Fengguang flipped through several more photos in a row. Without exception, they were all taken through iron bars, showing the shoreline outside. The patients being abused were both men and women, and when it came to the women… she didn’t dare keep looking. She closed the album, her heart unable to settle for a long time.
From the photos, it was clear the phone’s owner had taken them from inside a sealed room. Those black iron bars looked just like a prison cell. What frightened her even more was that Nangong Zhe had appeared in the photos wearing a doctor’s coat.
Clutching the phone tightly, she made a decision.
She left the room and followed the path she remembered, passing through the woods until she reached the hospital. Finding the Human Resources office wasn’t difficult—it was on the second floor. Carefully avoiding Qi Wei’s office, she knocked on the door of the records room. A woman soon came to open it. She had seen Fengguang in the cafeteria before and asked kindly, “Miss Xia, what can I do for you?”
“Well…” Fengguang said awkwardly, “I… got my period.”
It was something any woman would understand immediately.
The female doctor nodded right away. “Miss Xia, do you not have any sanitary pads?”
“Yeah… so I was wondering if you could lend me some, just for now?”
“Of course, but mine are in the dorm, and someone needs to stay here…”
“It’s okay, I can watch the room for you,” Fengguang said pitifully. “Please help me out. You know all my things were taken by that runaway boat captain.”
“Alright then… Miss Xia, just wait inside for a bit. I’ll be back soon.”
“Okay.”
After giving a few more instructions, the doctor left. Fengguang went inside, closed the door, and let out a sigh of relief. Honestly, she was lucky it had been a woman—if it were a male doctor, she probably would’ve had to pretend to flirt just to get in.
Once inside, she immediately spotted the file cabinets. She was sure what she needed was here. She remembered that Nangong Zhe had been exposed as a psychiatric patient last year, which meant he might have come to the island around that time.
Finding the files from that year, she opened one and saw several staff information sheets. On the last page, she found Nangong Zhe’s name and photo.
Nangong Zhe—top graduate from a medical university, attending psychiatrist at the hospital.
He used to be a doctor?
She hadn’t known that. If Nangong Zhe had been a doctor, then how had he become a patient? Did something happen after he arrived at the hospital that led people to discover he had a mental illness? A psychiatrist becoming a psychiatric patient… it was almost too ironic.
Suddenly, Fengguang thought of something. She quickly went through all the files from the past ten years. There weren’t many doctors on Diamond Island, so it didn’t take long.
But none of the records contained Qi Wei’s name.
No Qi Wei. No Zhang Huai. No Jin Guoguo… not even the female doctor she had just met.
What did that mean?
It meant that all the doctors and nurses she had seen… were fake.
Fengguang put everything back exactly as it had been and quietly waited for the HR doctor to return. After receiving the sanitary pads and thanking her, she walked out with a stiff smile on her face.
As she watched the doctors and nurses passing by in the hallway, her scalp prickled and cold sweat broke out all over her body.
She had never been this afraid before.
Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 34.1