Chapter 17: Mayfly in the Human World (Thanks to the Alliance Leader 'Not an Old Dog')

After leaving the hospital room, Wen Wen didn't actually go far, just went up two floors, turned a corner, and entered the empty conference room.

Tong Hua was lying on the table, sleeping soundly, snoring, holding several files in her arms, clearly not knowing how many nights she had stayed up.

As for whether staying up late was for ranking up or working, that... remains to be seen.

Bang!

Wen Wen unceremoniously slammed her fist on the table, waking up the subordinate who was slacking off and sleeping.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Tong Hua grabbed her phone vigilantly, "Who put the big one?"

The dark, extinguished screen didn't have a game screen, only reflecting the expressionless face behind Tong Hua, who bent down, leaned close, and whispered a gentle reminder in her ear:

"If you stay up late again next time, I'll snap your phone, you know?"

"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.

Like offering a treasure, she held up the file in her hand.

"It's all checked out."

"Then talk about it." Wen Wen flipped through the file in her hand, asking: "What are their backgrounds?"

"The leaders, the woman you asked about last night, is named Zhu Hong, 31 years old."

Tong Hua just touched the file, and everything was clear in her mind: "On the surface, she is the operator of two chain restaurants and KTVs, but in reality, she is just a name-only operator.

Her true identity is the Quancheng Liaison Association... En, that is the second-in-command of the Quancheng Gang in the underworld's mistress. It is said that she used to work as a hostess and public relations, and later, after hugging the thigh of Chen Xingzhou, she hooked up with her current lover... But her lover plays very perversely, forget it, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, after Zhu Hong got infected with blood-thirst disease, the first person she ate was him. You know what happened after that, it got out of hand, and she almost ate all her little sisters and best friends.

In just two weeks, she reached the fifth stage, limb alienation, life form change, completely turning into an aberrant species. Reaching this step, she can be called an aberrant-type ghoul.

Among the current infected in Yacheng, more than half were infected by her. Following this line, Xiao An, Old Zhang, and I were busy all night and caught more than twenty back!"

Ignoring the moisture in the sentence 'we killed them all', Wen Wen asked directly: "How did you handle it?"

"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 from the company's account. The specific expenses are here..."

Wen Wen didn't even look at those account books, just threw them aside casually.

"Anything else?"

"There is also the old man who ran to his house to attack him, mentioned by the 'Famous Quote Brother', cough cough, hmm, Ji Jue, the situation has also been investigated, it's here."

Tong Hua flipped for a long time, found two pages of paper, and pushed them over.

A light life.

Chen Lusheng, male, 71 years old, scavenger.

When he was young, he was idle, brave and fierce, acting as a hooligan. His wife ran away with someone and he didn't care. After his old mother died, he finally turned over a new leaf, but it was too late.

Besides odd jobs and manual labor, no place would hire him.

Masonry, brick moving, sewer repair, basically all the trades in the city had been done. After getting old, he saved some money, got a waste station, collected refrigerators and color TVs, and resold them for money, barely making a living.

This was the plain life of a bottom-level person, not worth mentioning.

Until... he picked up a child in a garbage dump.

Had a congenital immune deficiency, body ulcerated, fingers bitten off by rats, everyone said she couldn't survive, only the increasingly silent old man accompanied her through a whole winter, accompanying each other.

Survived.

But didn't survive for too long.

Such difficult and happy days only lasted for a short seven years.

"Congenital immune system deficiency, children born during the period after the Sea Burning Day have a probability of having such a condition, sin-tainting infection. Families with money and power can go to Central City for surgery, families who can't afford it, can't live long.

Even if they go bankrupt, they can only go to places like Jici Hospital for conservative treatment, barely hanging on to their lives."

Tong Hua sighed: "When I went to see, the neighbors said he was sick and hadn't come out for several days. I'm afraid he had already lost control a few days ago.

Before losing control, he borrowed from all his friends, mortgaged his family property to find high-interest loans, and gathered a large sum of money, all of which was charged to his daughter's medical account in the hospital."

Wen Wen was silent for a long time, asking softly: "Does his daughter know?"

"Already dead."

Tong Hua found another death report from the file: "Just the night before last, internal organ hemorrhage, rescue failed... left earlier than him."

"..."

Wen Wen didn't speak again, just silently, her lips opening and closing silently.

Cursed.

Even if she was already used to death, death sometimes is not equal.

Some people can stir up the wind and clouds while alive, and be earth-shattering when they die, but more people are unknown while alive, and die silently.

