Hospital 444
Chapter 112 - 25: The First Rule of Hospital 444

Chapter 112: Chapter 25: The First Rule of Hospital 444

Seeing that soccer ball, Lu Yanran’s face immediately turned deathly pale, and her grip on the doll tightened even more!

Dai Lin stared intently at the soccer ball, the blood-red in his vision completely covering it!

After a while, Dai Lin said, "Let’s go, Mrs. Zhang."

"We... Are we really just going up like this?" Lu Yanran, holding onto Dai Lin’s arm, asked, "Dr. Dai, are we going to die?"

They most certainly would die.

Dai Lin felt that if they could come back alive, it could certainly be called a miracle.

If it came to a last resort... he could only call that person, agreeing to trade the map fragment. After all, Dai Lin wasn’t a saint; he wanted to live too. If it came down to it, he’d have to give the item first and then think of a way to get it back.

Dai Lin and Lu Yanran entered the dimly lit stairwell.

Now... The Devil’s Cursed Object was in a state of curse resurgence, and according to Han Ming, the curses would fall into a state of complete equilibrium.

In the end... the nature of cursed objects is the product of the balance between curses.

"If we retrieve that cursed object, we can escape," Dai Lin could only answer Lu Yanran like this, "You don’t have to worry too much, cursed objects are that powerful."

"Right... it’s the cursed objects that I survived on, yes..." Lu Yanran kept repeating this sentence to boost her confidence, "What exactly is a cursed object? Is it like the black donkey hoof in tomb-raiding novels that wards off evil spirits?"

Dai Lin of course knew that wasn’t the case, but he could only reply, "You could think of it that way."

The pair moved slowly towards the upper floors.

That human head, according to Dr. Liang Zhigao, he had placed it on the staircase step leading from the eighteenth floor to the nineteenth.

That object could only be seen through a mirror, and an ordinary person, even if they discovered it, would not be able to move it or take it away.

Dai Lin took out his cell phone... the phone’s camera could also see that human head.

As they step by step moved towards the upper floors, Dai Lin’s heart beat more and more violently. He knew he was inch by inch walking towards the Grim Reaper.

What was most frightening to him was... Han Ming might not have told him the truth.

He might not really have been sent to truly retrieve the cursed object. After all, retrieving cursed objects while they are resurging is in itself most dangerous. The balance between the curse of the cursed object and the curse inherent in the building itself, if even slightly disrupted, either side could easily send Dai Lin and Lu Yanran to the netherworld.

When they got to the sixteenth floor, Dai Lin found that his legs were somewhat cramping.

The corridor was still very quiet, now should be the time when the two curses violently clash against each other, yet it was so quiet!

"Dr. Dai, Dr. Dai..." Lu Yanran, grabbing Dai Lin’s hand, said, "Let’s, let’s rest... for a bit? Let’s rest for a bit!"

Dai Lin clenched his teeth, there was no time to spare.

Perhaps the curse within the building will overwhelm the Devil’s Cursed Object, or the other way around; either outcome was something he couldn’t possibly bear.

"We continue upwards!"

"Wait, wait, Dr. Dai..."

The current Lu Yanran was like a patient about to be pushed into the operating room, knowing that she had to go in, but the instinctive fear made her want to delay the process as long as possible.

"Dr. Dai, can the cursed object really be retrieved successfully? I heard you mention something about cursed objects resurging... this, isn’t this very dangerous?"

"This isn’t an ordinary cursed object... Originally, it was the head of the Department of Cursed Objects, Director Fang Shen, who personally perfected Dr. Liang’s curse..."

Suddenly, Dai Lin’s heart clenched.

Department of Cursed Objects...

Director Fang Shen...

All along, there have been three deputy deans at Hospital 444.

Administrative Vice President, Executive Vice President, and finally, Curse Affairs Deputy Dean.

The Curse Affairs Deputy Dean has always been concurrently held by the head of the Department of Cursed Objects. No matter what happens, this doesn’t change.

