Chapter 1716: Dawn Leader? (Big chapter seeking monthly ticket)
North Capital · Research Institute Convalescent Home
He Ao walked into the empty hospital room and looked at the bed standing bare in the middle of it.
"Our duty room is staffed twenty-four hours a day," the head of the convalescent home said nervously beside He Ao. "Just now, there was a brief moment when the entire facility's electrical system malfunctioned. All the equipment lost power, and when the nurse on duty looked up to check, Dean Li was gone."
"How long was she unattended?"
He Ao walked to the bed and asked quietly.
"Very briefly." The person in charge pointed to a chair by the hospital room door. "We work in three shifts, and there has always been a nurse watching Dean Li. Less than a minute passed between the power outage and her entering the room."
He Ao turned to look at the window beside him and walked over to it.
"All the windows were locked. There were no signs of them being opened," the person in charge quickly said. "We also found no signs of damage to the windows."
"Mm."
He Ao lowered his head and glanced over the dust on the window. There truly were no signs that it had been opened or closed.
He shifted his gaze and returned to the bedside, staring at the clean sheets.
The instruments by the window were still running, their screens glowing. The sensors that should have been attached to the patient to monitor her vital signs were scattered across the sheets. Some of the cables had even been pulled straight from their ports and had vanished.
It looked as though they had been violently torn off.
He Ao frowned slightly as he stared at the sheets.
"Ever since Dean