Hospital 444
Chapter 375 - 28 Dai Lin’s Lecture

Chapter 375: Chapter 28 Dai Lin’s Lecture

"I’m contemplating a question."

"What question?"

"There are two kinds of evil in this world: lawful evil and chaotic evil."

"Sounds like something from DND?"

"Lawful evil is easy to understand, where evil is just a means, not an end. But chaotic evil is different. In the myths and religions constructed by humanity, there is often the concept of chaotic evil. For example... demons are considered a manifestation of original sin, meaning, the very existence of demons is a kind of absolute evil."

Milan picked up the teapot in front of her and slowly poured the black tea into the cup, continuing to communicate with Dai Lin in her mind: "Religion also believes that humans are born with original sin, right? Including your country, all laws choose to forgive minors’ criminal offenses because it is assumed that in a state of ignorance, one naturally tends towards chaotic evil. Those born with original sin must receive education to turn towards goodness."

"Education..." Dai Lin realized something.

"My older brother Lumian always believed that our family’s biggest problem was that no one taught us the real principles of good and evil and ethics when we were young. Besides parents, the most important thing for a child in their formative years is the teacher. A teacher’s thoughts and speech will greatly influence the formation of a student’s values. That’s why, after doctors, teachers are the profession with the highest moral expectations from everyone."

Milan lifted her cup of black tea and slowly started to drink.

"They are cultivating something. The real subjects of the home tutors’ teaching are not the children, but rather ’something’ attached to the children."

"A demon...?"

"No," Milan denied Dai Lin’s conjecture: "Not demons. Rather, it’s something akin to chaotic evil. This family, they are feeding, nurturing... and educating... something extremely terrifying."

Milan raised her head and looked out the window.

From this position, she should have been able to see Suyuan Mountain.

"I understand," Dai Lin had grasped Milan’s meaning: "That entity, despite having power that even Vice President Han finds problematic, lacks an innate sense of good and evil..."

Just like the foolish and ignorant Evil Gods in Lovecraftian mythology.

It’s not a vengeful spirit, nor what’s so-called a cursed spirit.

It’s an entity that Hospital 444 is completely incapable of treating or contending with.

Dai Lin shared his guess with Milan: "The Qin Family, through some means, perhaps summoning or cursing, acquired the ability to communicate with an existence similar to the Evil Gods, and then, through their own selfish desires, sought to control it..."

"It may also be a form of worship similar to the villagers’ adoration of the ’Mother of Black Blood’ in Black Marsh Village."

"Those children are being used as physical vessels for the Evil Gods to inhabit..."

"Or rather, as humanoid offerings," Milan suggested a more horrifying possibility.

"It has no clear concept or understanding of human society, so they hire home tutors to impart knowledge to it."

"Its consciousness must be in a highly chaotic state, necessitating even a simple concept like the location of W City on a map to be repeatedly drilled into it, otherwise, over time, it might forget. And roll calling... might be a way to remind and inform it of who came to class and the potential vessels it can choose to possess."

"When it truly possesses someone, or rather, when it has a clearer consciousness, ’it’ will cry!"

That reminded Dai Lin of what Chen Peian had once said to Lin Sunzhu, when he confirmed whether Lin Sunzhu intended to teach the children modern history.

"And now the most important thing is... that father does not wish for any teacher to instill into the children the concepts of good, evil, and ethics typical of ordinary people."

But people grow.

Even if they are confined to the mansion, isolated from the outside world, through reading books and interacting with others, they gradually understand and empathize with others’ feelings, slowly developing benevolence.

Like Qin Lanting.

"So..."

"We need to consider carefully what we are going to do next, Dai Lin."

The things to be done...

Dai Lin’s head rested slightly against the wall.

...

Nighttime.

As the new geography teacher, Dai Lin entered the children’s classroom.

He also received the roll book.

Dai Lin opened the roll book and looked at the names before him.

Qin Qingji, Qin Yujuan, Qin Mi, Qin Shenluo.

"I am your new geography teacher, my name is Dai Lin," Dai Lin cleared his throat and looked at Qin Qingji, "Today..."

"Teacher Dai," Qin Qingji glanced at his watch and said, "You should start with the roll call according to the roll book. That’s the most important thing."

"It"...

Just as Qin Qingji checked his watch, Dai Lin’s left eye suddenly felt something.

Dai Lin immediately closed his right eye and fully locked onto Qin Qingji with his left.

Then, the pupil in Dai Lin’s left eye began to shatter from the center.

Dai Lin immediately raised his hand to cover his left eye!

From within the depths of the shattered pupil, Dai Lin realized that what he faced this time was truly an unprecedented horror.

What on earth was this thing?

And what connection did it have with Suyuan Mountain???

"Mr. Dai, please start roll-call."

Qin Qingji showed no concern for Dai Lin’s action of covering his eye and only urged him to start calling names, "The previous geography teacher had done a foolish thing. I hope you, Mr. Dai, can call the roll properly, and you definitely must not make such a low-level mistake as mispronouncing names."

Dai Lin subconsciously took a step back.

At this moment, Dai Lin could be sure of one thing.

"It"... that thing was right here!

If it came to a direct confrontation, he would be dead beyond a doubt!

There was no room for maneuver!

This was, since his entering Hospital 444, the closest he had ever been to death!

Be it the Black Blood Ancestor, the White Mist of Nanmian Village, or the red balloon, none could compare to this moment!

Back then, he might have had a slim chance to fight, but now, he had no such possibility at all.

His only hope lay in the fact that the other side was in a kind of ignorant state, one that could be influenced by his "home tutoring."

"Hmm, okay, let’s start the roll-call."

Dai Lin knew that now, he could only do his best to play this role. Otherwise, even a slight mishap would mean he’d meet his end here today.

...

Gao He Yan was driving toward Suyuan Mountain.

His sister had only awakened for that brief moment before falling back into a coma.

And she warned him not to trust Yin Wuque, nor to go to Suyuan Mountain!

For a long time, Gao He Yan had fully trusted Yin Wuque, his prospective brother-in-law, never harboring any doubts about him. But what did his sister mean by saying that? Could her coma be related to Yin Wuque?

Then there was Suyuan Mountain. It wasn’t the first time he had heard of this place—originally, Lin Yan was taken by her parents to Suyuan Mountain, which summoned the devil and led her to enter the Demons Department, never to be heard from again.

Gao He Yan didn’t relay exactly what his sister, Gao Menghua, had said upon awakening to Yin Wuque. Now, she could no longer trust him.

And it was precisely at this time that rumors of mass disappearances began to emerge from the villages around Suyuan Mountain in W city. Currently, it was only a minor story circulating online, but there was no way it was a coincidence with his sister’s sudden revival.

"Sister, what’s the real truth behind your coma... What exactly do you know?"

...

"Humans." Dai Lin pointed to the makeshift PPT slide he’d put together: "According to Darwin’s theory of evolution..."

On the PPT, there was the image of a primitive human, an ape-like figure.

"Mr. Dai, this is geography class, not biology, right?" Qin Yujuan raised an objection, "We have a dedicated biology teacher."

"Yes," Dai Lin replied, keeping an eye on Qin Mi. At this moment, only he could see...

Qin Mi’s pale face, those eyes...

"I’m just imparting some additional knowledge to you," Dai Lin explained.

He pointed to the primitive human figure on the PPT: "When Darwin first proposed the theory of evolution, people found it hard to accept that humans had such an ape-like appearance..."

Yes.

Apes.

Humans are apes.

Apes.

So...

Don’t harm those creatures that don’t have the appearance of apes!

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