The male orderly nodded obediently, offering no resistance.
"Is there anything wrong with the food you gave me?" Zhao Xun started with the most pressing question.
"No," the male orderly answered firmly, without the slightest hesitation.
Relieved, Zhao Xun picked up his chopsticks and continued questioning him as he ate breakfast. "Does this hospital have any secrets it wants to hide?"
The orderly might not know, but there was no harm in asking.
If he happened to know something, this might be a chance to trigger a hidden mission.
The orderly looked puzzled. "Secrets it wants to hide... I don't know if there are any."
Then he muttered, "Even if there really were some secrets, someone like me would never get to know them."
"Not necessarily," Zhao Xun said, guiding the orderly's thoughts. "Orderlies go in and out of all sorts of places. You have plenty of opportunities to pick up information."
Then he asked, "Have you heard any rumors about the hospital, any negative news, or anything from the higher-ups that struck you as strange?"
The orderly thought back earnestly for quite a while, then suddenly seemed to remember something. "Now that you mention it, I remember hearing..."
Before he could finish, a young woman in a nurse's uniform suddenly knocked on Zhao Xun's door.
"What are you doing?" The nurse looked at the orderly with clear displeasure. "You were supposed to deliver breakfast. Why have you been in here so long? The people in the other rooms are getting impatient."
"Come straight back here after you finish delivering breakfast," Zhao Xun instructed the orderly quietly, then went on eating as though nothing had happened.
He could hypnotize this nurse, but the impatient patients in the other rooms, along with the other nurses, would still come to see what