Hospital 444
Chapter 190 - 17 Causality

Chapter 190: Chapter 17 Causality

"Even someone at Director Li’s level is powerless? Are we left with no choice but to watch a magic show?"

"It seems so at the moment."

Although visiting hours were over, many doctors in the inpatient department knew Dai Lin, and because of his face, they allowed Luo Ren and the others to stay in the ward.

"How could this happen..."

Luo Ren recalled the terrifying nightmare and still felt a chill down his spine.

"What should I do..."

Dai Lin was certain that the curse Luo Ren was facing was much more terrible than the Black Blood Ancestress.

Director Li hadn’t been wrong, he truly had joined Hospital 444 in its worst year.

Lu Yuqing also felt extremely helpless. She looked at Luo Ren, and as a paranormal doctor, she was completely without means to help. If Director Li was at a loss, what could she, an attending physician of the Ghost Surgery Department, possibly come up with?

"Is there any way... Can you find Director Song? Or... Vice President Yin?" Lu Yuqing suddenly thought of something, "Director Song’s medical skills must be a notch above Director Li’s!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Ren immediately showed a hint of surprise, "Director Song? Dai Lin, can you get her to come?"

"No way!" Dai Lin shook his head without hesitation, "We absolutely cannot go to Director Song!"

Song Min had always been aligned with the Executive Vice President Faction from the beginning to the end!

In the past, Dai Lin had always pondered one question. Vice President Lu’s faction had dominated Hospital 444, outstripping the Han Ming Faction, with a plethora of seasoned department heads. By all accounts, Yin Wuque’s experience couldn’t compare to these people. Yet when Vice President Lu appointed Yin Wuque as his successor, there were few objections. But now, it seemed likely there were "dark" forces behind the scenes that he didn’t understand.

Lu Yuqing was immediately puzzled, "Why not? Director Song seems to value you a lot, she gave you the green light, letting you practice independently and quickly turned you into a resident physician! She must want to nurture you into a leading doctor of the Wraith Surgery Department!"

Dai Lin still shook his head.

"No use, seeking Director Song won’t do any good either."

Dai Lin could now think of only one solution. He needed to find Raymond Harland himself, immediately, at all costs!

"Luo Ren, I will set out to find Mr. Raymond tomorrow. Lu Yuqing, stay with Luo Ren. If anything happens, contact me immediately."

Dai Lin picked up his phone, planning to make one last contact with Fang Zhou. Fang Zhou must have heard about the situation from Director Li by now and would be leaving, but Dai Lin felt it was polite to personally see him off and help book the doctor’s flight.

Many people only feel grateful to others after they have definitively solved a problem they face, and if not helped, may even bear resentment. But Dai Lin was different, he believed that anyone who chose to extend a helping hand deserved sincere gratitude. So even though Li Bolin had chosen to give up, he still held onto that letter.

...

Fang Zhou had decided to leave.

Li Bolin had backed off, and staying any longer was akin to seeking death. Human life is paramount; he would help if he could, but he wasn’t noble enough to sacrifice his life to save others.

At that moment, Dai Lin called Fang Zhou.

Fang Zhou walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel room, overlooking the night view of W City, and answered Dai Lin’s call.

"Dr. Dai, your call is timely, I was just about to call you and Lu. I’m sorry... Director Li has already contacted me, and we are powerless in the face of this case. As a doctor, my final advice to you is: bring them, mother and son, to register and admit them to Hospital 444. It’s the safest place for them."

Dai Lin had anticipated this, and although he felt somewhat disappointed, he still expressed his gratitude, "Regardless, I want to thank you for coming to W City over the weekend to offer your services. I’m truly grateful. Once this matter is over, I would like to treat you to a meal."

"It’s nothing, I haven’t been of any help."

"I have already booked your return flight for you, in business class."

"There’s no need for that... I usually fly economy class..."

After thinking it over, he added to Dai Lin, "Dr. Dai, I think as doctors, we should respect the medical choices of the patients themselves more. Sometimes, what doctors think is best for patients may not actually be the best."

Dai Lin vaguely sensed that Fang Zhou too had his own story.

"I... I have my reasons."

"My first wife... was my patient."

As a doctor, falling in love with one’s own patient could inevitably disrupt one’s objective judgment during diagnosis.

"I personally performed the surgery on her... The outcome of the surgery was very good. Moreover, since our marriage, I have been vigilantly urging her to go to the hospital for check-ups to prevent the curse from relapsing. The resurgence of a ghost curse usually happens within one to three years, and as long as three years have passed, clinically it’s considered cured. It was only after we were certain she was cured that we dared to confidently try for a baby and have children."

Dai Lin fell silent, as even through the phone, he could sense Fang Zhou’s inner pain.

"I... don’t know how to..."

"There’s no need to console me, Doctor Dai. But reality is just that cruel, and we often can’t make everything perfect."

"Your wife..."

"She..."

Fang Zhou paused, recalling that black human silhouette.

In Dai Lin’s eyes, that was his "brother."

But he didn’t dare to tell Dai Lin the truth.

He couldn’t tell him anything.

"Back then, I made the wrong decision."

Fang Zhou’s words were somewhat incoherent, but Dai Lin could understand, his feelings must be very complicated right now.

"The first time I came to W City was the year she had the baby, after entrusting the child to my parents, my wife and I came here to travel. At that time, we went to Su Yuan Mountain..."

At this, Dai Lin suddenly gasped.

"Su Yuan... Mountain?"

"That’s where the curse relapsed. At that time..."

Dai Lin pressed, "What did you experience there?"

"We were on a road trip, and she said she saw a strange path and asked me to drive there, because it seemed like a mountaineer was waving at us... But I really couldn’t see the path she mentioned. It was then I realized... the curse had relapsed!"

Dai Lin clenched his phone tightly, his breathing becoming more rapid.

"Doctor Fang, I’m coming over now. There’s something I need to tell you!"

Su Yuan Mountain!

Dai Lin realized, this couldn’t be a coincidence!

When Dai Lin hurriedly arrived at Fang Zhou’s hotel room, drenched in sweat, he gave him quite a scare.

"Doctor Dai, you?"

"Doctor Fang," Dai Lin said, panting heavily, "there’s something I must tell you."

Then, Dai Lin told Fang Zhou everything about Lin Yan.

"This might not be a relapse, but... the original curse!"

The original? Not a relapse?

"Impossible..." Fang Zhou shook his head, "We went back to the hospital to check..."

"And then what?"

"The imaging report didn’t show the Sign of the Devil, but the Director of the Demon Department, Li An, insisted on transferring her to the Demon Department."

"And then?"

"I vehemently opposed it, because there was no evidence to support a connection with a demon curse. But no doctor dared to offend Li An and no one would agree to perform surgery on my wife..."

Suddenly, Dai Lin showed the phone screen to Fang Zhou.

"The path your wife saw, could it be... on this?"