Hospital 444
Chapter 398 - 15: The Sinister "Doctor

Chapter 398: Chapter 15: The Sinister "Doctor

"Can you describe it to me in detail?"

Klein, of course, couldn’t see anything. Therefore, he had to rely on Virgil.

After carefully examining it again, Virgil said, "It looks like... a mass of black, semi-transparent mist covering the button."

"Since when have you been able to see it?"

"Just a short while ago."

Klein squatted down and pressed the elevator button with his finger.

Then, the elevator started to descend slowly.

When they reached the fourth floor, the elevator doors opened smoothly.

This was the outpatient area of the Dark Demon Surgery.

"Here..." Klein continued to ask Virgil, "Can you see anything else?"

Virgil scrutinized everything before him.

One after another, the doctors and nurses who passed by him...

"Follow me, and inform me immediately if you notice any changes."

"Alright, I understand."

As they slowly walked into the outpatient area, the doctors and nurses all saluted upon seeing Klein. The Dark Demon Surgery department was a faction of the Faust family, so naturally, all the medical staff here were completely loyal to the Faust family.

"Lord Klein." At this moment, a doctor approached Klein and bowed respectfully, saying, "Are you here to see Director Dave?"

"No. Oh, by the way, William, let me introduce you, this is Virgil. He’s a newly recruited doctor and will soon be part of our family."

"I see, I’ve already heard about him." The doctor named William showed no surprise and immediately offered Virgil a slew of polite compliments.

"William." Klein asked again, "Speaking of which, now that I’ve run into you. I want to ask you. Since Mary disappeared... has there been any unusual situation in the Demons Department?"

"Unusual situation... I’m not sure what you’re referring to. We receive all kinds of patients every day. So... it’s difficult to determine what you mean by unusual?"

"Anything is fine, as long as you find it unusual, tell me about it. Or you can tell me about something that happened shortly before Mary disappeared."

"This..."

After pondering for a moment, William said, "Indeed... there is one thing..."

Upon hearing this, Klein quickly asked, "What is it?"

"Um, can we find a quiet place with no one around?"

"Alright."

They then went to the on-call doctor’s rest area.

William closed the door, cleared his throat, and said to Klein, "Lord. You know about the rule concerning red masks set by the head of the hospital, right?"

"Of course, I do."

Klein realized something immediately upon hearing this.

He remembered Rosa Medel applying for the red masks.

"What exactly happened?"

Doctors at 666 Hospital only needed to wear red masks in two situations.

When non-English signage appeared in the hospital; or when doctors or nurses without the black inverted cross on their foreheads were discovered.

In such cases, red masks had to be worn immediately—it was a warning from the head of the hospital, and no doctor dared to defy it.

Of course, whether to report to the department head after such an incident was at the discretion of the doctors, as there were no specific rules from the head of the hospital regarding this.

But now that Klein asked, William naturally had no reason not to disclose everything.

"It’s like this... on the night Miss Mary disappeared, I stayed behind on duty in the outpatient room, keeping an eye on any movements from the trapped ghouls. Then... I..."

Klein looked at William, waiting for him to continue, but surprisingly, William’s voice started to tremble a bit.

"I heard a noise from the elevator. When I went over to look, I found that the elevator doors were open. But the strange thing was, there was nobody inside."

There’s no one in the elevator?

In 666 Hospital, if you accidentally press an elevator button, you can immediately press to cancel it. Different doctors moving across different floors aren’t allowed to do so at will; they need to apply. Only someone with Klein’s status could freely access different floors.

Normally, it’s impossible for the elevator doors to open with no one there.

"I found it strange at the time, so I went to check it out. I was wondering if some ghost or something had gotten into the elevator."

But if you think about it carefully, that’s impossible. How could a ghost possibly operate the elevators at 666 Hospital?

"After carefully inspecting the inside of the elevator and confirming there were no ghosts or demons, I closed the elevator and turned around... and I saw a doctor, pale as a corpse, standing in front of me! His white coat clearly bore a black cross, but it wasn’t an inverted one! And, on his forehead, there was no black inverted cross!"

William pointed to his pocket.

"I put on a red mask immediately. According to hospital rules, if a doctor without a black inverted cross on their forehead disappears within ten minutes... then you can take off the mask."

"What happened... afterward?"

"Afterward..." William said, "I can’t remember clearly."

"You can’t remember?"

"Yes... It sounds incredible, but I have only a very vague memory of what happened next. All I can remember is that, approximately... approximately three to five minutes later, he disappeared."

"So you don’t remember anything that ’doctor’ did with you during those three to five minutes?"

"Yes... that’s right."

"You’re sure that was the day Mary disappeared, right?"

"Yes, I remember clearly. In fact, the more time passes, the less I remember his face."

"You don’t even remember his face anymore?"

"Yes. The more I try to recall, the blurrier it gets. It’s not just that I can’t remember how tall he was; I’m not even sure if he was male."

Virgil noticed that Klein’s expression had undergone a significant change at that moment; he seemed to have realized something.

Then, with a serious tone, Klein said to William, "Listen, William, don’t talk about this to anyone else, especially not to the doctors loyal to the Dailun Family!"

"Okay... okay! I understand. What about Director Dave then?"

Klein hesitated for a moment and said, "Don’t tell him for now. I’ll handle this matter."

After leaving the doctors’ lounge, Klein’s expression fluctuated uncertainly.

"This might be related to Damon Dailun."

"But haven’t phenomena like this happened before in the hospital?"

"But it happened on the day Mary disappeared! That’s highly abnormal! I absolutely don’t believe this is a coincidence! And such phenomena aren’t supposed to be..."

At that moment, he began to realize something.

"Mary had supported some of Damon Dailun’s dangerous ideas long ago. She advocated for the two major families to cease their conflict and unite against external forces. She also said that our enemies should be the dead, not the living."

"With all due respect, I think what Miss Mary said was correct."

"It’s nothing but womanly compassion. For us, the real danger is Damon Dailun. His papers have always harbored doubt and a challenge to the dean’s rules."

"So..."

"Rosa Medel, since she joined the Demons Department, has accelerated the implementation of Damon Dailun’s dangerous ideas! As a result, even Mary got wrapped up in it."

At this point, Klein said to Virgil, "I must find key evidence of Rosa Medel’s involvement. She’s not yet a part of the Dailun Family; we must bring her in and interrogate her to get results!"

"But... what exactly should we do?"

"I will have someone watch Rosa Medel, and then..."

Klein glanced in the direction of the elevator.

"Something is invading our hospital, and Rosa Medel is an accomplice. I have a bad feeling that... something big is about to happen!"

In fact, there have been very few instances of doctors without crosses reported, at least few that have been reported. And after such incidents, even doctors like William begin to lose their memories, and he will probably forget everything before long.

"Damon Dailun, Rosa Medel... what exactly are you planning?"

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