The 406th Hospital has recently become the focus of national media attention. This is because a great event happened in the hospital: 17 patients who had been bedridden for a long time got out of bed and walked again within a few days. Among them were patients who had long been diagnosed with total paralysis, vegetative state, and spinal damage. Then people discovered a new problem. These seemingly recovered patients only moved like normal people, but almost all of them showed symptoms of aversion to light, liking dark and damp places, and almost not communicating with others. Hospital experts came forward to explain that this was because they had been bedridden for many years and now needed a course of rehabilitation treatment, supplemented by psychological treatment, before they could return to society. This was originally a worrying thing.
The 406th Hospital has suddenly become the focus of national media attention recently.
Because a great thing happened in the hospital: seventeen patients who had been bedridden for a long time got out of bed and walked one after another within a few days.
Among them are patients who have already been diagnosed with total paralysis, vegetative state, and spinal injuries.
Then people discovered a new problem. These seemingly recovered patients behaved just like normal people, but almost all of them showed symptoms of aversion to light, preferred dark and humid environments, and hardly communicated with others.
Hospital experts came forward to explain that this was because they had been bedridden for years and now needed a course of rehabilitation, supplemented by psychological treatment, before they could return to society.
This was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but one person was not happy.
This person is the night watchman of the morgue – Zhou Yu.
He has never dared to report it, but there has been something strange about the bodies in the morgue recently.
Corpses gradually developed wounds on the back of their necks. To put it bluntly, their spines were bitten through and their spinal fluids were sucked out.
Judging from the tooth marks, they were definitely not human ones. There were only two small eyes, and if it was decorated a little, it would be impossible to tell that the body had been damaged.
But Zhou Yu discovered it, although it was an accident.
People are strange like this. When they don’t know, they can eat poisonous vermicelli, poisonous peppers, etc. with gusto, but once they know the truth, their brains will open the valve of fear and it will be out of control.
Logically speaking, a night watchman in the morgue who also works as a corpse mover should be quite courageous. But the premise is that he clearly knows that these people in the morgue are not alive and will not move.
People's fear actually comes from the unknown.
We are afraid because we don’t know. If we knew, we would just close our eyes and prepare for the impact at that moment.
So when we watch characters in horror movies, we are afraid and terrified at first because we don’t know what we will face or how we will die. But when we actually face death, we become calm.
It seems that we are waiting for a result. Whether it is good or bad is not the most painful thing, but the uncertainty. So we wander between hope and despair, wasting our will and wasting our time.
So fear is the process of waiting.
Even Zhou Yu, who was brave enough, was a little scared now. He couldn't help but start to think about what caused the wounds on these corpses.
But no matter how hard he tried, he could not recall any clues. So he began to pay special attention to every subtle movement at night, persisting for a week, but still found nothing. New corpses were still being sucked out of their spinal cords.
It seemed as if the culprit was an invisible man, or an insect… But Zhou Yu refuted all of them. Even if an invisible man existed, the loud noise of opening the freezer would surely alarm him; how could an insect get into a tightly closed freezer and suck out the spinal cord? How big would it be?
It was Zhou Yu's turn to work the day shift this week. He noticed that the destruction of the bodies seemed to occur at night.
Should he remind Lao Liu, who was taking over the shift? But would that scare him? Zhou Yu hesitated.
Suddenly, Zhou Yu realized a serious problem: although there were fresh bodies constantly entering the morgue, judging from the speed at which they were being destroyed, it seemed that there would soon be no more bodies left. If the appetite of the mysterious creature grew, would it start sucking the spinal cords of living people?
The thought is really scary.
He decided to at least find out what was causing the death of the green plants in the office so that he could warn others.
After spending two bottles of wine and a pack of cigarettes, Zhou Yu successfully saw the surveillance video of the time when he was on duty from Li Baoan in the monitoring room.
