Artifact Report

Chapter 176 Jin Xueli: Love Signpost

Jin Xueli imagined several scenarios.

For example, she spotted Morandao at a glance, and in the face of irrefutable evidence, Morandao became enraged and shot at her; for another example, she discovered that the Kai family had surrounded and invaded the hospital building, creating all sorts of illusions and making the surroundings filled with gusts of evil wind, unlike the human world.

The only thing she didn't expect was that she couldn't even get through the door.

"Sorry, we have a whitelist system."

In a lobby that looked like it might be a private hospital or a luxury hotel, an elegant middle-aged woman behind the reception desk told her, "Our emergency department is not open to the public, and we don't accept walk-in patients. Only those who have registered and are on the whitelist can enter our hospital."

"My friend—my cousin—was just transferred here by ambulance. If you don't believe me, check the records. You have them, right?"

Jin Xueli remembered that when she arrived, she saw an ambulance leaving after completing its mission. She had an idea and said, "He's unconscious. I'm here... I'm here to handle his paperwork and pay his fees."

She said she was here to give us money, so we should at least let her in, right?
"Excuse me," the receptionist said politely, "Please call the hospital's general affairs department, explain your situation to them, and make an appointment. We have a whitelist system."

"Won't it cause delays if the hospital keeps a whitelist?"

Jin Xueli's voice was only a hair higher than before. Next to the metal detector door, a burly black man wearing a black security T-shirt and who seemed to have a weapon on his waist turned his head towards her.

Her voice dropped again: "...What's the hospital's general affairs phone number?"

Holding a number that she knew would be useless even if she called it, Jin Xueli walked out of the hospital building.

She looked at her pajamas and sneakers, and suspected that this outfit made it more difficult to get in; but at this point, she had no choice but to find a way to bypass the front desk to get in.

Originally, Jin Xueli just didn't want Chai Si to die, and she even had the idea that since the Kai family already knew about it, maybe she didn't need to come.

But now that she was not allowed in, her mood suddenly changed again: Why can Molando go in but I can't? Doesn't it seem like Molando is not letting her in?
Okay, you used her as bait first, and then you didn’t let her in. Are you still not done with the insults?
No matter whether this is the logic or not, this is the mood.

The more she was not allowed to enter, the more she wanted to enter; even if Chai Si had become a dead body now, she had to go in and see it with her own eyes.

But it was easy to say. After walking around the building, she found that this hospital really looked like a high-end hotel. There were no windows to climb on the first floor, and the side door for beds and stretchers and the back door for employees were both locked with passwords.

Jin Xueli wanted to try picking the lock, but being a hunter didn't mean she knew everything; besides, she wasn't optimistic enough to think that the alarm wouldn't sound after she picked the lock.

What should I do? Chai Si is really going to die soon.

She went back to the front door and called Han Liuyue in the parking lot to discuss the situation - of course, no one answered.

Obviously, the Kai family's mobile phones mainly serve a decorative purpose, and only incidentally do they make the callers anxious.

A woman got out of the taxi and walked toward the main gate. Even at night, she was wearing a large straw sun hat.

Jin Xueli was about to look away, but immediately turned her head and glanced at her.

Beneath the wide-brimmed straw hat was a curtain of straight, jet-black hair, almost like a heavy black cloth hanging down. Behind the black cloth, the swollen, snow-white face was vaguely visible.

The other party didn't even look at Jin Xueli. When she passed by a few steps away, Jin Xueli's heart sank and she couldn't help but take two steps back.

That's not a mask, is it? Is it just for your face?
...If you look like that, wouldn't your life be full of troubles?

As the woman walked through the door, she stopped at the front desk.

Jin Xueli followed her into the room and was at an angle where the guard couldn't see her, but she could vaguely hear the conversation.

"Sorry, we have a whitelist system..."

That woman didn’t have an appointment either?

The head in the sun hat slowly leaned over the front desk, stretched out his increasingly long neck, and muttered something in a low voice.

The hair was so black that it didn't look like human hair, but as thick and greasy as oil, flowing on the countertop.

"Please don't lean over here..." The protest from the receptionist suddenly became softer, and her next words could not be heard clearly.

The guard seemed to realize something was wrong. He strode over and asked in a deep voice, "Is there something wrong here?"

In order to avoid being seen by the guards, Jin Xueli quickly took two steps back. When she looked again, she realized that she seemed to have missed something - no one was talking.

The three people at the front desk, the one wearing a sun hat and the guard, stood there in silence like three frozen statues.

After a few seconds, the man in the sun hat turned around and walked towards the gate equipped with a metal detector at the other end of the hall as if no one was around.

The receptionist and the guards remained standing there, motionless.

