Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 383 Snatch
Stairwell, saw the stairwell again.

Since there were people on the other side of the normally upward stairs, Chen Zi had no choice but to move to the escape tunnel.

The green signboard lit up above his head. Chen Zi hesitated and walked in.

Do not use the escape route? Does it refer to the building where the patient is hospitalized, or does it apply to all buildings?Chen Zi couldn't tell, but she thought the safety of her colleagues next door was more important.

Only her footsteps echoed in the empty stairwell. The footsteps sounded slightly soft, not like the steps of a man. Then Chen Zi deliberately made it a little louder and looked up layer by layer.

When she reached the fourth floor, she felt she should stop.

There was no reason, but he subconsciously felt that he should go out and take a look, so Chen Zi turned around and walked out.

The corridor outside was quiet, with only the overhead lights on, and no one at all. The nurse's station at the front was also empty, as if no one needed to sit there.

Chen Zi didn't know whether it was an abnormality or not, but she still went from room to room and looked up at the door number. Thinking that her colleague might be inside, she tried to twist the door handle and marked the word "mang".

After trying several places, I was actually found by a woman with short hair.

It was in a ward not far from the operating room where she and Bai Su had been in the morning. It seemed that they were pushed there after being pushed out of the operating room.

Seeing that there was no one around, Chen Zi didn't care to be alert anymore. After a cursory inspection, he pushed the door open and entered.

The team member lying on the hospital bed next door was sleeping peacefully, with a nasal tube inserted into his nose to help him breathe. The top of his head was also wrapped in layers, so tightly that it didn't look like it had been completely opened during the day.

Chen Zi approached, the security guard's suit firmly covering her face. She lowered her voice and called out the team member's name. As expected, no one answered.

It seems...nothing serious?Chen Zi thought uncertainly.

Her thoughts drifted back to the day, when she heard the conversation between Bai Su and Dr. Hao while watching through a glass curtain wall outside the operating room.

Women with short hair have heard a little bit about the operation of frontal lobotomy, and they only read it as curiosity books. They heard that this operation is the dark history of the Nobel Prize.

But how could this mental hospital be... The short-haired woman looked silently at the instruments around her, trying to find some clues.

After actually arriving in the room where her companion was, Chen Zi found that she seemed unable to do anything.

Whether taking people away or waking them up requires follow-up plans to support them, and she only considered the initial part.

A little reckless, unlike how she usually behaves.

I don't know why I'm so impatient. I must sneak in here at this time... Forget it, at least I know that the team member next door is not in serious danger as Bai Su said.

Chen Zi rummaged around in the ward and on people, and she really saw some strange spots. Just as she was about to take a closer look, there was a sudden sound outside the door.

It was the sound of people coughing, and there was also a little friction sound caused by the collision of plastic and metal products.

Chen Zi immediately looked at the door and cautiously grasped the stick hanging from the waist of the security guard's uniform.

The slight movement outside continued, and soon it stopped at the door of the ward.

...The person outside the door seems to be coming in.

The short-haired woman decided to strike first. She walked to the door, aimed at the edge of the door that was about to open, and raised the makeshift weapon in her hand.

With a creak, the door opened a crack.

Chen Zi narrowed her eyes, and then she saw a cleaning broom stretched out.

Chen Zi:?
She watched the broom poke in twice, but it didn't touch her because of the angle. Then the door was opened wide, and the stick she held high was about to fall, and she saw the face of the person coming.

This...he's not——

He couldn't remember the person's name for a while, but Chen Zi knew that he was one of his own and a member of the team next door.

To be more specific, he was the team member Bai Su saw pretending to be a cleaning crew, the one who turned around and ran away when he saw someone.

As soon as the two people's eyes met, Chen Zi forcibly twisted his wrist to make the stick turn and miss the target, grazing the person's scalp.

There was no danger, but before the short-haired woman could say anything, the team member pretending to be a sweeper suddenly pulled back the broom and ran away.

"Wait--" A soft cry floated in the air, and Chen Zi realized that he couldn't shout and could only run after him.

The two of them ran forward at a very light pace, one behind the other. The cleaning crew ran in the same direction that the short-haired woman came from. The two of them rushed into the emergency escape passage in a short time.

