Hospital 444
Chapter 425 - 5 Threats

Chapter 425: Chapter 5 Threats

Other doctors were present in the duty room, but they acted as if they saw nothing, not treating the scene as anything of importance.

Working at Hospital 444, encountering such phenomena was all too common. Ordinary hospitals often dealt with various disputes; what more could be expected from one such as this?

"I have already made myself very clear," Lu Yuqing had evidently lost all patience, and any sympathy she might have had, had already been eroded away, "Your kneeling and kowtowing here is useless, I told you, first, this is the director’s rule, second, we can’t see the director either, third, this rule has never been broken by anyone! Why should you be the exception?"

"Doctor Lu, can’t you... can’t you have some sympathy for us, mother and son? Rules are made by people! I’ve said it before, Spiritual Therapy Points can be negotiated..."

That’s how people are, when their desires are not satisfied, gratitude turns into resentment. In Liu Ying’s eyes, the hospital couldn’t cure her son and now wanted to send him to hell! Hatred started to grow in her heart!

"Negotiate what?" Lu Yuqing was thoroughly impatient now; her mood had already become exceedingly poor due to being assigned duty in the morgue, and Liu Ying chose this moment to rub her the wrong way, "Let me tell you, everyone in the hospital is like this! Not to mention, doctors have patient death quotas too! I don’t wish for anything to happen to your son either! But this is how it is, direct your hatred towards that malicious ghost! Or maybe you kneel down and plead with that ghost not to take your son, repeat exactly what you’ve just said to me! See if it does any good!"

"Forget it, forget it, Doctor Lu," Dai Lin quickly intervened: "This is the Inpatient Department; don’t disturb the patients’ rest."

Lu Yuqing then shouted: "Where are the nurses! Where did the duty nurses go!"

Subsequently, two nurses ran in.

"Take the patient’s family member back to the ward! She’s not allowed into the office anymore!"

The nurses pulled Liu Ying up, who looked at Lu Yuqing with great sorrow and anger, her eyes even harboring a hint of venom.

"Hmm..."

Lu Yuqing walked back to her seat and took several deep breaths.

"There’s no need for that," Dai Lin comforted: "Her son is already at death’s door..."

"You used to be a surgeon; you should know how difficult some patients’ families can be! When we cure patients, we are living Bodhisattvas, white-robed angels! If we fail, heh, it’s because we didn’t give our all. And the rule that people make... if the director’s rules could be changed so easily, would I even need to be here..."

"Doctor Lu!" another on-duty doctor warned: "Be careful with your words! You were just criticizing the director! You should know... the director is omnipresent!"

Hearing this, Lu Yuqing’s heart suddenly sank, realizing she had misspoken.

"Hmm... Yes, I... I misspoke."

She looked at the duty chart in front of her, feeling even more dejected.

Could she find someone to switch shifts with her? But who would be willing to take her place in the morgue at night? One mishap and it could cost them their life. Even experienced Paranormal Doctors were reluctant to take on this duty. After all, it was too dangerous there.

"Senior," Lu Yuqing approached the doctor who had previously spoken to her, asking in a low and humble voice: "Could you do me a favor..."

"Switch shifts?"

"Yes, yes, you know I’m just an attending physician, and it’s quite dangerous for me in the morgue... What do you think?"

"Sorry, I’m busy working on papers lately. You know, if the score isn’t enough for the promotion exams, having enough papers can substitute for the points. Writing papers that the director approves of is no easy task; it’s making me lose my hair."

Lu Yuqing cursed inwardly: with such a receding hairline, you’re losing hair? Do you think I’m blind? And you, a Paranormal Doctor who uses Spiritual Therapy Points to extend your life, how could you be losing any hair? Do you really take me for a fool?

Though she cursed inwardly, her mouth had to be polite: "Senior, if you agree, I can give you Spiritual Therapy Points, you can name your price!"

"Sorry, you should ask someone else."

