At four or five in the morning, when everyone from Zhu Mengmeng to the nurses was most likely to be dozing, Old Zhu quietly got up, went into the corridor outside, and jumped off the building.
The ward was not on a high floor, only the third, but a fall from there was enough to kill an ordinary elderly person on the spot, let alone an injured patient who had been recuperating in bed.
Fortunately, that height could not breach the protection Qiu Wuji had set up beforehand. Old Zhu had only suffered some injuries from the impact. Now he was raging in his hospital bed. "I didn't jump on my own! Some bastard is trying to kill me!"
No one could believe him. Who could control him into walking out into the corridor, climbing over the railing, and jumping?
"Your father was already suffering from a mental condition. Some kind of hallucination in his sleep may have caused it. There is an explanation for this phenomenon," the doctor could only tell Zhu Mengmeng. "We'll assign extra nurses to watch him tonight..."
Honestly, even Zhu Mengmeng and Cai Zhijian had considered that it might be an aftereffect of his mental injury. Although Zhu Mengmeng still trusted her father more and felt he could not possibly have jumped, the doctor's explanation was the one most consistent with common understanding.
She could not get angry with the hospital now, because she knew the hospital truly did not understand what was going on here-in fact, the main point of people using esper abilities for all this was to fool hospitals and the police into thinking it was suicide by jumping. How many unsolved cases had come about this way? What good would blaming the hospital for not understanding esper abilities do...
She could