Southwest of Lister, Zach's car stopped under a building, where James drove Zach out of the car yesterday.
Zach entered the building according to the place he remembered. Not surprisingly, he was stopped by a young woman at the reception desk outside the office with the sign of the clinic. She asked, "Do you have an appointment, sir?"
It was time to use the charm of a vampire. Zach smiled and apologized in a gentlemanly manner, "Sorry, I didn't. I am Emilia's friend. I have some important things that I need to talk to her about. I didn't think too much about it. I came here in person.”
It sounded like there was a sudden apology and something grand.
However, "Are you a friend of Dr. Browning (Emilia's last name, emphasis added)?" Serious suspicion and resistance corrected Zach's title, "May I confirm, what is your title?"
Zach still kept smiling, remembering that he once said that young, inexperienced women are more likely to like the Benjamin model. They still haven't realized the beauty of Zach.
"Zachary Grande."
"Wait a moment." The young woman motioned to Zach to wait and picked up the intercom phone.
Zach sat on the sofa at the reception area outside the clinic and could only wait. Before the young woman who should be Amelia's assistant replied, he had already 'eavesdropped' on the result.
Emilia's original words were this, "He? Is he here?" After receiving a positive reply, Emilia sighed helplessly, "Let him wait, and then reschedule me today. schedule."
But what the female assistant reported was this, "Doctor Browning said it." She twitched her lips, "She is undergoing important treatment. She doesn't have time to see your friend now. You can come back later, or wait."
"I can wait." Zach continued to smile. answered.
The female assistant stopped talking to Zach, but opened her work notes impatiently and started to make a call.
Zach listened for a while, and there was a reason for the other party's bad attitude. The female assistant was performing her work, postponing and adjusting appointments for the next whole day, and kept saying sorry to the people on the phone. "Dr. Browning suddenly has something important that must be dealt with." At this time, she would give Zach a roll of her eyes, and then continue, "Do you think today's original appointment will be canceled and moved to xx time?"
Zach was not idle while waiting. In addition to enduring the impatient eye rolls of the female assistant from time to time and being the person responsible behind her constant apology and adjustment of schedule, Zach was also thinking about some important things.
Like, why would Emilia have the clues he needed.
This is what James told him, so it must not be false.
Think more optimistically. James had a friendly communication with the psychiatrist. Doctors have the obligation to protect the patient's privacy, so James talked about some incidents that had a psychological shadow on him and sought the doctor's enlightenment. But these contents cannot be obtained through normal means—the police cannot get their hands on them.
The premise is still too few. Zach doesn’t know if the emoticon he used on Amelia yesterday had any effect. A more negative thought is that precisely because doctors have to protect the patient’s vagina, James has no scruples. Say anything. Including the death of the ghoul.
While waiting, the female assistant seemed to have encountered a slight setback in her work. Zach watched as she dialed the same phone number for the fourth time without getting an answer.
However, the female assistant did not seem to be impatient because of the setback. She left a message on the fourth time, "... Dr. Browning's schedule has been scheduled today." This was a non-positive attitude towards Zach and a group of scheduled patients. The female assistant used a smiling tone for the first time, "You can make an appointment in advance, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Please reply when you receive it."
It's actually in advance. Zach listened to a bunch of appointments that were either canceled or postponed due to his unexpected visit, and this was the only one that came in advance.
No matter how negatively or positively Zach thinks, waiting is boring. Zach was a little curious.
"I guess my visit wasn't all bad." Zach smiled, using a good-natured joke, "I made someone's appointment come forward."
The female assistant put down the phone, her face slightly red, showing embarrassment. The reason is that what she did was too obvious. She adjusted the schedule without any scruples in front of Zach, and it was natural for her to shift the responsibility to this sudden visitor.
The end result was that after constantly apologizing and annoying a bunch of customers, she successfully grabbed a customer who was originally at the back and brought her to the front.
"He is a public welfare client." The female assistant glanced at Zach and her attitude became slightly better, "Dr. Browning is very busy, so unpaid treatment can only be at the end of the queue." The female assistant rolled her eyes again, "Anyway The schedule was disrupted by you, why don’t you readjust it?”
Her attitude returned to her original impatience. The female assistant looked at the time and said, "I've only queued you for half an hour! Hurry up!"
Zach shook his head amusedly, "I won't pay you, it's a charity. You can be more kind to me."
Zach really needed a little kindness from others today.
"Hmph." The female assistant's job is considered boring, but she actually wants to entangle with Zach.
She looked up and down Zach's clothes with undisguised disdain, which probably revealed the nature of her attitude, "Aren't you a friend of Dr. Browning? Your precious time is wasted on people like you."
who? He is neatly dressed and looks like a human-like guy with a smooth life.
"It's more annoying than those people who are fine and not sick, and those who don't admit they are sick! It's better to give your time to those patients who really need help!"
Zach raised his eyebrows, it turns out he was just a somewhat naive idealist. Zach wanted to teach this young assistant that being like a human being is a habit and education. Don't judge people by their appearance...
The real office door was pushed open, and Amelia personally sent the patient out. This patient was still an acquaintance, Quest.
Quest, who lowered his head and frowned at his exquisite watch, was still complaining as he went out, "I'm ten minutes late again today. I'm going to be late for my meeting. Don't let this happen again next time..."
Quest saw Zach sitting outside from the corner of his eye, closed his mouth, and walked away quickly with a sullen face.
Zach shook his head, the female assistant was no longer so naive. People like Quist are really wasting doctors' time helping patients who really need help.
Zach gave the female assistant an "I understand" look, smiled and glanced at Emilia, who had a complicated expression, and stood up and walked to the real office. When entering, he deliberately turned his head sideways, smiled and winked at the female assistant, The words were spoken to Amelia, "I only have half an hour, Doctor Browning, let's hurry up. There are patients who need your help more and need your time." (..)