Hospital 444
Chapter 71 - 12: Serial Murder Case (4th update, please subscribe!)

Chapter 71: Chapter 12: Serial Murder Case (4th update, please subscribe!)

Wei Ming was playing basketball on the court at the time.

It had been just over a month since senior year of high school started, so the school still allowed them to play basketball in their free time. However, as time went on and their workload increased, it would become much harder to find opportunities to play like this.

"Wei Ming, defense, defense!"

"Hold them back, don’t let them break through!"

Wei Ming’s class, Class 3, was up against Class 5’s team, which, compared to shooting three-pointers, was better at dunking, so as long as they prevented the opposing players from getting near the hoop, their chances of winning were much greater.

However, an opponent suddenly deceived Wei Ming with a clever feint!

"Dai Wei, quick, go block him!"

The Class 5 player laughed heartily as he charged toward the basket, embracing the ball and looking set to dunk.

But at that moment, something bizarre happened.

Although there was clearly no one in front of him, the basketball was somehow slapped away by a strange force!

"Dai Wei, good job!"

"Go for the rebound!"

Immediately, the Class 3 team members rushed forward, and Wei Ming grabbed the basketball in one swoop!

At that moment... not a single person found the scene peculiar.

It was as if, just as the Class 5 player was about to successfully dunk, there had indeed been someone who slapped the basketball away!

Among the spectators by the playground at that time were Dai Lin and Gao Heyann.

"Dai Wei is so awesome!"

"He truly deserves to be Class 3’s best MVP!"

At this time, on the playground, Class 3, with only four players, was actually holding their own against Class 5, which had five players!

"Are Dr. Tang’s cursed objects that terrifying?" Dai Lin had seen it clearly; the basketball had indeed been forcefully smacked away, a move that surely no normal person could achieve.

"How else would the cursed object be manageable by her, an associate chief physician?" Gao Heyann continued, "Don’t worry, the cursed object is very stable. It’s not the kind that directly affects the human body, at most some psychological influence."

At this point, Dai Lin was more concerned about whether this was simply mental hypnosis or if there really was an evil spirit named "Dai Wei"?

Cursed objects were inherently highly dangerous.

But on the other hand, if his parents found out about this, his identity as a doctor would hardly be kept a secret. In that case, his parents might not hesitate to sacrifice their own lives to pay for the Spiritual Therapy Points.

At the end of the game, Class 3 won, even though they were one player short.

Wei Ming, sweating profusely, walked off the field, and immediately some girls approached him with towels and bottled water.

Of course, even more girls gathered around the non-existent "Dai Wei."

Dai Lin approached Wei Ming and said, "Hello Wei Ming, this is our first meeting. I’m Dai Wei’s brother, Dai Lin."

Wei Ming was startled and immediately looked towards Dai Wei.

"Dai Wei, your brother’s here!"

Gao Heyann whispered to Dai Lin, "Just react casually, there won’t be any slip-ups."

Facing the empty air, Dai Lin could only say, "Dai... Dai Wei, you played well."

This feeling was extremely bizarre, even making Dai Lin feel nauseous.

For Dai Lin, the first thing to consider was to interact with Wei Ming to find out about the girl An Minglu. He needed to understand how she became cursed and why she died.

He had to know.

And, crucially, after having absorbed the hair of a policeman just before, he had learned something else.

This wasn’t the first time such a murder had occurred.

...

Anyway, while Dai Lin pretended to converse with the air, Gao Heyann said to Wei Ming, "May I ask you a few questions? I’m Dai Wei’s cousin."

"Oh, cousin... hello!"

Gao Heyan leaned close to Wei Ming, lowered his voice, and asked him, "You know An Minglu, right?"

Hearing the name "An Minglu," Wei Ming’s complexion also seemed a bit unsightly.

"No, she’s not in our class; she’s a sophomore. You... don’t know about her yet?"

"Her? What about her?"

"Today, the police came to our school. We later heard from those in the sophomore year that she was murdered..."

