Hospital 444
Chapter 529 - 31 The Truth About Spiritual Therapy Points

Chapter 529: Chapter 31 The Truth About Spiritual Therapy Points

Dai Lin heard a voice coming from outside.

He sat up.

The door opened.

The one who walked in was a faceless nurse from the Demons Department.

The nurse took out a piece of face skin that she carried with her, and then, she affixed it onto her face.

Dai Lin immediately knew that the other party... was the Head Nurse of the Demons Department.

"I’ve come to announce something to you, Doctor Dai Lin," the expressionless Head Nurse said, "Your surgery date has been set. In three days, the surgery to remove your Devil’s Eyes will be personally performed by Chief Director CRI. After the surgery, I think you can be declared cured."

"Cured?" Dai Lin scoffed, "I’ve never registered in your Demons Department, have I? Did you get me to sign a consent form for the surgery? And now you’re going to operate on me? What you want are these eyes, aren’t they?"

"It is our duty in the Demons Department to treat patients suffering from Abyssal invasion. As for the surgery consent form, you should know that you are a special case. Especially since you violated the hospital director’s rules, coming to the outpatient area between midnight and four in the morning, seeing things you shouldn’t have seen."

"I saw..." Dai Lin said coldly, "patients came before your Demons Department doctors like zombies, without consciousness, and then it was as if their souls had been sucked out..."

"That is a contract. The hospital treats their curses, and in exchange for the Spiritual Therapy Points they pay, we take the corresponding part of their souls. Not a point more, not a point less."

"Aren’t Spiritual Therapy Points supposed to be a part of a patient’s future? Like promotion opportunities, salaries and bonuses, even life span..."

"That’s on the premise that the value of Spiritual Therapy Points is below ten thousand. If the number of points paid exceeds ten thousand, even if their life span were to be cleared to zero, it could not compensate. At that time, what they can give up is only their soul."

"You actually..."

"This is the ’rule’. Everything within the hospital, including the doctors, all medical equipment, and the cursed objects, patients must provide sufficient compensation for."

"Then what are dark soul points?"

Dai Lin shared memories with Milan, of course he knew what so-called dark soul points were.

The people from the Demons Department knew all too well the relationship between him and Milan, so there was no need to pretend in front of them. He might as well use this opportunity to ask everything clearly.

"Originally, this is not something that should be told to clinical doctors. But it doesn’t matter, Doctor Dai, once we cure you, you won’t remember what I told you today. Dark soul points... on the surface, are misfortunes in one’s future life, in actuality, represent being invaded by the Abyss. Dark soul points will mean that the patients will feel the presence of the Director more, experience the Abyss of the Netherworld."

"Can I understand it as implanting a highly contagious virus?"

"This analogy is quite accurate."

Dai Lin finally understood.

They weren’t "doctors" at all.

This wasn’t treatment at all — the existence of Paranormal Doctors was essentially casting curses on patients!

"Patients pay Spiritual Therapy Points to the hospital, which then allocates the corresponding points to the doctors. Spiritual Therapy Points are always increasing and decreasing, but as doctors struggle to cope with stronger curses, the Director gains more and more points."

Dai Lin immediately realized what was happening.

"The one who needs Spiritual Therapy Points... no, the patient’s souls, is the Director, right? And you are the Director’s loyal servants!"

However, the Head Nurse before him responded to Dai Lin like this.

"We are not servants to anyone. We are completely neutral. We don’t work for the Director, we act according to the rules."

According to the rules?

"What... do you mean?"

Dai Lin began to realize something was off, he had always thought that the Demons Department, was entirely a direct line to the Director. Damon Dailun also always believed that the Demons Department of 666 Hospital served the Director exclusively.

But... is that not the case?

Clearly, the Head Nurse of the Demons Department had no reason to lie to Dai Lin.

"Collecting Spiritual Therapy Points is just your way of obeying the rules? Treating patients with Abyssal invasion curses is also neutral? Removing my Devil’s Eyes is a neutral act too?"

