"Um?"

Hearing this, He Ao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "How did I hear that he is still here? Was he brought out of the hospital by his family?"

Arent was the psychotic killer who killed Jace's wife Tini. Jace had seen some information about the murderer who killed his wife.

"Your news may be behind," the nurse showed a gentle and sweet smile, "Mr. Arent completed the treatment and was discharged on his own. We still have discharge records here."

She raised her bracelet and unfolded a page of discharge records for He Ao to read.

"That may be because I am behind on news,"

He Ao glanced at the discharge record.

The news that Ellent was in Vic Mental Hospital was told by Thorne. One of Thorne and the nurse in front of him was lying.

However, He Ao did not immediately go into depth on this issue, but continued, "Then please take me to visit first."

"OK."

The nurse kept smiling and turned around, "Follow me."

He Ao stared at her back and followed her slowly. Only then did he notice that the nurse was wearing a pair of white pointed-soled high heels.

The high heels stepped on the smooth floor of the hall, making a clear and crisp sound.

He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked to both sides.

The patients and nurses around them didn't seem to notice the two of them, and were still doing their own things.

It wasn't until the high-heeled nurse came to them that they would naturally make way for He Ao and the high-heeled nurse to pass.

The enthusiastic cheers from the game commentator came from the distant TV, but the audience sitting in front of the TV remained eerily silent.

There are a lot of people here, everyone is doing their own thing, but the scene that should be noisy is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.

As the two of them continued to move forward, He Ao's eyes fell on a patient sitting in the corner who seemed to be in a trance.

The patient was sitting at the junction of the elevator and the lobby, with his head held high, and seemed to be in an unconscious state.

But He Ao noticed that when the nurse looked in another direction, the fingers of the patient's hand on his thigh would curl up, and the raised fingers would exactly point to He Ao's finger.

He seemed to be trying to attract Heao's attention.

So after the nurse passed by the patient, He Ao slowly approached the patient.

As He Ao came closer, the patient's cloudy eyes blinked, and then he moved his gaze little by little towards He Ao, and opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

"Mr. Jess," a voice appeared in He Ao's ear, "What can I do for you?"

He Ao raised his head and saw the nurse's slightly doubtful eyes.

The charity fund management interface he just showed had his name on it. The nurse just glanced at it and remembered the key information on it.

"Nothing."

He Ao withdrew his gaze in cooperation and followed the nurse forward.

"Mr. Jess, take the elevator to the third floor. The third floor is where our medical equipment department is located. The medical equipment department is also the area in our hospital that needs funding the most."

The nurse smiled and nodded, turned around and continued to lead He Ao forward.

In the corner of He Ao's eyes, the patient with cloudy eyes once again lost his vision and returned to the chaotic state.

He opened his mouth slightly, imitating the mouth shape of the patient just now. The patient said, "Go quickly."

"Mr. Jess, did you say something just now?"

The nurse who stopped in front of the elevator pressed the button, turned around, and looked at He Ao with a smile.

"I feel like you are familiar with the hospital?"

He Ao replied with a smile.

"Not too familiar,"

The nurse smiled shyly. At this time, the elevator door opened, and she took He Ao into the elevator. "As a front desk person, you must know something about the hospital. If a patient's family member asks, you can respond quickly."

"You are very responsible."

He Ao affirmed with a smile. The elevator door closed and the elevator went up. With the feeling of being slightly overweight affecting his body, he continued to ask, "Are there many patients in the hospital now?"

"Not many," the nurse shook her head gently. "The hospital has been in operation for so long and patients have come and gone, but there are not many patients who have always stayed in the hospital."

The elevator reached the third floor, and the two of them stepped out of the elevator and entered a brightly lit corridor.

"It seems that the cure rate in your hospital is quite high?"

He Ao followed the nurse along the corridor and asked while looking at the rooms on both sides.

"It's not very high, but we have special treatment methods, so many patients can be discharged quickly."

She quickly walked to a nearby room and opened the door, "It's night shift now and we have relatively few staff, so I can only show you around and introduce you throughout the process."

"OK."

He Ao nodded, "Sorry to trouble you."

"fine,"

Then the nurse began to introduce the equipment in each room to He Ao in turn.

"This room contains a mental correction device, which is used to provide mental guidance to patients who have lost mental control. This equipment is very expensive and has a high wear rate. It is often broken by patients... In this room

There are some restraint devices used to control some patients with violent tendencies..."

While listening to the nurse's explanation, He Ao continued to ask while marveling and approving, "I heard that your hospital was only established more than ten years ago. It seems to have been renovated from an old chemical plant?"

"I don't know about that," the nurse smiled and shook her head, "I only started working here in the past few years."

She walked to the next room and continued to introduce the equipment inside, "This is a biofeedback therapy device. Our hospital has three devices in total. This one is a spare and the other two are in the treatment room."

"Is this equipment expensive?"

He Ao asked softly.

"Not big," the nurse walked out of the room, "The biofeedback therapy device is a relatively durable device, not a consumable. However, the latest biofeedback therapy device suitable for detecting brain waves and muscle status of mental patients is very expensive.

"

"It sounds like your hospital's treatment equipment is not very rich."

He Ao and the nurse walked to the corridor again.

"Yes, so we are still looking forward to getting your help."

The nurse put a smile on her face and continued walking with He Ao, "This way we can help more patients leave this crazy world."

She glanced at the time on her bracelet, then looked at He Ao, "It will take some time for our dean to arrive. May I take you to visit our ward?"

He Ao glanced at the long corridor, and there were many closed doors behind it, "Are there no medical equipment in those rooms?"

"there is none left,"

The nurse shook her head, turned around and walked toward the elevator with a smile on her face, "There are some not-so-scarce equipment and some sundries piled inside."

"OK,"

He Ao nodded, turned and walked back to the elevator. On the way back, he continued to ask, "So, in your hospital for so many years, are there any patients who have stayed in the hospital and have not been discharged?"

"It seems not?"

The nurse thought carefully and said, "Your friend Mr. Arent is the patient who has stayed in our hospital the longest. He stayed in our hospital for three years and was not discharged until last year."

"Then do you know anything about Arent's past?"

He Ao asked when the two stopped in front of the elevator.

"When Mr. Arent came, I had just joined the job not long ago. I knew that he had been transferred by the court and seemed to have committed a crime, so he was under the strictest control in our hospital."

The nurse pressed the button for the elevator and showed a gentle smile, "He stayed in the hospital for three years, and his mental state was not very good during this period. However, he was finally discharged from the hospital last year."

"Then he's quite lucky."

He Ao nodded thoughtfully.

"Mr. Jess, if you have such a good relationship, you may not necessarily meet him again."

The nurse smiled and led He Ao into the opened elevator, "Currently, only the sixth floor and the ninth to thirteenth floors of our hospital's wards are occupied by patients. The seventh and eighth floors are the laboratory department and the doctor's office.

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"Is there any difference between the ward on the sixth floor and other wards? There are also seventh and eighth floors in between."

He Ao looked at the screen for selecting a floor in the elevator.

"The wards on the sixth floor are all compulsory wards, and there are some patients who are not very 'safe'. Most of them are extreme and can easily hurt people. For example, your friend Mr. Allente used to live on the sixth floor."

The nurse explained while pressing the button for the elevator on the 9th floor.

"Then can I visit the sixth floor?"

He Ao smiled and asked, "I want to see the environment where Arent lived before."

"Are you sure?"
To be continued...