"Hello, this is the Municipal People's Hospital. Are you the emergency contact person for Ms. Zhou Tongzhou?"
Chen Enci's fingertips holding the phone tightened slightly. She hesitated for two seconds before moving her lips: "...Yes."
The other party hasn't said anything yet, but the premonition given to her is very bad.
"Excuse me," she swallowed, "what happened to Zhou Tong?"
"Yes, Miss Zhou Tongzhou is missing..."
After hanging up the phone at the hospital, Chen Enci reconnected with Lu Xing, "Xingxing, the hospital just called me and said Zhou Tong was missing."
Lu Xing, who was about to continue to curse what he just said, said "Ah" and asked: "Why are you missing?"
"It's not clear yet. The nurse said that all Zhou Tong's belongings are in the ward, but he is missing." After a pause, Chen Enci stood up and walked to the master bedroom while saying, "I have to go to the hospital to have a look.
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"Don't go, let me go. There are many people in the hospital. I'm sure no one will recognize you. You will be processed by the media in various ways, and there may be some messy rumors on the Internet..."
Amid Lu Xing's dissuasion, Chen Enci had already changed her clothes. She took the keys and scrawled "I won't tell you anymore" on her phone and hung up the phone.
Lu Xing quickly called again, but Chen Enci didn't answer.
When she got into the car, Lu Xing sent her a WeChat message: "Which hospital?"
Chen Enci knew that Lu Xing couldn't stop her and came to find her, so he quickly sent the location of the hospital with his fingertips, then stepped on the accelerator and drove out of Wutong Villa.
When Chen Enci arrived at the hospital, the nurse in the inpatient department had already called up the surveillance system of the entire building and was tracking Zhou Tong.
According to the nurse who would check on the ward every once in a while, Zhou Tongtian woke up before dawn. She kept staring out the window after opening her eyes. She went in several times to observe her condition and talk to her.
He was like a sculpture, silent and didn't even move his eyes.
Zhou Tong didn't touch the breakfast delivered to her at all. When the doctor made rounds at nine o'clock, he found that she had started to have a fever, and he gave her some medicine at that time.
The doctor saw that her condition was very bad, and specially invited a psychiatrist at ten o'clock in the morning. The psychiatrist stayed in the ward for two hours, but could not get Zhou Tong to say a word.
Zhou Tong still didn't move during lunch. At 12:15, the nurse went to remove Zhou Tong's needle. At that time, Zhou Tong was lying on the bed with her eyes closed. The nurse thought she was asleep. She took her temperature and found that her fever had subsided.
If there were any signs, I went to check other wards.
At 12:45, the nurse came in and looked at Zhou Tong again. The bed was empty, but there was the sound of running water in the bathroom. The nurse thought Zhou Tong was going to the bathroom, so she didn't think much about it.
When the nurse came back at 1:30, she found that the situation was still the same as half an hour ago. The nurse pushed the door open and found that the faucet in the bathroom was open, but there was no one there.
At this time, the nurse realized that something might have happened, and immediately contacted the head nurse. People on the entire floor looked for Zhou Tong one by one, but could not find her, and then contacted Chen Enci.
Not long after Chen Enci arrived, Lu Xing also arrived. At this time, the nurse also found Zhou Tong's whereabouts from the surveillance camera.
She left the ward at 12:27. Maybe there were too many people queuing in the elevator, so she took the safe passage directly.
At 12:40, Zhou Tong appeared at the door of the inpatient building. She was wearing hospital clothes. She did not go directly outside the hospital, but went to the small park of the hospital.
The place where she stayed happened to be a surveillance blind spot. The medical staff looked through the videos for a long time from this point in time. At 2:12, they saw Zhou Tong exiting the west gate of the hospital and getting into a taxi.
The hospital's surveillance camera couldn't capture the license plate number of the taxi, and the street surveillance camera needed to go to the police. It had only been more than two hours since Zhou Tong left the hospital, so he was not considered a missing person at all and could not report the crime.
Lu Xing had a wide network of contacts, and it didn't take long for her to get a rough idea of Zhou Tong's residence, places he liked to go to, and people she had good connections with. Lu Xing contacted them one by one, but in the end she found nothing.
Chen Enci tried to call Zhou Tong several times, but no one answered. Finally, when the nurse was cleaning up the ward, she found Zhou Tong's cell phone under her pillow, which she had turned to silent.
Zhou Tong's mobile phone has a password set, and after turning on the screen, Chen Enci can only see some push notifications on the lock screen.
Chen Enci glanced briefly, and then saw a WeChat message sent to her by someone who didn't know: "Tongtong, what do you want Song Tao's address for?"
The time is two o'clock in the afternoon.
Song Tao’s address…
Zhou Tong asked someone to ask for Song Tao's address?
When Chen Enci was wondering, a nurse behind him suddenly said "Hey": "After Dr. Xia finished the operation, why was there one less sterilized scalpel?"
Scalpel?
Chen Enci glanced at Lu Xing, ignored Lu Xing's question of "what's wrong", and ran directly to the nurse who just spoke: "Dr. Xia you are talking about, when did he complete the operation?"
"Around 12:30 noon."
Around half past twelve...
Chen Enci asked again: "Which road did you pass by at that time?"
Although the little nurse was puzzled, she still told Chen Enci everything.
Chen Enci: "Can you call up the monitoring of the route you took after the operation during that time period and take a look?"
The first to fifth floors of the inpatient building were the operating rooms, and it didn't take long for the surveillance cameras Chen Enci wanted to be retrieved.
When watching the surveillance on the fourth floor, Chen Enci really found Zhou Tong's figure. She looked at the time, twelve thirty-seven.
In other words, when Zhou Tong went downstairs, she went to the operating area, and she also asked for Song Tao's address...
Zhou Tong, she...
The speculation in Chen Enci's heart became stronger and stronger. She pursed her lower lip, and the next second she pulled Lu Xing away from the medical staff, "Lu Xing, please quickly find a way to find Song Tao's residential address."
Lu Xing: "What are you doing looking for that scumbag's address?"
Chen Enci: "Don't worry about it, hurry up and find me."
Within a few minutes, Lu Xing got Song Tao's residential address from a director.
Chen Enci didn't hesitate and dragged Lu Xing to the elevator.
I hope she guessed wrong...
But last night, her hesitation had already led to a tragedy, and it could not happen again.
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Zhou Tong handed the driver the red banknote he had brought from the hospital. He ignored the driver's cry for change and walked straight towards the villa area in front of him.
She was wearing a hospital gown and slippers on her feet, which attracted the attention of the scattered residents walking in the community.
She didn't realize it and just walked forward, following the house numbers of one villa after another. Then she stopped when she found the house number she was looking for.