Hospital 444

Sharing a vision with a ghost felt incredibly eerie to Dai Lin.

Dai Lin still remembered the story of Lu Ning. When she died, her child was too young, and she couldn’t bear to leave, so she became a wandering spirit. However, the child’s stepmother was cruel and abusive, which, out of hatred, caused the spirit of Lu Ning to possess the stepmother, attempting to force her to commit suicide. But for a ghost to kill a living person is extremely difficult; in the end, the stepmother ended up in Hospital 444, where they surgically removed the spirit of Lu Ning and sealed it into a cursed object.

This experience filled Dai Lin with sympathy for this mother. Although she was a ghost, he felt no fear toward Lu Ning. However, if she came to this Sunset Tower, it would be really hard for her to return.

In theory, ghosts are immortal, but in the presence of powerful ghosts, wanderers are too weak. Gao Heyann was essentially sending Lu Ning on a suicidal reconnaissance mission just to slightly increase Dai Lin’s chances of survival.

In his field of vision, Lu Ning was drifting through the corridor. She was still on the first floor, drifting around the hallway for a bit before starting to move towards the second floor.

"Lu... Ning, can you hear my voice?"

Wandering spirit Lu Ning did not respond to Dai Lin, merely continuing to float upwards through the corridor... floating...

Dai Lin found that this shared vision didn’t affect his monitoring of the kitchen window. With this assurance, he felt much more at ease.

In order not to disturb Dai Lin, Lu Yanran did not dare to turn on the range hood, but she picked up a pot, planning to make a tomato and egg drop soup first.

While staring at the pot, she also kept her eye on the window, all the while wondering what the ghost sharing vision with Dai Lin was seeing?

From Dai Lin, the information she had gotten was very limited.

The records at Ghost Surgery Department of Hospital 444 showed that Zhang Bei had been a patient there, but his chief complaint and medical history were encrypted... meaning only Dr. Liang could access them. Dai Lin was vague about the life and death of Dr. Liang, but Lu Yanran had a pretty good idea already.

Encrypting a patient’s medical history is not a good sign. Only through Dr. Liang’s diagnosis can they confirm... the curse afflicting this building should be that of a powerful ghost. The ghost is on the fourteenth floor or above.

Beyond that, they still knew nothing.

How this powerful ghost came to be, what it looks like, why it killed all the building’s residents, and twisted the interior space of the building, all remained mysteries.

Dai Lin had said before, the powerful ghost definitely wasn’t some common specter. It wasn’t like in horror movies where anyone killed by someone could easily turn into a vengeful ghost. If that were the case, there would be no wars, human experimentation, or genocide in this world.

Even if someone is killed in an extremely brutal manner, the chances that they turn into a fierce ghost after death are still infuriatingly low, with most enduring a long passage of time and under very rare circumstances before becoming a powerful ghost. Typically, fierce ghosts are at least decades apart from their deaths, and the existence of millennium-old ghosts wouldn’t be strange. Moreover, if the number of powerful ghosts in the living world reaches certain limits, they are automatically cast into hell to maintain the balance between the living and the spirits.

Of course... though the chances are low, given the vast number of deaths throughout human history, even a small proportion still leads to the birth of countless powerful ghosts.

Being cursed by a powerful ghost, the prognosis for the patient is very grim. For Lu Yanran, the only consolation was that Zhang Bei sought treatment relatively early and could even opt for conservative treatment from the Fierce Ghost Department first. However, this required that Mr. and Mrs. Zhang visit the hospital for regular follow-ups, possibly for life.

If they couldn’t go to Hospital 444, the curse of the powerful ghost might eventually lead to a situation where even surgery would be of no use.

Suddenly, Lu Yanran saw Dai Lin stand up abruptly!

"Dr. Dai?"

Dai Lin’s complexion turned deathly pale and his body started shaking.

Lu Yanran stepped back several paces in fright!

For a patient, the most frightening thing... is to see such an expression on a doctor’s face!

Dai Lin immediately picked up his phone and made a video call to Lu Yuqing. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Seeing his serious expression, Lu Yanran also felt a lump in her throat.

