Hospital 444
Chapter 428 - 8 We All Despise the Faust Family

Chapter 428: Chapter 8 We All Despise the Faust Family

Demons are not the creatures with independent personalities and black wings from religious texts.

They are something much more terrifying; an indescribable "presence".

The morgue at 666 Hospital and the various regulations at Hospital 444 could be said to be exactly the same, with no differences.

At this moment, Mo Meige was checking the computer screen for various precautions about morgue duty.

After reading for an entire evening, although still rather nervous, she thought that taking this duty wasn’t as life-threatening as it seemed.

After all, hospitals ultimately need doctors to be on duty in the morgue. If the mortality rate were that high, most of the doctors would have died off long ago. It’s risky, but there are always more people who come out alive than those who die. It was just that everyone believed it wouldn’t be easy for Meige, with her limited medical skills, to return from the morgue.

"The problem is... the amulets I need to prepare might be withheld from me on Klein’s suggestion," she mused.

On that point, she was quite self-aware.

Her greatest drawback was having no experience whatsoever with morgue duty. The various experiences listed on the hospital’s official website were merely theoretical. And when it came to actual practice, theoretical knowledge often proved problematic.

"The key lies with the Devil’s Cursed Object... At least one such object is necessary... indeed, one can be borrowed for morgue duty, but having only one is still problematic."

So...

Should she borrow another Devil’s Cursed Object from someone?

Doctors could rent certain magical artifacts from each other, apart from implanted amulets.

But whom to ask for such a rental?

After much thought, she finally came up with a name.

Alucia Faust.

She was the only person Meige could think of who might be willing to help.

"Alright... it will have to be her then."

At the moment, Alucia was serving as a doctor in the Dark Demon Surgery department.

Early in the morning, before outpatient services started, Meige, with an approved application, entered the Dark Demon Surgery treatment area.

She made her way to the outpatient area of Dark Demon Surgery and soon found the door to Alucia’s clinic.

As she pushed the door open, she saw Alucia, already donned in her white coat.

"Miss Alucia," Meige entered the clinic and said, "Do you mind if I take some of your time?"

Alucia looked up at Meige and then returned her gaze to the computer screen: "What is it?"

Clearly, Alucia did not have much fondness for Meige.

Due to her family background, Alucia had always had the least inclination to look favorably upon those with selfish characters, especially someone like Mo Meige, who had little to boast of in skill, secured the position of an attending physician only through her connections, and shamelessly occupied resources owing to her background.

Since she had a strained relationship with her family, Alucia was completely unaware of Meige’s current situation.

She also had no idea why Meige was seeking her out now.

"Miss Alucia, there’s something I would like to ask for your help with. It seems I have no other choice in the whole hospital but to turn to you for this matter."

On hearing this, Alucia seemed to become interested.

"Only I... can help you? Interesting, let me guess what it is... Hmm, does it have something to do with my family?"

When she spoke of "family," her tone was filled with sarcasm.

"Yes, it’s about your family, Miss Alucia. I’ll be brief. Your family plans to send me to guard the morgue, and their purpose is to force me to comply by publicly denouncing my uncle’s act of rebellion with the support of the Darren Family. Then, they want me to implant the cursed object made from my uncle’s corpse into my body. That is what they are forcing me to do."

Upon hearing this, Alucia’s face darkened.

"Is that what they said?"

"Director Klein and Minister Virgil told me so in person."

"You didn’t agree to them?"

"No."

At this, Alucia showed a look of considerable surprise.

Clearly, like Klein and Virgil, she never expected that Mo Meige had the courage to resist.

"Are you really Mel Mo?"

"If Miss Alucia prefers, you can call me by my Chinese name, Mo Meige. I heard you’re quite good at Chinese; we can also converse in Chinese."

"That’s fine. But is your Chinese good? To my knowledge, you grew up in Seattle, and after your mother passed away, your uncle took you to San Francisco."

Mei Ge answered, "There’s a Chinatown in San Francisco too, Miss Alucia."

Her Chinese was indeed very standard, utterly accentless.

Alucia leaned back slightly and said, "Then, let me ask you a question."

"Go ahead."

"In your opinion, is the Dalen Family... a faction of rebels?"

Mei Ge could see the purpose behind Alucia asking this question.

She had always heard the rumor: Alucia Faust had married into the Darren Family, truly fallen in love with her husband Lumi An Dailun, and due to his death, she bore a bone-deep hatred against the Faust Family.

This was also the reason she was willing to come here.

So, at this moment, the response a normal person should give would be: The Darren Family is not a faction of rebels.

However, Mei Ge’s answer was, "The Chinese have a saying, ’A king is made at victory, and a bandit at defeat.’ Whether the Darren Family is a faction of rebels simply depends on who the victor is."

"I asked for your view."

"To be honest, I don’t care about this issue, Miss Alucia. Just, I can’t bring myself to publicly curse my deceased uncle. I don’t want to do that, it wouldn’t sit right with me."

"Just because it wouldn’t sit right, you’d rather guard the morgue?"

"If life isn’t satisfying, one might as well be a ghost," Mei Ge spread her hands. "I’ve faced enough discrimination and exclusion for my Asian face since I was little. Do you think San Francisco is much better than Seattle? It looks like a big city, but the crime rate didn’t decrease at all. How many Chinese laborers’ bones have piled up here over the years."

"Let’s not stray too far. Just now, you were supposed to tell me that the Darren Family isn’t a faction of rebels, right?"

"If saying what others want to hear could let one live, why wouldn’t I just do as Klein said? I wouldn’t enjoy that," Mei Ge continued. "Or let’s put it this way, in my eyes, neither the Faust nor the Darren families are good people. The only person I care about is my uncle, nothing more. However, there’s at least one thing we have in common—I have an extreme loathing for the Faust Family."

At this, Alucia suddenly laughed.

"Mo Meige, you’re quite interesting. You’re right; our shared disdain for the Faust Family is a point of agreement. Alright, what do you need from me? Speak up, and as long as I can do it, as long as it will make the Faust Family unhappy, I’m willing!"