Fortunately, his mask hid most of Li Xian's emotions. He took the Long Spike the Director handed him, wiped it clean with an alcohol swab, then returned it to the Director-
"I'll pass this time. I'm not sure I can do it properly."
The Director took the spike back from Li Xian with a look of regret, but did not insist.
"Fair enough... you've only watched it once, after all."
He tossed the tool aside, paid no further attention to the patient who had lain motionless since getting onto the transfer bed, and turned to leave the Patient Room.
Li Xian watched the Director's retreating figure nervously. When the Director reached the stairs, he chose to go down.
Only then did Li Xian breathe a sigh of relief.
As Cheng Xin browsed the bookshelves, debating whether to drag Qian Chen out of the Head Nurse's office to help find the Access Card and tie him back up afterward, Li Xian arrived.
"Did you find it?"
He asked as soon as he entered.
Cheng Xin shook his head and repeated what Qian Chen had told him. After considering it for a while, Li Xian scanned the row of shelves farther inside, picked out a book, and flipped through a few pages.
"Found it."
Those words reached Cheng Xin's ears.
He turned, eyes widening. The Access Card he had spent so long searching for was right there in Li Xian's hand.
"Wait, how did you..."
How did he find it?
Before Cheng Xin could finish, he barely had time to glance at the page where the Access Card had been tucked before Li Xian hurriedly returned the book to its original place. All Cheng Xin managed to make out was the prominent heading on that page.
"Frontal lobotomy."
The two quickly left