Chapter 21 The Third Mental Hospital
◎Can a person still live without a heart?◎
The blood vessels blocking the door are ready to move.
On the stretcher, Qi Kai, realizing the situation was dire, was about to stand up when Gu Nian signaled him to stop and calm down again. However, his entire body remained tense, ready to strike at any moment.
Facing the sharp barbed veins in front of him, Gu Nian remained calm and hesitated, saying, "It's an honor for me to be granted eternal life by the dean, but Director Zhou..." Gu Nian stopped mid-sentence and said, "Forget it, maybe I'm overthinking it."
"Please, Dean, grant me eternal life," Gu Nian said. Her words were firm, but the black threads wrapped around her fingers had already begun to flow along her fingertips, silently preparing for an attack.
Upon hearing Gu Nian's words, although the blood vessels didn't retreat, the spikes on them temporarily retracted. Then, the meat mountain's gloomy voice rang out: "What's wrong with Director Zhou?"
Gu Nian looked as if he didn't dare to say anything.
The blood vessel hit her side directly. The deep male voice tried to be calm, but it could not hide the exasperation in it. "I am still the director of this hospital. Speak!"
Gu Nian had a conflicted expression, but finally chose to tell the "truth".
"Actually, Director Zhou invited me here from the city hospital specifically to perform some organ transplants. But before any of the surgeries were even started, something unexpected happened at the hospital. Director Zhou asked me to come and deliver some food today, but I already knew there was something wrong with it."
She said, "Everyone knows you're the dean, but I never expected Director Zhou to ignore you. If you hadn't had the foresight to kill the octopus that was spying on me, I probably wouldn't have had the chance to warn him today. Dean, please be careful of Director Zhou from now on."
After Gu Nian finished speaking, he stood there calmly, with an expression that said, "I admire you very much, so I would never do anything to harm you. Now I have said everything I need to say, you can do whatever you want."
Meat Mountain slowly retracted the blood vessels and said gloomily, "Is everything you said true?"
Gu Nian nodded. "You can go and see for yourself. Just before I came here, a lot of patients disappeared from the hospital. There were obviously a lot of food ingredients, but the ones that were delivered in the end were these problematic ones."
She knocked on Qi Kai's chest, making a metallic sound. "Listen, the best meat has already been taken away. The rest is inedible."
Qi Kai, who had metalized himself in advance and was ready to take action: "......"
I feel like the meat on the chopping board.
However, he also saw Gu Nian's plan and cooperated to maintain the metal state.
With two loud bangs, the shelves on both sides were smashed to pieces. The thick blood vessels frantically swept the things on the marble table to the ground.
This monster made of flesh and blood was obviously extremely angry. It was angry about the betrayal and terrified of losing control of the hospital.
Soon, the meat mountain calmed down and said to Gu Nian, "Come here."
Gu Nian walked over naturally and said, "Please grant me eternal life."
Meat Mountain: "..."
It suppressed its impatience and smiled kindly: "Let's talk about eternal life later. Now I have something more important to entrust to you." Its right hand took out a seal from somewhere.
"This is the hospital's official seal. Take this and help me keep the hospital under my watch. Keep me informed of any changes." Roushan emphasized, "Remember, I need to be informed of the hospital's progress at all times."
Gu Nian hesitated: "This is not a good idea. Director Zhou is an experienced employee after all."
Roushan snorted coldly, "I'm the dean. If he has any objections, tell him to come to me."
Gu Nian took the official seal reluctantly and said, "Then it's up to you."
Gu Nian took the official seal, pushed Qi Kai, and walked out of the dean's office in broad daylight.
Not far away, Director Zhou with a big head was standing there.
Gu Nian greeted him with a smile, "Director Zhou, you're here. The dean didn't have a good appetite today and said to save this meal for tomorrow, so I had to bring it out first."
Director Zhou didn't even look at Qi Kai. He was just a caregiver, not worth his attention. His dark eyes were fixed on the seal in Gu Nian's hand.
Gu Nian took out the seal and said, "Is Director Zhou looking at this? The dean gave it to me. He told me to keep an eye on the hospital's situation and report back to him at any time. The dean said that the hospital has been a bit chaotic lately and it would be best to centralize the management of all patients. What do you think, Director Zhou?"
Director Zhou glanced at Gu Nian and said with a smile, "Then let's do as the dean says."
Gu Nian pushed the stretcher into the elevator and waved to Director Zhou outside.
When they returned to the office, Qi Kai got off the stretcher. He, who was always serious, made a rare joke: "Your acting is very good. You are more suitable for the entertainment industry than Zhong Xingchi."
Gu Nian smiled and shook his head: "I'm just very good at imitating."
After joking, the two talked about business.
