Hospital 444
Chapter 597 - 19 Gao Wei

Chapter 597: Chapter 19 Gao Wei

"I discovered it unintentionally," Li Song began to feel that Manager Les’s tone was turning strange, "I didn’t mean to count the shadows. Besides, if I didn’t count, how would I have discovered the problem?"

For the paranormal doctors attending the exam, restraining themselves from counting shadows is indeed very difficult.

If you had simply said that counting shadows was not allowed, that would have been the end of it.

But now, the rule emphasized that if two shadows appeared, you had to check out of the room. What if you don’t count the shadows and an uncontrolled situation arises? By then, it might be too late to teleport back to the hospital, and you might end up haphazardly meeting the King of Hell.

Li Song was also very cautious of these hotel staff members. Whether they were human or ghost, that was still uncertain at this point.

However, whether they were human or ghost, Li Song didn’t have a choice now. After all, he couldn’t do anything to the people in front of him.

The restrictions of the exam were really severe. As paranormal doctors, they usually looked down on ordinary people, feeling as if they really belonged to a superhuman class. Now... they were restrained at every turn by others.

However, Les, looking at Li Song in front of him, showed none of the respect that hotel service staff should have towards a guest.

He said coldly, "Guest, please check out of the room immediately. All the rules of stay have been particularly emphasized to you during the check-in process. If you don’t want to follow the rules..."

What then?

Li Song sneered. He dared to take the professional title exam, of course, because he had some skills.

On the operation table, he had come through many life and death trials. Let alone something as trivial as this...

"Then, I guess there’s nothing I can do," Les sighed, "I really didn’t want it to come to this."

Following that, he glanced at his watch and said to the surrounding service staff, "You have instructed everyone, haven’t you?"

"Instructions have been given. We have processed the check-out, and from now on, this room is unoccupied."

Les then stopped looking at Li Song and told the hotel staff, "Remember firmly, to particularly emphasize to guests not to count shadows, whether their own or others’."

"You, you’ve already checked me out?"

Li Song became angry and then, he quickly charged towards Les in front of him.

However, just as he was about to touch Les’s body, he began to sense that something was amiss.

The space around him...

No!

He began to sense that the space in front of him was turning into various different directions.

Some terrible being had set its sights on him.

"No! No!"

However, no one could hear his voice anymore.

...

Gao Menghua looked at Ying Ziye in front of him.

"I hear you used to be a physics teacher, Doctor Ying?"

"Yes. I’ve been interested in science and engineering since I was young."

Ying Ziye didn’t quite understand what Gao Menghua meant.

"You know that the hospital spent a lot of time developing a cursed object that can control and jump through space, right?"

Ying Ziye had heard about it; it was the result of a long-term research endeavor by the hospital’s Cursed Objects Department.

"I’ve heard of it. Whether from a scientific or a paranormal perspective, it is very difficult to achieve jumps within three-dimensional space. I’ve read papers by Doctor He Jinghan before, presenting hypotheses on higher-dimensional spaces."

"What do you think higher-dimensional spaces are?"

"Hawking believed that the universe consists of an eleven-dimensional space. The universe we live in belongs to three-dimensional space."

Those who study physics often revere Hawking, and Ying Ziye was no exception.

Pointing to the note paper beside her, Ying Ziye said, "And the paper represents a two-dimensional space, which is why anime is referred to as ’two-dimensional.’ But Xia Li, for some reason, could move from two-dimensional space into three-dimensional space..."

"It’s not about moving into..."

Gao Menghua corrected Ying Ziye’s statement.

"Moving into is a concept of the three-dimensional space posited by human physics."

"It is... There’s a theory that humans can only perceive up to four-dimensional space."

"Let me explain to you the so-called Netherworld hypothesis," Gao Menghua continued, "This is the new paper I have been preparing to write."

She tore off a piece of note paper.

"Two dimensions can absolutely not enter three dimensions, and two dimensions cannot perceive three dimensions."

She took up a pen and drew a little boy on the paper, then she placed the note paper in front of the pen.

"You see, the pen is indeed in front of the paper, yet this little boy can’t see the pen no matter what."

"Therefore..."

"Therefore," Gao Menghua pressed on, "the boy represents the Paranormal Doctor at Hospital 444, and now..."

Suddenly, she took the pen and stabbed through the paper, the tip piercing the boy’s face.

"This part of the pen that pierces the paper represents the Demons Department."

Then, she pulled out the pen.

"The boy could never perceive our space, even though everything objectively exists, he could never see, hear, or sense it."

This gave Ying Ziye a chilling sense of dread.

"The Demons Department... is what?"

Gao Menghua went on to say, "The so-called higher dimensions are more terrifying than you can imagine, Doctor Ying. The cursed object you have is one of the few taboo artifacts that can sense high-dimensional beings in the Netherworld and avoid contamination. For Yin Wuque, your existence is indispensable."

"High-dimensional beings? Contamination?"

"The true Netherworld is a distorted plane far above the space we inhabit. Although in theory, different planes are actually the same space, we in our plane cannot feel the existence of higher-dimension planes. And when someone can feel it, they will inevitably be contaminated..."

Gao Menghua unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and poured it on the paper.

"When low-dimensional life is contaminated by the high-dimensional distorted plane, they will show what’s known as symptoms of the Abyssal invasion, also currently the paranormal curses indefinable and unclassifiable in spiritual medicine. If this contamination persists, low-dimensional life will be completely distorted and become the medium and host through which high-dimensional distorted beings erode the lower-dimensional existence. You’ve read many papers from the Evil Ghost Department, right? You should know what a sort of curse a Malevolent Ghost is, so Director Mei insisted on keeping the Evil Ghost Department as an independent division no matter what."

"For instance, the black inverted cross on the forehead and the doctors and nurses wearing red masks?" Ying Ziye faintly anticipated what was coming, then added, "And then there is..."

"Yes, the Sign of the Devil," said Gao Menghua in a calm tone, uttering the three terrifying words, "Once the Sign of the Devil appears, patients will surely be transferred to the Demons Department."

The piece of note paper beside her was completely soaked by the water, and the image of the little boy on it began to twist and deform.

"Hospital 444 should never have come to know about the so-called Sign of the Devil."

Ying Ziye was beginning to grasp the concept of the Netherworld.

But she had not realized that the Netherworld was such a terrifying existence.

"Why tell me now?"

"Speaking of this at Oroñe Hotel, you will feel it more, Doctor Ying. Then, you will gradually discover the horror of this hotel!"