Hospital 444
Chapter 329 - 16 The Darren Family

Chapter 329: Chapter 16 The Darren Family

Yueyin was terrified, her soul nearly jumped out of her skin, and she almost cried out loud.

Behind the door stood an old woman with snowy white hair and a face full of wrinkles.

Yueyin remembered clearly that she should be the neighbor who lived next door.

"What... what do you want?" Yueyin was now shivering with fear, not knowing why the old lady had grabbed her arm.

"Seven days left," the old woman said in an aged voice, uttering this phrase, "Seven days left!"

After speaking, the old woman suddenly looked at Yueyin with a blank expression, immediately let go of her hand, stepped back several paces, and with a look of great confusion faced Yueyin and said, "What... what’s the matter with you?"

At this moment, Yueyin was shaking all over with fright. She rushed forward, saying, "What does that mean? Why did you say seven days? Do you know about the red balloon?"

"What red balloon?"

The old woman looked utterly clueless as if she didn’t understand a word Yueyin was saying.

"You just told me, seven days left..."

"I don’t know," the old lady said, "I was sleeping at home, could it be that I was confused by a dream, how did I appear here all of a sudden when I opened my eyes."

Hearing the old woman’s words, Yueyin was completely stunned.

What was going on?

At this very moment, she noticed that the tone of the old lady’s voice was completely different from before!

Although the voice sounded the same, the old woman who spoke earlier did so without a hint of emotion, but now she sounded like a very ordinary old lady.

"Do I have somnambulism?" the old woman asked Yueyin nervously, "Was I talking in my sleep just now in front of you? Ah, you seem to be the girl next door, right? I remember I’ve seen you a few times before."

Yueyin now felt goosebumps all over her body.

This kind of scene had appeared in many movies and dramas before!

Had the old woman just been possessed by "something"?

Ever since encountering that red balloon, Yueyin’s materialism had been utterly destroyed.

Clearly, that was a "warning."

Undoubtedly, if Yueyin did not pay the "price" necessary to fulfill her wish, such warnings would become increasingly frequent as time went on. Until the end...

How could Yueyin possibly accept the current situation?

"Young lady, you... you talk, why aren’t you saying anything?"

But Yueyin didn’t dare to get close to the old woman again and ran straight to the stairwell, pushing open the door and rushing downstairs.

Yueyin was now extremely terrified.

After she rushed downstairs, suddenly, her mobile phone rang.

She picked up the phone and surprisingly found that it was her mother calling!

"No, no, no!"

The price...

To kill her mother within the next seven days... Otherwise, the "owner" of the red balloon would come for her.

She still kept the piece of paper that came with the red balloon. The first time she saw it, her mind went blank.

Her first reaction, of course, was: No way, absolutely not!

So, she immediately wrote a reply letter, begging for a different price. Or rather, she treated this as her own wish, trying to offset the price with her most recent wish.

After writing the letter, she tied it to the balloon and let it go. Then, she immediately followed the balloon, wanting to find out where it came from.

But, she could never have imagined that the balloon would drift higher and higher, until it finally disappeared into the sky, never to be found again.

And the balloon... never came back.

Clearly...

Wishing cannot be used to "avoid the price of fulfilling the previous wish," much like you can’t make a wish "I want to make three hundred wishes."

She answered the phone, and her mother’s voice came through.

"Yueyin, I’ll come to see you in a week."

"Ah?" Hearing this, Yueyin almost came to a standstill and fell down the stairs.

"Mom, don’t come, please don’t!"

"It’s okay, just coming to see you, to bring you some clothes and food. I’m worried about you living on your own out there."

"I, I’ve found Xishi to stay with me now..."

"Xishi? Oh, you mean Gao Peipei, right? Are the two of you living together now?"

"Yes, yes."

"Isn’t she preparing to apply for graduate school? That’s great, you can have her tutor you, and get ready for graduate school next year!"

Had it been before, Yueyin would have tried every means possible to evade her mother’s talk of graduate school, but now it was different. She had only one thought—to make sure her mother did not come over!

The "master" of that red balloon said he would come himself. So, if her mother came, would "he" directly kill her mother?

Lately, Yueyin had been pondering over and over the identity of that person.

A wizard? A warlock? A sorcerer? A poison master?

All sorts of possibilities existed. But without a doubt, such a person was definitely not someone she or her mother could confront. Even if they called the police, it would be no use, no one would believe them!

What should she do?

Meanwhile, as Yueyin was plunged into endless panic... Dai Lin opened his eyes.

His first reaction was, what’s going on? He wasn’t supposed to fall asleep, so how had he fallen asleep?

Then, he discovered that Feng Xiao was standing in front of him!

"You?"

Dai Lin found himself sitting on a couch, unable to move at all.

His instinct was to attack Feng Xiao with his left eye, but he found it was completely useless!

"Director Feng, what are you trying to do?"

"It’s simple. Before the people from the Demons Department find you, I have to complete my plan," Feng Xiao said as he rubbed his hands together, looking towards another side of the room.

There, something was covered with a white cloth.

"What is... that?"

"Dai Lin, what do you think demons are?"

"I don’t know..."

"Demons are not what we think they are, nor are they a concrete existence. They aren’t like Resentful Spirits or Malevolent Ghosts, which have a clear hierarchy and treatment methods."

As he spoke, Feng Xiao’s eyes took on a somewhat lost look.

"Do you really think the Demons Department is a section dedicated to treating demonic curses?"

Dai Lin looked at Feng Xiao, understanding... the other party had begun to show his true colors.

"Director Feng, what exactly do you want to do?"

Feng Xiao turned his back on Dai Lin, looking at the thing beneath the white cloth.

Feng Xiao... had long ceased to exist.

The "Feng Xiao" now, in fact, harbored Han Ming’s soul!

Back in the day, when Han Ming had discovered that Feng Xiao and Jiang Licheng, the father-in-law and son-in-law pair, had secretly imprisoned Liang Luanxu, he had already set his plan in motion.

He had split a part of his soul and invaded Feng Xiao’s body even then.

Han Ming could easily rent out his soul to invade others’ bodies, but to achieve long-term possession with a Curse Object Department Doctor like Feng Xiao, he had to split his soul. Over the long years, "Feng Xiao" had already become Han Ming’s second personality, to the point where they could no longer communicate spiritually or share memories. In a sense, it was somewhat similar to the soul-snatching and secondary spiritual entities in cultivation novels.

Of course, there was no need for Feng Xiao to tell Dai Lin these things.

He walked step by step toward the white cloth.

"When humans beseech demons, they must pay a price. With you, I can finally..."

I can finally fulfill... the contract I made with the Dalen Family years ago.

Liang Luanxu, this woman, had by sheer chance come into contact with the ruins of the Dalen Family on her trip to South America, resulting in her body being partially invaded by a demon.

Jiang Licheng’s goal was to torture and kill her, but for Han Ming, this was a golden opportunity.

Being able to live up to today under the threat of Lu Yuan, one could say, was all thanks to the contract with the Dalen Family.

It could even be said that his ability to become Vice President, to enable clinical departments outside the Demons Department to gain the diagnostic basis of the "Sign of the Devil," was all thanks to this contract.

As such, he had to pay the corresponding price.

He had to fulfill the contract’s price.

"Dai Lin, before the doctors from the Demons Department find you, I need to complete all this."

Just then, under the white cloth, something suddenly started to move!

Then, the entire cloth was flipped open! And underneath, there was nothing at all!

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