demons lurk beside you

In the emergency department of the People's Hospital, a nurse kept looking up at the wall clock on the wall of the emergency department with a sullen face.The hour hand on the wall clock was ticking softly, and it was slowly moving forward until the hour hand of the wall clock pointed to 8.30, but there was still no sign of Dr. Lin.

The nurse frowned. She raised her hand and glanced at the watch on her hand, and saw that the time indicated on the watch was the same as that on the wall clock.

She murmured to herself, "It's already 8.30, why hasn't Dr. Lin come in yet?"

So, she turned the doorknob, stepped out of the emergency department, glanced at the patients who were sitting outside the room and took the patient number, smiled slightly, and said softly, "Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long." Well, the doctor hasn't come in yet, I'll go check it out."

Although the words were soft, they could not extinguish the anger gradually rising in the patient's heart.

They came in the hospital very early and queued up for registration, but the doctor hasn't come in yet, so when will they have to wait?

One of the male patients couldn't bear it at first, and he shouted: "It's already 8.30, I have been waiting in line for registration since 7 o'clock, and now you tell me that there is no doctor? Your hospital Is that how you abandon patients? Where is the doctor? Can't come out to work by pretending to be sick at home?"

Facing the patient's quarrel, the nurse still smiled and said comfortingly: "Sir, don't be impatient. I'll check with the doctor to see if something happened on the way. It's very late." I'll be back soon to let you know."

The male patient was still making noise, but a woman who was sitting next to him quickly pulled his long sleeves and whispered a few words in his ear before he sat down again, still with an expression on his face. With an angry look on his face, he didn't say any more.

The nurse turned around in a hurry, suppressed her smile, walked quickly to the front desk of the hospital with a dark face, and said to a nurse at the front desk: "Xiao Rong, Dr. Lin didn't come to work today?"

As soon as Xiao Rong saw her, she knew she was from the emergency department, so she quickly said, "Let me check."

About 2 minutes later, Xiao Rong pushed the computer screen towards the nurse, pointed to Lin Shengchuan's clock-in record, and said, "I'm afraid Dr. Lin hasn't arrived yet. Look, he hasn't clocked in yet to come in for work."

The nurse frowned and glanced at the screen, nodded to Xiao Rong and said, "Thank you."

She turned and left the front desk, walked to a corner of the hospital lobby, took out her mobile phone, found Lin Shengchuan's mobile phone number, and called the other party.

I only heard the sound of "beep" on the opposite side, but no one answered.The nurse glanced at the phone screen and saw that she had not dialed the wrong number, so she made a second call to Lin Shengchuan.

However, there was still a "beep" sound on the other side of the phone, and Dr. Lin still didn't answer the phone.

"Could it be that he fell unconscious from sleep?" The nurse thought to herself, and casually threw the phone back into her trouser pocket.

When she remembered the patients in the emergency department who were waiting in line to see a doctor, she walked quickly to the office of the head nurse of the hospital, knocked on the door, and stood there waiting for a while.

Hearing a reply from inside, she turned the doorknob and walked in.

The head nurse was burying her head in looking at a pile of documents spread out on the table. Seeing that she had come in, she took off the reading glasses on her face and asked, "Xiaojuan, what's wrong?"

"Director Liu, Dr. Lin didn't come to work today. I called him twice, but no one answered, and I don't know where he went. There are already many patients outside the emergency department, and everyone is waiting in line. You Let's see if we need to temporarily arrange another doctor to replace Dr. Lin?" Xiaojuan lowered her eyes and said.

In the hospital, it is common for a doctor to suddenly not show up. At this time, the head nurse has to communicate with the director so that they can quickly find another doctor to replace them.

"Well, I'll arrange it now." The head nurse nodded.

After Xiaojuan said 'thank you', she left the head nurse's office and returned to the emergency department.

***

At 12.30 noon, the canteen of the hospital was filled with medical staff one after another, and everyone took advantage of lunch time to come down to the canteen for a full meal.

In the corner of the cafeteria, several doctors were sitting together, eating and chatting as usual.Since Liang Chengyuan's death, they lost a colleague who had a meal appointment, so they seemed a little depressed.

After Wu Minghao lowered his head and took a sip of the soup, he asked Tang Yuan who was sitting opposite him: "Old Tang, where is brother Sheng Chuan? Didn't he come to work today?"

Tang Yuan stuffed a mouthful of rice into her mouth and said vaguely, "I don't know, he didn't tell me."

At this time, Yan Huanren, who was sitting on Wu Minghao's right hand, said: "After we drank with him on Friday, we watched him go home. Don't tell me he is sick."

Tang Yuan glanced at Yan Huanren and said, "He drank too much on Friday, I asked him to find a substitute driver, but he said no, so I ignored him."

Wu Minghao frowned and said, "He's drunk, and you still let him drive home by himself? Are you still friends?"

