Hospital 444
Chapter 311 - 47: Becoming One of Our Kind

Chapter 311: Chapter 47: Becoming One of Our Kind

Li Dongshan donned the doctor’s white coat that he had not worn for a long time.

Ten years... and at last, he had returned to the hospital.

But upon returning to the hospital, he discovered a terrifying matter.

Director Dai Wei had disappeared.

For Li Dongshan, Director Dai Wei could be said to have granted him a huge favor. Dai Wei was one of the few doctors in the hospital who understood Chinese, which made it convenient for him to communicate with Li Dongshan and he also helped him to quickly catch up on English so that he could converse fluently in English with others at an early date, and he had taught him so much more.

The temple in Nanmian Village was built with the assistance of Dai Wei. In fact, it was Dai Wei who truly foresaw the arrival of the great fog.

Dai Wei was a doctor who could be ranked in the top ten throughout 666 Hospital. In the Haunter Department, there was not one person who did not respect him.

But now, Dai Wei and another doctor from the department, William, had both gone missing. And with their disappearance, everyone in the hospital had also forgotten they ever existed.

Only a small number of people vaguely remembered the two of them.

In Li Dongshan’s memory, Dai Wei always had aggressive measures in his treatment methods and was also very mysterious.

Ten years ago, when he secretly assisted Li Dongshan in building the "temple" in Nanmian Village, he erected that stele.

Li Dongshan still doesn’t know why the stele was inscribed the way it was.

Even Dai Wei himself couldn’t explain it.

Every paranormal doctor in the Haunter Department could be said to be a "spiritual medium." Each of them could easily let a ghost possess them and then utilize the ghost’s abilities. Even without cursed objects, they were powerful enough.

When Dai Wei inscribed that stele back then, he entered a possessed state.

Something seemed to have possessed him and carved the stele.

After hiding the temple with some spatial curse item, Li Dongshan released the temple when the great fog arrived.

To this day, he still doesn’t know how Director Dai Wei managed to build the temple, or where those porcelain dolls came from.

Now, Li Dongshan doesn’t dare to mention Dai Wei to anyone in the hospital. He knows that once someone firmly believes in Dai Wei’s existence, they might be the next to disappear.

For Li Dongshan himself, since returning to the hospital, he had found that as long as he didn’t deliberately think about "Dai Wei" or mention "Dai Wei," the image of him and the memories of their past interactions would gradually fade away.

To find the culprit behind Dai Wei’s disappearance, Li Dongshan must stay alive.

His first concern at the moment was to investigate the matters concerning the Harund family.

Just then, he saw a crew-cut man appear in front of the corridor lights.

The crew-cut man’s eyes were filled with a fierce hostility, like a ferocious and vicious wolf.

Li Dongshan turned his head and saw another man with the same crew cut standing behind him.

"The Meroll twins..."

This pair of twins were the most frightening doctors in the entire 666 Hospital.

As long as they weren’t killed at the same time, if one died while the other brother was still alive, the deceased could be resurrected indefinitely.

They could completely share each other’s memories, knowledge, and feelings, and communicate telepathically at any time.

But this was not the most terrifying aspect of the Meroll twins.

They shared a curse item that originated from the Abyss, and they could both transform into the curse item’s fully unleashed form, entering the state of a deep abyss invasion phase four.

According to Eastern terminology, this was equivalent to a "Curseling"!

Either one could become an outright Curseling! And as long as the other twin was still alive, they could control this evil spirit of abyss invasion phase four.

The two of them were always inseparable and would never be apart by more than a hundred meters.

And the two of them were the deputy director’s right-hand men, jointly serving as the directors of the Abyss Department.

"What do you want with me, Directors?" Li Dongshan spoke in English, which he had not used for ten years and which still sounded slightly rough after a few days of speaking.

The crew-cut man in front of him spoke, "By the deputy director’s orders, we will be taking complete charge of the treatment affairs of your village."

The man with the crew cut behind said, "That’s right, we will take over completely."

Which one is George Meroll?

Which one is Mike Meroll?

Nearly no one in the hospital could differentiate between the twin brothers.

For ten years, their appearances hadn’t changed at all.

"Completely take... over?" For Li Dongshan, this was the worst possible scenario.

"Yes. That village, from now on..."

Another immediately continued, "will bring new blessings to ’our clan’."

In the hospital, all doctors... all referred to themselves as "our clan."

Li Dongshan had always thought this was because paranormal doctors were a hybrid between humans and ghosts. But as time passed, he started to realize that it might not be the case.

Such "specially recruited" doctors as Dai Wei weren’t making their first appearance.

They shared commonalities: they were not recruited through normal procedures and... most were of Asian descent. Then, the dean would arrange for a doctor to act as their guarantor. Like Dai Wei, Li Dongshan also belonged to these "specially recruited" doctors.

Then, as specially recruited doctors, they would be taken to meet the deputy director in person. The first question from the deputy director was always...

"In your understanding, does a Hospital 444 exist in this world?"

Dai Wei sat in a chair, facing a pitch-black desk.

In this office, there was hardly any light behind the desk, and he could barely make out a person sitting there.

That person was the deputy director of 666 Hospital.

Uncle Li had repeatedly mentioned to him that the deputy director was the most authoritative person in the hospital, second only to the dean, and there was only one deputy director in the hospital.

What surprised Dai Wei was that, even though he had been learning English with Uncle Li these past few days, the deputy director spoke fluent Chinese.

Just as Dai Wei was about to deliver the standard answer Uncle Li had told him, the deputy director added, "Think carefully before you answer. Do not simply repeat someone else’s response. I want your genuine answer."

Although he couldn’t see the deputy director’s face, Dai Wei felt an imposing aura that commanded respect without anger and seemed to pierce through any lies.

"I... I’ve never heard of any Hospital 444," Dai Wei could only respond that way.

"Then, have you ever doubted your life story from childhood until now?"

"Huh?"

"Have you ever doubted whether your family members are truly your relatives, are you certain that you grew up in Nanmian Village?"

"I..."

"Answer seriously. Your response will determine whether you become one of our clan or part of the cursed objects within the hospital."

"I..." Dai Wei thought of Shen Lisheng and couldn’t be sure if his memories were still real.

But then he thought, he surely couldn’t have popped out of a rock! And his parents must be real, otherwise they wouldn’t have been killed by Li Yanping!

"I am certain that I grew up in Nanmian Village, and my parents are indeed my parents!"

"Good. The final question. Tell me, what is the name of this hospital?"

"666 Hospital." Dai Wei answered decisively: "This hospital is called 666 Hospital!"

Suddenly, Dai Wei felt a pain emerging on his forehead!

"The cross mark on your forehead will slowly emerge. Remember what you just said; if you firmly believe in your words, the cross will gradually appear on your forehead during your internship, ensuring you retain full control of the curse within you, and unless you wish it, the curse cannot be unsealed to backfire on you. However, if you doubt yourself, believe me... it will let you know that death might actually be a mercy."

Dai Wei felt a cold sweat covering his body.

"Once the black inverted cross is fully formed, your internship will end, and from that moment, you will become one of our clan, and from here on, you will be blessed by ’Him’..."