Chapter 16 Xincheng Hospital [The Butler's Diary]
Three hours later, the two men gasped as they looked at the mountain of white bones piled up in front of them.
Judging from the number of skulls, five people were buried here, even if they didn't miss any.
“I think we should call the police,” Chen Su said seriously.
Shi Yu glanced at Chen Su and said expressionlessly, "Yes, this matter should be handled by the police. The police will bring the bad guys to justice and make them receive the punishment they deserve."
Shen Su was taken aback at first, then chuckled: "I didn't know you could tell corny jokes?"
Shi Yu ignored everyone after telling a lame joke.
Shen Su lowered his head slightly, looking at Shi Yu's fair and handsome face under the streetlight. After a long while, he asked, "Are you angry?"
His tone was less frivolous.
Shi Yu still ignored everyone.
"I was just trying to lighten the mood since you're in a bad mood." Shen Su sighed helplessly, but this behavior was actually quite provocative. "Of course I know there can't be a police station in the game. If there were, wouldn't that be cheating for us? Besides, we don't have cell phones on us, and we don't know the emergency number here, do we?"
Shi Yu completely stopped talking to people.
I'd rather squat down and talk to a corpse than talk to someone who's already asleep.
"Lin Qinghe's ghost hasn't appeared yet. Does that mean we have to piece his body back together before it will appear?" Shen Su said, squatting down as well. The two of them stood shoulder to shoulder, looking at the pile of corpses in front of them. "I'm telling you, the body is in such a state that piecing it back together will be quite difficult."
"Besides, we can't do DNA testing. There are more than five guys here. How are we supposed to know which ones belong to Dean Lin Qinghe? What if we spell it wrong? Will he be angry with us?"
While Shen Su continued to ramble on, Shi Yu had already begun piecing together the body parts.
However, he was assembling the skull, which wasn't too badly broken, making it easier to assemble compared to other parts of the body.
When Yu finished assembling the first skull and placed it on the ground, both of them simultaneously received a system notification message—
Congratulations, player, you have obtained the item [Butler's Diary]
At the same time, a somewhat worn notebook appeared next to the skull.
The two looked at each other, and both saw four words in each other's eyes: "Is this even possible?"
The butler's diary? This means the skull belongs to the butler.
Is Lin Fengbai so ruthless that he even killed the butler? Or did the butler know something terrible and was silenced?
The answer might be in the notebook.
Shi Yu picked up the notebook and began to flip through it.
Shen Su leaned closer, and the two of them looked together.
March 7th, sunny.
Mr. Lin and his wife had another argument.
I can't remember how many times this has happened. The noise was quite loud, and I could vaguely hear it through the bedroom door. I took the two young masters out, using the excuse of buying them toys. Actually, I've used this excuse many times before, but the two young masters didn't expose me and still came out with me. They didn't say a word on the way, so they probably already know something.
March 12, heavy rain.
It was raining outside, and the thunder was loud, drowning out the arguing. I didn't take the two young masters out today; it's not safe to go out in the rain.
March 16, cloudy.
The two young masters had homework to do, so instead of buying toys today, we went to the bookstore.
When they came back, I bought them candied hawthorns. Usually, the madam doesn't allow the two young masters to eat food from outside, saying it's not clean. But today, the madam didn't even notice that the two young masters were carrying candied hawthorns when they came in.
April 2nd, sunny.
The two young masters have gone to school, so there's no need to find an excuse to take them out today.
Actually, I don't understand. Mr. Lin and his wife were high school classmates. Back then, Mr. Lin wrote many love letters to his wife and did many childish things to please her. Eventually, they got married and had adorable twins. For six years after their marriage, the couple was very loving. However, in the past year, they have been arguing almost every time they are at home. They start arguing after just a few words, and sometimes they even start arguing while eating. Fortunately, they always try to avoid arguing with their two sons.
May 22, cloudy.
I vaguely overheard the argument today, mentioning "investment" and "debt," which suggests that Mr. Lin's company is having some problems.
June 14th, cloudy.
Mr. Lin's secretary inadvertently revealed a few words: it turns out that the argument between Mr. Lin and his wife was due to company matters. Apparently, Mr. Lin did not listen to his wife's advice and made some decisions that led to serious consequences, but I don't know the specifics.
...
December 31st, sunny.
The last day of the year.
Mr. Lin's company went bankrupt, and he divorced his wife.
I'm going to be laid off too, since the villa is going to be reclaimed.
