The Last Gentleman-Chapter 218: Splitting Up for Investigation

With Helvoye’s report on special autopsy techniques and investigation findings approved, he immediately obtained permission to dissect and investigate the latest body, and the city also systematically cooperated with his autopsy.

The Sunlight General Hospital made one of its most advanced operating rooms available to Mr. Helvoye, and when asked if he needed a medical assistant for the autopsy, he decisively refused.

One reason was that the crude stitches he had seen previously in the morgue had given him a poor impression of the autopsy officers here,

another was that the White Robe Lotson had performed quite well before and had also formed a certain tacit understanding with him.

In addition, the reason Helvoye came this time was precisely to team up with these young people and carry out the mission issued by Zion.

With a high opinion of Lotson, he also saw this as an opportunity to nurture the young man who had a talent in autopsy and mastered the Blood Secret Technique.

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The operating room was ready,

and the gentlemen responsible for transporting bodies in the city would deliver fresh corpses here at the first opportunity,

but there were still shortcomings,

from the discovery of the body, the reporting, and the arrival and transfer by the gentlemen, this process would take a lot of time… Although they could guarantee delivery to the hospital within half an hour, they couldn’t manage the “Golden Five Minutes.”

If they could get a body that had been dead for no more than five minutes with the brain still functioning normally, it would yield better results for assembling the living dead.

At this moment, Yi Chen, who had not been assigned a task, took the initiative to suggest:

“Mr. Helvoye, I’m not much help staying here, so I might as well help you search for ‘dead-on-the-spot bodies.’

It just so happens that I’m quite good at Sensing and my Vision is quite good too, perhaps I could be the first to discover a deceased. ”

“I’ll go too!” Knight Barry, who knew nothing about surgery or autopsy, felt a bit redundant since he entered the city,

“Once you go out, I can’t guarantee your Safety.”

“We will apply for the ‘body transport’ qualification at the Hospital and try to move with the main force as much as possible. So far, there have been no reports of missing or dead transporters, so it should be fine.”

“Alright, don’t push yourself too hard.”

Helvoye’s mind wasn’t really on the younger generation, as he was vaguely finding a breakthrough, focusing all his thoughts on the body.

Just as Yi Chen turned to leave,

Lotson, dressed in surgical attire, suddenly twisted his neck by 90 degrees with a smile and waved, “William, be careful…”

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Yi Chen, as Helvoye’s medical assistant, quickly registered at Sunlight General Hospital, obtaining the qualification for ‘body transport.’

He also took the opportunity to request a large book from the hospital authorities that contained the deceased’s information.

Without any intention of meeting other body transporters, Yi Chen set out alone towards the hospital’s main gate.

Knight Barry hurriedly followed, “Say, don’t we need to act together with those transporters?”

“If we act together, there is no point. To get fresh corpses within five minutes, we must skip some steps. We need to visit ‘citizens who are likely to die.’

After all, it’s a Super Five-Star difficulty task; how can we expect to get through it safely without taking risks?”

For some reason.

Seeing the living dead who had committed suicide by jumping off a building, Yi Chen felt an inexplicable excitement, feeling like he had come to the right place.

Barry nodded somewhat naively, “That makes sense~ So far, the only one making a contribution has been Lotson. If the two of us do nothing, we might end up with just a few silver coins and a worthless rag at the end, and all the good stuff will go to that white-haired guy.”

“Barry, be careful of Lotson.”

Yi Chen’s sudden advice left Barry a bit puzzled. Although he personally didn’t like Lotson’s character much, it didn’t make sense to be wary of him.

“What’s going on? Weren’t the two of you signed up as a team?”

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Yi Chen explained that he had encountered Lotson several times on the lower streets and might have even been deliberately followed by him. This made Barry even more confused.

“Ah? You’ve always felt that there was something wrong with him, yet you still chose to team up with him and even tackle this task of unknown difficulty together… I don’t quite understand.”

“It’s precisely because of the difficulty that I chose to act with Lotson; ordinary tasks wouldn’t peel away his disguise. Of course, all this is based on the assumption that my intuition is correct.

After all, Lotson has been scrutinized by the organization multiple times and nothing has been found.”

Knight Barry had his own thoughts, “I’m inclined to believe that Lotson is deeply affected by the mission’s failure and the loss of all his team members… At the same time, he might have some quirks. Maybe after running into you during his low point, he tried to follow and observe you, wanting to team up with you to fill the void in his heart.”

“I do hope that’s the case~ Let’s not talk about him anymore! Staying close to Mr. Helvoye, he probably wouldn’t dare to do anything.

Let’s focus on the matter at hand; today we should first visit the residential area to the west.”

“Not going to the camp or the hotel? Those places have more people, shouldn’t the probability of finding a dead body be higher there?”

Yi Chen slammed the thick registry into Barry’s armor.

“According to the hospital’s records of the deceased, 61.5% of the dead come from the West District, and moreover, 69.7% of the dead were discovered during gentleman searches, mostly individuals living alone or vagrants.

In managed areas or buildings with clustered housing, the probability of finding dead bodies up until now is only 8.1%.

From the data, it can be inferred that isolated individuals are more likely to die.”

“Huh?” Barry flipped through the thick registry back and forth several times but couldn’t find the statistics Yi Chen had mentioned, “Where are these numbers recorded? I didn’t see them.”

“I calculated them myself.”

“Didn’t you just get this thing from the hospital? When did you have time to crunch those numbers?”

“While we were chatting, wasn’t I flipping through a book? My [Intelligence] has reached its limit, and my Profession happens to relate to reading; I can fully remember such books that don’t require deep understanding with just a glance at each page.”

“Fu~ck!”

Barry once had a physical confrontation with Yi Chen over the qualification for a Relic event,

He, who came from the Knight Family and focused on Physique, couldn’t get any advantage over Yi Chen.

He had thought the other party was also a gentleman with a special physique, but now it turned out that Yi Chen claimed his [Intelligence] was maxed out.

“William, you can’t be thinking of breaking through with Dual Attributes, are you?”

“Something like that.”

“Have you found a suitable Relic?”

“I’m in luck, I actually did find one.”

Seeing Yi Chen’s ordinary and even relaxed expression in response, Barry felt as if his heart was struck by a Heavy Hammer, “That’s too exaggerated… You haven’t even graduated from the academy and you’ve already maxed out Dual Attributes and even obtained the corresponding Relic.

Wow! If only I knew, I wouldn’t have signed up; who can bear such a blow~”

Barry put on his barrel-shaped helmet, concealing his downcast mood.

Just as the two were about to exit the hospital doors,

a group of apprentices wearing Sun Badges on their chests and following a bald, black man, whose attire was exaggerated and radiated sunlight from all over, were walking towards the hospital.

Yi Chen reacted quickly, associating with a name Mr. Helvoye had mentioned earlier, and immediately saluted, “Dean Dis.”

The other side tried to relax his stern expression and shifted his gaze to the two unfamiliar young men, “You look unfamiliar, did you come with Mr. Helvoye from Zion?”

“Yes, Mr. Helvoye is busy at the moment; we are trying to collect enough fresh Dead Bodies to accelerate the pace of the investigation and research.”

“Hmm, I hope it’s not too late.”

Watching the Dean’s hurried stride disappearing into the depths of the hospital, Yi Chen had an ominous premonition.

The Aura emitted by Dean Dis was hardly any different from that of Professor Qian Bosen, yet such a powerful figure was exuding an unmistakable sense of [Panic].