Hospital 444
Chapter 116 - 29: The Last Horcrux

Chapter 116: Chapter 29: The Last Horcrux

It was three-thirty in the morning.

The knocking sounded again!

Lu Yanran buried her head even deeper!

Dai Lin said to her, "Pick up the candle... We must open the door now!"

"Really, we... have to open the door?"

The medical plan left by Dr. Liang mentioned... that if one hears knocking within half an hour or less before four in the morning, then... the door must be opened!

In "its" eyes, they were now the same as the ghosts and resentful spirits of the building! Not opening the door before was normal. But if they didn’t open it this time, "it" would forcibly break in and kill Dai Lin and Lu Yanran!

There was no choice!

They could only trust in the protection of the candle!

Dai Lin was really afraid that Lu Yanran’s mental state would reveal a flaw. The candle’s protection was limited, and if they acted too abnormally, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Step by step, Dai Lin and Lu Yanran moved to the door, Dai Lin staring intently at the candle, which was already very short.

He extended his hand... and opened the door!

Outside the door...

There was no one.

Dai Lin’s left eye also saw nothing.

But Dai Lin knew that there must be something there, just that... he couldn’t see it.

According to the medical plan left by Dr. Liang, there was no need to do anything extra, say nothing, but never attempt to escape!

Then... Dai Lin felt an eerie feeling, as if something was scanning him!

That "thing" was discerning whether he and Lu Yanran were humans or ghosts!

The process was excruciating. Lu Yanran kept her mouth covered with her hand to prevent making any noise, yet her body still quivered like a sieve, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

Dai Lin was always ready, holding onto the Devil’s Cursed Object, even though he knew his left eye was utterly useless.

Every second felt as long as a century.

Fortunately... it didn’t take too long for the door to close again.

Then, knocking came from the neighboring door.

The strange feeling was gone.

...

Dai Lin almost collapsed to the floor, while Lu Yanran just realized that her pants were completely soaked.

"It’s okay... Let’s go back and sit down."

As the knocking sound gradually faded away, Dai Lin knew he had survived another ordeal.

There was one last barrier to face.

...

From the fragments of memory from Liang Zhigao, Dai Lin accessed some of the emotions.

He genuinely wanted to save Zhang Bei’s life... It was only natural, as the Executive Vice President strictly prohibited inaction among doctors after collecting patients’ Spiritual Therapy Points, and there were even caps on the annual death quotas for physicians’ patients.

But his use of the Devil’s Cursed Object wasn’t solely for the purpose of saving Zhang Bei’s life. From the memories, Dai Lin could sense a hint of madness.

Liang Zhigao had fallen into some form of insanity.

It seemed as though he was indulging... and had sunk into an obsession he couldn’t extricate himself from.

He was desperate to fulfill his obsession.

Dai Lin could feel Liang Zhigao’s thoughts at the time: The rules set by the Executive Vice President were absolute, and as a doctor, one must "believe" that the hospital’s name was Hospital 444, a place to treat the curses of ghosts and spirits.

However... in Liang Zhigao’s thoughts, the emotion of "belief" was no longer present. He had begun to doubt: Was this hospital really called Hospital 444?

In this hospital, for all doctors and nurses, the name of the hospital was 444 just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west—it was not to be doubted.

Liang Zhigao no longer believed...

Yet, having broken this rule of the Executive Vice President, he had not died.

Inside this hospital lay another set of rules, hidden and opposed to those of the Executive Vice President.

The emotions in the memories allowed Dai Lin to be fairly certain—this was why Liang Zhigao had set up the Devil’s Cursed Objects in this building.

Space... curse... devil...

This Sunset Tower had some similarities to the hospital.

He wanted to break away from Hospital 444 and enter... the non-existent 666 Hospital!

Dai Lin looked at the Devil’s Cursed Object in front of him... The full moon, Liang Zhigao had intended to use the night of the full moon to achieve this, he wanted to escape Hospital 444!

So... the changes happening to Dai Lin now, the pain emerging on his forehead, and the awakening of his memory, were all originally prepared by Liang Zhigao for himself. This time, he wanted the black inverted cross to truly emerge on his forehead!

Dai Lin realized that if he had taken the Devil’s Cursed Object upstairs and not chosen to escape with Lu Yanran but continued to go upstairs, then perhaps the inverted cross would indeed have appeared on his forehead!

Of course, Liang Zhigao was a Chief Physician, and he was only an intern. The former had a good chance of survival, but for him to do the same would have been certain death.

