Netherworld Investigator

"Forgive me for no comment, it is my duty to protect the privacy of patients."

Wen Baifan looked at Feng Baoyi who was wearing a white nurse's uniform in front of her. Her facial features gave people a sharp look, with narrow and long red phoenix eyes, a straight and thin bridge of nose, and thin lips pursed into a straight line.When the two looked at each other, there was a look of scrutiny in her eyes.

The work uniform would give people a stereotyped numb and rigorous impression, but it fits well when she wears it. The coldness and cleanliness symbolized by white also contrast with the arrogance she exudes.

Wen Baifan couldn't help thinking of another person in his mind.

And that person was bending over to pick up two cans of drinks from the exit of the vending machine, and walked in their direction without haste.

Turning her head following Wen Baifan's gaze, the moment she saw that familiar face, Feng Baoyi's breathing suddenly became rapid, her eyes widened slightly, showing an expression of disbelief.

"Even with former colleagues, you can't disclose it, right?" Qiao Kejun handed one of the cans of coffee to her and smiled gracefully. "Long time no see, Nurse Feng."

Feng Baoyi took it in a daze, and after a while she woke up like a dream and said, "Qiao, Doctor Qiao!"

If Xiao Ziyue happened to be there, she would be shocked. She must not dare to imagine that the incoherent woman in front of her is the same person as the usually calm head nurse.

"I'm not a doctor now, just call me by my name." Qiao Kejun poked open another box of cocoa milk with a straw, touched the jar in Feng Baoyi's hand, and made a gesture of toasting, "Remember when you The farewell gift given to me is also this brand of coffee."

Sensing the unusual aura between the two of them, Wen Baifan quietly took a step back, took out a crumpled change from his pocket, turned and walked towards the vending machine.

He picked out what he wanted, flattened the banknotes and stuffed them into the coin slot of the vending machine.

Two seconds passed, and the expected wonderful "gudong" sound did not appear, and the machine "squeaked" out the disgustingly excessive banknotes.

Touching the empty pocket, Wen Baifan was a little irritable.

Not far away, Qiao Kejun and the female nurse could still be vaguely heard talking.

Tried again, but the result was still the same. Wen Baifan patted the fuselage impatiently.

"If you don't mind..." A handsome guy in a black suit stood behind him at some point. "I'll exchange it with you."

Wen Baifan recognized him at a glance as the man he met at the elevator entrance in the morning.

The man opened his wallet and readily took out a brand new ten-yuan note, "Here."

Wen Baifan thanked him, and subconsciously glanced at the wallet in the man's hand.I saw a white paper boat sandwiched in the top transparent interlayer, which should be the same model as the one given to him by the little girl.

At first I thought it was just a chance meeting, but unexpectedly the man took out a business card and handed it to Wen Baifan: "Let me introduce myself formally. I am Mr. Fu Jianbang's secretary Zhou Wentao. Please give me your advice, Officer Wen."

"Forensic?" Feng Baoyi repeated incredulously when she first heard about Qiao Kejun's current job.

"Yes." Qiao Kejun smiled, "A profession with a very stable doctor-patient relationship."

Feng Baoyi fell silent.

She and Qiao Ke are old acquaintances, although they are not familiar with each other.The two entered Shengci Hospital in the same year, and Feng Baoyi witnessed Qiao Kejun's years from a small intern to becoming the youngest deputy director of the hospital.

She has been silently watching this young doctor who always walks alone, often pretending to be casually standing near the vending machine, watching him from a distance.

His bent posture, slightly drooping neck, slightly messy hair, and those tired but bright eyes always hit her young and soft heart.

The last time the two met was when Qiao Kejun left the hospital. On that day, Lu Kai was not the only one who came to see him off.

Feng Baoyi rushed out of the gate of the hospital, ignoring her hair disheveled by the wind, and hurriedly caught up with the figure who left sadly.She didn't speak, just stuffed a can of his favorite coffee into his hand, waved her hand, and watched his car go away.

"I guess, you wouldn't make an exception and tell me what the person asked you just now, would you?" Qiao Kejun used interrogative sentences, but in an affirmative tone. "Compared with seven years ago, you feel really different now." The shy and shy little nurse in my hazy impression back then has transformed into a confident, calm and full of aura today. nurse.

Feng Baoyi forced herself to suppress the throbbing in her heart, and showed a polite but alienated smile: "Sorry, I must protect the patient's privacy."

"If you get permission from the patient's family, it probably won't be an exception." Wen Baifan walked towards the two, stepped aside, and pointed to the person behind him, "Head nurse, can I ask you to assist us in our investigation now?" ?”

Feng Baoyi glanced at Zhou Wentao hesitantly: "Secretary Zhou, this..."

