136. Duty Roster Memo

"Fragments of Du Danping's Melody Fragment?"

Lu Ban felt that everything around him vanished with the wind, and the living room returned to its original state.

He checked the task.

The deadline is thirty days. Within this period, Lu Ban must enter Nanhua Private Renji Hospital and stay there overnight to survive until the next day.

Furthermore, due to the triggering of a side quest, Lu Ban also needs to find Du Danping's Melody Fragment in the hospital to complete it.

"When Du Danping had his accident, this hospital had only been established for a short time and was still in its heyday. Well, given Du Danping's status, it was quite normal for him to go to this hospital for treatment."

Lu Ban returned to his computer, looking at the document Song Yunyan had sent him, and muttered to himself.

Unexpectedly, during my National Day holiday, I not only missed having a meal with my old squad leader, but I also had to work part-time on demolition, dealing with the troubles of an abandoned hospital.

"Here are all the files and records of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital. Let's take a look at them all first."

Lu Ban glanced at the living room, where there were stacks of file folders as high as a small mountain, all containing hospital records.

This includes financial records, inventory records, medical records, and duty roster notes.

These are all records from the era before computers became widespread, belonging to the early period. Lu Ban's computer contains even more records from after computers became more common.

Just looking at these records took Lu Ban two weeks.

In mid-October, the weather had turned cold. Lu Ban's movie had garnered over 100 million views across the internet, bringing him over 10 million in revenue. He spent most of his time studying the files of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, only taking time to go out and buy the house he was currently living in through an agent.

Housing prices in Jiangcheng are not cheap, but a typical one-bedroom apartment in this kind of community would only cost less than three million, so Lu Ban bought it outright with cash.

After all, there were so many friends in the house. Lu Ban was reluctant to leave, and he was also worried that if he moved out, they would not be used to the new guests. So he thoughtfully bought the house.

These days, it's rare to see someone like Lu Ban who would go to great lengths for his friends.

On a day when the hairy crabs were plump and the weather was gradually getting cooler, Lu Ban put down the file in his hand.

"The hospital's operations are mostly fine, and the possibility of accounting irregularities cannot be ruled out, but at least on the surface, there are no problems."

This hospital, jointly funded by overseas Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, foreign companies, and local businessmen, was initially a hospital for foreigners, exclusively for their treatment. Later, locals began to go there. Lu Ban observed that the hospital's fees were indeed about 30% higher than those of public hospitals, making it not very cost-effective.

"However, some of these records are quite intriguing."

In Lu Ban's hand was a file folder containing several memos from the nurses on duty.

If he remembered correctly, this file folder was found in a crack in the wall before, and someone must have stuffed it there to prevent it from being found.

Most of the content in the memo was normal, except for a few paragraphs.

For example, Lu Ban flipped to an article from July 2005.

"The department head instructed us to be on high alert during tonight's shift because the patient in Room 502 is in serious condition, so we need to pay extra attention to him. I remember there was an elderly foreign man there who looked really bad. He had already been to the emergency room twice and could be there at any time. The fifth floor is full of intensive care units, and his condition is the most serious among them."

"At 12 o'clock, I started my routine rounds, checking the wards with a flashlight. My habit is to take the elevator to the fifth floor and then go down from the fifth floor, which is the most convenient. When I got to the fifth floor, I first went to check Room 502. The old man was already asleep and looked okay. I continued to check other areas. When I was about to go downstairs, I found that the light was on in the Room at the end of the corridor."

"I found it strange. Patients in the intensive care unit are basically bedridden. Who would turn on the light at this time? At first, I thought there was a problem with the circuit, so I went over to check it out."

"Then I saw that the old man from Room 502 was standing in this room at the End of the Corridor. He was standing next to the hospital bed, looking at the blanket on the bed, Motionless."

"I felt a little uneasy, so I asked him why he wasn't asleep yet. He heard me, turned around, looked at me, and waved his hand."

"I can't describe the feeling. The way he waved his hand was like, like a puppet hanging on a rope, very unnatural. His face was also not good, bluish and black, almost like a dead person."

"I told him to get some rest, then I turned around and left the room. I don't know what I was thinking at the time. I was completely dazed and didn't know how I finished checking the other floors. When I came to my senses, I was already at the nurses' station."

"It wasn't until then that I remembered that 502 was the ward next to the elevator, the ward at the End of the Corridor, it should have been 510. Moreover, 510 had been unoccupied for years, and the old man couldn't even walk, so how did he get to 510 and wave to me?"

The person on duty was named He Bixiong. According to the records, she worked as a nurse at Nanhua Private Renji Hospital from 2005 to 2009, and later transferred to the Municipal People's Hospital. She passed away last year due to gastrointestinal cancer.

"It's written like a horror story, and such a record is actually kept in the official archives."

Lu Ban commented on this.

The two adjacent records were normal, mainly describing the patrol situation and the patients' conditions that night. Only this one record was more descriptive, and there were dirty marks on the pages, as if something had been smeared on it.

Lu Ban had reviewed the patient's admission and discharge records and knew that the old man in Room 502 mentioned by Nurse He Bixiong was named Robert, a major shareholder of a foreign company. Four days after this post, Robert completed his surgery and was discharged safely. Of course, according to online records, the old man did not escape his fate of death and died three years after being discharged.

"However, according to the description, the old man was already in critical condition when he was admitted to the hospital. I didn't expect that he could be saved. Considering what the mission said, the Room at the end of the corridor holds the secret of life and death. Could it be that this room has the power to heal others?"

Lu Ban speculated.

However, the extraordinary power to bring the dead back to life and heal the body is obviously not common in this world. Even in those exotic lands, such power usually comes with a price.

So, what was the cost to this hospital?

Lu Ban continued flipping through the pages and came across a second, somewhat strange, duty roster memo.

This is an article from February 2009.

"It's getting colder and colder. No matter how much I turn on the air conditioning at the nurses' station when I'm on duty, it's not warm enough, let alone when I'm on patrol. But yesterday, when I was on patrol, I discovered something strange."

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