captive joint

There is no one behind him, and the interior design of the hospital is limited, except for the possibility of coming from the elevator, there will be no footsteps behind him.

In addition, he was not far away from that elevator now, if it opened for the second time, the sound it made would definitely be known to him.He could say with certainty that there was no such sound.

Then these footsteps that blatantly show their existence can only be made by those invisible things in the elevator.

Until now, Shao Jun is still unwilling to take the initiative to contact them, trying to maintain the illusion that he knows nothing.Ever since what happened to his brother, Shao Jun understood that he was too close to the abyss.At this moment, he tried his best to avoid contact with unnecessary troubles, consuming what little sanity and lifespan he had left for nothing.

But when he looked down at the marble floor, which was clean enough to reflect a figure, a strong sense of crisis crept into his heart.

There was only one shadow of him stretching out into the distance alone.Even though the footsteps were so close, as if they were about to stick behind him, there was still no shadow on the ground.

In the end, Shao Jun gave up the passive camouflage to avoid, accepted the choice brought to him by fear, and ran away from them quickly.

The regular rattling sound among the rushing footsteps was still clearly audible, but as it got closer to the end of the corridor, the sound gradually weakened, and in the originally silent corridor, human voices gradually came out, which seemed to be The crowd waiting to see a doctor gathered together in threes and fives.

Seeing this, Shao Jun speeded up and rushed towards the crowd.

Finally, the moment they merged into the crowd, the faint clicking sound disappeared completely.

But he still couldn't rest assured, he only slowed down his pace until he reached the depths of the crowd, and when he confirmed that there was nothing else following behind him, he sighed long and leaned against the window of the corridor on the third floor for a while. Adjustment.

Wednesday morning was the peak time for seeing a doctor in the hospital. Not to mention the crowded market-like hall on the first floor just now, the corridor in front of the ENT department where Shao Jun was located was densely packed with waiting crowds.

Originally seeing so many people, Shao Jun, who never liked to interact with people, felt a headache, but after what happened in the elevator just now, the bustling crowd made Shao Jun feel at ease.

He wiped the sweat from his palms, looked down at his watch, and suddenly realized that if he didn't walk quickly, he would exceed the appointment time with the doctor.The sense of urgency that he was going to be late all of a sudden dilutes his doubts about the strange elevator incident just now.

"Sorry, please let me go."

While constantly apologizing to the people around him, he tried his best to break through the crowd, and walked towards the pathology department at the corner at the end of the corridor with difficulty.

clatter, clatter,

clatter, clatter,

Suddenly, amidst the noisy voices, a faint strange sound sounded.

The sound was like the rapid flow of water, but it was sharper and harsher than that kind of sound, as if... as if... it was the sound of ceramic shattering!

wow-

A small porcelain doll fell from the hands of a little girl and hit the ground hard.The porcelain puppet instantly fell apart, and the shattered head rolled all the way to Shao Jun's feet before stopping.

This porcelain puppet was originally white and fat, with two bright red blushes on its round face, very similar to the big fat doll holding a koi carp in the New Year paintings, so I didn't think it was unusual or weird.

But at this time, the porcelain puppet's head stopped at Shao Jun's feet, the left eyeball shattered into several pieces, and the right eyeball rolled out from the gap where the right half of the skull was lost, leaving only a hollow and incomplete eye socket.Although the blush on his cheeks was still as exaggerated and eye-catching as before, after missing most of his jaw, he showed Shao Jun a ferocious smile.

Shao Jun was deeply against this thing, and he would never cause such trouble.

But he seemed to remember something, and stretched out his hand towards the head as if possessed.When he came back to his senses, the shattered head suddenly appeared in his palm, and he had no choice but to suppress his discomfort and hand it to the little girl not far in front of him.

The little girl didn't reach out to take it, but suddenly fell to Shao Jun without avoiding it.

Shao Jun instinctively stretched out his hand to catch her, but the girl's body passed through Shao Jun's body like a gust of wind, and disappeared without a trace.

Ok?

Shao Jun was stunned.

Before he could figure out the vision just now, even stranger things happened next.

The noisy human voices disappeared a moment ago, and the surroundings fell into silence.

He quickly raised his head to look around.

The bustling crowd disappeared at that moment just now, leaving him alone in the middle of the empty corridor, clinging to the shattered porcelain doll.

what happened?

Shao Jun was at a loss.

So hot!

The doll's head, which had been held in his hand, suddenly became extremely hot, and it was no longer hard.

It melts with heat like a lighted candle.Before Shao Jun could react, his fingers had already sunk deeply into his skull, and the scalding heat came along with it.

Shao Jun felt the pain and shook his hand away.

With a puff, the head fell to the side of the broken body like a puddle of mud.

The ears and nose were already out of shape, and they completely disappeared when they were mixed into the melted skin.The doll's blood-colored lips were squeezed crookedly, turned [-] degrees and poked straight on the chin.As for the shattered eyeball, it spewed out from the eye socket and flowed along the skin to the corner of the mouth.

At this time, the porcelain puppet's original facial features have all become unrecognizable, so it can't be said that there is any expression.

But even so, Shao Jun felt that the eyeballs floating on the corner of his mouth were staring at him firmly, and his broken lips seemed to make a mocking hehe sound.

Regarding this, although Shao Jun's heart beat faster at first, and the cold sweat that had not disappeared for a long time broke out again, but because he had seen something more abnormal and terrifying than this kind of thing, he quickly regained his composure.Compared with the vision of the puppet in front of him, he was more troubled by his situation at this moment. He didn't understand what happened at that moment just now?Are you still in the city hospital?

For the former, there seems to be no other clues except for the puppet in front of him and the footsteps that disappeared before.

As for the latter, Shao Jun also thought it was difficult to judge.

The place where he is at the moment should be the third floor of the municipal hospital.

The corridor in front of me was just like in my memory. Under the glare of fluorescent lights, several departments were neatly arranged on the left and right sides, extending to the end of the corridor.At the end facing Shao Jun's direction is a closed glass window.

Looking from a distance, you can clearly see the blue sky and white clouds outside, as well as the row upon row of buildings in the distance.

Turning right at the end of the corridor is Shao Jun's original destination—the pathology department.Due to his limited eyesight, Shao Jun couldn't judge the situation there.

Just looking at the corridor in front of him, it seems that there is nothing unusual except that it is empty.

But the emptiness itself is also the greatest anomaly.

For a moment, even Shao Jun, who had read a lot about the theory of anomalies, was a little confused and couldn't figure out what to do.

He stood there and waited for a few minutes. Seeing that there was no change around him, he raised his watch to confirm the time.

The 12 numbers surrounding the surface disappeared, replaced by three pointers that rotated frantically, and a line of small blood-red characters were written intermittently on the surface - you are dead.

The author says:

The hospital adventure is estimated to have two more chapters to come to an end.Most of the hints have been given in the preface, hoping to help you read the text later.