Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 370 "Human Skin"

"what is this?"

"Huh? It says, work instructions."

"I know, but where is this thing..."

"It's in the locker in the room where I live, but it's not on display. I'll have to look through it for a while."

After Bai Su came back from dinner, he was alone there with nothing to do, so he turned over everything in the room. The soft white catkins carefully swept every corner of the room without missing any gaps.

The so-called small book distributed to the staff was turned out. It was in the corner of the drawer. Bai Su described it to Chen Zi quite euphemistically. The real state of the book was that it was stuck in the gap on the side. If he hadn't searched for it one by one, Maybe even if someone has an accident in the mental hospital, he won't be able to see it.

After seeing the notebook, Bai Su flipped through it and found that the printed words were ordinary work instructions. What really needed to be read carefully were the handwritten annotations on it.

Everything the optician said, such as the name tag is important and don't be too curious, are all written on it. In addition, there are also a few lines that have been crossed out.

After some identification, the annotator said that these rumored phenomena had disappeared and there was no need to pay attention to them.

The handwriting font changed several times, but there was still one message that always stayed on it - don't leave your place of residence at night unless you have a scheduled shift.

This article has been marked with several asterisks, and it seems that it must be followed.

Bai Su turned his head and looked at the sky outside the window. Because it was still early for dinner, the sun was still a little bright, but after another 10 minutes or so, the light would be completely hidden under the building.

He thought for a while, took the old book in his hand, opened the door and went downstairs.

While walking downstairs, Bai Su met many medical staff who came back to rest after work at night. Some of them were in twos and threes, some were alone, but without exception, they all looked at Bai Su as they passed by. Eye.

Ordinary people might feel a little uncomfortable being looked at like this, but Bai Su just frowned and looked back one by one, making the medical staff avoid their gazes.

When Bai Su came to the first floor, there was almost no light outside.

Human beings...oh, here comes the human beings.

While he was looking around, a familiar short-haired woman walked out of the dim outdoor room. Bai Su raised his hand and waved, and the short-haired woman walked quickly towards him.

The moment he stepped inside the building, the light outside disappeared.

As they observed, there were no facilities like street lights built outside the mental hospital, and some only had dim lights that came on after a while.

what is that?It looked like a pair of giant eyes opening out of the darkness.

This illusion passed in a flash, and after blinking again, Chen Zi realized that they were just two big lights at the door of the building in the distance. Because the voltage or power was high enough, they looked particularly dazzling.

The lights in the other buildings seemed a bit weak, like a few inconspicuous stars on the night sky.

"Just now...did I see it wrong?" Chen Zi wondered, "I seemed to see the yellow eyes of something giant."

"Ah, you must have seen it wrong." Bai Su withdrew his gaze and denied Chen Zi's statement, "Are you too nervous? Did you just encounter something outside?"

"...Yes." Mentioning this, Chen Zi's attention was drawn back from the dim light in the distance, and she talked about the strange things she had encountered in the stairwell before.

It was no longer important that the door on the side of the stairwell leading to the ward was locked and there were slight groaning and rubbing sounds. The children's laughter heard behind accounted for most of the conversation.

The moment Bai Su heard the child hitting the ball, he covered his mouth and groaned.

The voice was very soft and short, and the human being who was telling the story did not hear it.

"So, you didn't see anything?"

"Yeah...but finally I heard it again on the first floor. I wanted to look back, but was interrupted."

Thinking about it now, Chen Zi felt that the nurse who stopped her was quite kind-hearted. She only rushed to where she lived after being reminded by the other party.

Any later and maybe she would be left in the dark.

No, she probably didn't even leave the building where she was hospitalized.

Chen Zi felt a little frightened. She patted her chest and let out a breath.

No one knows what will happen if you stay in the hospital building... No, maybe we'll find out later.

After Chen Zi finished talking about what happened in the stairwell, she sighed and said that she didn't find anyone, so she planned to try to contact the outside at night.

The signal here is not interrupted and messages can be sent normally.

