Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 384 Underground Cold Storage
Bai Su looked left and right.

He felt that the human below who was frantically pressing the elevator button was an insider.

If other people had encountered a dead person who was alive and able to move, they would have been frightened to death, instead of trying to escape like the person below.

Perhaps because he felt that the cold was approaching, the man couldn't wait for the elevator. Seeing that the number on the elevator was still on the second floor, he decisively chose another way out.

The person ran towards the stairwell to the side.

But the stairwell on the underground floor was locked. The human trembled in the cold environment and searched for the key in his pocket. Within a few seconds, he found the key, but the coldness hit him and he pointed the key at the keyhole. It took some more time.

The eyeball hung above it for a look, and finally when the corpse passed directly under it, it detached itself from the side attached to the ceiling and fell straight down.

With a snap, the eyeballs fell on the top of the corpse like a puddle of mud.

This subtle sound was covered by the cumbersome movement of the corpse, and did not attract the attention of the human in front. The man concentrated on fighting the padlock, and finally inserted the keyhole and twisted the key.

The door opened.

In an instant, the much hotter air flowed in from above, causing people to tremble and quickly open the door and run forward.

When he ran into the stairwell and closed and locked the door again, the human looked back and saw the body stopped not far away. One of the originally closed eyes opened for some reason and was staring at him. .

The human being was so frightened that his hands shook and he slammed the door back. He hurriedly locked it and went upstairs. In a few breaths, he returned to the first floor and ran away.

The eyeballs attached to the corpse's eyes slowly rotated. If you look closely, you can see that they are "growing" on the outside and are turning towards the elevator.

The elevator that had not reached the underground floor finally came down and stopped there, and the door slowly opened.

The invisible presence inside the elevator door and the external eyeball on the corpse outside the elevator glanced at each other a few times. The former quickly pressed the digital button upstairs in the elevator and fled from the underground floor as fast as he could.

It feels like... I have found the reason why the elevator in the mental hospital starts by itself late at night.

The part of the monster attached to the corpse thought casually, and controlled the corpse to turn around, ignoring the elevator that came down and escaped.

Bai Su originally thought that he would slowly crawl along the ceiling or float out tonight, but he didn't expect to find a means of transportation.

The transportation tool immediately took steps forward, because the body itself existed on the underground level, and it would not be strange even if someone saw it.

The environment becomes colder as you go deeper. On the underground floor is a large refrigerator. Behind the pillars are densely packed cubicles. Several long drawers that should be closed are open, except for Bai Su's. In addition to the means of transportation, there were several corpses moving around.

The temperature in the cold storage was low, but you could still see bits of ice falling from the bodies. Their actions had no logic or order, and they were just wandering around.

When he saw Bai Su walking towards him controlling his transportation device, he turned towards him when he heard some noises. He didn't see anything he cared about, so he quickly turned back and walked aimlessly.

Some corpses were unable to move easily and simply crawled or squirmed there, presenting a general state of a chaotic dance of demons.

The transportation tool went around the cabinet and found a board inserted into the wall at the corner of the column. After flipping through it, it was about the registration and daily inspection of corpses in the cold storage.

The handwriting of the person who recorded it was very messy, and it felt like he ran away immediately after writing. He was afraid that if he stayed for a long time, he would stay here forever, so he chose a cabinet and lay down directly.

This might be the case for the human being he just saw. He ran away when he heard the strange movement, but was caught up by the corpse behind him. If Bai Su hadn't intervened, the human might have been lying in the cupboard.

I flipped through the recording paper and scanned the names on it. None of them looked familiar.

Although Bai Su knew very little about the team next door to the human special department, he still remembered it all after listening to the short-haired woman's overview.

Not here... where is that?

The white eyeballs moved from the walking tool's face to the top of its head little by little, and began to look upward.

There is something up there, up there.

Across the layers of floors and tiles, Bai Su looked at a certain location above, and an extremely intimate call came from there.

Ah...ah, is that so?
After staring upward for a while, his eyes turned downward again.

If the first floor is just a cold storage, then it is further down?
But in the end, due to some time and external factors, I didn't know what happened inside the hospital. After my eyes returned to the elevator shaft, the sound of busy footsteps started to sound.

The monster went up to take a look out of curiosity, and saw many doctors and nurses passing by through the gaps in the elevator. They spoke in short sentences such as "found", "patient", "security", "knock out"...

