Hospital 444
Chapter 319 - 6 Jiang Licheng’s Wish

Chapter 319: Chapter 6 Jiang Licheng’s Wish

The room was dimly lit.

Jiang Licheng sat in his office, staring at a piece of paper before him.

"Write down your wish, tie the letter back to the balloon and release it, and your wish will come true."

Behind him was a red balloon.

It could fulfill any wish...

Even having worked at Hospital 444 for so long, Jiang Licheng had rarely encountered such cases.

If he really had to say...

He thought of the Eden Hotel from years past and the Gao sisters he had rescued from there.

Eden Hotel, to this day, remains the most terrifying place he has ever visited since becoming a doctor, with no close second. And his loyal deputy director, Lu Yuan, also perished within Eden Hotel.

Vice Director Lu Yuan once gave Jiang Licheng a piece of advice: Licheng, no matter what, do not be easily tempted. What often accompanies temptation is something we cannot afford.

The parents of Gao Menghua and Gao Heyann failed to understand this.

In this world, gifts that come for free often carry a price we fundamentally cannot afford.

But...

But...

Understanding emotionally is one thing, but being able to truly do it is another matter entirely.

"Wishes... wishes... Even that legendary Hell Apartment couldn’t fulfill any wish... at least, it definitely couldn’t resurrect the dead..."

Jiang Licheng muttered to himself.

Resurrecting the dead was something even Hospital 444 could not do.

Ghosts are ghosts, and the living are the living.

Even with taboo curse items, it required some special preparation in advance to make it happen.

But...

Jiang Licheng took a deep breath.

"Director Lu..."

Even today, Lu Yuan remains the only person he wholeheartedly serves. He serves Yin Wuque now only because he was the successor designated personally by Lu Yuan.

He looked at the paper before him, having thought about it for an entire night.

But he still couldn’t bring himself to give up on this temptation.

"So why not... why not give it a try? Just a try?"

...

An hour later.

Jiang Licheng drove into the suburbs.

As the houses and people grew fewer and fewer around him, Jiang Licheng knew he was getting closer to his destination.

In the back of the car was that red balloon.

Jiang Licheng clenched his teeth, ready at any moment for some kind of change to occur in the red balloon, and as a paranormal doctor, he had plenty of ways to cope.

But, nothing happened.

Finally... his car stopped in front of a flower shop.

This shop had been operating here for nearly ten years.

He slowly brought his car to a stop, knowing that in such a remote place, there would be no traffic police to check for illegal parking.

Afterward, Jiang Licheng got out of the car.

He was holding that piece of paper.

The flower shop owner saw Jiang Licheng and immediately said, "Ah, Dr. Jiang, you’re here!"

"Hello, shop owner."

The shop owner said to him, "Are you here to buy a bunch of white lilies like you do every year?"

"Yes, like the previous years."

The shop owner nodded and said, "Please wait a moment."

"Boss lady."

"Hmm?"

"Has your husband’s cataract still not been treated?"

Upon hearing this, the boss lady sighed, saying, "Not yet, he keeps thinking about getting surgery, but he says he doesn’t want to spend the money."

Afterward, she wrapped up a bouquet of flowers for Jiang Licheng, saying, "Dr. Jiang, here you go."

"Mm."

Picking up the flowers, Jiang Licheng suddenly said, "Boss lady, I’ve never told you what kind of doctor I am."

"Ah, that doesn’t really matter, isn’t every doctor just healing and saving lives?" The boss lady, revealing a sorrowful expression, said, "My son, he’s also buried there. Opening this shop here, I never thought about making much money, just wanted to be closer to my son."

This place... is less than two kilometers away from the burial ground.

The scenery here is beautiful, and the air is good too, so the price of the cemetery plots is also quite steep. Jiang Licheng had made a resolute decision in choosing this place.

And he himself had already pre-purchased a plot of land for himself here. Unlike Song Min, who used the Spiritual Therapy Points to extend his lifespan, he would age gradually like an ordinary person, eventually dying of natural causes, and ultimately his body’s cursed objects would be retrieved by the Department of Cursed Objects.

That was enough for him. Jiang Licheng had no interest in immortality.

"Speaking of that, Dr. Jiang," the boss lady suddenly remembered something, saying, "Was that bad man caught by the police?"

Jiang Licheng shook his head, saying, "No, they haven’t."

That’s why he was always after the "location" ability of the Spatial Curse Item, the "Find Person" skill.

That Song Min’s Diary Cursed Object could never find that person was proof enough that some Paranormal Doctor had intervened, a powerful Paranormal Doctor capable of overcoming even Song Min’s cursed objects, there were only a few like that in the entire Hospital 444.

Jiang Licheng knew who that Paranormal Doctor was but he couldn’t do anything against him.

Then, he looked at the boss lady and said, "Your husband’s illness, it will get better."

Leaving the flower shop, he returned to his car.

He picked up the paper and looked in the direction of the flower shop.

Afterward, he wrote down a line of text.

Once he had finished writing, he stuffed the paper back into the envelope, reattached it to the balloon, then picked up the red balloon and released it into the sky.

Watching the red balloon drift away, and then looking at the flower shop again,

Jiang Licheng suddenly felt an intense chill.

It was an inexplicable, intense chill.

He had the vague feeling that he might have done something irreversible.

But now, it was no longer possible for him to regret it.

...

"What did you see?"

While Dai Lin was reading a book, Feng Xiao abruptly appeared in front of him.

He looked puzzled at the presence in front of him as Feng Xiao stood there with an icy expression.

"Director Feng, what did you mean by your words just now?"

"I’m asking you... what did you see?"

Dai Lin closed the book, saying, "Did I see... something I shouldn’t have?"

Was the other party planning to kill him to keep him silent?

"That’s right, it’s something you should not have seen..." Feng Xiao clearly seemed unsettled by the situation: "Whatever you saw, I hope you can forget it."

Dai Lin was a bit surprised by his words.

"You should also realize that I’ve made a considerable effort to hide you. Evidence being, even Director Song couldn’t find you. From this angle, it wouldn’t be so easy for the Demons Department to find you either. In that sense, I’m actually protecting you."

"Yes..."

"Dr. Dai," Feng Xiao continued, "so, can you promise me? Promise not to tell anyone about what you saw?"

Dai Lin was rather confused by Feng Xiao’s request.

"That person," Dai Lin went on saying, "I think I’ve seen her before..."

"It’s normal that you have seen her."

"I won’t tell anyone." Dai Lin stood up, assuring Feng Xiao earnestly, "I won’t tell anyone that I saw her here."