Travel through the worlds and spread the flames across the worlds

Chapter 166 Hospital and Patients

As soon as Lin Hun stepped onto the old and faded stairs inside the door, he heard a painful groan of "creak" coming from the soles of his feet. In the hospital where the wailing was echoing, it did not sound so scary.

The unmaintained stairs were covered with thick dust on both sides, and the dark red paint on the stairs was peeling off and looked a bit mottled.

What attracted Lin Hun's attention most was a pair of stone sculptures on the stair railing that were used as lamps. A faint firelight appeared in the single claw of the statue monster, emitting a faint light, as if a faint hope was firmly controlled by the monster.

The creatures carved in the statues were so strange that even though Lin Hun had seen many abstract things in the fishing village and even faced losers, he still felt that they were insignificant when he saw this pair of lamps. They were simply too weird.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, look at the overall shape," Lin Hun kept searching his mind for words to describe it, and in the end he could only barely find an animal with the same complete body as theirs as an example in his memory, "Why is the head of this prawn so round? Oh, my God, look at the densely packed round balls on its head. Are those eyes? Well, do people here like this kind of thing?"

Lin Hun thought of this and looked up, and found that these statues did not appear in just one place. Basically, he would encounter one after walking more than twenty steps. The howling in his ears was indescribably strange:

"This is really a hospital. Not to mention the patients here screaming so miserably, even if I were here, I'd probably scream a few times."

Lin Hun felt nauseous when looking at these sculptures, but no matter how nauseous he felt, he still felt itchy and wanted to touch them.

The rough texture of the stone made Lin Hun feel barely at ease. Where his fingers brushed, he saw scales similar to those on a fish's body all over the body of the statue.

When observing these statues from different angles, one can find eyes looking at oneself on the bean-shaped heads of the statues. Especially under the reflection of the pale yellow light, the edges of each eyeball reflect an arc of light, making them look lifelike.

Lin Hun couldn't even determine whether the statue was based on a real creature or was just a figment of the church staff's imagination. He lit a flame in his hand to cover the statue, but the resulting technical memory was disappointing:

"I thought this thing really existed, but I didn't expect it was just the imagination of the church members. I really don't know how the church taught its followers to come up with such a thing."

Knowing the origin of the originally strange statue, it was no longer so scary. Lin Hun simply placed his hand on the statue's densely packed head and patted it.

The place where Lin Hun was located was basically the top floor of the hospital. There were three floors below, and as for the top of his head, there were only beams and ceiling.

Lin Hun leaned against the statue and looked down, observing the environment of the so-called hospital. The faint light emitted by the lamps on the handrails could not illuminate the entire staircase, and even the ten meters around him was a bit difficult. However, once he was out of the range of the lights, it was like entering another world.

Darkness is the main theme of this other world. Whether on the dark stairs or in the gloomy corridors on each floor, one can see dark shadows walking back and forth. They gather in the darkness, wandering and moving constantly.

Above their necks and heads was a huge black shadow that was bent in the darkness and wider than their shoulders. It seemed to be filled with liquid and kept rising and falling with their movements.

The best dividing line of light is that whenever they come into contact with the light, they will take a detour again, repeating the cycle over and over again.

Lin Hun did see some patterns from this little point:

"These patients seem to be somewhat afraid of light. Is it just the light emitted by lamps, or are they afraid of any light? Unfortunately, there is nothing else on hand that can serve as a harmless light source."

Just talking about the environment, before coming to the Dark Soul world, Lin Hun had been to the hospital more than once because of his family. Not to mention the special wards in the hospital, just the ordinary wards, the windows in every room were tall and wide. Countless times, Lin Hun could see the entire sky when looking out from the inside. The vast scenery made his mood become much better in an instant, especially it had many benefits for the patient's physical and mental health.

Looking at this hospital again, Lin Hun felt it was outrageous:

"I haven't seen any natural light since I came in. The only light comes from these lamps. According to Coss, these things are the echo of sight. A normal person would go crazy if he stayed in this place for too long."

On the fourth floor, Lin Hun naturally had a better way to leave the hospital. The stairs on each floor were intertwined. Just by taking a glance, Lin Hun found the best route to easily jump from the fourth floor to the first floor. However, he chose to walk down step by step:

"I really want to see what these so-called churches can do to me in order to explore the secrets of the superiors and to advance in rank."

Lin Hun stepped on the creaking stairs one step after another and looked around. There were other wards on both sides of the fourth floor of the building, but there was no road directly connected to the gate. Going forward would mean going down to the third floor. He could only find a way to get to the ward on the fourth floor through a roundabout way.

"This staircase really needs some maintenance," Lin Hun stretched out his front foot and pressed hard with his body. "Squeaky..." The sound of the wooden board pressing down came from the bottom of his feet. He made sure that it would not collapse suddenly before taking the next step. Every step was taken with great care. "Fortunately, this is not the real world. At this rate, I'm afraid these stairs would have collapsed long ago."

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As soon as he stepped onto the corridor outside the ward on the third floor, three patients excitedly ran out from the dark corner and rushed towards him, their bare feet making "clapping" sounds on the stone floor.

Seeing their excitement, Lin Hun decisively overturned his previous speculation:

"It seems that these patients are not afraid of light, but simply like the dark."

The moment the patient emerged from the darkness, Lin Hun realized that his previous blurred vision had led to a judgment that was only three or four points accurate.

The first impression Lin Hun had of these patients’ exposed limbs was that they were skinny.

I don’t know if it’s the combined influence of the blood of the superiors, but whether it’s the previous fishmen, the losers, or the current patients, their bodies are only covered with a layer of skin over their bones.

The first two still have fat and muscle in their bodies, but Lin Hun is afraid that these patients will fall and break their bones while running. The weight of the fat and bones on their bodies combined is probably less than 50 kilograms.

But then Lin Hun's attention was diverted by something even more surprising about the patient.

Lin Hun could now finally see the dark shadow on his neck clearly, and his teeth instantly bit down on the high bulges of the apple muscles on both sides.

Unlike the clothing and decorations previously believed, the heads of the three patients who appeared were strangely swollen and appeared to be a dark red color mixed with flesh and blood. Both their size and fatness far exceeded their exposed bodies.

As they ran, it seemed as if there was no bone fixation and shock absorption at all. The brain fluid inside continued to roll and shake, causing the blood-red skin to bulge and sink.