What surprised him was that in the second half of the night, there was a section of the video that was black. The time was not long, only about ten to twenty minutes.
Before the screen went black, Zhou Yu clearly saw himself standing within the surveillance range of the camera, awake. But he could not recall anything abnormal during this period.
After watching the video over and over again, Li Baoan finally found the suspicious point. Before and after the screen went black, Zhou Yu's standing position did not change at all. This was the case for several tapes. It was obviously unreasonable – did he stand there in a daze for 20 minutes, every day on time?
Li Baoan suggested to check the camera, but Zhou Yu asked him to suppress the matter first. If there was really a problem, this move would definitely alert the enemy.
Unexpectedly, the next afternoon, Li Baoan brought technicians to the morgue. They checked several cameras and optimized the angles to almost eliminate blind spots. During the inspection, Li Baoan found that a piece of chewing gum had been stuck to the base of the camera responsible for monitoring the entrance. The camera, which could originally rotate 90 degrees, now had a 30-degree blind spot, which was just enough to prevent the entrance from being seen.
Zhou Yu was both happy and surprised. He was happy that he had discovered the problem, but he was surprised that these actions might have alerted the murderer, causing him to become more careful in his crimes from then on.
When he was leaving get off work, Zhou Yu saw that Li Baoan was not in the security room. Was he not on duty today? Just as he was about to go up and say hello, he saw someone standing next to him. The two of them were talking and laughing as they were about to cross the road.
The person next to me looks familiar. He should be a doctor in the hospital, but I can't remember which department he is from.
In that case, Zhou Yu didn't want to go forward to disturb them and just kept on going.
After walking a few steps, he heard a sharp brake in the middle of the road, followed by the screams of the crowd.
Turning around, he saw that half of Li Baoan's body was caught in the rear wheel of a mixer truck.
Died instantly.
Although Zhou Yu dealt with dead people all the time, he was still frightened.
After asking passers-by, I learned that everyone was waiting for the red light, and halfway through the wait, Li Baoan suddenly rushed to the middle of the road, as if he was waiting for the car to arrive.
After finding out what happened, Zhou Yu's intuition told him that things would never be as simple as they seemed.
Only then did he remember the doctor who had been standing next to Li Baoan, but he couldn't find him.
Out of professional habit, he walked forward to take a look at the corpse, but unexpectedly he saw something he shouldn't have seen – a thin centipede about three inches long crawled out of Li Baoan's ear and suddenly disappeared.
Zhou Yu began to recall the scene of Li Baoan talking to the people around him. It seemed that that person was the only one talking, and Li Baoan either nodded or smiled, without much movement.
Oh, right, the ear! Just now, the stranger whispered something into Li Baoan's ear. Although he didn't know what he said, the action seemed a little suspicious now.
Did he spit a long centipede into Li Baoan's mouth?
Zhou Yu felt like he was going crazy.
After Li Baoan's body was sent to the morgue, Zhou Yu went to take a look. His stomach was crushed to pieces, with greasy yellow fat and dark brown internal organs blending together. He suddenly had an idea and looked at Li Baoan's neck, but there was nothing there. He secretly laughed at himself for being too cautious.
The next day when he went to work, he brought some offerings to pay tribute to Li Baoan. He didn't know why, but he felt that if he hadn't asked Li Baoan to investigate the matter, Li Baoan would not have died.
When he uncovered Li Baoan's body, he found that the head of the corpse was tilted to one side. He quickly helped to straighten it. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he tilted the neck of the corpse to take a closer look.
Sure enough, tooth marks appeared.
Zhou Yu was absent-minded and restless all day long.
A few days later, he saw a woman in the hospital walking and doing rehabilitation exercises with a patient.
A casual glance was like a thunderclap.
That patient…it turns out he's not a doctor, but a patient. Wasn't he the person who stood next to Li Baoan on the day he got into trouble?!
Oh, I remember now, he was one of the 17 patients who recovered from severe paralysis announced by the hospital some time ago.
