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Chapter 294 - 261: The Dean’s Quirk

Chapter 294: Chapter 261: The Dean’s Quirk

"So... wielding a medical hammer and sneaking over to knock on doors in the middle of the night is what you call an ’extremely cunning plan’?"

Uh...

Is he really a genius?

"Bro, isn’t the strategy you mentioned a bit too... too crude?"

Crude? It’s downright simple!

"Don’t be afraid, kiddo, stick close!"

Jiang Xiao didn’t give Yang Tao a chance to refuse and directly pulled her along to set out.

The two of them made their way to the dean’s office and found that the lights inside were still on.

It was just after nine, so it’s normal for them not to be resting yet.

They could faintly hear voices speaking inside...

"Stay here and don’t move," Jiang Xiao said before he went over by himself.

Yang Tao: ...

Why does Big Brother Rich have a sense of déjà vu about buying oranges?

Of course, Yang Tao didn’t stand still; otherwise, she always felt like a son, so she followed Jiang right over,

"Dean, this isn’t right..."

The pair had just approached the door when they heard Dr. Qin Shou’s voice.

"Pah, what’s there to fear? A horse won’t get fat without grazing at night, a man won’t get rich without windfalls! Fortune favors the bold, and timidity leads to starvation!"

The dean’s voice was different from during the day, having acquired a hint of ruthlessness.

"His identity seems extraordinary, maybe... After all, he doesn’t seem to be all there in the head, why not just scheme for his money? There’s no need to take his life, right?"

Emm...

Jiang Xiao and Yang Tao exchanged a glance.

They were not fools; they guessed that the protagonist of the conversation inside was likely Jiang Xiao.

"How much can scheming for wealth yield? You know about the situation in Lunte City, right? The economy is not doing well. This kind of fat sheep is once in a lifetime!"

Inside the dean’s office.

Greed flickered in Niu Wuliang’s eyes.

That stupid kid was able to pull out a fifty-thousand Gold Coin note just like that... his assets had to be at least several hundred thousand, if not more!

"Dean, he only saw the money; hasn’t he thought about the other party’s identity?"

Qin Shou clearly had some reluctance.

Living in this sinister world was already hard enough; he did not want to take risks.

It was one thing to bully the common folks normally.

A second-generation rich guy like Jiang Xiao, for all they knew, might have powerful people backing him up...

"Of course, there are risks, but I’ve carefully checked his personal information and found that it doesn’t match up with our city’s database. At the very least, there’s no information about him in our city."

After pausing, Niu Wuliang continued.

"Such a person is very likely from one of the other continents. As for his background, I suspect it’s rather shady. This kind of person, dying here... won’t attract much attention..."

"But..." Qin Shou was still conflicted, "But if the other party is involved in the underworld, doesn’t that make our actions even riskier?"

"Hah! Frightened of what? Could they be darker than how we operate in our hospital?" the dean said confidently.

"That’s most likely not the case," Qin Shou answered decisively this time.

"Just tamper with his IV, do something nasty, and kill him directly!"

"Uh, but he likes to have someone test the IV before using it..."

Huh?

Test the IV?

Clearly, Niu Wuliang was also flustered by this new term.

"Hmph, then just lure that Nuonuo into it, swap one for another, and we make a killing!"

"Uh, but what if he has a special constitution and the poison doesn’t kill him..."

"Why be so meek? Can’t you show a bit of a man’s spirit? If the poison doesn’t kill him, then we both stride to face the consequences!"

By this point, the dean’s expression had turned ferocious, clearly having lost his mind to greed.

"Great! That’s the spirit!"

"Haha, look at that? They even praise us for being courageous..."

Hmm?

Who’s talking?

With a sudden turn, the dean spotted their conversation’s protagonist, Jiang Xiao, smiling as he stared at him.

Behind him followed a blushing Yang Tao, head lowered, trying to make herself invisible, the very image of deference, attempting to hide behind the door...

Just... just so awkward?

Qin Shou looked at the dean and then at Jiang Xiao, starting to speak.

"Brother Jiang Xiao, you, why have you bothered to come visit?"

"What ’brother’? Can’t you be tough? Now that we’re caught, it saves us the trouble of wasting so much effort!"

Compared to Qin Shou, who was somewhat embarrassed after being caught, the dean was undoubtedly much braver.

