Chapter Five: Tomorrow Stolen from the Emergency Ward

Su Li woke in an observation bed at Linjiang First Municipal. She checked her bronze badge first, her phone second, and only then asked, “How long?” “Eleven hours,” Xu Tang said. “You hugged Mo Tuan and called him Mom three times.” The cat sat at the foot of the bed. “That memory costs fifty cans of tuna.” Xie Chenzhou handed her water. In the corridor, Su Li heard paper rustling from bed to bed. “The paper child?” Xie looked toward the door. “Seven stable patients deteriorated in three days. Their tests explain nothing, but every expected discharge date has been moved back.” “A computer error?” Xu Tang asked. “The paper charts changed too.”