Translator: CinderTL
After a moment, as if realizing something, Du Feng's face instantly turned pale.
Jiang Cheng stood up. The bold speculation in his mind was gradually becoming a reality.
The thing from last night... perhaps it wasn't a Ghost.
But a person.
It was the bedridden woman from Room 906.
Due to the atrophy of her leg muscles, she could only crawl forward, much like a snake. This was also why her upper body strength was so developed.
This could explain why the thing took 23 steps to cover such a short distance between the two Gates.
Because she wasn't walking at all—she was crawling inch by inch.
This was also why her clothes were so dirty.
At the time, the caregiver had half-jokingly picked up the clothes and said they were as dirty as if they had been dragged across the floor.
Indeed.
They had been dragged across the floor.
And not just any floor—from the 9th floor all the way down to the 6th floor, and then dragged back up.
But... what Jiang Cheng was more curious about was, why did she do this? At the same time, Jiang Cheng also thought of the person who had impersonated the Nurse.
Li Kaifeng had died at the hands of that person.
However, Jiang Cheng shook his head, dismissing the thought.
The woman from Room 906 couldn't have been the one who killed Li Kaifeng.
Even if she could disguise herself well, the atrophied muscles in her legs would give her away.
Jiang Cheng believed that even if the woman could stand up, her walking behavior and posture would undoubtedly be extremely difficult, at least noticeably different from that of a normal person.
Moreover... she would have had to carry a Medical tray with an IV drip inside.
This might not be a big deal for an ordinary person, but for her, it wouldn't be so easy.
And the remaining people in the room, Weiwei and Wang Changguo, were inexperienced, but they weren't stupid.
Such an obvious flaw wouldn't have escaped their notice.
So... they couldn't be the same person.
The Nurse who came to kill them could be a person, or it could be a real Ghost.
The Gate opened, and Du Feng, feeling as if a thin layer of ice had formed on his back, immediately slipped inside. Recalling Jiang Cheng's earlier actions, he felt an indescribable sense of aversion.
"It's almost time," Weiwei whispered as a reminder.
The time they had agreed upon with Huai Yi and the others was in two hours.
Beside the hospital bed was a small nightstand with an old red telephone on it. Jiang Cheng pulled a small card from his pocket and dialed the number.
After making the call, the group left the room and returned to the second floor.
As soon as they reached the entrance, they saw Huai Yi and Cao Yang rushing back, covered in dust.
After the two groups met, they shared the clues they had gathered.
Cao Yang was a burly man, carrying a case of mineral water in each hand. It seemed the mysterious Nurse had given them a wake-up call.
Huai Yi said that from now on, they should stop drinking the water from the thermos bottles the hospital had prepared for them.
After hearing the information Jiang Cheng shared, the expressions on Huai Yi and Cao Yang's faces changed.
After a long silence, Cao Yang spoke up, "We visited a few restaurants that have been here for a long time and asked if anything unusual had happened in the hospital recently."
"At first, everyone said no, but the owner of a breakfast shop accidentally mentioned something," Cao Yang looked at Jiang Cheng, his expression turning strange. "It didn't happen recently—it was ten years ago."
"Ten years ago, just as the sky was beginning to lighten, the breakfast shop owner said he had just rolled up the shutter of his shop when he heard someone shouting from the direction of the hospital."
"Then he turned to look and happened to see someone fall from a building."
"The owner was terrified. The person who fell was a man, and it was said that he died instantly."
Cao Yang paused for a few seconds at this point, then looked at Jiang Cheng and said, "Later, the owner pointed out to us the spot where the man fell. It was on the 6th floor, roughly around that area."
Cao Yang pointed towards one side of the corridor.
Jiang Cheng followed the direction of his finger, which was near the abandoned corridor.
The man must have fallen from one of the locked rooms.
"Do you know why?" Jiang Cheng asked.
"Not exactly," Cao Yang replied. "The owner later asked around, but the people at the hospital were tight-lipped. In the end, all he found out was that the man seemed to have killed someone, and then, realizing there was no hope of escape, he jumped to his death."
"He killed someone and then committed suicide?"
"Yes," Cao Yang nodded. "That's what the owner said."
"Later, the police came, but after some investigation, they left without arresting anyone," Huai Yi chimed in. "It must have been suicide."
The room fell into a brief silence.
A man who killed someone at the hospital ten years ago and then jumped to his death from a room on the 6th floor.
A hospital that remained tight-lipped about the incident.
The abandoned room on the 6th floor.
A nurse who went mad but was cared for by the hospital for ten years.
And Director Qi, who brought them here, not to investigate the truth but solely to eliminate the Ghost.
The clues seemed scattered, and for the moment, there was no clear direction.
The immediate priority was to figure out what exactly happened at the hospital ten years ago.
And who was the person killed by that man?
"The person who was killed..." Yu Yu raised her small face and asked softly, "Could it be the Ghost in the hospital?"
A natural assumption.
But one thing didn't add up: Director Qi wasn't the one who killed the person, so why was he afraid? "Could the murder have something to do with Director Qi?" Weiwei asked.
Rubbing his chin, Huai Yi said, "Maybe we should think differently. Perhaps the Ghost isn't the person who was killed, but the man who killed someone and then jumped to his death."
It was a unique perspective, but Jiang Cheng didn't think so.
With the current clues, further discussion seemed pointless. Jiang Cheng checked the time and felt it was about right, so he suggested going out to look for more clues.
Huai Yi had a similar idea; he didn't want to wait until nightfall to act.
The rain outside was heavy, and the sky was ominously dark. Whether it was psychological or not, the entire hospital seemed enveloped in an eerie atmosphere.
Returning to the 4th-floor nurse station, Jiang Cheng saw Zhao Ru through the glass, tidying up a white foam lunchbox on the table. A bouquet of lilies sat at the corner of the table.
Jiang Cheng walked over and knocked on the glass door of the nurse station.
Startled by the noise, Zhao Ru turned around, and her eyes lit up the moment she saw Jiang Cheng.
After the door opened, Jiang Cheng walked in without hesitation. "It smells so good!" he said with a smile.
Hearing this, Zhao Ru's face flushed slightly, and she replied in a peculiar tone, "Thank you for the lunch and the lilies."
The meals were ordered by Jiang Cheng from a restaurant near the hospital, and the flowers were also arranged by him to be purchased. The meal subscription card was given by Director Qi, who said that Jiang Cheng could call and order whatever he wanted to eat.
The restaurant would arrange for someone to deliver it.
In the end, it would all be charged to Director Qi's account.
With someone like Director Qi, Jiang Cheng never stood on ceremony.
(End of the Chapter)
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