Chapter 19 Daily Visits to the Sick
Lu Ren has been suffering from insomnia recently.
Because his head was too bright, he felt like there was a huge light bulb shining on him every day when he lay in bed, making it difficult for him to fall asleep.
No one except Lu Qingzhou could control Lihuo. Lu Qingzhou was still lying in the hospital, and it was said that he was physically exhausted. He was half human, so his recovery was not that fast.
At first, the Rain Master tried to help Lu Ren put out the fire with water. The two squatted beside the Rain Master's desk. Lu Ren leaned his head to one side, and the Rain Master stood beside him, holding a basin of water and pouring it on Lu Ren's head. This posture is quite similar to the way every household washed their hair before tap water became popular.
As a result, the fire could not be extinguished when it met water, and it even burned more vigorously, and attacked the Rain Master who tried to put it out. The Rain Master was unable to dodge and half of his eyebrows were burned. His miserable appearance made the Fairy of Flowers who was watching nearby laugh so hard that she quickly took out a mirror and asked the Rain Master to look at his miserable appearance.
"Hahahahahaha, you're already old, how can you think the fire can be extinguished by water?"
The Rain Master took the mirror from the Fairy of Flowers in a bad mood. His face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He looked at the mirror and felt sorry for the half of his eyebrow he had lost. He complained, "That was my precious Yaochi water. A drop of ordinary fire would extinguish it. I didn't know that Lu Qingzhou's fire was so strong."
There was still some wet Yaochi water on the ends of Lu Ren's hair, which was dripping down. He had no choice but to resign himself to picking up the mop and helping to clean up the messy water stains on the floor.
"However," Fairy Baihua changed the subject, "Aren, this is really not a solution."
She rolled her eyes and said, "Or we should go find Lu Qingzhou and ask him to help take Li Huo back. He is lying in the 18th Hospital."
Lu Ren, who grew up nearby, had never heard of the 18th Hospital in this city. But he knew that his colleagues would not go to the same hospital as him, but he had no say in the matter of monsters. So he followed the advice and did not say anything.
Master Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Indeed, if Ah Ren keeps hanging around in the investigation bureau like this, he might scare off some weak monsters who come to do business, and it would be bad if we receive complaints. How about this, Ah Ren, I'll write you the address, and you can go take a look during the weekend."
Tomorrow is the weekend, which happens to be Lu Ren’s day off.
Lu Ren nodded as if he understood, thinking to himself, "There shouldn't be any problem with this hospital."
On Saturday, Lu Ren headed to the hospital with the address in his hand, but this time he did not ride his beloved electric scooter because to get to the 18th Hospital according to the address, he would need to cross a city.
Lu Ren had studied the bus routes the night before. Fortunately, he only had to walk 500 meters out of his house and then take bus No. 444, and then go directly from the starting station to the terminal.
Before getting in the car, Lu Ren took the time to go to the convenience store downstairs and buy a bunch of bananas as a gift for visiting the patient.
Summer had not yet completely passed, cicadas were chirping, and cars were driving through the narrow streets of the old city. The long-unrepaired branches on both sides blocked most of the sunlight. The mottled shadows of the trees fell on Lu Ren, and behind him came the gossiping voices of people on the bus.
“Ah, this is the human world.”
Lu Ren stretched and thought so.
Before he set out, Lu Ren had imagined that the monster's hospital would not be a normal hospital. But when he actually stood in front of the hospital, he found that the so-called 18th Hospital was a formal five-story building with a large area and even a small parking lot. However, the hospital's sign was not very formal, and it read "Livestock Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Center."
Although the big iron gate was open, there was no one there in broad daylight .
Lu Ren confirmed the house number again and again, then walked in bravely.
The lobby on the first floor was so empty that you could hear the echo of footsteps from passers-by. Perhaps because the monsters were all relatively healthy, there was not a single patient here on a weekend. No one was left at the consultation desk, and I didn't know where they were slacking off, but there was a faint sound of conversation behind the registration window.
A voice said, "How come you missed your ultimate? Run! The enemy's support is coming."
Another voice said, "I'm running! Oops! I've been caught!"
