Thriller Zone: From the Mental Hospital to the Ghostly World

Xiao Chang's heart was pounding in his throat. He gripped his phone tightly, ready to call Tang Qin at any moment.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Suddenly, the doctor, who had been silent, began to heave violently, his hands flailing wildly in the air.

After a few heavy breaths, he opened his eyes, his eyeballs filled with bulging red blood vessels.

"Doctor? Doctor!"

Xiao Chang's pounding heart finally sank back to the bottom. He gripped the iron railing with both hands and whispered to the doctor.

The doctor was wearing a mask, his white coat was disheveled, and he looked as if he had just been in a fight; he still seemed shaken.

"Chen, cough cough, it's Chen Ji..."

Xiao Chang's heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "Where is he?"

As he spoke, he opened the iron gate and cautiously looked around at the doctor.

The doctor on duty tried to get up but couldn't muster the strength, so Xiao Chang quickly went over to help him.

"...I heard a strange noise just now. When I went to check on the ward, I was ambushed by Chen Ji who was hiding behind the door."

"He used a lot of force and almost strangled me to death!"

The doctor's voice was hoarse, and the deep marks on his neck were clearly visible. He spoke with lingering fear:

"Luckily, I managed to knock Chen Ji unconscious with a vase when he wasn't paying attention, and that's how I managed to escape."

Xiao Chang listened attentively and learned that the doctor had come out to notify their security department, but he had collapsed as soon as he reached the office door.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chang felt a chill run down her spine and couldn't help but put herself in the doctor's shoes, and a shiver ran down her spine.

After calming himself down, he asked, "Is Chen Ji still in the ward?"

"Ah."

The doctor nodded, leaned against the wall, and pointed to the ward: "I locked him inside."

"Also, did you talk to Dr. Tang? How long will it take her to arrive?"

Xiao Chang thought for a moment before saying, "She just said she would be here in five minutes."

"Judging by the time, we should be almost at the hospital entrance by now."

The doctor finally breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

Xiao Chang took a deep breath. Seeing that even the frail doctor could defeat Chen Ji, she gradually calmed down and became less afraid.

He walked forward in the dim light, passing two wards before stopping at the door of 2C01.

It was pitch black inside, and you could barely make out a man lying on the ground with a pool of blood next to his head and a few shards of a vase.

Xiao Chang felt a little relieved and was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly saw the man on the floor move.

He felt a little scared and muttered to himself, "He didn't even go all out. I might as well just kill him."

"Drip~"

My phone beeped with a text message notification from an unknown number.

I've arrived at the door. I'm going up now. Keep an eye on Chen Ji and Tang Qin.

"Doctor, Dr. Tang Qin is here."

Xiao Chang was reading the text message when he called out to someone behind him.

He put his phone away, touched the stun gun on his waist, and couldn't help but laugh at his earlier nervousness.

Suddenly, he paused for a moment.

There was no sound behind him; his shout was like a stone sinking into the sea.

"Doctor?" Xiao Chang asked, a little uneasy.

He turned his head, his eyes widening suddenly. There was nothing behind him, not a single person in sight!

He immediately looked towards the ward and saw the man inside get up and shake off the hospital gown he was casually draped over his body.

"Oh!"

The next second, a man in his forties, his face covered in blood, filled with anxiety and fear, suddenly lunged against the windowpane.

"I'm the on-duty doctor!"

"Chen Ji knocked me unconscious and stole my clothes!"

"He escaped!"

......

Third floor, nurses' station.

The young nurse was sitting at her workstation playing on her phone when she suddenly paused and quickly stood up.

"Director, didn't you go to lunch?"

A doctor in a white coat slowly walked past her, carrying a cup of hot water.

Even though she was a new intern, she could recognize the chief physician's badge on her uniform and felt a little awkward for a moment.

"There's still some work to finish."

"Oh, thank you for your hard work!"

The nurse carefully tucked her phone away, relieved, but then heard the doctor ask again:

"Did you just see Chang Jun from the security department?"

The nurse was a little unsure, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "A few minutes ago, he seemed to have come out of the monitoring room, but I don't know where he was going."

"Who's watching the monitoring room right now?" the doctor asked, his tone somewhat displeased.

