Hospital 444
Chapter 251 - 42 Murder

Chapter 251: Chapter 42 Murder

The police station on Azure Island was very small, and Officer Li from the station spent most of the year dealing with trivial matters.

This was his first encounter with a murder case.

But, having encountered it, no matter how troublesome he felt it was, he had no choice but to deal with it.

The victim’s name was Luo Rui, an 11-year-old boy whose parents had both passed away, making him an orphan. His body was found in a small wooden hut by the sea, soaked through with water at the time of death, and the cause of death was suspected to be... drowning!

A crowd had gathered outside the wooden hut.

Among them, were Hai Jian Shi, and the siblings Ji Danyang and Ji Danshu.

"You mean to say..." Ji Danshu’s face was particularly unsightly, "this deceased boy, is father?"

"Yes." Ji Danyang nodded with difficulty and said, "Danshu, I’m sorry, I... I shouldn’t have kept it from you."

Hai Jian Shi’s face was also quite unsightly as he said, "Danyang! How could you keep something so important from us!"

"It was dad who said he didn’t want us to know. He said he wanted to live a completely new life."

"Dad, he... he..."

If it weren’t for several patrol officers from the station blocking her, Ji Danshu would have rushed in to examine the body.

When her father died of cirrhosis, Ji Danshu felt a deep sense of guilt. She should have been more proactive in stopping her father from heavy drinking, and not let him pass away like that.

Her father’s final days, as he lay dying, were the most painful time for Ji Danshu. The cirrhosis had entered a decompensated stage, and due to the severe damage to his liver function, he accumulated fluid in his abdomen and vomited continuously...

Perhaps due to the island’s reincarnation rule, Ji Danshu even hoped that her father would die sooner. Therefore, when her father finally breathed his last, Ji Danshu felt a trace of relief instead.

Afterwards, as a mortician, she and her brother, Ji Danyang, held a sea funeral for their father, allowing his body to sink into the deep blue sea...

In this way, there was hope for their father to be reincarnated into this world.

In the days that followed, Ji Danshu frequently visited the maternity ward of the island’s health clinic, checking on the various newborns to see if any resembled her father.

As a mortician, a role typically regarded as taboo, she was not discriminated against on this island, where life and death were so closely linked.

Ji Danshu still vividly remembers her eighteenth birthday, when her father and brother revealed to her the secret of the island. At first, she scoffed at it—reincarnation and rebirth were nothing but feudal superstitions! She suspected that her father was senile and the villagers were caught in ignorant beliefs.

But later, her father showed her various pieces of information the islanders had compiled and verified over the past decades. The reincarnated islanders could recount memories of the deceased they should not have known, and even their voices and smiles were strikingly similar to those of the deceased.

Seeing this hair-raising information, Ji Danshu too came to believe in these outlandish rumors. However, her father never chose to speak to her about his own past life.

Her father believed it was a blessing from the heavens for the island, allowing people to return to the island after death, but Ji Danshu found it unrealistic. She did not believe in the existence of any so-called gods or heaven.

All morning Ji Danshu had been in a stupor. She had wanted to see the body, but the sight of the drowned corpse was too ghastly, and in the end, Ji Danyang did not let her see it.

After returning home, Ji Danshu became completely engulfed in a state of confusion.

All she felt was chaos surrounding her, leaving her feeling utterly hollow.

The wooden hut was still three to four hundred meters from the coast, so why would the drowned body appear inside the hut?

This clearly indicated that the body had been moved.

The body was discovered by a nearby fisherman, who found the hut’s door wide open and came upon the corpse.

Based on the current situation...

Murder could not be ruled out!

If it was murder, the nature of it would be completely different.

"No way... This can’t be possible..."

Ji Danshu had been an encoffiner for so long, and there had never been a murder on Bi Lan Island.

And if it was a homicide...

Her father would never be able to reincarnate!

Ji Danshu had hoped that once she found her reincarnated father, she would take care of him and make up for the sorrow of not being able to nurture him in his old age. Clinging to this thought, she had waited until today, only to be met with such an outcome.

"Danshu."

At that moment, she heard the voice of her husband, Hai Jian Shi.

"The body has been properly laid to rest. For now... it’s still uncertain whether to proceed with a sea burial."

"Of course we choose sea burial!" Ji Danshu said without hesitation, "We still don’t know the cause of Dad’s death, but only with a sea burial is there a chance for Dad to reincarnate. If we don’t do a sea burial, there will be no chance at all!"

Hai Jian Shi sighed.

"Danyang and I have discussed this for a long time, and we have decided to bury Dad in the ground."

"What? What are you talking about, Jian Shi?"

Ji Danshu rushed in front of her husband, saying urgently, "No! Absolutely not! If we bury him in the ground, Dad will never be able to reincarnate!"

"The police believe there’s a high possibility it was homicide. The crime scene is several hundred meters away from the ocean, and given the location of the cabin, it couldn’t have been washed up by the waves. This means, Dad was very likely murdered."

"Just because he was murdered doesn’t mean he can’t reincarnate... it’s not necessarily a hard and fast rule! Maybe Dad is an exception?" Ji Danshu could picture her father suffering in his final stages of liver cirrhosis whenever she closed her eyes, "Why must it be a land burial? If we opt for a sea burial..."

"We can’t do a sea burial," Hai Jian Shi shook his head, "If a person has been murdered, they absolutely cannot be given a sea burial. In fact..."

Just then, the door behind them was pushed open.

The person who walked in was Ji Danyang.

"Yes. Danshu, we absolutely can’t do a sea burial. I’ll explain the specifics..."

Ji Danshu knew her brother Danyang’s character well, he was no less filial than she was.

"Why... why not?"

"We’ve always believed that if someone was murdered, they wouldn’t reincarnate through a sea burial. But in reality, that statement isn’t entirely accurate."

"What... what do you mean?"

Ji Danyang approached Ji Danshu and said, "Come with me, Danshu."

He led his sister into a room and then closed the door behind them.

"Brother, what is this?"

"It’s something that happened many years ago."

Ji Danyang walked over to a desk, opened a drawer, and took out a red piece of paper, which he handed to Ji Danshu.

"This is..." Ji Danshu received the red paper, mumbling, "Hospital... number 444?"

"Years ago, Dad was admitted to this special hospital," Ji Danyang explained. "Someone once performed a sea burial for a murdered person. The result was... ’people’ who shouldn’t have come back from the sea returned!"

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