Hospital 444
Chapter 518 - 20: Karmic Obstacles

Chapter 518: Chapter 20: Karmic Obstacles

An Xiunian still had a fairly significant advantage.

That was her "subordinates" found it hard to believe she had encountered "soul snatching."

Sometimes, it’s not that one can’t think of it, but one might fall into a thinking trap. This thinking trap was currently a great help to An Xiunian.

She now needed to use this thinking trap to deal with them and then try to contact someone at the hospital to gather information.

However, before contacting someone from the hospital, An Xiunian still needed to consider a few issues.

Just who exactly are "the hospital" people? In their eyes, is Yan Xin an enemy? If that’s the case, contacting them hastily could be dangerous for herself.

Therefore, she hesitated.

For now, she had set up call forwarding on the mobile phone she used to contact the hospital people, which was hidden in a locker, so she could receive information promptly.

When that woman contacted her, at least judging from her tone, she didn’t regard her as an enemy.

On the contrary, An Xiunian realized—

She seemed to want information from her as well.

"That means..."

After repeatedly making sure her room’s door was locked and there were no new surveillance devices in the room, An Xiunian murmured to herself, "That means I can exchange information with her. By doing so, I might be able to obtain more information about Yan Xin."

About the Lanxin Group... she had done a lot of searching and investigation online.

And after this in-depth investigation, she discovered something even more horrifying.

For a long time, the appearances of Lan Shixiong, the chairman and founder of the Lanxin Group, had been changing in the media photos!

Yes, constantly changing!

Considering this, Lan Shixiong in Yan Xin’s mobile phone should be FIVE.

You see, the changes in Lan Shixiong were not just in his face but also his stature, weight, and height, all of which underwent significant fluctuations. Moreover, these changes have been consistent with Lan Shixiong’s aging process.

And Lan Shixiong was a self-made man from the ground up. Since the economic reform, he had gone south to the special economic zone alone to start the Lanxin, and step by step, evolved it into the current household appliance giant.

"Lan Shixiong’s image has been changing all the time, the face can be explained by plastic surgery, but changes in height and weight in such a short period without the media finding it odd?"

No.

It’s more than that.

Even An Xiunian herself was the same, wasn’t she?

Initially, she also didn’t notice the changes in Lan Shixiong’s face.

"Back then, when he and his wife first came to find their daughter Yan Xin, I saw them and remembered their appearances, but they’re completely different now, and I didn’t find it strange at all..."

They were constantly switching bodies, but nobody around them ever felt it was strange. And the frequency seemed to be about every five years.

This in itself was extremely illogical.

Therefore...

"So this body of Yan Xin’s... is probably not the daughter of Yan Shixiong and his wife at all."

Yan Xin’s parents died very early, and her household registration was quite chaotic. Even Yan Xin herself just had the surname Yan, indeed a most suitable candidate. As for the DNA test results, they could have been falsified as well.

If Yan Xin wasn’t actually the daughter of Yan Shixiong and his wife, then what was the original soul residing inside this body?

For now, it could only be affirmed that it was the "Master" of Yan Shixiong and others.

Of course, this "Master" might not even be a woman.

A person who, a long time ago, could make the household electrical appliance tycoon Yan Shixiong obedient. This individual was shrewd and cunning, with unknown name, gender, age, and even nationality. But, unlike Yan Shixiong and his wife, this person probably couldn’t switch bodies so effortlessly.

"Considering Lan Shixiong’s body-changing frequency as a reference... yet Yan Xin’s body has been used for more than ten years."

This body had been in use for so long...

An Xiunian began to realize something.

"So... this person is now preparing to switch to a new body again, right? And they’ve moved their soul into the body of another person, and then..."

At that moment, a knock suddenly came from the door.

She immediately asked, on alert, "Who is it?"

"Miss, it’s me, Ah Jiang. Um, Mr. Yan said there’s something important and has asked me to invite you to the study."

Is it something important?

From the tone, it seemed she hadn’t been exposed, nor had her contact with the hospital been discovered.

Thus, she opened the door and looked toward Ah Jiang, saying, "Alright, let’s go over."

During this process, she was always ready, just in case these people set a trap for her. If so, she would claim she was in contact with the hospital, and if they dared to touch her, the people on the outside at the hospital would know. She wasn’t sure about the relationship between the hospital and the Yan Family, but they would certainly have some apprehensions.

After arriving at the study, she noticed Yan Shixiong had already been waiting there for some time.

"Yan Xin," Yan Shixiong said in a serious tone, "Ah Jiang, you go out first, and close the door."

Ah Jiang immediately nodded, then walked out and closed the door.

At this moment, there was a laptop on Yan Shixiong’s desk.

He angled the computer screen toward An Xiunian, pausing at a video frame that seemed to be inside the villa, and said, "I have an important matter to show you."

He then hit play without offering any explanation to An Xiunian.

As the video on the laptop screen began to play, suddenly, the entire video started to distort!

But this time, as the distortion ended, a terrifying event unfolded.

A woman appeared in the hallway!

However, at the sight of this woman, An Xiunian’s complexion immediately began to shift dramatically!

How could this be possible???

"The situation has exceeded my expectations," Yan Shixiong enlarged the woman’s face in the video, then clarified the image, "I hadn’t anticipated it turning out this way. I called you here to discuss a countermeasure."

An Xiunian’s breathing began to quicken.

The woman’s face was bloodless, deathly pale.

Yet, An Xiunian recognized the features of this woman very well!

It was...

herself!

This was indeed An Xiunian’s own face!

Yan Shixiong continued, "You didn’t succeed in soul snatching onto An Xiunian’s body on the bus this time, and now it seems there was indeed a problem."

An Xiunian clenched her teeth.

Indeed, Yan Xin had boarded the bus that day to swap bodies.

She had faintly guessed, perhaps, the chosen body was her own!

After all, she used to take the bus during that fixed period, and besides, Yan Xin used to "know" her. So, none of this was a coincidence. She had deliberately pretended not to recognize herself on the bus!

"Honestly, when we first heard at the hospital that everyone on the bus had died except for you, we were shocked. It’s inconceivable that such a thing could happen. Now it seems this woman has taken on most of the curse’s repercussions, becoming a Malevolent Ghost."

Repercussions... Malevolent Ghost...

"Moreover, it seems that in just a few days, she has transformed from a burdened ghost to a Malevolent Ghost," Yan Shixiong said further. "We have found that her body is missing from the funeral parlor. Clearly, she, who has turned into a Malevolent Ghost, is coming here. We need you to come up with a plan, since such an incident has never occurred in the past."

Come up with a plan?

What kind of plan could An Xiunian come up with?

At that moment, she suddenly realized something.

This female ghost in front of her...

was the real Yan Xin!

She had originally intended to swap her soul into her own body.

But something went wrong with the plan.

Her soul had transferred into her own dead body, while her soul ended up in Yan Xin’s physique.

And as a result of the so-called "repercussions," she had become the Malevolent Ghost before her!

Did she even need to ponder the purpose of her visit?

Naturally, it was to seek herself, the imposter, and retrieve her original body!