Exorcist’s Self-Cultivation

10:00 a.m.

Du Wei, along with other Exorcists, hurried to the hospital.

They found Slivka’s ward.

Upon opening the door,

They saw a doctor conducting an examination, with Bishop Jon standing by.

Seeing Du Wei and the others arrive, he immediately gestured for silence with a shushing motion.

Du Wei and his group stood at the doorway, casually closing the door again.

After quite a while,

The door to the ward was opened again.

The doctor, wearing a mask, glanced at Du Wei and the others, especially lingering on Du Wei for a moment.

"Sir, you seem to be a bit off mentally.”

His badge identified him as a psychiatrist.

Clearly, he was a mental health doctor.

The difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist is that the former mainly deals with patients with severe mental issues while the latter deals with less severe issues.

They overlap to some extent.

Hearing the psychiatrist’s remark, Du Wei raised an eyebrow and said, “I haven’t been resting well lately, I’m a bit tense, and of course, so are you.”

The other man shrugged his shoulders and then turned to Bishop Jon, who had closed the door, and said, “This is about the extent of Mr. Slivka’s condition; I can’t say when he will wake up. I suggest that he undergoes a brain CT scan first; psychiatric changes may also be due to issues within the nervous system.”

Jon’s expression was somewhat grim, “I understand, thank you for your efforts.”

"Don’t mention it, after all, I am a doctor, and you’ve paid, so everything is negotiable.”

Having said that, the psychiatrist turned to leave, giving Du Wei another glance on his way out.

For some reason, he always felt that this man had a chilling aura…

Yet paradoxically, he also felt profoundly safe.

It was like what’s described in textbooks, the kind of abnormal psychiatrist or psychologist who always wears a mask of pretense, exhibiting extreme rational self-control.

After the doctor left,

Bishop Jon gestured to the other Exorcists, and then said to Du Wei, “Let’s step aside and talk.”

With that, he began walking towards the corridor.

Du Wei stood beside him, walking shoulder to shoulder.

"Slivka might end up in a vegetative state now, and I don’t know how to explain it to his child, and his wife…”

Jon’s voice was low, and his words revealed exhaustion and frustration.

After some thought, Du Wei said in a gentle tone, “Actually, you don’t have to notify them just yet. Wait for the diagnosis to come out; maybe there will be a chance for a turnaround.”

"Hopefully…”

Jon shook his head and said somberly, “Alright, let’s talk about that passage. What exactly did you encounter in there?”

Du Wei hummed affirmatively and said calmly, “That passage has a power that twists the mind. The deeper one goes, the easier it is to be distorted. At the end of the passage, on the ceiling, there was a vague human face contour. It affected Slivka, casting a layer of gray mist over him.”

"It was somewhat like being possessed by the Evil Spirit, and then Slivka attacked me, so I fired a shot.”

After pondering for a moment, Jon said, “But you remained unharmed from start to finish, why is that?”

Du Wei explained, “When undergoing Evil Spirit Transformation, I won’t experience fear or any other negative emotions, I always maintain my rationality and calmness, so those things were ineffective against me.”

Jon suddenly realized, “I suppose I know a bit about hunters, so this is your advantage when facing evil spirits, isn’t it? If every exorcist had such ability, that would be great.”

Du Wei said indifferently, “That is not necessarily a good thing. Also, that vague human face silhouette seems to be able to affect one’s thoughts, because at that time Slivka told me he saw the Lord. But the Lord he described was identical to Mary Shaw.”

Jon narrowed his eyes, “It’s fear…”

Du Wei hummed in agreement, “That’s right, and then there’s the crevice at the very end of the passage. Through that crevice, I saw a school filled with evil spirits.”

"However, those evil spirits couldn’t see me and Slivka. I analyzed it a bit and could determine that the reason has something to do with the door.”

Upon hearing this,

Jon’s eyes showed contemplation, recalling the church’s internal accounts on the killing mechanisms of evil spirits.

Therefore, he made a judgment, “Because the door wasn’t open, the evil spirits and reality were not intersecting.”

Du Wei responded, “That is one reason, but I suspect that those evil spirits have been in existence for ten years, including that school. Once the door is opened, they will come out from the passage, so I filled the entire basement.”

"But before that, the door was locked. Clearly, someone knows about this. The church needs to look into this.”

Jon agreed, “Indeed we must investigate, but it’s fortunate that you’ve already sealed the basement. Otherwise, if someone opened the door, I can’t imagine what horror the evil spirits would unleash.”

"A school’s worth of evil spirits… Probably thousands would die…”

When he said this, Jon’s tone was filled with helplessness.

He clearly knew that if such a thing happened, the church would be compelled to dispatch hunters to resolve it and every hunter would have to be mobilized.

Yet the church’s hunters were basically at their limits, hardly different from evil spirits themselves.

In other words, it might make things worse.

Hearing this,

Du Wei also felt a bit oppressed inside. Although he had sealed both the door and the basement, in reality, those evil spirits were connected to the real world.

Because there was also a strange bus.

The school was one of its stops; evil spirits could ride the bus, although they had to return.

But sometimes, people would get on.

The first time he caught the bus, a black man lost his self-awareness and walked step by step into the school, obscured by the heavy rain, where only silhouettes were visible…

Moreover, nine student evil spirits had been tricked into Massas City by him…

The more Du Wei thought about it, the more he felt something was off.

It seemed that from the beginning until now, the number of evil spirits holding grudges against him was increasing. Although he had resolved quite a few, it was an evil cycle.

Like borrowing debt, although the debt could be repaid, the more he borrowed, the more it grew.

"I can’t even remember how many evil spirits I’ve duped…”

This sentence, Du Wei said to himself in his heart.

He planned to record the encounters with the evil spirits once he got back to New York, as a reminder to himself that hidden dangers still existed.

At that moment,

Jon suddenly said, “By the way, Mr. Du Wei, Slivka will be staying in the hospital for a while, and the church will assign someone to take care of him. We’ll fly to Church Headquarters this afternoon.”

A flicker of indescribable color flashed across Du Wei’s eyes, “I’m looking forward to it.”

Jon shook his head, “There might be some trouble, but someone there values you highly. By the way… Father Tony knows you’ve become a hunter too…”

Speaking of this, Jon’s expression turned a bit peculiar, “And he humbled himself before Mrs. Senna to help you, plus the church’s always good opinion of you and your girlfriend, truly enviable relationships…”

Du Wei frowned and immediately took out his phone.

He suddenly realized something, he hadn’t called Alex to check in today…

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