Having devoted myself to guiding souls, I was surrounded by them after my death.

Chen Shi noted down the suspicious points in his mind, and it seemed that the problem was indeed in ward 404.

I still need to go and take a look.

"Thanks for reminding."

He thanked him and left the room.

"That scared me to death... That old man was terrifying." Su Yining patted her chest.

Can ghosts be scared?

"Nonsense, I'm not some kind of evil spirit that scares people everywhere." Su Yining pouted.

After looking around to make sure there were no unauthorized people around, Chen Shi arrived at the door of ward 404.

"call……"

He took a deep breath, took out the hoisting rope with his left hand, ready at any moment, and gripped the doorknob tightly with his right hand, slowly turning it.

"Squeak~"

The door was pushed open, and a chilly aura instantly rushed into Chen Shi's clothes, causing him to shiver.

The room was dark, with the main lights off and the curtains drawn, except for a lamp lit by the bedside.

In the somewhat empty ward, a U-shaped curtain was drawn around the bed, white curtains hung down, and the bedside lamp illuminated the shadow of the person on the bed, casting shadows on the curtains.

The ward was deathly silent. The physiotherapy machine beeped rhythmically, but the figure on the bed was lifeless.

His movements were extremely slow... in fact, almost imperceptible. Only his left hand swayed slightly, like a shriveled corpse being moved by a strong wind.

Chen Shi exchanged a glance with Su Yining and lowered his voice to say:

"Can you sense where the spirit is?"

"I can't pinpoint the exact location, and the whole floor smells strange," Su Yining whispered in Chen Shi's ear.

Since that's the case...

Chen Shi gripped the hoisting rope tightly, pinched the curtain, and pulled it to the side...

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, the scene behind the curtain made his heart tighten.

There was indeed a person lying on the bed.

It was a person wrapped in bandages, bald, with even their eyes covered, leaving only a mouth full of burnt bubbles sticking out, muttering something like "uh uh ah ah".

You can barely tell from the body lines that this is a woman.

"Oh my god." Su Yining covered her mouth.

"Is he really a patient?"

Chen Shi's gaze shifted slightly. The woman did not appear to be very lively, but the physiotherapy device next to her was recording her heartbeat normally.

She raised her left hand with difficulty, holding a pen, seemingly doing rehabilitation exercises.

This is a patient with severe burns.

Looking at the disheveled patient before him, he recalled what the old man had said earlier.

Clapping, laughter...

Isn't the problem not with the patient in room 404, but with room 404 itself?

The old man heard these sounds at night.

"How about we check again tonight?"

Chen Shi whispered, pinching the curtain to pull it back up.

This woman looked absolutely terrible.

“Yes.” Su Yining agreed.

Just as they were making this plan, suddenly, a pair of hands reached out from the darkness behind them!

The hands reached between Chen Shi and Su Yining and quickly clapped near their ears:

"Clap!"

"!"

Chen Shi's shoulders trembled, but he immediately turned around and swung the rope behind him.

Su Yining moved just as swiftly, spinning, twisting her waist, and swinging her legs.

However, the hands disappeared back into the darkness after clapping, and Chen Shi and Su Yining both missed their targets.

It's as if... those hands are just hands, without any other physical form.

"It is a spirit!"

Chen Shi pulled back the rope, gripped it tightly with both hands, and looked around.

He and Su Yining turned around at the same time, but there was only darkness behind them.

Reaching forward, all I touched was a cold wall.

Behind them, beneath the white curtain, the woman remained motionless, casting a shadow on it. The room was dimly lit, with white light shining through the curtains, casting halos around Chen Shi and Su Yining.

Suddenly, a pair of hands reached out from the darkness beside him, aimed directly at Chen Shi's ears:

"Clap!"

"here we go again……"

Chen Shi was startled and threw the rope, but it missed.

"What on earth is this thing?"

He improvised, saying, "Senior, let's face each other back to back!"

