Chapter 212: Using medicine as bait to fish and kill people! ? [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

Imatinib, an expensive special medicine.

The drug is very effective, but due to its high price not many people buy it and its circulation is low.

A bottle of medicine contains about 120 pills. The patient needs to take four pills a day, which means it lasts for a month. The total price is about 25,000.

Combined with chemotherapy, dialysis, hospital beds, daily treatment, interferon and other drugs, the amount is 40,000 yuan a month?

More than 400,000 or nearly 500,000 a year! ? Not to mention 2004, even in 24, this number is an astronomical figure weighing on everyone's head! But, these patients can strangely afford it now.

"There are six of us."

"The six dead took at least a million dollars' worth of medicine!"

"However, not many people in the entire Qiaozhou City have taken this medicine. The official records are all there, and the deceased is not on them."

"In other words, the medicine for the six dead people."

February 7, 8 a.m.

In the office, Xu Hao looked at the documents in his hand, frowning and thinking.

"Origin unknown!"

Everyone fell into deep thought.

How to check drugs, or drugs of unknown origin? To be honest, it is very difficult to check.

First of all, theoretically speaking, some students with excellent grades or teachers and professors in medical universities can try to make imatinib by themselves using the school's equipment.

The cost of drug production lies in research and development, not in production!

Li Jianye poured out a pill, put it on his face and looked at it.

"Don't look at it. A box of 120 pills only costs a hundred yuan." Xu Hao said casually.

"It is impossible to tell the source of the drug based on appearance and materials alone."

Li Jianye sighed and put the medicine back.

Cheap materials mean that people who make medicines don't need to replace raw materials at all.

In other words, the drugs they make are effective drugs, but they are not copyrighted.

"The question now is how the deceased got the medicine and the relationship between the murderer and the medicine!"

Xu Hao looked at the Western words on it and spoke slowly.

"Judging from the outer packaging, it may be imported medicine smuggled from abroad, and its production place is abroad."

"But it's also possible that the drug dealers deliberately made it this way to mislead people."

Liu Defa picked up a bottle of medicine and sat in a chair to study it.

"I feel it is most likely abroad," said Li Jianye.

"Abroad."

Liu Defa thought for a moment and suddenly said: "Smuggling this thing"

"The nearest foreign country borders the westernmost part of our country, and we are the easternmost part."

"It's obviously not possible to transport medicine by car."

"It's either the plane or the dock."

"If it's the dock, the drug dealers may have gone through Jiangsan City. If it's a plane..."

The searches on airplanes are very strict. It's okay to hide one or two bottles of medicine, but if you have 27 bottles, there's no way you can escape.

"That is to say, this batch of smuggled drugs was transported by water."

Li Jianye paused.

Qiaozhou City is not on the coast. If this is the case, it is likely that the ship transferred from Jiangsan City.

"I'll go check it out."

He immediately took out his cell phone and began to arrange for Jiangsan City police officers to investigate.

But there is little hope.

There are at least thousands of people on board a cargo ship or even a cruise ship, and it is impossible to count them clearly every time.

Even if it was just a few bottles of medicine, it could not be found on the ship at all. Even if the police found the other party, there would be no black spots on his resume on the surface.

This is a bit difficult. "Check the patient again."

Suddenly, Xu Hao spoke.

Everyone paused, "What do you mean?"

"What do you think if the medicine is related to the murderer?"

"And the murderer had a grudge against the deceased."

"Then why did the deceased still have medicine in his hand?"

Everyone seemed a little confused when they heard this.

yes!

Judging from the person the murderer wanted to kill, the other person must hate the deceased very much.

The current clues point to the possibility that the other party is related to the smuggling of drugs, but the drugs miraculously appear in the hands of the deceased.

Was it robbed by the other party?

It is possible.

As mentioned before, it is unlikely that five people would rob one person when one of them has very few drugs, but the murderer's case can be completely regarded as a pharmacy.

Robbing a pharmacy would make perfect sense.

But "if it was stolen"

"With the deceased's body, can he rob others?"

