Chapter 90

Since Cheng Shi had already said that, Sun Pengfei had no choice but to endure the strong urge to urinate and stand with Cheng Shi at the operating room door, listening to the cleaner's cheerful humming, the rhythmic sound of the mop hitting the wall, and the creaking sound of doctors and nurses hurrying by in their Crocs on the corridor floor...

"How about we go outside for a smoke?" Sun Pengfei, who was almost going crazy from the noise, finally took out his cigarette case from his pocket, knocked out half a cigarette, and said to Cheng Shi while still looking for a lighter in his pocket.

"Hey hey hey! You comrade, did you see those words on the wall? Can't you see them? This is a hospital, no smoking here!" The seemingly nonchalant old nurse at the operating room door suddenly yelled at Sun Pengfei.

“I took it out, but I didn’t smoke it! Did you see me light it?” Sun Pengfei, who had been yelled at, yelled back, “Is it a crime to just take out a cigarette pack?”

"Why are you holding it if you're not going to use it?" the older nurse retorted. "Don't you know that making noise is prohibited in the hospital? If you keep shouting like that, I'll call security!"

However, after the two started arguing, Cheng Shi seemed to come to his senses. He shifted his weight slightly and then actually tried to persuade Sun Pengfei: "Alright, Lao Sun, stop arguing."

After Cheng Shi said that, Sun Pengfei seemed to be encouraged and said to Cheng Shi with a big smile, "How about this, I'll go outside and buy two cups of coffee."

"No."

"You don't want a drink? It might help you stay alert. Okay, I'll be back soon."

Without waiting for Cheng Shi's response, Sun Pengfei hurriedly ran off after finishing his sentence. He walked through the long corridor, quickly following the restroom indicator lights hanging from the ceiling, and after a series of twists and turns, finally found the men's restroom in a corner of the floor.

As the pressure in his bladder gradually eased, Sun Pengfei trembled and almost groaned. Then he came out of the bathroom and wandered around aimlessly for a while before finally finding a vending machine in a corner at the other end of the corridor and buying two bottles of Nestlé Latte.

Sun Pengfei disliked lattes and preferred Americanos, but apart from bottled Nestlé lattes, the vending machine only sold suspiciously colored sodas—their bright colors clearly indicating excessive sugar content. For a fitness enthusiast like Sun Pengfei, neither lattes nor sugary drinks were good choices, but weighing the lesser of two evils, he opted for a latte. Sun Pengfei couldn't help but grumble, "Does he really expect to find hand-drip coffee in this remote town hospital?"

So Sun Pengfei had no choice but to take the two bottles of Nestlé Latte, which had been sitting for who knows how long and whose plastic stickers had faded under the light from the vending machine, and head toward the operating room.

Unfortunately, Sun Pengfei, whose sense of direction has always been poor, got lost again. To him, all the corridors on this floor looked exactly the same, and the signs hanging from the ceiling were also problematic. For example, two identical signs close together often contradicted each other, pointing in completely opposite directions. So, when Sun Pengfei resolutely followed a sign to the end of a corridor, he realized he was going the wrong way. Therefore, he had to spend even more time finding his way back.

It is for this reason that Sun Pengfei will always remember that when he walked down the corridor with two bottles of coffee in his hand, looking around with a foolish and bewildered expression on his face, it was the moment when his goddess Huang Ruoyu died.