novelden Chapter 53 - 53: Discovering the Doctor
Chapter 53 - 53: Discovering the Doctor
Chapter 53: Discovering the Doctor
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Song Jian drove away from the garbage station but didn’t go far before stopping several hundred meters away from the station. In the quiet, he waited for darkness to fall. He planned to use the cover of night to infiltrate the garbage station and start his
“Haha, little Robin, even if you can’t take Susanna home, you can at least spend a few nights with her…”
Song Jian’s eyes were also firmly locked on the pile of gold bricks and jewelry in the center of the room. He had never seen so many jewels before, and the stacks of gold bars, there must have been forty or fifty of them. Heavy and shining with a faint glow under the dim light.
“Enough! Isn’t it shameful to lose your composure over a measly haul?” A burly man stood up and bellowed, “This is merely the inventory from a branch of Bohai Bank. Don’t forget, in this city lies a vault of the Central Bank, where half the wealth of the country is amassed. Even if you wanted to, you could buy the entirety of Old Henry’s Bar ten times over!”
His words further excited the men, they raised their glasses and erupted into a howl of cheers;
Song Jian eyed the burly man who had just stood up and was stunned: the man was as tall as himself, close to two meters, all muscle and menace. What caught Song Jian’s attention the most was his right arm, which had been cut off at the shoulder and replaced with a metal arm shining a silvery light;
Song Jian carefully withdrew. All the men had guns, and on top of them, an elite level five NPC. Rushing in rashly would be suicide. Although the pile of jewelry and gold inside was tempting, it wasn’t worth risking his life;
Another shack, located three to four meters away, was also emitting dim light. However, it was eerily quiet, no raucous laughter could be heard. Two men armed with antiquated rifles guarded the entrance. Song Jian didn’t dare get too close, afraid of alerting them;
“Phew, this accursed weather. I wish I was in there enjoying a warm drink too.” One guard cast envious looks toward the other shack and muttered.
“Another hour till our shift ends. Just hold on.” The other guard yawned.
“I don’t see why we have to guard this old coot. Just put a bullet in him and let’s be done with it.”
“Apparently he’s a doctor. He could fetch us a hefty sum. Maybe even get us connected with the Pain Queen. If that happens, we’ll be rolling in wealth. No amount of money can replace that.”
“The Pain Queen? For an old man on death’s door?”
“Who knows? But the captain seems to think so. You want to ask him yourself?”
“Are you suicidal?”
The guards conversed in hushed tones, passing time. Song Jian eavesdropped and perked up.
“Could the doctor they’re referring to be Dr. Ebsiting?”
Peering in through a broken window, he saw an old man with a head full of white hair. Fie lay still on a rickety single bed. If not for the faint rise and fall of his chest, Song Jian would’ve mistaken him for a corpse;
“I need to use the bathroom!”
“Be quick about it. I’m not covering for you if the captain comes around!”
“Fine, we both know the captain won’t come now…”
Song Jian watched as the guard moved towards the distant shrubbery. Seeing the guard left behind dozing with his rifle, Song Jian quietly began to approach the swath of shrubs;