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Chapter 26 Going back four years ago 2(1)
Four years ago, Wu Wei was just over thirty, well-proportioned, heroic and energetic.There are eight standard muscles on the lower abdomen, and the rat flesh on the arms is protruding, which doesn't look like the middle-aged appearance now.In fact, at that time, in addition to being the captain of Jiangdu Criminal Police Brigade, he was also an amateur bodybuilding champion in the fitness city.

As the captain of the criminal police, he repeatedly solved major cases, and was regarded by his superiors as the best training object.His prospects seem to be smooth sailing, and he looks high all the way.However, all the changes came from that winter four years ago.

That winter in Jiangdu was not cold, not cold at all, and it was so warm that it didn't feel like winter at all.According to criminal psychology, any abnormal weather will often stimulate people with normal mentality to do things that they would not dare to do normally.For example, there was a case where a teacher who was usually very honest suddenly raped his underage student out of nowhere.For another example, there is another case where two bicycles were slightly scratched. After the two owners had a quarrel, one of them suddenly grabbed a three-edged scraper and stabbed each other.And when they woke up, they didn't even remember what they had done.

That winter, Wu Wei had been dealing with some inexplicable murders, and these murders often started from a trivial incident with sudden passion and happened unexpectedly.Every murderer was crying hysterically, regretting the past.All these things made Wu Wei feel meaningless, as if something was blocked in his heart.

He knew he was expecting a real case, one that would excite him.

At that time, the police station in Jiangdu City had not yet been renovated, and several dilapidated four-story red brick buildings were rebuilt on a flat ground.Because of the warm weather, there was a musty smell in the corridor, and the corners of the cold and damp corridor were covered with dark green lichens and moss.Every time he walks here, Wu Wei will feel a little bored in his heart, and he will panic!
That day, just as he walked through the corridor and was about to enter his office, he suddenly heard the loud ringing of the phone in the room, which was deafening.

Picking up the phone and putting it to my ear, no one spoke, only a long blind tone.When Wu Wei put down the phone, the phone rang again loudly.

Wu Wei always remembered the details of the phone call, because he realized later that this phone call would affect his whole life.If he had known that this was the case, maybe he would not have answered the call at all, but directly connected to the answering machine, and handed it over to the relevant person after listening to it. He would not need to change his entire life for this.But at that time, Wu Wei didn't think so much at all, he just put the phone to his ear and asked politely: "Who is there?"
After a faint electric sound, there was a very hoarse voice, a woman's voice.Probably because of a cold, the other party's voice was very deep, and the age could not be recognized.The voice was so deep that it didn't seem like it was standing on the other end of the phone, but it seemed to be far away, so far away that it seemed to come from hell.

"Captain Wu? Are you courageous? Do you dare to investigate something? Maybe it will be so serious that you can't even imagine it."
The voice was very dry, so harsh that Wu Wei could almost imagine that the other party's chapped lips were being licked by an equally chapped tongue.

"What? What did you say?" Wu Wei didn't understand what the other party meant.

"I mean, do you dare to investigate one thing? Do you dare to investigate what happened in the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangdu University last night? Human life is at stake. The voice is still dry.

Wu Wei's heart skipped a beat, Jiangdu University Affiliated Hospital?What happened last night?Human life is at stake?He had a faint smell of crime, which made him very excited.He asked loudly, "What did you say? What happened at the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangdu University last night? What exactly happened?"
Before he could finish speaking, the other party had already hung up the phone, leaving only a beeping voice on the receiver.

Wu Wei put down the phone, because the unusually hot winter day made him feel like something was stuck in his heart, and his ears felt a little hot because of the phone call.He actually felt a little dazed, the call seemed to be received in a dream, the voice from a distant place had a sense of unreality.

Maybe in a dream?Later, he asked himself again and again, if it was really a dream, all this would not have changed his life.

Unfortunately, Wu Wei has never been a person who knows how to write the word fear.He put down the phone, and the first thing he did was grab the coat that was hanging on the chair, and walked out the door. He decided to go to the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangdu University to see what happened.

Strangely, when Wu Wei walked into Jiangdu University Affiliated Hospital, he didn't see anything abnormal at all.Walking into the emergency department, except for a few young people who were beaten and bleeding, there was no shadow of crime.

Wu Wei came to the medical education department, found the head of the department, an old man with a fat face, and explained his purpose.Of course, he just said that he received an anonymous report call. It is said that something happened in the hospital last night, and he came here to investigate.

But the fat old man replied flatly that absolutely nothing happened in the hospital.His tone was firm, and there was a twinkle in his eyes.He also checked Wu Wei's ID for many times, trying to prove that Wu Wei was just a hooligan pretending to be a policeman to scare people and try to blackmail him.This made Wu Wei very uncomfortable, so he turned and went out.