Huh? How did they—

Ah, no, now is not the time to look at them. Isn’t the opportunity here?

Jin Xueli slipped through the door and quickly glanced at the two people at the front desk, but found that no one responded to her. She didn't dare to stick to the straw hat. After watching the other party enter the elevator, she strode through the gate. Looking back, the guard was still standing with his back to her.

As she walked towards the elevator, she called Han Liuyue again. This time, the phone was picked up immediately after it rang.

Han Liuyue's voice was low and intermittent, as if the signal was very poor: "Xueli, we... encountered an accident on the road..."

It was a very friendly call.

"I finally managed to get in. Where are you?"

Jin Xueli walked into the elevator and found that one had just left the first floor and was going up. It should be the one the woman in the straw hat took.

"My signal is bad...someone is attacking us. Go find Chai Si first and make sure he's there...I'll be there soon."

"I don't know where to find Chase, and they can't tell me—"

Before he could finish his words, the call was disconnected.

Jin Xueli looked at the phone and wanted to smile bitterly.

Well, there were so many people in Kai’s family, but none of them showed up, and in the end, the task of saving people fell solely on her shoulders?
Afterwards, shouldn't I own 10% of Kai's shares or something to repay her kindness?

This private hospital is not big, and unlike ordinary hospitals, it does not have guide signs for patients; it seems that it is very confident that everyone who comes to see the doctor knows where to go.

Jin Xueli looked at a row of elevator buttons and could only press two based on (Chai Si's) luck - as for why, there was no reason, it was just like a moth flying into a lamp, it mainly depended on whether Chai Si's fate was strong enough.

It doesn’t seem to be enough.

Because once the door opened, there seemed to be a rest and entertainment area and a restaurant - probably for hospitalized patients and visiting family members. Is Chai Si an inpatient?

Even if he doesn't need to be hospitalized, he can't be killed as soon as he is brought here, right?

If the goal is to kill him as quickly as possible, there is no need to go through the trouble of transferring him to another hospital.

Jin Xueli recalled that when she received the call-up notice, the target pseudo-image information held by Chai Si was also exposed to her - he had a "tongue".

Could it be that the Vesile team also knew about this? They were leaderless, yet they were still quite active.

A team of contestants brought another contestant who had a target pseudo-image into their own hospital, definitely not just to kill him, but also to get the pseudo-image.

I just don’t know how long the tongue-removing process will last; the longer it lasts, the longer Chai Si will live.

Where on earth are they?! There's no information at all, how can I—

Jin Xueli suddenly stopped.

On the third floor emergency room, there finally appeared a nurse station similar to that in an ordinary hospital.

She had thought that the management of a hospital where rich people were hospitalized must be very strict, but she had not expected that there were two nurses in the nurses' station standing shoulder to shoulder with their backs to the outside, looking at something, and they did not move for several seconds.

How could Jin Xueli dare to miss the opportunity to wait for them to turn around? She quickly bent down and tiptoed into the waiting area behind the nurses' station. The waiting area was empty. When she walked in, she saw a brown-haired girl walking out of the bathroom in the distance.

It wasn't the woman in the straw hat, nor was it Morandao, nor was it the unreliable Han Liuyue; the girl looked unfamiliar and had never been seen before.

She looked around quietly, and when her eyes met Jin Xueli, she immediately lowered her head and sat down in the corner of the waiting area as if nothing had happened.

…How could there be someone more sneaky than me?

The next second, the brown-haired girl suddenly frowned, rubbed her ears hard, and patted them twice, as if something in her ears was bothering her.

Jin Xueli's heart moved.

……No way?

She recalled the encounter post. The poster said that she met Morando at the door, but she didn't say whether she was about to leave or just about to come in...

The brown-haired girl was indeed her? The Love Hunter?

Love is so hot that he waited for such a long time but didn't leave. He used all his hunter's tracking ability to chase his idol.

So, is Morando on this floor?
Wait, Morando's target is Chai Si; if she is on this floor, Chai Si will also -

Before Jin Xueli could finish her reasoning, the door of a room in the corridor ahead suddenly opened. A doctor hurried out, his face pale and nervous, as if fleeing. Someone pulled the door shut behind him.

This old man Chai Si is really lucky. Jin Xueli strode forward and cursed in her heart that if she had come a minute later, she would not have been able to make it to this critical moment.

It suddenly became dark under the door.

　I watched The Platform 1 yesterday, which was fantastic! Today I'm going to watch The Platform 2. I stumbled upon this high-quality recommendation by chance amidst the sea of ​​marketing and content accounts on Xiaohongshu (Red Book). It's truly rare.

(End of this chapter)