Hospital 444
Chapter 177 - 4 Black Silhouette

Chapter 177: Chapter 4 Black Silhouette

For a paranormal doctor like Dai Lin, going to work was instantaneous travel no matter where he was, so Fang Zhou could completely live in City W during this period.

When he arrived at the hotel where he would stay, and opened the door, Fang Zhou had not expected it to be a five-star hotel.

"Doctor Fang, this is the business hotel our investment bank has long been in partnership with," Luo Ren continued, "We’ll be troubling you during this time."

"There’s no need for such a nice hotel," Fang Zhou quickly said, "If the hotel is too good, I’m afraid the director will decide that it constitutes indirect payment of my consultation fee. If it violates the regulations, my salary will be deducted. I’ll take care of the accommodation myself."

"This?"

"It’s okay, the exchange rate for Spiritual Therapy Points to Renminbi has risen quite a bit. I was actually planning to exchange more money for financial management recently."

The exchange rates for Spiritual Therapy Points to various currencies fluctuated significantly. As long as the exchange was done within the hospital, the corresponding funds would appear in the bank account designated by oneself. However, a portion of doctors would always keep an eye on the fluctuations and would not exchange rashly—Fang Zhou was one such doctor.

"Alright, we won’t disturb your rest then. I’ll take you to see my mother tomorrow."

"Okay, you guys should head back soon too."

After Luo Ren, Dai Lin, and Lu Yuqing left, Fang Zhou sat alone in the hotel room.

His mind was still replaying the scene from the afternoon.

He had almost been discovered by a nurse wearing a red mask!

At that time, if he had spoken to that foreign woman...

"666 Hospital..."

The hospital’s rules always stressed—"This hospital is called Hospital 444, not 666 Hospital."

And if one could see the doctors or nurses wearing red masks, they must behave as if they could not see them.

Hospital 444 rarely treated European or American patients; generally, most of the patients were Chinese. Occasionally there would be patients from Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. European and American patients would usually only enter if they happened to live in Asia, but that foreign woman was different...

Did she think this place was the so-called 666 Hospital?

"You must believe this is Hospital 444"...

It was as if this concept had been deeply implanted in every doctor’s mind by the director, and no one ever doubted it.

But now, Fang Zhou felt that something was increasingly amiss.

Also, why was that foreign woman captured by the nurse with the red mask?

Patients were not supposed to be able to see those medical staff wearing red masks!

Why then was she captured and then killed?

The Department of Fierce Spirits was not accessible by ordinary patients. The hospital would usually superficially determine the curse inflicted on the patients and issue them the business cards of the corresponding department doctors.

And, what he was most concerned about.

The foreign woman said: Why did she see so much Chinese here?

In other words... In her conception, should everything here be in English?

"There are no departments in Hospital 444 with English names"...

Yes.

In reality, hospitals, considering the different nationalities of patients, will usually pair up various signs with English. But at Hospital 444, one could not find any English. Even, for instance, the CT room was labeled "Tomography Room," and the ultrasound room was designated "Ultrasound Room."

"Could it be..."

Does a 666 Hospital really exist?

Then why, in the rules set by the director, is there deception in telling the doctors 666 Hospital does not exist?

For Fang Zhou, the most painful thing was that he could not confide in anyone about this. Anyone who had seen doctors and nurses with red masks must absolutely not tell anyone.

He took a shower, changed into pajamas, opened the laptop he carried with him, and then... began to look up "Raymond Harland" online.

Fang Zhou first browsed Chinese web pages, then searched the foreign internet.

He was not usually interested in magic, so he did not know much about this master magician. Only after searching did he find out that Raymond was a world-renowned magician, just slightly less prominent than top magicians like David Copperfield.

However, looking at Raymond’s photo, he suddenly felt there was something odd.

"This..."

He gradually zoomed in on Raymond’s photo.

Then... he looked carefully at that photo, and suddenly realized something.

He raised his hand, covering the forehead of Raymond in the photo.

At that moment, he discovered...

Raymond and that foreign woman killed by the nurse with the red mask looked a lot alike!

Especially their eyes, as if they were carved out of the same mold!

