Hospital 444
Chapter 80 - 21 Queueing

Chapter 80: Chapter 21 Queueing

Gao Heyan pondered several possibilities in his mind before asking the forensic expert, "I have a few more questions. The oral cavities of the previous three victims were all stuffed with maps before their mouths were sewn shut, right?"

"Yes... The method of murder is extremely brutal."

"So, what areas did those maps depict?"

"This had always been confidential. I only learned about it after the special investigation team arrived... It was supposed to remain confidential..."

After a moment of thought, overwhelmed by the desire to survive, the forensic expert with surname Chen said, "It’s at Suyuan Mountain in W City."

Upon hearing this, both Dai Lin and Gao Heyan gasped in shock.

Suyuan... Mountain???

The first time Lin Yan saw the pupil-less female ghost was at Suyuan Mountain!

"Suyuan Mountain..." Dai Lin repeated to confirm, "You mean Suyuan Mountain on the outskirts of W City?"

"Exactly, yes... Why, do you know something?"

This absolutely couldn’t be a coincidence!

Twenty years ago, at Suyuan Mountain, Lin Yan encountered that devil and killed her mother—when the second victim died, six years had already passed.

Meaning, by that time, there were already two pieces of hand-drawn map fragments accompanying the dead in this world.

By now, Lin Yan should have undergone surgery in the Demons Department and was in the postoperative observation phase. The wards in the Demons Department were completely isolated, and before her discharge, Dai Lin had no way of reaching her.

Dai Lin’s consciousness sank into the space behind his right eye.

The vague drawings he saw at that time now seemed very likely to be parts of that hand-drawn map.

"Continue," Dai Lin urged eagerly. "Dr. Chen, what strange occurrence did you experience that led you to seek treatment at our hospital?"

"After finishing the autopsy on An Minglu, I went home late last night. I live alone, and after showering and preparing to sleep, I noticed something odd. My phone was supposed to be charging by the bed, but now, it was on the floor about five or six meters away from where it was charging."

For Gao Heyan, who had years of experience treating patients cursed with all sorts of supernatural afflictions, this wasn’t particularly terrifying. She nodded and said, "And then...?"

"I went to pick up the phone. I’m confident in my memory; there’s no way it could be wrong. Then, I discovered something even more terrifying—my phone started ringing with an incoming call! I checked the number; it was from an unknown caller. So, I answered, but there was no sound from the other end. I hung up, and after a while, the number called again."

Gao Heyan had a faint guess of what might happen next.

"After about five or six times, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I called back. Suddenly, I heard a ringtone coming from the bathroom! It was unbelievable because I had just come out from there," said Dr. Chen, his face showing extreme fear. "I’m actually quite brave; one can’t be a forensic expert without some courage. So I quickly returned to the bathroom, opened the door... the shower room is a separate enclosure, and because I had just taken a shower, it was all steamy, so I couldn’t see clearly inside. Yet the ringing was coming from there!"

"Then, I walked towards the shower, grabbed the door, and tried to push it open, but... it wouldn’t budge! It felt like there was a great resistance... as if someone was holding the door from the inside! I was very nervous and the phone continued to ring. Finally, I gritted my teeth and as I persisted in pushing the shower door, I suddenly saw a clear handprint appear on the steamy glass door! I was sure, it hadn’t been there a moment ago!"

"Eventually, I managed to open the door, but there was no one inside! Nor any phone, and the ringing had stopped. Immediately, I contacted the station. The station staff came to my place right away, lifted fingerprints from the glass door, and checked the mysterious number that had called me... They spent the night investigating, and it turned out that the fingerprints on the glass belonged to An Minglu! And the phone number was hers too! But her phone had been kept as evidence in the forensics department!"

"They checked the surveillance in my apartment corridor. Unsurprisingly, no one apart from myself had entered or left my place. And An Minglu had never been to my home while she was alive. However, now the station personnel started suspecting me, even theorizing that I had some connection to An Minglu’s death. They interrogated me overnight and only then allowed me to return, instructing me to temporarily stay away from the case investigation..."

