Hospital 444
Chapter 686 - 18: The Path of Life and Memes

Chapter 686: Chapter 18: The Path of Life and Memes

1995.

This was an uncommon year for Hospital 444.

That year, Han Ming, who was not yet the Executive Vice President, was sent to the United States to hunt for Devils.

So-called Devils are an advanced level of Malevolent Ghosts.

Once Resentful Spirits transform into Karmic Obstacle Ghosts, the evolution from the original Resentful Spirit to Fierce Ghost, Fierce Ghost to Ferocious Spirit, and Ferocious Spirit to Cursed Spirit, becomes Karmic Obstacle Ghost to Malevolent Ghost, Malevolent Ghost to Devil; Devils turn into Demons.

At that time, the occurrence ratio of Devils in clinical cases began to rise significantly. If clinicians could not differentiate and diagnose Demons and Fierce Ghosts on time, not to mention the casualties among doctors, the survival rate for patients would also decrease, affecting the doctors’ patient death quota.

Dai Lin initially encountered Lin Yan, who was actually troubled by a Devil, but was misdiagnosed by Gao Heyann as a patient cursed by a Fierce Ghost... Such phenomena were actually not uncommon in clinical practice.

Chosen by the then Executive Vice President Gong Cheng, Han Ming took on the task, rushed to North America, in the hope of capturing a Devil to obtain curse theory information to aid Gong Cheng’s research.

was also a particularly special year for 666 Hospital.

That year could be said to have completely changed the course of history.

And now, even if Dai Lin didn’t have the subjective will, he completely obtained knowledge of what happened that year through memory sharing.

1995.

The Darren Family was an immense clan whose bloodline spanned across the European continent.

Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland... many major nations had Darren offspring.

Of course, a portion of their blood relations emigrated to the United States.

The mother of Renees Dailun was an old American descendant who could be traced back to the time of the Mayflower.

Within the Darren Family, the side branches in the United States were not paid much attention to, after all, the power center of the Darren clan was in Europe. During the period from the Iron Curtain to the end of the Cold War, the Darren clan was in no hurry to take sides, always hedging their bets.

By 1991, the Bald Eagle had finally won the Cold War. This also meant that the power center of the Darren Family would gradually transition to the side branch in the United States, and a significant portion of family blood relations began to migrate from Europe to the United States.

At that time, Renees Dailun living in Rhode Island State, as the most outstanding of the younger generation among North American blood relations, received attention.

In 1991, Renees Dailun was already seen as a genius. Inside the hospital, more and more people were optimistic that in the upcoming new century, she would take the position of the new Vice President.

Renees clearly remembered that Christmas Day, it was the first time she met the head of the family from the European Darren branch, Vice President of the hospital, Samael Darren.

Samael asked Renees on their first official meeting, "I heard you saw the Princess of Wales in 1989?"

"Mm. I specifically went to New York, and was fortunate to catch a distant glimpse of Lady Diana. Just like during her visit to Australia, the Princess of Wales was so approachable; she even visited an AIDS hospital which even American politicians seldom visit, and took the initiative to embrace sick children. The Prince of Wales does not deserve her."

In 1991, the public was generally unaware of the discord between Prince Charles and Diana; most people thought they were a fairy tale couple of prince and princess. As for Camilla... nobody thought it was a big deal for the Royal Family to dally on the side.

"Are you saying Prince Charles does not deserve Lady Di?"

"Isn’t the Prince of Wales and Prince Charles the same person?"

The Renees of that time was much younger than now.

Youth often comes with an edge.

In contrast, Samael was much more sophisticated than her and understood human nature more profoundly.

"I have a rough idea about the path of life."

Renees stood up, saying to Dai Lin, "There’s a rule in the Blood Letter Task about distinguishing black from red, right?"

"Yes..."

"And also, those who are black... they eat humans..."

Indeed, this was also the matter of most concern to Dai Lin.

"So it seems," Renice began to understand.

Once she understood, Dai Lin naturally came to understand as well.

"The inability to distinguish between black and red is a sign that the Quasi-curse spirit has lost its intelligence, right?"

"To be precise, differentiating black from red is very important for this Quasi-curse spirit."

"But what do the black color and the cat mean?"

"Cat..."

The Curse Rules!

"In fact, when a Quasi-curse spirit fully transforms into a Curse Spirit, calling it a Curse Spirit is somewhat inaccurate. At that time, the Spiritual Body no longer exists; the Curse Spirit is just a part of the Curse Rules by then, similar to how a Demon Host partakes in the Abyss and becomes part of the Demon. Therefore... the Curse Spirit, as an individual entity in the true sense, does not exist. A more appropriate term would be... Memetics."

Memetics.

The highest level manifestation of a curse in Mysterious Medicine.

The Blood Letter curse in that apartment once was thought to be Memetics, but later observations showed that even Memetics could be easily restricted and controlled by a Blood Letter Task.

And all Curse Spirits serve Memetics.

Memetics, this highest level curse, is something with which the Paranormal Doctor is completely powerless to treat. Therefore, Curse Spirits, as parts of the Memetic collective, are also recognized as incurable highest-level curses.

And Memetics has one characteristic.

All known Memetics target only the human species. Fierce Ghosts and Resentful Spirits may harm animals, but Quasi-curse spirits and Curse Spirits will only curse humans. Hence, humans with strong Spiritual Abilities domesticate animals with relatively strong intuitive powers to come into contact with Quasi-curse spirits and even Curse Spirits.

"It’s likely a Spiritual Cat. Now, the Quasi-curse spirit is at a stage where it can’t differentiate black from red; its intelligence will be replaced by the rules of Memetics, and then there will naturally be no need to distinguish."

Renice looked towards the curtain.

"As for that ghost outside... The loss of intelligence causes it not to know whether it can pass through curtains or whether it is restricted by the apartment from seeing through curtains. But if we pull back the curtain, we might allow it to see colors..."

"Shouldn’t it be unable to differentiate black from red?"

"I’m afraid it’s a divided consciousness."

Most Evil Spirits have divided consciousness.

During the rule transformation process of a Quasi-curse spirit, the main body of the Evil Spirit is the most affected by intelligence.

If the main body loses the ability to distinguish black from red...

Could the divided consciousness differentiate?

"The black represents the ghostly body, while the red... is us."

Renice raised her hand and said, "The hue of our blood circulating beneath our skin forms the complexion of the living, which is the standard that Quasi-curse spirits use to determine the hunting target! The divided consciousness outside is responsible for discerning who the prey is!"

Dai Lin immediately understood!

"Once it can distinguish black from red, that’s when we’ll have trouble! We need to find something... to smear ourselves black!"

Something?

Speaking of which, there was something ready at hand.

On the desk not far away, there was a bottle of ink!

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