Chapter 312 Monster Hospital (XI)
President Yan didn't see clearly how he suddenly entered the B area of the hospital. After all, the spiral staircase leading from the lobby to the second floor did not have any so-called hidden space to accommodate an entire floor of the hospital. Moreover, the moment the nurse leading the way announced that they had reached their destination, they were like actors on the stage, watching the background around them undergo a qualitative change. However, in the eyes of the actors, they were pretending not to see the changes in the background, but for them, they really couldn't see it.
"Doctor Yan, this is Ward B, and this is the area you will be mainly responsible for from now on." The nurse who led the way disappeared at some point, and several nurses appeared in front of her. The one who spoke in the lead was an old acquaintance of President Yan - Nurse Zhang.
Nurse Zhang obviously accepted the fact that the newcomer who was supposed to be her subordinate suddenly became her immediate superior. Especially President Yan, he helped her clear her grievances. So Nurse Zhang was very satisfied with the fact that he became her superior. When she introduced him, she smiled and said, "Including the newly assigned patients, there are currently 401 patients in Area B. The first 400 are numbered from 301 to 700. The number of the newly admitted patient is 1080. The patients' symptoms and previous treatments are all recorded in the archives room. You can check them anytime when you have time."
Nurse Zhang was not selected as an outstanding employee casually. She was well-organized and concise in her speech. In just a few words, she explained the situation of the entire ward clearly.
"Of course, only the main doctors in charge of this area can check the conditions of patients in Area B. The few doctors who were temporarily transferred here to help should just focus on finding patients."
At this point, she seemed to have just noticed that Dr. Yan was followed by several doctors from other wards. Although they were amiable, they explained the matter very seriously.
The team headed by President Xuan and assisted by the President of the Top Students and the President of the Loan Shark Guild, had no time to react after hearing about the side quest just now. They finally made it to Area B, but were suddenly given a bunch of instructions by Nurse Zhang, which made them feel a little embarrassed.
After all, they are all equal guild presidents, not to mention that the top ten guilds are so famous, but now they have to bow down to the president of a neutral small guild in the position of a copy. Even a nurse in area B dares to speak to them like this. This makes them, who have just become guild presidents, feel an obvious gap, but no one dares to lose their temper.
First of all, although the doctor's position is obviously higher than that of the nurse, there is also a difference in the wards. The other party is in ward B, and they were originally only doctors in ward C. Although they are not quite clear about how the job level should be calculated, they understood the rules of death implied in the other party's words.
According to the task prompt, on the one hand, they were asked to help because they found something wrong with the escape of patient X, and on the other hand, there were not enough doctors in Area B. Moreover, their mission was limited to finding patient X. So outside the scope of this matter, they had no rights in Area B, otherwise the death rule would be triggered.
President Xuan took a deep breath without leaving a trace, and then forced a half-true, half-false smile from his already stiff face, "Nurse Zhang, don't worry, we will keep it in mind."
In these few short minutes, President Yan has adjusted her mentality. Although she does not want to conflict with the presidents behind her too quickly, she cannot avoid it because of the mission. Fortunately, because of her rank, she is not constrained by the people behind her. But now in front of everyone, she cannot go directly to find President Qian who was sent to Area B, so she has to temporarily focus on the task issued by the system.
"Nurse Zhang, is there anything else I can do?" President Yan confirmed with Nurse Zhang, "I'm new here. I have the title of doctor, but I'm not familiar with some of the procedures and rules. If there's anything I did wrong or something I overlooked, you must tell me."
The eyes of the people behind him widened after hearing this. After all, in the eyes of President Xuan and his companions, President Yan's current position was already higher than Nurse Zhang's, so why did he have to speak to him so gently?
President Yan didn't look back. He knew all the complaints in those people's hearts and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. No wonder you were only vice presidents before. It seemed that you had never worked properly for a few days. You didn't know that in the workplace, it is much easier to die together than to be in the same boat. What's more, Nurse Zhang has been in the hospital for a long time, and she must have known a lot of news. You really think yourselves are doctors. We are here to complete the mission. Don't forget that the wrist of the Grim Reaper is still stuck in all areas outside this ultimate copy.
From the first time Nurse Zhang was forced to answer Doctor Yan's questions, she felt that she was different from the other newcomers. In addition, after Doctor Yan helped her and was assigned to Area B, she had a filter for her. Now, hearing that she spoke so soothingly even after taking office, she was naturally smiling in her heart and on her face.
"Doctor Yan, what are you talking about?" She smiled and waved her hand, sending the nurses behind her to work, and walked forward with a few people. "You are now the responsible doctor of Area B. You will become familiar with the procedures and rules in the future. And I know that the acting dean has asked you to solve the problem of patient X's mysterious disappearance every night as soon as possible. You should take care of this first, and there is no rush for other things. How about I take you to see this patient's room now?"
