"Can you arrange a meeting? I'd like to see a patient."
"Sorry, that won't be possible. Contact with the outside world would interfere with our highly professional treatment."
"Fine, then can you temporarily disable the jamming on his built-in communicator? I want to call him. I found that his signal was being jammed, so I couldn't get through."
"Sorry, the attending physician won't allow it."
The receptionist wore a bright smile, but her attitude was firm.
She refused no matter what.
Su Xiao glanced at the guard standing in front of the hospital's interior passageway.
After weighing his options, he gave up on forcing his way in.
"I see. All right, then. Actually, I have another patient with me. I'd like to have him admitted. How should I fill out the paperwork?"
A few minutes later.
Su Xiao held a tablet computer while sitting on a bench with Lucy.
He pretended to fill out the admission paperwork.
In reality, he had activated the scanning mode of his Tactical Goggles.
A ring of red light invisible to everyone else spread outward from Su Xiao.
The staffing of the entire psychiatric hospital was laid bare in his field of vision.
After spending some time searching, he finally found a red humanoid outline named Bryce Stone on the second floor.
The scanning mode did not provide true X-ray vision. Instead, it revealed the humans within its scanning range as red outlines.
Just then, Jack's voice came through the voice channel.
"How's it going, Su? Did you get inside? Have you seen the target?"
"I found the target, but the receptionist won't let us in. It's not just us—even other people aren't allowed to visit."
"Then what do we do? Do we just kill our way in?"
"Not a bad idea as a backup