Hospital 444
Chapter 214 - 5: Director of the Demon Department

Chapter 214: Chapter 5: Director of the Demon Department

Dai Lin heard this sentence, and his heart skipped a beat.

Dai Lin faintly realized something.

"She’s a friend of Doctor Gao Menghua!"

"There’s absolutely no such person in the emergency department." Nurse Zheng shook her head. "Which department is she from?"

At that moment, Dai Lin knew... he could probably ask every doctor in Hospital 444, and not a single one would tell him where Tang Li was.

...

Emergency Center.

The place in Hospital 444 that doctors least wanted to visit, besides the morgue, was the emergency room.

"I... I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die! Save me!"

A nurse let out a piercing scream, her one hand clutching a door, her entire body sprawled on the ground, unable to stand up. Yet, the doctors saw nothing pressing down on her body!

"Ahhh!"

With her last scream, she let go completely, and the door shut fully!

Inside this resuscitation room, there were three doctors at the moment.

The patient lay on the bed, unconscious.

"What should we do?" one of the doctors with glasses said. "Director An said there’s no one available to support us at the moment!"

"What’s going on this year?" Another female doctor started to cry. "There’s no reason for the number of patients cursed by malevolent ghosts to increase so much!"

The resuscitation room was temporarily safe.

But no one knew how long this safety would last.

And at this time...

The busiest person was An Zhiyuan.

He was still utterly exhausted.

In front of him, a patient whose abdomen he had opened up, extended a pair of hands from the incision!

An Zhiyuan fiercely plunged the surgical knife into that hand!

This was already...

The fortieth wave.

It was never-ending.

"Has Director Mei not come yet?" An Zhiyuan couldn’t bother to wipe the blood off his face as he bellowed. "When exactly are they going to arrive!"

Malevolent Ghosts!

Receiving patients cursed by malevolent ghosts in the emergency room was the most headache-inducing.

The key issue was, there’s no time for surgical assessment in emergency surgery; they had to make do in times of urgency! And curses by malevolent ghosts often had no pattern, making clinical experience virtually useless!

"Director Mei can’t even get in now!" the doctor on the phone next to him yelled. "The space around seems to be twisted!"

"Damn... call Tang Li for support!"

But upon hearing An Zhiyuan’s words, no one could react immediately.

"Who is Tang Li?" The surrounding doctors were all confused.

"You don’t know Tang Li???"

What was going on?

An Zhiyuan hadn’t even had time to react, and new hands were already emerging from the abdomen!

Relentlessly!

Never-ending!

More than three hours later.

An Zhiyuan finally gave up on saving the patient’s life.

It was his only way to escape this endless cycle.

"Time of death for the patient... December 25, 2021, at 10:25 AM..."

An Zhiyuan, his face covered in blood, could only declare the death of the patient helplessly.

"Take the body to the morgue."

Looking at the deceased patient, the doctors felt sympathy for the medical staff on duty in the morgue tonight.

Nurses on duty in the morgue would always go missing.

Doctors fared a bit better, but only by a slight margin.

Patients who died without the successful removal of the curse... it was impossible to predict what kind of resentful spirit they would become.

Next, he started to think about why Tang Li had suddenly disappeared?

And why did no one around him remember her?

Yet he still remembered...

An Zhiyuan immediately recalled the "Gift of Flesh" Han Ming had given him.

He had cut off his own index finger and presented it to him in a bowl.

"Eat it. By doing so, you will be one of us."

It was the end of the year, and another patient who had undergone surgery in the emergency room had died; An Zhiyuan’s mood was already bad. This bizarre situation only added to his unease.

And yet, there were no surveillance cameras installed within the emergency center, a rule established by the Hospital Director.

An Zhiyuan had to report this matter to Han Ming as quickly as possible; everything made him feel extremely uneasy.

When he dragged his exhausted body into Han Ming’s office, Han Ming was reviewing and approving high-difficulty surgery evaluation applications submitted by various departments.

Starting with Grade A, surgery classifications required approval from the Executive Deputy Director before proceeding. Without approval, the surgeries were not permitted to take place. Only emergency surgeries could be implemented without prior approval.