Could it be that… their recovery depends on sucking human bone marrow?
Impossible. First of all, those were not human teeth marks. Moreover, they were both bedridden at the time, so it was impossible for them to commit the crime in the morgue…
Zhou Yu began to wonder whether to call the police. But there was no evidence and no victim.
Even if you want to accuse someone of intentional damage to a corpse, you need to have a suspect. Besides, two small holes don't do much damage to a corpse.
For a moment, Zhou Yu was both scared and at a loss.
Could it be that the hospital was researching some new treatment and secretly took the spinal cords from the corpses? Were these seventeen patients all experimental subjects?
More and more doubts made him fall.
In the past half month, Zhou Yu no longer cared whether the corpse was good or bad, as long as it was not a zombie that sucked human blood.
At least the living are safe, for now.
Having said that, sometimes trouble happens to you even if you don't do anything wrong.
It was Zhou Yu's turn to work the day shift that day, and he went home after handing over his shift.
When I got home, I realized that I had left my keys in the office, so I went back to get them.
Old Liu was not in the office, probably he had gone to the morgue. Zhou Yu was about to take the key and leave, but he heard some rustling sounds in the morgue.
Maybe a new body has been brought in.
But why can’t I hear anyone talking?
Through the plastic curtain of the morgue, you can see people moving around inside.
Zhou Yu suddenly became puzzled. Just as he was about to open a gap to see more clearly, he heard footsteps coming from the corridor.
He was unsure of the situation, so he quickly hid in the large locker in the office.
Looking back later, it was this action that saved his life.
I don't know how long I was in the cupboard. Occasionally I heard the sound of people walking by, and then a strange hissing sound, like a natural gas pipe leak.
Then, the footsteps became farther and farther away. After a while, someone was heard walking into the office.
Zhou Yu pushed open a small gap and took a look, and it was Lao Liu who came in.
Zhou Yu pushed open the cabinet door and walked out, scaring Old Liu so much that he let out a strange scream!
"You…why are you here?"
"I'll come back to get the key…" Zhou Yu didn't know which side Lao Liu was on, "Where were you just now?"
Old Liu stroked his chest with one hand and said angrily: "If I'm not scared to death by the people in there, I'll be scared to death by you. Why are you hiding in the closet with the key?"
"Just now I came in and saw that you were not there, and then…" Zhou Yu hesitated, "I heard some strange noises, and I was scared for a moment, so I hid."
Old Liu found Zhou Yu's words funny: "You are in this line of work, and you are afraid of this? I just went into the morgue and came back. It only took two minutes."
"only you?"
"If there's anyone alive, I'm the only one…"
Zhou Yu didn't think the joke was funny at all. He suddenly remembered that he stood there stupidly for 20 minutes while watching the video.
Could it be… hypnosis?
The next day, after handing over his shift, Zhou Yu did not go home. Instead, he walked around outside and quietly slipped back to the morgue.
Lao Liu was bored and reading a magazine in the duty room. Everything was normal.
Zhou Yu had surveyed the terrain during the day. There was a bed with broken wheels in the room, which had not been repaired, so it had not been used during this period. He quietly glued the wireless camera he had prepared to the bottom of the bed, camouflaging it inconspicuously.
In order to ensure that the signal was not interfered with, he hid in the cleaning room on the left side of the morgue.
There were cleaning supplies and sundries like mops placed here. The smell wasn't very pleasant, but fortunately he had gotten used to it.
To prevent himself from falling asleep, he turned up the volume of his headphones to maximum so that if there was any movement in the morgue, the wireless microphone on the camera would transmit the sound.
In the damp and smelly cleaning room, every minute felt like an hour.
He was so nervous that he had urinated three times before he had even finished half of the bottle of mineral water.
Fortunately, there is a sink in this room, otherwise a living person might really die from holding his urine.
