Chapter 59
Lin Yi didn’t even bother taking off the gloves as he made to leave immediately. But after taking only a couple of steps, Lin Yi backed away.
Dadada, dadada.
The sound of footsteps was coming from the corridor.
He and Qin Zhou had already agreed on a time and place to meet. These sudden footsteps couldn’t be Qin Zhou so there was only one person it could be.
Doctor Zhu was coming.
Lin Yi quickly started cleaning up all traces of his presence in the morgue.
Ether is a toxic substance and although very mild, it can indeed cause poisoning. Emergency treatment for inhaling it is to keep the patient’s airways unobstructed and to move them to somewhere with fresh air.
Lin Yi had put Patient 203 on the hospital bed, which was next to the open window. In addition, Patient 203’s face had evidently undergone some scab removal and skin grafting operations. Anesthesia must have been used during the operation, reducing the possibility of Patient 203 being allergic to ether.
Muscle atrophy can also generally be treated with surgery. If Patient 303's muscle atrophy of Patient 303 wasn't the type caused by inflammation, anesthesia may have also been used during autologous fat grafting. The possibility of him being allergic to ether was also quite low.Qin Zhou said that the concentration of ether on the towel was about 6%, which is a relatively normal concentration for its use as an anesthetic.
The probability of ether poisoning for Patients 203 or Patient 303 was quite low. As long as they weren’t allergic or poisoned, it shouldn’t cause too much damage to their bodies and their conditions shouldn’t worsen.
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The conditions of Patients 203 and 303 were still stable for now.
The sound of footsteps was getting louder. It seemed he had already reached the second floor and was heading towards the morgue. Although Lin Yi didn’t know what Doctor Zhu was planning to do in the morgue at this time, he had to clean up all traces of his having been there so as not to let Doctor Zhu know that he’d left the patient and come here.
It was waves of ups and downs, one after another and it left even Lin Yi a little flustered.
He immediately got busy. As he was taking off the gloves, they accidentally fell on the Patient 101’s head. Lin Yi immediately went to pick them up and stuff them into his pocket.
There was no way to smooth out medical gloves after use, so Lin Yi had no choice but to take them with him. He only hoped that Doctor Zhu wouldn’t notice there was a pair missing.
Just as he was putting the gloves into his pocket and checking whether the morgue was just as he’d first seen it, Lin Yi suddenly saw a hole in the center of Patient 101’s head. It had been covered by his hair before so Lin Yi hadn’t seen it. If the gloves hadn’t fallen on Patient 101’s head, Lin Yi wouldn’t have come across it.
Lin Yi gave it a quick glance and found that the size of the hole was about 8mm.
Lin Yi didn’t have time to check whether there was a hole in the center of the Patient 102’s head. The ‘dadada’ sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer, closer and closer to the morgue.
The morgue’s floor area was small and the view of it was almost completely unobstructed. Lin Yi’s eyes fell on the mortuary cabinets.
He stepped forward and opened a drawer. The moment he opened it, his scalp momentarily went numb.
There was a corpse in the mortuary cabinet. It was a person Lin Yi had never seen before — a very petite girl, wearing a nurse’s uniform. The blood on her abdomen had gone black.
Lin Yi pulled open another one. Similarly, this one also had a corpse, someone Lin Yi had also never seen before and it was also a girl. Unlike the first corpse, she had deep strangle marks on her neck. The depth of the strangle marks was about the same as that around Advisor Jiang Tao’s neck.
By the time the footsteps drew near, Lin Yi had almost opened each of the twelve drawers of the mortuary cabinets. Without exception, there were corpses in the drawers, some even had two or three bodies stuffed together.
In the end, there was really no other way, Lin Yi got into the first drawer he’d opened. This drawer was located at the bottom, almost around ankle height. Even if Doctor Zhu suddenly thought of opening the mortuary cabinet, according to human habit, he would probably open one at arm height.
Lin Yi pushed against the top of the cabinet with both hands, relying on friction and thrust to close the drawer.
