"Officer Fang, please slow down."

In the dark lobby on the first floor of the abandoned hospital building, Fang Qin walked quickly forward with a flashlight.

The man behind him, while speeding up his pace to keep up with her progress, made a voice to make her slow down.

At this moment, Fang Qin had no time to pay attention to the nagging words of the people behind her. From the first moment she entered this abandoned building, the instinctive reaction formed by years of martial arts practice gave her a feeling of light on her back, as if there was a ray of light in the darkness.

Coveting eyes were scanning the two of them all the time.

In order to figure out the source of this inexplicable feeling, Fang Qin quickly walked down the hall while constantly turning the direction of the flashlight in her hand. At the same time, she quickly scanned everything around her with the corner of her eye, trying to find any abnormalities.

The entire hall on the first floor is decorated in a Western style. The floor of the hall is paved with pieces of brown marble with irregular patterns. Although it has been abandoned for many years, there is no obvious trace on the surface of these stones except for the clearly visible accumulation of soil.

of crack damage.

The light yellow wallpaper attached to the surrounding walls has all faded due to age, especially the large number of upturns near the joints, which are like countless everted wounds on the originally flat wall, making it look strange and permeable.

There were no tables, chairs or other items displayed in the empty hall. Only a row of huge porcelain flower pots were displayed on both sides of the hall. At this time, all the flower pots were empty, and it was unknown what they had originally planted.

Towards the northwest corner of the hall, there is a spacious reddish-brown wooden staircase. The wooden handrails on both sides of the staircase are exquisitely carved with complicated patterns. As you follow the stairs all the way up, you will reach the dark second floor.

Fang Qin quickly scanned the first floor and found no valuable clues. The thick layer of soil on the ground also showed that no one had entered the building for a long time.

Her forward steps stopped a few meters away from the stairs. The feeling of light on her back still did not disappear, but no footprints were found on the ground, which made Fang Qin hesitate.

The recent series of cases have centered on the three hospitals, and the strange runes at the murder scene are similar to the runes found in this building ten years ago. Is this a coincidence or does it hide an unknown mysterious connection?

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Thinking of this, Fang Qin decided that no matter whether there were any secrets hidden in this building, she would go upstairs to investigate.

Just when she stopped in front of the stairs to think, the man who had been behind her finally caught up with her. At this time, he was standing next to Fang Qin and using the flashlight function of his mobile phone to scan the empty surroundings.

hall.

Fang Qin's eyes quickly scanned the man's face, and he noticed that the man's expression became serious, so he asked, "What did you find?"

The man did not answer immediately, but still took a photo of the surrounding walls with his mobile phone, and then said: "Not sure, it seems that no one has entered this building for a long time, but the wallpaper is rolled and cracked

It’s a bit strange. I’ve seen buildings with wallpapers naturally damaged due to disrepair, but don’t you think it’s a bit weird in this situation?”

After hearing his words, Fang Qin once again focused on the surrounding walls. Just now, she just glanced at them quickly. She felt that the uneven walls were very ugly, so she didn't pay much attention to them. At this time, she looked at them from beginning to end.

After carefully inspecting the walls of the entire hall, I discovered that the entire first floor was covered with convex and rolled wallpaper. No wall surface was smooth and intact. The originally bright yellow wallpaper had faded and turned into something close to light yellow.

milky white,

Coupled with the ubiquitous bumps and cracks, the overall look is particularly disgusting.

"The security guard also said before that this building was abandoned due to construction quality problems. It makes sense that the wallpaper quality is not up to par. Are there any other findings? If not, I am going to go to the second floor to have a look."

Fang Qin gave a fairly reasonable guess and prepared to check the situation on the second floor.

The man glanced around the hall on the first floor again, and finally shook his head silently, indicating that he found nothing else.

Fang Qin didn't say much and walked towards the stairs.

Because they were afraid that the wooden stairs would rot and break due to long-term neglect, the two of them were extra careful when going upstairs. They gradually applied more force every time they took a step, making sure that the wooden board under their feet was firm before fully pressing their body weight on it.

After walking up a short flight of stairs for several minutes, Fang Qin and the man arrived at the second floor.

When they stepped out of the stairs, they saw a long and spacious straight corridor. On the left side of the corridor was a row of wooden doors. Behind each door was an independent ward, and on the right side was a row of wooden doors.

There is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows, through which you can see the view of the mountain behind the hospital.

In the other section of the corridor, due to the limited flashlight range, the two could not see the specific layout for the time being. They could only vaguely see the outline of another wooden staircase at the end, which must have led to the third floor.

