After coming out of the Star Cafe, Lu Ming found a place to have something to eat.
People who are used to being single are generally careless in their diet. This is the case for Lu Ming. When he is alone, a pancake and a plate of pickles can be a meal.
But there are exceptions. Even if Zhang Ziyang eats alone, he has to go to a fancy place to eat delicious food. He is not just for the sake of appetite, but he believes that this is how a superior person should live.
At this time, Zhang Ziyang was as tired as a dog.
He put all the clothes that Horgan had taken off, from outerwear to underwear, even underwear, and the contents of the pockets, on a table. He then used a camera to take photos of both sides, developed the photos, and numbered them one by one.
into evidence bags.
He had never done any of these trivial matters before, and they were all handled by specialized people. This case was different. Lu Ming emphasized to him that he had to do it himself and not let anyone from the police station touch any physical evidence.
The thing was very simple, just trivial, but when he actually did it, he realized that it was very tiring.
He developed two sets of photos, one set for the evidence room and one for himself. After thinking about it, he hid the negatives under a brick under his desk. After doing all this, he felt that everything was safe.
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Although he believed that the Japanese might have misled Xia Heng and He Jin when they were poisoned, these two cases were major cases after all. One was a murder case, and the other was gradually heading towards a murder case.
In three days, he might have two murder cases to solve, and thinking about them gave him a headache.
He carefully checked everything on He Jin's body several times, but still couldn't find any useful clues, which made him even more convinced that the Japanese's attempt to snatch Xia Heng and He Jin's bodies was just a pretense to disrupt the reconnaissance line of sight.
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To be precise, it was the smoke bombs released by the Japanese that poisoned these two people.
He stretched out and wanted to go out to eat something and then go to the hospital to meet Lu Ming.
At this moment, a policeman walked in and handed him a note: "Boss, Sister Cailian sent this to you. It seems to be a date."
Zhang Ziyang took the note, which had an address written on it and the words "come quickly".
Zhang Ziyang's heart skipped a beat. He and Cai Lian had been dating for almost a year, and he had received a lot of notes from Cai Lian. They would usually briefly talk about something, but this had never happened before.
Could it be that Cai Lian encountered some trouble?
This was his first reaction.
These days, he has been searching for the whereabouts of the two bodyguards and squatting outside their base. He has not been to Cai Lian for many days and has only made a few inquiries.
Zhang Ziyang immediately called Cai Lian's residence, and the little girl Cai Lian replied: Cai Lian was invited away at noon and she has not come back until now.
Zhang Ziyang felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly put on his uniform, took a gun, and drove to the address on the note.
The breeze blew along the way, and his anxious mind gradually sobered up. Looking at the familiar streets, shops and homes along the way, he suddenly thought: There is something wrong with the address.
No, this is a trap. A group of police must be dispatched immediately to support.
Seeing that he was almost at the address written on the note, he stopped the car immediately.
After getting off the bus, Zhang Ziyang was eager to find a phone, but there were no public phones nearby. It took him a long time to find a shop with a phone.
As soon as Zhang Ziyang turned the dial on the phone, he felt something hard pressing against his waist.
"Mr. Detective, put down the phone, please come with us, don't resist, Miss Cailian is in our hands." The person behind him said, skillfully taking off his pistol.
Zhang Ziyang instinctively wanted to resist, but when he heard that Cai Lian was in their hands, he immediately became discouraged. He raised his hands and let the man take away his gun.
When Zhang Ziyang raised his hands to surrender, Lu Ming had just returned outside Tongren Hospital.
It was already nightfall, and there were only two dim stars in the distance blinking tired eyes in the blue sky. The sky looked like a piece of green cloth supporting a dome.
"What a big tent." Lu Ming suddenly sighed with emotion.
The world at this time is really like a huge tent, covering all people and everything in the world.
Lu Ming couldn't help but think of Chilechuan's poem: The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields. The sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind, and cattle and sheep can be seen.
A feeling of vicissitudes and desolation arose spontaneously. As he walked up the steps of the hospital step by step, a surge of vitality suddenly rose in his chest.
He felt something was wrong. The air in his chest had just risen, and suddenly it turned into a cold air that rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
The reason why he felt something was wrong was not because he saw or heard anything, but on the contrary, he saw nothing and heard nothing.
This was what made him feel wrong. At this time, Tongren Hospital seemed like a silent tomb, and the door seemed like an entrance to the underworld.
He instantly pulled out his gun and rushed through the hospital door.
It was still quiet in the hospital, deathly quiet.
There was no one in the corridor, only the dim lights were on, and the green walls on both sides seemed to indicate an ominous omen.
While looking around, he walked quickly towards He Jin's ward.
When he reached the corridor where Horgan's ward was located, he no longer doubted in his heart: something happened, something must have happened.
Because there was no one outside He Jin's ward.
