The city hospital has been without power for over two hours and the hospital’s emergency power supply is only sufficient to power the operating theatres and intensive care unit. Emergency workers from the electricity board were anxiously searching for the line in question, which was finally identified as the result of a short circuit caused by a line buried under a tarmac road behind the hospital, and repairs had to be made by digging up the tarmac road above.
The weather was not working, and at this time it was raining heavily, making the excavation more difficult. If the line to be repaired was connected to the hospital, no one wanted to work through the night in the freezing winter rain. But now, reluctant as they were, the workers had to work overtime, cursing and grumbling.
The hospital office was dark and the timid nurses had gathered to chat for courage.
“Our hospital hasn’t had a blackout in years, why did it suddenly go out today?”
“I heard it was a short circuit, but I have a feeling it’s haunted. Do you guys think that our hospital is not peaceful lately?”
“No, it’s not. Two days ago, someone went to the toilet and met a woman with a white face, but it was the men’s toilet.”
“It’s not a psycho, is it?”
“The man thought so too, but when he looked, the woman didn’t have any feet, so he passed out and is still lying in the cardiology ward.”
“My God, how did our hospital become so scary. By the way, let’s not talk about the patient in bed 42, do you think it’s strange? He came in from a car accident. When have you ever seen a person in a car accident with his body all rotten? And his body is black and yellow, it’s horrible.”
“Yeah, today Dr. Zhao mysteriously called several attending doctors and the nurses in charge together to give a few instructions, and then this patient number 42 was quarantined and we were not allowed to approach.”
“Wow, it’s not like there’s an infectious disease.”
“What are you afraid of, don’t you have your Dr. Zhao to protect you?”
“Nasty, I obviously have a crush on Zhang Chao who is with Dr. Zhao. He is a retired special forces soldier, well-built, handsome and most importantly, rich.”
“Look at our Xiaoqu’s nymphomania, that Zhang Chao has a girlfriend.”
“So what if you have a girlfriend? I still have a chance if I’m not married, I’ll loosen the soil for them.”
Soon the head nurse came back from her rounds and shone a torch in everyone’s face, and when they saw the head nurse, they didn’t dare to chat anymore.
“What are they all doing gathered here? Don’t need to work anymore? You don’t have to check the rooms because the power is out? Patients won’t have emergencies?!”
They all spat out their tongues and hurriedly grabbed their things and prepared to check the rooms. Although the black light was scary, they had been working in the hospital for so long that they were not so brave as to be too scared to walk.
“Xiao Chen, is everyone here?” The head nurse stopped a young nurse and asked with a frown.
“They’re all here, there’s no shortage of people, there are eight people on duty in our department today.” The little nurse pointed her finger, “Including me, there are eight of us, just right, no one is missing.”
The head nurse’s face turned blue: “How can there be eight? Aren’t there seven nurses on duty?”
“Even the head nurse a eight, head nurse, how did you forget yourself, haha.”
After saying this, Nurse Xiao Chen’s face was no better than the head nurse’s, and even more terrible than the head nurse’s.
“You, you you you ……”
The head nurse made a gesture of forbidding her voice, covered her mouth and dragged her to the side, waiting until all the other nurses had left before she let go of Nurse Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen was on the verge of tears, tears welling up in her eyes as she said in a panic, “If even the head nurse is eight, then who are you? Are you a ghost.”
The head nurse rolled her eyes, “You little girl, there was an extra one among those few people just now, you didn’t notice. One of them impersonated me ……”
Usually in the hospital, people didn’t stop talking about spooky ghost stories, it was almost a mandatory item of conversation on the hospital night shift. At this time, all kinds of horror stories began to pour out of Xiao Chen’s mind, she wanted to run away, but her legs were weak …… Right, legs, I heard that ghosts do not have feet, the head nurse has feet.
Her face changed and changed, a moment to cry and a moment to laugh, without asking you can guess what she was making up in her head.
The head nurse cried and laughed: “Silly girl, if I’m the fake one, how come that one didn’t come to expose me when I was just minding you.”
“Yeah …… so you’re the real head nurse.” Xiao Chen wowed and jumped on the head nurse’s body, her tear-stained little face rubbing against the head nurse’s mountainous chest, “Head nurse, that was horrible, was there a ghost among us just now? What do we do now, will the others be in danger?”
“I don’t know if there was a ghost, but someone must have been up to something.”
Zhao Zichen sat with his hand on his chin in the dark office, not saying a word, except that the phone in front of him was playing a movie on a stand, emitting an eerie screen light.
Xiao Chen glanced inside and turned his head to the head nurse who was following him and said, “Doctor Zhao is here.”
She knocked twice on the door, but Zhao Zichen did not turn around, so Xiao Chen guessed he was asleep, so she tiptoed up to him.
She walked behind Zhao Zichen and glanced curiously at the screen on her phone, who knew that the movie playing at this exact moment was Sadako climbing out of the TV.
“Ah!!!”
If the head nurse hadn’t run up in time to cover Xiao Chen’s mouth, her screams could have been heard throughout the hospital.
Zhao Zichen opened his fox-like eyes, skimmed the head nurse and Xiao Chen, smiled and stretched, and asked the head nurse, “Any movement yet?”
The head nurse said to Xiao Chen, “Don’t scream.”
Then she slowly let go of Xiao Chen, who had long been scared to tears, and said to Zhao Zichen aggressively, “Ghost, ghost, there’s a ghost.”
Tonight was just too scary, first there was an inexplicable extra person in the nurse, and then she was scared by a ghostly figure from a horror movie, Xiao Chen was about to go crazy. At this time her most trusted head nurse and Dr. Zhao were both around, the aggrieved emotions could not be held in any longer and she flung herself into Zhao Zichen’s arms and let out a loud cry.
The head nurse said, “Just now I heard you say that your favourite is Dr. Zhao’s brother Zhang Chao, now why did you even eat Dr. Zhao’s tofu. Quickly, tell Dr. Zhao all about what just happened.”
The little nurse climbed up with a red face and told him everything that had happened tonight.
“Doctor Zhao, do you think it could have been a ghost? I’ve heard for a long time that our hospital is haunted.” After telling the story, Xiao Chen asked in a panic.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Zichen looked indifferent, smiled and turned off the ghost movie in his phone.
“Ghosts, maybe, let’s go.”
After he finished, he took off his white coat and turned towards the door.
Xiao Chen hurriedly chased after him, “Where to?”
“We’re going to meet that ghost.”
Xiao Chen had never noticed that even though Zhao Zichen had turned off the ghost movie in his phone, the Bluetooth headset he was wearing was still blinking with an alert light, indicating that the headset was still working.