I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Date: April 13th

The demolition work of the second inpatient building has finally come to an end. During the process, the construction team encountered many difficulties, but they overcame them one by one, demonstrating the hard-working and dedicated spirit of all the workers.

The next focus of the demolition is the auxiliary building, which was previously used as a warehouse and staff dormitory for the hospital. It is believed that the demolition work will proceed smoothly.

In addition, today is the seventh day after Captain Wang's death. It is a great pity that he did not live to see the day when the demolition was completed. I hope that his spirit in heaven will bless us so that the construction can proceed smoothly.

Speaker: Liu Qingjiang

……

Date: May 1st

Today the construction site is closed for the holiday. Yesterday, when the workers were sorting through the construction waste left over from the demolition of the second inpatient building, they discovered that the interior of several load-bearing columns had been eroded. Strangely, there were no signs of water erosion on the outside of these load-bearing columns. It is unknown how they were eroded. Moreover, the erosion marks are different from normal natural erosion, and seem to form some kind of outline.

The interior cleaning of the annex has been completed, but workers are still reporting that people are going to the main hospital building at night. I plan to assign two more workers to keep watch at night and patrol the main hospital building.

Speaker: Liu Qingjiang

……

Date: May 22nd

The demolition of the auxiliary building encountered some unexpected problems. The excavator operator said he saw someone inside the building again, but when I led the team to check, we found no trace of anyone. However, the operator insisted that he had seen someone and refused to continue construction. I had no choice but to find another operator. At 2 p.m., during the demolition, an accident occurred at the construction site. A worker appeared downstairs in the auxiliary building for some unknown reason and was injured by falling debris, which brought the construction to a standstill.

I reiterated the safety regulations and supervised the entire process on-site. By evening, the ground-level part of the auxiliary building was finally completely demolished. The parking lot is located below the auxiliary building, which complicates the situation and may delay the construction progress.

Speaker: Liu Qingjiang

……

Date: June 6th

The three-month construction period has ended, but the most troublesome part of the demolition work is still the main hospital building.

Two more workers were injured today. While the workers were inspecting and tidying up on the first floor, the elevator in the main building suddenly dropped, injuring two workers who were checking the situation. This was a mistake that should not have happened. The power supply to the main building had been cut off long ago, and the elevator car had been confirmed to be on the first floor beforehand. Why did it suddenly go to the fifth floor?

Some workers living nearby said that the hospital is not clean, and that the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce and foreign companies did bad things here before. I am not a policeman, so I can't investigate the past. I don't believe in ghosts, but this hospital is indeed a bit strange.

Speaker: Liu Qingjiang

……

Date: June 15th

Construction has been suspended.

Three workers were inspecting the hospital's main building when an accident occurred, resulting in two deaths and one injury. I have no idea why they jumped from the fifth floor. The injured worker is still unconscious and we don't know what happened.

This is a major safety incident, and construction must be stopped. It is unknown when it can resume.

In the end, I still couldn't demolish the main hospital building; perhaps it wasn't something I should have done.

I finished writing this report in the duty room. Strangely, I saw that the light was still on in the room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor of the inpatient building. I was about to go and check on the situation. Sigh, I hope nothing else has happened.

Speaker: Liu Qingjiang

……

Lu Ban looked away from the report in his hand.

He had just finished reviewing several noteworthy reports, and this was the last one in his hand.

Construction was completely halted after June 15th.

Liu Qingjiang, the head of the demolition team, has gone missing, and the previous head, Wang Yuan, died in a car accident. Including these two, the demolition of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital has resulted in more than ten injuries and deaths.

"It seems that what's hidden in this hospital is not easy to deal with."

In Lu Ban's field of vision, the text changed from the somewhat eerie construction report to the text of the system.

At the same time, Lu Ban's room layout changed, and the balcony, cabinets, and door all emitted slight whistling sounds.

Lu Ban arrived at the door, pushed it open, and saw the corridor of the abandoned hospital.

"You are the one."

He took a step forward, and the door to the room at the end of the corridor creaked open slowly.

All the scenes suddenly turned black and white, faded.

The system text appeared on the bulletin board next to it.

【cry】

No one knows how many secrets this hospital holds.

She said that the room at the end of the corridor holds the secret of life and death; those who disappeared did not die, they have simply found another way to accompany you.

He said that the mirrors in the elevator can reflect reality and falsehood; those vicious and cruel people have no shadows.

It said, "I'm hungry."

[Task Difficulty: Selectable]

[Mission Objective: Enter Nanhua Private Renji Hospital and survive until dawn]

["Did you hear that? The first cry of a newborn baby. It's a symbol of hope."]

These words had just come into Lu Ban's view when another line of text appeared at the very bottom.

[Side quest item detected; quest changed]

[Mission Difficulty: Erosion]

[Mission Objective: Enter Nanhua Private Renji Hospital and survive until dawn]

[Task Requirements: Find the fragments of Du Danping's melody]

Chapter 136 Duty Memorandum

"Fragments of Du Danping's melody?"

Lu Ban felt that everything around him vanished with the wind, and the living room returned to its original state.

He checked the task.

The deadline is thirty days. Within this period, Lu Ban must enter Nanhua Private Renji Hospital and stay there overnight to survive until the next day.

Furthermore, due to the triggering of a side quest, Lu Ban also needs to find Du Danping's melody fragments in the hospital to complete it.

