When the Doctor Uses A Hack

Nurse Lele suddenly said, “Today is the Ghost Festival, July fifteenth. I saw people burning paper money on my way to the night shift… and now it’s started to rain.”

The senior nurse Fan Xia nodded, “Don’t talk nonsense, just focus on your shift.”

The intern nurse suddenly asked, “Teacher Fan, have you ever encountered anything unclean? ”

At the mention of this, the color drained from Nurse Fan Xia’s face, and she didn’t say much.

Seeing this, Lele quickly said, “Teacher Fan, tell us about it!”

Fan Xia had been at the Second Provincial Hospital for many years and was now forty. Seeing everyone’s curiosity, she whispered, “There have been some strange incidents.”

“After all, a hospital isn’t the cleanest place. I used to work in gynecology. I was fairly new at the time, and it was still the old building, that little six-story one, with obstetrics on the third floor.”

“I hated being on night duty the most!”

“Because sometimes at night, I could always hear babies crying, and every time I heard the crying, I would feel panicky.”

Chen Cang just happened to walk by, leaning on the outside of the nurses’ station, “Isn’t it normal for there to be crying babies in obstetrics?”

Fan Xia shook her head, “It is normal, but the crying didn’t come from the ward!”

“The old treatment room used to be next to our duty room, but the crying came from the storage room next door! When I got up to go to the bathroom at night, just after waking up, I always felt like I could hear the sound of a child’s cry in my ears.”

“I was very scared at the time, so I told my mentor about it, and she told me in a hushed voice: That place wasn’t always a storage room, it used to be a treatment room, where they did the D&C for abortions! Including during the family planning period, many parents who had a second child would be brought to the hospital for abortions… Who knows how many children died there!”

“When I first heard about it, I was absolutely terrified!”

As the story unfolded in this eerie and weird manner, even Chen Cang started to feel a chill run down his spine.

The two intern nurses felt the same, even lowering their voices as they spoke.

Fan Xia glanced at them both, “Oh, please. Once you’ve been in the hospital long enough, you’ll hear these stories more often than not, so don’t make such a fuss about it.”

Lele wrapped her nurse’s uniform around herself tightly and murmured, “Today is Ghost Festival, so let’s not talk about these things anymore, it’s just spooky!”

The intern nurse nodded, pulling up a photo on her phone, “I’ve got a picture of Uncle Jiu, do you want me to send it to you?”

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Chen Cang returned to his office and started to process the cases from today’s surgeries.

Doctors have nimble hands, as they often need to write medical records—typing rapidly—and perform surgeries, where slow hands just wouldn’t do, meaning overtime was a regular occurrence.

Around 1 a.m., Nurse Lele rushed in, “Doctor Chen, you need to come out quickly, there’s a peculiar patient!”

Chen Cang felt Lele’s fear as she spoke.

Chen Cang paused for a moment before getting up and stepping out.

In the hall, there sat an elderly woman, plump and with a full head of white hair.

At first glance, Chen Cang saw that the old lady was soaked to the bone, sitting on a chair shivering, her face as white as a sheet, and an expression of sheer terror spread across her face. Her eyes darted everywhere, unfocused and erratic.

The old woman must have been in her seventies or eighties but sat there restless and anxious, her hair dripping wet.

Chen Cang couldn’t help but say to Lele, “Go grab a blanket, don’t catch a cold.”

Lele nodded and quickly ran inside.

Chen Cang then walked forward and asked, “Old lady, where do you feel unwell?”

Before Chen Cang had a chance to speak, the elderly woman let out a cry and hurriedly ran away, as if severely frightened, running to the corner inside the nurse’s station, burying her head deeply between her legs, and dared not lift her head!

While crying, she pleaded in a sorrowful voice, “Please, let me go, I really didn’t know!”

“I’m begging you, please let me go… It wasn’t me who killed you…”

As she spoke, the old lady began to choke up, and then she burst into loud sobbing.

Chen Cang was stunned, what was going on here?

Could it be a mental illness?

Thinking this, Chen Cang couldn’t help but swallow his saliva.

At that moment, a man and a woman ran in through the rain, “Mom! Mom, where are you?”

Seeing this, Chen Cang quickly walked out, “Is that your mother?”

The girl nodded, somewhat scared, and when she spoke, she lacked confidence, “Yes, doctor… is my mom possessed by something evil?”

The man wiped the rain off his face, both of their clothes completely soaked; it seemed they had chased all the way in the rain.

Seeing their mother curled up and crying in the corner, they were anxious and unsettled.

At that moment, Lele covered the old woman with a blanket, just about to speak, when the old lady’s voice suddenly became shrill, “Don’t come near me!”

This cry directly scared Lele into taking a few steps back!

The girl hurriedly apologized, “Nurse, I’m sorry, so sorry!”

Lele shook her head, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Chen Cang asked, “What happened to the old lady?”

The girl swallowed and suddenly said, “Doctor, let me tell you, it’s like this. Tonight, my mom went out to burn paper money, and after coming home, she started to act a bit crazy, even her speech wasn’t clear. I wondered if she was overly sad?”

“I thought that my mom couldn’t cook anymore, so I went out to buy groceries, but when I came back, everything in the living room was a mess, chairs were askew, the sofa was covered in fruit plates, and the things from the table were scattered all over the floor. I was also startled! I was worried something happened to my mom.

Then I heard someone crying. Following the faint crying sound, I found my mom in the living room corner, disheveled, curled up and trembling while crying. Just like she is now!”

“When she saw me come back, my mom wouldn’t talk to me!”

The girl continued, turning to Chen Cang, “I thought there was a burglar in the house, but there was none! Nothing was missing from the house.”

“At that moment, my mom suddenly turned to me, her face full of terror, her eyes vacant, and her voice trembling as she said: Daughter, they just came back…”

“I was dumbfounded then and there, and I quickly asked my mom: ‘Who came back?\'”

“My mom said: ‘It was Old Wang from downstairs, he insisted on taking me with him, saying things like “old sister, we came back to see you”…\'”

The daughter suddenly looked at Chen Cang, “Old Wang from downstairs in our building died last year!”

“Afterward, I settled my mom down, called over my husband, my sister, and my brother, and we managed to calm her down. After discussing it all, we wondered if my mom had encountered something unclean, especially since it’s the fifteenth of July…”