Chapter 64

Li Yuanzhuang's girlfriend is a pediatrician at the Taoyuan West Branch of Qinzhou Medical College.

It is said that doctors, teachers, and practitioners in various service industries will wear down a lot of patience in their work and accumulate heavy pressure and negative emotions. These pressures can often only be vented after work, and the objects of venting are generally their own relatives, especially spouses.

Therefore, practitioners in these industries often behave in a harsh, picky, and calculating manner in front of their spouses, making them difficult to get along with... These are all manifestations of demanding emotional value from the other party. This is also the origin of 'three types not to marry' on the internet.

But Li Yuanzhuang feels his girlfriend is not like this.

His girlfriend is named Zhang Ziyi. Although she works in a hospital, and the department she works in is pediatrics, facing parents who love their children and are anxious, and difficult-to-coax children who cry and make trouble every day, she can be said to have shouldered the double pressure of being a doctor and a kindergarten teacher... but Zhang Ziyi has never vented the pressure she endured at work on him, but instead is more gentle and easy to talk to than ordinary girls, a person with such a good temper that she is somewhat easily bullied.

At 6:30 PM, Li Yuanzhuang bought a rose bouquet and an engagement ring early, parked his car in the hospital's underground parking lot, and waited for his girlfriend to get off work. He had already decided to go down this path with this girl.

But this wait lasted until midnight.

Today is actually Zhang Ziyi's birthday, but she didn't get a holiday because of it, but instead had to work overtime until 3:00 AM because of a sick colleague. Li Yuanzhuang had persuaded her more than once not to always pick up the work others threw away, as that would only make others develop the thinking inertia of throwing everything to her, and there would be endless overtime in the future.

But seeing the anxious parents and sick children in the pediatric clinic, she always couldn't harden that soft heart of hers.

"After the proposal is successful, let her quit the job here and transfer to a more relaxed private hospital. Public hospitals are too bitter... Her medical skills are so good, I'm not afraid she won't find a job." Li Yuanzhuang sat in the car, looking at the bouquet and ring box in the passenger seat, secretly thinking: "Even if she can't find a job, it doesn't matter."

His own income is not low. In this day and age, men don't have some money, and they don't have the courage to propose at all. At worst, he will support her.

Looking at the time, it was already 3:00 AM. Li Yuanzhuang took the bouquet and ring and got out of the car, walked out of the underground parking lot, and ran into the hospital's main entrance in a hurry. No matter what, he couldn't let her work overtime anymore. Li Yuanzhuang had already made plans to beat the head of her department dog-headed.

But walking into the hospital, it was empty. The wide lobby on the first floor was strangely quiet. Except for the occasional electronic sound, there was nothing else.

Qinzhou Medical College Taoyuan West Branch is the most well-known public Grade A tertiary hospital in the city. The patients are overcrowded every day, and it wouldn't be so deserted even late at night, but today it appears very strange, without even half a human voice.

Li Yuanzhuang held the rose bouquet and looked around. Let alone the patients registering in the lobby, even the staff responsible for registration at the front desk couldn't be seen.

Is the hospital resting early today? But the lights in the building are still on.

Li Yuanzhuang ate dinner at a restaurant outside this afternoon and returned to the car to wait for a long time, falling asleep unknowingly. After waking up and entering the hospital again, he seemed to have come to another world, a world without people.

He stuffed the ring box into his pocket, fished out his phone to dial Zhang Ziyi's number, and stepped forward.

Li Yuanzhuang walked to the front desk. The call was still unanswered. He put down the phone in confusion and leaned against the front desk, intending to dial again, but suddenly, his finger sliding on the screen froze.

Behind the counter, scattered medical records and paper documents were scattered all over the floor. Two women wearing black uniforms were slumped on the paper-filled floor in a strange posture as if they were running, motionless.

"What's going on?" Li Yuanzhuang put the bouquet on the counter, supported the tabletop with one hand, flipped over, and reached out to touch the two women on the ground, finding their bodies already cold.

