Hospital 444
Chapter 420 - 37: Reunion

Chapter 420: Chapter 37: Reunion

K City, Heitu River Road.

On this road, there is a rather dilapidated old residential area.

The residents of the community almost never enter a mysterious alley voluntarily. It seemed as if they were unaware of its existence.

Xia Li hurried to the front of the alley, passed through the narrow lane, and walked ahead.

For him, this alley was always familiar, yet fraught with a sense of horror.

As he walked, at the end of the alley, the view suddenly opened up.

Xia Li saw a tall apartment building.

The apartment building was 29 stories high. At the entrance, there was a revolving door leading into an extremely spacious lobby.

At that time, there were already approximately a dozen residents gathered there.

Xia Li quickened his pace and walked over.

"Vice director, you’re here!"

When Xia Li pushed through the revolving door and entered, the residents immediately showed a look of surprise.

"Only Little Lu survived the Blood Words challenge this time. It really wasn’t easy!"

"Vice director, you didn’t expect him to come back so soon, did you!"

Xia Li had high prestige within the apartment. Not only was he extremely capable, but as a Paranormal Doctor, he could also overpower everyone in terms of combat prowess.

Blood Words tasks are a strange obligation that all residents of the apartment must undertake. Mostly, the targets are haunted locations where one must stay for a time period specified by the apartment. Surviving that duration allows one to return to the apartment.

After completing Blood Words tasks ten times, one can leave the apartment and also have a wish granted. However, the wish must not involve supernatural events, have a significant impact on society or nature, and if one wishes for killing or healing others, there is also a limit on the number of people.

As Blood Words tasks progress, the difficulty increases, and the survival rate for residents becomes lower and lower... Their shadows are cursed, and if they do not carry out the tasks, their shadows will force their bodies to commit suicide.

Even for the doctors at Hospital 444, there’s no known remedy for this curse. If a Paranormal Doctor were to forcibly separate a shadow, the shadow could easily kill the Paranormal Doctor in retaliation. No cursed objects have any effect on the residents’ shadows.

To the doctors of Hospital 444, the residents’ shadows are on par with cursed spirits.

"Vice director," the young man called Little Lu excitedly said, "I survived! And I killed the doctor’s corpse from Hospital 444!"

Recently, the apartment’s Blood Words tasks have all mentioned the existence of "Hospital 444."

Among them, there were even instructions for residents to find a way to hunt and kill doctors from Hospital 444.

"To kill a Paranormal Doctor loyal to the Deputy Dean" was the content of the Blood Words task that Little Lu had carried out.

Of course, no one knew that Xia Li was one of the doctors from Hospital 444.

Xia Li also had not leaked the content of the latest Blood Words task to Yin Wuque. Although Paranormal Doctors wouldn’t normally kill residents, Xia Li was an exception; he was both an apartment resident and a Paranormal Doctor. So the curse might not affect him.

Xia Li couldn’t prevent it. The Blood Words tasks were mandatory, or one would die. His stance could only be neutral. As for how Little Lu killed the Paranormal Doctor? It wasn’t hard: simply by purposely provoking the doctor to harm oneself, the shadow curse would automatically kill the doctor.

Will the apartment issue Blood Words tasks that are directly hostile to the hospital in the future?

Xia Li felt increasingly endangered.

In the future, what should his stance be?

"Also," another resident said to Xia Li, "a new Blood Words task was just released."

"What’s the content?"

"It’s like this, the Blood Words task this time is to go to W City..."

Upon hearing this, Xia Li’s heart tensed!

W City! Could it be...

"To spend a day at the abandoned Moon Ring Amusement Park."

Good.

Xia Li breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn’t Suzerain Mountain.

Yin Wuque repeated to him and Ying Ziye time after time: if the apartment released a Blood Words task involving Suzerain Mountain in W City, they had to inform him immediately. He was willing to pay them an extra bonus of Spiritual Therapy Points for this information.

"Moon Ring Amusement Park..." Xia Li then asked, "Is there anything else mentioned? Like something specific we need to do?"

"No, we just have to go there. So far, we have confirmed five residents to carry out this blood-sign."

"Okay... We will have a meeting for the new blood-sign tonight, um, have you been in touch with the floor leader?"

"Not yet, the floor leader hasn’t responded to us in the group chat. She..."

"Is that so?"

Just then, he suddenly heard the residents say, "Hey, are you the new resident?"

Upon hearing this, Xia Li quickly turned his head back!

Next, he showed a shocked expression.

"You... you... Dong Xie!"

Watching the familiar figure stepping in through the revolving door, Xia Li couldn’t believe his own eyes for a moment!

All the memories from the past surged into his heart in an instant!

"Xia Li..."

Dong Xie looked at Xia Li before him, his former companion in life and death, in a daze.

The first time they met, it was a blood-sign mission carried out by Dong Xie. He was sent by the apartment to a deserted island, where he was to stay with six other people, one of whom was a ghost.

He and the ghost had to find each other, and the first one found would die. Back then, Xia Li was among those six people. Later on, Xia Li became one of the residents and formed a friendship with Dong Xie.

...

"It feels like a lifetime has passed."

Dong Xie pushed open the door to his room, and even stumbled a little.

Back again...

Back here again!

"Did you see Deputy Director Yin?"

"Yes. Hospital 444... I didn’t expect such a miraculous place to exist."

Approaching the sofa, the two sat down. Dong Xie took Xia Li’s hand and said, "You, you... seem... thinner."

Dong Xie’s memory was still trapped within that dark and eerie mansion...

"Our counts for the blood-sign have been deducted, so we have to start over." Xia Li continued to ask, "Did Deputy Director Yin assign you to work in the Wraith Surgery Department?"

"I really had no other choice."

"Indeed... we have no choice."

Memories of their past life-and-death experiences kept surfacing in their minds.

"I have to rescue Zi Yi." Dong Xie said resolutely, "No matter what kind of difficulty or danger I have to face, I must save her!"

"It won’t be that simple. You’ll know once you enter the hospital, inside the Puppet House Bai Residence, even the ordinary ghosts are malevolent."

"Malevolent Ghost?"

"Apparition, resentful spirit, fierce ghost, malignant spirit, cursed spirit, these are the general classifications of ghosts from weakest to strongest, and a malevolent ghost is a mutated fierce ghost, even more terrifying."

Just hearing about it made one’s hair stand on end.

"But they will be restricted by the apartment... right?"

The apartment can restrict the power of ghosts in blood-sign tasks.

"Hmm, indeed. But we are paranormal doctors, the restrictions... aren’t as strong for us."

The next day.

Dai Lin was at the hospital computer, searching for information.

"Found it... Puppet House Bai... dolls..."

Dai Lin had found a research paper.

The title of the paper was: "Analysis of the Curse Phenomenon at the Puppet House Bai Residence and the Gateway to Hell"!

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