Hospital 444

Dai Lin felt a strong sense of dissonance the first time he read Jin Yunran and her colleague’s memories through the coffee cup.

That sense of dissonance was similar to what he had felt when he first read Lin Sen’s memories.

At that time, he became highly vigilant.

Of course, he did not tell Lu Yuqing about this.

Nowadays, Dai Lin could no longer distinguish who in the hospital he could truly trust.

He would not forget the eerie "Patients’ Code" found in Liang Zhigao’s memories, which mentioned never to seek treatment in the Demons Department.

But the problem was... Dai Wei had already been to the Demons Department.

In the surveillance video, the seat that should have been occupied by the mysterious person with the inverted cross on their forehead was now taken by Jin Yunran and her colleague. And now, there was such a sense of dissonance present in Jin Yunran’s memories!

He couldn’t help but worry about this and wanted to investigate the matter further.

The memories of Jin Yunran that he had read... were actually the result of a curse altering the malevolent ghost’s self-recognition. Through the cursed item issued by Zhao She to Jin Yunlan, Jin Yunran truly believed she was a living person and had grown up with Jin Yunlan since childhood.

However, when Dai Lin searched for "Gao Qishu Abyss Blue Whale" on the internet based on Jin Yunran’s memories, he was shocked to find...

Gao Qishu was indeed a well-known bestselling author, but the problem was... he had not died at all! His latest work had been continuously updated online and had never stopped.

This situation made it seem very bizarre.

Generally speaking, shouldn’t it be the other way around if there were ghosts involved?

Why was it that in Jin Yunran’s memories, her brother-in-law Gao Qishu had died?

While Gao Qishu was a public figure, naturally there were no details about his wife available online.

But at the time, Dai Lin was not aware of what this all entailed and did not act rashly. Having experienced a similar memory curse himself, he subconsciously felt that Jin Yunran’s situation must be similar to his own. Uncertain of the curse’s underlying source, he decided not to act recklessly and resolved to find Jin Yunran’s colleague the next day to understand the situation better.

At the time, Dai Lin thought that Jin Yunran’s memories had been warped by a curse (although that was indeed the case). He took advantage of the free time after the morning internship course to find that colleague, however...

"Jin Yunran? Who’s that? I don’t know her."

Looking back on it now, she probably had her memories altered by Jin Yunran before, and after Jin Yunran stayed away from her, her memory was restored. But at that time, Dai Lin thought that the curse had altered the memories of the colleagues around Jin Yunran.

He felt that Jin Yunran was in a very dangerous state and must be brought to the hospital for treatment. So, using the mobile phone number he had gotten through reading her memories, he called her.

But then... contact was cut off.

In a rational state, Dai Lin should have immediately reported this to the higher-level doctors. But what worried him was whether the patient would be transferred to the Demons Department for treatment if he did?

To put it even more drastically... was letting patients receive treatment at this hospital in itself subjecting them to a fate worse than a curse?

For example... after Lin Yan went for treatment in the Demons Department, Dai Lin never saw her again. The Demons Department would not share any patient’s treatment information with other departments, and he had no idea whether Lin Yan was alive or dead after the operation. What he could be sure of was that Lin Yan had never returned to her home since then.

At the same time... although it’s unclear how much Lin Yan paid for the surgery, the price was definitely far more than ten thousand Spiritual Therapy Points. Within Liang Zhigao’s memories, the hidden Patients’ Code of Conduct included: Never pay more than ten thousand Spiritual Therapy Points at the hospital!

In the end, Dai Lin decided... to go to Eagle Garden alone to see for himself. Through the memories he read, heaven only knows the exact address of the Gao Qishu household in Eagle Garden.

That noon, he teleported back to W City, only to be surprised to find that he had also brought the doctor’s white coat with him! But this turned out to be a good thing, as the doctor’s white coat itself was also a kind of cursed artifact!

Dai Lin then went to the Gao residence, but as soon as A-Lan opened the door for him, he also stepped into the malevolent ghost’s special domain. He struggled desperately at first, but in front of the malevolent spirit, he could only save his life through embodiment.

Latter, Gao Heyann and Lu Yuqing found the record of A-Lan’s phone call at the registration desk. They quickly traced through Lin Lan’s phone that she was currently employed by the Gao family as a nanny. Thus, Gao Heyann deduced that this was related to Dai Lin and, with the help of Dr. Tang Li, entered the Gao residence under the identity of "A-Lan."

Because she entered by assuming "A-Lan’s" identity, Jin Yunran, a malevolent ghost whose cognition was affected by the cursed artifact, did not realize that Gao Heyann was an intruder. He even genuinely mistook her for "A-Lan" and entered the attic with her.

But as Gao Heyann entered the attic, she discovered... Dr. Zhao She had been in the attic all along! And only then did Gao Heyann realize that the cursed object influencing the malevolent ghost’s cognition was one of the Blood Bodhi Ghost Buddha Heads from The Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple!

Gao Heyann had heard before that it was one of the hospital’s most terrifying cursed artifacts, prescribed clinically only when a malevolent ghost or even a fiend’s curse was confirmed. The Blood Bodhi Buddha Head was relatively small, making it more portable.

Dr. Zhao She had been hiding in the attic all along with the help of the Ghost Buddha Head! As long as it faced the malevolent ghost, it could affect their memory and cognition, shifting it to the doctor’s advantage.

...

In the darkness, two beams of blood light burst forth!

Gao Qishu held a gloomy and sinister Buddha head, aiming it at the malevolent ghost Jin Yunran!

Piercing shrieks echoed continuously, and then, Zhao She walked up to the malevolent ghost!

