Tales of Aegiceras: Cave in

4. The Night Watchman (4)

Translator: Superbomb

“You may think it’s ridiculous that I’ve been terribly suspicious of everything since the beginning, right?” Lu Xia leaned over and asked Sun.

‘You finally realized it!’ Sun Zheng nodded honestly.

Lu Xia revealed an understanding smile and turned off the torch. Instantly, the whole office sank back into darkness, and everything around them became blurred again.

“… To save electricity, you have to get used to the darkness. Sure enough, I need to explain it to you. Maybe it will be a long story. Alas, Zheng, you are really troublesome.”

“Go ahead!”

“This is not the first time this has happened in Xieji hospital, nor is it an accidental event. There are many tales about this hospital on the Aegiceras Middle Road. Did you feel restrained the moment you came in?” Lu Xia’s voice was a little ethereal as if it came from the other side of the sea.

“Kind of. It’s too dim in the hospital.”

“I’m not talking about the lighting. In fact, the previous hospital closed down because… something odd happened from time to time. My uncle wanted me to look into this matter, so he asked me to come.”

“Something odd?” Sun Zheng tilted his head.

“Yes! People had found out long ago that something was wrong, but it wasn’t until three years ago that the problem finally caught the attention of the hospital leaders. So since then, the director of the previous hospital had asked his staff to record such occurrences.”

“What about you?”

“Me? Scholar Sun, you seem to have forgotten that I began studying folklore when I was a student at University C. During that time, I also did some paranormal investigation.”

“But there are no ghosts in this world.” Sun Zheng couldn’t help but laugh.

“I don’t know. There are a lot of things that science can’t explain, right? We can’t be too careful.”

“Come on! What should we do now?” Sun Zheng waved his hand and interrupted Lu Xia.

“I wonder why you’d end up in this place and get involved. It’s also my first time, but Zheng, you’ve never done anything evil. And you always come and go alone. So how could you get involved in something like this? Well, try again to see if you can open the locked drawer. The so-called records must be in it.”

Hearing that, Sun Zheng reached out to pull the drawer on the second layer but failed again no matter how hard he tried.

Hearing the noise in the darkness, Lu Xia suggested, “Pry it open with something.”

To make it convenient for Sun Zheng, he turned on the torch, which lit up the director’s office again. Next, he heard the sound of Sun Zheng prying the lock with something.

“I feel like a thief!” Sun Zheng chuckled. Then he pulled open the drawer with a clang.

Lu Xia walked over and flashed the torch at the things in the drawer. With an appreciative smile, he took out all the contents and placed them on the table one by one.

“Sure enough, everything I want is here.”

In addition to two worn notebooks wrapped in red paper, there were six pieces of paper that looked like drawings. They leafed through the documents and found they were:

Record of Dark Occurrences in Aegiceras Hospital (the original name) (1999~2002)

Record of Dark Occurrences in Aegiceras Hospital (2003~2005)

Floor Plan of Xieji Private Hospital on Aegiceras Middle Road from the 1st to the 6th Floor

“The floor plan…” Lu Xia muttered while unfolding the drawings. “Good! Very good! They made marks on each drawing…”

“What?” Sun Zheng leaned closer to check.

“Look, the rooms marked with a circle on the drawings must be rooms with pictures on the walls, just like this one we are in. According to my wild guess, the rooms marked with a big red cross must be ominous… We’ll study this later. Let’s take a look at the records first!” Lu Xia folded the drawings and opened the first notebook with a red cover.