The hospital was small, with only three floors in all. It could not compare to the First Rehabilitation Hospital where Doctor Bu worked, and most of its patients came from the residential communities near Autopsy Avenue.
"Doctor Gao, you're finally back. We saw the news about you on television. Who would have thought the Florist was such a terrifying serial killer?" The nurse who spoke was in her forties and powerfully built. The badge on her chest bore her name—Cranial Drill.
"You have my utmost respect for your courage. I would have been terrified. I never would have dared to come forward and identify him." A sweet, delicate voice came from behind Cranial Drill. It belonged to a nurse who made her nurse uniform look like a princess dress. Her name was Bone Wax, and she looked as frail and delicate as a student.
"Doctor, the director is waiting for you! Hurry up and get changed. You two, stop keeping the doctor from his work." A ward door opened, revealing two nurses, one fat and one thin, who were rushed off their feet. They were twins, but their builds were completely different. The fat one was Bone Nibbler, and the thin one was Bone Mill.
The four nurses had very different personalities, but all their names were related to opening skulls. Together with Doctor Gao, they made up the neurosurgery department of the Mortal World Entrance Hospital. In the past, technological limitations had made surgery on the human brain something of a forbidden zone. As the times advanced, the Human Rights Committee enacted legislation protecting doctors, and more and more doctors began daring to explore that forbidden zone.
"I'll go see the director first." Doctor Gao left Old Ma in the garage outside the hospital and put on the white