Hospital 444
Chapter 107 - 20: Left Hand

Chapter 107: Chapter 20: Left Hand

This world...

is undergoing some terrifying changes.

And at this moment, it’s just the beginning.

Six o’clock is about to arrive.

Dai Lin stood solemnly at the main entrance, while Lu Yanran stood anxiously beside him.

"You should go to sleep for a while," Dai Lin urged repeatedly, "Starting tomorrow, things will happen that I can no longer predict. We may not be able to last until the full moon. I can endure without sleep, but if you lack sleep, the consequences will be severe."

"It’s almost six o’clock, I will go to sleep after getting through this challenge," Lu Yanran said nervously, clutching her hands. At this point, she was no longer certain whether Dai Lin could help her solve the problem at hand.

Up to now... Lu Ning hasn’t mentioned a single thing about what she saw upstairs, or whether that ghost is dead or alive. Nor has he explained to Lu Yanran how this particular ghost is unusual.

But now, apart from Dai Lin, Lu Yanran had no one else to trust. Other than entrusting her life and wealth to him, she had no other choice, especially in a place like Hospital 444, which seemed like a realm of gods and devils, where clearly there was no room for disturbances.

Finally...

Six o’clock arrived.

Just as Lu Yuqing had predicted, without even a second’s deviation.

The knocking started from outside the door.

Dai Lin did not check through the peephole because it was meaningless.

His left eye confirmed it was not the ghost, offering him some relief.

Dai Lin was at an unprecedented level of pessimism about his chances of leaving the building alive.

At this moment, he raised his hand.

The puppet left by Doctor Liang showed no cracks yet.

The best chance to escape the building would come when the puppet developed cracks.

This time, the knocking was much more urgent than before, with shorter intervals between each knock.

Dai Lin’s left eyeball began to display an abundance of red that gradually covered the entire eyeball and converged at the center of the pupil.

And so...

The knocking continued, and after five minutes, it still hadn’t ceased.

However, after five minutes, the knocking became lighter, and the intervals slightly lengthened.

But the ghost outside didn’t stop knocking.

The effectiveness of the Cursed Flesh was beginning to wane.

Whether it could last until tomorrow night’s full moon had become a question.

A drop of cold sweat began to seep from Dai Lin’s forehead.

Ten minutes... fifteen minutes... twenty minutes...

The intervals between the knocks grew longer, but whenever Dai Lin felt that the ghost outside had been dispelled, the knocking would start up again.

"That... Dr. Dai, that thing outside... Will it keep knocking like this?"

Lu Yanran’s face at this moment was as unsightly as it could be.

She had intended to endure this wave and then go to sleep, but now it seemed that the ghost outside might actually get in. If it did, could Dai Lin hold it off?

This was a question without an answer even for Dai Lin.

The protective effect of the Cursed Flesh had already started to diminish, and if the ghost truly invaded, he might have no choice but to forcibly break through with Lu Yanran. This was the worst possible situation for Dai Lin.

If he had a choice, he absolutely would not wish for this to happen.

Out of necessity... he could only call Lu Yuqing again, as she was a professional as a Ghost Surgery Department doctor. Even though her relationship with Gao Heyann was already so terrible, he still acknowledged her outstanding medical skills.

Once the call connected, Dai Lin pointed his phone toward the entrance.

"The knocking has been going on for over twenty minutes, Doctor Lu, does this mean the protective effect of the Cursed Flesh is declining?"

"Twenty minutes?"

Lu Yuqing sounded quite surprised.

"That’s right, twenty minutes."

"You all have consumed the Cursed Flesh, right?"

"Of course. Can you predict any further? When will the knocking stop?"

Lu Yuqing was silent for several seconds.

Her silence put great psychological pressure on Dai Lin.

As for Lu Yanran, she was practically holding her breath.

She feared the other would say there was no solution.

"Dr. Dai..."

Finally, Lu Yuqing spoke, "I cannot predict how long the ghost outside will keep knocking."

