Hospital 444
Chapter 148 - 25 Conclusion

Chapter 148: Chapter 25 Conclusion

"Please rest assured and accept the surgery: your son has already been rescued by our Vice President Han. However, since you’ve all been cursed, you must undergo surgery. Halloween is the best date for the operation. Don’t worry, Dr. Mei Quzhen is the head of the Evil Ghost Department and has a wealth of clinical experience."

"That’s... that’s good..."

Gao Heyan, facing Jin Yun Lan, who was about to be wheeled into the operating room, could only deceive her.

Otherwise, she simply had no way to peacefully accept the surgery.

Then, Gao Heyan signaled the anesthesiologist nearby, who nodded in agreement. After that, the nurses pushed Jin Yun Lan into the operating room.

Gao Qishu, in the meantime, underwent surgery in another operating room.

Even though the malevolent ghost had been sealed inside that villa and could not come out, this was a surgery to remove the curse of a malevolent ghost, so it was best to be as careful as possible.

Gao Heyan sat on the long bench in front of the operating room, her head leaning against the wall, looking at the time.

This was a highly challenging surgery, and it wouldn’t be surprising if it lasted seven to eight hours. Fortunately, stamina was not a problem for a paranormal doctor. Director Mei Quzhen’s surgical skills were second to none in the entire hospital, comparable to her sister’s.

It was then that Gao Heyan suddenly discovered Lu Yuqing sitting next to her.

Although under duress, as Lu Yuqing had come in to save her, Gao Heyan hadn’t given her a cold reception. Instead, she said, "Aren’t you going to rest? There’s nothing here for you now."

"Have you been checked?" Lu Yuqing scrutinized Gao Heyan carefully, as before this, she genuinely thought Gao Heyan wouldn’t make it out alive.

"No need." Gao Heyan wiped the sweat from her forehead. "I am well aware of my condition."

"That’s a malevolent ghost’s curse, and its main characteristic is that it almost never presents typical clinical symptoms," Lu Yuqing cautioned. "Otherwise, why do you think Director Mei fought against all odds and successfully established the Evil Ghost Department only with the support of Vice President He Yan?"

"We’re paranormal doctors; curses don’t easily affect us."

"You’re in the Resentful Spirit Department, not the Evil Ghost Department. You should still get checked."

Gao Heyan bit her lip and leaned her head back slightly.

"In the end, the child couldn’t be saved. Such a young child is more susceptible to curses than adults."

Hearing Gao Heyan lament, Lu Yuqing shook her head and said, "Considering it’s a curse from a malevolent ghost, having only this many casualties, they’re already very lucky."

"Fortunately, Vice President Yin came just in time, as the couple had already been admitted to the hospital."

Lu Yuqing then suddenly leaned close to Gao Heyan, her cheek almost touching Gao Heyan’s nose.

"What...what are you doing?"

"I’m from the Ghost Surgery Department; let me at least give you a brief check-up. Don’t forget that the Ghost Surgery Department and the Evil Ghost Department used to be one and the same."

After saying these words, Lu Yuqing leaned in close to Gao Heyan’s face, studied it for about a minute, and, as Gao Heyan’s expression grew colder, finally let out a sigh of relief, "It seems there isn’t much of a problem."

"Even a curse from a malevolent ghost isn’t so easy when it comes to cursing a paranormal doctor."

"Caution is still the best policy."

Gao Heyan watched Lu Yuqing’s obviously relieved expression and couldn’t help but recall the years when the two of them had been good friends.

"Aren’t you afraid of being misunderstood by Vice President Han now?"

"I am treating a patient as a doctor." While Lu Yuqing said this, the main reason was that there weren’t many people in the hospital corridor at this time.

Then, she stood up and said, "Well, since you’re fine, I’ll be going now."

No sooner had she finished speaking than her body vanished.

On the other side.

In front of Gao Qishu’s operating room.

Dr. Dai stared blankly at the operating room.

"Gao Qishu’s curse is much lighter," Zhao She patted Dr. Dai’s shoulder and assured: "With Dr. Yao from our department performing the surgery, there won’t be a problem."

"Jin Yun Ran really had no intention of killing him..." Dr. Dai murmured: "The memories of Jin Yun Ran I accessed showed that she had always held affection for her brother-in-law, Gao Qishu. She might have always fantasized that if she were alive, she could compete fairly with her sister, could proactively add the man she liked on WeChat, could..."

"Obsessions too deep eventually become hindrances," Zhao She remarked, glancing at the ’In Surgery’ sign: "Simple loves like mine with my wife are better, without so many complications."

"But even when suppressed by ghostly Buddhas, or with memories altered, she still acted on her subconscious desire to kill, attacking people starting with the nanny, and then her nephew..."

In the end... the child wasn’t saved.

"Even if the couple survives, it’s doubtful they can return to their former lives."

Dr. Dai could imagine the depths of despair into which the couple would plunge after the surgery. Their child was dead, and the murderer was the ghost of the aunt. Such events were enough to drive anyone insane. Could they continue to be the loving couple they once were? Could they bear the pain of losing their child?

