Hospital 444
Chapter 556 - 18 Skulls and Cursed Objects

Chapter 556: Chapter 18 Skulls and Cursed Objects

Dai Lin walked into the bathroom.

He opened each stall one by one, making sure there was no one inside. Then, he closed the door and walked up to the mirror.

He stared at his own reflection in the mirror.

Like this, about ten or more seconds passed.

In the mirror, behind Dai Lin, the door of one of the toilet stalls...

suddenly swung open!

But when Dai Lin turned his head, none of the stall doors behind him were open!

Then, Dai Lin turned back around.

In the mirror, the door of the toilet stall had been flung wide open.

Dai Lin’s Devil’s Eye scanned the mirror before him.

Then, in the center of the mirror, a figure gradually began to flicker into view.

"Milan..."

Just as Dai Lin uttered these two words, suddenly, the ghastly face of a terrifying resentful spirit appeared in the mirror!

But in an instant, the spirit vanished.

"It was closer to me than last time."

In the mirror, the distance between the resentful spirit and Dai Lin was about six meters or so.

From the clothing alone, Dai Lin could tell that the spirit was Milan Dailun, not to mention the special connection between his soul and Milan’s.

But if Milan had died, he should have been greatly injured, yet obviously, Milan had not died.

But now, she was no longer human.

What’s more, she might no longer be able to return to her former self.

And from the mirror’s view, the spirit was getting closer and closer. But as a paranormal doctor, Dai Lin couldn’t determine which type of spirit this was. Nor could he go to any consulting room because Milan’s existence was an absolute secret.

Regardless, Dai Lin wanted to find a way to turn Milan back to her original self.

No matter what.

At this moment, the bathroom door opened.

Yang Zheng walked in.

At the time, his face bore the look of exhaustion, and even as he walked, his legs seemed to wobble.

This phenomenon was quite extraordinary for a paranormal doctor. So, with an element of doubt, Dai Lin asked, "Dr. Yang, you didn’t have a surgery scheduled today, did you?"

"Let’s not talk about it, I..."

After Yang Zheng finished relieving himself, he walked over to the sink, and when he lifted his arm to turn on the tap, his hand trembled noticeably.

"Dr. Dai, I want to ask you something... Are you truly mentally prepared to take the professional title examination, especially at Oroñe Hotel?"

"I’ve decided. I’ve been researching materials about Oroñe Hotel recently."

"Then you must be fully prepared mentally. That hotel is far more terrifying than you can imagine. You should know that Li An, the head of the Demons Department, died there."

Dai Lin knew all too well that, if not for Li An’s death, he wouldn’t possess this pair of Devil’s Eyes.

From this perspective, his connection to the Oroñe Hotel could be said to be intrinsic.

Especially because of the hotel’s eerily peculiar check-in rules, every doctor facing this professional title exam felt a massive headache.

"Dr. Dai, let me give you a piece of advice. If you feel endangered, immediately end the exam and teleport back to Hospital 444. You’ve just been promoted to attending physician—the opportunities for exams in the future are numerous. You’re the best doctor our hospital has ever seen, not even the three deputy directors were as formidable as you at this stage,"

It wasn’t flattery, Yang Zheng truly thought so. Now in Hospital 444, everyone held nothing but the greatest admiration for Dai Lin.

"Dr. Dai, I want to ask you a question,"

"Go ahead."

"You and Dr. Gao... let me clarify, I’m not one to gossip, but right now everyone is saying that you and Dr. Gao will end up together..."

"Where did such a rumor come from?"

Dai Lin’s mind was preoccupied with only one matter—figuring out how to save his younger brother, Dai Wei. For him, nothing had a higher priority than this. As for anything related to romance, how could he spare any thought to it?

"Well, everyone is talking about it. I also think it all adds up logically. Vice Director Yin has always held you in high regard, and Dr. Gao seems to have a clear fondness for you. It would be normal if the two of you ended up together,"

"There’s nothing of the sort," Dai Lin shook his head, "Dr. Gao and I are merely colleagues."

Undeniably, as one of Hospital 444’s most strikingly beautiful doctors and her association with Yin Wuque, Gao Heyan was considered a muse in the hearts of many. Many thought Yin Wuque wanted to recruit Dai Lin into his camp, and what could be more straightforward than arranging his niece Gao Heyan to marry Dai Lin? It wasn’t unrelated to Yin Wuque’s current position that he was the fiancé of Gao Menghua.

Yang Zheng nodded and said, "All right."

Dai Lin then asked another question, "I’ve heard a lot of people saying lately that Deputy Director Xie..."

"Yes. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become the next director of the Wraith Surgery Department."

"It seems his personality has changed greatly."

Dai Lin found the once-garrulous Xie Chengjun, much like a character from a Stephen Chow movie, unforgettable. He heard that Xie supposedly had a dual personality due to a cursed object, but now, his demeanor was entirely opposite.

"Indeed. One can only say that Director Xie keeps his cards close to his chest."

As Dai Lin was pondering, he suddenly heard Yang Zheng say, "Dr. Dai, I just performed an emergency surgery. After the surgery, the patient still died on the operating table."

For a surgeon, it was a common occurrence to experience a patient dying on the operating table. With every patient death, the quota of patient deaths would rise by one, which meant the risk of being fired by the Dean increased. No doctor would be in good spirits. However, it was an inevitable part of the job.

"You’re an outpatient surgeon, yet you were involved in an emergency surgery?"

"The patient was under my extemporaneous care, and I judged that emergency surgery was necessary, so I personally took him to the emergency center and participated in the procedure."

This kind of scenario was possible within the hospital. After all, the outpatient doctor who initially consults the patient is most familiar with the clinical symptoms, so in the event an outpatient needs to be transferred to emergency care, it’s common for the outpatient surgeon to also be involved in the emergency surgery.

"So then..."

"After the patient’s death, he turned into a black skeleton."

Upon hearing this, Dai Lin immediately felt a jolt.

"A black skeleton? Then?"

"Normally, the patient’s body should be sent directly to the underground morgue. But because this corpse was so unique, the emergency department doctors had the Department of Cursed Objects handle it specially, so that further research could be conducted. However, after examination, the doctors from the Department of Cursed Objects said that this skeleton... wasn’t that of the patient. Or rather, the black skeleton wasn’t human remains at all."

Dai Lin hastily asked, "Could it be that the patient was Southeast Asian?"

"How did you know?"

Dai Lin immediately pursued, "What did the doctors from the Department of Cursed Objects say?"

"They said that this black skeleton... is a cursed object in and of itself!"