Upon hearing this, Dai Lin’s brows furrowed tightly.

"Can we... get in touch with Director Chen?"

"I..."

Suddenly, the image of Lu Yuqing on the mobile video began to distort.

Before long, the video cut off!

Dai Lin tried to make contact again, only to find out that there was no signal on his phone!

Lu Yanran took out her own phone to look, and also had no signal whatsoever.

Only then did Dai Lin truly realize what it meant to be completely isolated!

There was no way to contact the outside world!

No doctor was coming to save them!

There was no possibility of teleporting back to Hospital 444!

Dai Lin could only rely on himself, the cursed object left by Dr. Liang, and the mysterious ghost... to fight a battle to the death!

The knocking at the door continued incessantly...

By seven o’clock, Dai Lin and Lu Yanran had completely given up and simply moved the table in front of the door, watching the entrance while eating dinner.

They needed to replenish their strength properly, and then Lu Yanran had to go to bed early, to be ready to escape from the Sunset Tower the night of the full moon.

"Dr. Dai."

As Lu Yanran listened to the knocking, she made up her mind and said to Dai Lin, "I can endure it. Tell me. Is it really impossible for us to escape? What exactly did that ghost see upstairs?"

To Lu Yanran at that moment, Dai Lin was like a doctor who had diagnosed a patient with a terminal illness and chose to hide the truth. She had been too afraid to ask because of fear.

But now... all means of contact with the outside world were completely gone. Not just the mobile phones, but the landlines couldn’t get through, and the computer couldn’t access the internet either.

The entire Sunset Tower had turned into a playground for ghosts.

"It’s up to us," said Dai Lin. "Only if the patient has a strong enough will to live can a doctor’s treatment have the greatest effect. The cursed flesh we’re using for conservative treatment still works, and you haven’t shown any signs that require surgery yet."

Lu Yanran didn’t expect Dai Lin to still withhold what Lu Ning had seen.

This, in turn, made her feel an unprecedented level of fear deep inside.

The knocking from outside, like a death knell, was relentless.

The doll was placed upright at the center of the dining table.

Lu Yanran took a spoon and dipped it into a pot of borscht on the table.

"Dr. Dai Lin, is it really that hard to just speak the truth? I just want to know what kind of curse I’m suffering from."

Her spoon mindlessly stirred in the borscht for a long time.

"I’m not a foreigner, right? I’m speaking Chinese, right? Can’t you just give me an answer?"

Dai Lin bit his lip, not knowing what to say.

But upon hearing the word "foreigner," he suddenly remembered the hooded foreigner who appeared in the café.

He felt like he had seen him somewhere before but couldn’t remember where.

It seemed... it wasn’t his memory.

It was more like it was Lin Sen’s memory!

But when had Lin Sen seen that foreigner? Why would a person Lin Sen had met appear in a café outside his parents’ neighborhood?

No matter how he thought about it, it didn’t seem like a coincidence.

Where...

Where had Lin Sen seen that foreigner?

"Hmm?"

As Dai Lin pondered this question, Lu Yanran suddenly felt that something was wrong. She fished something out of the borscht.

A pale finger.

Lu Yanran was scared out of her wits, while Dai Lin immediately grabbed a pair of chopsticks and reached into the soup... and pulled out an entire hand!

A left hand that had been cleanly severed!

Lu Yanran let out a heart-wrenching scream when she saw the ring on the ring finger of the hand.

It was Zhang Bei’s wedding ring!

This was... Zhang Bei’s hand!

She had personally cooked the borscht that afternoon!

How could this hand have ended up in it?

Dai Lin looked at the severed hand and realized just how terrifying the curse he was facing was! If it weren’t for the counterbalance from Dr. Liang’s Devil’s Cursed Object, he wouldn’t even be able to keep breathing at this moment.

Thump!

There and then, Lu Yanran completely lost consciousness and collapsed on the floor, passing out...

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