Hospital 444
Chapter 110 - 23 Full Moon Night, Mysterious Curse

Chapter 110: Chapter 23 Full Moon Night, Mysterious Curse

Dai Lin awoke from the sofa.

His head felt incredibly painful.

What happened?

He seemed to have forgotten something?

How could he have passed out?

Dai Lin immediately looked towards the clock on the wall.

The clock indicated that it was almost eleven o’clock.

Outside, the sound of a torrential downpour could be heard.

He struggled to support his body, but found that every movement made his head throb with severe pain.

Dai Lin vaguely felt that something was wrong—had he forgotten something?

How did he fall asleep last night? He had planned to stay awake until he rescued Lu Yanran, hadn’t he?

"Mrs. Zhang? Mrs. Zhang?"

In the pitch-dark room, there was no response; he could only hear the sound of rain continuously hitting the windows and the awning outside.

A strong sense of unease began to overwhelm him, and Dai Lin immediately propped himself up to stand and then quickly moved in front of the refrigerator, wrenching it open!

But when he opened the freezer, Dai Lin’s complexion turned ashen.

Inside...

The Cursed Flesh was gone!

Dai Lin was well aware of his own abilities; he could easily handle ghosts, but if faced with a Resentful Spirit, he would inevitably be in extreme danger. And honestly, he couldn’t be clear about how many Resentful Spirits there were in this building; there might even be ghosts bearing karmic debts.

Undeterred, Dai Lin pulled out one drawer after another from the freezer, thoroughly searching. But in the end, he did not find even a piece of the Cursed Flesh.

Dai Lin then rapidly employed the vision ability of the Devil’s Eye to scan the entire room!

However, as soon as he used the Devil’s Eye’s vision ability, he immediately felt a more intense headache, utterly unbearable!

And from that brief sweep a moment ago, he could be certain that Lu Yanran was not here!

She’s not here?

Could it be that a ghost had already invaded this place and killed her?

Afterwards, Dai Lin gave a bitter smile—he had no leeway to worry about Lu Yanran’s life and death, his own safety was a significant concern.

In this room, there might already be at least one Resentful Spirit!

Dai Lin closed the refrigerator door and leaned against it, trying to flip a light switch on one side. But the light wouldn’t turn on!

It wouldn’t turn on?

Dai Lin bit his lip hard, as a large patch of blood-red started to cover his left eye.

The memories in his brain were like a big mass of chaotic slurry, from which he could vaguely see some fragments, like unedited montage scenes from a movie.

"Inverted cross..."

The last impression Dai Lin had was the inverted cross!

On the contract he had signed at the beginning, it was explicitly written that if a doctor or nurse found an inverted cross on their forehead, they must immediately seek treatment at the Demons Department.

Why would there be an inverted cross in his memory?

As Dai Lin was pondering these things, suddenly, he swiftly looked to one side!

He had noticed something strange.

Dai Lin clearly remembered that when he woke up from the sofa earlier, the sofa had been flush against the wall.

But looking at it now...

The sofa was at least a fist’s distance from the wall behind it!

But, during his earlier vision scan, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual... Ah?

It had been less than five minutes since Dai Lin woke up to now!

And Lu Yanran was not even here...

Then "who" had moved the sofa’s position?

What was behind that sofa now?

Dai Lin’s heart started to clench. He didn’t deny that he was very vulnerable against Resentful Spirits, but it should not be to the extent that even the Devil’s Eye couldn’t observe the other party.

Enduring the headache, Dai Lin once again scrutinized the area behind the sofa!

Still... nothing!

"Nothing?"

Dai Lin faintly felt that Han Ming, who had sent him here, probably concealed something from him.

He said that this building was cursed by a malevolent spirit and confirmed that multiple resentful spirits were being manipulated by it.

But now, thinking back, Dai Lin began to feel that something was off.

After all, he had entered the hospital too recently, and his lack of clinical experience, combined with his eagerness to save Dai Wei, had prevented him from realizing something was amiss sooner. But on closer reflection...

"Something isn’t right!"

