Hospital 444
Chapter 121 - 34 Pretend... Not to See Them

Chapter 121: Chapter 34 Pretend... Not to See Them

Just then, Dai Lin received an email on his phone.

Lu Yuqing had sent him the surveillance video of the specified time period to his phone.

After hesitating for a moment, Dai Lin still opened the video.

The surveillance captured everything very clearly; one could clearly see Lu Yuqing’s coffee cup shattering in his hand, naturally Dai Lin’s handiwork.

Then, through the surveillance footage, he watched the two foreigners’ seats...

"This..."

However, seated there were three women instead!

There were no foreigners at all!

With his phone in hand, Dai Lin’s hands trembled slightly.

Their existence had been cleanly erased.

Even the map fragment in Dai Lin’s right eye was now gone.

At least... Dai Lin still remembered the image of the map fragment.

The "thing" inside the Sunset Tower building... why did it let him go after he lost the map fragment?

Besieged by a multitude of thoughts, eventually, Dai Lin fell asleep on the hospital bed.

...

After a long sleep, when Dai Lin woke up, his first thought was surprisingly coldness!

So cold!

However, inside Hospital 444’s wards, it was always temperature controlled throughout the year!

Dai Lin grew alert and began to shake off the drowsiness from his mind.

Picking up his phone, he saw it was past two o’clock in the morning.

According to the hospital director’s rules, it was the time period when doctors were not allowed to enter the outpatient area.

Dai Lin stood up and walked out of the ward in his patient gown.

The inpatient department building was so quiet at night that one could hear a pin drop.

The patient wards area was always relatively safe, no matter what kind of evil spirits were in the inpatient department, they would be suppressed and unable to move an inch.

But Dai Lin wasn’t sure if the "thing" in the Sunset Tower was also subject to the suppression of the inpatient department.

Dai Lin gripped his patient gown tightly. If he remembered correctly, Zhao She should be the doctor on duty on this floor tonight.

Dai Lin wanted to find Zhao She.

In this hospital, maybe only a carefree person like Zhao She could be trusted.

He had just taken two steps when Dai Lin suddenly felt the cold intensifying.

He took two more steps and then suddenly saw a female doctor flash by at the corridor intersection up ahead.

With Dai Lin’s extraordinary eyesight, he immediately recognized her... it was Tang Li!

Dai Lin immediately followed her at a quick pace.

But when he reached the intersection... there was no one on the corridor that Tang Li had just entered!

Did she go into a patient room?

Dai Lin’s eyes immediately began to scrutinize the surrounding wards... he couldn’t care less about patient privacy now...

Nothing!

There was no sign of Tang Li!

Dai Lin felt that something was amiss.

He recalled what Han Ming had said.

Tang Li had nearly... "disappeared" too!

Where on earth did she go?

Dai Lin walked to the other side of the corridor, paying attention to his surroundings.

Suddenly!

Dai Lin saw a door to one of the wards slightly ajar.

But no one came out!

Dai Lin looked at the door of the ward and slowly approached it, using his x-ray vision ahead of time.

It was a three-person ward, but only two beds were occupied.

Both patients were clearly fast asleep!

So...

Who had opened the door to the ward just now?

Ghosts couldn’t enter a ward silently and without a trace!

In the end, Dai Lin arrived at the doorway of that ward.

Those two patients inside appeared to have no abnormalities for the time being.

Dai Lin reached out his hand, ready to close the door to the ward!

But at that moment!

Suddenly!

A nurse with a mask on came out from inside the ward, just like that... she walked past Dai Lin!

When Dai Lin had used his x-ray vision just before...

There was no nurse inside the ward!

But this wasn’t the most terrifying thing.

Dai Lin discovered...

The mask worn by the nurse was red!

There were two rules in Hospital 444’s code of conduct that made a particularly deep impression on Dai Lin.

One stated, "When descending stairs, a doctor must count each step carefully. If there are twelve steps, then all is well. If a thirteenth step appears, one must absolutely not continue downward. Instead, go back up and proceed downward again until the stairs revert to twelve steps before continuing." There was no need to count the steps when going upstairs.

