I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 140 - 140 139. Footsteps Behind_1

Chapter 140: 139. Footsteps Behind_1 Chapter 140: 139. Footsteps Behind_1 “This was my first month here and the first time I had to pull a night shift,”

“The seniors said that, although the pay was good at this hospital, sometimes inexplicable things would happen. During lunch in the cafeteria, they’d tell ghost stories that were really frightening.”

“But in a hospital, there are always stories related to the dead. I had heard such things in nursing school, so it didn’t seem like a big deal to me.”

“In the evening, the other nurses went home, leaving me and Sister Wang Ping on the night shift. Sister Wang Ping went to sleep in the latter half of the night, and when I went to the cafeteria for a meal, I ate with Sister He, who, upon hearing that this was my first night shift, began to speak to me in a secretive way.”

“She said that the hospital was built on a site that should have been avoided, that this place was originally the site of Caishikou, an ancient execution ground. Now it was being used to save lives, which was in itself a conflict. That’s why there were a lot of problems during the construction of the hospital; even some people died. Eventually, they had to resort to burying ‘living pillars’ to finally complete the construction.”

“I asked what ‘living pillars’ were, and Sister He laughed, saying that those workers who died in accidents on-site, the hospital management just paid a lot of money to their families, who were told not to ask for the bodies, claiming that the bodies had been crushed by machinery. In reality, these bodies were sealed into the foundation, inside the pillars. Only by doing this, could they suppress the ‘things’ here. After she said that, she pointed at the pillar next to me.”

“Although Sister He was a senior nurse, she had experienced an incident a few years back and afterward would sometimes talk nonsense. However, she was also preparing to transfer to a public hospital this year, so nobody paid much attention to her. After telling me all this, she warned me not to go to the room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor during the night shift, as something bad would happen.”

“I thought to myself that it was just a storeroom. Why would I go there? I didn’t ask more about it, and Sister He just picked up her bowl and left.”

“I went back to the nurse’s station, where Sister Wang Ping had already fallen asleep. When it was about time, I picked up my flashlight and went upstairs. They all liked to use the elevator, but I preferred to walk—it was good exercise.”

“However, as I climbed the stairs, I always felt like someone was following me, but whenever I looked back, I saw nothing. By the time I reached the fifth floor, I even heard the pitter-patter of footsteps.”

“I turned around, shining my flashlight, and saw no one. But when I illuminated the surroundings, I discovered footprints on the floor behind me, a series of them.”

“These seemed less like footprints and more like the marks of something crawling, yes, the tracks you’d expect a child to leave when crawling on the ground, as if the child had something dirty on them, leaving bit by bit, imprinted on the floor.”

“There couldn’t be any children in the hospital; it’s impossible. For some reason, our hospital does not have a maternity ward; we do not deliver babies, so there definitely shouldn’t be any children around.”

“I crouched down, wanting to see where these footprints had come from, and I saw that the footprints had already passed by me, crawling towards the end of the corridor.”

“Most of the ICU rooms on the fifth floor had already turned off their lights, and the end of the corridor was pitch-dark. I shone my flashlight down there, and besides the wall at the end, there was nothing.”

“But the footprints, staggeringly, continued towards that room at the end.”

“I felt a bit apprehensive, but what if there really was a child?”

“After some thought, I decided to check it out. I passed several rooms, and when I reached the room at the end of the corridor, it was strange—there was light seeping through the crack under the door, but there wasn’t supposed to be anyone in there.”

“Could it be that the cleaning lady forgot to turn off the light? This thought crossed my mind, so I pushed open the door, ready to turn off the light.”

“But then, I saw it. At the end of the corridor, in the room, there was that thing.”

“I was startled and hurried to close the door, quickly walking away without daring to look back, afraid that thing might catch up with me. No, I have to tell Sister Wang Ping, I saw the elevator just reached the fifth floor, I pressed to open it, and before entering, I mustered up the courage to glance once more at the room at the end of the corridor, only to see the door slowly open and a shadow lingering at the doorway.”

“The elevator doors finally closed. My legs went weak with fear, my mind unable to think of anything. As soon as the elevator doors opened on the first floor, I immediately went to the nurse’s station. For some reason, the lights were off at the nurse’s station, probably Sister Wang Ping thought they were too bright. I turned on the lights and started shaking Sister Wang Ping vigorously. It took a while before she woke up.”

“I told her about what I saw in the room at the end of the fifth-floor corridor, and she too was astonished. She got dressed and prepared to check it out with me. We took the elevator upstairs to the fifth floor, the door to that room was already closed. I used all the courage I had to push that door open, and then, I realized Sister Wang Ping was gone, and so were all the items in the room. It was completely empty, with only clutter left.”

“I turned around and saw that the patients in the ward were also gone; it was very strange. I didn’t know what had happened but could only return to the nurse’s station, intending to call the police.”

“But the phone was dead too. I looked outside, and the sky was very dark, without even a star.”

“I didn’t dare to go out and could only turn on the lights at the nurse’s station and sit here waiting for others.”

“I’m so scared, is there anyone who can come save me, is there anyone…”

“Can you save me?”

Lu Ban saw that the handwriting had become messy and careless towards the end, and the sentences were incomplete, unreadable.

He sat there, looking at the words, and suddenly felt as if someone was beside him.

It was as if the nurse, who had encountered some unknown accident, was sitting in his chair, slowly recording the last sights she had seen.

“Xu Xiao’s records match with some parts of Wang Ping’s records, but there are many areas that don’t. In Wang Ping’s record, Xu Xiao was already abnormal when waking her up, but Xu Xiao’s records show that she had been normal all along, with problems only starting the second time she went to the end of the corridor. Among these two, it seems someone’s records are incorrect, or possibly, they both saw the truth, but it was twisted?”

“What exactly is in that room at the end of the corridor?”

Lu Ban grew more and more curious. According to Xu Xiao’s records, the room at the end of the corridor was originally a storeroom, but it seemed to contain something surprising, even guarded by someone. All the secrets of the hospital seemed to lie in that room.

All the information and clues pointed to that one room. It seemed as if by just opening that door, Lu Ban would solve all the problems at hand, with all the answers waiting for him there.

It wasn’t so much that Lu Ban wanted to explore that room; rather, it seemed as though the room itself was pursuing Lu Ban, like the Devil’s whisper, tempting him to approach.

“There are missing pages in this memorandum, but it seems to be quiet for now. Could it be that taking it to the corresponding place will reveal more of its records?”

Lu Ban immediately thought of Sister He mentioned by Xu Xiao; according to this description, this Sister He should be He Bishong.”

“The places related to her, besides the nurse’s station… is Room 502.”