Hospital 444
Chapter 79 - 20 Forensic Medicine

Chapter 79: Chapter 20 Forensic Medicine

The next day, Gao Heyann arrived at the hospital a full hour and a half early.

Thirteen years ago... fortunately, by that time, medical records had already become fully digitized, and could be accessed on the computer.

However, Wei Shirling wasn’t her patient, so if she wanted to view her records, she would need to find Director Song.

Hopefully, she would be able to obtain the permission to view them from Director Song.

The premise was that her brother-in-law hadn’t given her a heads up.

The office of the head of the Wraith Surgery Department.

Song Min was checking the surgical schedule for the department for the week.

There came a knock at the door.

"He Yan? Come in."

Gao Heyann pushed open the door, not at all surprised that Song Min knew it was her before she entered.

"Director Song, I have something..."

"It’s rare for you to come so early, He Yan," Director Song noticed that Gao Heyann was even wearing casual clothes instead of a white lab coat, which showed how urgent she must be: "Is it about the surgery?"

"No, it’s not..."

"Actually, your timing is just right."

Song Min took out a set of keys, approached a safe, opened it, and then... took out a human skull!

"This is a cursed object that was recently delivered," Song Min said, holding the skull: "It is the skull of a karmic ghost, created by the Department of Cursed Objects after sealing it. Don’t worry, it has just transformed from a Resentful Spirit into a karmic ghost. I’m giving it to you; it’s very suitable for review before the examination. If you pass the end of year exam, I will immediately promote you to deputy head of the department."

"Director Song... I didn’t come to talk to you about this, it’s about..."

"He Yan." Song Min sighed and said: "Lately, you should just focus on preparing for your exam. The department won’t arrange difficult surgeries for you before the end of the year. As long as you get the title of associate chief physician, you’ll also be equipped with better cursed objects."

Gao Heyann had already figured it out.

Director Song was deliberately changing the subject. She already knew what Gao Heyann was here for.

"My sister treated a patient back then," Gao Heyann decided to get straight to the point: "That patient later died, and the situation is very similar to what Dai Lin’s brother is going through now..."

"He Yan," Song Min put the skull on the desk and said solemnly: "I’ve known you... for fourteen years now."

"I, I remember."

Gao Heyann had seen Song Min back when she was hospitalized with her sister at Hospital 444.

The appearance of Song Min from fourteen years ago hadn’t changed at all from now.

"Your sister later volunteered to become a doctor at our hospital, and you know why she did that."

"Because she wanted to... for mom and dad..."

"No," Song Min shook her head, "because she wanted to protect you. You were the family member she cherished most. What she hadn’t anticipated was that you would also become a doctor at this hospital. She had hoped that you would lead a common life like an ordinary person, studying, working, marrying, having children routinely, and her job was to keep the ghosts, demons, and evil spirits away from you forever."

Then, Song Min patted the skull.

"Your current abilities are far from enough to investigate what you want to investigate. Improve yourself, and when you reach my level, then you’ll be fit to discuss these matters."

Song Min seemed to know some insider information!

But Gao Heyann knew she wouldn’t tell her anymore.

Without Song Min’s authorization, she had no way to look into Wei Shirling’s treatment records from back then.

"I know what you’re thinking right now, He Yan. You think I know everything but refuse to tell you, right? Actually, even I don’t know much, but I can assure you that it is extremely dangerous and not something you should delve into right now. With your age, it’s indeed difficult to take the exam for associate chief physician, but there’s no helping it. In this place, if you don’t progress, you regress. If our medical skills aren’t strong enough, we could die on the operating table or somewhere else at any moment."

Gao Heyann nodded and took the skull from Song Min’s hands.

"Alright, I understand."

When she returned to the outpatient clinic, she found that Dai Lin had also arrived.

"Are your parents okay?"

"I used diagnostic cursed objects on them, they are fine."

After thinking for a moment, Gao Heyann said: "Just to be on the safe side, I’ll come to your house after work to give your parents a check-up. If there’s nothing wrong, we can at least be temporarily reassured."

