and spend the rest of his life with someone else?]
No……..
Can’t……………
He didn’t want Xiao Chu to forget about him. He also didn’t want to be unable to see Xiao Chu before he disappeared and spend the rest of his life only yearning for him.
He regretted it.
[You should get him back.]
[Call his name. Let him know about your existence.]
But how can he get him back? He can’t leave the hospital and he didn’t even know where Xiao Chu was.
[Then you can ask the others.]
[You can ask Doctor Luo.]
[Ask him why he told Xiao Chu not to respond to you.]
[He ruined your relationship and took Xiao Chu away from you.]
[If he can’t answer………]
[Kill him.]
…………..
An accident occurred at the hospital involving the escalator and it resulted in the death of a young girl. At that time, Doctor Luo who was also on the escalator suffered from minor injuries but fortunately it wasn’t serious.
Seeing the young girls blood splattered over the escalator, Xie Yuan Huai’s iris trembled and it revealed a hint of torment, but it was then quickly replaced with dark and painful desire.
[This time you didn’t manage to kill Doctor Luo but there will be other opportunities in the future.]
[In fact, it’s a good thing that the little girl died.]
[Deaths would increase your strength. If you kill enough people, your Xiao Chu would once again be able to see you.]
[Next, we should kill the person staying in his ward. How can you tolerate seeing other people take away your precious memories?]
………
Two months later, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the inpatient department. One person died and two people sustained serious injuries. The deceased was the patient that was currently residing in the ward that the boy used to stay in.
[Do you feel the power that death has brought you?]
[Now, because of your influence, monsters that didn’t exist before are also about to be born at this hospital.]
[The man-eating monster in the sewer, the red-clothed female corpse, the invisible ninth floor………..these monsters have appeared in the hospital’s shadows.]
[Xiao Chu used to think that you’re a ghost and thought that it meant that they would also exist along with you. When his illness relapsed, he saw hallucinations of them in the middle of the night and tried to escape from his ward. Unfortunately, he fell from the stairs.]
[It was also because of this that you hate them. But they’re your underlings. If they killed people, your strength would also increase.]
[So, leave them be.]
[As long as you have enough power, your Xiao Chu would come back to you.]
………………
Half a month later, the incident involving the six elevators falling from above at the same time occurred. More than fifty people were killed including doctors like Doctor Luo.
Since then, Guang Ai Hospital closed down and it became a forbidden land that no one dared to venture into.
Before the hospital closed, Xie Yuan Huai’s family wanted to retrieve his body but they discovered that his body was missing.
It was he himself who took his body and hid it somewhere else in the hospital.
He couldn’t let his family take his body away because the moment his body moves, he would move away from the hospital. All the power that he had accumulated would be lost and he would not be able to see Xiao Chu again.
During this long five-year period, Xie Yuan Huai could feel his body gradually rotting and his flesh and blood slowly disintegrating, leaving only a skeleton.
Without a body, his heart had completely sunk into the abyss and Xie Yuan Huai gradually became a true evil spirit.
From time to time, daredevils would enter the hospital and be swallowed up by the man-eating monster or killed by the red-clothed woman’s corpse, becoming their sources of strength. Xie Yuan Huai would just watch quietly from the sidelines with a look of indifference. He no longer possessed the compassion that humans had.
He had completely broken.
…………….
This place was his dark paradise.
He waited here calling for his boy day after day——–
[Xiao Chu, come here.]
…………
“Cheng Zhi Chu………..Cheng Zhi Chu!”
Seeing that Cheng Zhi Chu had fainted onto the ground, Meng Ke was worried to the point that her face went pale. She violently shook him, and the bear also circled around him while crying out “Awu, awu”. Its body then suddenly stiffened, and it huddled onto the ground trembling.
Meng Ke gritted her teeth and wanted to support Cheng Zhi Chu with her shoulders. Earlier he had saved her life so she couldn’t just leave him behind.
But at this moment, a pair of snow-white hands suddenly reached over and wrapped around Cheng Zhi Chu’s body before easily lifting him from the ground.
“Wu……….”
The bear’s entire body trembled as it bit onto the corner of Cheng Zhi Chu’s shirt trying to prevent him from being taken away. It, however, felt a strong force in the air which knocked him away. After swinging around for a while, the material that he was biting onto broke off and it fell to the ground with a “patter”.
