Chapter 3433 Divine Doctor with Skillful Hands (40)

Dingling. The wind chime hanging at the hospital's main entrance gently swayed. This was followed by a loud "bang" as a boot kicked the door open.

Loki, who was answering the phone behind the counter, and Shiller, who was helping Wanda with infusing a patient, both turned their heads towards the hospital's main door. Both of them wanted to see who was being so brash.

Upon seeing the striking red hair and the bewitchingly beautiful face, they both silently turned their heads back.

Patients in the ward, especially the human patients, couldn't take their eyes off the woman walking in. Looking at the tall figure following her, they slightly recoiled in fear, withdrawing their necks back.

Loki frowned slightly upon seeing the man. At that moment, Thor had just walked over from the adjacent inpatient department. He reached out to close the door, then he saw the man standing behind Natasha.

"Thor!" Loki hurriedly called out. He recognized that it was Batman and felt the unusually dangerous aura surrounding him. Thinking of Thor's belligerent nature, he couldn't help but express his worry.

Fortunately, Loki caught Thor's attention right away. He walked through the crowd and asked, "What's the matter?"

"How's the patient?" Loki casually struck up a conversation with him. Meanwhile, Natasha had already crossed the hall to the infusion area.

Shiller spent the whole night in a detailed conversation with the ghost of the little girl, Manny. In the end, Manny agreed to help Shiller expand the hospital. In exchange, Shiller promised to help her fulfill her wish.

The current triage room had turned into the hospital lobby. To the left upon entering was the triage desk, straight ahead was the infusion area, and to the right was a door leading to the inpatient department. The space was about three times the size of the original.

Even so, compared to modern hospitals, conditions were still tough. Shiller could only make do by using the limited space to accommodate more patients, and he also took on part of the nursing duties, helping Wanda with infusion and preemptive treatments.

As for the two newly recruited witches, they both worked in the inpatient department, responsible for nursing the inpatients. Although each department now had some staff, they were still seriously understaffed.

Fortunately, patients of this era were not very demanding. Having this level of nursing care was unexpected. Under Thor's guard and deterrence, nobody dared to create disorder in the hospital. The atmosphere in the hospital was actually quite good.

While Shiller was hanging the brass infusion bottle, he looked at Natasha and said, "How did it go? Did you stop Wood?"

"Of course, a whole convoy was overturned. Batman found something new. Got time to discuss?"

"Really no time, I am sorry. But I heard you were a nurse in Minsk for a while. Got time to help out?"

Natasha looked around and sighed somewhat, "You actually managed to run this rundown hospital. Well, I hope there are no wimps among the patients here."

At first, Shiller did not understand what she meant, but he soon got it.

Natasha took over the infusion syringe from Wanda's hand, grabbed the arm of the man set for infusion—an elf, about two meters tall with dark skin, his eyes fixed intently on Natasha's face—Shiller had not yet seen clearly what happened when the needle "swooshed" into the man's arm.

"Ouch!" The male elf screamed in sudden pain. But it wasn't entirely his fault. The infusion equipment of this era was too primitive, the needles not sharp enough, and being stabbed so suddenly was indeed painful.

Natasha then grabbed a strap, wound it around the surface of the needle, and slapped the man's arm. The male elf screamed again.

Natasha looked at him somewhat puzzled and said, "It's just an injection, what are you screaming about?"

Wanda looked at the very apparent handprint on the dark skin, opened her mouth, but still said nothing.

Natasha took the tray from Wanda's hands then said, "You go handle something else, I'll take care of this."

All the patients wore a look of terror.

But clearly, protests were futile. Natasha took over the work in the infusion area, and in the time that followed, the place virtually turned into a choir. Screams of all pitches, high, medium and low, started one after another, all abruptly cut off amidst Natasha's loud scolding.

At that moment, Shiller recalled Anatoli once mentioning some experiences working in his hometown. He praised the nurses in the hospital he worked at as "sturdy and hard-working women," but from his tone, it was clear the focus was on "sturdy."

The capability and spirit of a Slavic woman engulfed in her work are unimaginable. Natasha was no delicate princess; she had strength and techniques aplenty.

If Wanda's kindness and thoughtfulness perfectly matched the patients' most beautiful fantasy of a nurse, then Natasha perfectly embodied the stereotypical image of a head nurse as perceived by doctors: strong, formidable, efficient, and even the God of Death would have to withstand two slaps before taking someone away.

The female Agent had no mood to cajole anyone. Infusion was about yanking the arm and "swoosh," the needle was in and then a fierce slap, bandaging was pressing down and furiously wrapping the bandage "rip" tearing it while tying a knot, cleaning the wound was about filling the largest syringe with water and fiercely squirting it, the usual comforting phrases being either "Shut up" or "Get out."

