Lei Ming glanced at Song Ning.
Song Ning said, "With so many important patients on the sixth and seventh floors, surely the hospital wouldn't leave just one doctor in charge?"
Lei Ming nodded. "Come with me!"
At the sixth-floor duty room, they soon found that the doctor's surname was Zhang and that he was responsible for nighttime rounds in only four rooms.
"Let me see the patient list for those four rooms."
Taking the list, Song Ning needed only one glance before saying, "Room 610, Lu Changqing!"
With that, she hurried toward Lu Changqing's room.
Lu Changqing was under close observation and had a private room.
A guard was stationed outside his door.
Earlier, the doctor on duty had only been allowed in after the guard checked the duty roster and verified his credentials.
Song Ning rushed to Lu Changqing's room and immediately saw that the readings on the monitor beside him were still changing.
Only then did her anxious heart slowly settle.
She checked Lu Changqing's pulse again. It was no different from before.
Lu Changqing... was all right?
There had clearly been poisonous medication on that Dr. Zhang's tray, and he had taken the unlit stairwell like someone with a guilty conscience.
Could it be... that he hadn't intended to hurt anyone?
"Well? Did you find anything wrong?"
Lei Ming asked Song Ning.
Song Ning stood silently for a moment, then abruptly turned around.
"I've got it! That man Zhang was indeed poisoning Lu Changqing, but he wasn't trying to kill him! He was trying to keep him in his current condition! The poison they gave Lu Changqing before only lasts so long. They have to add more at regular intervals to keep him in this deep coma without killing him!"
Lei Ming understood immediately and turned to