Chapter 20 The Patient Who Died
It's a baby crying!
I took a deep breath and a cold sweat broke out.
"Lao He, you...did you hear that?"
Of course Lao He couldn't hear it because he was so drunk that he was lying on the table.
The baby's crying continued, and it sounded particularly harsh and creepy in the quiet night.
I had no choice but to go outside.
When I opened the door of the lounge, a cold wind blew in and I shivered.
The sound was obviously not coming from the first floor.
So I started walking upstairs.
One floor, two floors, three floors, four floors...
All the way to the fourth floor, the crying sounds became clearer and clearer, as harsh as glass cutting on a blackboard, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.
I walked to the door of 404 tremblingly.
Sure enough, the baby's crying sound still came from 404.
What secrets are hidden in 404?
Why do babies cry?
I stared at the scarlet door of Room 404, my curiosity growing stronger and stronger. There seemed to be a voice in my heart, constantly urging me: "Open the door! Open the door quickly!"
A little closer, a little closer.
I thought of Sister Sun’s method last time, and started to follow suit. I stretched out my hand and tried to knock on the door 404.
Bang bang bang!
Clap three times.
The crying stopped abruptly.
Just as I was surprised at the miraculous effect of this method, a hand suddenly placed on my back.
"ah!"
I screamed in fright and almost jumped up from the ground. I turned around and saw a patient.
"Doctor Tian."
The patient was in his sixties, blind in one eye, with a sallow complexion. When he spoke, a gold tooth in his mouth was particularly conspicuous.
"Yes, what's the matter?"
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn, why do the patients here make no sound when they walk?
Suddenly I wondered if Liu Bin was frightened to death in this way?
"Doctor Tian, my stomach suddenly hurts a lot and I'm out of painkillers. Can you give me some medicine?" The patient covered his stomach with a look of pain on his face.
I said, "Didn't you press the beeper?"
Since the fat nurse came, every ward in Building D has been installed with a pager to make it easier for patients to call in case of special circumstances.
"I pressed it, but there was no response," said the patient.
I thought it was impossible; the pager had just been installed, how could there be no response?
Unless it was that fat nurse who deliberately ignored it.
"Okay, which ward are you in? I'll deliver the medicine over later," I said.
"I'm from Room 408, Dr. Tian, you're such a nice person." The patient expressed his gratitude and held my hand tightly.
"It's okay, go back to your room, it's cold here - by the way, wait two minutes, press the pager, I'll see if it's broken."
I shuddered.
The patient's hands were so cold, like frozen pork just taken out of the freezer. When he held them, his whole body was shaking.
After watching him return to Room 408 with my own eyes, I went downstairs to the nurses' lounge.
Looking through the crack in the door, I saw that the fat nurse was still lying on the bed playing Tik Tok. The vulgar images and exaggerated movements made her giggle, just like a sow Zhu Bajie.
Beep beep beep!
Beep beep beep!
The pager beside the bed rang, but she seemed not to hear it and continued to watch Tik Tok.
Beep beep beep!
Beep beep beep!
The sound continued, and she became a little impatient. She picked up the coat beside her and covered the pager directly.
Seeing this scene, I was shocked and angry. I kicked the door open and said, "Cao Fengjiao, you are really awesome. Not only did you ignore the pager, but you also covered it with clothes?"
The fat nurse's full name is Cao Fengjiao. She was startled when she saw me suddenly barge in and almost threw her phone away. When she saw it was me, she flew into a rage and pointed at me and yelled, "Are you sick? Why did you suddenly come out?"
"Don't change the subject. I have already recorded what happened. If you don't want to get fired, you'd better be self-disciplined." I said coldly.
"Tsk, do you think I'm afraid of you?" Cao Fengjiao curled her lips, but there was obviously some fear in her eyes.
I said impatiently, "The patient in room 408 has a stomachache and is out of painkillers. Send them up to him quickly."
"Who are you to order me around?"
She glared at me hatefully, but still put on some clothes, got out of bed and walked out.
Cao Fengjiao took the medicine from the prescription and walked to the fourth floor.
I was worried that she would vent her anger on the patients, so I followed her.
When we arrived at the door of Ward 408, Cao Fengjiao was about to kick the door open, but when she saw me take out my cell phone, her face changed, she snorted, and knocked on the door obediently.
I thought to myself that there is indeed a way to deal with any evil person, it just depends on whether the method is correct.
The door opened, and a female patient, eyes drooping with sleep, asked, "What's the matter?"
"Sir, you're making rounds. Put your hands up and squat down and stand against the wall!" Cao Fengjiao said unhappily.
The female patient was stunned for a long time, then actually stood up and raised her hand.
I was a little speechless, so I told Cao Fengjiao to stop making trouble and said to the female patient, "A patient just pressed the pager and said he had a stomachache. Can you call him out?"
"Come in and look for it yourself." The female patient yawned.
I frowned and wondered why the patient hadn't come out since he heard us talking. Was he asleep?
There was no choice but to walk into the ward and turn on the light.
There were four beds in total and the patients were all asleep. When the fluorescent lights were turned on, they were immediately woken up by the glaring light and began to complain, asking what was going on in the middle of the night.
I searched carefully and made sure that the patient was not in this ward. I was puzzled and asked Cao Fengjiao, "The pager showed 408 just now, right?"
