Hospital 444
Chapter 423 - 3: The Patient with Limited Time Left

Chapter 423: Chapter 3: The Patient with Limited Time Left

Being on duty in the mortuary is indeed a very dangerous affair, a fact universally acknowledged by the entire hospital.

However, if one is careful and cautious enough, and once certain experience has been gained, it is still possible to find the trick to survival.

In the past, as the niece of Kafka, the Purgatory Department Director and Deputy Director of the inpatient department, Mei Ge never had to consider working in the mortuary. She was spoiled and arrogant, only focusing on herself, never considering others. But at that time, George Faust, who was engaged to her, didn’t care about this; on the contrary, he was very fond of her.

But after her uncle’s death, she never saw George again. Instead, she was transferred to the Netherworld Department, and people’s attitudes towards her plummeted. Such a turn in life is certainly not something ordinary people can bear, as the saying goes, "It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to return."

For Mei Ge, this experience had also allowed her to see the reality clearly. Everything she had in the past was thanks to her uncle Kafka’s existence, without him, she was worthless.

"You want me to grovel and to implant a cursed object from my uncle’s body... Bah! Don’t even think about it!"

If Mei Ge had that intention, she wouldn’t have needed to wait for Klein’s instructions; she could have come out long ago to sever ties with her uncle, and her life might be much easier than it is now. Why would she need to live such a precarious life like she does now?

As for George, Mei Ge had completely lost hope. Yes, she was indeed selfish, but she was genuinely invested in her marriage. It wasn’t because George was the grandson of the Deputy Director that she favored him. After the incident, he didn’t even come to her personally to call off the engagement, but had his father do it? If so, then there was nothing more to say. However, she would definitely not be the one to initiate the annulment of the engagement.

Having made up her mind, Mei Ge felt relieved and stopped agonizing over the decision.

If I die, I die.

If I die, I’ll just become a ghost.

Damn it, with my resentful spirit I might just come back and pick off the Faust Family one by one, that would be way better than living such a miserable life!

...

Meanwhile...

Hospital 444.

Inpatient Department.

Lu Yuqing was conducting her routine ward rounds.

At this moment, lying in front of Lu Yuqing was a male patient, pale and emaciated.

On the other side of the patient’s bed was his mother, who also wore an extremely exhausted expression.

"Patient Lin Qian," after asking the patient and his family member some routine questions, Lu Yuqing said, "you can still see... that headless malevolent ghost at night, can’t you?"

"Yes... and it’s becoming clearer and clearer."

The patient was already finding it difficult to speak.

Lu Yuqing was very clear.

This patient named Lin Qian, the fact that he had lived to this day was solely because he had been staying in the ward of the Ghosts Department at Hospital 444. The cursed object in the ward was only forcefully restraining the malevolent ghost.

Now, the cursed object could no longer save him, and surgery wouldn’t prolong his life either.

Lu Yuqing gave a meaningful look to the patient’s mother, who then found an excuse to go out to fetch some hot water and immediately followed Lu Yuqing outside the ward.

"Hmm..." Lu Yuqing found it difficult to broach the subject.

As a doctor, the most troubling thing is to explain a fact to the patient’s family: the patient doesn’t have much time left.

For the doctors of the Ghosts Department, such things can never be avoided.

"Is Lin Qian..." Lin Qian’s mother, seeing the expression on Lu Yuqing’s face, had already glimpsed some clues, "Is he already running out of... days to live?"

It had been three years since her son was diagnosed with the curse of a malevolent spirit.

For the victims of this curse, those three years naturally meant immense suffering and the consumption of a massive amount of Spiritual Therapy Points. Such a struggle to cling to existence, living constantly in fear, naturally left no room for any quality of life.

Thus, both Lin Qian and his mother had mentally prepared themselves.

"I will... just say it."

Lu Yuqing still delivered that extremely cruel sentence.

"It should be within these next few days."

She was surprised that the family member of the patient before her was actually very calm.

Over the past three years, she had tried countless ways to prolong her son’s life, even if just for an extra month, that would’ve been good.

But after three years... she had cleared her vision and grown tired, and for her son, continuing to live like this was torture worse than death.

"Okay... I understand. That is... good, he can finally rest in peace."

As she said this, she suddenly looked at Lu Yuqing and asked, "After he dies, will he become a ghost, or a Resentful Spirit?"

"That, you need not know."

"If, if he becomes a ghost, even if a spirit, I still want to live with my son... Dr. Lu, is it possible for me..."

Lu Yuqing quickly shook her head: "Don’t forget, when you were admitted to the hospital, you signed an agreement. After his death, his body will be permanently sent to the morgue beneath our hospital."

"But at that time I didn’t know, I’ve heard... your morgue, it leads directly to hell. After the patients’ bodies are sent to the morgue, their spirits will directly..."

"Correct. After their bodies are sent to the morgue, the spirits will enter hell immediately. I understand your feelings..."

"How can you understand my feelings!" Lin Qian’s mother suddenly became agitated: "My son has been treated in your hospital for three years! Three years! You never cured him, and now that he’s dead, does he still have to go to hell? How can there be such reasoning! I, I can offer additional Spiritual Therapy Points!"

Lu Yuqing had already dealt with reluctant family members of patients several times. Oh course, she could understand, after a loved one dies, not being able to take the body back home, who could accept that?

But there was no helping it. Hospital 444 existed in a void space, and making a fuss here was pointless.

"It’s not what we wish. The rule that patients must be sent promptly into the underground morgue after death, is something the Director established..."

"Then can you take me to see the Director? Doesn’t he have relatives? Can’t he understand our feelings? Can’t he make an exception just this once?"

Lu Yuqing still shook her head.

As if it’s a joke, thinking you’d be able to see the Director if you’re able. Not just you, even the three Vice Directors couldn’t see the Director!

"I am very sorry," Lu Yuqing continued: "Please accept my condolences and cherish the last moments you have with him."

After that, Lu Yuqing turned and left.

Actually, having seen that Lin Qian’s days were numbered, she knew that he would likely die within a day or two.

He would be sent to the morgue like the other patients... and in the end, they would all enter hell together!