Hospital 444
Chapter 146 - 23 October 31

Chapter 146: Chapter 23 October 31

Lu Yuqing was dumbstruck at this moment.

This was an A-level Scalpel, specifically used for surgeries on those cursed by malevolent spirits! Only someone of Yin Wuque’s caliber could have taken such a scalpel out of Hospital 444 and given it to him!

A malevolent ghost that was directly stabbed by an A-level Scalpel was still acting as if nothing happened?

Just as the blood-drenched malevolent ghost was about to rush up to him, its body suddenly froze, and it stopped moving!

"Run for it!"

When Lu Yuqing turned his head, he saw three more people appear in the corridor behind him!

They were...

Dai Lin!

Gao Heyann!

And...ah, who is this person again? It seemed a bit familiar, but he couldn’t remember all of a sudden... Ah, right!

The attending physician of the Evil Ghost Department, Zhao She!

At this moment, Zhao She pointed at the malevolent ghost and yelled, "Run! What are you doing standing there? Planning on staying for dinner?"

With that, everyone finally snapped to their senses!

Run!

The group dashed straight for the stairs!

"We can’t teleport back to the hospital now!" Dai Lin shouted, "She has been released! This is bad!"

Zhao She said with a wry smile, "What do we do then?"

Lu Yuqing immediately said, "Deputy Director Yin is here! He left me a cursed object!"

But the problem was, how to use this cursed object?

"Brother-in-law is here?" In his urgency, even Gao Heyan referred to Yin Wuque as brother-in-law.

"Yeah, he should be able... to save us... right?"

Suddenly, the lights in the villa went out all at once!

The next moment, a voice came from the darkness.

"Yun Lan! Yunyi!"

Upon hearing this voice, Jin Yun Lan’s brain, which had been muddled with memories, finally saw through the fog!

That scalpel gradually began to clear away the altered memories completely!

"Qishu!"

But from the darkness behind, there came a twisted voice.

It seemed unable to produce any normal sound because the throat had been cut open by the scalpel!

But Jin Yun Lan slowly began to realize...

The intense malice coming from behind her!

It originated from the curse of her deceased twin sister!

"Yun Ran, no... don’t!"

In the darkness, Jin Yun Lan could only throw herself at her husband, disregarding everything else!

Even though the vicious malevolent ghost was only an arm’s reach away from her!

...

"October 31, 2021, Overcast

Today was an extremely insane day for me.

Where do I even begin?

My wife and child, we have been trapped in a cursed space.

Here, our perception was contaminated by some eerie force, so much so that we could no longer distinguish between human and non-human, reality and illusion, true memories and false ones.

Yun Lan, and a doctor from Hospital 444, told me everything about the truth.

It all started with her sister, Jin Yunran.

Yun Lan had mentioned to me that she had a twin sister. However, unlike her, her sister Yunran was born with very poor health and died at the age of three.

Yun Lan always felt that it was because she had taken most of the nutrients in the womb, which led to her sister’s congenital deficiencies. As a child, her parents tried everything to prolong her sister’s life, spending an unknown amount of money, even though she had no memory of this.

But as she grew up, Yun Lan began to vaguely feel that her sister seemed to exist somewhere close to her. She always thought it was a misconception, a sense of guilt towards her sister.

Especially when her in-laws passed away, she told me that her mother-in-law’s last words were, ’If only Yunran were still alive,’ ’If only we could have saved her back then.’

Even though her in-laws never blamed her, since then Yun Lan had occasionally, in deserted places, pretended as if her sister was still by her side and called out for Yunran.

Sometimes, she would even go to the movies alone, but buy two tickets, and at amusement parks, she would purposely buy tickets for two. She didn’t care about wasting money; she just wanted to use this method to feel at ease.

Until seven years ago on Halloween night.

As usual, she bought two tickets for a haunted house escape room online in her and her sister’s names, and then went alone. That’s when I noticed Yun Lan; she was clearly scared but pretended to be brave.

When she came out of the escape room, despite her shyness, she still made an excuse to add me on WeChat. I thought she was adorable.

