Hospital 444

Thirteen steps?

Milan hadn’t quite grasped the meaning of these words.

"The staircase that had twelve steps... now has thirteen..."

Rosa lifted her beautiful eyes, watching the staircase that led upwards intently.

Then...

Footsteps were heard from above!

Yes, footsteps!

There should be no on-duty doctors in the hospital now; the only ones left were those ghosts, sealed by the cursed objects in the corridors, who could only wander back and forth.

But this was no ghost!

Both Rosa and Milan were certain of it.

Particularly Rosa, as a descendant of witches.

Milan had a vague awareness that she might be about to witness something extremely dangerous!

At this moment, an instinctual thought arose in Milan’s mind: Run! Run now! If she ran right now, she might still make it! Perhaps... perhaps...

However...

There was no "perhaps."

Just then, Milan noticed that Rosa had swiftly pulled a red mask from her person!

The red mask that doctors could only obtain in the Demons Department!

Seeing the red mask, Milan’s heart skipped a beat!

This... this, what is this?

There were two situations where wearing a red mask was necessary: first, when non-English signage appeared in the hospital; second, when a doctor without a black inverted cross on their forehead was seen!

The footsteps grew clearer and clearer.

Soon, that person... would come down from above!

What on earth could it be???

But, all of a sudden, Rosa took a step back. Then, she lifted the red mask, almost about to put it on!

Finally, Milan couldn’t bear it any longer, and she hastily fled from the stairwell!

Then she teleported back to the Darren Family estate!

By this time, she was completely out of her wits, shivering in the corridor.

...

"To this day, I don’t know what I would have seen if I had stayed there that day."

In the private dining room of the hotel’s restaurant, Dai Lin and Milan were waiting for Xia Li to join them.

Even now, Milan still felt a chill recalling the event.

"And after sharing your memory, I learned crucial information."

"Don’t speak of it," Dai Lin cautioned.

The incident involving the nurse with the red mask was Dai Lin’s greatest secret.

This secret he would never tell anyone.

"I know," Milan understood naturally.

After the doctors and nurses at 666 Hospital put on the red masks, a number of them mysteriously disappeared.

And now, Milan finally knew where those people had gone.

At Hospital 444, doctors were always required to be aware of the number of steps on the staircase when descending; they were not to go down when the stairs turned into 13 steps.

"So, the doctors at Hospital 444... if they step onto a staircase with 13 steps, they might end up at Hospital 666..."

"There have indeed been precedents for this. We’ve witnessed doctors without the black cross on their foreheads in the hospital. But no one has ever successfully captured them. If they don’t wear the red mask in time..."

At this point, Milan turned to look at Dai Lin again.

"And then, there’s the chief physician named Liang Zhigao."

Dai Lin certainly remembered Liang Zhigao. It was because of him that Dai Lin had gone to the Sunset Building, trying to retrieve his Devil’s Cursed Object. And from all indications, Liang Zhigao had been in contact with Hospital 666.

"Maybe your elder brother had contact with Liang Zhigao."

"After the fall of the Darren Family, Dai Wei still lurked within the Faust Family faction, maintaining contact with Liang Zhigao. Just like me, Dai Wei came to this dimension, and even through the information provided by Liang Zhigao, Dai Wei came to know... of your existence."

"Is my existence important to you?"

"I’m not sure." Milan shook her head and said, "I know very little, your elder brother should be the one who understands everything most deeply, perhaps he even knows the secrets of the Zuyuan Mountain. Dai Wei must have always been providing him with the key clues, allowing him to know the core secrets."

Then Milan continued, "The reason our family was wiped out might be because my elder brother knew too much. Our family wasn’t something the Dean could simply erase at will, so the Dean, using the hands of the Faust Family, made our family completely vanish from this world."

When Milan spoke these words, her expression was extremely calm, so calm that Dai Lin felt a tinge of heartache for her.

"That night..." Dai Lin wanted to quickly change the subject, "Rosa Medel saw something, and then she told your elder brother. Afterward, they began exploring Hospital 444."

"I don’t know what kind of ’key’ my brother obtained through Mary Faust, but his actions touched upon the Dean’s absolutely intolerable taboos. So, thinking in reverse... he definitely got hold of the knife that could sever the chains binding us together by the Dean!"

Obviously...

Milan’s hatred wasn’t directed just at the Faust Family, but also included the Dean. The Faust Family was merely the Dean’s lapdog, the Dean... was the most horrible villain!

However, without a doubt, the current Dai Lin and Milan, thinking of confronting the Dean, was nothing but a pipe dream.

Milan accompanied Dai Lin to K City this time, seeking out Xia Li, hoping this could help in discovering whether there was any power capable of countering the Dean.

Even with slim hopes, Milan was not willing to give up.

Dai Lin could tell that, despite Milan’s carefree front, as if she didn’t care about anything, the will for revenge was always buried deep in her heart.

At that moment, Xia Li entered the restaurant.

Dai Lin immediately concealed Milan within his right eye.

Xia Li pushed open the door and, looking at Dai Lin, said, "Doctor Dai."

At this moment, Xia Li was somewhat awkward facing Dai Lin, as the relationship between the two was now in a very strange state.

"She doesn’t want... to see you."

The ’she’ Xia Li referred to was naturally Dai Xiy an.

Dai Lin sighed and said, "If that’s the case, then there’s nothing I can do."

"Here’s what we’ll do." Xia Li sat down opposite Dai Lin and said, "I’m willing to tell you something."

"Something?"

"Yes. Actually, the apartment has issued us a blood-task mission. And the location of the blood-task mission is quite special."

"Special in what way?"

"The Oroñe... Hotel."

Upon hearing this place name, Dai Lin was shocked.

The Oroñe Hotel, the testing site for rising to higher professional titles within the hospital! By passing the trials of the Oroñe Hotel, one could henceforth sit in the specialist clinics directly!

And at this time...

The banquet at the Faust Family mansion was reaching its end.

Dai Wei finally realized a truth: The Vice Dean had decided to take him as a son-in-law, and it was an irrevocable fact. Regardless of his own desires, there was no distinction.

He could only... accept this reality!