29: Chapter 29 Repair Report: The Truth Must Be Reported

[Ward rounds concluded.]

[Please Night Shift Maintenance Worker submit the maintenance report.]

[Report location: Deans Office.]

The broadcast ceased.

The lights in the entire corridor were fully restored.

Yet, no one felt safe.

The door to Ward 105 closed once again.

The Isolation Anchor was nailed to the right side of the door frame, its black runes flickering on and off, like a temporarily stitched wound.

It was finally quiet inside the room.

No crying.

No banging on the door.

Nor were there those voices mimicking loved ones.

Yet, this silence felt more like some deeper form of dormancy.

Lin Jin stood in front of the door, his shoulder still bleeding.

Shen Tingxue walked over and raised her hand, pressing it beside his wound.

Frost gently covered the area, temporarily sealing the blood.

"You cannot continue to exhaust yourself."

Her voice was low but very serious.

Lin Jin looked down.

At the wound left by that black tentacle on his shoulder, threads of corruption were wriggling at the edges.

Ordinary hemostasis was useless.

It could only be temporarily suppressed.

The Hand of Rules gave a very blunt prompt.

[Wound Status: Corruption Puncture]

[Treatment Suggestion: Clear residual corruption as soon as possible]

[Current Corruption Erosion: 43%]

[Warning: After exceeding 50%, The Hospital identity will be irreversibly solidified]

Chen Ye also crowded over.

He saw black veins crawling up the edges of Lin Jin's neck and his expression was very ugly.

"How about we don't go to the Deans Office?"

"That thing clearly doesn't have good intentions."

Liu Hang nodded hurriedly.

His face, which had just been repaired, was still a bit stiff, and he couldn't speak very fluently.

"Right."

"Isn't the task completed?"

"Can't we just wait for the assessment to end?"

The Short-haired Girl also whispered:

"Will the people outside come to save us?"

No one answered.

Because everyone actually knew the answer.

This instance had been abnormal from the very beginning.

The assessment team had lost contact.

The Abandoned Hospital rules had mutated.

The Dean had personally taken over.

Even traces of Lin Shoushan had appeared.

This was no longer a situation where ordinary students could wait for rescue.

Lin Jin looked toward the end of the corridor.

The Faceless Dean had not yet appeared.

But that sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

Each one sounded like it was knocking on one's heart.

The Head Nurse stood nearby, the nursing cart already righted by her.

The cracks on her body had not yet recovered, and there was an obvious seam at the edge of her mask.

"The maintenance report must be submitted."

She spoke.

"Otherwise, this maintenance will be judged as incomplete."

Chen Ye frowned.

"Isn't it all sealed up?"

"Still incomplete?"

The Head Nurse looked at him with pitch-black eyes.

"The Hospital does not just look at results."

"It also requires recording the process."

Lin Jin understood.

The maintenance report was not an ordinary report.

It was a rule confirmation.

He had just completed a reverse maintenance using an abandoned Isolation Anchor, bypassing the treatment process and also bypassing the Dean's cleanup process.

For The Hospital, this matter was classified as an "anomaly."

If the report was not written well, The Hospital might conversely judge his maintenance as a violation.

At that point, Ward 105 might reopen.

Even he himself would be held accountable.

"How should I write the report?"

Lin Jin asked.

The Head Nurse was silent for a second.

"Write the standard procedure."

Chen Ye was stunned.

"What do you mean?"

The Head Nurse said slowly:

"Ward corruption leaked, the Night Shift Maintenance Worker assisted the Head Nurse to complete temporary treatment, and after the Dean took over, the isolation was rebuilt according to the cleanup plan."

Lin Jin narrowed his eyes.

"In other words, erase everything I actually did."

The Head Nurse did not deny it.

"This is the safe way to write it."

The air quieted down.

Chen Ye couldn't help but curse.

"So you guys at The Hospital also do fake reports?"

The Head Nurse slowly turned her head.

Chen Ye immediately shut his mouth.

But that sentence was not wrong.

What The Hospital wanted was not the facts.

It was a record that allowed the system to continue running.

Lin Jin looked down at the door frame of Ward 105.

The Isolation Anchor had already taken effect.

But if the report was written as the Head Nurse said, The Hospital would default to assuming this maintenance still belonged to the "treatment and cleanup system."

Then the traces of the Maintenance Department would be covered up again.

