Hospital 444
Chapter 210 - 1 Those who seek our help are complicit with us

Chapter 210: Chapter 1 Those who seek our help are complicit with us

Chen Jing could recognize Luo Ren at a glance, because... he looked so much like his father when he was young...

Emerging from darkness back to light, she only felt the brightness was blinding, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

...

Chen Jing had been living in East Germany since she was a child. Of course, nowadays this has become a term of history.

Her grandmother was a gypsy, a lineage that was enough to be considered a terrible original sin during World War II. Fortunately, her parents survived.

Even so, her parents grew up in ruins after the war and always had serious psychological issues.

Since childhood, she had a strong interest in medicine, mysticism, divination, and magic.

"Newton said that at the limit of science is theology. I believe that religion and science are just methods of looking at the world from different perspectives. But why do we have to kill each other just because of different beliefs?"

Chen Jing didn’t particularly like the name Alice; she preferred her Chinese name. She liked China, simply because its people, though they believed in gods since ancient times, did not blindly follow them.

At least that’s what she thought.

But she always felt there was something abnormal about herself.

Looking at the cross in the Bible, she had a habit... she liked to turn it upside down.

Her father corrected her the first time he saw it, but Chen Jing found it very hard to change.

She didn’t know... that was the beginning of all darkness.

She could feel... some "existences" that ordinary people couldn’t sense.

That was the year she turned twenty-one.

She traveled alone to Leipzig to see her good friend, Sister Mary.

Mary was different from Chen Jing in that she was a very devout believer. At a young age, she became a novice nun. It was during this time that she was to receive the sacrament and become an official nun.

However, after arriving in the small town where Mary was, strange things began to happen.

An eerie contagious disease broke out in the town, causing many abnormal deaths.

Without any external injuries or illnesses, but with bodies slowly withering away, they eventually turned into dried-up corpses. The doctors could find no cause, but it was clearly likely to be a contagious disease. The town was therefore quarantined, other people steered clear, but she alone dared to go. Sister Mary, thus, also fell.

Later, she met a doctor from China who came to Europe for specialist training in infectious diseases. Hearing about the epidemic in the town, he rushed to treat those within. That doctor was named Luo Zheng.

With the unexplained deaths, the small town was plunged into high terror, and due to being completely sealed off, Chen Jing couldn’t leave. In the end, Chen Jing could only watch helplessly as Mary died and became a cold corpse.

Although no viruses were found, the town still decided to burn all the bodies of the infected.

But at the cremation funeral, Chen Jing saw something that should not exist.

She saw a strange black creature, perched atop her deceased friend’s body.

At that time...

Chen Jing did something she shouldn’t have done.

She publicly spoke about what she had seen, identifying the existence of this black creature.

She did not know that it was something that should not exist.

If she had pretended to see nothing, then what followed wouldn’t have happened.

And so, she was marked by that which should not exist.

She told Doctor Luo Zheng, who once treated her friend, about this.

But he clearly found it hard to believe her.

Determined to find out the truth and after investigation... she found a business card in her friend’s book.

"Hospital No. 666."

The card bore a message which, translated into Chinese, read: "Whosoever seeks help from our kind, is deemed as guilty as we are. Whosoever seeks help from our kind, must abandon all hope."

This time, she was smart. She quickly realized...

Only she could see this business card.

The day after she discovered the card...

A horrific event occurred.

When she woke up, she saw a chilling scene.

Mary was alive and well, standing right in front of her.

The entire town was thriving, with no epidemic ever occurring, and no one had died.

This was enough to drive anyone mad. Such a bizarre and terrifying phenomenon was like something out of a Stephen King novel.

In her fear, Chen Jing thought of a way to verify that what she had seen was not an illusion.

Doctor Luo Zheng had told her the phone number of the hospital where he was studying.

She dialed it.

And then it was confirmed... that Luo Zheng really existed!

This is not an illusion...

