Chapter 957: Chapter 957 Split Mouth Baby Chapter 957: Chapter 957 Split Mouth Baby Huang Xiaolong and the others entered the Suzhou Municipal Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, only to feel that the resentment and curses had become more and more apparent.
However, Huang Xiaolong could be certain of one thing–the resentment within the hospital was entirely different from that which spread through the horrifying video.
In other words, the malevolent ghosts causing disturbances in the hospital were not the same as the one crawling out from the dry well in the video to scare people.
One thing was for sure, both emitted a very distinct aura of Dongying vengeful ghosts.
At this moment, Heimei frowned and said, “Young Master, I have encountered this kind of resentment before on the island of Dongying…”
“Oh?” Huang Xiaolong caught his breath.
Heimei nodded. “The resentment from that video is unfamiliar to me, but I have encountered the one in this hospital before… Let me think… I will definitely remember~~~”
It made sense, after all, Heimei had followed Yamamoto Kazuhiko, the number one Onmyoji of Dongying, for a thousand years, traversing the entire country, and had subdued many demons and ghosts. Her familiarity with various Dongying ghosts was absolutely incomparable to Huang Xiaolong, a true Yin Emperor from Huaxia.
Without further ado, Huang Xiaolong used the Manjushahua to access the information in Heimei’s mind regarding all the Dongying ghosts and monsters she knew…
A few minutes later, Huang Xiaolong and Heimei nodded at each other and said in unison, “I know it! It’s that one!”
The building with the densest concentration of resentment in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital was the surgical building.
All childbirth surgeries, whether natural or cesarean, were completed in this building.
That is to say, this building welcomed an unknown number of new lives every day.
Huang Xiaolong didn’t beat around the bush and led everyone into the surgical building.
In the vast waiting area outside the operating room, family members sat, their faces a mix of anxiety and joy, as they awaited the birth of their children with bated breath.
Huang Xiaolong glanced towards the direction of the delivery rooms and said with a furrowed brow, “All childbirth surgeries must be suspended for a while.”
In this extremely quiet area, Huang Xiaolong’s words were heard by almost all of the waiting families.
Instantly, pairs of unfriendly and even annoyed gazes were directed at Huang Xiaolong.
A few security guards, wielding electric batons, strode towards Huang Xiaolong and his group, “Which pregnant woman’s family are you with? What are you ranting about here?”
Huang Xiaolong furrowed his brows, “I said, all childbirth surgeries in the operating rooms must be temporarily halted, I need to draw some talismans. After I finish drawing the talismans, the pregnant women can continue with the delivery.”
With these words, the faces of the security guards immediately darkened.
The majority of relatives waiting in the area stood up indignantly and began to curse at Huang Xiaolong–
“Damn it! Who the hell are you to cause trouble here? Are you out of your mind?”
“Get out! Do you think giving birth is a trivial matter? Just stop because you say so?”
“If you don’t leave now, watch out for a beating!”
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Even Ma Chuxia and Huo Bingyan couldn’t figure out what Huang Xiaolong was up to with his mysterious ways.
“Young Master~~ these people are like ungrateful dogs biting Lu Dongbin, not recognizing the good intentions, I might as well just bewitch them all…” Heimei bit her lip and said with a face full of anger.
“Heimei, don’t act recklessly,” Huang Xiaolong shook his head at Heimei and then chuckled. “Since they won’t listen, let them suffer a bit first~~ ha~~”
Having said this, Huang Xiaolong stopped talking, found a vacant chair in the waiting area, sat down with an air of confidence, and took out a thick stack of blank talisman paper from his canvas bag. He pondered and began to draw talismans.
Since Huang Xiaolong was just drawing talismans, it didn’t interfere with anyone else, so the security and family members no longer targeted him, though occasionally they would glance at him with suspicious and hostile eyes.
Before long, a hospital bed was wheeled out of the operating room.
A nurse, with a hint of panic in her voice, said, “The family of Zhang Lanlan… your wife Zhang Lanlan gave birth… gave birth to a baby boy… seven pounds and six ounces…”
This was supposed to be good news, yet the nurse’s expression and tone were as if she had made a mistake and feared punishment.
“Hahaha! A son? I’ve got a son? Hahaha~~~” A man with a bushy beard jumped up joyfully and, followed by his family, rushed towards the hospital bed.
But–
“Ah!! What’s going on? What’s happening?!” Zhang Lanlan’s husband stood beside the hospital bed, staring at the baby boy in the swaddling clothes, his face a mix of anger and fear as his body began to tremble slightly.
Huang Xiaolong continued to draw his talismans, commenting indifferently, “I told you to pause the childbirth surgeries, but you just wouldn’t believe me… heh~~~”
Heimei made a face towards the direction of the hospital bed, sticking out her tongue in a somewhat schadenfreude manner.
Ma Chuxia and Huo Bingyan, puzzled, couldn’t help but go over for a look.
Indeed!
They saw that the baby boy in the swaddles had tear marks extending from the corners of his mouth to the roots of his ears, as if his mouth had been cut open with scissors!
Eerie! Extremely eerie!
“You… you quacks!” Zhang Lanlan’s husband, without another word, grabbed the nurse by the collar and raised his fist to strike, “We’ve been doing prenatal checks at your hospital all this time, and the child was always healthy. How come when he’s born, his mouth is all torn? Medical malpractice! This is medical malpractice! My son’s mouth must have been accidentally cut open by the doctor’s scissors!”
“Family member, please don’t be rash… How could it be cut with scissors? Look for yourself, there isn’t even a wound on your son’s mouth… he was born this way… how can you blame the hospital for this?” the nurse argued desperately.
The security guards also rushed up to restrain the enraged family member.