"it is good."

Su Yining immediately turned her back to Chen Shi.

The fragrance of crape myrtle wafted from behind him, and Chen Shi could even feel Su Yining's hair falling onto his shoulders.

As expected of a ghost, its body is incredibly light, almost as if it doesn't exist.

The two slowly spun around, constantly on guard against the hands.

"If we stand back to back, you won't be able to find any flaws, right?" Chen Shi sneered.

However, the next second...

Suddenly, those hands reached out from the darkness above and slapped them hard on the head:

"Clap!"

"It can actually come from above..."

Before Chen Shi could finish speaking, he suddenly felt his vision begin to blur, his eyes spun, and finally he saw his own toes.

"?"

"Junior...student...Chen Shi!?"

Su Yining turned around abruptly and saw that Chen Shi's head had already fallen to the ground, leaving only a body without a brainstem.

Chen Shi also realized that he had been decapitated.

Clap three times and you'll die.

I see……

My vision gradually turned pitch black, and my consciousness began to become hazy.

Su Yining's anxious face loomed larger and larger in my field of vision, just like it had been at the swimming pool back then.

But this time... isn't the senior a little more anxious?

His eyes were practically brimming with tears from worry.

……

……

A familiar feeling washed over me again.

That was the feeling of death.

It's strange, now dying is like going home.

Everything was pitch black, like being deep in a dream.

Immediately afterwards, a ray of white light came into view, and the scene before my eyes became clear again.

A dimly lit hospital room, a solitary bed, and a woman wrapped in bandages.

And there's the ghostly hottie next to me.

Beside her, Su Yining softly hummed in agreement.

In his hand, he was still clutching a white curtain.

Chen Shi immediately realized that the timeline of this regression was right after he said "Come again tonight" and was about to pull the curtain back!

"Now!"

His expression hardened, his aura changed instantly, and without even looking behind him, he suddenly threw the rope over his shoulder!

"Junior? What are you doing?!" Su Yining was startled by this sudden action.

However, the next second, a pair of hands suddenly reached out from the darkness!

"Gotcha."

Chen Shi smiled and suddenly tightened the hoisting rope.

The position was extremely precise, and the rope loop immediately tightened, binding those hands tightly.

"Zizi-"

The burning sound came from those hands, wisps of black smoke rose instantly, and the pale fingers began to twitch, the knuckles cracking.

"How did you guess that?"

Su Yining was shocked. The hand had only been out for a second, and she hadn't even had time to react before Chen Shi had already accurately caught her.

It's like being able to predict the future.

"As expected of someone with profound skills..." Su Yining believed the lie even more.

"You think you can just run away now that you've come?"

Chen Shi tightly bound those hands, and the restraining effect of the rope prevented those hands from escaping and clapping; they could only twitch in pain.

Su Yining didn't hesitate, she spun around and swung her leg, her white leg whipping out like a whip...

"Oh!"

However, she kicked at nothing and her leg hit the wall, making her face turn bright red with pain.

"it hurts!"

As expected, it has no physical form.

Now, Chen Shi was even more convinced that these hands were not the evil spirit itself, but a means of attack.

The evil spirit itself is still hiding somewhere in the hospital.

Just as he was thinking this, his hands finally gave way and turned into a pile of charred remains.

However, at that moment, a familiar chill washed over me.

In the blink of an eye, the paint on the surrounding walls began to peel off, and the freshly painted white paint turned into a brownish, charred wall.

The ground began to shake. Chen Shi burst through the door and saw that the walls of the corridor were also rapidly peeling off, cracks appeared in the ground, and streams of unidentified liquid seeped from the ceiling, running down the mottled walls and leaving watermarks on them.

Directly ahead in this corridor, a sign reading "Emergency Exit" is flashing, and the text is changing...

On the sign, the glass was broken, revealing the road sign: "Corridor 2".

"This feeling is the same as it was in the swimming pool back then." Su Yining looked around.