"Okay."

"I’ll remind you again, don’t try to see the doctors of the Demons Department through Doctor Zhao, and definitely don’t contact them privately." Gao Heyann repeated earnestly: "Alright, let’s start with today’s outpatient clinic."

...

Eleven o’clock at noon.

Gao Heyan called the number of the last patient for the morning, whose complexion was quite awful as they entered.

"Doctor, I, I am a forensic expert from the city’s criminal police squad. I’ve encountered some strange things due to a recent murder case."

Hearing this, Dai Lin instantly became alert.

"You said... a murder case?"

"Yes..." the forensic expert looked at the two of them and said, "Of course, this might involve some situations that the police discipline does not allow to be leaked, so..."

"You don’t need to leak anything," Gao Heyan said. "Give us one of your hairs. There are some things you don’t have to say aloud."

The forensic expert was stunned, and before they could react, Gao Heyan had opened a drawer and handed them a pair of scissors.

"Sorry to trouble you."

Looking at the scissors, the forensic expert bit their lip and said, "Just one hair?"

They began to feel afraid; if they believed in curses and malicious spirits, then at this moment, they would definitely worry whether their hair could become an object for a curse to latch onto.

"Never mind, I’ll just speak frankly. No need for the hair."

"The murder case you mentioned," Dai Lin interrupted the forensic expert’s contemplation, "is it about An Minglu?"

The forensic expert was taken aback and asked in confusion, "How do you know? We haven’t disclosed the name An Minglu to the media!"

As expected!

Dai Lin and Gao Heyan exchanged glances at this point.

The forensic expert had been cursed...

Were they still alive now?

"What strange things have you encountered?" Dai Lin had already started to take notes in the medical manual: "As for how I know, you don’t need to ask any more questions. Forensic Chen, only by laying all your cards on the table can we understand the detailed situation."

At that very moment.

In City W, a remote suburban area, inside a warehouse.

Two men wearing hoodies were waiting there.

Before long, a person approached them.

What was eerie was that despite clearly seeing the person in front of them, they couldn’t make out the other’s features, nor could they determine their gender or height.

"First time meeting... or perhaps not exactly a meeting. Let me introduce myself, my name is Dave Hasmond, and this is William..."

"Let’s skip the full names, will you? Who remembers such long foreign names, huh? Dave, William, right?"

"I’ll get straight to the point. The map, by the time we went to retrieve it, you had already beaten us to it."

"I also don’t know who took the map."

Dave, the man named as such, spoke coldly: "We’re only missing the last map. Before the autopsy, the forensic expert found that the stitches in the corpse’s mouth had been undone, and the map had already been taken by someone else. We must get the last part of the map, no matter the cost."

"For now, we are unable to assist with that."

At this time, the man named William said, "You didn’t take the map beforehand and now want to sell it to us at a higher price, did you?"

"Not bad at Chinese, huh? Using such a complex phrase," the person whose face couldn’t be seen replied, "We will investigate who took the map."

"The doctors who went to the site of An Minglu’s death that day were two people."

"Right."

"Both of them are suspects."

"We will investigate. But let me remind you, this isn’t Europe or America; you can’t be too conspicuous with your actions."

"Let me remind you," William said coldly, "I don’t want to speak unpleasantly, but... if, I mean if, you’ve hidden the map, we will stop at nothing to take it back!"

...

"Because the deceased’s family was out of town, and an autopsy requires the presence of the family, it wasn’t until last night that we formally began the autopsy. However, in the morgue, we discovered that the stitches sealing the corpse’s mouth had been removed, and we didn’t find the hand-drawn map that the first three victims had. This was strange to the special investigation team as well."

"No map found?" Dai Lin was a bit surprised at this.

"We’ve checked the surveillance outside the morgue. The stitches on the mouth were still there when the body was first brought in, and nobody entered that area afterward!"

Anyone who could easily deceive surveillance... There were two possibilities.

A ghost...

Or a paranormal doctor!

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