At five o'clock in the morning on December 23, a nurse was awakened by the alarm clock she had set. She looked at the registration form in front of her. At this time, Liu Chen needed to add an intravenous drip and measure her temperature.
After the nurse prepared the medicine, she came to the ward where Liu Chen was located. The policeman was awakened by the nurse's slight footsteps. When he saw the nurse at the nursing station, he slowly closed his eyes again.
She turned on the light in the ward, and then used a thermometer to measure Liu Chen's temperature. The temperature measured at this time was only more than ten degrees. She couldn't help but feel a little strange.
Suddenly, another gust of cool wind blew in from outside the window, and the cold nurse couldn't help but shiver.
The nurse closed the window, thinking that she was disturbed by the cold wind. She put the temperature gun on Liu Chen's forehead again, and the temperature measured at this time was only less than ten degrees.
The nurse couldn't help but frowned. She looked at Liu Chen with dark lips and felt a little strange. She quickly touched Liu Chen's forehead...
"ah!"
At this time, the policeman who was taking a nap outside hurriedly came in.
"What happened!" the policeman asked anxiously.
"Dead, dead person... He... He is dead..." The nurse retreated to the corner, stretched out her trembling right hand and pointed at Liu Chen lying on the bed and said...
Song Yi received the notice and rushed to the hospital not long after. He was already distressed by Huo Dezhi's death yesterday. Unexpectedly, Liu Chen died this morning for unknown reasons.
After examination, the doctors in the hospital found that Liu Chen died of acute myocardial infarction. This was the same cause of Huo Dezhi's death yesterday, but the only difference was that
Liu Chen's myocardial infarction was not pathological, because the doctor found two more needle holes in his neck. After testing, Liu Chen died from short-tailed adder venom.
Li Bing rushed to the hospital. After testing, the cause of death was indeed the same as the doctor's test, but he didn't know where there was a short-tailed adder in the hospital.
At this moment, the screams of the cleaner's aunt came from the toilet not far away. Ma Xiaotao rushed over and saw a dead little snake on the ground at the door of the men's toilet.
The length was about thirty centimeters. Later, after everyone identified it, they found that this little snake was a short-tailed adder. Li Bing put on his gloves and took out the ruler from the tool box.
The distance between the snake's teeth was 23 millimeters. She then measured two or two needle holes on Liu Chen's neck. The distance was also about 23 millimeters.
This indirectly proved that it was this short-tailed viper that bit Liu Chen to death. Song Yi asked Li Bing to conduct an autopsy with these doctors, and he waited outside the ward.
At this time, he was lowering his head and rubbing his temples. There was no doubt that the three murders yesterday and today were premeditated, but no evidence could be found.
Not long after, Qin Nan also rushed to the hospital. His hair was messy, and he seemed to have rushed to the hospital as soon as he received Ma Xiaotao's message.
"Old Song, what's wrong?" Qin Nan sat next to Song Yi and patted his shoulder to comfort him.
"Oh, I don't know either." Song Yi didn't seem to want to talk much at this time, so Qin Nan didn't bother him. Later, Ma Xiaotao pulled Qin Nan aside and told him these things.
Qin Nan also frowned. He also thought Liu Chen's death was too coincidental. Not long after, Liu Chen's wife Wei Xiaofeng rushed to the hospital. She pulled Song Yi desperately and shouted angrily:
"What on earth do you do for food? My husband is gone now, why are you looking at him like this?"
Song Yi did not resist and allowed her to pull. At this time, Wei Xiaofeng slapped Song Yi in the face. After Ma Xiaotao and others saw this, they immediately pulled Wei Xiaofeng away.
At this time, Song Yi lowered his head and allowed Wei Xiaofeng to beat and scold him, because this matter was indeed suitable for his dereliction of duty. He also remembered what Director Li Gang said to him yesterday.
The policeman who looked at Liu Chen last night was also sitting not far away, with his head lowered, feeling very guilty.
At this time, Ma Xiaotao somehow ran up to the policeman and said:
"Why is such an important criminal suspect dozing off!"
After Song Yi saw this, he hurried to Ma Xiaotao and said to her:
"Xiao Tao, okay, it's happened. Let's let it go. It's obviously premeditated. There's no point in blaming him. He doesn't want this either."
"But, but..." Ma Xiaotao bit her lips and looked at the red-eyed policeman in front of her. She said nothing, turned around and walked away.
At this time, the policeman stood up, came to Song Yi, gritted his teeth and said: "Captain Song, they all blame me and ask for punishment, or...or stop me! I am willing to bear all responsibilities."
Song Yi sighed, patted his shoulder, and said slowly: "Oh, I don't blame you for this. If there is a murderer who wants to kill you, there is nothing you can do. What is the use of suspension? It is better to serve the people more.
You are a people's policeman, don't just act like this when something happens, now we have to solve this matter as soon as possible, understand?"
The policeman raised his head and looked at Song Yi. After Song Yi patted his shoulder, he and Qin Nan came to the door of the ward.
Not long after, Li Bing and several doctors came over, and it seemed that they had already obtained the results of their investigation.
Li Bing walked up to Song Yi with the report in his hand and said:
"Report to Team Song! The autopsy results have come out. The victim died around three o'clock in the morning. The cause of death was due to poisoning by the short-tailed adder. Although the short-tailed adder's toxicity is relatively average,
But it can still cause life-threatening danger within two to three hours. According to the toxicity, the victim should have been bitten by the venomous snake between 0 and 1 in the morning."
At this time, after hearing Li Bing's analysis yesterday, the policeman walked over slowly with wide eyes and said:
"By the way, I remembered that a nurse came to this ward after one o'clock last night. Could it be that nurse..."
[Author's digression]: The event in this chapter is December 23