With the conversation having reached this point, there clearly was no hope left.

Although Lu Yuqing was usually adept at managing relations in the Curse Object Department, and her medical skills were quite good, when it came to life and death situations, there were few who would nobly step forward. Just like now.

Just then, Lu Yuqing suddenly noticed Dai Lin behind her.

She glanced at Dai Lin.

"Dai... Dai Lin, could you perhaps..."

"No," Dai Lin refused almost without hesitation: "Although we have some connection, it’s not to that extent."

"My relationship with Luo Ren..."

"If Luo Ren came to ask me himself, then I would definitely agree," Dai Lin replied without hesitation, "After all, you are just Luo Ren’s girlfriend."

If she were Luo Ren’s wife, Dai Lin would naturally help without any reservations. But a girlfriend... frankly, who knows if they would end up together? The world is full of couples who dated for years only to part ways. A wife means family, but a lover could become an ex you no longer keep in touch with in the next second.

"You..." Lu Yuqing had thought she could rely on Luo Ren’s connections to get Dai Lin’s help, but now it seemed that there was little hope.

"You had better start preparing as soon as possible."

In the early hours of the morning.

The inpatient department corridor was incredibly silent.

From time to time, doctors and nurses would enter the wards to check on patients, especially monitoring their vital signs. If a patient died, the inpatient department head had to be immediately notified.

All the deceased... had to be sent to the mortuary within 24 hours of death. However, sometimes certain bodies were used for anatomical teaching, and then Curse Object Department Doctors would come to seal the bodies. Once sealed, the bodies could be preserved for about a week, and this sealing period did not count towards the 24 hours. Once the period expired, the bodies had to be sent to the mortuary right away.

This was a strict rule from the hospital director: after a patient’s death, the body had to be delivered to the mortuary within 24 hours (excluding the time sealed by the Curse Object Department). Anyone who broke this rule had to be punished by being on duty alone in the mortuary for three days.

At this moment, Dai Lin arrived at Lin Qian’s ward.

The nurse had just informed him that patient Lin Qian had passed away.

Approximately five minutes had passed since the time of death.

The nurse had already covered the patient with a white cloth, and Dai Lin had brought a gurney, ready to transport the body to the mortuary. The patient’s death would be reported separately to the head of the inpatient department.

Dai Lin approached the body covered with the white cloth, and the nurses were all very careful at this time.

Although the hospital bed itself could suppress ghosts, so that even if the patient turned into a fierce ghost it wouldn’t be a big issue, the nurses were still quite tense.

Dai Lin bowed to Liu Ying, who was standing in front of the bed, and said, "Please accept my condolences to the family."

Then, Dai Lin signaled for the body to be transported away.

Just then, Liu Ying suddenly walked up to Dai Lin and whispered to him, "I know about that foreign woman, the one called Dai Lun, in your eye!"

Dai Lin’s face changed drastically when he heard this!

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

She was just a relative of the patient, an ordinary person! How could she possibly see Milan in his right eye?

"Someone told her!" Milan reacted quickly, "It was the Demons Department Doctors!"

"What?"

"They have not told anyone about me being in your eye... not because they don’t want to, but because they are restricted by the two deputy directors, especially Han Ming! They want to use the patient’s relatives to threaten you! Now, they are testing the limits of the two deputy directors!"

Yin Wuque needed Dai Lin’s eyes, Han Ming intended to have Dai Lin as his successor. So, they would not want Dai Lin to be harmed. But... other doctors will definitely come to hunt down Milan!

Dai Lin had not expected the situation to escalate to this point!

"Take me and my son out of this hospital! Right now!"

"The patient’s family member..."

"Or I’ll scream right now! You don’t want them to find out, do you? Take us to teleport away! Right now!"

Dai Lin realized, the people from the Demons Department were gambling. Betting that he wouldn’t kill a pitiful mother! Betting that he would comply with this mother’s request!