I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

This is where the memos are written. Lu Ban can see the beds in the duty room, where nurses take a nap and wait for their shift to be changed.

Upon entering the nurses' station, Lu Ban saw that the files had been moved out, and the desktop where the computer used to be was now in a mess.

He sat down, closed his eyes, and acted as if he were a nurse.

The night was deep and dark, and the corridor was completely black, with nothing visible except for the light from the nurses' station, which illuminated the surrounding area.

The nurses sitting here have to pick up flashlights and patrol from the fifth floor to the first floor every day. Two nurses take turns, twice a night.

In the quiet of the night, a person carrying a flashlight slowly moved through the corridor filled with the smell of disinfectant. Suddenly, the door to a room at the end of the corridor opened, letting in light. The nurse wanted to check, so she walked to the door and saw inside…

Lu Ban opened her eyes, not because she couldn't imagine what was in the room at the end of the corridor, but because she thought of something.

"Why should nurses patrol at night? Ward rounds should be done by the doctor once and then it's over. The nurses at the nurses' station should stay here to be ready for patients to call in the middle of the night. If security work is really needed, it should be done by the security guards."

This is a private hospital that treats wealthy people; it's not like they can't afford security guards.

"Or is there some special reason for the nurses to do these things?"

Lu Ban pondered, glancing under the table at the nurses' station.

It was dark there, but there seemed to be something there.

He bent down and saw a notebook between the tables.

It was a red-covered notebook, worn and weathered.

"strangeness?"

Lu Ban picked up the notebook while looking up.

Then he saw a pair of eyes staring right into his eyes.

He was an elderly man, who looked to be over fifty, but was in good spirits and had a kind smile on his face.

These are posters on the wall. Most of these posters are advertisements for attending physicians, while the one in front of the nurses' station is for the former hospital director, named Zhao Gongping. According to the description, this director studied medicine abroad and was hired as the director after returning to China. He was also a highly skilled surgeon.

The poster is right opposite the nurses' station, as if the old man is using the photo to monitor the people there.

But Lu Ban knew that Zhao Gongping had already died at home before the hospital went bankrupt. The cause of death was a normal heart disease. When his wife woke him up the next morning, she found that he was already dead.

What's written in this notebook?

Lu Ban lowered his head and opened the red-covered notebook.

There are some brief records on it, similar to a nurse's shift log.

However, some pages were dirty, as if stained with tea or ink, and had no text. The dates on them were also discontinuous and spanned a wide range, from 2002 all the way to the time before the company went bankrupt.

A normal shift log shouldn't be like this, with shifts occurring sporadically; it should be continuous.

Lu Ban felt puzzled. He felt the surroundings darken as the sun set, making the light shining into the hospital even dimmer.

At this moment, Lu Ban noticed that on the blank page he was currently holding, handwriting suddenly appeared as if someone had scribbled on it.

He stepped back slightly, looking at the messy marks on it that intertwined to form characters that were vaguely recognizable.

It says:

Recorder: Xu Xiao

Chapter 139 Footsteps Behind

"This is my first month here, and my first time keeping watch."

"I heard from the seniors that although the hospital pays well, sometimes some strange things happen. When we eat lunch in the cafeteria, they tell ghost stories, which are quite scary."

"But hospitals always have stories about dead people. I heard them when I was in nursing school. It's nothing serious."

"In the evening, all the other nurses went off duty, leaving Wang Ping and me to keep watch here. Wang Ping went straight to sleep in the middle of the night. When I went to the cafeteria for dinner, I ate with Sister He. When she heard that it was my first time keeping watch, she said something to me in a rather mysterious way."

"She said that the hospital was built against a taboo. This place was originally the ancient execution ground, a place for killing people. Now it was used to build a place for saving people, which was inherently inauspicious. So the hospital had many problems during construction, and people even died. In the end, they had to drive living human stakes to finally complete the project."

