A veritable stampede of ghosts surged up the stairwell, crowding the room. Every one of their eyes were filled with the desire to live.
“Is he the ghost doctor?!”
“It really is a ghost doctor!”
“Wuwuwu this is great. My head has been killing me recently... I thought I was going to turn into a wandering spirit.”
“Aiya, if it isn’t Dr. Zhang! Dr. Zhang, you remember me don’t you? You treated my leg a year ago. I was really unlucky and had another car accident six months ago. I flatlined as I arrived at the hospital... Dr. Zhang, since you know me, you should treat me first.”
“Shoo shoo shoo! Everyone line up! I was here first! Ghost Doctor-daren, I thought you would be an old man! No wonder I’ve searched several times without finding you.”
Zhang Haixiang looked at the sea of ghosts in front of him. “......”
He never thought that the hospital was filled with so many ghosts...
These ghosts may be crowded, but all of them instinctively knew to avoid Shi Qing and Meng Qing.
Shi Qing didn’t move either. He just yelled, “Doctor, you don’t need to treat patients like you did when you were alive! Just squeeze their injuries with your hands!”
“With my hands?”
Zhang Haixiang tested this on the first ghost that came to heal a neck wound. Sure enough, the blood stopped flowing after he squeezed it.
But he accidentally pinched off part of the ghost’s skin since it was his first time.
Zhang Haixiang: “......”
“Sorry sorry sorry! I’ll fix that for you!!”
“It’s okay it’s okay.”
This ghost covered its neck and scurried out, “Thank you! My mom and I’ve been dead for twenty years! It’s time to be reincarnated! The last time I ran into a ghost doctor, he told me that if I didn’t hurry up, my mom in my next life was going to give birth to a stillborn. Ghost Doctor-daren! I’m off to the River Styx to get in line! May we meet again someday!”
“Ah, wait a second.”
He scampered back and gave Zhang Haixiang a bear hug, “Daren, I know you’ve been crying. I’ll give you a hug, so don’t cry anymore, alright?”
After saying that, he rushed off again.
Zhang Haixiang: “...What a lively ghost.”
For the rest of the time, it was as if he was a tireless machine that treated each of the ailing ghosts.
Because it was different from normal treatment, the healing was extremely quick, but standing still in one place was still a bit tiring.
The young man was already cured, but he wasn’t in a hurry to reincarnate. He watched from the sidelines. When he saw Zhang Haixiang stop and rub his eyes like he was tired, he suggested, “Dr. Zhang, why don’t you take a break? This isn’t good for you.”
Zhang Haixiang looked up at the line of ghosts and made an effort to straighten his back. “It’s fine. I’ll heal them all while I’m still here, otherwise they’ll have to wait again when I’m gone.”
And there’s a chance that they won’t be able to wait for the next ghost doctor to arrive.
He just squeezed wounds and flashed a weary smile at the young man, “Healing ghosts is easier than healing people.”
“Right?”
He stood up again and yelled, “Hey! Line up to the left! Don’t block Ghost Doctor-daren’s view of his wife and daughter!”
The group of ghosts all shuffled to the left. Without their cover, the mother and daughter pair who were waiting at the door fell into Zhang Haixiang’s view.
He wanted to cry again.
He didn’t know exactly how long he squeezed wounds, but the queue of ghosts diminished as time passed.
–Ding!
The elevator door opened.
Two elderly people helped each other walk over.
For Zhang Haixiang, time seemed to stop at that moment. He was startled as he watched them stagger to the door of the operating room.
His wife greeted them. Tears fell from her eyes before she could even speak.
“Dad, Mom. You came.”
“Haixiang, is Haixiang in there? I-I heard Xiao Liu say that things weren’t looking good?”
His mom spoke first. Watching her daughter-in-law covering her mouth and weeping, her own tears started to fall. “How could it be like this? How could it be like this?! Haixiang!! Haixiang, how can you go now?! Your daughter is still so young...”
She couldn’t see that behind her, her son was muffling his cries while continuing to treat patients without pause.
“Dr. Zhang, are your parents here? Why don’t you go and have a look? We don’t mind.” the ghost he was treating couldn’t bear to see him like this and carefully consoled him, “Go and be with them. Say goodbye to your parents.”
Zhang Haixiang lowered his head wretchedly. “I’m not worthy to do so. I’ve been such an unfilial son, forcing them to mourn for me in their old age... They can’t see me if I go anyways. There’s not much time left. I’ll make the best of it.”
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The clock hanging on the wall continued ticking away. Time passed little by little.
Finally, at 12:43, the hallway was ghost-free.
They’d all been healed and went to the River Styx to line up.
Shi Qing also got up and yawned as he urged Zhang Haixiang, who was so tired that his hands were shaking. “Doctor, it’s time to go.”
Zhang Haixiang looked up at the clock in a daze, then at his relatives. “Isn’t there still ten minutes left?”
“There’s a surprise if you go early.”
Shi Qing has a clock but he didn’t bother looking at it. Instead, he pulled Meng Qing’s arm over and glanced at the watch on his wrist. “What’s going on? Don’t guides go to work half an hour early? Where did that guy run off to?”
The young man who had been following Zhang Haixiang cautiously gave a coy smile, “I just saw the guide. But he took a glance at you two from afar and ran away.”
“Oh...” Shi Qing nodded in understanding and said to Meng Qing, “I guess that guide’s a veteran that saw me beating up the King of Hell. Forget it then. We’ll make our own way. Doctor, it’s time to go. Do you still have something you want to say?”
Zhang Haixiang looked at the lit operating room, the relatives waiting outside, and then down at his own trembling hands. “I guess I’ve been a good doctor.”
“I want to recite a passage.”
Shi Qing leaned against Meng Qing, “Your turn.”
The doctor stood there, looking at his family from afar.
“I dedicate my life to the matters of health.
As I enter this sacred institution of medicine, I solemnly swear:
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