The access rights to the Maintenance Department archives might also disappear.

More importantly.

The clues left by Lin Shoushan would be buried again.

Shen Tingxue saw his thoughts.

"What would happen if you wrote the truth?"

The Head Nurse's voice lowered.

"The Dean would know that you restored the Maintenance Department process."

"And then?"

"Then, he would treat you as an old employee that needs to be cleaned up."

Old employee.

These three words sent a chill through everyone's hearts.

Lin Jin was currently just a temporary Night Shift Maintenance Worker.

But if he submitted a truthful report, The Hospital might directly classify him as an "old employee of the Maintenance Department."

This sounded like a promotion.

In reality, it was highly likely a death sentence.

Lin Jin was silent for a moment.

Suddenly, he smiled.

"Then I cannot write the truth."

Chen Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next second, Lin Jin added:

"But I cannot write all lies either."

Chen Ye's expression froze.

"Bro, can you stop playing word games?"

"Now, every time I hear you say 'but,' I get scared."

Lin Jin ignored him.

He looked at the Head Nurse.

"The report is for the Dean to see, right?"

The Head Nurse nodded.

"It is also for The Hospital records to see."

"Then the report must have review rules."

Lin Jin continued to ask:

"If I lie completely, will the review pass?"

The Head Nurse was silent.

This time, she remained silent for longer than before.

Lin Jin understood.

It would not.

Although The Hospital was rotting, it was still a rule-based system.

The report could be embellished, could be covered up, and could use standard procedure jargon.

But it could not completely contradict the results.

Otherwise, it would trigger an anomaly.

Therefore, the best way to write it was not a fake report.

But rather—half-true and half-false.

Let the Dean see the process it wanted to see.

Let The Hospital records retain the anchor points Lin Jin wanted to keep.

Shen Tingxue whispered:

"You want to hide the Maintenance Department within the standard process."

Lin Jin glanced at her.

"Smart."

Chen Ye was bewildered.

"No, can you two speak human language?"

Lin Jin explained simply:

"The Hospital wants to hear 'treatment process normal'."

"I need to retain 'maintenance action effective'."

"So the report cannot say I violated rules to fix 105."

"It must say 105 itself had equipment failure, and standard treatment requires equipment calibration first."

Chen Ye was stunned for two seconds.

"Got it."

"You want to frame fixing the door as a pre-treatment check."

Lin Jin nodded.

"Something like that."

The Head Nurse's pitch-black eyes fluctuated slightly.

For the first time, she said in a tone that was almost complex:

"You are very much like the people from the Maintenance Department."

"They also liked to write reports like this."

Lin Jin's heart stirred.

"Did my father also write like this?"

The Head Nurse did not answer.

At the end of the corridor.

The footsteps were closer.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

The figure of the Faceless Dean finally slowly emerged from the darkness.

White coat.

Black leather shoes.

The medical record book in his hand.

And that face without any features.

He stopped at a position ten meters away from the group.

The medical record book slowly opened.

The broadcast rang out coldly.

[Night Shift Maintenance Worker Lin Jin.]

[Please submit the maintenance report.]

The next second.

A translucent report form appeared before Lin Jin's eyes.

There was no paper on it.

Only lines of blanks waiting to be filled.

[Maintenance Object: Ward 105]

[Fault Description:]

[Processing Procedure:]

[Responsibility Attribution:]

[Follow-up Suggestion:]

Responsibility Attribution.

Seeing these four words, Lin Jin immediately became vigilant.

This was the most dangerous part.

If he wrote himself for responsibility attribution, the corruption and subsequent problems would all be traced back to him.

If he wrote the Head Nurse, the Head Nurse might immediately turn hostile, or even the rules wouldn't recognize it.

If he wrote the Ward 105 patient, The Hospital might directly clean up the ward, causing the Isolation Anchor to fail.

He had to write an attribution that The Hospital could accept, the Dean could not refute, and would not pin the responsibility on himself.

Lin Jin stared at the report form.

The Hand of Rules slowly unfolded.

[Target: Maintenance Report]

[Current Nature: Rule Record]

[Danger Level: C+]

[Tip: Report content will affect The Hospital's subsequent judgment]

[Warning: Incorrect responsibility attribution will trigger accountability]

The Dean did not urge him.

But that invisible pressure was getting stronger and stronger.