As soon as he got it closed, the door of the morgue was pushed open.
Lin Yi arched his body and tried not to press against the corpse under him. He listened closely to the sound of movements outside.
First there was shuffling footsteps. Lin Yi had been in the morgue for a while and knew its layout. Based on the sound of the footsteps, Lin Yi judged that Doctor Zhu was taking a pair gloves.
His heart tightened his heart, hoping that Doctor Zhu wouldn’t notice a pair missing.
Then there was the sound of him putting the gloves on. Medical gloves basically have a sort of rubber band at the end, so that the gloves can be firmly fastened around the arm without slipping.
Lin Yi heard a ‘slap’. It was Doctor Zhu flicking the rubber band ends.
Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of “Kaza Kaza”, like scissors cutting the flesh of a corpse, accompanied by Doctor Zhu’s humming.
It sounded like Doctor Zhu was in a pretty good mood tonight.
Lin Yi didn’t know how long Doctor Zhu would stay, but the twenty-five minute time limit he had agreed to with Qin Zhou was almost up. There were only four minutes left. If Qin Zhou waits for him for two more minutes then he had six minutes left. If Doctor Zhu still won’t leave after six minutes, he won’t be able to make it to his rendezvous with Qin Zhou. He didn’t know Qin Zhou’s situation and Qin Zhou didn’t know his situation.
If he delayed a little longer, Patient 203 would wake up.
But there was nothing Lin Yi could do. All he could do was wait.
Time passed second after second. Only three minutes were left and then there was only a minute left and finally, time was up.
He was now past even the time limit for the patient to wake up, at least fifteen minutes past.
Lin Yi’s nervousness at the beginning gradually became despair and from despair it turned to hopelessness.
After Doctor Zhu left, Lin Yi came out of the mortuary cabinet. Thinking that since all was lost anyway, he decided to check whether there was a hole at the top of Patient 102’s head.
Pushing aside Patient 102’s hair, Lin Yi saw the 8mm hole in the center of Patient 102’s skull.
Then he observed the state of the two corpses. Patient 102’s corpse was still intact but Patient 101’s corpse had been opened. Tea leaves were leaking from his stomach.
He had found almost all the clues there was to be found in the morgue. Lin Yi was no longer in any hurry to leave. He found a pen and paper, wrote down the clues he’d found and his speculation regarding the Rule of Death, tore it off and folded it. Once he was done, Lin Yi left the morgue.
He ran. He wanted to get to Room 303 and get these clues to Qin Zhou. He was already half-dead since he hadn’t returned to the room within the time limit but he still had to give these clues to Qin Zhou.
Just as he reached downstairs, Lin Yi suddenly froze.
In the corner formed by the two buildings, the place Qin Zhou set as their meeting point, Lin Yi saw a figure.
Qin Zhou.
Qin Zhou was still waiting for him.
Lin Yi turned around and ran towards Qin Zhou. “Senior…”
“Something happened?” Qin Zhou breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him. He then pulled him over and asked anxiously, “I just went to the morgue to look for you but you weren’t there. Where did you go?”
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment: “Senior, you…”
“Didn’t you say that once time was up, we’re supposed to head back to our room no matter whether the other turned up or not?”
Lin Yi was very sensitive to time, he knew he was twenty-three minutes late.
So Qin Zhou had waited for him for twenty-three minutes.
Qin Zhou is going down together!!
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Waaahhh he’s so sweet! He waited! I bet the corpses in the drawers are the previous victims of the monster.
Reeaaaallly curious how Lin Yi will explain his absence to Mr. 203. If they even go back to their patients at all
Be safe.. be safe.. be safe ..
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I think they’re gonna pretend that they met to fight with each other or that Q
*Qin Zhao was apologizing to Lin Yi . Well with my IQ I can’t think of any other escape plan.🤔🤤
That’s what I’m thinking.
My hearth can’t take it anymore, Qin Zhou really cares about Lin yi, doesn’t he? So sweet.
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