Hospital 444
Chapter 506 - 8: The Mysterious Old Lady

Chapter 506: Chapter 8: The Mysterious Old Lady

Upon hearing this, Gao Heyann’s footsteps faltered.

Was Dai Lin still alive?

Was such a thing possible?

After thinking for a moment, Gao Heyann said, "If he is still alive, why hasn’t he shown up? How can he be trapped in the morgue and still manage to live?"

"Who knows," Lu Yuqing shook her head slightly and said, "But I think it’s possible. This man has a tough life, I’m afraid it’s not that simple for him to die."

As they walked on, Lu Yuqing suddenly asked a question.

"Do you, perhaps, like him a little? I mean, in the way of a man and a woman..."

"No."

"You answered too quickly, didn’t you?"

"I have no plans to date, marry, or have children," Gao Heyann said indifferently. "As long as I am alive, I will always work as a paranormal doctor. People in this profession..."

As she spoke, she suddenly remembered that Lu Yuqing seemed to be dating a friend of Dai Lin’s.

She felt a bit embarrassed and said, "Well, anyway, what I mean is that I’m not suited for marriage."

"You like him," Lu Yuqing said.

"What, what kind of logic is that..."

"My question is whether you like him. You just need to answer yes or no. However, your response was that you don’t want to date, marry, or have children. So, if you weren’t a paranormal doctor, would you want something to happen between you and him?"

Gao Heyann couldn’t help but feel amused and frustrated by Lu Yuqing’s bizarre train of thought.

"I don’t think there’s anything to discuss. We live in the present, and there’s no point in speculating about things that can’t happen. If we were to speculate, I’d wish that ghosts didn’t exist in this world and that there would be no Hospital 444 at all."

Love?

Marriage?

To most people, these enticing matters held no attraction for Gao Heyann. Her once-happy childhood had come crashing down; no matter how many patients she saved on the operating table, her deceased parents would never return. Her only concern was to protect her sister. As for love, it was a concept far too remote for her consideration.

"Alright, Yu Qing. Let’s not discuss these unproductive topics any longer," Gao Heyann was not in the mood to waste more time on this issue, "Do you sense anything special now?"

"Not at the moment. I can only roughly ascertain that on that bus station, on that night, a malevolent ghost boarded the bus. But as I said, it’s only a rough assertion."

"I understand," Gao Heyann said.

Having been a doctor for so many years, Gao Heyann was well aware that whether as a paranormal doctor or a regular one, conclusions were drawn with careful consideration: "No anomalies observed for now," "Currently not considering certain diseases," "Cannot rule out the possibility of a certain disease"... In any case, no one dared to make absolute assertions, for fear of encountering rare exceptions.

Hence, for Lu Yuqing to say she was roughly certain, it already indicated that she had a considerable level of confidence.

Malevolent Ghost...

Honestly, to say that Gao Heyann was not afraid at all was obviously impossible.

Among all the malevolent ghosts she had encountered in her medical career, Jin Yunran had left the deepest impression. That curse incident, just by hearing about it afterward, had made Gao Heyann’s skin crawl. The curse phenomena associated with him were mostly beyond any paranormal medical knowledge she had learned.

Eventually, they arrived at the intersection where the car accident had occurred.

Now, there were no signs of the accident, and as they watched the endless stream of vehicles and people, Lu Yuqing began to try sensing the environment.

Frankly speaking, under normal circumstances, the site of a major car accident would certainly have lingering ghosts appearing within the forty-nine days following the event. For paranormal doctors, this was almost a natural law.

However, without a doubt, Lu Yuqing didn’t sense any traces of ghosts having been here since the accident.

This was an extremely abnormal phenomenon.

"Yu Qing, I have two conjectures. First, the ghosts are too afraid to approach, and second..."

Even without hearing the rest, Lu Yuqing knew what the second option Gao Heyann was alluding to.

"The second scenario, you’re suggesting that those ghosts no longer exist. Is that right?"

If that were indeed the case, then the matter was serious.

It was normal for a ghost to kill people, and it wasn’t unusual for an extremely vicious one to kill hundreds at once.

But ghosts being eradicated was an entirely different matter. Regardless, ghosts are supposed to be immortal. And if there was a malevolent ghost capable of eradicating other ghosts, even Director Mei might not be able to handle it.

"I just hope it’s not the second type," she murmured.

After a long while, Lu Yuqing’s complexion underwent another subtle change.

"This..."

"What have you sensed now?"

"I feel..." Lu Yuqing looked at the crossroads before her and said, "I don’t know how to describe it, but..."

...

...

At this very moment.

An Xiunian was looking at herself in the mirror.

She had been discharged from the hospital.

The wounds on her body healed much faster than expected.

The doctors were amazed and suggested she should stay in the hospital for further observation. However, Yan Xin’s parents insisted on taking her home.

Yes.

Now, An Xiunian was inside Yan Xin’s body.

She had carefully examined this body, comparing height, weight, including all moles, scars, flexibility of limbs, body fat percentage, and various other characteristics. She was certain that she had encountered the incredible phenomenon of soul transference.

This was absolutely inconceivable, yet it had indeed happened to An Xiunian.

She had gone from a woman with average looks and body to possessing the perfect physique of Yan Xin.

Looking in the mirror, she couldn’t help but admire Yan Xin’s so-called golden proportioned figure. How did she maintain such an impressive figure? Was she eating just vegetable soup and boiled chicken breast every day? No, it wasn’t just that; the thin areas were slender, while the plump areas were appropriately full. This was truly unbelievable.

Not just a perfect appearance and body shape, but looking at the luxurious room that was more than fifty square meters and even a thirty-square wardrobe filled with countless branded clothes and luxury bags that left her speechless at first sight.

Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel... these were now at her fingertips, hers for the taking.

On the other hand...

She could confirm that An Xiunian’s own body had died.

Then, what about Yan Xin’s soul? Had it switched into her own body?

She found out that after her parents came from out of town, they refused to collect the body from the morgue, clamoring for more compensation money from the bus company.

This made An Xiunian feel an unbearable chill in her heart.

She was already dead.

And all her parents thought about was how to extract more money from her death, money which would undoubtedly go to their son.

Being in Yan Xin’s body indeed frightened An Xiunian at first. However, when she saw her new parents, that suppressed, uncontrollable greed began to emerge.

Even if she claimed she wasn’t Yan Xin, no one would believe her.

She was truly living in Yan Xin’s body.

Although she did not understand the principles behind it, it seemed that Yan Xin’s own soul might also no longer exist. And her death was not caused by herself, but by that old lady!

In the end... it wasn’t her fault, was it?

So, just like countless protagonists in online novels who underwent soul transference, she naturally accepted this new identity.

From today on, she would completely break free from the original family she had so despised.

Now, she is Yan Xin, the daughter of Yan Shixiong; no one would doubt that.

But what she truly feared was...

Who on earth was that old lady?

The police had come to ask her what had happened at the time of the accident. She dared not mention the old woman’s involvement because it was too eerie. She only dared to say that when the accident happened, she didn’t know what was going on!