Hospital 444
Chapter 209 - 36 My Most Precious...

Chapter 209: Chapter 36 My Most Precious...

The theater experienced a massive power outage, but then it plunged into pitch-black silence, devoid of any sound.

How was that possible... no sound at all? With so many spectators, there should have been an uproar during the blackout!

Moreover, everyone had a cellphone, and if each person turned on their phone screens, the theater couldn’t possibly remain dark!

Normally, Dai Lin’s eyes had very strong night vision capabilities, and darkness could not obscure his vision.

But now... things were different.

He couldn’t see anything, and his eyes were conveying an unprecedented sense of danger to him.

This sense of danger, clearly and unmistakably, told Dai Lin that this situation was highly perilous to him!

But with the danger came a sliver of opportunity! That is to say, if he could seize this sliver of opportunity, Dai Lin might become even more powerful than he currently was.

At that moment!

Dai Lin suddenly realized he could move again!

Thus, his left eye forced out a glint of red light! Relying on this faint glimmer, Dai Lin could finally make out something in front of him...

But at that moment, Dai Lin saw that he was standing in front of a cabinet! Yet just before, he had clearly been in the audience seating area!

At the same time, as Dai Lin stared, the hole he had made in the cabinet had disappeared!

"Auntie?"

At this time, what Dai Lin should do was to open the cabinet and then pull Nie Xiuzhu out.

But Dai Lin had a strange feeling.

A strong sense of... dissonance began to invade his cognition. However, he couldn’t understand why, just yet.

Still, he reached out to open the cabinet.

"No! Stop!"

A pale face emerged from the darkness.

It was the golden-haired assistant!

She was the root cause of everything!

Although she rushed to stop him with all her might, it was too late, for Dai Lin had already opened a crack in the door.

The golden-haired assistant grasped Dai Lin’s hand, trying to close the door!

And in that instant, a ghastly pale hand reached out from behind the door!

Upon seeing this, the golden-haired woman didn’t hesitate to take out a scalpel and plunged it fiercely into the pallid arm!

Then, she coldly looked at Dai Lin.

"Scram."

The moment he saw the scalpel, Dai Lin instantly realized that this woman was a doctor from Hospital 444!

Of course, she probably wasn’t a doctor from 666 Hospital. After all, there was no black inverted cross on her forehead.

Dai Lin, looking at that pallid hand, was about to shut the door, but a powerful force from inside was obstructing him from closing it!

The golden-haired woman was also trying to shut it.

Although she was a doctor, she wasn’t using any cursed objects at that time.

"Are you..." Dai Lin looked at the golden-haired woman with suspicion and said, "A doctor from the Demons Department?"

Based on Dai Lin’s knowledge, in the entire Hospital 444, only the Demons Department employed foreign doctors. And since Fang Zhou had seen her but didn’t recognize her at all, she could only be one of the rarely seen doctors from the Demons Department or Curse Object Department Doctors. In Hospital 444, many employees had worked for years and might not have met all the doctors from these two departments.

"I told you... scram."

The golden-haired woman paid no attention to Dai Lin, focusing only on trying to close the door!

Dai Lin could now be certain that this cabinet... was definitely cursed! Otherwise, it couldn’t possibly contain the evil spirit inside!

And in the process, Dai Lin saw the scene inside through the crack he had opened.

A fierce, terrifying face appeared.

But when he saw that face, Dai Lin was completely stunned.

"How... how could it be?"

That face was unmistakably—

Nie Xiuzhu!

How was this possible!

Even if Nie Xiuzhu had really died, how could a person who had just died become such a powerful evil spirit?

Even the doctors from the Demons Department...

In that moment, Dai Lin suddenly entertained a horrifying speculation.

Could it be... could it possibly be...

If Luo Ren hadn’t had that predictive dream, how would the future have unfolded?

The original future should have gone like this: Lu Yuqing, who fancied the magician Raymond Harland, invited Luo Ren and her future mother-in-law to watch the magic show on Christmas Eve.

Nie Xiuzhu would have drawn the Ace of Spades... even if it wasn’t her dealing the cards.

Then, she would have entered this cabinet and would have been confined by it!

As an evil spirit, she would have successfully been contained by the doctors from the Demons Department using a cursed object!

Dai Lin had just discovered something that he had never noticed before.

