Hospital 444
Chapter 665 - 2: Mania

Chapter 665: Chapter 2: Mania

At that moment, a bizarre incident occurred.

Liu Yuan’s phone rang.

He paused, picked up the phone, it was a call from his father.

"Hello? Dad?"

Because they were relatively close and his phone volume might have been turned up high, Hei Dongxie could clearly hear every word of their conversation.

What he heard was...

"Ayuan, have you gotten up? Quickly open the curtains and look outside, the weather today is exceptionally good, the sky is clear without a single cloud."

Hearing this, Liu Yuan hurriedly said, "Dad, the ophthalmologist urged me to be more careful with my eyes recently and to avoid light as much as possible."

"Doctors always exaggerate. Looking at the scenery outside can’t possibly ruin your eyes, quick, hurry up and open the curtains to look."

"Dad, have you had breakfast yet? Your blood sugar is low, you can’t eat too little for breakfast..."

"That’s not important, hurry, go open the curtains and look."

Hei Dongxie suddenly snatched Liu Yuan’s phone and looked at the screen.

Then, he discovered... Liu Yuan’s phone didn’t have even a single bar of signal!

"Dongxie, I was still talking to my dad on the phone..."

"Ayuan, remember to open the curtains and look, I’ll call you back later."

Then, the call was disconnected.

At this moment, Hei Dongxie was already certain that the person who called was definitely not Liu Yuan’s father.

"Are you going to open the curtains and look?" Hei Dongxie asked.

"Forget it, right now I just want to get my corneal inflammation treated as soon as possible." Liu Yuan followed up, "Dongxie, you suddenly visited me today, is there something you need?"

Hei Dongxie continued to look at the curtains inside the room.

Liu Yuan’s curtains were very thick and almost completely obscured any view from outside.

What was out there?

Hei Dongxie pondered, while taking a sip of tea.

"Has your wife gone to work?"

"Yeah, she dropped our daughter off at school first, then headed to work."

"Mmh... Did you feel anything unusual when you were sleeping last night?"

"Unusual?"

Liu Yuan didn’t quite understand what Hei Dongxie meant.

"Yes. Any kind of unusualness... I always feel that there is something off about this apartment."

"This house was newly developed a few years ago, shouldn’t there be any problems? Have you encountered any issues? Leaks? Cracks in the walls? If that’s the case, you should first contact the community’s property management."

"I know, that’s why I bought an apartment here. Are you sure... there’s nothing abnormal?"

After pondering for a while, Liu Yuan said, "Mmh... no, really nothing."

Blood word tasks generally come with so-called routes to survival.

Once the survival route appears, ghosts can unleash their slaughter.

Before that, ghosts are bound by the rules of the apartment and cannot kill.

Yes, the apartment is that powerful!

Even cursed spirits cannot break free from the restraints of the apartment!

In this regard, all the cursed objects in Hospital 444 combined are far from comparable.

Hell’s Apartment in K city is ranked as the world’s number one most sinister supernatural site that looms over the heads of all paranormal doctors! Oroñe Hotel, Blood Lotus Temple, Suyuan Mountain—none can hold a candle to it.

All paranormal doctors combined are mere ants!

The Department of Cursed Objects had always been scheming to capture the apartment dwellers and study the shadow curse. But any paranormal doctor who tried would be easily killed by the shadow curse.

That meant... every inhabitant’s shadow bore at least the level of a cursed spirit! It was that terrifying!

...

Hei Dongxie and Lin Yunfang returned home for the time being.

"Is this apartment really that frightening?" Unlike her sister Lin Yunfang, Lin Yunfen knew about Hospital 444 but wasn’t very familiar with Hell’s Apartment in K city.

"Mmh." Lin Yunfang nodded as well, "Sis, you must never get close to the apartment on Heitu Chuan Road in K city. Once you enter, even Hospital 444 can’t lift the curse you bear, completely powerless!"

In the face of the apartment, there’s no difference between high and low dimensions; apart from following the rules of the blood word tasks, there’s absolutely no way to fight back.

But now... there was someone who resolved to thoroughly control the apartment and use it for his own ends!

For a long time, the hospital’s management had thought of "controlling the apartment". Therefore, they considered recruiting tenants to become doctors, or doctors to become tenants.

Using either method, doctors could get involved in blood word tasks legitimately, giving the hospital a chance to acquire more powerful curses.

So the dream of obtaining cursed spirits, karmic curses, was not absolutely impossible.

However, the method of recruiting tenants to become doctors was theoretically possible but practically very difficult. If tenants became doctors and got their hands on cursed objects, they could use them to carry out blood word tasks, which would disrupt the difficulty balance of the tasks in the apartment.

After many attempts and realizing it was impossible, they finally gave up. The hospital was in the pure observational phase when it came to apartment’s blood words, not disturbing the tenants in their execution of tasks unless absolutely necessary, nor contacting the tenants privately.

But now, the situation had changed.

Both tenants becoming doctors and doctors becoming tenants had become possible!

In other words, the rules of the apartment now permitted such a thing to happen.

So...

Yin Wuque started harboring intentions to really control the apartment through its tenants!

To turn the management of the apartment... all into people from the hospital!

In fact, many in the hospital were beginning to realize this move. Truth be told, most doctors were reluctant to get involved.

Nobody knew why the terrifying apartment had suddenly started allowing doctors to become tenants. What did this imply?

However, Yin Wuque’s decisive action now kept people from voicing their anger.

In fact, Yin Wuque had already secretively arranged this plan. As Hei Dongxie, who held the dual identity of both doctor and tenant, was also privy to the plan.

