Hospital 444
Chapter 237 - 28: Azure Island

Chapter 237: Chapter 28: Azure Island

"Dr. Dai, what are you, what are you doing?"

"Dr. Dai, outpatient services are starting this afternoon! What are you doing?"

"Dr. Dai!"

When Dai Lin regained consciousness, he lifted his head and saw a group of anxious doctors in front of him.

"I... I just..."

What was he just doing?

All Dai Lin saw was that his desk was piled high with prescription notes.

On the prescriptions were all...

The same terrifying face of a female ghost!

"Dr. Dai," Lin He said as she picked up a prescription note, looking at the bewildered Dai Lin, "I think you need to be seen first. Don’t worry, there’s a discount for internal staff registration. Or, you could register for the Wraith Surgery Department, which only treats our doctors!"

Struggling, Dai Lin picked up the prescription note and said, "Is this... Did I... draw this?"

"Dr. Dai," Lin He immediately said, "Look, I’ll go ahead and register you for the Wraith Surgery Department. I’m worried it’s the curse from your object starting to backlash against you. Don’t worry, this happens from time to time. We’ll just speak to Director Xie and temporarily cancel your outpatient clinic this afternoon..."

"No!"

Dai Lin shook his head and said, "This isn’t curse backlash; this female ghost is connected to all my patients!"

"Huh?"

Shortly after, in the office of the director of the Wraith Surgery Department.

Xie Chengjun looked at the prescription notes and instinctively rubbed his temples, saying, "Dr. Dai, I’ve barely been the acting director for a few days, and you’ve already caused a major incident. Your situation is a bit troublesome."

Dai Lin said, "I’m sorry for disrupting the department’s outpatient schedule."

Xie Chengjun picked up a prescription note with the female ghost drawn on it and said, "The hospital is facing a cross curse phenomenon, and it’s even spread to the doctors. When Director Song returns, I’ll need to write a report for her. Dr. Dai, do you know why our hospital seldom faces cross curse phenomena? Although the patients come from all over, ghosts, even if they make it to the outpatient department, almost never attack other patients, let alone doctors? This is the might of our hospital! My authority has really been challenged here with you!"

"Stop the nonsense, let’s talk about the matter at hand!"

That sentence wasn’t said by Dai Lin, but by Xie Chengjun.

Dai Lin was stunned. What was going on?

Xie Chengjun coughed and his tone shifted again, "Um, right, right, let’s focus on the important issue here."

Then, his expression slowly became more serious.

At that moment, Dai Lin’s mind flashed with two words: Dual Personality!

The scene before him reminded him of when he watched "The Lord of the Rings," and Gollum, who was split into two personalities by the One Ring, constantly struggled between good and evil, talking to his reflection in the water.

Could this be a side effect of implanting a cursed object?

Some doctors, as their integration with the cursed object deepened, would experience a peculiar side effect: their spirits, as humans, would gradually incline toward that of an evil spirit. In the worst cases, they could no longer distinguish whether they were living or a ghost.

Xie Chengjun said to Dai Lin, "Currently, I’ve spoken with the inpatient department to transfer patient Dai Ming into an isolation ward. Given his current conditions, it is not fitting to keep him in a regular ward."

"I just explained to you, his condition isn’t contagious, I..."

"What you say doesn’t count," Xie Chengjun waved a hand, saying, "If something goes wrong, it’s my responsibility. It’s not just him; you need to go into an isolation ward, too."

Clearly, the incident with Dai Lin during his short tenure as the acting director had significantly upset Xie Chengjun. The doctors in the department were already displeased with him serving as the interim head, and if he didn’t handle this matter properly, it would be more challenging to continue his aspirations for promotion once Director Song returned.

Whether to promote to head of the department wasn’t just about a salary increase for doctors, it also meant a complete upgrade of cursed objects. To obstruct someone’s promotion was akin to killing their parents, so it was no wonder Xie Chengjun couldn’t give Dai Lin a friendly look.

Alright, now there really were ghosts involved.

"Go to the isolation ward immediately," Xie Chengjun thought for a moment, then added, "You cannot leave the isolation ward until the test results come out."

To enter the isolation ward?

Clearly, at Hospital 444, being sent to the isolation ward meant much more than just being locked up.

To prevent patients from possibly leaving the isolation ward, it would be situated in a special space different from the rest of Hospital 444, and moreover, there would be evil spirits guarding outside the ward.

Yes, evil spirits. The hospital was already capable of controlling some evil spirits through cursed objects, turning them into hospital guards. Usually, if there was no trouble, it was fine; but if an evil spirit decided to kill someone within the hospital, these evil spirit guards would appear if the doctors and nurses couldn’t act in time.

"I understand."

Dai Lin had no choice at the moment.

Despite Xie Chengjun’s usually frivolous demeanor in front of him, he was still the deputy head of the department. The deputy head and deputy chief physician are two different things; one had to be a chief physician to serve as a deputy head. Although Dai Lin had seemed impressive in front of Xie Chengjun before, if the latter really wanted to take action against him, it wouldn’t be much harder than him defeating that resentful spirit.

In the workplace, the first lesson to learn is: just because your leader doesn’t put on airs with you, doesn’t mean you can afford to disregard them.

...

Meanwhile.

In a hotel room, Pan Yizhen looked at the smartphone in front of her.

The post she had sent out was unexpectedly more popular than she had imagined.

And within the posts she sent out, she saw this message.

"Poster, are you from Azure Island? Do you know the woman in the painting?"

Azure Island?

She quickly searched on her smartphone—Azure Island... there really was such a place.

It was a small island in the south, less than 10 kilometers away from S City, the closest city on the coastline.

The location of Azure Island was great for fisheries. And its not-too-distant proximity to the dock of S City allowed it to be self-sufficient through fishing.

After searching online about Azure Island, she found some photos.

"This... what is this?"

In the photos, residents of Azure Island carried fish they had caught.

"Horse mackerel..."

She immediately remembered having painted similar fish in a painting of hers.

Of course, horse mackerel wasn’t unique to Azure Island, but Pan Yizhen started to realize it was no coincidence.

The tone of the person who had posted was clear... he knew who the woman in the painting was!

Therefore, she immediately replied to the person who had posted, hoping he would contact her as soon as possible.

"Azure Island... could this place hold a clue about that woman?"

Maybe, after confirming, she could share this lead with the doctors at Hospital 444.

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