Chapter six hundred and seventy-eight critically ill
"Den of thieves? Tomb robbers?" I didn't understand at all, so I asked Mo Xi why he said that?
Mo Xi picked up the map, found the hospital where Wang Xiaobao went, and asked me to drive to the hospital first, and then explained to me on the road.
"Sijiu, as you just saw, we only visited two houses in Wang Xiaobao's area. It turned out that these two houses had antiques that were obviously dug out of the ground. This kind of thing is something that ordinary people don't know.
It’s a rare sight, but we saw it in two houses in succession, don’t you think it’s strange?”
I puzzled: "But based on this alone, how can you say that there is a den of thieves? Maybe it's just our luck, and those two families happen to have antiques in their homes. Look at those houses, it's obvious that the
People are richer."
"Then how do you explain that when we first arrived in the village, every household there was watching us as if they were on guard against thieves? And the two aunts we saw later, they were obviously waiting there for a long time, and they saw
You only rushed out when you were climbing the wall."
I said, "Isn't this easy to explain? They are probably so wary of outsiders because their families are rich and thieves often come over."
"..." Mo Xi took a deep breath, seemingly offended by my stupidity. She finally had to take out her mobile phone from her pocket, opened it and let me look at the photos inside.
In the photo, I saw a pile of dirty-looking pots and bowls piled up in the yard.
"Look, I took this photo in the yard of Wang Xiaobao's house. Some of the antiques inside are still stained with mud. If they bought these antiques, why do they look so dirty? It makes sense.
The short answer is, because these antiques were probably just dug out of the ground by the Wang family!"
This time, I couldn't find any reason to refute Mo Xi.
Mo Xi also continued to say to me: "Actually, I don't know if you have heard of it before. The place we are now is because it is the former Central Plains area. In ancient times, most of the richest people in China were buried here, so the local
It is easy to dig out cultural relics in many places. Cultural relics are very easy to make, and are far more profitable than growing crops in the fields. Therefore, in some villages, almost every household relies on digging antiques in the fields to survive.
"Sheng, this is probably the case in Wang Xiaobao's neighborhood."
"You mean, everyone there is a grave robber?" I said.
Mo Xi nodded and said, "I'm afraid that's it. By the way, the information you gave me said that Wang Xiaobao told netizens on the Internet that the ancient relic he got was brought by his family from overseas, right? I'm afraid this is just him.
It’s just a theory, the real source of that ancient object is probably that it was dug out of the ground.”
Because I still don’t know what exactly happened to Wang Xiaobao, I can’t see how Mo Xi’s guess will be helpful to our subsequent investigation, so I wrote down her guess for the time being and continued driving.
After more than an hour, we drove to a nearby county and found the hospital where Wang Xiaobao was staying.
Parking the car near the hospital, I didn't rush to the hospital with Mo Xi immediately. Instead, I opened the trunk first, took out my police uniform from the luggage, and prepared to borrow my identity as a police officer to find Wang Xiaobao later.
But at this time, Mo Xi stopped me and asked me strangely: "Sijiu, what are you doing?"
I said: "What else can you do? Pretend to be a policeman, otherwise if you go to Wang Xiaobao, his family will take care of you? Moxi, don't bother, just change your clothes quickly, you can change in the car, I
Go find a public toilet nearby."
After that, I was about to leave, but Mo Xi grabbed me and said, "No, we can't use our identities as police officers to find Wang Xiaobao."
"Why?" I asked her.
Mo Xi said: "You guys, have you forgotten what I just told you? Wang Xiaobao and his family might be tomb robbers? If you put on a police uniform and go up to find them, aren't you afraid of scaring them?"
"Then what identity should we use to find Wang Xiaobao? He is just a kid who has just graduated from high school. Even if we are his friends, he looks a bit older, right?" I asked.
Mo Xi thought for a while and then said: "This is easy to handle. Didn't Wang Xiaobao post on that forum? Let's just say that he is his netizen and the moderator of that forum."
I thought about it, and although I thought this method didn't sound very reliable, I couldn't find a better option for a while, so I had no choice but to agree.
So, the two of us entered the hospital wearing casual clothes.
When I arrived at the hospital, I first asked about Wang Xiaobao's ward at the nurse's desk. What made Mo Xi and I feel strange was that when the nurse at the front desk heard that the patient we were going to visit was called Wang Xiaobao, her face immediately showed
Weird look.
"Can I ask, who are you two from Wang Xiaobao?" the nurse asked us.
Mo Xi replied: "We are his friends. We heard that he was hospitalized and came here from the East China Sea."
"That's right." The nurse nodded, then showed a look of regret and said to us: "It's not easy for you to come all the way here, but it's a pity that you are late..."
"Too late?" I suddenly asked in shock, "Is Wang Xiaobao already dead?"
"That's not true..."
Mo Xi and I were both speechless by the nurse's words. No one was dead, so why did she say what she just said?
When the nurse took us to Wang Xiaobao's room, she revealed the answer. It turned out that what she said just now was because Wang Xiaobao was in a very bad condition. Although he was not dead yet, the doctor had given up treating him.
He continues to receive treatment, and a critical illness notice has been issued to his family.
Not long after, the nurse took us to the place. She stood at the door of the room, pointed at a person on the bed inside and said: "You will know that I didn't lie to you just now when you see Wang Xiaobao's appearance now."
With doubts, Mo Xi and I also looked into the room. As a result, we did not see the expected Wang Xiaobao in the room. Instead, we saw a deformed man on the hospital bed with a head bigger than a basketball!
"Nurse, where is Wang Xiaobao? Has he gone out with his family?" Mo Xi asked.
The nurse looked strange, and then said, "Didn't I tell you, that person is Wang Xiaobao."
"What?" Mo Xi and I were immediately shocked. That big-headed deformed man was actually Wang Xiaobao?!
The exclamations of Mo Xi and I may have alerted other people in the ward. A middle-aged woman and man came to the door, looked at Mo Xi and me, and asked, "Who are you?"
Before we had time to reply, the nurse who had brought us here just now, probably in order to distance herself from the relationship, left first, leaving Mo Xi and I alone to face the slightly angry two people.
But at this time, Mo Xi, who had been prepared for a long time, spoke up: "Hello, you two, we are Wang Xiaobao's netizens. Because Xiaobao recently said on the Internet that something might have happened to him, we were a little worried about him, so we made a special trip to visit him.
."
After hearing Mo Xi's explanation, the middle-aged man who might be Wang Xiaobao's father asked doubtfully: "Network, what network?"
Next to Wang Xiaobao's father, a middle-aged woman who should be Wang Xiaobao's mother pushed him and said: "You don't care about other people's networks. Didn't you hear that they were Xiaobao's friends just now? Since they are the elders,
They've come a long way, why don't you invite them in quickly?"
After being pushed by her, Wang Xiaobao's father forced a smile on his face, then greeted us and walked in.
Entering the room, we once again saw Wang Xiaobao's current appearance, and because the distance was closer than before, the impact of Wang Xiaobao's appearance on us this time was stronger than before.
I saw Wang Xiaobao lying on the bed. He seemed to have lost consciousness. His vital signs were completely supported by medical equipment. The culprit of all this was his unusually big head. Wang Xiaobao's head was all over the place.
The head with veins and blood vessels easily reminds people of some scary characters in science fiction movies.