Hospital 444
Chapter 220 - 11 She’s Watching Me

Chapter 220: Chapter 11 She’s Watching Me

Hearing this, Dai Lin already felt that something was amiss.

These days, he had been listening to patients tell all kinds of real ghost stories in the outpatient clinic every day, and he had almost developed a conditioned reflex.

"Dai... Dai Ming..."

At this moment, the skewers they had ordered arrived.

"Dai Ming..." Without even looking at the fragrant skewers, Dai Lin asked anxiously, "You, you’re not making up a story, are you? I won’t blame you if you’re joking!"

First, it was Dai Wei, who entered Hospital 444’s Demons Department...

Then Luo Ren, who almost got taken back to the hospital by Song Min...

Now... was it Dai Ming’s turn?

Dai Lin couldn’t help but wonder if there was something extraordinary about his own fate?

Dai Lin really hoped that Dai Ming would burst into laughter and say, "Yeah, I was just fooling with you!"

Actually, he felt this was very unlikely, as Dai Ming was not that kind of person, and besides, the serious expression on his face was not easily feigned.

Dai Ming took another sip of his drink from the glass.

His tolerance for alcohol was clearly not that great; even though he was drinking beer, his face was already starting to redden.

Afterward, he set the glass back down on the table with force, picked up the beer bottle, and continued to pour the beer into the glass.

"If it was a joke, then that would be good... really, Dai Lin, but the even more terrifying thing is yet to come..."

...

For Dai Ming, this was just the beginning.

From then on, whenever Dai Ming wanted to paint, no matter what he initially intended to depict, he would end up painting, as if by reflex, the woman who had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

His parents, Uncle and Auntie from Dai Lin’s side, also started to notice.

"Dai Ming, can’t you paint something else?"

"Yeah, why do you want to paint this kind of... painting?"

Dai Ming also knew it was odd, but each time he picked up the brush, he would involuntarily paint that woman in the deep sea.

And soon...

The content of the paintings underwent a massive change.

At first, in the extremely cold depths of the sea, the woman’s skin became increasingly pale and gradually developed signs of livor mortis.

A great number of microbes started to gather and multiply on the corpse.

The skin quickly shriveled and swelled in the soaking of seawater... and gradually began to rot.

The color of the livor mortis also started to change, gradually turning red. Because the woman’s body was constantly floating in the water, her position occasionally shifted.

It was as though...

Dai Ming was using his painting to update the process of decay of the woman’s body in the deep sea!

He himself started to feel creeped out.

Keep in mind, Dai Ming was just nine years old and knew virtually nothing about forensic medicine. However, after searching the internet, he discovered he could accurately depict the stages of a human body’s decay in the deep sea after death.

Why was he able to paint it?

He himself didn’t know. During the painting process, he didn’t even need to think consciously; the images would emerge automatically. Sometimes, he even subconsciously tried to doodle randomly, but in the end, he still managed to complete the painting successfully.

He didn’t dare to show his paintings to his parents anymore.

In theory...

If his painting really was continuously updating, then according to the information Dai Ming found online, the woman who died in the ocean should soon turn into a pile of bones due to the action of microbes.

But...

Two to three weeks later, each time he painted this picture, although the decay of the corpse intensified continuously, it never turned into bones.

Dai Ming truly loved painting, but now, whenever he picked up a paintbrush, he couldn’t paint anything except for the deceased woman in the deep sea.

Even when he forcefully tried to paint something else, he would always end up depicting that woman’s image as he painted.

Even Dai Ming himself felt that he could not understand, and after searching on Baidu, he wondered if he had developed obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He still wanted to overcome this, so he forced himself to pick up the paintbrush, but every time, he ended up painting the countenance of that decaying body...

Why...

Why was it like this?

...

As time went on...

Half a year passed.

During this half year, Dai Ming’s parents took him to see a child psychologist and even consulted a neurologist. But all the different tests showed everything was normal.

The only problem was that Dai Ming could only ever paint that dead woman.

In the end, Dai Ming’s parents could only helplessly accept this reality. After all, aside from this matter, Dai Ming was in every other way a completely mentally healthy child.

But, just at that moment...

An even more terrifying thing happened.

It was a night of flashing lightning and thunder.

Once again, Dai Ming began to paint.

Despite the thunder and lightning roaring outside, Dai Ming still wanted to paint. After all, painting was his dream; he always felt incredibly happy whenever he painted.

He hoped that one day his paintings could be displayed in the largest art gallery in the city, attracting countless people to view them.

But this time, he found... that he could still only paint that woman.

He couldn’t paint anything else.

As he painted... painted... he suddenly realized something was wrong.

In the end, he discovered... that woman...

Stood up in the depths of the sea!

The corpse... stood up!

Dai Ming felt his skin crawl.

Her highly decayed face looked like a terrifying demon.

After that day...

He found that his paintings became increasingly horrifying.

The woman’s beautiful long hair began to fall out strand by strand...

The pupils in her eye sockets grew increasingly murky, until they were almost indistinguishable from the whites of her eyes...

Due to the severe decay of the jaw, most of the gums started to become exposed...

The shriveled skin turned like a mummy from the movies, almost clinging to the entire skull...

In the nose area, both sides had deep hollows as if they had been hollowed out...

Eventually, the mouth completely split open, the lips had utterly vanished, and more than half of the teeth had fallen out...

He must have painted dozens of pictures like this...

Finally, when his parents secretly saw these paintings, they were scared out of their wits.

The paintings became increasingly lifelike, to the extent that at first glance, one might mistake them for photographs.

And in the end, the terrifying female ghost’s appearance was a night and day difference compared to the woman’s initial stunning beauty.

Eventually...

When Dai Ming painted that woman, it produced a strong sense of eeriness.

It was as if the woman in the painting was watching him!

This feeling grew stronger and stronger.

In the end, Dai Ming went to his parents, begging them to lock up all his painting supplies. He was afraid he couldn’t control himself and would continue to paint.

"She... she... can sense my existence..." Dai Ming cried to his parents, "She... she wants to come for me!"

...

Dai Lin’s eyes bulged as he listened.

If this were in a hospital outpatient clinic, listening to a patient recount their medical history, then for Dai Lin, it would actually still be acceptable; he had even heard Doctor Jiang Licheng speak of even more bizarre cases.

But the person in front of him was his own cousin, not a patient from the hospital!

"You... you’re serious?"

"Yes. You must have heard bits and pieces, sometimes my parents took me to see various pediatricians. My parents never dared to mention this to Uncle and Auntie."

Dai Lin subconsciously swallowed and asked, "What happened after that?"

"Afterward, I grew more and more afraid and finally gave up my dream of painting," Dai Ming said, then took a big gulp of beer, "I could never become a painter now."

"Nothing else happened after that... right?"

Dai Ming grew up completely healthy, after all.

Considering this, combined with his symptoms, maybe it was just... the spiritual influence of specters on humans had little impact on health. The findings of the hospital’s normal examinations were not surprising; actually, he should have come to Hospital 444.

But... after going through so much, how could Dai Lin possibly let his cousin enter Hospital 444?

"That’s why I asked you out to drink today," said Dai Ming.

Dai Ming picked up a skewer, took a bite, chewed a few times, and then downed another big gulp of beer.

"Today... I went to the Jiulin Art Gallery. And then... I saw a painting. On it, was that woman!"

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