He was sentenced to death by doctors in the late stage of lung cancer. Then he opened his eyes and lay in an empty ward and rang the bell but no one answered. I pulled out the indwelling needle and stepped on the cold floor with my bare feet. The moment my fingertips touched the door handle, there was the sound of nails scraping metal outside the door. I looked out through the crack in the door. The green indicator light at the end of the corridor was still flashing. Under the light, squatting something in a white coat was chewing something.
