Hospital 444
Chapter 232 - 23: The Trial

Chapter 232: Chapter 23: The Trial

Dai Lin was on duty in the inpatient department again today.

He estimated that Xie Chengjun would find some pretext to torment him again tonight. But there was no other way around it, as he was still just a resident physician, and whether he could graduate from his standardized training depended on his future department head. If Song Min ever recovered her memory, Dai Lin would no longer have good days ahead. Besides, Xie Chengjun’s training was also a great opportunity for growth for him.

Just then, Dai Lin’s phone rang, displaying a call from Gao Heyan in Malaysia.

Dai Lin immediately answered the call.

"Dr. Gao..."

Dai Lin was still accustomed to addressing Gao Heyan this way.

"The examination has been set. It officially starts at four o’clock in the morning tomorrow, and then, we’ll have to stay inside the Oroñe Hotel for three days. After three days, if we haven’t teleported back to the hospital or are still alive, it will be considered a pass, and I will be promoted to Associate Chief Physician."

"Hmm... okay, I wish you success in your examination."

Having said that, Dai Lin thought for a moment and then added, "And safety first. If it’s really dangerous, come back right away."

"Director Song has already made arrangements to ensure our exams at the hotel won’t have any problems."

Recently, Dai Lin had also inquired about the Oroñe Hotel.

The hotel had some very strange and peculiar rules.

You must not laugh inside the hotel...

You must not bleed inside the hotel...

You must not knock on the door more than four times...

And if someone hears laughter, it means...

"Have you checked into the hotel yet?"

"Not yet. Director Song has already booked rooms for all of us, and we just need to check in before the appointed time."

Three days...

To spend three days in such a hotel, one could imagine, would definitely not be an easy task.

Dai Lin had always regarded Gao Heyan as a confidant. Although he no longer felt a sense of belonging to the Yiwuque Sect as before, he believed that Gao Heyan and Song Min were not of the same ilk.

"Dr. Gao," Dai Lin subconsciously looked at the palm of his hand where a mouth had grown before, "What kind of a doctor... is Deputy Director Xie Chengjun?"

"Tormented by him too much?" Gao Heyan did not find it strange that Dai Lin asked this question, "Joking aside... he indeed deserves the title of Deputy Director and can be considered Director Song’s most trusted subordinate."

Actually, there were some things Gao Heyan was not at liberty to say. Song Min had transferred to the Wraith Surgery Department after the death of Vice President Lu, resulting in Dr. Jiang Licheng, who had always held deep seniority, missing out on the position of department head. Naturally, Song Min would not regard him as a trusted confidant. In contrast, Xie Chengjun, whom she had promoted herself after joining the Wraith Surgery Department, was in her view the most suitable successor. Gao Heyan, in her heart, also felt somewhat indignant for her mentor, but of course, she couldn’t express that in front of Dai Lin.

"Following Deputy Director Xie, you should be able to learn quite a lot. Remember, what you see on the front lines of clinical work is always the most valuable, no patient gets cursed according to the hospital’s theories."

"My mentor used to say something similar, that patients don’t get sick according to medical textbooks."

Just then, Dai Lin suddenly heard some noise outside the door.

He turned his head and saw Xie Chengjun, dragging in a disheveled man covered in blood and wearing a hospital gown, into the office.

"Dai," Xie Chengjun’s face was smeared with blood, but he said with a smile, "Tonight’s training has started."

"Hmm..." Dai Lin said to Gao Heyan, "We’ll be in touch later, Dr. Gao!"

The blood-covered man in the hospital gown on the floor suddenly opened his eyes, tried to get up, but was firmly pinned down by Xie Chengjun, unable to move a muscle!

This man in the hospital gown had clearly become a Resentful Spirit!

"He is..." Dai Lin immediately recognized him; it was the patient he had just visited on his rounds!

"A patient who just died a short while ago." Xing Chengjun was holding down the Resentful Spirit’s crown, making it impossible for it to move, and said to Dai Lin with a smile, "His body is still lying in the single ward, and must be sent to the morgue before midnight. Well, I know what you’re thinking, but you needn’t feel sorry for this guy; he killed his own wife with his own hands and was then killed by the Resentful Spirit his wife turned into, turning into a Resentful Spirit himself."