It was finally two o'clock in the middle of the night. Zhou Yu had already fallen asleep and woke up several times.
Still no movement.
Damn, you are really looking for trouble. In fact, you should just turn a blind eye, it is none of your business at all.
He began to feel some regret.
At this time, he heard footsteps in the headphones. He looked at the video and saw that it was Old Liu entering the morgue for a routine inspection.
Suddenly, he saw a white figure appear outside the morgue door.
The shadow moved so quietly that even the highly sensitive microphone couldn't pick up any sound.
The plastic door curtain was gently lifted, revealing a familiar face.
Isn’t this Doctor Liu Zihu who was recently praised by the dean?
Liu Zihu's face was pale and lifeless, except for his white teeth and red lips, which were very eye-catching. He slowly opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue… Zhou Yu almost cried out when he took a closer look.
That was not a tongue at all, but a fat and abnormally large caterpillar, a brown octopus!
The insect's tongue sprayed some green mist into the air like a sprayer. After a while, Lao Liu was seen as if he was under a spell and could not move.
Then, Liu Zihu swallowed the insect tongue and opened his mouth to reveal several black centipedes. The centipedes seemed to have spirits, swaying their bodies and swimming towards the wall. They climbed directly onto the camera in the morgue and tightly wrapped their bodies around the lens.
Now Zhou Yu finally understood why the surveillance video went dark for a while. He also understood why he had stupidly stood in front of the camera for 20 minutes.
After Liu Zihu arranged everything, he walked in boldly. He took out the morgue's entry and exit records and opened the refrigerators for several newly stored bodies.
"Damn it, there are fewer and fewer." He couldn't help but curse.
Then he stuck out his tongue toward the door—this time it wasn't an octagonal stick, but a pair of centipede tentacles, vibrating at a high frequency in the air. Then a group of people walked in from outside the door. They were the 17 recovered spinal disease patients.
Zhou Yu then remembered: these seventeen patients were not treated by the same attending physician, but they all recovered after Dr. Liu Zihu came to the hospital.
There must be something weird here!
When the patients walked into the morgue, they divided into several groups and surrounded the corpse. It seemed that one of them first bit through the back of the neck of the corpse and killed it , and then each of them grew a tentacle from their mouth, inserted it into the wound and sucked the spinal cord.
Zhou Yu was horrified. Fortunately, they only attacked the dead. What if they did the same to the living? !
Since there were no fresh corpses today, these people… or should I say monsters, were done with quickly.
"Comrade Zhou Yu, I'm sorry that you have experienced such a terrible thing because of the hospital's negligence." The director said kindly to the young man, "As spiritual compensation, the hospital has decided to compensate you 20,000 yuan. Of course, if you are willing to continue working in our hospital, we still welcome you."
Zhou Yu was flattered. He didn't expect that such a small worker could receive an audience with the dean. He also had a feeling that "if you survive a great disaster, you will be blessed in the future."
"Yes, of course!" Zhou Yu rubbed his hands excitedly.
The dean stood up and slowly turned his back: "That's good, that's good. And I have something else to talk to you about…"
"Dean, please tell me!" Zhou Yu thought that the dean would probably ask him to keep the matter confidential.
He was facing the back of the dean's head and saw the dean's hair fluttering and then falling down.
It turned out to be a wig.
Zhou Yu wanted to laugh but it wasn't funny.
He couldn't laugh anymore at what happened next.
Because he saw a huge slug covering the back of the dean's head, and the slug turned into a woman's face: "Another thing is, you killed my husband. I'll give you the 20,000 yuan to buy a coffin!"
The dean suddenly turned his head 180 degrees, and a slug spurted out of his mouth, suddenly covering Zhou Yu's face.
Then, the slug split into dozens of small slugs and drilled into his eyes, nose, mouth and ears.
In an instant, Zhou Yu heard the sound of his brain being eaten.
Clack, clack.
Vigil
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