Hospital 444

An elderly man woke up and stretched lazily.

"Is it almost noon already? I can’t believe I slept for so long."

He sat up and started getting dressed. Once dressed, he put on his slippers, looked towards the window, and prepared to draw back the curtains.

His curtains needed to be pulled back using a cord, a specific design choice he had made during renovation to ensure they wouldn’t be drawn back by simply a blow of the wind.

The old man’s legs were not as nimble as they once were, his movements shaky as he approached the window. He then grasped the cord and gently began to raise the curtain.

Just then, his phone suddenly rang.

He stopped, walked over to pick up the phone, and saw it was a text message from his son.

"Dad, quickly pull back the curtains and have a look."

What’s this about?

The old man returned to the window with a suspicious look and completely drew back the curtains...

The very next second, shock registered on the man’s face...

And the following second...

The curtains were drawn closed once more...

The room fell into an eerily silence...

...

This was the second time that Dai Lin had experienced the Blood Letter Task of Hell’s Apartment, following his encounter at the Oroñe Hotel.

This time the sensation was...

"Quasi-curse spirit..."

Dai Lin had already faced Ferocious Spirits before, but Quasi-curse spirits were a completely different concept, nearly the limit of what Ferocious Spirits could achieve.

Ferocious Spirits were so powerful that even the Deputy Director had to handle them with caution, and Han Ming was the director of the Evil Spirit Department. Anyone who worked in the Evil Spirit Department was a true backbone and trump card of the hospital.

Dai Lin had a good relationship with Fang Zhou, and he was in possession of a genuine Evil Spirit Curse Object, a rare Spatial Curse Item within the hospital! With just a drop of blood, one could transfer their flesh and soul, and even be reborn from a drop of blood! It was for this reason that Fang Zhou told Dai Lin he could appreciate the terror of Ferocious Spirits even more.

But as for Quasi-curse spirits... they were extremely rare among Ferocious Spirits, and if one reached this stage, most of the hospital’s defenses would be meaningless. The appearance of a single Quasi-curse spirit in the hospital could result in the death of at least a double-digit number of doctors and a triple-digit number of patients.

"I’ve met the surviving doctors who were involved in the Ghost Buddha incident at the Blood Lotus Temple."

"Is it Doctor Lu Qiong? I’ve heard she’s the only surviving doctor from the Evil Spirit Department who experienced the Ghost Buddha incident at the Blood Lotus Temple."

"In fact, the real fear with the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple lies in the core four Ghost Buddhas: the Buddha heads representing Happiness, Anger, Sorrow, and Joy."

Reputed to be under The Sargenic Blood Covenant as the strongest Cursed Object, the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple are such that no single doctor has been able to possess any of the Buddha heads representing Happiness, Anger, Sorrow, and Joy for long. The essence of these four Buddha heads belongs to the same Quasi-curse spirit!

Spread among the four Buddha heads is the terrifying curse of this Quasi-curse spirit, sometimes concentrated in a single head, causing the Department of Cursed Objects to exhaust all their efforts in suppression. At such times, one Buddha head could transform into a Cursed Spirit.

Should that happen, more than half of the doctors in the Department of Cursed Objects would die.

The hospital has no measures to restrain a Cursed Spirit, and even if all the Deputy Directors worked together, it would be futile.

However, a Cursed Spirit won’t kill all the supernatural doctors, as it seems bound by certain rules; there’s an equilibrium between the Evil Spirits and the doctors.

And now...

Another Quasi-curse spirit has appeared!

Just like the Twenty-seven Ghost Buddhas of the Blood Lotus Temple... another Quasi-curse spirit!

"Quasi-curse spirit..."

Compared to the Ferocious Spirit he previously faced in Washington, this Quasi-curse spirit was clearly much more terrifying. Yet for Dai Lin, it was also an opportunity, a chance to acquire a Quasi-curse spirit’s Cursed Object through the Devil’s Eye!

The Devil’s Eye could absorb the limbs of any Ghost Object without side effects, allowing for a smooth integration into one’s own body!

That’s the power of the Demon Cursed Item!

"Hmm?"

Hei Dongxie, who stepped out of the door, suddenly felt something was off.

"What’s going on?"

He looked behind himself.

Dai Lin stood just behind him, but Hei Dongxie could not sense him.

