Chapter 98

Chapter 98

An unnatural silence settled over the hospital room.

With that explanation, Nan Mu suddenly thought of something else. “That would also explain why Doctor Liu, despite being a guest surgeon brought in for the operation, didn’t return to the hospital where he worked after the surgery was completed. Instead, he stayed in the country to continue researching this condition. Maybe… it was precisely because he couldn’t be absolutely certain Huangfu Junsheng would recover after the two of them were swapped. That’s why they treated Gu Zhishu like a lab rat. They wanted to find a way to cure the condition through him, so that if Huangfu Junsheng ever relapsed, there would be another effective treatment available.”

All of that did sound reasonable, but Qiu Ziyu still had one question. “But… out of so many people, why did they choose Gu Zhishu in particular?”

That was indeed something they needed to figure out, but Nan Mu didn’t think it was hard to explain. “You can’t just transplant a matched organ at random. Even kidneys have to be typed before they can determine whether a transplant is possible, let alone a brain surgery that precise and complicated. They must have run compatibility tests and selected Gu Zhishu because he was a match.”

The moment he said that, Qiu Ziyu began to tremble faintly in fear. His hands clenched into fists, intense rage churning in his chest, mixed with a trace of terror he could barely suppress.

Because Gu Zhishu’s father had said that his brain disease had probably been discovered during the physical examination before the college entrance exam at school.

Huangfu Junsheng couldn’t possibly have been that lucky. He couldn’t have simply looked at Gu Zhishu’s school and just happened to find Gu Zhishu, who was compatible with him. He definitely hadn’t only looked at Gu Zhishu’s school. He might even have checked every school in City A…

Not necessarily just high school students. College students, maybe even middle school students…

It was too horrifying.

If that was true, didn’t that mean every student in every school had become part of his organ compatibility reserve?

Today, he could reach into schools. Tomorrow, he could reach into any enterprise, institution, or company in City A-or even the entire country…

How could anyone on this land ensure their own rights?

They couldn’t go to school, because the school physical exams would betray the specifications of the organs in their bodies. They couldn’t go to the hospital when they were sick, because no matter what kind of examination they underwent, it would also betray the specifications of their organs. They couldn’t even go to any enterprise, institution, or company, because any employment physical could still potentially expose the specifications of their organs!

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Just then, Qiu Ziyu received the investigation report that had been sent over.

Qiu Ziyu opened it, then froze.

Seeing his expression, Nan Mu asked in confusion, “What does it say?”

Somewhat awkwardly, Qiu Ziyu handed his phone to Nan Mu. “We investigated Huangfu Junsheng’s medical records… He had the surgery half a year ago.”

Nan Mu was stunned for a moment, then pressed on, unwilling to give up. “Is it possible he had two surgeries? One more than ten years ago, and then another half a year ago?”

“I thought of that possibility earlier.” Qiu Ziyu scratched his head. “So I also had people look into Huangfu Junsheng’s whereabouts on the day Gu Zhishu had surgery, more than ten years ago.”

Seeing Nan Mu staring into his eyes, Qiu Ziyu swallowed. “That day, he was attending a company ribbon-cutting ceremony. It was on the news and in the papers. So the person at the hospital back then couldn’t have been him.”
Nan Mu was deeply disappointed, but he still asked, “Then who was the person from more than ten years ago?”

Qiu Ziyu shook his head regretfully. “We couldn’t find out. In May ten years ago, a fire broke out at the First Affiliated Hospital of A University of Science and Technology Medical School. Supposedly, it happened to be in the brain disease office on the seventh floor, so all the records from back then were destroyed in that fire.”

Nan Mu knew about that. Nurse Lin had mentioned it before: after Gu Zhishu disappeared from the hospital, a fire suddenly broke out in Doctor Liu’s office and burned all the records to ash. It was also because of that incident that Doctor Zhang and Doctor Jia had both been “forced to resign and take responsibility”…

While the two were talking, Yu Jingtong suddenly pushed the door open and came in. She looked at them and asked, “What are you discussing? The fire from ten years ago?”

Qiu Ziyu had thought he and Nan Mu were speaking quietly, and the ward was well soundproofed. He had never expected someone to suddenly open the door and walk in.

But since it had already happened, he could only greet her with a smile and try to laugh the matter off.

If it had been anyone else, he might really have managed to gloss it over. But Yu Jingtong was different. Back then, Nan Mu had specifically gone to her home to ask about Gu Zhishu.

In that one sentence from Qiu Ziyu, he had mentioned the hospital, the fire, ten years ago, and even brain disease…

Even if Yu Jingtong had been slow, she should have been able to guess. And besides, she was exceptionally clever.

So Yu Jingtong ignored whatever Qiu Ziyu was saying. She simply stared at Nan Mu with those light amber eyes of hers, her gaze locked firmly on him.

Nan Mu pondered for a moment, then made a decision. He left out their earlier speculation about Huangfu Junsheng and focused only on the matter of them trying to figure out who had undergone surgery at the same time as Gu Zhishu.

Yu Jingtong had already known that he was very concerned about Gu Zhishu’s case, so it was perfectly normal for him to want to know who had had surgery alongside him.

After hearing this, Yu Jingtong showed no surprise at all. Instead, she said something that stunned them both.

“The person who had surgery with Gu Zhishu? I actually know who that was.”

Nan Mu did not rush to ask who the person was. Instead, he was puzzled as to how Yu Jingtong knew. After all, back then, Yu Jingtong had still been a student, and she had not been at this hospital.

It couldn’t be… that Gu Zhishu had told her, could it?

“Of course it wasn’t Gu Zhishu.” Yu Jingtong laughed despite herself. “But Gu Zhishu did mention once that there was someone who had surgery at the same time as him. At the time, he described that person as an ‘uncle.’ Other than that, however, he never specifically told me anything about the person’s existence.”

“Then how did you know?” This only made Qiu Ziyu even more curious. After all, the police investigation would certainly have been more thorough than an ordinary person’s, yet even he had been unable to find anything about this individual…

Yu Jingtong nodded. “Police investigations are indeed more accurate. But with many things, once you reveal your identity, the people answering your questions will naturally become extremely cautious.”

The reason Yu Jingtong knew who this person was had to begin with her father. Ever since Gu Zhishu’s unexpected disappearance, Yu Jingtong’s father had always felt deeply regretful. For doctors like them, what they longed for most was to conquer difficult and complicated diseases.