Hospital 444
Chapter 203 - 30 Equivalent Exchange

Chapter 203: Chapter 30 Equivalent Exchange

Christmas... to be exact, Christmas Eve, was still more than ten days away.

On that day, under the power of the curse, Luo Ren had to take his mother to see a magic show.

On Raymond Harland’s magic show, the same cabinet trick from the past would appear.

The so-called "she"... highly likely the missing Alice Chen, would appear. Then, in the premonition dream, she became Luo Ren’s mother. And then, she killed Luo Ren, Lu Yuqing... and Dai Lin himself.

If he defied the curse’s will and did not go to the magic show, even Li Bolin would fall into despair. So, Dai Lin had no other choice now.

He had to find a way to uncover the truth behind it all and stop the curse from harming Luo Ren and his family before Christmas Eve arrived!

Since Fang Zhou was reluctant to get involved anymore, Dai Lin wouldn’t press the issue. Therefore, he had to investigate the happenings at Arcadia Amusement Park on his own.

He would go after work. After all, teleporting back would still put him in S City. However, he couldn’t get Jiang Lan involved again.

After work, upon arriving at the attendance machine, he saw Gao Heyann waiting for him.

"I have something I want to talk to you about, Dai Lin."

Recently, Dai Lin found that Gao Heyann’s way of addressing him was to call him by his name, never again as "Dr. Dai".

"Dr. Gao, I have urgent matters to attend to after work."

"It won’t take too long, I just want to have a brief chat with you."

"Then... where shall we talk?"

"Let’s talk in the hallway, after all, we live in different cities."

"That works..."

After clocking out, Gao Heyann and Dai Lin strolled along the hospital corridor.

"What kind of doctor do you aspire to be? Dai Lin?"

Dai Lin could never have imagined that Gao Heyann would say such things to him.

"Forget it, pretend I didn’t ask." Gao Heyann quickly retracted the question, obviously having a lot on her mind, but upon seeing Dai Lin, she found she couldn’t say anything at all.

"Dai Lin."

"Dr. Gao... what do you want to say?"

"I told you why I chose to become a doctor at Hospital 444 voluntarily, didn’t I? But you don’t know the details, right?"

"If you don’t want to talk about it, I won’t ask."

"I wasn’t born with a sense of mission or the spirit of self-sacrifice."

When Gao Heyann said this, she gradually moved to a darker part of the corridor, making her face hard for Dai Lin to see.

"I was born into a very ordinary family, very, very... ordinary. My father was a good-natured civil servant, and my mother was a math teacher who educated people. Our family wasn’t wealthy, but we were middle class. I loved my parents and my sister dearly, a happy family that I would trade anything for."

"My parents were contented people, never greedy, always kind and helpful, even at their own expense. But, they had only one desire in their life, a desire they should not have had..."

Upon saying this, Gao Heyann suddenly took two steps back.

"Dai Lin. Is predicting the future... a good thing?"

Upon hearing this, a shiver went through Dai Lin’s heart!

Does she... does she know about Luo Ren’s situation?

Is she trying to test me?

However, before Dai Lin could respond, Gao Heyann continued, "Is it really such a greedy desire to want to predict your own future and that of your relatives? Do they really deserve to be punished... with a curse?"

Dai Lin recalled what Lu Yuqing had said.

"Most of the doctors in this hospital don’t know about this, as most of the doctors involved back then are dead. My sister and I barely survived. That warm, cozy, happy family fell apart overnight. Including Vice President Lu Yuan, who died years later because of it."

Dai Lin wanted to comfort Gao Heyann, but he didn’t know what to say at the moment.

Having lost her parents at a young age and become a Paranormal Doctor at Hospital 444, now with her only sister in a precarious state, Gao Heyann was indeed very strong.

"I am not so noble," continued Gao Heyann. "I just want to be a doctor who ensures that countless children, who once had a complete and humble happy family just like I did, won’t have to endure the same fate as I did. That’s why I stand here, why I don this white coat."

But, Dr. Gao...

I’m afraid Hospital 444 isn’t the kind of hospital you’d imagine, one that treats and saves people. This place... it’s probably just another form of cursed land!

However, Dai Lin couldn’t bring herself to say these words, to tell Gao Heyann.

She and her sister, perhaps neither should have set foot in this hospital.

As for how her parents had been cursed because they wanted to foresee the future, Dai Lin didn’t ask. Gao Heyann didn’t say, and that naturally meant that this memory was unbearably painful for her; he wasn’t the type to put his curiosity above the feelings of others.

"I want to become a doctor who does everything in their power to help others."

Dai Lin gave Gao Heyann the answer to the question she had just asked.

"Not questioning allegiances or interests, but I will do my utmost, within the limits of my abilities, to help others."

Gao Heyann and Dai Lin gazed at each other, and at that moment, they both knew that everything the other had said was utterly sincere, with no pretense.

"I’ve said my part," Gao Heyann actually revealed a slight smile: "You can go now, Dai Lin."

This was the first time Dai Lin had seen her smile since she met Gao Heyann.

She looked... surprisingly beautiful when she smiled.

Dai Lin was momentarily stunned.

"Alright... see you tomorrow, Dr. Gao."

Dai Lin teleported back to his hotel room in S City.

"Alright... Let’s go to Nilethorpe Amusement Park."

The clues that could be obtained from Raymond Harland were limited to these for the time being.

But Dai Lin knew that this trip would likely bring about terrifying encounters he couldn’t predict.

He had no one by his side to help him now. So, he decided not to go to the vampire castle just yet.

He considered that the only person who might be able to help him right now was probably Lu Yuqing. However, faced with such a frightening curse, it was hard to say whether she would get cold feet or not.

Dai Lin went outside, hailed a taxi, and headed straight for Nilethorpe Amusement Park.

"The department seems to have dealt with patients related to Nilethorpe Amusement Park before, but my case is the most serious yet. Judging by Director Song’s comments, she might know what’s going on?"

The woman swallowed up by darkness was named Lin Siqing. In the photograph... she saw a hooded man who shouldn’t have existed.

And then, she was consumed by the darkness...

Dai Lin felt a kind of helplessness that he had never known before.

If only he had become a more formidable doctor by the time he encountered Luo Ren.

Now what he could do for Luo Ren was all too limited.

...

"Fang Zhou, from now on, you are mine. So, there are some things I need not hide from you. I’ll just cut to the chase with you, do you think... Hospital 444 is really a hospital? Do you think... we are really doctors?"

Fang Zhou had already received a message from Dai Lin and had been informed about Dai Lin wanting to go to Nilethorpe Amusement Park.

But the words that Han Ming had said to him echoed in his mind.

In the end, Fang Zhou accepted Han Ming’s advice and received his "Gift of Flesh."

At first, he had wondered whether Han Ming still possessed some higher-grade Cursed Flesh that could allow a doctor to be "granted flesh" for a second time, but he never expected... that the so-called "Gift of Flesh" would be like that.

Han Ming told him... that among the doctors loyal to him, only a few could receive his Gift of Flesh.

After completing the "Gift of Flesh," he then posed the question to Fang Zhou.

"Vice President Han, what do you mean by that question?"

Fang Zhou was puzzled, if this place wasn’t a hospital... then what was it? And if they weren’t doctors... then what were they?

"This place we’re in is not a hospital. We are not doctors," Han Ming said to Fang Zhou: "This is a land cursed through an equivalent exchange with some ’darkness’. It’s a price of enduring a different, more terrible curse in exchange for the removal of an existing curse!"

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