Chapter 151

Chapter 151

Then couldn’t their identities be changed as well? If Li Wei stole the badge from the kitchen hand who washed vegetables, for instance, his position would become kitchen assistant. Then he would no longer have to deal with the patients at all.

He wanted to act immediately, but the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, forcing him to abandon the idea for now.

Meanwhile, Liu Ye was helping the patient upstairs. The patient, however, was unhappy that Liu Ye had exposed his identity.

“Help me over there so I can sit down. I’m a little tired,” he said, feigning weakness.

“Oh.”

Liu Ye hurriedly helped him aside.

Once seated, the patient secretly removed the employee badge from his neck, then watched Liu Ye with a cold smile.

Ten minutes passed.

Liu Ye stood there perfectly fine, looking back at him.

The patient stared in silence.

This was wrong. Under normal circumstances, the brat should already have developed osteoporosis. Why had nothing happened to him?

“Um, can we go now?” Liu Ye asked.

There was still another person in the ward waiting to be cared for.

“No. Get up and walk around.”

Liu Ye stared at him.

“Why should I walk around?”

“You’re sick!”

Liu Ye stared at him again.

Why was the man cursing him out of nowhere?

“I’m not sick.”

“If you’re not sick, then walk around.”

Liu Ye fell silent.

He had no idea what kind of stunt the patient was trying to pull, but the first Caregiver Rule said that an outstanding caregiver had to satisfy every need of his patient.

So Liu Ye stood and walked back and forth in front of him.

The patient was stunned that nothing happened. This made no sense. He should have infected Liu Ye already. Why hadn’t it worked? Could putting on the badge have made his illness disappear?

With that thought, he raised a hand and lightly slapped himself.

Crack.

“Aaargh!”

The patient clutched his arm and howled. His hand had snapped cleanly in two, with only flesh and skin holding it together.

Liu Ye was dumbfounded. What had just happened? The man had slapped himself and broken his own hand?

That was far too ruthless, even against himself.

Then something suddenly occurred to Liu Ye.

“The Suicide Alliance!”

He had never expected to encounter them here again. That evil organization had finally struck once more.

They truly haunted him wherever he went. Worse, they seemed to have singled him out, staging operations wherever he worked for the express purpose of getting him fired. How vicious could they be?

When Liu Ye saw the patient holding the employee badge and trying to slip its cord around his neck, he immediately realized the man intended to strangle himself with it.

“Stop!”

There was no way Liu Ye would let him succeed. He snatched the badge from the man’s hand and flung it straight out the window.

The patient stared in shock. The badge he had waited so long to obtain was simply gone?

Unable to withstand the blow, he struggled to his feet and tried to approach the window.

Liu Ye was horrified. He had just stopped the man from hanging himself, and now the man wanted to jump from the building? As expected of someone from the Suicide Alliance. His reactions were incredibly fast!

The instant the patient stood, Liu Ye lunged and crushed him to the floor.

Crack-crunch-crackle…

A delightful series of crisp sounds rang out. The patient did not even manage to scream. The agony knocked him unconscious on the spot.

Seeing that the man had passed out, Liu Ye finally relaxed. As long as he was here, he would never allow this man to hurt himself!

He hoisted the patient onto his back and took the elevator upstairs.

After returning him to the ward, Liu Ye looked at the miserable Guo Xiaojun lying in the neighboring bed and was rendered speechless.
“Which one of you is supposed to be taking care of the other? But don’t worry, brothers. As long as I’m here, I will never abandon either of you. I’ll take care of both of you from now on!”

After speaking, Liu Ye could not help marveling at his own kindness. How did that saying go? A person could be given the wrong name, but never the wrong nickname.

The title of Saintly Father suited him perfectly!

Guo Xiaojun desperately signaled to Liu Ye with his eyes, but Liu Ye could not understand him at all. He pushed the two beds together, gave both men some water, then tucked them beneath their blankets and left.

The two crippled men remained behind, staring at each other.

In Ward 05, Zhang Yanyan still felt ravenous after finishing her meal in the cafeteria. She had only just eaten, yet it was as if not a single bite had entered her stomach.

She hurried downstairs, bought a large pile of food from the hospital convenience store, and began devouring it in her ward.

Patient No. 5, by contrast, had become considerably calmer. None of his previous frenzy remained.

As he watched Zhang Yanyan eat without stopping, he could not help swallowing. This time, however, he managed to control himself.

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch…

Half an hour later, Zhang Yanyan had consumed everything, yet she still felt no satisfaction. Her stomach bulged as though she were pregnant.

“Hungry… I’m so hungry… Give me something to eat!”

An almost green light shone in Zhang Yanyan’s eyes. She turned toward Patient No. 5, who sat nearby, and saliva spilled from her mouth. She could smell something delicious.

She slowly approached him.

Seeing her like this, Patient No. 5 pressed the green button beside his bed without hesitation.

Director Jia soon entered with a group of staff. He looked at Zhang Yanyan, who had completely lost her reason, then motioned to the people behind him.

They swarmed forward and restrained her.

“Mmph… Give me food! I want to eat! I want to eat!”

Zhang Yanyan had grown monstrously strong. Even six or seven people nearly failed to pin her down.

Director Jia remained perfectly calm. He produced a small syringe and plunged it into her neck. Dizziness overwhelmed her at once, and she lost consciousness.

“Take her away.”

Director Jia removed Zhang Yanyan’s employee badge and tossed it to Patient No. 5.

The patient put it around his neck as though it were his most precious treasure. With this badge, he was finally cured. He was free to leave.

At the thought, he drew a photograph from his hospital gown. It showed a bright-eyed, beautiful woman with pearly teeth. He tenderly stroked the person in the photograph and murmured under his breath.

“Juanjuan…”

At nine that morning, a nurse came to deliver medicine. Wang Weiwei handed the pills to the woman in her ward, but the woman set them on the table.

“Young lady, you should take this medicine instead.”

“Why? Ma’am, I’m not sick,” Wang Weiwei said in confusion.

The woman hesitated, then gritted her teeth.

“Young lady, I can’t deceive you. The truth is, I’ve already infected you!”

“What?”

Wang Weiwei recoiled in shock, goose bumps rising over her skin. The woman’s condition was macropsia-everything she looked at appeared many times larger than it truly was. With an illness like that, completing a mission in the Fiendish World would be impossible. She would not even be able to function in ordinary life.

“Listen, young lady. This hospital is actually a den of monsters. They conduct all kinds of experiments on human beings, and we patients are their victims. After caregivers like you spend enough time in contact with us, our illnesses infect you too.”

Wang Weiwei immediately thought of what had happened to Guo Xiaojun. She could not help believing the woman, at least in part.