Hospital 444
Chapter 584 - 8 Do Not Explore Reasons_2

Chapter 584: Chapter 8 Do Not Explore Reasons_2

Pork neck meat, streaky pork, plum blossom pork, Australian wagyu beef, Korean-style beef...

However, Dai Wei had no appetite whatsoever, and could only pick up the tongs to help her get the meat...

...

Dai Lin and Gao Heyan walked to the BBQ area of the buffet restaurant.

Here, all the meat had to be taken back to your table to grill, so... all the meat was raw, naturally.

Dai Lin examined it closely and saw that indeed, the raw meat was well processed, with not a trace of blood.

Of course, Dai Lin was just looking; he had no plans to eat any food here.

His Devil’s Eye activated and he started closely examining the raw meat.

This meat... was it really from animals?

After all, in this hotel, anything could happen. He had to be very careful to see if he could spot any anomalies.

But in the end... as expected, he didn’t discern anything abnormal.

It was then that he suddenly noticed Fei Jingyan had come up beside him.

The man, in his role as the chief examiner, didn’t say a word to Dai Lin or Gao Heyan but calmly picked up the raw meat with his tongs and placed it on his plate.

Fei Jingyan still looked the same as ever, appearing like a puppet.

His whole face seemed still as if frozen. Even the eyeballs in their sockets were fixed in place, unmoving.

And when Fei Jingyan got closer, Gao Heyan distinctly felt a strong discomfort.

She hurried back, almost as if escaping, to her own table.

Dai Lin followed her back to the table, taking one more glance at Fei Jingyan standing by the BBQ area, mechanically picking up meat.

"You seem to have always been scared of him?"

Dai Lin recalled the first time he saw Fei Jingyan; back then, Gao Heyan was clearly averse to the man, even showing signs of resistance.

"It’s not him that I’m afraid of..."

"Hmm?"

"Doctors from the Department of Cursed Objects, it doesn’t matter who, but I never want to deal with the Executive Vice President... nor with anyone associated with him."

"You’re very... afraid of the Executive Vice President?"

"Not just me," Gao Heyan said, tilting her head, even hoping to avoid catching sight of Fei Jingyan in the corner of her eye, "My sister feels the same way. We both don’t want to have anything to do with people close to the Executive Vice President."

"The Executive Vice President rarely comes to the outpatient area."

Gao Heyan reminisced about the time she and Gao Menghua first arrived at Hospital 444.

"Back then, my sister and I were rescued from Eden Hotel and taken to Hospital 444, and we quickly came into contact with the Executive Vice President."

As for Dai Lin, so far, he had never met the Executive Vice President.

All he knew was that Fang Shen, the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean and head of the Department of Cursed Objects, looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties. Unlike Han Ming, who concurrently held the position of Executive Vice President and head of the Department of Fierce Spirits, an incidental appointment, historically the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean role was always held by the head of the Department of Cursed Objects, not by two separate individuals. The administration of the Department of Cursed Objects was also distinct from all other clinical departments. The Executive Vice President generally didn’t visit the outpatient area unless there was a significant issue.

Dai Lin had heard that the last time the Executive Vice President had come to the outpatient building was when the Demons Department publicly offered a bounty on Milan. After that incident, he left promptly.

For this reason, many clinicians had not yet met the Executive Vice President and didn’t know what he looked like.

"Why he was appointed as the chief examiner, I cannot comprehend either."

This was the most baffling decision to Gao Heyan.

After all, this was a clinical doctors’ professional title examination, and the chief examiner was usually a department head, or at least an assistant head. It was difficult to understand why a doctor from the Department of Cursed Objects, especially one who was neither a department head nor an assistant head, was appointed to be the chief examiner.

"I’ve also heard some people discussing that it’s usually the heads of clinical departments who serve as the chief examiners,"

Dai Lin faintly felt that having Fei Jingyan as one of the proctors for this exam might be... related to the Black Skull Curse Object in Heisong Town. Currently, it is said that the Department of Cursed Objects has taken over the entire Heisong Town and no longer allows general practitioners to intervene there. Logically speaking, with so many patients in that town needing surgery, how could they stop clinical doctors from getting involved? It just doesn’t make sense. However, Dai Lin was powerless to overturn this decision.

"Wait a second," Dai Lin suddenly realized something, "Doctor Fei as the chief examiner, he could monitor what we are saying, right?"

"No. He’ll only monitor whether we’re saying things we shouldn’t be saying," Gao Heyann didn’t care about this; she took another sip of her milk and said, "For now, we should still be in a relatively calm period."

"For now?"

"You probably don’t know about the blood-letter tasks in that apartment, do you? The current phase is called ’Path to Survival Hint Period’."

...

Dai Wei was grilling meat for Yalu Jia on the electric stove in front of him.

The pine board meat kept emitting steam and the fragrance was continuously assaulting the senses.

Dai Wei picked up the tongs, flipped the meat over, and said, "The piece on your left is cooked, you can eat it now,"

Yalu Jia picked up her fork, and started to eat the meat.

"You remember those seven check-in rules, don’t you?"

"I do. The first one is, if you find anything strange while laughing, then stop laughing. Well, if I don’t laugh, wouldn’t that solve the problem? I can’t really laugh given the current situation anyway."

Yalu Jia nodded and said, "Hm, you could think of it that way... Sure."

"Then there’s knocking; it has to be more than four times... This rule is really weird."

"It’s not hard to comply with, is it? And the guest will surely open the door after you knock more than four times."

"So, here comes the question." Dai Wei kept an eye on the meat sizzling on the grill with the tongs, making sure it wasn’t getting burnt, "If someone opens the door to a knock fewer than four times... what kind of thing would come in?"

When Dai Wei said this, Yalu Jia had just swallowed the grilled meat in her mouth.

She picked up a napkin from the side and wiped her greasy lips.

"What do you think will come in?"

Dai Wei’s expression grew tense.

"Because I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking you. It’s not some kind of brain teaser, is it?"

Yalu Jia pointed at a piece of meat in the middle: "That one is almost done, it’ll burn if you grill it any longer. You really don’t have much experience with grilling meat."

"I mean..."

"Just don’t open the door," Yalu Jia suddenly changed her tone, "Don’t try to delve into the reasons behind these check-in rules, and don’t ask the hotel staff about them either. Otherwise... You think we couldn’t figure out the reasons behind them? You think my Deputy Dean father couldn’t find a way to understand them?"

"You also..."

"Do you know what’s terrifying about the Abyssal invasion? It’s not about what kind of ghost might appear in front of you, but that... sometimes maybe the awareness of what kind of evil spirit might appear is what causes such spirits to materialize before you. Fiancé, you should read more papers on Abyssal invasions, demonic curses. Papers from the Demons Department, with your access, you just need to add some Dark Soul Points and download them, then use an English-Chinese dictionary to check, and you’ll quickly understand."

Dai Wei soon got the point.

"So I don’t need to know what would come in if I open the door to a knock less than four times, right?"

"I told you before. Just don’t open the door and you’ll be fine. Now, give me the meat before it really burns. I don’t like burnt meat, it tastes terrible,"

At that moment, Dai Wei was inwardly annoyed. The hospital’s papers could only be viewed on the hospital’s internal computers. Even if he tried to enter the website from the outside world, he wouldn’t be able to access it.

"Let’s get straight to the point then. The last rule, ’Humans are the only creatures that laugh.’ The hotel staff even called me specifically to confirm that..."

Yalu Jia, who had picked up the grilled meat and was about to eat, looked up at Dai Wei when she heard this.

"So, let me ask you something, Dai Wei. Have you ever seen something that isn’t human, laughing at you?"