Hospital 444
Chapter 459 - 39: The Long Night (13)

Chapter 459: Chapter 39: The Long Night (13)

The black cat...

Dai Lin recalled all the rules about the black cat.

Firstly, one must carry a pack of meat to feed the cat.

This meat was currently still on Dai Lin. So for now, that was not an issue. However, Dai Lin couldn’t be sure about the state of this space—did the black cat belong to Hospital 444 or Hospital 666? Would feeding the meat to this black cat backfire?

Then, there was the rule, "The black cat does not cry, but if it does, you must escape back to the duty room immediately." Honestly, the sentence itself was very strange, with its internal contradiction. The first part says the black cat does not cry, but the latter part mentions it crying. If so, why not write, "The black cat generally does not cry"? Wouldn’t that make more sense? And this was not the first time a contradictory sentence format like this appeared in the hospital’s internal rules.

Following that was the most crucial hidden seventh rule, which specifically mentioned the black cat. At this time, one must pay special attention—if one were to watch over a body like Lin Qian’s, one must not touch the black cat’s body while feeding it. And then, if the black cat smiled at him...

He had to kill the black cat at all costs, immediately!

"I have a question for you."

"What?"

"Where is your bottle curse object?"

Hearing Dai Lin ask this, Mei Ge inwardly sighed; he had noticed after all. Well, the Devil’s Cursed Object couldn’t be used against the doctor anyway.

She said, "This is a special kind of... cursed object. To put it simply, the bottle disappears when I place it behind me. But if I want to take it out, all I have to do is reach behind, and I can retrieve it."

"That sounds quite convenient." In Dai Lin’s memory, Hospital 444 did not have such convenient cursed objects.

Such a non-implanted cursed object was so easy to carry. That meant, no matter what kind of ghost he faced, he could use the cursed object with ease.

Dai Lin was actually a bit envious.

"About the black cat..." At this moment, Mei Ge suddenly continued to ask, "Are you really unwilling to tell me anything? You should know, while patrolling the morgue at night, we can’t predict what might happen. Many times, life and death can be determined within a few seconds. Under such circumstances, wouldn’t it be better to share information? Don’t you think?"

"There is no need."

Mei Ge inwardly cursed at how tight-lipped this man was. Knowing nothing about the situation, she would have to rely on this man if they encountered the black cat. Even if she wanted to kill him, she would have to postpone those thoughts for now.

Meanwhile, Dai Lin was pondering what he should do if he actually came across the black cat.

Should he feed the black cat?

If the black cat cried, fleeing immediately would be easy...

But the most crucial point was...

If the black cat smiled, he had to quickly kill the black cat.

This would likely be the hardest to accomplish.

If it were a normal cat, even if there were a dozen more, Dai Lin could easily kill them all. Any living creature within his line of sight could be instantly dealt death.

But this black cat was clearly not a normal creature. Of course, historically, there had never been any doctor who tried to kill the black cat—after all, most doctors simply could not even see this seventh rule, so they wouldn’t even consider trying to kill the cat.

"If you really won’t tell me any information, then does that mean I can kill the black cat?"

Upon hearing this, Dai Lin’s face changed instantly!

"You..."

"Ha ha, looks like I guessed right." Mei Ge immediately felt triumphant: "That means the cat cannot be killed, right?"

Dai Lin said coldly, "Were you trying to trick me just now?"

"You think if you say nothing, I can’t guess anything?" Mei Ge smiled smugly: "What do you think? Your very words just now revealed a lot of information, didn’t they? You said to just follow your lead. But if it were just about killing that black cat, there was no need to say that, right? If you’re hiding information, that proves the black cat can’t just be easily killed. So, you can’t kill the cat, and I shouldn’t either—your words meant that, right?"

Dai Lin couldn’t help but feel this woman was quite cunning.

"The black cat cannot be killed... is that right?"

"At least, not until I say it can be killed."

"Which means, certain conditions must be met to kill it, right? I understand. So, I’ll guess again—you’re saying for me to follow your actions... that means the state of the black cat will determine your different actions, right? And you’re not telling me because the black cat is important to us, so... without your information, I can only follow your living actions to figure out how to deal with the black cat."

Dai Lin started to feel a headache coming on; she had guessed too many things.

Dealing with such a cunning enemy was troublesome.

"So what if you know? You still have to act according to my lead."

"Yes... because I don’t know which states of the black cat correspond to which actions... Right?"

"You get it, so... don’t get any ideas you shouldn’t have. Killing you might turn you into a ghost, which would be troublesome for me, but that doesn’t mean I definitely won’t do it. And I believe most people, given the choice, would not choose to become ghosts. You’re a Paranormal Doctor; you should know something very clearly. Being a ghost is different from being human."

Yes... that much was undeniable.

Demons indeed were more powerful than Paranormal Doctors, but as a trade-off, becoming a ghost meant they became a manifestation of the curse itself, ultimately losing all human self-awareness and cognition.

No one would want to become like that.

For Paranormal Doctors, even more so.

"I understand." On this point, Mei Ge was still quite prepared, "So, I will cooperate with your actions."

"Glad you understand. Now, we should..."

But just as Dai Lin finished speaking, his Devil’s Eye ability, which had been active all along, suddenly caught sight of the black cat’s figure!

It was under the white sheet covering one of the corpses, that black cat...

Crawled out from under the sheet!

Following that, the black cat jumped to the floor.

"Follow me!"

Dai Lin immediately headed towards the location of the black cat!