The instant the safety door to the Fifteenth Floor opened, dazzling white light poured through the gap. It was even more uncomfortable than the lighting on the Fourteenth Floor, making them want to close their eyes to ease the sudden stinging and burning.
But every one of them knew that on this strange, unknown Fifteenth Floor, even a moment of carelessness could bring unforeseen danger. Closing their eyes now might mean exposing their lives to an unknown threat.
So, although their eyes stung as if they were burning, Chi Yan and the others endured the physical discomfort. They blinked their tear-soaked eyes, struggling to adjust to the abrupt change in light, then held them wide open and stared fixedly at the scene ahead.
As their vision gradually cleared, the Fifteenth Floor slowly came into view.
At first glance, the corridor looked much like the one on the Fourteenth Floor. The same cream-colored walls, the same clean, tidy floor tiles. Light spilled down, illuminating the entire corridor as brightly as daylight.
But a closer look revealed the differences-
It was far too empty, empty enough to be unsettling.
There were none of the playful pictures that hung outside the wards on the Fourteenth Floor, not a single hospital bed or counter, and no rest area like the one on the Thirteenth Floor. There was not even a trace of somewhere people could linger. It was as though the space had been completely emptied, leaving only this corridor, which was not particularly wide.
Nothing but a corridor.
Logically, if there were no wards here, the entire Fifteenth Floor should have felt much more spacious. Strangely, however, the corridor before them looked little different from the one on the Fourteenth Floor, and its emptiness brought an even deeper sense of suffocation.
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