I changed the world.

Immediately, all the Taoist priests sitting to the side stood up, and Li Jingxin, not caring about chatting with Dean Yu any longer, quickly walked towards the operating room, waiting anxiously at the door of the operating room.

A short while later, with a click, the door was flung open from the inside, and the attending physician walked out looking exhausted.

"Doctor, how is the abbot?"

"Doctor, how is my master?"

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A cacophony of voices suddenly erupted.

After removing his mask, the attending physician looked around at the people and finally focused his attention on the hospital director standing to the side.

"Dr. Wang, how is the old master?" Dean Yu asked, his face equally tense.

"I'm sorry...we did our best..." the doctor said with some difficulty, taking a deep breath.

Upon hearing this, Li Jingxin's tall body swayed slightly. Zhou Jingyuan, who was standing nearby, quickly caught him and opened his mouth, only to find that his voice was also unusually hoarse: "Senior brother..."

Dean Yu, who was standing nearby, stepped forward anxiously and asked, "What exactly happened?"

"During the surgery, the old man suffered from extensive acute failure. We tried many methods, but... alas... the results were not ideal, and in the end we were unable to save him..." Dr. Wang looked quite frustrated.

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After being hurriedly helped to the side and resting for a while, Li Jingxin said with difficulty, "Perhaps... this is the Heavenly Venerable's decree..."

At this moment, the surrounding area was filled with weeping. The old abbot was highly respected in the temple. He was an orphan and never married. He usually treated the temple as his home and treated the disciples in the temple like his own sons and nephews.

Li Jingxin shook off his disciple's support and stood up with difficulty. He looked at the Taoist priests with sorrowful expressions on their faces and sighed again: "Let's go and see our teacher one last time."

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Outside the tightly closed iron gates of Yongjitang Hospital's inpatient department in Linzhou, a large group of reporters with cameras and microphones surrounded the building. Some reporters even set up their equipment not far from the gate, filming the inpatient building in the distance and starting to broadcast and record their reports.

Meanwhile, many reporters were whispering and exchanging information outside. Some could even be seen sitting by the flowerbeds with their notebooks open on their laps, already writing first drafts of news based on their imaginations.

The hospital had completely closed the main gate, isolating the reporters outside. Behind the gate, three security guards were on guard and patrolling. The gate was locked, and no matter how the reporters outside questioned, inquired, or even tried to enter, the guards remained silent.

Further away, many people spontaneously stopped and stood there, heads bowed in silent prayer. Some had even placed incense and candles on the ground, while others knelt, all appearing to be in devout prayer. The reporters nearby naturally didn't miss these actions, frequently turning their cameras towards the crowd.

When Zhang Jing arrived at the entrance of Yongji Hall in Linzhou, this was the scene that greeted him. Anyone who wasn't blind could tell from this that something big must have happened.

Zhang Jing was now certain that the news reports were not unfounded. He didn't linger outside the Yongjitang inpatient department's gate, but instead began to observe its interior layout by circling the courtyard wall.

Like many hospitals, the outer wall of the inpatient department of Linzhou Yongjitang is made of steel fences that are more than two meters high. Below the fence is a low cement wall that is half a meter high as a base, and the outside of the low wall is paved with bricks and stones. The top of the fence has sharp iron spikes, and there is an electrified wire mesh above that. It is clear that a lot of effort has been made to prevent climbing.

In addition, Zhang Jing also noticed that the surveillance equipment inside the inpatient department was quite comprehensive, with a density far higher than that of public hospitals like the First Hospital of Jiangdong Province, which he had previously visited.

Zhang Jing pondered, considering how to sneak in more discreetly. As he walked and thought, he gradually returned to the hospital's main entrance.

Just then, the hospital doors opened, and a middle-aged man walked out...

Zhang Jing's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had an idea.

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Li Junshan is a doctor at Yongjitang Hospital in Linzhou, highly skilled in cardiovascular diseases and quite well-known in the province. Tonight, due to two major surgeries, Li Junshan didn't finish his work until the early hours of the morning. Changing out of his white coat after a long day, he dragged his weary body out of the inpatient building and walked to the main entrance…

P.S.: It's the change of seasons, and I've had a stuffy nose lately, so please be careful everyone...

Chapter 198 The Shadow in the Hospital

The scene outside the iron gate startled him slightly; he had been engrossed in work all day and wasn't quite sure what had happened. However, he couldn't worry about that now; he just wanted to get home and get some sleep. He figured it was probably just some celebrity or something that had been hospitalized—it wasn't uncommon for such things to happen.

"Dr. Li, you're off work? You've worked hard..." A familiar security guard greeted him warmly from the security room next to the gate.

"Yes, you've all worked hard too." Li Junshan forced a smile at him, then couldn't help but yawn.

"Come on, let me open the door for you." The security guard quickly opened the side door, and Li Junshan nodded to him again before walking straight out.

As soon as someone walked out, a group of reporters surrounded him, handing him microphones and trying to conduct an interview.

Faced with this situation, Li Junshan had no intention of saying much. He waved his hand and mumbled meaningless platitudes like "I don't know" and "Excuse me" as he quickly walked away...

Li Junshan's departure caused a small ripple outside the hospital ward, but the ripple subsided quickly as Li Junshan strode away without stopping.

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Seeing Li Junshan disappear from sight, Zhang Jing smiled slightly. In a flash, he transformed into a middle-aged man wearing an old-fashioned trench coat and glasses, just like Li Junshan who had just left.

The next moment, he disappeared.

When he reappeared, he was inside the inpatient department's perimeter wall, under a large clump of bamboo in the courtyard area on the east side of the entire inpatient department.

