Hospital 444
Chapter 96 - 9: The Girl

Chapter 96: Chapter 9: The Girl

"Evil spirit"...

"Resentful Spirit"...

"Ghost"...

"Demon Parasitism"...

Lu Yanran sat in front of the computer, brewed herself a cup of coffee, and had already been searching for over two hours.

Especially on topics like "methods to combat ghosts," she had found a pile of results, but almost none of them were of any reference value.

She picked up her coffee cup and took another sip.

It had to be said, after drinking coffee, her spirits could be considered significantly improved.

After putting down the coffee cup, she thought for a moment and mumbled to herself, "Although it seems like there is nothing reference-worthy, it’s still better to prepare some things, at least. Black dog blood and chicken blood, those are definitely out of the question for me to obtain. Urine or menstrual waste, though, I could have. Then there’s..."

Just then, she suddenly remembered...

Isn’t chicken blood not that hard to get?

Just go out of the neighborhood and cross a street, and there’s a farmers’ market, where she remembered they slaughter live chickens on the spot.

"No, no... It’s still too dangerous to go outside, who knows if that thing is waiting out there like a spider in its web!" Lu Yanran vehemently shook her head, that simply wouldn’t do.

"And then there’s the scattering of rice, wearing red clothes, this... looks really unreliable, but there’s no choice, can only go with it."

Luckily, there were two bags of rice at home, wasting a bit, completely enough.

She scattered a large amount of rice at the doorway and in front of the windowsills.

Then, she rummaged through the closet, took out all the red clothes, and if that wasn’t enough, Zhang Bei’s clothes were also taken out.

"Western methods of exorcism... I just happen to be out of garlic, as for the crucifix, should I make one now?"

She took two chopsticks, and with rubber bands, she fashioned them into the shape of a crucifix, and placed it at the door.

She didn’t know if it would work. For now, she could only hope for the best.

Lastly, there was the urine and menstrual blood.

"Menstrual..."

Suddenly, Lu Yanran realized something.

For the past month, she hadn’t had her period, had she?

By her calculations, it should have come a week ago, right?

Lu Yanran realized this and was momentarily stunned.

"No... It can’t be... can it???"

Currently, she and Zhang Bei, because they didn’t have much financial pressure, maintained a go-with-the-flow attitude towards having children.

Lu Yanran was even more careful about this, usually keeping track of the dates accurately.

Only lately, seeing how preoccupied Zhang Bei was all the time had also made her mood a bit chaotic, so much that she hadn’t even noticed this matter.

"It’s just been a week... It might not be that reason."

But at that moment, she suddenly thought, if she really was pregnant, then she really shouldn’t have been drinking coffee!

To be on the safe side, she poured the remaining coffee down the sink.

At first it was alright, but as she thought more about it, she felt something was not quite right.

Lately, her appetite did seem to have increased a bit, hadn’t it?

But there were no symptoms of morning sickness?

But isn’t it around six weeks into pregnancy that morning sickness usually starts?

For a while, she was quite distressed.

She stopped thinking about these things, and then began to consider another piece of information she found online: filming indoor scenes.

According to the internet, it was possible to capture something that shouldn’t exist.

At first, Lu Yanran was somewhat afraid to actually film, but then she thought that if there really was something unclean sneaking into her home and she was oblivious, that would be even more terrifying.

So, after some thought, she decided to give it a try.

There happened to be a DV camera in the house, so she set it up somewhere in the living room and started filming.

She hoped not to capture anything frightening.

Then, she sat on the sofa, ready to rest her eyes for a bit, as she was indeed really tired.

To prevent herself from falling asleep and missing the time to eat raw meat, she set an alarm on her phone, placed it beside her, and then went to sleep without worry.

Lu Yanran’s sleep was restless.

Emotionally, she very much hoped Zhang Bei would survive, but rationally, she felt that Zhang Bei might truly... never come back.

Recalling the past, from meeting Zhang Bei, dating, to the bits and pieces after their marriage, her heart felt like it was being torn apart.

In her dream, she stood in a dark forest, and in the distance, she saw the figure of Zhang Bei.

"Zhang Bei, Zhang Bei!"

Lu Yanran immediately ran toward Zhang Bei’s retreating figure, but no matter what, she couldn’t catch up.

The wind howling through the forest was strong, making her feel very cold.

Why was it so cold?

Just as she was about to reach Zhang Bei from behind, she took a leap, lunging at Zhang Bei!

But with this lunge, she felt her foot twist, and her body collided harshly with the ice-cold ground!

"Hmm?"

In that moment, she suddenly realized she was dreaming.

But why did the sensation feel so real?

She should be in the living room, right? How could the living room be so narrow?

Opening her eyes, still groggy from sleep, she saw nothing but darkness!

How was this possible?

She had turned on all the lights!

Suddenly, she realized that this place wasn’t the living room at all!

She stood up, took in her surroundings, and as her eyes adjusted to the dark, she finally saw that this place...

was inside a building’s stairwell!

Directly in front of her were the stairs!

How could... how did this happen? How did she end up in the stairwell?

What time was it now?

She still had to eat that one gram of meat tonight!

She had locked the door securely, so why, why was she in the stairwell? What exactly was the reason?

But at this moment, Lu Yanran didn’t have time to think anymore, she took long strides and immediately ran towards the upper floors!

Yet, just as she reached the floor above, she suddenly saw a little girl standing on the steps.

Through the dim light seeping from a half-open door behind the stairwell, she could barely make out the little girl’s face.

The little girl looked to be about ten years old, wearing a dress. However, her expression, much like the other occupants of the building, betrayed none of the innocence and joy typical of her age. Her face was as if her facial muscles were completely frozen, devoid of any hint of emotion.

"Little... little sister?"

Under normal circumstances, Lu Yanran of course wouldn’t be afraid of a child.

But now, she wasn’t so sure. Were the people in this building actually human, or something else?

In this situation, facing the little girl before her, she dare not take another step forward!

The little girl just stared at her, still as a statue.

"Little sister, you, you don’t scare sister, okay," Lu Yanran involuntarily stepped back, pleading, "Please say something!"

But the little girl remained silent.

At this moment, all the American TV shows and movies she had watched began to flash through Lu Yanran’s mind. She instinctively wanted to back away, but she was also aware that if she ran away like this, she wouldn’t be able to eat that meat. If she couldn’t eat it, she feared that even escape would be pointless.

No matter whether the enemy was a Demon, an alien, a ghost, or some ancient Evil God, it was certain that running away wouldn’t solve the problem! In horror movies, those terrifying Resentful Spirits would chase the protagonist to the ends of the earth and still be able to kill them!

Lu Yanran gritted her teeth, her body hugging the stair railing, inching upward step by step.

The meat she had eaten this morning should still offer her some protection, right?

It should still be effective... right?

Finally, she reached the top floor and closely observed the little girl. She saw that the girl’s bangs were very long, covering more than half of her eyes, which was unsettling to behold.

Lu Yanran passed by the little girl and continued to run up the stairs!

However, as she ran to the next turn of the stairwell, Lu Yanran froze in her tracks.

Because...

On the steps right in front of her...

The little girl was still standing there!

The appearance, the clothing, were exactly the same!

This scene enraged Lu Yanran!

How could she dare to go up now?

She immediately ran back down the stairs, only to find...

Below, another little girl stood in the same spot as before!

Both above and below... there stood that little girl!