Hospital 444
Chapter 466 - 46 Illusions and Lies

Chapter 466: Chapter 46 Illusions and Lies

However, when Mei Ge came to the door of the ward and tried to open it, she found it was locked!

"I remember now... Seven years ago, when I was first hospitalized, it was like this too!"

Back then, the head of the department wasn’t this man named Levin Keli. However, all the doctors gave Mei Ge the same impression...

"Wait a minute?"

Suddenly, Mei Ge remembered something the female doctor had said.

She said...

Mother had not "transformed" yet...

What did transform mean?

Mei Ge raised her hand and smacked her own head hard, saying, "I’m so stupid, why didn’t I think of it! I should have realized it when she said that!"

Transform, could it mean that? Could it be that the female doctor didn’t understand Chinese well and misused the word? Mei Ge thought her accent was particularly heavy, not like someone proficient in Chinese.

Maybe it meant that Mother hadn’t gotten used to the work in this department? Not transformed, but regularized?

But Mei Ge simply couldn’t convince herself. Because in this frightful atmosphere of the ward, the more she thought about it, the more wrong it seemed.

She walked to the bedside and quickly pressed the call bell.

Soon after, the door opened.

The one who entered... was a faceless nurse!

Seeing the faceless nurse in front of her, Mei Ge bit her lip, suppressing the fear, and said, "You, find, find Doctor Xiao, I have something to ask her!"

The faceless nurse stepped closer to Mei Ge.

The closer she got, the clearer Mei Ge could see the faceless nurse’s face.

It was purely a face with no features at all, covered in a layer of pallid skin.

Upon closer inspection, that facial skin was flawless, with no fine lines, no pimples, and looked extremely smooth and pale.

Mei Ge instinctively felt nauseous.

Then, the faceless nurse reached into her collar and pulled out a crumpled... human face!

That’s right!

A human face!

Next, the faceless nurse selected one and stuck it onto her own face.

Before long, the face fitted seamlessly onto the nurse’s face, with lifelike features perfectly adhering and then, the nurse began to speak.

"Do you like this face? Patient?"

Mei Ge could only feel her stomach churning violently, and she felt like vomiting.

"Aaaah!"

She remembered... Seven years ago, the faceless nurse did the same, taking out human facial skins and fitting them onto her face, producing completely different voices with different faces!

"No, don’t come any closer to me!"

The nurse continued, "Do you feel unwell? If so, I can perform a simple checkup on you first. The director has specifically instructed that if you have hallucinations, you must report to him immediately."

Mei Ge just wanted to say that her very existence was the greatest discomfort to her!

But now she couldn’t utter those words.

She was truly scared, worried that the nurse’s face would suddenly turn into a gaping maw and swallow her whole!

When the nurse spoke, her eyes never blinked, and her voice had no emotion or inflection, sounding truly like an AI machine.

"I don’t have any discomfort! I want to see Doctor Xiao! I need to know my mother’s condition, no, I need to see my mother with my own eyes! We’re paying with Spiritual Therapy Points for treatment at your hospital, we have this right, don’t we?"

Truth be told, when Mei Ge spoke those words, she had no confidence at all.

After all, the doctors at this hospital seemed bizarre to an extreme, each one like a cross between human and ghost.

Especially the doctors from the Demons Department!

Therefore, Mei Ge naturally paid extra attention to the word "transformed" mentioned by Nieru.

The faceless nurse replied, "If you are not unwell, or do not have any special questions for the doctor per their orders, then I will not fetch the doctor for you."

After speaking, the faceless nurse raised her hand to tear off the face skin on her face.

"I! I have a special question!"

At that moment, Mei Ge gritted her teeth and decided to take a gamble.

"Your director once asked me a question. He asked if I considered myself a patient or a doctor. Well, what if I said I think I am a doctor at this hospital?"

Mei Ge had previously sensed vaguely that the director was very concerned about this question.

If he cared about this question so much, then evidently, only by saying so would she capture his attention!

Now, Mei Ge had no choice! She had to find out her mother’s current condition at once! She was really worried. What on earth could happen to her mother while staying with these half-human, half-ghost creatures!

Upon hearing Mei Ge’s words, the nurse’s hand, which was nearly touching her cheek, stopped.

Her eyes, which had always been tranquil like a still well, suddenly changed!

Then, Mei Ge noticed that the nurse’s eyeballs suddenly started to rotate in opposite directions, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise!

The next moment, two very distinct cracks appeared at the corners of her mouth!

This scene terrified Mei Ge, causing her face to drastically change!

Immediately following, the nurse did something Mei Ge had never imagined.

She took out a new piece of facial skin.

Then, she tore off the old skin and applied the new one.

This new facial skin belonged to an old woman with blue pupils and an even paler complexion, appearing to be at least in her seventies or eighties, and covered with various wrinkles.

What was even more eerie was that after this face was attached, the nurse’s back obviously began to hunch!

She began to speak in a completely different, extremely old voice, "Hello. I am the head nurse of this department... so, you just said, you think you are... a doctor?"

At that moment, Mei Ge felt a shiver run down her spine.

Head... Head... Head nurse?

"Tell me the details. Tell me what you thought,"

The head nurse repeated in English.

Yes, the aged head nurse indeed had the face of a Western Caucasian.

"I, I didn’t mean that..."

Mei Ge felt a strong sense of danger and hurriedly said, "I just thought that if my mother could be a doctor here, then I could too, that’s what I meant. Now, of course, I am still a patient."

She knew full well how poor her lie was, but she had no choice but to say it.

The old head nurse’s wrinkled face stared intently at Mei Ge, and then, she said this.

"Liar!"

Mei Ge, having grown up in the United States, of course understood this English word.

She called herself a liar!

"No, no... I mean, I am not lying..." In her panic, Mei Ge also began speaking English.

But at that moment, the old head nurse grabbed Mei Ge’s forehead, pushed aside her bangs, and clung to her forehead with her nails.

"Are you starting to have that kind of cognitive contamination again, huh? Your Abyss invasion symptoms have relapsed... you are a liar, just like them..."

"Them? Who are they? No, what do you mean by Abyss invasion?"

"Now, answer my question. Do you think you are a doctor or a patient? Do you think you are a human, or one of our kind???"

Mei Ge felt she was going insane; the old head nurse’s strength was incredibly surprising, and, despite trying her hardest, she could not break free.

"I, I, I am..."

Suddenly, her forehead began to throb with intense pain!

Along with the pain came a man’s voice.

"Wake up! Wake up! Are you okay?"

That voice...

"Ahhhhhh!"

Mo Mei Ge screamed as she sat up abruptly, looking around the mortuary on-duty room.

"Where’s Black Cat? Where are we? What is this place?"

"You’re finally awake."

The man before her was Dai Lin.

Mei Ge, looking at Dai Lin’s familiar face, unconsciously asked, "Is the black inverted cross on my forehead still there?"

"Of course it’s still there...what’s wrong with you?"

"Liar..."

Mei Ge muttered the English word subconsciously.

Why did she faint after seeing Black Cat, why did she murmur this word.

Why did she feel...

Mei Ge looked at Dai Lin and suddenly asked, "Tell me. Am I a doctor, or am I... a patient?"