Chapter 570: Under the Sanatorium

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An hour later, the three of them took a rental carriage and went straight to the sanatorium in the east of the city.

This is a relatively rugged section of Azure Castle. You can see the gradually rising mountains further away. Neither the lower city nor the upper city includes this area. After entering the slope, the houses became scattered and replaced by vineyards covered with pergolas.

The sanatorium is located among a forest, with only a stone road connecting it to the street outside.

If you want to put it in another world, this is definitely a good place for recuperation and treatment. It is quiet and surrounded by mountains and rivers. There are also farmhouses based on vineyards around it. The quality is definitely not low.

But in this era, the nature is somewhat different.

Being far away from the urban core area means that the quality of life is reduced and the cost of supplies is increased. Even if it is only a few miles away from the urban area, it will not be favored by the wealthy.

The main service population of this hospital is mainly the people in Xiacheng District and Haigang District.

According to Lasein's introduction, Doctor Gaota still had a pretty good reputation among these people, because before Dulin, Azure Castle didn't even have a clinic for ordinary people. He also built this sanatorium step by step by opening a small clinic in Xiacheng District.

But later, big businessmen discovered that treating people was a good business, and the number of medical clinics in Azure Castle gradually increased.

In order to avoid being discovered, Xia Fan did not enter the nursing home along the stone road. He stopped the carriage at the entrance of the street, and then escaped into the woods with Li and Qian Yan, quietly approaching their destination from the side.

This time he put on the navy blue night uniform, just like he did during the Qingshan Town trial. Qianyan doesn't have any special clothing, but fortunately she is small in stature and surprisingly strong. She can jump like flying even in a long dark dress.

The outer wall of the sanatorium is a fence less than half a person's height, and there is no sign of anyone patrolling the yard. It is not difficult for the three of them to sneak into this place.

Soon, they quietly entered the main building in the center of the sanatorium.

"Strange." Li muttered, "Does it feel a little too quiet here? It's only about half past eight, and even hired workers don't go to bed so early."

"You say that...it seems a bit deserted." Xia Fan nodded slightly. It can be seen that there are fire lights swaying in the halls and corridors, which cannot be explained by the lack of lighting expenses in the sanatorium.

"Don't worry about those patients. Can you find the location where the wild cat stopped following?" Qian Yan whispered.

Li nodded and led the two of them towards the back room in his fox form.

After passing through several corridors, she suddenly stopped, turned around and warned, "Someone is coming from ahead!"

Xia Fan's heart condensed slightly.

Come early or late, but come at this time - they are in a long corridor, with no windows or doors around, the roof is boarded up, and there is no hiding place at all. The only way to escape is to go back the same way, but the footsteps coming from the front already indicate that the opponent is close at hand.

"Li!"

In this case, the second solution can only be used.

"Leave it to me." Although he still complained about Xia Fan for holding him back, when it came time to solve the problem, Li didn't hesitate at all. He instantly transformed into a human form and was ready to perform the spell.

"Have the people in Room 10 and Room 9 been given medicine?" A deep voice came from the corner.

"Don't worry, I just checked and they are all sleeping well."

"That's good. There have been a lot of people sent to the hospital recently, so it's better not to let them meet."

"What about today? Will no one send it again?"

"Well, Dr. Du has completed the experiment, and there won't be any need for a short time - who are you!?"

The interlocutor looked at the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him in shock, and immediately touched the whistle on his chest with his right hand!

A thief sneaked into the nursing home!

But he could only go so far.

Almost at the same time, a pair of extremely huge eyes enveloped him. There were countless smaller eyes in those eyes, covering everything from humans to cattle and sheep, insects... and even the pupils of hell demons. This huge fear instantly destroyed his will and made him unable to move again!

Li's illusion skills are obviously much better than before.

However, such a shock effect will not last for a long time. The brain will slowly break away from the illusion after adapting to the fear, so Xia Fan still needs to take the final step.

He lit a little mixed herbal powder and blew the smoke directly into their noses.

Inhaling the drug at such a close distance made the effect of the drug take effect very quickly. In less than ten seconds, the eyes of the two people were blurred, and they staggered twice and fell to the ground.

"Okay." Li put away the spell, "In this way, when they wake up, they will forget the memory of the moment of coma, and they will no longer be able to remember that we were here."

While the alternative isn't as ideal as perfect stealth, taking out everyone who might find you is still a classic stealth approach.

Qian Yan easily dragged the two fainted people to a corner and piled them up, and also found a bunch of keys from the middle-aged man's waist.

After eliminating the accident, the three of them continued moving forward.

"I'm a little concerned about what they just said." Li said as he led the way, "Shouldn't all the people sent to the nursing home be patients? Why doesn't Du Lin want them to meet?"

"Probably because they don't want others to notice, some people never go out again after coming in." Qian Yan said casually.

This sentence made the fox demon shudder.

"... never go out again?"

"You also heard that Du Lin wanted people for experiments. As for what kind of experiments, it is difficult to determine." Qianyan's tone was flat, as if discussing something very ordinary. "To put it in a good way, he wants to improve his medical skills. To put it in a bad way, there are many situations..."

Then there was a silence.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Li came to the place where the wild cat found Du Lin "missing" - a pharmacy with a slightly shabby layout, and through the distribution of smells, he found a locked trap door under the dirty carpet.

Qianyan took out the key chain and tried them one by one, and found that one of them could be inserted into the keyhole.

The three looked at each other, and Xia Fan and Li nodded gently.

The latter turned to the right, and the lock core suddenly made a slight click.

Open the trap door, there is a steep staircase below, and there is no fire in the depths. This design is very different from the conventional underground storage room. The only advantage of this style is that when the enemy invades, the people underground can use the narrow passage to defend themselves, so as to achieve the effect of one against ten.

Li took the lead in entering the underground to investigate the situation.

After confirming that there was no mechanism in the secret passage, Xia Fan and Qian Yan followed closely and walked into the basement in the dark.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, an indescribable stench hit him in the face.