Hospital 444
Chapter 603 - 24: Kill the Laughing Humanoid Object

Chapter 603: Chapter 24: Kill the Laughing Humanoid Object

Dai Lin suddenly turned his head back.

He looked into the darkness behind him.

A sense of familiar terror began to awaken.

"’He’..."

Dai Lin finally started to feel the most typical symptom of Abyssal Invasion patients.

In Hospital 666, the confirmation of an Abyssal Invasion didn’t rely on imaging data, but on whether there was a continuous sensation of the "Dean’s" presence.

One could truly feel that the "Dean" was omnipresent.

In both 444 and 666, it was strictly forbidden for doctors to investigate the Dean’s identity or to interpret the existence of the Dean.

It seemed as though the Dean was trapped, but now, upon reflection, it wasn’t the hospital that imprisoned the Dean, but the apartment. Beneath the apartment, for Paranormal Doctors, the Dean was an absolute terror.

These doctors, they’re probably nothing but expendable tools for the apartment residents to carry out the blood-written missions.

"The Dean is watching me..."

Since entering the hospital, Dai Lin had never felt the "presence" of the Dean as strongly as he did now.

He was being pulled little by little into a deeper parallel timeline.

And once the soul was contaminated, according to that paper’s hypothesis, he would gradually become able to see the matter from other timelines.

Therefore, Hospital 444 established certain diagnostic criteria for doctors, such as the appearance of an inverted cross on the forehead, requiring consultation in the Demons Department. This was the beginning of contamination by the Abyss, and with time, symptoms of Abyssal contamination known as the Sign of the Devil would appear in the soul.

The ordinary Paranormal Departments were incapable of treating this. Initially, these patients who hadn’t yet shown the Sign of the Devil were classified as being cursed by vengeful spirits. Only Mei Quzhen insisted on establishing an Evil Ghost Department under the guise of "Malevolent Ghost curse" to save those contaminated by the Abyss.

And... the case of the Jin sisters was the same. As Yun Lan got contaminated by the Abyss, her soul started to perceive the self-awareness of different parallel timelines and was gradually being dragged into a deeper state of Abyssal contamination...

The hospital nearly sealed off the Demons Department to prevent any Paranormal Doctors from learning about the knowledge related to the Demons Department and Abyssal contamination. It wasn’t until Han Ming brought knowledge about the Sign of the Devil that doctors from departments other than the Demons Department had a chance to understand the symptoms of Abyssal Invasion! According to Hospital 666, once hit by a Level Six Abyssal Invasion, it wasn’t just contamination, but a complete assimilation by the Abyss. That’s when one was termed a true...

Demon!

"Speaking of which, no one ever knew how Vice President Han got his hands on this kind of information, did they?"

He recalled the letter Han Ming had given him.

The paper on the Sign of the Devil that Han Ming had once published was beyond Dai Lin’s authorization to view.

The time when Han Ming went to North America and brought back information about the Sign of the Devil aligned exactly with the internal strife within the Dalen Family last century, more specifically with Renice Dailun’s rebellion.

Dai Lin found it hard to convince himself that this was a coincidence. And the rumors said that during that time, Renice Dailun captured a complete Demon, meaning a patient who had been fully assimilated by a Level Six Abyssal Invasion!

"There has to be a connection between these events!"

So then...

What about Li An, the head of the Demons Department who died in this hotel? Was he also assimilated by a Demon Cursed Item? These so-called Demon Cursed Items naturally carried the risk of... Abyssal Invasion.

At that moment, Dai Lin’s phone alarm rang.

The alarm displayed:

"Kill all humanoid objects that laugh within the hotel!"

"Right, it was Dr. Gao Menghua who asked me to set this alarm."

Dai Lin looked at the message.

"Unknowingly so much time has passed."

"This message..."

was he supposed to remember this all the time?

"What is the reason for this? The first rule of the Seven Rules should be not to laugh within the hotel. But if, in Dr. Gao Menghua’s view, this rule is incorrect..."

Dai Lin felt increasingly that something was off.

If that were the case, wouldn’t laughing be perfectly normal?

Or is it that within this parallel timeline, a different set of rules applies?

Or perhaps?

Moreover, being instructed to set an alarm implied that his awareness of this point could change at any moment!

Wait a second...

Dai Lin suddenly realized.

If following the concept of that paper, different parallel timelines actually coexist?

Parallel timelines isolated from each other, where different processes and outcomes of a single event exist side by side. During the process of Abyssal contamination, the boundaries between them would start to break down.

Another typical symptom of the Abyssal Invasion is the occurrence of hallucinations.

But what serves as the reference for what’s real and what’s hallucination? If indeed there exist parallel layers of different times, then... perhaps reality and illusion could transform into each other at any moment.

Therefore, the rules could be real, or they could be fake.

"Could it be that Dr. Gao Menghua knew about the existence of another set of hotel rules from the beginning? Is that why he said such things to me?"

...

A bright morning.

Dai Lin awoke.

The moment he woke up, he immediately felt that something was amiss.

"How did I fall asleep? This isn’t right."

As a Paranormal Doctor, how could he possibly fall asleep!

Looking at the bright sunshine outside the window, but Dai Lin felt more and more that something was wrong.

He walked step by step to the door of the room and pushed it open.

He happened to bump into a hotel waiter.

"Good morning, guest. I’d like to ask you a question, and if you answer, we will present you with a bottle of red wine."

Dai Lin eyed the waiter warily.

"What question?"

"Are humans the only creatures that laugh?"

Dai Lin’s brows tightened.

Again with the laughter!

"May I choose not to answer?"

"Of course, you can. But it’s a bit of a pity because the red wine we offer is high-quality wine air-freighted from France. And this isn’t a prize quiz; no matter if you answer yes or no, we will present you with red wine."

Dai Lin asked again, "So no matter how I answer, the red wine will be gifted? All air-freighted from France? No difference in quality?"

"Correct."

Dai Lin thought for a moment and said, "Then, I won’t answer. I don’t like drinking red wine."

Dai Lin closed the hotel room door.

"This isn’t right... something is off..."

For some reason, Dai Lin felt that everything shouldn’t be this way.

"In this hotel, one must not laugh... Are humans the only ones who laugh... and then Dr. Gao Menghua..."

Huh?

Why mention Dr. Gao Menghua?

She isn’t participating in this examination, is she?

"Must have been a slip of the tongue, it should be Dr. Gao Heyann."

Yes, it should be... Dr. Gao Heyann.

It should be.

But then, Dai Lin’s smartphone rang.

It was an alarm he had set on the phone.

"Kill all the laughing human-shaped objects in the hotel!"

Kill!

The smartphones used by attending doctors are all uniformly issued by the hospital. To some extent, they are also cursed items.

And for a special doctor like Dai Lin, he was specially approved to use a higher-level phone, which can directly contact the hospital from anywhere.

Staring at the prompt on the smartphone’s alarm, Dai Lin’s eyes widened.

"When did I set such content?"

As Dai Lin raised his head, he suddenly heard knocking at the door again.

Once, twice, thrice, four times...

Five times!

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