The strong smell of disinfectant filled the corridors of the hospital.
The family members of patients who occasionally pass by in a hurry in the aisle, even in this sweltering summer, walking in the especially deserted hospital aisle at night, still couldn't help hugging their arms, and raised a smile on the arm exposed outside the short sleeves. Goosebumps.
"It really doesn't cost money to turn on the air conditioner in the hospital." The patient's family member muttered, and quickly left the hospital in a hurry.
The face is mentally exhausted.
It's getting late now, and when I go back, I have to clean up the housework for a day, and I have to urge the children to do their homework, and tomorrow I have to get up early at six o'clock in the morning to go to work.
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Wang Ting is a young nurse who just graduated from health school.
A young nurse like her who just graduated has a very low status in the hospital. Dirty work, low salary, overtime, night shift, March 8th, May 1st, Mid-Autumn Festival, October 1st and other important holidays, not only no rest, extra overtime, but also to cooperate with hospital tasks, rehearsal programs, euphemistically called Send humanistic care to inpatients to reduce doctor-patient disputes.
In fact, they are squeezing their rest time, and there is no bonus.
I don't know when it started to suppress new recruits, regardless of race or country, which has become a unified tacit behavior of all companies in the world.
Wang Ting is just in her early twenties this year, and she is in a period of youthfulness and sunshine, but in Wang Ting's body, there is a little less youthfulness, and a little more silence and maturity.
I work overtime every day, night shift every day, my biological clock is completely reversed, I haven’t rested for a month, and I have to face patients and family members with various tempers every day. No matter who I switch to, I will inevitably feel numb and exhausted.
Today, Wang Ting is in charge of the night shift again.
Speaking of the night shift, the hospital received a strange patient today. When the patient was brought in, his eyes were wrapped with cloth strips, and he was so hungry that only skin and bones remained.
Tap, tap, tap, in the hospital corridor with a strong smell of disinfectant, the footsteps of little nurse Wang Ting came out. While patrolling the ward, Wang Ting looked down at the splint in her hand about the special patient. material.
Name: Chen Zhixing.
Sex: Male.
Age: 18 years old.
Cause:
Being in a dark environment for a long time, the body joints appear slightly deformed, pathological changes
Long-term malnutrition
The reason why Wang Ting was impressed with this special patient was because of another reason. According to the head nurse in charge, this special patient seemed to be specially received by the police.
Not only a single ward, but also police guards... Just thinking about this, little nurse Wang Ting felt the lights in the corridor dim suddenly. When she raised her head, she saw two men standing in front of her.
Wang Ting was so frightened that she subconsciously hid back, and when she saw the person clearly, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that when she looked down at the patient's information in her hand, she had already walked to the door of Chen Zhixing's ward without knowing it.
The people who stopped her just now were two plainclothes policemen standing guard at the door of the ward.
At the same time, there were a few other people sitting on the chairs in the aisle, both men and women, without exception, with their backs straight and their sitting postures upright and stable, giving people a sense of well-trained and forbidden army discipline.
These temperaments are different from ordinary people, they are obviously accomplices.
These people... should be plainclothes policemen, right
Anyway, these nurses are not high enough in the hospital, so they shouldn't know, and they can't ask more. Wang Ting only knows that during the day, they are a few big leaders of the hospital who usually only live in news interviews. Arranged ward.
Therefore, only the leaders of the courtyard are qualified to know the identities of these people.
Looking at these people, Wang Ting can only guess wildly. These people are all powerful and disciplined. Even if they are not plainclothes policemen, they are also plainclothes soldiers.
"What's the matter?" The two people standing guard at the door looked at Wang Ting vigilantly.
His gaze was as sharp as a knife's edge.
It's not because Wang Ting is a weak girl, she pity her and cherish her jade. This is enough to show that these people are usually strict in discipline.
Hearing the voice of their companions, the other people who were sitting on the benches in the hospital corridor and closed their eyes to recuperate their physical strength also opened their eyes suddenly, looking directly at the little nurse Wang Ting vigilantly.
Facing so many eyes at once, Wang Ting, who was just an ordinary nurse, had never been under such great psychological pressure. She suddenly turned pale and nervously explained: "I, I am patrolling the ward, and I am in charge of changing medicines and medicines with... and... of… "
After all, Wang Ting was still too young. Hearing the voice, she was about to cry.
"Let us have a look at the hospital certificate."
"ah?"
"What, is there a problem?"
"No, no, no, no... no problem, here... this is my ID, me, my name is Wang Ting."
After many strict checks and Wang Ting's identity was finally confirmed, those people sitting on the bench in the aisle turned their gazes back again.