"I asked what the 'living human stakes' were, and Sister He chuckled and said that when workers died in accidents at construction sites, the hospitals would give their families a large sum of money so they wouldn't have to keep the bodies, saying that the bodies had been crushed by the machines. But in reality, these bodies were sealed into the foundation, inside those pillars. Only in this way could the things here be suppressed." After saying that, she pointed to the pillar next to me.

"Although Sister He is a senior, she seems to have had an accident a few years ago. After that, she would sometimes talk nonsense. However, she is preparing to transfer to a public hospital this year, so everyone stopped paying attention to her. After she finished talking about this, she told me that I should never go to the room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor when I am on night watch, otherwise something bad will happen."

"I thought to myself, isn't that the storage room? Why would I go there? But I didn't ask any more questions before Sister He picked up her bowl and left."

“When I returned to the nurses’ station, Sister Wang Ping was already asleep. I waited until it was almost time, then picked up a flashlight and went upstairs. They all like to take the elevator, but I prefer to walk to get some exercise.”

"But when I went upstairs, I always felt like someone was following me. But when I turned around several times, I didn't see anything. When I got to the fifth floor, I even heard the sound of footsteps."

"I turned around and shone my flashlight around. There was no one there. But when I shone it around, I noticed a series of footprints on the ground behind me."

"These are less like footprints and more like crawling marks, yes, the kind of marks a child has made on the ground, as if the child had something dirty on them, and the crawling marks were left little by little on the floor."

"There are no children in the hospital, it's impossible. I don't know why, but our hospital doesn't have an obstetrics and gynecology department and doesn't deliver babies, so there definitely won't be any children there."

"I crouched down to see where the footprints came from, and I saw that they had already passed me and were crawling towards the end of the corridor."

"Most of the lights in the intensive care unit on the fifth floor were off. It was pitch black at the end of the corridor. I shone my flashlight there, and there was nothing there except the wall at the end."

"But these footprints, step by step, staggered toward the room at the end of the road."

"I feel a little guilty, but what if I really have a child?"

"After thinking about it, I decided to go and take a look. After walking past a few wards, I came to the room at the end of the corridor. Strangely, there was light coming through the crack in the door, and there should be no one in the room."

"Did the cleaning lady forget to turn off the light?" I thought, so I pushed open the door to turn off the light.

"But I saw it in the room at the end of the corridor, and in that room, there was that thing."

"I was startled and hurriedly closed the door, running away as fast as I could, not daring to look back, afraid that thing would catch up with me. No, I have to tell Sister Wang Ping. I saw that the elevator had just arrived at the fifth floor. I pressed the elevator button and before going in, I mustered up the courage to take a look at the room at the end of the corridor. I only saw the door slowly opening and a shadow lingering at the door."

"The elevator doors finally closed. I was so scared my legs went weak and my mind couldn't think of anything. As soon as the elevator doors opened on the first floor, I went straight to the nurses' station. I don't know why, but the lights in the nurses' station were off. Maybe Sister Wang Ping thought it was too bright. I turned on the lights and shook Sister Wang Ping hard. After shaking her for a while, she finally woke up."

“I told her what I saw in the room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor. She was also very surprised. She got dressed and prepared to go with me to see it. We took the elevator upstairs. When we got to the fifth floor, the door to that room was already closed. I used the greatest courage I had in my life to push open that door. Then, I found that Sister Wang Ping was gone, and the things in the room were gone too. The place was empty, with only clutter.”

"I turned around and saw that the patients in the ward were gone. It was very strange. I didn't know what had happened. I could only go back to the nurses' station to call the police."

"But the phone call didn't go through either. I looked outside, and it was very dark; there weren't even any stars."

"I didn't dare go out, so I just turned on the light at the nurses' station and sat here waiting for the others."

"I'm so scared, is there anyone who can save me, is there anyone...?"

"Can you save me?"

Lu Ban saw that the handwriting had become messy and illegible by the end, and even the sentences were incomplete and unreadable.

He sat there, looking at these words, and suddenly felt as if there were people beside him.

