Chapter 37 Colleagues, Shadows from the Pharmacy and the Car Accident Scene

Chen Yan learned a lesson this time and decided to get off work at the same time, no more and no less.

At 5 p.m., Chen Yan was waiting at the Laohu District bus stop on time.

Get on the bus when it comes and get off in front of the zoo gate at 5:05.

Passing through the ticket gate again, he saw that the colleagues at the ticket gate had changed.

"Ah, hello."

At the ticket gate was a girl with many freckles on her face, a pair of round glasses, and a white one-piece cashmere jacket.

Her face is different from that of a native girl in the empire, and the color of her eyes and eyelashes are also unclear. She looks like an immigrant, but she definitely does not belong to the Asian ethnic group.

Chen Yan responded: "Hello..."

The girl was already packing her things and getting ready to get off work. She immediately showed great surprise after meeting Chen Yan, as if she didn't expect to meet a new colleague.

She looked slightly embarrassed: "I'm so sorry... I have to get off work soon. Let's talk another day, okay? You understand, the colleague who will take over will be here soon, and I can't meet him..."

Chen Yan was stunned for a moment.

Then he immediately realized, "Day shift ticket collectors are not allowed to meet night shift ticket collectors", this is the zoo's rule.

He immediately expressed his understanding and walked out of the zoo gate.

The girl glanced at her watch and hurriedly put a few books into her bag. Chen Yan vaguely caught a glimpse of the titles of those books:

"Introduction to Astrology Divination", "Witch Ceremony Manual"...

They are all things that girls like...

The girl left the ticket station and glanced at the sky in panic.

The sky was already dark at this time, and the winter night in the Empire always came very early. The lights were already on in the storage room at the other end of the street, but it was not dark yet and the street lights were not on yet.

The girl smiled at Chen Yan with a panic expression:

"I'm going home...I'm really sorry, I have to go home before dark...another day...when is the holiday, let's have a meal together, okay?"

She didn't even give her name.

Chen Yan especially wanted to ask her, do you know who I am? Do you want to date me?

He didn't say this.

He just nodded.

The girl reluctantly showed a friendly smile, turned around and ran towards the dusk of the city.

Chen Yan was already used to the girl's reaction.

No one in this zoo is normal.

He took a few steps forward and saw the No. 306 bus stop at the entrance of the zoo. He hesitated and decided not to go home yet.

He needs to buy medicine for the little tiger first.

The empire's control over drugs is quite poor. A large number of counterfeit drugs manufactured by unscrupulous businessmen have entered the market, and drug supervision cannot keep up, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of drugs.

The pharmacies in the old city where Walker Street is located are filled with a large number of such fake medicines.

When Chen Yan first came to the Empire, he caught a cold and developed a fever. He bought aspirin at Walker Street Pharmacy. After taking it for a whole week, his fever worsened and he almost laid himself in bed.

Later, I took a car to a regular medical center in the city center and received an infusion of fluids, and then I got better.

Counterfeit medicines are so rampant, but they have not caused harm to society. This is probably because although these medicines are fake, they are not harmful - at most they are useless if taken.

There are also counterfeit medicines that are slightly useful, and some of the ingredients of real medicines are mixed into them.

False, but not completely false.

But if you want to give medicine to a newborn, injured and feverish tiger cub, you must use 100% real medicine with strictly controlled doses.

Such medicine can only be bought from the city center.

Tigers have very strong immunity and rarely get sick.

Some special subspecies of tigers can even find herbs to cure diseases on their own, an ability that has evolved over thousands of years.

But the situation of the little white tiger in the zoo is a bit special...

Chen Yan didn't know where the injury on its leg came from. It stands to reason that a place like a zoo would deliberately control sharp objects to avoid causing harm to animals.

The injury on the little white tiger's leg was obviously caused by some kind of sharp weapon.

What hurt it?

Maybe Lawrence knew about it.

I'll ask after work tomorrow.

Chen Yan walked straight along the road next to the Central Forest Park and arrived at East Street of High Street twenty minutes later.

He thought of Vivian's family.

Entering the interior of High Street East, the scene in front of you is much busier than Walker Street.

It is now the time when most universities finish their second period in the afternoon, and the streets are crowded with pedestrians.

The dense crowds and the various neon lights shining in the rows of shops make a certain shop in the dark on the street even more abrupt——

A protective fence was put up in front of the store, and inside the protective fence was a messy facade.

The facade had obviously been hit by a vehicle, and a large amount of blood could be seen.

There was no trace of the body, probably because the funeral home had already arrived.

It's Vivian's toy store.

Poor Vivian family...

Chen Yan wanted to turn around and leave, but when he turned his head, he saw a shadow looking at him in the toy store.

When he looked carefully, he could only see ruins and various dolls scattered on the ground.

He didn't think too much and continued walking towards the high street.

What he couldn't see was that after he turned his head, the shadow in the ruins of the toy store appeared again.

The shadow was hidden in the shadow where the neon lights couldn't reach it, and headed in the direction where Chen Yan was walking.

Shadows seem to be afraid of light, so they can only hide in people's shadows.

When the shadows of passing pedestrians intersect, it blends from one person's shadow into another.

Until I follow Chen Yan’s footsteps——

It entered Chen Yan's shadow.

Chen Yan felt dizzy.

He just thought he was tired and didn't think much about it.

Then he walked into the high street for a few minutes and saw a "Green Clinic".

The empire's medical practice system was not yet standardized, and most licensed doctors named their clinics after themselves.

The doctor in this clinic is probably named "Green".

Chen Yan pushed open the door and came to the counter.

"Hello, do you have any aspirin?"

The salesperson in the drugstore is a tall young man who looks like a work-study student at first glance.

The young man replied: "Hello, yes." While looking at the ground behind Chen Yan - there was Chen Yan's shadow there.

"What's the price?"

"Two pennies a piece, sir."

The young man kept staring at Chen Yan's shadow.

Chen Yan hesitated for a moment, then took out 20 coins from his wallet with difficulty and handed it to the young man.

The young man took the coin and still looked at Chen Yan's shadow intently.

Chen Yan finally couldn't help it anymore and asked, "Is there any problem?"

The young man had no expression on his face, opened his mouth, and seemed to be holding back something, and finally said: "It's nothing, sir."

Chen Yan saw that he was having a hard time enduring it, so he turned around and took a look.

Nothing?

Turning his head, the young man had already put the wrapped medicine into his hand.

"Take one tablet at a time after meals."

The young man's gaze was once again focused on the ground behind Chen Yan.
Chapter completed!