They had already walked to the nurses' station. The other nurses who had been sent away by Nurse Zhang had already gone back to their own work. When they heard them talking, they just stared straight ahead, as if they didn't care about anything, didn't hear anything, and were only focused on the work in their hands.
There was a timetable on the notice board behind the nurses' station, with daily routines marked on it, as well as some precautions and work processes. Doctor Yan glanced at it and found that there seemed to be nothing special, so he nodded and followed Nurse Zhang's steps, "Thank you for your hard work, Nurse Zhang. Let's go to the patient's room first."
Unexpectedly, the ward with more than 400 patients was not as noisy as President Yan had imagined. It was even too quiet. She soon noticed that there was only one long corridor from the nurses' station. There were no turns, no ups and downs, only a white passage with no end in sight, and patient rooms with small windows on both sides.
"The patient rooms here are basically two people in one, except for the last one left alone," Nurse Zhang is a competent nurse. When passing by a patient's room, she will habitually check the patient's condition through the small window. It is now past ten o'clock in the evening. President Yan knows from the schedule that it is time to go to sleep, so Nurse Zhang just confirmed that there is someone on each bed and did not go any further.
President Yan was not sure whether President Xuan and the others had noticed that President Qian was also assigned to Area B, and was the only patient assigned to Area B, so he covered up the fact that he was left alone without leaving a trace, "Nurse Zhang, doesn't that patient X have a number? Why is he called X? Or do patients in the ward have other nicknames to refer to them?"
Two people in one room, a total of more than 400 people. Even if the room is small, there are 200 rooms in total. If there is one on each side, it means that this endless corridor has at least 100 rooms on each side. And it is obvious that the room of Patient X is still at the back and requires a distance.
Fortunately, there was nothing to do, so President Yan finally got to the point and began to inquire about the condition of the patient they were looking for.
"Oh, that's not the case," Nurse Zhang casually closed the small window that the patient had not closed properly, and then waved her hand at President Yan, "We call the patients in the ward by numbers, but this X is a little special. The disease he suffers from is a psychological allergy to sex."
The well-informed presidents, upon hearing this seemingly made-up illness, exerted great self-control and did not let themselves say anything unpleasant. In the end, President Yan suppressed his doubts and shock amid the continuous gasps of the people behind him, put on a face of learning from experience, and asked without shame, "Psychological hypersensitivity to six-dislike syndrome?"
Nurse Zhang seemed not to notice their abnormality, but explained to everyone very enthusiastically, "Yes, to put it simply, the patient is psychologically very averse to the number six, including but not limited to homophones, homophones, and anything that may be associated with this number. If the patient is accidentally exposed to allergens, he will go into a violent mode, causing great harm to himself and other patients."
Speaking of the patient's symptoms and conditions, Nurse Zhang introduced these symptoms that seemed very abnormal to ordinary people without pausing. "But unfortunately, the number assigned to the patient after admission happened to be 666. In order not to irritate the patient and protect everyone's safety, we later referred to him as Patient X. Even the number on his patient uniform was changed to X. Over time, everyone got used to it."
Perhaps because she saw the incomprehensible expression on Doctor Yan's face, Nurse Zhang quickly added, "But Doctor Yan, you can rest assured. Apart from the allergic symptoms, Patient X is very gentle and easy to get along with."
Doctor Yan retracted his twitching mouth corners and swallowed the two sentences "Is your hospital deliberately torturing him?" and "Who diagnosed such a weird symptom?" "Then I heard from the acting dean that he was deliberately framed to escape last time, which seemed to have a certain impact on his psychology, so he disappears every night. What's going on?"
Since Nurse Zhang had mentioned before that it was the Acting Dean who assigned her to investigate the matter, President Yan could just use her name. Although Nurse Zhang had been rehabilitated, a hint of gloom flashed across her face when she heard about this. Finally, she looked back and made sure that they were far enough away from the nurses' station before she lowered her voice.
"This matter is actually a bit mysterious," she changed from leading the way to standing shoulder to shoulder with President Yan, and explained to him in a low voice with her head tilted, "Doctor Yan, when you came to Ward B just now, did you notice which road you took?"
President Yan could feel the gazes of several people behind him, just like his own, all focused on Nurse Zhang because of her question. "I really didn't pay much attention. I seemed to be in a trance for a while, and I opened my eyes and immediately got here. And just now I saw the direction we came from, there seemed to be no entrance or exit, and no stairs up or down. I thought the hospital might have some secret passage, so I didn't dare to confirm it with you."
