The Third Doctor Refuses to Sign
Who is the second child?
There was no response to the recording.
The Den Den Mushi opened its mouth and spat out a rolled-up document.
The paper fell to Luo's feet.
[God Valley Underground Ward Handover Report]
[Please have the third doctor confirm the deaths of sixteen patients.]
[Keep saving the last patient after confirmation]
The signature area is located at the bottom of the document.
Luo didn't pick it up.
"Is this what you told me not to sign?"
Lami shook his head.
"I've never seen it."
You signed it for me once.
"What Dad said might not be that."
There was another impact outside the door.
Drake leaned against the door, his shoes sliding backward a short distance in the puddle.
"Hurry up and ask, the stuff they brought is almost enough to push the door open."
The system prompted that the recording be overwritten.
[Shift handover procedure has been initiated]
[Please have the third doctor sign]
[Refusal to hand over shift will result in the closure of all White Swallow escape routes]
Chopper received a series of alarm calls.
"Luo, the Xiong submarine's interface has been disconnected, and the White Swallow's oxygen supply is also decreasing. The Medical Department is taking over the ship from the outside!"
Vegapunk stated, "They exploited the shift change process; the system now treats visa refusals as unattended."
"Change it," Luo said.
"Do you take me for the master of the Throne?"
You have entered its control layer.
"I can only look, I can't change it."
"Then tell me what rules it uses to determine death."
Vegapunk retrieved the old data from the back of the handover document.
"Based on the medical records, transport logs, and doctor's confirmation."
"Where is the doctor located?"
"No."
What about the autopsy?
"No."
"Last heartbeat record?"
"No."
Luo picked up the handover document and turned the paper over.
"What makes me think I should confirm this?"
[The patient has been registered as deceased by the World Government]
I'm asking about the basis of the diagnosis.
[The death record is legal and valid]
Who performed the examination?
[World Government Medical Department]
"Doctor's name."
[No record]
"Inspection time."
[No record]
"Location of the body."
[No record]
The system paused for a few seconds, then re-displayed the signature page.
[Please complete the shift handover]
Luo pressed the paper against the wall.
"No examination, no doctor, no body—you want me to confirm who's dead?"
[The death record is legal and valid]
"Who decided it was legal?"
[World Government]
"Can they decide when the heart stops?"
[No permission to query]
"Can it determine whether a body is a body or not?"
[No permission to query]
"Then they can only decide how to write it."
The banging outside the door stopped.
The Medical Department leader announced over the loudspeaker, "Trafalgar Law, refusal to sign will result in the deaths of patients on board, and you will bear the responsibility."
Luo asked through the door, "Who confirms the death?"
The system will record this automatically.
Where are the inspectors?
"The current situation is an emergency; on-site inspection is not required."
"Then you can die too."
"What did you say?"
I'm going to write you a death certificate now.
There was no response from outside the door.
Luo continued, "No examination is needed, and a body is unnecessary. As long as I write that you're dead, you're considered dead, right?"
"You do not have the authority to issue."
"So the problem lies in permissions, not whether the person is dead or not."
Vegapunk posted this conversation, along with Blank medical record, on screens around the world.
Doctors from various regions who connected to the live stream began submitting questions.
[Please disclose the clinical evidence for the deaths of these sixteen patients.]
[No heartbeat record can not confirm death]
Loss of contact during transit does not equate to death.
[Request to revoke the death certificate issuance authority of non-medical institutions]
The system deletes one entry, and ten more appear.
Chopper laid out the medical records of the sixteen children side by side.
"They didn't even do a basic check-up here. They just wrote 'death after transfer,' and the time of death was always the same minute."
Luo asked, "Is that possible?"
"Unless all sixteen people stop breathing simultaneously, there are no records of any emergencies."
Who filled in the time of death?
Vegapunk found the original document.
"Medical Department Data Entry Clerk"
"Name."
"No, only employee ID number."
"Make your employee ID number public."
The World Government immediately cut off some of Vegapunk's footage.
The head of the Medical Department reiterated, "Disseminating insider information is a crime."
Luo asked, "What about writing about the deaths of sixteen children?"
"It falls under administrative registration."
"Come in."
"What?"
Stand in front of me before you speak.
The sound of equipment moving could be heard White Door.
The other person did not come in.
Wa Tie'er's communications were then connected.
His breathing was even more erratic than before.
"Don't waste time with them, just sign."
"You want me to confirm they're dead?"
"Save the living first."
Have you ever seen a corpse?
"No."
"Then shut up."
"Lo, Lami's still inside!"
"That's why I absolutely cannot sign."
Her oxygen supply is about to stop.
"Today they save her by signing the deaths of sixteen people; tomorrow they can use her death to save others."
Wa Tie'er coughed for a long time.
"Your father signed it."
Luo looked at the Den Den Mushi.
What did he sign?
The first handover report.
"Whose death has been confirmed?"
"I."
You're still alive.
So he was wrong.
Why did he sign it?
"To open the emergency exits."
Who to save?
Wa Tie'er did not answer.
Dragon's voice came from the ward.
"Help me."
No one spoke from White Door.
Lami looked up at Luo.
"Dad wrote Dr. Wa Tie'er as dead, and the dragon survived?"
"It seems so."