Walking out of the medical department, Wu Wei said to himself, maybe that phone call was just a silly prank.He wanted to walk out of the hospital gate, but suddenly he felt his back was hot, as if an eye was staring at him.

Turning around, apart from a few idlers who were chatting, there was no one else.What's wrong with this weird feeling?Could it be that something really happened in this seemingly peaceful hospital?

Wu Wei turned around and walked into the depths of the hospital.

Thinking back to this point later, Wu Wei was thinking about what force drove him into the hospital again.If it wasn't for this act of re-entering the hospital, maybe he would never have come into contact with those dirty things that drip blood from every pore, maybe he would have successfully solved a few more ordinary cases, and then he would be promoted step by step, saying Maybe he has already sat in the position of deputy director.But thinking about it now is an afterthought.In fact, he returned to the hospital by accident that day. From the moment he stepped into the hospital, his life changed completely, and this change was irreversible for him.

But he often asked himself whether he really regretted it, and he always said to himself, no!Never!

When Wu Wei re-entered the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangdu University, he shrugged his shoulders.He didn't even want to understand why he came here because of an inexplicable anonymous phone call.In the usual sense, anonymous phone calls are often just silly pranks.But Wu Wei grabbed the phone call and began to investigate, maybe it was his innate keen intuition.

The moment he entered the hospital, a black van passed by him.It was a black van that was converted from a van.On both sides of the black van, there are five white bold characters: Jiangnan Funeral Home.

This is a hearse.

The hearse drove past Wu Wei's side without a sound, and then drove towards a gate with a vaulted roof covered with ivy.Where is that door?

Wu Wei strode over there, but before he stepped through the door, he was stopped by an old man.The old man grinned and said loudly, "The inside is the morgue, not where you should come.

The morgue, the most eerie place in the entire hospital!There are only cold corpses, lying in the ice coffins one by one, silently telling their stories.Wu Wei couldn't help shivering for no reason.

Only then did Wu Wei remember the anonymous phone call.

"Human life is at stake!"
Someone must be dead!The dead must have something to do with the mortuary, right?So Wu Wei showed his ID, and the old man showed a strange expression, but he still let Wu Wei enter the gate.

The morgue is a row of red brick bungalows built against the wall, covered with ivy.This winter day was unusually warm, and the ivy leaves showed a lifeless dark green color. One side of the leaves was a little bit bright because of the frequent washing of the rain, while the downward side was full of dust and was extremely dirty.Almost black lichens and moss grow on the damp and cold corners of the walls. This is a forgotten corner where few people usually stop.Only when a patient died, would there be a few figures here and there.

The hearse of the funeral parlor was parked outside this row of red brick bungalows. Two staff members in white coats were loading a stretcher into the car. There was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy beside him crying silently.

"Poor..." A sigh came from behind Wu Wei.Looking back, at some point, the old man guarding the gate also came in, and said to Wu Wei in a low voice, "This child is poor. His father died of a heart attack. The operation failed yesterday. This child is only 16 years old." , his father is only 40 years old. I heard that his mother was in a trance when she heard the news, and fainted on the ground. Poor..."
Wu Wei then lowered his head and sighed, he knew that life in this world is really too fragile.

At this moment, he heard a noise and footsteps rushing towards where he was.

He looked up, startled.A woman with disheveled hair rushed in front of him, her feet were bare and her face was covered in filth.The woman stood in front of Wu Wei, froze, then opened her mouth and screamed loudly.

"what--"
The screams were terrified to the limit, extremely sad.

Wu Wei was dumbfounded, he didn't know what happened, his eyes flicked around, and he only saw a few medical staff watching him with vigilant eyes.

After a long time, the woman finally stopped screaming due to overwork.When she was quiet for less than a second, she suddenly raised her head, calmly, and said to Wu Wei word by word:

"They're all going to die, they're all going to die, they're all going to die, they're all going to die."
As soon as she finished speaking, she laughed hysterically.She supported Wu Wei's shoulders with both hands and swayed very hard, almost exhausting all the strength in her body.Several doctors in white and female nurses in pink uniforms rushed over, trying to separate them.

Amidst the laughter, Wu Wei felt weak and dizzy.The breath was held in his throat, and he couldn't go up or down, which made him feel like he couldn't breathe.

When the doctors and nurses pulled the woman away, Wu Wei's shoulders hurt.This woman's strength is really great, her hands are like a pair of steel pliers.

"This woman is the wife of the patient yesterday. I heard that she is crazy." The old man behind him sighed and said with infinite sympathy.

After the medical staff escorted the crazy woman away, Wu Wei felt that this might be a clue.He decided to look up yesterday's heart surgery.

This heart valve repair operation is an emergency operation, performed by the director of the hospital, Li Hanliang himself.Li Hanliang is an authority in cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery in Jiangdu and even the entire Southwest region, and his medical ethics are well-known.

