DA chapter 63

Dangerous footsteps approached the consultation desk. Lin Jia saw that Yan Xu was ready to draw fire. Beforehand, Yan Xu looked at Lin Jia once more.

He wanted to make sure that Lin Jia was properly hidden so that neither of them would violate the doctor’s orders.

Lin Jia saw Yan Xu raise an eyebrow and glance over. Too lazy to interpret the look, Lin Jia simply turned his head away.

“Tsk.”

Lin Jia seemed to hear Yan Xu’s dissatisfied tone, but he still ignored it. He took out a biscuit and held it in his hand.

Yan Xu immediately realized what Lin Jia was about to do, but it was too late to stop him. He watched as Lin Jia threw the biscuit into the distance.

A pack of compressed biscuits isn’t heavy enough to make a loud sound, but the packaging still made a scratching noise as it rubbed against the ground and rolled along.

The two who nurses coming to check the consultation desk were distracted by the noise. Lin Jia took advantage of that moment and quickly left behind the pillar, circling around to the other side of the consultation desk.

As he passed Yan Xu, he shot him a look that said, ‘Still not leaving?’

The nurses did not know it was a feint, but after picking up the biscuit, anger filled their faces.

The biscuit certainly wasn’t theirs. Since it didn’t belong to the medical staff, it must have belonged to a patient.

Some patients could not control their appetite and ate random things. Didn’t they know that illness enters through the mouth? If they got sick, it would affect production!

The two nurses angrily returned outside the inpatient building. One of them held up the “evidence” and loudly demanded to know whose biscuit it was.

The other nurse counted the patients present: one, two, three, four, five, six.

There were six patients recorded this morning as needing free time, and all six were here now.

The patients outside during their free time looked at the nurses with confusion. Xiao Yao said unhappily, “We’ve been here the whole time. On what basis do you decide that the thing in your hand is ours?”

“Yeah, yeah,” echoed Xiao Tian, “there are more patients in the hospital than just us. It should belong to someone else.”

The two nurses stared at everyone, scanning their faces, trying to identify the restless person by their expressions.

After one round of checking, the nurses found nothing. Eating random things was a serious matter at Yile Maternal and Child Health Hospital, so they had to deal with it.

The six patients with free time were indeed all outside the inpatient building, and their stories matched. However, the biscuit had been found inside the building. Left with no choice, they shifted suspicion onto today’s patient awaiting delivery.

Because the incident happened suddenly, the nurses were only concerned with finding the biscuit’s owner and neglected their surveillance duties. They held the biscuit and turned toward the second floor, intending to question the curly-haired man.

With the watchers gone, the remaining people relaxed.

“Captain Yan, you…”

Jin Jian looked toward Yan Xu and Lin Jia, eager to learn the answer to the Fishman question.

“Still missing some.”

The nurses would return soon, and Lin Jia did not want to waste time explaining the Fishman question to the others. He looked at Yan Xu.

Yan Xu had already asked about the Fishman question. According to Fish Belly’s speed, the fully enclosed VIP ward should now have a window.

The nurses had just gone to the second floor, which gave them time to check the status of the VIP ward.

After glancing at Yan Xu, Lin Jia walked toward the big tree they had climbed before. Jin Jian wanted to follow, but Xiao Yao stopped him. Xiao Yao said, “Didn’t you see the NPCs suspecting that we left during free time? Don’t cause any more trouble.”

Jin Jian could only stop and watch anxiously as Yan Xu followed Lin Jia.

The two arrived under the shade of the tree again. Lin Jia continued to play up his “can’t climb trees” persona. He gave up his spot so that Yan Xu could climb the tree smoothly, stand level with the third-floor VIP ward, and look through the window at the scene inside.

Yan Xu glanced at Lin Jia, took a few steps back to loosen up, and then rushed forward. He stepped on the trunk and flipped onto the branch.

Probably because the branch had already held two people’s weight, it cracked when Yan Xu crossed it.

Lin Jia: “Careful.”

Yan Xu was not affected. He leaned forward and grabbed another branch to distribute his weight more evenly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Lin Jia’s upturned face. While adjusting his posture, Yan Xu said, “Keep the story consistent—you already coordinated it in advance, right?”

Of course. When Lin Jia followed Yan Xu last time, he had already anticipated this possibility, prepared a response, and then followed him.

Yan Xu caught another piece of evidence of how deeply Lin Jia thought things through and asked, “Why didn’t you say it earlier?”

Although he didn’t care about being discovered by the nurses, he had considered offering Lin Jia an escape in exchange for information. However, Lin Jia had already prepared his own escape route, making Yan Xu look self-indulgent.

Lin Jia said lightly, “I just didn’t expect such a simple way to escape. Captain Yan hadn’t thought of it.”

Yan Xu still had several compressed biscuits in his pocket. This one in Lin Jia’s hand had just been taken from Xiao Yao and was kept as a backup.

Yan Xu casually slapped the kangaroo pocket in front of his hoodie, and the biscuits clattered inside.

“You said it yourself; these are rewards.”

Yan Xu’s voice was bright and clear. If you listened carefully, you could even hear a trace of a carefree, youthful tone in it. “Haven’t you heard the saying? A man who loses his honor might as well die.”

He equated the reward that Lin Jia gave him with a man’s honor.

Lin Jia found this amusing and said, “Sorry, I really haven’t heard that one.”

Above his head, Yan Xu had already found the best position to observe the VIP ward without being easily discovered. While shifting his footing, he tossed a sentence down to Lin Jia below the tree. “Yo, so your anger’s gone now?”

Lin Jia thought he had heard wrong: “What?”

Yan Xu lowered his gaze. “Weren’t you angry just now?”

Lin Jia paused.

Yan Xu snorted. “I have no idea what you were angry about, but your face was longer than a shoehorn and your tone was colder than if I owed you five million.”

Lin Jia’s fingers curled slightly, and his tone returned to its usual calmness. “I wasn’t.”

Rustle—

Rustle rustle—

Yan Xu gave no response, only the sound of branches scraping through the air.

Lin Jia looked up. Yan Xu had already reached the best observation point and was looking toward the window. As for Lin Jia’s denial of being angry, Yan Xu probably hadn’t heard a word.

Under the shade of the tree, Lin Jia could no longer see Yan Xu’s expression when he looked toward the window, so he calmly watched his movements.

Angry?

The truth was that Lin Jia rarely got angry. Losing bids, leaked proposals, products maliciously taken down, business expansion obstructed, subordinates who were all useless… even when encountering things more annoying than these, Lin Jia would not get angry.

He merely realized that Yan Xu treated everyone equally. What was there to be angry about?

Rustle—

The branch above made another whipping sound. Lin Jia raised his head again. Yan Xu had already jumped down.

“Tsk,” Yan Xu said. “You definitely can’t guess what’s inside the ward.”

Lin Jia asked, “What is it?”

Yan Xu looked Lin Jia up and down. He patted the dust off his palms and said, “First, tell me why you were angry.”

Lin Jia: “…”

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