Tangyuan shouted: "No, I helped him, but this guy shook my hand. I saw that he was quite energetic, so I thought he should be fine, so I let him go."

"It's dangerous for him to drive drunk. Look, he didn't come to work today. Maybe something happened." Wu Minghao said.

"Don't be crowed!" Tang Yuan shouted.

For some reason, he suddenly felt something was wrong, and gradually linked the fact that Lin Shengchuan didn't come to work to the tragic murder of Liang Chengyuan in his heart.

Yan Huanren who was sitting on the side said, "Why don't you give him a call?"

Tangyuan nodded, then pulled out her phone and called Lin Shengchuan.However, after a few "beeps" on the other side, it switched to a mechanical female voice: "The call you dialed is temporarily unavailable."

He frowned and pressed the hang button, and then dialed again, but there was still no answer on the other side.

Tang Yuan put the phone on the table and said to everyone, "He doesn't answer the phone."

Yan Huanren's complexion changed, and he suddenly remembered Liang Chengyuan's unsolved murder case, and said in a trembling voice, "He... Could something really happen to him?"

At this time, Wu Minghao also became afraid after hearing Yan Huanren's words, and he said, "Why don't we go to his house after get off work?"

"No need?" Tangyuan said hesitantly.

"Anyway, I get off work on time today, so I'll go and have a look." Wu Minghao said, then pushed the plate in front of him, losing his appetite to eat.

To be honest, since the murder of Liang Chengyuan, the medical staff working in the hospital felt uneasy, especially the doctors.

They always feel that the murderer just wants to deal with doctors, not other medical staff.

"I'll go with you!" Yan Huanren said.

"Yes." Wu Minghao nodded.

The few doctors sitting together lost their appetite for a moment. After they packed up their plates, they left the cafeteria together.

***

In the evening, Wu Minghao sat in the locker room, waiting for Yan Huanren to change his uniform.He kept looking at the time on the watch, and the hour hand pointed to 6.45 minutes.

He urged: "Lao Yan, hurry up, it's all delayed!"

"Alright, don't rush me!" Yan Huanren shouted loudly.

After the two changed their clothes, Wu Minghao took out the key and said, "Let me drive, and I'll take you home later. I'll pick you up tomorrow morning, and we'll go to work together."

Yan Huanren nodded in agreement.

Wu Minghao drove the car, and drove to Lin Shengchuan's community with ease.He turned left and right, and came outside a villa, and then turned off the car.

When the two looked into the villa from the car, they saw that Lin Shengchuan's car was parked in the courtyard, but the door of the villa hall was closed tightly. The lights came on.

It seems that Lin Shengchuan is at home.

"Let's go down." Wu Minghao said.

"Okay." Yan Huanren replied.

The two got out of the car together, and Wu Minghao came to the iron gate of the villa, and looked down to see that the automatic iron gate was not closed properly.He frowned and said, "Why didn't he lock the door?"

After saying this, he walked into the courtyard of the villa first, while Yan Huanren followed behind him.

When the two walked a few steps, they glanced at the tires of the car lying aside.

"Good guy! It turns out that his car had a flat tire, so he didn't come to work! He didn't answer the phone, did he want to be lazy and stay at home?" Wu Minghao couldn't help yelling loudly.

Yan Huanren pointed to the rear tire of Lin Shengchuan's car, and said, "Really, look, didn't he put on a spare tire?"

Wu Minghao walked to the entrance of the hall, and immediately smelled a strange smell at the tip of his nose. He turned his head and looked around, but he didn't see that Lin Shengchuan had any pets.

So, what is this unpleasant smell?

Wu Minghao turned his head to look at Yan Huanren, and asked, "Did you smell it?"

When he looked into Yan Huanren's eyes, he saw great fear in the other's eyes.When Wu Minghao saw his appearance, his head buzzed, and fear also emerged in his heart.

The smell coming from the house made them feel a little familiar, but they were not sure if it was really that smell.

"What do you say?" At this moment, Wu Minghao's voice trembled violently.

"I...I don't know..." Yan Huanren stepped back in fear.

Wu Minghao looked at the night outside, gritted his teeth, and said, "Let's go in and have a look, what if he's not dead yet?"

"It's already stinking, how could it be possible that he's not dead?" Yan Huanren hesitated to himself, feeling terrified in his heart.

Wu Minghao swallowed, gritted his teeth, then turned around and turned the doorknob of the living room, seeing that the door was not locked.

When he slowly opened the door, everything that came into view made him open his mouth wide in shock, and he just stayed there motionless, as if someone had tapped his acupoints, unable to move.

Yan Huanren pushed him and asked, "Old Wu, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing that Wu Minghao still didn't respond, he shouted again: "Old Wu, old Wu!!"

When he finally came back to his senses, he turned around and glanced at Yan Huanren, and said blankly: "Dead... He died... Even his eyeballs are gone..."