Jin Xueli forced herself to a stop, just a few steps away from Chaisi's hospital room.
The room that had suddenly gone dark was down the hallway to her right; to her left was a doctor's office.
The doctor who had just hurried out of Chaisi's room, a grim look on his face, was the one who had crossed the hallway to enter that office—that part wasn't strange in itself.
What was strange was that, as she rushed over, she realized the doctor hadn't gone inside.
Jin Xueli slowly turned her head.
The doctor was still frozen at the office doorway, his back to her, unmoving, with his hands hanging at his sides.
Looking past his shoulder into the room, she could only see a small part of a simply decorated office, not what had made him suddenly stop in his tracks.
The guards downstairs, the nurses' station... it seemed they had all fallen into the same frozen state...
