Chapter 63
Lin Yi touched the drawer lightly. The drawer was very smooth and it slid in easily when he touched it. Maybe it was because he was so close to the drawer that he could even hear the sound of the drawer being pulled open.
During the past few nights, Lin Yi had waiting for the patient’s breathing to even, judging that Patient 203 had fallen deeply asleep before starting to do his own work.
If Patient 203 had insomnia and needed to rely on drugs like zopiclone to help him fall asleep, there was no reason why he would have heard the sound of even breathing in sleep but not the pulling sound of the cabinet.
Patient 203 was trying to trick him.
Thinking so, Lin Yi reached out and took out the zopiclone from the drawer.
He pretended not to know what zopiclone was used for. He looked up at the label and description on the bottle. He then looked up at Patient 203 in surprise, “Mr. 203, this is a sleeping pill? Why didn’t you tell me you have insomnia?”
Without waiting for Patient 203 to answer, Lin Yi continued preemptively, “What about the medicines you usually take?” He pulled the drawer open again. “Why isn’t there any? I thought you just meant that the medicine you usually take has drowsiness as a side effect.”
The Rule of Death was pressing the call button when the patient’s condition worsens.
With the premise of ‘worsening of the patient’s condition’, Lin Yi guessed that since the patient and Doctor Zhu were hiding the secret of the body transfer from the nursing aides, the patients must know that Doctor Zhu would change their bodies for them once their original bodies were critically ill.
Therefore, the patients couldn’t possibly be taking any medicines to control their conditions.
Lin Yi was betting that Patient 203 wouldn’t do anything that would jeopardize his own body transfer.
Lin Yi stood up and looked guiltily at Patient 203, “Mr. 203, I’ve been negligent. You’ve finished all your medicines, but I didn’t even notice anything. I’ll go to Doctor Zhu now and get your prescription filled.”
As he said that, he was about to walk out the door when–
“Xiao Lin,” Patient 203’s gloomy expression immediately dissipated and he quickly waved Lin Yi to return. “It’s already so late. Don’t bother Doctor Zhu.”
“Could you be having insomnia because you didn’t take your medicine on time?” Lin Yi asked worriedly, “It really is very late now but if you don’t take your medicine…”
Patient 203 hurriedly said, “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.” Lin Yi saw that he couldn’t wait to end this topic. Patient 203 lay on the hospital bed and said to Lin Yi, “Let’s go to bed quickly.”
Lin Yi hesitated for a while. “Are you really alright?”
Patient 203: “I’m fine.”
“Alright then.” Lin Yi said, “Mr. 203, good night.”
Watching Patient 203 close his eyes, Lin Yi returned to the cubicle and lay down on the narrow bed.
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If he hadn’t stolen the ether but had snuck out to look for clues while Patient 203 was ‘sleeping’, he would have been dead by now.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi felt another foul breath in his throat.
This dangerous topic tonight was exposed by Lin Yi. He hadn’t answered Patient 203’s question directly. This meant that this dangerous topic wasn’t over yet. It will lodge in Patient 203’s throat like a fishbone, leading to more serious problems and many more questions.
The sound of even breathing came from the main area once again. Lin Yi now knew that Patient 203 was deliberately trying to make him lower his vigilance.
Now that this was the case, he didn’t dare get up from the bed to write a note to Qin Zhou. It was possible that as he’s halfway through the note, he’d turn to find Patient 203 behind him.
The even breathing sound stopped abruptly, followed by a rustling sound. Patient 203 had turned over and gotten out of bed. He then quietly walked to Lin Yi’s cubicle.
Lin Yi immediately closed his eyes.
The sound of rustling footsteps stopped in front of the narrow bed and Lin Yi felt a heavy gaze on him.
Patient 203 seemed to be confirming whether he was asleep. He even called Lin Yi’s name very softly in a hoarse voice.
After not getting any reply, the rustling footsteps moved to the end of the bed.
Lin Yi quietly raised one eye. Patient 203 was looking for the medical record book that Lin Yi used as a diary.
Lin Yi hadn’t hidden the medical record book in the first place and Patient 203 quickly found it. After finding it, Patient 203 looked at Lin Yi again and Lin Yi immediately closed his eye.
When he looked again, Patient 203 had turned to the second entry in the medical record book. Lin Yi’s heart began to race.
This time, Patient 203 read very slowly, as though trying to find something from Lin Yi’s diary, unwilling to give up.
When reading Lin Yi’s third diary entry, Patient 203 took even longer. After reading it, he continued to turn the pages, obviously unsatisfied. Even though after that were all blank pages, Patient 203 still carefully flipped through them.
Until he reached to a certain page. Patient 203 paused, and his eyes fell on Lin Yi again.
Lin Yi closed his eyes, but this time he didn’t open them again.
Patient 203 kept staring at him, not looking away until dawn.
Patient 203 had discovered that one page of the medical record book was incomplete. The reason for the incompleteness was that the other half of the page had been torn off by Lin Yi, used to write the note for Qin Zhou.
Lin Yi pretended to turn over. His back facing Patient 203, he couldn’t help breaking out in a cold sweat.
If the zopiclone made Patient 203 suspect that Lin Yi was up to something, this incomplete paper made Patient 203 certain of it.
