After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

The next day, in ward 801.

When the skinny guy came back, the cream cake had gone bad.

A cold knife pressed against his chin, lifting his face.

The skinny man tried his best to suppress his trembling, tears streaming down his face, but he wiped them all away with a soft blue checkered handkerchief.

The man with triangular eyes kindly wiped away his tears and said gently, "Young man, look at you, don't be nervous."

"Brother Sun just wants to chat with you."

The skinny man sobbed, "Talk...talk about what?"

"Let's talk about your attending physician," Sun Ping said with a smile, unfolding a tear-soaked handkerchief and gently placing it on the thin man's head. "Dr. Jiang, right? Is he good to you?"

"He...he...he cut open my abdomen and invited me to touch my own internal organs," the skinny man cried. "He...he also cut off half of my ear. I hate him. He's a madman, he's a pervert..."

"Alright, alright, Brother Sun will avenge you." Sun Ping'an soothed him, his eyes almost admiringly fixed on the skinny man's bandaged ear. "During the surgery, did you encounter anything unusual?"

The skinny man nodded, choking back tears: "Dr. Jiang received a phone call, it seemed to be from the archives department, and Dr. Jiang warned him that he must keep a file safe."

"I heard him say..."

"The owner of that file is Gu Xiaoying. It contains everything related to Gu Xiaoying."

Everything related to Gu Xiaoying naturally includes his weaknesses. Although Blue Hair and Red Hair were pawns he sent out to scout ahead, they were still his brothers. As brothers, he would avenge them.

Sun Ping got the clue he wanted and left room 801 satisfied.

In the empty room, the skinny man suddenly started sobbing.

He stared at the white wall before him, his voice choked with emotion, and said, "Are you satisfied now?"

"Can...can you leave me now?"

Knock knock knock.

Just then, there was another knock on the door.

Tang Li, Jiang Hui, and Qiu Wanting entered room 801.

"I heard you had surgery yesterday. How are you feeling?" Tang Li asked directly, showing concern for his well-being.

The skinny man was pale, covered in sweat, and his eyes darted around: "N-no, don't worry."

"I saw people going in and out of your ward just now. Did they give you any trouble?" Tang Li continued.

"It's okay, it's okay, I can handle it," the skinny man said.

Tang Li squinted her eyes.

The skinny man, who was always timid, was best at asking for help. "I can handle it" didn't sound like something he would say.

Moreover, there was a clear, fresh bloodstain in the shadow of the thin man's chin.

Qiu Wanting's glasses flashed.

Sun Ping, who just left the skinny guy's ward, is a ruthless but arrogant person. He wouldn't go against a low-level player like the skinny guy for no reason.

His coming to the ward could only mean that the skinny man had something he wanted.

From yesterday to today, the only change that has occurred to the skinny man is that he was "taken away by his attending physician, Dr. Jiang, for treatment."

—Dr. Jiang is indeed problematic.

Jiang Hui walked around in the thin man's hospital room.

Strange, she turned her head slightly, her ears, which were more sensitive than others, continuing to work—besides the skinny man and Tang Li, there seemed to be other voices in the ward?

at the same time.

"Didn't you give me a key the night before last?" Tang Li asked, lowering her head slightly to observe the skinny man's expression. "Where did you get the key from?"

"...I found it."

Tang Li grew increasingly suspicious: the skinny man's reactions were unusually slow; even for a simple, perfunctory reply, he would pause for a moment before answering. His expression was also off; when he stammered, it didn't seem like he was hesitating, but rather like he was waiting.

Waiting for what?

Tang Li and Jiang Hui, who had quietly slipped behind the skinny man, met each other's gazes.

Did you notice it too? He's not like the drowning person who asked for help before; he's like a pale, manipulated puppet.

Jiang Hui reached out and pinched the skinny man's ear through the bandage.

The skinny man was startled and shook his head to break free from Jiang Hui's grasp.

But they had already achieved their goal. Tang Li pointed out his flaw:

"You don't seem to be in much pain. Is the anesthesia still working?"

The skinny man looked horrified. Before he could even speak, he felt a cool, light sensation on his ear. Cool air enveloped his ear once more.

The bandages slipped off one by one, and Jiang Hui flipped her fingers to put the blade back. Inside the skinny man's ear, which was red and burning hot but still intact, was an earphone.

"Oh dear, we've been found out." A gentle male voice came through the earpiece. "Hello, you're quite the perceptive patient."

"Hello, Dr. Jiang." Jiang Hui took off the thin man's earphones and greeted the person on the other end of the earphones cheerfully. "Isn't this a bit of an invasion of patient privacy?"

On the other end of the earphone, Dr. Jiang, who had listened to and controlled everything, gently put down his coffee cup.

"It's just to protect the patients' safety." He showed no embarrassment at being caught, his words carrying a deeper meaning. "After all, things aren't exactly peaceful in the hospital right now, are they?"

"What? Didn't Dr. Jiang contribute to this situation?" Qiu Wanting asked veiledly, making no attempt to hide her previous eavesdropping. "Did Dr. Jiang intend to help Sun Ping and the others by leading them to the archives, or to harm them?"

"I'm just an ordinary doctor, trying my best to fulfill my patients' wishes," Dr. Jiang smiled. "The files are there; who can get them and what they do with them is none of my business."

"Really? Dr. Jiang is so detached from worldly desires?" Tang Li's tone was utterly innocent. "Then why did Dr. Jiang have someone deliver the keys to me? Was it just to wake me up in the middle of the night to watch a movie?"

"If you don't express your sincerity now," she chuckled, "it will be too late if you ask for something later."

"Since Dr. Jiang can't help, wouldn't it be harmless for us to tell the hospital director what you did?"

Who would believe Dr. Jiang's nonsense? Tang Li thought coldly to herself, did he make her witness the cruel practices of the hospital so that she would be influenced by the dean's outstanding character and conquered by the vice dean's strong physique?

Regardless of whether Dr. Jiang is good or evil, two things are certain: First, he is at odds with Dean Lei Hong, Vice Dean Qi Cuiming, and others; second, he has a need for Tang Li, or the ordinary patient group that Tang Li represents.

Even if he were to further complicate the situation, he couldn't hide the fact.

Since he and Lei Hong are at odds, there is a basis for them to cooperate; since he has something to ask of Tang Li, Tang Li has the potential to manipulate him.

Dr. Jiang paused slightly, then smiled nonchalantly.

"Alright, alright, you guessed right," he raised his hand on the other end of the call, making a gesture of surrender, but he was in a very good mood. "Then I'll tell you some extra news."

"The dean has increased security in the archives. To sneak into the archives, you can only do so between 1:30 and 3:30 in the morning."

[Rule 15: Entry into the archives room is prohibited between 1:30 AM and 3:30 AM.]

Rule 15 is falsified.

"And that file contains both Gu Xiaoying's weaknesses and his protectors."

"Therefore, I sincerely suggest that you all obtain the files faster than Sun Ping."