Hospital 444
Chapter 287 - 23 Demonic Department Doctor

Chapter 287: Chapter 23 Demonic Department Doctor

An hour or more had passed...

Dai Lin sat alone on the shore of Azure Island.

At that time, he didn’t know when the rescue from Hospital 444 would arrive. His current situation was considered an official visit, and he wouldn’t be counted as absent without leave. However, the hospital’s ambulance couldn’t get through, and other doctors couldn’t enter, making Dai Lin increasingly anxious.

Finally, the heavy rain had stopped.

While Dai Lin was worried, his phone suddenly rang.

This surprised him.

The phone Gao Heyann had given him, which could connect across different spaces, actually rang!

The call was from an unfamiliar number.

Dai Lin answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"May I ask if this is Dr. Dai?"

Although the caller had used the word "please," Dai Lin couldn’t detect a trace of emotion in the voice. Moreover, it sounded completely unfamiliar to him.

"That’s me. Which department from the hospital are you with?"

"My name is Zhong Siming, chief physician of the Demons Department."

The Demons Department!

And this name, Zhong Siming, Dai Lin vaguely remembered hearing before. After thinking carefully, he suddenly recalled.

When Dai Wei was initially transferred to the Demons Department, Zhao She had come to find him. At the time, Dai Wei had wanted to contact a doctor from the Demons Department, but most doctors in the hospital tended not to associate with those from the Demonic Department. Then, Zhao She mentioned a doctor named Zhong Siming who, like himself, had been with the Evil Ghost Department and could help Dai Lin to get in touch with this person. However, a series of events occurred, and the matter was put on hold.

"Are you Dr. Zhong Siming, the one who used to be in the Wraith Surgery Department and then transferred to the Demons Department?"

"No." The voice on the phone was still as cold and mechanical as before: "I was previously a doctor in the Evil Ghost Department. I transferred to the Demons Department after the incident involving Dr. Ouyang Rui. I’ll cut the long story short; I have now arrived at Azure Island."

The deaths of Director Li An and Dr. Ouyang Rui had left two vacancies in the Demons Department. The Demons Department needed precisely four doctors, no more, no less. Following that incident, the hospital couldn’t wait for the normal recruitment process and had to report to the Dean, who then issued a transfer order, moving doctors from other departments to the Demons Department to fill the gaps. Zhong Siming was one of them.

Dai Lin had deliberately mentioned the "Wraith Surgery Department" as a test to see if the caller was truly a doctor from Hospital 444. After all, he had encountered too many instances of resentful spirits masquerading as humans.

"Dr. Zhong, you’ve arrived at Azure Island?"

Why come to Azure Island?

There is no evidence to suggest that this curse is related to demons!

At this stage, Hospital 444 finds diagnosing demonic curses extremely challenging. They rely on experience to label symptoms related to demonic curses found in imaging reports as "Sign of the Devil." In clinical presentations, there have never been symptoms specific to demonic curses. Dai Ming and Pan Yizhen’s CT scans showed soul deficiencies similar to Dr. Gao Menghua, but there were no signs of the devil.

Why would a doctor from the Demonic Department come to Azure Island? Especially since the last time, he had already crossed paths with the Demonic Department.

The most important thing was...

"How did you get onto Azure Island?"

"I came alone. Our Demons Department has its own special channels. But I don’t know your location. Where are you now?"

Dai Lin’s guard went up.

He hadn’t forgotten that Niru Xiao had temporarily retreated because of Fang Zhou.

Now, a Demonic Department doctor had kindly come to the island to rescue him?

Having been at Hospital 444 for so long, Dai Lin knew well that only a handful of doctors actually practiced medical ethics. He was particularly wary of the Demons Department.

"I’d prefer to wait for support from other departments of the hospital. Moreover, I don’t need treatment from the Demons Department." Dai Lin reiterated, "Dr. Zhong, I appreciate your coming to the island, but please, you should head back."

As Dai Lin said this, he started to look around cautiously.