Well, now things are in disarray.
However, to be fair, it really isn’t the hospital’s fault. Anyone with clear eyes could see that the baby boy was born with a cleft mouth; it was not the result of any medical accident.
But what happened next was somewhat bizarre!
One after another, infants were pushed out of the delivery room, yet each and every one of them, just like Zhang Lanlan’s son, had a cleft mouth!
No matter whether it was a boy or a girl, each infant’s mouth appeared as if it had been cut open directly with scissors.
Now, the family waiting area was in uproar.
All the family members started shouting, demanding an explanation from the hospital.
Soon enough, the night-shift vice president of the hospital rushed to the scene with a group of doctors, anxious to understand the situation.
Keep in mind, Suzhou City Maternity Hospital is among the top in the nation, reputed for its quality services, and in all these years, it had never encountered such a bizarre occurrence as tonight.
In that moment, the vice president, after listening to the security and some of the family members, headed straight for Huang Xiaolong and said tremulously, “This…sir, just now you said to halt all the deliveries… What…what exactly is going on?”
Given the current situation, the vice president had reason to believe that Huang Xiaolong was an insider! Huang Xiaolong’s earlier demands to halt all deliveries weren’t without reason!
This vice president also happened to be a fan of the metaphysical arts, and looking at the stack of talismans in Huang Xiaolong’s hand, he felt a tremor in his heart. He had a vague hunch that tonight’s events weren’t due to any medical issues, but rather what is referred to in folklore as phenomena beyond scientific explanation–supernatural events!
With that question from the vice president, the family members who had been cursing furiously at Huang Xiaolong just moments before now turned their heads, looking at him with eyes full of horror.
Suddenly, the entire family area fell silent as a graveyard.
Huang Xiaolong waved the talismans in his hand. “I had told you earlier to halt all deliveries, and you told me to get lost, so, what now? Are you planning to come and beg me?”
“This…this…” the vice president, with his face covered in cold sweat, pleaded, “Sir, please don’t be angry…”
If this situation wasn’t resolved well, the vice president wouldn’t be able to hold his position much longer, so he immediately started to apologize to Huang Xiaolong, addressing him respectfully.
A large group of relatives were now wailing and apologizing to Huang Xiaolong repeatedly. Some of the families with “cleft-lipped babies” were even kneeling down to Huang Xiaolong, bitterly pleading with him.
Ma Chuxia’s heart swelled with compassion. She whispered in Huang Xiaolong’s ear, “Little Long, don’t be harsh with these common folk. The children are innocent after all. Look at these babies, just born and already in such a strange state. When they grow up, they will certainly… certainly be pitied and ostracized everywhere…”
“Pfft~ Little wife, has your motherly instinct been triggered?” Huang Xiaolong couldn’t help but chuckle.
Huo Bingyan also pleaded, “Husband, please help these people out.”
Huang Xiaolong shrugged his shoulders. “Fine, I won’t hold it against you all.”
After speaking, Huang Xiaolong said to the deputy director, “Suspend all childbirth procedures.”
“Yes, yes, will follow the instructions, definitely will follow,” the deputy director responded submissively.
“Here, take these talismans. Paste one outside each delivery room. The mothers can only continue with the delivery after a talisman is pasted, otherwise, the babies born will still be those with split mouths.” Huang Xiaolong handed a stack of talismans to the deputy director.
The deputy director quickly gathered all the doctors and nurses of the hospital to carry out Huang Xiaolong’s instructions.
Thereafter, Huang Xiaolong handed the remaining talismans to the deputy director as well. “Besides the delivery rooms, you must paste a talisman outside every sickroom in your hospital. If there aren’t enough talismans, I’ll send more tomorrow. The main task for tonight is to paste talismans outside the delivery rooms.”
After giving these instructions, Huang Xiaolong stood up, walked to each bed of a baby with a split mouth, and dispelled the curses on them using his Taoist power.
A golden light flashed, and the babies’ split mouths magically healed as if wounds were mending, quickly returning to normal.
After finishing this, Huang Xiaolong led Ma Chuxia, Huo Bingyan, and Heimei swiftly out of the hospital.
“Little Long, what exactly is this curse?” Ma Chuxia hastily asked from behind.
As they walked, Huang Xiaolong answered rapidly, “In the Dongying islands, there are some very strange vengeful ghosts. They curse pregnant women, and the children born to these cursed women, along with their descendants, will all have mouths that split open, with no cure available. After death, they are never granted salvation, turning into demons.”
Upon hearing this, Ma Chuxia and Huo Bingyan both fell silent, as if struck by a cold chill.
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Huang Xiaolong continued, “These ghosts, besides cursing pregnant women, also like to roam the streets at night wearing a large coat, a scarf around their necks, and wielding a large pair of scissors or sickle, with long hair covering their face and a mask concealing their burst mouths. They ask passersby they encounter, ‘Am I pretty?’ If the answer is ‘not pretty,’ they get eaten right away. If the answer is ‘pretty,’ they will remove their mask, revealing a frightful torn mouth, and ask again, ‘…Well, what about now…?’ If the person changes their answer to ‘not pretty,’ they will be cut down with the sickle or scissors. If the answer is still ‘pretty,’ then they will cut the person’s mouth to resemble their own.”
Huang Xiaolong paused for a moment, then continued, “This type of ghost generally lingers near places they’ve cursed…”
“Which means, it’s currently haunting the vicinity of this maternity hospital?” Huo Bingyan asked, her voice trembling.
“Yes, so I’m going to take off its mask and tear it apart! I’ll make it not just with a split mouth but also have its entire ghostly body burst open!” Huang Xiaolong declared fiercely.
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