[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-17":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Heavenly Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225046,4117,"Chapter 17","above-destiny-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>After leaving the ward, Wen Wen actually didn't go far, just went up two floors, turned a corner, and entered the empty conference room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua was lying on the table, fast asleep, snoring, holding several files in her arms, clearly not knowing how many big nights she had stayed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether staying up late was for ranking up or working, that... remains to be seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen slammed her fist on the table without ceremony, waking up the subordinate who was slacking off and sleeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong? What’s wrong?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua grabbed her phone vigilantly, \"Who put the big one?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pitch-black, extinguished screen didn't have a game screen, just reflecting the expressionless face behind Tong Hua, who bent down, leaned close, and reminded gently in her ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you stay up late again next time, I’ll snap your phone, you know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't sleep, I’m awake, I’m awake!\" Tong Hua wiped her face, trying hard to pretend to be radiant, which only highlighted the two dark circles under her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like offering a treasure, she held up the files in her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All checked out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then tell me about it.\" Wen Wen flipped through the files in her hand, asking: \"What are their backgrounds?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The leaders, the woman you asked about last night, is named Zhu Hong, thirty-one years old.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua just touched the file, and everything was clear in her heart: \"On the surface, she is the operator of two chain restaurants and KTVs, but in reality, she is just a name-only owner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her true identity is the Quancheng Friendship Association... um, that is, the mistress of the second-in-command of the Quancheng Gang, as they say on the street; it is said she once worked as a hostess and public relations, and later, after hugging Chen Hangzhou’s thigh, she hooked up with her current paramour... but her paramour plays really perversely, forget it, none of it is important.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, after Zhu Hong got infected with Blood Thirst Syndrome, the first one she ate was him; you know what happened later, it got out of hand, and she almost ate all her little sisters and best friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just two weeks, she reached the fifth stage, limb alienation, life form change, completely becoming an alienated species; reaching this step, she can already be called an alienated-type ghoul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the current infected in Yacheng, more than half were infected by her; following this line, Xiao An, Old Zhang, and I worked all night and caught more than twenty back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring the moisture in the sentence \"we few killed wildly,\" Wen Wen asked directly: \"How was it handled?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to your regulations, Sister Wen, those who have eaten people are all killed, and those who haven't reached the third stage are sent to the nursing home for mandatory treatment; the money is still on the company’s account, the specific expenses are here...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen didn't even look at those account books, just threw them aside casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anything else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is also, the famous quote brother you mentioned, cough cough, um, Student Ji Jue said, the old man who ran to his house to attack him, the situation has also been investigated, it’s here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua flipped for a long time, found two pages of paper, and pushed them over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A light life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Lusheng, male, seventy-one years old, scavenger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was young, he was idle, brave and fierce, acting as a hooligan; his wife ran off with someone, and he didn't care; later, after his mother died, he finally turned over a new leaf, but it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides helping out and doing manual labor, no place was willing to hire him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Masonry, bricklaying, sewer repair, he had basically done all the trades on the market; after getting older, he saved some money, set up a scrap station, also collected refrigerators and color TVs, reselling them for money, barely making a living.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the plain life of a bottom-level person, nothing to write home about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until... he picked up a child in a garbage heap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had a genetic disease, body ulcerated, fingers bitten off by rats, everyone said she couldn't be raised, only the increasingly silent old man accompanied her through a whole winter without a word, accompanying each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Made it through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But didn't make it for too long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such difficult yet happy days only lasted for seven short years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congenital immune system deficiency damage; in the period after the Day of Sea Burning, children born have a probability of having such a condition, alienation infection; families with money and power can go to Central City for surgery, families who can't afford it, won't live long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they go bankrupt, they can only go to places like Jici Hospital for conservative treatment, barely hanging on to life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua sighed: \"When I went to check, the neighbors said he was sick and hadn't come out for several days; I’m afraid he was already on the verge of losing control a few days ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before losing control, he borrowed from all his friends and mortgaged his family property to find a loan shark, raising a large sum of money, all of which was charged to his daughter’s medical account at the hospital.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen was silent for a long time, asking softly: \"Does his daughter know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Already dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua found another death report from the file: \"Just the night before last, internal organ hemorrhage, rescue failed... left even earlier than him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen didn't speak again, just in the silence, her lips opened and closed silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cursed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she was already used to death, death sometimes is not equal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people can stir up the wind and clouds while alive, and can be earth-shattering when they die, but more people are unknown while alive, and die silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Living, dying, neither is up to oneself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pain, wailing, despair, and tears are all annihilated in the silence that no one notices.