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Chapter 123: The Alter Ego Says He Loves Me (Part XII)
“Because it’s unreasonable.”
Xiao Ji said, “Du Lin is right across the hall. If you were Wang Ran and needed to ask for help, would you choose the veteran Du Lin, whom you’ve stayed with for two nights, or would you seek out two strange newcomers you haven’t even spoken to?”
“That is one point. Another thing is, I told Jin Can about freeing up the beds right in front of Zhao Xiaoyu. How did Wang Ran know?”
There was only one possibility: Zhao Xiaoyu told Wang Ran about it.
But in this kind of mission world, why would Zhao Xiaoyu tell Wang Ran such a thing?
Unless they knew each other from the start, or had reached some sort of unified interest.
Furthermore, Jin Can’s warning came first, which meant Jin Can must have discovered some clues while sharing a room with Zhao Xiaoyu.
If Jin Can was really preparing to run away directly, there would be absolutely no need for her to do something superfluous like warning Xiao Ji.
Because whether Xiao Yinnian and Lin Chuan survived to leave later would have nothing to do with her.
Lin Chuan was not stupid; he quickly figured out the reasoning behind it.
And at this time, Wang Ran’s voice outside the door also disappeared.
“But I still can’t figure out Wang Ran’s reason for wanting to harm us,” Lin Chuan frowned.
Xiao Ji, however, was indifferent:
“It doesn’t matter, we will find out.”
But he also had something he was doubtful about, so he asked Lin Chuan:
“Can identities in the mission world be replaced?”
Lin Chuan pondered for a moment: “I haven’t seen this kind of situation before, but if one obtained special items or rewards, it should be achievable.”
Xiao Ji said no more. As for the answer to this matter, barring any accidents, they would know first thing tomorrow morning.
Xiao Ji didn’t think there was any problem with his analysis and intuition.
But something that surprised even him happened early the next morning. After the doctor finished his rounds as usual, when everyone gathered in the cafeteria, they found that both Wang Ran and Zhao Xiaoyu were gone.
Only Jin Can, Du Lin, Lin Chuan, and Xiao Yinnian were left.
On the way there, Lin Chuan also went over the events of last night with Xiao Yinnian from start to finish.
“Where are those two?” Du Lin asked.
Lin Chuan frowned at Du Lin: “Did you not hear the commotion last night?”
Du Lin shook his head: “I took the medicine last night, so I didn’t hear anything.”
Jin Can was puzzled: “What happened?”
Xiao Yinnian glanced at Jin Can, shook his head, and only said in front of Du Lin: “I also took the medicine last night, so I don’t know anything.”
Jin Can looked at Lin Chuan again.
Lin Chuan spread his hands: “Wang Ran ran to me for help and told me to open the door, which I naturally didn’t dare to do. Then she went quiet, and I don’t know what happened with the rest.”
Du Lin observed the other three for a while before speaking up:
“Now there are only the four of us left. Do you want to cooperate?”
Although Xiao Yinnian intuitively disliked Du Lin, he still asked:
“Do you have any useful information?”
Du Lin shook his head: “Haven’t found anything yet.”
Xiao Yinnian then said: “Forget it then. If all else fails, we’ll just wait for the priest’s baptism.”
After finishing their meal, the four of them walked towards the stairs together.
In the corridor, they ran head-on into two nurses carrying a stretcher.
A person was lying on the stretcher, covered with a white cloth. In the middle of the white cloth was a blooming red bloodstain.
A scene like this was something none of them had encountered before.
An ominous premonition rose in Xiao Yinnian’s heart. As he brushed past the nurse, he stretched out his leg and tripped her.
The nurse lost her footing and nearly fell over, and the stretcher in her hands tipped over with her.
The person on the stretcher fell off, and the white cloth landed on the ground, revealing, shockingly, Wang Ran’s face.
Stripped of any covering, she lay naked on the ground, her eyes wide open, having died with lingering grievances.
What made people’s scalps tingle even more was that right at this moment, exposed before everyone’s eyes, was a long, neat incision running from Wang Ran’s chest down to her abdomen.
She had clearly been disemboweled.
The nurse who had nearly fallen glared angrily at Xiao Yinnian and the other three.
Xiao Yinnian opened his mouth, uttered a quick apology, and hurriedly turned to leave.
He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he wouldn’t be able to help but disrespect the deceased again.
“Could Wang Ran’s cry for help last night have been real?”
Xiao Yinnian asked Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji didn’t care: “Whether it was real or fake, I wouldn’t have taken any risks for her last night.”
Regarding this, Xiao Yinnian wouldn’t question it.
If you walk by the river often enough, your shoes will inevitably get wet—Xiao Yinnian understood this principle.
Xiao Ji was capable, but in this situation, no one could guarantee absolute safety.
Why pay the price oneself for the sake of someone else’s life?
The most crucial point was that Wang Ran hadn’t necessarily come with good intentions.
However, Xiao Ji currently didn’t have sufficient evidence for this, so he didn’t say much.
The gruesome state of Wang Ran’s death intensified the remaining four people’s urgency to leave as soon as possible.
When they reached the second floor, Jin Can left on her own and headed to the doctor’s office.
Xiao Yinnian rejected cooperating with Du Lin, and Du Lin didn’t pester him, similarly leaving on his own halfway.
Xiao Yinnian and Lin Chuan returned to their ward first. Not long after, Jin Can knocked on the door.
“Two things,” she said, getting straight to the point.
“First, that piece of paper you gave me yesterday, I had an NPC nurse look at it. Her attitude was very strange; she asked if it belonged to a patient. When I said I picked it up, she only said one sentence.”
Xiao Yinnian’s brow twitched: “What did she say?”
Jin Can said: “‘It’s a good seedling.'”
Xiao Yinnian tapped his index finger on the table: “And the second thing?”
“Second, I saw Zhao Xiaoyu appear in the staff dormitory hallway last night. I followed her and found she entered the director’s office.”
She paused, looking at Xiao Yinnian: “So, whose report was that?”
Xiao Yinnian pondered for a moment, looking at Jin Can:
“It belongs to the ward-rounding doctor.”
At this, Jin Can also fell silent. After a long while, she finally said:
“For this mission, I was the third one to arrive. Before me, Zhao Xiaoyu and Wang Ran were already here. I suspect there’s something fishy going on between those two.”
Lin Chuan chimed in: “Last night, Wang Ran said Zhao Xiaoyu stole her identity.”
Jin Can shook her head:
“No, I suspect it wasn’t stolen. Rather, from the very beginning, the nurse identity belonged to Zhao Xiaoyu. I just don’t know why Wang Ran would listen to her and help her do things.”
Lin Chuan thought about it: “Could it be that Wang Ran’s identity was originally a nurse too?”
If not, how would Wang Ran dare to appear in the corridor after lights out?
Jin Can pondered for a moment: “If she was also a nurse, then why did she die?”
Xiao Yinnian listened to their exchange and asked a question:
“Yesterday, when the NPC told you to move to the staff dorms, what did they say? Did they call out names?”
“No, they just said the staff dorms had two empty beds, and two nurses could move in,” Jin Can said.
Xiao Yinnian licked the corner of his mouth:
“Then isn’t it very simple? Zhao Xiaoyu occupied Wang Ran’s bed, leaving Wang Ran with no place to stay. She ran back to the inpatient department and appeared in the corridor after lights out. She still violated the rules.”
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