Fragmented words could not spell out a complete incident, and it was not until the morning that Bai Su realized what had happened.

Chen Zi is missing.

The short-haired woman didn't come back since last night.

The black-haired young man pretended to knock on the door next door without responding, and followed the flow of people downstairs. When he passed by the garden, he found that it had been cleaned up and the fountain was back in operation.

No one had any doubts about this scene, as if everyone had forgotten the tragedy that was still being discussed yesterday.

Bai Su continued to walk to the inpatient department. In theory, he should have breakfast now, but the moment he walked into the building, his black eyes narrowed.

Who did he see?
The man, who was surrounded by several doctors in white coats and asked questions, touched his throat, pulled up the corners of his mouth and showed a stiff smile to the people around him.

"Xiao Chen, what's wrong with your voice? Is it mute?" Dr. Xu who brought them in asked, "Did you catch a cold yesterday? The weather has been cold recently. You should pay attention to changes in your body and temperature."

"Although you are from outside, I am still very optimistic about you. Do you want to stay and work with us? Are there any positions that require professional knowledge? You only need to train for a period of time."

After listening to Doctor Xu's question, the man nodded first and then shook his head quickly.

The polite exchanges between humans gradually dispersed, and it was only then that Bai Su walked up to the familiar male.

The black-haired young man leaned forward, forcing the human male to retreat a little, but with the wall behind him, there was no way to retreat.

"䱱..." Bai Su looked at the human male in confusion, "Why are you wearing Chen Zi's badge?"

"Where is Chen Zi, where is she?"

"She..." The man in a suit, also named Chen, who had previously worked as a driver for Bai Su, opened his mouth. He seemed to have not spoken for a long time, and his voice was hoarse.

He raised his head and said nothing. Bai Su read the answer directly from his expression.

Oh, something not so good happened.

Bai Su admitted that he was wandering around the underground floor last night and neglected to pay attention to the short-haired women. He did know that humans secretly ran to the next building to look for their companions who were taken away.

However, he did not expect such consequences.

The black-haired young man glanced aside and motioned for the human male to follow him to a place with fewer people.

Most of the medical staff were gathered in the cafeteria, and the walkways outside were empty.

"Your name?"

"Chen Mu."

"Oh, okay, Chen Mu, right?" The black-haired young man nodded, shook his hand and handed it to the human male like a microphone, "Can I interview you, what did you do to Chen Zi?"

Human beings often joke that people with the same surname might have been the same family hundreds of years ago.

As soon as Bai Su asked the question, Chen Mu shook his hands twice and lowered his head as if to escape.

The answer was unspoken, so Bai Su asked other questions. "Where did you meet Chen Zi yesterday?"

"...the...ward in the building next door."

He couldn't tell which ward it was in. In the dead of night, Chen Mu was afraid of being discovered when he walked in the corridor, so naturally he was not in the mood to record it.

Most of what happened next was pieced together through Bai Su's toothpaste-squeezing questioning. It was just that the two of them bumped into each other. Chen Mu subconsciously ran away, and Chen Zi went after him. Just when he was about to exchange some information, Chen Mu heard the order again. The sound he feared.

"I...I didn't mean to do it...I didn't want to do it either."

"The captain was taken away... my companions were also missing, and I... I even lost my name badge."

"I hid for a long time...if I didn't meet the doctors in the mental hospital, they wouldn't know..."

Bai Su felt that maybe the cleaning staff's identity was not so high-profile, and the people at the mental hospital were negligent because of this.

Chen Mu repeatedly emphasized that he didn't mean to do it. Since coming to this mental hospital, some people in his team have behaved abnormally, without exception.

He also added that the stairwell is a safe place, and as long as Chen Zi stays there and doesn't get discovered, it will be fine.

"Yeah, like me...it'll be fine."

"Really?" Bai Su asked lightly, his eyes shifting to the side.

The human male was at a loss and moved away, right to the junction of two buildings in the distance.

Several doctors in white coats rolled a bed over and arrived at the elevator.

Because they were close enough, they didn't even need to stand on tiptoes to see that the person lying on the hospital bed was someone they knew.

Bai Su raised his eyebrows.

Isn't this a coincidence?

The human male had just said that the stairwell was safe, but the short-haired woman who was supposed to be left in the stairwell appeared in front of her.

Bai Su turned his angle and asked, "Is this what you said... it's safe?"

