Hospital 444
Chapter 119 - 32 Han Ming and Dai Lin

Chapter 119: Chapter 32 Han Ming and Dai Lin

Lu Yuqing really liked Gao Heyann. She was the type who seemed cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Being friends with her gave Lu Yuqing a sense of ease and comfort she had never felt before. If it weren’t for all the bizarre secrets behind everything, she would have wished to remain friends with Gao Heyann forever.

But this choice, she dared not take lightly.

This hospital was too strange, superficially serving to treat patients with curses, but clearly, that was not all there was to it.

In any case, at least one thing was certain.

The inverted cross was a terrible symbol of extreme danger. Once it appeared, the doctor would become some kind of "heretic."

If the inverted cross only showed up when looking in the mirror or simply caused an hour-long pain in the forehead, it seemed to still be in the "salvageable" phase, according to the Dean’s rules, and one should seek treatment in the Demons Department.

However, if the inverted cross on the forehead became visible to others, then it was considered the "beyond help" stage. At this time, one would need to report to the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean, Fang Shen. By this stage, the doctors with the inverted cross on their foreheads would transform into some "other kind of thing."

After Liang Zhigao "disappeared," Lu Yuqing learned that he was also a member of Han Ming’s true "faction." Following his "disappearance," Han Ming informed Lu Yuqing about this. However, Liang Zhigao’s circumstances were different from Lu Yuqing’s; he only recalled the missing first paragraph of the contract after the symptoms of the inverted cross appeared on his forehead. And he was the type who had "made it through," as Han Ming had put it.

His "disappearance" seemed to have always been related to the Dusk Building.

"The horror of this world is reawakening," Han Ming told Lu Yuqing, "Entities from abnormal planes have already begun to overlap with this world. Liang Zhigao entertained thoughts he should not have had and ended up placing the Devil’s Cursed Object in the Dusk Building. His obsession ultimately led to his self-destruction. I didn’t expect that at this time, Dai Lin’s brother would get involved and be admitted to the Demons Department."

What improper thoughts he had entertained, Han Ming did not tell Lu Yuqing.

Whether it was because he did not fully trust her, or for some other reason, Lu Yuqing had no way of knowing.

She could only be sure that the Dean was not as omnipotent as the other doctors imagined.

It was commonly believed that the three Vice Presidents were personally appointed by the Dean, but it seemed this was not the case. There existed within the hospital a certain cursed power that was antagonistic to the Dean.

And the Demons Department and the Department of Cursed Objects should be under the Dean’s cursed power. Both of these departments were extremely abnormal and mysterious, and doctors could not enter these departments of their own will when being assigned.

Not to mention the Demons Department, which was so mystifying that it was utterly incomprehensible, not to mention the incident with Ouyang Rui which had left Dr. Gao Menghua unconscious to this day.

As for the Department of Cursed Objects, it was the source of all cursed artifacts and the foundation for all doctors to combat the curses of malevolent spirits. Without the Department of Cursed Objects, paranormal doctors would be no different from ordinary people. However, the Department of Cursed Objects belonged exclusively to the Curse Objects Center building. Moreover, clinical doctors could not find their way to the Curse Objects Center building at all. Only with the guidance of cursed object department doctors could they find and enter the Curse Objects Center building. Even so, clinical doctors’ access to the Curse Objects Center was strictly limited. How the cursed objects were made, how the curses were sealed, and how the cursed objects suppressed the revival of curses... the clinical doctors knew nothing at all.

And Curse Affairs Deputy Dean Fang Shen rarely made appearances before the outpatient doctors. The number of times Lu Yuqing had seen him was minimal. Although he was called Vice Dean, he did not manage anything outside the Department of Cursed Objects.

It was at this moment that the ringing of her cellphone interrupted Lu Yuqing’s thoughts.

She took out her phone and saw that the caller was Dai Lin.

Speaking to Dai Lin in front of Luo Ren obviously wasn’t a good idea, so she stood up, walked back behind the café counter, and answered the call.

"Dr. Dai, how is your recovery going?"

"Blue Heart Café is now yours, right? I have a favor to ask of you, Dr. Lu."

Lu Yuqing glanced back in the direction of Luo Ren and said, "What is it?"

