can not breath

Chapter 33: Unexpected Gains (2)
"What's the matter?" asked the doctor on duty rudely.He has long been disgusted by the exaggerated performances of these young nurses who like to be surprised when they see little things.The last time the nurse said something was wrong, it was because she saw a dead cockroach in the toilet.He didn't want to be frightened by the nurse's screams because he didn't clean the toilet properly.

However, today the nurse's expression didn't look like she saw a dead cockroach, but rather like she saw a murder case with her own eyes, and she was terrified.

The nurse trembled and was about to say something to the doctor on duty, but at this moment she suddenly saw Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye standing in the duty room, the panic on her face suddenly froze, and she couldn't say a word.Just for a moment, her whole body trembled suddenly, she pointed at Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye, but she couldn't speak, her two lips were clenched tightly by her teeth, almost oozing blood.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Zhijie asked.

The nurse's body trembled for a while before he said hesitantly, "Go to the woods behind the building...it's your mother..."
Hearing this, Xiao Zhijie suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart—something happened to his mother!
Behind the dilapidated inpatient building, there is a small forest.There are cherry blossom trees planted in the woods, densely packed everywhere.When I sent my mother here the night before, I heard from Professor Li Hanliang that in spring, this forest will be full of colorful cherry blossoms, which is really beautiful.At that time, the cherry blossoms all over the mountains are like a red ocean.Exposure to such an environment will also play a positive role in the recovery of patients.

But Xiao Zhijie felt a chill for no reason.The dense cherry blossom forest was inexplicable, and somehow it made him feel gloomy.A long time ago, Xiao Zhijie heard from friends on the Internet that cherry blossoms are strange flowers.It is said that if a corpse is buried under a cherry blossom tree, the cherry blossoms will surely bloom brilliantly.

Xiao Zhijie dragged Shen Xiaoye downstairs and walked around to the cherry blossom forest behind the building.They saw a group of patients wearing patient uniforms, standing in twos and threes by the edge of the woods, and a few chubby male nurses were yelling at them to leave.

Xiao Zhijie passed between the patients who were smirking and drooling.In the cherry blossom bushes, he finally saw his mother!He froze for a moment, and then two lines of tears burst out of his eyes involuntarily.In an instant, he felt that the sky was dark, and the whole world collapsed!
Xiao Zhijie's mother was still sitting in the wheelchair, with her eyes wide open, staring straight at Xiao Zhijie standing in front of her, but she was not at all energetic.Her lips parted slightly, but no words came out--she never would.Because, in her throat, there was a bloody wound, and blood was gurgling out from the wound.If you take a closer look, you can clearly see that the wound was cut open by a sharp knife.Like a dagger, or a razor blade.

She had stopped breathing and died on this lawn.Blood gushed out from the neck, dyeing the striped patient uniforms bright red.Blood flowed over his body, flowed out of his trousers, and dripped into the ground under the wheelchair.The cherry blossom tree in the wheelchair seems to be taller and taller than before. It must be that the roots of the cherry blossoms are desperately sucking blood from the soil. Next year's cherry blossoms will definitely bloom more brilliantly.

"My God! How could this happen?" Xiao Zhijie couldn't believe his eyes.He never thought that his mother was fine yesterday, but now she turned into a cold corpse.Although my mother often fell ill, she never provoked anyone, let alone provoked a murder.

Xiao Zhijie rushed over to his mother in the wheelchair, and shouted: "Why? Why is everything?"
A strong male nurse wanted to stop Xiao Zhijie from jumping over, Xiao Zhijie shouted loudly and angrily: "It's my mother who died! Let me go over!"
The male nurse grabbed Xiao Zhijie tightly and said, "I understand your feelings, but now this is the scene of a murder case. If you want your mother to be wronged, then you should not destroy the scene. Maybe there is already a murder scene here." We have found clues about the murderer. We have called the police, and the police will arrive soon." After hearing this, Xiao Zhijie no longer insisted on getting closer to his mother.

At this time, Xiao Zhijie couldn't help feeling sad, and he cried sadly.

Shen Xiaoye, who was standing aside, also secretly wiped away tears.She really doesn't know why tragedies always happen to her loved ones.She didn't even know how to comfort Xiao Zhijie.

Half an hour later, two police cars with sirens pulled quickly into the hospital. With a screech, the police car had already stopped in front of the cherry blossom forest behind the building.

From the police car, it was Zhou Yuanyi who got off.He frowned, his face full of gloom.In the car, he had verified the identity of the deceased with a call from the hospital.He never thought that it was Xiao Zhijie's mother who died, and it was obvious that she died of murder.