However, though a deputy dean, Fang Shen only managed the Department of Cursed Objects and never meddled in the affairs of other departments. So much so that most of the time, people felt there were only two deputy deans, Yin Wuque and Han Ming. Gao Heyann once told him that during her long stay in the hospital, she had only seen Fang Shen twice.

Only under one circumstance...

Whether it was the contract or employee code of conduct, there was only one situation unrelated to the Department of Cursed Objects that required doctors and nurses to personally report to the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean himself.

That was...

"The purpose Han Ming had for sending me here..."

Dai Lin rubbed his forehead.

He checked through his phone’s selfie mode once more, confirming that nothing new had appeared on his forehead.

The headache would still be intense. Dai Lin became more certain that he had forgotten something very important. Moreover, he had for a moment remembered it, but some force caused him to forget it again.

"Let’s go, Mrs. Zhang..."

If Dai Lin’s guess was correct, then the purpose Han Ming had for sending him here might be related to that mysterious third deputy dean!

...

Dave was sitting in the car.

The Muyang Building loomed ahead of him.

At this moment, he was very lucid.

"Dr. Luo Tan from the Insidious Department has disappeared," said William, who was sitting beside him. "It’s obvious that it’s because he was investigating ’Hospital 444’ with us."

"Our Haunter Department may face the same ending one day," Dave sighed. "We might disappear as well."

"At the moment, we’re like Alice who has gone down the rabbit hole."

"To be precise, we are Pandora who opened the forbidden box. I should never have investigated the existence of ’Hospital 444.’ Who knew it could be this dangerous..."

Dave stared at the Muyang Building in front of him.

"When Liang Zhigao contacted me with the cursed object of blood in his hands, I could hardly believe my eyes."

"Suddenly seeing blood characters appear on my hands, I thought it was a curse from an evil spirit."

"But now he’s ’disappeared’ too. I’m afraid it’ll be our turn next."

"That can’t be... Director, we can only get the last piece of the map through him..."

Suddenly, Dave looked at the rearview mirror of the car.

"William..."

"What’s wrong, Director Dave?"

"We’re about to ’disappear’ as well."

"What?"

"We have ultimately touched upon a taboo that should not have been meddled with..."

Just a few seconds later.

In front of the Muyang Building...

There were no cars to be seen.

...

At this time.

In the now empty home of Lu Yanran.

The sofa that Dai Lin had just moved...

Was back in its original place.

And on the floor, there appeared a small booklet.

This was...

The Staff Handbook of Hospital 444.

Dai Lin could no longer remember, he had taken out this booklet, and then...

The booklet had fallen to the floor and slid under the sofa.

If he had moved the sofa a little more the first time, Dai Lin would have seen this dropped employee handbook.

A gust of wind came through the wide-open window!

The employee handbook was blown open, and the pages started to flip.

Written boldly on the first page was:

"After becoming a doctor or nurse at this hospital, the most important rule to adhere to is the following:

Keep firmly in mind these three things...

First, this hospital is called Hospital 444, not 666 Hospital. 666 Hospital does not exist in any world.

Second, our hospital has no departments with English names, not even one.

Third, there are no black inverted crosses on the foreheads of our doctors and nurses.

Believe this, believe this, believe this. Everyone must believe this, no matter what.

If you do not believe this, then you bear the consequences.

If anyone encounters any doctor or nurse who tells you this hospital is called 666 Hospital, that they have seen departments with English names, or that they have a black inverted cross on their forehead (if they can only see the inverted cross when they look in the mirror, have them follow the rules written later and seek treatment at the Demons Department), do not believe them, and immediately report to the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean. They are no longer your colleagues, but ’something else’ altogether.

Remember, you must report in person to the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean. And besides the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean, you absolutely must not tell a third person about this.

Any doctor who violates this rule will be dismissed by the Dean!"