Han Ming had said that when Zhang Bei came to the hospital for consultation, the information about his chief complaint and medical history was encrypted. But as the deputy director, couldn’t Han Ming access the encrypted content? Originally, when Han Ming mentioned this, Dai Lin had already felt there was something fishy, but he had endured it for Dai Wei’s sake.

But... what was even more astonishing was that Doctor Liang Zhigao had used a devil’s cursed object. Dai Lin knew very little about devil’s cursed objects, but it was certain they were not routine objects used for treatment.

There was no knowledge of a Demons Department for diagnosis and treatment in the hospital, let alone clinical records. The devil’s cursed object in Dr. Liang’s possession was a complete surprise; he wouldn’t ordinarily use a devil’s cursed object, nor would Director Mei Quzhen use it to treat patients.

Of course, he didn’t understand the Ghost Surgery Department; perhaps Dr. Liang had discovered some treatment method. But... coupled with Han Ming’s concealment from him, what exactly was his purpose?

Did he really send him here hoping he would retrieve the cursed object?

After all, the curse on this building was already very strange...

As Dai Lin pondered, he made up his mind, and in the vision of his left eye, blood red completely covered the sofa!

"I really want to see... just how powerful you are!"

Crazy thoughts surged in Dai Lin’s mind, and suddenly... a gust of wind blew outside the window!

The wind whipped up the curtains, revealing the window behind them!

That window was now wide open!

Immediately afterward, Dai Lin saw... hanging in the torrential rain outside the window was a—

Full moon!

Now, is it...

Eleven o’clock at night?

Because of the downpour, he had thought it was just overcast, but it turned out to already be the night of the full moon!

Less than an hour remained until midnight! And in this one hour, the devil’s cursed object, the head that Doctor Liang Zhigao had cut off, would resurrect from its curse!

Just as Dai Lin came to this realization, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his forehead!

It wasn’t pain from the inside of his skull but concentrated on the forehead, as if someone had sliced his skin with a knife!

Feeling this sensation, Dai Lin’s heart sank!

Wasn’t that one of the rules in the contract? If a doctor felt pain on their forehead, they had to look in a mirror to confirm whether an inverted cross had appeared. If there was no inverted cross, but the pain persisted for an hour, they must go to the Demons Department for a consultation!

But the problem was...

Dai Lin couldn’t go back to the hospital now! How was he supposed to register for a consultation at the Demons Department?

Hoping against hope, Dai Lin tried to teleport... and still failed!

This...

This...

Dai Lin suddenly remembered, an hour later would be right around midnight.

The devil’s cursed object, that head, would then be fully resurrected from its curse...

At that point, forget retrieving the cursed object, as it would become the most horrific curse within the building!

Dai Lin, enduring the headache, rushed to the bathroom, flipped up the bangs on his forehead, and looked into the mirror!

Fortunately...

In the mirror, there was nothing unusual on his forehead.

Suddenly, the phone rang.

Dai Lin looked at his cell phone and it was an unfamiliar call.

Wasn’t the phone cut off from outside signals?

Biting back his unease, Dai Lin answered the phone.

"Doctor Dai." A voice came from the other end of the phone, "I am here to talk about the deal we mentioned before. Give me the piece of map that An Minglu had in her mouth. I’ll tell you how to escape."

"Who are you???"

"You forgot? Okay, I’ll cut to the chase. Do you really think that the deputy director of Hospital 444 sent you here to retrieve a cursed object?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why do you think... in such a hospital, he would go through the trouble of pulling people to his side to engage in factional strife? Isn’t that very strange? Factional strife is all about interests. What kind of gains could he get from such strife?"

Dai Lin had indeed pondered this question before; he had always found the inexplicable internal factional strife in the hospital very curious.

What was the meaning behind it?

"Give me the map piece. I will tell you why he sent you here, and what he has hidden from you. This building isn’t just some simple malevolent spirit curse as you think. The placement of the devil’s cursed object here and Doctor Liang Zhigao’s death were no accidents. You don’t have much time to hesitate... Doctor Dai!"