Chapter 109 Hospital Warehouse "Of course, you're not ordinary people either..."
After these days of conversation, Liang Jun discovered that Geng Qing was not as she had initially thought.
She had originally thought that Geng Qing would be as businesslike and serious as Wang Jianping, but during their time together, Liang Jun could sense a unique aura of an intellectual older sister in her.
The unique title "Director Geng" is also one of the ways in which the group's attitude towards Geng Qing changed as they gradually became familiar with each other.
According to their professional titles, they should have been called "Deputy Director Geng." But Gu Keke felt that there were too many words and it was too convoluted. Besides, the hospital didn't have time to deal with that cumbersome professional title evaluation process.
They want Geng Qing to be the director, so Geng Qing is the director.
The group of people addressed each other with increasing fluency, and even Qi Zhixia could call out "Director Geng" several times in a row without batting an eye, always catching the other party off guard.
Just like this time—
"I feel a stuffy feeling in my wound. Is it because the bandage is too thick? Dr. Geng, could you please re-bandage it for me?"
Qi Zhixia remained seated on the edge of the bed, swinging her extremely long legs, her hands resting on the bed surface, her eyes fixed on Geng Qing as he entered the ward.
"Even if you don't say anything, I still have to come and change your dressing."
Geng Qing dragged a small cart into everyone's view. She glanced at Qi Zhixia, then awkwardly turned her head away, saying, "Don't look at me like that."
She casually pulled over a stool, sat down beside Qi Zhixia's bed, took a roll of brand-new gauze, and re-bandaged her wound.
Qi Zhixia glanced down at him. "Director Geng, my flesh has grown back. Do I still need to wrap it with gauze?"
Geng Qing's slender fingers tugged at the snow-white gauze, wrapping it around the other person's tender pink skin without saying a word.
“If you don’t bandage it, it will never get better.” She clasped her hands together, and with a little force, the gauze snapped in two. “If you really don’t want it, I can take it off for you right now—”
Geng Qing put the remaining gauze back into the cart, then reached out his hand to her.
Palms up, four fingers slightly bent.
“But I wasted my gauze, so as compensation, you have to give me points.”
"never mind……"
Qi Zhixia pulled her legs back, glancing at Geng Qing with disdain, but unable to suppress a smile. "Then I'll reluctantly endure it for a while longer..."
Geng Qing didn't realize that she was also smiling faintly. It was only when she got up to put the stool away that she noticed the ward seemed to have become empty.
She looked around but couldn't find the person she was looking for, so she could only ask, "Where are Luo Chuange and Ren E? I haven't seen them anywhere."
Liang Xuan picked up a brand new cup, filled it with warm water, and handed it to Geng Qing.
"They went out to gather intelligence."
"go out?"
Geng Qing was somewhat surprised. Her phoenix eyes behind her glasses were no longer languid. She glanced at the heavy glass but didn't take it. "You've left the hospital? Do you know how dangerous it is outside right now?"
Liang Jun seemed to have anticipated Geng Qing's attitude.
Her arm holding the water glass trembled slightly, but she didn't insist that the other person take it. Instead, she put it back on the bedside table.
"Of course I know, but this is the only way we can do it."
Liang Jun stood up and walked to the window. "The external environment is unknown, and the system's intentions are also unknown. Nobody wants to hide in the safe zone and wait to die..."
A small piece of white curtain blocked some of the light, and Liang Jun suddenly pulled it to the very edge, allowing the midday sun to completely fill the cold white ward.
She turned around and met Geng Qing's eyes behind his glasses.
"Director Geng, do you really want to?"
A fleeting moment of emotion crossed her phoenix eyes.
But Geng Qing did not answer this crucial question directly. "It would be best if they could return safely. If it only adds to my workload, I don't mind taking a few more props from them to fill the hospital's warehouse."
Even conversations between adults are brief and to the point.
Liang Xun could tell that Geng Qing had no intention of continuing the topic.
Her eyes and brows quickly filled with a smile, and she casually placed her hands on the windowsill, skillfully and naturally changing the subject.
"By the way, speaking of your hospital's warehouse, I'm personally quite interested."
Liang Xun tilted her head towards the opposite bed and said, "The wheelchair that Summer was sitting in before was taken out of the hospital's warehouse by Director Wang. Since such advanced props exist, there must be even more amazing things that we haven't seen before, right?"
She blinked her starry eyes, like a child begging for candy, and went straight up to Geng Qing.
Ignoring the other person's seemingly disgusted look, Liang Xun continued to wag her tail and beg, "Director Geng, could you take me to see him?"
"Me too! Me too!"
How could such a lively event be complete without Gu Keke?
She emerged from the other end of the ward and stood side by side with Liang Jun, leaning close to Geng Qing. "I want to go too! I want to go too! Just think of it as opening my eyes to the world!"
Geng Qing ignored the two darlings in front of him who were trying to please him and turned to look at Qi Zhixia, who was still sitting on the hospital bed.
What about you? Do you want to go too?
Qi Zhixia paused in her hand wrapping the gauze. "If they both go, leaving me all alone, that wouldn't be right..."
Geng Qing resignedly withdrew his gaze, "I knew it..."
Her fingers were slender and straight, and her skin was well-maintained, moisturized, and fair.
At this moment, the index finger, as tender as a scallion, was gently poking Liang Jun and Gu Keke on the forehead.
"The hospital warehouse is not a place you can just go wherever you want," Geng Qing's words were icy, making even the fingertips that touched his skin feel cold. "Our hospital has rules and regulations that prohibit unauthorized personnel from entering."
Gu Keke was poked so hard she leaned back. "We don't necessarily have to go in. We can just peek through the glass from the outside and see the spectacular view inside!"
