Nobody responded.

Just a little while ago, they had vaguely heard… the sound of a walking stick tapping gently on the floor. It was a light, soft sound, yet it was evident that the sound was slowly approaching them.

They were at the inpatient unit.

As nurses who dealt with medical situations on a daily basis, death and debilitation was not something foreign to them. At the very least, it wouldn’t be accurate to call them cowards. That said, there was a city-wide curfew in place right now. The fact that they heard the tapping sounds of a walking stick approaching them in an otherwise empty duty room made their hair stand on end.

“Shall we go take a look?” The short-haired nurse picked up her flashlight and asked.

The nurse with shoulder-length hair nodded her head and set down her iPad to respond to duty’s call. Just as the two of them stood up, their eyes immediately widened so much that they almost fell out of their sockets.

The door to their duty room was slightly ajar, leaving a crack that they could still look through. Just a moment ago, they had clearly seen the blurred silhouette of a person walking past their door.

Tuk… tuk… The sound of the walking stick was incomparably clear in the dead of the night. However, none of them heard the sound of any footsteps!

No… in fact, they didn’t even hear any traces of sound normally made by humans!

No breathing, no coughing and no rustling of clothes. The only...