47 Extra traces
◎Patients with hemoptysis◎
Qi Qiuxue asked other patients. After the doctor gave the crazy middle-aged man a sedative, his emotions calmed down significantly. However, because he was likely to have another attack and hurt other people in the ward, the medical staff urgently transferred him to another ward.
"Which ward are you in?" Qi Qiuxue asked.
"It should be somewhere in the intensive care unit between the 17th and 20th floors?" the old lady said uncertainly. "A patient was also transferred there a few days ago."
besides?
Qi Qiuxue frowned: "Why was that patient transferred there?"
"Because I was vomiting blood." The old lady felt a chill in her heart as she recalled the scene. "I remember it was one afternoon. I was taking a nap when I was suddenly awakened by a noise. When I regained consciousness and looked over, I saw the patient in the bed across from me coughing violently."
"He covered his mouth hard, trying to stop the blood he coughed up, but it was no use. His hands, arms, and quilt were covered in blood. It looked horrible."
"I was terrified and quickly rang the bell for medical help. They immediately transferred the poor patient away. I don't know what happened after that. After all, I haven't seen him since then."
"I see." Qi Qiuxue nodded, her lips raised in a friendly smile. "Thank you for telling me this."
"You're welcome." The old lady smiled kindly, liking this cute and polite girl. "Please come and chat with me more often. My two daughters work far away and don't have time to visit me. I'm quite lonely."
"You look a lot like my daughter." The old lady openly expressed her fondness for Qi Qiuxue. "I enjoy talking to you."
"I enjoy chatting with you, too." Qi Qiuxue smiled, recorded the data just detected in the file, and reminded her to take a rest.
After leaving the ward, Qi Qiuxue quickly stopped smiling.
She was very concerned about the intensive care unit mentioned by the old lady. Coincidentally, the work in her hands came to a brief halt at this moment. Qi Qiuxue silently got on the elevator and tried to go upstairs to explore.
"Beep." She put the elevator card on the display screen, and only the floors from the first to the sixteenth floor were lit up, allowing her, as a nurse, to come and go freely. She did not have the authority to explore the higher floors, as that was a place only doctors or a few nurses who were allowed to set foot on.
What is there up there? Is it really just an intensive care unit as the old lady said?
Qi Qiuxue paused, stepped out of the elevator, found the stairs at a corner, and climbed up.
14th floor, 15th floor, 16th floor, she soon stepped onto the 16th floor. There was no way forward, it was completely blocked by a metal door.
It was a very heavy metal door, very hard, and did not look like it could be destroyed by simple external force. There was also a display screen on the door, and one needed to swipe a card to enter. Qi Qiuxue tried to stick her card on it, but it also had no effect.
This made her more and more suspicious that these blocked floors must be more than just wards.
“…”
The nurses' station was very busy, and not returning for too long would definitely arouse suspicion. Qi Qiuxue gave up further exploration of other places and turned back.
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After returning to the dormitory in the evening, the players gathered together to exchange information they had discovered today.
Wu Shanyue spent most of her time in the nurses' station organizing nursing records. During this time, the nurses had a brief exchange, as if they were on guard against something. They lowered their voices and even deliberately avoided Wu Shanyue, standing in an area farther away from her.
Fortunately, Wu Shanyue had pretty good hearing, and he was able to guess what they were talking about by vaguely hearing a few key pieces of information.
It seemed like she was talking about a certain patient. Nurse A mentioned that a patient in a certain ward had symptoms of coughing up blood. The scene was very tragic, with blood splattered everywhere.
She even made a rather cruel joke: "Luckily the doctors took care of him before he coughed up his lungs."
Nurse B was not surprised to hear this: "Looks like another one died."
Nurse A tutted: "Isn't this normal?"
Wu Shanyue shook her head at this point. "That's all I heard. A patient in a certain ward rang the bell for help, and they quickly ended the conversation and went to deal with it."
"Coughing up blood..." Qi Qiuxue recalled the man coughing up blood mentioned by the previous patient. Combined with the nurses' familiar tone, it seemed this situation was very common in the hospital. "Just two days ago, a patient in room 1325 also had the same condition. It seems he was later transferred to another ward and hasn't returned since."
