Hospital 444
Chapter 39 - 11 Awakening

Chapter 39: Chapter 11 Awakening

"Why do you, want to become a doctor?"

Gao Heyann suddenly asked Dai Lin this question.

Upon hearing the question, Dai Lin’s body leaned back slightly.

"Well... it’s hard to explain in just a word or two."

"Is it because you think the profession is noble, and that saving lives and helping the injured is a great thing?"

Gao Heyann couldn’t deny that she had private motives for asking this.

She hoped Dai Lin was a doctor with a strong sense of mission who would, in the future, try his best to use his eyes to cure her sister, so that she might wake up.

But after asking the question, she felt a twinge of selfishness – after all, who knew what kind of curse they might face during the process of saving her sister.

"Forget it, pretend I didn’t ask."

When Gao Heyann asked this, Dai Lin’s mind was filled with the memory of the first time he met Doctor Luo Zheng.

"Dai Lin, look, this is my parents’ bookshelf!"

In his memory, Luo Ren proudly showed Dai Lin the bookshelf crammed with medical books.

Titles like "Theories of Epidemiology," "Clinical Oncology," "The Medical History of Human Infectious Diseases," and so on.

"Dai Lin, in the future, I want to be an outstanding doctor just like my parents!" Luo Ren then showed Dai Lin the banners hanging in his house. "And I want to get into Yanqing Medical College, my parents’ alma mater!"

At that moment, the door opened, and Luo Ren’s father walked in.

"Alright, it’s so hot, have some chilled watermelon." He placed the watermelon on the table and said, "Little Dai, you’re the first friend Ren has brought home."

Dai Lin looked at the banner praising "The Heart and Skill of Benevolence, Magical Hands Bring Spring – Gift to Doctor Luo Zheng" and couldn’t help but glance at Luo Ren’s father, the watermelon-bearing Doctor Luo Zheng.

"Little Dai, I’ve heard... you also want to be a doctor, right?" Doctor Luo Zheng looked at Dai Lin with a warm smile and asked.

"Um... yes."

No one knew... that at that time, Dai Lin had no intention of becoming a doctor at all.

...

Time flew by.

Soon, it was almost four in the morning.

Suddenly, Dai Lin’s left eye began to ache faintly!

"Doctor Gao, quick, use your stethoscope and listen!"

Gao Heyann immediately took out her stethoscope and began to examine.

After a short while, her expression gradually became more serious.

"This... this..."

All of a sudden, Jiang Han, who was lying on the sofa, suddenly sat up!

But his eyes were still tightly closed!

At the same time, Jiang Lan came out of the bedroom on one side, still holding the cellphone with the alarm she hadn’t managed to turn off.

She saw her father standing in front of the sofa and then he began to walk!

Dai Lin stared at Jiang Han before him, even trying to close his right eye and only use his left eye to look towards Jiang Han.

In that instant, he suddenly felt a shiver run through his entire body!

He didn’t know how to describe the feeling.

Even when dissecting cadavers back in medical school, he had never experienced such a sensation.

"Follow him."

Thus, the three of them followed the plan and trailed behind Jiang Han.

At this moment, Jiang Han’s walking posture was extremely stiff, and his pace was very quick, completely unlike how he was when he was awake.

"Miss Jiang. Stick close to us and don’t act rashly."

"Okay, I know, Doctor Gao."

In fact, Gao Heyann did not wish to have her follow, but Jiang Lan was very stubborn and insisted on paying for her father’s medical expenses, even knowing that it would compromise her future. From Gao Heyann’s perspective, she really wanted to help her. If it weren’t for the hospital director’s strict prohibition against doctors soliciting private work outside the hospital, she could have let patients replace Spiritual Therapy Points with money.

As a doctor dedicated to treating others’ ailments and helping them to health, it was indeed ironic to be taking away a patient’s future first and foremost.

Next, just as Jiang Lan had described before, Jiang Han opened the door and walked out.

In his sleepwalking state, he walked in a remarkably straight line, swiftly navigating around any obstacles he encountered.

Gao Heyann and Dai Lin maintained less than three meters’ distance from him, ready to administer treatment at any moment.

But at this stage, Gao Heyann had yet to use the cursed object on her, and Dai Lin also didn’t know what cursed object she bore. All doctors had been implanted with cursed objects during their recruitment, but what they were implanted with was entirely decided by the enigmatic director. Although everyone was extremely secretive about the director, Dai Lin had made a judgment: the director was almost certainly not human. At least from the perspective of taking away patients’ futures, the existence of Hospital 444 was definitely not for saving lives and helping the wounded!

Jiang Han’s steps were rhythmic and forceful, and Dai Lin, with his special ghost eyes, could clearly perceive that every step Jiang Han took was precisely the same length—not a bit more, not a bit less. Even a professional soldier couldn’t do better than that.

"Has Mr. Jiang visited the Spirit Possession Department?" Dai Lin asked.

The hospital had different departments such as the Resentful Spirit Department and the Fierce Ghost Department, divided according to the types of ghosts, but the Spirit Possession Department specialized in all symptoms of ghost possession. This department was mostly surgical: the doctors would cut open the soul and directly extract the possessing ghost during surgery. The surgeries in the Spirit Possession Department were not only difficult, but the lead surgeon also faced significant risk to their own life.

"Of course, the Spirit Possession Department was consulted, even the head of the department, Director Lu, personally treated him."

Unlike reality where doctors can only rely on various imaging reports to make diagnoses, the doctors at Hospital 444 could use the enhancement from cursed objects to make diagnoses, and the Spirit Possession Department’s doctors were most skilled at diagnosing ghosts hidden deep within the soul.

"Director Lu found nothing unusual. Because of his diagnosis, we can all be certain that Mr. Jiang is definitely not possessed by a ghost."

"But, the current state..." Dai Lin pointed at Jiang Han ahead, "Mr. Jiang’s condition now resembles someone who’s been possessed, doesn’t it?"

"Even if it was a temporary possession, I believe Director Lu’s experience would not have allowed it to go unnoticed. Director Lu’s ability to serve as the head of the Spirit Possession Department is based on his true ability to see through deception and his surgical skill. In fact, there is another method, endoscopy. However, this would be an invasive examination for the patient and carries the risk of leaving side effects, so Mr. Jiang ultimately refused."

"Right... I remember reading in the hospital manual that there’s also an endoscopy center in the outpatient department..."

"The Endoscopy Center is the only method besides surgery that can conduct curse diagnosis. To some extent, it is considered a kind of minimally invasive surgery. After considering for a while, Mr. Jiang still first refused. After all, he is not in any life-threatening danger currently, but each medical visit requires an actual portion of his future life."

Jiang Han’s route of progress....sure enough was the same as before. He was heading for that house slated for demolition!