Li Xian waited quietly for a while. A little over ten minutes passed, but the confinement room remained silent, and the iron door locking him inside showed no sign of opening.
Li Xian breathed a sigh of relief and began carefully recalling the conversation between the two orderlies he had overheard in the pharmacy.
They had mentioned that a patient who had just been "discharged" yesterday had been especially difficult to handle and had even punched an orderly twice.
As far as Li Xian remembered, Li Jiantao was the only person who had been "discharged" yesterday.
But from the moment he came out of the consultation room until the Head Nurse led him onto the skybridge, he had looked docile and dazed. Would someone like that really be "especially difficult to handle," or even attack an orderly?
Li Xian kept feeling that the orderlies' description was nothing like Li Jiantao, but there was no other candidate who had been discharged yesterday...
His brow furrowed deeper and deeper. Judging by the orderlies' tone, the patient they had been discussing was not dead yet, but he seemed close to it.
His instincts told him he had to clear this Instance as quickly as possible. If they missed a certain window, they might never get another chance.
Li Xian sighed.
And that was not all. The orderlies' mention of "getting new stock" had also left him deeply uneasy.
If that "stock" meant patients, then they had even less time left.
The darkness of the confinement room stretched time out endlessly and gradually magnified the negative emotions inside him. Once he noticed this, Li Xian secretly took a sleeping pill out of his clothes-
When he had replaced the medication with vitamins, he had deliberately taken a sleeping pill with him.
Spending ten hours