Lin Yi’s pen stopped. He took a deep breath, put down his pen and walked out of the cubicle.
Patient 203 was still awake. He’d heard the knock as well.
Lin Yi said, “Who could be coming here so late? Do you want to open the door?”
Patient 203 first stared at the door with a happy expression on his face. He then gave a very strong sniff as though trying to catch a whiff of something.
Lin Yi knew that he was trying to catch wind of those peculiar stenches. Doctor Zhu would come to the three-story building with a different stench every night.
Patient 203 catch the smell of anything and judged that the person who knocked wasn’t Doctor Zhu.
“Who would know what kind of person that is? Disturbing people’s rest at such a late hour!” Patient 203 laid back down irritably and covered his body with the quilt. He said angrily, “Don’t open it!”
Without the permission of Patient 203, Lin Yi didn’t dare to open the door rashly. It would probably make Patient 203 unhappy and put him in violation of the Rules of Death.
Lin Yi also knew that Patient 203 was looking forward to Doctor Zhu’s arrival. And so, he purposely drew the topic in that direction, “Mr. 203, could it be Doctor Zhu? He might be here to give you a physical exam or something like that? Don’t they do that before a major operation? Maybe Doctor Zhu has a new therapy for you and so he’s here to give you a physical exam.”
Patient 203 was a little tempted by what Lin Yi said but he was still hesitant. “Physical examinations are done during the day. What if its that aide from Room 303 coming to look for trouble?”
“Then I’ll open the door just a tiny bit. If it’s Doctor Zhu, I’ll let him in to check on you.” Lin Yi persuaded, “If it’s that Aide 303, I’ll close the door immediately.”
Patient 203 thought for a while. “Okay.”
Lin Yi went to open the door and as he opened the door carefully, he saw that it was indeed Qin Zhou outside. Qin Zhou quickly handed Lin Yi a towel in a sealed bag.
Patient 203 asked behind Lin Yi, “Xiao Lin, who is it?”
Lin Yi closed the door and said, “No one.”
Patient 203 was surprised. “No one?”
“Yeah.” Lin Yi was also puzzled: “I definitely heard a knock on the door. Mr. 203, you heard it too, right?”
Patient 203 nodded. “I definitely heard it.” Then he said angrily, “Could it be a prank by that Aide 303!”
Lin Yi said, “I don’t know.”
Disappointment made Patient 203 even angrier. Lin Yi said, “That’s just too much. I’ll go to Room 303 and get to the bottom of this.”
Patient 203 thought for a while, “I’ll go with you.”
Lin Yi nodded. “Okay.”
As he was waiting by the door for Patient 203 to get out of bed, he carefully took out the towel from the sealed bag with his hands behind his back. When Patient 203 came to him, Lin Yi held his breath and covered patient 203’s mouth and nose with the towel.
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.
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The windows and the wall of the three-story building were on a horizontal line, which led to a blind spot for people looking out from behind the window. Unless you stick your head out of the window, it was difficult to spot someone walking close to the wall.
Lin Yi nodded.
Qin Zhou said, “You go to the morgue. I’ll go to the second floor of that building. And in 25 minutes…” Qin Zhou pointed to the corner of the two buildings, “We’ll meet up there and exchange clues. If either of us doesn’t show up in 25 minutes, we head back to our rooms.”
Lin Yi objected to this point, “Senior should go to the morgue and I’ll go to Doctor Zhu’s building.”
Of these two locations, Doctor Zhu’s building was obviously more dangerous. In the entire sanatorium, only that room on the second floor was locked. Moreover, Doctor Zhu was still in that building.
Lin Yi said, “Senior has done more research on corpses.”
“Little genius.” Qin Zhou insisted, “Go to the morgue and if you find any problems you can’t figure out, tell me when we meet up.”
Seeing that Lin Yi still wanted to argue, Qin Zhou tapped his head lightly, “Do you know how to pick a lock?”
Lin Yi: “…”
Lin Yi was defeated. He didn’t know how to pick a lock.
But Qin Zhou could. Otherwise, Qin Zhou wouldn’t have been able to open the woman in red’s room back in the 2-6 Rule World.
“So, that’s how things stand.” Qin Zhou said, “Let me repeat. We meet back here in twenty-five minutes. We wait for the other for two minutes at most. Once the time is up, we will leave immediately regardless of whether the other has come back. That goes for the both of us. Is that clear?”
Lin Yi: “Okay.”
He felt that Qin Zhou was saying this specifically for him. Compared to that room on the second floor, the morgue was practically safe. The probability of him making it back safe and on time was much higher than Qin Zhou’s.
“Senior.”
After the two successfully left the three-story building by sticking to the wall, Lin Yi said to Qin Zhou, who was about to leave, “Be careful.”
Qin Zhou: “Understood.”
Qin Zhou rushed into the building, Lin Yi didn’t dare to waste time, keeping low, using the cover of the garden, he walked quickly to the building with the cafeteria.
