Inside the long corridor of Enchante Hospital, Sister Vanya, dressed in a white Sister's habit, was walking with Sister Anlei. Sister Anlei had come to the hospital for some business and took the opportunity to visit Sister Vanya, who had been assigned here.
"At first, I thought Sister Vanya, you might not adapt to the work here, but now it seems I was overthinking. You're doing a great job here. If the Historical Scripture Department didn't need an experienced administrator in the future, perhaps you could achieve considerable success here as well."
Walking beside Vanya, Sister Anlei said to her with a smile, while Vanya responded with a humble tone.
"Thank you for your praise. Helping the injured and sick escape pain is merely practicing the teachings of the Holy Mother."
"Practicing the teachings? Haha... Yes, reverence for the Holy Mother isn't just expressed through a few prayers; it requires practical action, and you've grasped this well... However..."
Saying this, Sister Anlei looked at Vanya again with gentle eyes, then spoke again.
"However, I heard from Doctor Cade that in the main inpatient buildings where ordinary patients are treated, there have recently been rumors of ordinary trauma patients recovering significantly overnight... Some have even seen the shadow of a white Sister, and some patients even call her an angel. Sister Vanya, regarding this... do you have anything to say?"
"Ah... this..." Hearing Sister Anlei's words, Vanya's expression momentarily became flustered. After calming down, she quickly added.
"I'm very sorry, Sister Anlei, this is indeed the result of me using my abilities to treat those ordinary patients in the inpatient building... I saw that many of these people were poor workers injured on the job, and because they had no money for treatment, they couldn't receive complete treatment in the hospital. So I thought I could help... This is indeed a bit against the rules, and I'm sorry if it has caused trouble for the hospital..."
Vanya lowered her head apologetically to Sister Anlei, while Sister Anlei continued to reply with a benevolent face.
"Your kindness is commendable, Sister Vanya. This is an essential quality for us as servants of the Holy Mother. But you also need to know that kindness has limits. Using extraordinary power on ordinary people who don't understand the occult is not a good thing. Although your intentions were good, this will still cause extraordinary expansion, making ordinary people curious about occult power, thus enticing them to pursue it, and ultimately this may lead to them and more people being harmed by the Spirit Sight contained within occult knowledge. For the sake of the broader public, we should use extraordinary power cautiously."
Sister Anlei warned Vanya, and after listening to her words, Vanya also nodded.
"I understand, Sister Anlei. I will be careful next time."
"Mm... It's good that you understand. Well, I should be going now. May you walk further on the path guided by the Holy Mother, Sister Vanya."
Sister Anlei said her final words to Vanya, and Vanya respectfully performed an internal Shining Light Church 禮儀 towards Sister Anlei, thinking secretly in her heart.
'Perhaps what is guiding my path now is not the Holy Mother but Aka...'
Vanya thought this in her heart. Ever since her previous request for guidance from the Holy Mother failed to heal, she had been very flustered. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Aka bestowed new enlightenment upon her, directly granting her a large amount of knowledge about the human body, which allowed her to use knowledge as a foundation and complete the Healing with her own will.
'Compared to giving guidance to believers, Aka is more inclined to bestow corresponding knowledge to allow me to see through things themselves. Is this the nature of Aka as a deity? Closer to symbolizing knowledge and wisdom than benevolence?'
Afterwards, Sister Anlei and Vanya chatted for a couple more sentences, and then Sister Anlei left. After watching Sister Anlei walk out of her sight, Vanya let out a long sigh and prepared to return to her work at the hospital.
Just then, Vanya felt a strange sensation. She was startled, then touched the area below her collarbone on her chest, the spot covered by her Sister's habit.
'This is... Miss Dorothy, she's calling me...'
After the Living Puppet mark on her body transmitted a strange sensation, Vanya quickly walked forward. After turning several times in the corridor of the hospital's extraordinary injury department, she turned into an unoccupied storage room for bed sheets and duvet covers. After entering and closing the door, she took out the Holy Scripture she always carried, turned to the communication page with Dorothy, and sure enough, there was a new message from Dorothy asking if she was still working at the hospital.
Seeing Dorothy's handwriting, Vanya didn't hesitate, but directly picked up her pen and wrote on the Holy Scripture.
"Yes, Miss Dorothy, I am currently working as a temporary Healing Sister at Enchante Hospital. Is there something you need?"
