Hospital 444
Chapter 191 - 18: The Two Directors

Chapter 191: Chapter 18: The Two Directors

Just after Wen Xiaoshu had put the child to bed, she received a phone call from Fang Zhou.

"Hello?" Wen Xiaoshu had a premonition as she picked up her cell phone.

"Ah Shu, I’m sorry, I might be a bit late coming back."

Although Wen Xiaoshu had anticipated this, she still felt a tinge of disappointment.

"Okay, I know. I’ll take good care of Xiao Meng."

She didn’t even ask why he would be late.

After Fang Zhou finished explaining to his wife, he hung up the phone and then looked at Dai Lin with a determined gaze.

"Give me the part of the map for Mount Suyuan and as for Miss Lin Yan’s matter, I won’t benefit from your favor in vain. This time with Luo Ren, I will help you."

"Your deceased wife..."

"I always believed that Director Li made a misdiagnosis... But if it wasn’t a misdiagnosis..."

Fang Zhou felt on the verge of breaking down.

What Dai Lin showed him was the fragment of the map he had once obtained, drawn out on his cell phone using a drawing software.

The fragment of the map entrusted to him by Tang Li, except that now, he had discarded it in the Dusk Building.

The map of Mount Suyuan was noticeably different from the actual Mount Suyuan.

What sent shivers down Fang Zhou’s spine was the very path his late wife had described, which he couldn’t see... it was right there on the map!

"Since then, you haven’t seen Lin Yan again, right?"

"That’s right," Dai Lin was unable to inquire about any conditions related to the Demons Department; Lin Yan had never been discharged, and the Demons Department’s ward area seemed to be hidden deep within the hospital’s folded space; even the vice-director didn’t have the authority to inquire into it.

It was precisely because of this that no doctor dared to offend the doctors of the Demons Department. Judging from the rules set by the director, it seemed the Demons Department was directly under his jurisdiction. Moreover, if a doctor incurred a curse, they would have to seek treatment from the Demons Department. Given this, whether it was a misdiagnosis or not, no doctor would want to overturn their diagnosis.

Remembering the condition of Dai Lin’s "younger brother," Fang Zhou grew increasingly aware of how terrifying the Demons Department was. Now it appeared that the curse his wife and Lin Yan faced was exactly the same, something unknown and terrifying on Mount Suyuan.

Dai Lin had given him the map without asking for anything in return, even though he very much hoped that Fang Zhou would stay to assist him.

Fang Zhou did not want to die.

He did not want to die at all.

But living in this world, there are many times when one must make choices that don’t seem very rational.

"Tomorrow, I’ll go with you to find Raymond Harland," Fang Zhou resolved. "Clearly, the Harland family is the root of everything."

There was no doubt about that.

Dai Lin stretched out his hand and said, "Dr. Fang, even though it may seem presumptuous of me to say this, you have also become my friend, firmly so, in my heart."

Fang Zhou did not hesitate to grasp Dai Lin’s hand in return.

"Since we are friends now, there’s no need for many words."

In this moment, Dai Lin swore in his heart... he would one day uncover what mysterious force was manipulating this hospital from behind.

Everyone was extremely fearful of the director, but Dai Lin didn’t want to sell his life to him. Perhaps one day, he could break free from the shackles of Hospital 444, relying on his skills to treat patients without having to charge them any Spiritual Therapy Points.

The two hands, tightly clasped together, manifested their mutual resolve.

...

The next day.

It was a Sunday, and both Dai Lin and Fang Zhou were off work.

After contacting Luo Ren, Dai Lin received good news: it seemed that Director Li’s treatment had worked, and Nie Xiuzhu had finally woken up.

"Dai Lin, you really have good relationships at the hospital," Luo Ren said on the other end of the phone, "Because of you, the doctors and nurses here are extra kind to us, and they keep asking about your recent status. They say you’ve been promoted to associate chief physician. For someone your age, this is quite rare genius across all the major hospitals in the country."

"Just luck, I’ve written a few more papers than the average doctor." Had Dai Lin not come to Hospital 444, he might have already finished the paper he had been preparing, "Dr. Fang and I are going to City S today, Mr. Raymond is currently on tour there."

"Do you have a way to get in touch with him? He’s a big celebrity, surrounded by a bunch of bodyguards, right?"

"No problem." Dai Lin was not worried about this at all, "As long as he sees a business card from Hospital 444, whatever we tell him, he will believe. Even if we say that the Earth is actually flat."

"I feel like that business card is the scariest thing."

"About the card, remember... don’t tell anyone else about that thing, except for me."

"Alright, Dai Lin, be careful."

After hanging up the phone, he returned to the ward where Lu Yuqing and his stepfather were taking care of his mother.

His mother’s complexion had improved significantly, and regarding the series of strange words she had spoken before passing out, she now claimed "I don’t remember any of it."

At this very moment...

Outside the Ninth Hospital, in a convenience store nearby.

Two people entered the store.

They were a man and a woman.

"Director Song," Lu Wen saw that there were tables and chairs inside the convenience store and said, "We can sit right here and wait. Are you sure... it’s this place?"

"After all, I can only estimate through video. If I had some hair or skin tissue from the person, it would be more precise." The woman, naturally, was Song Min, "Director Lu, my current predictions can only confirm that this person will come to this convenience store to buy food sometime this afternoon to evening. When that time comes, we just take him straight back to the hospital and hand him over to the deputy director."

"The last time we had this situation was when Deputy Director Lu Yuan was still alive."

Lu Wen approached the convenience store clerk, pulled up a screenshot of Luo Ren’s video on his phone, and inquired, "May I ask if you have seen this person?"

If he’s coming tonight, maybe he’s also shopped here regularly.

"No," the clerk shook his head.

At that moment, Song Min had already picked out some food and said, "I’ll pay for this."

Then, the two sat at a table, placing the food and drinks they purchased on it. After all, they were prepared to sit there until the evening.

"Five times..." Song Min tore open a bag of bread in front of her, "Not counting this time, in the past we’ve already taken five patients who could see the rules on the back of the business card to the deputy director’s office of administration."

"The only trouble was one of them was accompanied by a family member. Fortunately, it didn’t blow up into a big issue; the mother was put on the blacklist afterwards, driven out, and never allowed back into the hospital. After all, not one of the five patients ever came out of the deputy director’s office."

Song Min chewed on the bread, musing as she ate, "Of course, whether it was Director Lu or the current Director Yin, they never told us where those people went. Anyway, I’ve never felt the presence of any ghosts in the deputy director’s office of administration."

Lu Wen spoke with a solemn expression, "It seems they weren’t killed either, or I would have been able to sense something."

"Let’s not delve into this issue. It’s like... we should never try to investigate what the director really is."

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