Chapter 777 Yan Gui Sanatorium
"We can now infer that Sonya disappears periodically to find a way to prolong her life. And she uses some means to circumvent the punishment of the Fourth Treaty," said Tu Lanxun.
And Sonia has already figured it out.
According to Xian Yu Qingyun, every transformed soul for sale can live a long life, but once it is sold, a special time bomb-like mechanism will be implanted before shipment, causing it to automatically die in a maximum of five years.
One is to keep it confidential and leave no trace, and the other is to maintain market scarcity.
However, more souls died in despair before the five-year deadline.
These words were the "inside information" told to her by a soul that was transformed into an anglerfish and had not been sold for a long time.
N: "Where do you think Sonya goes regularly?"
"I don't know." Tu Lanxun said, "But I have a feeling that if Suoniya is trapped somewhere and can't get out, it's probably in Hu Haisheng's lair."
Where is Hu Haisheng’s lair?
Apart from the Blue Ocean Transport Company, Hu Haisheng, as a director of the Tianguo Group, and his group own a place in Fu City, Junxi Manor.
Just as she was about to go to Junxi Manor, Tu Lanxun's phone lit up. It was a message from Li Ao, asking her if she was free today.
This time, I skipped the police station and met Li Ao at a restaurant. The food was delicious and affordable, with a strong local flavor. They sat in a noisy private room, and Li Ao said, "We've found one of the former employees of Bi Hai Chao Sheng."
It was the short female employee who usually drove, named Sun Tian. After Li Ao found her, perhaps due to years of guilty conscience, Sun Tian confessed some of the past events within Bi Hai Chao Sheng.
"Those people at Bi Hai Chao Sheng are really good at soul experiments. It is said that they have a headquarters. Sun Tian doesn't know where it is, but because Hu Haisheng pursued Sun Tian outside of marriage, she has seen the so-called ghost transformation process twice." Li Ao picked up a piece of food with chopsticks and said something that he would never have thought of a month ago.
Li Ao said that Sun Tian did not agree to Hu Haisheng's pursuit at that time, thinking that he was unreliable, but with this "favor", she was responsible for some important work in Bi Hai Chao Sheng. The two of them had a tug of war, and this relationship later ended due to the collapse of Bi Hai Chao Sheng.
"The specific transformation process is completed by transporting the souls out. But just as you suspected, those ghosts were implanted with devices similar to time bombs before they were sold and shipped." Li Ao glanced outside the door and lowered his voice. "In Sun Tian's words, the ghosts were placed in a box similar to an incubator, with a computer on the other side, and a special person would remotely control them to type on the keyboard."
Tu Lanxun picked at the rice grains: "And then?"
Li Ao said, "Sun Tian didn't understand the program codes, but she remembered one thing. The timed strangulation program was remotely controlled, probably by transmitting a signal from an unknown data terminal. Then, when the ghosts were sold and their time limit was reached, they would be strangled by the implanted device."
He thought for a moment and added, "There is a fixed launch frequency, once a month, until it is confirmed to be completely killed."
Tu Lanxun felt a chill in his heart. Sonia had been missing for eight months.
Not to mention how she survived the previous six years, but how did she survive the eight months of silence and eight strangulations?
She was a little bored, "How is Sun Tian now?"
"There's no legislation regarding ghosts right now. So, how can this not be considered an accomplice to murder?" Li Ao sighed. "Sun Tian's whereabouts are already under surveillance, but it's easier to monitor them."
Tu Lanxun asked, "Is she planning to surrender?"
Li Ao spread his hands and said, "I became a monk three years ago."
It can now be confirmed that a timed killing device has been implanted in Sonia's spirit. Although he doesn't know how she escaped, Tu Lanxun still holds out a glimmer of hope that Sonia is still alive.
She was such a tenacious person that even if she died with only her soul left and was kept in an ocean tank in the villa, she could still kill Ji Jingyan and even go back to gather a group of transformed soul rebels in the rising tide of the blue sea.
After dinner, Tu Lanxun and Li Ao returned to the police station.
The Criminal Investigation Brigade was still busy at noon. Wen Chong was nowhere to be seen and no one knew what he was busy with. Neither the middle-aged detective nor the young detective who was familiar to him showed up.
"We received two reports today," Li Ao explained. Ever since Tu Lanxun was signed as an informant, he's considered half one of us. The paperwork Wen Chong applied for from above completed the other half, so Tu Lanxun is now a complete member of our team, someone who's willing to listen to this kind of talk. He said, "Old Wei and Xiao Zhang are both busy."
Tu Lanxun was a little curious: "Is this a criminal case?"
Li Ao said, "Not really. It was the family of a female cleaner who was working away from home who reported her missing. It might be related to a series of previous disappearances."
The Southern Branch is now extremely sensitive to missing persons cases. No one knows whether the soul of a missing person will turn into medicine, or the person will appear on an organ transplant operating table.
"The crackdown on illegal organ transplants has begun." Li Ao rubbed his face, his dark circles under his eyes conspicuous. "We are under indefinite martial law, and everyone is working non-stop."
But Tu Lanxun found it a bit strange. Lucheng is the provincial capital, and there is no city around it that exceeds it in scale and economic background. Why do local people from Lucheng have to go out to work as cleaners?
She didn't ask any more questions, and Li Ao mentioned the second case. "Oh, it's a nurse from a nursing home in the north of the city who came to report a strange incident."