After successfully getting into the building, Lin Yi headed straight to the second floor.
The whole building was quiet. Lin Yi immediately spotted the morgue as soon as he reached the second floor.
The door of the morgue was composed of two swinging doors. The doors had a glass panel to allow people outside to look in. Lin Yi glanced in first. There was no one inside. Doctor Zhu wasn’t there.
It was exactly as how Qin Zhou had described to him in the note. There were two six-drawer mortuary cabinets but Patient 101’s corpse was on the dissection table.
Because the note had been written by Qin Zhou the night before, it only told about Patient 101 on the dissection table, but now, the corpse of Patient 102 was also nearby.
After making sure that there was no one in the morgue, Lin Yi pushed the door in lightly and walked in without any hindrance.
Maybe it was because the temperature in the morgue was so low, the stench was suppressed. Lin Yi couldn’t catch a whiff of that earthy smell or that seawater-like smell.
He went straight to the corpses and after seeing them clearly, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Although the two corpses were lying on the dissection table, they had yet to be dissected.
Lin Yi started from Patient 101. Lin Yi was looking for clues on the corpse — clues as to how earthworms managed to change an old man into Zheng Anjian.
Afraid that he might miss something, Lin Yi looked through it carefully, his eyes resting on every inch of Patient 101’s body.
But Lin Yi found nothing.
Then Lin Yi went to see Patient 102. He finished carefully looking through Patient 102. He found nothing useful except that Patient 102 was more swollen than the last time he’d seen her.
There was no way to discover anything just by looking so Lin Yi had no choice but to use his hands.
He found medical gloves and touched the body bit by bit. When he reached Patient 101’s stomach, Lin Yi felt something was off.
The stomach was sort of bulging. Lin Yi just tried to pressing down on it and it caused a chain reaction, making fluid overflow out the corner of Patient 101’s mouth.
It was a light brown liquid with a few tea leaves mixed in.
Lin Yi turned back to Patient 102’s corpse. He pressed against the swollen areas and the indention he made didn’t spring back for a long time.
Lin Yi stared at this spot. He then looked at the tea leaves at the corner of Patient 101’s mouth. Then he looked at the faces of the two corpses. He wondered if it was because they were NPCs that he didn’t see their corpses smiling at him.
Instead, he saw two corpses with pained expressions on their faces.
Lin Yi’s thoughts were turning quickly.
Was the reincarnation procedure painful? Was the operation for changing bodies painful?
If so, why did he only hear the screams of Zheng Anjian on the first night but not the screams of Patient 101?
Lin Yi stared at the expressions of the corpses and thought of the ‘severe pain facial expression grading scale’ that Qin Zhou used.
This pained expression was much milder than that of Li Ying’s. At most, it should be around 6th grade pain level.
But it didn’t make sense for a body transfer procedure to illicit only Level 6 pain. Judging by the degree of Zheng Anjian’s screams, Zheng Anjian’s severe pain was Level 10. In Lin Yi’s opinion, no matter how life is extracted from the original body, the pain score should at least be a Level 8. Patient 101 and Patient 102’s pained expressions looked more like it was due to their original conditions.
For example, maybe Patient 101’s stomach was acting up again; maybe Patient 102’s kidney disease had flared up…
Thinking of this, Lin Yi looked at the tea leaves at the corner of Patient 101’s mouth and Patient 102’s swollen body.
After Zheng Anjian broke the teacup, he immediately wiped up the spilled tea in order to make up for his mistake. Was it possible that he had drank a lot of tea with the tea-loving Patient 101 to try and “make up for his fault”?
This was evidenced by the tea and tea leaves that poured out from Patient 101’s stomach.
Lin Yi suddenly thought of what Shi Xuan said to Zheng Anjian that morning: “Still dinking your stinky tea so early in the morning! You never learn, do you?”
Patient 101’s disease had definitely been caused by his excessive consumption of tea. The most common problem it would have caused is gastrointestinal discomfort.
Gastrointestinal discomfort would match with Level 6 pain.
Patient 102’s kidney disease must have acted up which caused her Level 6 pain. After all, people with liver and kidney diseases are advised not to get angry as it could easily aggravate their condition.
When Shi Xuan touched Zheng Anjian, Patient 102 had indeed gotten very angry.
Suddenly–
Lin Yi thought of something bad.
Both of Patient 101 and Patient 102’s corpses showed signs of their illnesses having flared up. Patient 101 had drank a lot of tea, which made his stomachache intensify.
Patient 102’s condition had been aggravated because of anger.
Patient 101 became seriously ill and Zheng Anjian died.
Patient 102 became seriously ill and Shi Xuan died.
So the form of the first Rule of Death was beginning to take shape – having the patient’s condition worsen.
Lin Yi’s heart was pounding.
This was bad.
What would happen if Patient 203 with body burns inhaled ether? What would happen if the Patient 303 with muscular atrophy inhaled ether?
Their conditions would worsen.
Oh shit– IT’S A TRAP!!!
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