Chapter 5 Daily Life in the Infirmary (Part 1)
The Immigrant Population Survey Bureau has a medium-sized infirmary, which Lu Ren had never been to before. Unfortunately, today when he climbed up to clean the glass, he accidentally lost his balance and fell down, breaking his knee.
The passing Rain Master saw it and kindly reminded: "The skin is broken, you'd better go to the infirmary immediately for treatment."
Lu Ren smiled and said that it was not necessary: "Just ignore it and it will be fine in a while."
Yu Shi said: "That's fine, but there are many things in the unit that may be sensitive to blood, so you just need to be careful."
A lot? For example?
Lu Ren blinked and digested the words for a while, then looked up and saw Jun Fang patrolling the factory area outside the window. Jun Fang seemed to sense Lu Ren's gaze and even smiled and waved to Lu Ren. As a zombie, his joints were stiff, and when he waved, he looked like a fully automatic robot, which was a bit funny. But his row of small white teeth exposed in the sun were so bright that they hurt Lu Ren's eyes for a moment.
“…”
Just in case, Lu Ren went to the infirmary during his lunch break.
The scene after opening the door was very strange.
A huge black python, as thick as a person, was coiled on the bed in the infirmary, which was facing the door. As soon as Lu Ren entered the room, he saw it slowly opening its mouth and spitting out its tongue. Its inky scales were slowly moving, and the sunlight refracted and gave off a metallic luster. Its golden snake pupils focused on Lu Ren, and it lazily scanned Lu Ren and spoke in human language: "You have no missing arms or legs, what are you doing here? Find me a job? Be careful or I'll eat you."
The voice sounded like a pure boy's voice, but the giant python opened its mouth wide after it finished speaking and made a threatening look towards Lu Ren. Its appearance was terrifying. An ordinary person would probably be scared to death on the spot.
Lu Ren closed the door as if nothing had happened and said calmly, "Hello, doctor. I broke my knee and came here to take care of it." He sat obediently on the chair prepared for patients and waited for medical treatment.
When the python saw that it couldn't scare him, it immediately lost interest. But as it was too lazy to do it itself, it shouted towards the door of the inner room of the infirmary: "Yellow Bird, your favorite patient is here, come and see the doctor." After that, it rested its head on its coiled torso, squinted its eyes, and looked like it was taking a nap.
The door to the inner room was a sliding door, pure white, without too much decoration. Lu Ren guessed that it should be a doctor's lounge or something like that. At this time, a crisp response came from the door: "I'm coming, why are you lazy all day long? If you don't work hard, I will go and complain to Lord Si Yuan."
As he spoke, the inner door opened, and a strong airflow rushed out from inside, bringing a gust of wind into the infirmary. Lu Ren seemed to hear a few faint howls of wild animals in the wind.
It seems very powerful.
Then, a beautiful girl walked out from the inner room. She was about 13 or 14 years old, wearing a light yellow Lolita dress, with her hair permed into fashionable big waves and a huge bow. Her big eyes flickered, full of innocent light, her eyelashes were thick and upturned, her nose was straight, and her lips were small and rosy. She looked like an exquisite Western doll.
The girl put her hands on her hips, frowned unhappily, and scolded the giant python: "You only eat and sleep all day long, and you will become a useless snake sooner or later."
The giant python didn't even lift its eyelids, as if it was really asleep.
"Hmph!" The girl snorted coldly and turned her head away. At this moment, she finally noticed the third person in the room. She immediately restrained her expression and waved her hand expressionlessly. The white coat hanging beside her flew into her hand. She put it on, straightened her clothes, sat down opposite Lu Ren, picked up a pen and began to write the medical record: "Name."
"Lu Ren."
Lu Ren introduced himself, and then suddenly felt the air stagnate for a few seconds.
He watched the girl open her eyes wide at his words, and even the dozing giant python opened its eyes and looked at him.
Girl: "Are you the human that Lord Si Yuan raised?!"
"..."What the hell is raising?
In an instant, the yellow bird's mouth was like a reservoir with the floodgates opened, and it couldn't stop flowing: "You don't know, I heard a long time ago that Lord Si Yuan recruited a human, and I've wanted to take a look, but I can't leave the infirmary at will, it's boring." The yellow bird stood up and circled around Lu Ren.
Lu Ren wanted to call the other person "little sister", but then he realized that the person in front of him must be a non-human, destined to be several times older than him, so he said, "Little girl, you..."
The girl immediately interrupted him: "It's so strange to call me little girl, just call me Yellow Bird." She said to herself, "You don't know, we haven't had any new people here for hundreds of years, and everyone is old and immortal, there is no point at all."
