Hospital 444
Chapter 74 - 15 A Kind of Terrifying Presence

Chapter 74: Chapter 15 A Kind of Terrifying Presence

"Do you know her?" the proprietress asked with slight confusion. "She seemed a bit off last night."

"How so?"

At this, Dai Lin pointed to the menu and said, "Um, madam, another serving of lamb and bread please."

He had learned this from Jiang Lan.

The proprietress caught on quickly. While Dai Lin was scanning the code to pay, she turned back to the kitchen and, after a shout, said, "That’s right, she came to my place for noodles yesterday. When I brought her the noodles, I saw her video chatting with a girl on her phone. Oh... I remember now, it was the other girl in the photo you just showed me!"

An Minglu!

Last night, Ge Lin was in contact with An Minglu through her phone!

At that time, it must have been when Dai Wei left to go to An Minglu’s house.

Combining the memory of the autopsy from the police and the testimony from the proprietress now, it’s certain that An Minglu’s time of death was around eight o’clock...

Wait a minute...

Something’s not right!

Dai Lin immediately realized something was amiss.

There was absolutely no mention of this in Ge Lin’s memory. None at all!

Moreover, if this were the case, then Ge Lin would have been the last person An Minglu spoke with before she died.

But according to the memories he obtained from the police, when they investigated An Minglu’s call history before her death, they hadn’t found any record of Ge Lin!

The reason they hadn’t found Dai Wei was because Doctor Tang used a cursed object.

Yet, the final call between Ge Lin and An Minglu was missing from her memory and the police hadn’t found it either!

Dai Lin continued to ask, "What happened then?"

"After that, I went over to the cash register to get busy, and then I suddenly heard the girl on the phone, speaking and suddenly she got so scared she fell onto the ground, butt first, even knocking the bowl of noodles from the table to the floor, shattering it!"

Dai Lin began to realize that Ge Lin might have been cursed as well.

This time when he went to see her, he would have to take her back to the hospital for hospitalization. Otherwise, the consequences could be unimaginable!

"And then...?"

"I remember afterwards, her face turned really pale. When I went up to her, she apologized for breaking the bowl. I said it was just a bowl, no big deal, but she didn’t say much else and immediately picked up her phone to make a call. However, it seemed like no one on the other end was answering. After a while, she paid and left straight away."

At that time... Ge Lin was video calling with An Minglu.

What did she see?

The reason An Minglu wanted Dai Wei to accompany her that night was because... she felt there was "someone else" in the room.

This fear was so great that even with her disciplined nature, she sent Dai Wei messages full of insinuations, just to have him come over and keep her company.

Although Dai Wei did rush over later, she continued to feel frightened and therefore made a video call to Ge Lin with her phone.

And through that video on her phone... what did Ge Lin see?

"Madam," at this moment, Gao Heyan asked a very crucial question, "Did you... Let me preface this with a declaration that this question is very important. Please recall carefully before answering... When you went over there, did you see the phone screen?"

"I was only concerned with the noodles on the floor then, but... um, the phone had also fallen to the ground, right beside the shattered bowl."

"So, did you see the phone screen?"

"I didn’t, because my attention was entirely focused on that bowl of noodles..."

"Alright, I understand. She didn’t come back afterwards, did she?"

"No, she didn’t."

After the proprietress left, Dai Lin, looking at her hair, asked Gao Heyan, "Should we...?"

"No," Gao Heyan shook his head and said, "I think she indeed didn’t see it. I suspect the reason Ge Lin lost that memory but she retained hers is precisely because she didn’t see the phone screen. If you read her memory to see that fleeting glimpse she might have caught, you might end up cursed as well if you see something."

Hearing Gao Heyann say this, Dai Lin grew even more worried about Dai Wei.

When Dai Wei told him about it, he said that he had entered the bedroom and seen An Minglu’s body, so scared that his soul seemed to scatter. He rushed over to shake the body, only then discovering that the body’s head had been turned a full one hundred and eighty degrees. Following that, a large amount of fresh blood suddenly flowed from her stitched-up mouth, and the blood on him was from that moment. Of course, all the fingerprints he left there, even if discovered by the police, would go unseen under the influence of Dr. Tang’s cursed artifact.

"At the time, he hadn’t seen any other terrifying presence, but... perhaps it wasn’t that it was invisible to the naked eye, but that whatever was in An Minglu’s room had already seen him!"

Dai Lin still vividly remembered the alarm that the Devil’s Eye had sent him the previous night when he went upstairs.

There was definitely something in An Minglu’s room at the time!

And it was not just a devil!

It was an existence more terrifying than the devil itself!

Dai Lin grew increasingly anxious, unable to wait any longer!

"Let’s go!"

But just as Dai Lin stood up, Gao Heyann remained seated, completely still.

"Dai Lin, do you know what this means? It’s a terrifying existence that can even easily manipulate memory. Ge Lin and An Minglu were so far apart, she just glanced at the screen of a phone, and she was cursed."

Upon hearing this from Gao Heyann, Dai Lin understood.

"We’re doctors, not saints. Saving lives must come with the prerequisite of preserving our own," Gao Heyann emphasized once again: "At least, I think this has already gone beyond our capabilities. Just the two of us going is far from enough... I’m just an attending physician."

Memory so easily manipulated...

This very fact was terrifying to Gao Heyann.

She couldn’t even be sure if her current memories had already been manipulated.

This was not a situation that the Wraith Surgery Department could handle right now, unless they brought over Director Song. However, it was known that no doctor would want to intervene with a patient from the Demons Department.

Dai Lin had to admit that Gao Heyann’s words indeed made sense.

Therefore, he couldn’t help but fall into deep thought, to the point where he didn’t even notice the arrival of the lamb stew bread.

He didn’t know if he would still be alive in six months.

Everything about the Demons Department was beyond inquiry, and so far, there had been no news from Dai Wei. The doctors of the Demons Department were shrouded in mystery; to put it rudely, he wouldn’t be surprised if they used patients as sacrifices. Hospital 444 was not there solely to treat and heal. If something were to happen to Dai Wei, and then he died six months later, what would become of his parents?

"If the source of all these curses could be ended, surely the people from the Demons Department would be able to treat Dai Wei better... right?"

Upon hearing Dai Lin speak, Gao Heyann knew what he intended to do.

"We... have no support, right? It’s okay, Dr. Gao, you can leave first. I’ll go alone."

The situation turned quite stagnant for a moment.

"We won’t have support. Brother-in-law..." For the first time in Dai Lin’s presence, Gao Heyann referred to Julien Sorel as brother-in-law: "He wouldn’t approve of what we’re doing now either. No doctor will join us, no matter how good our relationship may be, it doesn’t mean they are ready to put their lives at risk for us."

Then she took a deep breath and said the following words.

"I can’t let you die. So, I’ll go alone. If I die..."

"Wait, how can I possibly let you go alone..."

At that moment, Gao Heyann rolled up her sleeve, revealing the ghost-faced tattoo to Dai Lin.

Dai Lin suddenly felt dizzy, then lost consciousness and collapsed onto the table.

Gao Heyann stood up and said to the proprietress, "Proprietress, my colleague seems to have gotten drunk, and I can’t carry him. Let him lie down here for a while, I have an urgent matter to attend to. I’ll contact someone else to come pick him up later."

"That’s fine, business is slow right now anyway."

Gao Heyann then walked over to Dai Lin, who had already passed out, leaned down and took a careful look at him.

"If I die, you must live on and then save my sister!"

Afterward, she walked straight out of the noodle shop, leaving without looking back...