Chapter 5 The Stink Next Door
If the voice on the phone hadn't been exactly the same as Liu Bin's, I would have almost thought it was a prank.
Liu Bin asked for leave!!
Then - who is this person in the squat toilet?
I swallowed hard and my heart almost stopped at this moment.
I trembled as I spoke into the phone, "Liu, Brother Liu, stop joking, you really didn't come to the hospital?"
"Don't you know whether you're in the hospital or not? Come on, stop making trouble. I'm singing with my friends in KTV. You should also go to bed early."
Liu Bin's voice sounded very natural on the phone.
Seeing that he was about to hang up the phone, I quickly asked, "Brother Liu, can you send me a photo of you singing?"
Liu Bin hesitated for a moment, obviously not understanding what I meant, but still agreed.
Soon, a MMS message came.
The photo should have been taken by Liu Bin’s friend - Liu Bin was seen sitting on a sofa, surrounded by bright lights, with a smile on his face, holding a microphone in his hand and raising it towards the camera.
My heart sank to the bottom.
The hand holding the phone was shaking...
I don’t know how long it took, but a cold wind blew in from the window.
I shuddered and stared at the squat room in front of me. I don't know where I got the courage from, but I rushed over and kicked the small door open.
boom!
The door opened.
However, inside, it was empty...
I was dumbfounded.
no one?
But, I clearly saw "Liu Bin" walk in just now.
what happened?
A huge fear surged up like a tide. I couldn't stand the feeling any longer and ran away.
I ran to the lounge in one breath and locked the door, only to find that I was sweating and panting.
I sat down on the sofa, took out the incense, and lit it tremblingly.
It took a long time before I slowly calmed down.
On TV, a replay of the previous game was being played.
Liu Bin was still in the lounge a few minutes ago.
But now, he went to KTV.
Are you trying to trick me?
But what's the point?
Even if he was playing a prank on me, how could he run from the hospital to the KTV in such a short time?
No, there is another possibility.
I blew out a smoke ring.
If the photo of Liu Bin in KTV was taken in advance, and he sneaked away when I wasn't paying attention when he entered the squatting room just now, and then hid somewhere in Building D and sent me a photo that had been taken long ago, doesn't this make sense?
The big question is, why would he do this?
I took out my cell phone, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't call Liu Bin.
My intense heartbeat slowly returned to normal, followed by an intense feeling of tiredness. I was so sleepy that I lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
I didn't go out on patrol that night...
The next morning, I was awakened by a violent knock on the door.
I got up in a daze, walked over and opened the door, and saw Sister Sun outside with an angry look on her face.
Next to Sister Sun, there was a middle-aged man in his forties with shifty eyes , who tilted his head to look at me.
"What's going on? I've been calling you for such a long time but there's no response. Do you know what time it is now?" Sister Sun said somewhat dissatisfiedly.
I apologized quickly.
Sister Sun saw that I looked unhappy, so she reached out and placed her hand on my forehead: "It's a little hot, did you catch a cold last night?"
I shook my head and said tiredly, "It's okay, just lie down for a while."
"If you want to go back, go back. I'll take over!" said the middle-aged man with shifty eyes unhappily.
I frowned and looked at Sister Sun.
"Oh, by the way, his name is Liu Fuqiang. He is responsible for guarding Building D during the day, and Liu Bin is his cousin." Sister Sun explained to me.
Liu Bin’s cousin?
I looked at the middle-aged man again.
To be honest, there is a big difference in temperament and appearance.
"Go get an injection and then go back and have a good rest." said Sister Sun.
I nodded, said a few polite words and left.
I was indeed feeling a little unwell, so after delivering lunch to my mother, I did not go to school. Instead, I called Chen Wei and asked him to take a day off for sick leave.
Although the school is a bit chaotic, you still have to follow the basic rules to get your diploma.
I found a small clinic and got a random injection, and I felt much better.
After I got back, I started to sleep again and didn't get up until around four in the afternoon.
Sitting at the head of the bed, looking at the gradually dim sky outside the window, I feel that life is in a daze. A day has passed just like that. I feel melancholy, but also fortunate.
…
I went to Building D to work in the evening and found that Liu Bin had not arrived yet. I called him and he said he had to take another day off and asked me to be alone at night.
I felt inexplicably irritated.
be careful?
Notice his shenanigans?
I originally wanted to ask him about what happened last night, but I didn't expect that he still wouldn't come tonight.
Guilty?
Oh, I don’t believe that he will never come to work in his life.
A little after ten o'clock.
I watched some TV and then went out on patrol.
It is not a pleasant feeling to patrol alone . Whenever I hear all kinds of desperate cries coming from the ward, I feel very depressed.
Sometimes I really want to go in and persuade them, but often I give up the idea before I even go in.
Living in such a place where the sky is blocked out, they have long lost hope. What else can I advise them?
When I reached the fourth floor and passed 404, my body instinctively tensed up and I walked over quickly.
"Doctor, I want to complain!"
A male patient in his thirties walked out of Ward 402, covering his nose with an anxious look on his face.
They were used to calling the night watchman the doctor, and I was too lazy to correct him, so I said, "What's your complaint?"
"There was a terrible stench next door. I couldn't sleep all night!"
“Smell?”
After he said that, I actually smelled a little bit.
"Yeah, it stinks. It's been stinking since last night, and it's getting worse now!"
"Is someone taking a dump in there? Oh my god, it stinks!"
A few more patients came out of the ward and complained to me.
I asked them to be patient, and then I sniffed around in each ward like a dog, trying to find the source of the stench.
An old lady came over, patted my shoulder, and said impatiently, "What are you sniffing about? The stench is coming from Room 401."
401?
I was stunned.
401, no one lives there?
I arrived at the door of 401, and sure enough, a foul odor hit me in the face. It was so strong that if I smelled it carefully, it was almost suffocating.
How can a room that no one lives in smell?
Is it a dead mouse?
Originally, I was thinking of waiting until the cleaning staff came tomorrow, but the patients said they couldn’t stand the smell and strongly requested that I open Ward 401.
I had no choice but to take out my key and open the door of room 401.
As soon as the door opened, a strong smell of decay came from inside, like rotten meat that had been left for several days. I covered my nose and almost vomited.
Suddenly, my eyes were fixed on the hospital bed by the window!
I saw something lying on the bed, covered with a layer of white cloth, which was uneven.
Could it be... that the source of the stench is in here?
Several patients behind me were watching curiously. I became bolder and walked towards the bed, enduring the smell.
Then , he suddenly opened it——
Wow——
My eyes suddenly widened.
There was a person on the bed.
A dead person.
A dead person I could never have imagined.
Liu Bin!
