27: Chapter 27 Your face has been registered on the second basement level.

That face.

Opened its eyes on the medical record card.

It smiled at Lin Jin.

The smile was very faint.

Yet it sent a chill down Lin Jin's spine.

Because it wasn't just an ordinary resemblance.

The facial features.

The expression.

Even the angle of the slightly upturned corners of the mouth.

They were exactly the same as his.

What was even more eerie was:

The look in that face's eyes carried something he would never have.

Submissiveness.

Numbness.

As if it had already been tamed by The Hospital.

[Warning]

[Your facial template has been captured by Basement Level 2]

[Current Status: Binding incomplete]

[Risk: Identity replacement]

The door to the logistics passage was slowly closing.

Chen Ye grabbed Lin Jin's shoulder.

"Don't look!"

"Let's go!"

Lin Jin was dragged into the passage by him.

Bang!

The iron door slammed shut.

The Faceless Patients, the medical record cards, the black water, and that face belonging to Lin Jin in the Basement Level 2 corridor were all blocked outside the door.

But that feeling of being watched did not disappear.

Instead, it felt like a cold thread had pierced through from behind the door and gently hung onto Lin Jin's face.

Lin Jin raised a hand to touch his own face.

The skin was still there.

The facial features had not changed either.

But the prompt from the Hand of Rules still hung before his eyes.

[Facial template residual contamination: 12%]

[Suggestion: Remove Basement Level 2 registration as soon as possible]

[Currently available removal method: Unknown]

Unknown.

These two words were more annoying than the danger level.

Chen Ye watched his movements, his expression tightening.

"Is your face okay?"

Lin Jin lowered his hand.

"It's fine for now."

"For now?"

Chen Ye became even more panicked upon hearing that.

"Don't say words like that to me."

Shen Tingxue stepped closer, her gaze falling on Lin Jin's face.

She looked very carefully.

It wasn't an ordinary glance, but as if she were confirming some subtle change.

A moment later, she said in a low voice:

"Your expression just now, it was wrong for a second."

Lin Jin looked up.

"Wrong?"

"Like someone else was smiling."

The air went quiet for a moment.

Liu Hang and the Short-haired Girl turned pale instantly.

Chen Ye tightened his grip on his shield directly.

"No way, right?"

"It's already starting to replace you this quickly?"

Lin Jin did not answer immediately.

He closed his eyes.

The face on the medical record card in his mind resurfaced.

That face was smiling.

And it was smiling very quietly.

As if it knew that it would return sooner or later.

Lin Jin took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing that face.

"Ignore it."

"Let's go back to Ward 105 first."

Shen Tingxue frowned.

"What if it follows you out?"

"Then we'll fix it after we get out."

Lin Jin looked at the dim logistics passage ahead.

"There's less than a few minutes left for Ward 105 now."

"Let's deal with what's going to explode immediately first."

No one could refute this statement.

The logistics passage was very narrow.

The walls on both sides were painted with yellowing white paint.

The ceiling pipes were exposed, and water droplets dripped constantly.

Compared to the Basement Level 2 corridor, this place looked more like a normal logistics area of The Hospital.

But the more it was like this, the more uneasy it made people.

Because every few meters on the wall, there was an old notice.

[Employee Code]

[1: Do not take supplies from Basement Level 2 out of the registration area]

[2: Do not repair abandoned wards without authorization]

[3: Do not ask about the whereabouts of former employees]

[4: If you encounter Maintenance Department personnel, please report to the Dean immediately]

Lin Jin paused slightly when he saw the fourth rule.

Maintenance Department.

It was the Maintenance Department again.

From the Head Nurse's reaction after hearing "Maintenance Department," to the residual records in Basement Level 2, and now this employee code.

In this hospital, there must have once been a real Maintenance Department.

And Lin Shoushan was very likely one of them.

Chen Ye saw it too.

"We have to report Maintenance Department personnel to the Dean?"

