Wang Long

Biodata

Background / History

Wang Long and Liu Dong were close friends in college, where they were known as their medical school’s “two prodigies.” They took graduate entrance examinations together, pursued doctorates together, and joined the same hospital after graduation. Wang Long subsequently became a department chief at a remarkably young age 33.

Alongside his medical work, Wang Long served as a Containment Bureau warden. Central Hospital had been built to provide the complicated care needed to sustain several benign earthbound spirits. He knew these spirits could not have created the Closed Domain that engulfed the hospital 28.

Appearance

• Glasses: Adjusts or pushes them up during the hospital crisis 30 31.
• Condition during the incident: The improvised surgery leaves him exhausted and soaked in cold sweat; after the Heart Key’s curse, he is deathly pale 32 46.

Personality

Wang Long is attentive to frightened patients and willing to reassure others under pressure. He grounds Liu Guangyao during a panic attack by pointing out differences between the hospital and his dreams. During Xia Shou’s surgery, he reassures terrified nurses that they are working with government-sanctioned ability users 27 32.

His practical judgment sometimes favors immediate survival over ethical restraint: he urges the infected Xia Shou to transfer his disease to an ICU patient. Nevertheless, he accepts Xia Shou’s authority under emergency protocols and assists with a riskier alternative 31.

The deaths around him steadily erode his hope. Even when he considers himself “half dead,” he takes responsibility for Liu Guangyao so Xia Shou can concentrate on finding an escape. His despair deepens after Liu Guangyao’s death and his own loss of sight, though Xia Shou’s continued survival briefly renews his hope 34 40 46.

Abilities & Skills

Clinical Medicine and Surgical Guidance

Wang Long has extensive clinical experience and provides the anatomical knowledge needed for Xia Shou’s improvised organ-removal surgery 26 32.

• Recognizes that Liu Guangyao’s arm has necrotic nerves and non-metabolizing cells despite remaining connected to his circulation 26.
• Identifies the anomalous patient’s coughing as characteristic of serious lung disease 30.
• Directs Alice’s incisions and the removal of Xia Shou’s diseased organs 31 32.
• Limit: The operation depends on Xia Shou’s blood control and regeneration, as well as Alice’s hands; Wang Long supplies medical instructions rather than supernatural healing 32.

Containment Administration

Wang Long understands basic containment procedures and coordinates with hospital staff and fellow wardens 28 31 34.

• Uses the medical call unit and hospital telephones when ordinary communications fail 28 29.
• Relays reports about disease transmission and attempts to warn colleagues not to kill anomalous patients 30.
• Arranges matching blood and surgical equipment for Xia Shou 31.
• Limit: He lacks the specialized skills needed to confront supernatural threats directly 34.

Medical Investigation

• Reports that the private sanatorium treated elderly American dignitaries and tycoons using human organs as raw materials 36.
• Interprets the director’s diary to conclude that escape requires stopping Idrisu’s treatments 37.

Relationships

• Liu Dong — College best friend and longtime colleague. Liu Dong resents Wang Long’s talent and the gifts he gave their advisor on Liu Dong’s behalf. Under anomalous influence, he attempts to kill Wang Long; before disintegrating, he apologizes and gives him a warning about the domain 33.
• Xia Shou — Investigator called in to examine Wang Long’s patient. Wang Long supplies medical guidance and follows his emergency orders; Xia Shou saves him from Liu Dong’s scalpel attack and later suppresses the curse that stops his heart 26 31 32 33 46.
• Liu Guangyao — His attending patient. Wang Long repeatedly calms him, assumes responsibility for him during the exploration, and persuades him not to accept Idrisu’s offer 27 28 34 39.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Central Hospital Consultation

• Introduces Xia Shou to Liu Guangyao as a doctor with doctorates in psychology and biology, supplying those credentials without hesitation 26.
• Explains the patient’s medically impossible arm condition and recurring nightmares, which prompted the request for outside assistance 26.
• Photographs Liu Guangyao’s drawing of a dream figure for his superiors, but cannot send it because of connection problems 27.

Hospital Outbreak and Emergency Surgery

• Discovers another hospital ward beyond the window as Central Hospital enters a Closed Domain 28.
• Reports that the power interruption caused operating-room deaths and that emergency electricity will last only twenty-four hours 29.
• Relays evidence that killing an anomalous patient does not end its disease: symptoms spread, worsen, and can reappear in recovered people after another carrier dies 30.
• Helps Xia Shou test an alternative to transferring the infection. Removing and regenerating the transformed liver, lungs, and kidneys successfully eliminates Xia Shou’s symptoms 31 32.

Liu Dong’s Death and the Sanatorium

• Tries to reason with the transformed Liu Dong and asks Xia Shou for time to help him. Xia Shou pulls Wang Long away from a concealed scalpel attack 33.
• Receives Liu Dong’s final instructions: the exit is “on the other side,” and he must not become a doctor 33.
• Fails to reach the other wardens, then accompanies Xia Shou into the opposite side of the domain because his medical knowledge may be needed again 34.
• Helps identify the condition for escape and dissuades Liu Guangyao from serving Idrisu by reminding him that the promised cure would require victimizing others 37 39.

The Doctors’ Curses

Notable Quotes

“Do you want everyone else to end up like you?”
— Challenging Liu Guangyao’s temptation to accept Idrisu’s offer 39

“My heart stopped just now.”
— To Xia Shou after the Heart Key’s curse is suppressed 46