A chill swept through, causing Wei Ming, who was drenched in sweat from playing soccer, to shiver suddenly.

"Well, I need to take a shower. You siblings chat first, chat first."

An Minglu was a sophomore. And from Wei Ming’s words, it seemed he didn’t know about any special relationship between Dai Wei and An Minglu.

As Wei Ming left, Gao Heyan’s hand quickly swept over the back of his head.

Hair, obtained.

Then, she handed the hair to Dai Lin, "All set... With this, we can now integrate various pieces of information."

Dai Lin and Gao Heyan subsequently went to a café next to the school.

The cursed artifact could suppress the desire to sleep for a certain time, but hunger was not something it could control.

"It’s no wonder that a shop by the school does good business."

Dai Lin and Gao Heyan took a seat by the window on the second floor, which perfectly overlooked the school’s back gate and the boys’ dormitory was in plain sight.

Dai Lin needed only to look toward the boys’ dormitory to quickly spot Wei Ming’s window. Of course, Dai Wei used to live there as well.

Wei Ming was probably having dinner and hadn’t returned yet.

"How about it? Now, do you have the memories of both the police and Wei Ming?" Gao Heyan asked after ordering her meal, "Have you absorbed everything?"

"I’ve fully absorbed the memories. But, the amount of information is huge; I’ll have to sort through it slowly."

Dai Lin took a sip of water brought by the waiter and said, "First off, regarding the police. I didn’t expect that this was a serial murder case."

"I didn’t expect it either, only discovered it after looking it up online. The last case was thirteen years ago..."

The case could be traced back to thirty-nine years ago. Since then, every thirteen years, a similar incident had occurred, each time resulting in a victim who died in exactly the same way.

They all died with their heads twisted one hundred eighty degrees, and their mouths sewn shut with needle and thread.

An Minglu was the fourth victim.

Of course, due to the long passage of time and different jurisdictions, the police memory was not comprehensive, and the information on the incident from thirty-nine years ago was scarce online.

What could be confirmed was...

The first case occurred in 1982 in a small town in the suburbs of L city, where an eighteen-year-old boy was the victim. It was during the summer break, and the boy went to the mountains with a group of people, then mysteriously disappeared. The townspeople organized a search and, after three days, found the boy in the forest. The horrific state of his corpse terrified everyone. When the county reported to the city bureau, a special task force was established. Due to the extremely malignant nature of the crime, a strict order was given to solve the case within a month. But in the rural mountains of the suburbs, where there was a high mobility of people, the true perpetrator was never found. A fragment of a hand-drawn map was found in the sewn mouth of the boy, yet the place marked on the map didn’t exist.

Then in 1995, in C city, a twenty-seven-year-old male. The man was a machinist, living alone in rental housing, and was found dead in his room. His death was identical to the teenage boy thirteen years prior, and a fragment of the map was also found in his mouth. A cross-provincial special task force was later formed, combining the two cases for investigation, but in the end, no clues were uncovered.

After that, in 2008, in R city, a twenty-three-year-old woman. This case was even more terrifying than the previous ones because the victim died in a monitored, securely closed room. In such circumstances, it was completely incomprehensible how the criminal carried out the deed! The manner of death was the same, and afterwards, a map fragment was also found in her mouth. Moreover, the third victim was a somewhat famous violinist, and her death occurred in the Yongxin Grand Theater in downtown R city, which caused quite a sensation.

And most importantly, in the mouths of all the victims, there was a fragment of a hand-drawn map.

Every time a case occurred, and after the provincial public security bureaus collaborated in their investigation, it turned out that the map fragments could be pieced together!

This also proved that it couldn’t have been the work of a copycat. It was the same assailant!

Of course, this so-called perpetrator was certainly not human!

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Gao Heyan seemed to remember something.

Her brother-in-law, Yin Wuque, was also from R city, and before he was hospitalized, he was a music conductor. She’d heard her sister mention several times that her brother-in-law had performed in the Yongxin Grand Theater before...

Was this a coincidence?