Soul Patch

Chapter 185 You knew all along, didn't you?

As night fell, the corridors of the M City Central Hospital were quiet and solemn.

Under the cover of darkness, two shadowy figures stealthily entered a room with a security door bearing a small sign that read "Medical Records Room."

"How did you get the key?" Liu Qingqing asked Wenjie.

Wenjie was holding a bunch of keys and trying to open the door locks one by one.

“Stolen…” Wenjie tried two keys but they were both wrong. He brought the keys closer and looked for a key that looked like a security door among the other keys.

Liu Qingqing, hands on her hips, watched the spectacle with amusement, occasionally urging, "Did you find it yet? Didn't you even check which key they used to lock the door when you stole it?"

"I want to too... It's so far away, I need to be able to see it clearly," Wenjie said irritably.

He knew that Liu Qingqing was being sarcastic because she had only been allowed to eat a piece of bread that evening, and hadn't been able to eat any of the delicious food she had been talking about. She was feeling resentful and was looking for an opportunity to vent.

"Click, click," Wenjie inserted the key again, and it began to turn in the lock cylinder.

The door is open!

Wenjie smiled slightly, turned the doorknob, opened the security door a crack, and crawled inside.

Liu Qingqing wanted to follow him inside, but he stopped her with his hand: "You stand guard at the door... You've seen police dramas, right? You're the one who keeps watch."

Liu Qingqing stared at Wenjie in disbelief. She wanted to make sure he wasn't joking, but most of his face was obscured by shadows, making it impossible for her to discern his expression.

She quickly reached out and grabbed Wenjie's arm, saying timidly, "I...I'm scared!"

Wenjie reached out and touched the wall of the medical records room. During the day, when he was scouting the area, he followed the patient who was photocopying medical records and secretly peeked into the medical records room. There should be two white coats on this wall.

These two white coats are the uniforms of two doctors who work in the medical records room. They wear them when they are on duty. Only two shoulder bags and a sun hat are hanging on the hook.

When it was time to leave work, the two doctors chatted and laughed as they took off their white coats, hung them up, slung their bags over their shoulders, locked the door, and left the medical records room.

Wenjie reached out and touched the collar of the white coat. He pulled one over and tossed it to Liu Qingqing, whispering, "Put this on!"

After thinking for a moment, he added, "Tell me before you go to the restroom."

Liu Qingqing stared at Wenjie in surprise, reluctantly putting on the white coat, her heart pounding like a drum.

She had never actually gone to the hospital's medical records room to check information late at night. The most she had ever done with the system was to stop in front of the hospital's outpatient building, and even that terrified her.

Wenjie entered the room, but didn't close the security door completely. Through the slightly ajar door, she could see Wenjie walking towards the rows of medical record shelves in the medical records room.

Now she was all alone outside the door. She stared into the dark corridor, feeling that something might suddenly appear around the corner of the stairs.

A gust of wind blew by, and a few fallen leaves drifted in through the open window, rustling and rising and falling on the corridor floor before finally being blown to Liu Qingqing's feet.

She shuddered, looked down at the leaves at her feet, and kicked them angrily.

I couldn't help but curse in my heart: Who is it that left the window open? They scared me to death!

She looked toward the window, and the more she looked at the open window, the more flustered she felt. After a few breaths, Liu Qingqing pushed open the security door of the medical records room.

The door slammed against the wall of the room with a loud bang, the sound of the doorknob hitting the wall echoing in the hallway.

"Who?" A hoarse and indistinct voice followed.

Liu Qingqing was so frightened that she ran to Wenjie's side and hid in his arms, trembling.

Wenjie glared at Liu Qingqing, tiptoed to close the security door again, and then locked it from the inside.

After doing all this, he turned to look at Liu Qingqing, who was standing among the rows of shelves in the medical records room. She was still trembling, and her white coat was shaking uncontrollably with her body.

He had originally intended to say a few words of reproach, but seeing how frightened Liu Qingqing was, he had no choice but to shut his mouth.

He approached Liu Qingqing and whispered, "It's probably just an old man on duty at the hospital. He'll probably just look around at the entrance and leave. It's alright, don't be afraid!"

"No...no, I'm not afraid of that old man, I'm just scared standing in the corridor. It feels weird. How far is it from here to the morgue?" Liu Qingqing said, feeling aggrieved.

"...It's far away. The morgue is on the basement level," Wenjie said casually. Actually, he didn't know where the hospital's morgue was, but it seemed that hospital morgues were all underground.

"Let's hurry up and look. There are psychiatric cases over there. Let's start looking from there," Wenjie instructed.

Liu Qingqing silently walked to the shelf that Wenjie pointed to and started looking through the cases from the top.

These cases are arranged in chronological order. Liu Qingqing looked at the case in her hand. Case number: zxc101as0q23 19960101 Patient name: Zhang Min Diagnosis: Mental disorder.

“Patients with mental disorders…” Liu Qingqing muttered to herself.

“Yes, after Li Shiman came out of the emergency room, she was sent to the psychiatric intensive care unit,” Wenjie said after thinking for a moment.

"Li Shiman...is mentally ill?" Liu Qingqing muttered the words "mentally ill" in disbelief.

She looked at Wenjie and seemed to understand why he had been so worried ever since he left the hospital.

But she wanted to eat this and that... She was heartless and only knew how to eat.

"I'm sorry, no wonder you didn't feel like eating..." Liu Qingqing said softly.

Wenjie looked at Liu Qingqing strangely and yelled, "Hurry up and find the medical records! You're still thinking about this and that... You didn't eat dinner because you don't have money, understand? You don't have money!"

This woman in front of me is truly speechless.

The two of them sped up their search for medical records. Fearing that someone might pass by and notice something unusual about the medical records room, Wenjie didn't turn on the lights from the moment he entered the room.

So the two of them struggled to look at the names on the medical records in the dark, using the moonlight streaming through the window.

A short while later, Liu Qingqing put down the medical record in her hand, rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, straightened up, and stretched.

"I'm so tired. I've searched hundreds of files, but I still can't find Li Shiman's medical record. Is her medical record even here?" Liu Qingqing was losing patience.

"These are the medical records from the last three years, which should be available for patients to copy and review. Earlier records should have been stored in the hospital's archives."

"Wait... do you remember what year Li Shiman was born?" Wenjie put down the medical record in his hand and asked Liu Qingqing.

"July 7, 1994," Liu Qingqing replied without hesitation.

Upon hearing this, Wenjie composed himself, took two steps forward to Liu Qingqing's side, looked down into her eyes, and questioned, "Li Shiman and Zhang Zhipeng were born on the same day, month, and year? You knew all along, didn't you?"

"Yup!"

"Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I told you, but you didn't believe me. I said it when the lilies were in bloom!" Liu Qingqing said dismissively.

"..." Wenjie.

(End of this chapter)