Hospital 444
Chapter 300 - 36 Grim Reality

Chapter 300: Chapter 36 Grim Reality

Under the snow and wind, Nanmian Village was now rife with rumors and panic.

The White Mist had stretched about five hundred meters into the village in one fell swoop!

This was unprecedented.

Clearly, an "unknown creature in the mist" had infiltrated the village!

"It was Li Ruping who killed the village chief!"

"No, if it was the thing from the mist, then that means Li Ruping doesn’t even exist!"

"She was the village chief’s daughter-in-law... I, I even attended Nian Cheng’s wedding back in the day! This, this can’t be true, can it? I refuse to believe such a thing could happen!"

And at this moment... Ge Niancheng had learned the ins and outs of the whole affair.

Six o’clock in the morning.

The family had already set up a mourning hall at home.

The portrait of his father was hung in the center of the hall, and his mother, dressed in white mourning clothes, had cried herself into a tearful mess. Having lost her son and husband in just two days, Ge Niancheng could only imagine the depths of his mother’s despair.

"Mom, you should eat something," Ge Niancheng said, concerned about his mother’s health. She already suffered from low blood sugar, and now faced with such a calamity, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown. If she didn’t eat something soon, she might pass out at any moment.

But his mother just wailed inconsolably, her consciousness even beginning to blur.

"Mom, both dad and uncle have met with misfortune, you can’t fall ill now!"

At that moment, Ge Niancheng suddenly turned to look behind him.

He saw someone.

Lu Zhengqiang.

But something wasn’t right...

Ge Niancheng felt something was off; this person, he wasn’t Lu Zhengqiang! Although he unmistakably looked like Lu Zhengqiang, the temperament between his brows was completely different from that of the hoodlum.

At this time, Ge Niancheng looked at Dai Lin and couldn’t help but feel a strong sense of wariness and unease.

Who exactly was this person? Could he be a "person" who came out of the great fog? No, that wasn’t right; something felt off to him.

Meanwhile...

On the square where they were selecting members for the patrol, Old Zhang, trembling, slowly eyed the voting box in front of him.

The people below all watched Old Zhang with nervous anticipation.

The person selected for tonight’s patrol would likely be facing grim odds.

No one wanted to die.

But they had to go.

Otherwise, the mist would continue to spread until it completely engulfed the village, and everyone was dead.

Old Zhang raised his hand, aware that he might be sending someone to their death today.

But he had no choice.

"Sigh..."

He lifted his wrinkled hand and reached towards the drawing box.

Old Zhang recalled his entire life, the Bai Fei Militia in his youth, famine and epidemics, Japanese devils, the three years of hardship. He had been lucky to survive all that and make it to this day.

But now, just as the village was about to shake off poverty and look forward to better days, this accursed mist had arrived!

Suddenly, he felt darkness envelop his vision, and he collapsed in front of the drawing box!

"Old Zhang!"

"Grandpa!"

At that moment, from the back of the crowd, a figure rushed forward, reaching Old Zhang and checking for a pulse and heartbeat, then turned pale and immediately began performing CPR!

Upon closer look, that person was none other than He Yun!

"It’s... it’s He Yun!"

"What’s happened to Old Zhang?"

"Did he have a stroke?"

"Stroke your mom! Don’t talk nonsense!"

"But Old Zhang has never really had a check-up, what if he has some cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease?"

"By the way, what specialty is He Yun a doctor in?"

He Yun struggled to perform CPR on Old Zhang. Based on his memory, Old Zhang shouldn’t have any underlying heart disease, but since he never measured his blood pressure or checked his blood lipids and glucose levels, understanding his medical history and lacking any equipment for examination, he had no choice but to try to save Old Zhang.

At this time, Dai Lin stood behind, watching this scene unfold.

He could already see Old Zhang’s soul emerging from his body.

Of course, strictly speaking, it was still a soul at this point; if He Yun’s rescue attempt succeeded, it might still be possible for the soul to return to the body.

Then, Dai Lin discovered... as he fixed his gaze on Old Zhang’s soul, he could control it, preventing it from departing to the world of the dead for now. Doing so, he could help He Yun pull Old Zhang back from the brink of death!

Of course, the cost was that if he couldn’t be saved, Old Zhang’s soul would linger in the realm of the living and as time passed, there was a chance he might turn into a Resentful Spirit.

"Come on... Doctor He!"

Finally, as He Yun pressed his ear against Old Zhang’s chest once again, he at last heard a heartbeat.

"Are you alright, Old Zhang?"

At that moment, Dai Lin came up behind He Yun and said, "Let’s take him back first."

"Wait a minute!" He Yun quickly said, "I don’t fully understand his medical history. If we move him..."

"I’m here, it’ll be fine," Dai Lin interjected. He could see through Old Zhang’s entire aorta, and he discovered that his left eye could control the path of each blood vessel, ensuring they wouldn’t burst during the move.

Dai Lin himself was surprised that his eye’s abilities had become so refined. Not only were they capable of destruction, but also nuanced repair.

This meant he could now perform surgery on a patient without opening their body, just using his eyes!

At the same time... his eyes could also clearly perceive the state of souls. Each node of the "three souls and seven spirits," whether there were any symptoms of curses, could be seen distinctly.

Dai Lin judged that with his current abilities, he could soon be performing surgeries on patients within the hospital.

...

...

"In conclusion, I shall act as the village head for now,"

Ge Niancheng looked at the village cadres, big and small, in front of him and said, "Maintaining stability in the village is the top priority. I cannot allow what happened early this morning to happen again. In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures. Anyone who dares carry out vigilante justice in the village will be arrested immediately! If arrested, executed on the spot!"

Due to Village Head Ge’s prestige, the village cadres were all willing to support Ge Niancheng. Moreover, at this time, he was the only one who could keep the villagers in line.

"Furthermore..." Ge Niancheng pinched his nose and said, "I will hold a village-wide meeting tonight to explain the sequence of events and their causes. We must investigate and find out who infiltrated the patrol from within the White Mist! Before that, anyone who spreads rumors that cause panic in the village will also be arrested!"

"Uh, Niancheng," the director of public security said with a pained expression, "I’m afraid we don’t have enough hands. There aren’t many able-bodied young men in the village, and most of them are already panic-stricken. I might not be able to give them orders at this time. Plus, there are those who have to patrol at night. They... they might not be able to suppress it."

"If they can’t suppress it, they have to!"

Ge Niancheng slammed the table hard and said, "The village cannot continue in chaos! If this goes on, before the White Mist even arrives, we’ll start killing each other!"

The nine people on patrol each had their own families and connections; no one wanted to be sacrificed. Choosing who to kill would surely lead to an unprecedented, massive internal strife within the village.

Take what happened at dawn, for example, if Li Ruping was killed, neither the Li Family nor I could let things go easily. Then, the death of one person would not solve the problem.

"Listen..." Ge Niancheng continued, "My dad said clearly before he passed, that if something happened to him, I was to take over for him, right?"

"It’s true he said that..."

"Then let’s take action! We can still gather people! After arresting them, hold them temporarily in the village guest house! I say again, anyone who arrests, execute on the spot! It’s an emergency! The village’s stability is the utmost priority!"

Ge Niancheng spoke hoarsely, well aware of the dire consequences if things continued this way.

The current Ge Niancheng was on the verge of collapsing. He was so tired he could almost sleep standing, yet there was still a mountain of work to be done.

"Also... take control of all nine people who participated in the patrol and guard them strictly! No exceptions!"

Li Jun, Dai Wei, Li Ruping, Li Yanping, Xia Meng, Chang Min, Jiang Shan, Li Dongshan, Su Wenqing!

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