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Chapter 46 Radio Gymnastics
The three junior high school students all belong to the type of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers". They have a curiosity that is different from ordinary people. In addition, they have just awakened superpowers recently. They happen to encounter strange things, so they naturally don't want to miss them.

"There are so many weird rumors in this hospital, it can't be that there are secrets?"

They walked down the stairs quickly, Ji Chunzao hummed a happy tune, she couldn't hear the slightest bit of nervousness, only the excitement of eagerness to try.

"It's hard to say..."

However, Yan Jingxing quickly recalled one thing.

"By the way, I remember Teacher Gao mentioned that the most important reason why she was not sent to the building opposite was that the circuit was being repaired?"

"Well, she said so. But it seems to me that the reason 'maintenance' is just a rhetoric to cover up the inner truth."

"What truth?"

"That's unknown."

Xie Yuzhi smiled and replied:
"That's why we need to verify it ourselves, don't we?"

*
Leaving the main building, the three of them pushed open the door. In front of the door was a large grass field submerged in the night.

If you come during the day, you might be able to see the meadows under the sun with the blue sky and white clouds as the background, which will undoubtedly be a pleasant scenery;

However, at this time, two hours had passed since the sun jumped down from the western mountain. If the lights were not turned on, the surroundings would be pitch black, and the sky in the distance was so dark that it was scary.

Xie Yuzhi gave each of them a flashlight, and they walked towards the opposite hospital building together.

Just now, they saw a group of medical staff in white coats rushing into the building, and there are still some people staying by the door.

"I can knock him out."

After crossing the lawn, Yan Jingxing stared at the doctor closely.

The "discussion" with Liu Tie gave him experience in using abilities.

The simplest and crudest way is naturally to find the vital points and kill the opponent directly, but activating the instinct does not mean that Yan Jingxing will lose his mind, on the contrary, he is simply too rational in this state——

Therefore, as long as he reacts in time, he can immediately correct the direction of thinking and come up with corresponding strategies.

"It's not necessary, it's better for you to keep your fighting power."

Xie Yuzhi closed her eyes, and opened them after a few breaths.

"It's rare to have the first usable 'soldier chess piece', let's use it to explore the way first."

……

The white coat staying at the door suddenly felt that something hit the back of his head hard.

"What, what's going on?"

The young doctor turned his head to look, but found nothing behind him.

What was that just now...?
If it wasn't his hallucination, then someone really slapped him on the back of the head...

He felt horrified.

Of course the young man knew all kinds of rumors about the inpatient building behind him, he had heard about it before he came in.After becoming an intern doctor here, instead of "refusing rumors", colleagues often described to him the strange things that happened to him vividly. They wanted to find out the truth but always encountered people who kept secrets about it...

The reason why he didn't dare to go in was because he didn't want to go in with his colleagues.

But this, is standing outside the door also affected?Is there... a ghost came out of it?
The doctor froze with fright. At this moment, he felt something cold and sticky crawling up from his feet, to his knees, torso, shoulders, and finally to his neck——

"Ahhhhh!!"

He screamed.

The doctor found that he was gradually able to see the appearance of the thing clearly, and a fuzzy shadow was lying on his face.He flitted around frantically trying to claw it off.

And in a direction that he didn't notice at all, young people had already tiptoed into the door.

……

Xie Yuzhi waved his hand lightly like a conductor at a concert, Yan Jingxing saw a shadow rushing in from outside the door, and once again slipped into a dark corner and disappeared.

"let's continue."

Yan Jingxing turned on the flashlight, and oval-shaped light spots streaked across the concrete floor, ceiling and walls covered with ceramics.

For some reason, most places in the building were not lit. In the entire corridor on the first floor, only a few rooms in the deep revealed some light.

This is obviously unusual.Because the lights in the inpatient building are generally not extinguished, this is a hospital after all, if the patient comes out in the dark, accidents are easy to happen.

"So... is it really a power outage?"

Yan Jingxing thought to himself.

"Chunzao, do you feel it?"

The curly-haired girl shook her head.

