32: Chapter 32 The Old Archives: Only Recognizing the Repairman's Blood

[Maintenance Department Old Archive Room]

[Sealed Status: Damaged]

[Current Visitor: Lin Jin]

[Note: Son of Lin Shoushan]

When the last line of text lit up, everyone in the logistics corridor went quiet.

Chen Ye turned his head slowly to look at Lin Jin.

"It even knows this?"

Lin Jin stared at the indicator light on the wall, his gaze darkening.

This wasn't standard identification.

It had been recorded long ago.

The Hospital knew Lin Shoushan.

It also knew the relationship between Lin Jin and Lin Shoushan.

What was even more troublesome was that it hadn't just found out about it now.

Because the word "Note" indicated that this information had originally been in the Maintenance Department Old Archive Room.

In other words, three years ago, when Lin Shoushan entered The Hospital, he might have already anticipated that Lin Jin would come one day.

Shen Tingxue also realized this.

She lowered her voice:

"Your father left behind a record about you."

Lin Jin didn't answer immediately.

In his mind, images of his father before he went missing three years ago surfaced.

That night, before Lin Shoushan went out, everything was no different than usual.

Old jacket.

Tool bag.

He even had half an unlit cigarette hanging from his mouth.

He only turned back and said one thing:

"There's food in the pot, heat it up yourself if it gets cold."

And then he never came back.

Lin Jin had wondered countless times.

If he had asked one more question that day.

If he had stopped him.

If he had known that his father was going to the No. 9 Forbidden Zone, would everything have been different?

But now.

This Abandoned Hospital was telling him:

Lin Shoushan didn't just go missing.

He had even left certain things behind for him.

At the end of the corridor.

The indicator light labeled "Maintenance Department Old Archive Room" began to flicker.

The Medical Record Keeper stood to the side, holding a medical record folder.

A cold voice came from the medical record folder:

"Please continue forward, visitor."

"Do not linger."

"Do not discuss content related to the archives in private."

Chen Ye was annoyed as soon as he heard it.

"Are you overstepping your bounds?"

The Medical Record Keeper slowly turned toward him.

The medical record folder flipped its pages automatically.

[Record: Accompanying personnel Chen Ye has a tendency to interfere with archive retrieval]

Chen Ye's eyelids twitched.

"No way, you're recording me just for scolding you?"

Lin Jin raised a hand to stop him.

"Say less."

The Medical Record Keeper's abilities were recording, holding accountable, and sealing archives.

Now that it was following them, it was the eyes planted by the Dean.

Every word and every action could potentially be written into the final report.

To deal with it, you couldn't use force.

You had to make it record things that were beneficial to you.

Lin Jin looked at the Medical Record Keeper.

"We are continuing to the Old Archives Room."

"Please record truthfully: Night Shift Maintenance Worker Lin Jin is retrieving historical fault archives according to procedure."

The Medical Record Keeper paused for a second.

The medical record folder flipped.

"Recorded."

Chen Ye was stunned for a moment, then lowered his voice and said:

"You can play it like this?"

Lin Jin didn't look at him.

"It's not an enemy."

"It's a pen."

"It only matters who tells it what to write."

Shen Tingxue nodded gently.

"But this pen is currently held in the Dean's hand."

Lin Jin looked toward the end of the corridor.

"Then we'll snatch it away."

The group continued forward.

The deeper they went into the logistics corridor, the older the walls became.

The originally yellowing white paint began to peel off in large flakes, revealing the rusted red wall underneath.

On the walls, there were no longer ordinary employee rules.

Instead, there were notices from the Maintenance Department.

[Maintenance Department Work Regulations]

[One: Before maintenance, confirm whether the fault actually needs to be repaired]

[Two: Damaged rules do not equal incorrect rules]

[Three: Entering the Deans Office for maintenance alone is prohibited]

[Four: Repairing interfaces related to the "God System" is prohibited]

Seeing the fourth rule.

Lin Jin's footsteps stopped abruptly.

God System.

This term appeared clearly in The Hospital rules for the first time.

And it was in the Maintenance Department regulations.

