Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 247: Atonement

In this city that never sleeps, the nights are always livelier than the days.

The emergency room of the hospital is no exception.

Black market boxers, gang members.

Dislocated joints, those who’ve been shot in the abdomen, those with knives stuck in their foreheads.

The doctors in the emergency room have long since become accustomed to such sights.

However, tonight’s influx of patients seems unusually large, and the wails are even more numerous.

The moment the Harmony and Victory Society members were sent to the hospital, Qing Chen gently opened his eyes on the hospital bed.

He knew Wang Bingxu had also come to the hospital, even repeatedly checking whether he was there or not.

Lying on his side, Qing Chen didn’t need to raise his head to confirm, because he remembered Wang Bingxu’s footsteps.

With Wang Bingxu guarding here, he couldn’t leave the hospital.

But sometimes, a hunter doesn’t need to painstakingly search for their prey; they can wait for the prey to come to them.

Outside the ward, the doctors instructed the nurses to administer sedatives while muttering among themselves, “I heard that several gangs ganged up to attack the Eternal Society, and this is the result… What a nuisance, these gang members.”

“Eternal Society rarely leaves any survivors,” an emergency room doctor complained, “It would be better if all these gang members were killed, saving us from working our heads off in the middle of the night.”

“Shh, the patient next to you is still awake,” a nurse reminded.

The emergency room doctor who had just been complaining calmly turned his head and saw the gang member glaring at him fiercely, “What are you looking at? If you get slashed again, you’ll still have to be sent here to be saved by me, so what’s wrong with me saying a couple of words to you?”

The gang member slowly closed his eyes without saying a word.

The District 4 emergency room doctors have always been arrogant, and among the people gang members are most unwilling to offend, apart from the Conglomerate and Federation Public Security Committee, and Federation Taxation Committee, are these doctors.

While the hospital was in chaos, Wang Bingxu watched the commotion from the side, even stopping one or two gang members with less severe injuries to inquire about what had happened that night.

10 minutes later, ce Public Security Committee investigators arrived late, nonchalantly conducting their investigation.

In the dimly lit ward where Qing Chen was, the young man had slowly gotten up, silently leaving the ward, his appearance changed.

He glanced at his phone, as if everything had been planned. The moment he opened the door, two nurses happened to be pushing two members of the Harmony and Victory Society past his ward door.

They were the boss and the executive director of the Harmony and Victory Society, the two most important figures within the gang.

Qing Chen silently stood at the ward door, waiting for the nurses to push the beds away, then walked calmly into the public restroom opposite.

Less than a minute later, the nurses in the corridor suddenly screamed. On the chest of the Harmony and Victory Society boss, a red stain was rapidly expanding, dyeing the entire blue hospital gown red. The nurse reached out to touch the boss’s carotid artery; there was no pulse.

Blood gushed from the Harmony and Victory Society boss’s chest, seeping through the mobile bed beneath him and dripping onto the corridor floor.

The ce investigators rushed over after hearing the commotion. An experienced senior investigator reached out to touch the victim’s chest, “There’s a penetrating wound in the heart area, and it’s a recent wound. Who was near the deceased with a weapon just now?!”

The nurse answered fearfully, “No, I really didn’t see anyone with a weapon. Only a young man happened to be going to the restroom and passed by us.”

The senior investigator felt something was wrong. Although the ce Public Security Committee didn’t like to handle the messy affairs of gangs, it was a bit excessive for someone to commit murder right under the ce’s nose.

He looked up. There were surveillance cameras at both ends of the corridor, but the problem was that the cameras had somehow all turned to blind spots, not facing the scene of the crime!

Before he could continue to think about anything, he saw Wei Zihao, the executive director of the Harmony and Victory Society, suddenly wake up.

He looked at the tragic state of his boss, immediately climbed out of bed, and grabbed the senior investigator’s arm, “Officer, save me, I don’t want to die!”

The senior investigator frowned and pushed him away, “Who wants to kill you?”

Wei Zihao cried out, “Officer, it’s the Eternal Society that wants to kill me! You see, our boss has been assassinated. Please arrest me, otherwise, the Eternal Society will definitely kill me.”

“Prison isn’t a place you can go to just because you want to?” The senior investigator said coldly.

At this time, Wei Zihao suddenly said, “The home invasion robbery case on Taohua Road two years ago was committed by me. If you don’t believe me, take a DNA sample from me for comparison, it will definitely match the weapon. Also, the Cybernetic Limbs robbery case in District 6 three years ago, the theft case in the Upper Three District seven years ago…”

Wei Zihao confessed to a long string of crimes, enough for him to spend his whole life in prison.

