Chapter Eleven Help me make a phone call
The hospital inpatient building has twelve floors except for the reception floor on the bottom floor, so she slowly checked from the second floor.
Many of these wards are vacant. After all, there are not so many patients hospitalized every day, so when she encounters some uninhabited rooms, she will simply make a cross on the record sheet and make a mark for later verification.
“1207…”
She looked up at the door number and gently pushed the door in.
The room was lit with faint dark yellow lights that helped to help sleep.
The one who lives in this ward is an old lady. She always has some minor problems when she is old, and it is normal to occasionally need to be hospitalized for a few days.
The old lady had poor sleep and often woke up from insomnia in the middle of the night. When she met during the day, she heard the old lady muttering and saying she wanted to go home. This place was too noisy.
But why is the hospital ward very noisy at night?
In the end, the doctor speculated that it might be because the old man had neurasthenia and had auditory hallucinations...
It was already midnight, and she pushed the door open and saw that the old lady was sleeping peacefully now and all the data were normal, so she did not disturb her. She just wrote it on the record sheet and gently stepped out and closed the door.
“It would be great if every room was so easy.”
She stretched and sighed in her heart.
Just as I was about to turn around and walk to the next room, I suddenly stretched out a cold hand from behind and put it on her shoulder!
She was caught off guard and scared her so much that she almost screamed!
She turned around in panic and subconsciously protected her hands in front of her.
But what caught my eye was not the imagined evil ghost, but an old man wearing a hospital gown, kind-eyed and hunched back.
Under the slightly cool light, it can be seen that he is already very old, with sparse white hair, wrinkles on his face, dark eyes, yellow skin, and a rotten wood, but his expression is kind, which makes people feel a little close.
The old man staggered and coughed softly.
"Little girl, I want to ask you, where is the public telephone here? I want to call my son..."
“Public phone?”
Tang Xiaowei was stunned for a moment.
It's midnight now, normal people have already fallen asleep. Can I still get it after calling?
However, she also understood the old man's feelings of missing his relatives, and thought for a while and said, "There is no public phone, but there is a landline in the lobby on the first floor to make a phone call..."
"Oh, thank you little girl..."
The old man took small steps and moved slowly towards the stairs. It seemed that he was shaking and difficult, and he might fall if he didn't pay attention.
Tang Xiaowei felt a little embarrassed when she looked at him, so she hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him two steps.
"Grandpa, I think your legs are not convenient, so you can call your son with my phone."
The old man looked at her gratefully and took the phone she handed over tremblingly. It was just because he was old and didn't know how to use it. Tang Xiaowei pressed the number for him and called out.
“Dududu…”
“Dududu…”
It rang for a long time, but no one answered it.
"It should be already asleep." Tang Xiaowei looked at the old man's originally earnest eyes gradually becoming dim, and she reminded in a low voice, "Why do you want to try it again tomorrow morning?"
The old man coughed and his expression was dim: "Thank you little girl."
"No need to thank you. Grandpa is so late, you should go back early to rest. Don't catch a cold at night." Tang Xiaowei persuaded.
The old man walked to the next ward step by step and pushed the door open. She followed her with some concern and helped him cover the quilt before leaving.
When she left, she subconsciously looked back at the house number, 1208.
It is just a wall away from the old lady just now.
When she left, she felt a little angry when she remembered what happened just now. The young people are becoming less and less arrogant now. Many sick elderly people in the hospital seem to be fostered here, and their children have not come to visit for a long time.
Who knows if I can see the last time?
After checking the second floor, she turned around and went to the third floor. As soon as she went up, a familiar voice behind her stopped her.
"Xiaowei wait, I'm here!"
She paused and looked back, and the one who came up from the stairs was the colleague who was on duty with her tonight.
Thinking that I could have a companion, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The person who came was an older female nurse, so her qualifications were naturally longer than her, and it was also a reason why she could be a little late.
After she quickly approached, she first looked at the time, then took the record form from Tang Xiaowei and asked casually: "Have you checked the second floor?"
Tang Xiaowei smiled and nodded, feeling a little satisfied after helping others.
But suddenly, she noticed that the other party frowned.
"What's wrong?" she asked carefully.
"Wait 1208 is obviously empty, why did you fill in the record?" The nurse taught her a lesson with a stern face, "Even if you are an intern nurse, you should pay great attention to the patients. How can you make such a low-level mistake?"
Tang Xiaowei was stunned for a moment, and argued a little dissatisfied: "No, I just helped the old man in the ward call his son, although it didn't get through..."
Her words suddenly got stuck because she noticed that the nurse opposite seemed to look bad.
"I...I'm saying it's true..." she stammered.
"Actually, there was an old man living in that ward before. The nurse on duty knew that he often came out in the middle of the night to call his son, but strangely, he couldn't get through."
"I heard from the nurse who specializes in taking care of him that his son was busy doing business in other places. He has never seen him since the old man was hospitalized, and he didn't even call him. He just ignored him when he got in at the beginning of the month. After being hospitalized, his last wish was to see his son for the last time..."
The nurse took a breath, staring at her with a strange look, and she whispered more and more: "But this morning the old man had already died of acute organ failure, and his body had been sent to the morgue..."
Tang Xiaowei's face turned pale, and suddenly she felt a biting chill behind her back slowly crawling up, and her head was confused.
Then she was...hell just now?!
And just then.
"Crazy..."
A strange metal sound came from the depths of the corridor.
It's like a chain rolling and rubbing on the ground.
The two of them turned their heads at the same time and looked in the direction where the sound came, with a look of uneasiness and panic, especially Tang Xiaowei, who had just encountered a strange incident, her lips were scared.
It was midnight, and other people on duty were busy, and the patients should have already gone to bed. Who would be so bored and wandering in the corridor with heavy chains?
And what's strange is that under the cold light, there was a sound of iron chains coming from the deep and pale corridor, but there was no trace of human being!
Chapter completed!