Chapter 1 Looking at the Door

Looking at that door, Tang Qisheng suddenly felt a sense of unreality. He didn't expect to leave just like that.

Too many secrets were hidden in this hospital that had yet to be unraveled. Where was the child Jiang Cheng spoke of? Who was the last Crimson hidden among them? And the monster pieced together from children's corpses last night...

Tang Qisheng hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at the staff behind the glass, a hint of confusion in his eyes. "We... are we really allowed to leave?"

The staff member's stiff face flashed with impatience. "I don't want to repeat the same thing twice."

Zhu Jie obviously had the same concerns. She pleaded with the staff member, "Could you please take us there?"

"No, I'm still waiting for someone. I can't leave my post before that." The staff member's tone was stiff and cold, like a machine.

Hearing this, Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie were both stunned, and then a bad feeling suddenly arose in their hearts. "Waiting for whom?"

The staff member glanced at the two of them, becoming increasingly annoyed. "Who else could it be? Another patient from your group. Dragging their feet, delaying my getting off work."

"What do you mean? There's someone else? Didn't... didn't the remaining three people sign?" Tang Qisheng's emotions were a bit agitated. He had been very careful just now, checking the signatures of those people, and all three were there.

"They all signed, but one patient said they had a stomachache and went back to the bathroom." It was clear that the staff member was very dissatisfied with this.

Zhu Jie's expression changed slightly. "Went to the bathroom..."

For a normal person to have such an opportunity and not leave this strange hospital immediately, but instead stay to use the bathroom, there was something wrong with that no matter how you looked at it, unless... unless that person had another purpose!

Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie almost immediately identified the person's identity. It must be the last Crimson!

"Who is it? Who is this person?" Tang Qisheng questioned the staff member.

"I have no right to disclose information about other patients, but you should leave now."

The staff member's cold attitude seemed to sound an alarm for Tang Qisheng and Zhu Jie. The two instantly became vigilant. This mission was not over yet. Perhaps they could leave now, return to their world, but this would likely leave hidden dangers for Jiang Cheng and Wang Fugui.

"Where did that person go?" Zhu Jie pressed. "I mean, where did he go to the bathroom?"

The staff member raised a hand, pointing in the opposite direction from the door. "He went there, but I'm warning you, there's an elevator in that location. Don't touch anything."

While saying this, the staff member's voice and attitude changed, becoming strange. "Also, your discharge procedures have been completed, and the deadline is today. That is, you must be discharged before midnight tonight, otherwise the procedures will be invalidated, and the hospital will re-evaluate your conditions."

The two understood the warning in these words. If they didn't walk out of that door before midnight, then they would be trapped here forever, trapped in this ghost hospital.

"Then this door..."

"This door will remain open until midnight."

After receiving the staff member's affirmative answer, the two immediately set off towards the elevator location. If they guessed correctly, the Crimson must be taking the elevator, which meant that there was an underground space in this hospital.

On the way here, they had carefully observed and found no strange rooms, so they guessed that last night's monster was likely imprisoned underground. That was the most terrifying existence in the entire hospital, and even the doctors and orderlies feared that thing, needing to rely on sacrifices to temporarily appease it.

The journey wasn't far, and they quickly found the bathroom. The two cautiously walked in, checking each stall one by one, first the women's bathroom, then the men's bathroom across the way. After checking everything, there was nothing.

As expected, he wasn't here. The two no longer hesitated and immediately went to find the elevator.

There was no staircase leading to the underground. If there really was an underground space, then it could only be accessed by the elevator.

But when they actually stood in front of the elevator, the two were a little dumbfounded. There was no one near the elevator, and the old-fashioned control panel outside the elevator was very old, covered in a layer of dust. It was clear that no one had touched it recently, and the button lights were not lit.

Not in the bathroom, nor near the elevator, where did that person go?

Zhu Jie turned around in a panic. She suspected that she had been tricked. Perhaps... perhaps there was no such person at all. The three people who had signed had all left, and the staff member was lying to them.

And after the two of them left, the real exit would be closed!

Thinking of this, Zhu Jie coughed violently. Her health was not good, and she was still sick. She grabbed Tang Qisheng's arm and wanted to rush back. "Quick, we... cough cough, we need to go back!"

"If we've really been tricked, it'll be too late to go back now." Tang Qisheng looked at the elevator in front of him, then reached out after a moment and pressed the button above.

The next second, an unexpected scene appeared for Zhu Jie. The originally extinguished button actually lit up strangely. With a heavy mechanical sound, the old elevator in front of them actually started working, and... and the most important thing was that the elevator was actually rising from the underground!

Tang Qisheng slowly exhaled. It seemed that his guess was correct. There really was an underground space.

He knew that the mission would not end so easily. After all, there were still too many mysteries that had not been solved, and those mysteries might be irrelevant to them, but they were life-saving things for Jiang Cheng and Wang Fugui. They needed clues from their world.

For some reason, Tang Qisheng's mind instantly flashed back to the previous scene, the video that Zhu Jie had secretly taken.

The pieced-together monster chasing the rag doll was squirming little by little, moving closer to the rag doll, and the voices of the children were coming from its mouth, "Eyes... give me... I want eyes!"

"Eyes..."

Tang Qisheng didn't have any thoughts yet, but he could feel that eyes were very important to the monster, and... and the monster wanted the rag doll's eyes.

"Buzz—"

As the elevator door slowly opened, the scene in front of them caused Zhu Jie and Tang Qisheng to subconsciously step back. They saw bloodied handprints everywhere in the elevator, on the surrounding metal walls, the floor, and even the ceiling.

These handprints were not large, and you could tell they belonged to children, but the dense mass of them made people feel panicked.

Now Tang Qisheng understood that the monster came out from underground and took this elevator.

"Creak—"

Another door opened, behind them. It was a room similar to a warehouse, inconspicuous. Soon, a figure walked out.