The investigators became excited. The most critical case among these was the theft case in the Upper Three District; solving this kind of case usually leads to great achievements!

However, the senior investigator suddenly said, “The theft case in the Upper Three District was already solved this year! I remember that case; the culprit was a man named Liu Dezhu!”

“Yes,” Wei Zihao said, “We were under too much scrutiny, so we found a hapless guy named Liu Dezhu to take the fall for us! All the cases I just mentioned were framed on him, but the real culprit wasn’t him, it was me!”

The ce investigators were all stunned. Wei Zihao had confessed to all these crimes to avoid the Eternal Society’s pursuit and get into prison.

At this time, no one noticed that a transparent thread on Wei Zihao’s wrist suddenly loosened. A young man walked back to the ward from the public restroom, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

The senior investigator suddenly pointed at Qing Chen and asked the nurse, “Was it him who just passed by you?”

The nurse shook her head, “No.”

“Really not?” The senior investigator frowned.

“No, he looks like this. If it was him, I would definitely remember,” the nurse said.

The senior investigator rushed into the restroom, only to find that the restroom window was open, and the cold wind was rushing in.

He leaned out of the window to take a look, but there was nothing outside.

Did he escape through the window? This is the first floor; it’s very easy to escape by jumping out of the window.

At this time, Qing Chen expressionlessly returned to the ward and lay down, even in the same posture as before he got up, without the slightest change.

The key to atonement is not how many members of the Harmony and Victory Society he can kill, but finding the real culprit.

Everything that happened tonight was very secretive. If not for the parties involved, it would be difficult to see through everything.

The phone in Qing Chen’s pocket vibrated. He opened it and saw a message from Yi, “Actually, if that ce level 3 investigator had been serious, you would still have flaws. After all, only you came out of the restroom; he would at least ask you if you saw anything suspicious.”

Qing Chen thought for a moment and replied, “If I were an ordinary person, of course, I would have flaws, but now it’s different; Wang Bingxu will help me solve this flaw.”

“What do you mean?” Yi didn’t quite understand.

Qing Chen didn’t answer but put down his phone.

At this moment, Wang Bingxu was also attracted by the commotion in the corridor. He glanced at the blood on the ground and the ce investigators, feeling something was wrong.

Why was there nothing wrong at the doors of other wards, but something happened right at this ward door?

He hurriedly walked to Qing Chen’s bed and found that the young man’s sleeping posture was exactly the same as before.

Qing Chen gently turned over, “Eh, why did you come?”

“Oh, Boss was afraid the doctor wouldn’t take good care of you, so he asked me to check on you,” Wang Bingxu scratched his head, “It’s fine as long as you’re okay. I’ll go out first.”

The next second, the senior investigator returned from the restroom to the corridor, intending to enter Qing Chen’s ward for inspection.

As a result, he had just pushed open the door when he bumped into Wang Bingxu.

Wang Bingxu said coldly, “What are you doing?”

The senior investigator also responded coldly, “ce is investigating a case. If you don’t want to die, get out of the way.”

But Wang Bingxu swung his arm and slapped him in the Face^[-], “I’m Wang Bingxu. The people in this ward are from the Li Clan. Who the hell allowed you to investigate?”

The senior investigator was slapped and spun around, but the first thing he did after stopping was to apologize, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were from the Li Clan.”

“Scram,” Wang Bingxu said.

The ward door closed, and the room was plunged into darkness again.

Outside the ward, Wei Zihao was lamenting, “What just happened? Officer, I’ve been wronged!”

“You were just enumerating criminal evidence, and now saying you’re wronged is too late,” a investigator said coldly, “Our people are already searching the locations where you said the evidence was hidden. Don’t worry, we’ll make it an ironclad case.”

Qing Chen took out his phone, “When can Liu Dezhu be released?”

“Wait until Wei Zihao is formally charged by the ce Public Security Committee tomorrow,” Yi replied.

“Eh, aren’t there any other procedures in between?” Qing Chen was puzzled, “Logically speaking, it should be to file a case for retrial first, then gather all the evidence to declare Wei Zihao’s guilt, and then Liu Dezhu can be released without charge.”

“Wei Zihao’s case is already a sure thing. I can open a back door for you and release Liu Dezhu early,” Yi said, “Anyway, having one more person or one less person inside, no one will notice. Remember, three days later at midnight, go get Forbidden Artifactace-011 ‘Conquer with Virtue’.

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