"Aren't they employees of their own hospital?"

Shen Tingxue said indifferently:

"It means the Maintenance Department later became a dangerous target."

Liu Hang's voice trembled.

"Why?"

Lin Jin continued walking forward.

"Because they could repair places The Hospital didn't want to be repaired."

Once these words were spoken, the passage became much quieter.

Everyone realized.

What Lin Jin was doing now might be crossing a certain forbidden line.

They were not just simply repairing Ward 105.

They were bit by bit uncovering the part of this hospital that it least wanted people to touch.

Just then.

A green light turned on at the end of the logistics passage.

On the door was written:

[Inpatient Department Level 1 Logistics Entrance]

As soon as Lin Jin approached, the access control system sounded automatically.

[Night Shift Maintenance Worker identity confirmed]

[Carrying supplies: 105 isolation anchor]

[Status: Passable]

The door opened.

Outside was the corridor of the first floor of the Inpatient Department.

But as soon as they returned here, everyone's expressions changed at the same time.

Because the first floor had completely changed.

Large areas of wall plaster had peeled off.

The ground was covered in black blood stains.

From the direction of Ward 105 in the distance, muffled thumping sounds came one after another.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

With every impact, the entire corridor would shake.

The broadcast also became intermittent.

[Ward 105... Isolation failed...]

[Dean's cleanup program... preparing...]

[Countdown... 02:14]

Two minutes and fourteen seconds.

The time was even shorter than they had imagined.

Chen Ye's expression sank.

"Hurry!"

Everyone immediately rushed towards Ward 105.

The closer they got to Ward 105, the thicker the contamination became.

Black hair started growing on the walls.

In the ceiling light tubes, a large number of black shadows were squirming like insects.

And in front of Ward 105.

The Head Nurse was standing there.

Her nursing cart had already overturned.

A large number of black syringes were scattered all over the floor.

The nurse uniform on her body had been torn by contamination in several places, and cracks had also appeared on the edge of her mask.

Clearly.

During the process of suppressing Ward 105 just now, she had also suffered damage.

Seeing Lin Jin return.

The Head Nurse's pitch-black eyes turned over abruptly.

"You retrieved it."

Lin Jin took out the Isolation Anchor.

"Move aside."

The Head Nurse did not move.

She stared at the long nail in Lin Jin's hand, her voice low:

"It has already been abandoned."

"It cannot be reused."

Lin Jin frowned.

"I have already removed the abandoned tag."

The Head Nurse shook her head slowly.

"Things that have been abandoned are abandoned."

"The Hospital will not acknowledge it."

The air suddenly tightened.

Chen Ye almost laughed in anger.

"Didn't you ask us to go get it?"

"And now that we've brought it back, you won't acknowledge it?"

The Head Nurse did not look at Chen Ye.

She only stared at Lin Jin.

"Maintenance Worker."

"Some things shouldn't be repaired."

"Some wards should have been cleaned up in the first place."

This sentence made Lin Jin's eyes darken.

No.

The Head Nurse wasn't just blocking them.

She seemed to be giving a warning.

Or rather, she actually knew what was inside Ward 105.

Shen Tingxue also noticed it.

"What exactly is in Ward 105?"

The Head Nurse fell silent.

Impacts sounded again behind the door of Ward 105.

Boom!

The crack in the door widened instantly.

A pale palm reached out from inside.

Immediately after, a second one, a third one.

Dense palms grabbed the door frame, as if a group of people wanting to crawl out were hiding inside.

The broadcast sounded sharply.

[Cleanup program countdown: 01:37]

Lin Jin didn't have time for nonsense.

He went straight around the Head Nurse and rushed to the door of Ward 105.

The Hand of Rules unfolded instantly.

[Target: Ward 105 Isolation Rule]

[Status: Precursor to total collapse]

[Core fault: Missing Isolation Anchor]

[Repair material: 105 isolation anchor]

[Compatibility rate: 86%]

It could be used.

