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The two of you skip the second floor entirely, ending up on the third. Out of curiosity, you peek into an open ward as you pass by.
"What're you doing?"
"Just taking a second. I haven't been in here before."
Sitting in a bed is a young man in hospital attire. He's fast asleep, and doesn't notice either of you two. His arm is held up in a cast, and you can see fizzling artifacts rising from it. His hair is cropped short, apart from the gaudy frosted tips stabbing out from his scalp. He looks like just another street punk. You quickly retreat from the entryway, not wanting to linger and waste time.
It looks like his arm got exposed to malware. The bots usually treat these injuries quickly, so he can't have been here long. The Hospital definitely sees less action than the medical institutions of old, since the sources of danger for a human are far fewer. Only people who mess with malicious code or interact with Digimon are likely to be injured, and this guy is probably the former.
You move onwards, heading towards the partition office. The packet of breaching code is stashed securely in your smuggling partition, and you intend on having Ryan watch over it while you stand vigil. Pulsemon being absent wasn't part of the plan, but you'll have to make do without him.
Finally, you reach the room that you need to break into, just barely avoiding a squad of three bots. The servitors are making a constant sweep of the hallway, and soon enough, they'll loop back around and run into you. There's nowhere to really hide once you've started hacking the door, so your only real option is to delay the patrol long enough to finish the job and enter the office.
<span class="mu-s">"Damn, the little guy could have been useful."</span>
"Yeah. Too late for that now. I'll think of something."
"I timed it earlier. They take about ten minutes to finish a sweep. If they get delayed by something, they don't call in extra bodies to finish the route. They just deal with it first."
You blink in surprise, rather pleased that he remembered such a thing. He's not the most reliable, but at least he's shown moments of competence.
"That's why you took so long to report back, huh?"
He nods, swiftly moving towards the door and holding his hand out for the code.