The white door closed heavily behind the two of them without making much sound. It only caused the green light sign hanging above to shake several times.

Arriving at the stairwell, Chen Zi remembered the warning not to enter again. The words flashed by and were quickly forgotten by her.

Because the two started chasing each other at a very close distance, Chen Zi was not far behind. Instead, he quickly climbed up the steps in three steps and then grabbed the man's collar.

"Why are you running away?" This time it was a clear female voice, "It's me, one of our own!"

The short-haired woman took off her hat, revealing the soft lines of her face.

The fleeing cleaners saw it and seemed to have calmed down a bit, but their legs were still retreating, as if they were still going back.

After not moving far, she hit the steps behind her. She lost her balance and was about to fall down on the stairs. Fortunately, Chen Zi held her back.

"Calm down." Seeing that the person was still a little nervous, Chen Zi comforted him, "I have observed the stairwell. It is not within the patrol range of the security personnel, and there is no one else here."

After being comforted several times, the person seemed to have calmed down a bit. The person who fell on the ground stretched out a hand. He grabbed Chen Zi's clothes and coat tightly and refused to let go despite persuasion.

Chen Zi: Okay, it’s not like you can’t talk like this.

The short-haired woman had no choice but to lean down to speak. She felt tired if she leaned over, so she ended up squatting there.

The team member disguised as a cleaning crew was obviously in an abnormal state. He held his words for a long time and couldn't speak out, as if he was hindered. No matter how anxious and uneasy Chen Zi was, he could only stay there and wait for others to regain their speech function.

"Why did you run when you saw me?"

"It's best...not to...meet each other, and get involved...will..."

"Ah, yes, there is indeed such an order from the bureau, but there is nothing I can do to find you. I can't contact your captain."

The word "captain" touched something unknown, and the cleaning staff suddenly became excited, and both hands climbed up the short-haired woman's skirt.

"Team, Captain, he...he..." the cleaning staff was emotionally unstable and began to choke, "Captain, he was...taken away."

Chen Zi frowned. This was not a good answer, so she asked: "Who was taken away? By someone from the hospital? Is it the same as the person who was lying on the bed just now? Where is your captain now? do you know?"

A series of questions came down, which made the cleaning staff feel dizzy. He raised his hand and pointed up.

above?What's on it?
Chen Zi raised her head in confusion. She only saw the stairs extending upward.

The short-haired woman was about to ask a few more questions, but when she lowered her head, she saw a horrified expression on the cleaner's face. "Run...run!" When he shouted this, the cleaner's legs suddenly became weak and limp. He suddenly let go of Chen Zi's clothes and got up from the ground.

The man pushed forward with great force, pushing Chen Zi to stagger, and ran upstairs like a madman regardless.

Chen Zi finally stood still and there was no one in front of her. She looked up in confusion, but it was still empty.

It can't be... that it's behind her?

She suddenly took out her mobile phone camera and took a photo from behind. Only the dark security uniform coat she was wearing was visible in the lens, and there was no strange creature in her imagination.

Doesn’t that mean there’s nothing—eh?

The short-haired woman lowered her head when she took back her phone. When she lowered her head, she discovered something - her name tag was missing.

The badge that should have been sandwiched between the collar and the slim sweater was missing. Chen Zi reached out and touched the back of his neck, but could not find the rope.

Where have you gone...where have you gone?
Chen Zi took off his coat and touched all the cracks all over his body.

No, not here, not there, not in pockets—

Inexplicable panic swept through the short-haired woman's body. She quickly recalled the scene just now. It seemed that there was no link that would make her throw away the things.

Even when she changed into her security brother's clothes, she made sure again and again that the badge was still on her body...unless...a possibility flashed through her mind, but she quickly threw it away.

No, that person is a companion and it is impossible to do this.

But... this is a mental hospital, is he really... okay?Ahhhh, what should I do...what should I do now?
Remembering the importance of name tags, women with short hair couldn't help but become anxious.

She remembers... she remembers... yes, there was this security guard. She put the person in the men's bathroom. The person had the security guard's badge on him. If he got it, there should be no problem.

