Hospital 444
Chapter 173 - 22 Disqualified Magic Show

Chapter 173: Chapter 22 Disqualified Magic Show

Time flew by.

The curse of the Black Blood Ancestor was fully expelled shortly after invading the hospital ward, and Dai Lin had now completely cured the curse inflicted upon him.

He could now be completely sure of what the real goats were.

Today, he had become a full-fledged resident doctor at Hospital 444. One could say his regularization was astonishingly fast.

It was impossible for others not to be jealous.

If Dai Lin were the protagonist of an online novel, there would surely be a group of dissenting doctors jumping out at this point, all sorts of discontent aired, saying why should this kid get regularized so quickly and so on...

But in reality, who would openly oppose the deputy dean? After all, Dai Lin was just a resident doctor now, not promoted to be their leader. Most importantly, Dai Lin’s experiences were indeed quite legendary.

In the blink of an eye, it was December, the end of the year.

In the past month plus, Dai Lin had started his daily routine as a resident doctor.

"You only need to take this kind of cursed object twice a day, and your husband will no longer appear by your bed at night," Dai Lin wrote a prescription for a female patient before him, handing it over to her: "Remember, you must follow the doctor’s orders strictly, and even if your husband disappears, don’t stop the medication without my consent."

"Medication?"

"Yes, don’t stop the cursed object," Dai Lin corrected himself immediately: "You don’t need to be too scared or anxious, it’s been caught early on, and your husband won’t pose a life threat to you, and there are no surgical indications in the imaging report, either."

During this time, Dai Lin had also continued to participate in various trainings within the department and was able to handle relatively simple cases with increasing proficiency.

"Spiritual Therapy Points... They’re not expensive, right?"

"No, not expensive."

Dai Lin thought to himself: as long as there’s no surgery involved, he was still far from ten thousand Spiritual Therapy Points.

As long as he didn’t have to pay ten thousand Spiritual Therapy Points, that was fine.

"Next, please."

...

After getting off work, Dai Lin went to change out of his white coat and checked the time; it was already past ten.

The outpatient clinic wasn’t open that late, but as a resident doctor, Dai Lin still needed to attend training and listen to various lectures from time to time.

Hospital 444 at night always seemed a bit terrifying to him.

At those times, he would think about the Black Blood Ancestor and the nurse with the red mask.

After clocking out, Dai Lin was ready to leave work.

But just then, he received a phone call.

It was from Luo Ren.

The phone Gao Heyann had given him was indeed very convenient; it wasn’t difficult to receive calls from outside the hospital on a regular phone.

Dai Lin answered the phone.

"Luo Ren?"

"Dai Lin, I had another dream..."

"Okay," Dai Lin asked immediately, "Shall we meet now?"

"Okay, we’ll wait for you at Blue Heart Coffee."

"Okay... Luo Ren? Who are you talking to on the phone?"

Dai Lin was startled.

He recognized the voice—it was Lu Yuqing’s. The key point was...

That voice sounded as if she had just woken up.

"Luo Ren, are you... are you with Doctor Lu right now?"

"Yeah... Yes. Yes, I am."

"I got it."

Luo Ren hung up the phone, looking at the drowsy Lu Yuqing sleeping beside him.

"Did you have another dream?" Lu Yuqing looked intently at Luo Ren: "Christmas is coming soon."

Mr. Edward Harland would be performing a magic tour in City W on Christmas Day.

"Yes."

The content of the premonitory dream was all about the next year. But through some details in the dream, it was entirely possible to deduce... something terribly horrifying happened on Christmas Day.

...

Inside the private room of the Blue Heart Café.

Dai Lin looked at Luo Ren and Lu Yuqing, who were sitting opposite him.

"You two..."

Luo Ren nodded, "It’s exactly what you’re thinking."

"How long... has it been?"

"Less than half a month... I guess."

Dai Lin had initially hoped that Luo Ren would stay as far away from Hospital 444 as possible, but he never expected that Luo Ren and Lu Yuqing’s relationship would have progressed this far already.