The short-haired woman held the booklet that Bai Su thrust into her hand. She felt that it would be better to stay calm on the first night. She would go back and delve into the hidden rules of the hospital...?
After taking two steps inside, Chen Zi found that no one was following her. When she turned around, she found a young man with black hair standing by the door looking out.

In the blink of an eye, Bai Su stretched out his hand, about to reach into the darkness——

"Baisu!" Chen Zi shouted, "What do you want to do?"

Bai Su stopped his hand before his fingertips popped out. He retracted his hand as if nothing had happened and dusted his clothes twice.

"It's nothing." He replied, "I'm just taking a look, I won't go out."

After that, Bai Su walked back first as if to reassure others, walked up the stairs, and returned to the door of the room. Even when he said goodbye to the short-haired woman, people watched him enter the room.

Chen Zi looked there again and again, and finally let go of his worries.

She had to look at Bai Su.

She has to... protect Bai Su.

……

Baisu doesn't understand the twists and turns in the human heart.

He just felt that Chen Zi was a little concerned about him.

The specific manifestation is that when they are in the same space, if there is nothing else to divert the short-haired woman's attention, her eyes will be on Bai Su with aloofness.

She was paying attention to Bai Su's every move.

But if you want to say that she is completely focused on Bai Su, it is not true. She will also have her own solo action time and will not go with Bai Su.

Bai Su did not rest after returning to the room. He walked to the window, opened the curtains and began to look at the outside environment.

Human eyes cannot see it, but monsters can see it clearly.

The dim light before was indeed Chen Zi's illusion. There were no monsters in the darkness, and there was just a layer of... thin black mist outside?

The black-haired young man held his chin, thinking about how to describe the scene outside.

Too dense fog will naturally reduce visibility, and when the fog becomes black, it will look like darkness.

Where does the fog come from?It seems to be naturally produced, and it smells a little fragrant, but it spreads too widely, and Bai Su finds it troublesome to eat.

After opening the window and taking a few puffs, the black-haired young man maintained his posture of supporting the window frame and lowered his head little by little, as if he was about to fall over. Finally, he closed his eyes and "slept".When he opened his eyes again, Bai Su had a different perspective.

He is walking.

In other words, the human being attached to him is walking.

The direction Bai Su was looking at was an empty corridor. The sound of some carts could be heard on the road, and humans were pushing something forward.

The corridor looked familiar to Bai Su. He had been there during the day. This was the third floor where the patient lived.

The human pushed the cart past the nurse station, said hello to the nurse on duty, and chatted for a while.

There was nothing nutritious, mostly polite words. He asked which patients were more disobedient during the day and which ones he needed to pay attention to when he went to make rounds later.

The nurses on duty at the nursing station answered them one by one, and then the two of them chatted about some non-work topics. They felt a little homesick and didn't know when they would be able to go back.

"Go back?" The older nurse at the nursing station smiled, "Ah, yes, I can go back."

The nurse suddenly fell into her own thoughts and didn't know what she was thinking. The person pushing the cart shouted a few words but got no response. They just thought the nurse was lost in thought.

So the person pushing the cart didn't stay too long. After leaving the cart at the nurse's station, he started walking again.

After the person walked out for some distance, the nurse at the nursing station finally came to her senses. She was just about to say a few more words to the person. Unexpectedly, as soon as she looked up, she found that there was no trace of anyone in front of her.

Subconsciously, the nurse stood up and leaned forward on the table. Just as she was about to speak, she saw an eye.

Yes, one eye.

The young man with his back to her had one eye open behind him. Even the middle-aged man who had been working in the hospital for a long time was startled.

The nurse quickly rubbed her eyes. In just a moment, the eye behind her disappeared, as if everything was just the nurse's illusion.

After this delay, she had no time to talk to the young man, so she could only watch him go away.

The young man finally stopped at the door of an office. He looked at the watch on his wrist. It was not yet time to go to the ward for rounds, so he could still rest for a while.

For young people, working night shift has always been a painful and happy thing.

Pain means that there are still a lot of strange things happening in the mental hospital at night. Although they are not harmful to people, they can still scare people if they occur too often.

As for happiness, it means that working the night shift pays more. With more money, young people can pay more money to their families.

