Can't Save the World by Pretending to be Dead

In the air-conditioned elevator room, the cool wind blows from the top of the head.

Lian Xi glanced at the young man, smiled and shook his head: "No, go out and do something."

The boy was surprised: "Going to work so early?"

Lian Xi didn't explain much: "Yes."

The two chatted casually for a few more words, and soon, the elevator arrived at the first floor.As soon as Lian Xi got out of the elevator door, a young man exclaimed from behind: "Ah, I didn't take my mobile phone!" Lian Xi turned his head, and saw the young man helplessly spread his hands, and said with a smile: "Brother, look at my memory. I'm going to get a phone."

Lian Xi nodded: "Okay, goodbye."

When Lian Xi came to the gate of the community, the Didi driver had been waiting for a long time.

Sitting in the car, blowing the cold air-conditioning wind, he thought in a trance: Isn't it a bit too extravagant?

It seems that in the past month, he always takes a taxi when he goes out, and has never taken a bus.

But then I thought about it, there is no need to suffer myself in such a hot day.Not to mention that he is still a demolition household, even if he is really sitting and eating...

Isn't there a big brother Jin Guang at home?

Lian Xi was thinking in a daze, and soon, he arrived at the park hospital.

Park Hospital is the largest hospital in Sioux City Park.

Lian Xi is from old Sioux City.

Back then, he was considered a premature baby and hadn't reached the expected date of delivery. He was scheduled to go to the hospital the next day, but who knew that he was in a hurry to come out, and his amniotic fluid broke that night.The father hurriedly picked up the mother from the suburbs by motorcycle and sent her to the park hospital to deliver the baby.

More than 20 years ago, there were only two three-story buildings in the park hospital.Today, it already covers an area of ​​[-] acres, with many high-rise buildings.

Lian Xi waited for a while in the lobby on the first floor of the hospital, when a young man with glasses wearing intern clothes came over.

Lian Xi stood up.

Optician: "You are... Lian Xi?"

Lian Xi: "Yes."

The optician looked at him up and down, and said "oh" softly: "Zhao Wei told me about you. You knew someone from the hospital before, and now you want to find him? He didn't make it clear in WeChat."

Lian Xi explained: "I was born in the park hospital back then, and now I want to find the nurse who delivered me back then."

The glasses doctor was dumbfounded: "Are you looking for the nurse who delivered you?"

"Correct."

"Um, this is difficult..."

Lian Xi graduated from Sioux City University, and the Department of Medicine of Sioux City University is well-known throughout China.

When looking for the old nurse who gave her the bell back then, Lian Xi naturally couldn't have turned black and suddenly came.He deliberately went to the alumni group to ask around, and found a classmate with a fairly good relationship.Then I asked this classmate to help, and contacted the intern who graduated from Soochow University in front of me.

The optician pushed the frame and showed embarrassment: "Well, I was an intern in the obstetrics and gynecology department last month. There was an old nurse there with quite high qualifications. Maybe she knows something. I'll take you there to ask."

Lian Xi: "Okay, sorry to trouble you, thank you."

Lian Xi was lucky, when the two rushed to the obstetrics and gynecology department, the old nurse happened to be on duty today.

However, when Lian Xi asked about the nurse who delivered her baby 23 years ago, the old nurse rolled her eyes and said speechlessly, "Who knows this kind of thing?"

Glasses doctor: "Sister Qin, help me."

The old nurse known as Sister Qin frowned: "Xiao Wang, it's not that I don't want to help you. It's been 23 years, it happened in 97! Although I have been in the obstetrics and gynecology department of this hospital since 95 But do you know how many births we have to deliver every day? Do you know how many nurses have left and come back in the past 23 years?" She looked at Lian Xi again, "When were you born?"

Lian Xi immediately replied: "November 1997, 11."

Sister Qin thought for a long time, then sighed: "Don't tell me whether I know who delivered you, I don't even remember, whether I was on duty that day! Who can remember what happened in 23 years!"

Even Xi felt his head was big.

Indeed, what happened 23 years ago was the day of his birth for him, and it was the most unforgettable day for the whole family.But for these nurses and doctors, it was just an ordinary day.

Sister Qin glanced at the two of them: "Okay, for Xiao Wang's sake, I'll go to the retirement group and ask you later. But don't get your hopes up, how could you find this? The doctor and nurse who delivered you, even if they saw it No one will remember my news! By the way, do you remember anything special that happened that day? Tell me, maybe it will be useful.”

Lian Xi: "An old nurse gave me a bell that day."

Sister Qin was surprised and said: "Send the bell? It's weird. Okay, I understand, you go first, I will ask you."

The two of Lian Xi returned home in defeat.

Leaving the obstetrics and gynecology department and coming to the elevator, the optician said, "I still have to go upstairs to do experiments. If there is news about Sister Qin, I will let you know later."

Lian Xi nodded with a gentle tone: "Thank you, I will treat you to dinner when you are free."

The optician didn't seem to be awake, nor was he polite to Lianxi. He waved his hand casually, turned around and entered the elevator.

Lian Xi came early.

The hospital opened at six, and he arrived at 06:30.

However, even at six o'clock in the morning, the hospital was already crowded with people everywhere.

Some came from the countryside to the city overnight, carrying a plastic bag of test papers from the township hospital, just to find a specialist to see their father; There is a person wandering around the city alone, seeing a doctor, doing tests, and paying bills alone, holding a cotton ball and sitting on a plastic chair in a daze...