Mr. Lin and his wife divorced by mutual agreement. The eldest son stayed with his wife, and the second son stayed with Mr. Lin. The two often quarreled, so the divorce was relatively amicable. It's just a pity that the two young boys have to be separated at such a young age.
January 1st, cloudy.
On New Year's Day, I said goodbye to Mr. Lin, his wife, and their two sons.
Mr. Lin paid me back six months' salary, and his wife gave me a big red envelope, wishing me to find a better employer. Actually, it doesn't matter to me whether I can find a better employer or not. I've saved a lot of money over the years, enough to live on for the rest of my life even if I don't work.
It's just a pity for the two young masters; they are only 8 years old, so young, yet they have to experience such a huge change in their family.
One lives with their mother, the other with their father; their lives will be completely different from now on, won't they?
...
There was a large empty space behind the laptop.
The diary reappeared after turning the page, but the handwriting was noticeably different from before, as if the writer was not in good physical condition.
July 5th, sunny.
My wife was hospitalized, and after twenty years, I saw my eldest son again.
This kid is promising! He's a doctor at Xincheng Hospital now.
Oh, and this kid still remembers me! He stayed with us in the ward for a long time, asking how we'd been doing all these years, bought my husband a lot of nutritional supplements... and even introduced us to a better attending physician.
Mr. Lin is a big boss, and his wife is a university professor. I knew their child would be extraordinary, and sure enough, the eldest son became a doctor.
Being a doctor is great, saving lives and accumulating good deeds... I just wonder how the second young master has been doing all these years.
well.
July 11, sunny.
My wife was discharged from the hospital today. When we went to pay the bill, we found out that someone had already paid for it; it was the eldest son who paid for us.
I'm getting senile; I never realized that the young master was not only a doctor, but also the director of Xincheng Hospital!
My wife and I treated the eldest son to a meal. During the meal, the eldest son told us about the second son. It turned out that the eldest son had contacted the second son after returning from abroad. However, the second son didn't seem to be studying very hard and dropped out of university before finishing. But later, the eldest son sent him abroad to study, also majoring in medicine. Everything is slowly getting better.
August 14th, light rain.
The eldest young master treated us to dinner, and today we finally met the second young master!
But the second young master was a completely different person. The boy who loved bright colors as a child was now shrouded in black, his whole demeanor gloomy, neither smiling nor speaking. When I met him, he had bruises on his chin and a cut on his lip, as if he had just been in a fight.
I heard that Mr. Lin gave up on himself after his company went bankrupt and has not been able to make a comeback in recent years. The second young master has been with him and must have suffered a lot over the years, but fortunately he has the eldest young master.
However, the second young master seems to have grown distant from his brother, and his attitude is quite cold, perhaps because they have been separated for too long. But the eldest young master has been trying his best to maintain their relationship.
I believe that given time, the two brothers will surely recover completely.
After all, they're brothers.
The diary ends here.
Through the fragmented entries in the butler's diary, a story has begun to take shape:
The twins, Lin Qinghe and Lin Fengbai, were born into a wealthy family. Their father was a big boss and their mother was a university professor. The two lived in a large villa from a young age, with a butler and a nanny, and lived a happy life.
But the good times didn't last long. The parents disagreed and started arguing endlessly every day. The twins' peaceful life was disrupted, and the turmoil grew bigger and bigger until it caused a huge upheaval: the company went bankrupt, the parents divorced, and the two brothers were forced to separate.
One stayed with the father, and the other stayed with the mother, resulting in vastly different lives for the twins.
Lin Qinghe became the beloved director of Xincheng Hospital, dedicated to saving lives, while Lin Fengbai accomplished nothing. He envied and was jealous of his brother, and this jealousy turned into resentment, ultimately leading him astray.
It was almost exactly as they had guessed.
This diary is probably a randomly generated item by the system.
The notebook disappeared after they finished reading it.
The two then pieced together four more heads, but none of them dropped any items.
"Do you think it's possible..." Shi Yu felt dizzy as he stood up. He had been staying up too late these past few days, and his low blood sugar had flared up again. He leaned against a tree trunk to steady himself before finally saying, "There aren't actually any Lin Qinghe remains here?"
After receiving no response for a while, Shi Yu turned around and saw Chen Su squatting on the ground washing his hands with a fire hose. He was washing very carefully, rubbing each finger one by one until his fingertips turned red.
After washing his hands, Chen Su took a lollipop out of his pocket and handed it to him.
"By the way, what did you just say?"
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