Repairing interfaces related to the God System is prohibited.

In other words, the rules of this hospital were likely related to the so-called God System.

Shen Tingxue saw it too.

Her expression changed slightly.

"What is the God System?"

Lin Jin was silent for two seconds.

"I want to know, too."

The Medical Record Keeper spoke up at this moment.

"Content unrelated to the archives."

"Do not discuss."

Lin Jin glanced at it.

"This is not unrelated content."

"I am a Maintenance Worker, and I am currently reading the public regulations of the Maintenance Department."

The Medical Record Keeper's folder paused.

Then, it turned a page.

"Record: Visitor read the wall regulations, no violation triggered."

Lin Jin felt a slight stir in his heart.

As expected.

It wasn't that the Medical Record Keeper couldn't be countered.

It only recognized the procedure.

As long as the behavior was within the procedure, it had to record it truthfully.

This might be the key to them entering the archives room later.

They walked another few dozen meters forward.

The corridor finally came to an end.

A heavy iron door blocked their path.

There was no handle on the door.

There was only a severely rusted palm print slot.

The doorplate hung crookedly.

[Maintenance Department Old Archive Room]

[Sealed]

[Entry prohibited for non-Maintenance Department personnel]

And below the doorplate.

There was another line of small text carved into it with a knife.

[If your surname is Lin, don't rush to open the door]

Chen Ye's expression became strange when he saw this line of text.

"This wouldn't have been written by your dad too, right?"

Lin Jin didn't answer.

But he already had the answer in his heart.

The strokes of that text were very firm.

It looked like it had been carved bit by bit with a utility knife.

The font slanted to the right.

It was consistent with Lin Shoushan's handwriting habits.

Don't rush to open the door.

Why?

The Hand of Rules immediately unfolded.

[Target: Maintenance Department Old Archive Room Access Control]

[Status: Sealed and damaged]

[Unlocking conditions: Maintenance Department authority, bloodline verification, fault confirmation]

[Warning: Opening the door directly will trigger the archive anti-leakage mechanism]

Lin Jin's gaze sank.

There was indeed a trap.

If he had excitedly opened the door right after seeing "Son of Lin Shoushan" earlier, he would have triggered the anti-leakage mechanism.

His father's words, "don't rush to open the door," were a reminder for him to check the door first.

He squatted down and looked at the palm print slot.

Inside the slot was a layer of dried, dark red residue.

It looked like blood.

And it also looked like rust.

[Old blood verification residue detected]

[Sample source: Lin Shoushan]

Lin Jin's breathing hitched slightly.

It really was his father's blood.

This door had once been opened by Lin Shoushan.

Or rather, it had been sealed by Lin Shoushan.

The Medical Record Keeper stood behind them, its folder flipping automatically.

"Please complete access control verification, visitor."

Lin Jin didn't move.

"Access control is damaged."

The Medical Record Keeper paused.

"Please complete access control verification, visitor."

Lin Jin looked up at it.

"I said, the access control is damaged."

"According to maintenance procedures, damaged access control cannot be used directly and should be repaired first."

The Medical Record Keeper's folder jammed.

A few seconds later.

It slowly flipped the page.

"Procedure confirmed."

"Visitor may perform maintenance on access control."

Chen Ye's eyes lit up.

"Nice."

Lin Jin lowered his head and began to check the palm print slot.

This time, the Hand of Rules unfolded very slowly.

It was as if it had encountered some deeper form of sealing.

[Target: Bloodline verification module]

[Fault 1: Old blood residue contamination]

[Fault 2: Deans Office monitoring line connected]

[Fault 3: Archive anti-leakage mechanism is in a semi-activated state]

Deans Office monitoring line.

Lin Jin's gaze turned cold instantly.

The Dean really hadn't intended to let him see the archives smoothly.

The Medical Record Keeper was just the supervisor on the surface.

Inside the access control, there was also a hidden monitoring line.

As soon as he completed the verification, the Deans Office would be able to read the status of the archive room opening in real-time.

They might even be able to snatch the Maintenance Department master archive first.

The Head Nurse's final reminder was about this.