"I want to look at some surveillance footage."

"Surveillance?"

"There’s something I desperately need to confirm. I’m sorry for the trouble..."

In that brief moment, a myriad of thoughts flashed through Lu Yuqing’s mind.

Surveillance?

What did he want to check?

She hadn’t noticed anything special here... If there had been any paranormal phenomena, whether past or future, as long as it wasn’t too far off, she would have sensed it to some extent.

Could it be related to Luo Ren?

After a moment of thought, Lu Yuqing said, "What do you want to check?"

"There’s something I need to confirm."

"Simply put, you can’t let me know about it, right?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

"You said you wanted to confirm... when you saw something while we were video chatting, right? Let me clarify, I haven’t felt the presence of ghosts in this shop. If there were, then it would be either a Malevolent Ghost or a vicious spirit. Those types of ghosts aren’t as commonplace as cabbage and aren’t so easily encountered."

"I indeed saw something... but I can’t tell you directly."

"I’ll ask Vice President Han about it. Wait for my reply. Don’t forget that you are, after all, one of Yin Wuque’s people."

Lu Yuqing also harbored a deep apprehension towards Yin Wuque.

What would have happened to her if she had pointed out the "printing error" to Executive Vice President Yin Wuque back in the day?

This kind of incident couldn’t have been the first. Yet, she had never heard of anything similar before.

Then, what had happened to those who once thought there had been a contract printing error and reported it to Yin Wuque?

This was one of the reasons why she ultimately weighed her options repeatedly and decided to side with Han Ming.

The surveillance footage... She still needed to report this matter to Han Ming.

"Let him see it."

Who would have thought, at this moment, Han Ming’s voice would come through on the cell phone!

"Vice President Han?"

"Dr. Dai has worked hard this time, let it be a reward for him."

"Okay, I understand..."

On the other end of the phone, Han Ming handed the phone back to Dai Lin.

This was in Vice President Han Ming’s office.

"You can rest easy here," Han Ming pointed to the door, "No one can burst in without my permission, and it’s impossible for anyone to eavesdrop on this room. Unless... they have the key to this room. Then, no matter where they are, as long as they hold the key and wish to come here, they can enter at any time... and avoid Yin Wuque’s surveillance."

Dai Lin coldly looked at Han Ming in front of him, yet felt deeply conflicted inside.

Yin Wuque had been kind to him, but Dai Lin also sensed that the hospital concealed darkness he did not understand.

He wanted to know... the true mystery behind it all. Especially, what did a visit to the Demons Department imply? What would Dai Wei’s future hold?

"You’ve come here to talk to me, right? That day, when I arranged for someone to secretly hand you the key, I guessed that you might come to me."

"You actually dared to give me the key?"

"Well, let’s cut to the chase."

Han Ming sat opposite Dai Lin.

The office was quite spacious, approximately three hundred square meters.

But, it was devoid of any windows on all sides.

Dai Lin made up his mind and said, "I remember now, the first paragraph of the intern doctor contract I signed. Initially, when I read the second paragraph, I forgot the first one, and in my eyes, the second paragraph became the first. The first paragraph that I forgot stated that if I remembered the content of the first paragraph, I was to seek you out and inform you about it."

Han Ming seemed to have anticipated Dai Lin’s words and showed no sign of surprise.

"Your situation is indeed the same as Liang Zhigao’s. You have recalled it."

"But I have also started to forget some things..."

"So you want to check the surveillance?"

"Yes..."

"Liang Zhigao, his foolish actions allowed ’them’ to get overly involved with us... Of course, all of this has now backfired, and whoever it was has ’disappeared’. I’m quite surprised that your memory hasn’t been completely erased. It seems to be related to Ouyang Rui’s eyes."

Dai Lin had another question.

Why was it that after he handed over the piece of the map, he managed to escape from the Dusk Building?

What was the connection between the source of the Dusk Building’s curse and the curse that caused An Minglu’s death?

And...

Wei Shirling, the third victim, what exactly was her connection to Yin Wuque? As the Executive Vice President, what secrets of this hospital did Yin Wuque actually know?

"One thing I can tell you for certain, Dai Lin. The first paragraph of the contract is right; this is not a hospital at all!"

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