Vanya wrote in response to Dorothy, and after a while, Dorothy's handwriting quickly reappeared.
"Alright, I need to find someone now. He is a shapeshifter from the Wolf Blood Society named Davik. He's a thin male with very dark hair, severely injured by a Wind Art User's attack, and has lost a lot of blood. He might have been sent to the hospital three days ago. I remember your place is the largest extraordinary injury treatment center in all of Tivian. Have you seen a similar patient?"
Dorothy's words reappeared on Vanya's Holy Scripture, and Vanya was startled. After thinking for a moment, as if she had remembered something, she immediately responded by writing.
"Miss Dorothy, I have an impression of the patient you mentioned. He's a short person with small eyes and prominent cheekbones, right? I know him. He was sent here by the Hunters from the An Yin Bureau a few days ago. He was very seriously injured, almost all cuts. I even participated in his emergency treatment at the time."
"He was indeed sent to your place? How is his condition now?"
Not long after Vanya responded, Dorothy's handwriting immediately reappeared, and the writing was quite scribbled, indicating her urgency while writing. Seeing this, Vanya also somewhat understood that the patient named Davik seemed to have some crucial importance, and she responded without delay.
"He has been out of danger after our rescue, but perhaps because he hit his head during the previous battle, or perhaps because blood loss caused problems with oxygen supply to his brain, he is currently in a coma and has not shown any signs of waking up so far. He is currently receiving follow-up treatment in a special isolation ward, and several Hunter team members are guarding him in shifts around the clock, waiting for him to wake up. It seems they want to conduct some kind of interrogation. I still change his dressing frequently."
Vanya wrote on her Holy Scripture. After she finished writing these words, they quickly disappeared into the pages. In the distance, in the carriage, Dorothy couldn't help but feel happy after seeing Vanya's response.
'He was indeed sent to the hospital. I knew these Hunters wouldn't let this guy die in vain for information.'
Inside the carriage in the Basket District of South Tivian, Dorothy looked at Vanya's communication on the "wen hai hang zhi" in front of her and couldn't help but think to herself. At this moment, she had found Davik's location, and now she needed to find a way to find that Stone tablet, but this was also a relatively difficult matter.
'That Davik is still in a coma right now, so I can't ask him anything. Moreover, he's currently in the hospital controlled by the Church and guarded by Hunters. Even if he wakes up, it will be extremely difficult to approach him for interrogation.'
In the carriage, Dorothy stroked her chin in thought. While thinking, she lifted the curtain on the side of her carriage and looked out at the street.
Outside the carriage window, Dorothy saw a street covered with fine coal dust. Across the street, there was a four-story detached building. The front door of the building was tightly closed.
Dorothy found this building near the location where Davik was assassinated. According to the interviews conducted by Dorothy's Corpse Puppet with the neighbors, a large number of strangers had recently entered here by carriage and moved out many things.
After searching with small Corpse Puppets, Dorothy confirmed that this building was Davik's residence. There were clear signs of being searched and rummaged through, and the basement had been emptied.
It was obvious that the strangers who broke in, as mentioned by the neighbors, were Hunters. They used unknown intelligence to find Davik's residence, ambushed him when he was out, and then searched his home. Most of the things related to secrets were likely taken back by the Hunters, including the Stone tablet that Dorothy needed.
Dorothy's original plan was to either get the Stone tablet directly or get Davik. Davik had been studying that Stone tablet for so long, it was possible he had copied down the common language on it. But now, both the Stone tablet and Davik himself were in the hands of the An Yin Bureau, which made things difficult.
'Hiss... What should I do now? Both the person and the tablet are in the hands of the An Yin Bureau... Grego just arrived in Tivian, his butt hasn't even warmed up yet. He's unfamiliar and has no status, so he can't help... And I can't directly oppose the An Yin Bureau, it's very troublesome...'
With a slightly troubled expression, Dorothy thought to herself. After thinking for a while, an idea came to her mind.
'Hmm, that Davik is still in a coma, perhaps... I can try this...'
Suddenly, an idea struck Dorothy. She immediately picked up the pen in her hand and wrote on the "wen hai hang zhi" she held.
"Sister Vanya, you just said... you are also responsible for taking care of the comatose Davik, right? Then there is something I would like to ask you to do."
Dorothy's written words quickly appeared before Vanya, who had been waiting for a reply in the storage room. Vanya's expression paused upon seeing them, and then she picked up her pen and replied.