"Yeah." Tu Lanxun didn't take it seriously. There were countless cases like this, and she had only reported it once. But she sat up straight in an instant, "The sanatorium in the north of the city? What's it called?"
Li Ao replied, "It seems...Yan Gui Sanatorium, it's quite high-end, and it's said to be decorated in a poetic and picturesque way."
Tu Lanxun's expression froze.
Her biological mother, Ms. Tu Penglai, has been ill since the collapse of the Tu Group. She is now out of the hospital ward and living in the Yangui Sanatorium.
Coincidentally, Li Ao's intercom rang, and an unfamiliar voice came from the other end: "Captain Li, there's a situation at Yangui Sanatorium. We need reinforcements."
Li Ao stood up and asked, "Got it. Is the stage in your hands? Where is Xiao Zhang now?"
"Xiao Zhang was locked in the ward by a patient. I don't know what happened, and the hospital staff can't open the door from the outside."
Li Ao picked up his clothes and left, quickly going through the formalities to get his gun approved. Four police officers transferred from other teams also took their positions. As they passed the office, Tu Lanxun volunteered, "I'm going too."
Maybe because Wen Chong had told him something, Li Ao didn't refuse. Everyone got in the car together. He began to deploy police forces around the sanatorium on the center console. Finally, after he asked about the situation on the scene, he finally calmed down.
The situation was tense. The police officer who was traveling with him reported that Xiao Zhang had entered the ward that the nurse said was "haunted". The ward was originally vacant, but for some reason, a patient who had been recuperating in the same corridor with long-term lower limb atrophy appeared in the empty ward.
There was a quiet voice hidden behind the bed, a face as skinny as a skeleton, laughing, which was very scary.
Xiao Zhang was startled at first and was about to ask what happened, but the patient stood up with two thin legs like a mop handle and pounced on Xiao Zhang.
Xiao Zhang was also not vague. As a graduate of the police academy and a champion in fighting, he was ready to subdue the patient in just a few moves. However, he was young and kind-hearted. Because the patient looked so fragile, he was afraid that the patient would break if he bent over him, so he did not dare to use too much force.
So disaster struck.
The patient was as thin as a dried-up rabbit, yet incredibly strong. By the time Xiao Zhang realized what was happening, the door had already clanged shut. In just two minutes, the police officers outside had no chance to rush in and were locked out.
"Then we couldn't knock on the door. Normally, the door of the sanatorium can be opened from the outside no matter how locked it is, but the key just didn't work. Now there's no sound from inside." said someone on the other end of the communicator.
The kidnappers would have put forward conditions, but there was no one speaking in the room.
Li Ao cursed and glared at the loser through the communicator, but in the end he said, "Got it!"
Thanks to the police lights, a group of cars arrived at the scene quickly. The hospital staff came over with architectural drawings and looked very anxious.
Xiao Zhang's fellow officer ran over and said, "Captain Li." He looked at Tu Lanxun and hesitated, "What level is this..."
Li Ao didn't have time to elaborate, so he simply said, "Advisor."
They came to the corridor outside the scene. The location of the ward was not very good. It was on the fifth floor. The whole building had seven floors.
A two-pronged approach was quickly finalized: one team of officers would rappel down from the rooftop and break in through the window, while the other team would prepare to break in through the main entrance in the corridor.
The thermal imaging camera was set up. The officer operating it remained silent for two seconds, his fingers trembling. "Captain Li, the image shows that inside the room is, is..."
Li Ao was furious: "Speak properly!"
The police officer's jaw finally dropped to its original position: "Only one living person!"
Only one human figure with a warm glow was detected in the ward, sitting upright on the bed. The other figure's body temperature should be about the same as the room temperature, but it was just a cold and blurry mass, barely recognizable as being placed in a chair, with its head seemingly tilted and drooping.
No one wants Xiao Zhang to get into trouble, but it makes no sense to say that the living person sitting firmly on the bed is Xiao Zhang. Since she has subdued the other person, why doesn't she open the door and come out?
The accompanying police officer avoided Tu Lanxun and said cautiously to Li Ao, "Captain Li, could something have happened inside... Xiao Zhang wasn't sure... and didn't dare..."
"Impossible." Li Ao's voice was as deep as steel. "Here are the rules. I brought Xiao Zhang here. I know her. Don't make any wild guesses."
But there is still a problem.
Regardless of whether the temperatureless "corpse" was Xiao Zhang or the patient, the whole incident happened in less than half an hour. Even if he died on the spot, he would not cool down so quickly.
Unless, from the beginning, that person is a "corpse".
Li Ao couldn't help but look at Tu Lanxun.
Tu Lanxun didn't look directly at him, but was actually looking at N next to her. She asked, "Can I take a look?"
Li Ao thought Tu Lanxun wanted to see the hospital blueprints, so he handed them to her. Tu Lanxun lowered her head and stood almost against the wall. In her peripheral vision, N's figure disappeared into the door.
She really looked through the hospital drawings carefully. During this time, there was a constant commotion upstairs and downstairs. Most of the people in the hospital were asking what had happened. The red light behind every window made people panic.
The doctor in charge of Ms. Tu Penglai seemed to be a director and was also on the hospital side. She recognized Tu Lanxun, glanced at him several times, and wanted to say something but swallowed it back.
N's figure soon appeared at the door of the ward. Tu Lanxun glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally. N said, "There's a zombie in there."
A zombie is a ghost that burrows back into its own corpse. The patient who attacked Xiao Zhang was indeed a ghost.
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