In fact, what she wanted to say was that she not only didn't notice which road she was taking, but she didn't notice anything at all and arrived here as soon as she opened her eyes.
"This is not a secret, it's just the special feature of our Monster Hospital," Nurse Zhang was amused by her idea, "You have also seen the patients here, they are all relatively dangerous. If it were an ordinary hospital, they would not be able to be kept here. So our director took this into consideration when he first established each ward. Therefore, only the guides know the specific location of each ward. They are responsible for sending new doctors and patients in. Unless they are fired like Nurse Hao, Nurse Wang, and Security Guard Guo, we cannot leave here without the director's order, let alone the patients."
As they were talking, they had already walked to the middle of the ward. Whether it was the nurse station behind them or the other side, there was no end in sight. Because of Nurse Zhang's words that could be described as the atmosphere of a horror movie, President Yan felt a chill down her spine almost instantly. She felt that there were many things she needed to confirm.
"What do you mean we can't leave here? But haven't we met in other places before?"
President Yan tried his best to make his tone sound calm and not too surprised.
"Each ward has a rest area for doctors and nurses. I'll take you to see your room later," said Nurse Zhang, who didn't think there was anything wrong with this. "Don't worry, your room is the best here. I guarantee you'll be satisfied. And even though you're staying here, you still have specific working hours. It's not a 24-hour system."
After figuring out what Dr. Yan might be concerned about, she explained, "We will only leave here when the dean needs us. Just like before, I met you because you wanted to deal with my suspected dereliction of duty. Speaking of which, I haven't been to the hall for quite some time."
"What if we need to ask the dean something? We can't just keep waiting until he needs us, right?"
"If you say so, how could Patient X disappear every night? Could he be hiding in someone else's room?"
"Are you sure that X disappears every night?"
After hearing this, the three people behind him could no longer suppress their curiosity and spoke at the same time. The last question was asked by President Xuan. In President Yan's opinion, his question was the most valuable.
Nurse Zhang rolled her eyes and didn't want to pay attention to these doctors who came to help. She didn't answer them either. She even heard from the president of the honor students that he was mocking her for not working seriously. She felt that these people were not there to help, but to find fault.
President Yan finally got to the point, so he turned around and gave the three people a look that told them to be quiet and not speak. "What's wrong with you? We just came to help, why are you talking about us?"
In front of Nurse Zhang, he must protect the staff in his own ward. After all, although they are all staff members, there is definitely competition between different areas. This is the norm in large companies.
She spoke sternly, but there was not much expression on her face when she turned around. After turning around, she put on her original smile, "Nurse Zhang, don't pay attention to them. Once they are found, they will go back to their own ward."
"I heard from the Acting Dean that he is only the Acting Dean, so now we can only leave here when the Acting Dean summons us... when he needs us, right?"
President Yan brought the topic back to the topic without leaving a trace, and noticed that in what Nurse Zhang had said before, she mentioned "the dean" instead of "acting dean". This was actually a bit strange. If something unexpected happened to the dean, there should be a successor to become the new dean, rather than letting someone else become the acting dean. Generally speaking, in this case, it indicates that the dean will come back one day.
This is the ultimate copy personally recognized by the system, which contains everything related to the game, so she doesn't want to miss any information.
But Nurse Zhang obviously didn't want to continue to dwell on this matter, or she realized from President Yan's words that she might have said too much, and just perfunctorily responded, "You understand it very well. Now we can only leave when the Acting Dean needs us, so it stands to reason that Patient X can't disappear from here without a trace. When I first heard the nurses below say this, I thought they were not working seriously, and that Patient X was hiding in someone else's room, and they didn't search carefully enough. After all, there are a total of 400 patients and 200 rooms, and we don't have that many people. What if he secretly hides in a room we have already searched while we are not paying attention, wouldn't he not be discovered?"
When President Yan heard her say this, he knew that things would definitely not be that simple. Moreover, several days had passed since the incident happened last Thursday. After the hospital discovered the news, they must have taken some action, but it was unsuccessful, so they were assigned this task.
"After the acting dean learned about this, he brought all the doctors, nurses and security guards who were on duty in other wards that day here. The other patients were confined to the activity room, with a sentry every five meters, and they searched room by room, but they found nothing. They kept doing this until dawn. As a result, the security guard in charge of patient X's room said that the person suddenly appeared, lying straight on the bed, and was sleeping soundly. Don't you think it's scary?"
I don’t know which patient’s door had a small window that was not closed properly, and a gust of evil wind blew into the corridor.
The detective mystery story suddenly turned into a horror story halfway through, and the faces of several presidents were not very good.
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