Lin Jin's eyes turned cold.

"It doesn't matter if The Hospital acknowledges it or not."

"As long as the rules acknowledge it."

The Head Nurse looked up abruptly.

"You will regret it."

Lin Jin ignored her.

He aimed the Isolation Anchor at the broken hole on the right side of the door frame.

The area around the hole was already covered in black granulation tissue.

It kept squirming like a wound.

As soon as the Isolation Anchor approached, all the palms inside the door grabbed frantically at the same time.

Chen Ye roared, his shield sweeping across.

"Get back!"

Shen Tingxue raised her hand, frost accurately freezing several palms at the door crack, buying a moment of space for Lin Jin.

Lin Jin seized the opportunity.

He held the Isolation Anchor with his right hand.

He raised his wrench with his left hand.

[Repair started]

[Reinstalling Isolation Anchor]

[9%]

The little girl's voice suddenly sounded from inside the door.

"Big brother."

"Are you really going to close the door?"

Lin Jin's fingers paused.

The Head Nurse said in a low voice behind him:

"Don't listen."

The little girl's voice continued to come through.

"They said your dad has been here too."

"He said he would come back to save us."

"But he didn't come back."

Lin Jin's eyes were slightly cold.

Fishing with his dad again.

Is it never going to end?

[Repair progress: 23%]

The little girl inside the door suddenly cried.

"Big brother Lin Jin."

"I am not a monster."

"I am the first person to be cured wrongly by The Hospital."

"If you close the door, I will never be able to get out again."

This time.

Lin Jin did not completely ignore it.

Because the Hand of Rules popped up a new prompt.

[Partial true information detected]

[Ward 105 contamination subject: First-generation failed treatment sample]

[Status: Patient and contamination source fused]

Partially true.

In other words, she was indeed a patient once.

But now, she was indeed a source of contamination.

Lin Jin gritted his teeth and continued to hammer in the Isolation Anchor.

[Repair progress: 41%]

The voice inside the door suddenly became sharp.

"You are just like them!"

"Repairmans are all the same!"

"You only repair doors!"

"You don't save people!"

Boom!

The contamination erupted violently.

A black tentacle pierced out from the crack in the door, directly piercing through Lin Jin's shoulder.

Fresh blood instantly dyed his white coat red.

Chen Ye's expression changed drastically.

"Brother Jin!"

Lin Jin groaned, but he held onto the Isolation Anchor tightly without letting go.

[Repair stability decreased]

[Interrupt repair?]

"Do not interrupt."

He gritted his teeth and said word by word:

"I repair doors."

"I also save people."

"But if you come out now."

"You will get more people killed."

The wrench smashed down hard.

Thud!

The Isolation Anchor was nailed into the door frame.

[Repair progress: 68%]

The screaming inside the door shattered the corridor light tubes.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand to freeze the tentacle on Lin Jin's shoulder, and an ice blade like a sword slashed down.

The tentacle broke.

Black blood sprayed.

Lin Jin's face turned pale, but he continued the repair.

The Head Nurse stood in the back, her pitch-black eyes staring fixedly at him.

At this moment, it was as if she had finally confirmed something.

"You are not an ordinary Maintenance Worker."

Lin Jin did not look back.

"Duh."

"What kind of ordinary Maintenance Worker would work the night shift in a place like this?"

[Repair progress: 89%]

All the runes on the Isolation Anchor lit up.

The door to Ward 105 began to close bit by bit.

All the voices inside the door screamed at the same time.

"Don't close the door!"

"Don't close the door!"

"Your dad is still inside!"

Lin Jin's pupils shrank violently.

The next second.

In the deepest part of the door crack.

A hand covered in blood appeared.

That hand did not grab him.

It just used its fingertips to slowly write two words on the inside of the door.

[Don't believe]

Lin Jin's breathing hitched.

That handwriting.

He recognized it.

It was Lin Shoushan's handwriting.