The attitudes of the two men standing guard also changed. This time their tone was much softer. They told Wang Ting to wait outside the door first, and then one of them opened the door and entered the ward.
At the moment of opening the door, voices of several people leaked from the ward.
"No! No! Be careful inside the wall! Be careful inside the wall...I don't want to be here...I don't want to be here..." One of them screamed in despair with weakness and panic, which aroused Wang Ting's little curiosity.
Wang Ting couldn't help being curious, she turned slightly sideways, trying to see who was screaming in the ward, but saw two men sitting in front of the bed, as if they were interrogating the people on the bed.
It's just that from her perspective outside the door, she couldn't see the person lying on the hospital bed clearly.
But Wang Ting guessed that the weak and miserable screams just now should come from the person on the hospital bed, that special patient who was just brought here during the day, Chen Zhixing!
suddenly!
As if sensing the peeping eyes from the door, one of the two people who had been sitting in front of the hospital bed turned his head and looked out the door as if aware of it.
Wang Ting was so frightened that she almost exclaimed.
Because she saw that person's eyes... actually had double pupils! The two black pupils are superimposed, just like the eyeballs of a ghost! Totally different from normal people!
It was at this moment that the person who opened the door earlier blocked Wang Ting's line of sight, and closed the door behind him. Wang Ting's line of sight was completely interrupted.
But even so, Wang Ting's heartbeat still flustered and accelerated.
Across the door, I don't know what the person who entered said something inside. About four or five minutes later, when the door of the ward reopened, several people came out of the ward at the same time.
Two of them were the ones Wang Ting saw just now, sitting in front of the hospital bed, interrogating Chen Zhixing. In particular, when she saw the man with double pupils coming out, Wang Ting felt a little guilty and nervous for no reason, and was too scared to look up at him.
After those people came out, they seemed to say something to herself... But Wang Ting was too nervous, and she didn't know what she answered subconsciously. When those people offered to open the door, she hurried into the ward in a daze.
Those people didn't come in together, instead they took the initiative to close the door gently, saying that they were guarding outside the door, and they could call them at any time if they needed anything.
However, Wang Ting soon understood why the other party was so relieved to let her enter the ward alone...
"Hello, we are the ones in charge of staying in the ward for the night. You just go about your own work and don't need to pay attention to us."
"You can think of us as transparent people or air."
A man's polite voice came from beside the hospital bed.
It turned out that by the wall opposite the hospital bed, there were two people standing with their backs against the wall, a man and a woman.
Both of them were very young, but they both had a very special temperament, and Wang Ting couldn't tell what kind of temperament it was, she only knew that she was afraid to look at the eyes of these two people.
No wonder those people who went out just now let her come in alone. It turns out that there are companions of those people in this ward who are responsible for the night watch.
She stood outside the door just now, her vision was blocked by a wall at the door, and she didn't see the situation near the hospital bed. Therefore, it is natural that this man and woman were not seen outside the door.
Thinking of this, Wang Ting, who was still a little nervous at this moment, glanced secretly at the position of the hospital bed, and saw that the patient who was screaming a few minutes ago was actually lying on the bed and fell asleep at this moment.
Wang Ting was stunned.
She was nervous at first, but a weird thought unexpectedly appeared in her mind... What kind of tranquilizer is this, so effective? How could the patient fall asleep so quickly? Could it be that he was knocked out by the back of the head
At this time, I can still think wildly, which is also a magical brain circuit...
However, when you are on duty, there will always be eyes staring at you, which will always make you feel uncomfortable, so after checking the patient's various instrument records in a hurry, Wang Ting left the ward in a hurry, and at the same time politely declined. A man and a woman send each other off.
click...
When the door of the ward was gently closed, Wang Ting, who held the duty splint in her hand on her bulging chest, let out a sigh of relief.
Then he couldn't help complaining from the bottom of his heart.
No wonder the other nurses on duty refused to come. Let her, a new nurse, come to patrol the ward. With so many pairs of eyes watching her, it would be very stressful for anyone.
Wang Ting, who was standing at the door to sort out her emotions, raised her head and was about to leave the door of the ward, but the next second, she froze.
The corridor outside the ward was deserted and empty, and there was no one there.
There were a dozen or so people who stood guard at the door of the ward, the person sitting on the bench in the corridor, and the person who walked out of the ward with that weird double-eyed man, but none of them were there at this time.
All disappeared.
"Have you already left the hospital? Then you left two people to watch the night in the ward?" Wang Ting didn't feel suspicious, but was puzzled for a moment, then turned and left.
Go check out the next ward.
While walking, Wang Ting tried hard to think back, what did those people who came out of the ward before tell her
Is it related to their sudden disappearance
Tap, tap, tap...
