The Exorcist Chapter 6: Murder in the hospital
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The nightmare in the middle of the night finally made Xiaoxia sick. She has a fever.
I took a few pills and persisted in the office for half a day, but the fever still refused to go away. I had to take leave and go to the hospital. However, I kept struggling until the evening and the fever did not come down. Finally, I was hospitalized by the doctor for observation.
She has no relatives in this city and doesn't want to trouble her friends, but Wan Li inquires about her situation and comes to take care of her uninvited. This moved her very much, but because she was so dizzy from the fever, she only chatted for a few words and fell asleep.
She slept extremely unsteadily, always feeling someone push her hard when she was about to fall asleep, making her feel like she was about to fall off the hospital bed. In the middle of the night, half asleep, she suddenly woke up again, feeling so thirsty that her throat seemed to be on fire. At this time, Wan Li, the observation patient in the next bed and his family members were all fast asleep. She didn't want to disturb them, so she went to the water room at the end of the corridor to get some water.
The corridor was extremely quiet.
The rooms on both sides were pitch black. Not to mention the patients, there was not even a nurse on duty. The entire emergency area was as silent as a tomb. At first, Xiaoxia didn't notice this because she was still in a daze, but then she felt something was wrong and realized that this was not the normal state that the hospital should have at all.
The only sound in the entire corridor was her slight breathing and footsteps, each sound stimulating her eardrums and knocking on her heart. She tried to slow down her pace, but she felt that the sound was getting louder and faster. Gradually, she realized that the footsteps were not hers alone.
Something is following her!
When she was slow, it was slow, when she was fast, it was also fast, when she stopped, it stopped, keeping the same speed as her, but she felt that the thing was getting closer and closer to her, until it was close to her behind. Blow cool air into the back of her neck.
She didn't dare look back. Because I heard from others that there is a ball of Yang Fire on the top of the head and on the shoulders. If you turn your head rashly, the Yang Fire will go out, and then there will be nothing left to calm the ghosts. She warned herself not to turn around, even though at this moment she even felt something groping on the back of her neck, and some strange noises came from behind her.
I didn't hurt you, don't pester me! She yelled in her heart, and quickly walked into the water room, filled the water and turned to leave, but she almost bumped into a woman in white.
The woman was so close to her, almost face to face, which made her so horrified that she threw the water glass to the ground. The plastic water cup was not broken, but the sound was crisp and sharp, and echoed even far away.
"Shh, be careful, you may wake others." The woman in white whispered. She had an overly calm face, and there was a new wound on the bridge of her nose, as if it had been scratched by something.
It’s a nurse! Xiaoxia breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that she was ridiculous for being so suspicious. She guessed that the footsteps just now were hers. "I'm sorry, I - I'm always surprised, don't take it personally. I - I'm going back first."
"Your water has been spilled, why don't you refill it?"
"No. Thank you."
"Okay, but don't do this again, and don't meddle in other people's business."
Nosy? What does it mean? Xiaoxia was puzzled. However, she was currently flustered and short of breath, and had no mind to care about this. She just wanted to return to the ward as soon as possible. She walked quickly, the sound of her footsteps still echoing, which made her uneasy. After a minute, the uneasiness turned to fear.
This is not the way back!
It didn't take more than a minute to walk from the observation room at one end of the corridor to the water room at the other end of the corridor, but she had been walking for a long time and still couldn't see the lights in the hall.
In shock, Xiao Xia had already forgotten the principle of not turning her head, and suddenly turned back to look in the direction of the water room. But he saw a dark blur behind him. There was no water room, and even the nurse was nowhere to be seen.
She leaned against the wall and looked left and right in horror, and found herself in the middle of a dark corridor. There was darkness in front of and behind her. There was only a dim light in the distance, as if it was a will-o'-the-wisp to lure souls. Throw yourself into a trap.
Her whole body was stiff, and her brain could not think. She just stood close to the wall, unable to move. At this time, footsteps could be heard in the darkness.
Da, da, da.
Something came slowly from her left side.
She stared wide-eyed at the extremely distant and extremely close black mist, but could see nothing, only the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer to her, getting closer, and getting closer.
Da, da, da.
The sound stopped in front of her, as if the thing was stopping opposite her and looking at her, but she couldn't see anything, and then a cold hand grabbed her ankle.
Xiao Xia gasped and ran towards the light without thinking, never expecting what danger she would encounter in the future. She just wanted to escape, to escape from the thing standing beside her but she didn't know what it was.
For what seemed like a long time, she ran to a door with four big blood-red characters written on it - Intensive Care Unit.
