Night Exploration of the Operating Room, Secrets Revealed

He never expected that after he fell asleep, the person behind him would watch him all afternoon.
The last streak of sunset on the horizon faded, the wind rustled the leaves, all signaling an unusual night.
Thinking that they had informed the others about tomorrow's plan, the dining hall's atmosphere was unusually quiet now.
Shen Yu calmly ate his meal, spoonful after spoonful of warm soup entering his mouth. Today, Shen Yu's eating speed was much slower than before.
When there weren't many people left in the dining hall, Shen Yu tore off a piece of toilet paper to wipe his mouth, then said to Xie Tu, "After dinner, you can go back to your patient room first. I won't take you back anymore."
"Why?" Xie Tu's voice held a hint of sadness.
Shen Yu explained, "I'm going to take care of some things. You go back first."
Without further explanation, Xie Tu lowered his head, seemingly agreeing with Shen Yu.
When Yu Cheng Yi intended to wait for Shen Yu to return together, Shen Yu just told him to take Xie Tu back first, and he would return a bit later.
During the day, Shen Yu mentioned he would find a way to place a recorder in the operating room. Now, this was probably part of his plan. Yu Cheng Yi didn't ask much, but he felt a bit in awe of Xie Tu, so he kindly asked Xie Tu, "Then, Mr. Xie Tu, will you go back with me first?"
Xie Tu snorted, then turned and left.
Yu Cheng Yi looked at his retreating figure, stroked his chin, and said to Shen Yu, "I think after we successfully escape, you should find an opportunity to coax him a bit. I think he seems unhappy."
Shen Yu didn't understand why, "What's wrong with him?"
"It's a waste that you like men, yet you don't even understand this," Yu Cheng Yi grinned at Shen Yu, not explaining clearly to Shen Yu. Then, before Shen Yu could ask, he quickly led his patient away.
Not long after, only Shen Yu remained in the dining hall.
He saw that the time was about right, then stood up, poured the leftover food from his plate into the leftover food bin, and then walked out of the dining hall.
These past few days at the hospital, he had always worn a white lab coat, its color close to his skin tone. Shen Yu slowly walked towards the first-floor lobby. It was currently the shift change between night and day, so the nurses and security guards on the first floor were relatively lax. Shen Yu then slipped into the storage room that Zhuang Jie had mentioned.
There was still quite a lot of dust in the storage room. It truly looked like it hadn't been cleaned for a long time. He left the door ajar. Through the crack, he saw the young nurses yawning continuously outside. Around eleven o'clock at night, there would be a major inspection, at which point the operating room door would open, and that would be his opportunity.
Speaking of which, Shen Yu chose not to return to his patient room after dinner, precisely to exploit a loophole in the caregiver's handbook.
The handbook stated that it was forbidden to enter the first floor unnecessarily, but Shen Yu came downstairs for dinner. His motive was to eat dinner, which was allowed. As long as he didn't return to his room, his motive for being on the first floor was to eat dinner. This could be considered 'exploiting a system bug'.
As for 'it' appearing between 22:00 and 7:00, Shen Yu didn't think too much about it. He could only take it one step at a time, returning to his room before 'it' discovered him. To be honest, Shen Yu still didn't know what 'it' was. Perhaps because of Xie Tu, he hadn't encountered anything too strange here.
If the handbook referred to 'room' as any room, then Shen Yu wouldn't even plan to return to his patient room. After all, the journey wasn't short, and Shen Yu couldn't be sure that nothing unexpected would happen on the way back.
Shen Yu glanced at his wristwatch. It was indeed 9:57 PM, two minutes before 10 PM. Shen Yu leaned against the door and sat on the floor, with a cardboard box found in the storage room underneath, so it wasn't too cold.
It was so quiet here that even the ticking of the clock could be heard.
In the few minutes past 10 PM, Shen Yu was in a state of high concentration, worried that 'it' would realize he was outside. However, more than ten minutes passed without anything unexpected happening, which made Shen Yu breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that as long as he didn't leave a room, any room was fine.
Shen Yu used the light from the door crack to glance at the time, then glanced at the situation outside. Probably because it was late at night, there weren't many guards outside, and everyone looked tired and listless.
But avoiding these people to get to the operating room wouldn't be easy. Shen Yu lowered his eyes in thought for a moment, then suddenly noticed a security uniform hanging on the wall in front of him.
Shen Yu paused. Their caregiver uniforms were very recognizable, but the first floor now had night shift nurses and security guards. This uniform wouldn't attract attention.
Hesitating for only a moment, Shen Yu propped his hands on the ground and stood up, then quickly walked over and took down the security uniform. Fortunately, the uniform wasn't too small, and Shen Yu's frame wasn't large to begin with, so wearing it shouldn't leave such a large gap.
In short, he could still try it.
Shen Yu took off his outer jacket and put on the security uniform. It fit quite well. Shen Yu adjusted the clothes on his body a bit, then put on the cap.
He couldn't see his own appearance, but if he was a bit humble, he could probably fool them.
At this time, it was still nearly an hour before the major inspection. Shen Yu was still thinking about whether to find something to relieve the boredom, but then he put his hand into the pocket of the security uniform and actually pulled out a small flashlight from inside.
The flashlight's light wasn't very strong, but it was more than enough to illuminate this messy storage room.
