Hospital 444
Chapter 35 - 7 Death and Disappearance

Chapter 35: Chapter 7 Death and Disappearance

"Then, on the way to the interview, I deliberately asked Lu Junjun if she had ever been in contact with our company or if she had seen my father. Her responses were all ’no.’ She hadn’t even played any games produced by our company; she had only watched the dramas. After the interview ended, we told her to wait for the news at home, but I later called her and arranged to meet her for dinner that evening. Naturally, she was overjoyed, thinking our company would hire her."

Jiang Lan clenched her fists as she spoke.

"When I met Lu Junjun at the restaurant that evening, it was already past six. There was less than one hour left until the death time prophesied by my father. No matter how I looked at her, she didn’t seem like someone who was about to die."

Dai Lin’s heart began to tighten gradually.

It was clear... Lu Junjun must be dead by now.

"I intentionally chose a popular restaurant in a good location where there were always lots of people. I thought, nothing could happen here, right... I thought, what my father said must have been just nonsensical talk, right?"

Jiang Lan took another sip of tea to collect her thoughts. Clearly, what was to come was a terrifying memory for her.

"During the meal, our conversation was quite pleasant. She kept wanting to ask if my company was planning to hire her, but I kept changing the subject. Then, out of caution, I asked her one question. I asked her if she had been sleeping poorly recently. She looked at me and said that she had been so tired lately that she encountered some hearing problems last night. That’s why she had been planning to go to the otorhinolaryngology department of the hospital over the weekend."

"Hearing problems?" Dai Lin quickly wrote down the word "hearing" in his notebook with emphasis.

"I wanted to ask her more, but Lu Junjun evaded the question and didn’t elaborate, so I didn’t feel it was appropriate to pry further. Now that I think about it, given the circumstances, she should’ve been trying to impress me, yet she still steered away from the topic. It shows she really didn’t want to talk about it."

"Time flew, and it was almost seven o’clock. Nothing untoward had happened, and Lu Junjun didn’t show any sign of abnormality. Initially, I thought maybe my father had somehow learned about these people’s information through some channel, but what enmity could he have had with them to curse them to death in his sleepwalking? That’s what I was thinking when... Lu Junjun suddenly said she wanted to go to the restroom."

"At that time, I remember clearly, my phone showed it was 18:55. She wanted to go to the washroom, and I couldn’t prevent her from going. Initially, I thought about following her, but then I thought, nothing should happen, right?"

"After she left, I checked my phone again, she hadn’t come back, so I started to feel anxious. It was quickly approaching seven, so I decided to go into the women’s restroom."

As Jiang Lan got to the most crucial part of the story, her face turned pale.

Unbeknownst to them, outside the window, the sun was gradually being swallowed by the horizon.

"But, inside the restroom, there was no one! I rushed out to search but couldn’t find her anywhere! And by that time, it was already seven o’clock!"

"Later, I contacted her family, and her parents said she hadn’t returned home. When I called her cell phone, nobody answered. Eventually, we reported to the police, and the police came to the restaurant to check the surveillance footage. From the footage, we could see that she had entered the women’s restroom. However, she never came out until I went in!"

"So..."

"But, what’s even more terrifying came later. The surveillance later showed... about ten minutes after I left the restroom, she... came out from inside!"

What???

"Are you saying... Lu Junjun?"

"I swear, when I went into the women’s restroom, I checked every single stall, and there was absolutely nowhere for her to hide. The restaurant’s surveillance near the restroom is very clear. She walked out... but at that time, I noticed that the way she walked was very strange, her body was extremely stiff, and her face was deathly pale with no expression at all! What’s worse, when the police later examined the surveillance from the restaurant and the street outside, no camera caught a glimpse of Lu Junjun again!"

At that moment, Dai Lin understood.

"She... had already died by seven o’clock!"

"The police later used facial recognition from the surveillance to find several people who had entered and exited the women’s restroom in the ten minutes before she came out, but no one admitted to having seen Lu Junjun. Their testimony was the same as mine: no one was in any of the stalls. But to the police, it must have been that we had looked incorrectly."

"No one has seen Lu Junjun since, right?"

"Yes. The police even checked all the surveillance within a five-kilometer radius of the restaurant, and not a single camera captured her."

Now, Dai Lin understood why Jiang Lan was so terrified.

The death prophecy was real.

So...

What was it that summoned Jiang Han, in his sleep, to that room and then... informed him of this death prophecy?

Evening.

Jiang Han had prepared a very lavish dinner to host Dai Lin and Gao Heyann.

However, Dai Lin had no appetite for the delicious food before him.

"I intended to offer both of you a taste of my treasured red wine, but since tonight is critical, I have switched to juice," Jiang Han said, full of hope as he looked at the two doctors: "Tonight, I’m relying on both of you."

From the current situation... The deaths foretold by Jiang Han during his sleepwalking did not seem to affect his own health and well-being, and all the tests he underwent at the hospital confirmed this.

But no one knows what might happen in the future.

It’s like a ghost cannot remain a ghost forever; as time goes by, it will inevitably transform into a Resentful Spirit that threatens human life. Otherwise, why would anyone burdened by a ghost go to such lengths to seek treatment at the cost of their future? Currently, Jiang Han had no symptoms, and ordinary doctors wouldn’t dare to treat him; they must prescribe strictly according to the symptoms, a rule that can be considered ironclad in hospitals.

Dai Lin looked at Jiang Han and after thinking for a while, said, "The key is to find a way to treat the curse that has been predicted for these people."

"The tricky part is right here," Jiang Lan sighed. "Every month in the past, my father might have gone to that house and proclaimed someone’s future death. Just thinking about it gives one the shivers. If that’s the case, then... it means that many people have already died, and this situation might continue indefinitely. And he seems to be... truly plagued by some evil spirit..."