As we were about to leave, the dean and vice dean of this hospital both came to see Shelton off in person.
Besides expressing their gratitude to Shelton, they were quite respectful to him.
It wasn't until we got in the car that I said, "It turns out that you are a medical expert. I didn't know about it before."
"No, I've rarely done an operation for the past two years. The reason why the operation today can be successful is some luck," Shelton said lightly.
I knew that there was no luck in it.
I believed that Shelton, who was so excellent at such a young age, surely was quite hardworking.
The outstanding ones were all working hard.
By the time we arrived at City Y, it had been 10 p.m.
Shelton took me to a hotel and booked two rooms.
The two rooms were next to each other.
He sent me to the door of my room, saw me
enter the room, and left.
After I entered the room, the first thing I did was to charge Seth's cell phone.
Although I knew what I was going to do was wrong, I felt that I'd never known him and I wanted to know him through his phone.
Holding his phone, I felt bitter.
After about two minutes, the cell phone, which had been off, was on.
However, the number seemed to have been out of service. Consequently, there weren't any phone calls or texts popping up after the cell phone was turned on.
I slid across the screen with my finger.
An interface asking for a password popped up.
It was a password with four digits.
I input Seth's birth date without hesitation.
Wrong password.
I input 1111 again.
Once again, it was a wrong password.
The system prompted that I had input a wrong password twice in a row. At the same time, it warned me that if I input another wrong password, the cell phone would be locked.
"What should I do?"
"I have only one chance left. I can't get the password right at all."
"But what would the four-digit password be?"
"Could it be..."
For some unknown reason, I input my birth date, 0409, in the password interface.
The screen went dark for half a second. Soon, it lit up.
"Is the cell phone unlocked like this?"
I looked at the home screen of the cell phone in a daze.
It never occurred to me that Seth would set his cell phone password with my birth date.
Then I thought about what I had done to him.
"I regret it so much. I should have been with him once regardless of the difficulties and hardships."
"In this way, he would at least have no regrets when he died."
Seth's cell phone was neat. There were only a few apps on it.
I clicked open his WhatsApp. Because it had been too long, the account was logged out.
Nothing was in the text as well.
When I doubted if the cell phone had been formatted, I clicked open the call logs.
I found that Seth had dialed a strange number in the most recent days.
And I was so familiar with this phone number...
"It's Roger!"
I suddenly remembered it!
When I was with Patrick, Roger used this number to send me a text. And he also used this number to contact Seth!
"What on earth did he do to Seth?"
My heart was thumping wildly because I felt that I had discovered something important.
I eagerly wanted to call Roger back and ask him.
But I knew I couldn't do so.
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