The nurse hesitated, her throat bobbing, before saying, "Today...it seems like Chang Jun is the only one on duty today."

The doctor clicked his tongue, asked no more questions, and walked forward.

Only after he turned the corner did the nurse sit down tremblingly and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Someone's going to be in trouble."

She muttered something, and thinking of the security department's consistent dereliction of duty, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

"Jingle Bell......"

"Hello, this is the nurses' station on the third floor of the inpatient ward. How can I help you?"

The nurse answered the phone, casually combing her hair, and spoke quickly.

The next second, her eyes widened suddenly.

"What did you say?"

"That schizophrenic patient is back, and he even injured a doctor?"

She immediately sat up straight, listening to the voice on the phone, her expression changing continuously.

"Okay, I'll seal off all areas on the third floor right now."

She hung up the phone, feeling a little flustered. All the nurses had gone to dinner at this hour, leaving her alone on duty.

Suddenly, she remembered the doctor she had just passed by, and her heart skipped a beat.

The phone call said Chen Ji had changed into a doctor's uniform, could it be...?

Without a second thought, she immediately left the nurses' station and ran all the way to the monitoring room.

The door to the monitoring room was tightly closed. The nurse pulled the handle but couldn't open it, only to find that special access was required.

"Phew, it's okay."

The nurse breathed a sigh of relief; this meant Chen Ji wouldn't be able to get into the monitoring room.

There, some explosion-proof equipment, such as stun guns and shields, is stored. If Chen Ji gets his hands on it, the consequences will be unimaginable.

She turned around and began checking each ward one by one, looking for the doctor who had just been there.

At this time, most patients are in the cafeteria on the first floor. Only a few patients who are unable to move have been fed by caregivers and are resting in their wards.

Just in case, the nurse even opened the door to ask them if they had seen the doctor come over.

The patient in case 3B05 said the doctor went into area C.

Section C?

The nurse had only been there a short time, but she already knew that the innermost part of Zone C was Chen Ji's original ward.

Chen Ji, what do you need to go back for?

The nurse was very worried. She had cleaned that ward before, and apart from a photo of him and his mother, Chen Ji had left nothing behind.

Thinking about what she had heard before, she felt a moment of disorientation.

Did Chen Ji return to the hospital just to retrieve that photo?

As the nurse closed the door, her footsteps faded into the distance.

In the accessible bathroom of ward 3B05.

On the ground, there was a white coat, inside which was a hospital gown rolled up.

Chen Ji turned on the tap and washed his hands, which were stained with some of the blood from when he injured the doctor earlier.

He was wearing a sweater and jeans that he had taken from the monitoring room; they were a little short, but still fit him fairly well.

Chen Ji touched his pocket, where there were a few coins, a crumpled wad of toilet paper, and a pen that was fidgeting.

Apart from the pen, everything else belonged to the original owner of this outfit, Chang Jun.

There was also a hospital access card, which I took from Chang Jun when we were on the second floor.

Chen Ji shook his hand, pushed open the bathroom door, and looked at the figure on the bed.

A bald man pulled the blanket down to his mouth and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Hehe, haha, she believed it, she believed it!"

"I fooled her!"

"Impressive." Chen Ji gave a thumbs up.

Seeing Chen Ji about to leave, the bald man became a little anxious and shouted in a loud voice, "It's your turn!"

"It's all agreed that I'll take one turn, and you take one turn!"

Chen Ji turned the handle open and said with a smile, "I'm going to find that nurse now."

"Yeah?"

The bald man scratched his head, feeling that it made sense, but something was off.

Chen Ji opened the door, then suddenly turned his head and said softly:

"If I want to play games in the future, I'll ask the nurse."

"Don't play with that voice in your ear anymore, the one that made you fly off the sixth floor. Remember that."

A few minutes after Chen Ji left, the bald man suddenly slapped his head.

"Damn it, I haven't told him what I'm going to lie to the nurse about yet!"

After saying that, he paused for a few seconds, then looked at the air beside him with a puzzled expression and said:

"You're saying he doesn't exist?"

"The nurse isn't here either?"

"Oh, I almost forgot."

"Only you and I are real!"