Chapter 764 Hospital

The ringing phone was obviously directed at Qi Lin - this office building was a standard low-rent building, and the intervals between floors were very thin. With Qi Lin's hearing, he could naturally tell that there were no ringing phones upstairs or downstairs. Only on this floor, when he was just approaching this room, did the phone ring.

This is really too weird, isn’t it?

However, when those crappy routines in domestic low-quality horror movies were actually staged in reality, Qi Lin couldn't laugh at all.

Could it be the mastermind’s fault again?

Qi Lin subconsciously looked up at the end of the corridor... But he forgot one thing. Although this office building was very high, it was one of those low-quality buildings with low rents. Fire cabinets in the corridors on each floor could be installed. It would be nice to have a bottle of fire extinguisher. As for surveillance cameras, sorry, there are no such things at all.

There are only two surveillance cameras installed at the front door and the corner of the lobby, but those two cameras have long been scrapped.

Should I answer this call or not?

Qi Lin stood outside the door of this real estate agency for more than a minute, but the ringing of the phone never stopped...

According to the rules of Huaxia Communications Operators in the old era, generally speaking, if there is still no answer after 60 seconds, the call will be automatically hung up, and the person making the call will also hear the familiar Chinese-English bilingual phrase. Tone "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unanswered, please try again later..."

However, the "dangerous bell" that suddenly rang in the middle of the night did not seem to be subject to this restriction. It had been almost two minutes now, and it was still ringing "ding bells" incessantly.

But that's right... Where is there any communication operator now... And this call is not made through conventional means at all!

Taking a deep breath, Qi Lin pushed open the door of this "Xinda Real Estate Agency Co., Ltd.", and walked in...

The room was very messy. There were a total of six desks, two of which were turned over on the floor. The small coffee table was covered with all kinds of messy contracts, documents and flyers. The floor was also littered with waste paper and garbage.

It was a red telephone, covered with a thick layer of dust, and placed on the innermost table. At this moment, there was no door panel to block the sound, and the ringing of the phone became even more harsh.

Qi Lin walked over and looked at the screen on the phone - although the small LCD screen was dirty, there were no signs of damage, and it could still emit a faint yellow-green backlight.

Qi Lin was not in a hurry to answer the phone, but he wanted to see what the calling number was.

But when his eyes fell on the phone display, he couldn't help but cursed himself as an "idiot" in his heart - "Caller ID" is a value-added service of the communication operator, not the phone itself. Yes, there are no communication operators in the wasteland now, so naturally there is no caller ID.

There are no numbers on the display, just a long string of asterisks.

Qi Lin paid attention to the date and time on the phone display. This is a built-in function of most telephones. The date displayed was 0:03 on January 1, 1900.

0:00 on January 1, 1900 was the initial time for most electronic perpetual calendars on the market in the old era. When the electronic perpetual calendar is powered off for too long, it will be reset to this initial time when it is turned on again.

In other words, this phone was actually turned on after Qi Lin stepped into this floor...

Qi Lin looked along the line behind the phone. He was surprised to find that the phone line had been unplugged, but the power plug was still plugged into an aging wiring board.

The plug of the wiring board is inserted into a socket in the corner.

When entering this office building, Qi Lin had already tried to turn on the light switch, but the light did not come on. In other words, the building was in a power outage state.

Since the power is out, why is the phone ringing? !

Although there may be a battery inside the phone, with the quality of this consumer-grade battery, if it is not removed from the phone, it is not bad if there is no leakage after three years, let alone the phone can be turned on.

Qi Lin seemed to have remembered something, turned around and walked to the door, pressing the two switches next to the door frame - there was a "click", nothing happened, the lights did not come on, and the ventilation fan did not start to rotate.

Then, he picked up the phones on several other tables, but these phones were completely inoperable. Only the one in the corner was still ringing.

Qi Lin now has two choices, one, answer the phone, and two, unplug the wire.

He can basically determine that the power of the phone comes from a certain circuit inside the building. Unplugging the wire will definitely make the phone quiet. However, if he does this, will he miss anything important...

After weighing things up and down, Qi Lin lightly pressed the dusty hands-free button on the phone.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, Qi Lin still felt a dull pain in his eardrum when the harsh buzzing sound came from the loudspeaker.

"Damn... why is it like this again?!"

This beep is almost exactly the same as the distress signal I received on the radio before... No, no, it's different. The distress signal only has three characters, two of which are repeated. You can tell them apart at a glance, but now this The frequency changes in the buzzer sounds are much more complicated!

This is a brand new frequency, not the previous international distress signal!

Holding back the discomfort of wanting to vomit, Qi Lin immediately increased the speed of the energy-gathering vortex and silently analyzed the information hidden in the buzzer.

Four dot signal, this is the letter "H";

Three long signals, this is "O";

Three dot signal, this is "S"...

There was only one signal difference between the first three letters and "SOS". No wonder Qi Lin thought it was another strange distress signal at first.

The fourth letter is dot long dot, which is "P";

The fifth letter is two short dots, "I";

The sixth letter has only one long signal, "T";

The seventh one is one point long, this is "A";

The eighth one is dot long dot, which is "L" and the last letter in this Morse code.

The frequency of this buzzing sound is the continuous repetition of these eight letters, and if you connect these eight letters together...

That happens to be a common English word - this word, even a primary school student, as long as he is not the kind of guy who gets zero marks in English exams, can basically recognize its meaning.

"'Hospital'...hospital? Is this a hint that I should go to the hospital?"