CHAPTER 654: CHAPTER 47: DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS

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The People’s Liberation Army Hospital 411 located under the Second Ring Road is one of the major medical health care facilities in the country. It is under the jurisdiction of the National Military Commission and the General Staff Department. Unless in special circumstances, the hospital does not admit civilian patients, mainly serving the military regions and providing diagnosis and treatment for various difficult and miscellaneous diseases within the different military branches.

Apart from invited researchers, the hospital uses the staffing structure of the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital. Zhou Ziang signed a one-year invited researcher contract with the Si Yiyi Hospital. As for the specific details of the contract, the hospital has not disclosed them to the public. Most of the hospital staff only know that he is researching military special biological technology.

Xiao Xian and Xuerou arrived by car at the entrance of Si Yiyi Hospital.

A five-meter-high marble stele was engraved with the words "People’s Liberation Army Hospital 411."

Behind the stele is the main entrance, with two soldiers in green army coats standing majestically on each side of the hospital’s gate. Next to the main entrance, a driveway for motor vehicles was opened, and an armed soldier was directing the vehicles inside.

From the inside to the outside, the hospital is planted with rows of cypress trees on both sides, approximately several hundred in total. The ground is paved with bluestone slabs, unlike the majority of the trees in the city that are covered with snow; the snow on the trees in the hospital had already been swept clean in the early morning. The cleared snow was piled up into neat mounds, firmly placed at the base of the trees, giving the whole hospital a look of order and tidiness at a glance.

Entering along the verdant cypress and bluestone road, everyone coming in is a soldier with military license plates and wearing black uniform boots, making Xiao Xian and Xuerou, in their goose-yellow down jackets, particularly eye-catching.

Although it is a military hospital, the registration procedure for entry is much like that of the Southern Hua Science and Technology Institute Campus – provide valid identification, report your name, and you can enter.

Xiao Xian and Xuerou are both underage and cannot provide valid ID cards, but fortunately, Xuerou had the foresight to remind Xiao Xian to bring their Hua Science and Technology Institute student IDs. Seeing the student IDs, a trace of surprise flashed in the eyes of the well-trained soldiers, as stony-faced as ice sculptures, but the surprise was only fleeting.

"Students from the Hua Science and Technology Institute? Are you here to see Director Wang?" Xiao Xian and Xuerou originally planned to report Zhou Ziang’s name, but when asked this way, they agreed with the suggestion.

"Wait a moment," the soldier on the left entered the duty room and made a phone call. When he came out, he said, "Director Wang asks the two of you to come in. The director’s office is in room 308 on the third floor of Qingzheng Building. Please go straight to Qingzheng Building and do not wander around."

Xiao Xian and Xuerou sighed with relief, thankful that Wang Shuai did not bear a grudge for what happened a few days earlier, when they were driven out.

The internal divisions of Si Yiyi Hospital include surgery, internal medicine, inpatient services, and administrative functions. Directorate-level positions like Wang Shuai’s in a military hospital are located in the Qingzheng Building within the administrative functions division.

Following the security guard’s directions, Xiao Xian and Xuerou quickly found Qingzheng Building – an old-style brick-red building, its exterior walls quite old, with dead vine plants clinging to the walls below the ground floor. There is no security guard set up at the entrance to the stairwell, but in the corner of the stairs, a camera is mounted. The whole building is very quiet, and one can clearly hear the sound of footsteps in the second-floor corridor.

When they reached the third floor, Xiao Xian’s eyes flickered and his eyebrows furrowed. Xuerou only felt a ringing in her ears and a colorless odor that made her head dizzy and nauseous entered her nostrils. Her footing became unsteady, nearly causing her to fall to the ground. Xiao Xian timely grasped her hand, and as he did, his eyes sharply fixed onto the hallway.

A warm, sun-like, silver-white Spiritual Energy that Xuerou couldn’t see but could feel enveloped the two of them, isolating the potent Poisonous gas.

"Who’s there?" A thin, tall man sprang out from the room closest to the staircase.

The man was not very tall, around forty years old, with eyes like those of a night hawk, a hooked nose, wearing a white lab coat over the wrinkled collar of a military uniform. When he met Xiao Xian’s displeased eyes and detected the strong, pure Spiritual Energy emanating from her body, not only did he feel no shame, but his eyes even sparkled with a venomous flame.

Xuerou’s face turned whiter than snow from excessive shock.

"Which family’s junior, wandering around in Qingzheng Building," the hooked-nose man moved his feet, covering the open office door with his body. The man had once been a Cultivator of good talent, but after losing his Dantian due to a certain event, although he could no longer use Spiritual Energy, he could still discern that the girl before him was also a Cultivator. Her cultivation was not deep, but the Spiritual Energy was pure. At such a young age, it was quite impressive, and he guessed she must be a junior from some family.

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