She broke in and stopped in front of a brightly lit ward. She saw that the hospital bed inside was empty, the patient was missing, and the patient's name - Li Shulun was written above the bed. Li Jingming's biological son, the only survivor of the murder.
Xiao Xia then remembered that Li Shulun was being treated in this hospital, but she didn't understand why she came here, what it had to do with her, and where Li Shulun, who should still be in a severe coma, was now.
The door behind him opened with a creak.
The sound was extremely harsh, thrilling, and eerie in the air, but there was no one near the door. Then the door closed, and the unhurried footsteps sounded again, still walking towards Xiaoxia, from far to near, until they stopped in front of her, and then the invisible ghost hand grabbed her other ankle.
A ghost she can't see is chasing her!
This realization terrified Xiaoxia, and her survival instinct made her have no choice but to run. In the seemingly endless corridor, there was only Xiaohan's heavy breathing and the sound of "ta-ta-da" that seemed to be driving her away. The ghost seemed to be driving her away, and its slow but clear steps followed her like a shadow. As soon as she stopped, it followed her and couldn't get rid of it until she ran to the nurse's desk in the intensive care unit at some point.
There were two people standing with their backs to Xiaoxia, twisting together in a strange posture, blocking her way. The footsteps behind her gradually approached, and the two people turned around, leaving her with nowhere to hide.
With pupilless eyes, pale face, and thin body, Xiaoxia had seen his photo in the file. It was Li Shulun. At this moment, he was expressionlessly and mechanically cutting a person's neck with a scalpel. The person was kneeling facing Li Shulun, but because her neck was nearly severed, her face turned 180 degrees to face Xiaoxia in a strange way.
The nurse in the water room!
Xiaoxia recognized the owner of the severed head and was immediately horrified. The nurse stared at Xiaoxia. There was no pain on her face, but an expression of enjoyment. She just stared at her. Suddenly, the ghost chasing Xiaoxia pushed her hard, causing her to fall in front of the nurse, and her face was splashed with blood from the newly severed head. Xiaoxia was so frightened that she immediately turned away, but the severed head turned to Xiaoxia like a lantern carried by an invisible man. "Don't mind your own business!" she said suddenly.
Xiao Xia was so shocked that she couldn't speak. Li Shulun moved over and grabbed the nurse's head and held it lovingly in his arms. A smile appeared on his face, a stiff, eerie, weird, but malicious smile, and then slowly transformed into Li Shulun's head. Jing Ming's face.
"Don't mind your own business!" The severed head continued, bursting into a sharp laugh and making a squeaky sound.
"Xiaoxia, wake up. Xiaoxia, Xiaoxia, what's wrong with you?" The familiar voice woke her up, and Wanli's familiar face made her illusion disappear in an instant, but the feeling of fear was still there.
"Did I scream?" she asked weakly, vaguely remembering that she, who never liked to scream, was completely out of control, "I hope I didn't wake anyone up."
"No. Thank God, you are not like some women who scream when they have nothing to do, which is unbearable. Look," Wan Li pointed to the bed next door and whispered, "You are still sleeping soundly."
"I had a nightmare again."
"I know. It's all my fault. I fell asleep. Otherwise, if you were a little uneasy, I would have woken you up. You don't have to be afraid. Look at the sweat on your head." He touched her forehead, "But the heat has subsided."
Xiao Xia also wiped her face, and then looked at her hands. There was no blood, only dampness. This was indeed a nightmare. Even though I woke up, my throat was still burning with pain.
"I want to drink water."
"Okay, I'll fight right away."
Wan Li picked up the empty water glass and went to get water. Xiao Xia turned over weakly, facing the wall and sighing.
This kind of torture seems to be endless, making her always trapped in nightmares and unable to extricate herself. Did she hit something? What did you provoke? Or why do you want to provoke her? Why tell her to mind her own business? Is it related to Li Jingming’s case?
While Xiaoxia was thinking wildly, the nurse in the water room from her nightmare suddenly walked into the observation room quietly. She quietly stood behind Xiao Xia, with an evil smile on her face, and stretched out her withered and bone-like hands to the back of Xiao Xia's neck. However, the clear footsteps coming from the corridor made her stop her movements, and placed her hands on the bedside table bitterly. He put down a medicine bottle and left lightly. At this moment, Xiaoxia realized that the hairs on her back were standing on end. She turned around suddenly and saw Wanli coming back from fetching water, standing at the door and looking around.
"Has anyone been here?"
"Who will come in the middle of the night?" Wan Li said lightly. In fact, he saw the back of a nurse, which made people feel terrified. But maybe it was for ward rounds, so there was no need to tell Xiaoxia.