Taikang Hospital, located on Street 276, is a famous private hospital in the vicinity. Its chairman, Xue Yunfei, is also a well-known philanthropist. Since its establishment, the hospital has always had a very good reputation.

Three days ago, the news of the beastly chairman's infection and death had not yet been announced, and this private hospital was still operating as usual.

Xie Xuan stood at the door of this private hospital, carefully looking at the signs hanging at the door one by one.

Taikang Hospital, 276 University Affiliated Hospital, and Ecological Organization Research Institute.

Before coming here, Xie Xuan looked up the detailed information of the hospital on the Internet. The public welfare organizations under the name of the ecological organization accounted for more than half of the total investment. Xue Yunfei, who was pushed to the front, was more like a puppet.

Perhaps because of preconceived notions, Xie Xuan now has no good feelings towards ecological organizations. He always feels that they are a group of lunatics who are thinking about destroying humanity all day long.

Ecological organizations blatantly conducted research in District 6 under the guise of cooperating to establish a private hospital, and the District 6 Ecological Bureau did not interfere.

Perhaps the Sixth District Ecological Bureau had intervened before, but after all, the ecological organization was jointly established by the entire Confederation and is nominally the superior of all ecological bureaus. It is normal that the intervention had no results.

Xie Xuan walked into the hospital while thinking.

Hospitals are always the busiest in any era, not to mention that today is Taikang Hospital's weekly free medical consultation day.

Xie Xuan stood at the door for a while and saw no less than ten people entering and leaving the hospital.

She followed the crowd inside.

The internal layout of the hospital is no different from that of an ordinary hospital, with a triage desk, window, and elevator.

But unlike the hospital inside the Ecological Bureau, most of the staff here are humans, not robots.

There were more people in the hospital lobby than outside, and there was a long queue in the area specially designated for free clinics.

In this wasteland era where various resources are scarce due to land restrictions, medical care is not a commodity that everyone can afford.

Although Taikang provides free medical consultations, they are limited to simple consultations. Medicines still need to be purchased with money, but the prices are much cheaper than buying them directly at pharmacies outside.

Judging from the popularity of this free medical consultation activity, Taikang Hospital's behavior is tantamount to directly throwing money away.

But strangely, Xie Xuan did not see many mainstream media reporting on this event online. Even when Zhou Yuanyuan introduced Taikang Hospital to her, she mentioned the sanatorium project that provided employment opportunities for unemployed and poor women, which was not worth mentioning compared to the free medical consultation activity.

Xie Xuan had a hunch that there was something fishy about this so-called free medical consultation. After thinking about it, she followed the instructions on the sign and joined the queue waiting for medical consultation.

At the end of the long line were two departments, and the people in the line were the ones Xie Xuan saw most often on her way home from get off work when she worked at a convenience store.

They look tired and their bodies show various signs of malnutrition and unhealthy lifestyle.

In a social environment where resources are scarce, the gap between the rich and the poor and class differentiation are almost inevitable, not to mention the existence of people with special abilities.

When people possess extraordinary power, they naturally develop a sense of superiority. Bullying and oppression often arise due to power disparity, and Xie Xuan has a deep understanding of this.

In Xie Xuan's opinion, District Six has done a pretty good job in protecting the rights and interests of all citizens. At least most ordinary people can maintain basic necessities under the shadow of artificial intelligence and people with special abilities.

It was precisely for this reason that Xie Xuan could not tolerate the ecological organizations' attempts to destroy this hard-earned peace.

While Xie Xuan was still thinking, a man who had just come out of the clinic suddenly stumbled and bumped into her.

"What's wrong with you?" Xie Xuan quickly squatted down and helped him up.

But as she approached the thin middle-aged man lying on the ground, she keenly smelled a familiar scent.

It is the unique mildew smell of mushrooms growing.

There is a saying on the Internet that the smell of parasites and ordinary infected people after they are covered with mycelium is different. The former is like the smell of growing mushrooms, and there is a little fragrance if you smell it carefully, but the latter is more like the smell of mushrooms when they are rotting, and there is only a musty smell and a bad smell.

The smell on the man's body was now closer to the smell emitted by the parasite, but the smell was very faint. If Xie Xuan had not been dealing with the parasite recently, she would probably have confused the smell with the damp and moldy smell on clothes during the rainy season.

Xie Xuan's heart sank, and the man seemed to have recovered and staggered to his feet from the ground.

"Are you okay?"

The man shook his head, his voice hoarse, "A little dizzy, an old problem, nothing to worry about. Thank you."

As he spoke, he clenched the medicine in his hand and was about to leave.

Only then did Xie Xuan notice the small blue pills wrapped in a transparent plastic bag in the man's hand. "Is this medicine for dizziness?"

Before the man could answer, the woman behind Xie Xuan said, "Is this your first time here? This medicine can cure everything, not just dizziness."

"It can cure everything?" Xie Xuan asked back, "That's impossible! If there really was such a medicine, why wouldn't it be promoted vigorously?"

The woman seemed stunned by the question. A young woman in the queue next to her heard it and said timidly, "It's like a painkiller. Although it can cure the disease, it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause."

Xie Xuan frowned, "Is this the only medicine the doctors here can prescribe?"

"About the same," the woman replied. "If the condition is too serious, the doctor might prescribe something else, but I don't know about that."

Xie Xuan really wanted to borrow the pills to take a look, but after the man noticed Xie Xuan's gaze, he put the pills into his pocket as if he was hiding a treasure and staggered away.

It seems that she will have to prepare some medicine herself later, Xie Xuan thought.

Although the line was long, the doctors treated patients quite quickly. Xie Xuan paid attention to the time it took for patients to come in and out, and found that each one was almost every three minutes.

Can the disease really be diagnosed in such a short time? Xie Xuan was skeptical.

After more than half an hour, the line finally got to Xie Xuan.

Before Xie Xuan walked into the clinic, she took a picture of herself on the one-way glass above the clinic.

Because before Xie Xuan traveled through time, the original owner had lived a poor working life for two years, and her skin revealed an unhealthy dark yellow color. After Xie Xuan traveled through time and entered the shelter department of the Ecological Bureau, although her life was no longer poor, she was gloriously injured every now and then, and now she looks pale as if she has not recovered from a serious illness.

No wonder no one felt uncomfortable when she joined the team.

For a moment, Xie Xuan didn't know whether to feel sad or happy for herself.