Zhou Yuanyi really couldn't imagine why an elderly mentally ill woman would become the murderer's target.Perhaps, she is also the latest victim in a series of serial murder cases.Each of the victims of the previous series of cases had something to do with Shen Jianguo to some extent, but Xiao Zhijie's mother had nothing to do with Shen Jianguo at all.If there must be a relationship, it would be that Xiao Zhijie's father died at the hands of Shen Jianguo, perhaps indirectly, four years ago.But if Wu Wei's speculation is true, then Xiao Zhijie's mother and Shen Jianguo are on the opposite side of the incident, so why did the murderer kill her?This is incredible!
What made Zhou Yuanyi even more unimaginable was that the last person who had contact with Xiao Zhijie's mother was a woman in her fifties.It is not yet known whether this woman is the murderer. If she is the murderer, is the murderer a woman?This was beyond Zhou Yuanyi's expectation.

After Zhou Yuanyi got out of the car, he saw Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye who were crying bitterly, and couldn't help but shudder.This is the second time in 24 hours that I saw this young couple. I saw them bring Xiao Zhijie's mother to this hospital last night, but today I saw his mother die in the woods behind the hospital. .Such a situation is really embarrassing.

Zhou Yuanyi didn't want them to be stimulated anymore, so he ordered his assistant Wang Li to take Zhou Yuanyi and Shen Xiaoye away from the scene.
After a brief survey of the murder scene, from the large amount of splattered blood found in the cherry blossom forest, it is certain that the cherry blossom forest was the first scene where it happened.On the wheelchair, no suspicious fingerprints were found.No muscle fibrous tissue was found in the fingernails of the deceased, and there was no sign of a struggle at the scene.

It seems that the murderer should be someone Xiao Zhijie's mother knew. She was killed suddenly, so there was no time to resist.

And the doctor on duty in the female ward on the third floor of the inpatient department who rushed over immediately also proved Zhou Yuanyi's deduction.He said: "Yes, the deceased must have known the woman who came to visit her. The woman said she was her relative, and she didn't object. She nodded and waved to me blankly, and asked the woman to push her to the lawn."
Zhou Yuanyi nodded, and then said to the security chief of the hospital who accompanied the doctor on duty: "Please give me the surveillance video of the hospital."
The security chief scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Oh? Surveillance video?"
Zhou Yuanyi looked at the security chief with unquestionable eyes, and said: "Of course, from the video tape, we can find the mysterious woman who had the last contact with the deceased. As long as we find that woman, we can know how the deceased was killed."
The chief of the security department said in a consoling manner: "Captain Zhou, as you know, we are a small hospital...Funds are very tight...Patients' treatment fees are also very low...We don't have any extra money to buy any monitoring equipment……"
Zhou Yuanyi gave a gloomy look, then turned around and said to Wang Li, "Take him away. He pointed at the absent-minded doctor on duty.

The doctor on duty protested loudly: "What's wrong? Why did you take me away? What crime have I committed?"
Zhou Yuanyi stared into the eyes of the doctor on duty without saying a word. Under his sharp eyes, the doctor on duty lowered his head unconsciously, but he was still muttering something.

At this time, Zhou Yuanyi slowly said to the doctor on duty: "I just ask you to go back to the police station with us, and help us make a face puzzle of that mysterious woman!"
The confirmation process of the jigsaw puzzle made Xiao Gao in the technical department very upset.The doctor on duty in this hospital can't always speak clearly.He said it was a bit similar to a pointed face; he said it was a bit similar to a round face.In fact, the doctor on duty could not recall what the woman looked like at all.

Xiao Gao couldn't help getting angry, and he said loudly to the doctor on duty: "What the hell were you doing at that time? Why can't you even remember whether a person has a pointed face or a round face?"
The doctor on duty said aggrievedly: "You don't know how busy I am at work. I have to see so many patients and family members every day. How can everyone remember?" He shrugged his shoulders, "Besides, you are also a student. As a doctor, you should know that doctors are not obliged to remember what a patient's family looks like. We still have more things to do.

Xiao Gao also admitted that the doctor on duty was right. The doctor is indeed not obliged to record what a possible suspect looks like.But he still insisted on asking: "Then can you still recall what kind of characteristics that woman has?"
The doctor on duty shook his head apologetically and said, "I just remember that woman hid behind the patient when she walked into the duty room, keeping her head buried. I didn't even see her face..."
After hearing Xiao Gao's report, Zhou Yuanyi couldn't vent his anger.But he has no better solution to the current situation.After all, it was a murder case involving human life, and it was a series of related serial murder cases. If nothing was done, the citizens would definitely not be satisfied!
Wang Li leaned over and asked, "Captain Zhou, what should we do now?"
Zhou Yuanyi pondered for a moment.He knew that the most important thing now was to find out the mysterious woman who finally met Xiao Zhijie's mother.Unfortunately, the doctor on duty couldn't remember what the woman looked like.And it is useless to ask other people, the hospital is full of mentally ill patients, and the proof they have made is impossible to be adopted.

