Probably because Patient 303 had limited mobility and could only sit in a wheelchair, Qin Zhou was given more leeway, unlike Lin Yi who was very restricted.
After confirming that the note had been sucked into the sewer, Lin Yi came out of the bathroom. Patient 203 was just outside the door and he asked worriedly, “Xiao Lin, are you alright?”
Lin Yi thought for a while and said, “When I get angry, my stomach hurts.”
Patient 203 asked, “Are you still angry now?”
“I’m pissed.” Lin Yi said, “I’m so angry I can feel my skin prickling.”
When Patient 203 heard this, the worry in his eyes became more evident.
Under the worried eyes of of Patient 203, Lin Yi walked into the room’s main area, pushed open the window, stuck out his head and shouted at Room 303 above.
Qin Zhou’s clothes had also gotten wet so Qin Zhou must have also gone back to the room to change. Lin Yi could heard the sound of movement coming from upstairs.
“Hey! You! 303’s nursing aide! Aide 303, yeah, I’m calling you!” Lin Yi saw that the window of Room 303 was also pushed open. Lin Yi said, “So, are we gonna settle this with our fists or not? Why aren’t you answering? Are you a rude asshat on top of being a coward?”
Qin Zhou frowned and looked down at Lin Yi, after a while, he said, “Good morning.”
Lin Yi: “…”
In the note that Lin Yi gave Qin Zhou, he asked if Qin Zhou it would be possible to ‘sneak out while the patient was asleep’ but Qin Zhou replied that it shouldn’t be possible.
But Lin Yi disagreed. His guess about the current Rule of Death was angering the patient in their care. But if the patient was asleep and dead to the world, so long as they don’t find out that they’ve gone out then they wouldn’t be angry.
Qin Zhou had hesitated when he greeted him just now. Lin Yi felt that Qin Zhou didn’t want him taking risks. After all, these past couple of days, Lin Yi had seen it with his own eyes. So long as Doctor Zhu headed for their three-storey building, Patient 203 would get up and go over to the window to watch, no matter how sound asleep he’d been before that.
It would be very difficult to sneak out while Patient 203 was asleep, not to mention that there were other patients in the building. Even if Lin Yi could ensure that Patient 203 would stay asleep, he wouldn’t be able to control the other patients. It would be equally as dangerous if he were spotted by the another patients looking outside.
But Lin Yi felt that doing nothing and simply waiting for Qin Zhou to feed him clues was even more dangerous. If angering a patient was the current Rule of Death, no one was going to die tonight. Because of Shi Xuan’s case, the other nursing aides would for sure cater to their patient’s every wish, not daring to make them angry.
There was a high probability that no one would die tonight and if no one died, a new Rule of Death will be added come daybreak.
With the first Rule of Death so uncertain, the addition of a second Rule of Death, would make it even more difficult for them to find clues about the main line.
Besides, Lin Yi still wasn’t confident in his guess of what the first Rule of Death was.
Lin Yi thought for a while and said to Qin Zhou, “Fine, then let’s go to Doctor Zhu and have him judge who’s at fault!”
Qin Zhou thought about it for a long time before agreeing, “Let’s go.”
Lin Yi closed the window and looked back at Patient 203. “Mr. 203, I had to get this anger out. Otherwise, if I just keep suppressing it, my skin will easily dull. Do you think I’m doing it right?”
Lin Yi now knew what Patient 203 cared about. Using his skin as an excuse was really effective.
It was the same this time. Patient 203 nodded in agreement. Anyway, Lin Yi was just going to Doctor Zhu to arbitrate instead of fight. If Lin Yi had chosen to fight, he wouldn’t have agreed. It could easily hurt Lin Yi’s skin.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
In Room 303 upstairs.
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When Lin Yi and Patient 203 were leaving their room, Lin Yi deliberately slammed the door to signal Qin Zhou that he’d gone out.
Then he and Patient 203 walked to Doctor Zhu’s office. Along the way, Lin Yi was thinking about how to get to the medicine room. Qin Zhou mentioned on the note that anesthetics were stored in the medicine room and Lin Yi wanted to find ether.
Ether was used clinically as an anesthetic and was delivered through inhalation. Covering a person’s mouth and nose with ether will make a person pass out. If the ether concentration was 4%-6%, it only took 5-10 seconds to knock someone out. The person should remain unconscious for about 10-30 minutes.
Although 30 minutes wasn’t nearly enough, for Lin Yi, who was constantly under surveillance, 30 minutes to find clues was already good.
Lin Yi knew that Qin Zhou had seen through his intention to find ether and thus agreed to play along with this ‘arbitration’ in order to provide cover for him. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to steal the ether by himself under the constant surveillance of Patient 203 and Doctor Zhu.
