Hospital 444
Chapter 136 - 13 Ominous Shadow

Chapter 136: Chapter 13 Ominous Shadow

Gao Yunyi woke up at 3:40 in the morning due to a strong urge to pee.

He immediately sat up in bed.

Standing up, he wanted to go to the bathroom. But at that moment, he suddenly discovered that the area around his eyes was damp.

Deep down, he knew.

The Kingdom of Heaven might not exist at all.

In this era of information overload, a search engine can satisfy most people’s thirst for knowledge.

After all, he was 6 years old, not a toddler of two or three.

Still, he held on to a sliver of hope.

It seemed like only people in his country didn’t believe in God or Heaven. But in Western countries, everyone said God exists, and even the United States president swore an oath on the Bible, as his kindergarten teacher had mentioned during English lessons.

Could it really be that everyone in Western countries, including the president, were fools? They all believed in God, so Daddy must have gone to God’s side.

Yunyi was, after all, a child. At that time, this was the only way he could convince himself.

Heaven existed.

At least it might exist, right?

He had to act this way in front of Mom and Auntie too, so as not to make Mom sad anymore.

After leaving his room, he ran to the nearby washroom. After going to the toilet, he suddenly saw...

Down the dark stairwell, it seemed someone had gone down.

Who?

Mom?

Or Auntie?

It was too dark and the distance too far to see clearly.

Gao Yunyi stealthily followed but, by the time he got to the stairwell, he could no longer see anything below.

Did they walk that fast?

Gao Yunyi thought for a moment and then walked down from the stairwell.

He was a bit worried. Could it be that Mom, hiding it from him and Auntie, was crying secretly downstairs at night?

When he reached the first floor, he started looking around, but he saw no one.

Where did they go?

Or did he... see it wrong?

After going back and forth like this, Gao Yunyi had completely lost the urge to sleep.

So, he sat down on the sofa, picked up the remote control, turned on the TV, and turned the volume down to the lowest.

In the middle of the night, TV channels with programming were rare but not non-existent. Gao Yunyi flipped through the channels and found an old black-and-white dubbed movie.

Gao Yunyi thought he’d just watch a little bit before going back to sleep, so he placed the remote control beside him.

The plot of the movie seemed to have just started not long ago, but it was pretty engaging, especially the lively and localized performance of the dubbing actors, which quickly drew Gao Yunyi in.

When Yunyi saw the maid next to the film’s female lead, he was reminded of Alain, who had left suddenly.

Alain was fine during the day, so why did she leave?

He was somewhat puzzled.

As he pondered, he was completely unaware that a door behind him had cracked open slightly.

And as that door opened, Gao Yunyi was just staring at the TV, oblivious to anything amiss.

As he watched, his interest grew, and the urge to sleep was now mostly dispelled.

The movie was humorous and well-translated—clever, accurate, and elegant. It could make Gao Yunyi laugh every few minutes.

It was too amusing.

As he watched, suddenly, he saw the male lead pointing a gun at the villain, saying, "Oh, I have to say, I swear by God’s name, I will send you to meet Him, I swear."

"Oh, no, sir, please, I don’t want to meet God right now..."

"Don’t be nervous, buddy. You have committed many evils, but the money you bribed the priest with during your confession was indeed substantial. I think God will reserve a seat for you in Heaven, don’t you?"

Following that, he fired the gun and killed the antagonist.

At this point, Gao Yunyi froze.

"Heaven really... must exist, right? But can such bad people go to Heaven too?"

He reflected on the experience he had at kindergarten the day before.

A child insisted on telling him that as early as the last century, during the American-Soviet space race, innumerable satellites had scoured the earth’s orbit thoroughly, yet they found... absolutely no existence of God or Heaven.

"You’re talking nonsense!" Gao Yunyi was irritated when he heard that.

