Hearing Sui Yi's sarcasm, Shang Zhihang became increasingly annoyed with her.
"I have other things to do, so I won't talk to you anymore! I heard the chief only gave you three days to solve the case, and half of that time has already passed. I wonder how you're doing?"
"Don't worry, the results will be out soon. But you need to hurry up. You've dragged this out for just one murder case. Tsk tsk, you're not very capable!" Sui Yi retorted, pressing her aggressively.
"You—a good man doesn't argue with a woman." He turned and walked away aggressively.
“Shang Zhihang’s cultivation is not up to par! Let’s go in and take a look.” After saying that, Sui Yi called Jiang Ling, and the two walked inside.
At the information desk, Suiyi placed a bottle of sedatives on the table. "Nurse, may I check if this type of sedative is from your hospital?"
"Okay, let me check." The nurse looked through the medicine bottle, looked up and said, "Yes, this should be medicine that someone came to our hospital to get prescribed."
"Who manages the medicine storeroom here? Is there a cashier's record?"
"This kind of drug is usually available, and the usage is quite high in our hospital, so there may be a lot of records."
"Okay! Can you take me to see it?" Sui Yi asked.
"Okay!" The three of them had only taken a few steps when a nurse ran out of the ward ahead and called out anxiously, "Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, come quickly and help! The patients in room 109 are fighting again."
"Excuse me, I need to go through for a bit." The nurse turned to the two of them, said apologetically, and went to room 109.
"Let's go take a look. Since it's a fight, I'm afraid the two nurses will get hurt." Sui Yi glanced at Jiang Ling and then followed him.
In the ward, three patients were fighting, and even with several nurses, they couldn't separate them. Sui Yi rushed in, looked at the back of a patient's neck, and knocked him unconscious. Jiang Ling pulled one of them away, and the nurses also helped to pull the other away.
Suiyi walked over and asked, "Why are you fighting?"
The patient yelled, "Because he didn't call me Your Majesty, he's trying to steal my throne!"
A black line appears on my face. "Where is your throne?"
The patient pointed to the stool by the window, "There."
Looking at the lonely stool by the window, I suddenly felt that the stool was very innocent.
Nurse: "Who told you to call me Your Majesty?"
The patient said loudly, "It was said by the Jade Emperor."
At this moment, the patient who was being held back by the nurse suddenly said angrily, "Nonsense, I didn't tell you that."
Sui Yi: "..." Leaving the space for the nurse to comfort the patient, Sui Yi pulled Jiang Ling out.
“Actually, these patients still have a chance to be cured, but it will definitely require a lot of effort,” Sui Yi sighed.
"Some mental patients are capable of anything when they have an episode; they can be extremely crazy."
"Alright! Let's go check out the scene."
"good!"
Sui and Yi walked to the area cordoned off by the police and crossed the cordon to enter.
"Jiang, you're here too?" A familiar police officer walked over.
"Hmm! I've come to check. How's it going on your end?"
"Don't say anymore, we're at a loss too, but the pressure here is much less than where you are," the officer said with a smile.
Can you tell us about it?
"No problem, here's the thing, the body was found here. He was hit on the head with a stick and died. His clothes were all gone. You know this is a mental hospital, anything can happen here."
"Have you found any of the deceased's clothes?"
The officer shook his head and told the two men, "Not yet!"
Sui Yi suddenly had a bold guess and pulled Jiang Ling back.
At the hospital entrance, Suiyi stopped because she thought she saw someone familiar, but couldn't remember who it was. When she looked closer, she found that the person was gone.
"What's wrong?"
"It's alright. By the way, I have a bold guess. Perhaps what you said in the car earlier was right. The one who killed the Zheng family might have escaped from the mental hospital."
"That's unlikely. In general, wards in mental hospitals are like cages, and patients can't get out."
“Not necessarily. Even tigers have their moments of weakness. Perhaps the murderer killed the nurse, wore her clothes, and then killed the entire Zheng family. The most important thing right now is to find the bloodstained clothes; that would give us clues to investigate. We shouldn't delay; let's go back and have Captain Leng submit an application to merge the cases.” Sui Yi felt more and more confident that she had found the right direction and made a decisive decision. The two got into the car and returned to the police station.
Inside the police station, Li Hao had returned and successfully found the murder weapon, but disappointingly, the tests revealed no useful information.
Suiyi and Jiangling ran to the office, rested for a while, and then Suiyi began to share her guesses.
“I think the most important thing right now is to find the bloodstained clothes. If we find them, then we can find clues. Captain Leng, I want you to apply for a joint investigation with Team B.”
"Why?"
“Because I believe the murderer who killed the Zheng family and the nurse was the same person,” Sui Yi said calmly.
"Tell me your thoughts and see if they can convince me." Leng Tianyi didn't deny Suiyi's guess, but instead asked her to elaborate.
"Today when we went to the mental hospital, we learned about the case there. The victim was a female nurse, and she was found dead, naked. It's almost certain that the killer needed her clothes to cover something up. No fingerprints of the killer were found at the scene, which indicates that it was premeditated, and the killer wore gloves during the crime. This has something in common with our case here. Another point is that the sedative came from that hospital. So I suspect that the killer killed the nurse, put on the nurse's clothes, went to the Zheng family's house, killed someone, and then went back, because that was the day the deceased nurse was on duty."
After Sui Yi stopped, Jiang Ling continued, "This murderer is very familiar with the surveillance locations in Huaya. If he doesn't live in the community, then he must have worked there."
"Okay! I'll go submit the application to merge the cases. You guys go and ask the people around the deceased's family."
"I'll go instead; I know roughly where to start asking questions."
Leng Tianyi gave Sui Yi a deep look and nodded. He then looked at Chenchen and said, "Chenchen, check the transfer records of all the Zheng family's accounts over the past three years."
"OK!"
Half an hour later, a booming voice rang out from the director's office, "Leng Tianyi, look at this! A case consolidation application? You only have one day left on your case, and you haven't found any important clues yet. Why would you think of interfering in Team B's case?"
"Chief, we all agree that these two cases are related and have something in common. Chief, I guarantee that this case will be closed by tomorrow."
"Alright! If you can't do it, you know the consequences. I've approved your application. Go and call Shang Zhihang here." The director looked at Leng Tianyi and said to him with an air of righteous indignation.
Upon hearing the bureau chief's approval, Leng Tianyi's lips twitched into a smile. He nodded happily, "Thank you, Bureau Chief." Then he went to find Shang Zhihang!
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