The yellow bird came close to Lu Ren's neck and sniffed hard a few times: "You don't have any special smell, how come..."
As he was speaking, there was a sudden loud noise from the door of the inner room.
The yellow bird stopped talking abruptly, and she stood up, looking seriously at the door. The giant python coiled on the bed also raised its head, its golden pupils slightly contracted, exuding murderous intent, and it said to itself at the door: "You really don't know how to live or die."
The yellow bird glanced at the giant python, and the python swooped into the door. Then, the yellow bird took off his white coat and smiled at Lu Ren, saying, "Sorry, we have something to do and need to leave for a while. Can you wait for us here for a while?"
Lu Ren nodded: "Okay."
So Huang Niao walked quickly to the door of the inner room, opened it quickly and walked in. Maybe because he left in a hurry, the door was not closed tightly, leaving a small gap. Lu Ren certainly saw the gap, but he had no intention of closing it.
It was obvious that there was something terrible hidden behind the door, so he didn't plan to approach it rashly. After all, as an ordinary person, he knew the principle that if he didn't do anything, he would die. Similarly, he would not randomly search for medicines in the infirmary, after all, he couldn't confirm whether these were medicines prepared for humans. So he sat quietly in his seat, his hands placed neatly on his knees, his right index finger unconsciously tapping his knees, waiting for the doctor to return.
After a while, Lu Ren looked up at the clock. There were still twenty minutes before the lunch break ended, so he planned to wait another ten minutes. If the yellow bird did not come back within ten minutes, he would go to his colleagues to ask if there was a Band-Aid that could be used as a temporary solution.
Just then, he noticed a wisp of mist floating in from the door that was not closed tightly.
!!!
"This is not good." Lu Ren thought.
He hesitated for a while between closing the door and leaving the infirmary. In the end, he decided to close the door. After all, if something really came out, people who entered the infirmary later might also be in danger.
Having made up his mind, he immediately put it into practice.
However, when he just put his hand on the handle of the sliding door, he felt a flash before his eyes , and when he came to his senses, he found himself in a mountain forest shrouded in clouds and mist.
The door that was in front of Lu Ren the previous second disappeared. The surrounding mountains were hazy, but the air smelled fresh.
He was standing on a stone step. He looked around. He should be on his way up the mountain. The stone steps stretched upward from behind him. He could not see where he came from or where he was going. There was only a vast fog. On both sides of the stone steps were lush trees, layer upon layer. The forest was shady and blocked the sunlight, making people feel extremely deep. Lu Ren did not recognize these trees. From time to time, there were a few bird calls in the forest, which sounded strangely more like a baby crying, and they were getting closer and closer to him.
...It’s better to escape quickly.
Lu Ren had only two choices: go up or down. Theoretically, he should go down the mountain to ask for help, but this strange place couldn't be guaranteed to be the human world, not to mention that the top of the mountain was bright, while the bottom of the mountain looked like an endless abyss.
So Lu Ren made up his mind and started climbing up.
The stone steps are long and monotonous, but occasionally there will be residual and solidified blood stains or the remains of some unknown monsters on some steps, giving it a desolate and strange beauty.
The higher you go, the colder you feel. This is normal. After all, the higher the altitude, the thicker the fog and the lower the visibility. This is not fog, but clouds formed at high altitudes.
Lu Ren could only bite the bullet and move forward. He felt like he was playing a lucky draw, where the prize was a happy choice between being eaten by a monster or dying from lack of oxygen at the high altitude.
He walked step by step on the stone steps that seemed to lead to the sky. Only gray and white were left in the world. The calls of animals around him gradually quieted down, but at the same time, the sound of wind blowing through the treetops became clearer, as if the whole forest was whispering. It was the eternal sorrow, passing through the door closed by time, telling the strangers coming from afar about the fragments that had long since sunk in the boundless sea.
Before the lottery was drawn, the god of luck finally favored him: he reached the top of the mountain .
The pavilion on the top of the mountain should be described as a palace, magnificent and majestic. The vermilion walls have become a little dim after being eroded by time, but they are more solemn. Ten mythical beasts are carved on the eaves of the gray-green hall. Although it is incomplete, the majestic momentum of the past can still be seen from the eaves. There are actually eight such huge palaces, built on the mountain, connected by winding stone steps. These stone steps are thinner than the mountain road. A closer look shows that they are not stones at all, but are all carved from white jade. With the railings engraved with exquisite patterns, they are like necklaces embellishing the top of the mountain. With the clouds and mist, it is not like the mortal world.
Lu Ren was marveling at the wonders of nature when suddenly a loud "bang" was heard from the square in front of the main hall, as if something had hit the ground heavily.
