Rubik's Cube Seven Days Dream

In the corridor, Xu Minglang followed Zhou Xuerong's footsteps and walked in the direction of the light...

"Boom" "Boom" the elevator door opened and closed mechanically, making a crashing sound.Zhou Xuerong pushed the cart in, and the person followed, looking at Xu Minglang as if saying "Are you sure?".

He ignored that gaze and followed in. There were elevator buttons in front of him, and his fingers flickered between "3" and "4".

There are a total of seven floors in the hospital, and it would be a bit honest to check them one by one. Every additional floor they check is equivalent to an extra risk for their lives.So Xu Minglang decided to take a gamble.

"Choose a compromise. If you take '7' apart, you get a '3' and a '4'. If you choose one of them, if it doesn't work, just resign yourself to your fate and start looking for them one by one. What do you think?"

After Xu Minglang said this, Zhou Xuerong's expression became stiff for a moment, his eyes were not focused on the keypad, and he seemed to mutter something.

Zhou Xuerong had acted strangely for no reason several times, but Xu Minglang was not suspicious of him, but had a strong curiosity about him.

He wants to know this person's past, who is his lover?Why did he appear in the hallucinations after I had a headache?What is he hiding?

Zhou Xuerong repeated the two numbers with his breath, and then Xu Minglang heard Zhou Xuerong repeat the two numbers with his breath. Before he understood why Zhou Xuerong repeated it, Zhou Xuerong pressed the fourth floor.

"Ding dong—" The fourth floor has arrived.

The two stepped out one after another, not forgetting to block the cart between the doors before leaving.The corridor was still pitch-black, only the emergency lights glowing bright green. It was unreal to walk in such darkness. When Xu Minglang thought that there might be a multi-legged monster made up of dead bodies lurking here, he couldn't help but stiffen all over. A little tense.To be careful, neither of the two made a sound, but they had a tacit understanding to check from the corridor on the left first.

In order not to get separated, Xu Minglang naturally took Zhou Xuerong's arm, and his nerves suddenly eased. It was a weird feeling that he couldn't describe. It was not just as simple as peace of mind, but also felt like deja vu on such an occasion. , It's like traveling to a long-awaited country, brushing the palm of the hand against the foreign wall that has never been touched, but feeling very clearly in my heart: I have been here.

The messy thoughts effectively blocked Xu Minglang's focus on fear. After passing the first passage indicator light, he turned on the flashlight, and Zhou Xuerong opened the first ward door.

"Zhao Dongxiang?" Xu Minglang asked in a low voice, Zhou Xuerong took the flashlight, took a rough picture, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual, he turned off the flashlight and said, "Next."

"it is good."

Walking straight all the way, the two checked all the wards on one side, including the consultation room, and then turned to the opposite side. They didn't see Zhao Dongxiang all the way. The wards were all empty, there were no human spiders, and there was no sound.The two returned to the elevator entrance, and Xu Minglang made sure that the elevator door was caught between the trolleys before walking to the other end of the corridor.

He knew that the nurse would be standing a few meters away, and he felt jealous and his feet felt weak. He wanted to say something to divert his attention, but he didn't dare to speak.At this time, his hand was held, and at the same time he heard Zhou Xuerong say: "Don't be afraid."

For a moment Xu Minglang even thought that Zhou Xuerong had seen through his hidden fear, the emptiness that could swallow everything but could not be explained, and half a second later he realized that what Zhou Xuerong said was just an ordinary comforting word.

"Who's scared?" Xu Minglang muttered.

"Yeah." Zhou Xuerong stuck to the wall, took out the ax in the backpack, the dry zipper was rubbing loudly, almost covering up the sentence: "Don't think about it."

Xu Minglang's heart skipped a beat, did he hear wrong?

Is Zhou Xuerong's phrase "stop thinking about it" alluding to the nurse's desk?It was the same when he was at the seaside before, Zhou Xuerong was clearly reminding him that there would be no freshwater fish in the sea, all along, Zhou Xuerong was not surprised by the abnormality of this world, so this time, did he know something else?

"week......"

"Hush—" Zhou Xuerong stretched out his hand and pressed Xu Minglang against the wall, and pressed himself against the wall, looking on guard.Xu Minglang knew that Zhou Xuerong must have noticed something, but he was still thinking about something just now, completely ignoring the danger around him.With the help of the light, he looked at the front right of the corridor, which was similar to the pattern of the corridor just now, but there was a corner not far from the wall on the right, which was probably a bathroom.

A small noise came from around the corner, Xu Minglang couldn't tell what it was, but no matter what it was, it was unusual...

Zhou Xuerong started first, holding a flashlight in one hand and an ax in the other, walking close to the wall, no matter how much Xu Minglang pulled him from behind.The two quickly walked to the corner, Zhou Xuerong looked at it with his head, and quickly took it back.

Xu Minglang asked: "How is it?"

Zhou Xuerong shook his head, even though Xu Minglang could only see the luster of the broken hair shaking.

Xu Minglang moved closer to Zhou Xuerong, and shouted with his breath, "Zhao Dongxiang! I'll call you now."

