Hospital 444
Chapter 139 - 16 Rebirth

Chapter 139: Chapter 16 Rebirth

Yin Wuque looked at the bathtub in front of him.

This was the bathtub that came with his deputy dean’s office.

However, he rarely bathed here.

This place... was the closest to the dean. He didn’t want to undress here, completely exposed to the dean.

Although he was well aware that, no matter when or where, the dean was always watching them, each and every one.

At this moment...

There lay a piece of bloody raw flesh in the bathtub, approximately the size of a washbasin.

Finally...

Yin Wuque saw that the flesh had started to sprout a few embryonic fingers.

The scene was terrifying to the extreme, but Yin Wuque remained unfazed.

"It’s much slower than expected,"

Yin Wuque said this, but he was pleased to see the fingers appear.

This meant... the flesh was growing.

Once the growth began, he could rest easy.

Walking out of the bathroom, he approached his own desk.

In the room without any sunlight, only the dim LED light illuminated half of his face.

And the other half... was completely submerged in profound darkness.

About half an hour later...

The bathroom door burst open!

Dai Lin, with only a towel wrapped around his lower body and his upper body bare, rushed out!

"Yin... Deputy Dean?"

Dai Lin, looking at Yin Wuque in front of him, was stunned.

"I put clothes in the bathroom, didn’t you see them?"

Dai Lin was stunned, saying, "I... didn’t notice..."

"Get dressed and come out. I know you have many questions, we can discuss them slowly."

...

Dai Lin, now fully dressed, sat across from Yin Wuque, examining his own body.

"Is it Cursed Flesh...?"

"Fortunately, you consumed Cursed Flesh at the Sunset Building, and then, during your hospitalization, I took a small part of your skin tissue. Actually, I had planned to wait until you were promoted to attending physician before having you take the Cursed Flesh. You can be reborn through Cursed Flesh only once in your lifetime, whether you’re a patient or a doctor. The skin tissue left in the hospital will regenerate first through the curse."

"Then... why didn’t Dr. Liang extract skin tissue to keep in the hospital when he prescribed Cursed Flesh to Zhang Bei?"

"What do you think..." Yin Wuque then followed up, asking, "Do you really have no recollection of why you needed to be reborn through Cursed Flesh?"

"Did I... die once?"

"Not necessarily. If the curse affects the soul to a certain extent, it will be judged by Cursed Flesh as needing rebirth."

"I can’t remember at all..."

Dai Lin held his head, saying, "But I’m sure I went through something terrifying..."

At that moment, Dai Lin suddenly glanced at the LCD TV near the office desk.

"The TV... the child..."

"Child?" Yin Wuque continued to inquire, "What child?"

"There was a child watching TV, the room was very dark, and then there was a..."

As he uttered the word "there was a," Dai Lin’s expression suddenly turned into one of intense panic.

"We have discovered through the hospital’s surveillance that you seem to have teleported and voluntarily left the hospital, and you have not returned since. You didn’t take leave beforehand, and you’re considered AWOL, which is subject to a warning. I must determine whether your departure was force majeure; otherwise, as the administrative deputy dean, I must carry out disciplinary action. You should know that accumulating infractions can lead to being dismissed by the dean. To be dismissed is to die!"

"I... I don’t know..."

"Now there’s another issue, He Yan has also disappeared."

Yin Wuque casually dropped this question, then observed Dai Lin’s reaction.

He had deliberately waited until now to say this. If someone was lying, then they wouldn’t act according to common sense.

He couldn’t be sure whether Dai Lin and Han Ming had made some deal he wasn’t aware of. He must be cautious... exceedingly cautious..."

Dai Lin’s expression was one of shock as he asked, "She’s missing?"

"Where exactly does your memory end?"

"I feel... like there are certain specific parts missing from my memory. It all started with the Blue Heart coffee shop..."

...

"That LEGO toy box, did Yunyi buy it secretly himself? Or did Yun Lan buy it for him, and she didn’t tell me to avoid my blaming her for reckless spending?

Well, let it be. It’s no big deal for a child to play with toys, and Yunyi seems to think I bought it for him and pretends not to know, playing happily with it.

A few days later, it will be Halloween night.

Yunyi has been looking forward to Halloween too.

Today, Yun Lan went and came back from visiting Yun Ran.

She said she has been missing her sister Yun Ran a lot recently, so she went to see her.

After returning, I sensed she has been more downcast than the previous days.

Ever since she brought that paper bag home, I felt something was off.

Moreover, I noticed that she seems to be frequently running up to the attic on the third floor these past two days. Whenever I couldn’t find her, she was coming down from the attic.

She claims she wants to tidy up the attic, but I could tell right away that she was lying. When I said I wanted to help her clean up, she hurried to stop me, and then said that she would take me there on Halloween night.

Could it be that she has arranged some surprise for me in the attic?

I really have to wait and see. What kind of surprise could she have for me?"

Jin Yunran looked at Gao Heyann sitting opposite her and said, "Aaron, this is the diary ’updated’ tonight. Every night, the diary updates, and then... there are always some mysterious situations that coincide with reality within it."

Gao Heyann closed the diary and murmured, "Doesn’t seem like resentful spirits and evil ghosts..."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, nothing... But why do you trust me so much and show me the diary instead of consulting with the lady of the house?"

Jin Yunran looked at Gao Heyann, puzzled, and said, "Because you make me believe in you... I don’t know why, but I just feel that you’re trustworthy."

"Hmm... I think I might have said that."

Gao Heyann felt something strange: Why did she subconsciously say something like... not like resentful spirits and evil ghosts?

"The attic."

Then, Jin Yunran pointed to the diary and said, "It must be related to the attic on the third floor. But I can’t go look by myself."

"You mean... we go together?"

"Is it possible... or should we go during the daytime tomorrow?"

"How about we discuss it with the lady of the house instead?"

"I’m worried about my sister’s mental state,"

Jin Yunran said with a concerned expression.

Looking at the diary in front of her, Gao Heyann fell into contemplation.

"Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?"

Jin Yunran was at a loss how to answer when Gao Heyann asked her this.

"I... I don’t know. With the situation as it is now, I really don’t know who to ask for help. And there’s no place that provides ghost extermination services."

Perhaps there really was one...

Gao Heyann felt dazed, the thought crossing her mind.

After a long while...

She nodded and said, "So, shall we go to the attic tonight?"

Jin Yunran had the same thought.

She couldn’t wait until tomorrow.

With "Aaron" accompanying her, she felt much braver.

"It is still hard for me to believe that ghosts exist... But, if we change our perspective..." Jin Yunran recalled the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw from "Wuthering Heights," who wandered outside the manor for over twenty years.

If there really was unfinished business between the living and the dead, then what should she do?

"Aaron, have you seen Demi Moore’s ’Ghost’?"

"I have," Gao Heyann replied to Jin Yunran’s surprise: "It’s a touching movie... You mean, it’s like the situation in the movie?"

"Do you think, could ghosts be a form of brainwaves? I mean, a kind of electromagnetic wave?"

"Hmm..." Gao Heyann quickly shook her head: "Brainwaves are biological electricity, different from electromagnetic waves. Besides... can brainwaves write in a diary?"

"If it’s my brother-in-law’s ghost..." Jin Yunran felt she was really going crazy, seriously starting to discuss this issue: "Then what should I do? Keep it hidden from my sister forever?"

After a long silence, she checked the time.

"Ten o’clock. Aaron, at ten o’clock, my sister and Yunyi will be asleep. Then we can go and find out what’s really happening in the attic!"