Liu Defa paused and spoke hesitantly.

The physical activity ability of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia is not too poor.

But... much weaker than normal people.

According to current predictions, the murderer’s body is strong enough to support cross-border smuggling, and his physical fitness must be better than that of the deceased.

If that's the case, how can we rob them? "Could it be related to drug smuggling?"

Liu Defa thought for a moment and said.

“What if the person who snatched the medicine was not the deceased, but a family member of the deceased?”

"And what if the murderer who smuggled the drugs also has a sick family member?"

"A bunch of family members snatched the medicine from the murderer's family"

Is this possible? Yes, it is possible.

For the lives of their families, most people can do anything!

But the actual factors of the case suggest otherwise.

"The only blood relative of the deceased Chen Hong is her teenage son."

"The president of the mutual aid association is alone."

"Although the other few have family members, they don't have any offensive capabilities."

Li Jianye lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly. Nicotine filled his lungs, gradually suppressing his anxious emotions.

"The most important thing is"

“The drug is so new.”

Medicine. Too new! The medicines found in the deceased's home can be roughly divided into two categories based on time.

The first category, the label paper, has long turned yellow and oxidized, and there is even no smell of medicine in the bottle. It is most likely that the medicine is at least half a year old.

If it is extreme, you may even suspect that the medicine was taken many years ago! The second type thinks of this.

Li Jianye picked up a bottle of medicine from the table.

This medicine is new!

The new packaging has never been opened! Just a slight shake and the sound of the pills inside can be heard.

This is very new.

"Yes, the drug is too new and too old. From the perspective of time span, we can get two pieces of information."

Xu Hao nodded.

His tacit understanding with Li Jianye is gradually improving, and even their observation angles are similar.

What are the two pieces of information? The first one is that the drug is too old.

"The drug smuggling started a long time ago, maybe two years ago, maybe three years ago, maybe five years ago."

"But, there is no medicine from a few months ago."

Xu Hao said slowly.

He took out two kinds of medicine, one old and one new, and put them together. The sharp contrast made everyone realize it.

Just like, humans evolved in nature, from little monkeys to present humans, and there are fossils for every stage of evolution.

The same goes for patients. They cannot stop taking their medicines. Logically, the age of the medicines they have should change gradually rather than in a jumpy manner.

But for now, this is how the medicine for the deceased is presented.

That can only mean that "for some reason, the supply of medicine to the deceased was suddenly cut off from a few years ago to now."

Xu Hao spoke up.

Liu Defa's heart was moved, "The conflict between the deceased and the murderer!?"

Judging from the information.

They speculated that there was a certain degree of irreconcilable conflict between the murderer and the deceased.

The time point when the conflict occurred could not be determined before.

At the moment, the conflict is likely to occur during the gap between the new and old drugs!

After all, if your mortal enemy suddenly fell ill, would you be so kind as to spend all your money, or even risk your life to smuggle drugs to save your enemy? Impossible. To be honest, this is a good opportunity to add insult to injury. How could you possibly save him?

So, a conflict arose and the medication was stopped.

That makes sense.

However, "a new batch of drugs was supplied not long ago."

Xu Huo suddenly spoke.

This time, he pointed to another new can of medicine.

The medicine packaging has not been opened. There are so many pills inside that you can feel how heavy it is with just a slight shake.

"murderer."

“Why did the drug supply start again?”

"Or was it that the person who supplied the medicine changed, and the murderer saw that the other party had medicine to take again, so he decided to kill?"

This is the enemy I just mentioned.

Logically speaking, it wouldn't be excessive to open the champagne at this time, but the murderer took the risk and put the drug into their mouths.

That being the case.

Problems then arise.

"Why didn't the other party choose to take action when the drug supply stopped and the hatred in his heart was at its highest?"

"Why, two years after stopping the medication, did he kill someone when his condition became increasingly critical and he was about to die?"

"And why did the other party send the medicine again?"

As several questions arise.

Everyone at the scene fell into silence.

