Класс 407

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Suddenly remembering something, Duan Lin bent down slightly, and the glaring red mark on his younger brother's neck caught his attention.

That's cruel. How could anyone think of such a method?

Mu Zi, who had been standing to the side in silence for a while, suddenly spoke up, "Hey... don't you think something's strange?"

"?"

Why is your brother at Cheng Rui's house?

Duan Lin tilted his head. Although he was curious why Mu Zi would suddenly ask such a question, Duan Lin still answered, "Xin Nuo said she wanted to send some materials to her senior."

"But your senior isn't here, is he?"

"Didn't that officer say he just called him to ask where he was? And..."

"Hey! Everyone else is dead, how could your brother be the only one who survived? Besides, including your brother's incident, if these four incidents are connected and caused by the same reason, don't you think that's strange?"

Mu Zi's words seemed to gently touch something deep within Duan Lin's heart, something that had been stirring within him for a long time, but for which he had been unable to find a reason and had had to suppress... Duan Lin's eyes widened further and further...

Yes, if we disregard the police officer's perspective, rather than saying that thing came to harm the younger brother, it's more accurate to say... "it" came to find Cheng Rui?!

It realized it wasn't Cheng Rui... so it let go of its younger brother...

Furthermore, if these four incidents are indeed consecutive, then...

After Xu Yao died, an umbilical cord appeared on his body; Mao Weiwei pulled an umbilical cord out of her own body; when Lu Xianglai died, an umbilical cord taken from his wife's body was wrapped around his neck...

It's the umbilical cord!

This explains why Bo Xiaoxue said she didn't remember delivering the umbilical cord, as if she were possessed! Because that day...

Duan Lin thought of the child wearing red shoes that he had seen.

Was it him? If we can think of it that way... those cassette tapes around my brother's neck were a replacement for the umbilical cord!

The umbilical cord... the umbilical cord is a means of communication!

Since infants cannot speak, the only bridge for communication and nutrition between mother and baby is the umbilical cord! If that's the case...

Duan Lin stared at the red marks on his younger brother's neck, his overwhelming excitement causing him to grip his brother's hand tightly.

suddenly……

Duan Lin lowered his head. His younger brother had something in his hand...?

Quietly opening his younger brother's hand, Duan Lin saw a thin, black thing...it seemed familiar...

Duan Lin's eyes widened suddenly as he met Mu Zi's gaze!

"Oh no!" Duan Lin immediately ran outside!

Just as the police officers were about to leave when Duan Lin reached the door, he grabbed Xiao Cao's arm tightly and begged them to help him restore the cassette tape that was originally wrapped around his younger brother's neck.

"Please! That... could be the key to the case!"

When the case was mentioned, Xiao Cao was still puzzled, but he still agreed to their request.

It was still dark, and there was still some time before dawn. So much had happened in such a short time, and Duan Lin felt that the day seemed unusually long.

My heart was pounding fiercely, like something was trying to burst forth from the ground... I felt an itch in my heart.

Duan Lin knew that this was the trembling he felt when he was about to touch the real truth.

I still need to confirm one thing...

Upon arriving at the police station, the cassette tape, which had been almost discarded as scrap, was sent to the technical department for restoration. Because it had been used as a murder weapon and suffered considerable wear and tear, restoration would take some time. During this time, Duan Lin asked the officers to accompany him to Lu Xianglai's house. Although it was late, Lu Xianglai's parents still received these strange visitors.

Lu Xianglai had a lot of photos, and Duan Lin and Mu Zi each took one side and searched for them. Skipping over the ordinary snapshots, Duan Lin was looking for "that thing"...

Xiao Cao looked at the two strange people.

Although he brought them here himself, they hadn't told him anything from beginning to end. If it weren't for their good relationship with Mr. Jin Zi, and the fact that they genuinely seemed to be searching for something, he wouldn't have bothered with what they were doing!

Not knowing what to do, and feeling bored, Xiao Cao stood by the desk, where an exquisite photo frame caught his eye.

"What a fun picture frame! Wait, isn't Lu Xianglai a photographer? How come he used to be a doctor? Wait, is this Mao Weiwei? She's changed so much, I almost don't recognize her..."

Xiao Cao's words struck like lightning into the hearts of the two people who were sitting on the floor looking through photos. They dropped the photo albums they were holding and ran to the desk. When Duan Lin saw the photos in Xiao Cao's hand, his expression calmed down.

We've found... the most perplexing truth. Sometimes the key is right there in the open, isn't it?

We've found... the connection between those people!

Duan Lin stared intently at the photograph—

The photo shows a group of young people standing in front of a hospital gate, all wearing white coats as interns. The four people on the far left are familiar faces to them, from left to right: Xu Yao, Mao Weiwei, Lu Xianglai, and...

Cheng Rui.

Oh no! The next person is indeed...

"Dexin Hospital"!

Upon seeing the sign with the hospital's name on it in the photo, Duan Lin hurriedly said to Xiao Cao, "Please find out where this hospital is! As soon as possible!"

"Huh? Okay... I'll be right there!" After a moment of hesitation, Xiao Cao hurriedly dialed the police station's cell phone...

Duan Lin's heart pounded as he looked at the young man in the photo, a feeling he couldn't quite describe.

What did they do there? What did they do that incurred such deep resentment? Resentment so intense that they died such a tragic death...

"We found it. It's a hospital in Longyun County! Hey? It's in the same county as our boss. He was transferred from this county before. If you have any questions, you can ask him. He'll definitely know a lot about it..."

