The friendly Friday was a qualified person to talk to. After Lu Li asked, she shrugged indifferently, "I just see you spinning around like a headless fly. Maybe you are just a pure good person."
But her question really made Lu Li think about his purpose of doing this. To kill time, to find the truth, or is it just out of habit?
"What do you recommend?"
"Do you like cats?" Friday suddenly asked for no reason.
Lu Li recalled that when he came into contact with the elegant black cat named "Flowing Cat" in Ward 202 not long ago, he wanted to touch it and nodded.
"Contacting a patient is like contacting a cat. We need to observe whether it is resisting or nervous. If it is nervous, let it relax. If it is wary, let it take off its guard."
Lu Li digested Friday's reminder.
"It seems you already know what to do." Friday gestured to Lu Li to look at the bed by the window, "Did you see it? There is a wild and untamable little wild cat there."
The cold girl sat beside the bed, bloodshot eyes surging around her, and a black halo of light suspended above her head, like a fallen angel without wings.
Misseliya—the name on the patient list came to Lu Li's mind.
This theological image does echo Friday's description of the "wild and untamable wild cat."
"Can you show me how?"
But Lu Li didn't want his first target to be so difficult to deal with.
"As it should be."
The smug Friday magically pulled out a rose from his arms, stuffed it into the shadow of his hood, held it in his mouth, floated to the bedside of Missalya, leaned against the window sill, and a low-pitched invitation came from under his gray robe: "
Beautiful lady, can I buy you a drink?"
"...Get away."
Michellelia replied.
“Girl, stop pretending to be cold——”
Snap!
Friday covered his face and returned to Lu Li's side.
"You failed."
Lu Li looked at Friday calmly.
"I thought we knew each other very well."
The rose in his mouth disappeared, and Friday's hand reached into the shadow of the hood and rubbed his cheek.
"Maybe she doesn't like me. It's your turn. Use the method I taught you."
Friday encouraged him eagerly, but saw Lu Li walking towards the door.
"Where are you going?"
"Get another patient."
Friday was just a slap, but he might have woken up in the early morning of the eleventh day.
Lu Li left the ward feeling regretful on Friday, skipped the worm door in 209, and entered ward 208.
[208: Pig King; Dog Meat; Gatekeeper]
After Gorou was discharged from the hospital, only the Pig King and the gatekeeper were left in the ward. When Lu Li arrived, he suffered a similar outcome to Friday.
"You are not welcome here, get out." The gatekeeper wearing a short brown cloak yelled.
"If you are angry because of dog meat, I did nothing wrong, and the head nurse thinks so too." Lu Li said because he was here.
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
The gatekeeper followed his words, and this was exactly what Lu Li needed: communication is the cornerstone of contact.
"If you hate Dog Meat, his discharge from the hospital means you will never have to face him again. If you like him, you should be happy that he is discharged from the hospital."
"...What exactly do you want to say."
The gatekeeper's tone was a little loose. At least Lu Li felt that his emotions were getting complicated.
"I realize that many patients here need help, like Dog Meat, like him." Lu Li looked at the gatekeeper and tried to make his tone sincere, "Do you need help?"
"You think you're a doctor?"
"No, I am also a patient. I may be able to help you more than a doctor."
But the gatekeeper couldn't listen anymore and drove Lu Li away impatiently: "I've heard enough, get out."
Lu Li did not force himself to stay, and left the ward with the rhythm of driving and humming.
Maybe a few more contacts can loosen him up a bit.
【207: Boy; eldest sister; Kate】
The boy suffered from ulcers and has been discharged from the hospital. Kate and her eldest sister...
Lu Li didn't waste time and went in to ask the Siren and the doll who was Kate and who was the eldest sister, and came to the door of ward 206.
[206: Crow mask; golden retriever; model]
The door was open. After Lu Li walked in, he looked at the crow mask and looked at the tall "silhouette" lying on the narrow hospital bed.
Half of her face is filled with thin and sharp teeth, her peak-like aquiline nose and deep well-like eye sockets make her look like the product of a nightmare, which is disturbing.
Model - at least that's what the patient list says.
This wasn't the first time Lu Li looked at her, but this time it was different - he needed to face the outline that evoked deep fears in human hearts.
"The head nurse said you used to be a model."
Looking at the model's creepy lead-colored eyes, Lu Li ignored the frightening sense of oppression and continued: "I guess so. Your facial features are clear and three-dimensional."
The towering nose bridge is like a mountain range and the eye sockets are sunken into the basin. Fine, sharp teeth are arranged on the lower half of the face.
"Slender figure."
The two-meter-long hospital bed is like a crib for the model. Her head is against the wall, her legs are stretched out from the bed, and her knees form a right angle for her feet to step on the bed.
"Tender skin."
The smooth, sickly pale skin of birch is reminiscent of legendary creatures such as vampires.
The model spoke under Lu Li's praise, with a hoarse, obscure voice like a crow eating carrion: "What do you want to say..."
"The voice is also very elegant."
Lu Li paused slightly and continued the rhythm: "Why are you hospitalized?"
"...I'm looking for my mother."
Lu Li's praise had an effect - Friday's method was not without its merits.
"Did you find her?"
"……No."
"Does the nurse know where your mother is?"
"……have no idea."
"Do you need my help?"
The model sat up at this time, and her upper body, which was taller than Lu Li's, brought a deeper sense of oppression: "...you want to help me?"
"That golden retriever was discharged from the hospital with my help." Lu Li pointed to the empty bed, "So I can help you too."
"...Okay...find me a mother." The model said dullly.
"Is she a patient here or a health care worker?"
"……patient."
"What clues do you have so far?"
"...She is in the hospital."
"That means you don't know which floor she is on, right?"
"……Um."
Not only that, the model didn't know her mother's appearance, name and age. But this was not a problem - under the "paranoia", Lu Li couldn't see clearly what the patient looked like.
The known clues that Lu Li can associate with are the dragging woman, who is also looking for her child... but they have nothing in common.
The only ones that have not yet been explored are wards 203, 211 and 212.
If the model's mother is on the second floor, she can only be in these three wards.
Next to him, Crow Mask waited with interest for Lu Li to finish questioning the model.
"I now believe you can fulfill my commission." She said
"Can you lend me a flashlight first?" Lu Li asked.