Hospital 444
Chapter 303 - 39 Humans and Non-Humans

Chapter 303: Chapter 39 Humans and Non-Humans

Li Jun’s sudden move to flip over the table was surprising, but Jiang Shan had already had his eye on him.

Before Li Jun’s hand could reach the knife, Jiang Shan charged toward him and slammed into him fiercely!

The tall and strong Jiang Shan had never given up basketball over these ten years. He even made a rudimentary basketball hoop out of the village’s trees and practiced shooting, so his muscle strength was now far more formidable than it used to be.

With this charge, Li Jun was knocked to the ground, unable to stand up for a while.

Jiang Shan kicked the knife that had fallen to the ground far away, looked at Li Jun, and said, "I’ve said it before, no one is allowed to touch the knives here!"

Obviously, the younger and taller Jiang Shan was someone Li Jun could never beat.

"Jiang, Jiang Shan, you..."

Then, Jiang Shan, looking at the knife on the ground behind him, said, "The knives must stay within everyone’s line of sight, and no one is allowed to touch them!"

Jiang Shan’s resonant and righteous words made those who harbored the same thoughts as Li Jun afraid to entertain such ideas any longer.

"Do any of you have such thoughts?"

At this point, Jiang Shan turned to the others and said, "If so, speak now!"

"No, no!"

"How could we think such things?"

Seeing the table lying on the ground and the knives scattered all over, everyone fell silent, daring not to say anything more.

Uncle Li also stood up at this moment and said, "Jiang Shan and I stand on common ground. No matter what, we cannot commit fratricide!"

"Uncle Li," at this point, Dai Wei cleared his throat, stood up, and said, "We... we’re just staring at each other, and by the time the fog spreads again, this room will be engulfed!"

"I don’t believe Nian Cheng would let us all die here when that time comes." Despite everything, Uncle Li was thinking ahead, "If we all die here, even if he is the village chief’s son, the combined forces of our families would make his life difficult."

Afterwards, he looked at the knife behind him and said, "Nian Cheng’s intention is not to kill us himself. But if there has to be a death, it should be the one who infiltrated us. So, we need to find a way to identify that person!"

"And then... kill that... ’person,’ right?"

Uncle Li nodded, "As it seems now, that’s the best solution."

Dai Wei looked around at the people...

Li Jun, Uncle Li, Jiang Shan, Chang Min, Xia Meng, Su Wenqing, Li Yanping...

Not considering Li Ruping who wasn’t here, Dai Wei needed to figure out which of these seven people was that "person."

If Li Ruping was pregnant... then it couldn’t be her. So, which one of these seven?

"So, which one of us is it?" At this point, Chang Min asked, "Uncle Li, do you have any idea?"

"I’m not sure," Uncle Li shook his head, saying, "But, if we could identify that ’person’ here, we wouldn’t have to face this trolley problem."

"So..." Chang Min hurriedly suggested, "why don’t we share a bit about our pasts to see if there is any inconsistency? Logically, memory that has been tampered with should have some flaws... right?"

At this moment, Uncle Li sighed, "About that, I know a bit. Five years ago, Village Chief Ge also tried various methods. I know some insider information; this memory tampering is absolutely perfect. The chief tried everything and couldn’t find the slightest flaw. Of course, they even tested with porcelain dolls, and no one reacted to them."

This seemed utterly preposterous.

You have to understand, porcelain dolls are normally used to expel the "unknown threats" in the fog, but they seem completely ineffective against the things that have already emerged from the fog.

"All signs indicate that those unknown entities can perfectly manipulate and process our memories. It isn’t impossible that our memories from childhood to adulthood are all fake," Uncle Li concluded.

Dai Wei fiercely ran his hands through his hair.

Actually, Dai Wei knew more or less what Uncle Li was talking about.

It was just that, emotionally... he had just been unwilling to accept it.

This also meant... identifying the other party was downright impossible.

"Previously, He Yun helped the village chief to examine all the suspects," Uncle Li, who seemed to know quite a bit of the insider information, said, "They inspected their skeletal distributions, the clotting time of their blood, even checked their urine and feces. If it weren’t for lack of equipment, He Yun would have even carried out further tests."

"I’ve also heard some things," Chang Min added, as she got along well with He Yun and knew some information: "The doctor thought of many methods, like observing how quickly their wounds healed, checking their pulse, pupil reaction to light, testing their lung capacity, examining their joint flexibility, and in the end even their tolerance to pain was tested... In short, they found no signs of non-human characteristics on them."

Xia Meng, who had experienced the death of loved ones, firmly declared, "But the things in the fog, they can’t possibly be human."

"Did He Yun tell you all this in detail?" Dai Wei pressed Chang Min for more information, "Is that true?"

"Yes... aside from killing and performing autopsies, the doctor tried everything else. Physiologically, they showed no abnormalities."

He Yun was a doctor, and if he couldn’t detect anything... then Dai Wei didn’t believe they could either.

Looking at the scattered knives on the ground, Dai Wei suddenly said, "Could Nian Cheng be thinking this way, wanting to force us into killing each other, to compel that thing to take action and kill someone?"

"Maybe that’s possible." Uncle Li nodded, suddenly realizing something and adding, "Right! Perhaps that’s what Nian Cheng is thinking! If the fog engulfs this room, then... that thing would have to escape!"

"I see!"

"Does Nian Cheng really think so? Or could it just be an accidental miscalculation?" Xia Meng, however, scoffed at the idea, "Besides, by that time, we’ll also be in danger. The fog spreads quickly."

Chang Min continued, "Whether it’s an accident or not, one thing is certain. Once those entities are completely engulfed by the fog, they can only come out during patrols."

"So..." Dai Wei pondered, "what other methods are there to identify it?"

Uncle Li... Of all these people, Dai Wei trusted him the most. He was recognized as a great guy in the village, and Dai Wei’s memories of him were vivid, hard to imagine as fake.

Jiang Shan was someone Dai Wei greatly admired; it was because of Jiang Shan that he played basketball.

He wasn’t particularly close with Chang Min and Xia Meng, so he wasn’t sure about them.

So...

He looked toward Su Wenqing.

It was him, wasn’t it?

It had to be him, right?

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