Hospital 444
Chapter 93 - 6 Specialized Outpatient Clinics

Chapter 93: Chapter 6 Specialized Outpatient Clinics

The note ended with, "Remember, do not call the police or seek help from anyone else. Doing so will only bring misfortune upon them as well. Except for the person who can give you that kind of business card, nobody can save you!"

Upon seeing the words "more bad luck than good," Lu Yanran felt as if the world were spinning around her.

She had seen this kind of introductory note in countless period dramas at least a dozen times.

She never dreamed that one day she would become the protagonist of such a story!

"Stay calm, stay calm... It’s just more bad luck than good; good fortune is just less, not nonexistent... at least it’s not saying that he is already dead when I see this note..."

Faced with this sudden situation, Lu Yanran sat on the bed and began to read the note carefully.

She was certain that this was definitely Zhang Bei’s handwriting. His handwriting was too unique, just like his character, exceptionally neat; at first glance, one might even suspect it was printed. Such handwriting could not be easily imitated by anyone.

"It’s not difficult to not leave the building for more than twelve hours in a day, eating one gram of meat morning and evening..."

After marriage, Lu Yanran had always been a full-time housewife, and indeed there was enough food stored in the refrigerator, so not going out to buy groceries for a while would not be a problem.

Obviously, according to the note, she had to wait until the full moon night of October 20th to be able to escape from Sunset Building.

And if she did not follow the instructions to consume that meat, it meant that perhaps some kind of invisible entity would knock on the door again.

"Red... black cross... business card?"

Did Zhang Bei mean that she could only open the door for the person with this business card?

No one else could open the door!

Thinking carefully about that sentence was incredibly frightening.

Zhang Bei knew that "something" would come knocking at the door! He also knew what that something was.

"Zhang Bei, why... why didn’t you tell me! Tell me so I can share some of the burden with you!"

No sooner had Lu Yanran finished speaking than something occurred to her.

When they were dating, she had shared with Zhang Bei about being frightened by something her grandmother told her as a child.

Possibly to evoke Zhang Bei’s protective instinct, she had embellished the story a little, turning it into a childhood trauma, so in Zhang Bei’s eyes, she was someone particularly faint-hearted.

Lu Yanran immediately realized that this was why Zhang Bei had always kept it from her.

"Full moon night... Why on a full moon? It’s not like it’s a werewolf transformation?"

She pondered for a moment, picked up her phone, and began searching for "red black cross skull business card."

However, after a long search, she found no valuable information; most of it was just advertising for business card designs.

"Couldn’t you at least leave me a phone number or something on the note? The person coming on the full moon night with the business card... who exactly is this person?"

Lu Yanran gritted her teeth and pressed her head hard against the wall.

She stayed like this, forehead against the wall for five minutes, before raising her head again.

"Okay then... let’s take a huge step back... Let’s say that what knocked on the door outside today really was some kind of unclean thing."

As she said this, Lu Yanran felt like she was going insane.

She really wished her grandmother was alive now so that she might call and ask her.

Lu Yanran was not someone who liked talking to herself, but now, if she didn’t voice a few words, she felt she would indeed go crazy.

"Then, what’s with that meat? What’s with this doll? And most importantly, what’s with that person holding the red business card?"

She raised her hand and gestured in the air in front of the wall.

"A month ago, Zhang Bei encountered something very terrifying one night in this building, then he escaped back home."

After gesturing with her nails a few times, she slowly moved her hand downward.

"But he knew I was timid, so he lied to me saying a wild dog was chasing him."

At this moment, Lu Yanran started to exercise her brain, recalling every detail of her interactions with Zhang Bei during the past month.

Actually, there was one thing she hadn’t told the police, mainly because it was hard to say. This past month, Zhang Bei had rarely initiated requests for "conjugal duties"; it was always her who took the initiative. If she didn’t trust Zhang Bei so much, she might even suspect that his reluctance to ’pay dues’ was due to having eaten on the sly elsewhere. This indicated how great his mental stress must have been for him to lack even the energy for such matters.

Just then, a phone call suddenly came through.

She picked up the mobile phone and saw an unfamiliar number.

She answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Is this Miss Lu Yanran?"

"I am."

"Hello, I am from Kangyu Logistics Company. My name is Zhao Heng, and I am your husband Zhang Bei’s boss."

"Oh, hello, General Manager Zhao!"

"Yes, it’s like this. I only found out what had happened when the police came to see me. This disappearance of Zhang Bei has shocked our department as well."

"How did you get my mobile number?"

"Employees all fill out a form for emergency contact numbers. Actually, we were supposed to contact you earlier, but our department was really busy today."

"I...I also don’t know where Zhang Bei has gone..."

"Here’s the situation, the company needs the car tomorrow, and the keys have always been kept by Zhang Bei. We’ve looked at his workstation but didn’t find them, so he might have taken them home."

"So?"

"I know this might not be the best time to mention this, but the company really needs the car tomorrow... um, could you help look for them? If you find them, we’ll send someone to pick them up tomorrow."

"I understand. I’ll look for them. General Manager Zhao, I have a question."

"Go ahead."

"Do you think, has Zhang Bei been acting abnormally this past month?"

"If you’re talking about abnormalities, he has been leaving early every time he worked overtime this month, and, moreover, he took two days off."

"Two days off?"

Lu Yanran remembered very clearly that every workday this past month, Zhang Bei went to work as usual!

"It’s quite unusual for him to take days off twice in one month."

"Twice?"

"Yes. Not two consecutive days. One was a month ago, and the other was roughly a week ago."

"Did he mention the reason for the leave?"

"He said it was for a doctor’s appointment. He mentioned that because specialist clinic appointments were only available on workdays, he had no choice but to take time off."

"Doctor’s... appointment? Specialist clinic? Did he say what was wrong with him? To have a follow-up in such a short period?"

"He didn’t specify, so I didn’t ask further. After all, some illnesses are private matters, and it’s understandable if employees don’t want to discuss them."

Lu Yanran was certain that Zhang Bei was lying!

After ending the call, she found Zhang Bei’s clinic handbook and health insurance card. Opening the handbook, she saw that his last doctor’s visit was a year ago for periodontitis.

Of course, she also found the car keys in passing.

"He definitely lied about the specialist clinic. So, what did he do on those days off?"

Lu Yanran immediately realized...

The meat in the fridge, and the dolls in the cabinet, must have been acquired during those days off!

At the same time, he had also connected with that person holding the red business card.

Who exactly is that person?

Zhang Bei’s character, she knew very well, was definitely not one to be easily deceived. She remembers clearly, once during a date, how he elaborated on various anti-fraud knowledge, leaving her dumbfounded with the myriad of deceptive scams out there. Thus, it was unlikely for him to be swindled by someone.

That meat... could it also have been given to him by that person with the business card?

She looked at the note again.

There was another detail that concerned her.

What does it mean... to believe everything he says once you’ve got the business card? What in the world could be written on that card?

Can’t the message be written more clearly? Lu Yanran asked herself; she didn’t have the intellect of Sherlock Holmes to infer so much information!

Red... skull... black cross...

Why does it sound so unsettling to her?

But at the moment, she could only trust Zhang Bei.

At least one thing was certain... getting the police to catch the unseen presence that knocked on her door was definitely impossible!

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