Chapter 178: The Eyeless Patient and the Underground Second Floor

It spoke with a hoarse voice, as if two pieces of sandpaper were rubbing together, slowly opening its mouth.

Hello.

A new patient.

I want something from your body. May I have it?

A blast of icy cold surged up Jiang Yuan's spine.

His brain raced in extreme terror, and the fragmented staff rules floated up in his mind like a lifeline.

【3. Please treat every patient kindly; they are merely ill. Please try to meet their reasonable requests as much as possible.】

【4. If a patient asks you for a 'body part' as a 'souvenir', you must smile ███. Remember, you must smile.】

Smile.

Yes, smile!

Jiang Yuan forcibly suppressed the tumultuous fear in his heart, desperately moving his already stiff facial muscles.

An ugly grin, worse than a cry, blossomed little by little on his face.

"You...... hello."

His voice was so dry and hoarse it was almost inaudible.

The eyeless patient seemed pleased with his smile.

Its scarred face crept closer to Jiang Yuan, and within its two black eye sockets something seemed to writhe.

"I...... like your head."

The patient said hoarsely.

"It looks round and solid."

"Can...... you give it to me?"

"I want to make it into a souvenir and place it on my bedside."

Jiang Yuan's smile froze completely.

Go to hell!

What exactly was written in the blacked-out part of the rules?

Smiling...... refuse?

Or smiling...... twist off your head and hand it over?!

This broken rule is nothing but a huge pitfall!

Jiang Yuan's brain made a judgment in 0.01 seconds.

Giving it is impossible.

I could never give it in this lifetime!

Then there's only one option left!

"Of course!"

Jiang Yuan's smile became even more radiant, even showing eight teeth, appearing utterly sincere.

"But my head is a bit dirty; how about... you wait here a moment while I go wash it clean in the restroom and bring it back?"

The eyeless patient seemed to freeze for a moment.

Its two black eye sockets stared at Jiang Yuan for a full three seconds.

Now!

In the moment the other was still processing his cheeky remark, Jiang Yuan moved!

His whole body, like a spring compressed to its limit, shot forward toward the stairs below!

His body brushed past the patient!

Moments later, a hoarse howl came from behind him!

Jiang Yuan didn't look back, running desperately down the stairs, his footsteps pounding on the steps!

However, after only a few steps, he horrifiedly discovered that the monster's pursuit speed far exceeded his imagination!

A foul-smelling gust blasted from behind him!

Jiang Yuan didn't even have time to turn; his instinct drove him to lunge violently to the side!

"Rip!"

Several sharp claw winds scraped his back, tearing his thin patient gown in several places.

Too close!

Jiang Yuan did a lazy donkey roll, sprang up from the ground without looking, and turned to dash into the first-floor corridor.

He remembered passing an office on the way in!

According to prior experience.

Just hide inside, lock the door, and you'll be safe!,

Soon, Jiang Yuan spotted that office.

He sprinted forward, slid in, his body precisely entering the room, and reflexively tried to shut the door.

"Bang!"

A pallid hand jammed itself tightly into the door crack!

Immediately, the wooden door groaned under the strain, forced open by a tremendous force!

The eyeless patient blocked the doorway.

Jiang Yuan's heart sank to the bottom.

This guy...... actually knows how to open a door!

【If you are not during visiting hours, and you hear the sound of a baby crying coming from the corridor...... please immediately find a nearby red storage cabinet or room and hide inside......】

Hiding in the room is the rule aimed at that "baby crying" patient!

For that patient who demands a head, it's utterly useless!

"Damn it!"

Every monster in this hospital probably has a different killing pattern!

They are all independent weird entities, and it's likely that any one of them is of rank B or higher, with countless A-rank ones!

If all of them were released outside, the danger would be almost catastrophic.

No time to think, that patient already roared and lunged at him!

The entire office space is extremely cramped.

Jiang Yuan's pupils contracted, his body jerked backward, and his back heavily hit the desk.

The patient's claws went straight for his face!

At this critical moment, Jiang Yuan exerted force from his waist, his body tilting back at an unimaginable angle, and he lay completely on the desk.

The claws scraped past his nose tip, the resulting wind making his skin sting.

The patient missed with one strike, and with the other hand fiercely chopped down at the desk where Jiang Yuan lay.

Jiang Yuan quickly turned sideways.

"Crack!"

The solid wood desk was actually split into two halves by a single blow!

Jiang Yuan seized the opportunity to roll, falling from the broken desk, and scrambled toward the door.

He knew that fighting the opponent in this cramped space was suicide.

He had to get back to the open corridor!

The patient's reaction was also extremely fast, his body spasming and twisting, and in an instant he blocked the doorway.

Jiang Yuan slammed on the brakes, his eyes swiftly scanning the room.

His gaze fell upon a collapsed filing cabinet.

Got it!

He lunged toward the corner, feigning a breakthrough from the patient's left side.

The patient indeed took the bait, moving his body left and extending his claws to block.

At that very moment, Jiang Yuan pushed off with his feet, but his body suddenly turned right, and he kicked hard into the collapsed filing cabinet.

The heavy metal filing cabinet slid forward from his kick, precisely striking the patient's lower body.

The patient, caught off guard, stumbled as the filing cabinet tripped him.

That was the opening!

Jiang Yuan, like a cheetah, flashed through the gap beside the patient and successfully burst out of the office!

He dared not linger, sprinting toward the stairway!

Behind him came the patient's angry roar and the tremendous smashing of everything.

Jiang Yuan reached the stairway entrance again, this time without hesitation, taking two steps at once and sprinting upward madly.

This time, there were no pursuers behind him.

That eyeless patient seemed to have been thrown by him to some unknown place.

Jiang Yuan rushed up to the second-floor platform in one breath, hands on his knees, gasping heavily.

The relief of having survived hadn't yet welled up in his chest.

He then felt something was off.

It was too quiet.

Moreover...... the air's smell also changed.

No longer the smell of dust and disinfectant, but a strong odor mixing damp mold and bloody stench.

He slowly straightened up, warily scanning his surroundings.

The sight before him made his blood feel as if it instantly froze.

This is definitely not the corridor on the hospital's second floor.

But rather a dark, cramped underground passage, its walls of rough concrete covered with water seep marks and dark green moss.

Above, several rust-streaked pipes crisscrossed, occasionally dripping cold liquid.

Directly ahead of him, a metal sign almost rotting away hung on the wall.

【B2-IncineratorRoom】

Underground Level 2 - Incineration Room.

Jiang Yuan's head buzzed, making it almost impossible to think.

Article five of the Staff Rules echoed clearly in his mind.

【This hospital has no underground level 2. If you see stairs leading to underground level 2 anywhere, please turn around and leave immediately, and do not look back.】

He was clearly running upward!

Why did he end up running to underground level 2?!

Intense fear gripped his heart.

Jiang Yuan's body trembled uncontrollably.

Using the faint light leaking from the pipe gaps, he saw many elongated objects scattered on the ground.

Those were some black, thick bags.

Corpse-wrapping bag.

A rough count showed at least twenty or thirty.

Each bag was bulging, revealing a clear human-shaped outline.

Just as Jiang Yuan felt he was about to suffocate.

The corpse-wrapping bag nearest to him.

Suddenly.

Slightly.

It moved a little.