"It doesn't matter," Zhou Wentao looked at Qiao Kejun calmly, then lowered his gaze, "This is what Mr. Fu meant."

Nearly 11:30 in the evening, Feng Baoyi was preparing for the last night inspection of the special inpatient department of the day, and she took a special elevator to the 22nd floor.

Just as the elevator door opened, Feng Baoyi heard a loud noise in her ears. She was startled, thinking that there was something wrong with the elevator.Only later did she know that someone had shot himself in the ward.

"You mean, the gunshots sounded before you stepped into the corridor, right?" Wen Baifan got an affirmative answer, and he remembered that in the surveillance video, the camera only started working the moment Feng Baoyi stepped into the corridor.

It turned out that the monitors in the corridors of the inpatient department were monitored at night through sensor alarms.That is to say, in the corridor where the lights are turned off after ten o'clock, even if the sound is heard, if no one is sensed to pass by, the camera will enter a dormant state.

After the loud noise, there was silence at first, and then commotion broke out. For a while, there was no way to tell which room the incident was in. Feng Baoyi could only walk in the direction where the gunshots came from.

Rong Guang and Lin Li's wards were not far away. When she passed Lin Li's ward, she stopped in her tracks, intending to give priority to checking the condition of this patient who had just completed the operation not long ago.

The beds in the special inpatient department are expensive, and they can naturally receive very thoughtful care. For privacy and professional considerations, patients generally do not hire additional nurses to accompany the bed at night.

When Feng Baoyi opened the door, Lin Li was the only one lying on the bed in the huge ward.

As she approached the hospital bed, she accidentally touched something hard under her feet, making a slight noise.

In the dimness, the head nurse reached out and turned on a small lamp beside the bed, and the room was lit up immediately.

After seeing everything in front of her clearly, she couldn't help screaming out!

I saw Lin Li lying on the bed with a dead face, her heartbeat had stopped, and the oxygen supply device that was supposed to cover her mouth and nose was thrown on the ground. It was the hard object kicked by the head nurse just now.On Lin Li's chest, which had not risen and fell for a long time, there was a sprig of white calla lily quietly placed.

During Lin Li's hospitalization, except for Zhou Wentao, the chairman's secretary, who occasionally came out to deal with emergencies, no one else was allowed to visit her, not even Fu Jianbang himself.

So, where did this calla lily come from?

She quickly realized that this incident was unusual. There was chaos in the corridor next to the door. Feng Baoyi could only suppress the panic and panic in her heart, walked out of the ward, called Zhou Wentao, and told Fu Jianbang that she saw everything of.

On the afternoon of the incident, Lin Li was pushed out of the operating room at around six o'clock, returned to the ward to recuperate and waited to wake up.

The 24 hours after the operation is a critical period for observing the patient's condition. Therefore, before the lights are turned off in the inpatient department, the attending doctor will go to the ward to check the patient's physical condition every hour or so. After the lights are turned off, the work is handed over to the head nurse. .

The huge rooftop was empty, and Dr. Ma Qiu was probably blocked out of his psychological shadow, and he never hid in this place to smoke secretly.

"That is to say, the time when Lin Li's ward was infiltrated was between Feng Baoyi's two inspections, during the hour and a half from 11:30 to [-]:[-]." Wen Baifan pressed the lollipop to his cheek and bit it with his teeth. Creak.

Qiao Kejun made a gesture to silence him, and suddenly raised his voice: "Come out, don't hide."

Wen Baifan was stunned for a moment, followed his line of sight, only to see a half figure exposed at the intersection of the corner of the wall and the ground.

After a while, a man in a white coat came out.

"You really like hiding in the dark the most." Qiao Kejun chuckled.

"What's the purpose of your coming back this time?" Xue Mingyuan turned his scrutinizing eyes around him, clenched his fists tightly, and then loosened them again, "What is Fu Jianbang entrusting you to investigate?"

"As a surgeon, you must keep calm at all times. It is really disrespectful for you to look so embarrassed." Qiao Kejun glanced at him casually, "This is what you gave me back then, and I will give it back to you now."

Wen Baifan took a strange look at Qiao Kejun, with a slender neck, thin and pale side face, dark eyes, and a calm and calm expression when speaking and doing things, as if even blinking slower than ordinary people, it is hard to imagine Such a person actually had moments that could be called "worry".

What happened in the "year" they said?

"You're out for revenge, I know." Xue Mingyuan glanced at Wen Baifan. Although he didn't know the identity of this young man, he didn't mind exposing his scars in front of everyone Qiao Kejun knew.I only heard him sneer and said: "At that time, you violated medical ethics and applied immature experimental results to clinical treatment. As a result, a medical accident occurred, and you were deprived of your medical qualifications by the ethics committee..."

