Chapter 18: Mayflies in the World (Thanks to the leader who is not an old dog)
After leaving the ward, Wen Wen didn't actually walk far. She just went up two floors, turned a corner, and entered the empty conference room.

Tong Hua was lying on the table, soundly asleep and snoring. She had several files in her arms, and it was obvious that she had been up all night.

As for whether staying up late is for improving grades or for working, that is... debatable.

boom!
Wen Wen slammed her fist on the table without any hesitation, waking up her subordinate who was slacking off and sleeping.

"What happened?"

Tong Hua grabbed the phone alertly, "Who posted it?"

There was no game screen on the dark, off screen. It only reflected the expressionless face behind Tong Hua. The face bent down, came closer, and whispered gently in her ear:
"Next time you stay up late, I will break your phone, understand?"

"I'm not asleep, I'm awake, I'm awake!" Tong Hua wiped her face, trying to look radiant, but then her dark circles became more prominent.

He held up the file in his hand as if offering a treasure.

"Everything has been checked."

"Then tell me about it." Wen Wen looked through the files in her hand and asked, "What are their origins?"

"The leader, the woman you asked about last night, is called Zhu Hong, and she's 31 years old."

Tong Hua just touched the file and understood everything: "On the surface, they are the operators of two chain restaurants and KTV, but in fact they are just figureheads.

Her real identity is from the Quanxiang Association... well, she's the mistress of the second-in-command of the Quancheng Gang as people on the street say. It's said that she used to work as a hostess and a public relations officer, and then after she got close to Chen Xingzhou, she hooked up with her current lover... But her lover is really perverted, never mind, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, after Zhu Hong contracted the blood thirst disease, the first person she ate was him. You all knew what happened afterwards. It was out of control and she almost ate up all her sisters and best friends.

In just two weeks, it reached the fifth stage, with its limbs alienated and its life form changed, turning it into a completely evil species. Having reached this stage, it can be called a mutated zombie.

Currently, more than half of the infected people in Yacheng were infected by her. Following this line, Xiao An, Lao Zhang and I worked all night and caught more than 20 people!"

Ignoring the meaning behind the phrase "we just killed them randomly", Wen Wen asked directly, "How did you deal with it?"

"According to your rules, Sister Wen, those who have eaten people will be killed. Those who have not reached the third stage will be sent to the sanatorium for compulsory treatment. The money will still be paid from the company's account. The specific expenses are here..."

Wen Wen didn't even look at the bills, she just casually threw them aside.

"Anymore?"

"Also, the famous quote guy you mentioned, ahem, uh, the old man who ran to Ji Jue's house and attacked him, his situation has also been investigated and is here."

Tong Hua flipped through the pages for a long time, found two pages of paper, and pushed them over.

A light and fleeting life.

Chen Lusheng, male, 71 years old, scavenger.

When he was young, he was idle, brave and aggressive, and acted like a gangster. He didn't care even when his wife ran away with someone else. After his mother died, he finally changed his ways, but it was too late.

No one was willing to hire him except as a helper or doing manual labor.

He has worked as a bricklayer, brick mover, sewer repairman, basically all kinds of jobs available in the market. When he got older, he saved some money and set up a scrap yard, where he collected refrigerators and TVs, and sold them for money to make ends meet.

This is the ordinary life of a person from the lower class, nothing special to say about it.

Until... he found a child in the garbage dump.

She had a genetic disease, her body was covered with ulcers, and several of her fingers were bitten off by rats. Everyone said that she could not be kept alive, so only the increasingly taciturn old man stayed with her silently through the entire winter, and they kept each other company.

Got through it.

But I couldn't last long.

Such difficult yet happy days lasted only seven short years.

"The innate immune system is damaged. During the period after the Sea Burning Day, there is a chance that children born will have this condition, which will lead to infection. Rich and powerful families can go to Central City for surgery, but families that cannot afford it will not live long.

Even if you lose everything, you can only go to a place like Keats Hospital for conservative treatment and barely hang on to life."

Tong Hua sighed: "When I went to see him, the neighbor said he was sick and hadn't come out for several days. I'm afraid he was about to get out of control a few days ago.

Before he lost control, he borrowed from all his friends and even mortgaged his property to find a loan shark to collect a large sum of money, which he used to pay for his daughter's medical account in the hospital.

Wen Wen was silent for a long time, then asked softly, "Does his daughter know?"

"already dead."

Tong Hua found another death report in the file: "The night before yesterday, he had severe internal bleeding and rescue efforts were ineffective...he passed away earlier than he did."

"..."

Wen Wen didn't say anything else, but just opened and closed her lips silently in the silence.

Cursed a dirty word.

Even if you have long been accustomed to death, death is sometimes not equal.

Some people can stir up the world when they are alive and make a shocking difference when they die, but more people are unknown when they are alive and silent when they die.