Afterwards, she told me about her sister. She said she could never forget the look in her mother-in-law’s eyes before she died. She always wondered if her mother-in-law thought that she had taken her sister’s life.

I had always been comforting her, hoping she would understand that her sister’s death wasn’t her fault.

Seven years into our marriage, she had gradually let go of that incident.

But today, Yun Lan told me that the feeling that had gradually faded away started to emerge again not long ago. And as usual, when she felt it, she would call out for her sister’s name in places where no one was around.

But this time... it was different.

She actually heard her sister respond!

Not only that, she discovered something even more terrifying.

It was Yunyi.

Yunyi actually told her that he had met and talked with his aunt. After asking in detail, Yun Lan became increasingly afraid and urged Yunyi not to tell me about this.

It was during this time... She found a red business card in her wallet, from the so-called Hospital 444, a hospital capable of treating any ghostly curse.

So she registered for the outpatient service of Zhao She, the chief physician in the Evil Ghost Department, listed on the business card.

That was the day she had lied about going out to buy things, returning with a paper bag. Inside the paper bag were talismans provided by Dr. Zhao, designed to restrain the curse. He instructed her to place one of the talismans in a higher position within the house, namely in the attic. Another talisman had to be taken orally. After consumption, her right hand could temporarily transform into a talisman, sealing the malevolent ghost upon direct contact. However, the downside was that it required direct contact with the malevolent ghost.

The talisman placed in the attic could affect, or even change, a malevolent ghost’s self-perception, making it unable to realize it was a ghost and instead believe it was a person. Over time, the talisman would gradually suppress the malevolent ghost, and in the meantime, Dr. Zhao planned to use this period to schedule surgeries for our family. It was necessary to undergo surgery to cure the malevolent ghost’s curse.

But what was unforeseen was the situation changing beyond imagination.

The night of September 19th.

The malevolent ghost made its move.

According to the doctors, even though the talisman could influence its self-perception, the malevolent ghost was still overwhelmingly powerful. It could release curses through its subconscious, even affecting our self-identification.

That’s what the doctors explained, that after that day, Yun Lan, Yunyi, and I were living in two seemingly overlapping but entirely different spaces. Certain things could occasionally interact with each other, like this diary. But most of the time, we were in completely different realms of consciousness.

Including the malevolent ghost, in Yun Lan’s and Yunyi’s self-awareness, they believed I had died. But in my awareness, I had not been separated from them.

However, I could not understand why would the malevolent ghost do this? It was incomprehensible to me. If it was a merciless malevolent ghost, why not just kill me directly? Like with Alan, the malevolent ghost easily killed her.

The doctors couldn’t explain this either. During this time, they repeatedly entered here, but they were either manipulated into altered memories or trapped in other spaces. It made sense that the malevolent ghost could not kill them temporarily given the timeline, but there was no reason for it not to easily kill the three of us, which it had cursed for a long time.

Yun Lan had a hypothesis.

During this time, she was in contact with the malevolent ghost while her memory was being altered, up until she entered the attic and regained her memory through the talisman, temporarily sealing the malevolent ghost and rescuing Dr. Gao and Dr. Zhao who were trapped there.

She said she felt that her sister, transformed into a malevolent ghost... actually liked me, just like she did. The malevolent ghost once said in front of her that she had always been envious of her older sister, Yun Lan. Perhaps subconsciously, she had always envied that Yun Lan could live healthily and be doted on by her in-laws. But she also noticed when she mentioned so-called envy, her gaze contained an emotion unique to women. That’s when Yun Lan sensed that maybe the ghost, when lingering around her, had fallen for me. Especially when she said she could fully empathize with Heathcliff, the main character in ’Wuthering Heights’, her eyes were filled with a certain emotion.

It sounded too absurd. I totally couldn’t understand why Yun Lan would think that way, and it was also quite chilling.

So, was everything the malevolent ghost did aimed at tearing us apart, and then to possess me alone?

Do ghosts, like humans, act so madly... out of jealousy?"