Chapter 27: Sealing
The female ghost within that blood-red space was currently sealed by the right eye, but such a seal was extremely fragile. At most, it could only be maintained for half a year. After half a year, the female ghost would break through the seal!
And furthermore... this was no ordinary ghost.
This was...
"A devil?"
Hospital 444 had a department called the Demons Department.
And this female ghost was not a fierce ghost, nor a malevolent ghost, but—a devil!
A devil is a malevolent spirit born from a demon's curse!
The ratio of Easterners cursed by devils is far lower than that of Westerners. Therefore, cases about devils within the hospital are quite rare, and there are no cursed objects that can specifically treat them.
Just then, a person entered the sickroom.
It was... Yin Wuque!
After entering, he closed the door of the sickroom and walked up to Dai Lin's bedside.
"How does your eye feel now?" he approached Dai Lin to inspect and asked.
"There is no sensation at all, it's as if it has gone numb..."
"The effect of the painkiller will soon diminish, and you might continue to feel severe pain. Rest assured and undergo treatment, your injury is work-related, and the treatment is free of charge. It won't cost you any Spiritual Therapy Points."
"What will... happen to my eye?"
"An implanted cursed object like this cannot be removed. We've already dispatched several head physicians to examine it. Now, the fierce ghost in Lin Yan's house is no longer there."
After that, Yin Wuque scrutinized Dai Lin carefully.
His gaze let Dai Lin realize that he had seen through everything.
Yin Wuque sat at the head of Dai Lin's bed and said, "You don't need to worry, my people are outside the ward. I can promise you that I will not harm you. On the contrary, I will cultivate you with great effort, ensuring that you grow into a Paranormal Doctor who can handle things on your own in the shortest time possible. So, you can tell me the truth. Is that devil... sealed within your right eye?"
Upon hearing these words, Dai Lin immediately understood that there was no point in hiding anything any longer.
He was very familiar with these eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else. Of course, if you refuse to say anything, there's nothing that can be done. Your situation will sooner or later attract the attention of those in the Cursed Objects Department, and the head of that department is one of the three deputy directors, Fang Shen. I can't guarantee what they will do to you."
As Dai Lin heard these words, he realized that Yin Wuque had long known, and now he was only asking to see whether Dai Lin would tell the truth. The message was both a carrot and a stick, leaving him no choice but to tell the truth.
"Yes. That female ghost is now sealed inside my right eye."
"To be precise, it's a devil. Only with the intrinsic ability of these eyes, along with the help of Director Mei, could you successfully confine the devil within the right eye's space. And this is all because your eyes are a pair of Devil's Eyes!"
Upon hearing these four words, Dai Lin's complexion changed drastically.
"Devil's Eye?"
"Now, let's discuss the issue regarding your eyes, as well as the devil confined inside."
Currently, Dai Lin's right eye couldn't manage to successfully consume and absorb the female ghost's body, only able to seal and imprison. This was natural—as all ghosts could only be sealed.
The essence of a cursed object is to transplant a part of a ghost into the human body, so that one can become a Paranormal Doctor.
Therefore, Paranormal Doctors also have another title, known as "Imitators of Ghosts"!
"After the doctor from the Curse Department arrives, no matter what they ask you, absolutely do not tell them about the changes inside your right eye. You won't be able to seal this devil for long, and once it gets out, it will kill you before it goes after Lin Yan. By then, you must at least become an attending physician! Otherwise, your death is certain!"
In that instant, Dai Lin confirmed something—Yin Wuque was guarding against other factions within the hospital, not wanting them to get involved in the investigation of these ghostly eyes.
Sure enough, Yin Wuque added, "Only I can help you, so don't tell a third person about you devouring this devil, including Dr. Gao. If the Curse Department discovers the uniqueness of these ghostly eyes, believe me, they will immediately use you as experimental material. You must at least become an attending physician to completely seal this devil in the space of your right eye."
Dai Lin took a deep breath and began to think rapidly.
He didn't believe that Yin Wuque was lying. He must have been confident to speak with such certainty.
"According to the will I have received, I can bind this devil for at most half a year."
"Half a year… that's quite long. It seems it's possible because of Director Mei's cursed object."
"President Yin… are you sure that as long as I become an attending physician, I can successfully seal this devil completely? What secrets lie behind these eyes?"
Yin Wuque glanced at the door of the ward and said, "Well, at this point, it's time to tell you."
