Hearing the sound, he frowned.
Damn it! I'm afraid I'm going to be beaten to my knees and dragged back to be a star slave!
Keli was ready to pounce and cover the person's mouth if they came closer.
However, the other person didn't come over; instead, they started rummaging through the trash can in the staff lounge.
"Hmm... what a waste. This is very valuable research material."
It was a somewhat mature female voice.
Keli couldn't see what the other person took through the obstruction, but the person soon moved closer, and this time, she entered Keli's line of sight.
"Hmm, these two are quite obedient, but they can also be experimented with."
Keli saw a pair of hands wearing medical gloves. The hands held a strange small bottle, and she dripped some liquid into a cup.
It looked exactly like Tadokoro Kouji preparing a mysterious drink.
After adding the contents, she then shook it.
Keli didn't smell any pungent odor.
He could add water, or any colorless, odorless medicine.
Keli secretly clicked his tongue at the advancement of technology.
As soon as that hand placed the cup down, Keli heard footsteps moving away.
And when the sound left the ward,
Keli stood up, felt around in the direction next to him, and then saw the message sent by Sato Kazuma.
"Sato Kazuma: The elevator is moving up, it's already on the 12th floor."
"Sato Kazuma: It didn't stop at the 12th floor and is still going up. Keli, be careful. This elevator probably requires some kind of card to reach special floors."
At the same time, Keli heard the prompt sound of the elevator stopping on this floor and about to open.
Keli directly called out to Kazuma in his mind.
"Keli: A woman went down. You follow her and see where she goes."
"Sato Kazuma: Leave it to me."
The elevator descended from the 13th floor, arriving at the 12th floor.
The woman looked at Sato Kazuma, who was wearing a caregiver uniform and a mask, with some surprise.
Kazuma quickly glanced at her; she looked very mature, with a curvaceous figure. In a place like a hospital, she boldly wore a hip-hugging skirt on her lower body, and her full thighs pressed together created a great visual impact. Next to her fine-rimmed glasses, there was a tear mole like Gou Hinagiku.
Kazuma quickly scanned her name tag.
"Nurse Chief."
He nodded and bowed, greeting her according to the position written on it, and walked in.
The Nurse Chief frowned, looking at Kazuma with some surprise.
"You are…?"
"I am Sato."
As a hospital with over a dozen floors, Kazuma didn't believe she could remember everyone's name.
"Oh, it's Sato. Wasn't the shift change 20 minutes ago?"
As a surname more common in Japan than Japanese wild dogs, the Nurse Chief nodded without any suspicion.
Sato Kazuma glanced around. At this moment, the button for the first basement floor was lit on the elevator, so he didn't say anything and transmitted a message in his mind.
"Sato Kazuma: She's going to the first basement floor."
"Kirigaya Kazuto: Understood, I'll also go to the first basement floor."
"Kirigaya Kazuto: Strange, the elevator I used on the 5th floor couldn't go to the first basement floor."
During their conversation, the elevator doors closed and began to descend to the 8th floor, but the Nurse Chief looked at Kazuma with some surprise.
"Why aren't you pressing a floor?"
Kazuma almost blurted out, "I'm also going to the first basement floor."
But then he suddenly realized that Kirito said normal elevators couldn't go to the first basement floor, so this woman saying that meant even ordinary staff couldn't go there.
Kazuma quickly pressed the first floor button, then turned around, looking a bit embarrassed, and spoke.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm too nervous."
But Kazuma's gaze swept across the Nurse Chief's hand, where there was a card.
However, Kazuma's attitude seemed to be mistaken by her as shyness.
The Nurse Chief chuckled softly, and when the elevator reached the first floor, she suddenly reached out her hand and tickled Kazuma's palm.
Kazuma felt something in his hand and turned back sharply.
"If you want to find me, you can wait for me in the third-floor lounge after 2 o'clock~"
With that light remark, Kazuma was a bit bewildered.
M-Masaka!
Has my charm, Lord Kazuma, reached the point where I can conquer an older woman at a hospital even through a mask?
Kazuma was filled with regret at this moment! Damn it! If only this wasn't a group mission!
However, Kazuma's main focus quickly overwhelmed his secondary thoughts in the next moment, re-occupying the high ground of his brain.
No, there is definitely something wrong with this hospital.
So Kazuma quickly reported the situation.
Keli, on the 12th floor, saw the situation and thought it wasn't bad, so he told Kazuma to check it out.
"Keli: You go to the third floor and wait first."
"Sato Kazuma: Ok."
"Kirigaya Kazuto: Then I'll go see if there's a stairwell entrance in the basement."
On the first floor, Kazuma, who had returned to take the elevator, met Kirito. At the same time, several people who seemed to be hospital leaders were also going down with Kirito.
"Dr. Tong Gu, still busy so late?"
"Oh, Sato-kun, yes, some patients' recovery hasn't been ideal recently."
To be on the safe side, Kazuma proactively stepped forward to give Kirito a cue, preventing any suspicion.
The hospital leader, however, turned his head at this moment and said,
"Oh, so it's Tong Gu-kun from the Endocrine Department. You're very energetic! Young doctors should be like you, caring more for patients, moving around more, exercising more, and observing more. Don't be unhappy if they have to substitute for leaders in a few hours of consultations; this is all for your training."
"Yes, yes."
Kirito nodded repeatedly.
After those leaders left, Kazuma asked in the chatroom with some surprise.
"Sato Kazuma: Is there really a doctor named Tong Gu?"
"Kirigaya Kazuto: I don't think so. I took the elevator from the fifth floor, and the fifth floor is the Endocrine Department. Luckily, he didn't notice when I pressed the first basement floor just now, and my fake name tag doesn't say Tong Gu either."
Kazuma thought, "Good heavens, this leader probably doesn't even recognize all the hospital staff," and then took the elevator to the third floor.
Kirito shook his head, pretending to be in a hurry, and strode into the stairwell.
"Tsk."
However, the result was clear: at the end of the stairs, there was another door that could not be opened from this side.
And because he was sure there were people inside, Kirito didn't even dare to twist it hard, so he had to return to the first floor, feeling a bit conflicted.
At this moment, however, he noticed movement from the first basement floor door.
Kirito hesitated, but still hid himself behind the stairwell entrance.
Then he heard the sound of a plastic bag, and the sound of stepping on something. Immediately after, the door closed, and he also heard the sound of it being locked. After waiting a bit longer, Kirito stepped out, looked around, and saw two trash cans by the first-floor door: one for hazardous waste and one for regular trash. The hazardous one had a foot pedal that needed to be pressed for the lid to pop open, presumably to prevent people's wrists from accidentally touching the contents of the trash can.
If it were a normal person, they certainly wouldn't think anything of it.
But Kirito was now an undead person.
He hesitated for a moment. Although he didn't have much hope, he still chose to clamp his phone under his armpit, turn on the flashlight, put on gloves, and take out that trash bag to look.
When he opened it, Kirito's face suddenly changed.
Damn it, ( )?!
Kirito saw a whole bag of used transparent plastic balloons of various colors, with white residue remaining, but the contents inside seemed to have been removed.
Kirito felt a huge mental blow, one he hadn't received even after fighting in the sewers all night, and almost dropped his phone with a shaky hand.
He disgustedly threw the gloves along with the trash bag back into the trash can.
But now it was Kirito's turn to be puzzled. No, why are there so many of these things in this hospital? You people are really harming others, this hospital of yours!
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