The only consolation was that Lu Yuqing was on Han Ming’s side. But even so, Dai Lin repeatedly warned Luo Ren not to tell Lu Yuqing that he could see the seven rules for patients on the back of the business card. And... not to visit Hospital 444 for treatment anymore.

Dai Lin looked at Luo Ren in front of him, his eyes, though silent, said it all.

Luo Ren glanced at Lu Yuqing beside him and said, "Fate is sometimes... quite miraculous."

Dai Lin had not a shred of liking for Lu Yuqing, yet she had become the lover of his best friend, and he couldn’t help but feel repulsed by this fact.

However, at this stage, his and Lu Yuqing’s goals were aligned: to find a way to cure Luo Ren.

"Let me first summarize the dreams you’ve had."

Dai Lin recalled... how Luo Ren told him about his prophetic dreams after the Black Blood Ancestress Curse incident.

The first prophetic dream happened on the night of February 1, 2022.

In the dream, Luo Ren and Lu Yuqing were already living together.

Then, through the dream, Luo Ren received information that his mother had returned to the country; he and Lu Yuqing had gone to pay a new year visit to his mother’s home on February 1st (New Year’s Day) during the day.

Luo Ren’s mother had received the opportunity to go abroad for advanced study at a big hospital and had remarried there. Luo Ren himself had later worked in an investment bank overseas and had only recently transferred back to work in the country.

Just like in his prophetic dreams, his mother really came back to the country last month. Her main reason was with the end of the year approaching, she wanted to spend Christmas with her son in the country. Having lived overseas for many years, she had come to consider both Christmas and the Spring Festival as New Year’s holidays.

"The key is the dream I had afterwards..."

Luo Ren was somewhat panicked about suddenly having prophetic dreams. But compared to the existence of Hospital 444, it didn’t seem that strange. Besides, for an investment bank director, prophetic dreams could bring huge benefits, so for a while, he even thought about simply not seeking a cure.

But then, things started to get strange.

In the dream, on the fourth day of the new year, Luo Ren’s stepfather also arrived in W City, so Luo Ren took Lu Yuqing with him to meet his parents.

And that’s when the eerie and terrifying events began to happen.

That day...

Luo Ren and Lu Yuqing entered the new house his stepfather had bought for his mother in the country. First, they saw his stepfather, and then his mother walked out from another room.

However...

To Luo Ren, it was a completely strange middle-aged woman!

That middle-aged woman looked somber and pale as if she was chronically anemic or barely awake, and she was very cold toward Luo Ren.

However, in the dream, Luo Ren affectionately called her "Mom," and the stepfather showed no signs of abnormal behavior. Throughout the dream, he treated this "mother" as if she really was his mom!

"In the dream, I affectionately called her ’Mom’," Luo Ren felt a chill even now thinking about it, "Then, after Yuqing and I got home, I said to her that I felt Mom had become somewhat strange ever since the Christmas show last year, after we saw Mr. Lehman’s magic performance."

And now it was certain...

On Christmas Eve, December 24th, Mr. Lehman was truly set to perform magic shows in W City.

Only until now, the Luo Ren and Lu Yuqing in the dreams had never discussed in detail what exactly happened on Christmas Eve.

"I’ve been visiting my mom frequently lately." Luo Ren said through gritted teeth, "I was thinking, the future in the dreams can be changed, right? Maybe it would be enough just not to watch the magic show."

"But you found out something else," Dai Lin continued, "about Mr. Lehman’s father... Mr. Edward Harland."

"Yes..."

Lehman was Europe’s most famous magician, perfect both in talent as a magician and his aptitude, but if there was anything the media could criticize about him...

It would be the stain of his father’s past.

His father, Edward Harland, unlike his son, was also an excellent magician, but he was gloomy and his magic style was filled with various elements of death and darkness, often scaring children who watched his performances to tears.

He had once come to China to perform magic, and it was also in W City, where he presented one of his specialties—a live person disappearance act.

He had his Chinese assistant enter a cabinet he prepared, and then... after closing the door and reopening it, the assistant disappeared.

However...

Edward was never able to make the assistant reappear.

The Chinese assistant thus vanished from the world completely... to this day!

"I found the photo from the news report back then, the ’mother’ that appeared in my dreams... is that missing assistant!"