The current plan was to first identify potential candidates from the existing apartment tenants and recruit them as paranormal doctors. At the same time, doctors loyal to Yin Wuque should become tenants voluntarily.

However, Yin Wuque wasn’t aware of the extent to which the apartment’s rules tolerated the shift between the identities of doctor and tenant, so the actions had to be cautious for now, proceeding step by step. The plan had yet to be implemented when Hei Dongxie encountered this situation.

Yin Wuque valued Hei Dongxie because he could be enticed by interests.

Conversely... Although Yin Wuque favored Ying Ziye and Xia Li, they were not so easily manipulated. So, after much deliberation, the task was given to Hei Dongxie.

Lin Yunfang was willing to cozy up to Hei Dongxie, even shamelessly roping in her sister, for what? Wasn’t it just for his current status? For the cursed objects he could provide for them? However, Hei Dongxie didn’t expect that Lin Yunfen would be even more ruthless, even harboring murderous intentions.

And now, this blood word task was issued—specifically to Hei Dongxie, and the execution location was the apartment he bought. He had enough reason to suspect that this might be an indirect form of punishment from the apartment. The apartment didn’t want too many tenants becoming doctors, nor did it want too many doctors becoming tenants.

Although doctors and tenants were no longer strictly separate, it seemed the apartment wouldn’t let Yin Wuque easily find loopholes.

Of course, everything in the apartment followed rules. However, to kill Hei Dongxie while conforming to the rules clearly wasn’t difficult.

"Could it be that I’m really being targeted?"

This was an extremely depressing situation for Hei Dongxie.

If things continued this way, facing the quasi-curse spirit of the blood word task would be incredibly difficult for him.

Obviously, the survival route for the blood word task wouldn’t be "don’t open the curtains".

"The current situation in this building doesn’t seem to be quite right," Lin Yunfen said. "This is the peak time for work and school, but not a single household is out, and there’s no one in the hallway."

Key point being, there was no phone signal, and the apartment didn’t allow leaving the building.

This left Hei Dongxie completely clueless about what was happening outside.

He looked at the curtains again.

What was behind the curtains... right now???

"At least one thing is certain." Lin Yunfen raised a finger, "The so-called father who called Liu Yuan, guiding him to open the curtains. Could it be that the ghost is blocked outside by the curtains, so it can’t get in?"

"Impossible," Lin Yunfang shook her head. "The curtains aren’t cursed objects, and every tenant’s choice of interior company is different, and the curtains they buy wouldn’t be from the same brand."

Logically, curtains have no ability to stop ghosts from entering.

Not to mention a quasi-curse spirit.

A quasi-curse spirit is the pinnacle of ferocious spirits. Just think of The Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple from the past, even now just mentioning the "Blood Lotus Temple" would make the entire hospital turn pale. To deal with a quasi-curse spirit, not even the department head could help.

And once it becomes a complete curse spirit, then you might as well wait for death. Cursed spirits are extremely rare, but, if you encounter them, no number of doctors would escape death!

"Cursed spirits are unsolvable cursed objects," every doctor learns this common knowledge during their internship because the hospital cannot turn a curse spirit into a cursed object.

"Facing a ferocious spirit about to transform into a curse spirit... if it really becomes a curse spirit, even Dai Lin would be doomed."

So the issue now was... to find the survival route of the blood word task before the ferocious spirit transforms into a cursed spirit.

Otherwise, they were doomed!

Lin Yunfen and Lin Yunfang’s expressions were quite grim at this point.

"Listen to me, from now on..."

Hei Dongxie pointed at the phone, saying, "Take a video while you try to leave the building. Whether you can leave or not, come back and show me the video. I need to collect more information to deduce the survival route."

"I, if we leave, do we have to come back?" Lin Yunfang’s face grew grim. As a supernatural nurse, did she not know what a cursed spirit meant? If they continued staying here, did they even need to talk about what would happen?

However, her sister Lin Yunfen said, "Yunfang, listen to yourself, if we don’t come back, how can Doctor Dong find the blood word survival route?"

Looking at Lin Yunfen, Lin Yunfang didn’t know whether it was right or wrong to bring her along.

Lin Yunfen, Lin Yunfang—although their names were similar, their personalities were markedly different.

Lin Yunfen—put in contemporary terms... was the archetype of a madcap.

She was the epitome of someone who wouldn’t rest until she wreaked havoc.

Lin Yunfang often felt that Hospital 444 had picked the wrong person; clearly, her sister was more suited to be a supernatural nurse, no, even a paranormal doctor.

She had nearly visited all the famous haunted and sinister places in East Asia and Western Europe. Knowing that her sister knew one fact for certain: this world really did have ghosts!

Lin Yunfen knew this and yet dared to visit so many dangerous haunted places repeatedly! Including the Oroñe Hotel, which she had also visited!

And yet, Lin Yunfen was still alive!

Lin Yunfang herself felt it was a miracle that her sister was still alive to this day; even a lower probability than playing Russian roulette, shooting five bullets against one’s own head, and not dying!

Lin Yunfen always had low moral scruples. She was ruthless to others and just as ruthless to herself!

So it seemed impossible for her to develop even the slightest fear because of the terrifying nature of cursed spirits!

She seemed... not afraid in the slightest!

On the contrary, Lin Yunfen seemed quite eager to see a real cursed spirit!

She was looking forward to it a great deal!

"I’ll help, Doctor Dong. I also want to know, what does a cursed spirit look like."

"Aren’t you afraid to die?" Hei Dongxie, after all, did not know her very well.

"Not afraid."

Lin Yunfen licked her lips.

"What I really fear is a boring life."

Thus, the two sisters picked up their phones and left through their door.

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