"I’m not spouting nonsense, it’s all written in books!" The child was adamant, "Americans went to the moon in the last century, there’s no God, angels, or heaven in outer space! We need to talk about science; what you’re saying is all superstition!"

"You’re spouting nonsense! Nonsense! It’s impossible!"

Gao Yunyi cried at that moment, and cried particularly hard. After the teacher learned the reason, he could only smoothen things over.

That’s why he came home crying so hard yesterday.

"No, no, that’s not right!" Gao Yunyi shook his head and said, "I’ve seen several Hollywood movies from the nineties, and the Americans in those films were still very devout to God! Yes, Americans must have found heaven in some other place and written about it in some other books! It has to be like that!"

With this thought, he felt a lot more comfortable in his heart.

Gao Yunyi’s head leaned slightly against the sofa, and now the more he watched the male protagonist in the movies, the more agreeable he found him, because he acknowledged that heaven exists!

Putting aside the unpleasantness in his heart, Gao Yunyi watched the rest of the movie and started to laugh again.

Before he knew it, it was already past four in the morning.

Gao Yunyi, engrossed in the black-and-white movie, didn’t notice.

However, at this moment behind him... standing in front of that wide-open door was a tall black shadow, stationed behind the sofa where Gao Yunyi sat, coldly watching him!

Subsequently, the black shadow began to move towards the completely unaware Gao Yunyi!

Just then, a man in a white doctor’s coat emerged from the room behind the black shadow!

The doctor’s left eye suddenly emitted a blood-red light!

Under the blood-red light, the black shadow’s steps came to a sudden halt!

After that, the black shadow turned around abruptly, changing its target, walking toward the man in the white coat!

The doctor could only retreat quickly, while the black shadow rushed into the room!

Soon after, the door was shut tightly!

"Bang!"

Gao Yunyi was startled.

He looked back, and by that time the door was already firmly closed.

"What happened?"

Did someone close the door just now?

Was it Mom?

He looked towards the door behind him and suddenly remembered that the room behind that door had always been set up as a temporary shrine, temporarily housing his father’s urn.

Could it be that Mom was inside?

Gao Yunyi quickly turned off the TV and tiptoed to the door, then got up on his toes to open the door.

Inside this room...

It was now completely empty, not a single piece of furniture, only the altar that previous held his father’s portrait was still there.

There was no one at all.

...

Morning.

Gao Yunyi got up from bed with bags under his eyes.

Today, his aunt Jin Yunran made breakfast for him.

"Aran left so suddenly, with such a big house and only one housemaid, maybe I should look for a part-time cleaner," Jin Yunlan sat next to Gao Yunyi, looked at her son and asked, "Why do you look so out of spirits? Did you not sleep well last night?"

"No, I didn’t..."

"Sister," Jin Yunran passed a pair of chopsticks to Jin Yunlan, and asked, "Was there anything unusual with Aran yesterday?"

"Nothing at all."

Jin Yunran said further, "Think again, anything minor will do."

After thinking for a long time, Jin Yunlan finally said, "Now that you mention it, yesterday afternoon, there seemed to be someone playing a prank, and it was Aran who opened the door for him."

"Prank?"

To enter the villa, an outside visitor had to press the call bell at the gate, then the person inside could see the visitor’s face through the screen and talk to them. Only after confirming there was no problem would they open the door.

"I was reading downstairs yesterday afternoon when someone pressed the call bell from outside. Aran went to answer it, then she came to ask me, saying there was a young man outside claiming to be delivering a package."

"Delivery?" Jin Yunran was taken aback, could it be the Lego set she ordered online?

"Delivery men entering the residential area must register with the security before they can be allowed in. I thought it was probably something you bought online, so I let Aran open the door."

"Then?"

"Then, after a long time, nobody came in. When we checked the door, it wasn’t open, and there was no one outside. We all thought it must be someone with nothing better to do. But..."

"But what?"

"Aran said that although she could only see a bit of the shoulder, the person’s attire looked like a white doctor’s coat..."

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