Don't let the Dean get the Maintenance Department master archive.

Lin Jin looked into the access control.

[Maintenance Plan 1: Normal verification]

[Success rate: 82%]

[Consequence: Deans Office gains access permission simultaneously]

[Maintenance Plan 2: Verify after cutting the monitoring line]

[Success rate: 61%]

[Risk: Trigger Medical Record Keeper accountability]

[Maintenance Plan 3: Forge empty access record, hide real access]

[Success rate: 38%]

Lin Jin was silent.

Plan 2 had the highest success rate, but the Medical Record Keeper was right next to them.

If he cut the monitoring line, the Medical Record Keeper might immediately record "Archive tampering" or "Unauthorized access."

Plan 3 had too low a success rate.

The consequences of failure were unknown.

Shen Tingxue asked in a low voice:

"Is it troublesome?"

"There's a line from the Deans Office connected inside the door."

Lin Jin said simply.

"If I open the door normally, the Dean will be able to see it too."

Chen Ye's face darkened.

"Then wouldn't we have come for nothing?"

Lin Jin didn't speak.

He looked at the Medical Record Keeper.

He suddenly asked:

"Medical Record Keeper, what is your duty?"

The Medical Record Keeper replied:

"Supervise archive retrieval."

"Prevent archive tampering."

"Record access procedures."

Lin Jin nodded.

"Then if the access control has an illegal external monitoring line that leads to archive leakage, do you need to record it?"

The Medical Record Keeper paused.

The medical record folder flipped rapidly.

"Yes."

"What if the external monitoring line comes from the Deans Office?"

The Medical Record Keeper jammed completely.

The pages flipped frantically.

It was as if the rules were conflicting with each other.

[Deans Office possesses supervisory authority]

[External reading is prohibited during the sealing period of the archive room]

[Authority conflict]

[Authority conflict]

Lin Jin's eyes lit up a little.

He had found it.

The Medical Record Keeper was sent by the Dean.

But its duty was to protect the archive procedure.

If the monitoring line from the Deans Office violated the archive sealing rules, then the Medical Record Keeper, in turn, had to record this violation.

Lin Jin said immediately:

"Please record: The Maintenance Department Old Archive Room access control has an unrecorded external monitoring line, which may lead to the leakage of sealed archives."

The Medical Record Keeper froze in place.

The medical record folder flipped faster and faster.

Finally, the pages stopped.

"Recorded."

The next second.

The Hand of Rules notification refreshed.

[Medical Record Keeper has recorded the external monitoring line abnormality]

[You have obtained a temporary maintenance justification]

[You may cut the monitoring line]

Lin Jin didn't hesitate.

He inserted a wrench into the side gap of the access control.

Snap!

A thin black wire was forcibly pulled out by him.

The thin wire twisted frantically like a living worm, its other end leading deep into the wall.

Lin Jin sneered.

"Caught you."

He twisted it hard.

The black wire snapped.

In the distance.

It sounded like it was coming from the direction of the Deans Office.

A sound of page-turning, extremely low, drifted over.

The Medical Record Keeper looked up.

"Record: External monitoring line has been cut."

Lin Jin nodded.

"Continue recording: Access control maintenance completed, preparing for bloodline verification."

After saying this.

He cut his fingertip.

He pressed his hand into the palm print slot.

A cold, stinging pain came instantly.

Lin Jin's blood spread along the groove.

The next second.

A hoarse, mechanical voice sounded from inside the door.

[Bloodline verification passed.]

[Visitor: Lin Jin.]

[Associated archive: Lin Shoushan.]

[One message, read it?]

The air went quiet instantly.

Chen Ye and Shen Tingxue looked at Lin Jin at the same time.

Lin Jin stared at the door.

His Adam's apple moved slightly.

"Read it."

A moment later.

A familiar yet unfamiliar man's voice sounded from inside the door.

It carried exhaustion.

It carried hoarseness.

It also carried that devil-may-care smile from Lin Jin's memories.

"You brat."

"If you're hearing this message."

"It means you still didn't listen to me."

"And ran to The Hospital."