"Nonsense, don't you have eyes? Of course the pager is for 408!" Cao Fengjiao said coldly.
It’s strange, the pager is on 408, but why isn’t the old man inside?
The four beds are already full, and just now, I saw him enter bed 408 with my own eyes.
"Do you remember what that person looks like?" Cao Fengjiao said impatiently, and raised the painkillers in her hand to the four patients, "Hey, who was the one who wanted painkillers just now? Come and get them quickly. Don't play tricks on me again when I come here, or I'll beat you to death!"
Several patients looked at each other, all confused.
I was a little unwilling and said, "The patient is about 60 years old, has a big gold tooth in his mouth, and one eye is blind. He..."
"It's Lao Zhang!"
At this time, a thin middle-aged patient suddenly stood up excitedly and interrupted me.
I was delighted and asked, "Do you know him?"
"Yes...I know him. Lao Zhang was also a patient in Ward 408. However, he died a few months ago." The aunt said tremblingly.
died?
I was stunned.
Cao Fengjiao, who was standing by, was also surprised and said, "You are talking nonsense. Just now, that old Zhang was greeting the guy named Tian!"
"No way, old man, did Old Zhang greet you, Doctor Tian, just now?" The old lady's face changed drastically and she looked at me in horror.
I nodded silently.
"Could it be... is it that Old Zhang has come back?" The old lady took a few steps back, her face suddenly turning gray and yellow, as if she were dead.
I frowned and looked at her, saying, "Auntie, are you sure the person I just described is the old Zhang you know? Maybe they just look alike!"
"No, it can't be such a coincidence!" The aunt kept shaking her head.
Then, as if she remembered something, she picked up her phone, flipped through it, and said to me, "Doctor Tian, look, this is when Lao Zhang was still alive. His granddaughter came to the ward at that time. Lao Zhang was very happy and asked me to take a photo with his granddaughter as a souvenir."
Cao Fengjiao and I leaned over to take a look. In the photo on the phone, we saw an old man in a hospital gown - with sparse hair, a wrinkled face, one eye closed, and the other open. He was sitting on the hospital bed with a teenage girl, smiling very happily, and you could clearly see the golden tooth in his mouth.
I took a deep breath and felt a chill all over my body.
This person was obviously the old man who had just spoken to me.
"Is it him?" the aunt asked hurriedly.
"No, no, I must have seen it wrong."
I forced a smile, turned around and walked out of the ward.
Cao Fengjiao quickly caught up with me, stared at me and said, "You're lying! The old man you met is that old Zhang, right?"
I nodded silently, looked at Cao Fengjiao, and said in a trembling voice: "You also saw that the pager displayed 408 just now, right?"
"I, I don't know, leave me the fuck alone!"
Cao Fengjiao also felt that something was wrong, and her face turned noticeably pale.
"This is not an illusion, there is something wrong with Building D!"
I couldn't bear it anymore and shouted hoarsely.
The fear in my heart spread like a flood.
"Okay, shut up!"
Cao Fengjiao cursed and hurried down the stairs, as if she didn't want to stay with me for another second.
She was scared too...
Back in the lounge, I tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, thinking about this strange thing.
Why did Lao Zhang, who had been dead for several months, suddenly appear in front of me and press the pager?
No, not just Lao Zhang.
Since I came to Building D, strange things have happened one after another, and I have seen many "people" who clearly do not exist.
These "people" seemed to be revolving around me, and in most cases, I was the only one who noticed them, so I thought they were hallucinations.
But tonight, Cao Fengjiao also saw the 408 pager. What does this mean?
Building D, there is really something wrong!!!
I glanced at the red vest Sister Sun gave me by the bed, hesitated for a moment, and slowly put it on.
I slept with the light on that night...
…
The next day, I was awakened by the sound of a quarrel outside.
I put on some clothes and walked out of the lounge, and saw Cao Fengjiao arguing with a patient. Her voice was very loud, like a shrew scolding on the street, and the whole building was filled with her voice.
This woman looked so frightened yesterday. I thought she would be more restrained, but it turns out that it is difficult to change one's nature.
I frowned and went over to stop this farce, but ended up having another real argument with Cao Fengjiao.
When I returned to the lounge, Liu Fuqiang had already arrived and was sitting on the sofa watching TV.
He glanced at me and laughed, "You're awesome, Xiaotian, you dare to quarrel with that tigress!"
"She is a tiger and should go to the zoo, not the hospital. With this attitude towards patients, I don't know why the hospital wants her." I complained.
Liu Fuqiang shook his head and said, "The hospital actually has no choice. If it were possible, who would want to hire a nurse with such poor quality?"
"There's no other way. To put it bluntly, I just don't want to spend money to hire people." I snorted.
"That's not the case. There were many nurses in Building D back then, but what happened? They all died." Liu Fuqiang sighed.
All dead?
I seem to have heard Liu Bin say this before!
"Brother Liu, tell me, how did those nurses die?" I sat down next to him, threw a cigarette over to him, and asked anxiously.
Liu Fuqiang glanced at me and said, "Actually, I heard all this from my brother Liu Bin... I can tell you, but you have to keep it a secret."
"Okay." I nodded.
Liu Fuqiang lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said slowly: "Building D is a very weird place. In the past, strange things would happen at night..."