"I’ve heard about what happened in the emergency department," said Han Ming, not lifting his head from the applications, "It’s Christmas today. I’m approving you to leave early, go home and be with your family."

"Tang Li... Vice Director Han, do you remember Tang Li?"

Upon hearing that name, Han Ming swiftly looked up.

"Not just her," An Zhiyuan continued, "Liang Zhigao as well... No one remembers him anymore. Except for..."

"Except for the few doctors whom I’ve granted the Gift of Flesh."

The number of doctors Han Ming had granted the Gift of Flesh to was countable on one hand; even Lu Yuqing had not been granted the Gift of Flesh due to insufficient capabilities.

An Zhiyuan suddenly asked, "Only ’we’ can be granted your index finger, right? Others are granted your middle finger, ring finger, little finger, and the like, aren’t they?"

"What do you mean by ’we’?"

"You know what I mean," An Zhiyuan reminded him, "Those of us who have eaten the flesh won’t have our memories erased by the curse, right?"

"Zhiyuan."

Han Ming reclined in his chair, saying, "You’re very smart. But as a smart man, you should know that some things don’t need to be said."

"I just want to know..."

"What I don’t say, you can’t know."

An Zhiyuan felt as if his throat had been grabbed.

To say he was a confidant, but in the end, Han Ming still had reservations about him!

"I may give, but you must not ask."

That was the message.

"Yes..."

An Zhiyuan could only bow his head to Han Ming.

"By the way, pass this message to Dai Lin."

"Pass it to him?"

"He’s now full of a desire to investigate, but he’s overlooking the meaning of curiosity killed the cat."

"I understand."

...

"In short, stop investigating Tang Li," was what An Zhiyuan’s voice said on the other end of the phone to Dai Lin, "and don’t mention Tang Li and Liang Zhigao’s names to any other doctors. Most people have already forgotten them. We are just lucky that our memories cannot be tampered with."

"That means..." Dai Lin quickly noticed a blind spot, "Vice Director Han is aware that I won’t lose my memories of Tang Li."

"This may have something to do with your eyes."

That was the most reasonable explanation so far.

What exactly happened back then?

Ouyang Rui died, Gao Menghua fell into a deep sleep, and what role did Tang Li play in the process?

And then there’s the fragment of the map too. Dr. Fang’s deceased wife had seen roads on that map that didn’t correspond with reality!

Dai Lin then spoke with Alice Chen.

She seemed to be adjusting quite well to her current identity.

"I’m very grateful to you, Dr. Dai."

Alice Chen said through the video chat on the computer, "I think I can gradually... get used to this new life."

"What about Mr. Lin? He’s essentially Nie Xiuzhu’s husband through a remarriage..."

"I will play my role well. As long as I can live with Luo Ren, live with my son, that’s enough. I just didn’t expect... Luo Zheng, that he would just die like that..."

"I’m sorry, Dr. Luo died trying to save my family..."

"It’s not your fault, Dr. Dai."

Dai Lin advised Alice Chen, "Be careful, and contact me immediately if anything happens."

"Okay, I know," she replied.

After the video chat ended, Dai Lin attempted another video call with Luo Ren.

Alice Chen closed her laptop and looked over her shoulder, towards the blind spot that the camera couldn’t capture.

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

Standing there was...

Luo Ren’s stepfather!

"Miss Chen, I hope you can register for a consultation in our Demons Department," said Luo Ren’s stepfather to Alice Chen with an expressionless face, "You’re very smart for not revealing the truth to him. I apologize for being somewhat negligent. I’ve been affecting Nie Xiuzhu’s memory with a cursed object to keep her from realizing she was a Resentful Spirit, but the other day she suddenly became like a madwoman, saying, ’She can’t be allowed out.’ It took me by surprise. She had subconsciously sensed that you should not return to this world. And she came close to jeopardizing our plan to release you through the efforts of the Wraith Surgery Department’s Dr. Dai."

His real name was... Levin Keli, Director of the Demons Department!

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