"247, 246, 245, 244,…" He counts the room number as he walks past the endless corridor.
"If my room was the last room in the corridor, where would Miss N go… Can she phase through the walls… Is there hidden room behind that wall…" He curious on where did the nurse went.
He continued to observe his surroundings. His eyes started to scan the corridor from left to right, up to down.
The corridor width around 5 to 6 feet. There's handrails on both sides positioned 3 feet from floor, around waist level. Every two out of five ceiling lights flickered like a dying star.
"It does look like a hospital… In a certain way…"
He walks. And walks. And keep walking.
"Assuming one room length is 15ft times by 180 room, then do I to walks 900 yard… That equals to 3 and half laps of running track" He muttering to himself as a way to keep his mind busy.
"What kind of hospital is this… And what kind of creature are there… Does this place operates by those creepy creatures…Then does it means the patient here is a human too…" He questioned himself and hoping there is another person where he can communicate.
He stop in front of room 143. He slides slowly towards the door. Trying to peek inside the room through glass frame on the door.
"Wait, wait, wait… What is that?" Instead of human, what he saw in that room makes his knees weaken, blood ran cold.
Laying on the bed, was something crooked. A body covered with goopy dark brown fluid dripping on the floor. There no hands and no legs, just corrupted looking tentacles.
He stuck in this frozen state of mind for few seconds before a screeching sounds broke him free. Sound as if something metal had been drag through the floor.
"Patient #3821… patient #3821…" He heard a voice coming from far away. He rotate his head slowly towards the voice.
He saw Miss N, moving towards him. On her left hand, there's long cylindrical oxygen tanks look-alike drag through the floor. And on the other hand, she holds a tray filled with medical apparatus.
"What are those? Didn't she say that she'll bring sleeping pills?" His start sweating uncontrollably.
"Patient #3821, you shouldn't be here at this hour" He heard the echoing voices of Miss N reached his eardrums.
He calculated from where he stands there should be around 350 yards left to reach room one. He hopes that there's an escape there.
"If I run fast enough, I should arrive there in a minute" As he drag his feet away from in front the door.
He runs. Run. And keep running. Chasing into an uncertain hope.
"What is wrong with these buildings… The patient are not a human… The nurse are some kind of creature… Am I the only human here…" He panicked.
The corridor seems longer then before. The flickering light combined with the repeating pattern mess with his perception of space. It seems like he keep running in a loop.
His breathing become uneven, sharp and loud. Ignoring the ache spreading through the leg. He keeps on moving.
He glance towards the room number to see where he at.
"40, 38, 36… There's 300 feet left."
The light suddenly out, plunging the corridor into darkness.
In that darkness, the screeching sounds became louder and louder. As if it was right there behind him.
He forced more speed out of his body, even as it began to fail him.
"The door should be within my reach… how can I find it in this darkness…" His hands reach towards the walls. He could feel where the handrails are.
Finally he reached the door. His finger closed around the door handle. It was colder than it should've been. The chill spread quickly through his palm and up his arm. For a second he hesitant pulled open the door.
"I'm not sure where this door leads to, at least I can escape from Miss N." As he gathered what little that he had left.
He then forced himself into the next room and closed the door. The chasing stop instantly. Not slowed. Not faded. Stopped. As if this was the destination all along.