Chapter 69
Before preparing to make a move, an unexpected phone call disrupted Bai Yi’s plans. He once again came to the Seventh Hospital in the suburbs.
“Bai Yi, you finally came! It’s really troublesome to make you come all the way here…” As soon as she saw Bai Yi, a familiar nurse came up to greet him, explaining the situation at the hospital with a helpless expression.
Bai Yi nodded in greeting and summarized the current situation. “So, the current situation is that Li Xianke snuck out of the hospital, hasn’t been found yet, and then you heard from other patients that before he secretly slipped out, he mentioned wanting to find me to discuss important matters together?”
The hospital staff responsible for patient safety all showed bitter smiles. “That’s about right. Because his condition doesn’t have any tendency to harm others, his usual range of activities is quite large. Moreover, he has been staying quietly in the hospital for so many years, we didn’t expect him to suddenly evade surveillance and run out. We were caught off guard, and it wasn’t until he had been missing for hours that we discovered it…”
Although they could immediately report to the police for help, unless absolutely necessary, the hospital hoped to find the person on their own first to minimize the impact. After all… a mental patient escaping is not good for the hospital’s reputation if word gets out.
“So, we heard from other patients that he said he wanted to find you before he left. We thought we’d give it a shot and see if you knew anything…”
As they spoke, their voices grew lower, feeling that in their desperation they had done something foolish. It was clearly their own work that hadn’t been done well, yet they were pinning their hopes of finding the person on this underage high school student in front of them? They couldn’t help but blush at the thought.
“Hmm, he’s looking for me? I haven’t seen him on my end, and I’m not sure where he is…” Bai Yi remained calm, not seeming bothered by being troubled with this matter. Perhaps it was because he had grown up here, but every time he came back it felt as intimate as returning to his own home. If it weren’t for the severe mental pollution at the Seventh Hospital, with constant mental wave disturbances even when sleeping at night, Bai Yi would have been happy to keep living here. He muttered to himself, “What could be so urgent that he needs to find me?”
Logically speaking, if Li Xianke really wanted to see him, he could have easily asked the doctors or nurses to pass on a message, asking him to visit the hospital… Unless that guy couldn’t even wait that little bit of time.