Neverland

On the other side of the wall at the head of Xu Muzhou's bed is Ward No. [-] where Ji Yun is located.

Xu Muzhou woke up from his half-sleep and half-awake in an instant, took out his cell phone from under his pillow, and sent Yan Cen a text message very quickly.

— There was movement next door.

Yan Cen didn't reply right away, Xu Muzhou temporarily put the phone back in his pocket, and lay on the wall trying to find the source of the sound.

When I was lying on the bed just now, the muffled sound was not very clear, but once there was a contact surface, the sound became clear.Xu Muzhou stepped on the slippers and got out of bed, identifying the frequency of the sound bit by bit, moving towards the point where the sound appeared.

Xu Muzhou finally lay down on the corner of the wall near the window. He knelt on the ground with one knee and bent down to get closer to the source of the sound.

Now the sound from the opposite side is very clear - the sound from the opposite side is very strange, it is a sound of knocking on a real object, the wall under Xu Muzhou's skin is also vibrating very slightly, and the frequency of the sound is not fast , but very regularly, as if someone was hammering the wall with something on the other side of the wall.

This weird way of knocking on the wall made Xu Muzhou feel hairy. The night would have infinitely magnified people's negative emotions and senses, not to mention that the nursing home is also a place for diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases. Mu Zhou and Yan Cen probably have few normal people.

The calling bell in the corridor stopped for a moment. In the quiet night, any sound could be infinitely amplified. Xu Muzhou heard the impact sound from the wall with his right ear, and there was always a feeling that the other party was about to punch through the wall. illusion.

The mobile phone in Xu Muzhou's pocket suddenly vibrated, and the old-fashioned mobile phone vibrated with a beeping sound. Xu Muzhou subconsciously turned sideways and blocked the surveillance camera with his back. When he opened the mobile phone, he found that it was Yan Cen's call.

"Hello." Xu Muzhou lowered his voice.

"What's the matter?" Yan Cen said in a low voice.

The voice from Yan Cen's end was very noisy, with unknown sirens and mechanical notifications intermingling endlessly.Yan Cen's cell phone didn't know how to tune in, all the sharp noises poured into Xu Muzhou's ears, and he hissed, feeling a little tinnitus.

With such an interruption, Xu Muzhou only felt that the sound of the impact on the other side of the wall was muted.

Although the sound insulation of the load-bearing wall is very good, Xu Muzhou always felt a sense of unrest in his heart. As if he was afraid that Ji Yun on the opposite side would hear the noise, he temporarily left the wall with his hands on his phone, and sat in the corner to make this call.

"I heard movement next door." Xu Muzhou said succinctly: "In Ward No. [-], there has been an inexplicable banging sound on the other side of the wall. It was located in the corner near the window, and it lasted for a while. It can probably be ruled out that it was caused by accidents. "

"Yeah." Yan Cen agreed, his voice on the other side was a little softer, it seemed that Yan Cen stayed away from the noise source for the time being.

"Can you check the surveillance at your doctor's office? I always feel that something is wrong." Xu Muzhou said.

"The aromatherapy mist after lights out has a sleep-promoting effect, and most patients will sleep deeply." Yan Cen's tone was slightly faster than usual: "So in order to protect privacy, every night after eleven o'clock, the surveillance cameras in the ward will be temporarily turned off .”

"What—" Xu Muzhou was taken aback, "What time is it?"

"02:30." Yan Cen said.

Just relying on the background sound of the vegetable market across the phone, Xu Muzhou didn't realize the 02:30.Before he could continue to ask, the noise on the other end of the phone boiled up again, a young nurse called Yan Cen, the other party spoke too fast, Xu Muzhou sounded a little fuzzy.

But for some reason, Yan Cen still didn't hang up the phone.He hummed twice as a response, and the footsteps on the opposite side were in a mess, mixed with some rubbing sounds that Xu Muzhou couldn't understand.

"Continuous rehydration, blood type B, sent to the doctor." Yan Cen said.

Before Xu Muzhou could understand this nonsense, Yan Cen had already knocked on the microphone again, bringing Xu Muzhou's thoughts back.

"Tell me." Xu Muzhou hurriedly said, "I'm listening."

"Wait for me at the door of the ward." Yan Cen deliberately lowered his voice and said, "I'll be there in a minute and a half."

After Yan Cen finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Now that he had said that, Xu Muzhou didn't stick back to the wall to listen to the movement on the other side. He looked at the phone screen, and the clock effect that occupied two-thirds of the screen was shining.

It's exactly 32:[-] in the morning.

Xu Muzhou stood up and walked to the door of the ward. He didn't go out hastily, but opened the door of the ward a little, and searched for Yan Cen's figure from left to right.

Yan Cen came out of a certain ward at the other end of the corridor. That ward was probably the penultimate room at the end of the corridor. The door of the ward was open, and there was a stretcher bed across the door.

Under the bright lights in the corridor, the mottled blood on Yan Cen's white coat was shocking.

Xu Muzhou was taken aback, regardless of whether it was monitored or not, and whether anyone saw it, he grabbed Yan Cen's arm and rubbed it up and down, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you? Did you go solo?"

He was in a hurry and forgot to stop, Yan Cen took off his blood-stained gloves, and made a silent gesture on Xu Muzhou's lips with his index finger.

