Chapter 23: Possession

Dai Lin suddenly opened his eyes wide, staring hard at the mother, but his left eye still felt nothing!

"Dr. Gao, she…"

Before he could finish speaking, the outpatient clinic was swiftly plunged into darkness!

It was at this instant that his left eye started to experience acute pain!

It felt just like last night in the inpatient department!

Dai Lin was horrified and lunged forward, but he touched nothing!

...

Thirty minutes later.

Inpatient department, twelfth floor ICU ward.

A few nurses were pushing a hospital bed along the corridor, and on the bed, Dai Lin lay!

At this moment, he, as a patient, was being pushed into the ICU ward area!

Meanwhile, Dai Lin, who had been lying on the hospital bed, suddenly opened his eyes at this time!

And at this moment, Lin Yan in the ward felt as if every second was an eternity.

"Surgical fees… 2 million Spiritual Therapy Points… and now an extra 1.5 million because a doctor died? Wouldn't my entire future be devoid of anything good? And it might not even be enough to cover everything! But who can help me pay for the surgery? According to them, this is only the first phase of surgery, subsequent treatment costs and the second phase surgery will require even more Spiritual Therapy Points!"

She could feel it, the nurses and doctors in the intensive care ward looked at her as if she were a dead person.

When deducting Spiritual Therapy Points, they used a machine similar to a POS terminal, scanned her with it, and after pressing her fingerprint on it, the points were paid to the hospital.

"Wait…" Lin Yan suddenly felt that the female ghost… she had come!

She had come here!

Lin Yan was feeling tense when she suddenly heard the sound of the door being pushed open.

She looked up to see Dai Lin walking in.

"Dr. Dai… you?"

Her heart tightened; was Dr. Dai here to discuss the surgery with her?

The door slowly opened, and Lin Yan saw Dai Lin walk in.

However, as soon as he walked in, Dai Lin quickly closed the door of the ward, looked at Lin Yan without any expression, and said nothing.

Lin Yan had a sneaking suspicion that something was amiss.

"Dr… Dai?"

After a dozen seconds, a group of doctors and nurses pushed open the door of the ward!

However, their expressions were one of utter shock.

Because inside the ward, there was not a single person!!!

How is that possible?

At the same time, Song Min had already arrived in Gao Heyann's outpatient clinic, along with the director of the Curse Objects Center, Lu Wen.

"I've checked the mother of patient Liang Yueyue, and although she had been possessed by a ghost before, it's no longer inside her," said Lu Wen, the director of the Curse Objects Center and the physician most proficient at detecting ghostly possessions in the hospital. His eyes darkened. "Dr. Gao, you're saying that after the lights went out and then came back on, Dr. Dai suddenly collapsed, right? This means he could have been possessed!"

"It's alright," said Director Song Min. "The ICU ward can handle this situation, and Dr. Gao is also in the inpatient department now."

Just then, the telephone in the outpatient clinic rang.

Song Min quickly picked up the phone and said, "Hello? What? Dr. Dai suddenly woke up and then took away patient Lin Yan? Spatial transfer? Is today April Fool's? Is it possible for an ICU ward to be spatially transferred away by a ghost? Not even an evil spirit could do that, right? What? The ICU's spatial containment field temporarily malfunctioned? Isn't the probability of that almost lower than an airplane crash? Hello, hello, hello?"

After hanging up the phone quickly, she turned to Lu Wen with a grave expression and said, "Director Lu, it seems to be that malevolent ghost attached to Lin Yan! She couldn't directly enter the intensive care ward, so she possessed Dr. Dai! This is serious; we need to inform President Yin!"

Song Min did not hesitate anymore; she took out her cellphone and contacted Yin Wuque.

"President Yin! This is Song Min! Something terrible has happened... Dr. Dai is suspected to be possessed by a ghost, and then he took the patient Lin Yan away from the ICU!"

"What did you say? Could it be the female ghost that cursed Lin Yan?"

"Yes, it's very likely that malevolent ghost! The situation is extremely urgent..."

Song Min now felt her mind go blank; she never imagined things would escalate to this point.

Dai Lin... where could that malevolent ghost have taken him now? Is he still alive?

Song Min suddenly realized something.

"President Yin, this situation... could it be, is this actually Han..."

On the other end of the phone, Yin Wuque obviously realized something too and interrupted Song Min, "You mean? Han Ming?"

The office in the ICU ward area.

Chen Jun was on the phone.

"Vice President Han, as per your instructions, after we noticed that Dai Lin was possessed, we immediately moved him to the room next to where Lin Yan was staying, and temporarily closed off the space here."

"Ouyang Rui's eyes must not fall into the hands of those with President Yin," the voice came from the other end of the line. "We were originally thinking of winning him over, but now that the doctors from the Resentful Spirit Department and Evil Ghost Department have become his lifesavers, it's unlikely to win him over in this state. It might be better to just let him die; that way, the eyes can return to the Curse Objects Center."

...

At this moment, Dai Lin felt extremely dizzy.

In that darkness, the moment he sensed danger, he did two things.

He unleashed the Karmic Curse Attack with his left eye!

But even so, he lost consciousness.

Now, waking up, he found himself lying on a cold wooden floor.

This was a living room.

"Where is this?"

Dai Lin looked around, and when he saw the stars and the moon outside the living room window, he immediately confirmed: This wasn't the hospital, it was the real world!

If it was the real world, he could teleport back to the hospital!

However, when the thought of returning to the hospital formed in his mind, he discovered... he couldn't go back!

"Is it actually preventing me from teleporting?"

At that moment, Dai Lin noticed a photo on a table in the living room and saw Lin Yan in the photograph!

Now, Dai Lin understood! Here, was Lin Yan's home!

"It's that female ghost!"

He immediately stood up and leaned against the wall.

Was it that female ghost who turned into the middle-aged woman with a child for a consultation? No, if that were the case, his left eye wouldn't have felt nothing at all.

He immediately remembered what Dr. Jiang had told him: "No matter what type of ghost, they all possess the ability to attach themselves to humans, and some can even deceive a doctor's curse detection after possession. This brings great difficulty to diagnosis. When you later rotate to the Spiritual Therapy Points for practice, you may want to focus on learning in this area."

Why had that malevolent ghost brought him to Lin Yan's home? Wasn't Lin Yan the one the female ghost wanted to kill? Or was it because he had previously tried to detect her location for Zhao She, which had made the female ghost harbor a grudge?

But right now, if it really was this female ghost, then Dai Lin was trapped and utterly isolated. His mobile phone couldn't contact anyone from the hospital, and the walkie-talkie could only be used internally within the hospital!

He walked to the door and tried to open it...

The door... wouldn't budge!

He went to the window to check, and he was on the eighth floor.

Now, no one could help him!