Hospital 444
Chapter 328 - 15: 7 Days to Go

Chapter 328: Chapter 15: 7 Days to Go

Before dawn.

Peipei woke up nearly frozen.

The room wasn’t big, so she had to share a bed with Yueyin.

When she woke up in the middle of the night, it took her a moment to come to her senses, still believing she was in her school dormitory.

She rubbed her hands together subconsciously, gazing at Yueyin beside her, then pulled the blanket up and closed her eyes again.

Once she was awake, Peipei just couldn’t fall back asleep.

About ten minutes later, Peipei suddenly heard a noise coming from beside her.

It seemed to be the sound of Yueyin getting up.

Had she not been able to sleep either? Was she going to use the restroom?

Once Yueyin had left the room, Peipei decided to pick up her phone that was still charging by the bed and started reading the novel she had recently downloaded.

A while had passed, and Yueyin still hadn’t returned.

This made Peipei feel that something was off. She checked the time—it had been thirty minutes. Why hadn’t she come back? Something wasn’t right.

So, Peipei set her phone aside and sat up.

Peipei slowly approached the door, opened it a crack, and looked out. To her surprise, she witnessed the following scene.

Yueyin was kneeling in front of the window!

"Please, I beg you, choose a different price, any other price would do. I beg you..."

Peipei didn’t understand any of it, instead, she was engulfed in extreme shock.

What was happening?

Outside the window, there was nothing.

However, Yueyin was looking in front of her with a fearful expression, continuously pleading.

Peipei was dumbfounded for a moment.

...

After a long while, Yueyin stood up and walked back towards the room. Peipei quickly returned to the cover of her blanket and burrowed into it. Soon after, she heard the sound of Yueyin opening the door.

Peipei recalled Yueyin’s words.

"A different price?"

Then, she suddenly thought of the "forest witch" story.

That bone-chilling tale.

Meanwhile,

Dai Lin was still pretending to read.

Staying in this villa, he had never believed a single word Feng Xiao said. Therefore, he had never entered even a moment of true sleep here.

Liang Luanxu... that woman, although he felt nothing special when he first saw her, Dai Lin always had a vague sense of unease.

And the key point was...

As time went on, Dai Lin started to feel the Devil’s Eye beginning to bestow upon him a will. A strong will—

Never, ever go upstairs!

Never!

Although in reality, Dai Lin couldn’t go up there even if he tried. But every time the Devil’s Eye issued its warning, it signified that something extremely terrifying was going to happen.

Then...

Suddenly, Dai Lin felt a sharp pain in his left eye!

What was this???

He rarely experienced this feeling anymore.

Dai Lin looked up towards the top floor.

Something was happening upstairs.

This intense pain accompanied by the will of the Devil’s Eye was urging Dai Lin to escape from this place as quickly as possible! The faster, the better!

"What exactly is upstairs... What has Feng Xiao hidden here???"

...

Early morning.

Peipei woke up.

She had hardly slept at all the night before.

There were no classes at school this morning, and Peipei’s original plan was to work on her thesis. But now, her mind was filled with the image of Yueyin kneeling in front of the window last night.

"Change the price"...

"Impossible, it can’t be!" Peipei herself felt that this guess was utterly absurd, entirely illogical no matter how she considered it.

But how then could she explain Yueyin’s abnormal behavior last night?

"Hey, Xishi," Yueyin said, her eyes ringed with dark circles as she looked at the freshly washed Peipei, "shall we order takeout?"

"Sure," Peipei, seeing her current state, didn’t think it likely that she would cook breakfast.

Yueyin picked up her phone to order the takeout but accidentally entered a short video app instead.

"Seven days left, only seven days!"

A booming voice came from the short video app!

Startled by this, Yueyin threw her phone away violently!

The phone flew past Peipei’s cheek and smashed hard against the wall behind!

Then the phone continued to emit sound: "This special offer ends in seven days! What are you waiting for?"

Wasn’t this just a typical advertisement?

Peipei didn’t understand why Yueyin had reacted this way.

Then, Yueyin rushed over, grabbed the phone, and exited the app.

Afterward, she sat crouched in the corner, her face deathly pale, and then barely stood up to say to Peipei, "Xi... Xishi... I’m sorry..."

Peipei was completely stunned.

"Zhaojun, are you facing some kind of difficulty?"

Yueyin shook her head desperately.

"No... nothing, it’s okay."

But looking at her ashen face made her words seem utterly unconvincing at that moment.

"Let me order the takeout for you. What would you like to eat?"

Yueyin could only nod weakly.

"Hmm, okay, Xi... Xishi..."

Peipei opened her phone and ordered takeout.

And as she watched Yueyin curled up in the corner, Peipei began to wonder what exactly she had encountered?

What was the reason for her behavior last night?

"Xishi, I..." Yueyin suddenly stood up, supporting herself against the wall as she walked to the door, took the trash bag, and said, "I’ll go out for a while."

Yueyin walked out of the room with the trash bag.

She wanted to do something to distract herself.

After exiting the room, she took the trash bag and walked step by step toward the elevator.

But as she was about to reach the elevator, she stopped.

Yueyin remembered what Peipei had told her when she first came here.

She had said that the elevator had once stopped at this floor, but when she went down later, there was no one inside, and the elevator had not stopped at any floor in between. Peipei thought maybe someone had pressed the elevator button but didn’t enter the building.

However, after hearing this, Yueyin couldn’t help but feel terrified.

Was it "him"...?

At that time, Yueyin thought, "One last time, just one last time, let’s fulfill Lan Ying’s wish."

She knew that although he acted indifferent on the surface, Lan Ying really wanted to become a professional football player. With his talent, perhaps he could have become a professional if he had started training rigorously in his youth.

When he watched the professional football league matches, the zeal hidden in his eyes made Yueyin decide: one last time, one last time she’d use that red balloon to make Lan Ying’s dream come true.

As long as his dream could be achieved, she was willing to pay a certain price.

The last time, the price she paid was the sacrifice of Abo. It had pained her greatly, and she had resolved never to use the red balloon again. But she harbored a sliver of wishful thinking.

Little did she think, the price this time would be so steep...

She walked towards the stairwell and gently pushed the door open...

Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind the door and grabbed Yueyin’s arm!