Yangcheng.
On the last day of July, the outdoor temperature at noon had already hit 38℃.
As usual, Zhongshan Hospital in Yangcheng City was bustling with cars and people.
However, the hospital's original main medical building was practically deserted because it was undergoing construction and work had been halted for the day.
Two hospital staff members were pushing a cart into the main building, taking the elevator straight down into the basement.
In the elevator, the taller of the two glanced at the silhouette covered by a cloth on the cart and wondered, "Usually, aren't bodies supposed to be sent to the funeral parlor?"
Indeed, what they were pushing on the cart was a body.
Although the main building was under construction, many facilities had long been moved to the new building, or replaced if they were inconvenient to relocate or too costly to move.
However, some "facilities" did not exist in the new building.
For example, the "morgue".