Fang Qin maintained his usual vigorous and resolute style and did not stay where he was. He quickly walked forward again and opened the doors of each ward to check.

On the other hand, the man stood at the entrance of the stairs, frowning and staring at the wallpaper in the corridor that was even more damaged than on the first floor. He carefully stepped forward and uncovered a damaged and raised wallpaper on the wall. Using the light of his mobile phone, he found that there was mold underneath.

The walls were pitch black, but otherwise there was nothing unusual about them.

While he was checking the wallpaper on the spot, Fang Qin had already checked several wards. The situation in each room was similar, and not much was left, just the brackets of a simple iron frame bed.

Placed in the center of the house, some rooms also have a wooden shelf for storing items.

There is a glass window on the wall facing the door of every room. The window faces the overgrown path in front of the hospital building, which is the wasteland where they parked their car.

The windows in all the rooms were closed, but some of the glass windows were broken. The night wind poured in through the cracks in the broken glass, making a whistle-like sound.

After looking at three rooms in a row, she didn't find anything strange. Just when Fang Qin was about to move on and push open the wooden door of the next ward, there was a sudden sound of glass breaking behind her.

Alarmed by the sound, the man who had been frowning and meditating facing the wall at the top of the stairs turned around at the same time as Fang Qin, who had walked some distance away, and looked towards the ward between them.

"what?"

The man asked, and at the same time, his movements were not slow and he walked quickly towards the room.

And Fang Qin, who was more than ten meters away from him, also turned around and walked towards this side.

The two arrived at the door of the ward almost at the same time, and the light from the flashlight and mobile phone illuminated the room at the same time.

Before the man said anything, Fang Qin took the lead and pointed to the broken glass on the ground and said: "This glass window was still intact just now."

Hearing this, the man looked at the window with only a wooden frame remaining with a surprised expression.

"Is there anyone?

Or is it the wind?" he asked aloud.

Fang Qin once again glanced at the simple furnishings in the room, a wooden display rack, and a hospital bed built with a few rusty iron rods. Since there were no sheets or quilts on the bed, the simple iron frame structure was clearly visible.

The entire space in the house was also clearly visible. She had personally inspected this room just now, and there was no way she could hide a living person without being discovered.

But if we say it was caused by the wind, the night wind tonight is not strong, so it would not break the intact windows.

After a moment of hesitation, Fang Qin said nothing. On the contrary, when the man saw that she was silent, his expression became unpleasant.

Just when both of them were silent, in the dark corridor outside the ward, a short black shadow flashed past at an extremely fast speed.

The black shadow silently passed through the door of the ward where the two of them were, heading towards the end of the corridor to the stairs leading to the third floor.

The man's reaction was not sharp and he did not notice anything strange outside the door for a moment. However, Fang Qin, who had been alert to the surroundings, felt something passing outside the door for the first time.

The next second, she quickly rushed out of the door, held up a flashlight to shine in that direction, and shouted to the empty corridor: "Who is there!"

The man was startled by Fang Qin's sudden move, but he did not ask immediately. Instead, he waited quietly on the spot.

About five seconds passed, but Fang Qin didn't get any reply to her question. With the limited illumination range of this flashlight, she couldn't find anything.

Only then did the man ask, "What's going on?"

Fang Qin replied with a slight hesitation in his tone: "It seems like something has passed."

"Human?" the man continued to ask.

"It doesn't look like one. It crawls across the ground. It looks a little bigger than a cat or dog."

"Maybe it's some kind of animal?" the man said uncertainly.

Fang Qin frowned and replied: "I don't know, this hospital always feels weird, but I can't put it in words."

Hearing Fang Qin's words, the man swallowed and said in a slightly nervous tone: "I think we should go back first. After thinking about it, my actions tonight are still too reckless."

Although the man's five senses were not as sharp as Fang Qin's, he felt a vague sense of uneasiness from the moment he entered the building. When he heard the other party say the same thing, he immediately backed down.

But Fang Qin shook his head and said firmly: "At least look at the third floor."

After Fang Qin finished speaking, the expression on the man's face became serious. Of course he knew why the other party insisted on checking the third floor, because the third floor was where the man's body was found ten years ago.

Not only Fang Qin, he himself wanted to go to the scene to check it out in person countless times, but even if he went there, what would be the point? The case happened ten years ago, and the inpatient building of the Third Hospital had a lot of trouble after the murder.

It was used normally for a long time before it was abandoned, and with such a long time span, there must be no clues left.

Although he knew it in his heart, when Qin proposed to go to the third floor under such an environment tonight, he really couldn't think of any reason to refuse, or deep down in his heart, he actually wanted to go to the third floor.
Chapter completed!