At the sound of that distinctly unpolished Chinese,
Gu Zheng and Song Ning both stopped in their tracks.
Song Ning turned first and saw a foreign woman in a white lab coat standing in the third-floor corridor.
She had sharply defined features and blue eyes, and she was staring coldly at Song Ning.
Song Ning's heart jolted.
She had seen this woman before.
They had passed each other in the Underground Base beneath Fuwai Hospital.
The woman had been carrying a metal case.
The people there had spoken to her with great respect.
Afterward, Song Ning had seen Wu Tao Ying in a deep coma.
This woman was very likely the one who had injected Wu Tao Ying with a powerful sedative.
Chen Liang had said that, apart from Buddha Lord, everyone who had escaped Fuwai Hospital had either died or been recaptured.
Yet this woman had appeared here.
The entire hospital had been surrounded, and only the secret passage Buddha Lord used to escape had been so well concealed that it remained outside the cordon.
That was why Gu Zheng had led his men in pursuit, following the trail all the way here.
Even Buddha Lord had barely escaped with his life and was in a sorry state.
Yet this woman had appeared here perfectly composed and unharmed.
That could only mean she had not fled with Buddha Lord.
Someone had helped her escape another way.
An insider, for instance.
All of this flashed through Song Ning's mind in an instant.
Her hand, however, had already slipped toward the inside of her clothes.
She had a dagger concealed there.
But before her hand reached its hilt, the woman's impatient voice rang out again. "Take this box of medicine down to Buddha Lord. He's waiting for it! Hurry!"
Song