Hospital 444
Chapter 424 - 4 The Land of Terror

Chapter 424: Chapter 4 The Land of Terror

Lin Qian’s mother, Liu Ying, walked back to the ward in a daze.

By then, her son had already fallen asleep.

The patient clothes, which used to fit perfectly, now seemed incredibly loose. Compared to the sleeves of the patient clothes, Lin Qian’s arms had become as thin as dry twigs.

Just a few days ago, the patient in the neighboring bed had died. Even if the ghoul couldn’t enter the ward, it could still kill patients. At that time, the entire bed was covered in blood.

In this hospital, there was no such thing as a critical condition notice. Often, family members of the patients would abruptly face the death of their loved ones.

Ghouls are that terrifying. Even the Paranormal Doctors couldn’t kill them; they could only try to extend the patients’ lives as much as possible. As for the ghouls that were the source of the curse, they could only be barely kept at bay.

"My son..." Liu Ying, gazing at her son who had passed out, had her eyes brimming with tears.

This hospital couldn’t cure her son of the curse, wouldn’t allow her to claim her son’s body, and she had to accept the fact that after his death, he would still be condemned to hell!

But the hospital was too powerful; the doctors were all monstrous beings, half-human, half-ghost. Calling the police was of course useless. She couldn’t possibly leave with her son’s body even if she risked her life. After all, if a patient wanted to leave, they had to explain to the nurse, and then the nurse would guide the patient and their family through a spatial passage back to the real world.

It was night.

The regular visiting hours for family members had already ended, but Liu Ying had filed an application earlier, so she could stay for the night.

Liu Ying, with a foldable stool, sat in front of her son’s hospital bed.

Just an hour ago, her son had been placed on life-monitoring equipment. Looking at the heart rate monitor in front of her, Liu Ying watched the line, which might turn into a flat line tonight.

Meanwhile...

In the doctor’s duty room.

Today, Dai Lin had been temporarily assigned to the ward area of the ghoul department. It wasn’t uncommon for duty doctors to be transferred between different departments, especially since Dai Lin was an on-call resident doctor.

"Dai Lin," Lu Yuqing approached him, and asked, "Are you now in... K City?"

"Yes."

"You... and He Yan need to be very careful. It’s very dangerous over there."

Dai Lin thought to himself, could it be more dangerous than this Hospital 444?

"Dr. Lu."

Because of Luo Ren, Dai Lin and Lu Yuqing had grown much closer. Therefore, Dai Lin would occasionally share some of his inner thoughts with her.

"I want to ask... what is your impression of... Vice Director Yin?"

"I think I’ve mentioned it to you before," Lu Yuqing, being a doctor in the ghoul department, part of the Han Ming Faction, didn’t really care about speaking ill of Yin Wuque behind his back, "I’ve always thought that man is a... hypocrite."

In the past, Dai Lin would have thought Lu Yuqing’s words were slandering Yin Wuque. But now, they seemed particularly poignant.

At that moment, Lu Yuqing looked at the computer screen and suddenly said, "Hey, the new mortuary duty roster is out... What? Me?"

Lu Yuqing was stunned.

She immediately recalled the nurse who had begged her to cover a mortuary shift not long ago. She hadn’t agreed to help, and that nurse... never came back from the mortuary.

It was quite normal for the number of nurses to decrease after a mortuary shift. On the contrary, it would be abnormal if it didn’t happen.

"A mortuary shift..." Lu Yuqing’s complexion turned grim.

Since it was her turn, she naturally had to go.

"You have to do a shift in the mortuary?" Dai Lin also heard Lu Yuqing’s words, "Then..."

"You know, right? The two most dangerous places in our hospital are the emergency room and the morgue."

"Hmm..."

If there are no bodies in the morgue, doctors don’t have to be on duty. But as long as there are corpses stored, doctors must keep watch. The more bodies there are, the higher the rank of the doctor required for duty generally is.

The bodies of the deceased will wake up directly in the morgue, transform into evil spirits, and then enter the gateway to hell inside the morgue.

A morgue where the dead come back to life is certainly a terrifying place for most people. But is it really that dangerous for the Paranormal Doctor?

In theory... ghosts from patients are still ghosts, so why is the morgue more dangerous than the operating room or the inpatient department?

This was something Dai Lin had always found puzzling. However, with all sorts of complex issues in the hospital, Dai Lin had never been assigned to guard the morgue, so he eventually pushed the matter to the back of his mind.

And now that he had the chance to ask, he casually posed the question to Lu Yuqing.

"Why is the morgue considered one of the most terrifying places in the hospital, on par with the emergency room?"

"About that..." Lu Yuqing, being assigned to keep watch over the morgue, was quite flustered at the moment and didn’t feel like explaining to Dai Lin, "You can ask He Yan about that."

Seeing Lu Yuqing’s demeanor, Dai Lin also knew she was in a very bad mood, so he didn’t push any further.

At this moment, Lu Yuqing recalled the conversation she had with Liu Ying during the day.

Now it seems...

Lin Qian is likely to die while she’s on duty in the morgue.

He had been tormented by the curse of a malevolent ghost for three years. Over these three years, Lu Yuqing had watched him step by step approach the final stages of the curse.

"Ah..."

Now she might also have to face the threat of Lin Qian, who was on the verge of death.

Her emotions were complex.

"Dr. Lu..."

At that moment, she raised her head to look at the duty room’s doorway. Liu Ying was standing there.

She walked into the duty room step by trembling step.

"Please... I beg you..."

Liu Ying suddenly fell to her knees!

Dai Lin and Lu Yuqing immediately stood up!

"Don’t be like this!" Lu Yuqing said hurriedly, "What happened to patient Lin Qian?"

Liu Ying started to cry, bowing her head to Lu Yuqing!

"I beg you, take me to see the dean! I... I want to take my son’s body back, choose a good place to bury him... That way, if I want to see him later, at least I can find a place to visit him! Please! Dr. Lu!"

As she spoke, she began to bow her head again.

Dai Lin quickly went over, helped Liu Ying up and said, "Please don’t do this! Dr. Lu can’t do anything about this; the rules set by the dean can’t be changed. And even our hospital’s vice dean can’t see the dean!"

"Why would the dean set such a rule? We are the patient’s family, can we not even take our own children with us?"

Dai Lin also wanted to know why the dean would set such a rule. But no one could answer him.

"I beg you! I beg you... I, I don’t want my son to go to hell after he dies!"