It's as if the nurse, unaware of the unexpected turn of events, is sitting in her chair, meticulously recording the last things she saw.

"Xu Xiao's and Wang Ping's records match in some parts, but not in many others. In Wang Ping's record, Xu Xiao was already acting strangely when she woke her up, but in Xu Xiao's record, she was perfectly normal until she went to the end of the corridor for the second time. It seems that one of these two people's records is wrong, or perhaps what they saw was real, but there was a discrepancy?"

What's in the room at the end of the corridor?

Lu Ban grew increasingly curious. According to Xu Xiao's records, the room at the end of the corridor was originally a storage room, but it seemed to contain something surprising and was guarded. It seemed that all the secrets of this hospital were in that room.

All the information and clues pointed to that one room, as if all Lu Ban would need to do was push open that door and all the problems would be solved, with all the answers waiting for him there.

Rather than saying that Lu Ban was going to explore that house, it would be more accurate to say that the house was chasing after Lu Ban, like the whispers of a devil, tempting him to go there.

"This memo is missing pages, but it seems to be untouched for the time being. Could it be that I need to take it to the corresponding location for the records inside to surface?"

Lu Ban immediately thought of Sister He that Xu Xiao had mentioned. According to this description, Sister He should be He Bisong.

"The only places associated with her, besides the nurses' station, are room 502."

Chapter 140 The Non-existent Department

Room 502 must be on the fifth floor, and the only way to get to the fifth floor, as it stands, is by the stairs.

Lu Ban returned to the lobby from the nurses' station, only to find that the sky around him had completely darkened.

As he reached the doorway, he peered through the glass door.

The night was so dark that even the security guard post not far away could not be seen. There were no stars or moon, and the night enveloped everything.

Lu Ban even suspected that when the mission began, they might have already entered some other dimension.

He did not rush out of the hospital, and the precautionary mission failed.

After confirming the explosives strapped to the pillar, Lu Ban decided to eat something first.

He found a place to sit and took out water and compressed rations.

People need food to work; if you don't eat your fill, you won't have the strength to work.

Lu Ban ate a mouthful of dry rations and drank a mouthful of water, which filled his hungry stomach.

The compressed rations nowadays taste much better than before. They're not so bad as snacks, and they're a bit high in calories, but they're not too bad for satisfying hunger.

While eating, Lu Ban looked at the red-covered notebook, which had many missing pages. Considering the years the records were kept, there was at least one missing page almost every year.

"If each missing page represents a missing person, then this hospital has one missing person every year? And they're all nurses?"

Lu Ban felt there was a big problem.

Although he didn't have any particular feelings about nurse uniforms, there might be some people who really like them.

For the sake of ordinary people who like nurse uniforms, Lu Ban also needs to investigate this incident thoroughly.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lu Ban stood up.

He walked toward the stairwell, passing by several clinics along the way. The equipment in these clinics had naturally been moved out, leaving only empty rooms. The light from the flashlight illuminated the mottled marks on the once snow-white walls, sparking the imagination.

As Lu Ban passed through two consultation rooms and arrived at the door of the third consultation room, the beam of his flashlight swept across the room, and he noticed that this consultation room was a little different.

Light pierced through the dilapidated door, illuminating the consultation room, which contained tables, chairs, and several hospital beds.

This is clearly a clinic for examining the body's limbs.

Why was this table the only one that wasn't moved?

Lu Ban walked into the consultation room. It was spacious, with tables and cabinets standing there. Apart from being a bit old, there were no signs of damage.

He shone his flashlight on the table, and there was no dust on the surface, as if someone had been using it all along.

When he arrived at the hospital bed, Lu Ban felt that the shape of the bed was a bit strange. He gestured to it and realized that although he was only 1.85 meters tall, an average person, this bed probably couldn't even fit a 1.7-meter-tall person, and most of his feet would have to stick out.

Moreover, there is a depression at the bottom of the hospital bed.