Hospital 444
Chapter 576 - 1 Mysterious Hotel

Chapter 576: Chapter 1 Mysterious Hotel

Dong Xie carefully read the blood-letter mission photo before him.

"To find the remains of Li An, the former head of the Demons Department... it’s certainly not easy at all."

Dong Xie had become a Paranormal Doctor and gradually succeeded in controlling his body, which mimicked that of a ghost.

Sitting opposite him, Xia Li said, "A blood-letter mission has never been easy."

"Indeed."

Here was a high-end apartment located on Black Pathway Road in K city, totaling twenty-nine floors.

However, ordinary people could not see or enter this apartment.

This apartment was connected to the outside world by a special alleyway.

If one were to take satellite images, they would find that the alleyway was a dead-end. Yet, if someone actually walked into the alleyway, they would, in turn, enter the apartment.

At that time, a person’s shadow would detach from their feet and enter the interior of the apartment. Then, on a regular basis, they would complete the blood-letter instructions appearing on the walls of their room. After completing ten such missions, they would be freed from the apartment.

From that point on, the person would have to become one of the apartment’s residents because their shadow had been cursed. If they violated the rules of the apartment, the shadow would curse the body, and the body, in turn, would be manipulated by the shadow into committing suicide. Even if the body were forcibly restrained, the shadow would cause it to disintegrate, resulting in the body’s disintegration as well.

This was a curse that not even Hospital 444 could treat.

"I’ve heard that a doctor from the Department of Cursed Objects once tried to study the apartment’s shadow curse," Xia Li said, looking at the shadow under his feet, "but without exception, no one was able to analyze the curse. Before, I even took some blood that seeped from the walls of the apartment to the hospital’s laboratory for testing, and the result..."

Although Xia Li did not continue, Dong Xie knew what he would have said next.

Facing this apartment, all the doctors at Hospital 444 overwhelmingly felt despair. That’s also why no Paranormal Doctors dared to intervene in the apartment’s blood-letter missions. Otherwise, it was akin to seeking death.

"Sooner or later, I must go back to the haunted house at the Bai residence." Dong Xie clenched his hand, saying, "There are still many people who need to be saved."

"Yes," Xia Li affirmed resolutely, "they need to be saved."

Tomorrow...

They would go to the Oroñe Hotel to carry out the blood-letter mission.

However, coincidentally, tomorrow was also the day when Hospital 444 was headed to the Oroñe Hotel for the medical practitioners’ qualification exam.

Included among them were Dai Lin, who had just been promoted to attending physician, and Gao Heyann.

"This is definitely not a coincidence."

Xia Li looked at the wall behind him and said, "When the blood-letter mission was first issued, they probably deliberately chose this day."

The day had come nonetheless.

Dong Xie looked at the clearly listed rules for staying at the Oroñe Hotel in the blood-letter instructions he had long committed to memory:

First, during your stay at the Oroñe Hotel, no matter what happens, do not smile under any circumstances.

Second, no matter where you are in the hotel, do not knock on a door more than four times.

Third, if you hear someone knocking on a door more than four times, do not go to open it.

Fourth, no food provided by the Oroñe Hotel, including any doneness of steak, will contain blood. If it does, please contact hotel service for a replacement.

Fifth, at any time and any place, do not count the number of shadows. If you find the number of shadows is inconsistent with the actual number of people, please try to check out and leave within twenty-four hours.

Sixth, please avoid bleeding inside the hotel as much as possible, no matter how minor the wound.

Seventh, if you hear laughter at any time during your stay but do not see the person who is laughing, please contact the hotel staff immediately, and they will handle it.

These seven rules can also be found online. The apartment had long made sure the hotel rooms were booked online, and when the hotel notification was received on the phone, it too listed these seven rules.

"Other rules aside, the sixth one is the most bizarre," Dong Xie pointed out the rule: "If it’s a female guest, how can you ensure there won’t be any bleeding? Someone’s period might come early or be delayed, and not everyone is very punctual."

They had once called the hotel to ask about these seven rules.

But the hotel’s response was to demand strict adherence to these seven rules, all of which were listed in the online booking system in advance. If guests were unwilling or unable to comply, then the hotel could process a refund.

As cumbersome and odd as these demands appear to be, and as unfriendly the hotel’s attitude seemed, the business was reportedly still good. In fact, quite a few internet celebrities had checked in at the hotel to gain more exposure, for the Oroñe Hotel was one of the notorious haunted hotels in East Asia.

"After such a long time, we still cannot dig up information on the hotel’s operators and shareholder structure."

"If the apartment doesn’t want us to know something, there’s no way we can ever find out, no matter what."

Dong Xie and Xia Li were long-time residents of the apartment, and they were very clear about the apartment’s ways.

"So, the only solution the female residents can think of now is to take medication that can delay their period," Xia Li carefully examined the blood instructions and said, "Have you noticed a detail?"

"What?"

"Actually, these seven rules are just the hotel’s codes of conduct, but the apartment’s blood instructions... don’t force us to follow them."

The apartment’s blood instructions were absolutely inviolable. Once violated, just like a dean firing a doctor, the shadow curse would promptly send one to their death.

"So, this also means that the hotel’s codes of conduct are not necessarily inviolable for us residents. To be honest, these demands from the hotel have no legal effect. Many internet celebrities who went there to check-in haven’t been heard to have been kicked out by the hotel for violating the rules."

"But relatively speaking... people who stay at this hotel often disappear."

Yes.

This is why the Oroñe Hotel is known as a haunted and dangerous place.

People staying at the hotel would often vanish within its walls, and even when the police got involved, they could not trace the whereabouts of the guests.

Afterward, there began rumors: those who disappeared in the hotel were all individuals who had broken one of the seven rules.

Indeed, there had been internet celebrities who live-streamed from the hotel and declared they would try breaking the rules to attract viewers, increase their channel subscriptions, and followers.

Rumor had it, these heedless bloggers all ended up missing. But online, any search for such information resulted in a 404 error.

Therefore, no one knows whether violating the rules truly leads to the consequence of disappearing.

"If the apartment is involved, even the local police can’t do anything to the hotel’s operators behind the scenes. And as far as I know, Hospital 444’s exams strictly forbid doctors from trying to find the truth through the hotel staff. I think... the higher-ups at the hospital may also know some secrets."

At least one thing was certain.

The head of the Demons Department died in the Oroñe Hotel, and not even the body could be found.

The department head is a Paranormal Doctor, second only to the level of deputy dean, and generally, deputy deans are selected from among the department heads. The death of the department head only underscored the horror of the Oroñe Hotel!

"This time, how many people will return to the apartment alive?"