By now, nothing I saw surprised me anymore.
But it could still scare me half to death.
The corpse in the pool scared me so badly that I fell to the ground. I nearly wet myself.
But when I looked up, the security guard seemed to have vanished into thin air.
I mustered the courage to get up and ran back to the pool for another look. There was no corpse in it at all. Everything seemed to have been a hallucination.
I was certain I wasn't dreaming. I was awake.
But what on earth was going on?
Why had that security guard been able to find me? How had he known I was at the hospital?
And why had I also seen his corpse in the pool just now?
Could he be dead? Had his spirit been trying to lead me to something...
I looked back and saw that the security guard downstairs in the inpatient building had run outside. He was watching me curiously from a short distance away.
I hurried over and asked him if he had just seen someone wearing a security uniform like his.
"What... what person?"
The Hospital Security Guard looked bewildered. "I'm the only one on duty here, and you came downstairs alone just now. There wasn't anyone else. I even called out to you a couple of times, but you ignored me."
My eyes widened in disbelief.
I remembered clearly that no one had called out to me. Had his voice been too quiet for me to hear?
But the Factory Security Guard had clearly run down from upstairs. He had run straight out through the main entrance of the inpatient building, in plain sight. Had the Hospital Security Guard really not seen him either?
I swallowed, knowing I must have encountered