Part 3Mom Promoted the Wrong Son

Hearing them gathering people to come in, I suddenly realized this operating room was a room within a room that only Dad and I knew about.

By pressing a switch, I could open a hidden chamber.

Just before they unlocked the door, I successfully transferred the supervisor's wife and closed the hidden chamber door.

The supervisor's wife's breathing was weak. Time was of the essence.

Though a second surgery carried extremely high risk, a doctor's job is to snatch lives from death's grasp.

As long as there was a shred of hope, I wouldn't give up easily.

I worked up a sweat in the inner chamber, while the monitor simultaneously showed what was happening in the outer room.

A group of people rushed in and stood frozen in shock at the empty operating room.

John's face darkened:

"What's going on? Are you sure it was this room?"

After receiving unanimous confirmation from the security guards, Judy roared:

"Search! Go search now! Turn the entire hospital upside down if you have to. I refuse to believe a useless waste and a corpse can just vanish into thin air!"

James collapsed on the floor wailing:

"It's over! It's over! If we can't find them, will I be taken away and executed? Dad, I'm so scared!"

John helped his son up, his face showing some impatience:

"Calm down. Even if the sky falls, your mother and I will hold it up. Pull yourself together. Don't fall apart before the final moment!"

After Judy arranged the personnel, she came over to smooth things over:

"Don't scare the boy. He's held up very well until now. If it were that useless Torres, he'd probably have jumped off a building already."

Her bias was evident in every word. She always acted like she wanted to praise James to the heavens. Those who didn't know would think James was her son.

I calmly wielded my scalpel, focused on the operation. No matter how chaotic it was outside or how loud the hospital alarm system blared, nothing could affect my concentration.

Fortunately, the hidden chamber was fully stocked with emergency supplies. After two harrowing hours, the surgery finally ended.

But the supervisor's wife still hadn't completely escaped danger and needed constant monitoring.

After sending a message, I left the hidden chamber amid the chaos.

It wasn't until someone screamed that everyone noticed me calmly walking among the crowd.

John and the security guards immediately surrounded me, looking relieved.

"Torres, you botched the supervisor's wife's surgery. Now the whole city is looking for you. I advise you to turn yourself in voluntarily—maybe you'll get a few years off your sentence."

I was about to speak when Judy led the furious supervisor toward me.

"Supervisor, I deeply apologize about your wife. Our hospital will definitely compensate for all damages. As for the source of the surgical failure, it's all because our Dr. Torres here lacks medical skill."

"Whatever you want to do with him, we have absolutely no objection."

Having successfully redirected the fire to me, only Mom and John's people remained at the scene.

From their various looks, I read contempt, indifference, and disgust.