Hospital 444
Chapter 605 - 26 Diagnosis and Treatment

Chapter 605: Chapter 26 Diagnosis and Treatment

Dai Lin at this moment felt his brain had crashed.

"What?!"

Dai Lin came here to take part in the professional title examination. His goal was to become a senior titled doctor so that afterwards, he could open a specialist clinic and be the lead surgeon for operations.

However, becoming the deputy dean was, in principle, generally a position where one of the three deputy deans would be recommended and appointed from among the department heads. Of course, the Curse Affairs Deputy Dean was an exception, traditionally being served concurrently by the head of the Curse Goods department. It was already a defiance of the heavens that he, a doctor who had not been a chief physician for long, was taking the senior professional title examination, and now, with a triple jump in rank, he had turned into... a deputy dean???

And moreover, the executive deputy dean?

What about Han Ming? What does that make Han Ming?

In Hospital 444, there have always been only three deputy deans. For a deputy dean to be replaced, there are only three possibilities: first, the deputy dean is demoted; second, the deputy dean is dismissed; third, the deputy dean dies!

"Something big must have happened in the hospital!"

The appointment letter before him was stamped with the hospital’s official seal, a seal that is impossible to forge.

In other words, with this letter of appointment, Dai Lin was now the deputy dean. All the powers of the deputy dean were directly guaranteed and endowed by the hospital! Thus, even though he was only a chief physician, he could directly become the deputy dean!

"When Han Ming gave me... this letter, did he regard me as his successor? No, that’s impossible. In his eyes back then, I was Yin Wuque’s man!"

Dai Lin didn’t understand what Han Ming saw in him. From Han Ming’s perspective at the time, he should have tried every possible means to have him killed! In fact, it was precisely because he tampered with the defense of the in-patient department space that the Devil was allowed to invade!

"Deputy Dean Han Ming... has he died?"

Dai Lin found it hard to imagine Han Ming dying.

But now, it was difficult for him not to consider this possibility.

And just at this moment, Dai Lin’s brain suddenly became clearer than ever before.

He remembered everything!

What had happened before, he remembered everything!

"At that time, I..."

He recalled it all.

Including the conversation he had with Doctor Gao Menghua, including... her explanation of the concept of the indescribable entities of higher dimensions.

All human scientific hypotheses about higher dimensions, according to Gao Menghua, are but blind men feeling an elephant. It could even be said, they are completely off track.

"The seven in-patient rules that I have come to understand..."

Dai Lin immediately realized something.

The Oroñe Hotel itself was probably a space influenced by the incursion of the Abyss.

"When I discussed with Doctor Xia Li, the rules of admission were completely normal. But as the pollution deepened, these in-patient rules turned out to be incorrect?"

Dai Lin looked towards the door in front of him.

"At that time, why did I open the door?"

According to the rules of admission, if there is more than four knocks, one must never open the door.

Yet... he opened the door!

What does this imply?

"Rules... in-patient rules..."

Dai Lin faintly realized that it was probably not as simple as he thought, merely representing different parallel temporal layers.

"Inside this hotel, there exists something beyond our imagination, something more terrifying..."

And that is exactly what we call...

"The smiling humanoid object"!

What exactly does this all mean?

Then, Dai Lin heard the knocking on the door once again.

The "thing" outside was still waiting for him to open the door.

"Kill all smiling humanoid objects..."

...

Gao Menghua’s fingers tapped lightly on the table.

"Now it all depends on whether Dai Lin can survive this calamity."

"So," even Xia Li was now confused, "what exactly should the real hotel admission rules be? I am completely..."

"He is being pulled into the Abyss little by little," Gao Menghua continued, "What the rules are, depends on the temporal layer of the space we are in, Doctor Xia."

"You previously told Dai Lin that we are residents, and the apartment ensures that our memory of the rules doesn’t..."

"Not memory. It’s the actual change in the past temporal layers," Gao Menghua shook her head slightly and said, "If the past was indeed changed, memory has no reference value."

"If memory can’t be used as a reference, then we have no way to make any correct inference, which doesn’t fit with the apartment’s usual fair rules."

"There is no such thing as absolute fairness, Doctor Xia. Fairness has always been relative. If there were true fairness, we should never have become residents of the apartment to begin with. You should be aware, most residents did not enter voluntarily."

"So, we..."

If the past truly could be altered...

"Then which of us has the correct understanding of the rules, us or Dai Lin?"

To Xia Li in the present, the compliance rules started with smiling.

The first one mentioned, "If you’re smiling"...

"Smiling"...

"No, that’s not right!"

Xia Li suddenly felt a strong sense of dissonance and looked towards Gao Menghua.

"Dr. Gao, is there a possibility that what’s actually contaminated by the Abyss is us? That the compliance rules we’re currently aware of are the ones that are wrong?"

Ying Ziye also said, "Actually, I’ve had the same thought. Maybe we are the ones under attack by the Abyss."

Gao Menghua shook her head.

"Impossible... It’s impossible... At the very least, nothing within the apartment can possibly change. I’m very clear on this, so..."

Just then, she suddenly raised her head, looking towards someone not far away!

That person was one of the apartment residents on this trip, named Xia Zhe.

"Why did you just smile?"

"Huh?" Xia Zhe was confused, "Did I smile?"

"You did smile." Gao Menghua said with certainty: "You just smiled. So... you must die immediately!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than Xia Zhe’s neck inexplicably tore open!

Blood sprayed out in torrents!

"Kill all humanoid figures that smile!" Gao Menghua shouted maniacally: "I must kill... because that’s no longer our ’companion’!"

In that moment, Xia Zhe’s body fell to the ground, his hands uplifted as he died with eyes wide open, unable to utter a word.

"You’re insane!"

Xia Li rushed to Xia Zhe’s side, but there was scarcely any life left in this resident.

"No matter what the compliance rules say, you’d kill him just because he smiled?" Xia Li looked at Gao Menghua in horror, "Dr. Gao, it’s you who are sick, isn’t it? I think it’s you who needs treatment now!"

Gao Menghua looked closely at Xia Zhe’s corpse, whom she had killed.

Her face was one of madness, yet she held no remorse for the murder.

With her cursed ability, at such close proximity, she could kill a person without even lifting a finger, much less slit a throat.

At the same time, she also subconsciously glanced at that person’s shadow!

His shadow...

Shadow!

The enormous darkness began to envelop Xia Zhe, then his body transformed into a tall dark figure that stood up!

"Kill him! Kill him now!"

However, everyone else did not understand that Xia Zhe was already dead on the ground!

Why...

...

"Ah!"

Suddenly, Dai Lin felt his brain nearly explode.

At that moment, he discovered that he had acquired all of Han Ming’s memories and cursed abilities!

The Curse Affairs Deputy Dean’s memories and cursed heritage!

"Is this the truth about the Abyss contamination?"

The criteria for diagnosing and curing Abyss contamination...

Could actually be completely reversed.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a person with mental illness is a madman.

While in the eyes of a person with mental illness, it’s the ordinary people who are the madmen!

Both Hospital 444 and 666 Hospital have a Demons Department, albeit their diagnostic criteria are actually the opposite of each other! However, their treatment methods are different.

Yet... a patient regarded as suffering from Abyss contamination by Hospital 444 is considered a normal person in 666 Hospital!

To 666 Hospital, perhaps Hospital 444 might actually be the Netherworld!

So...

"Who is contaminated by the Abyss and who is a normal person cured of it can be completely interchangeable! Once fully assimilated by the Abyss, a patient who becomes a doctor at 666 Hospital has achieved what is termed a cure! In that moment, they become a host for the Demon!"

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