"If it weren't for lack of money...who would come to work in this mental hospital." Talking to himself, the young man entered the office and returned to his seat to sit down. "Huh...I also met a strange person today. Newcomer."

The young man took off the glasses on his face, pressed his temples with one hand and kneaded them for a long time, and finally put his hands down to drink from the water on the table.

As soon as his hand touched it, he was so cold that he let go.

The young man opened his eyes in confusion and put his glasses back on.

"What's going on? Didn't you just pour it before going out?" The young man wearing glasses was a little confused, but he didn't think too much, or he didn't dare to think too much, so he stood up and planned to pour some more hot water.

The moment he left the stool, a streak of white hanging from the collar of his white coat fell down. He stood on the back of the chair and began to look at the office in front of him.

It should be an office shared by several people, but only one person is on duty at night, and everyone else has gone to rest.

The rest of the furnishings are pretty much the same as the doctor's offices I've been to before. At most, there are only some differences in the placement of documents and books.

After looking around, his eyes twisted on the back of the chair.

He needed...he needed an identity to function normally in the hospital.

The eyeballs rolled around and began to swell little by little.

Like an inflated balloon, it soon swelled to the height of a person. The white dough swayed and was wrapped back a little, gradually revealing its specific outline.

From the front, the face has the appearance of a black-haired young man, but if you look a little cheaper, you can find that it is just an empty shell.

There is no back half of the body, it can't even be said to be cut in half from the middle, but only the superficial layer of skin.

But this is deceptive enough for non-human beings.

The black-haired young man stood there normally. He appeared quietly, startling the bespectacled doctor who turned around after pouring the water.

Not only was he shocked, the bespectacled doctor accidentally dropped the water glass to the ground, pointed his hand forward, and his mouth was trembling for a long time, unable to speak a complete sentence.

He recognized the black-haired young man as the one he had seen in the cafeteria during dinner.

But...but how did he appear here?

The water dispenser is right at the door of the office, and the optician is standing there pouring water. It is impossible for anyone to enter through the door, and the door has not even been opened.

Is there someone hiding in the room?That's even more impossible. Their place doesn't even have a table under the table to block it. It's empty and can be seen at a glance. The cabinets are so narrow that they can only hide half an arm. If there are more, they will have to be bent over - —

The bespectacled doctor's eyes widened in astonishment when he thought about it.

What did he see?
The scream was blocked in the throat, and the human saw the cup he had dropped on the ground rolling over, rolling to the feet of the black-haired young man.

Then, the black-haired young man bent down.

It was this action that frightened the bespectacled doctor into losing his voice. His scream was stuck in his throat and he could not even utter a word.

The black-haired young man bent down, exposing his bare back.

White... all white.

The spectacled doctor who lost his voice had his pupils dilated. He felt like he was seeing a paper man, a lifelike paper man... Otherwise, how could it be possible, how could it only have a face and face?
He didn't wake up, did he?Yes, yes, he must not have woken up!
He was working the night shift today, and he was still jet lagged... He was sleepy, sleepy now, and what he saw was not real... Go out and blow in the cold wind, maybe it would--

"Don't you want your cup?"

At the moment when the bespectacled doctor touched the doorknob with his hand behind his back, "Human Skin" spoke, breaking his unilateral belief that he had not woken up.

Bai Su picked up the cup and put it on the table beside you for the optician, and then he walked forward.

His goal is clear, that is to find an optician.

The human hand has already been placed on the door handle, but it has been unable to press it. I don't know if it is because of fear or for some reason, but the doctor's hand cannot move at all.

...press it quickly...open the door quickly and run out quickly!
As the "human skin" gets closer, I understand better what its composition is.

It is a flat piece, and the facial features appear three-dimensional due to the concave tops and bottoms. Everything except the eyes seems to be painted on. The eyes...the eyes are real, they can rotate, they are rotating!
Being extremely close, Bai Su leaned down towards the spectacled doctor who was about to collapse on the ground with his knees bent, almost face to face.

"Can you lend me your... identity?"

　Just got home.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)