Dai Lin grew tense, at last, he was about to learn the secrets of these ghostly eyes!
"Where to start… Alright, I'll start from the beginning. Dai Lin, you know that our hospital has a department called the Demons Department, right?"
"Yes, I do."
"But in fact, no one knows the actual location of the Demons Department. Not even the three deputy directors like us."
"What?" Dai Lin's eyes widened: "You don't know?"
"The President has many special regulations concerning the Demons Department. It is a standalone department, the doctors there, and the deputy directors, as well as the heads of other departments, can only make recommendations, and only the President has the authority to appoint or dismiss them. And as for where the department actually is, no one knows. Of course, the patients don't either. After they register, ambulances take them directly to the Demons Department. As an independent department, it doesn't need to have any clinical discussions with other departments, so other doctors know very little about it. Even a few doctors like Director Mei, who interned at the Demons Department, have only a superficial understanding of the relevant diagnostic and treatment knowledge. The President also stipulated that the Demons Department has no internal medicine division, only surgery. Moreover, the surgical rooms of the Demons Department are completely independent, and doctors from other departments cannot use them."
"Wait a minute, I don't understand—if that's the case, then how do doctors in the Demons Department get to their jobs?"
"This is one of the many mysteries of the hospital. After doctors are directly appointed to the Demons Department by the Dean, they can't tell any other doctors how to get there, but they are able to come and go as they please. As for how they enter and exit, no one knows. The Demons Department doesn't belong to any faction within the hospital. Both Han Ming and I have tried to win over the doctors from this department, but we have never succeeded. And during the process of trying to win them over, I've always felt that those who entered the Demons Department... begin to act very strangely, as if they became different people."
"Different people? Then, they must take orders directly from the Dean, right?"
"It's not clear, in fact, the Dean never appears in person; all appointments appear directly in my office as the Executive Vice-Dean. I've never met the Dean since I started working at this hospital. However, you must remember, whatever we do, we can never hide it from him! No matter when or where, the Dean is always watching us."
"The Dean is always watching us?"
"This is one of the most important rules of the hospital: never try to investigate the identity of the Dean, do not attempt to defy the Dean, for no matter when or where, the Dean is always watching every one of us."
Yin Wuque seemed unwilling to have Dai Lin inquire further about the Dean and quickly changed the subject, "However, that's not the most crucial part. There is an essential rule from the Dean regarding the Demons Department—the number of doctors in the department must always be... four."
"Only four doctors?"
"Yes. Under any circumstances, the number of doctors in this department must not exceed or fall below this number. Once the number of doctors in the Demons Department is not four, the department's clinic must immediately close, until a sufficient number of doctors have been recruited to reopen the clinic. Since only the Dean can appoint the doctors of the Demons Department, it's only possible that there're fewer than four doctors."
Up to now, Yin Wuque still hadn't mentioned the origin of these Devil's Eyes. But Dai Lin listened patiently.
"Three years ago, something happened. At that time, my fiancée Meng Hua, who is also Dr. Gao's sister, told me she was worried about her senior brother Ouyang Rui. Dr. Ouyang, just like her, was from the emergency department and was appointed by the Dean to be the new attending physician of the Demons Department six months prior. He and Meng Hua were both students of Dr. Jiang Licheng, so they had a senior-junior relationship. But Meng Hua told me that in the six months after Ouyang Rui started working in the Demons Department, he had become completely different, sometimes acting very strange yet sometimes appearing perfectly normal. And based on my past experience, the longer he worked in the Demons Department, the more he would change, and there would no longer be any 'normal' times."
The more Dai Lin heard, the more terrified he became.
"At that moment, something else happened. The head of the Demons Department, Li An, went abroad for a consultation, leaving only Ouyang Rui and the other three doctors in the department. Later, Meng Hua told me about something. On the seventh night after Director Li's departure, Ouyang Rui called her. On the phone, he said that recently, even when he was alone in the clinic, he felt as though there was someone else there. Then, he would constantly look around the room, and although he saw nothing, he gradually discovered that his left eye began to hurt!"
Dai Lin felt a chill running down his spine.
"At first, he thought it was a ghost. After all, it's not uncommon for ghosts to invade the clinic. But Ouyang Rui told Meng Hua that it didn't feel like an ordinary ghost. He said his eye was getting stranger; although he was slightly nearsighted, his vision was inexplicably getting better. In the days that followed, day or night, he always felt that there was an extra person in the clinic... constantly spying on him!"