This series of bizarre supernatural events indeed had the power to shatter a person’s lifelong atheistic materialist beliefs. And at such a time, discovering a business card from Hospital 444 on oneself would make the decision to seek treatment here unquestionable.

"You need to go for a soul CT scan," Gao Heyan immediately said, typing on the keyboard to create a CT order. "Remember to go to the second floor to pay for it, then have the CT done. Based on the CT results, we will decide which department should treat you. Given your current condition, you may need to be hospitalized for observation. If you’re scared, you can take the stairs down."

Suyuan Mountain...

At this moment, Dai Lin’s mind was preoccupied with these three words.

Lin Yan twenty years ago, and now his own brother, Dai Wei...

Was Dai Wei also cursed by such a terrifying evil spirit?

And it just so happened that both Lin Yan and Dai Wei were now warded in the Demons Department, making it impossible for him to visit them!

After pondering, Dai Lin thought it was necessary to investigate Lin Yan’s parents.

Back then, Lin Yan’s parents took her on an outing to Suyuan Mountain, where they encountered the pupil-less female ghost. Was that truly a coincidence?

Come to think of it... back then, only Lin Yan saw the female ghost, yet it was her mother who was killed.

After the medical examiner Chen left, Gao Heyann saw the thoughts in Dai Lin’s mind and said, "I know what you’re thinking, but at this stage, it’s better that we don’t act rashly. We’re still too weak."

Dai Lin clenched his teeth and said, "I know. I’m still too weak right now."

Just then, his phone rang.

It was the phone that Gao Heyann had given him, which could be used both inside and outside Hospital 444.

The caller was Jiang Lan.

Dai Lin immediately answered the phone, "Hello, Miss Jiang?"

"Yes, Dr. Dai, there’s indeed something unusual about the matter you asked me to look into. This nearly forty-year-spanning serial murder case, upon close examination, has involved many people mysteriously disappearing. Some had reported on this series of cases, but it was later suppressed...because the case itself was too terrifying and could easily cause panic."

Dai Lin immediately said, "Miss Jiang, I’d like you to help me look into the parents of a person named Lin Yan..."

"Lin Yan?"

"Yes. She’s one of my patients."

Hospital 444, second floor at the payment counter.

When the medical examiner Chen went to pay, he suddenly jolted.

There weren’t many people at the payment counter, just five or six people in line ahead of him.

As he stood in line, he felt a sense of panic and looked around.

Then, he suddenly saw something behind a pillar about ten meters behind him.

There seemed to be a vague shadow of a person behind that pillar.

This made the medical examiner’s heart skip a beat as he stared hard at that spot, gripping the CT scan in his hand.

Could it be... ghosts can follow you to Hospital 444?

He tapped the person in front of him and asked, "Um, I want to ask, if we come to this hospital, ghosts... they couldn’t possibly come after us, right?"

The person ahead of him shook their head and said, "It’s possible."

Upon hearing this, the medical examiner immediately turned back to look at the pillar.

At that moment, he couldn’t see the shadow behind the pillar anymore.

Turning back again, he just hoped the line would move faster so it would be his turn soon.

All of a sudden...

He vaguely sensed that something was off.

And then, he finally realized what was off.

The person who had been standing in front of him didn’t seem to be wearing the same clothes!

"You..."

Before he could react, the person in front of him chillingly turned their head one hundred and eighty degrees, revealing a ghastly face, pale with lips sewn shut by threads, coldly staring at the medical examiner!

"Aaaaahhh!"

Just as the female ghost raised her hand to grab at the medical examiner, her figure was abruptly seized by the neck by a hand that descended from the ceiling, and then, the female ghost was hoisted up and pulled into the internals of the ceiling!

Hearing the scream, the people in front turned their heads to look at the medical examiner.

"Did you see a ghost?" It was then that the person originally in front of him spoke, "Don’t be scared, the hospital is full of enchanted objects. They won’t let harm come to you."

The medical examiner’s hands went limp, and at that moment, he looked up at the ceiling, where everything seemed normal...

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