CHAPTER 11: CHAPTER 11: SAW IT AGAIN

"Sigh."

Ai Lin breathed out a sigh, her eyes still gleaming with fear, "I should have listened to you last night; I shouldn’t have ordered takeout. I really didn’t expect that in today’s society, there are still people like this..."

As Ai Lin spoke, she couldn’t control her trembling. Just the thought of it scared her. If the police hadn’t come, she might have already...

"Sister Lin, don’t think about it. You’re safe now." Lin Xiaoyan didn’t know how to comfort Sister Lin. After all, such an incident indeed sends chills down one’s spine.

Lin Xiaoyan glanced around the room. It was a single-patient room, "Sister Lin, has your family come?"

Ai Lin was half-lying on the bed, shaking her head, "I haven’t told them. However, my boyfriend has rushed back. He’s gone downstairs to get some food for me."

"Oh, as long as someone is looking after you, that’s good." Lin Xiaoyan nodded.

Ai Lin looked at Lin Xiaoyan’s eyes, frowning, "Weren’t your eyes better? Why are they red again? They look quite serious. Why don’t you go to ophthalmology for a check?"

Speaking of her eyes, Lin Xiaoyan’s left eye immediately started to hurt.

"Hiss..."

"What’s wrong?"

Lin Xiaoyan smiled bitterly, "It’s fine when not mentioned, but it hurts when it is."

"No, you should go get it checked. Ophthalmology is in..."

Just at that moment, a nurse came in to deliver medicine to Ai Lin.

"Hi there, nurse, could you tell me where the ophthalmology department is? My friend’s eyes are really red and they hurt," Ai Lin quickly asked the nurse.

The nurse turned to check Lin Xiaoyan’s eyes, frowning lightly, "It is indeed quite serious."

Hearing the nurse say this, Lin Xiaoyan felt a jolt in her heart. Whether it was a psychological effect or something else, her eyes hurt even more.

"Ophthalmology is on the second floor. Do you need me to take you there?" the sweet nurse asked warmly.

Lin Xiaoyan shook her head, "No need, I can go by myself."

Ai Lin looked at Lin Xiaoyan, urging her, "Go downstairs and have it checked. I’m fine here. My boyfriend will be back soon."

Hearing this, Lin Xiaoyan had no choice but to get up and say goodbye.

She really didn’t want to have her eyes checked here. She knew private hospitals charged high fees and weren’t as reliable as public hospitals. She feared extra charges.

Her living expenses were already a bit tight. If things didn’t work out, she could still visit the hospital she went to before.

But, just as she walked out of the room, a nurse came over to help her, intending to take her to the second-floor ophthalmology department.

"No need, no need, I can go on my own. Don’t trouble yourself," Lin Xiaoyan repeatedly refused.

However, the nurses here were really enthusiastic, insisting on helping her to the second floor.

Seeing ophthalmology getting closer, Lin Xiaoyan was distressed yet didn’t know how to refuse and leave.

"Here we are. This is our inpatient department’s ophthalmology. The head physician is in the office. Don’t be afraid, let’s have the head doctor take a look."

The nurse reassured Lin Xiaoyan before knocking on the doctor’s office door.

Lin Xiaoyan frowned. She didn’t want to do this. She just wanted to leave!!!

"Director, there’s a patient here with very red and painful eyes. Could you take a look?"

"Come in, let me have a look." A male doctor, around fifty years old with thinning hair, glanced at Lin Xiaoyan’s eyes and looked down.

"Go lie in the treatment room; I’ll come over to see."

And just like that, Lin Xiaoyan was forced to lie in the treatment room.

She was calculating in her mind the head physician’s consultation fee, the treatment fee...

If medicine was prescribed, she planned to leave without taking it to avoid paying for it...

"Snap"

An intense light flickered on, beaming down on Lin Xiaoyan’s eyes from above.

"Open your eyes, let me see." The doctor sat beside, putting on medical gloves.

Lin Xiaoyan squinted; the light was too bright.

The doctor shifted the light, allowing her to open her eyes.

"What’s wrong with your eyes? How long has it been?"

Lin Xiaoyan explained her situation.

Next, she saw the doctor reaching out to pry open her eye.

The moment the doctor touched her eye, a familiar sensation made Lin Xiaoyan freeze.

A vision appeared before her eyes. When she clearly saw the person lying in the hospital bed, her breath stopped.

Who can tell her why she became the protagonist of this vision?!!!

In the vision, she was pushed into an operating room.

Then, the very doctor in front of her took her cornea and transplanted it into someone else’s eyes while she was left alone on the operating table...

And in the vision, just like her, others were also left alone in the operating room.

Some lay silently on the operating table, some with a large hole in the chest, others with a vacant liver, and some...

Blood was everywhere, and there was no one to stop the bleeding, no one at all...

Lin Xiaoyan dodged; she didn’t want to see anymore!!!

She never expected this hospital to be a hospital that eats people!!!

"Don’t move; I’m not finished with the examination!"

The doctor quickly grabbed Lin Xiaoyan.

Lin Xiaoyan sat up, "I... I have something at home. I can’t check it now; I need to go back."

But the doctor held Lin Xiaoyan forcefully, "Your eyes are bleeding, and the infection is severe. A minor surgery is needed.

I suggest you complete the admission procedure right now; otherwise, you might lose your eyesight."

Lin Xiaoyan didn’t trust the doctor at all at this point.

If she listens to him, she’ll end up blind, perhaps even losing her life!

Lin Xiaoyan wanted to leave but seeing the doctor’s demeanor, she doubted she’d be allowed to leave easily, so she agreed.

The doctor released Lin Xiaoyan, called a nurse over, and signaled her to assist Lin Xiaoyan in completing the admission procedures.

The nurse nodded and then helped Lin Xiaoyan up with a smile, taking her to complete the paperwork.

Reaching the elevator, Lin Xiaoyan looked at the nurse, "I... I didn’t bring anything, and my family isn’t here.

So I’d like to go back first, grab my belongings, and then come back for the procedures, is that okay?"

Hearing this, the nurse continued smiling, "No need to worry. Our hospital has everything. Disposable items in the room are adequate, including clothes, underwear, toiletries, etc. You don’t need to make a special trip."

"Moreover, given your condition, staying in the hospital is safer. Otherwise, there might be an accident outside..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoyan’s fear hit its peak. The word "accident" brought to mind numerous chilling film scenarios she’d seen.

Would these people kill her and forge an accident just for her matching cornea?

In those brief seconds, Lin Xiaoyan envisioned countless dark and terrifying scenarios.

Finally reaching the first floor, Lin Xiaoyan gazed at the payment counter ahead, clutching her stomach, "Um, where’s the restroom? I need to use the restroom first."

The nurse’s eyes flickered before she smiled and guided Lin Xiaoyan to a nearby bathroom.