Perhaps the image automatically formed in her mind, Gu Keke gestured with her hands, "Just like a large pharmacy."
"But we don't have glass in our warehouse."
Geng Qing coughed twice, picked up the glass of warm water, and interrupted in a deep voice, "You can't see this from the outside. The hospital warehouse is like a huge safe, completely sealed."
"ah……"
Gu Keke sighed deeply, her unseen tail drooping. "What a pity..."
Seeing her dejected appearance, Geng Qing awkwardly crossed his arms.
“But if you really want to go, you have to agree to one condition beforehand—” Geng Qing adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, “You can’t take any of the props stored in the hospital’s warehouse without permission.”
They had initially thought it was some life-or-death condition, and the other three people in the room were all hanging on by a thread, but unexpectedly, it was such a simple request.
The group exchanged knowing glances and burst out laughing.
Leung Yung even made a gesture of surrender, raising her hands high above her head.
"Director Geng, you're showing a lack of trust in us!" She spoke with a wavy tone at the end, clearly joking with Geng Qing. "Even kindergarten kids know not to take other people's things, so we certainly wouldn't use the warehouse props without permission!"
"Stop joking around with me."
Geng Qing poked Liang Xun's forehead again, this time with more force. "I'm serious. All the props stored in the warehouse have a unique code. If you want to use them, you need to report it in advance. They are definitely not something you can just take for yourself."
Qi Zhixia curled her lips and turned her head away. "Don't worry, Director Geng. Director Wang has said the same thing to us several times already."
Seeing that they all genuinely wanted to go, and considering how much they had spent together over the past few days, Geng Qing figured that they weren't up to any ulterior motives, and he nodded in agreement.
"Alright..."
Seeing that sparks were about to fly from Gu Keke's eyes again, Geng Qing quickly slammed on the brakes. "But I want to make it clear beforehand that you must abide by the warehouse rules—otherwise, I can back out at any time."
"No problem!"
Liang Jun jumped up and sat on the edge of the bed. She reached under the pillow, grabbed her phone, and glanced at it.
"It's still early, when shall we go?"
She raised an eyebrow at Geng Qing, revealing a rare hint of childishness, "Should we wait until it's late at night and everyone's asleep?"
Geng Qing seemed amused by her actions, and the corners of his phoenix eyes moved up slightly.
She moved the cart to a more open area. "It won't work late at night. The guards at the hospital warehouse work night shifts, and the later it gets, the tighter the security becomes. On the other hand, during the day, there's a lot of foot traffic inside the hospital, and with public oversight, most people won't choose to commit crimes during that time..."
At this point, Geng Qing glanced at the three girls in the room.
"Of course, you are not ordinary people either."
Glancing at Gu Keke's embarrassed head-scratching, Geng Qing continued his analysis: "Therefore, we can take advantage of this information and time difference to sneak into the warehouse in the middle of nowhere—"
She paused for a moment, then added, "Of course, don't be too ostentatious either."
It seemed to be the only way at the moment, so Liang Xun nodded in agreement, "No problem, what about the time and place?"
"I still need to continue my ward rounds. By the time I finish, it will probably be past 3 p.m.
Geng Qing gripped the handles of the trolley tightly with both hands, his knuckles distinct. "At 3:30 this afternoon, stay in room 602. I will come to pick you up."
After agreeing on the key information, Geng Qing didn't linger and quickly left the ward where they were.
After the other person's figure completely disappeared from sight, Liang Xun's ever-upturned lips began to flatten, and she retreated back onto the bed with a look of doubt on her face.
Qi Zhixia noticed her unusual behavior but asked knowingly, "Sister Jun, you want to go to the hospital warehouse to find out what's going on, it can't just be out of curiosity, right?"
Under Gu Keke's still bewildered gaze, Liang Xun nodded slightly, "That's right."
She curled her legs up and huddled them against her chest, carefully piecing together the suspicious points within the hospital.
“Patients come and go here every day, and everyone’s treatment fees are converted into different game items. But we all know that it’s absolutely impossible to survive in the game with just these items—so what are they planning to do with these endless items?”
Hearing Liang Jun's analysis, Qi Zhixia also began to think about it.
Gu Keke felt like she was listening to gibberish. Although her mind couldn't process it right away, she wanted to try to offer some of her own ideas. "Perhaps... perhaps the hospital also has props like Sister Xin's that can directly convert props into points?"
Unexpectedly, Liang Jun rejected this idea as soon as it was proposed.
"That's even stranger."
Liang Jun frowned slightly. "If all the items in the hospital were converted into points, it would certainly be a considerable sum—but as everyone knows, points don't have a physical form of storage; they can only be stored in the player's personal system account, like a virtual account..."
Having said that, Qi Zhixia immediately understood her meaning and seamlessly followed her train of thought.
“If all the props are converted into virtual points, then the hospital warehouse storing the physical items becomes useless.” His grey-blue eyes suddenly brightened. “Director Geng definitely knows the specifics of the warehouse's interior. If there’s nothing inside, then daring to let us visit would be nothing short of self-destruction—”
Gu Keke suddenly realized, "This is not good for the hospital at all!"
"That's exactly the point, which is why I wanted to take this opportunity to thoroughly investigate the suspicious points in the hospital."
Liang Jun took a deep breath and leaned heavily against the headboard.
Luo Chuange and Lao Ren risked their lives to collect and sift through available information outside; but those of them inside the hospital were by no means the kind of players who would simply sit back and reap the benefits.
With this in mind, Liang Jun felt it was necessary to keep her teammates informed of their plans in real time.
She opened the group chat and edited the message in the chat box again.
Liang Jun: [At 3:30 PM, we're going to the hospital warehouse with Director Geng.]
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Author's note: I'm late, I'm late! I apologize profusely.
Are my babies still alive? (wiping away tears)
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