remnants

On the evening of October 23th, at [-]:[-], Nie Qing took a taxi and returned to the entrance of the People's Hospital of Xinhua Town, Funing County.

He had confirmed to the people in the hospital earlier today that Ma Weiyuan would stay on duty tonight.

Although he didn't plan to come back at night, he just wanted to know about Ma Weiyuan's next schedule, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this moment.

Nie Qing walked into the gate of the hospital, and based on his memory of the day, he went straight to the door of the chief of cardiology department's office. When he found that the door was ajar, and there was bright light from an incandescent lamp, he knocked lightly twice.

"Please come in." Ma Weiyuan thought it was the nurse on duty who came to convey the patient's situation to him, and responded without any doubt.

Nie Qing pushed open the door and walked in, seeing Ma Weiyuan writing something at his desk, without raising his head, he said, "Wait a minute, let me finish writing this point."

So Nie Qing didn't make a sound, and waited silently.

After about 3 minutes, Ma Weiyuan finally put down his pen, moved his shoulders and raised his head, only to find that the person standing in front of him was Nie Qing, and he was stunned.

"Doctor Ma, we meet again." Nie Qing greeted him first.

Ma Weiyuan sat in his seat and stared at him for a few seconds, then asked, "Why are you here again? Haven't I already said it all, I have nothing to say to you."

"I also said that if it turns out that you didn't tell the truth to me today, I will come again." Nie Qing put his hands in his pockets, walked to his desk and leaned against the edge of the table, his eyes fell on him lightly, "Doctor Ma, I won't go around in circles. We have already found out that you were a doctor in the Cardiology Department of No. 1 Civilian Hospital seven years ago. You must have worked with Dean Su. So, I would like to ask now, why did you Lying about it?"

"I can't understand what you are talking about." Ma Weiyuan showed a trace of panic on his face, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "Comrade policeman, although I can understand your desire to solve the case, but your attitude Please forgive me for not agreeing with this approach.”

In normal times, Nie Qing would probably be patient and persuasive in such a situation, trying to guide the other party to tell the truth in a step-by-step manner.

But now, he has no mood to do so.

"Doctor Ma." Nie Qing took out a pair of handcuffs from his pocket, and slapped them on the table.

He saw that Ma Weiyuan's body shook involuntarily at the moment the sound rang out, and then continued his cold face and said solemnly: "Don't report if you know it, interfere with the police handling the case, I can take you to the police right away with these two things alone." Bureau. How about staying overnight?"

Ma Weiyuan's face turned red all of a sudden, "How could you—"

"Of course I can." Nie Qing looked at him coldly, "I'll give you one last chance now. Either tell the truth, or we'll do business."

"I——" Ma Weiyuan stood up suddenly, his fingers almost touched Nie Qing's nose, but his arm trembled twice and then fell down again, tightly grasping the corner of the table, staring at Nie Qing and asking: "What do you want?" How about it?"

"I just want to know the facts." Nie Qing took out a list of personnel he wrote silently seven years ago and put it in front of Ma Weiyuan, "Doctor Ma, are you familiar with the people on this list? There are ten people in total here. One person, and now three have died. Before the connection between the victims is known, no one can say whether the murderer's next target will still be on this list."

"You...you wait!" Ma Weiyuan's face turned from red to white, he grabbed the paper in Nie Qing's hand, almost stuck it to his eyes and looked at it for more than ten seconds, then suddenly looked at Nie Qing, his voice Quite nervously asked: "You, what did you mean just now...the homicides that happened in the past few days...Su Yongdeng, Qiu Ruimin, and Yang Zhengdong...they were all killed by the same person??"

"Yes."

Nie Qing knew that the police had not officially announced this matter to the outside world, but he did not intend to hide it from Ma Weiyuan.Because, according to his observation and deduction, if the motive of this serial murder is really related to something seven years ago, then Ma Weiyuan must have something inseparable from it.

And if this is the case, Ma Weiyuan's current situation is very dangerous, and he is likely to be the murderer's next target.

In order to protect him and obtain clues related to the case, Nie Qing felt that it was necessary for him to tell him the truth.

"How could this be..." Ma Weiyuan's spirit seemed to have been greatly shocked.

He slumped back into the chair, stared blankly at the piece of paper in his hand, and asked again: "How could this be..."

"Doctor Ma, I didn't come here today to threaten you, but to protect you. If you know the connection between the three murdered people, please tell me. If we want to find out who the murderer is, at least You have to find out what his motive for killing is. Please." Nie Qing said with a very sincere expression, with a slow expression.

Ma Weiyuan looked up at him, struggling in his eyes, "But I... I really don't know... The three of them are colleagues, they just had surgery together... I don't know, there is any hidden connection... ..."

"I don't know? Then why didn't you tell the truth at the beginning?" Nie Qing stared at him closely, "You are obviously hiding something, but what is the reason for hiding it? What kind of reason can you take someone's life? , Even if you don't care about your own life, you must choose to keep silent?"