"When Du Danping had his accident, this hospital had only been established for a short time and was still in its heyday. Well, given Du Danping's status, it was quite normal for him to go to this hospital for treatment."

Lu Ban returned to his computer, looking at the document Song Yunyan had sent him, and muttered to himself.

Unexpectedly, during my National Day holiday, I not only missed having a meal with my old squad leader, but I also had to work part-time on demolition, dealing with the troubles of an abandoned hospital.

"Here are all the files and records of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital. Let's take a look at them all first."

Lu Ban glanced at the living room, where there were stacks of file folders as high as a small mountain, all containing hospital records.

This includes financial records, inventory records, medical records, and duty roster notes.

These are all records from the era before computers became widespread, belonging to the early period. Lu Ban's computer contains even more records from after computers became more common.

Just looking at these records took Lu Ban two weeks.

In mid-October, the weather had turned cold. Lu Ban's movie had garnered over 100 million views across the internet, bringing him over 10 million in revenue. He spent most of his time studying the files of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, only taking time to go out and buy the house he was currently living in through an agent.

Housing prices in Jiangcheng are not cheap, but a typical one-bedroom apartment in this kind of community would only cost less than three million, so Lu Ban bought it outright with cash.

After all, there were so many friends in the house. Lu Ban was reluctant to leave, and he was also worried that if he moved out, they would not be used to the new guests. So he thoughtfully bought the house.

These days, it's rare to see someone like Lu Ban who would go to great lengths for his friends.

On a day when the hairy crabs were plump and the weather was gradually getting cooler, Lu Ban put down the file in his hand.

"The hospital's operations are mostly fine, and the possibility of accounting irregularities cannot be ruled out, but at least on the surface, there are no problems."

This hospital, jointly funded by overseas Chinese business associations, foreign companies, and local businessmen, was initially a hospital for foreigners, exclusively for their treatment. Later, locals began to go there. Lu Ban observed that the hospital's fees were indeed about 30% higher than those of public hospitals, making it not very cost-effective.

"However, some of these records are quite intriguing."

In Lu Ban's hand was a file folder containing several memos from the nurses on duty.

If he remembered correctly, this file folder was found in a crack in the wall before, and someone must have stuffed it there to prevent it from being found.

Most of the content in the memo was normal, except for a few paragraphs.

For example... Lu Ban flipped to an article from July 2005.

"The department head instructed us to be on high alert during tonight's shift because the patient in room 502 is in serious condition, so we need to pay extra attention to him. I remember there was an elderly foreign man there who looked really bad. He had already been to the emergency room twice and could be there at any time. The fifth floor is full of intensive care units, and his condition is the most serious among them."

"At 12 o'clock, I started my routine rounds, checking the wards with a flashlight. My habit is to take the elevator to the fifth floor and then go down from the fifth floor, which is the most convenient. When I got to the fifth floor, I first went to check room 502. The old man was already asleep and looked okay. I continued to check other areas. When I was about to go downstairs, I found that the light was on in the room at the end of the corridor."

"I found it strange. Patients in the intensive care unit are basically bedridden. Who would turn on the light at this time? At first, I thought there was a problem with the circuit, so I went over to check it out."

"Then I saw that the old man from room 502 was standing in this room at the end of the corridor. He was standing next to the hospital bed, looking at the blanket on the bed, without moving."

"I felt a little uneasy, so I asked him why he wasn't asleep yet. He heard me, turned around, looked at me, and waved his hand."

"I can't describe the feeling. The way he waved his hand was like, like a puppet hanging on a rope, very unnatural. His face was also not good, bluish and black, almost like a dead person."

"I told him to get some rest, then I turned around and left the room. I don't know what I was thinking at the time. I was completely dazed and didn't know how I finished checking the other floors. When I came to my senses, I was already at the nurses' station."

"It wasn't until then that I remembered that 502 was the ward next to the elevator, the ward at the end of the corridor, it should have been 510. Moreover, 510 had been unoccupied for years, and the old man couldn't even walk, so how did he get to 510 and wave to me?"

The person on duty was named He Bisong. According to the records, she worked as a nurse at Nanhua Private Renji Hospital from 2005 to 2009, and later transferred to the Municipal People's Hospital. She passed away last year due to gastrointestinal cancer.

"It's written like a horror story, and such a record is actually kept in the official archives."

Lu Ban commented on this.

The two adjacent records were normal, mainly describing the patrol situation and the patients' conditions that night. Only this one record was more descriptive, and there were dirty marks on the pages, as if something had been smeared on it.

Lu Ban had reviewed the patient's admission and discharge records and knew that the old man in room 502 mentioned by Nurse He Bisong was named Robert, a major shareholder of a foreign company. Four days after this post, Robert completed his surgery and was discharged safely. Of course, according to online records, the old man did not escape his fate of death and died three years after being discharged.

"However, according to the description, the old man was already in critical condition when he was admitted to the hospital. I didn't expect that he could be saved... Considering what the mission said, the room at the end of the corridor holds the secret of life and death. Could it be that this room has the power to heal others?"

Lu Ban speculated.

However, the extraordinary power to bring the dead back to life and heal the body is obviously not common in this world. Even in those exotic lands, such power usually comes with a price.

So, what was the cost to this hospital?

Lu Ban continued flipping through the pages and came across a second, somewhat strange, duty roster memo.