Chen Zi acted quickly. She subconsciously felt that if she waited until dawn without a badge, something terrible would happen.

The short-haired woman quickly started running down, and as she started running, a voice she had heard before sounded again.

pat, pat.

The closer she got to the downstairs, the clearer the sound of hitting the ball became, and she couldn't help but stop.

Chen Zi was only one step away from the first floor, but she didn't dare to go any further.

There seemed to be a half-year-old child standing there between the gaps in the stair railings.

……

The sky is bright again.

The pestle was stuck at the window all night long while the wind blew and the black mist greedily sucked in. Bai Su stretched there.

He didn't see the short-haired woman come back at night, nor did he see her figure in the building of the inpatient department.

Although the optician was not on duty last night, Bai Su went to take a look and found that human beings were collapsing.

He didn't mean to disturb anyone, and looked inside the mental hospital from a different perspective.

The white silk thread clung to the top of the elevator car, and soon moved out bit by bit, finally climbing into the elevator shaft.

The white lines piled up into a round ball, and then he opened his eyes, just in line with the sight of the being crawling on the top of the elevator car.

It was a corpse, a long-dead corpse.

But it's not an entity, it's just the weight of nothingness pressing there, adding a little weight to the elevator out of thin air.

Bai Su has no interest in why this body died before it was alive and why it is lying here now.

The corpse seemed to be somewhat related to the female ghost or something squatting in the elevator car. One was staring directly at the other.

The white eyeballs probably attracted a bit of the corpse's attention, but the corpse only glanced at it and then lay down back with its face pressed against the roof of the car. There was no longer any advantageous perspective.

After glancing at it, the white eyeballs began to move, and they reached the edge of the elevator in a few seconds.

Looking down along the small gap in the elevator shaft, Bai Su saw endless darkness.

The elevator seemed to have stopped on the fourth floor, and the place he wanted to go was underground.

The only eyeball jumped forward, stuck to the wall and turned into a flat puddle. After a few swipes, it slid down the elevator shaft, and soon fell into the depths of the building.

Fourth floor, third floor, second floor, first floor...underground.

There is even more than one floor underground, but the white paper spread out into a thin piece of paper stopped when it reached the underground floor. Then, the "white paper" squeezed out from the gap between the elevator shaft and the outside world.

As soon as he came outside, Bai Su felt a chill.

Not only is it cold, the temperature on the underground floor has already reached sub-zero, which is bitingly cold. If you come here without taking any measures to keep warm, you will feel hypothermia within half an hour.

His eyes were looking at the empty underground floor. His current location looked like the initial entrance of a parking lot, but there were no cars around at all, only a few isolated pillars.

The cold air spreads from a distance, cold enough to make people exhale puffs of white air.

Climbing a little deeper, Bai Su heard the footsteps coming from the front with his eyes hanging on the ceiling. They were walking clumsily. When the person got closer, Bai Su realized that the man was wrapped like a bear, and the footsteps were heavy. Because he wears thick-soled shoes.

The human took a few steps to catch his breath, but he didn't dare to stop at all. He gritted his teeth and forced himself to walk in the direction of the elevator.

"Can't stop...can't stop...today's work is over...you have to get up quickly."

The human being was talking to himself, repeating this sentence, and the white air exhaling from his mouth became stronger and stronger.

Before he reached the elevator, there was a soft sound deep in the passage and behind the pillars. He was so frightened that he almost ran. He rushed to the elevator door and frantically pressed the upward arrow.

The humans were praying for the elevator to come down quickly, but Bai Su went deeper and saw the person who made the noise.

People... no, not living people. In human terms, it seems that such a being is called a teacher.

No wonder, the temperature here is so low, it must be close to minus [-] degrees inside.

The human's movements did not stop, but the elevator fell very slowly. I wonder if the being on the elevator was frightened by Bai Su and refused to go downstairs.

Anyway, the late arrival of the elevator meant that the human being on the underground floor had to be overtaken by the physical education teacher behind him.

The cold is gradually approaching, and the deceased has revealed his "fresh" face under the light.

　Sorry, something unexpected happened at work yesterday and I didn’t finish writing qwq
　　
　
(End of this chapter)