Xiao Cao spoke unconsciously, saying things that made Duan Lin and Mu Zi no longer doubt their own answers.

Asking Mr. Jin Zi? It seems that statement was indeed correct…

The key to solving the puzzle... is definitely in Jin Zi's hands!

"Who was the first to discover Han Xin Nuo's affair?" Mu Zi asked in a low voice as she sat in the car.

"Huh? Why are you asking that? Let me think... Ah! It's the boss!"

Jin Zi! Upon hearing this, Duan Lin and Mu Zi exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.

"One last question, where is Mr. Jin Zi now?"

At daybreak, the C City Police Department called its subordinate branches to inquire about Jin Zi's personal situation.

When the other party mentioned that Jin Zi had lost his wife and children and was all alone, and asked about Jin Zi's current situation... everyone at the police station was stunned.

Everyone here knows that Jin Zi has a son, a son she loves very much.

"So...you've met his son?"

"No! I just heard..."

What would you think if you were told that a character you thought had existed for five years was just a fictional character?

"Jin Zi is such a pitiful person. Her son didn't even have time to come out of his mother's womb... Sigh..."

In an instant, it went from heaven to hell.

Perhaps... we've never lived in heaven? Perhaps we've always lived in hell...

After those tapes were recovered, the fragmented images confirmed everyone's imagination.

That was the process of how a woman died tragically on the delivery bed.

The surgeon was Xu Yao, assisted by Cheng Rui and nurse Mao Weiwei, and the person who wanted to film the woman's childbirth process but ended up filming their murder...

Duan Lin suddenly remembered that Lu Xianglai developed hemophobia and left the medical profession in the same year, the year they were interning.

It turns out that there really are no coincidences in this world.

Countless inevitable events accumulate, seemingly coincidental.

Everyone understands, but what should we do now? Where is Jin Zi?

He said he was going to find Cheng Rui, but... Cheng Rui is in danger!

The most important thing for everyone right now is to find Cheng Rui's whereabouts, but unfortunately, the only person who might know Cheng Rui's whereabouts is currently in a deep sleep...

Duan Lin's phone suddenly rang, and the name on the number almost made him shout out loud, "Hello! Mr. Jin Zi!"

Upon hearing the name Duan Lin mentioned, everyone around immediately held their breath.

"Mr. Jin Zi, where are you?" Duan Lin tried his best to make his voice sound normal, but...

"Hehe, you already know, don't you? Stop pretending, kid. Pretending isn't for you."

Mr. Jin Zi's voice was still deep and reassuring.

"Is your brother's neck alright?"

Duan Lin was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly understood what Jin Zi meant.

"My wife... if she had been able to get into the delivery room earlier, she would have been fine."

The sudden mention of this made Duan Lin's heart skip a beat: Is Mr. Jin Zi starting to bring up things from the past?

"There's only one decent hospital in our area. She started feeling pain a long time ago, but the nurses just told her it was nothing. My wife is a good woman; she knows I have a bad temper and was afraid I'd argue with them, so she insisted on waiting as they told her to... until she bled a lot and fainted before they found out..."

"But the doctor wasn't there! He wasn't on duty. In order to perform the surgery on her as soon as possible, the nurse called the office again, but no one answered. She called his cell phone, but he didn't answer either. Eventually, she simply turned off her cell phone."

"Doctors are supposed to save lives and heal the wounded, but they treated the mother's life like a joke. Do they have any conscience? Do they have any medical ethics? Do they have any humanity? We kept waiting, and during that time the baby's heartbeat started to drop. If there had been a doctor there at that time, and they could have provided timely resuscitation, would the baby have been in danger? By then, forty minutes had already been wasted!"

"The situation got worse and worse. She started bleeding from her gums, and then she vomited blood. The nurse who was there was crying. We called again and again before a few doctors and nurses finally arrived. My wife was in excruciating pain before she was wheeled in, but she still told me, 'Don't be afraid, I'm okay.' She could still speak then, but when she came out of the operating room... she couldn't speak anymore..."

"They only left me with an umbilical cord."

"I wanted to sue them, but that's when I discovered that all my medical records had been altered! The nurse I spoke to told me they were just interns, but their families were very wealthy and they had powerful connections... They left after their internships, and now I have no one to sue them."

"Those inhuman, conscienceless bastards, why is no one judging them? The courts on earth are unjust, I think the courts in hell must be fair. I want to curse them, curse these heartless bastards, so... I'll stop here."

"They really have forgotten, forgotten that small county town, that hospital, and my wife and children. But I remember, I remember for myself, and I remember for them. They've forgotten... so I'll make them remember..."

The man's voice was filled with laughter; he seemed happy. He had reminded them, but listening to the man's words, Duan Lin felt a lump in his throat. How had he endured these past few years? Every single day was like this… Perhaps his initial purpose in raising the corpse wasn't for the curse, but simply to see his son?

"I regret it now! I raised Xiaobao with these thoughts, and I truly regret it... If I could, I wish I had killed them all. My child... was such an innocent child... because of my evil thoughts, he became the ghost you all talk about... I'm so sorry to him... It was all my doing, it was me..."

"By the way, Duan Lin, didn't you talk about your father? Try to be more understanding. He definitely loves you. What father in the world doesn't love his child? In the future, you should..."

Before Mr. Jin Zi could finish speaking, suddenly! Duan Lin heard a loud "bang".

gun?!

"Mr. Jin Zi!" Duan Lin cried out, gripping the thin rope in his hand, before fainting.