Then there was a sound of annoyance, probably because the game was lost. Then there was a sound of "ping pong pong".
"Excuse me..." Lu Ren walked over and wanted to ask which floor the demon's power was excessively depleted on, but he found that the people who were talking were not a few people, but a dog.
A dog with three heads.
It stood on the ground, with its two front paws on the computer keyboard, typing something. One of the dog heads was biting the ear of the other dog head, looking very ferocious, and making threatening noises from time to time. Although the two heads were fighting fiercely, it did not prevent the third head from sleeping on the table with snot bubbles hanging from its nose.
As soon as Lu Ren spoke, the snot bubble burst, and the third head woke up instantly. It screamed, "There are guests!"
The first and second heads immediately stopped fighting and repeated:
"We have guests!"
"We have guests!"
Then the third head said, "How can I help you?"
The first and second heads then repeated:
"How can I help you?"
"How can I help you?"
This three-headed dog has a very good attitude, as if it has been working in the service industry for many years, and although every sentence has to be said three times, it is not that unacceptable.
Lu Ren asked: "Excuse me, do you know which floor Lu Qingzhou, the head of the Immigrant Household Investigation Bureau, is on? I'm his colleague and I'm here to visit him."
This time the three-headed dog did not repeat itself. They said in unison: "5th floor."
Lu Ren thanked him politely and set off to the fifth floor. Just after taking two steps, he heard two heads shouting behind him: "Choose the middle! Choose the middle!..."
There was no one in the elevator at that time, so he entered the elevator and pressed a 5 on the panel of the helicopter.
The elevator stopped on the second floor.
A headless and upper-body naked man stood at the elevator door.
He didn't look at Lu Ren in the elevator, he was waving at the end of the corridor on the second floor. He was holding a round object in his arms, if Lu Ren was not mistaken, it was a human head .
Mr. Headless was unexpectedly cheerful. His belly button opened and closed, making sounds like a mouth. "What the hell, doctor? I told you not to give it away. The head you made for me is too realistic. I won't scare anyone when I go running at night next time."
Lu Ren was waiting for Headless Man to get on the elevator.
Mr. Headless was still chatting with the doctor at the elevator door and had no intention of coming up.
So Lu Ren stepped forward and reminded: "Hello, would you like to come up?"
Only then did the headless man realize that there was another person in the elevator: "Oh my god, I'm scared to death."
...Lu Ren never thought that one day he would be able to scare a headless person.
Then the Headless Man leaned in, waved his chest in front of the elevator display panel, and said, "Brother, you want to go up, you go first, I need to go downstairs to handle the discharge procedures. I have been in the plastic surgery department for a month, you don't know..."
The closing elevator door blocked out Mr. Headless's chattering just in time.
The elevator stopped on the third floor.
A doctor with a horse's head came in pushing a transfer bed. On the bed was a pregnant woman. It's not really appropriate to call her a pregnant woman, because it's rare for a mother-to-be to look so hideous.
The pregnant woman was lying on the transfer bed with fresh blood at the corners of her mouth. She was groaning in the pain of childbirth and kept stuffing snacks into her mouth. If Lu Ren was not mistaken, the snacks might be human fingers.
But on the bright side, it could also be a monkey's.
The pregnant woman's belly was bulging high, but the surface was not smooth. It seemed that the things in her belly were ready to come out at any time, hitting her belly hard, making the surface of her belly rise and fall.
Judging from the force and shape, the appearance of this baby being born would probably be beyond Lu Ren's psychological endurance.
The pregnant woman seemed to notice Lu Ren's gaze on her, and she gave him a shy smile with her bloody finger in her mouth.
Doctor Ma Tou saw this and immediately said to the pregnant woman, "You haven't finished your last one yet, why are you already in a hurry to find another one?"
Before Lu Ren could digest the meaning of this sentence, they arrived at the fourth floor and Dr. Ma Tou hurriedly pushed the transfer bed away.
Doctor Ma Tou walked and shouted: "Hurry up and prepare the operating room, Mantis is about to give birth!"
Lu Ren was the only one left in the elevator. He couldn't help but sigh, "This hospital's business scope is quite extensive."
Soon, we arrived at the fifth floor.
