r18novel Chapter 96: The Thunder King
Chapter 96: The Thunder King
Outpatient department.
Zhang Ze first noticed a dozen or so leather sofas on his left. Perhaps because it was a mental hospital, all the tables and chairs had been specially treated to prevent accidents, with the edges covered in leather.
However, due to years of neglect, these sofas are all dilapidated, and the cotton inside is rotten and blackened.
The glass of the consultation desk was all shattered.
Zhang Ze looked at the shattered glass.
The cracks in the broken glass are distributed in a dotted pattern, indicating that it was smashed by someone rather than falling off naturally.
The crows had checked these places beforehand.
Zhang Ze wasted no time. He walked through the outpatient department, and behind it was a long corridor with departments at both ends that performed examinations such as electroencephalograms and CT scans.
These departments have all been abandoned.
Zhang Ze gave it a gentle push.
The door collapsed, kicking up dust all over the floor.
All the equipment inside had been moved, some even violently smashed, leaving parts scattered everywhere, making one wonder whether the hospital had moved them or if they had been picked up and sold by homeless people.
"Ward No. 1."
"Ward No. 2..."
Zhang Ze only saw three wards in the corridor.
There was another room on the right, which was larger than all the other wards combined. Zhang Ze thought it was hiding something, but upon closer inspection...
Damaged shelves.
The cash register was already broke.
This is clearly a small supermarket.
Nothing of value was found either.
It seems the most dangerous thing in the second ward is the thing that attacked the crow when it flew over the administration building—maybe it's a ghost, or maybe something else entirely.
Release the crows again.
Zhang Ze, with a serious and cautious attitude, did not miss a single clue.
The elevator was already broken, and the fire escape was blocked.
Zhang Ze flew directly to the second floor using the crows.
The scene on the second floor is very different from that on the first floor. Apart from the waiting hall with many leather sofas, there are all kinds of consultation rooms, which are obviously where doctors usually work.
"Ward No. 4."
"Ward No. 5."
"Ward No. 6."
Zhang Ze found three more wards.
The ward is mainly a room for examinations, where various instruments are used to check whether the patient has any organic lesions.
It appears that there are three wards on one floor.
The issue is……
The outpatient department has only four floors.
That is, twelve wards.
Zhang Ze released a crow, which flew to the third and fourth floors. Sure enough, he found that, as he had expected, the wards on these floors only went up to the twelfth ward, and there was no thirteenth ward.
"Could ward number thirteen be in the administration building?"
"That's impossible. It would be more reasonable for a department that performs these kinds of examinations to be located in the outpatient department, not in the inpatient building."
Zhang Ze was somewhat puzzled.
Of the four side quests, the most worthwhile was Ward 13, so he went straight to Ward 13, only to find nothing.
Forget it.
Since that's the case, Zhang Ze changed his target.
"The Carnation assignment indicates that Xiaomen's mother is still lingering in the second ward."
"The place where they burned to death was the hospital building, but not the original place where they burned to death. They were moved. Xiaomen's mother must have gone to the new hospital area with the doctors and patients."
"But...the second ward has been abandoned for many years. Is Xiaomen's mother still here?"
Zhang Ze put on the charred toy straw hat.
After putting it on.
The scene before Zhang Ze's eyes changed.
From ruins to a clean and tidy hospital, it felt like stepping back more than ten years to when the second ward was still in operation and not yet abandoned.
"This is?"
A voice echoed in Zhang Ze's mind, a voice filled with sorrow: "This is the second ward in my eyes."
"But... it's not the second ward I remember anymore."
The hospital was eerily empty, but Zhang Ze strolled around as if it were his own backyard. When he arrived at the elevator, he tentatively pressed the button, only to find that the elevator was not working.
really.
Wearing a hat allows you to see only the world through a small door, similar to a cognitive filter that accesses memories.
It cannot truly change reality.
After all, this isn't a ghost realm.
Zhang Ze sighed softly, "That hospital wasn't home for you. It was just a place for treatment, and you happened to be born there, that's all."
"If you are lucky and the subsequent examinations show no congenital disease, you can go through the procedures of the Hanjiang City Orphanage and study and enter society like ordinary children."
Zhang Ze sighed, "Fan Yu is in this process, of course he knows it."
In return, Xiao Men gave a cold and indifferent reply.
"I'm not interested in the path you mentioned. Even if the second ward is terrible, it's still my home. My mother and I live here, and I want to make it better."
"I hate them, I hate those patients in the third ward. They ruined everything. I want to kill Xiong Qing."
Xiaomen said resentfully.
Zhang Ze was helpless.
Xiong Qing still has a long life ahead of him.
After all, he's a member of the Ghost Stories Association, and he might even become a vengeful ghost later on. We can only wait for an opportunity to kill Xiong Qing.
The outpatient department examined me, but found no valuable information.
Zhang Ze now faces two choices.
The administrative building was identified as dangerous.
We might be able to find the hospital building where Xiaomen's mother is staying.
"Do you want to go to the inpatient ward? Your mother has been looking for you. Perhaps I can arrange for you and your mother to meet," Zhang Ze said to Xiao Men.
Xiaomen paused, hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "I don't want to. I don't want to face Mom like this. At least wait until I get my revenge, okay?"
Ok.
Since Xiaomen is unwilling.
Zhang Ze turned and walked towards the administration building.
He wanted to see exactly where this legendary ward number thirteen was located.
From the outside, the administration building is just a solitary office building with a short height. The top of the building has the three large characters "Administration Building" hanging on it. Zhang Ze had never been in contact with it before. These must be the places where the hospital's senior leaders usually work.
As for the second ward.
Zhang Ze estimated that if Dr. Gao came, he would definitely be able to get a position in the administration building.
Using the crows, Zhang Ze successfully entered the ground floor of the administration building, the place where the crows had been attacked.
It was different from what I had imagined.
Zhang Ze was not attacked this time.
Not only were they not attacked, but they didn't even hear the electric shock that the crow had heard before. The surroundings were eerily quiet, and the office in front of them was desolate.
"Xiao Men, have you ever heard of Ward Number Thirteen before?"
"Hmm... I asked my mom before, but she never told me. She said children shouldn't ask so many questions, but I secretly watched the patients who went into Ward 13."
"They were all wearing straitjackets, strapped to wheelchairs, and under anesthesia. When they came back, they all looked dazed and confused, with black marks on their temples, and they couldn't even stand steadily."
Xiao Men said.
There are charred marks on the temples?
Zhang Ze was taken aback.
Could it really be what he's thinking?
Do you remember that doctor's name?
"I don't remember. I only remember that they did something like M-something treatment, which I heard can cause severe amnesia and is used to treat treatment-resistant depression and severe mental illnesses." Komon said he couldn't remember clearly.
"Does the doctor have any nicknames?"
"Yes, I remember his surname was Yang, and it seems the patients called him that in private..."
"Thunder and Lightning King".