"You don't understand... no——you are overthinking..." Ma Weiyuan slowly pushed back the paper on which the list was written just now to Nie Qing, but his hands trembled slightly, and he said in a hoarse voice: "You The three people I mentioned used to be surgeons at the No.1 Civilian Hospital. They often performed operations together, and they had a good relationship in private. Therefore, they may have had too many connections before... I talked to them again. I'm not that familiar, how could I know what you want to ask... I'm afraid that if I say something wrong, it will have a bad impact on your work..."

Nie Qing really didn't have much patience left after hearing this.

He grabbed a simple swivel chair next to him, sat down and looked at Ma Weiyuan face to face, his tone had become rather tough, "Doctor Ma, let me tell you what the current situation is. According to my personal speculation, this time The several homicides in the hospital were probably related to a failed operation seven years ago. Because the operation failed, it aroused the strong anger and hatred of someone among the patient's family members or friends, which led him to take such extreme measures now. The way and means to retaliate. And the target of his revenge is all the personnel involved in the operation that year."

Ma Weiyuan's face turned red and then pale, avoiding Nie Qing's sight, lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Since this is the case, then you should go to those who perform the surgery... What's the use of looking for me..."

"Because you are also one of the relevant people." Nie Qing said bluntly this time without even using words to express speculation.

"You!...Why do you say that..." For a moment Ma Weiyuan seemed to be jumping up from the chair, but the next second he was paralyzed again, looking at Nie Qing with a dazed look, "These are just yours. It's just speculation... don't say it as if it's true..."

"Whether it's true or not, you know better than me." Nie Qing stared at him, "It doesn't matter if you insist on denying it, just take what I said next as pure speculation and just listen to it."

After finishing speaking, Nie Qing turned the list on the table towards Ma Weiyuan again under Ma Weiyuan's trembling eyes.

"Doctor Ma, look for yourself. Let's temporarily assume that my inference is correct. That is to say, among the eleven people on this paper, at least six of them have participated in an operation together."

"And among the people involved, everyone needs to perform their own duties, which means that there is a fixed number of people responsible for different functions."

"Su Yongdeng, Qiu Ruimin, and Yang Zhengdong, who have been killed so far, were all surgeons back then, so there is no doubt that their roles should be the chief surgeon, the first assistant, and the second assistant. In this way, the number of surgeons is limited. They are fully occupied, and the two doctors, Chang Hao and Jiang Lu, should be safe."

"Next is the anesthesiologist. Among the two people, Zhou Jun and Huang Jiaming, there must be one who participated in the operation that year, and this person may also be one of the murderer's targets."

"There are also nurses. I don't know how many nurses participated in the operation, but what is certain is that there is at least one equipment nurse and one itinerant nurse. So among He Tian, ​​Wei Yuting and Wu Xiaofen, I am afraid that at least Both of them are in danger of being targeted by the murderer."

"Look! There are already six people!" Ma Weiyuan suddenly interrupted when Nie Qing said this, "Didn't you just say that there were six people? That's enough! It has nothing to do with me!"

"I said at least." Nie Qing looked at him indifferently, "Besides, I haven't finished my words yet."

Ma Weiyuan held his breath subconsciously, with a tense and apprehensive expression.

Nie Qing continued, "The people mentioned just now are all directly involved in the operation. However, any operation requires the cooperation and mutual support between the surgery department and the internal medicine department. To ensure that the patient recovers to the best condition. Even I understand this truth, and President Su naturally knows it very well. Therefore, no matter what operation he performed back then, he must have been assisted by internal medicine staff. With his qualifications and level , the person who can be assigned to assist him will naturally not be a random little doctor in the internal medicine department."

Ma Weiyuan clenched his fists tightly in front of his body, exposing his white joints.

Nie Qing continued without interruption: "As far as I know, Dr. Ma was the star figure in the Department of Cardiology of the No.1 People's Hospital seven years ago. 'You were almost promoted to deputy chief of cardiology before you left there. Am I right?"

What Nie Qing said was the information that Yuan Liang had found out from Luo Qi when he was on the road.

"You...what on earth do you want to say..." Ma Weiyuan's voice began to tremble unconsciously.

Nie Qing didn't have the strength to sympathize at the moment, he just looked at him calmly and tiredly and said, "Doctor Ma, I have made my meaning very clear. Seven years ago, in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of No. The physician who has worked most closely with you should be you. I don’t know if the murderer will count the physician in the scope of revenge, but as long as he is counted, you are the only candidate.”

"..."

Ma Weiyuan stared at Nie Qing in a daze, as if he had forgotten how to speak in astonishment.

At this time, Nie Qing finally let himself take a deep breath as calmly as possible, took the list back, refolded it, and put it in his pocket.

"Doctor Ma, can you tell me the truth now?"