Hospital 444
Chapter 441 - 21 Night Shift Begins

Chapter 441: Chapter 21 Night Shift Begins

Director Dave... Dr. William...

In Mei Ge’s mind, memories of these two people she had once forgotten gradually surfaced.

As the key department of the hospital, Dark Demon Surgery, Director Dave had always been a subordinate that Klein relied on heavily.

Mei Ge had interned in Dark Demon Surgery, and she was relatively familiar with Director Dave. Even after her uncle died, his attitude towards her didn’t change much.

But when had she started to forget both Dave and William?

And why, after seeing the seventh rule, did she remember these two?

However, Mei Ge didn’t have much time to ponder these questions. Because midnight was fast approaching.

As soon as the time came, she would have to make her rounds.

During this time, no doctors would enter the outpatient area, even under normal circumstances. There was scarcely any support from other doctors, let alone at times like these.

Being punished to take the night shift here was a harsh punishment in itself.

Even Mei Ge knew that many doctors had started betting pools, gambling on how many days she would survive in the morgue, using Dark Soul Points for the wagers. The losing side had to accept the winner’s Dark Soul Points.

She picked up the flashlight and the duty logbook and slipped the pen into the pocket of her white lab coat before stepping out of the room and turning on the flashlight.

Ahead, the morgue lay in utter silence, a strong smell of formalin wafting through the air.

She was also prepared with her own talisman.

Then, step by step, she began to move forward.

As long as she didn’t tell, the director would never know she had seen the seventh rule.

This secret, she just had to let it rot in her stomach. That’s all...

...

"Uncle, have you ever seen the director?"

"Don’t talk about me, generations of deputy directors have never seen the director."

"Does the director really exist?"

"Mel, don’t talk nonsense," Uncle Kafka said very nervously at the time: "Even though no one has seen the director, no one dares to deny his existence. No one can question the director, perhaps not even God. Mel, never try to uncover the identity of the director, nor where he is in the hospital."

Mei Ge remembered that her uncle had been a devout Catholic. The fact that such a man, even with his position as a department head in the hospital, could say such things, showed the indelible impression that the director had left in his heart.

...

"Ding—"

The attendance check-in was complete.

The night shift had officially begun.

The light from the flashlight wasn’t particularly bright.

The area it could illuminate was limited.

And at this moment, she took out the duty key and opened a small room.

Inside...

Lay body after body, covered with white sheets.

What she needed to do first was to verify those bodies that had been dead for just over 24 hours.

Bodies that died more than 24 hours ago would "resurrect from the dead" over time, but exactly how long it would take, no one knew.

And if a body wasn’t promptly taken to the morgue within 24 hours after death, what would happen, Mei Ge also didn’t know. Under any circumstances, the hospital ensured that patients whose bodies remained after death were sent into this morgue. No matter how much the family members wanted to bury their loved ones’ bodies, fulfilling such a wish was absolutely impossible.

She used a flashlight to check against the records of bodies previously brought in.

"Glen Marson, a resident of Denver, Colorado, USA, aged 28, died of a level one Abyss attack, with half of the head no longer existing, and it has been 27 hours since death... The death certificate was issued by Dr. Luta of Dark Demon Surgery."

She moved toward the location where the body was placed, gradually.

"It must be this body."

She shined the flashlight on the white cloth, and then she raised her hand, preparing to lift the cloth.

Honestly, during this process, there would usually be a nurse helping to record the changes in the body, followed by the doctor’s review and signature, just to ensure the accuracy of the records.

The white cloth was lifted.

The deceased’s skull, with the right half completely gone, did not display a nauseating sight of blood and flesh but was covered by a large patch of black.

The curse must have already been extracted and sent to the Cursed Items Department, but this didn’t mean the body itself was free of any residual curse, especially since this was a patient who died from an Abyss attack.

Attached to the death certificate that came with the body records was a photo taken at the time of the patient’s death.

It was usually the interns’ job to photograph the deceased, and since some of the interns were timid, the photos they took often turned out unclear. The doctors didn’t place much importance on this task. Therefore, she had to compare carefully.

There were a total of seven photos, mostly full-body shots without clothes, including front, back, side, and close-ups of key parts.

Mei Ge carefully compared each one with the flashlight, while also being vigilant against the body in front of her "playing dead."

Inside the morgue, playing dead was quite normal, not playing dead was very unusual.

And she had once heard from a doctor on duty here that often it was during the doctor’s check and recording of the condition of the body that a nurse beside them might disappear without a sound or trace.

Yes, silently, and that was what was most terrifying. Not to mention that even the nurses were implanted with cursed items. When faced with the strongest of ghosts, they wouldn’t die without any noise. And even if a nurse died, the doctors had to continue to work as normal, and they were not allowed to search for them.

Now, she had to complete all the work by herself. When it came to mental strength, Klein was no match for her.

She verified every corner of the body against the photo, ensuring there were no changes.

Of course, the normal reactions and changes that occurred to corpses after death did not count.

"27 hours, yet no noticeable changes."

After making a special note of no noticeable changes in the duty log, she signed her name.

"Then, to the next one."

She replaced the white cloth over the body.

Mei Ge was still pondering over that seventh rule she had read earlier.

And there was one more thing—"Hospital 444 really exists."

"This hospital is not called Hospital 444; its name is 666 Hospital." This was the first rule of the hospital staff code of conduct. Every person in this hospital had to remember this.

No one would discuss Hospital 444 because whenever someone did, or even thought about it too much, the inverted cross on their forehead would inflict on them a pain as if their souls were being torn apart.

She remembered, on the eve of Dave and William’s disappearance, they had mentioned "Hospital 444" to her.

Hospital 444 really exists... What was magical was that now, even if Mei Ge thought about it, the inverted cross on her forehead didn’t elicit any special feeling!

Why was that?