The patient who passed away was Xiao Jian, who had a long history of heart disease. This time, he was sent to the hospital because he suddenly fell on the side of the road clutching his chest while walking. I called Dean Li back.

After three hours of rescue in the operating room, Xiao Jian finally died of heart failure.

There were no flaws in the medical records, and Dean Li did not make any mistakes during the operation. Maybe it was really just because Xiao Jian was terminally ill.

Wu Wei walked out of the hospital weakly. With his current state, he didn't want to drive home again, so he waved for a taxi.

As soon as he sat on the seat, he suddenly felt hard in the inner pocket of his suit, as if something had strangled him.

Wu Wei reached out and took out a note from his inner pocket.

This is a note written on a piece of medical record paper, folded squarely.Who put it in the pocket?Is it that crazy woman?It didn't look like it, she obviously grabbed her shoulders with both hands.Who is it then?Was it the doctor or nurse who took the woman away later?

Recall those doctors in white coats and nurses in pink uniforms, but in Wu Wei's memory, he can no longer imagine what those doctors and nurses looked like.

This is normal, because at that time all his attention was focused on that crazy woman, even though the doctors and nurses used great strength to separate her, Wu Wei did not pay attention to these medical workers.

Most of the doctors and nurses in the hospital are wearing white or pink uniforms. Because they have seen too much, they turn a blind eye to them and ignore their existence.

I remember a famous case about concentration in the police academy. When a group of students were listening to a class, two people suddenly rushed in, cursing and fighting, but they left the classroom at the same time in a very short period of time.The teacher immediately asked questions, asking the students what clothes the two fighters were wearing and what they looked like, but none of the students could answer.Because at that time, all the people focused on the action of fighting, but did not pay attention to what clothes they wore and what they looked like.It is said that this is called the blind spot of attention.

What Wu Wei encountered today was the blind spot of his attention. He couldn't remember who actually put this medical record into his suit pocket.

Wu Wei slowly opened the note. The note was folded many times, and he opened layer after layer.This seemingly small medical record paper was folded several times.

Wu Wei carefully unfolded the note, then lowered his eyes to see carefully what was written on it.

The note was blank, with no words written on it, but they didn't know how the paper was folded, and there were nine clear creases on the white paper.

Wu Wei's eyes widened, and he read the note in his hand several times, but there was still not a single word on it.

Is there a mistake?What exactly does this mean?Who put such a blank note in his suit inner pocket?Is it a silly prank?But what is the purpose of this prank?
Wu Wei felt a little headache and asked the driver in the front row to roll down the window a little.Wu Wei felt that he should sort out his emotions.

What does the white paper with nine creases mean?Does this [-]% discount have a specific meaning?So what is it like?
Nine?September?Nine days?nine o'clock?

Or, it doesn't make any sense, it's just a boring prank.

To be honest, he didn't even know why, but he actually ran to the hospital to find out because of an unnecessary anonymous phone call.But what to look for, even he himself didn't know.Except for seeing a woman in the hospital who seemed crazy because of her husband's death, I didn't see anything strange.

Alas, never mind it.Wu Wei said this to himself, he closed his eyes and raised his head, leaning against the soft back seat of the taxi.

At this moment, his body trembled, and a huge force almost pulled him off his seat.This is because the driver suddenly slammed the steering wheel and made a sharp turn, driven by huge inertia.

Wu Wei grabbed the front seat tightly and shouted to the driver: "What's wrong? Why are you driving?"
The driver replied helplessly: "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do. The car in front suddenly turned left without turning on the turn signal. I can't help it."
Wu Wei exhaled deeply, and looked at the stopped car that had already passed.

The driver said: "The driver of that car must have been driving under the influence of alcohol. Now these drivers who have just taken their driver's license test are really desperate."
Wu Wei shook his head and said, "They don't want their lives, but I still want my life."
The driver smiled: "That's right, old drivers like us would never dare to drink. Since I drove, I haven't touched that thing in 30 years. Now I must not drink too much, let alone drink." I will get drunk, even when I talk to nine, I will also feel dizzy, hehe."
"Ha..." Wu Wei also laughed.But there was no smile on his face, he frowned, as if remembering something.

Nine equals wine?

Could it be that this [-]-fold note is meant to explain this point to Wu Wei?So what kind of connection does wine have with human life?

A gleam of light gradually appeared in Wu Wei's eyes.

Wu Wei patted the taxi driver's shoulder, and said kindly: "Master, please change the direction, let's go back to the hospital."
After getting out of the car, Wu Wei did not enter the hospital, but walked around outside the hospital wall.As he hesitated, he fell into deep thought.

He kept his head buried all the time, when he walked to a narrow road behind the hospital, he suddenly heard a loud noise.

Looking up, this is a well-decorated restaurant, but a few guys are pulling down the shutter door vigorously.Are they preparing to close down?

(End of this chapter)