Yes, why? What happened during the years when the drug supply was cut off? Since a life-and-death conflict was formed at that time, why is the other party selling drugs again now?

Is it conscience?

No, if it was conscience, then there would be no reason for the other party to kill.

Or maybe "Is it possible that he was determining the number of personnel still alive?"

Suddenly, Li Jianye spoke.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked over immediately.

Confirmed death toll?

Liu Defa thought for a moment, then looked up and said, "Tell me in detail."

"Advisor Xu said before that the reason why mutual aid associations are difficult to investigate is because people keep dying of illness, which means that information is lost."

"But the murderer knew it, so we thought he was a patient of the mutual aid group, or at least he used to be."

"But it doesn't matter whether they are patients or not. What matters is that the information will change!"

Li Jianye spoke, and this time he wrote down something on the paper to explain the logic.

Please...collect 6_9_book_bar (Six//Nine//Book//bar)

As everyone watched, they gradually followed the train of thought.

"so."

"Is it possible that many of the suspects died of illness in the past few years, so the information about the murderer is the same as that of the police, with holes everywhere, and it is impossible to find the remaining suspects in a short time?"

Li Jianye spoke in a deep voice.

That is to say, "You mean"

Lin Miao suddenly realized, "The other party is stinging for law enforcement!?"

Li Jianye nodded.

Fishing enforcement, what is the fishing method?

Of course, it is to spread bait.

The hungry will eat, but will the dead eat? No.

If we apply this to humans, what if starvation turns into death? Those dying of illness will not come, but will those who are about to die of illness or those who have not died of illness come? Absolutely! Between life and death, people can abandon their dignity and conscience!

There are very few people who can maintain their original conscience. Therefore, after taking the medicine, the deceased kept the bottle for years and was reluctant to throw it away, even though he knew that there might be a murderer who was eyeing him covetously. If it were you, what would you choose?

At this time, the mentality of taking chances comes out.

Maybe? Maybe the other party won't kill him? Is it possible that the other party is still smuggling drugs and doesn't care about the past? Anyway, if he doesn't go, he will die. If he goes, he may have a chance of survival. And when they go.

The killer "will know which of his targets are still alive."

Having said that, Li Jianye took a sip of tea.

Everyone at the scene fell silent.

Using medicine, not fishing, or rather, using the hope of survival as bait to fish! "Go check the dock."

Xu Huo suddenly spoke.

"The drugs are very new and must have been smuggled in a short period of time. In other words, the other party must have left the country once during this period of time."

"Check the nearest docks to anchor those ships that are headed for the surrounding countries."

"By the way, we can go to the company that produces imatinib and search their records."

Genuine drugs often take the harm done to the interests of pirated drugs more seriously than anyone else.

Why? Because the market is not big.

The market for a special medicine is very small, and the research and development of drugs costs billions. If they want to recover their costs and make a profit, they can only make money in this small market.

Once homemade medicines appear, it will be a very urgent situation for pharmaceutical companies.

"Okay, I'll contact the nearest dock in the city."

Lin Miao took a breath, nodded, and then walked out.

The pier is the waterway.

Airplanes cannot transport medicine on a large scale.

To be honest, if you can open up a smuggling route on land and run through the entire East Country, arms dealers and drug dealers will find you earlier than drug dealers! It's too difficult and almost impossible.

"What about us?"

Li Jianye asked, and he looked around the office where there were not many people left.

"Gather the rest of the mutual aid society."

Xu Hao took a puff of his cigarette, stood up and said.

"Call?" Li Jianye paused.

"What if there are some who didn't come?"

"Don't worry, someone will come."

“There are always people involved in the case coming.”

"good."

Who needs to join a mutual aid group?

Of course it’s the patient.

Especially patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

This disease is not a terminal illness and can be cured, but to be honest, it is worse than a terminal illness.

Why? Because it’s expensive.

What is more terrible than death is poverty!

When a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness, at most he will be the only one to die, and even the treatment won’t cost much, because everyone knows that no one can escape death when faced with a terminal illness.

