Hospital 444
Chapter 166 - 15 Village Chief

Chapter 166: Chapter 15 Village Chief

A new day had arrived.

When Dai Lin woke up in the morning, he suddenly realized something was amiss.

Why... did I fall asleep?

The Paranormal Doctor could easily suppress the desire to sleep if he made up his mind not to, right?

He had decided not to sleep last night...

Why did he fall asleep?

At this moment, the sunshine outside was bright...

Wait a minute...

He should have drawn the curtains last night!

All of this was obviously abnormal.

At that time, Gao Heyann also woke up.

"How come... we fell asleep?"

Clearly, both Dai Lin and Gao Heyann felt something was wrong!

"We... probably lost a part of our memory..."

Gao Heyann couldn’t remember at all how they had fallen asleep.

This made both of them feel tremendously uneasy.

The horrifying experiences at the Gao family villa were still vivid in their minds, and Jin Yunran had become a significant psychological shadow for Dai Lin himself.

What terrible thing had happened within the lost memories?

"Remember, don’t look in the mirror," Gao Heyann continued to emphasize, "By no means should you look in the mirror."

"I got it."

Dai Lin understood Gao Heyann’s concerns, after all... this village hid too many secrets.

In fact, they were both aware that the chances of Gu Yanan’s survival were very slim. The reason they chose to come here was primarily not to give up that last sliver of hope.

However, the current situation was: they could no longer teleport back to the hospital.

This meant a very harsh reality: they had to get rid of the source of the Black Blood Ancestral Mother curse. And if they couldn’t do that, they might never be able to leave this village of Black Marsh.

"We must carefully gather information if we hope to leave this place," Gao Heyann remembered carefully, but still could not recall what had happened last night.

In fact, what had changed was not just the memory...

...

"How did you sleep this morning?"

In the rather deserted inn, there were hardly any guests to be seen.

This situation felt very wrong to both Dai Lin and Gao Heyann.

The landlady, on the other hand, was very attentive, looking after the two of them and asking how their stay was going.

"Not bad," Gao Heyann replied.

The landlady smiled and said, "That’s good, gentlemen, please head this way to the dining room."

Dai Lin was full of caution towards this landlady; she could know everything. But even though he knew this, he was currently unable to take her hair to read her memories.

Just at that moment, the landlady suddenly took out a painting from behind her.

"Take a look at this painting I drew, this animal... can you recognize what I have painted?"

Upon hearing this, Dai Lin glanced over.

"This is..."

Dai Lin was surprised to find, this animal...

matched exactly with Wei Zhengxian’s description.

"I don’t know, is this a deer?"

"No," the landlady smiled and said, "It’s just an animal I made up in my imagination."

That’s not right...

Dai Lin realized the real reason the landlady had shown him this painting was to test whether they had looked in a mirror!

"Landlady!"

At that moment, a voice came from behind.

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann turned their heads and saw two young men leading a smaller-sized lamb into the inn.

"Ayuan, A Cheng..." the landlady took an extra look at A Cheng, "A Cheng, you’ve fully embraced the blessing of the Ancestral Mother."

Hearing this, Dai Lin and Gao Heyann immediately looked over.

Ayuan?

Wasn’t that the man who looked exactly like Wei Zhengxian’s younger brother?

Indeed, Ayuan was extremely handsome, comparable to the protagonists of idol dramas.

"Yes, landlady," Ayuan patted A Cheng’s shoulder and said, "All thanks to the Ancestral Mother. We must continue to offer even better goats to her in the future."

"And this goat behind you is?"

"A new goat that came out of the Ancestral Mother Cave this morning," Ayuan patted the goat’s head and said, "I need to take it to the village chief, but since he’s not at home, I was wondering if he might have come here."

"The village chief hasn’t come here."

"Alright. I need to find the village chief, and then he’ll decide which family this goat will be assigned to, to raise it before offering it to the Ancestral Mother."

Dai Lin stared intently at the goat.

During this process, Dai Lin’s left eye felt a slight abnormal sensation. This feeling was almost entirely due to the goat.

"I really want to know, who will be the next to receive the Ancestral Mother’s blessing..." As A Cheng said this, he caressed his own face.

In that moment, Dai Lin noticed that A Cheng glanced at him and Gao Heyann.

For some reason, that look was very meaningful, filled with an indescribable feeling.

Dai Lin didn’t know how to describe it, but that look made him feel very uneasy.

What on earth was going on?

"Since the village chief is not here, we’ll be leaving now."

Right then, Gao Heyann leaned close to Dai Lin and whispered, "Something’s off."

"Mmm... indeed."

Gu Yanan had explicitly said...

Huang A Cheng was extremely ugly, strikingly different from his brother Huang Ayuan.

But now, the situation was completely different.

The "blessing" of the Ancestral Mother...

Did this have anything to do with Huang A Cheng slaughtering the goat he raised on his birthday?

In the video shot by Wei Zhengxian, after the goat’s head was chopped off, it was brought into the cave of the Ancestral Mother!

So...

The Ancestral Mother would give them lambs, then they would raise the sheep, and when they were of slaughtering size, they would kill the sheep and offer it to the Ancestral Mother as a sacrifice; the blessing from the Ancestral Mother was... to make their originally ugly faces become beautiful!

Dai Lin felt that this speculation was most likely correct.

If this was true, then it seemed normal for the villagers to worship this so-called Ancestral Mother of Black Blood. Even, she appeared to be a benevolent deity.

But obviously, it couldn’t be that simple.

Now, it wasn’t hard to speculate that Huang Ayuan’s appearance before must have been very ugly. He too had sacrificed a goat to the Ancestral Mother, and then he changed into what he looked like now.

And moreover... if he wasn’t mistaken, his transformation occurred five years ago when Wei Zhengkang, Wei Zhengxian’s younger brother, disappeared while climbing a mountain.

Why would the Ancestral Mother make them take on the appearance of the disappeared?

An hour later.

Dai Lin and Gao Heyann strolled along the paths of Black Marsh Village.

"There’s something I can tell you for certain, Dai Lin."

For some reason, Gao Heyann had started to call Dai Lin by his name instead of "Dr. Dai."

"What... thing? Dr. Gao?"

"Humans offer sacrifices to the gods and then receive blessings and protection, that kind of thing doesn’t exist. In all the hospital records I’ve consulted, no matter the patients’ beliefs, no god has ever saved them."

"So..."

"There are no gods in this world, only... demons!"

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