Meng Ke was shaking terribly in fear. She could already feel the deadly aura emanated from this person and his blood-thirstiness. As if she was facing an endless abyss, she didn’t have the slightest desire or ability to retaliate.
Even without raising her head, she knew that the other party was not a living being.
But Cheng Zhi Chu…………She can’t………..
Although fear had made her breathing difficult, Meng Ke still forced herself to raise her head and look at the ghost in front of her.
What appeared before her was a handsome young man. He had a cold look of indifference and his figure looked slightly transparent, like the flickering moonlight.
He held onto Cheng Zhi Chu and then his eyes glanced over at her for a moment. The instant their eyes met, Meng Ke felt like she was about to be sent to hell. Her heart stopped for a moment and she couldn’t help but feel like she had already died.
The young man looked at her like he was looking at something dead. But unexpectedly, he didn’t do anything to her. He turned around with Cheng Zhi Chu in his arms and then slowly disappeared at the end of the corridor.
“……………………..”
Meng Ke lifelessly fell to the ground. Even her breathing was trembling.
Her will had been completely defeated by fear and she could no longer move. She groggily laid onto the ground like she was dead.
After an unknown amount of time passed, she suddenly felt the ground shaking, and this was then followed by the sound of something shattering. It was a very large commotion and she could still feel her eardrum tremble slightly in pain.
She heard the sound of footsteps approaching her, but it was too late for her to escape. She could only peek out from her eyes to vaguely assess the other persons face and their identity.
…………It’s Bai Yi.
Bai Yi………….
————It’s Bai Yi!
Meng Ke felt a sudden surge of hope. She opened her eyes and struggled to sit up.
Bai Yu held onto a pale white sword. He looked down at her from above and had no expression on that handsome face of his. Only darkness twisted about within those eyes of his.
For a moment, Meng Ke thought that she was looking at the evil spirit from earlier and felt her hairs stand up. She didn’t dare to look at him, but Bai Yi used the tip of his sword to lift her jaw and forced her to look at him.
“Where’s Zhi Chu?”
Bai Yi’s voice was sounded extremely calm, but it also felt extremely terrifying.
“He was taken………..away by a ghost…………”
The tip of the blade pressed against her neck. Meng Ke pointed in the direction the evil spirit had disappeared off to with trembling hands: “Over there…………”
Without another word, Bai Yu retracted his sword and left. His figure very quickly also disappeared in the distance.
The bear wanted to follow but it was directly swatted away by Bai Yi so it could only return back to his original spot with downturned ears.
“Xin…..Where’s Xin Xin and Xiao Xiao?”
Meng Ke returned to her senses and looked around, but she didn’t see Meng Xin or Ji Yun Xiao. Suddenly worried, she stood up anxiously.
The bear was dejected for a moment but, when it saw Meng Xin looking around anxiously, it tilted its head and fell into thought. It then spoke up with a childlike voice: “Seeing that you didn’t abandon my mummy, give me fried chicken and I’ll take you to them.”
“Okay. If you find them, I’ll even buy you an entire fried chicken store!”
Meng Ke immediately promised the bear. The bear nodded its head with satisfaction and gestured for her to bend down. It then climbed onto her head and patted her hair while saying:
“Giddy up! Turn left!”
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Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 30)
When Zhi Chu was in first year of middle school, his school had an autumn sports carnival that was open to the public and family members of the students could come and visit them. I wanted to use this chance to go and see him.
For this purpose, I asked my cousin to transfer to the high school department of that school. With this, I can go and see Zhi Chu at the sports carnival.
The Zhi Chu at the sports carnival was really cute. I even managed to get a photo with him——–
Zhi Chu who didn’t participate in the race sat in the fifteenth seat from the left on the third row and I sat on the third seat on the fourteenth row. The school took an aerial photo of the schools’ sports carnival and to this day it is still accessible through their website.
Although there were thousands of people in the photos, in my eyes I could only see Zhi Chu and myself. I was very satisfied.
What was slightly regrettable though was that my cousin immediately transferred back to his old school when he found out the reason behind my request and this consequently prevented me from entering the school ever again.