She looked as kind as a neighbor aunt and said to Mr. Chen: "Xiao Chen, what are you here for?" "I have an employee hospitalized here. I came to visit." Chen Yun replied immediately and at the same time started chatting with Mrs. Xu with the attitude of a junior. The young lady beside Yun Xi pursed her lips again and whispered to Yun Xi to complain: "It seems that everyone has their own person to flatter." These words were still mocking Chen Tian for being snobbish and changing his attitude depending on who he was dealing with. And this time, Yun Xi also nodded in deep agreement to the young lady. At this time, there was another "ding". The elevator finally reached the ground floor. As soon as the door opened, Yun Xi suddenly felt an inexplicable chill hitting her face! The people started filing out one after another, and the ones who got out first also complained: "Why has it gotten so dark so quickly?" "Yeah, what time is it?" ... ...That creepy feeling in the corridor started again. Yun Xi's heart sank. She turned to the siblings who were following the crowd and squeezing out and softly reminded them: "This hospital is not right. Let's go quickly." The siblings were obviously startled. Yun Xi couldn't explain much more. Besides, if she tried to explain this kind of thing further, others would probably think she was crazy. Yun Xi could only force a smile at the two of them and then quickly rushed out of the elevator. Once out of the elevator, Yun Xi immediately felt the temperature drop sharply. It had been a sunny afternoon when she came, but now it was already getting dark outside. The lobby on the ground floor was still the same lobby, but there wasn't a single on-duty nurse in sight. Yun Xi glanced at the electronic bulletin board above the nurse's station. It showed that there was one minute left until six o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, the sky shouldn't be this dark. Yun Xi's uneasiness grew stronger and stronger! She took two steps at a time and quickly left everyone who got out of the elevator with her behind and was the first to rush out of the lobby. The moment she stepped out of the glass door of the lobby, Yun Xi heard a mechanical time-reporting sound from behind: [Dang.] [Meili Hospital is reporting the time for you. The current time is:] [Six o'clock in the afternoon.] Yun Xi vaguely felt that some abnormal changes had occurred behind her. But Yun Xi didn't even look back and rushed along the path she had come, running all the way. Under the sunlight in the daytime, the greenery landscape at the hospital entrance was full of a quietness that made people relax. But now as Yun Xi ran through it, she only felt that it was eerily quiet. There was no human voice, no sound of insects or birds. It seemed that she was the only living thing in the whole hospital. In the end, Yun Xi almost ran all the way to the hospital entrance. Fortunately, the security guard uncle in the duty booth at the entrance was still there. The uncle still had a cheerful smile on his face and was looking towards her. Yun Xi finally let out a sigh of relief and raised her hand to say hello to the security guard uncle. But when her hand was halfway up, Yun Xi suddenly realized something was wrong. The security guard uncle's body movements seemed very stiff, and his smile was also very stiff, as if... frozen on his face. And under the light of the security booth, the uncle's face had a strange paleness. With his stiff smile... Yun Xi rationally withdrew her gaze and didn't look at the uncle anymore. She suppressed her fear and quickly ran past the duty booth. The moment she left the hospital gate, Yun Xi glanced from the turning rearview mirror of the driveway in front of the hospital entrance. The security guard uncle was still in the booth, maintaining that stiff smile and staring straight at her back through the window. Yun Xi was scared out of her wits! She didn't pretend anymore. She took off and ran at a sprinting speed until she reached the bus stop across the street from the hospital before she stopped to gasp for breath. When Yun Xi caught her breath and looked up, she found that in just this short while, the sky around her had obviously gotten darker. But the street lights around hadn't been turned on. As it got dark, the temperature around seemed to drop particularly fast. And since Meili Hospital was built in the new district and the surrounding facilities hadn't been completed yet, it looked especially desolate at this moment. Yun Xi took out her mobile phone and checked the time again. It was six o'clock and five minutes. And at this time, she was even more panicked to find that: Her mobile phone had no signal at this time! Now Yun Xi knew clearly in her heart that things weren't over yet. She blew on her hands, rubbed them together, and stood on tiptoe to look in the direction where the bus back to the city would come from. But gradually, a light fog began to spread around. The outlines of the surrounding buildings also began to become blurred. Yun Xi had no choice but to check her mobile phone every few seconds. Five minutes, ten minutes... Half an hour passed. The sky was almost completely dark, and Yun Xi was on the verge of crying! She didn't dare to think about why she was the only one who had run out of the hospital and none of the people who got out of the elevator with her had followed. She didn't dare to really cry out loud either, for fear that the crying would attract other things. She could only hold on to her last glimmer of hope, thinking that as long as she could get on the bus and return to the urban area, she could end this unlucky day. At that time, she would definitely go to the most bustling hot pot restaurant at the school gate and order a double set meal for herself to get rid of the bad luck. "...The old saying is right. Being greedy for small gains will lead to big losses... I'll never be greedy for small gains again..." Yun Xi kept murmuring to herself almost silently, trying hard not to let her mental state collapse. The fog around was getting thicker, and it was already hard to see clearly more than ten meters away. Just when Yun Xi was a bit desperate, some faint red lights lit up in the depths of the fog. It was a rolling LED bus sign, and what was displayed on it was: 111. The 111 bus that Yun Xi had been waiting for finally arrived! She was almost moved to tears of joy! But in the next instant, Yun Xi calmed down as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on her— The bus was moving too slowly. And Yun Xi also faintly heard a creaking sound of old machinery in operation, which accompanied the bus as it moved along. This kind of creaking sound of old machinery was something Yun Xi had only heard on those almost scrapped buses in her hometown when she was a child. But now in this province, it was all about green travel, and all the buses were new energy ones. Where did this old and dilapidated bus come from? Yun Xi's heart sank by half. And that 111 bus, which looked like a decrepit old man, slowly and shakily made its way through the fog and finally pulled up to the stop. Creak— With a sharp screeching sound of friction, the bus stopped steadily, and then the door opened with a squeak. ...To get on or not to get on? That was the question.