But the effect was immediate. Shiller and Wanda spent the better part of the morning bustling about, yet the chaotic infusion area and the hall quickly fell quiet. Everyone pretended to be busy with their own things, fearing drawing Natasha's attention.

Natasha took over the hall alone, which freed Shiller to discuss their findings outside with Arkham Batman.

"...The Woodman sent over three puppets again, split into two teams. Natasha and I handled one each, and both were taken care of."

"...The plague outbreak is not that simple. I learned some things in Westchester. They have consistently been persecuting those who investigate the truth under various pretexts, including a detective who was recently jailed, and including me."

"The bigwigs in Westchester have a strange attitude towards Magic Core Town. They are worried about the spread of the plague but do not take any measures and just let things develop. Even when someone proposed a solution, no one paid attention..."

After hearing Arkham Batman's account and combining it with the clues Shiller learned from Manny, he was quite certain that Manny did not cause the plague outbreak.

Shiller expressed his conclusion. Arkham Batman nodded in agreement and then asked, "What do you plan to do next?"

"Actually, I should be asking you that. What is your ultimate goal?" Shiller inquired.

He already knew from this morning's briefing that each team had different ultimate goals. Although they were all gathered in this small hospital, for some teams, this hospital was just a temporary stop. Only Shiller and Strange, the doctor duo, had an ultimate goal involving the plague and the hospital in Magic Core Town.

That is, the main task of Shiller's team could be a side task for other teams. Similarly, the main task of other teams might become a helpful side task for Shiller and his team in advancing their main task.

The deadline for teams to reach their ultimate goal varies. Shiller's team just identified their goal last night, whereas Stark and Steve's team, arriving earlier, had already met key figures and had their ultimate goal revealed even earlier.

However, their goal was related to the Westchester Police Station. The murder case previously pinned on Stark was actually their main task, completely unrelated to the hospital, except that a key figure, Nova, had come to this hospital.

Wanda and Jarvis' team also unlocked their final goal early, but the push towards the key plot came from Jarvis. Their main plot could be summarized as the conflict between the Steam Union and the Mage Alliance.

As the Steam Union's most genius engineer in recent years, Jarvis has been frequently targeted by the Mage Alliance. His arrival at Magic Core Town and being trapped here was also a trap set secretly, intending to use the plague to kill him.

The intersection between their plot and the hospital occurred when Jarvis, after advancing the plot, suspected that members of the Mage Alliance triggered the plague and came to the hospital to gather clues. And Wanda, because she came looking for him, was mistaken by the police station for another red-haired witch and thus had to hide in the hospital.

Indeed, not all the clues converge at the hospital. The stories of these two pairs also intersect. Besides the hospital, key points include Westchester and the police station at Magic Core Town. It is also possible to converge there.

Natasha and Arkham Batman, on the other hand, are a pair of fugitive lovers. Arkham Batman is a bounty hunter who frequents the black market of Westchester, while Natasha is a notorious killer witch. This villainous couple became involved in the plague outbreak incident and had to come to the town to investigate.

"We still don't have an ultimate goal," Arkham Batman replied after listening to Shiller's explanation, "but I suspect our ultimate goal might point to the Mining Area."

"Mining Area?"

This term sounded familiar. Shiller recalled the content of a previous newspaper. If he remembered correctly, Nova was nicknamed the "Mine Hero."

Arkham Batman nodded and explained, "To put it simply, there was a major safety accident in the mining area of Magic Core Town recently. The mineworkers were overworked, leading to tragedy. This also sparked large-scale protests and strikes."

"This became a grip for a Westchester legislator to attack a mayoral candidate. The candidate, wanting to resolve the issue quickly, hired me to deal with the leader of the workers' uprising in the Mining Area."

"The leader of the workers? Is it a woman named Nova?"

"You know her?" Arkham Batman asked.

"Is it you who injured her?" Shiller inquired. He thought of the long wound on Nova's abdomen and was not surprised. It was likely caused by a Batman dart.

Although in the Game World one is not allowed to carry original equipment or use powers, Arkham Batman was not stuck in one place. As the saying goes, 'A good sharpening does not hinder the cutting of wood'; he had plenty of time to find a blacksmith to forge equipment not much different from the Batman dart. With more familiar weapons, he could better harness his capabilities.

Arkham Batman nodded, "I had an encounter with her. She is a very strong warrior, but still no match for me."

"You didn't want to kill her," Shiller stated confidently. He knew about Nova's physique quite well. Although the woman had an advantage in body type and was also very strong, it was evident that her muscles were developed through years of labor, not specifically for fighting. For Arkham Batman, killing her would have been easy.

"Yes, I only wanted to repel her, because in the process of investigating the Mining Area, I found that the previous safety accident was not so simple."