And the prime culprit behind everything... the malevolent ghost couldn’t be killed. No doctor could slay a ghost."

"By the way..."

Dr. Dai suddenly thought of something and turned to Zhao She: "Dr. Zhao, how much will the couple’s surgeries cost approximately?"

"Curses from malevolent ghosts are highly unusual and difficult to assess pre-operatively; the final surgery costs depend on the actual progress of the surgery and the analysis by the Department of Cursed Objects. So normally we ask the patients to deposit 500,000 Spiritual Therapy Points in advance, which will be adjusted after the surgery based on actual costs."

500,000 Spiritual Therapy Points!

Fifty times the amount of 10,000...

Thinking of that so-called Patient’s Code, Dai Lin couldn’t help but ask again, "Spiritual Therapy Points mean part of a patient’s future is deprived, but what specific future could that be? Around 500,000 or so..."

"About that..." Zhao She thought for a moment and said, "According to our hospital’s policy, follow-up consultations are entirely voluntary for the patient, and doctors are not supposed to make house calls in principle. However, in the past, we have followed up with patients who paid high surgery fees..."

"And then..."

What would happen?

"They..."

Looking at the operation room door in front of him, Zhao She’s usually cynical expression gradually became tense, "Their lifespan wouldn’t be very long."

A tightness gripped Dai Lin’s heart.

"Are the patients aware of... this detail?"

"There’s no helping it. Without the surgery, they would die even sooner. The pricing is set by the hospital director."

But still... Dai Lin always felt something was off.

Did the Patient’s Code only warn patients not to give more than ten thousand Spiritual Therapy Points for this single reason?

At this moment...

Yin Wuque was staring at the operating room from a distance in the corridor.

His gaze was serious, and his hands were clenched tight.

In his profound eyes, no one could discern his true thoughts.

...

Luo Ren looked somewhat speechless at Lu Yuqing before him.

"You called me here late at night, just to... try out your newly blended coffee?"

"It’s coffee beans from Yunnan." Lu Yuqing pointed to the coffee cup in front and said, "Don’t just look at Starbucks or Costa thinking they’re fancy; many of them use Yunnan coffee beans, which aren’t inferior to those grown overseas."

"I thought you wanted to talk about Dai Lin and... the hospital."

"Talk while drinking, there is indeed something about Dai Lin."

Lu Yuqing had no one she could confide in.

She couldn’t speak her true mind to either faction. She knew better than anyone that both Yin Wuque and Han Ming were not good people.

And Luo Ren... someone who knew about the hospital’s existence but was neither a patient there nor belonged to any faction, became the perfect confidante for her. Of course, he was a friend of Dai Lin, but... that didn’t matter to Lu Yuqing anymore.

Luo Ren wanted to know the latest about Dai Lin, and he was aware that Dai Lin would only share good news with him, so he had to accompany Lu Yuqing and try her new coffee to learn what was really going on with Dai Lin.

In the now empty coffee shop, Luo Ren had just tasted a sip of coffee and had not yet had a chance to comment when he heard Lu Yuqing say, "Today we saved two patients, but a six-year-old child died."

This made Luo Ren freeze on the spot.

"We were so close to saving that child."

Lu Yuqing, having been a doctor for so long, was accustomed to life and death. But the death of such a young child right before her eyes still troubled her.

"But Dai Lin and He Yan are okay. He Yan is safe... that’s truly a relief."

"It’s good that Dai Lin is fine... But who is He Yan?"

"My once... close friend. During our internship, she risked her life to save me during a resident exam. But I betrayed her, I clung to the higher-ups in the hospital, choosing to go to the Ghost Surgery Department... I’ve been hiding it from her; she’s always wanted me to become a core doctor in her brother-in-law’s department."

The information was too much for Luo Ren to sort out all at once; in fact, he just wanted to know about Dai Lin’s situation, but for the moment, the only thing he could do was let Lu Yuqing speak her mind.

"I really thought... she was going to die this time... I abandoned her for my future at the hospital, didn’t care about her life or death... and yet, she survived... she survived..."

At this point, Lu Yuqing broke down in tears, oblivious to those around her.

This completely baffled Luo Ren.

What was happening?

"Hmm, do you wish your friend had survived, or... not?"

"What’s it to you! I just called you here to try my coffee!"

"..."

Luo Ren held his speechless emotions and watched as Lu Yuqing cried for five minutes before he finally said, "Friendship isn’t so easy to maintain, it’s often hard to withstand the tests of life. I’ve regretted it... I said some things to Dai Lin that I shouldn’t have said. I never expected him to stick to his dream of being a doctor until now..."

Lu Yuqing wiped away her tears; she didn’t know why she could cry so freely in front of Luo Ren. Perhaps it was because he was a stranger, so she could vent her true feelings without considering the consequences, without worrying about any vested interest.

"You think your friend’s survival makes you very happy, right?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuqing quickly responded, "No! We can hardly be called friends now... So, what about you and Dr. Dai, what happened between you two?"

Luo Ren took another sip of her coffee.

"My friendship with Dai Lin began in our student days, with an essay he wrote..."

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