Chapter 410 — Feel Free to Be Rude

"Xiao Yi, I haven't seen you for days! Your Uncle Tang is all right now, so I'm back out with my stall!" Tang Yun's mother had wanted to chat with Wei Zhao a little longer, but when she saw him take out his car keys she asked, "Are you heading out?"

"I'm going to the hospital to pick up Tang Yun and check on Uncle Tang while I'm at it," Wei Zhao said with a nod.

"Then hurry along! Be careful on the road!" The moment Tang Yun's mother heard he was going to fetch her daughter, she was overjoyed. Nothing made her happier than seeing Wei Zhao treat her daughter well. "By the way, have you eaten anything?"

"Not yet. I'll figure something out later," Wei Zhao answered without hiding anything.

"Perfect timing. I have two grilled drumsticks ready. Take them and eat up, don't go hungry!" Tang Yun's mother quickly sprinkled seasoning over two roasted chicken legs and handed them to Wei Zhao.

Wei Zhao did not stand on ceremony. He took the drumsticks with a smile, nodded to Tang Yun's mother, got in the car and drove away...

After receiving her subordinate's report, Qiu Lingshan rushed straight to the First People's Hospital of Songshan City.

Qiu Lingshan rubbed her temples, feeling under tremendous pressure.

In less than a week, six vagrants, beggars or disabled people had already had one kidney cut out and then been dumped near the hospital!

This was no longer a simple criminal case. Qiu Lingshan suspected that a criminal gang might be behind it!

"How is it going?" As soon as Qiu Lingshan got out of the police car, she saw her subordinate Liu Wangli at the hospital entrance, pulling police tape across a corner.

"Captain Song, the victim has been sent to the emergency room, and I have men examining the scene. This is not the primary crime scene. The victim had his left kidney removed and was abandoned here. The crime is preliminarily estimated to have happened at around four in the morning, and he was probably left here at around eleven at noon, but with so many cars going in and out of the hospital, we haven't found any witnesses yet..." Liu Wangli reported with a bitter smile on what he had just found out. He knew Qiu Lingshan was under great pressure. This was the sixth case, and it was no joke! Although the higher-ups had not yet set a deadline for solving it, he figured it was only a matter of time.

Although the victims were all beggars, vagrants and disabled people, in Qiu Lingshan's eyes they mattered just as much! No matter who they were, she was determined to crack the case and bring the culprit behind it to justice!

After hearing Liu Wangli's report, Qiu Lingshan nodded wearily. "How is Liu Bojia?"

Liu Bojia was the victim whose entire family had been wiped out by that mad killer. Although Liu Bojia had never opened his mouth before, Qiu Lingshan had never slackened in her investigation of him!

At last she had found a rather suspicious clue. At around six o'clock in the evening before Liu Bojia's family was exterminated, a call to the police had been made from the public phone booth downstairs from Liu Bojia's apartment building.

According to the operator who took the call, a panicked man had said that he had discovered an organ-trafficking ring, that they had very likely already noticed him, and that he wanted police protection...

What he said at the time was vague, and when asked for a way to contact him he refused to give one. The operator could only have the responding officers call back the number of that public booth, but no one answered anymore, so officers were quickly sent to the booth. Finding nothing unusual nearby, they could only pull back.

The matter had been dropped just like that at the time, because no one had paid much attention to it, but later, when Qiu Lingshan went through all the emergency call records from that night, she discovered this clue!

An organ-trafficking ring? Could it have some connection to these six kidney-removal cases? Only now did Qiu Lingshan faintly sense that the extermination of Liu Bojia's family seemed to be related to the kidney cases.

"Liu Bojia still hasn't woken up. He is kept alive on a ventilator every day. The doctor says that as soon as the ventilator is removed, he won't make it..." Liu Wangli sighed and shook his head with a bitter smile, implying that it was no use wasting any more effort.

Qiu Lingshan frowned, but there was nothing she could do. She knew all about Liu Bojia's condition, and she kept hoping for a miracle, even a single moment of lucidity so he could give the police some clues! But no miracle had happened.

Before Liu Bojia was attacked, he had stayed silent day after day, as if terrified of something. If questioned until he grew impatient, he would tell Qiu Lingshan and the others that his family was already all dead, that he was miserable enough, that he did not want to die yet, and beg Qiu Lingshan to let him go.

At the time, because Liu Bojia's injuries had not healed and he was still staying in the hospital, Qiu Lingshan had not pressed him too hard. She thought that once Liu Bojia was discharged, stepping up the psychological pressure would surely get something out of him, but then the accident happened.

"Beep beep..." Wei Zhao honked twice and thought to himself, why is this Song girl blocking the hospital entrance? Is she going to let cars through or not?

When the other drivers saw Qiu Lingshan and Liu Wangli standing at the hospital entrance in police uniforms, and saw many police officers examining something, they all detoured around and entered the hospital through the back gate. Only Wei Zhao dared to honk.

"What are you honking for? Can't you go through the back gate?" Qiu Lingshan was a little annoyed. She had been thinking over the case in her head when the honking cut her off, and she could not help frowning as she spoke.

"You think everyone gets into the police force through the back door just like you?" Wei Zhao curled his lip and teased her.

Only then did Qiu Lingshan realize that the person honking was actually Wei Zhao, and his words made her turn pale with anger. "What did you say? Who got in through the back door?"

"Whoever did it knows," Wei Zhao said with a curl of his lip. "Move aside, I have business to take care of and no time to waste on you!"

As he spoke, Wei Zhao started the car and tried to drive into the hospital.

"Wait!" Qiu Lingshan suddenly stepped in front of Wei Zhao's car and would not let him pass. The more anxious Wei Zhao was to leave, the less she wanted to let him have his way. "I need you for something!"

"..." Wei Zhao slammed on the brakes and the car stopped again. He was speechless. "Hey, silly girl, even if your case-solving rate is really low, you don't have to think about suicide, do you? Even if you want me to run you over, you should find some deserted place and do it quietly, right? Pulling this碰瓷 scam on me in front of all your men, if I really killed you I could never explain myself!"

"You..." Qiu Lingshan was furious, gritting her silver teeth and glaring at Wei Zhao. "If you call me a silly girl again, or say I got into the force through the back door, I'll show you no mercy!"

"Oh, so you've been polite to me all this time?" Wei Zhao laughed. "Then I'd really like to see what being impolite looks like. You're welcome to be rude."

"Ahem... Captain Song..." Liu Wangli could not watch any longer. With Qiu Lingshan bickering with Wei Zhao in front of so many subordinates, what would it look like to anyone watching?

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