Fifteen minutes later...

Niu Wuliang: (#)ཀ益ཀ(#)

"Bro, did I handle what you asked for neatly? If there’s anything unclear, please trouble yourself to ask me again."

Qin Shou: (#)༎ຶ۝༎ຶ(#)

"I frickin’ told you they’re not easy to mess with, you frickin’ insisted on confronting them? Are you happy now? Got your ass handed to you, huh!"

Man, that was a beating!

Even Qin Shou saw his own grandma waving at him!

Caught a whipping in normal mode.

The two, desperate from the beating, entered weird mode...

Yup, as expected, got beat even worse.

Those short fifteen minutes.

Felt like they’ve frickin’ lived through twenty-plus years to the two of them.

Just experiencing repeatedly the cycle of [getting knocked out], [waking up in pain], [getting knocked out] again.

...

"Hmm~"

Jiang Xiao stroked his chin, sorting through the information he had just received.

Wuliang Hospital, you can enter but can’t leave?

The director needs to accumulate five hundred thousand Gold Coins to leave the hospital?

"Hiss... What about you? Why contribute to the tyranny?"

Jiang Xiao raised his hand and pointed at Doctor Qin Shou, who immediately cowered and protected his head, his fear of the former now an instinctive reaction.

"I, I got to deceive five thousand patients, then I can leave the hospital..." Seeing Jiang Xiao furrow his brow, Qin Shou hurriedly explained: "Don’t, don’t! By deceiving, I mean including fraud for money, it doesn’t have to be fatal! I’ve always been one for profit over harm!"

Oh?

That’s somewhat interesting.

"Do you know what the ’task’ is for Xiao Qin to leave the hospital?"

"Uh..." Qin Shou hesitated for a moment, then said, "This kid, seems like she doesn’t know that you can’t leave the hospital..."

Huh?

Jiang Xiao was dumbfounded.

"Brother, it’s like this, listen to me first..."

According to the beastly interpretation, Xiao Qin, this post-2000 little girl, was orphaned from a young age, dependent on no one, and came straight to Wuliang Hospital after graduation.

Then she was treated like a donkey by Niu Wuliang for his workforce.

Up to now.

Xiao Qin hasn’t taken even an hour of leave!

Besides in-patient service, the farthest place she’s been is the canteen where she eats...

Jiang Xiao was somewhat startled.

It’s the same old saying, Xiao Qin really got the short end of the stick.

"Hey? By the way, Director, what are the conditions for your wife to leave the hospital?"

"Should be day after day, I guess."

Jiang Xiao: "?"

Yang Tao: "!"

Live streaming room: ?!!

Day after day?

It seems like the director didn’t say anything, yet somehow he revealed everything.

"Cough, she never told me explicitly, but she hinted to me... Ah, but I never expected she would have an affair with her own nephew... I just don’t get it, if day after day is all it takes to leave the hospital, why not come to me? I never rejected her."

Niu Wuliang seemed not to be lying, and he was gritting his teeth unconsciously when mentioning his wife’s affair.

No man can tolerate being cuckolded.

Especially when the wife’s affair is with one’s own nephew, and the place of the affair is in one’s own hospital...

Of course, unless one’s a Minotaur or has a special fetish—some might dig that sort of thing.

Tsk, Jiang Xiao smirked, musing to himself that the director’s wife’s conditions to leave the hospital were indeed of a distasteful taste.

To use such a thing as a condition to leave the hospital, no wonder the director’s wife would hit on anyone she lays her eyes on, causing even the security guards to dare not cross paths with her.

Speaking of security guards...

"Speaking of which, doesn’t your hospital have a security guard that seems very stupid? What’s his condition to leave?"

"Betting on soccer."

The director’s point matched what Jiang Xiao guessed.

Huh, seems like something is off?

If it’s betting on soccer... that seems to be the security guard’s personal hobby, right?

Which means.

"Minotaur Director, your personal hobby must be loving money, right?"

"Haha, bro, look at what you’re saying, who doesn’t love money?"

"Okay, I won’t talk about yours now, Qin Shou, is your hobby deceiving patients with fake medicine?"

"I..." After hemming and hawing for quite a while, Doctor Qin finally admitted, "I do have somewhat of a penchant in that area..."