Chapter 95
Chapter 95
Their conversation ended without going anywhere.
Pen Spirit delivered the medicine to the patients’ rooms one by one, then turned and left.
The streamers on the other side, holding their disposable paper cups, were collectively dumbfounded when they saw that the Nurse Ghost had been replaced. They had originally come up with countless ways to avoid drinking the medicine, but in the end, not one of them dared to try any of them. They obediently drank it down.
For example, Fan Jianqiang and the others, who had just narrowly escaped from the Blind Ghost… They pinched the black medicinal liquid in their hands and agonized over it for a long time, but in the end, they still tossed it back in one gulp.
There was nothing they could do. The moment Pen Spirit walked into the ward, the frost she brought in across the floor had already scared the courage right out of them. None of them dared to make even the slightest move.
Of course, “them” did not include Chi Shang. He tentatively poured the medicine out the window, then held his breath and stared in the direction of the door for a full five minutes. In the end, the ward door was never pushed open.
Suspicious, Chi Shang opened the door and glanced outside, only to see two “ghosts” in nurse uniforms sneaking around at the end of the corridor, looking as if they were eavesdropping? Peeping?
No, wait. It looked like the two of them were picking a lock…
Chi Shang: ??
In fact, this could count as a little bug Qiao Yu had found for the streamers in the Live Stream Room. As long as Pen Spirit wasn’t watching them, wouldn’t she have no way of knowing whether they drank the medicine or not?
Unfortunately… very few people dared to commit crimes right under her nose.
Pen Spirit followed Qiao Yu and stood in front of the door to Ward 601. Then she watched helplessly as he pulled a Small Wire out of his pocket and picked open the locked door to Ward 601.
Pen Spirit: “…Since you’re already, you know, can’t you become someone useful to society? Can you stop doing this petty criminal stuff?”
Qiao Yu immediately refused to accept that. “When have I ever done petty criminal stuff?”
Pen Spirit gave a cold laugh. “Have you forgotten how you used to take me door to door to scare people and scam money out of them?”
Qiao Yu shot her a sidelong look. “That wasn’t scamming money. That was collecting alms.”
“Alms, my ass. It was obviously scamming people. The worst part was that I did all the dirty work and hard labor, but when we split the money, it was twenty-eighty, and you took eighty percent for yourself. How are you not embarrassed?”
“Didn’t I treat you to something tasty afterward?”
“A bag of Xuelian that cost fifty cents, and you still have the nerve to bring it up?!”
“What’s wrong with Xuelian? Amid a crowd of ice cream assassins in luxurious packaging, isn’t it refreshingly unpretentious and meaningful?”
“Get lost. If you keep yapping, I’m quitting. I don’t care whether this Instance mutates or not. I’m going home!”
Qiao Yu pushed open the ward door with a smile on his face. “Did you know? Nurses at this hospital earn eighty thousand a month.”
Pen Spirit froze, then her eyes widened in shock. Even her withered eye sockets seemed to glow. “…I’ve always loved being a nurse. Angels in white, saving lives and healing the wounded.”
-Angels in white? More like killers in white!
-I’m dying. Sure enough… wherever there’s one absolute menace, another absolute menace is bound to be within three steps hahaha.
-I’m not surprised at all that these two became friends now. One scares people, one collects money. Still as a maiden, then boots-and-cats?
-+12345, climbing the mountain to fight the tiger.
-Birds of a feather. Mm, birds with the same copper stink.
-This Instance is really full of holes…
-I can just imagine it. The director has already cried himself unconscious in the bathroom~
Ward 601 belonged to that patient named Lu Shanshan. She was probably an NPC in the Instance, as well as a clue left for the streamers.
When Qiao Yu and Pen Spirit walked in, Lu Shanshan happened to be downstairs having a physical examination and doing rehabilitation therapy.
But how did one rehabilitate a brain??
Qiao Yu was lost, but that did not stop him from rummaging through the room.
Pen Spirit was not good at this sort of thing, so she followed behind Qiao Yu, helping put things back where they had been.