Gu Nian said, "Although we appear to be safe right now, neither Director Zhou nor the dean truly trusts us."
There are two forces in this hospital. Roushan, who used to be the dean, had absolute control, but now he is trapped in the dean's office and can only maintain a delicate balance with Director Zhou.
Now, as Director Zhou's strength grows stronger, the balance between the two sides is being broken. Only when a third party like them appears will they be chosen by the dean.
As for the anger shown by the other party, Gu Nian did not completely believe it.
After hearing these words, Qi Kai once again had a new understanding of Gu Nian. He began to truly treat her as a peer and asked for her opinion: "What do you think we should do next?"
Although they successfully left the dean's office this time and even got the hospital's official seal, the most important purpose of this trip was not achieved.
The contaminated core was not found.
The most crucial clue was lost, and they were now completely clueless.
Gu Nian thought for a moment and said, "They want to use us, and we also want to use them. The inpatient department is too large, and it's difficult for just a few of us to quickly investigate. The core of the contamination is not on the current patient list, so is it possible that it escaped before this?"
If it was a patient who had escaped before, it is indeed possible that he or she is not on the list.
The inpatient department was the center of the contamination, with the largest concentration of aberrants. The core of the contamination must have been here. In other words, the escaped patient must have disappeared not long ago.
More specifically, they were looking for patients who had disappeared just before the pollution outbreak. Given the secrets hidden behind this hospital, such patients were very likely to exist. Having their organs removed while they were still alive, the despair they felt was undoubtedly profound.
With a direction to look for, things will be easier.
Qi Kai thought of what Gu Nian had said to Director Zhou before, "You want to use these monsters to gather everyone here together?"
Gu Nian nodded: "Yes."
Qi Kai thought for a moment and felt that this method was feasible.
Gu Nian took out the official seal and said, "I just don't know if they are really that obedient."
Qi Kai said, "They will obey. This is a pollutant." He explained to Gu Nian, "In addition to the pollution core, pollutants will also appear around other aberrations. They are just much lower in level, but they have a suppressive effect on lower-level aberrations."
Gu Nian put the official seal away carefully: "That's easy."
Soon, under the order of the dean and with the tacit approval of Director Zhou, Gu Nian used the tiger skin as a banner to gather all the monsters together, asking them to check the entire inpatient department, "catch" all the escaped patients, and lock them up together.
The dean's seal was quite useful. In less than an hour, everyone gathered in the hall.
Gu Nian scanned the crowd and frowned. Most of them were already ruled out patients, while a small number were staff members without deformities. There was only one person, who had been searched from the hospital basement, but he didn't meet the criteria.
No, this is not the case.
She exchanged glances with Qi Kai and the others who were also searching, and everyone's faces looked unhappy.
Director Zhou also came over at this time, with his big head held high and a smile on his face, "I wonder if Expert Gu is satisfied? Everyone is here."
Gu Nian shook his head and said seriously: "No, there is one person missing."
Director Zhou's face instantly fell, feeling that Gu Nian was using a feather as a token of authority and deliberately picking a fight. He said with a forced smile, "Doesn't Expert Gu trust the doctors at our Third Hospital?"
Gu Nian also smiled back: "Of course not, it's just that there is indeed one person missing, and I can't explain this to the dean." She took out the seal.
The lower-level aberrations below trembled.
Suddenly, a series of "quacks" rang out in the hall.
Gu Nian looked over and found that the sound was made by a monster that looked like a toad.
Noticing everyone was looking over, the monsters started screaming even louder. Someone immediately raised their hands and reported, "He knows! He definitely knows where the patient is hiding! Xiao Zhang gets burps when he gets nervous!"
Gu Nian walked up to the monster and said kindly, "Tell me where the escaped patient is. If you tell me, I will speak up for you in front of the dean."
□□'s eyes dodged, looking at the seal in Gu Nian's hand, and finally spoke: "Gua, there is one, but, but she is dead."
Gu Nian held up the seal and said, "I heard that if this seal is placed on your body, it will hurt like a red-hot iron. I wonder if it's true."
The monster's face was filled with fear. "What I said was true. That girl had just had her heart removed this morning. I was in charge of handling the body, but in the blink of an eye, she disappeared!"
But can a person live without a heart?
He really didn't lie. No matter where it went, it should be a corpse.
Director Zhou said gloomily, "Expert Gu, it's just a corpse, forget it."
Gu Nian shook his head seriously. "No. Everything in this hospital belongs to the dean. There must be something here that we haven't searched yet. Even if it's just a body, we have to find it."
She glanced at all the people and monsters and asked, "Where else haven't you looked?"
Director Zhou chuckled sinisterly, "The only place left is the lounge in the dean's office. Expert Gu, why don't you ask the dean?"
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