……

"Ugh."

The black-haired young man stood by the window and sighed in distress. Beside him were human males who dared not move or leave him too far.

Why are things like this?
Bai Su felt that he just failed to watch the human beings for one night, and the current situation became fragmented.

"Uh... that is to say, are you taking Chen Zi's position now?" Bai Su thought and analyzed the current situation. He looked Chen Mu up and down for a while, "Male nurse?" It seems that it is not impossible.

The human male didn't answer the question at all and just stood there quietly, perhaps reflecting or thinking about other things.

Male nurses are just male nurses. Human beings seem to have this occupational classification.

"Then...what do you have in mind now?" Bai Su asked Chen Mu. The latter finally raised his lowered head, his expression was not good, but his mood gradually became calmer.

"There is something wrong with this mental hospital." The human male expressed the common understanding now, "The name badge is also very important."

As for where Chen Mu's name badge went, he said it was touched by the patient.

While he was just cleaning the corridor, he didn't feel like he had any contact with anyone, but in the blink of an eye, his name tag disappeared.

Later, he was discovered by people from the mental hospital, and he ran into the stairwell in a panic.

A strange thing happened. The people from the mental hospital did not chase him in. They lingered outside the door for a long time and finally let him go.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Soon, Chen Mu said that he and his captain met in the stairwell. Since no one from the mental hospital came in, they waited there to figure out what to do next.

"Then...then..." The shrinking of the human male's pupils was completely reflected on the window in front of him, "that voice appeared."

The place where they stood was not very far from the stairwell, and the half-open door was open there, but no one came close.

As Chen Mu's words came out, he seemed to hear something and pointed at the door over there: "That's the sound!"

Bai Su listened attentively for a moment. There was a clicking sound, and some light object rolled down from above. When he passed by the door, he could see a round shape.

When they rolled to the floor where they were, they saw no one but seemed to be pushed by an external force, and then fell downstairs.

The human male stammered: "That's it, the captain was chasing the ball, and then——"

"Then he disappeared." Bai Su continued, holding his chin in the human's surprised gaze.

How should I put it, I didn't expect it to be the situation he had foreseen.

The stairwell, the pick-up ball, the laughter of children.

Some familiar attributive words are combined together, plus that inexplicable feeling of intimacy.

Ah, what a coincidence. How could it have happened like this?

The black-haired young man tilted his head and looked at the door of the stairwell. He looked at it for a long time without any intention of getting closer. He let the sound of the ball rolling inside the door go away until it disappeared.

Chen Mu was silent for a few seconds and asked: "How do you know...ah, do you still listen to Chen Zi -"

"Shh." Bai Su suddenly raised his finger, turned around, waved towards the other end of the corridor, and shouted as if to say hello, "Doctor Hao!"

Dr. Hao was called out as soon as he walked out of the cafeteria. He turned around and saw Bai Su. Although he was confused, he still came over.

"What's wrong?" Dr. Hao's attitude was much better than the first two days. It seemed that yesterday's exchange had an effect and made him regard Bai Su as a fellow person.

As long as you can chat with him about those bizarre medical concepts, you and he can be like-minded.

Dr. Hao was about to tap Bai Su on the shoulder, but the latter shrugged and dodged it.

The second shot came up empty, but Dr. Hao still smiled and patted Chen Mu on the shoulder. While patting him, he said, "Isn't Xiao Chen a bit silent today? Wasn't he very talkative yesterday?"

Bai Su glanced at Chen Mu and didn't know what kind of memory the doctor opposite him had been replaced with.

Without saying anything or making mistakes, he directly changed the subject: "Dr. Hao, I seemed to hear some noise outside last night. Did something happen?"

The human looked at Bai Su suspiciously, as if wondering what kind of hearing the black-haired young man had to be able to hear from such a distance, but then he thought about it, and realized that they were making quite a lot of noise at night.

But what happened last night couldn't be explained clearly, so Dr. Hao said vaguely: "A patient escaped. It took a lot of effort to catch her, and she even knocked out one of our security personnel."

Dr. Hao said with a bit of sadness. He felt that the captured patient might have some manic symptoms.

What Bai Su heard was that losing the name badge in a mental hospital was indeed equivalent to losing one's identity, and one could only become the patient with the least freedom.

"Then...can we go take a look?" Bai Su asked suddenly, "I feel like it will be a good learning material."

(End of this chapter)