"That's why you took this immature experimental result as your own?" Qiao Kejun interrupted him casually.

"You, you are talking nonsense!" Xue Mingyuan's face changed, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, and a stormy sea arose in his heart.

Could it be that Qiao Kejun already knew...

No, it's impossible.Dean Shen has already dealt with the matter, so there will be no problem.

"Nonsense?" Qiao Kejun lowered his eyes slightly, glanced at the other party, but kept his head in a straight-up position, releasing a huge sense of oppression all over his body, which made Xue Mingyuan subconsciously take a step back.

"If I'm not mistaken, your Prometheus is based on the full-scale nested Pandora experimental model. Why, didn't the old men in the committee just say that they would destroy all the data?"

Xue Mingyuan's palms broke out in cold sweat, and he looked away guiltily, not daring to look at him.

Qiao Kejun gave a low laugh, "You are a bit less courageous when you are a robber, and you are unwilling to keep a low profile when you are a thief. Xue Mingyuan, now I just let you be a puppet who fakes smiles on TV. Is it worth being so arrogant?"

Unknowingly, it was dusk, and the warm light slanted on the ground, stretching the shadow of the two silently facing each other for a long time.

On the rooftop that seems to be visible at a glance, there are actually many places to hide. As long as you blend in with the shadows under the wall, it is actually very easy to not be noticed.

For example, not far from them, Zhou Wentao stood with his back to the wall, and his hands deftly folded a white paper boat, with an unpredictable smile flashing across his face.

"Old Shen, I heard a very interesting thing." Fu Jianbang squinted his eyes and looked at his old friend. "It turns out that the research on Prometheus was not originally written by Xue Mingyuan."

Shen Siyuan glanced at Zhou Wentao who was standing behind him with hands down, looked away, and smiled calmly, "Since Mr. Fu already knows, I can't hide it anymore."

"It's time for a cigarette, I'll listen to you." Fu Jianbang struck a match, and brought a cut cigar close to the top of the flame.

The flame suddenly appeared, and Shen Siyuan's pupils were illuminated for an instant, and then darkened immediately.

The unique smell of burning tobacco leaves permeated the air.

"Do you know why the name of this project is called Prometheus?" Shen Siyuan said unhurriedly, "Because the first flame that symbolized civilization rising from human beings was Prometheus from the hands of gods. Stolen fire."

"Whether as doctors or researchers, compared with that child, we are nothing more than ordinary human beings. The reason why Xue Mingyuan hated that child so much just shows his ignorance. I have re-watched Dr. Qiao's surgery countless times before. video, and read his research papers over and over again, all that filled my heart was admiration and respect.” The corners of Dean Shen’s eyes drooped slightly, and he laughed at himself, “I’m already too old, and I know that it’s impossible to reach such a situation in this life , but there are some bluffing qualifications and status that can be talked about."

"If that young man is as good as you say, you won't let him go easily." Fu Jianbang glanced sideways at Shen Siyuan, and joked, "Isn't manipulating people's minds what you're good at, my friend?" old friend."

"What can be manipulated is never the human heart, but human desires. What I can control are only those who are full of fame and fortune." Shen Siyuan sighed, "So many doctors I have met in my life Qiao Kejun’s reason for choosing this career is probably the purest. He hates crowds, has endless interest in exploring life forms, but keeps a respectful distance from human emotions and desires. I have arranged many men and women to seduce him, but it’s a pity... "Shen Siyuan hesitated to speak, paused for a moment, and then continued, "Because of the purity, he soon felt insufficient."

It is also the sculptor who plays with clay and reproduces the original appearance of human beings, but the art of gods is to create as they please.

"I always knew he was going to achieve something amazing, but when he first proposed to me the experimental idea of ​​​​Plan, I was still very shocked. It was a truly genius idea."

"The human body is like a sophisticated machine. Disease occurs when one of its parts breaks down. The problem is that the designer of this machine is an omniscient god. Once a problem occurs, it can only be solved by people like us. Such a biased and ignorant mortal came to make repairs." Shen Siyuan slightly narrowed his eyes, "That child came up with a wonderful method."

Infection, poisoning, genetic defects, and immune damage may all cause irreversible lesions to the nervous system. Qiao Kejun once tried to treat the damaged part of it with a new type of artificial nerve cell he named "Prome". Copy and overwrite.

"The great thing about Prome is that it is a self-aware artificial object that attaches to damaged cells and instills messages of self-destruction into these cells. In this way, the power of the parasite and the host In the end, the original cells were gradually eliminated, and the new powerful Prome replaced them. This is one of the reasons why I later decided to change the name of this project to Prometheus, implying the power to live from death. "

Prometheus is the hero who stole fire in western mythology and was severely punished for offending the leader of the gods.Day after day the vultures peck at his liver, and when his liver is eaten during the day, it grows back at night.

