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Chapter 857 Divide
After interrogating Banban, Xue Se ordered his men to keep a close watch on him and drove himself to the Human Entrance Hospital on the Autopsy Avenue.

Dr. Gao and the core patients were too badly injured and should have been sent to the Xinhu First Rehabilitation Hospital. But for some reason, the trees grew wildly toward the rehabilitation hospital, and a fire broke out outside the hospital and has not yet been extinguished.

Considering safety factors, the police decided to send Dr. Gao and the core patients to the Human Entrance, which is nearby. The medical level here is not as good as that of the rehabilitation hospital, but it still has a full set of medical equipment.

As for doctors, they can be directly transferred from other hospitals.

When Xue Se arrived at the Human Entrance Hospital, the core patient and Dr. Gao had already lost their lives due to their severe injuries. Fortunately, their brains were completely removed before their bodies died physiologically.

According to medical staff, the ethics watchdog and police were not planning to save people from the beginning; their target was their brains.

"Director, I'm late." Xue Se pushed open the door to the ward and saw Mr. Ghoul and representatives of the Human Rights Committee also present. A room full of normal people were crammed into the largest ward in the hospital.

No one paid any attention to Xue Se. The three-way negotiations seemed to have reached their most critical moment, with the parties arguing fiercely, each believing that the other was responsible for the disaster.

Police investigations revealed that Dr. Bu secretly used living people in the residential area as "seeds" to feed to his core patients, concluding that the "forest" was cultivated by the ethics monitoring group. However, the ethics monitoring group denied this, claiming that Dr. Bu hadn't even joined at the time and that it was entirely his own spontaneous act. They instead accused the police of inaction and the human rights committee of leniency.

Xue Se watched this farce unfold, knowing that the argument in the ward was pointless.

About half an hour later, a doctor who had been brought from the rehabilitation hospital pushed in a specially made cart. Inside the cart's recessed compartment were the core patient's brain and Dr. Gao's brain. The argument immediately ended.

"How is the situation? Is it still active?"

"There should be."

"What do you mean by 'should'? I need a definite answer!"

"Yes, yes..." The doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead. This ward was full of important people he couldn't afford to offend. "But I'm afraid we can't perform brain-sharing. We've detected multiple drugs, and brain-sharing has a chance of causing death."

“If there’s a chance, we can try. You should be able to find volunteers among your hospital’s critically ill patients, right?” Mr. Ghoul said. He had been expressionless the whole time, seemingly unaware that Dr. Gao and Banban had entered the forest.

"I'm afraid not."

"Why isn't it working again?"

"These two brains are very fragile, really. The core patient's brain might have one or three more chances to be co-brained, but the other brain is almost melting. At most, we can only try one more time." The doctor was being conservative. In fact, from the doctor's perspective, he felt that these two brains could not be considered the brains of a living person at all. They were more like poison left behind by an evil ancient god, a Pandora's box that could not be opened.

The doctor's words made the atmosphere in the ward heavy again. Seeing that no one spoke, Mr. Ghoul raised his arm: "With such a big mess in the forest, someone has to step up and take responsibility. Whoever takes on more responsibility will get more. Is that fair?"

Mr. Ghoul means that whoever is willing to take the blame can take the brain with them.

The leader of the human rights committee frowned and waved to those around him. Some people, including Xue Se, were asked to leave the ward, leaving only a few high-ranking officials inside. "The shared brain... this technology does indeed simplify many problems. In the future, we won't need the police anymore. The shared brain can directly see the other person's memories and experiences, and even obtain their 'mental illnesses'." A police officer walked side by side with Xue Se, and it was clear that he was very curious about the shared brain.

Before long, Mr. Gourmet was the first to walk out the door. He didn't take anything with him and went straight to Xue Se: "Release the person immediately. This whole thing has nothing to do with the Morality Supervision Group."

Xue Se was somewhat unwilling, but then she saw the bureau chief and another subordinate pushing a medical cart containing Dr. Gao's brain out.

The higher-ups have reached an agreement that the ethics oversight group will ask for nothing in return and will even help clean up the mess unconditionally.

The Human Rights Commission bears primary responsibility; they took away the brains of the core patients, while the judiciary retrieved Dr. Gao's brain.

"Go through the procedures, then release them." Xue Se saw the director nod and immediately left. He wanted to seize the time to squeeze some clues out of Banban, but was stopped by Shishi.

“Officer Xue, I know that you arranged for Dr. Gao to be included in the ethics supervision team, and I also know that he sent you a lot of messages behind our backs.”

"Be careful or I'll sue you for defamation."

"I just want to give you some advice: don't take what isn't yours, and don't covet what isn't yours. Some things aren't better the clearer you investigate them." Mr. Ghoul stared at Xue Se: "Can't you see the color of souls? Look at my soul, what color is it?"

"Dirty, chaotic, absurd, it's not even human-like, it's the strangest and most complex color I've ever seen." Xue Se said directly, "Many people have threatened me, and I've arrested them all in the end."

Slapping away Mr. Ghoul's hand, Xue Se drove straight to the police station. He rushed there, but when he opened the interrogation room door, he found that the person had already been taken away by the ethics supervision team.

"You son of a bitch!" Xue Se glared at the police officer who was avoiding him. "Who let them leave?"

"I put it there." Chen Bing drank hot water and poured in a packet of tea leaves. "You can't fight city hall. Why did you have to do that? This matter is over. Don't hold a grudge. You should be glad that we solved another huge hidden danger for this city and saved countless citizens."

"The fire outside is still raging. If the forest was planted by humans, then they should be held responsible for the deaths of those people."

"Hehe." Chen Bing tore open the tea bag, watching the tea leaves float and sink in the boiling water. "We entered the police station in the same batch. In my impression, you're not someone who's obsessed with justice. Did you discover something else from this case?"

"I admit I used to be a jerk, but the right thing should have a right answer." Occasionally, different voices would appear in Xue Se's mind, and he would dream of all sorts of crazy and chaotic scenes. Those strange images and voices were telling him something, hoping that he would become a certain person, but he couldn't hear them no matter how hard he tried. In the end, he simply stopped thinking about it and just did what he wanted to do, choosing right and wrong according to his instincts.

“I think you should see a doctor as soon as possible.” Chen Bing shook his head: “I heard you talking in your sleep in the police station duty room that day. I guess you were too engrossed in investigating the gardener’s case and started repeating the terrifying scenes described in the gardener’s diary.”

In this city, all sorts of strange behaviors are personal freedoms, but one cannot question the reality of the world or shake the city's most basic rules. Anyone who engages in destructive behavior, regardless of their identity or profession, will be sent to the intensive care unit for closed treatment.

"Did I say the same thing as in the gardener's diary?"

(End of this chapter)