In the empty corridor, it was extraordinarily quiet and desolate, only the sound of Wang Ting's footsteps echoed crisply.
As if a person is enclosed in a claustrophobic environment, the crisp echo seems to be followed by someone.
The atmosphere is a bit quiet.
dark.
For Wang Ting, who is often on night shifts, she has long been used to the cold feeling of being alone at night.
I don't know if it's because the air conditioner is really turned on tonight, it's colder than ever, Wang Ting suddenly shivered, and subconsciously hugged her arms.
I saw goosebumps standing on my arms.
click.
The sound of the doorknob being twisted, creaking... Wang Ting, who was thinking about something, pushed the door and entered the next ward. As soon as she entered this ward, the coldness that had been lingering in the corridor outside the door was immediately swept away. In addition to one patient, there was also a family member of a middle-aged woman who accompanied her overnight.
It was the anger from a living person, which brought Wang Ting a warm and intimate feeling.
When facing people, Wang Ting's psychological pressure is much less, so this time the little nurse Wang Ting slowly checked the patient's various medical equipment data.
This time it took several minutes before Wang Ting finished checking.
Then, after Wang Ting told the family members a few precautions, she was about to leave, but when she walked around a wall and walked to the door, she saw a thin, skinny face that seemed abnormal, and was dying. It was glued to the small pane of glass on the door.
That face! It was Chen Zhixing!
Who would have thought that Chen Zhixing, who was still sleeping soundly before, just left the ward with her front feet, and followed her behind to peek in from the door. Those were a pair of cold, empty, unfocused gazes! Suddenly, Chen Zhixing's unfocused eyes turned slightly, and in the next second, he was looking directly at Wang Ting in the ward.
was found!
I've been spotted!
Wang Ting's face turned pale with fright on the spot.
"ah!!!"
A loud scream broke the silence of the ward.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
The accompanying family member hurriedly got up and came to the door to inquire. Wang Ting was pale and still in shock. She just wanted to raise her finger outside the door, saying that there was a face looking in, but when she looked at the door again, When I went outside, I found that there was no human face outside the small glass window.
Wang Ting was so frightened that she shivered and felt cold.
She suddenly realized that her body was so cold, so cold, she couldn't help shivering, and this ward could no longer bring her any warmth.
The family member was also an enthusiastic person. Seeing that Wang Ting's face was not right, she kept staring at the door with a pale face, and asked Wang Ting what was wrong
Are you seeing something
"I, I..." Wang Ting didn't know if she was delusional, she didn't know how to answer for a while, but her body kept shaking with cold.
The family member of the middle-aged woman looked at Wang Ting's face, and then looked at the empty corridor outside the small glass window at the door. She walked to the door and was about to open the door. Open the door, but there is nothing outside the door.
The family members of the middle-aged women went out to look around, and there was indeed nothing outside the door.
At this time, the family members of the middle-aged woman walked back to the ward, looking at Wang Ting in doubt, wondering why Wang Ting suddenly yelled just now
Wang Ting hesitated. She kept staring at the door. Nothing happened outside the door this time. Wang Ting hesitated... saying that it might be my hallucination, and she read it wrong, and then left the ward in a hurry.
The moment she walked out of the ward, Wang Ting couldn't help shivering again.
I don't know if it was because I was frightened just now and felt cold. In the empty corridor, the air conditioner was turned on even more than before.
In the next few visits to the ward, Wang Ting couldn't help but think about the scene of Chen Zhixing standing at the door, but it was surprisingly quiet afterward. Didn't see a single face stuck there.
"Maybe it's really an illusion caused by too many night shifts and too much mental pressure..." Wang Ting, who gradually calmed down, comforted herself.
Chen Zhixing, who was starved to the skin and bones and lying on the hospital bed like a mummy, looked very scary. Perhaps it was because of Chen Zhixing's scary appearance that it caused her psychological pressure.
After inspecting a few more wards and checking all the patients, Wang Ting started to walk back in the quiet and empty corridor.
It's just that when she passed the ward where Chen Zhixing was staying, Wang Ting's footsteps subconsciously paused, she actually hesitated for a while, and then... tried to knock on the door.
But the ward is very quiet.
Knocked on the door several times with no answer.
"Hello, hello, are you still there? I'm Wang Ting, the little nurse who was in charge of checking the ward before...I, I...I suddenly remembered that something was left in the ward. Excuse me, can you help me...pass it ?”
Wang Ting tried to knock on the door and shouted softly, while standing on tiptoe, through the small glass window on the door, carefully peeking at the situation in the ward...
(end of this chapter)