Other Children at the Hospital
"I also tracked down some medical staff who worked at the hospital back then. Like you, they were hired by someone who called himself Secretary, but they were all fired again within just three or four years. They still remembered the Seventeenth Hospital, but any written records they had kept—letters and text messages, for example—that mentioned the Seventeenth Hospital had been completely erased."
"Besides people's memories, you could say there wasn't a single place left with any information about the Seventeenth Hospital."
Professor Lin's expression turned grave as he listened. He raised a hand. "Wait a moment."
With that, he went into the room inside. He soon came back carrying a dusty box, brushed off the dust, and opened it. Then he took out a Blue Notebook. "I used to keep records while I worked. This is the one I wrote in at the Seventeenth Hospital... Let me look..."
He had barely turned two pages when Professor Lin's face changed. "That's strange. Why is it gone?"
He pointed to several blank spots on the page. "I remember clearly. I wrote this on my first day at work, and it mentioned the Seventeenth Hospital by name."
To prove his memory was right, he opened several other notebooks in succession. "Look, see? I always wrote about it when I started a new job."
Xu Huo flipped through the notebook. Every passage mentioning the hospital in the one he had written at the Seventeenth Hospital had become blank.
"The ink wouldn't fade from just these few lines..." Professor Lin looked shaken. He rummaged through the box again and again, and finally pulled out an Old Photo. "It's gone. The hospital in the Photo is gone..."
Xu Huo took the Photo from him. It showed Professor Lin and the