Liu Hang and the others didn't even dare to breathe too loudly.

Chen Ye lowered his voice.

"What should we write?"

Lin Jin did not answer.

He raised his hand and began to fill in the first column.

[Maintenance Object: Ward 105 isolation system]

Not Ward 105.

But Ward 105 isolation system.

In this way, the problem shifted from the "patient" to the "system."

The second column.

[Fault Description: Isolation Anchor missing, leading to unstable treatment environment, corruption risk of leakage exists, affecting subsequent standard treatment procedures.]

The Head Nurse's eyes flickered slightly when she saw this sentence.

Because this sentence was very tricky.

It did not say The Hospital's treatment was wrong.

It only said "treatment environment unstable."

In other words, the maintenance action was not denying the treatment process, but to ensure the treatment process could continue.

The Dean's medical record book flipped slightly.

He did not interrupt.

Lin Jin continued to write.

[Processing Procedure: Under the supervision of the Head Nurse, the Night Shift Maintenance Worker performed equipment calibration on the 105 isolation system, retrieved the original isolation materials, completed reinstallation after corruption stripping, and restored the ward isolation function.]

Chen Ye's eyes went straight watching this.

Wasn't this just compressing that whole life-threatening experience in Basement Level 2 into one sentence of "retrieved original isolation materials"?

It was truly official enough.

Shen Tingxue, however, noticed the key point.

Lin Jin wrote "original isolation materials."

This meant the legitimacy of the 105 isolation anchor was reconfirmed.

If the Dean accepted the report, it was equivalent to admitting that this abandoned Isolation Anchor could be used again.

Next.

The most dangerous column came.

[Responsibility Attribution:]

Lin Jin paused.

The air lowered along with it.

The Faceless Dean slowly raised his head.

The broadcast rang out.

[Please fill in the responsibility attribution.]

Lin Jin looked at those four words.

A few seconds later, he wrote:

[Responsibility Attribution: The existing isolation system of Ward 105 is aging, belonging to historical legacy faults.]

Historical legacy faults.

The moment these words were written down.

The lights in the entire corridor flashed violently.

The Head Nurse's mask gently cracked with a thin seam.

Although Chen Ye didn't quite understand, he instinctively felt these words were quite ruthless.

Because this was equivalent to saying:

It was not Lin Jin's responsibility.

It was not the Head Nurse's responsibility.

It was not the Ward 105 patient's responsibility.

But that The Hospital's old system itself had long been broken.

Which meant—an old problem.

The Faceless Dean's medical record book stopped flipping.

The air was deathly silent.

The Hand of Rules was frantically sounding an alarm.

[Warning]

[Responsibility attribution touches old records]

[The Dean is reviewing]

Lin Jin's palms were sweating slightly.

This step was very risky.

But he had to write it this way.

If he did not attribute the responsibility to "historical legacy faults," the Maintenance Department archives would not continue to open.

Because the meaning of the Maintenance Department's existence was to handle historical legacy faults.

A few seconds later.

The broadcast finally rang out.

[Follow-up Suggestion.]

Lin Jin did not pause and wrote the last line.

[Follow-up Suggestion: Access Maintenance Department Old Archive Room, verify the original design of the 105 isolation system, and prevent similar faults from happening again.]

Boom!

The lights in the entire corridor suddenly went out for an instant.

Afterward.

All broadcasts simultaneously emitted harsh static.

[Maintenance report submitting—]

[Dean reviewing—]

[The Hospital records reviewing—]

[Permission conflict.]

[Permission conflict.]

The Faceless Dean slowly raised his head.

That featureless face was aimed at Lin Jin.

The broadcast rang out word by word.

[Why do you know about the Maintenance Department Old Archive Room?]

Lin Jin raised his head, his face pale, but he smiled.

"Because I am a Maintenance Worker."

The air was completely deathly silent.

The next second.

Two scarlet characters appeared on the report form.

[Passed]

Immediately after.

A new prompt popped up.

[Maintenance Department Old Archive Room has been officially opened]

[Please Night Shift Maintenance Worker proceed to access]

But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief.

The medical record book in the Dean's hand suddenly flipped to another page automatically.

The broadcast rang out again.

[Detected Maintenance Worker Lin Jin corruption erosion 43%.]

[Meets admission criteria.]

[Do you want to process admission?]