Li Xian frowned. By now, the two of them had entered the cafeteria. There were still five minutes before medication time, and Doctor Ding was already seated, preparing the medicine and cups of water. 308A yawned.
"We used to only take this medicine once a week. No idea why they've been making us take it more and more often lately... first every three days, then every two days, then every day... I thought that would be the end of it, but yesterday they actually changed it from one pill per dose to two..."
308A's offhand complaint gave Li Xian a bad feeling. He walked toward Doctor Ding, who was setting the prepared bottles of medicine on the table before starting to pour water into disposable paper cups.
"It's nine o'clock. Roll call begins."
The Head Nurse's voice rang out.
Roll call proceeded exactly as it had yesterday. This time, no patients were late or forgot their numbers. Once it had finished without incident, Li Xian noticed that there were two fewer patients than yesterday.
As expected, the player who had been "discharged" hadn't appeared. But someone else was missing too... who?
Li Xian swept his gaze around the room. Before he could work it out, Jiang Qiuyue leaned over and said:
"Don't bother looking. The other one was the female player on your floor."
She sighed. "She probably didn't handle the ward rounds well... we're losing people much faster than I expected."
The line for medication had already formed. As one, the players turned their attention to the first patient taking their pills-
Seeing that the doctor was simply handing patients their medicine and letting them take it themselves today, most of the players breathed a sigh of relief and deliberately moved forward in the line.
But Li Xian was