He had already confirmed this was a blind spot in the surveillance cameras when he walked around the entire compound.

He straightened his clothes, took out a disposable thin film glove from his pocket, put it on, smiled slightly, and walked towards the side entrance of the hospital building not far away.

Today, due to certain special reasons, the security level inside the inpatient department was obviously much higher. Zhang Jing hadn't walked far when he saw two security guards patrolling by. However, they seemed not to see Zhang Jing at all, chatting idly as they slowly passed by him.

Without a doubt, Zhang Jing has already activated the "Earthly Fiend Forbidden Technique: Blinding," and those who face him directly will ignore his existence.

Even if those in the monitoring room noticed his presence, they would only assume that Dr. Li Junshan hadn't left yet. After all, people come and go throughout the hospital area, and even the monitoring room couldn't possibly check everyone's whereabouts one by one.

Zhang Jing quickly arrived at the side door of the building. The glass side door was not closed, and Zhang Jing pushed it open and went inside.

After entering, there was a long corridor with some rooms on both sides. Zhang Jing glanced around and found that almost all of these rooms were closed and there was no sound coming from inside, so it seemed that no one was inside.

Zhang Jing continued walking forward, and not far away he saw a young woman dressed as a nurse walking towards him. She looked quite tired and kept yawning as she walked.

She stopped a few steps away from Zhang Jing, then turned the doorknob and went inside, seemingly ignoring him.

Zhang Jing then followed her into the room.

This is a rectangular medical staff rest room. Inside, there is a square simple dining table, two bunk beds against the wall, a writing desk and a small refrigerator, a water dispenser, and a television mounted on the wall.

Zhang Jing had already surveyed the room the moment he entered, and he was certain that there were no surveillance devices present.

The nurse clearly didn't notice Zhang Jing following her in. After turning on the overhead light, she sat down at the desk, first stretching in her chair, then getting up to pour herself a glass of water from the water dispenser and drinking it. She then sat back down and took out her phone to play with it.

Zhang Jing reached out and gently touched the nurse's back. The nurse swayed slightly, seemingly puzzled. She then touched her forehead, but before she could do anything else, she collapsed onto the desk in front of her and fell into a deep sleep.

Zhang Jing smiled slightly. This method would not cause any harm to her body, but it would allow her to sleep for at least a few hours without any external influence.

The next moment, Zhang Jing's figure blurred again, and then changed again, transforming directly into the image of a nurse still lying on the table.

The door opened, and Zhang Jing walked out of the room, closed the door to the main room, and continued walking forward along the corridor.

The main building of the inpatient department occupies a very large area and is the kind of building formed by combining a horizontally placed cuboid and a vertically placed cuboid. From the outside, it looks like a bold "L".

The tallest building has 36 floors. In addition to the inpatient department of Linzhou Yongjitang, the operating room and the medical experimental center are also located in this building.

Zhang Jing had never been to this hospital before, so he was now facing a minor problem: on which floor was Master Xiao located?

Zhang Jing walked forward along the corridor. Occasionally, nurses or doctors dressed in a hurry would walk by, and security guards would patrol the area, but they all ignored him.

At the end of the corridor was a large hall, where a nurse was dozing off against the information desk. Next to the desk was a paper sign made of a simple frame, with basic signs indicating the different floors.

Zhang Jing paused briefly before looking at the signboard. According to the signboard, the actual inpatient wards in this hospital ward were on floors 6 to 23, with the top four floors being special care wards. Floor 24 was the ICU, and floors 25 to 29 were the surgical areas.

Zhang Jing currently has no idea what the old master's current situation is, or which specific area the old master is currently located in.

Fortunately, he soon didn't have to worry about this problem anymore. Two nurses came out from the other side of the corridor, talking quietly. However, these whispered words could not stop Zhang Jing from perceiving them.

"...I heard that the dean and vice dean both rushed over there and haven't left yet, they've been there the whole time..."

"Really? That old master really went?"

"...I heard they just went there, and the surgery failed..."

"You didn't see what happened on the 26th floor... Several Taoist priests almost fainted from crying..."

"That's a big event! Look at all those reporters outside..."

"That's not..."

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Zhang Jing's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that the target he was looking for should be on the 26th floor. Zhang Jing followed the direction the two nurses had come from and quickly found the elevator lobby. There were four elevators in the lobby, but it was empty at the moment.

Zhang Jing glanced at the floors and saw that two of the elevators were already stopped on the first floor, which was where he was now.

He pressed the elevator button, the elevator opened, Zhang Jing stepped inside, and pressed the button for the 26th floor.

The elevator doors closed, and then the elevator slowly ascended without stopping, reaching the 26th floor directly.

The elevator doors opened, and Zhang Jing stepped out, immediately hearing soft sobs.

Zhang Jing walked down the corridor toward the sound of sobbing. The corridor was lined with makeshift seats, seemingly for people waiting for surgery to rest. Many of these seats were occupied by people dressed as Taoist priests, most with sorrowful expressions, some even wiping away tears.

Continuing forward, there was a waiting area ahead, where many Taoist priests sat, mostly chanting scriptures, but almost all of them had sorrowful expressions. Zhang Jing observed that to one side of the waiting area was the door to the operating room, which was currently closed, but the waiting light above it was off.

Zhang Jing clearly heard chanting coming from behind the operating room door, indicating that someone inside the operating room was also chanting.

Zhang Jing understood that this was probably the ritual of the Xuanmen (mystical sect) in this world...

Zhang Jing then found a spot in a corner to sit down and wait. Not long after, the chanting in the operating room ended, and a short while later, he heard a series of footsteps coming from behind the operating room door, indicating that several people were approaching.