"It could be advanced lung cancer, or stomach or intestinal cancer," Zhu Lan said without dwelling on it. "After all, this is a hospital that only admits cancer patients. Their condition is already bad enough when they're admitted, so it's normal for them to have all sorts of problems after being admitted."
Qi Qiuxue disagreed: "Is this really normal?"
Zhu Lan raised his eyebrows: "What are your thoughts?"
"The fact that this hospital has the confidence to only admit cancer patients proves that its cancer treatment must be superior to other hospitals. Furthermore, the fact that it has received financial and technical support from the mayor further proves that it must have some exceptional qualities."
"Even though all the patients we admit are cancer patients, their condition has multiple stages, including early, middle, and late stages. If managed properly, this situation wouldn't occur often. Even if someone is coughing up blood and continues to cough, we should have appropriate strategies and techniques to treat them and do everything we can to save their life, rather than imposing a death sentence and assuming they will die."
"Indeed." Li Yiqing nodded in agreement with Qi Qiuxue's point of view, and then continued, "So maybe there's more to this than just cancer?"
"Hmm." Qi Qiuxue lowered her eyes. "I think...some of this might be the result of human intervention."
"That's not all. There's something else I'm concerned about." Qi Qiuxue reached into her pocket, pulled out the elevator card, and played with it. "The card we have only allows us to move freely between floors 1-16. If we want to go to higher floors, we have to find another way. Either borrow a card from the doctor, or get permission and go with the doctor."
"While delivering files that afternoon, I overheard a doctor preparing to go to a higher-level office. I tried to find an excuse to go with him, but he decisively refused, even though he really needed help."
Wu Shanyue became more and more frightened as she listened: "Axue means that maybe there is some secret hidden in it that can't be shown to us casually?"
Qi Qiuxue nodded: "Maybe."
Then she looked at the others: "Do you have any other clues?"
"Me." Lu Jin raised his hand upon hearing this. "After working in the dungeon for two days, I noticed that some patients' conditions were very abnormal. This condition wasn't specific to each individual, but rather to the entire room."
"The patients in the wards I'm responsible for are admitted earlier than those in other wards," Lu Jin said. "While working, I specifically asked about their conditions, including which organs were affected and how severe the condition was. Everyone's condition is different, and just as Zhang Xue mentioned, their presentations should also be different."
"But after two days of observation, I found that this was not the case. The earlier the patients were admitted to the hospital, the more depressed they were. Their complexion, skin colour and demeanour tended to be sicker, while those who were admitted earlier were relatively normal."
"This isn't a coincidence," Lu Jin said. "I've carefully observed this pattern among these patients."
"Yes." Xu Gui nodded in response, "I also vaguely noticed it."
As expected, there is strength in numbers. Qi Qiuxue was busy looking for other clues and ignored the most obvious thing.
There was definitely something wrong with this pattern, but the clues they had were too few to draw a correct conclusion. Even so, a vague guess gradually emerged in everyone's mind -
Whether it is the doctors or nurses in this hospital, they all seem to be carrying out a certain degree of human intervention on the patients, and this intervention is "unfriendly" to a great extent.
The night gradually deepened.
The busy work made them exhausted, and they gradually felt sleepy. Qi Qiuxue was still a little concerned about the schedule. It seemed too coincidental that all the players had no night shift arrangements.
Maybe something will happen at night. Qi Qiuxue closed her eyes and just dozed off. She didn't want to fall asleep too early.
But before she knew it, sleepiness came quietly and enveloped her imperceptibly, causing her to gradually transition from dozing off to deep sleep.
In the haze, she seemed to have a dream, a very real and somewhat painful dream. In the dream, a huge insect appeared out of nowhere, pierced her arm with its sharp mouthparts, and greedily sucked her blood.
Qi Qiuxue tried to drive it away, but her body was like sleep paralysis and she couldn't move. She could only let the insect suck her mercilessly until daybreak.
The players woke up at the same time, and the night nurses knocked on the door again. Qi Qiuxue was still concerned about the dream. Before going to wash up, she subconsciously rolled up her sleeves and checked her right arm.
As she moved, her fair arm was quickly exposed to her field of vision. Qi Qiuxue looked over and found a small "thing" on the inside of her arm near the elbow joint.
It was a tiny, subtle mark that suddenly appeared.
——A pinhole.
【Author’s words】
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