"Just say what you need, Miss Dorothea."
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Enchante Hospital, Extraordinary Injury Department.
In the basement of the Extraordinary Injury Department building, there is an area specifically for treating dangerous patients. Those affected by Spirit Sight, who have lost control of their minds, or dangerous members of secret societies who require treatment are sent here for confined treatment. Almost every city's Extraordinary Injury Department has a similar place.
Vanya, dressed in a white Sister's habit, walked down the long underground corridor with a bottle of medicine. On both sides of the corridor were rows of thick steel doors stretching into the distance. The rooms sealed by these thick iron doors had no windows, and muffled knocking and painful wailing occasionally came from inside, making the scene somewhat terrifying in the dim light.
Vanya hurried forward and soon arrived before an iron door. After a simple knock, the door opened, revealing a young Hunter in black clothes with a tired face. When he saw Vanya, he blinked and yawned, saying.
"Ugh... It's Sister Vanya. Is it time to change the dressing?"
"Yes, and also to check if the wounds healed by ability have cracked due to incomplete recovery, Mr. Chuck. You all look so tired, isn't it time for a shift change yet?"
Looking at the Hunter team member in front of her, Vanya asked curiously. Then she glanced into the ward behind the Hunter and saw that besides the person lying on the bed receiving an IV drip, there was another Hunter leaning against the wall, resting with his eyes closed.
"It's almost time, our shift will be here soon. Sister Vanya, hurry and come in to change the dressing. Hopefully, this guy wakes up soon so we don't have to suffer guarding him all day."
The Hunter said with a tone of complaint. After talking with him, Vanya quickly entered the ward and began changing the dressing and conducting the examination.
Vanya glanced at the pale and emaciated man lying on the bed with his eyes closed. She first changed the IV bottle, then lifted a part of the blanket and began to check his condition.
On the unconscious Davik, there were iron chains connecting to the ground shackling his hands, and his arms and body were wrapped in countless bandages. To save Spirituality, the Healing Priest only healed the most severe wounds, and the rest were treated with normal methods, thus requiring regular dressing changes.
Vanya untied a part of the bandage on Davik's arm and began to change the dressing. During this process, she glanced at the two Hunters behind her, confirmed that they were not looking in her direction, and quietly took out a red pen from her sleeve, drawing a mark next to Davik's wound, a mark she was very familiar with, a combination of an inverted pentagram, an eye, and a cup.
After the mark was drawn, Vanya immediately took out new bandages and wrapped Davik, covering the mark she had drawn on his arm. Then, Vanya carried the removed bandages and medicine bottle, stood up, and greeted the two guarding Hunters before leaving the ward.
After Vanya left, the guarding Hunters closed the heavy iron door again, then returned to their seats boredly. The young Hunter named Chuck glanced at Davik lying on the bed and couldn't help but mutter complainingly.
"Tch... This guy, when will he wake up? Changing shifts to guard him here all day is like being in prison."
"God knows... Even though the guys who went on the mission were so careless and hit him so hard, leaving this guy so severely injured... If he doesn't wake up, we'll have wasted our time..."
In the other corner, the Hunter who was resting with his eyes closed also replied. After complaining a couple of times, the Hunters continued to sit in their positions in the ward, quietly waiting for the shift change.
Just like that, after the invisible silence lasted for more than half an hour, there was suddenly movement on the originally quiet hospital bed.
"Cough... cough cough... cough..."
The sound of coughing startled the two Hunter team members who were about to doze off. They quickly stood up and hurried to the bedside, where they saw Davik dry coughing on the bed.
"What's wrong with this guy?"
"I don't know, he had no reaction the past two days, I haven't seen him cough like this. Should we call a doctor?"
Seeing this scene, the two Hunters were discussing what to do, when Davik suddenly stopped coughing. His eyes trembled slightly, then slowly opened before the Hunters.
"Where... is this..."
Looking at the scene before him, Davik muttered with a bewildered expression. Seeing this, the Hunters couldn't help but widen their eyes.
"He, he's awake!"
"Quick! Go report to Mr. Edmund! Say this guy is awake! I'll stay here and guard him! You go quickly!"
Seeing this scene, the two Hunters said excitedly. On the carriage driving in the distance, Dorothy was watching this scene in the ward through the vision of her Living Puppet.
With a slight smile, Dorothy manipulated the unconscious Davik through the puppet mark, making him speak in a bewildered tone.
"Who... are you?"