Just then, the waves surged, and lightning streaked across the sky!

Heavy rain began to pour down again!

"You’re by the seaside, right?" Then Dai Lin heard Zhong Siming’s voice again: "Where exactly are you?"

"Dr. Zhong, please go back, okay?"

"What’s your location?" The other party kept repeating, as if unable to understand: "What’s your location?"

"I don’t want to receive treatment from the Demons Department." Dai Lin quickly got to his feet and said, "So I..."

"If you don’t tell me, I can only go to Han Iron Town and find your cousin. I believe he will tell me."

"No!" Dai Lin’s heart pounded furiously, and he clenched his teeth before saying, "Who dispatched you? Was it Director Levin Keli?"

The three deputy deans had no authority to give orders to doctors of the Demons Department; only the Dean and Director Levin Keli did.

"Tell me where you are. Then, I will take you back to the hospital."

Zhong Siming’s response remained the same.

Dai Lin clenched his phone tightly and took a deep breath.

"There’s a forest about five kilometers away from Han Iron Town. Let’s meet there."

"Why meet there?"

"That place is associated with cursed phenomena. I want to meet you there and show it to you as well."

"How long will it take you to get there?"

"Half an hour or so. But it looks like it might rain now, so it might take a bit longer."

"We paranormal doctors don’t catch colds from the rain, so hurry over."

Then, he hung up the phone.

Dai Lin gripped his phone tighter, pondering his next move.

Five kilometers... It was neither too close nor too far from Han Iron Town. If it was too far, the other party might become suspicious.

Just then, a downpour began.

But Dai Lin seemed to feel nothing as his brain worked furiously.

He raised his palm and spoke into his hand, "Director Xie, Director Xie, Director Xie!"

However...

There was no response.

Not a single response!

Leaving aside how the doctor from the Demonic Department got to this island, why had contact with Director Xie been severed after his arrival?

It was clearly a decision made internally by the Demonic Department; they never communicated with other departments.

"Did Xie Chengjun actively sever the cursed object’s connection, or...?"

Dai Lin found a small restaurant nearby and took shelter from the rain inside.

He had studied the map of the island many times already.

The forest was densely wooded, and if he were to fight with the doctor from the Demonic Department, the thick trees could serve as cover for his escape even if he was outmatched.

The key thing was... Dai Lin did not know what kind of cursed object Zhong Siming possessed; he only knew that he was a chief physician.

"Even among chief physicians, one that can serve as a chief in the Malevolent Ghost Department must be exceptionally strong."

Of course, Zhao She couldn’t be used for comparison; he was a chief physician with an exceptionally powerful ability, and the reason he hadn’t been promoted to a higher rank seemed to be due to some special reason.

"Zhong Siming... still can’t get in touch with Hospital 444."

Dai Lin had tried all the phone numbers of doctors stored in his mobile phone, but he couldn’t reach anyone.

"He might not know that I am on guard, but I can’t be sure if he really means me harm. If he intended to get me into the ambulance and make his move after bringing me to the Demonic Department’s consulting room, then I would be at a disadvantage."

As he watched the heavy rain outside the restaurant, Dai Lin realized that he had only one trump card left.

Absorbing Nie Xiuzhu’s skin tissue.

And if he wanted to ascertain the other party’s intentions, he needed to find a way to get a strand of Zhong Siming’s hair to read his memories.

At that moment, Dai Lin noticed a cat beside him.

"Owner, is this your cat?"

"No, it’s a stray cat." The restaurant owner said, "I feel sorry for it, so..."

"Owner, what do you think a cat should look like?"

Looking into Dai Lin’s eyes, the owner hesitated.

"Shouldn’t a cat... look like this?"

"A cat..."

"Cats aren’t supposed to look like that, are they?"

Dai Lin grew more convinced that he had obtained a power similar to that of the Black Blood Ancestral Mother.

If that was the case...

"Yes, a cat, shouldn’t look like that."

The owner nodded and replied.

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