There should be two armed policemen guarding the outside of the ward, and there should be two plainclothes detectives at both ends of the corridor, checking for movement, but there is no one, not a single person.
He opened the door of the ward with his pistol. The room was quiet.
He Jin was still lying on the hospital bed, but the oxygen tube had been pulled out. Although the man's face was still very peaceful, it was certain that he had gone to another world.
Lu Ming rushed in quickly and looked around with a gun, but there was no one in the room.
He closed the door to the ward, then put a chair against the door, and then came to the bed to check.
Sure enough, He Jin was gone. Although the muscles on his body were still soft, they were already cold.
"Xianghe, I'm sorry." Lu Ming murmured.
Before Xianghe left, he also asked him to try his best to save He Jin, but he could not fulfill this instruction.
At this time, someone suddenly shouted in the corridor: "Hey, where are the people? Where are all the people?"
When Lu Ming heard the voice, he immediately broke out in sweat. It was Yan Xiaohui's voice.
He rushed out in a hurry and saw Yan Xiaohui standing at the end of the corridor, looking helpless.
She obviously sensed that something was wrong, but she didn't know why. The strange atmosphere around the ward made her feel very scared.
Lu Ming quickly rushed over and grabbed her, and the two of them hid in an empty ward on the left.
"Why are you here? Aren't you helping your father at home?" Lu Ming said angrily.
At this time, he wanted to see people, but he didn't want to see people. What he wanted to see were the people from the police station, and what he didn't want to see were his friends and the people he cared about.
"It suddenly occurred to me that there seemed to be something wrong with a case, so I came over to take a look again." Yan Xiaohui said, but her blushing cheeks betrayed her.
She was indeed busy at home, but she was thinking about Lu Ming.
Lu Ming should be guarding the patient in the hospital at the moment. Thinking of this, her heart felt like grass growing in her heart. She couldn't control it anymore and drove back to the hospital, hoping to see Lu Ming.
She knew that she was stupid, even a little stupid, but wasn't that what people were like? Once a smart and rational person behaved stupidly, he would be incomparable to a fool.
She knew that her love and desire for Lu Ming were destined to fail in the end because Yuan Mingzhu, a love rival, was too powerful.
It's not that Yuan Mingzhu has any advantage over her, but that Yuan Mingzhu carries too much weight in Lu Ming's heart.
Since Lu Ming was in the hospital, she still had an excuse to get close. If Lu Ming was no longer in the hospital, she wouldn't even have an excuse to get close.
This is probably why she can't control herself.
She drove to the hospital almost without hesitation, just to take a look at Lu Ming.
When she walked into the hospital, she didn't notice anything wrong. When she walked to the inpatient area on the third floor, she suddenly realized something was wrong. This was not the inpatient area. It looked like a tomb.
There was no one in the outpatient clinic, which was obviously against the rules. The hospital always had a doctor on duty at night, and there were always one or two patients seeking treatment. There were always family members of patients wandering in the corridor. This was the normal state of the hospital.
She also works the night shift and knows what the hospital is like at night.
"What's going on? You're still holding a gun, what happened..." Yan Xiaohui's voice trembled when he saw the gun in Lu Ming's hand.
Lu Ming didn't care about why she came back to the hospital and whispered: "He Jin was killed."
"Aren't there police officers protecting him? Then, did you see anyone? Who?" Yan Xiaohui involuntarily approached Lu Ming.
"The police are gone. I just arrived too, so I'm a step too late." Lu Ming said while listening to what was going on outside.
Yan Xiaohui felt her brain was deprived of oxygen and felt dizzy. She couldn't tell what Lu Ming's words foreshadowed or what would happen next.
Yan Xiaohui grabbed Lu Ming's arm and asked, "I don't understand, who would kill an unconscious person?"
"Maybe some people still feel unsafe and are afraid that if he wakes up." Lu Ming said uncertainly.
"Then let's call the police quickly. Why are we still here?" Yan Xiaohui said hurriedly.
"You can't go out now. The murderer may still be outside, I'm not sure." Lu Ming said.
Yan Xiaohui held Lu Ming's arm with both hands and said tremblingly: "Why is the murderer still staying at the scene? No, it can't be."
"Killing He Jin was probably not the purpose of the murderer, but was done to show me. This is a trap, a trap for me. You entered the wrong place at the wrong time, and now this trap also includes you.
"This is called throwing yourself into a trap." Lu Ming smiled apologetically at her.
Yan Xiaohui shook Lu Ming's arm and whispered: "You are still joking because you are worried."
Lu Ming made this inference because from the time he entered the hospital until he reached the inpatient area on the third floor, the murderer had countless opportunities to attack him, but the murderer did not do so and instead lurked in the dark.
Although he boasts that his skills are quite fast, how fast can he be if he has bullets? If the murderer is hiding at a corner and suddenly appears and shoots at him, he will have no way to dodge, let alone resist.