No one answered, but the noise became denser and clearer.Before Xu Minglang had time to react, a black shadow appeared out of the corner of his eye...

"My mother..." Xu Minglang was caught off guard and gasped in fright, standing on tiptoe and sticking to the wall like a screen.

"Don't be afraid, it's a mouse."

Xu Minglang breathed a sigh of relief, a little embarrassed but also very puzzled, this hospital is old, but it's not too bad for rats, right?What are they attracted to?

The two called twice at the door of the toilet, but still no one answered, and neither of them wanted to increase the risk, so they continued to move forward.They opened the door of the adjacent ward, and were just about to check it with a flashlight, but suddenly there was a sound of something being thrown in the room at a distance of about ten meters.

A little warm yellow light overflowed from the cracks in the door and windows.

The two were on alert for a moment, and Zhou Xuerong whispered, "You stay here."

Xu Minglang ignored it, but followed behind.The two followed each other, walking towards the lighted window with ghostly footsteps.Every time he took a step, Xu Minglang could hear the fierce beating in his chest, his ears roared, his limbs swelled like blood, but his body was very cold.Before experiencing these things, he never knew that fear could be so concrete.

When he finally reached the door of the ward, Xu Minglang wanted to take a breath, but he didn't know whether it was because of nervousness or a lack of energy, so he gasped and let out a loud sound in the darkness.

Zhou Xuerong was biting the flashlight, looked down into the window, and covered the lower half of Xu Minglang's face with his free hand, probably to make him keep his voice down, Xu Minglang scolded himself in his heart, how could he always lose the chain at critical moments , I don't know whether it was intentional or not, the dry palm pressed and rubbed against his lips before lifting it up again.

Xu Minglang's ears were burning, and he asked in a low voice, "How's it going inside?"

Zhou Xuerong didn't answer, probably because the window was too small and there were too many blind spots, but the sound of something falling on the ground just now was very loud, so it couldn't be caused by rats.

In short, it's either Lao Zhao or those spider monsters. Fortunately, they already have experience and know that spider monsters are sensitive to light, so it's not too bad.

Zhou Xuerong first dodged to the side of the doorknob, held the doorknob, then bent down and moved his head closer to Xu Minglang, beckoning him to help him take off the flashlight.So Xu Minglang got a flashlight with a drool-stained tail, and before he could dislike his wet palm, he opened the door.

The ward has beds for six people, and the huge space is separated by several cloth curtains, making it impossible to see the end at a glance.Xu Minglang remembered the spider monster's ability to climb the wall, and suddenly shone the light on the ceiling, with only a few rows of light tubes above his head.

Zhou Xuerong clasped the ax in both hands, and walked slowly towards the window. Xu Minglang quickly followed, and opened the first curtain on the left.The two beds were neatly made, and the quilts were folded into tofu cubes of the same size, without any extra creases.Xu Minglang guessed that the spider monster was so big that it would be impossible to hide under the bed, so he took a step forward, but saw a vase facing him in front of the curved wall illuminated by the light, and the vase was covered by the hospital bed.

He touched Zhou Xuerong with his elbow, signaling him to pay attention.Zhou Xuerong turned to the right and walked towards the innermost hospital bed.

The curtain was lifted with an axe, and the light immediately shone through.

When Xu Minglang saw clearly what was in the corner in front of him, his heart almost stopped beating.

It wasn't some spider monster, and it wasn't even Zhao Dongxiang, but a skinny man with his back turned to them.The man was still wearing a hospital gown, no shoes on his feet, and stepped barefoot on the cold ground.

The alarm in Xu Minglang's heart was roaring, but Zhou Xuerong leaned forward desperately, even holding the ax loosely, Xu Minglang pulled his arm and pulled it back, meaning to make him act cautiously.

But Zhou Xuerong didn't give any response, Xu Minglang looked at his face with stunned expression, as if he couldn't wait to see the face of the person in that corner.

In my impression, Zhou Xuerong was the kind of person who wouldn't frown at the sight of Tianbeng, so how could he take it lightly in this situation?What's so special about this guy squatting in the corner?

ah.Could it be...it was what Zhou Xuerong said, it was his missing lover...

Xu Minglang suddenly felt a little tight in his chest, let go of his hand, and stared at the thin back, but he suddenly realized that something was wrong.Around the man's dangling wrist was a band that didn't look like a watch or a bracelet...

Wait, is it...

"Zhou Xuerong, come back..." Xu Minglang rushed over in two steps, trying to snatch the ax from Zhou Xuerong's hand. Just as his hand touched the hard handle, the "man" slowly turned his head.

The face was shriveled like a dried persimmon, the skin was mottled with corpse spots, the face was dull, and the two pearls were dim, as if it had just crawled out of the grave.But Zhou Xuerong still didn't respond, Xu Minglang didn't have time to get scared, he grabbed the ax and struck the living dead man's head.

The living dead seemed to be aware of the danger, and quickly turned around to avoid it. Grinning like a wild beast, it gave out a primitive backlash. Its rotten teeth were twisted and crooked, and it exhaled a corpse-smelling breath, pounced on Xu Minglang. past.