...

Dai Lin had guessed one thing wrong.

The initial meeting between Luo Zheng and Chen Jing was not because of Edward Harland. Instead, it was quite the opposite. It was because of Chen Jing that Luo Zheng got to know Edward.

When Chen Jing returned to her home in East Berlin... Edward Harland found her.

He was a magician rising to prominence, willing to take Chen Jing as his disciple and teach her magic. At that time, Chen Jing didn’t understand why the great magician would take her as his disciple.

Actually... she had always disliked the bloody and terrifying magic that Edward orchestrated. But becoming his disciple was indeed a rare opportunity, and it just so happened that she was also interested in magic.

She did not know that she had already exposed her "outlier" identity.

After becoming Edward Harland’s assistant, following him on tour in Europe, and after meeting and falling in love with Dr. Luo Zheng, she found... that some terrifying shadows began to follow her.

Only she could see these "people."

She wanted to escape to a place where no one knew her, and at that time, Luo Zheng’s further studies in Europe were about to end. When he proposed to Chen Jing in front of Cologne Cathedral... she agreed.

After that, she requested to resign from Edward, hoping to quit after getting married. But Edward told her it would not be easy to find a more suitable assistant than her and hoped she would work for him for a while longer.

So, even after the birth of Luo Ren, she still had to follow Edward on international tours. Edward promised her that the performance in W city of China would be the last time she worked for him.

That day...

Luo Zheng, with his four or five-year-old son Luo Ren, came to watch his wife’s final farewell performance.

During that performance...

Chen Jing, as usual, entered into Edward’s magic cabinet.

After that...

She sank into a boundless "darkness."

She completely lost consciousness.

Afterward, she remained in this dark state, with only sparse consciousness.

She was not completely without sensation.

Until she heard a voice.

"I will save you, but you must come to the Department of Demonology at Hospital No. 444 for treatment."

She didn’t know where that voice came from.

At the same time, she couldn’t respond to it in any way.

Until now...

She finally regained a bit of self-awareness, and only after awakening from the prolonged darkness did she realize, it seemed like a very long time had passed?

She had been waiting for this day to come.

But strangely... her facial expression was as rigid as if petrified, unable to express even intense emotions.

"It’s successful."

After that, she heard that voice!

The voice that promised to save her!

This...

...

An Zhiyuan pushed open the door to the office of the executive vice president.

"Finally done with the emergencies."

Han Ming stood up, let An Zhiyuan take a seat, and he walked to the opposite side of An Zhiyuan.

An Zhiyuan said, "Is it... all over there?"

"It ended quite satisfactorily. When Dai Lin first came to me, I guessed what he had encountered, and it didn’t take long to find out everything he had experienced. In terms of intelligence, Yin Wuque is no match for me."

"What’s fortunate is that from start to finish, none of the doctors from the Sorcery Department intervened in the lost magic..." Han Ming said this with a look of relief on his face: "Finally, the demon converted by the doctors from 666 Hospital has vanished from this world. I let Li Bolin mislead Dai Lin, making him think that ’darkness’ was meant to force him to go to the magic show, and then I helped hold off Lu Wen... preventing him from going to the magic show. That’s the limit of what I could do. I couldn’t tell Dai Lin the truth directly, otherwise, I would have been doomed. Fang Zhou... the fact that he’s still alive is also an unexpected joy."

An Zhiyuan nodded and said, "After all... we were the targets of the ’darkness’ deeply hidden in this hospital from the very beginning."

"Actually, on this point, we share common interests with Yin Wuque. This time, the three-way game between Yin Wuque, the Demons Department, and me, I can say it was a narrow victory."

"But we couldn’t intervene directly."

"Li Bolin confirmed for me exactly what it was that Dai Lin was facing."

Then, Han Ming and An Zhiyuan simultaneously looked up at the ceiling.

Above them...

...was the dean who enslaved and dominated them!