Hospital 444
Chapter 196 - 23 The Magic of the Wardrobe

Chapter 196: Chapter 23 The Magic of the Wardrobe

Dai Lin never expected Fang Zhou to volunteer so readily.

"Doctor Fang..." Dai Lin hurriedly said, "Think it over carefully!"

This was, after all, the same magic trick that made Alice Chen disappear with Edward years ago!

"If I don’t go, an innocent might come to harm," Fang Zhou spoke with an ease in his expression, "Don’t worry; I’m the deputy director of the Department of Fierce Spirits. Do you really think I’ll be in danger that easily?"

"Yes, yes of course..."

Compared with Dai Lin, who had just become a resident doctor, Fang Zhou, as deputy director of the department, was clearly more suitable to try this magic trick.

"Doctor Dai, watch closely with your eyes wide open."

"I will watch carefully."

Dai Lin’s eyes widened as he sat up straight and alert.

"Oh, since this brave gentleman has volunteered, does anyone have any objections?"

The majority of the audience indicated no significant objections.

"All right, it’ll be you, then."

Reyman beckoned to Fang Zhou, who quickly walked toward him.

As Fang Zhou moved towards Reyman, his fingernails once again turned red.

He could feel that the Blood Curse he had planted in Reyman remained unchanged.

At this moment, if he wished, he had many ways to kill Reyman easily, even if Reyman’s true form was a demon, he could still counter it sufficiently.

Therefore, Fang Zhou was unafraid and walked onto the stage with confidence.

Reyman’s blonde assistant opened the cabinet in front of them.

Reyman approached Fang Zhou and said, "Sir, may I have your name?"

Name?

Fang Zhou was somewhat vigilant, so he didn’t give his real name: "My name is Gao Da."

That was because he had loved the anime Gundam in his youth.

Such a name was obviously a pseudonym made up on the spot. If Reyman insisted on inquiring for the real name, then he probably had ulterior motives indeed. Curses associated with names were not unheard of.

If he were pressed, Fang Zhou would insist it was his real name.

Reyman smiled and asked, "And what is your profession?"

"A doctor," replied Fang Zhou, without lying: "I am a doctor."

At that moment, he was considering whether to take this opportunity to hand over his business card, but after thinking it over, he decided to continue observing. After all, he still suspected that Reyman might not be human.

Dai Lin was extremely nervous, wondering what Reyman intended to do.

"A doctor, a very noble profession," Reyman continued with a smile, "So, are you ready? First, Doctor, please inspect this cabinet."

Fang Zhou entered the cabinet to inspect it, but of course, he wasn’t looking for any mechanisms. He was checking whether it hid a demon or some sort of curse.

If this cabinet was similar to the one that had made Alice Chen disappear years ago...

Or if it truly connected to some alternate dimension...

"You didn’t find any mechanisms, did you, Doctor?" Reyman said to Fang Zhou: "With that, are you prepared to go to another world?"

Fang Zhou looked at Reyman, nodded, and said, "I’m ready."

He was indeed eager to see if Reyman truly had the ability to send him to another world.

"Good, then let us begin the magic trick."

Reyman prompted Fang Zhou to step into the cabinet and then slowly closed the door.

Dai Lin’s eyes were wide open, trying to see everything clearly.

The cabinet was entirely transparent to him; in his view, Fang Zhou stood upright inside.

Everything was... completely normal.

Reyman then stood in front of the cabinet and said, "I know you all have doubts, but I can assure you. Another world, it truly exists."

To the audience, this statement was obviously a magician’s ploy, with no one taking it seriously.

But to Dai Lin’s ears, it meant something entirely different.

He continued to widen his eyes, and his left eye was ready to launch an attack at any moment, although he knew that all of this might be meaningless.

Because all of Dai Lin’s attention was focused on the cabinet, he did not notice that the blonde assistant was staring coldly in Dai Lin’s direction from the stage.

Fang Zhou stood in the cabinet filled with vigilance. It seemed he also did not understand how Reyman was going to make him disappear through magic. Such tricks usually involve confederates; having a real audience member participate means they too should be left baffled by what transpired.

The difficulty of the trick was self-evident.

Just then, Dai Lin suddenly noticed that within the cabinet, Fang Zhou’s body seemed to... move!

But the movement was very slight.

In the pitch-black interior of the cabinet, devoid of any reference points, such subtle movement would probably be undetectable even to the person experiencing it.

Only then did Dai Lin realize that this was the key to the cabinet’s magic trick. The bottom panel of the cabinet could move, and for someone inside the cabinet, due to the pitch darkness and lack of any reference points, it would be very difficult to detect even if their body was moving.

Dai Lin speculated that his body would be moved to the back side of the cabinet, and then, presumably, a panel would drop down, locking Fang Zhou inside a completely soundproof hidden space within the cabinet. It would be hard for the audience below the stage to notice that the cabinet’s interior space was slightly smaller than the exterior.

Dai Lin was resting his chin in his hand, engrosssed in watching when...

He suddenly saw a pair of hands reach out from the darkness within the cabinet, grabbing toward Fang Zhou!

"No!"

Dai Lin’s left eye immediately locked onto the hands, wanting to attack them, but then, Dai Lin found that everything before him turned pitch-black!

He had gone completely blind!

Suddenly becoming blind plunged Dai Lin into extreme panic.

He tried to sink his consciousness into the space within his eye, discovering he could still sense the inside of his eye.

"My eye... my eyes!"

Return to the hospital for treatment? But what about Dr. Fang?

What exactly were those hands just now?

What?

The hands didn’t exist.

He didn’t see anything.

He didn’t see anything at all.

A will emanating from his eyes conveyed this to Dai Lin’s mind.

His deeper consciousness accepted and believed it.

He hadn’t seen anything.

Just like that...

By the time Dai Lin regained his senses, Fang Zhou had already come out of the cabinet.

The surrounding audience had erupted into thunderous applause.

Not right... not right...

Not right!

Dai Lin felt he had forgotten something, something that the will of the Devil’s Eye had forced him to forget.

When Fang Zhou returned to Dai Lin’s side, he looked at the Deputy Director of the Department of Fierce Spirits and said, "I... I definitely saw something just now, but I can’t remember what it was."

Fang Zhou was startled.

"Your... Your memory was affected?"

Did Rayman’s magic carry some kind of curse, or...?

"Did you give him your business card yet?"

"Not yet."

"Hmm..." Dai Lin raised his hand, covering his face, trying to recall what he had just seen.

That cabinet...

Had some kind of oddity...

And Fang Zhou had some suspicions about that cabinet... but now he couldn’t confirm them, so he hadn’t told Dai Lin.

But why couldn’t he remember? Or was it a curse like the Blood Curse of the Black Maternal Ancestor?

While Dai Lin was completely puzzled, over at W City’s Ninth Hospital...

Lu Yuqing was washing her face in the restroom.

The situation now was that even if she wanted to walk in the opposite direction of her precognitive dream, it was simply impossible.

What should she choose?

With Lu Yuqing’s relatively limited clinical experience, it was very difficult for her to come to a conclusion.

That’s when her phone rang, the caller was her mother.

"Hello, Mom... Yes, I’m still at the hospital... No need, you and Dad don’t have to come to W City. I..."

Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly noticed a ghostly nurse float past the women’s restroom entrance.

Seeing ghosts in a place like a hospital was never a rare occurrence. For any average Paranormal Doctor, it wouldn’t have seemed odd.

But that didn’t include Lu Yuqing!

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