"It's okay, the patient in the eleventh bed cut his wrist." Yan Cen said: "But it was discovered in time, and it was being dealt with just now."

Xu Muzhou broke into a cold sweat from the blood on his body, and it was only after he calmed down that he realized that he had a "doctor" on his back.

No wonder there was so much noise in the corridor in the middle of the night, Xu Muzhou thought.

Yan Cen took off the bluetooth headset on his right ear and put it in his pocket, then looked back and forth to make sure that no one else noticed that he put his arm around Xu Muzhou's shoulder after that, and took a few steps to pull Ji Yun's hand away with one hand. The door of the ward pushed Xu Muzhou in first.

Xu Muzhou was taken aback by him, afraid that Ji Yun would not sleep well and see some private scenes where men and women had sex, so he closed his eyes subconsciously.

Yan Cen didn't seem to care about this at all, he closed the door with his backhand, and walked in with great strides.

Xu Muzhou had no choice but to follow in.Most of these single-room wards have the same structure. There is a bathroom on the right hand side of the door, and you have to walk through a short hallway to see the hospital bed.

Xu Muzhou leaned over from behind Yan Cen and took a look, only to find that Ji Yun, who was supposed to be sound asleep, was not on the hospital bed.

Compared with the corridor, the ward was too dark. After rubbing his eyes, Xu Muzhou realized that the black shadow on the bed was not Ji Yun, but a scattered quilt.

The inexplicable banging sound stopped at some point, and before Xu Muzhou was able to inspect the room, Yan Cen, who was walking in front, had already raised his hand to touch the emergency light switch on the wall, and lighted up the room with a snap lights inside.

Ji Yun in the corner of the room suddenly let out a weeping scream.

Xu Muzhou followed the sound, only to find that Ji Yun was crouching in the corner of the room on the other side of the hospital bed with his head in his arms. The blue and white striped hospital gown was crumpled and covered with pale dust.Ji Yun's long hair was disheveled, covering most of her eyebrows and eyes. There was an inconspicuous gray mark on the wall beside her. Judging from the height, it was probably the source of the voice Xu Muzhou heard in the sixth ward.

The emergency light was embedded [-] centimeters below the wall, just enough to clearly see Ji Yun's whole body.

The little girl's long hair was mixed with dust similar to that on the hospital gown. She knelt on the ground with her head in her arms, curled up like a shrimp. Her forehead was against the wall, and she was turning her head slowly. Look at Yan Cen.

Her face was pale, and there was a line of blood winding down her cheeks at the corner of her forehead, sticking a few strands of hair to her face.

——The sound that Xu Muzhou heard next door was the sound of Ji Yun banging his head against the wall.

Xu Muzhou's back suddenly felt cold, and the scene in front of him coincided with the impact sound in his memory. Xu Muzhou almost instantly thought of how Ji Yun knelt on the cold floor tiles in the dark night, and became firm again and again. The scene where he bangs his head against the wall.

"Ji Yun, you—"

"Who are you..." Ji Yun interrupted him.

Perhaps it was because he hadn't spoken for a long time, Ji Yun's voice was very hoarse, and his breath was not very full. It sounded intermittent, like an old bellows with air leaking everywhere.

The fact that she spoke made Xu Muzhou extremely shocked. He looked at Yan Cen and asked him what was going on with his frantic eyes.

But Yan Cen didn't respond, he frowned slightly, and his probing eyes fell on Ji Yun, as if he was observing something.

Xu Muzhou waited for a while but did not see that Yan Cen wanted to speak, so he could only bite the bullet and do it by himself.

"I... I'm your patient next door. This is the doctor... We want to see if you need help." Xu Muzhou said.

After he finished speaking, he felt that the words were too watery, and just as he was about to go back and make up a few words, he saw that Ji Yun had already straightened up from the floor tiles.

Her movements were slow and her body was stiff, like an old machine that hadn't been oiled, exuding a rotten smell.

"I don't need help." Ji Yun said.

She wiped her face blankly, the blood on her forehead was all over the place, and the blood stains rubbed against the corners of her eyes, leaving a hideous wound in the shadow of the emergency light.

Ji Yun's eyes fell on the snow-white floor tiles, her eyes were empty and lifeless, and the light fell on her eyes, flickering brightly and secretly.

For some reason, Xu Muzhou suddenly felt that Ji Yun was the most sober now.

This feeling is very inexplicable, because no matter from which point of view, Ji Yun's current condition is very bad, and he may even be suffering from an illness.

Xu Muzhou asked himself in his heart, but the answer he got was still the same.

He always felt that even if Ji Yun described it as such a mess, she didn't seem to be afraid—she didn't care about speaking, and she wasn't afraid of being known about her special state.

She looked ashamed, and she was completely different from Ji Yun in the daytime.

"discipline--"

Xu Muzhou wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by a harsh metal friction sound in the corridor, the steel wheels of the movable bed were rolling on the ground, and the sound of messy footsteps approached and then went far away.

Ji Yun was awakened by the movement, she trembled all over, her eyes gradually regained focus, and became clear again.

"Ji Yun—" Xu Muzhou still did not give up.

Yan Cen grabbed Xu Muzhou, shook his head at him, and stopped his next words.Undoubtedly, he turned around Xu Muzhou's shoulder, and pulled him out of the ward.

"It's late." Yan Cen closed the door of the ward, looked at Ji Yun again through the glass, and said, "I can't ask now."