Did he regret it later?
Luo looked at the spot where the signature was.
So he left this piece of paper with me.
Several muffled thuds suddenly came from outside the door.
The Medical Department began detonating the devices fixed inside the drainage system.
The White Door split open in the middle, and Drake was jolted back two steps, his shoulder wound bleeding again.
"How much longer can we hold out?" Luo asked.
"Try again, and the door will fall down."
"Take Lami back to the ward."
The original route is blocked.
A section of the passageway behind the White Door has collapsed.
Gravel fell into the water, blocking the path the wheelchair had taken.
Chopper quickly said, "Don't move Lami! Use the spare oxygen first; there's a small bottle in the back of the wheelchair!"
Drake reached for it, but the strap got stuck at the bottle opening.
Lami touched the buckle and tried several times but couldn't undo it.
"Elder brother."
Luo walked over and used the tip of his knife to pry open the buckle.
Less than 30% of the spare bottles remain.
"How long?" Lami asked.
Chopper replied, "I can last fifteen minutes without speaking."
"Are you talking?"
"Don't ask that kind of question now."
I want to know.
"About ten minutes."
Lami shut his mouth and nodded at Luo.
A system countdown appears in the signature bar.
[Remaining time: 10 minutes]
The times on both sides are exactly the same.
Luo picked up a pen.
Wa Tie'er said, "Sign."
Doctors around the world stared at that handover report.
The Medical Department also stopped breaking down the door.
Lami didn't stop him; he simply handed Luo the piece of paper his father had left him from his pocket.
Luo unfolded the paper.
The question on the front is still the same.
There are also a few lines of small print on the back, obscured by creases.
If your brother decides to sign, let him write down what he wants to confirm first.
Luo laid out the handover document.
The pen tip falls.
The Medical Department team leader said, "Please sign your name in the designated area; do not add any other information."
Luo ignored him.
He wrote a line at the very top of the document.
I refuse to confirm the death of a patient who has not undergone examination.
The system issued a warning.
[File format error]
Luo continued writing.
The status of the sixteen patients should be changed to missing; the original death records are invalid.
[File format error]
[Third-level doctor privileges will be revoked in sixty seconds.]
Vegapunk shouted, "Law, once you lose your authority, the Throne will close all its doors!"
Can I save this file?
"Okay, but you have to sign it first."
Luo wrote his name at the end.
The page lit up in red.
[The signed content does not meet the handover requirements]
[Should I still submit?]
"Submit."
[Submitting this will permanently disqualify you from becoming a third doctor]
"Submit."
Lami tugged at his sleeve.
Luo turned his head.
Aren't you going to save them?
"First, let's stop portraying them as dead."
The door will close.
"I'll drive."
The system paused for three seconds.
[File received]
[The third doctor's authority has been revoked]
[Emergency exits closed]
The lock cylinders on both sides of the White Door fell down simultaneously.
Oxygen supply to the ship has stopped.
The gauge on the spare oxygen cylinder began to drop.
The Medical Department leader outside said, "You've abandoned all the patients on board."
"No," Chopper's voice came through the live stream, "You guys turned off the oxygen supply."
"The third doctor refused to hand over the shift, so the system can only execute the unattended procedure."
"The doctor didn't confirm the patient's death, and that's considered unattended?"
"That's how it works."
On screens around the world, more and more hospitals are removing the Throne Certification logo.
Some people at naval hospitals have also submitted their withdrawal applications.
The system kept popping up notifications.
North Blue Seventh Hospital refuses to acknowledge the death record of God Valley.
[The clinic in East Blue Foosha Village refuses to acknowledge the death records of God Valley]
Revolutionary Army Medical Corps Refuses to Acknowledge God Valley's Death Record
[Marine Headquarters Third Medical Team requests re-examination]
Chopper placed the document that Law had signed in the center of all the pages.
"Who can prove those sixteen people are dead? Produce the medical records!"
Nobody can produce it.
The Medical Department White Door activated the device again.
Drake gripped his longsword tightly.
"This time the door will fall."
Luo moved Lami, along with his wheelchair, to the corner and then piled seventeen chairs behind the door.
"Vegapunk, find backup oxygen."
"Found it, but it requires authorization from the Throne."
"I no longer have permission."
"There's another way."
"Explain."
"The handover report mentions continuing to preserve the last patient's information, which means there's still a survival record in the system. As long as that patient is retrieved, the lifesaving procedure will automatically resume."
Who was the last patient?
"Investigating."
The White Door took the final blow.
The door lock came loose.
Medical Department personnel reached weapons through the opening.
Drake sliced through the gun barrel with his sword and slammed into the door panel.
Vegapunk finally opened the bottom layer of the handover document.
A medical record from thirty-eight years ago appeared on the screen.
[The First Patient]
[Status: Alive]
[Current Location: God Valley Route Starting Point]
The ship's oxygen supply system has been restarted.
Lami's spare bottle has only one compartment left.
Luo removed the bottle and reconnected the pipes to the ship's hull.
She took two breaths before asking, "First Patient?"
The name field in the medical record is not open.
External communication is established first.
Doflamingo sat inside the submarine, holding a nautical chart up to the screen.
Want to know?
His finger pointed to the center of the nautical chart.
"I've found him."