At the time, Lin Yi had torn off just half of the paper just to make the paper thinner and smaller, so that the success rate of handing it over to Qin Zhou would be higher. But for various reasons, Lin Yi hadn’t had time to deal with the remaining half of the paper, which now made the situation worse.
Patient 203 would definitely tighten his surveillance, which would make Lin Yi’s idea of passing the news of the mutation to Qin Zhou hellishly difficulty.
Lin Yi was a little anxious.
There weren’t many ways to verify the identity of the Monster. Basically, they had to distinguishing the Monster through its reactions.
In the 2-6 Rule World, although had Lin Yi confirmed that Qin Zhou had been possessed by the 2-6 Monster on the first day, that was because he and Qin Zhou had experienced the 7-7 Rule World together. He understood Qin Zhou and so managed to figure it out through Qin Zhou’s words.
But in the 7-7 Rule World, because they didn’t know the other participants, they could only test the reaction of their suspect. When they were testing Cheng Yang, the 7-7 Monster had even discovered what they were doing.
The situation in the 16-8 Rule World was similar to what the situation had been in the 7-7 Rule World. They didn’t know each other, so there were only two ways to verify whether their suspect was the 16-8 Monster.
The first one was to destroy the Rules of Death and hopefully draw the Monster out to kill them.
The second was to test the Monster’s reaction.
However, the first method was not feasible. Because of the existence of regenerating animals, the chance of the 16-8 Monster being exposed was very small. It could simply use the living-dead participants to kill those who try to disrupt the order of the Rule World.
The second method would make the 16-8 Monsters as keenly aware of their purpose as the 7-7 Monster had been, putting all the other participants in danger.
But then, they haven’t even fully figured out the main plot of the 16-8 Rule World yet. Qin Zhou’s only way to verify the Monster’s identity was the first method.
Lin Yi had to pass on news of the mutation to Qin Zhou and stop Qin Zhou from his plans to verify if Wen Xiaoxuan was the Monster among them.
Otherwise, if Qin Zhou gets targeted by the 16-8 Monster, not only would they not get an answer as to who the Monster is, Qin Zhou’s life would a;sp be in mortal danger.
It was already dawn but Lin Yi still hadn’t thought of a good solution.
All he could do was to call out ‘Senior!’ when Qin Zhou is about to hint at the Rules of Death for everyone.
Lin Yi reckoned that Qin Zhou should be able to understand what he wanted to express just from him calling out.
Although this method would make Patient 203 more suspicious of what he knows, it doesn’t matter. In any case, he was already suspected. So long as Patient 203 had no substantial evidence, suspicion was just suspicion.
At most, what he would face was even tighter surveillance from Patient 203. Or he might also attract the attention of the 16-8 Monster. But he knew of the existence of the transformation and with precautions, the probability of him surviving was much higher than Qin who didn’t know anything.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi anxiously and nervously waited for the arrival of the next day.
Waiting always made time pass slower. Lin Yi felt like every minute and every second of the night was stretched to the extreme. He had never felt so uncomfortable.
Finally, the first rays of the sun penetrated through the clouds.
Lin Yi heard the footsteps of Patient 203, who had stood by his narrow bed all night, finally leave his cubicle. Still, he didn’t get up immediately. Otherwise, if he woke up as soon as Patient 203 left, Patient 203 would suspect him of feigning sleep.
The situation was bad enough. Better to keep up this patient-nursing aide act.
Lin Yi did the same as he had the preceding days. He planned to wait until the door opened and closed in Room 303 upstairs before getting up.
He waited impatiently for a while, but the opening and closing of the door of Room 303 did not come. Instead, he heard the rustling of footsteps on the other side of his cubicle.
Lin Yi’s intuition told him something was wrong. Patient 203 didn’t have the habit of pacing the room in the early morning.
He hurriedly turned and got out of bed, intending to see what patient 203 was doing.
But as soon as his feet touched the ground, there came the sound of the door opening in Room 303 upstairs.
Compared with the previous two days, the door opened more than half an hour later. Because he and Qin Zhou had searched for clues last night, Qin Zhou probably didn’t have any note to give him today.
The sound of the door closing wasn’t very loud. It was just Qin Zhou’s reminder to Lin Yi that he was about to go through with his verification of the Monster’s identity.
And at this moment, Lin Yi clearly heard the sound of a door opening and almost without a pause, closing again.
Although this sound was very quiet, Lin Yi clearly heard it.
Because this sound came from his own Room 203.
Lin Yi immediately rushed out of his cubicle, just in time to see the door lock twist as it was locked.
He was locked in Room 203.
There was no one else in the room because the person who had locked the door was Patient 203 and he’d heard Lin Yi coming out of the cubicle.
He said, “Xiao Lin, you stay in the room. What do you want for breakfast? I’ll bring back food for you.”
So thrilling…Wonder if Qin Zhou will notice something amiss.
I am stressing out with Lin Yi. Patient 203 is too scary.
I wonder if you could get away with murdering your patient.
I don’t think so, if I remember correctly, killing NPCs is illegal and would probably result in them getting killed
This newborn monster world is scarier than many old ones.. 😖
ooooh this can’t be something good
So scary. 203 is seriously a formidable enemy…
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Ahhaa This arc is very scary 😰