Touching the pulse of the carotid artery again, they had already been dead for several hours.

Li Yuanzhuang's breathing stagnated slightly. Turning his head to look, a third female corpse wearing the same work uniform lay at the exit of the counter not far away. The posture of the three people falling was exactly the same, as if they had died of exhaustion while running, as if they were chasing something before they died.

What exactly happened? "I don't know how Ziyi is doing?"

Li Yuanzhuang stood up anxiously and ran toward the elevator. He still remembered that the pediatric clinic where his girlfriend worked was on the third floor. Leaving in a hurry, he didn't notice that these three corpses slumped on the ground had the same characteristic—bright white light hit the tiles, and they had no shadows. On the way to the elevator, Li Yuanzhuang found more corpses slumped on the ground in strange postures as if they were running. Even more strange was that in the hands or beside these people, some items such as: surgical knives, scissors, mop sticks, etc., were often scattered.

The hospital at 3:00 AM was empty and silent. There was no crying of children or anxious inquiries from parents in the pediatric clinic, only his own footsteps echoing in the long corridor. The environment in the hospital was not dark, but under the bright lights, every narrow shadow appeared more abrupt, as if hiding some kind of terrifying monster.

"Ziyi! Are you there?" Li Yuanzhuang hurriedly ran to the door of the clinic where his girlfriend worked and poked his head inside to shout loudly.

One person's desperate shouting was set off by this empty and silent hospital, appearing incomparably clear, but his call did not get any response, only buzzing echoes echoing on the blood-stained tile walls.

The corpses leaning against the corridor wall were still in that strange posture as if they were running. Li Yuanzhuang's heart beat rapidly, and profound fear eroded his reason like maggots.

But I don't know what supported him. Li Yuanzhuang was not scared away by this terrifying and strange atmosphere. He walked forward carefully while holding the wall, trying to dial the police phone number with his phone.

"I have to find Ziyi... She is in danger. Something must have happened in the hospital. I have to find her..." Li Yuanzhuang muttered to himself, his legs gradually stopping trembling.

Under extreme mental tension, even his own breathing became incomparably clear. Li Yuanzhuang's uneasy gaze scanned every corner of the pediatric clinic nervously, looking for all information related to her. His mood was both anxious and afraid, both wanting to find her early and fearing that what he would find would be a corpse.

Ta—

Suddenly, a crisp sound rang out from the door behind him. Li Yuanzhuang's body froze immediately, and even his breathing couldn't help but stop.

He carefully raised his line of sight slightly. From the reflection on the glass cabinet, Li Yuanzhuang saw a graceful figure holding an umbrella standing quietly outside the door. The cinched-waist silk dress outlined the full and perfect charming curves, and under the edge of the umbrella was a dignified oval face, looking at him quietly.

"What are you doing?" Feng Yushu asked softly.

"I..." Li Yuanzhuang was just about to open his mouth to answer when suddenly, an uncontrollable impulse floated in his brain.

The moment he saw the woman's reflection on the glass cabinet door, Li Yuanzhuang began to believe one thing from the bottom of his heart: he must kill her.

His instinct told him: he must kill her, at all costs, no matter what method.

Li Yuanzhuang gritted his teeth, turned around, and pounced toward Feng Yushu.

Then there was only a crisp sound, the sound of high heels hitting the tile floor. The LED light shone gently, casting Li Yuanzhuang's figure on the ground.

Feng Yushu stretched out a leg, and the toe wrapped in high heels stepped lightly on Li Yuanzhuang's shadow.

Li Yuanzhuang died.

The body that pounced over fell from mid-air, slumped on the ground in a strange posture as if chasing something, without half a breath of life.

"That was close..." Feng Yushu patted her chest lightly, deciding that she must never take the risk to show up and ask the other party again.

She couldn't judge whether the other party was a normal person or someone influenced by the ghost who wanted to kill her. The only thing she could do was kill them all.

(End of chapter)