The Midnight Ward

That cruel man who killed me in my past life had not broken through the window yet.

Time was running short. He had an axe. Plus, he was much stronger and faster than I was.

Once he had lost his patience with toying with me, I was basically dead. I had to do something.

Luckily, I was not too high up in the building. If I tried my best, I might just survive it all.

The cat's meows came right at this moment, just like how it happened in my past life. The killer was about to barge through the window.

I immediately opened the door and ran out, following the memory I had from the last life, avoiding all the obstacles.

The entire building was in total darkness; the only thing lit was the green emergency exit lights.

The comments started appearing in front of me again.

[My God! She's quite smart. I can see she really wants to live, but it's too bad she won't get past this episode.]

[Yes. If she didn't die, why would the villain go mad and attack the main characters?]

[Yes. It's pointless even if she escaped the room. The main entrance had been locked by the killer.]

My heart sank as I read the comments. Could I not escape my fate?

No. As long as there was a slight possibility, I would live. My mind ran quickly, trying to think about the details in the past.

Who was the villain? If he could save me, where should I go to look for him?

When I was by the staircase, I heard a loud crash coming from the lounge. The killer had barged in.

I ran and quickly found a spot to hide. The entire building was in complete darkness, yet there were no movements from the patients or the medical staff on shift.

I had a bad feeling.

Sure enough. As I looked through a few rooms, there was not a soul in sight. There was no one. There were also no signs of the room being lived in. All the rooms were oddly clean and tidy.

How could this be possible?

The medical staff had greeted me with a smile at around 10:00 P.M. However, at this moment, the entire building seemed to be covered in darkness, waiting to swallow me whole.

I suppressed the fear in me and quickly swept through the room, scanning for a place to hide.

The cabinets? Under the bed? Behind the couch?

No. Those options were far too conspicuous.

I quickened my steps. Just when the man upstairs started coming downstairs, I finally found a place to hide.

The second room on the left on the second floor used to be a counseling room. Yet, it was also in utter silence at that moment.

So many people had vanished in the third ward. There must be more than one killer.

Although I was not too high up, I was not sure if I could successfully survive a jump from the window. I avoided all of the possible danger, so choosing to hide was my best option.

I entered the counselling room, careful not to leave any footprints behind. Then, I quickly found an abandoned vent behind the shelf and burrowed myself inside.

No one knew about this place other than some medical staff. I tried to breathe slowly while trying to come up with a survival strategy in the dark.

If this world truly revolved around the duel between the villain and the hero, then for someone like me, the so-called side character mentioned in those strange comments, survival meant that I had to choose a side.

I was a little uncertain about the hero's stance. I did not know what the comments meant by a villain pairing, but from their words, I was on the same side as the villain for the time being.

According to the story, no matter where I hid, being killed by the killer was just a matter of time.

Only by getting the villain involved and joining forces with him could I have a chance of survival.

However, who on earth was the villain?