Chapter 27 (2/2)
“Uh… It’s my graduation thesis.”
Xu Shuangyu wanted to inquire further, but she was interrupted by Zhou Wen’s ringing phone.
Zhou Wen glanced at the phone to find that Wu Yan was calling him. Wu Yan instructed him to head to the hospital tomorrow.
Due to the matter with the Filoviridae virus, the amount of high concentration white mouse’s DNA used over the past few days was quite high to the point where other teams in the hospital were borrowing them from the PCR Team.
Zhou Wen had no choice either but to lend them. However, this had also increased his workload.
“Hmm, noted…”
He hung up the phone and continued to read the information.
Xu Shuangyu could hear Wu Yan’s conversation clearly because she was sitting right next to Zhou Wen. She asked out of curiosity, “Which hospital are you working in?”
“First People’s Hospital.”
“The general hospital at Haiping Road?”
“Mmhmm.”
Xu Shuangyu felt somewhat surprised. “How can a person like you even be capable of getting a job in the general hospital? What do you do there?”
Zhou Wen answered, “I’m a safety contractor.”
“What’s that?”
“Security.”
Xu Shuangyu was so furious that she wished that she could knock his head twice. “Will you die if you speak properly? Forget about it. I can tell that you’re a person with mental problems. I won’t speak to you anymore.”
Upon saying that, Xu Shuangyu stood up and patted away, the grass clippings stuck to her buttocks and left in a lively manner.
Zhou Wen chuckled. ‘She’s gone at last.’ Then, he stood up and walked in the other direction.
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The next day, the first thing Zhou Wen did when he woke up in the early morning was to bring up the system and check on the mission timeline.
He still had 13 hours and 25 minutes before the mission ended at eight tonight. Frankly, Zhou Wen felt rather relieved in his heart.
It was the damned mission’s fault that he did not manage to accept the other missions for an entire week. Therefore, it was better for the mission to come to an end.
As for the Black metal treasure chest, he did not even want it anymore. It was better off for him to gather his wood chests obediently.
By the time he arrived at the laboratory, he had bumped into Wu Yan while rushing in.
Wu Yan was the relative of a nurse from the inpatient department in the same hospital. Therefore, they rented a house just outside of the hospital.
Zhou Wen asked smilingly, “Why are you here as well?
Wu Yan answered, “Dong Wenying is on leave today, and I’m here to cover for her.”
“Ah…”
They entered the building as they chatted.
The first thing they did was to sterilize themselves upon entering the comprehensive laboratory.
The sterilization process was troublesome and time-consuming. In fact, a typical laboratory technician would spend one-third of his or her day doing this.
Zhou Wen spent the entire morning working on the DNA extraction process until it was time for lunch.
By the time he came out of the laboratory, Wu Yan had just come upstairs from the PCR laboratory downstairs.
Zhou Wen said, “Shall we grab lunch together?”
Wu Yan nodded and replied, “Mmhmm, give me two minutes so I can upload the test data.”
Then, Zhou Wen followed Wu Yan to the office. All of a sudden, he picked up a floral scent as he walked into the office. He gazed around the room and found that the scent came from a large bouquet of roses placed at the foot of a wall.
“Is that a gift from your boyfriend?”
Wu Yan replied while tidying up the data, “Ex-boyfriend.”
As soon as Zhou Wen heard the word ‘ex-boyfriend,’ he knew that Wu Yan would have a story that would take three days and nights to complete, so he did not continue to inquire further.
Wu Yan completed uploading the data soon, and the two of them headed to the cafeteria together.
During lunch, Zhou Wen asked, “If there’s nothing else this afternoon, can I head back after lunch?”
Wu Yan nodded. “Mmhmm. You can head back; there’s nothing else to do here.” Wu Yan finished her meal quickly and left with her food tray.
They were at the small staff cafeteria while the bigger patient and family cafeterias were located next door and connected to this place via a passageway.
After lunch, Zhou Wen walked toward the entrance in the east.
He took a glance at the big cafeteria when he passed by it just in time to see an old woman of about 80 to 90 years old with gray hair walking to the door with a round plastic meal container in one hand and a cane in the other hand.
There was a 20cm step at the entrance, so Zhou Wen was worried that the old woman might trip and fall. Quickly, he walked over to her and helped her out.
The old woman thanked Zhou Wen in a Jiangzhou accent and got his help to pass the step.
Although Zhou Wen wanted to leave, he knew he would feel bad for doing so and chose to support the old woman with his hand as they walked toward the inpatient department.
The old woman said, “Alright, it’s fine… I can walk by myself.”
“That’s alright… I work here. I can send you to the building…”
“Are you a doctor here?”
“I work in the laboratory department.”
“Oh, oh, oh, it’s that huge building at the back, right?”
“Mmhmm, that’s right.”
The old woman said smilingly while she walked, “Oh, I was actually in really good shape before and could even perform line dancing. I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease last year, and I can’t do anything anymore now.”
“I see. So what are you doing today in the hospital?”
“My son is ill…”