Chapter 272 - Human mine

The six-hour long extensive surgery was successful, managing to save Suyin, Lou and the doctor from a torturous death. Suyin didn't wait, neither she met her parents and left with Lou.

"Let's leave this place ASAP."

"Not yet. I want to look around." 

Lou frowned, "What will you get at this place? This is a hospital! Did you forget you came here with a mission?"

Suyin continued walking, taking in her surroundings, patients, doctors, and every living soul present. "Whether we leave or not, those two will come after me like bees anyway." 

"You mean the doctor and the leader of the El Sandrios because they know what you are capable of?"

"Yes. I'm the master of medicine, much more capable than any doctor present in this country." Suyin halted in her steps at a distance away from the OPD, secretly studying them. "Clashes amongst people are common here. That leader of Sandrios brigade-- whatever it is-- will definitely want to recruit me for his own people. And I want exactly that. He can provide us security, a safe place to stay, and resources that can help us in our missions. As far as the doctor is concerned, I have some other use from him. I'm not here for charity to waste six hours and guide a stupid doctor in a complicated surgery." she didn't add that at the nick of the time she took over because the doctor freaked out.

Well--- she was freaked out as well. Five years! She touched the scalpel after five years. And she's no longer fond of it. The feeling was horrible, and she puked her guts out after the surgery. Had it not been for Honey and her baby, she'd never have taken it over.

Lou didn't say a word. Now he understood why he saw a smirk at her face when he disclosed who Sandrios Brigade was in this country. Being associated with them was risky but nothing comes free. 

Suyin strolled around, making mental notes. By now she had got some significant information about Alpha. Thanks to Wu Sean. The most important was to get his location.

The song she heard in the background when Wu Sean was talking to Alpha was the national anthem of El Sandrios in their local language. She knows this language very well. Her interest in this language started five years back when once she heard her therapist Gong Tuan talking it in once. Since she wanted to learn two new languages, she started with it.

She was right, Alpha might be running his organ trafficking trade from El Sandrios, but the country's doctors were only good enough to handle mid-level cases. Complicated surgeries like organ harvesting and transplants were beyond their capability. What else you expect from a nation with high illiteracy and crime rate, unemployment, poverty? 

That's the reason Alpha had a capable doctor like Gilbert. She was sure he had many more in his team around the world. The country with millions of people displaced, looking for safe shelter, food, and money~ what a rich source of human mine! 

She had worked with the UN for a brief period of time and knows the situation in El Sandrios's health care system had been in crisis since the death of their last leader.The country was heavily funded by the international organisations and NGOs. 

But at the same time hospitals were the perfect source of exploitation for brokers who lure helpless people in their traps by offering them help to cross the border without papers so that they could get help in other nations in refugee camps on the grounds of humanity.

And to do this, Alpha successfully took advantage of the NGO run by the Wang family as they help refugees through their NGO as the country has strict laws for illegal migrants from other nationals.

She had scanned the name of the people found in the pen-drive and the one in the file given by Wu Sean in the Cheyna** database. Not surprisingly, none of them belong to Cheyna.

**This is the name of the country where Suyin and Wang Shi lives. I don't want to use the actual name and hurt anyone's sentiments~ so a fake name it is. Also, I will change the country's name had I used it in previous chapters.

She had a hunch these people were from El Sandrios, helped by the People's NGO. If her speculation comes true, it will become an international issue and the mater will be raised in UN, making the situation worse for Wangs. Before she takes another step in her plan, she had to confirm this doubt. For which she needs to access El Sandrios's database.

"You see the one sitting in the corner," Lou whispered, "He's one of the brokers and had over forty boats under him."

"What does he charge?"

"You guess, what do these poor people have in offer?"

Suyin's gaze shifted to the people sitting on the floor, waiting for the doctor to see them once. Many just die waiting; like the one sleeping in the corner. He's dead, but people had turned a blind eye. "If a human donates every part of his body, and get a REAL value, he will be richer by 30 million."

"Correct. Six months back a man traded his kidney so that his wife and three kids could cross the border safely to get their youngest son the much-needed brain surgery. He didn't tell about it to his wife and lied to her." Suyin looked at Lou's reflection through the glass, pain spreading on his stoic face. "The boat could only carry twenty people at a time, but it was stuffed with fifty. It sank in the ocean. Ten days later, two of his kids' bodies were found at the shore of a neighboring nation. The youngest child of two years was still strapped to the body of the eldest. No news of the other kid, but we all know his fate."

It's human nature to extract maximum advantage when the person is in need. Sad but true.

"Where did the father traded his organs? How do you know about it?" She followed him to the window and looked outside. A disheveled woman was standing outside the hospital amidst scorching heat, barefoot, as if waiting for someone. Just then a black car drove out, and she ran after it, yelling, throwing stones. 

"I don't know where he traded his organs, it's common here though. His wife survived and now asks everyone about her husband and kids. You were in the surgery for six hours, I went out for Marie Jeanne and overheard this broker mocking the poor woman." Luo turned away from the window, noticing a weird expression on her face, "What?"

"Marrie Jeanee? Girlfriend? Wife?"

"Marijuana. It's a slang used in French."

"...."

Suyin shifted her attention to the broker, "Is there a hotel nearby?"

"B-But just now you said you are waiting for the Sandrios Brigade leader to offer you to join him?"

"I do. But do you expect me to wait here all day, make a puppy face, and show myself available? Let them find me and make an offer." She walked to the receptionist at the entrance, "Excuse me, can you guide me to a hotel to stay for a few days?" 

The secretary looked up, scanning Suyin's baggy clothes and her scary face. "Ten dollars." Suyin instantly takes out a note from her pocket. "Hotel Hi-way. Across the road, two buildings away. Show my card and they will give you a discount."

Suyin turned without a word of gratitude. Luo looked over the shoulder, noticing the receptionist calling someone soon after. "She's calling the hotel for her commission. Smart move to leave a clue of your whereabouts."

**********