In this world, there are other places as abnormal as the hospital, such as the legendary Demon Apartment on Heitu Chuan Road in K City. And the Sunset Tower might be a place similar to the hospital but far less terrifying than the hospital itself.

Dai Lin finally understood why only he could enter Sunset Tower to save people, and Gao Heyann could not. Moreover, Han Ming would definitely seal all medical records of Zhang Bei’s visit to the Ghost Surgery Department, preventing Yin Wuque from having the chance to see them. As the Executive Vice President, he had the authority to do so.

...

Time crawled by slowly.

The Devil’s Cursed Object in front of them kept undergoing transformations. New heads kept growing out where cheeks should be and then retracting back into place. Should the object lose the upper hand for even a moment, for Dai Lin, the instant the candle burned out would be the moment of his death.

And when the full moon finally fades away, the arrival of daylight, the balance held by the curse would inevitably be shattered.

Dai Lin and Lu Yanran could only seize the last opportunity at four in the morning to escape from the Sunset Building!

"Mrs. Zhang," Dai Lin said, looking at the time with a grave expression, "have you remembered everything I’ve told you?"

"Um... yes, yes..."

"Then, let’s get ready to go down."

Lu Yanran’s legs had completely given out, and it took several attempts before she managed to stand up.

There was only a small stub of the candle left. By four in the morning, it would have burned out completely.

Dai Lin walked in front, holding Lu Yanran’s hand, and when they reached the door, he opened it.

Outside, the pitch-black corridor showed not a glimmer of light.

Dai Lin’s eyes, normally capable of seeing everything in the dark, were now... useless!

But, there was no choice.

They had to reach the fourth floor before four in the morning to get the last cursed object set up by Dr. Liang.

Dai Lin was constantly on alert for even the slightest noise around him. As his eyes tried to peer through the surroundings, he discovered that the darkness completely blocked his vision, hindering his ability to see through it!

Left with no other choice... Dai Lin could only fumble through the pitch darkness with Lu Yanran to find their way to the stairwell.

Suddenly...

Dai Lin had a very dangerous premonition!

"’That thing’ is preparing to..."

The origin of the curse in this building was not the ghost of any deceased person.

When Zhang Bei and Lu Yanran moved in, there were no living people here.

"That thing" had already searched the entire building, and under the protection of the candle, they were seen as common spirits, just one of the ordinary ghosts of the building.

But "that thing," upon realizing that it couldn’t find them, wouldn’t just give up.

Could it be...

"That thing" was going to eliminate every single ghost in the building...

Dai Lin’s left eye could sense that the spirits and resentful ghosts in the building were rapidly dwindling!

If it couldn’t tell them apart, then it wouldn’t bother to discriminate!

Dai Lin and Lu Yanran immediately sprinted downstairs!

Indeed... there were many ghosts in this building, but now, they were being slaughtered as easily as pigs and dogs!

Even if the candle hadn’t yet burnt out, it could no longer protect them!

The fourth floor...

The fourth floor...

The fourth floor... to the fourth floor!

Find the last cursed object!

Just as they had escaped to the fifth floor, Dai Lin sensed that all the spirits and resentful ghosts above the sixth floor no longer existed!

Finally, when they reached the fourth floor stairwell, Dai Lin’s left eye caught sight of that cursed object!

But in that instant... the candle completely burnt out!

Lu Yanran saw the extinguished candle and her face turned deathly pale with fear!

Dai Lin could no longer consider that Lu Yanran was a pregnant woman, and they jumped down the stairs three steps at a time!

Without the candle, there were no longer any ghosts upstairs to cover for them!

"That thing" was about to come and kill them directly!

Dai Lin finally rushed to the last cursed object and grabbed it!

"Hurry! Keep running!"

Dai Lin and Lu Yanran continued to run downstairs!

He glanced at the time... four in the morning had arrived!

Without hesitation, Dai Lin inserted the cursed object into the back of the Devil’s Cursed Object’s skull, pushing it in until it could go no further!

This last cursed object...

Was the hospital’s surgical scalpel!

And this was no ordinary scalpel; it was tainted with the blood of a malevolent ghost!

The night of the full moon...

Four in the morning...

The skull of the Devil’s Cursed Object impaled with a scalpel coated in the blood of a malevolent ghost!

At last...

When Dai Lin rushed to the first floor, he saw an ambulance parked there!

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