Hospital 444
Chapter 100 - 13 Rescue

Chapter 100: Chapter 13 Rescue

This scene made Lu Yanran’s eyes split with anger!

She had just personally thrown the key out of the window!

How could it... have come back?

Clinging to her phone, a wave of fear and unrest washed over her, and she didn’t know what to do for a moment.

"Dr. Dai, you’re in danger yourself, how can you come to save me? After all, who are you people, exactly?"

To save Zhang Bei, she was willing to risk her life, but to save this Dr. Dai, whose background was unclear, how could she not hesitate? He spoke in such high terms, a doctor who treats curses, yet he ended up trapped on the tenth floor and needed her to save him?

What then could she expect from him?

"Moreover, most importantly, can’t people from your hospital come to support you? Don’t tell me that your hospital only has two doctors?"

"It’s a long story," Dr. Dai sighed and said, "I admit, my request is quite bizarre, asking you, the patient, to save me, the doctor. But I really have no other choice, due to some special reasons, the hospital staff can’t come to support me. Listen, the critical point is that on the night of the full moon, the Devil’s Cursed Object set up by Dr. Liang will exert its maximum power, which is also your best chance to escape this building and free yourself from the ghost’s curse. Honestly, the space inside and around this building has been cursed, so neither our hospital’s ambulance can enter, nor can you leave."

He clearly mentioned the night of the full moon, which indeed confirmed what Zhang Bei had said.

"Do you have a business card of your hospital? Tell me the pattern on it."

"The card is red with Hospital 444 written on it, featuring a skull and a black cross, and on the back of the card..."

"Okay, I got it."

Exactly what Zhang Bei had described.

"So, you mean, on the night of the full moon, you could save me?"

"The ghosts in this building, according to the previous diagnosis by Dr. Liang, consist of only one Resentful Spirit; the others are wraiths and specters, all under the Resentful Spirit’s command. As long as the Resentful Spirit can be sealed by the Devil’s Cursed Object, the effects of the curse will be greatly enhanced. So, if we can just hold out until then, based on the treatment plan left by Dr. Liang, I’ll be able to take you out of here and lift the curse you’re under. Whether we take a conservative approach or perform surgery, I can take you back to the hospital for a detailed examination."

"Alright, I understand..."

The more Lu Yanran listened, the more fantastical Dr. Dai’s words seemed.

"What’s your full name, Dr. Dai?"

"Dai Lin. The ’Dai’ from ’Dai Li’s’ surname and ’Lin’ as in ’Lin’an’."

"I want to know more about your hospital."

Lu Yanran poured herself a glass of water and gulped it down.

She needed to sober up.

After all, she had never met this so-called Dr. Dai Lin; why should she trust him?

The only person she truly trusted was Zhang Bei.

"Where exactly is Hospital 444? Who founded it? Why do you possess the ability to treat curses? Or are you from the Zhong Kui lineage, or perhaps descendants of some exorcist dragon clan or Ma family?"

"I understand Mrs. Zhang’s feelings, but it’s also very difficult for me to explain to you. Let’s put it this way, Hospital 444 is located in a different dimensional space. Those who hold our hospital’s business card can dial the number on the card to register, and then our hospital will dispatch an ambulance..."

"Different dimensional space?"

If not for the bizarre experiences of the past two days, Lu Yanran would have never believed such nonsense.

But now, it seemed like it might be true.

"So you all... are beings from a different dimension?"

"We are all ordinary humans..."

After asking in detail, Lu Yanran summarized, "So, you were originally an ordinary surgeon, chosen by the dean to become a doctor at Hospital 444, right?"

"Yes."

Lu Yanran began to weigh her options repeatedly.

Finally, she made a decision.

"Okay, I’ll trust you once."

Right now, Dai Lin was the only one Lu Yanran could turn to for help.

Besides him, she had no other option.