When he arrived at Doctor Zhu’s office, Lin Yi had roughly figured out how their act was going to go.
When Doctor Zhu saw Lin Yi coming, he thought Lin Yi was here to discuss history with him. Patient 203 first told what had happened in the cafeteria that morning. Patient 203 was filled with righteous indignation. “Xiao Lin was just a little careless. That aide in 303 went too far! What do you think, Doctor Zhu!”
Doctor Zhu was momentarily stunned. He then smiled apologetically, “Maybe a little bit.”
As soon as he said these words, Qin Zhou and Patient 303 also arrived.
Doctor Zhu hemmed and hawed through his evaluation of the matter. He said to Qin Zhou and Lin Yi, “All of us here are colleagues. I think we should let this matter rest with an apology from both sides. What do you think of my proposal?”
Lin Yi wouldn’t accept it. “He made me so angry that my stomach hurt.”
“That’s not my problem.” Qin Zhou looked at Lin Yi. “Just ask what he wants.”
Doctor Zhu looked at Lin Yi. “Xiao Lin, how do you want to resolve this matter?”
“My stomach hurts.” Lin Yi clutched the lower two inches of his torso. “The pain is unbearable and it’s all because he’s absolutely infuriating.”
Doctor Zhu took a look at Patient 203. Seeing Patient 203’s worry and anxiety, he asked Lin Yi, sounding concerned, “It hurts? Then let me get you some medicine.”
Lin Yi said, “Okay.”
Doctor Zhu said to the people in the office: “Everyone, wait for me a moment. I’ll go get medicine for Xiao Lin first.”
“Doctor Zhu,” Just as Doctor Zhu was walking to the door, Lin Yi suddenly stopped him.
When Doctor Zhu turned back, Lin Yi pointed at Qin Zhou and said, quite unreasonably, “He’s the one who caused my stomachache. So, more than an apology, he should show his sincerity by fetching me my medicine. Don’t you think so, Mr. 203?”
He even pulled Patient 203 to side with him.
Patient 203 didn’t want Lin Yi to stay angry. He nodded, “I think what Xiao Lin said makes sense.”
“Since Patient 203 says so then,” Doctor Zhu had no choice but to look at Qin Zhou: “Xiao Qin, are you…”
“Fine, let’s just get this over with.” Qin Zhou said, “Where can I get the medicine?”
Doctor Zhu said, “The first room on the left on the second floor is the medicine room. The door’s not locked. Look for the shelf with the internal medicines, there’s medicines there for stomach discomfort.”
Qin Zhou nodded, then pushed Patient 303 with him to the second floor.
Lin Yi waited nervously in the office. Qin Zhou pushed Patient 303 from behind which meant that Patient 303 should have some blind spots. He shouldn’t be able to see all of Qin Zhou’s movements so long as he’s careful. Qin Zhou’s success rate in stealing ether should be considerable.
Probably because Lin Yi was tense and the medicine room wasn’t restricted, Doctor Zhu thoughtfully asked Lin Yi to wait patiently, turning back to their topic the first evening.
“How did the ministers know that Emperor Hui of Jin was thirsty and how were they able to enter the palace without hindrance despite Sima Yue’s strict supervision? Of course it’s because those ministers had been carrying out Sima Yue’s instructions to poison Emperor Jin.”
Lin Yi nodded. “Doctor Zhu’s words are very reasonable. It’s like when Wu Zetian killed the princess and shifted the blame on the Empress. If one thinks about it, it’s full of leaks. Even tigers don’t eat their cubs…”
Unexpectedly, Doctor Zhu’s face darkened immediately. Through gritted teeth, he said, “Of course, she was the one who did it. She was willing to do it even to her own son. Oh yes, how does history say Li Hong died?”
Lin Yi said, “He passed away from illness.”
“Passed away from illness? So simple? So perfunctory?” Doctor Zhu said gloomily. “I know she had a grudge with Concubine Xiao Shu but she had already imprisoned Yiyang and Xuancheng in Yeting. They’re already thirty but they’ve never even seen the outside. What would it cost her to simply marry them off? But even just pleading for Yiyang and Xuancheng, makes her feel betrayed. Maybe it’s not just that. She was already dissatisfied because she had hated the Li Clan from the very beginning.”
Lin Yi was silent for a while. Lin Yi was a science student but his history wasn’t bad. Li Hong was Wu Zetian’s first son and died of tuberculosis. There were also rumors that he was poisoned by Wu Zetian.
But this was all history. There weren’t many people who felt as strongly about it as Doctor Zhu.
Doctor Zhu gave Lin Yi the feeling that he was Emperor Hui of Jin who’d been imprisoned by Sima Yue and Li Hong who’d been poisoned by Wu Zetian.
