Chapter 361
Looking at the doorman, in an instant, I felt that even if Shelton presented the inkstone whose price
was thousands of times higher than these moneybined, the doorman wouldn''t bother to nce
at it.
The doorman epted the money and counted it two or three times, saying to us with a bright
smile, "Wait a minute."
As he said that, he went in and made a phone call.
Within less than two minutes, from a distance, I saw a nurse dressed in a down coat show up at the
door and run over at us.
Looking quite old, the nurse should be in her forties.
After running over, she looked at us and said reluctantly, "Come in with me."
At this time, we wanted to see Jessica the most. So we didn''t bother with these.
We followed the nurse inside. Walking inside, I looked around and found that several trees in the
yard had indeed withered and be lifeless rather than be seasonally withered in winter
days.
There was no vitality in the whole hospital.
We followed the nurse to the sole building inside.
As soon as we entered the building, we found that the whole building was quiet. Except for a
nurse''s corner in the middle, there were neither lights nor windows in the corridors on both sides.
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At the end of the corridor, there existed the sole window.
The whole hospital looked like a haunted house.
The building was filled with the smell of disinfectant as well as a strange smell mixed in between.
The nurse took us to the nurse''s corner, took out a booklet, and asked, "Which one are you here to
pay the renewal fees for?"
"Renewal fees?" I was a little puzzled, "We''re here to visit a patient."
Hearing my words, the nurse suddenly looked up as if she had seen a ghost and asked, "Visit a
patient?"
"That''s right."
I nodded.
At this time, I had a bad feeling in my heart.
Could it be that nobody had evere to visit the patients here?
Hearing what I said, the nurse burst outughing. Then she lowered her head and said in a quite
cold voice, "Sorry, no visit is allowed here."
"Why..."
Shelton interrupted me and spoke first, "We are here to pay the renewal fees for Jessica Reid."
Hearing Jessica''s name, the nurse looked up at Shelton and then at me, "Jessica Reid? You don''t
have to pay any renewal fees for her."
"Why is that?"
I started to get nervous.
"What does the nurse mean? Could it be that my mother has..."
Soon, the nurse said, "Regarding her, someone has paid 50 years'' fees here for her early."
I pulled Shelton. I thought of the pitch-dark wards on both sides.
In such arge mental hospital, this nurse was the only one in sight.
"Can a patient recover in such a ce?"
As I was about to say something, Shelton seemed to have understood what I meant. He took out
his cell phone and said, "100,000 dors. We want to meet Jessica Reid." "Ah?" The nurse was
stunned.
Shelton repeated, "I''ll transfer 100,000 dors to your bank ount. We want to see Jessica Reid."
The nurse didn''te to her senses at first. However, after Shelton repeated his words, she was
enlightened at once. Nodding right away, she picked up the cell phone next to her and quickly gave
Shelton her bank ount details.
Without saying anything more, Shelton transferred 100,000 dors to her.
After receiving the money, the nurse stared at her cell phone and carefully counted the amount.
After she made sure that it was indeed 100,000 dors, her eyes lit up. She said, "Okay. Okay.
Okay! Come with me!"
As she spoke, she began to rummage through the drawer behind her for a key.
She picked up a bunch of keys with "Fifth Floor" written on them, put her cell phone into her pocket,
and waved her hands, gesturing us to go with her.
There were only five floors of the hospital here.
She took us upstairs by taking an elevator. The elevator was super old-fashioned. It would take at
least ten seconds for the elevator door to be closed. And when it went up, it made a loud noise.
It took us about a minute to get to the fifth floor.
In the elevator, the nurse began to ask, "How are
you connected to Jessica?"
Instead of responding, Shelton asked her instead, "How is she doing here?"
"How is she doing here?" The nurse smiled unnaturally. "Before you came here, didn''t you know
about our hospital? She has been sent here. Why did you ask how she was doing here? She is a
living dog here."
At this time, the elevator had arrived on the fifth floor.
The three of us walked out of the elevator. The fifth floor was darker than the first floor or the
second floor on the fifth floor. Even so, with a light in the middle, we could barely see the road
ahead.
The nurse took us inside and said, "To be honest, before you, nobody visited the patients here.
Generally speaking, the reason why people send the patients here is that they have a guilty
conscience. They are too embarrassed to kill them and yet find them a burden. So they send the
patients here and pay for their stay here to keep their conscience at bay."
The more the nurse said, the more upset I felt.
It was quiet on the fifth floor as well.
I saw that there was a small window on the door of each ward. With the window high up on the
door, someone at my height couldn''t see what was inside.
However, Shelton was tall. He looked around with a frown and a dignified look on his face.
Seeing him look like this, I was worried.
"Bang!" When we were going inside, a sound rang all of a sudden.
I was so frightened that I shrank backward and looked at the door where the noise came from, only
to find a face attacked tightly to the window on the door.
The face was ck, dirty, and skinny.
The pair of eyes above were listless. And there was a horrible smile at the corner of the mouth.
Shelton quickly held me in his arms and whispered in my ear, "Don''t be afraid. I''m here."
Only then did I calm down a little.
The nurse was used to this andforted me, "Don''t worry. Jessica is in a lighter symptom than
them. At first nce, I know that she is a poor person. Therefore, the nurses on duty try their best to
give her better food."
"Thank you.” Hearing what the nurse said, I thanked her unconsciously.
Hearing my words, the nurse turned to look at me weirdly and asked, "What''s the rtionship
between you and Jessica Reid?"
I didn''t say anything.
The nurse said casually, "Could it be that she is your mother?"
"Yes. I only knew about it now." I nodded.
Hearing this, the nurse suddenly stopped and turned to look at me, "Is she your mother?"
There was a bit of surprise on the nurse''s face.
I looked at her, "Yes, what''s the matter?"
"Nothing. Never say that you''re her daughterter. She has a daughter here. You''ll get my point
after you get inside." The nurse shook her head, turned around, and continued to walk forward.
My mother''s ward is in the innermost room.
After walking for a while, we finally reached her ward.
Standing at the door, I quietly listened to what was happening inside.
It was quiet inside.
There was no sound.
The nurse looked for the key to this ward for a while and went to open the door.
Seeing the key turning, I was quite nervous. When I inquired about my scores in the national
entrance examination back then, I wasn''t as nervous as I was now.
After the nurse turned the key for three rounds, the door finally opened.
The moment the door opened, I finally understood what was mixed with the smell of disinfectant. It
was a foul smell!
A burst of disgusting smell gushed out from the crack of the door!
Feeling a churn in my stomach, I almost threw up.
The nurse looked at me and said, "Put up with it for a while."
At this time, I heard a light and soft voiceing from the inside, "Hush. Charlotte and Caroline are
sleeping. Don''t wake them up."