novelhk Chapter 290 New Life
Chapter 290 New Life
Chapter 290 New Life (11)
Lu Kai felt his heart beating very fast.
Standing at the door of 401, he was so loud that he could hardly hear anything else.
He was too nervous and too scared.
As he reached out to knock, he saw his trembling fingers.
For a fleeting moment, Lu Kai considered turning around and running away. The thought was so strong that his mind went blank for a moment, but he immediately suppressed it.
Where can I run to?
The outside world is clearly not normal; it's deserted and might even be more terrifying. At least there are other humans here.
He wouldn't dare to cheat.
We had no choice but to bite the bullet and go for it.
Lu Kai exhaled nervously, and after making his decision, he quickly knocked three times with his hand that was hovering in front of the door.
The knock was very soft, because he dared not knock too hard, but even so, the woman inside heard it.
"coming."
A woman's indistinct voice came from inside the door, accompanied by very light footsteps.
The door was quickly opened a crack. Even though Lu Jinzhao had confirmed before going upstairs that the curtains in room 401 were not drawn, the inside was still pitch black.
The woman stood in the darkness, looking out: "What is it?"
Her voice lacked any distinctive features; she spoke slowly and in a flat, monotonous tone, giving it a subtly inhuman quality.
"Um, could I... could I borrow the videotape?"
Lu Kai had already prepared his speech in his mind, but when he actually faced the woman, he still couldn't help but stumble over his words.
Finished!
His heart tightened, and he wildly wondered if this woman, who didn't seem human, might suddenly attack and kill him because he stammered.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and Lu Kai felt a chill run through his body.
Fortunately, the woman inside the door didn't seem to mind his trembling and stuttering as he spoke.
"can."
She said the words a second time, and then, just like yesterday, she closed the door, turned around, and went back inside.
Lu Kai felt a sudden sense of relief.
Even before he got his hands on the videotape, he had already begun to relax.
It seems that just borrowing the videotape won't cause any trouble!
He tried to comfort himself.
The woman returned quickly, the door was reopened, and she handed out a videotape that looked exactly the same as yesterday.
This time, Lu Kai sensed something was different.
Perhaps because the woman had been hiding inside the door, and there was still a door and some space between them, Lu Kai only instinctively felt afraid, his teeth were chattering, but at least he could still speak.
But now, the woman's arm was outstretched, right in front of him.
The arm, which looked perfectly normal except for being a little thin and pale, inexplicably gave Lu Kai the creeps.
He dared not accept it.
Not only was he too afraid to accept it, he even lowered his head, not daring to look at the woman on the other side of his arm.
He suddenly felt extremely cold. He was trembling uncontrollably, and even his pupils were swaying, as if his eyes had suddenly developed their own thoughts and were frantically dodging against the commands of his brain.
"Answer it."
It wasn't until Ning Jianwei gently nudged him that a feeling of waking from a dream enveloped Lu Kai, rescuing him from the cold, suffocating, terrifying fantasy.
Lu Kai tried to run away again. But Ning Jianwei was right beside him, and the hand that was pushing him hadn't even left his shoulder, so he couldn't move.
This woman is incredibly strong!
Lu Kai's mind was completely clear. He lowered his head and, with a trembling voice, uttered "thank you" as he took the videotape from the woman's hand.
He didn't dare keep the woman inside the door waiting too long.
Fortunately, the woman didn't react in any particular way, and he easily got his hands on the videotape. Ning Jianwei also let go of the hand that was on his shoulder.
"Phew," Lu Kai breathed a sigh of relief, a smile of relief spreading across his face: "I'm alright now, aren't I? I shouldn't have scared myself like that."
"Let's go watch the video."
Ning Jianwei smiled at him, but for some reason, seeing this smile, which was supposed to be friendly, Lu Kai's feelings of relief cooled down.
Upon entering room 402, no one wanted to take the videotape from Lu Kai's hand; everyone avoided it like the plague.
Lu Kai wondered to himself, if he didn't play the video, were these people supposed to keep waiting for him?!
But he didn't dare to do what he was thinking. While Ning Jianwei was watching him with the player under the TV, he had already put the videotape on.
With a click, the videotape was inserted.
The old television screen lit up, first filled with static, then the machine read the videotape. The static on the screen suddenly twisted strangely for a moment, then flickered for half a second, the screen went black, and then lit up again, showing the contents of the videotape.
The scene is still a hospital.
It was the same operating room, the same pregnant woman, the doctor and assistant beside her, and the slightly shaky camera.
What's different is the state of each person in the picture.
At this moment, the pregnant woman's abdomen is bulging high, and there are no surgical incisions.
Her face remained calm, as if she weren't the one lying on the operating table. The camera shook slightly, the lens zoomed in, focusing on the pregnant woman's bulging belly.
Everyone remembers that in the last videotape, a baby was "put in" here.
The baby is in there now.
However, it was blocked, and the camera couldn't capture it.
Seemingly realizing this, the photographer stopped filming, pulled the camera back, and the assistant raised his hand to turn off the lights on the surgical instruments above their heads. The moment the lights went out, the image on the screen flickered. In the next shot, the pregnant woman was being pushed backward, leaving the operating room.
It is quite clear that these videotapes were "rewound".
The pregnant woman was wheeled back to her hospital bed. The room was a private room, and there were no relatives who should have been there to accompany her. In the slightly swaying video, apart from the few people who were always there, no one else appeared.
This videotape isn't long, and up to this point, there haven't been any truly terrifying scenes.
Until the very last minute.
The shaky camera focused on this old-fashioned hospital room. Even though it was daytime and the room was brightly lit, the atmosphere felt strangely oppressive.
The pregnant woman, who had been expressionless on the bed, suddenly changed.
She raised her hand to stroke her abdomen, a loving expression on her face, and spoke softly:
"Great news, I'm pregnant."
--Snapped.
As the videotape was ejected, an unnamed chill enveloped everyone present.
Why say this now when she's already in labor?
Saying this makes it sound like you've just found out you're pregnant.
In the deathly silence, Lu Jinzhao felt the pain in his arm lessen.
The first task disappeared, and the second task was completed just as "easily."
(End of this chapter)