Chapter 6

  It was not long after overhearing that conversation that I met the little kid. As I walked back to my ward, I suddenly saw a red rubber ball thrown out of the VIP ward and hit the wall before bouncing back.

  Threw out and bounced back.

  There was no man in black standing guard outside the VIP ward. According to inference, they should have gone with Fang Yanmei for a physical examination. If so, there shouldn't be anyone in that ward, so how could someone be playing ping-pong?

  She couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. This puzzlement was like a kidney stone, making her heart ache, and she took a step forward to walk over, but seeing a pair of hands stretching out from the doorway to catch the ball, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.

  Those were obviously a child's hands. But she had never seen a child with such pale hands. The hands had no blood color, white and eerie, like they were covered in lime powder, and that lime powder was produced from within the body, condensed on the skin.

  The little boy hid behind the door, throwing the ball against the wall and catching it with his hand.

  You can't see his face. Is it a little boy or a little girl? The ball bounces monotonously against the wall, fermenting in the sweltering air. Youyou feels that her throat is blocked by this depressing sound, forming a thick phlegm that cannot be swallowed or spat out.

  Although the air was still circulating, the sounds and people outside the corridor seemed to be isolated in another world. Suddenly, the whole world was left with only her and that little kid. This strange, yet thrilling feeling.

  She stood still, unmoving. She saw the ball thrown out of the door again, hitting the wall and bouncing back, but this time it unexpectedly deviated from its usual trajectory and rolled towards her. Youyou held her breath, she didn't know what this change meant or what consequences it would bring.

  Her brain felt like it had been poisoned with mercury, with dead cells and rotten nerves scattered all over the place, her mind was filled with these corpses. As she hesitated, the red rubber ball slowly rolled to her feet.

  She didn't think twice and reflexively kicked it back with her foot.

  The ball rolled back to the end of the corridor, motionless, and the child did not come out to pick it up. Youyou was expecting the child to come out and pick up the ball so that she could get a good look at its appearance. However, this childish thought was soon overshadowed by a terrifying phenomenon. She saw the originally motionless ball suddenly start rolling slowly again, as if driven by an external force, and slowly roll back into the ward.

  Then a pair of pale hands stretched out from the doorway and slammed the red leather ball against the wall.

  Bang Bang——Bang Bang——

  Youyou didn't dare stay in the corridor anymore and quickly walked into her own ward, closing the door.

  It was strange that the sound of the ball also disappeared at the moment when the door closed.