Shen Yu immediately became interested. He put the recorder in his pocket and began searching in this messy storage room.
This place, like the third floor, was piled with some medical equipment. The thickness of the dust showed that they hadn't used this equipment for a long time, but how could a hospital not maintain this equipment...
Walking around the medical equipment, Shen Yu came to the document shelf. The dust here was even thicker. No one had set foot here for who knows how long. Shen Yu used the flashlight to search the shelf for a moment, then suddenly saw a photo pressed under a stack of documents.
Shen Yu frowned slightly, reaching out to take the photo. He shook off the dust on it, and only then did he clearly see that it was a group photo.
Exactly like the one in the director's office. It seemed that everyone in the photo must have such a group photo. Coincidentally, the person in the front row was still obscured, which gradually increased Shen Yu's curiosity.
However, even looking at this photo didn't reveal any useful clues. Shen Yu calmly put the photo in his pocket, then continued searching the document shelf.
Because he found such a photo, Shen Yu continued to look through the shelf. Even if he didn't find any useful clues, it could help him pass the time.
"??? Experiment Logbook"
A document folder stamped with such words caught Shen Yu's attention. It looked like someone had deliberately tried to destroy the traces. Connecting it to the obscured person in the photo, Shen Yu had reason to suspect this was that person's experiment logbook.
Shen Yu reached out and took down the document folder, then took out the contents.
…
Looking at the handwriting on it, Shen Yu fell silent.
How could the handwriting be so bad? It was crooked and messy, each stroke truly looked stitched together, each line stopping at a position Shen Yu couldn't have imagined.
Shen Yu frowned. He thought his handwriting was so bad it was unrivaled under heaven, but he never expected someone to write even worse than him.
Perhaps it was because they were both bad writers, but Shen Yu could still roughly distinguish what was written. He rarely felt lucky that his handwriting was bad.
However, this place didn't seem to have anything useful either. He could only roughly distinguish that he seemed to be conducting some kind of experiment, trying to... treat patients suffering from "chronic hollow cortical encephalitis," and judging by the experiment results, it seemed to have obvious effects.
However, the subsequent experiment records suddenly stopped, as if something unexpected had happened, and the experiment was suddenly no longer being conducted.
Moreover, there were some pronouns that the owner often used, what exactly they referred to, Shen Yu completely didn't know. Furthermore, it was difficult to distinguish some of the handwriting. Being able to read so many clues was already enough.
Shen Yu folded the most difficult-to-read page and put it in his jacket pocket, then continued searching the document shelf, but besides this person's experiment logbook, Shen Yu didn't find anything else useful.
He glanced at the time. It was past 10:40 PM. The time was about right, so he didn't continue searching. Instead, he returned to the door, using the light from the crack to observe the situation outside.
The shift change had begun. A nurse who seemed to be of a higher rank gave some instructions to the others, then she herself left. The others then began to go about their work one by one.
Shen Yu's gaze followed them for a moment, then locked onto a nurse holding a flashlight and a long bunch of keys.
She opened room doors to check the situation inside. After confirming there were no problems, she locked the doors, checking room by room from the direction of the toilet.
It seemed this storage room couldn't be stayed in for long. Shen Yu took advantage of their inattention and left the storage room. Because he was wearing a security uniform and always kept his head down, Shen Yu didn't attract their attention.
He pretended he was also busy with something. Hmm, now he looked very busy, but in reality, he didn't know what he was doing.
Shen Yu's eyes never left that nurse.
But he didn't seem to know that because of his tall and slender figure, it was very difficult not to attract others' attention.
"Hey, what are you doing?" The security team leader shone his flashlight on him for a moment, then abruptly asked.
Shen Yu's heart jumped. He quickly lowered his head even further, "I'm checking if the window is alright."
The security team leader examined Shen Yu's slender arm, "Alright then, you go with her to check the equipment."
The security team leader pointed at the nurse who was checking rooms and told Shen Yu. Shen Yu slightly raised an eyebrow, a hint of schadenfreude, "Okay."
After replying, Shen Yu walked towards that nurse. He lowered his head and said to her, "The leader told me to come here with you to check."
The nurse yawned, turned to look at Shen Yu, and then her eyes lit up, instantly becoming energetic. She took half a step forward, "What's your name? Why have I never seen you at night?"
While Shen Yu still didn't know how to explain, the nurse added on her own, "Oh, right, oh, right, looking at your clothes, you must be on the day shift. Who are you covering for?"
"That's right, that's right," Shen Yu replied to her and nodded.
"Wow, there's such a handsome guy on the day shift. What's your name?" The nurse chatted with Shen Yu for a couple of sentences, and her spirits improved significantly.
Shen Yu coughed twice, his face not red and his heart not pounding as he said, "Zhang You Zhi."
"Zhang You Zhi, huh? Not bad, not bad, a very nice name. After we finish checking this side, let's go for a walk together," the nurse moved a bit closer. She had a scent of perfume on her. She invited Shen Yu.
Not unpleasant, quite nice, actually.
"Hmm, okay," the nurse was an NPC here. Perhaps with her, 'it' wouldn't follow him.
Shen Yu smiled faintly at the nurse, making her heart bloom. She covered her blushing face with one hand and led Shen Yu to begin checking the remaining rooms.