"Removing these eyes is itself a treatment for you, Dr. Dai," the head nurse continued to say, "We have not harmed your subjective thinking. These eyes are the result of Ouyang Rui being cursed by the Abyssal assault."

"So called Abyssal assault... does that mean... the demonization of humans?"

Through Milan, Dai Lin learned a lot about the concept of Abyssal assaults.

After gaining some understanding of the Evil Ghost Department, Milan believed that the so-called curse of malevolent ghosts belonged to a reversible early stage symptom of an Abyssal assault. But to be honest, in the systematic learning that paranormal doctors undergo, the concept of ’karmic ghosts’ should not exist; these so-called karmic ghosts have always been considered resentful spirits. It was only with the creation of the Evil Ghost Department that the concept of karmic ghosts began to spread, and different treatment methods began to be adopted.

However, these so-called karmic ghosts are just normal resentful spirits, the result of being contaminated by the Abyss.

In the concept of 666 Hospital, an Abyssal assault represents an intrusion of original sin. Malevolent spirits, because of the intrusion of original sin, become cursed and mutated, causing patients to exhibit the initial symptoms of an Abyssal assault.

And when Signs of the Devil appear...

... the Abyssal assault enters an irreversible stage.

From this stage on, the difficulty of treatment significantly increases. Correspondingly, patients who suffered from an Abyssal assault will sense the presence of the Director much more strongly than paranormal doctors.

Even patients who have never heard of the Director from their doctors will bring up the Director on their own initiative.

A typical clinical symptom of a high-level Abyssal assault is that patients will repeatedly mention the Director in front of their doctors. The higher the level, the more frequent the mentions of the Director.

One of the diagnostic criteria for a level-five Abyssal assault is that the patient will say in front of the doctor, "I feel the Director right beside me." And this symptom also signifies that they meet the surgical indication.

"But I have never felt the Director beside me," said Dai Lin, "I’ve never had such a feeling."

"Your soul is quite special. Your soul leans towards the Director. That’s why you were selected and could adapt to these eyes. But now, these eyes must be removed."

Dai Lin knew that the cursed object in this ward had been suppressing him all along, leaving him powerless to resist the doctors of the Demons Department before him.

But no matter what, he absolutely could not accept having his eyes removed and then having his memory altered by them, to be completely manipulated by the doctors of the Demons Department from then on.

He simply could not!

...

"I can feel at all times that the Director is right beside me."

An Xiunian tossed and turned in bed, recalling her previous conversation with Lin Rui.

At that time, she had said to An Xiunian, "And I... I hope I can meet the Director soon."

An Xiunian truly did not understand why Lin Rui would say something so incomprehensible.

The Director couldn’t be referring to the head of Hospital 444, could it? Weren’t they in a hostile relationship with the hospital?

And just who exactly was Milan Dailun?

In the end, Yan Xin... no, the "person" who chose Yan Xin’s body, who is that exactly?

"Will you be able to eliminate the malevolent ghost in the east corridor by tomorrow night?" Lin Rui then added another question, "As long as you give me a specific time, I will instruct to go ahead with the aftermath procedures."

A specific time?

How could that be possible?

An Xiunian desperately racked her brain to think of an appropriate answer, but her demeanor, in the face of Lin Rui, turned into complete silence.

Lin Rui thus began to show a doubtful expression.

"You... It’s not that I doubt you, but surely you can give me a specific time, right? You should know that if we let malevolent ghosts continue to invade and enter the central courtyard we are in, a considerable number of people in this villa will suffer from the Abyssal assault. If the number of patients with Abyssal assaults increases, this place will sooner or later come to the hospital’s attention. You should know that there are forces within the hospital that contend with the Director."

Forces within the hospital contending with the Director...

An Xiunian immediately realized that there seemed to be a very complex power struggle inside the hospital.

"We must help the doctors who support the Director to truly take over the hospital, and... exterminate every doctor who is an enemy of the Director, leaving not one behind!"