Living or dying, it is not up to us.

The pain, the wailing, the despair, and the tears were all lost in the unnoticed silence.

"That's why I hate this shitty world."

She closed her eyes. The number of people killed in the society in Beishan District was huge, and Zhu Hong's infection was eradicated, which only curbed the spread of the blood thirst disease, but the real source was still outside.

Wen Wen really has to thank Ji Jue for exposing the bastard from the Dragon Festival this time, otherwise, there's no telling how long that guy would have to hide.

Tong Hua, who inherited [The Matrix: Yesterday's Reappearance], is here. Once he appears, he will no longer be able to hide and will be dug out sooner or later.

But based on the current clues, it is still not fast enough.

However, aren’t there more clues right before our eyes?

Fifteen minutes later, the table in the conference room was filled with cases.

The doctors accompanying her were answering Wen Wen's questions, while Tong Hua's fingers had already passed through the medical records and files. Among the twelve virtues, the etheric way was best at reading and observing the information and phenomena of the world. Now this pile of messy things was placed in front of Tong Hua, and the speed of processing was even more exaggerated than the legendary "quantum wave speed reading".

It’s a pity that only a few are useful.

After reading it, Tong Hua slowly shook her head towards Wen Wen.

"Is that all?" Wen Wen frowned.

“Everything is here.”

The vice president wiped his sweat and said with a wry smile, "In addition to the patients' medicine expenses, the majority of Keats Hospital's income comes from church donations. It has not yet achieved paperless office, and the number of sources of disease is limited. The records of patients with abnormal laboratory indexes and short-term rabies tendencies that you mentioned are limited."

"Other than that?"

Wen Wen asked, "Anything else that's related can be taken out. If you can't move it, we can go to the archives and look for it ourselves."

The vice president was silent and sighed, but ultimately said nothing.

Instead, a young doctor following behind hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help but speak: "You are concerned about blood-borne diseases, right?"

Wen Wen raised her eyebrows: "What do you mean?"

"..."

The doctor realized that he had said something wrong and remained silent. In fact, some colleagues had already looked at him angrily. He lowered his head and staggered back a step. He still had a brace on his leg and it was obvious that he was having difficulty walking.

But there are some things that cannot be said.

At least you can't tell the security bureau as a hospital staff member.

"After all, your hospital is assisting the Security Bureau in handling official business. To be honest, those other messy things have nothing to do with me, and I don't want to get involved."

Wen Wen frowned and warned in a cold voice: "I hope everyone won't make it too ugly in the end."

"No, no, no, it's not that we are deliberately hiding something, it's just..."

The vice president sighed: "If we want to investigate issues related to blood-borne diseases, there is nothing wrong with looking in the hospital's direction, but we are often powerless.

The vast majority of people who have a choice, patients who need blood, usually don’t come here to suffer.”

He smiled bitterly and sighed self-deprecatingly: "Because we can't afford it."

The blood bank in Yacheng is a profit-making organization, and priority has always been given to private hospitals and high-end sanatoriums that can afford the money. Hospitals like Keats Hospital, which are barely surviving with church sponsorship, simply cannot afford the expensive annual contract fees, and patients cannot afford to buy blood that is priced by the gram.

More often than not, even if it is required for surgery, people would choose to... bring their own.

After all, where there is demand, there is a market.

If the official blood bank is too expensive to use, people who cannot survive will naturally choose less secure channels, such as...

"Illegal blood bank?!"

Tong Hua was stunned, her eyes widened: "Is there such a thing?"

Wen Wen didn't say anything, her expression gloomy.

Finally, I realized it.

This is also the reason why Keats Hospital is reluctant to take the initiative to point it out. There are countless patients who have no choice but to rely on this life-saving straw. Even if it is not insured, even if there is a risk of infection, even if there are many problems, sometimes, if there is no such straw, they can only wait to die.

For a noble family like the Tong family in Yacheng, the family has countless industries and more than one hospital. A place like an illegal blood bank is destined to have nothing to do with her in this life. Not to mention Wen Wen, who is a chosen one with a gold membership service in the Hope Hospital. Even if she is chopped into pieces, as long as her head is still there when she is sent over, those lunatics can put her back together.

These gray areas in the medical industry are too far away from the chosen ones.

The people hiding behind the scenes can release the blood-thirst virus into Yacheng by following this invisible thread and using a few blood bags. The virus will take root in the pain and despair of the innocent and spread silently in the darkness.

Finally found.

Another line of footprints they have trodden...

"Let's go, Ahua." Wen Wen grabbed the car keys on the table and pushed the door open.

"what?"

Tong Hua was at a loss: "Where to go?"

"Find someone!"

From the corridor, voices were heard fading away, carrying with them the lingering sound of metallic sounds.

"And then kill his whole family!"

(End of this chapter)