"Go to the place where you belong! Malevolent ghost!"

Afterward, Zhao She’s hand actually grabbed the crown of the malevolent ghost’s head!

Then, black Karma Force manifested on the back of his hand!

The frenzied malevolent ghost was dragged by Zhao She little by little into the depths of darkness...

"Just like Dr. Zhao said before, Halloween is the best day for surgery..." Jin Yunran watched the scene with mixed emotions. "Can he, can he succeed?"

Gao Heyann nodded and said, "His wife is, after all, the head of the Evil Ghost Department."

Jin Yunran came to her husband Gao Qishu’s side, her eyes brimming with tears, and hugged her husband!

All this time, as long as she stayed inside the house, her memory was in a state of manipulation. But once she left the house, she would remember that her husband was still alive, although her memory would be manipulated, and Jin Yunran in her memory was a dead sister.

In Gao Qishu’s diary, the last time she went to see her sister Yunran was to sweep her grave.

In her subconscious, she always wanted to dispel her sister’s resentment. Born as twins, Yunran could barely survive only in an incubator, and after that, she struggled with illness all her life until she passed away at the age of three, while she herself had lived well until now, even getting married and having children...

If the roles were reversed, would she, if she were the one who died, also turn into a malevolent ghost due to madness?

She did not know the answer.

But at that moment, Gao Qishu suddenly discovered that the Ghost Buddha Head in his hand was starting to shatter!

"Impossible!" Gao Heyann, seeing this scene, could hardly believe her eyes. "This..."

...

At that time, Yin Wuque was standing outside the Gao family villa.

In his eyes, all the windows of the Gao family villa were pitch black, with not a sound coming from inside.

Dead silence.

Yin Wuque looked at the scene before him and slowly walked towards the villa. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

"This kind of anomaly must be due to the hell’s entrance at the Bai residence being opened."

After entering the Bai residence and losing one of Mei Quzhen’s hands, he barely managed to rescue Ying Ziye and Xia Li. By then, Yin Wuque already knew about the horrors connected to the hell behind the Bai residence.

"Dai Lin can’t die in there."

If the situation got out of control, then he would have to go in as well.

Suddenly, the villa’s door opened.

Zhao She walked out from inside the villa, his body covered in blood.

"How is it?" Yin Wuque approached and asked, "Is Dai Lin still alive?"

"Vice President Yin?" Zhao She was startled and hurriedly said, "My hand... it’s probably going to be useless. This malevolent ghost is very abnormal, even the Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple are beginning to fail to suppress it!"

"Tonight is Halloween."

"But, she can’t come out anymore. You can rest assured."

Afterward, Dai Lin, Gao He Yan, Lu Yuqing, Gao Qishu, Jin Yun Lan, and Gao Yunyi came out one after the other.

"Brother-in-law?" When Gao He Yan saw Yin Wuque, his heart immediately settled.

"Hmm?"

But just at that moment, as Gao Yunyi looked at Yin Wuque, his eyes widened, displaying a terrified expression.

"Ahh, ahhh, you, you..."

Yin Wuque, seeing Gao Yunyi’s gaze fixed on himself, instantly narrowed his eyes!

Thus, from behind that door, suddenly a blood-red hand extended!

That hand grabbed Gao Yunyi and dragged him inside!

"Yunyi!"

Jin Yun Lan almost couldn’t believe this scene and was about to rush back in, but Yin Wuque ran inside first!

"Block the patients! Don’t let them come inside! Without my orders, other doctors are not to enter!"

Yin Wuque closed the villa’s main door and ran inside alone.

Afterward, he saw Yunyi in the living room.

The malevolent ghost would come down soon and then kill him.

A perfect murder by proxy.

If he had a choice, Yin Wuque didn’t want to kill anyone personally.

He was confident that no one had noticed that it was actually a blood-colored skeleton that dragged the boy inside, his signature cursed artifact.

Yunyi looked at Yin Wuque in utter terror, screaming in fear, "Dad! Mom! Save me!"

Yin Wuque had already released the ghost realm to ensure no one else could come inside.

His purpose of coming in was to prevent any doctor from rescuing Yunyi.

"You can see it... right?"

Yin Wuque pointed behind himself.

"If you can see this, you shouldn’t have spoken. Except for doctors from the Demons Department, anyone who sees this can only die. I indeed heard that a very small chance exists that some children could see this... but I never imagined I would encounter such a thing."

Yin Wuque squatted down, grabbing the terrified Gao Yunyi.

Meanwhile...

On the other side of the darkness, a malevolent ghost with a mangled face crawled on the floor, inching closer and closer.

It was Jin Yunran.

That A-level Scalpel was inserted directly into her temple, and even so, she could still crawl, albeit very slowly.

By now, Yunyi was so frightened he couldn’t even speak.

"When I lost Shi Ling," Yin Wuque coldly said to Yunyi, "the only clue was a woman named Gao Menghua, who claimed to be a vet but was actually a woman from Hospital 444. I entered the hospital with one goal in mind, to retrieve Shi Ling’s soul."

He grabbed Yunyi’s face tightly, leaning close to him.

"If you hadn’t seen me, you wouldn’t have had to die..."

The crawling Jin Yunran was now less than five meters from them.

"I transformed into what you see now, all for Shi Ling. For that, I sold my soul to the demon!"

When Jin Yunran was only one meter away from them, Yin Wuque threw Yunyi towards her!

After that, he turned around.

There were no cries of despair behind him.

As long as he did not assist the patient, the malevolent ghost would not attack him.

The villa’s main door opened.

Yin Wuque walked out with a look of "grief" on his face.

"I’m sorry... I tried my best... I couldn’t save the child..."