The Last Gentleman

Chapter 216: Normal

Levinhome City, the third largest city under the organization’s jurisdiction.

The clinics here are structured like large hospitals, known as Sunlight Clinic or Sunlight General Hospital, with a gold-plated sun disc even hanging at the very center of the hospital building.

The reason for such a name lies in the fact that the clinic was established using a secret medicine called “Sun Secret Medicine”, which had passed the organization’s inspection.

This type of medicine had been classified as top-secret by the organization, and after being produced by Sunlight Clinic, it was sent to the organization through specialized channels.

Along the way, it underwent at least five inspections; should any issues be found with the secret medicine in transit, all personnel involved in the previous inspection stages would be held accountable.

It is rumored that the Sun Secret Medicine emits a dazzling glow and must be packaged in a gold-plated container with a transparency less than 0.03%.

Essentially, it’s a combat-type medicine, and upon consumption, small flares would appear on the physical surface of the user; the energy consumed could be fully replenished or even exceed certain limits within a short period.

This medicine is restricted to use only between the hours of 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM.

The user’s profession and pathological traits must not be related to darkness; otherwise, severe side effects may occur, even leading to death.

Currently, due to the shadow of death looming over the city, the production of Sun Secret Medicine has been temporarily suspended to prevent carrying unknown death factors to Zion.

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Clatter clatter clatter~

The carriage stopped in front of the hospital.

The once bustling Sunlight General Hospital now appeared exceptionally desolate, with the building further shrouded in fog.

The fog density around the hospital area was noticeably thicker than other parts of the street, and even the color was slightly darker.

This was mainly because the hospital’s morgue, as well as morgues urgently expanded after the occurrence of deaths, were all filled to capacity.

Initially, the bodies were retained in the morgue as they might contain important death factors; therefore, they had not been cremated… However, time was running short.

Considering that several autopsy officers had examined the bodies without any findings, and with the increasing number of dead, the earliest bodies would be cremated in batches starting tomorrow.

This was one of the reasons Mr. Helvoye was in a hurry.

“Hurry! The autopsy work starts immediately, there might be no rest tonight.”

Mr. Helvoye hardly seemed like an elderly person, taking two or three Instant Steps to reach the hospital’s main entrance directly from the carriage, with his three-person team hurriedly following him.

The clinic apprentice guarding the gate immediately led the way for everyone upon seeing the autopsy certificate provided by Mr. Helvoye.

“Is not ‘Sun Dis’ here?”

“Director Datis left the clinic several days ago, gathering a special team within the clinic to investigate every corner of the city and the areas where gentlemen have disappeared.”

“Any results?”

“Not yet…”

“It seems there are not many of you left at the hospital, are there no injured to deal with here?”

“Basically none… Whether it’s civilians or gentlemen, none are injured, or rather, they bypass the injured phase. Once infected with an unknown death factor, they are already dead when found.

When the hospital’s morgue was full, most apprentices and staff had been dispatched outside, responsible for accepting and handling bodies at various temporary sites.

Only a few remain at the hospital.”

“Any case of a body reanimating?”

“Absolutely not; since the event, all bodies have been quite stationary.”

“Hmm…”

“Mr. Helvoye, do you need the reports of the previous autopsy officers?”

“If they have any groundbreaking autopsy results, I would like to see them, but if they found nothing, there’s no point. Hurry and take us to the early victims’ morgue.”

“Yes.”

The apprentice also glanced at Yi Chen and the others, whispering, “Recently, as gentleman deaths have begun to occur, even those reaching their limits have died by suicide.

The upper management requires that gentlemen who have not reached their limits, aside from medical personnel, be also listed for protection and be centrally managed at a hotel.

You all…”

“They are my people, Zion has already acknowledged their abilities, no need for centralized supervision. If anyone asks up there, just say they are all my assistants, and count as medical personnel.”

Upon seeing Helvoye openly state his position, the clinic apprentice naturally did not dare to say anything.

They soon arrived at the corridor of the morgue, where another apprentice was on duty. After a brief handover, everyone was led to [Morgue No. 1].

The electrical system was fully operational,

providing illumination while also maintaining the continuous operation of the cooling system,

The apprentice said, “The bodies stored here are all from the earliest victims of the incident, all of whom committed [suicide], and there might also be some ordinary citizens who committed suicide mixed in.

They will all be uniformly cremated tomorrow, so you might need to hurry.

I will help you transfer them to the adjacent autopsy room.”

However, Helvoye directly rejected such a proposal, “Transferring is a waste of time, just perform the autopsy here. Don’t worry, there won’t be any stains on the floor.”

“This…”

“If someone asks, you tell them it was my personal act.”

“Okay.”

Following the apprentice’s departure, Helvoye randomly selected a corpse, unzipped the black body bag, and the condition of the body made him frown deeply.

It wasn’t a matter of the body being placed for too long and decaying,

but the numerous stitching scars spread across the body’s surface, indicating it had been thoroughly examined no less than five times.

“Absolutely unviewable… How can such crude skills qualify one to be an Autopsy Officer? The organization’s standards are getting lower and lower.”

After a round of complaints, Helvoye opened his carry bag.

A series of custom surgical tools were displayed, and with a speed barely visible to others, he reopened the body, inspecting it both internally and externally.

Lotson, assigned as the assistant and dressed in a white robe, also immediately followed up, trying his best to meet Mr. Helvoye’s demands.

Yi Chen and Barry stood by watching.

“Grape, deeply combine.”

Though standing a meter away, Yi Chen could clearly see the detailed conditions inside the body cavity. As this was one of the earliest victims, the internal tissues had begun to dissolve, creating a mess.

Unaware, two hours passed, and Helvoye packed up his tools and put all the bodies back in place.

Without any discovery, Lotson also used his ancient magic to check the blood of the bodies, which contained no foreign substances. It was just an ordinary body with no symptoms of Pathological Traits.

The only difference among the victims was the variety of ways they committed suicide.

“The possibility of Physical Pathology is almost zero, it is basically certain to be a highly recessive Psychological Pathology, and to further confirm, we will need to examine some fresh bodies with intact brains.”

Helvoye immediately called the apprentice by the door, “What’s the nearest temporary morgue to the hospital? I need access to some fresh bodies.”

“Fresh bodies?

Perfect! Since the hospital interior will clear a batch of early bodies tomorrow, most of the external sites are already full. Some of the citizens who died today had been sent early to Sun Hospital, temporarily placed in ordinary wards.”

“Do you have any bodies that died within the last half hour?”

“A batch arrived just ten minutes ago, but I need to check the specific numbers; I’ll lead you there now.”

Everyone quickly walked to the ordinary ward area of the Inpatient Department, where many gurneys tied with straps holding bodies were randomly thrown around, each room containing 6 to 8 bodies.

“Hold on, I’ll check the arrival time of the bodies.”

“No need to bother.”

Helvoye rubbed his wrinkled hawk nose with his hands, closed his eyes, and controlled his body through his sense of smell… When he opened his eyes, he was already standing in front of a gurney.

Performed a superfast craniotomy,

removed a still slightly warm brain,

cut sections from different areas like the frontal lobe, cerebrum, cerebellum, thalamus, etc., and quickly dissolved them in a special testing solvent placed in test tubes.

However,

the result stunned Helvoye; everything was normal, the brain of the deceased met the standards of a normal person, showing no feedback of Psychological Pathology.

“How can this be…”