Chapter 344: Hospital

"Ghost, ghost! Don't come over!" After being woken, the young fellow gave Chen Ke a hard push.

The defenseless Chen Ke fell to the ground on the spot from the push.

Ghost? Chen Ke was a bit stunned.

What ghost? Where would a ghost come from in this world?

The young fellow who had pushed Chen Ke then carefully examined Chen Ke after the shove.

After realizing he wasn't a 'ghost', he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly apologized to Chen Ke: "Sorry, I didn't mean to push you; it was an instinctive reaction... I thought you were the female ghost I just saw, so I pushed you without thinking. Sorry, sorry."

Hearing this, Chen Ke was even more bewildered: "What? Female ghost?"

"Yes! Female ghost!" The young fellow nodded heavily, solemnly saying: "What I saw with my own eyes just now... wasn't actually a female ghost, it was a corpse. You know a corpse, a moving corpse, a female corpse wearing a white long dress, chasing people and biting, and it runs really fast!"

As he spoke, the man seemed to recall something extremely terrifying, looking overly frightened, his lips even turning somewhat pale from fear.

Chen Ke slightly furrowed his brows.

"A corpse can move? And chase people to bite? Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure!" The man's voice involuntarily grew louder: "Can I not tell the living from the dead? That skin tone definitely isn't human; it's definitely a corpse, no mistake."

Although the man in front of him didn't seem to be lying, Chen Ke still doubted his words, feeling that the man might have been under excessive stress or some other reason, causing a hallucination, which led him to see the so‑called Fake Corpse.

The claim of a 'moving corpse chasing people to bite' was just too far-fetched.

Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that once a person dies, they're dead; the dead don't move, let alone run and bite. What else could this be if not a hallucination?

At that moment, a night‑shift nurse from the hospital arrived at the sound, waking the patients who had collapsed and fainted.

Strangely, after being awakened, these people's reactions were exactly the same as the man's Chen Ke had just woken: upon standing, their first reaction was to shout "Ghost!" or "Fake Corpse!"

Seeing them, Chen Ke suddenly began to think that the man before him might not have hallucinated; perhaps he truly saw a moving corpse.

One person claiming to have seen a moving corpse could be a hallucination, but with so many saying the same, could everyone have experienced that hallucination simultaneously?

It could be possible, but the probability is extremely low, almost zero.

So it's not their hallucination; they really saw a corpse chasing people to bite? Chen Ke thought.

The night‑shift nurses were comforting the patients who had just fainted: "How could a corpse move? You must have mis‑seen; go back to your wards and rest."

"No, no, no, there is a corpse chasing people to bite, a female corpse wearing a white long dress; we all saw it... I'm not staying in the hospital, I want to be discharged, I'm going to handle the discharge paperwork now, this hospital is unclean," a patient said.

After he started, the other patients who had witnessed the corpse chasing people also expressed that they wanted to be discharged or transferred; they simply couldn't stay in this hospital... too terrifying!

Seeing this, several nurses gave another round of explanations, persuasion, and comfort.

During their shift, with so many patients collectively processing discharge, the hospital leaders would inevitably vent their anger at the nurses the next day.

These patients firmly believed the hospital had a Fake Corpse that chased people, but Chen Ke thought there was something fishy; as the saying goes, when things go abnormal, a monster must be involved...

As a police officer, he is a staunch materialist warrior, believing in no demons or spirits; Fake Corpse? Impossible! There must be some hidden secret in this matter.

Thinking this, Chen Ke took out his police badge and showed it to the nearby nurse.

"Hello, I'm a police officer. May I take a look at your monitoring? I want to know whether this Fake Corpse matter is true or false," he said.

"Sure! I'll take you there." The nurse nodded without hesitation: "After you finish watching the footage, could you persuade those patients for us? They don't believe my words, but they'll listen a bit to a police officer's."

Chen Ke nodded and said, "No problem."

Monitoring Room.

After glancing at the surveillance video of the hospital's first‑floor corridor, Chen Ke felt the hair on his body stand up, because the footage matched the patients' descriptions exactly.

A corpse with a deathly pale face, wearing a white long dress, was chasing people and biting... the scene was extremely creepy, especially now that it's the middle of the night, making it even more chilling!

The security guard assisting with the surveillance in the Monitoring Room was an old man, very bold; even upon seeing such a terrifying footage, he remained calm, leisurely lifted the tea on the table and took a sip: "This is obviously fake, way too fake."

Chen Ke couldn't help but glance at the old man, his face full of doubt.

"How could a corpse move? I've been a hospital security guard for decades and never seen this. A Fake Corpse... isn't that nonsense?" the old man explained, "This must be a scene staged by those youngsters to attract attention. As for the 'corpse', the one in the white dress is definitely a living person!"

Chen Ke thought that this reasoning made sense; after all, how could a real corpse move?

Following the old man's explanation, the so‑called corpse was probably someone in makeup pretending, its purpose being to post it online to attract attention.

The corpse's slightly bluish‑gray, almost pathological pallor can actually be achieved through makeup; that's how corpses are done in movies and TV dramas.

So this must be an Ulong Incident! Nothing worth paying attention to... Chen Ke thought.

However, the young nurse who had brought Chen Ke here to check the surveillance still had a pale face, looking overly frightened, and pointed at the female corpse in the white long dress on the monitor, saying.

"This person looks familiar; she was just sent to the Tai Ping Jian this morning..."

Chen Ke: "???"

Security guard: "??? What are you saying? Is this really a corpse?"

The young nurse gave a wry smile and nodded: "Yes, the woman is quite pretty, so I remember her."

The next second, the guard rolled his eyes, flopped onto a chair, and was already fainted from shock.

Because of the young nurse's words, Chen Ke realized that this might not be an Ulong Incident after all, but something else hidden...

The Fake Corpse is definitely impossible; Chen Ke, a staunch materialist warrior, doesn't believe in such things at all.

Moreover, the nurse said that the corpse is real, having been sent to the Tai Ping Jian just this morning, so it wasn't a staged fake to attract attention.

Eliminating those two possibilities, Chen Ke suddenly thought of another: someone might be stealing corpses!

After pondering for a while, Chen Ke called Xu Mo and also reported the incident to the police.