Hospital 444
Chapter 638 - 8 The Terrifying Ferocious Spirits

Chapter 638: Chapter 8 The Terrifying Ferocious Spirits

Alex pulled out his phone and called Melody again.

After just one ring, she answered.

"Hello, Alex."

"Melody..." Alex hesitated, "Have you had dinner? And... your daughter?"

"Yes, I’ve eaten. I’m currently on a train to Washington."

"That’s good." Alex reassured himself that the train didn’t have any troubles for the time being, and let out a brief sigh of relief, "Rest well tonight. Once you arrive in Washington tomorrow, contact me, and I’ll set out immediately. We’ll meet at the premiere of ’Kaiju’ the day after tomorrow night."

"Okay... see you at the premiere."

Alex could tell from her tone that Melody spoke without confidence, genuinely uncertain whether they would be able to meet smoothly.

After chatting with Melody a little longer, the two ended the call.

By this time, Alex had already returned home with Dai Lin.

This was the place Alex planned to live with his wife and daughter in the future. He had personally overseen the entire decoration process, striving for perfection in every detail.

"Dr. Dai," said Alex as he poured tea for Dai Lin, "will the Cursed Object be effective? To not get Melody’s hopes up too much, I didn’t tell her much about the details of the Cursed Object."

"I’ve studied the details of the Cursed Object inside your body," Dai Lin replied, "Simply put, it’s a special type of curse aimed at combating the Causal Law Curse. There isn’t enough data from human trials with this Cursed Object yet, but one thing is certain, it definitely has an effect on curses caused by causality."

Dai Lin always felt that what he said was practically nonsense.

But there was no helping it; he was completely clueless about the Cursed Object research at 666 Hospital, and there was too much he didn’t understand. In such a case, the safest course was to speak in seemingly correct, but essentially valueless platitudes.

Clearly, this kind of talk could not give Alex any confidence.

"But Melody and I are both experiencing unusual situations... Under such circumstances, I really can’t convince myself..."

"Speaking of which, do you really have no leads on this kind of curse?"

This curse, which merely separates the two of them without causing physical harm to either, is exceedingly rare.

Not causing physical harm generally points to the work of Apparitions. Apparitions cause very little harm to humans, mostly just frightening them, with the most severe usually being Sleep Paralysis.

But without a doubt, this Causal Law Curse couldn’t possibly be the doing of an Apparition.

Even a Ferocious Spirit might not be able to accomplish it.

Of course, if it were a Cursed Spirit more potent than a Ferocious Spirit, even the current Dai Lin would have only one option—to flee. A confrontation with a Cursed Spirit offers no solution; even the vice president of the hospital could only run when facing a Cursed Spirit.

However, he couldn’t explain this to Alex.

Overall...

The likelihood of encountering a Cursed Spirit was still very small. It’s more probable that a Ferocious Spirit was involved. But one thing did not make sense.

As long as Alex and Melody did not meet, their daily lives would remain unaffected, let alone be cursed.

This didn’t match the symptoms of a Ferocious Spirit curse at all. Although Dai Lin had not clinically dealt with a Ferrous Spirit curse himself, he had read numerous papers on the subject.

A Ferocious Spirit curse inevitably results in death, potentially causing a shocking number of fatalities, and the process of death would be extremely horrific and terrifying. The most famous Ferocious Spirit curse that the hospital had encountered was the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple. The mere mention of the Blood Lotus Temple sent shivers down everyone’s spine at Hospital 444. Over three hundred patients had entered the hospital; only five survived, and nearly thirty doctors died as the cost of subduing the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas and turning them into objects under the control of the Department of Cursed Objects.

To this day, the statues of the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas are among the most terrifying Cursed Objects stored in the hospital, with the four most fearsome Ghost Buddhas—the Eyeless Ghost Buddha, Ferocious Ghost Buddha, Yin Yang Ghost Buddha, and Blood Lotus Ghost Buddha—requiring deputy director-level permission to access, each request must be well justified, and they must be returned afterwards; even deputy directors cannot keep the Ghost Buddhas. Initially, Liu Ying had forced Dai Lin not to pursue her by using a Ghost Buddha head from the Blood Lotus Temple provided by the Demons Department, putting him in a position where he had to guard the morgue.

The Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple currently represent one of the most terrifying Ferocious Spirit curses recorded in the hospital, almost akin to a Cursed Spirit. Of course, if it truly reached the level of a Cursed Spirit, it wouldn’t be possible to turn it into a Cursed Object. If Yin Wuque were to use the Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple to kill Dai Lin, undoubtedly, he would have no chance of survival. Fortunately, Yin Wuque would not be able to request the use of the Ghost Buddhas with the reason of ’killing a doctor.’

Dai Lin vividly recalled how Liu Ying had used a Ghost Buddha head given to her by the Demons Department to threaten him into not pursuing her as she tried to take her son’s body out of Hospital 444. This was a banned object from the Department of Cursed Objects, yet it had felt immensely dangerous. Facing a Ferocious Spirit head-on right now would be extremely risky.

"Dr. Dai, what are you thinking about?"

At that moment, Alex noticed that Dai Lin seemed lost in thought, so he asked, "Are you... thinking about the Cursed Object?"

"Yes, but not really..."

"Actually, Director Green mentioned to me that the Department of Cursed Objects at the hospital had also been involved in research on curses related to causality in the past."

Dai Lin knew he was talking about the previous head of the Department of Cursed Objects, Rod Darren.

He was the most outstanding head of the Department of Cursed Objects recorded at 666 Hospital since the era of the Sargeni Covenant. However, a few years ago, with the destruction of the Darren Family, he too perished. Even the members of the Faust Family were saddened by the loss of such talent. Such geniuses were incredibly rare. But now, there was nothing that could be done; a person who refuses to submit and opposes you, the more talented they are, the more they need to be eradicated.

So, with the death of Rod Darren, the internal research on Causal Law Objects at the hospital stagnated, with no progress to be made ever again. Most critically, Rod Darren had erased all his research materials thoroughly.

Currently, the Faust Family could only rely on analyzing and reproducing the Cursed Objects he had left behind. The Cursed Object inside Alex was one of them.

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