Hospital 444
Chapter 86 - 27: Not a Single One Will Be Left.

Chapter 86: Chapter 27: Not a Single One Will Be Left.

Tang Li’s memory went back three years.

At that time, her good friend Gao Menghua was secretly investigating their senior colleague in the Demons Department, Ouyang Rui.

The most mysterious and bizarre department within the hospital.

Back then, the director of the emergency department wasn’t An Zhiyuan. In fact, if the emergency department were to elect a new director, the most likely candidate would have definitely been Gao Menghua. She was one of the most outstanding doctors at the hospital and, together with Yin Wuque, was known as the most dazzlingly talented young doctor of their generation.

She once told Tang Li that something mentioned in the first rule of Hospital 444 had appeared in this hospital... "Some other thing."

"Ah Li, because it’s quite obvious that Hospital 444 only takes in Chinese patients, or foreign patients within China’s borders. And clearly, paranormal phenomena are not unique to China, other countries are not immune to it either. Considering the content of the first rule, I have some speculations..."

To all doctors at Hospital 444, Hospital 666 is not unfamiliar.

And it seems that they are clearly antagonistic towards Hospital 444.

And what about... Dark Demon Surgery? Are Dark Demons equivalent to Resentful Spirits, malevolent ghosts, or Fierce Spirits?

"I want to emphasize something to you again, the ghost that exists in this haunted house is something you definitely can’t deal with. Even if you are an associate chief physician, it’s the same," Gao Menghua said.

After hearing Gao Menghua mention this, Tang Li couldn’t help but wonder, could it be — a ghost like a Fierce Spirit?

At this stage, curses from Fierce Spirits are among the most difficult problems Hospital 444 has to diagnose and treat, with the one-year survival rate of patients hardly ever exceeding 20%. The doctors of the Department of Fierce Spirits, without exception, are all the top talents of the hospital. But having survived in the emergency department until today, Tang Li was no ordinary person; even if it truly were a Fierce Spirit, she wouldn’t have succumbed to fear in the face of these people.

"It’s okay, it doesn’t matter if you don’t tell me now, I will wait for you to say it."

At this very moment, a man named William sat in a car a few streets away from this haunted house.

He lit up a cigarette and said to William, who was sitting in the passenger seat, "Our opponent is a Paranormal Doctor, we can’t extract memories, that’s the tricky part."

"Director Dai," the man named William said, "if she gets killed..."

"I have the situation under control," Dai Lin assured, full of confidence, "no matter what, we must gather the maps."

Then, he looked out the car window.

Watching the endless flow of vehicles and pedestrians, Dai Lin took a deep puff of his cigarette.

"William."

"Director Dai...?"

"Soon, all of them... everyone in this world, except our kind, will die."

"I understand that," replied William.

"They must all die from this world."

Dai Lin repeated himself.

William knew Dai Lin’s personality well; he was never a man of many words.

Repeating himself twice showed that, in reality, he was not at all at peace.

"Not a single one will be left. Apart from our kind, regardless of race, nationality, religious belief, political ideology, whether male or female, old or young, not a single one will be left, they will all die from this world," Dai Lin reiterated.

After that, Dai Lin looked at William.

"Do you sympathize with them, William?"

"No, not at all... Director Dai..."

"Before that day comes, we still have to treat them. Don’t you think that’s hilarious?"

"It is the will of the Dean."

"Yes. It is... the Dean’s will."

...

Dai Lin had no trace of sleepiness.

It was already four in the morning.

He had successfully devoured the Devil’s entire right hand and half of its right torso.

He had thus begun to experiment with how strong his abilities had become.

But the situation had left him somewhat disappointed.

Whether observing a person’s soul or peering into the distance, there seemed to be no significant changes.

In sheer boredom, since he couldn’t sleep anyway, he turned on his phone and put on his earphones to watch some videos.

Now, he was still living at home, together with his parents, which reassured him.

After opening the video, he watched a TV drama called "The Imprint of History," which was very popular. It was said that the plot spanned across the entire Chinese history of the twentieth century, but he had been too busy before to watch TV dramas.

Just as he started watching, the show began with a flashback by the protagonist’s father, leading into the history of the Eight-Nation Alliance’s invasion of China.

However, as he watched, Dai Lin suddenly realized something was amiss.

He quickly paused the video, then slightly tilted his phone, and stared intently at the video frame.

Then, he witnessed an astonishing scene.

His gaze penetrated the edge of the video, and then began to extend to the side.

His eyes passed through the video frame, and soon Dai Lin clearly saw the cameraman, camera, lighting technician, and other members of the TV drama crew!

He saw them crystal clear!

Including the director intently watching the monitor screen!

Dai Lin continued to play the video.

Suddenly, something even more exaggerated happened.

He could clearly see the souls of every actor and crew member. Although he couldn’t pull their souls out of their bodies, he discovered he could easily inflict curses on souls!

Which means...

As long as Dai Lin got someone’s photo or video, even if that person was thousands of miles away, he could simply look once and cast a curse on that person!

What about live broadcasts then? What if it was live video footage?

Does it mean that even by watching a video, he could kill a person who was being broadcast live?

Even if the video didn’t capture the person, as long as they were around at that time, he could still see the other party!

Of course, there was a distance limit; he couldn’t see beyond a range of one hundred meters. But for him, any video was no different from a VR scene.

Later, Dai Lin discovered that as long as he focused his attention, all special effects in videos became like green screen shoot scenes to his eyes! He could easily discern with his naked eye which were special effects and which were actual shots.

Even when watching some Hollywood blockbusters with extremely realistic computer-generated CG scenes, in his eyes, they were completely non-existent, and the actors were merely interacting with the air. He could easily determine which scenes were not shot simultaneously but were montages edited together afterwards.

"If that’s the case...could it be that I might easily see through illusions created by ghosts?"

Ghosts can easily make humans see hallucinations, or even take on human forms. If he could easily see through illusions, then no ghost could transform into any shape before him in the future.

However, the transformation of ghosts is entirely different from computer CG images, so he can’t be hasty in drawing conclusions on whether he could achieve this.

Suddenly, Dai Lin realized...

By devouring demons, the power of his Devil’s Eye began to awaken bit by bit.

Following this progression, perhaps one day, he really could call back Meng Hua’s missing soul.

At that moment, Dai Lin once again tried to call Tang Li’s phone, but still, no one answered.

What he didn’t know was that Tang Li’s phone was now in the hands of Dave.

Dave looked at the phone display showing "Dai Lin calling" and lit another cigarette, "The holder of the Devil’s Eye?"

"Could it be that he has the map fragment in his possession?" William pondered for a moment, "Although there’s no record of contact between the two in the call history, perhaps she deleted it."

"Maybe..." Dave thought for a bit and said, "But he’ll give himself away as soon as he hears the voice."

"That won’t be a problem," William thought for a moment and said, "I will go to find Mel. She can easily imitate other people’s voices."

"No..." Dave shook his head and said, "If Tang Li doesn’t show up for work tomorrow, he’ll immediately realize that something has happened to her. This, in turn, might make the people at Hospital 444 vigilant. We’re not sure of all the unknown abilities their cursed objects possess, so we shouldn’t leave obvious clues. At least we need to keep open the possibility that Tang Li was killed by a Resentful Spirit. We can’t move against the holder of the Devil’s Eye now; if he does have the map fragment, it’s better for our inside man at 444 Hospital to probe."

"Then what?"

"Remove the phone’s battery, so that the next time he calls, it will show as out of service area. This is common for phones belonging to people who go missing after being killed by ghosts."

"Alright, Director Dave!"

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