"That’s not right!" Dai Lin was puzzled, "He was fine during the rounds earlier! How did he suddenly die?"

"How would I know?" Xie Chengjun wiped the blood off his face, "Maybe it’s just retribution. It’s perfect for your training, Dai. Now, I will let him go, and you just have to hold out for five minutes... on the condition that you stay seated in your chair without moving. If you can’t hold out, just call me, and I’ll suppress him and take him to the morgue together. Don’t worry, a just-transformed Resentful Spirit is very weak."

Dai Lin glanced at the patient who had turned into the Resentful Spirit and knew that Xie Chengjun was not joking with him.

"You can also decline, but then, I would have to assign you to guard the morgue," Xie Chengjun continued, emphasizing, "the morgue! You could encounter all sorts of ghosts there, including fierce spirits! Guarding there, ensuring that ghosts don’t escape the morgue, but are instead permanently banished to hell..."

Dai Lin knew he had no choice.

The other’s tone was playful, but he was definitely not joking.

"Alright, I understand."

Dai Lin sat steadily in his seat, his eyes locked dead on the patient before him.

How the patient died, how they were used by Xie Chengjun as a training tool... Dai Lin wouldn’t point out self-righteously; he didn’t have a savior complex.

Right now, all Dai Lin was concerned about was surviving.

Xie Chengjun released his hand from the Resentful Spirit’s fontanelle.

Then, the Resentful Spirit crazily lunged at... Dai Lin!

Dai Lin’s left eye instantly turned red!

"Five minutes, oh, 300 seconds, not one second less..."

But Xie Chengjun didn’t continue his sentence.

The Resentful Spirit hadn’t even touched a single finger of Dai Lin before it was utterly annihilated by his Demon Left Eye, vanishing completely into nothingness!

Dai Lin hadn’t expected his Demon Left Eye to have evolved to this extent.

Such ordinary Resentful Spirits were no different from ghosts to him.

Not even worth the effort to absorb.

Of course, ghosts can’t be killed. However, this Resentful Spirit definitely couldn’t appear again within five minutes.

Dai Lin was quite ruthless in his action.

Xie Chengjun was clearly a bit surprised by Dai Lin’s performance.

At that moment, Dai Lin also saw the palm that Xie Chengjun had used to hold down the Resentful Spirit’s fontanelle.

There was a character formed out of fresh blood on it.

"Seal"!

Was this why he was able to suppress the Resentful Spirit?

"Hm... hahaha... hahahaha..."

Xie Chengjun let out an awkward laugh and said, "That, Dai Lin, you, you really do have quite the... ability! Hahaha..."

"Director Xie flatters me with his praise."

Xie Chengjun patted his head and said, "I, I’m going to check on some rooms, haha..."

After he left the office and reached the corner of the corridor.

"Damn... what kind of monster is he? A resident doctor who vanquishes Resentful Spirits in an instant. In its history, Hospital 444 has only had two others like him!"

"One of them is Vice President Lu Yuan." Xie Chengjun quickly changed his tone, "I underestimated him. Perhaps I need to find him a Karma Ghost."

Just then, Xie Chengjun’s phone rang.

He immediately answered it.

"Hello?"

"Doctor Xie, the emergency department just admitted a new patient who claims to be your patient. He was scheduled for a CT scan tomorrow. Director An is preparing to transfer him to the inpatient department."

"My patient?"

"Yes, his name is Dai Ming. Although there are no ghosts chasing him and he shows no clinical signs of a curse yet, he insists on being hospitalized."

Hearing this name, Xie Chengjun’s expression became serious.

"Alright, arrange for his admission."

"Understood."

After hanging up the phone, Xie Chengjun looked behind him.

"No need to look for a Karma Ghost. Let him take care of this patient."

"This, this... isn’t this inappropriate? Although he definitely won’t be able to vanquish in an instant this time, but..."

"Director Song has said to test him thoroughly. She wants to cultivate Dai Lin as a core confidant of the direct lineage, so we have to play the good cop. That means some things naturally have to be handled by us, the bad cops."