This is the world.

There is no place where you can see all kinds of things in the world and understand that everyone has his own destiny better than a hospital.

Dressed in gold and silver, ragged.

After entering this door, there is only one appearance left: I hope to survive and step out of this door safely.

"Ding-dong-"

The elevator has arrived.

Lian Xi walked into the down elevator, and several patients who came to see the doctor next to him took a look at the elevator, but didn't go in.

They are waiting for the elevator to go upstairs to see a doctor.

Lian Xi took out his mobile phone and prepared to take a taxi.However, he tried a few times, and the signal in the elevator was extremely poor, and he was still not in the service area.

It seems that we can only wait for the elevator to take a taxi.

"Ding-dong-"

Lian Xi was about to go out, when suddenly, his footsteps stopped.

He raised his head slowly, fixed his eyes, and looked at the long-haired woman who walked into the elevator.

In the empty white corridor, there are no windows on both sides, only high-wattage overhead lights illuminate the clean floor, which is covered with a layer of dead gray white.

The black-haired woman lowered her head and walked stiffly, from the corridor... into the elevator.

She walked slowly to the corner, then stood still.

With a click, the elevator doors closed.

Lian Xi looked up at the screen.

four floors.

"Which building are you going to?" The young man's voice was calm and calm.

The elevator mirror reflected the long-haired woman standing behind her. She didn't say a word, but kept her head down, hiding her face behind her thick long hair.

Lian Xi stared at the other party quietly, a flash of red flashed in his peripheral vision.Lian Xi looked down.

A thin red string was tied around the woman's wrist.

Unlike the red rope on Lian Xi's left wrist, this rope is thicker, and there is no bronze bell tied to it.It's just a bare red string, which doesn't look good, but it's just tied on the pale and bloodless hands.

In the cold elevator, the floors descended layer by layer.

Lian Xi watched the elevator jump to the second floor expressionlessly, and then...

It's the first floor.

Skip the first floor.

"Do you know that there is a rule in the mortuary of the hospital?"

During the long dead silence, suddenly, a woman's hoarse and monotonous voice sounded.Lian Xi raised his head, his gaze met the woman's.

At some point, she also raised her head, her long black hair slid down her cheeks, revealing a pale face.

"do you know?"

In the elevator mirror, the woman slowly tilted her head, looked at Lian Xi, slowly grinned and smiled.

Lian Xi looked at her silently, and said lightly, "I don't know."

"A dead person must be tied with a red string. Once you tie it, you will know... that it is going to be sent to the morgue."

"..."

There was a long silence.

The woman just grinned silently, but the laughter that seemed to come from the bones echoed continuously between the metal walls of the elevator.

dong dong dong-

dong dong dong-

The whole elevator seemed to tremble.

The elevator keeps going down and down!

"Ding-dong-"

Lian Xi raised his head quickly...

Eighteen floors underground!

At this time, the elevator door swung open, and cold, pale light squeezed out of the gap in the door and poured down!

Lian Xi narrowed his eyes, pursed his lips, and pressed his hand on the bronze bell on his left wrist.But just as he was about to ring the bell, suddenly, the people standing outside the door were illuminated by light.

Lian Xi's movements stopped.

A short old man in overalls with a mop in his hand stood outside the elevator, looked at Lian Xi in surprise, and then looked at the elevator number above his head.

"Boy, why are you here?"

Lian Xi didn't let go of the hand holding the bell, he looked at him carefully, and after a while: "There seems to be something wrong with the elevator."

The old man slapped his thigh: "The elevator is broken again! This is the mortuary, you have gone to the wrong place, hurry up!" As he spoke, he saw the person behind Lianxi, and his eyes froze: "Xiaolin! Why are you here? Is it scary again?" While speaking, he stretched out his hand and pulled the woman standing in the corner over.

The short old man looked at Lian Xi and smiled apologetically: "My colleague always likes to scare people. Did she still tell you that dead people in the morgue would tie a red string and then show you the red on her wrist... Er , you have one too, young man."

Lian Xi: "..."

Lian Xi silently hid his left hand behind his back.

The short old man patted the long-haired woman on the head: "What are you doing, you still haven't apologized to her."

The long-haired woman grinned.

The short old man: "Don't listen to her nonsense, there are still people who tie red strings on dead people now. Then..." The old man rolled his eyes, "If it's okay, we still have to clean up, so let's go first."

Lian Xi glanced at the two of them, nodded without saying a word.

The old man breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was afraid that Lian Xi would go to the courtyard leader to complain about them.

Through the gap in the gradually closing elevator door, Lian Xi saw that the old man kept scolding the young woman, accusing her of not scaring the patients in the hospital all the time.

"Let's scare you again!"

"Do you still want this month's salary?"

"Young people nowadays, don't care about it!"

"Click-"

The elevator doors shut completely.

Lian Xi looked up at the screen.

Negative three floors.

You must have misread it just now.

He pressed the elevator button on the first floor, and the elevator drove up slowly.

The cool air from the air conditioner was blowing gently. Lian Xi turned on the phone and found that there was a signal again.

The elevator went up one floor at a time, but in the corridor of the mortuary on the third floor of the hospital, the scolding of the short old man became softer and softer.At the end of the scolding, he was completely silent, only the woman's giggling laughter echoed between the walls of the corridor.

The woman raised her foot, and the skirt slid away, revealing a bony left ankle.

There's a plastic tag tied there—

"B-07.8.14"

"whee……"

"Hahahaha……"

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