The reason Luo Ren wanted to be a doctor was because both of his parents were doctors. His father, Luo Zheng, worked at the renowned infectious disease hospital in W City, but his mother, Nie Xiuzhu, supposedly worked at Si Lin Hospital...

As a surgeon who had worked at the most well-known tertiary hospital in W City for so long, Dai Lin had never heard of any Si Lin Hospital!

Not ever!

Moreover, when he asked Luo Ren and Dr. Luo Zheng, neither of them had ever visited this so-called Si Lin Hospital.

In the past, Dai Lin never pondered deeply on this, but now he thought—someone claims to work at a hospital that no one has ever heard of, everyone believes it unquestioningly, no one checks the information about the hospital online, and no one has ever visited the hospital. Wasn’t this exactly like the Paranormal Doctors of Hospital 444?

"Could it be..."

The scalpel that had been plunged into his arm began to be slowly drawn out.

"If you ruin my plan," the blonde woman said to Dai Lin in a tone devoid of emotion, "I will kill you."

Luo Ren’s mother...

Was never Nie Xiuzhu at all!

Right from the start, Luo Ren was misled by a prophetic dream!

It was the curse "from the darkness" that had given Luo Ren this premonitory dream!

From the beginning, "the darkness" was aimed at changing the current future, where the malevolent spirit Nie Xiuzhu was sealed within a cursed object!

Could it be... Luo Ren’s mother was actually Alice Chen?

As a Paranormal Doctor, like Tang Li, it would be easy to alter someone’s cognition through mental contamination.

Years ago, when Doctor Luo Zheng was studying in Europe, he met Edward and his assistant Alice Chen, and he fell in love with the latter. Then, the two fell in love. Subsequently, Doctor Luo Zheng and Alice Chen returned to their country together, got married, and gave birth to Luo Ren. However, Alice continued to work as Edward’s assistant, traveling with him around the world for performances.

Then, due to some "curse," the Paranormal Doctor Nie Xiuzhu influenced the cognition of Doctor Luo Zheng and Luo Ren, leading them to believe she was their wife and mother.

Dai Lin looked at the hideous face in the cabinet, clearly seeing a black inverted cross on her forehead!

Nie Xiuzhu was a Paranormal Doctor from 666 Hospital! And now, it was clear that due to the curse’s revival, she had become a true evil spirit!

Then, the cabinet was flung open by a powerful force, and both Dai Lin and the blonde woman fell to the ground!

As the doors of the cabinet were about to be fully opened, Dai Lin could no longer worry about all that. Looking at the malevolent spirit inside the cabinet, he shouted, "Auntie! Have you forgotten that you are Luo Ren’s mother? What are you doing?"

He made use of the new ability that his left eye had gained from the encounter with the Black Blood Maternal Ancestor.

If he could alter the self-cognition of humans, could he also affect the cognition of an evil spirit?

In the darkness, the malevolent spirit in the cabinet actually stopped moving when it heard Dai Lin’s words.

Over the long years, Nie Xiuzhu had always masqueraded as Luo Ren’s mother, so such a suggestion should... be successful, right?

The body of the malevolent spirit began to twist, its pale face shaking, and then, her mouth actually started to split open!

But...

The malevolent spirit did not step out of the cabinet!

The blonde woman immediately got up, charged forward, and slammed the cabinet shut!

Afterward, Dai Lin saw two hands reaching out of the darkness, grabbing the evil spirit, and then pulling her into the deep darkness!

...

The theater lights came on.

The doors of the cabinet opened again.

The hole that Dai Lin had created was gone.

Raymond pointed inside the cabinet and said, "See, there’s no one inside, is there?"

Indeed, there was no one inside the cabinet anymore!

Then, Raymond closed the cabinet once more.

"Now, I present to you all, the person who has returned from another world!"

The doors of the cabinet were opened once again!

At that moment, a woman walked out from inside the cabinet.

It was indeed...

Alice Chen, whose photo Dai Lin had seen countless times!

The moment Alice reemerged from the cabinet, the first thing she saw was Luo Ren in the audience.

Her memories went back to that day on the banks of the Rhine.

That day...

"Jing, will you marry me?"

"I will."

Alice Chen’s Chinese name was Chen Jing.

Back then, she fell in love with Luo Zheng and decided to marry him and live in China.

"Return... it... to... me..."

In the darkness, she kept repeating this phrase.

"My most... precious thing..."

Husband... and... son!