Fang Zhou had checked; Raymond did not have any sisters, and his father was an only child, so there were no paternal cousins. However, there was very little information about his mother, so it was uncertain whether he had any maternal cousins or not.

He really didn’t think that this was a pure coincidence.

"That would be too much of a coincidence!"

So Fang Zhou continued his search for his father, Edward Harland.

But this time, when he saw the photo, Fang Zhou gasped in shock.

Edward’s appearance was even more like that foreign woman!

Because one was a man and the other a woman, on their facial features, Edward’s nose appeared a bit more prominent and his skin relatively darker. Apart from that, they looked almost like the same person!

Edward Harland was a magician with an extremely bad reputation.

Alcoholism, drug abuse, bisexuality, an obsession with astrology, and a penchant for bloodcurdling magic tricks were the labels commonly associated with him. He had once designed a magic trick that involved flaying a human brain; he would peel open someone’s brain and then close it up, making the trick horrifyingly realistic, causing many spectators to be scared witless, with some even vomiting on the spot.

"An obsession with astrology..." Fang Zhou had no deep understanding of this, but he began to suspect that Edward might not be a mere magician; he might possess some kind of cursed power.

If it involved a curse from a Western demon, maybe the Demons Department would be more suited to treat Luo Ren and his mother. But past cases of prophetic dreams were mostly unrelated to demons.

Curses related to the cycle of cause and effect were truly troublesome.

That year... Edward Harland’s assistant surnamed Chen disappeared in front of everyone, inside his cabinet, and afterward... she was never returned by him.

And after Christmas... the assistant became Luo Ren’s "mother"!

Everything behind this was permeated with an eeriness.

If the assistant’s disappearance was Edward’s sacrifice to some evil force, then what kind of terrible curse could it have created?

...

Dai Lin was perusing the notes he had compiled from recent training and outpatient records.

He wouldn’t feel sleepy as long as he didn’t want to, so he decided to work into the night.

As an outpatient doctor, he had to continuously improve his medical skills to be responsible for every patient and minimize their expenditure on Spiritual Therapy Points.

Unknowingly, the day had dawned.

Dai Lin still felt no fatigue; he didn’t even feel like yawning.

Then, he looked over at his brother, Dai Wei, who was fast asleep beside him.

His eyes had night vision capability, so he didn’t need to turn on the lights to read all night; after all, his Devil’s Eye would have no issues.

"Dai Wei, I hope nothing happens to you in the future..."

He stepped forward and tucked in his brother’s blanket properly.

Just then, Dai Lin’s cellphone suddenly rang.

He immediately picked it up, and it was a video call from Doctor Fang.

"Hello? Doctor Fang?"

Dai Lin wondered why he was receiving a video call.

Fang Zhou, looking at Dai Lin through the video, said, "Doctor Dai, I need to ask you for a favor."

He pointed his phone’s screen toward his laptop display.

"Doctor Dai, I want to ask you..." Fang Zhou lifted his hand to brush away his hair, "Can you see my forehead, is there any... change?"

Dai Lin’s heart skipped a beat!

The forehead?

Could it be...

Dai Lin looked carefully, shook his head, and said, "No."

"Since you say there’s nothing, I’m a bit relieved."

"Do you feel something strange on your forehead?"

"Perhaps it’s just my imagination. If there really were something, I would have to go to the Demons Department for a check-up. Your eyes are the Devil’s Eye, so I asked you to take a look."

"Doctor Fang, how long has it been?"

"Less than an hour."

Just then, Fang Zhou’s face suddenly turned pale!

He stared intently at the phone’s screen!

While Dai Lin was speaking, he shifted his position slightly, and as a result, Fang Zhou saw the bed behind Dai Lin!

On the bed behind Dai Lin, illuminated by the glow of the phone, Fang Zhou clearly saw a pitch-black human silhouette, covered with a blanket, lying on top!

At that moment, Fang Zhou felt the pain on his forehead become stronger than ever!

He was about to warn Dai Lin when suddenly, the black silhouette turned its head! Although nothing could be seen, Fang Zhou was overwhelmed by a powerful sense of terror!

He realized that the black silhouette was warning him...

Not to reveal what he had just seen! Otherwise, he would face death!

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