"The desire to regenerate and live forever runs through human imagination, and the final realization of Prometheus will make this imagination a reality, and we will no longer live in gloomy and dark caves." Shen Siyuan's eyes suddenly became wild, Immediately afterwards, it became cold again, "Unfortunately, things are gradually getting out of control."

Qiao Kejun soon realized that Prome was an ambitious existence, and the essence of this game was to replace and control, not to heal and repair.If the research continues, terrible disasters and evils will be released from Pandora's box, spreading and wreaking havoc among human beings silently.

The cigar in Fu Jianbang's hand had already been burned out, but he didn't intend to interrupt Shen Siyuan.

"He created greatness, but he tried to destroy greatness." Shen Siyuan recalled that day, Qiao Kejun seemed to be in a daze and wanted to destroy all the experimental data that he had worked so hard to obtain. Regarding how to deal with the experimental results, Qiao Kejun There are irreconcilable differences between Shen and Shen.Just when the two were arguing, they happened to encounter Fang Qihang's surgery incident. "I realized that I had to take some measures to stop him and preserve the precious fire. So, I condoned Xue Mingyuan's behavior of occupying the magpie's nest."

Xue Mingyuan has been secretly observing Qiao Kejun's every move, and learned that he is engaged in a research that has not been approved by the review committee, and can't help but be shocked by his talent and madness.

Just at this time, in the high-profile investigation of Fu Jianbang's huge money laundering case, the key witness Fang Qihang suddenly fell ill during the trial, and the Affiliated Hospital of Holy Mercy will perform emergency surgery for him.Seeing the cameras and spotlights from major media outlets across the country occupying all the entrances and exits of the hospital, a crazy idea broke into Xue Mingyuan's mind in the blink of an eye.

From Fu Jianbang's point of view, as long as Fang Qihang died at this time, he would not have to worry about being given evidence against him.Xue Mingyuan knew that Dean Shen and Fu Jianbang had always had a close relationship. As long as the news that "Fu Jianbang ordered the doctor to kill the secretary to get rid of the crime" was revealed to the media, if Fang Qihang made the slightest mistake, the doctor in charge of his emergency operation would definitely be ruined.

The difficulty of that operation is not low, and the probability of failure is as high as 20.00%, which also means that if Qiao Kejun becomes the chief surgeon, he will most likely become the target of public criticism.As long as Qiao Kejun is sunk, the precious research results and the ensuing fame, power and interests will all be in his pocket.

Xue Mingyuan's expectations were in vain, and Qiao Kejun, who had a miraculous healing hand, finally snatched Fang Qihang back from the hand of death.However, he didn't have time to feel depressed that he was destined to be like this, and the development of the situation took a turn for the worse. Fang Qihang left a suicide note and committed suicide by jumping off the building!

During the previous emergency operation, as the chief surgeon, Qiao Kejun disagreed with a senior pathologist, and Qiao Kejun finally insisted on his own judgment.However, this dispute, which only happened in the operating room, spread in the hospital afterward under the spread of someone with a heart, and even changed in the word of mouth, and it became Qiao Kejun secretly belittling the pathologist. Incompetent and self-willed, if he followed his approach, the patient would have died a long time ago.

The three became tigers, and their words were terrifying. Gradually, the doctor couldn't help feeling suspicious and resentful towards Qiao Kejun.

At the same time, a third-rate newspaper published a report on Fang Qihang's case, causing a public uproar.In this report, the reporter "exposed" the attending doctor's unusual promotion path, extravagant life and perverse style in a sarcastic tone, implying that he might have an immoral deal with the powerful.

Although the evidence is not conclusive, but due to the pressure of some public opinion, the hospital's review committee had no choice but to send someone to investigate the matter.In the process of independent review, not only the pathologist who had a rift with Qiao Kejun slandered him unnecessarily, but another nurse who participated in the operation at that time also secretly testified that Dr. Qiao had asked her to inject the patient An unreported unknown hormone.

Fueled by Shen Siyuan, Qiao Kejun's illegal experiments were forced to be made public within the committee during this review.Qiao Kejun's self-defense became very weak when the witness and material evidence "coincidentally" existed.In the end, he could only accept the referee who was deprived of his medical qualifications, and promised not to take even a single piece of written material with him when he left the hospital.

Nietzsche said that all the perfections that human beings can enjoy must be obtained through a kind of profanity.

"It is true that Xue Mingyuan's ability is not enough to satisfy his desire for fame, but his greed is exactly where we can restrain him." Shen said slowly, "In the final analysis, this is a human society. .Our hearts need God, but our society does not. Xue Mingyuan is more suitable than Qiao Kejun for the puppet role on the altar."