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s why I hate this shitty world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She closed her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Killing people in the North Mountain District community, pulling the infection of Zhu Hong out by the roots, only curbed the spread of Blood Thirst Syndrome, but the real source is still wandering outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Being able to let that dog thing of the Dragon Sacrifice Society show its flaws this time, Wen Wen really has to thank Ji Jue; otherwise, she didn't know how long that guy would hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Tong Hua, who inherited [Matrix·Yesterday Reappears], here, as long as it appears once, he will never be able to hide again, and will be dug out sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with the current clues, it’s still not fast enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, aren't more clues right in front of her eyes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifteen minutes later, the table in the conference room was full of medical records.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several accompanying doctors were answering Wen Wen’s questions, and Tong Hua’s fingers had already swept between the medical records and files—among the Twelve Supremes, the Way of Ether is best at reading and observing the information and phenomena of the world. Now that this pile of messy things is in front of Tong Hua, the speed of processing is even more exaggerated than the legendary \"quantum fluctuation speed reading.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a pity that there are very few useful ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading, Tong Hua slowly shook her head at Wen Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s all?\" Wen Wen frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All, all here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vice president wiped his sweat, smiling bitterly: \"Besides the patients’ medicine fees, the income of Jici Hospital mostly comes from church donations; until now, it hasn't been able to achieve paperless office, and the number of disease sources is limited. The medical records of patients with abnormal chemical indices and rabies tendencies in the short term are only this many.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen pursued: \"Anything else, related things, can also be taken out; if you can't move it, we can go to the file room to look ourselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vice president was silent, sighed, but didn't say anything in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, a young doctor following behind hesitated, and finally couldn't help but speak: \"What you are concerned about should be blood-borne infectious diseases, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen’s eyebrows raised: \"How so?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doctor knew he had spoken out of turn, was silent; in fact, colleagues were already glaring at him. He lowered his head, staggering back a step, still wearing a brace on his leg, clearly not walking well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But some things cannot be said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least not as someone from the hospital, talking to the Security Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your hospital is assisting the Security Bureau in handling official business after all; to be honest, other messy things have nothing to do with me, and I don't want to manage them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen frowned, warning coldly: \"I hope everyone won't make things too ugly in the end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no, no, it’s not that we deliberately want to hide anything, it’s just...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vice president sighed: \"If you want to investigate blood-borne infectious disease-related problems, looking from the hospital direction is indeed not a problem, it’s just that we are often powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast majority of people who have a choice, patients who need blood, often won't come here to suffer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled bitterly, mocking himself: \"Because we can't afford it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yacheng’s blood bank is a for-profit institution; the priority supply has always been private hospitals and high-end nursing homes that can afford the money; hospitals like Jici Hospital that barely survive on church sponsorship simply can't afford the expensive annual signing fees, and patients can't afford blood priced by the gram.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More often, even if surgery is needed, they will choose... to bring their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, where there is demand, there is a market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the official blood bank is too expensive to use, those who can't live will naturally choose channels that are not so safe, for example...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Illegal blood bank?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua was dumbfounded, eyes wide: \"Is there such a thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Wen didn't speak, her expression gloomy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, she realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also why Jici Hospital is unwilling to mention it; there are countless patients who have no choice who are counting on this straw to save their lives; even if it’s not safe, even if there is a risk of infection, no matter how many problems there are, sometimes, if there is no such straw, they can only wait for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a family like the Yacheng Tong family, there are countless industries, and the hospitals they hold shares in are not just one. Illegal blood banks have nothing to do with her in this life. Not to mention Wen Wen, this kind of Heaven’s Chosen who has gold membership services even at [Hope Hospital], even if she is chopped into pieces, as long as her head is still there when she is sent over, that bunch of lunatics can piece her back together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These gray areas in the medical industry are too far away from Heaven’s Chosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the people hiding behind the scenes, as long as they follow this invisible thread, through a few blood bags, can cast the Blood Thirst Syndrome virus into Yacheng, root it in the pain and despair of the innocent, and spread and sprout silently in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally found it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another mark they left behind...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go, A-Hua.\" Wen Wen scooped up the car keys on the table and pushed the door out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tong Hua was bewildered: \"Where to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Find someone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Words came from the corridor, drifting further and further away, with the lingering sound of metal ringing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And then kill his whole family!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1942,"2026-06-17T21:26:46.528Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","fe58951a44bef77467fdc01e817f2632ed4fddf569dcd1afad972731e35d34e1","above-destiny-chapter-18","above-destiny-chapter-16",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]