But chronic myeloid leukemia is different.

It is not the most difficult to treat group in the world, but the more expensive ones! If you have money, you can survive, but if you don’t have money, you can’t survive.

The cost of imatinib plus other treatments is at least half a million dollars a year, and that’s half a million dollars when the average salary is one thousand dollars.

It takes at least five years to cure the disease.

That’s two and a half million!

How many families can be ruined by these 2.5 million? To be honest, a lot.

No one wants to watch their family members die of illness little by little, so the only option is to keep throwing money into this bottomless pit.

Spend ten thousand, one hundred thousand, one million. In the end, the person dies, the money is gone, and the family is broken up.

In comparison, terminal illness doesn't seem that scary.

"Okay, you are all patients of the mutual aid society, right?"

The next day.

Twelve o'clock noon.

The police organized a charity event, and any patient from the mutual aid society who came to participate would receive 500 yuan.

As expected, a lot of people came, far more than the number we could contact one by one.

However, at this moment, these people would rather leave here than get 500 yuan.

Xu Hao was seen standing in front of everyone. His eyes kept scanning the surroundings and his nose was sniffing, inhaling all kinds of smells into his lungs.

In an instant, his mind instantly interpreted the information of these people.

However, there was no expression on Xu Hao's face. His look was indifferent and his eyes were scanning everyone.

This is a church, a real church.

Below the stage were dozens of patients, wearing masks, looking thin and with nervous expressions.

Xu Hao stood on the stage and took out a bottle of medicine.

"Everyone, in recent days, such a smuggled drug has appeared in Qiaozhou City."

“Has anyone seen this drug?”

While talking.

Several policemen in the audience took out bottles and waved them in front of the patients one by one.

The patient was stunned, a little confused, with doubt in his eyes.

"If anyone reports it, the police will offer a very generous reward."

Liu Defa spoke in a muffled voice at this time and offered a temptation.

The people in the audience still shook their heads.

"No."

"Officer, no, I haven't seen it."

"Really?"

“Really.”

Xu Hao's eyes rested on a few of them, and then he suddenly looked away.

“The drug is called imatinib.”

"According to the clues the police have, at least two-thirds of the people in the mutual aid society have eaten."

"Don't worry, the police will not take back the drugs from you, and I will not shut down the drug trafficking channels."

"I just want"

"The drug dealer's name."

The people in the audience were still trembling, not understanding what was being said.

Xu Hao didn't expect anyone to report it, so he took this opportunity to quickly glance around the audience.

After a moment, he had a list of several people in his mind.

"Sure enough, the dead are not the only ones who have the medicine. I just don't know who among these people is the murderer's target."

Xu Hao fell into deep thought.

After a moment.

The police waved their hands and dispersed the crowd.

The police also gave each person 500 yuan and some eggs as promised.

"How about it?"

As soon as the crowd left, Li Jianye went to find Xu Hao.

"Keep an eye on those guys."

Xu Hao pointed at several skinny figures in the crowd who looked like dead trees and would fall to the ground if the wind blew.

"These guys know something and can be brought to the police station for questioning."

As he spoke, Xu Hao narrowed his eyes.

To be honest, Xu Hao was quite curious.

Even if he left the police force and became an ordinary passerby, he would still feel curious.

From the timeline point of view.

At the beginning, the murderer would provide imatinib to this group of people, and he may have made a profit or he may not have made any profit.

But at least the patient can survive! However, the other party suddenly cut off the medicine for these people, causing them to wait for death after taking the medicine. Even now, they are still using medicine to check who is alive. Those who are not dead will be strangled to death one by one. There must be a reason for the change of one person.

The murderer's reason is most likely related to the deceased.

In a trance, Xu Hao recalled the cause of death of the deceased and the purple marks from strangulation.

Thinking of this, he narrowed his eyes.

"Let's examine the period of time when the medication was stopped."

"What happened?"

Two years ago, what happened between the deceased and the murderer? (End of this chapter)