Yet, Hei Dongxie felt a faint sense of dissonance.

"What’s wrong with you?" Lin Yunfang, after all, was a Supernatural Nurse and had relatively more experience, so she immediately noticed that Hei Dongxie sensed something was amiss.

"No... perhaps I’m just a bit on edge..."

...

Nie Yuan slept until almost twelve noon before waking up.

He was a gamer through and through, claiming gaming as his daily routine, and the night before he played non-stop until 4 a.m., vanquishing the Abyss Beast King in the Beast Soul Continent of the Black Abyss, before he finally succumbed to exhaustion and went to sleep.

As a result, he slept right through until noon.

For a dedicated gamer like him, he felt the room was a bit dark upon waking up.

Well, that was normal, since the curtains were drawn.

However, as he lay in bed, he didn’t feel like moving at all, so he took out his phone and started browsing a gaming forum.

"’Black Myth: Wukong’ has a new trailer out today, let’s check that out first... The owner of that thread yesterday really said Black Monkey will definitely hit ten million sales once it launches, what an idiot, doesn’t know jack about the domestic single-player game market.. Could it be the troll again?"

"Huh? Why can’t I click into it? No signal on my phone?"

But after he refreshed it, his phone managed to enter the forum.

However, what he saw next left him stunned.

Is this... a gaming forum?

Is someone spamming the forum maliciously?

All the posts were...

"Look out the window!"

"People at home, look outside!"

"A rare astronomical phenomenon that happens once in a century!"

"Pull back the curtains and take a look! Unbelievable, if I’m lying, I’m a dickless liar!"

This...

Do all these people on the gaming forum, from all corners of the world, say there’s some kind of astronomical phenomenon outside?

Nie Yuan immediately sat up from bed and walked swiftly towards the curtains!

"I really have to see this astronomical phenomenon!"

Nie Yuan’s curiosity had been piqued.

Just as he was heading towards the curtains, suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Eh? Who’s there? I didn’t order any food delivery?"

Could it be a leaking toilet?

So, he put on his slippers, threw on a coat, went to the door, and opened it.

Standing outside was naturally Hei Dongxie, the Lin sisters, and Dai Lin. Of course, Nie Yuan was unable to recognize Dai Lin’s presence.

With one sweeping gaze, Dai Lin knew... the other party hadn’t drawn the curtains at all.

"Who are you looking for?"

Seeing the four people in front of him, Nie Yuan immediately looked puzzled.

"Hello, little brother," at such times, for the female live streamer Lin Yunfen, handling this situation was a piece of cake, "We would like to..."

She had thought up a whole explanation, but in the next second, Dai Lin’s Devil’s Eye was already gazing directly at Nie Yuan.

The latter’s consciousness was instantly altered under the influence of Dai Lin’s gaze.

Of course, by now Dai Lin had mastered such manipulations to the point where he could ensure no harm would come to the other party.

And he implanted the idea that "you must absolutely not open the curtains" into Nie Yuan’s mind.

"Look, this is my TikTok account and my number of followers," at this point, Lin Yunfen took out her phone to show Nie Yuan, "I’ll invite you on my account later, and I’ll do a special live stream in this apartment."

"Okay, come in."

Nie Yuan, already influenced by Dai Lin’s Devil’s Eye and his own altered self-awareness, opened the security door.

Hei Dongxie was surprised, thinking that it would have taken more talking to convince the man, but it proved to be quick and easy.

So, they entered the house. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"By the way, don’t open the curtains," Lin Yunfen emphasized again, "A darker environment is better for my streaming."

"Okay." Nie Yuan nodded dumbly and said, "I won’t open the curtains, I won’t."

His reaction made Hei Dongxie feel something was off.

What’s with this guy?

It was then, suddenly, a phone rang.

Whose phone?

But quickly, everyone realized... it was everyone’s phones!

All of their phones were ringing at the same time!

Hei Dongxie immediately picked up the phone to answer.

"Hello?"

Another call about scanning a QR code if you pull back the curtains?

"Go ahead and open the curtains."

Huh?

"Open the curtains."

"Open the curtains."

The voices belonged to people Hei Dongxie didn’t recognize at all.

"Otherwise, you’ll regret it."

"You will regret it."

Men, women, children, the elderly... voices of all kinds intertwined.

Bone-chilling!