Hospital 444
Chapter 108 - 21 We Are Not Doctors

Chapter 108: Chapter 21 We Are Not Doctors

Lu Yanran didn’t know how long she had been unconscious.

When she awoke, she found herself lying in bed.

Outside... the sound of torrential rain beating against the windows was heard, and the cold wind and rain splashed into the room through the gaps in the window.

She grabbed the head of the bed, reached for her phone, and turned on the screen to see...

It had just turned 3 a.m.

In the darkness, the brightness of the phone screen was incredibly uncomfortable for her eyes.

She immediately turned the brightness down.

About five or six seconds later...

Lu Yanran suddenly remembered that she was in a cursed building infested with resentful spirits!

She recalled... the hand of Zhang Bei that she fished out of the borscht!

She quickly got up from the bed and rushed toward the light switch, but when she pressed it... there was absolutely no response!

Power outage???

At this time?

"Dr. Dai! Dr. Dai!"

Lu Yanran pushed the door open and rushed out of the bedroom... she tried all the light switches in turn, and indeed, none of them responded!

And Dai Lin... was nowhere to be found!

Lu Yanran looked at the dining table still at the entrance... Although the pots on it had been put away, she still vividly remembered the terrifying scene!

Where had Dai Lin gone? Had he left?

Both the cell phone and the landline were unable to make calls, and the computer was also unusable.

She was completely trapped here!

Who could take her out of this building when the full moon came tonight?

...

3:30 a.m.

Lu Yanran finally found some candles in the kitchen, lit six with the gas stove, and placed them at different locations inside the room, finally dispelling the darkness a little.

Lu Yanran stroked her own abdomen.

When she thought of the child, the fear was gradually replaced by determination.

She must bring this child into the world!

"Could Dr. Dai have gone out to check the situation, to scout for tonight’s escape plan?"

After all, unlike her, Dai Lin was a Paranormal Doctor, his eyes like the legendary clairvoyance, probably it wouldn’t be too dangerous just to scout the place.

But if not... was it possible that after she passed out, the door-knocking ghost had come in and killed Dai Lin?

Staring at the flickering candles, she tore open a box of pudding and began to eat. For the sake of the child, she needed to replenish nutrients. In the worst case, she had to escape on her own!

Halfway through the pudding, she suddenly thought of something and looked towards a spot in the room!

The DV camera!

Before six o’clock, she had set it up in recording mode in a corner of the living room!

Swallowing the pudding in her mouth, Lu Yanran stood up.

She picked up the DV camera and found it was still recording, and was instantly excited.

Great!

This way she could find out... what happened before she passed out!

Rewinding to before six o’clock, after she had fainted...

Dai Lin first checked her condition to make sure she was not in any danger, then carried her into the bedroom. Not long after, Dai Lin came out.

During this process, the knocking on the door outside continued non-stop.

Just then, Dai Lin’s cell phone suddenly rang!

Lu Yanran was stunned watching this scene... wasn’t the cell phone unable to send or receive calls?

Dai Lin immediately answered the call, which appeared to be a video call. But from Lu Yanran’s perspective, she couldn’t see whom Dai Lin was talking to.

"Dr. Dai," a voice came from Dai Lin’s phone, "hello, nice to meet you. My name is Dave. I won’t say the full name because you probably won’t remember it."

But Dai Lin kept staring at the phone, suddenly revealing a look of realization!

"We’ve met before. That night, you preemptively contacted Lin Sen!"

"You actually remembered?" the voice inside the phone sounded somewhat surprised.

"It’s you..."

Dai Lin’s expression became extremely solemn, and then, he took out a small red booklet from his person. In the center of the booklet, there was a black cross.

Lu Yanran paused the video and took a closer look; it appeared to say... "Medical Staff Code of Conduct for Hospital 444".

"The ones with the inverted cross on their forehead," Dai Lin flipped open the booklet and showed it to the phone screen, "how did you manage to make the call?"

"Our kind, unlike ’yours’."

The knocking persisted, on and off.

"I can tell we aren’t on the same side now," Dai Lin moved his phone closer to himself and said, "But you are doctors, aren’t you?"

"Doctor Dai... do you really think we, like you, are ’doctors’?"

Upon hearing this, Dai Lin’s expression froze.

"Neither us nor you... have ever been ’doctors.’ And, do you think the place where you are now, is really a ’hospital’?"

Dai Lin obviously didn’t like this way of talking.

"Please speak plainly."

"We want you to hand over the fragment of the map you took from An Minglu’s mouth. Please don’t deny it, we won’t believe you. Of course, I know you won’t agree to this, so I will tell you something, like the curse of this building."

Dai Lin walked to the front door, listening to the intermittent knocking outside, and said, "Then, by all means, talk."

"That place is not a hospital, nor are we doctors. In fact, as I conjecture, ’he’ could effortlessly heal all those cursed, while you barely struggle for life in front of ghosts."

"Sorry... in Chinese, before a pronoun appears, could you specify the proper noun? Who is ’he’?"

"The entity you refer to as ’the Dean.’ The reason I don’t call him that is because ’he’ is not the so-called Dean at all. To put it in a way that you can understand, take the Sunset Tower where you are right now... The knowledge about malevolent ghosts you’ve learned can’t explain what you’ve seen, right?"

What seen?

The things seen through sharing the ghost’s vision?

What had Dai Lin actually seen?

"Humans turn into phantoms after death, then phantoms become resentful spirits, resentful spirits become vicious ghosts, or karma ghosts, and then transform into malevolent ghosts... The knowledge you’ve learned is like that, right?"

Dai Lin’s face started to look ugly.

"Isn’t that the case?"

"The ghosts that humans become after death, they can hardly form such terrifying curses. The truly dreadful beings are not transformed from the deceased."

Suddenly, Dai Lin thought of something.

"Like... demons?"

"Also like... the Demon Apartments in K City that you know of. ’He’ from the very beginning, never intended to let you truly possess the power to cure the curse..."

"The malevolent ghost behind this building... is not transformed from the residents who died here in the past?"

"Do you really think... that’s merely a malevolent ghost? The Devil’s Cursed Object has to rely on the night of the full moon to compete, and you think it’s just a malevolent ghost?"

Knocking suddenly became more urgent this round!

Then...

The knocking, stopped altogether!

"Throw the fragment of map out of the rear window, and I’ll tell you what you’re really facing. It’s not a malevolent ghost, nor a devil, much less a demon..."

"The deaths of An Minglu and those four, was that your doing?"

"No. It is from an existence that even we cannot resist."

Suddenly, Lu Yanran saw... behind Dai Lin, the window she was supposed to have locked, was opened!

Then...

A pair of hands reached in through the window!

Dai Lin unaware of the danger behind him, moved a bit to the side, blocking the view!

This caused Lu Yanran to lose sight of the situation at the rear window.

"What do you want to do with the fragment of the map?"

"I’m sorry, but I can’t say,"

Lu Yanran’s heart nearly leapt to her throat.

Behind!

Doctor Dai, quickly look behind you!

"If you hesitate now, you will regret it."

That person named Zhang Bei obviously saw the horrific change behind Dai Lin but didn’t warn him!

"If that’s the condition, then... I refuse."

Just as Dai Lin finished saying this, a hideous pale face suddenly appeared behind him!

The living room, in that instant, fell into complete darkness!

Snap!

In the darkness, she heard something being flung.

After that, silence returned to the room.

The ghost, Dai Lin... both were gone.

Lu Yanran’s body trembled violently, nearly unable to hold the DV steady.

The ghost...

Had come in here!

It took away Dai Lin!