A minute later, Zhang Keying also came up.
Xia Hou turned back and helped her. I asked her curiously, "Did you not see wrong just now?"
"No, it was a strange silhouette, like a divine bird."
"Divine bird???"
"Are you referring to the divine bird from the primordial chaos demons?"
"I'm not sure, I only saw many feathers on its head, a pointed beak, and wings on its body."
I coughed. Even if Zhang Keying wasn't mistaken, that thing was definitely a person in disguise.
I didn't say much and went upstairs directly. Everyone followed immediately. Fortunately, the second half of the stairs was not missing, and we quickly reached the second floor of the psychiatric hospital.
This floor had more wards, and they were very densely packed. The iron doors on both sides had only a small rectangular gap, which was where the patients used to look outside and also to breathe, as there were no windows inside the wards at all.
As we walked through the corridor, I wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but we heard dense, strange cries from both sides, as well as some discussions and taunts.
"Look, here come some more who are not afraid of death!"
"Hmph, it's not the first time. These few look different from the previous ones."
"Look, one of them is still wearing a police uniform. Could it be a police officer? Why are so many police officers here?"
"They must be here to investigate the case. Haven't many people gone missing here? And someone died, cough, cough, our director!"
"How dare you mention that old woman? She was only one year away from retirement at that time, and at that very moment, ahhh! Don't come here, help!"
"Old Seven, what's wrong? Don't scare me, please. Could it be, could it be that she's here again??"
"Don't come! I was wrong! I shouldn't have mentioned your name, I was wrong, okay? Don't come! Please!"
"Old Seven! Old Seven!"
Our hearts tightened to the extreme because in these wards, people were shouting densely: "Don't come! And Old Seven, Old Seven!"
Even though we didn't know what these words meant, this psychiatric hospital was supposed to be empty, so where did these people come from, and what were those sounds?
Also, who was Old Seven? The old woman was the director here. Was there some unspeakable secret behind her death back then?!
Thinking of this, a scene of an elderly director in a dirty work uniform, who died tragically in her office, suddenly appeared in my mind.
Her body was bloated, with a large amount of white or pale red foamy discharge from her mouth and nose, her whole body was covered in red corpse spots, and her skin showed signs of wrinkling and swelling...
A pair of blood-red eyes without pupils suddenly widened and turned fixedly...
"Team leader, team leader, what are you doing? Don't scare us!"
Everyone was pulling me hard at that moment. I don't know how many years have passed, but when I recall today's scene, I regret our impulsiveness in coming to this psychiatric hospital. I quickly said, "Don't be afraid, find a way to open the ward doors!"
"Received!" Everyone took out their batons and guns and worked on both sides. Soon, several ward doors were opened, but inside, only piles of white bones could be seen. It seemed that there were several people in each ward, and they were all trapped inside and could not leave, starving to death here.
Xie Chuchu, Zhang Keying, and I examined these remains and found that the time of death was consistent with the time the hospital incident occurred. It seemed that these people had not left since the director's accident.
Zhang Keying held a piece of bone and observed it, saying, "Based on the wear of the teeth and the healing of the sagittal sutures of the skull, these people were all between 25 and 30 years old."
"Yes, there's a woman here, about 25 years old. She was housed with several men. What kind of psychiatric hospital is this? It's despicable!" Xie Chuchu complained.
We classified these skeletons and moved them all to the corridor, arranging them side by side. After moving all the skeletons, we calculated that there were over 30 skeletons here, but the number of patients in the psychiatric hospital was definitely more than that.
We walked through the center of the corridor and found a room with the words "Cleansing Room" written on it. This was probably where the madmen took their baths.
Xia Hou and I exchanged glances, signaling him to go in and check with me. Xie Chuchu, Zhang Keying, and He Xin followed.
Upon seeing the pale writing, He Xin, as if by reflex, suddenly said, "I once watched a movie where the cleansing room of a psychiatric hospital was terrifying. I wonder if there will be ghosts!"
"Are you referring to the Korean one?"
"Yes, but it feels like this psychiatric hospital in Anxi Town is nothing compared to that one."
"Although art is said to be higher than life, in many cases, it's just that some places haven't been fully explored, which is why reality is sometimes more dramatic than fiction!" I explained.
He Xin nodded and turned on her flashlight. Xia Hou walked in front of her. It seemed like my words had emboldened the two of them.
We followed the two of them into the cleansing room. I don't know if it was psychological, but it always felt damp. We also simultaneously witnessed that the walls were covered with uneven pus-filled boils, and countless human internal organs, along with some small intestines, hung from the ceiling. As everyone knows, the length of the small intestine is astonishing. Given the height of the psychiatric hospital floors, those small intestines had all reached the floor. At this moment, blood was continuously flowing from the gaps in the floor. A rectangular trough was making gurgling sounds. I turned to look and found human arms, and some thighs, floating in the water!
These parts looked very fresh, as if they had been cut off not long ago. It can be said that the level of horror in the Anxi Psychiatric Hospital was the highest I had experienced in so many cases.
However, Xie Chuchu and Zhang Keying acted as if nothing had happened, directly getting out their evidence bags. Seeing that they were not afraid, I also took out a shadowless reflection tube to survey the scene. Xia Hou, He Xin, and Xiao Yuande were also inspecting different walls. During the process, I noticed He Xin, for some reason, lifting a curtain and walking into another room of the cleansing room.
After all the collectable items at the scene were collected, Zhang Keying shook a test tube and said to me, "I've extracted some water from here."
"En, there are a few fingerprints on that wall, collect them as well!"