The gatekeeper yawned, still sleepy-eyed: "New here? You don't need to get up so early anymore."
Xia Chuhe glanced at the sun hanging in the sky. It took some time to eat and get his work permit, so eight o'clock was not considered early.
Upon entering the dormitory building, the group separated according to the elderly person's room listed in the information. They agreed to meet at the dormitory entrance around 10:00 AM after handling matters related to the elderly person.
The elderly person under Xia Chuhe's care lives in room 203. The door has a transparent glass panel at a rather unusual height.
Xia Chuhe is 1.67 meters tall, which is not short among the wasteland people, but she has to stand on tiptoe to see the situation in the room through the glass.
It's so difficult for an able-bodied person to use this glass window, let alone an elderly person with mobility issues. Apart from elderly people who can walk normally and are tall, other elderly people have no way to look out of the glass window at all.
Looking through the glass window, room 203 is a four-person room, and the elderly person that Xia Chuhe is in charge of lives in the room on the left side near the door.
The elderly people don't sleep much, so they're all awake now. Those who can sit up are on the bed, while those who can't lie with their eyes open. They don't talk to each other, remaining as still as statues.
Xia Chuhe watched for several minutes, almost as if time had stood still.
But the old woman on the bed to the right of the door was reminding Xia Chuhe that time was not still. She lay on the bed with her eyes open, her body motionless, but her eyeballs would occasionally dart around.
Her cheeks were covered with dense age spots. Xia Chuhe blinked, and the age spots seemed to have moved to a different place on the old woman's face.
Xia Chuhe observed that the stain remained still. Xia Chuhe closed his eyes, and the stain moved.
Xia Chuhe felt uneasy.
She would rather face mutated creatures in the wasteland than these old people.
But since she was already in the instance, and the deity of Bird Island had said that collecting the complete Animal World core would be beneficial to her, Xia Chuhe had no choice but to continue.
Xia Chuhe knocked on the door of number 203.
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