Hospital 444
Chapter 97 - 10 Boy

Chapter 97: Chapter 10 Boy

Lu Yanran stared at the little girl on the staircase steps in front of her, feeling as though her brain were about to explode.

How could she, the protagonist of a horror movie, be experiencing this???

Neither going up nor going down was an option!

Although it was just a little girl before her eyes, recalling the ghost movies she had watched, she knew this was probably not something she could contend with!

Humans are always powerless in front of ghosts!

At this moment, she reached into her pocket and pulled out the rice she had kept there just in case.

Using rice to exorcise ghosts was something she had found online.

Actually, she had also read about using beans to drive away ghosts, but there were no beans at home.

She had no assurance this would work. What if throwing the rice angered the ghost? Wouldn’t she be doomed?

But in her current situation, did she have any other choice?

Lu Yanran’s phone wasn’t with her either. Through the scant light, she could see that she was on the tenth floor. Just four more floors and she’d be home!

Right now, she was still trying to communicate with the ghost in front of her.

After all, she bore no grudge against this little girl; she had no reason to harm her, right?

"Little girl, I’m begging you, let me go up, all right?" Lu Yanran tried to negotiate, "Like this, if you have any demands, you can make them, and I’ll try to fulfill them!"

The little girl upstairs just stood there as before, her eyes obscured by her long bangs, her expression completely obscured.

She showed no response to Lu Yanran’s pleas.

Lu Yanran grabbed the rice from her pocket.

If that was how it had to be, then she couldn’t be blamed.

After that, she dashed up the stairs, threw the handful of rice over the little girl, and ran past her towards the upper floors!

She didn’t know if the rice really worked, but she successfully bypassed the little girl and continued her escape upward, just as before.

And then...

There was still such a little girl on the floor above!

Lu Yanran did the same thing, ran up, sprinkled her with rice, and kept running...

The eleventh floor...

The twelfth floor...

The thirteenth floor...

Finally, as Lu Yanran was about to reach the fourteenth floor, something unexpected happened.

There was no little girl above the steps leading to the fourteenth floor!

Logically, Lu Yanran should have been relieved. But in her mind, according to the conventions of ghost movies, ghosts are even more terrifying when they hide!

With this fear in mind, she cautiously advanced, clutching the rice in her hand, fearing something might suddenly leap out of the darkness.

Fortunately, that didn’t happen.

She successfully entered the fourteenth-floor corridor.

She needed to get home quickly... to eat meat!

Looking out the window, it was already night!

If she didn’t eat meat in time, the consequences could be unimaginable!

Step by step, she arrived at her doorstep, took the key out from her pocket... Thankfully she always carried the key with her, otherwise, she would be locked out and unable to enter now.

Just as she took out the key and inserted it into the lock, she instinctively looked back.

She shouldn’t have looked, but once she did... she saw someone standing at the entrance to the staircase.

Although far away, she recognized him at a glance—it was—

Zhang Bei!

"Zhang Bei!"

He was still alive!

Lu Yanran was ecstatic, and she threw herself towards Zhang Bei!

At that moment, Zhang Bei, still in the pajamas he had disappeared in, didn’t move when he saw Lu Yanran running towards him and instead yelled, "Yanran, don’t come over, go back! Wait for Doctor Liang to rescue you! Before Doctor Liang arrives, don’t..."

Before Zhang Bei could finish, a hand reached out from the stairwell, grabbed his neck, and then pulled Zhang Bei inside!

This scene made Lu Yanran’s eyes burn with rage; she rushed into the stairwell only to see a slipper lying on the stairs leading up.

It was Zhang Bei’s slipper!

From the moment Zhang Bei was pulled in until she reached this spot, it had been no more than three seconds!

Zhang Bei, a tall figure standing at six feet one, just vanished without a trace! He left behind only one slipper!

She looked above and immediately realized that Zhang Bei had been pulled up there!

She and her husband were so close to each other, yet she was unable to save him!

Lu Yanran, driven by the desire to save her husband beyond the fear, rushed to pick up the slipper, clenched her teeth, and continued upwards, only to find another slipper on the steps of the staircase above.

She had to save Zhang Bei!

Calling the police was obviously futile, she figured that even if they searched now, they still wouldn’t be able to find Zhang Bei.

Lu Yanran thought about it, and realized that she definitely couldn’t save Zhang Bei in her current state.

So, she ran back to her door, took out her keys to unlock it, then she ran to the fridge, took out the piece of meat, after that raised the kitchen knife, and cut several pieces of minced meat, eating a slice herself before placing the rest into a food container. After thinking for a bit, she decided to also take the doll with her, suspecting that it might hold some mystery.

Then, she walked out the door, locked it, and put away the keys.

If Zhang Bei was still alive, then finding him and having him eat this meat might save him!

The girl probably didn’t harm her not because of the "Sami" but because she had eaten the meat, right?

Afterward, she came back to the staircase, stepping upwards once more.

"Zhang Bei just said... Dr. Liang? Doctor?"

The person holding a Red Skull Black Cross Card that Zhang Bei mentioned, was it a doctor?

This doctor who can expel spirits, could they be some kind of shaman?

Why must they only come on the night of the full moon?

However, she couldn’t care about all that now. No matter what, she had to save Zhang Bei.

Calming down to think, Lu Yanran began to realize that this might be deliberate by those "things."

If she ate the meat, they couldn’t enter the house. Instead, they could make her come outside. However, because she ate the meat, they couldn’t harm her for the time being, so they simply let her see Zhang Bei as bait to lure her out!

Of course, from the current situation, even though she had come out, they couldn’t easily kill her.

They were likely waiting for the effects of the meat to wear off.

But even knowing it was a trap, she had to come out. If Zhang Bei was alive, she couldn’t just ignore him.

Reaching the fifteenth floor, looking further up, she saw Zhang Bei’s pajamas on the stairs above!

Clearly, it was meant to deliberately lure her upstairs step by step!

Clutching the container with raw meat and the doll, she indeed felt terrified but kept thinking of Zhang Bei, which gave her the courage to continue climbing one step at a time.

When she reached the sixteenth floor and looked up the staircase again, there was nothing left behind.

Was it on the sixteenth floor or was it further up?

"Don’t go up."

Just then, Lu Yanran heard a voice from behind, and she immediately turned around to look.

It was a boy holding a soccer ball.

The boy looked to be about six or seven years old.

He had a very stiff expression, but when he spoke, his words were full of emotion.

Looking at the boy, Lu Yanran quickly went downstairs and asked, "You, what did you say? That I shouldn’t go up?"

The boy holding the soccer ball nodded and said, "Right. Don’t go up."

"Why, why not?"

The boy pointed upwards and said, "If you go up, you will die."

When this little boy said the word "die," he was astonishingly calm!

"You, you know something, don’t you?"

Lu Yanran crouched down, looking anxiously at the boy and asked, "Do you know the secrets of this building? You know everything, right? Please tell me, I can buy you lots of tasty treats, please tell me!"

But the boy kept a blank face while looking at Lu Yanran.

"You can’t escape."

On hearing this sentence, Lu Yanran felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

"What exactly do you know?"

The boy pointed to the raw meat in the container she was holding: "It won’t protect you for long."

"Do you know what this is?" Lu Yanran became even more anxious: "Can you, can you just tell me?"

However, the boy didn’t say anything. He grabbed his soccer ball and then all of a sudden ran towards the staircase leading upwards!

Lu Yanran hurriedly chased after him.

But when she reached the corner of the staircase and looked up... the boy was nowhere in sight!

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