Tales of Aegiceras: Cave in

2. The Night Watchman (2)

Translator: Superbomb

Enveloped in darkness all of a sudden, they could only see the vague outlines of everything at the moment.

And the building somehow fell into dead silence before they even knew it.

“Mmm, maybe the switch tripped. The hospital is terribly dark even during daytime whenever the lights are turned off!” Lu Xia complained.

Sun Zheng pressed a few keys on his phone, but there was no reaction. He restarted the phone again, but its screen completely melted into the darkness.

It felt terrible! Sun Zheng was upset. He randomly dialed a number and pressed the phone against his ear. However, he heard nothing as if everything had been swallowed by a massive dark cavern.

“Sizzle…” After quite a long time, an abnormal noise came from the cell phone. There seems to be some interference with the communication signal, which caused the malfunction of the phone.

Sun Zheng was so angry that he had a spur to smash the phone onto the floor. Lu Xia put his hand on his shoulder and pointed at the building on the opposite side. “Look, there’s a power cut in the Inpatient Department of Internal Medicine as well.”

‘Damn! I knew nothing good could come from the hospital!’ Sun Zheng thought in dismay.

“Hey, this reminded me of a story!” Lu Xia seemed to be in a good mood as if he had not been affected by the darkness around at all.

Sun Zheng turned to him.

“It’s said that the structure of the previous hospital buildings is very special. There is a ward in the inpatient department that can only be seen on the third floor!” Lu Xia said casually.

What the hell! Sun Zheng was infuriated again.

“I’m going to turn the switch on. It has been for so long after the switch trip, but nobody has come to solve the problem! Where the hell are those hospital staff?!” Sun Zheng looked around but still saw nobody come, so he walked towards the corner near the elevator.

If his memory served him right, there was a green electric control box just around the corner from the elevator.

Sun Zheng had just walked to the elevator and was about to make a turn when he was stopped by Lu Xia.

“Hey, wait! Have you never heard of it?”

“What?” Sun Zheng responded impatiently.

“Ghosts… don’t know how make a turn, so most of them tend to gather at the corner,” Lu Xia said in a casual tone. “You’d better not take another step.”

Sun Zheng’s heart twitched. What was he talking about? How come this guy kept saying things that made no sense?

As if he didn’t notice his unhappiness, Lu Xiabut leisurely turned aside.

Sun Zheng sighed and was about to take another step when he heard someone cry out. “OMG!” Taken aback, he turned around in confusion and saw Lu Xia looking at the dental room through the light blue glass door.

“Everyone is gone! Zheng, there’s nobody in the room now!” Lu Xia shouted, rubbing his forehead.

“How is that possible!? The doctors were there just now!” Sun Zheng looked over with a frown. He had not yet adapted to the darkness, and he felt things around him loom. “By the way, can you please stop calling me ‘Zheng’?” he added.

However, as soon as he finished his words, he felt his heart skip a beat.

The moment he turned his head, he sensed something wrong.

Sun Zheng shook his head hard, staring at the dark wall in the faint light.

The mirror facing the elevator was gone!

“Zheng, come over and take a look. Don’t stand at the corner. Come over, please!” Lu Xia complained, standing quite still.

Sun Zheng walked back slowly without a word, fixing his gaze on the wall with nothing on it. When he stopped beside Lu Xia, he was still staring at it, which seemed too unblemished for him.

At this moment, he was filled with horror.

How come the mirror suddenly disappeared?

He shifted his gaze to the dental room that he hadn’t paid much attention to just now.

The medical instruments were intact and neatly placed, and the brand new multifunctional oral treatment device manufactured by Tai’ao Company was still there.

However, there was no one inside!

Ever since the power went out, he didn’t hear anyone speak except for the two of them!

The hospital was terrifyingly quiet.

“Zheng, come on! Let’s go to the director’s office on the 5h floor. It’s safe there!” Before Sun Zhen could react, Lu Xia had pulled him down the stairs.

When Sun Zheng came back to his senses, he found himself at the foot of the staircase on the 5th floor.

However, if his ears didn’t deceive him, it seemed…

He heard a “ding” as if the elevator had reached a certain floor…