Picking up the key from the windowsill, she said to Dai Lin, "I’m coming down now, are you in the stairwell on the tenth floor?"

"Yes."

"Good. Stay there, don’t move."

She packed the Cursed Flesh and the doll into a shoulder bag, then slung it over her shoulder, put on a pair of sneakers, and tied her hair into a ponytail.

This time, she had brought the entire piece of Cursed Flesh with her, which, according to Dai Lin, would provide her with the maximum protection as long as she was near the Cursed Flesh Source.

At the same time, she took two rather sharp kitchen knives from the kitchen and slipped them into her pockets. She still harbored strong suspicions about this man named Dai Lin; in case he had any ill intentions, she at least wanted to have some means of defense. If he noticed the knives, she would simply say they were for cutting the Cursed Flesh.

Then, she went to the door, cracked it open slightly, and peeked outside.

The corridor was silent, with no one else around.

However, "devils"... were always hard to spot with the naked eye.

Although Dai Lin said that the Resentful Spirit couldn’t get close to her while she had the puppet, she dared not entrust her life completely to him.

She tiptoed out, locked the door behind her, and then moved toward the stairwell.

She wouldn’t dare use the elevator; too many terrifying scenes had taken place inside elevators in horror movies.

"Dai Lin... I can only trust this person now."

The Paranormal Doctor of Hospital 444, to be honest, if he were really a bad person, a couple of knives probably wouldn’t solve the problem. But did Lu Yanran have any other choice?

Paranormal Doctor, Resentful Spirits, Malevolent Entities; they all seemed like beings that were out of reach for an ordinary person like herself to deal with, and she could only hope to survive by keeping a low profile between them.

She stealthily reached the stairwell and started paying attention to her surroundings, then she began to move downstairs.

With the Cursed Flesh Source and that puppet doll with her, they should be able to protect her, right?

Step by step, as she moved downstairs, Lu Yanran became more and more nervous. She was also afraid; what was this man named Dai Lin actually like? He mentioned that Paranormal Doctors had spirits implanted within them through cursed objects, but did that still make them alive? Or were they practically the same as ghosts now?

Finally, she made it to the tenth floor stairwell, only to discover...

There was no one here!

Lu Yanran instinctively took several steps back, then quickly took out her phone to dial Dai Lin’s number.

But no one answered!

This situation made her uneasy.

But all of a sudden, she faintly heard a cell phone ringtone sounding nearby!

Could it be that Dai Lin was close by?

She instantly stepped out of the stairwell and onto the corridor of the tenth floor.

The sound of the cell phone ringtone was coming from around the corner ahead in the hallway.

Lu Yanran clutched her shoulder bag and tentatively asked, "Dr. Dai, Dr. Dai, is that you?"

However, there was no response from the other side.

Only the continuous sound of a cell phone ringing.

Lu Yanran immediately hung up the call, and then... the ringing stopped abruptly.

It was indeed Dai Lin’s phone!

Yet, there was still no reply from Dai Lin.

Lu Yanran swallowed hard, realizing that Dai Lin was probably in a very bad situation.

She pressed herself against the wall and slowly moved to the corner of the hallway, ready to investigate when...

Her own cell phone rang!

This gave Lu Yanran a huge scare, and looking at her phone, she saw the incoming call was from Dai Lin!

He had called back?

She immediately hung up!

Afterward, she peered around the corner into the dark hallway!

However, the light was too dim for her to see clearly what was on the other end of the corridor.

Now, Lu Yanran was faced with two choices: to go or to stay.

But the problem was, what was the point of running back? She couldn’t escape the building, and without Doctor Dai, she would have no chance of escaping to safety when the full moon came.

Dai Lin himself had told her that Hospital 444 would not be sending any more doctors to assist.

If Dai Lin was dead, she would only have death to wait for!

The protective power of the Cursed Flesh would eventually become completely ineffectual!

Eventually, she clenched her teeth and made a decision, moving toward that dark corridor!