The scope of the priest's ability is between 15 meters and 20 meters, and the limit can be explored to nearly 50 meters. However, in that case, there is no way to maintain the spherical detection range, but can only choose a certain direction to go deep; and due to the need to concentrate Concentration, you will lose control of your body, and you have to be watched by someone.

Xie Yuzhi's ability has a similar problem, even the range of action is very similar: once the distance of 15 to 20 meters is exceeded, the monsters controlled by her can only act according to instinct.

"If it's the kind of situation lurking in the human body, the range I can perceive in advance will be smaller." Ji Chunzao said softly.

"I understand."

Yan Jingxing nodded.

"Go, go in that direction first and see if there is anyone."

The faint lights flickering in the dark, like ships sailing on the sea seeing a lighthouse in the distance, attracting them to approach.

"This lamp...doesn't seem to be the kind of incandescent lamp that originally existed in the ward?"

"Ah."

While lowering their voices to communicate, they quickly walked to the edge of the room where the light came from, and heard the conversation between the two of them coming from inside.

"Doctor Sun, how...how did you hurt your arm?"

A relatively young female voice asked.

"..."

"Why don't you speak?"

"Don't ask." Another middle-aged man said impatiently, "Help me deal with it, I have to go and take care of the scene."

"Are you still planning to go back? I can tell that this wound was not scratched by a dog, cat or paw, but by a human nail!"

"You can see that and ask me?"

"I'm not worried about you. Dr. Sun, do you really plan to go back? I think the condition of those patients is very strange."

"...they're all mentally ill, and of course something's wrong."

"What I'm talking about is compared with before. Doctor, didn't you go to the South District just now? The patients in the South District are usually very peaceful, but tonight is particularly strange."

"you saw it?"

"Yes, I was watching the night in the corridor on the third floor. I saw that most of the people were asleep, but I suddenly heard a dog barking downstairs. I didn't take it seriously at first, but when it barked, everyone nearby The ward started to make noise for some reason, so I wanted to check the situation, and it would be best to drive the dog away."

"..." The doctor didn't speak, but just listened silently.

"As a result, I turned around downstairs, but I didn't find any dogs anywhere." The female nurse sighed, "But when I came back, some patients started banging on the door, trying to forcefully rush out..."

"and then?"

"Then, I was dragged away by our head nurse. She asked me to wake up all the people on the night shift and bring them here, and then take the nurses away."

"Well, it's Nurse Li, right? She has experience."

"...Doctor, what's going on? After I told Nurse Li about the situation, she asked me to stay on the first floor to help with the reception, and she didn't say anything about 'response'. Now I'm the only one left on the first floor... "

There was an inexplicable complaint and panic in the nurse's tone. This panic came from her ignorance of the current situation and the weirdness revealed in the current situation.

"Don't worry about it, listen to Nurse Li. If someone comes down and wants to leave, don't stop him. If the other person is injured, you can bandage him. If you are really sleepy, it doesn't matter if you sleep here first." Dr. Sun comforted She, "don't worry, it will be over until tomorrow, and nothing will happen."

"Wait until tomorrow...? No, no, I want to go back now.!
The nurse's voice grew louder.

"I was here to cover the shift. I shouldn't be here tonight. Doctor, don't be sloppy with me like our head nurse, just tell me what happened here? Is there something wrong with this hospital? Those messes There are rumors that there was a fire before..."

"—Those are all fake!"

Dr. Sun's voice suddenly became high and interrupted her.

The atmosphere in the room fell silent for a while, and the children who were hiding outside the door eavesdropped looked at each other, thinking that this time it might be a real encounter.

The doctor panted for a while, and then said in a somewhat helpless tone:

"Okay, I'll make it clear to you first, just don't say it."

"Okay...Okay, I promise not to say anything."

"...Forget it, in fact, no one will believe you even if you say it. Except for the elderly who have worked in this hospital for more than ten years, there are very few people who know the truth."

Dr. Sun said.

"You said you heard a dog barking nearby and the patients started fussing, right?"

"right……"

"Then do you know that there are no dogs in our hospital? Even if stray dogs come in, they will be kicked out early or simply killed. That is to say, at most you can hear the cat barking spring."

