Chapter 0237 – Tell Your Story
”Only three of the four can remain.”
A chill also passed through Chen Ge’s heart, in this bizarre environment, being abandoned could herald death.
”Go over there, you’re not qualified to sit with us.” The fifth person on the right side of the table spoke up, he was closest to Chen Ge and had a gloomy gaze, “I like your mask somewhat.”
Chen Ge ignored him and stood next to the three newcomers.
”Number one, continue your story, no one will interrupt you this time.” The man sitting first on the left seemed to be the backbone member of the association, and no one dared to refute his words.
The newcomer called Number One looked very old, he wore a black mask that covered his entire face but showed off his flowery white hair.
His arms and legs were slender, he looked weak, his skin was loose and inelastic, and age spots could be seen on his exposed arms.
”I’ll continue then.”
Number One coughed a few times, he had a little habit of matching his hand gestures when he spoke, so it gave him a somewhat comical look.
”This story took place in the city’s People’s Hospital, it’s something I saw with my own eyes, and it’s absolutely true.”
”I suffer from lung disease and have been receiving treatment in the hospital, living in the middle of the intensive care ward.”
”There is also an old man in the same ward with me, I’m not sure what kind of disease he has, I only know that he is in great pain every day, always hovering on the edge of life and death.”
”The story begins a week ago at night.”
”He was a very light sleeper, waking up at the slightest breeze, and at midnight that day, I don’t know what time, I suddenly realized that the old man wasn’t sleeping, and that he was looking at a certain part of the room with his eyes open.”
”I also looked toward the place where he was gazing, and there was nothing there.”
”I turned on the light and asked him what he was looking at.”
”He said there was a man standing there.”
”When I tried to ask specifically what the man looked like and what he was wearing, the old man stammered out an answer.”
”In the middle of the night the next day, I felt some coldness in the room and woke up to find the old man in that hospital bed next to me, looking at me with his eyes wide open.”
”I was startled, and when I turned on the light, the old man turned his head sideways, and no matter what I asked him, he refused to say anything.”
”When I went to bed on the third day, I didn’t dare to turn off the bedside lamp, and in the pale light I slept soundly until morning.”
”But when I woke up I realized that there were footprints with dust on the sheets and quilt, as if someone had stood on my bed last night.”
”I became even more disturbed and dared not sleep the whole night, feeling that something bad would happen as soon as I closed my eyes.”
”I only dared to sleep during the day and stay awake during the night.”
”Nothing happened on the fourth day, but on the fifth night, I saw something very horrible.”
”The old man got up from his bed after zero hour, and he stood on tiptoe, like this ……”
Number One, who wore a black mask, with his hands down, followed the old man’s example at that time, standing on tiptoe, his body walking around the house at a lurch, looking very scary.
”The old man walked around my bed a few times, I didn’t know what he was doing, his face was sunken inward, his eyes bulged out, and his skin was wrinkled together.”
”I woke him up by shouting and he lay back down on the bed with his eyes looking at the ward door.”
”He said someone was calling his name outside, but he didn’t know whether to go out or not.”
”By the sixth day, after nightfall, the old man’s health was deteriorating. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t speak, and coughed constantly, as if he had something lodged in his windpipe.”
”The doctor gave him emergency treatment, and it wasn’t until after eleven o’clock at night that his condition stabilized, except that his face became worse, and there seemed to be a grey mist covering his face.”
”After zero o’clock, the old man opened his eyes again, this time looking straight at the door of the ward and mumbling something under his breath.”
”Around almost one o’clock, the old man walked out of the hospital bed and ran out of the ward in that strange position, and hasn’t come back until now.”
After the last sentence, Newcomer #1 coughed again, he was weak.
”Great story.” The man sitting first on the left nodded.
”Oh, thanks for the compliment.” The first newcomer laughed as if a crow had chirped, it was very hard to hear.
The people on both sides of the table exchanged words, commenting on Newcomer Number One’s story.
Chen Ge stood at the end without saying a word, he had heard the old man’s story from the beginning to the end, and he realized that something was wrong when the old man said his first sentence.
According to the old man, he was living in the intensive care ward, but as far as Chen Ge knew, most of the intensive care wards in Jiujiang were single rooms, and there was no such thing as two seriously ill patients living together.
At first he thought the old man was lying, but the more he listened, the more he felt} human, the old man could be telling his own story, he himself was the patient who tiptoed out of the ward!
In terms of time, it is entirely possible that the story of No. 1 began a week ago, and the old man ran out of the ward after the early hours of the sixth day, which happens to be the early hours of the seventh day today.
The Weird Tales Association required that every weird tale had to be true to life, and the weirdos on both sides of the table didn’t question it, so that meant that the story the old man told should be true.
Chen Ge lowered his head and glanced at newcomer number one with his afterglow, who seemed to have no shadow.
”Number one’s story was wonderful and got off to a good start, now let’s hear number two’s story.” As soon as the man first on the left spoke, the others immediately fell silent.
”Your turn, number two.” Newcomer number one was so excited that he would cough every now and then.
Newcomer number two wore a smelly jacket and a plastic pig-face mask purchased from a street stall; he was about the same height as Chen Ge, but had a thin build.
”I heard my story from my ex-wife, but I can assure you it’s absolutely true.”
”She was a dance teacher at a school, and in her class there was a very talented girl who was far superior to everyone else in terms of ability, size, and appearance.”
The second man smacked his lips, “The kid was like a real white swan, and the other students were nothing more than a flock of geoducks compared to her.”
”The story started a few years ago when my ex-wife picked six girls from her class to form a team for a city dance competition.”
”Five of the six girls intentionally alienated the most talented student out of jealousy.”
”At the city competition, that most talented student changes the judges’ opinion almost single-handedly, allowing the entire team to advance.”
”But at the celebratory get-together, no one invited that student.”
”In order to prepare for the provincial competition, the six of them began special training over the summer, and that’s when the real conflict erupted.”