Hospital 444
Chapter 639 - 9: The Curse of No Deaths

Chapter 639: Chapter 9: The Curse of No Deaths

Of course...

If Dai Lin could utilize the power of the Devil’s Eye to its 100% perfection, he believed he could stand a chance against the top-tier Ferocious Spirits. This was something he was confident about. However, how to achieve this was his primary concern at present.

This time might also present an opportunity.

He wanted to thoroughly investigate the essence of the Causal Law Curse.

"Please tell me in detail about every unsuccessful attempt to meet your wife."

In fact, from the beginning, there was one aspect Dai Lin found perplexing.

The Causal Law Curse did not align with one of the most typical features of a curse inflicted by Ferocious Spirits: frequent deaths.

The main difference between Ferocious Spirits and Resentful Spirits lay in the time it took for a curse from a Ferocious Spirit to kill someone—it was very short. Hence, a curse from a Ferocious Spirit could lead to an astonishing number of deaths widespread. The infamous Ghost Buddha of the Blood Lotus Temple had caused three hundred patients to be admitted to Hospital 444 and even then, only a few survived, while the death toll of those not hospitalized was even higher. The Department of Fierce Spirits had suffered heavy casualties and losses, and even to this day, they had not been able to replenish their manpower due to the curse from the Ghost Buddha.

However, the situation with Alex and Melody was significantly different. In fact, the easiest way to prevent them from meeting would be to kill one of them. Yet, both were still alive and well, which starkly contrasted with the patterns of a Ferocious Spirit’s curse.

Another point also drew Dai Lin’s attention.

"Have you tried different modes of transportation and experienced repeated accidents, yet never had any casualties?"

"Yes. This is what baffles me the most. Whether it’s trains or long-haul buses, even if accidents happen, no one ever gets injured or dies."

"Like the incident just now?"

Although Dai Lin had intervened, it was true that nobody had died on the bus.

Not a single person dying, an occurrence that even Apparitions wouldn’t typically allow.

"What about that shootout in Detroit?"

"The ones who died were all members of the local gangs, no ordinary people were involved in deaths. To be honest, I find that quite unbelievable."

Hearing this, Dai Lin felt even more perplexed.

"This is indeed unbelievable... "

If this was a curse, then what was the principle behind its cause?

Any curse that extended beyond an Apparition usually aimed to take lives, or at the very least, make life unbearable. Normally, only then can it be termed a curse.

It was no wonder that Director Green found it absurd; such a case was unheard of to Dai Lin.

If he had a chance to return to Hospital 444, perhaps he could inquire if there had ever been such a medical case.

"This was also the premise behind our repeated attempts; otherwise, if our meeting would cause innocent people to get involved and die in accidents, we would rather not meet at all."

A curse that did not result in death...

Such a mild curse was simply unrealistic.

"Director Green also asked me about this repeatedly. I’m curious, is this point really so unusual? Are all curses bound to involve death?"

Dai Lin nodded.

"Yes. Or let me put it this way; death is generally the least severe outcome a curse can produce. Some exceptionally horrendous curses make it so that even upon dying, one cannot find rest and is doomed to never transcend."

Curing a curse was only possible during the Resentful Spirit stage, and even so, excluding the conditions of a Karmic Obstacle Ghost curse. As for Malevolent Ghost curses, the situation was quite special; the lightest of Malevolent Ghost curses were similar to that of Resentful Spirits, and if discovered early, there might be hope for a cure.

Once a curse reached the Fierce Ghost stage, healing was no longer possible; the curse was bound to last a lifetime, and living long was virtually impossible. During the Ferocious Spirit stage, not even one in ten patients might be saved, and those who were saved were unlikely to live more than five years. In the Department of Fierce Spirits, most of the documented patients had died after a follow-up of four to five years; the doctors from the Department were hard-pressed to wrestle the patients’ lives from the grasp of Death.

Therefore, if this was a Ferocious Spirit’s curse, for Alex and Melody to still be alive was unrealistic. Unless they were both already dead, just unaware that they had turned into Ghosts.

"So far, it’s still undiagnosed what kind of curse you and your wife have actually suffered."

Treatment methods at 666 Hospital were starkly different from those at Hospital 444. Hospital 444 identified curses and treated them accordingly by cutting out the curses and manufacturing Cursed Objects. However, 666 Hospital, even without identifying the curses, could still treat using Cursed Objects equivalent to the curse phenomena. But in Dai Lin’s view, 666 Hospital’s approach to using Cursed Objects was overly bold and risky, potentially leading to death or injury to patients.

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

"I would like to go out for a walk."

"Do you want me to accompany you?"

"No need. I want to walk around Philadelphia alone."

Dai Lin walked alone on the streets of Philadelphia.

This wasn’t the time layer in which he lived.

If his brother Dai Wei lived in this time layer for long, he might become completely assimilated by this time layer and then his physical body would be isolated from the plane of Hospital 444, and like Hospital 666, become ’non-existent.’ In a materially stable time layer, non-existent objects naturally cannot go from being nonexistent to existent. Only under contamination by higher dimensions do the existence and potential transformations of entities become vague and interchangeable, like Schrödinger’s cat.

And Causal Law... relatively speaking, operated on the same principle.

Dai Lin accessed the internet to research the Detroit shootout. The shootouts eruption was caused by two local gangs fighting over territory. Yet, the dispute between these gangs had persisted for ten years, long before Alex and Melody had ever met.

This point was highly irrational. But if it was a Causal Law Curse...

"This also means that future events can influence the past. Such a curse... simply unimaginable."

Only a top-tier Ferocious Spirit could achieve such a feat.

"What kind of enemy am I actually facing?"

This unknown honestly left Dai Lin somewhat perplexed. He was not afraid of facing a powerful enemy, but this utterly inscrutable curse was something he had never encountered before. If Alex had told him that countless lives had perished, he would have felt it was more typical.

Just then, Dai Lin suddenly turned around!

Although he saw nothing, Dai Lin was certain someone was watching him.

"People from 666 Hospital?"

This wasn’t surprising. They had always been watching him, and soon Lelia would perform surgery on him.

He needed to leave with Dai Wei before then.

And undoubtedly, the people of the Faust Family probably wouldn’t feel confident about him either, and would find ways to keep an eye on him.

A Paranormal Doctor had countless means to monitor someone, not to mention that those behind the scenes this time included Vice Director Mephisto Faust.

Dai Lin could assert with certainty that Mephisto Faust was much more powerful than Yin Wuque and Han Ming.

This was beyond any doubt.

"Annoying rat." Dai Lin glanced coldly behind him, then turned and continued walking.

"I must leave with Dai Wei... I must..."

As he walked, he passed by a store window.

Through the window, he could see Milan’s reflection.

Milan appeared closer in the mirror then before.

Dai Lin knew that Milan’s current condition was because she couldn’t withstand the Demon Cursed Item inside her. Ultimately, she relied on the Technique developed by Rod Dai Lun to barely cope with the Demon Cursed Item. Yet, she couldn’t easily endure the Sixth Level Abyssal Invasion and was finally beginning to succumb to its backlash. Once backlash started, she was bound to be assimilated by the Cursed Item!

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