Living, dying, none of it is up to oneself.

Pain, wailing, despair, and tears are all annihilated in the silence that no one notices.

"That's why I hate this shitty world."

She closed her eyes.

Killing people in the community of the North Mountain District, pulling out Zhu Hong's infection by the roots, only curbed the spread of blood-thirst disease, but the real source was still wandering outside.

Being able to let that dog thing of the Dragon Sacrifice Society show its tail this time, Wen Wen really had to thank Ji Jue, otherwise, that guy wouldn't know how long he would hide.

With Tong Hua, who inherited 【Matrix·Yesterday Reappears】, here, as long as he appeared once, he would never be able to hide again, and would be dug out sooner or later.

But with the current clues, it's still not fast enough.

However, aren't more clues right in front of us?

Fifteen minutes later, the table in the conference room was full of medical records.

Several accompanying doctors were answering Wen Wen's questions, while Tong Hua's fingers had already swept between the medical records and files—among the Twelve Goodnesses, the Way of Ether is best at reading and observing the information and events of the world. Now that this pile of messy things was in front of Tong Hua, the processing speed was more exaggerated than the legendary 'Quantum Fluctuation Speed Reading'.

It's a pity that there were very few useful ones.

After reading, Tong Hua slowly shook her head at Wen Wen.

"That's all?" Wen Wen frowned.

"All, all here."

The vice president wiped his sweat, smiling bitterly: "Jici Hospital's income, besides patients' medicine fees, comes mostly from church donations. Until now, it hasn't been able to achieve paperless office, and the number of disease sources is limited. The records of abnormal chemical examination indices and patients with rabies tendencies in the short term that you mentioned are only this many."

"Besides that?"

Wen Wen pursued: "Anything else, related things, can also be taken out. If you can't move, we can go to the file room to see it ourselves."

The vice president was silent, sighed, but didn't say anything in the end.

Instead, a young doctor following behind hesitated, finally unable to help but speak: "What you are concerned about should be blood-borne infectious diseases, right?"

Wen Wen's eyebrows raised: "How do you say?"

"..."

The doctor knew he had made a slip of the tongue, 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, looking like he couldn't walk well.

But some things cannot be said.

At least not as someone from the hospital, telling the Security Bureau.

"Your hospital is assisting the Security Bureau in handling official business after all. To be honest, those other messy things have nothing to do with me, and I don't want to care."

Wen Wen frowned, warning coldly: "I hope everyone won't make it too ugly in the end."

"No no no, it's not that we deliberately want to hide anything, it's just..."

The vice president sighed: "If you want to investigate blood-borne infectious disease-related problems, finding it from the hospital direction is indeed no problem, it's just that, many times we are actually powerless."

He smiled bitterly, mocking himself: "Most people who still have a choice, patients who need blood, usually won't come here to suffer."

He smiled bitterly: "Because we can't afford it."

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, which barely survive on church sponsorship, can't afford the expensive annual signing fees, and patients can't afford the blood priced by the gram.

More often, even if surgery is needed, they will choose... to bring their own.

After all, where there is demand, there is a market.

If you can't afford the official blood bank that is too expensive, people who can't live will naturally choose channels that are not so safe, for example...

"Illegal blood bank?!"

Tong Hua was stunned, eyes widened: "Is there such a thing?"

Wen Wen didn't speak, her expression gloomy.

Finally, she suddenly realized.

This is also the reason why Jici Hospital is unwilling to mention it. I don't know how many patients who have no choice are counting on this straw to save their lives. Even if it's not safe, even if there is a risk of infection, even if there are many problems, but sometimes, if there is no such straw, they can only wait for death.

For a family like the Yacheng Tong family, there are countless industries, and there is more than one hospital they have shares in. Places like illegal blood banks are destined to have nothing to do with her in this life. Not to mention Wen Wen, a chosen one like her who even has gold member service at 【Hope Hospital】, even if she is chopped into pieces, as long as her head is still there when she is sent over, those lunatics can piece her back together.

These gray areas in the medical industry are too far away from the chosen ones.

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 disease virus into Yacheng, taking root in the pain and despair of innocent people, spreading and sprouting silently in the darkness.

Finally found it.

Another trace they left behind...

"Let's go, Ah Hua." Wen Wen scooped up the car keys on the table and pushed the door out.

"Ah?"

Tong Hua was confused: "Where to?"

"Find someone!"

Words came from the corridor, getting further and further away, with the lingering sound of metal ringing.

"And then kill his whole family!" ===== CHAPTER 18 =====