I Rely on Kisses to Clear Survival Games by 啾咪啾咪兔

Chapter 29: Abandoned Hospital (13)

The youth blinked his eyes and asked curiously: "Brother Yuan Huai, you don't get scared coming from your ward to mine?"

He recalled the ghost stories that the nurses had told him during the day. Things like the man-eating monster in the sewer, the red-clothed woman's corpse in the mortuary.... He looked over at the door and couldn't help but shrink. He felt like something would appear from behind that dark door. With a pair of bloody hands, it would gently push the door open......

He once again couldn't help but shrink into Xie Yuan Huai's arms.

"I don't." Xie Yuan Huai's tone was very calm. "There are no such things in the hospital."

"It would be great it that's the case." The boy muttered. 

"Brother Yuan Huai, do you think ghosts really exist in this world?"

"..........."

Xie Yuan Huai's movement stiffened a little.

"... What does Xiao Chu think?"

"I don't know.......I hope it doesn't. I'm scared."

Xie Yuan Huai fell silent for a moment. He then said: "You can't accept the existence of ghosts?"

"I probably can't." The youth thought about it and added. "But it might not necessarily be the case. After all, I have never seen a ghost before so I don't know what kind of reaction I would have when I do see one."

Xie Yuan Hua made a soft sound of acknowledgement, but he didn't say anything. With his company, the boy felt a lot more relieved and he gradually fell asleep.

In a half-asleep state, he faintly felt a hand patting him softly and a gentle, low voice next to his ear.

"Sleep."

The next day, the boy slowly woke up and opened his eyes in confusion.

The room was well illuminated with the bright sunlight coming in from the windows but Xie Yuan Huai could not be found.

.............

The boy held a bunch of snacks in his arms. With an excited expression, he hopped onto the elevator and went from the eight floor to the fourth floor where cardiology patients resided.

It had always been brother Yuan Huai going to his ward to visit him or them meeting at their usual place in the courtyard. Until now, he had not had the chance to go and visit brother Yuan Huai's ward.

Today the nurse sister gave him some snacks that he felt was particularly delicious. He couldn't wait to share it with brother Yuan Huai but he wasn't sure if patients with heart conditions were allowed to have them, so he wanted to ask about it first......

The boy got off the elevator and went straight to the nurse station on the fourth floor. He didn't know Xie Yuan Huai's ward number. Even after asking him multiple times, Xie Yuan Huai never told him. Even the fact that he was hospitalised because of a heart condition was something that the boy had to elicit out from him with great difficulty.

"Hello nurse sister."

The young boy's eyes sparkled, and he smiled brightly: "I want to ask about a patient. He is called Xie Yuan Hai. Which ward does he live in?"

"Xie Yuan Huai? I'll check for you." The nurse's attitude was very kind, "How do you write his name?"

"Thank you, sister." The youth smiled. "It's Xie in thanks, Yuan in far and Huai as in the Huai River."

The nurse pulled up the registration list on the computer and searched through it. She shook her head and said to the boy: "Did you remember the name wrong or get the floor wrong? We don't have anyone called Xie Yuan Huai here."