"Huh? What, what does this mean?"

"This is a rule set by the hospital. Every security guard who comes in knows it. Of course, the reason I told them is to prevent patients from being bitten by rabies, but in fact, it is to prevent bad things from happening."

"..." The nurse fell silent, wondering if she was too surprised to speak.

On the other side, Dr. Sun, who had already started talking, did not intend to stop.

"Just ten years ago, there was a riot of mental patients in this hospital. The cause was barking dogs. Don't be surprised, it's true, and you don't need to ask the reason, because no one knows... Maybe those who are out of control Crazy mental patients will know, but after the incident, they all seem to have amnesia, and they don't know what to ask."

"I was there during the riot, so I saw it clearly. I even saw the dog. It was it that made a dozen patients want to escape from the hospital like crazy. That night Several people were injured, and there was even a…”

Dr. Sun took a deep breath. Even though ten years have passed, that extremely terrifying night is still fresh in his memory for the person who experienced it himself.

"There is another person I know who was bitten to death by one of the patients."

"Really, there is such a thing..."

"Yeah, I don't want to lie to you. Besides, I saw the dog with my own eyes, a dog with black hair, the size of a calf, I have never seen such a big dog in my life, and finally The scary thing is that there are two mouths on its face! I don’t know if it’s a deformity or what, those eyes seem to be able to understand human words, and it makes people’s hearts go crazy... In short, as long as you see it for the first time, You know it's no ordinary beast."

"Then, what happened next?"

"Later, by dawn of the next day, we could no longer hear the dogs barking. The patients slowly returned to normal."

"Didn't you call the police?"

"It was supposed to be reported, but at that time the leaders of the courtyard disagreed, saying that we can solve it ourselves, so we should not expose the matter. At that time, the outside world will only take this place as a joke, and the journalists who hear the news will gather around , Maybe the hospital will have to close down."

"... Are you really hiding it?"

"Yes, because on the second day, everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened. Except for the colleague who was bitten to death. The cause of death that his family learned was that he was killed by wild wolves when he went to the mountain. dragged away."

"..."

"Okay, I've told you everything I should and shouldn't say, so be it."

Before the man finished speaking, there was another mournful roar from the direction of the third or fourth floor.

"Here again?" The doctor's tone was full of unspeakable fear, "It really is that dog, and it started barking again. It's been ten years, how did it come back?"

Yan Jingxing couldn't help but look up at the ceiling.

The sound was coming from above.

When they were in Teacher Gao's ward before, they only heard a shrill and inhuman roar resounding through the night sky; but after listening to the doctor's words, he realized that it was indeed a dog barking.

"I, I have to go up. You stay here."

The doctor suppressed his fear and got up to go out.

Yan Jingxing and the others left the place immediately, the unlit corridor was enough to cover their sight, they found a corner to hide at random; after the doctor walked up to the second floor, the three followed quietly.

……

After arriving on the second floor, I could vaguely hear the radio playing music, which was coming from afar.

Yan Jingxing, who was attached to the doctor's head, kept a distance of about five meters from the doctor as much as possible.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that the music seemed a little familiar, and as the steps approached, the originally vague voice became clearer and louder——

"Start now, the eighth set of radio gymnastics, stay in place~ let's go! One, two, three, four..."

"Hey, I seem to hear the sound of radio gymnastics?"

The little girl behind made a sound of surprise.

"..."

Yan Jingxing stopped subconsciously.

Because, in the corridor not far from here, there were more than a dozen people standing vaguely.

Under the dim light, they were following the broadcast and doing stretching exercises; the constantly shaking shadows were cast on the ground and walls, which can be called a group of demons dancing wildly.

The scene itself was nothing unusual, he saw it every morning when he was in school.But the problem is that the place I am currently in is a mental hospital building in the middle of the night——

And the group of people in hospital gowns in front of them, doing radio gymnastics silently in the dim light around them, are the patients in this inpatient building.

Seeing this scene suddenly, Yan Jingxing felt his scalp tingling slightly, the scene in front of him was indescribably weird...

(End of this chapter)