Hospital 444-Chapter 450 - 30: The Long Night (Part Four)

Dai Lin and Milan left the duty room with heavy hearts. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"What should I do?"

Yet Milan patted Dai Lin on the shoulder and said, "Let’s first consider how to survive. For us, that is the most pressing matter to address right now."

That said, Milan too was deeply shaken inside.

The morgue in 666 Hospital had six duty rules. The first few were the same, but towards the end, they had drastically changed. There was even what was called a ’seventh’ rule.

The content of the seventh rule was truly shocking.

Be highly vigilant of any department head ... except for the Executive Vice President?

The key word here being ... any!

The department head is a special position. The characteristic of this job is that the cursed objects inside gain a high degree of stability and balance. This balance allows them more than the average paranormal doctor to enter a Curse Item Unsealing State for short periods.

Curse Item Unsealing State is extremely dangerous for doctors, and most need to regularly undergo medical examinations by the Curse Object Department Doctors every month to control the cursed objects from running amok and to ensure their stability. Frankly speaking, Hospital 444’s Department of Cursed Objects capability is clearly far superior to that of 666 Hospital. With the suppression by its doctors, cases of cursed objects backfiring while in an unsealed state are quite rare. Therefore, the department heads in this hospital would typically have four or more cursed objects implanted within them.

"Actually, my older brother does have certain expertise in the research of cursed objects. This relates greatly to my older sister, as he has always wanted to restore her to her original self,"

Milan’s sister Natalie wasn’t always the crazed person she had become. Her mental state was a side effect of the implantation of cursed objects, as the evil spirits’ malicious thoughts and consciousness began to affect her personality. Her brother had also proven through research that with every additional cursed object implantation, paranormal doctors would gradually be influenced by the ghosts.

"Does that mean, the self-awareness of department heads could also be severely influenced by the will of the ghosts sealed within the cursed objects, and hence the warning for you to lie to them?"

The text of the seventh rule emerged and disappeared completely after about a minute.

Dai Lin, of course, had also committed its content to memory completely.

Inside this hospital, aside from Dai Lin, no one else could easily absorb someone else’s memory like he could. And even with Dai Lin’s ability, it was very challenging to read the memory of a paranormal doctor.

So, if a department head asked him, he could just lie his way through.

But...

"The President," Dai Lin quickly concluded, "Aside from Han Ming, everyone in this hospital is under the absolute control of the President. The department head position is likely also a way for the President to control and bind the doctors."

"So..."

"The President doesn’t know the contents of the seventh rule! Hence, he wants doctors like me, who arrived here as a punishment, to see it. This is a gamble under fair rules between the powers cursing the President and the President himself."

Then why would the President want to know the seventh rule?

Bodies that haven’t been taken to the morgue within 24 hours... The black cat that laughs at doctors, and... from midnight to four in the morning, entering the outpatient area...

"The President forbids us from going to the outpatient area during this time frame. Yet the seventh rule forces me to go in. So, the question is, what exactly is it during this time period that the President doesn’t want us to see at any cost?"

As he spoke, Dai Lin had already entered the morgue room where Lin Qian’s body was located.

Countless bodies covered with white cloths lay on the movable beds.

And Dai Lin moved towards where Lin Qian was lying.

In his hand, he held the documents recording the photos taken when Lin Qian was found.

As Dai Lin arrived at the body, he also used the Devil’s Eye to scan his surroundings, checking if the black cat had appeared.

In the past, Dai Lin had indeed heard from Gao Heyann about a black cat in the morgue. The doctors and nurses who had been on duty there had witnessed the black cat. No doctor would try to catch this cat or harm it with cursed objects.

It can be said that those who have survived the morgue shift owe it, more or less, to the help of this black cat.

Therefore, Dai Lin naturally also brought meat to feed the black cat. Of course, this meat could not be taken out of the morgue, nor could it be handed over to the Department of Cursed Objects for inspection to determine what kind of meat it was.

At least, Dai Lin could be certain that this was not Cursed Flesh.

As for what this black cat actually is, that remained a mystery. It’s one of the countless enigmas of this hospital.

Dai Lin didn’t lift the white cloth, but let the Devil’s Eye see through it, and once again he saw Lin Qian’s dead features.

For Dai Lin, this pair of eyes was enough to make out every detail of Lin Qian, including a mole on her foot, as clearly as could be. And compared with the photo, there had been no changes.

It was still just an ordinary patient’s body.

It looked very normal.

And the black cat had not made an appearance yet.

Honestly, the absence of the black cat was a good thing. Because Gao Heyann had told himself that if the black cat appeared, it often meant that danger was imminent.

At this moment, Dai Lin really hoped the black cat would not appear before him.

But the appearance of the black cat was inevitable.

"Speaking of which," Milan suddenly said to Dai Lin, "if we deliberately try to search for that black cat, we basically won’t find anything, right?"

Dai Lin replied, "The Devil’s Eye can easily scan the morgue thoroughly. I can be certain that there is no black cat here at all."

"Then what is this black cat?"

There definitely weren’t any black cats in the morgue of 666 Hospital. There were also no on-duty doctors who reported seeing any black or white cats.

Why was there an extra thing like this in Hospital 444?

Moreover, there was another point, why, according to the seventh rule, if a cat smiles at a doctor... must it be killed immediately?

And within ten seconds?

The unknown was the most terrifying thing. And now, it was impossible to draw any conclusions from this.

"Let’s go check the other bodies."

"Okay."

Just to be safe, Dai Lin carefully inspected Lin Qian’s body once more through the Devil’s Eye.

The body had been found over 24 hours ago, and even if the Department of Cursed Objects took immediate action, it was no use. No one knew what might happen to this body now, and there wasn’t any information about it in the hospital. Even related papers were nowhere to be found.

"How about..." Milan suddenly suggested, "Let me give it a try?"

"Are you crazy?" Dai Lin was shocked, "Aren’t you afraid of dying?"

"Anyway, I’m not a doctor from your hospital, and I won’t be punished for what I do. Why not try to exert some influence beforehand? We know for certain that this body will resurrect, so what we need to do is..."

"Strike first to gain the upper hand!"

One had to say, Milan pronounced this Chinese idiom with perfect intonation; you couldn’t tell at all that she was a foreigner.

"No... Our superfluous actions might lead to even more terrifying consequences. At this stage, it’s better to do nothing at all. So, for now... caution is paramount."

"Alright."

Dai Lin and Milan then left to inspect other bodies.

Lin Qian’s body still lay there quietly, motionless.

But, unbeknownst to them how much time had passed...

Suddenly, a strange gust of wind blew, lifting a corner of the white cloth covering the body!

Then, it revealed Lin Qian’s pale face.

At this moment...

Lin Qian’s face still showed no sign of even the smallest abnormality.

But, as time went on...

Suddenly, a tiny crack appeared on the skin below his left eye.

The crack was probably only a few millimeters long. You wouldn’t notice it if you weren’t looking closely.

Shortly after, another thin crack appeared near his jawline.

And if you examined the crack with a magnifying glass, you would find that no blood flowed from underneath the crack; on the contrary, beneath the crack was pitch black...