Chapter 196: Gathering Evidence

Shuangye Hospital.

"Excuse me, we are working right now. Please leave immediately. Besides, our personnel list and surgery schedules are confidential. You cannot—hey! You can't go there! Security!! Where is security?!"

Under the obstruction of a crowd of doctors, Wen Shilin simply bent over and pushed through the crowd, as if he couldn't hear their words at all, heading straight for several rooms in the distance.

The surrounding doctors and nurses were dumbfounded. In all their time working here, they had never seen anyone force their way into an operating room. A few of them changed expressions on the spot, about to step forward to stop him, when security guards hurried over from afar.

"Quick! Stop them!" a doctor shouted, pointing at Wen Shilin.

Seeing this, the security guards were about to move when a figure in a brown coat reached out to block their path.

"Excuse me, everyone." Chen Ling took out his press pass and said with a smile, "We are just here to investigate some things. Once we have the results, we will naturally leave. Please cooperate."

Seeing Chen Ling's credentials, the security guards' expressions turned ugly. They naturally knew what this represented, and for a moment, they didn't dare to step forward.

"What is there to investigate in a hospital?!"

"That's for you all to answer."

A faint glimmer flashed in the depths of Chen Ling's eyes as he scanned the crowd unhurriedly. "Some of you should know what we're here to investigate... isn't that right?"

As soon as he said this, panic flashed across a few faces in the crowd, all of which were captured by Chen Ling's [Secret Pupil]. The others looked confused, as if they didn't understand what Chen Ling was talking about at all.

Chen Ling noted down each of those faces and the name tags on their chests. Just then, a line of small text floated on the tile wall opposite him:

【Audience Expectation +7】

【Current Expectation: 39%】

Chen Ling's pupils contracted instantly.

It had been several days since he entered Aurora City, and during this time, there had been almost no significant increase in expectation. Even if there were occasional small increases, they barely offset the natural decline, preventing the audience from usurping his body.

The largest increase had been during his fight with Jian Changsheng last night, but even that hadn't exceeded 5. Now, a sudden, inexplicable 7 points of audience expectation made Chen Ling's heart tighten instantly!

An inexplicable rise in expectation never meant anything good—that was a bloody lesson Chen Ling had learned.

Chen Ling's brow furrowed tightly. He scanned his surroundings bit by bit but couldn't find the source of the danger. He simply turned and walked toward Wen Shilin, who was searching for the list in the room.

"How is it?" Chen Ling asked in a low voice.

"Found a few lists, but there were many surgeries performed yesterday afternoon. We need to narrow down the scope further." Wen Shilin held a few lists, seemingly deep in thought. "What about you?"

"I tested them just now, and a few people had strange reactions."

"Who?"

Chen Ling recited the names he had just noted down. Wen Shilin scanned the list, his eyes narrowing as if in contemplation.

After a long while, he chuckled:

"I was wondering what felt missing... so that's it."

Wen Shilin put away the list and looked at the people who had rushed over.

Because they were wary of the press pass, the security guards didn't dare to use force and could only stand outside helplessly. As for the doctors Chen Ling had named, seeing that Wen Shilin had gained nothing but a list, their expressions relaxed significantly.

"You two, your presence here is affecting our treatment of patients. For the sake of hospital order and respect for life, you should leave." The lead doctor, seeing that conventional methods couldn't drive these two away, could only resort to high-minded principles, trying to pressure them into leaving.

"Yeah, if this continues, the patients will start complaining..."

"There are patients waiting for several more surgeries."

"Human life is at stake!"

“……”

Everyone chimed in, and soon it became a noisy mess. Seeing this, Wen Shilin let out a long sigh...

"Lin Yan, let's go."

"Leaving already?"

"It's about enough. Let's go." Wen Shilin gave Chen Ling a look.

Chen Ling understood immediately and nodded. "Alright."

The two of them walked straight out of the hospital under the gaze of the crowd, their figures disappearing at the end of the street.

Seeing those two troublesome guys sent off, the crowd muttered a few words and turned back to their posts. A few of the doctors even exchanged glances in secret, breathing a slight sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, outside the hospital.

Chen Ling looked at the hospital gate that was gradually moving away, his expression subtle.

He finally understood why Wen Shilin could offend so many people and be unwelcome wherever he went... With this "investigation" method, it would be a miracle if people didn't hold a grudge against him. Chen Ling was even worried that if Wen Shilin got beaten up and went to the hospital next time, these doctors would refuse to treat him... But thinking about it, Wen Shilin probably couldn't afford such an expensive private hospital anyway, so it wasn't a big problem.

"Do you already know who it is?" Chen Ling asked.

"Xin Youquan, Qiu Dong, Wang Yuning."

"Sure enough."

Chen Ling nodded, not surprised by the result. Two of these three were the doctors who had reacted strangely just now, though Chen Ling didn't know how Wen Shilin had deduced the last one.

"Actually, we were all led into a misconception at the beginning, thinking that as long as we found the surgery records from yesterday afternoon, we could lock onto the person... But think about it, such confidential surgeries wouldn't leave any paper records, and there's a high probability that the 'patients' on the operating table weren't even real patients with medical records." Wen Shilin spoke slowly.

"Since that's the case, let's discard all ineffective interference information and think about the problem from another angle... If they successfully completed the surgery, the organs could be quietly taken out in containers, but what about the corpse on the operating table?"

"Even if a normal surgery fails, they wouldn't just casually throw away the corpse. It would be impossible for them to send the corpse out from the first floor under everyone's eyes. According to the procedure, that corpse would inevitably be sent to a unified place, waiting for family members to claim it..."

"You mean the morgue?" Chen Ling was thoughtful. "But a corpse that has been hollowed out and not registered cannot be reasonably and compliantly sent to the morgue. So, the person in charge of the morgue yesterday must have been one of their people?"

Wen Shilin gave Chen Ling an approving look. "Exactly, and that person is Wang Yuning."