Soon the call connected.

"Dr. Lu."

Dai Lin looked at Lu Yuqing, his tone much more humble than before, "I have some questions to ask you."

Lu Yuqing was still inside the coffee shop.

She had changed into a new outfit.

Seeing Dai Lin’s tone soften, she immediately said, "Is there new information on the curse?"

"Dr. Gao sent the wandering spirit Lu Ning into Sunset Tower and shared her vision with me. Just now, she has already reached the eighteenth floor..."

Hearing this, Lu Yanran subconsciously raised her head to look at the ceiling.

"You all knew already, didn’t you? That this isn’t an ordinary fierce ghost?"

Faced with Dai Lin’s questioning, Lu Yuqing’s choice was silence.

Clearly, this was a form of tacit agreement.

"You have no choice, Dr. Dai. We have already signed a contract."

Dai Lin rubbed his eyes, and this action made Lu Yuqing immediately shrink back, fearing Dai Lin would "kill with a glance" again.

"The Devil’s Cursed Object being lost to the world would also have terrifying consequences." Lu Yuqing added another sentence: "Dr. Dai, remember, at six o’clock, do not let the ghosts in."

"No more advice?"

"Dr. Dai, did the vice-president of the imprint tell you something at the recruitment fair: ’When we face ghosts, we are at a disadvantage’?"

"Yes... he did say that."

"In this world, there is only one place that can completely cure a curse... The Devil’s Apartment on Heitu River Road in K city. As long as you enter there, all curses can be cured instantly, just like a cold."

Hearing this, Lu Yanran hurriedly asked, "K city? Then let’s go there! Is that also a supernatural medical institution?"

Lu Yuqing looked at Lu Yanran on the other end of the video, shook her head, and said, "That place is hundreds of times more terrifying than the building you’re in now. For us at the hospital, that place is a forbidden area that should absolutely not be violated."

Dai Lin bluntly broke the silence: "Do you... really expect me to recover the Devil’s Cursed Object?"

Lu Yuqing also came to understand at this moment: It was no longer possible to fool Dai Lin.

For the doctor of the Ghost Surgery Department, this operation was merely damage control. If the cursed object couldn’t be recovered, eliminating the doctor with the Devil’s Eye would also be maximizing benefits. An uncontrollable Demon Cursed Item was better off gone.

"Contact me again at six, Dr. Dai. I wish you... safety."

Lu Yuqing took the initiative to hang up the phone.

At that moment, her gaze fell upon a young man seated nearby.

The young man had exceptionally handsome features, like an artwork sculpted to perfection, not inferior to those top male celebrities on television. He had been sitting there all morning, his ordered coffee barely touched, continuously working on a laptop. Therefore, Lu Yuqing had a rather deep impression of him, sensing he was a self-disciplined white-collar elite.

All along, his eyes had not left the laptop screen. But just now, when Dai Lin made the video call, he looked towards her.

At this time, Lu Yuqing and the handsome young man locked eyes for over ten seconds, with no sign from him of shifting his gaze.

"Um..." Lu Yuqing couldn’t bear the silence and took the initiative to speak: "Sir, do you need something? Do you know me?"

The young man shook his head: "I don’t know you."

"Um..." A trace of wariness arose in Lu Yuqing’s heart, "You’re not going to tell me that you’ve been staring at me because you have a high regard for my appearance, are you?"

Lu Yuqing was aware of her own looks; although she considered herself pretty, she was certainly not the kind of top-tier beauty that would make passersby daydream, unlike Gao Heyann and her sister.

Moreover, such an outstandingly attractive man would not be amazed by her. Men like him undoubtedly never lacked women’s attention.

"I don’t know you, but I know your colleague."

"What?" Lu Yuqing was taken aback.

It’s rare for anyone in the hospital to actually tell their relatives about their job, right?

Then?

"Let me introduce myself."

The young man took out a gold-embossed business card, half in Chinese and half in English: "My name is Luo Ren, English name Griffin, Director of Zhilin Investment Bank. You and Dai Lin... are colleagues, isn’t that right?"