The other rule was "Doctors and nurses at Hospital 444 may only wear white masks. The wearing of masks of any other color is strictly forbidden, and nobody is capable of bringing a red mask inside the hospital. Therefore, there should not be any doctors or nurses inside wearing red masks."

However, the rules went on to say, "If you encounter a doctor or nurse wearing a red mask, no matter what happens, even if they speak to you, you must act as if you can’t see them. Never let them realize you can see them. If there are other doctors, nurses, or even patients who can see them and interact with them or are discovered to be visible, immediately ignore these people as well, pretending they don’t exist."

The nurse wearing the red mask gradually moved away from Dai Lin.

But Dai Lin could clearly hear the fading footsteps.

Dai Lin closed the door to the ward, then turned his head in the opposite direction of the nurse.

Don’t look!

Never look at that nurse!

In the seven major rules for hidden patients, there was also mention of "doctors and nurses with red masks." The doctors would never discuss whether they had seen medical staff wearing red masks because they must completely ignore their existence.

Dai Lin was also relieved that his quick reaction prevented the other person from noticing him.

Dai Lin quickened his pace, intent on returning to his own ward.

But...

After just a few steps, Dai Lin suddenly realized...

The footsteps behind him were drawing closer again!

The nurse with the red mask was coming back!

She was following right behind him!

Had he revealed a flaw?

Dai Lin’s eyes could not see the scene behind his head. Even with the footsteps drawing closer, he did not quicken his pace deliberately. He could not let the "person" behind him feel that he could see or hear them!

Dai Lin turned the corner and kept moving towards the location of his ward.

Suddenly...

He noticed the footsteps behind him... speeding up!

Dai Lin continued to maintain his usual pace, but he would soon be caught up.

Then...

In the corner of Dai Lin’s vision, he faintly saw the nurse with the red mask. Using the Devil’s Eye ability, he could see her very clearly, but he did not do so.

She stood diagonally opposite to him, one meter away and slightly behind Dai Lin, closely following him.

Dai Lin’s heart filled with unease, yet he could not let it show on his face.

Finally, his ward was in sight.

Dai Lin didn’t dare to be careless, his steps still maintaining a composed rhythm.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the nurse getting closer and closer to him...

At that moment, Dai Lin entered his ward and closed the door.

The footsteps did not linger at the door for too long before they left.

Dai Lin walked to his bed unhurriedly and lied down.

Under normal circumstances...

Doctors would not tell patients about the consequences of seeing doctors or nurses wearing red masks.

If a patient could indeed see them, then the only result would be to be ignored by the doctors as if they didn’t exist. That is unless they saw the seven rules on the back of the card, like Zhang Bei had.

Naturally, Dai Lin did not dare to sleep again. He lay on the bed, waiting for the doctors to start their shifts.

The following time was naturally very difficult to endure.

Soon, it would be four o’clock in the morning.

Suddenly, Dai Lin heard footsteps outside the door!

Then...

Those footsteps came straight to the door of the ward!

Before Dai Lin had time to see through it, the door to the ward was opened!

The nurse wearing the red mask walked in!

Dai Lin’s gaze stayed fixed on the ceiling from the beginning to the end since he could see the scene in his peripheral vision very clearly.

He still lay under the blanket, doing nothing.

Then...

The nurse wearing the red mask came to the side of his bed, lowered her head, and stared intently at Dai Lin!

This time, Dai Lin saw clearly.

The nurse’s eyes, her pupils, looked like two transparent glass beads, without the slightest hint of black!

The nurse continued to stare down at Dai Lin, her hair almost touching Dai Lin’s nose.

Dai Lin endured the urge to react.

His left eye was sending out an unprecedented danger warning—one even more intense than the time with An Minglu! In the Sunset Building, he hadn’t felt such danger!

According to the rules set by the dean, as long as she couldn’t confirm that Dai Lin saw her, then he would be safe.

But once it was discovered that he actually could see her... what would happen then?

Dai Lin’s gaze met that of the nurse in front of him, and he didn’t know... how much longer he could hold on! If a hint of panic showed in his glance, then... he would be exposed!