However, there seems to be a turning point - the psychiatric hospital is located in the suburbs, with inconvenient transportation, and there is only one shuttle bus line passing by, which runs every half an hour.There were not many people with cars there, and judging from the clothes of the mysterious woman, she did not look like someone who owned a private car.So maybe she came to the hospital by bus and then left by bus.Perhaps a conductor saw her and made an impression.

Zhou Yuanyi immediately ordered Wang Li to go to the bus station near the hospital to investigate who had been waiting for the bus before and after the incident.Fortunately, there was a cigarette stall next to the station, and the business was bleak.The stall owner is a middle-aged laid-off male worker in his 40s.He was divorced after being laid off, so he especially likes to spy on the opposite sex waiting at the station while doing business.He was no exception that day. He had been secretly looking at the woman waiting for the bus, so he naturally noticed the mysterious woman in her 50s when the incident happened.He still clearly remembered what that woman looked like, and he also agreed to go to the police station to help with the puzzle.

What a bonus.

Zhou Yuanyi sat anxiously on the sofa, puffing out smoke rings feebly, waiting for Wang Li to bring the cigarette stall owner back to the police station.He raised his head, his eyes fixed on the ceiling.The stains on the ceiling are arranged irregularly in circles, like blurred human faces.Zhou Yuanyi closed his eyes, and the face-like stains on the retina seemed to move, and slowly overlapped, turning into strange faces one after another.These faces became clearer and clearer, and just when Zhou Yuanyi was about to see what the faces looked like, he suddenly heard a burst of exciting 24-chord cell phone music, Jay Chou sang "Quickly use the nunchucks, hum ha ha!" Quickly use the nunchuck, hehehe!"
Someone was looking for him again, Zhou Yuanyi opened his eyes, and the patterns on his retina instantly disappeared, completely disappearing.

According to the caller ID, the call is from Xie Yixue.

"Hello..." Zhou Yuanyi asked absently.

"Officer Zhou..." From the phone, Xie Yixue's voice was a bit dry and weak.Probably because of a cold, the weather has been a little erratic these days.Zhou Yuanyi thought so.

Xie Yixue told Zhou Yuanyi on the phone that she was going to live in the hometown of the reservoir in Guoshan for a period of time. There was no mobile phone signal there, and there was no landline at home.With regard to the case, she couldn't help much.

Zhou Yuanyi responded casually with a few words, then turned off the phone.To be honest, he never took Xie Yixue's words to heart, and he never thought that Xie Yixue would help this case.

When he hung up the phone and was about to close the flip, he realized that there was an unread short message displayed on the phone screen.

Zhou Yuanyi has always been an electrical idiot, and has only a half-knowledge about the powerful functions of business mobile phones.Because his mobile phone bill can be reimbursed, he has always stubbornly believed that as long as the mobile phone can make calls, text messages are just a dispensable function.

Zhou Yuanyi only set the notification sound when the text message came to a soft "di".He had been busy in the psychiatric hospital this morning, so he hadn't heard the cue.

Zhou Yuanyi opened the text message, only to find that the message was also from Xie Yixue.But the content of the text message shocked Zhou Yuanyi, there were only a few lines on it:
"Someone called me today to ask for a reward of 3 yuan for killing Ouyang Mei. The time is set at five o'clock this afternoon. I will make an appointment when the time comes."
The time of sending the letter is 8 o'clock in the morning.

Zhou Yuanyi glanced at his watch, it was already four o'clock!It's an hour to five o'clock!
He was very surprised why Xie Yixue didn't tell him about it on the phone just now.He hurriedly called Xie Yixue, but unfortunately, there was only a cold female voice on the other end of the phone: "Sorry, the person you dialed has turned off the phone, please call again later." Maybe Xie Yixue has already entered her hometown in the mountains near the Guoshan Reservoir , there is no signal anymore.

How to do?What should be done now?Zhou Yuanyi's mind was in a mess.

Xie Yixue is no longer available.She sent this message at noon today, perhaps because she wanted to kick the ball to Zhou Yuanyi to solve it.The biggest beneficiary of Ouyang Mei's death is her, Xie Yixue.But Xie Yixue told the police after changing hands that she was innocent and put the pot of yellow flowers on the window sill only because of an accident.And now she went to the Guoshan mountain area, perhaps just to avoid this scene that should come.

However, now Zhou Yuanyi has no choice but to take this move.

Calm down, don't panic!Zhou Yuanyi took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly, trying his best to maintain the ability to think and judge.

Now that Xie Yixue has entered the mountain, not only the police cannot contact her, but naturally even the mysterious person who came to extort 3 yuan for the murder cannot contact Xie Yixue himself.So--
Zhou Yuanyi had already thought of what to do.

He opened the flip of the phone, made a call, and hurriedly brought a few men with him, and drove out in the off-road vehicle.

This call is for Xu Tingting.

(End of this chapter)