This might be related to the main line of the 16-8 Rule World. Lin Yi thought for a while and said, “There are very few people like Doctor Zhu nowadays. Many young people don’t have an interest in history anymore.”
Doctor Zhu paused and sighed, “Yes, young people don’t care about history anymore. But I don’t blame them because a lot of the things they’ve recorded down is wrong. History isn’t fact. Only those who survive get to set what the future generations see as history.”
Lin Yi still wanted to say something but Qin Zhou had already returned with the medicine.
“Here.” Qin Zhou handed the medicine to Lin Yi. Seeing Qin Zhou’s expression, Lin Yi knew that Qin Zhou had succeeded. He took the medicine and asked, “Then when will you apologize to me?”
Qin Zhou said, “Isn’t this already an apology? If you want one, you’ll just have to wait. I’ll apologize to you when I’m in a better mood.”
Patient 203 grew angry on Lin Yi’s behalf. “What kind of attitude is that?”
Lin Yi pulled at Patient 203’s clothes and said in a low voice, “Mr. 203, forget it. Don’t push him too hard. If we really fight it out, I might not be able to beat him.”
Patient 203, who didn’t want Lin Yi to be injured in any way, grew silent immediately.
After handing the medicine to Lin Yi, Qin Zhou pushed Patient 303 away.
Doctor Zhu was going to pour water for Lin Yi when Lin Yi shook his head, “No need.”
He took out a pill, put it in his mouth, hid it under his tongue and pretended to swallow it.
“Doctor Zhu, I’m sorry to have bothered you. I’ll take Mr. 203 to walk around.” Lin Yi got up to leave. Doctor Zhu seemed a little unhappy but he nodded. “Okay.”
Lin Yi took Patient 203 to sit in the grass garden in the center of the sanatorium and when Patient 203 wasn’t paying attention, he spit out the pill in his mouth.
Chatting with Patient 203, Lin Yi pretended to casually complain to Patient 203, “Some people are just better than others. I can’t even afford a house and Doctor Zhu already has his own business and he’s even so knowledgeable about history. ”
Patient 203 said, “You think Doctor Zhu’s still pretty young?”
Lin Yi said, “Doctor Zhu is quite young. He looks about thirty at most.”
Patient 203 smiled secretively and Lin Yi said, “Could it be that Doctor Zhu is much older? You wouldn’t be able to tell at all. Mr. 203, do you know how old Doctor Zhu is?”
Patient 203 said, “He’s older than he looks. I don’t know how old exactly, I haven’t asked.”
Lin Yi started guessing, “32? 35? 40?”
Patient 203 laughed but didn’t answer.
Lin Yi said, giving up, “Well he can’t be 400 or 4000, at least.”
Patient 203 still didn’t answer. He glanced towards the direction of the cafeteria building and said, “It’s going to be lunch soon. Let’s go have lunch.”
Lin Yi had no choice but to agree. “Okay.”
Lin Yi ate very little for lunch. Probably because he now knew that the morgue was above the cafeteria, the food didn’t seem as delicious.
After lunch, Patient 203 was going to take a nap. Lin Yi returned to his cubicle and lay down on the narrow bed. He had to sleep for a while now to ensure that he was energetic when he got moving that night.
When they were in Doctor Zhu’s office that morning, Qin Zhou understood Lin Yi’s implication and Lin Yi also understood Qin Zhou’s answer.
Then when will you apologize to me = then when will you give me the ether?
If you want one, you’ll just have to wait. I’ll apologize to you when I’m in a better mood. = Wait, I will come to you after I’ve dealt with Patient 303.
Lin Yi forced himself to sleep while recalling the sounds recorded in the MP4 player.
He slept until dinner time. When he went to dinner with Patient 203, Lin Yi looked at the gradually dimming sky and felt a little nervous.
Although the teamwork between him and Qin Zhou wasn’t bad, every step of the plan was risky. Even the slightest mistake could lead to the failure of tonight’s operation.
Nighttime came quickly.
Lin Yi took out his medical record book and absent-mindedly wrote in his diary. In the main area of the room, he heart Patient 203 getting into bed. His diary entry today was a bit long, mainly to pass the tortuous time spent waiting for Qin Zhou to come to him.
After he finished writing his eloquent diary entry…
Knock Knock Knock——
There was a knock on the door.
AHH creepy. I wonder how many skins has the dean changed?
To be able to exist for millennia, he must have devoured thousands of young’uns.. Shitty b@stard !!!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Ah thank you for the update!! Talking in code hmm? Lolol, I wonder if the rules of death have anything to do with this history theme, like how the previous worlds rules of death had to do with the ghost theme.
Yiiiishhh, whoever could that be?