Strangely enough, aside from a printed sheet that looked like a self-introduction, Qiao Yu did not find anything suspicious.
[My name is Lu Shanshan. I am twenty-five years old this year. I like the color white. I am a piano teacher, and I teach at Ningping County Yuanyang Private High School. My father is named Lu Qiu. He is a great researcher. My mother is named Cheng Jingwan. She is the chairwoman of Chengshan Technology. I have a very happy family. My grandmother’s name is…]
Strange. This introduction was seriously strange.
Who included information about their parents and even their maternal grandparents in a self-introduction?
And their home address? Their entire upbringing?
They might as well have written down their bank card PIN while they were at it.
Qiao Yu couldn’t make sense of it, so he could only put the printed sheet back on the desk, then leave Ward 601 with Pen Spirit.
As he stepped out, he happened to see the head nurse coming out of Ward 602. Fan Jianqiang was following behind him.
Then the head nurse went into Ward 603. Fan Jianqiang didn’t follow him in, but stood waiting at the door.
Qiao Yu walked over in a few steps, tilted his head, and greeted Fan Jianqiang. “Hey, where are you guys going?”
Fan Jianqiang looked up at him blankly for a few seconds, then lowered his head again in a daze.
Qiao Yu: ??
Just then, the door opened. The head nurse was a little surprised to see Qiao Yu standing there, then snapped at him with a stern face, “Instead of properly manning the front desk in the first-floor lobby, what are you wandering around here for? Want your pay docked?”
All right. That last sentence hit Qiao Yu, a born rebel, right where it hurt.
Even Pen Spirit, upon hearing the words “pay docked,” reined in all her murderous aura and started pushing the nursing cart up and down the corridor, putting on a show of being very busy.
-…I’ll say it again. There really is a reason those two can get along.
-I’m dying. I never expected Pen Spirit to have this kind of vibe. Let me laugh for a second.
-Streamer being a Ghost Heartthrob: confirmed and reconfirmed.
And so, Qiao Yu obediently went to man the first-floor lobby.
Unlike the bustle of people coming and going in the dream, the hospital lobby was deserted right now. Aside from him, there wasn’t another person around.
The television mounted on the lobby wall was broadcasting financial news, and the date was today.
“Yuanyang Consortium will raise its offer, and Shengshi Consortium, which seeks to acquire a minority stake, will also submit a bid. According to Financial Network, sources have revealed that Mr. Tang Wen, chairman of Yuanyang Consortium, and Luo Zhiqiang of Shengshi Consortium will increase their offers on Wednesday to acquire Yidannu Shopping Mall. This latest offer is…”
Qiao Yu propped his chin up with one hand and blinked thoughtfully. “Yuanyang Consortium… Why does that name sound so familiar?”
Just then, someone in a hospital gown and a hat walked up to the reception desk.
“Nurse bro, I’d like to buy a bar of soap.”
Qiao Yu’s train of thought was interrupted, and he looked at the person who had arrived.
Only then did he realize it was Lu Shanshan, the patient staying in Ward 601. Almost instantly, the penny dropped, and he remembered why Yuanyang Consortium sounded so familiar.
Wasn’t that the name of the private high school where Lu Shanshan worked? Ningping County Yuanyang Private High School.
That checked out.
“Ninety-nine yuan.” Qiao Yu picked up a bar of soap and handed it to her.
As Lu Shanshan scanned the code to pay, he couldn’t help asking, “I heard from a coworker that you’re a piano teacher?”
“That’s right.”
Seeing the shy smile on Lu Shanshan’s face, Qiao Yu smiled too and said casually, as if making small talk, “I quite like listening to piano pieces. Like Mariage d’Amour… sad and beautiful. Oh, right. Could you recommend a few piano pieces to me?”
Lu Shanshan nodded. She had just been about to speak when she seemed to get stuck, a lost expression appearing on her face.
Qiao Yu quietly observed her expression and pressed, “What’s wrong?”
Lu Shanshan bit her lip in distress, then pointed at her head and said, “I’m sorry. I just had surgery, and the doctor said my memories are still very confused right now. When I remember, I’ll tell you, okay?”