Chapter 0402 – Doctor, Patient

　　The police’s discovery was consistent with Chen Ge’s previous speculation that the sculpture was the tool used to transport the body.

　　After getting Li Zheng’s reply, Chen Ge’s thoughts were very clear: “The suspect killed the victim and hid him in the sculpture, then had it carried to the warehouse, and then he took advantage of no one’s presence to sneak into the warehouse, dispose of the body, and then drag it into the underground corpse vault, completing the murder unknowingly.”

　　Jiujiang Academy of Forensic Science is relatively special, the west campus is underneath the corpse warehouse, it doesn’t take much effort at all to handle everything perfectly.

　　”There shouldn’t be anyone going amongst the corpse vaults to look for missing living people, and as it turns out, the suspect won the bet.”

　　Chen Ge finished what Li Zheng wanted to say, and Li Zheng on the other side of the phone was silent for a short while, “Who the owner of the sculpture is can’t be determined yet, but the scope has been narrowed down. After we visited and investigated, we can determine that it is not from Jiujiang Medical University, but suddenly appeared in the activity room of the painting club on a certain day.”

　　”Suddenly appeared?”

　　”We found the president of the painting club at the time, he remembered very clearly that when he entered the activity room that morning he found an additional sculpture in the room, at that time many people thought it was an addition to the school so they didn’t care. Just in time for the school to relocate, the thing ended up being sent to the middle of the underground warehouse by the combined efforts of several male students.”

　　”It’s the same as saying that the murderer was not involved in the transportation of the body.” Chen Ge pondered carefully, “The murderer knew that the school was relocating and those unused items would be sent to the underground warehouse, and it’s even possible that he was there at the time and secretly pushed the envelope.”

　　”I’m thinking the same as you, the murderer was able to freely enter and exit the school in the middle of the night and was informed of all kinds of information in the school, it’s very likely that he’s a school teacher or a staff member of the school administration.” Someone was talking on Li Zheng’s side, and he spoke back to that person for a couple moments before saying to Chen Ge again, “After the investigation, we have now identified four suspects.”

　　”The first one is the male counselor you told me about yesterday, his name is Liu Zhe, he’s very well liked in school, tall, handsome, and loved by the students. However, after our in-depth investigation, we found out that this man is not as simple as he appears, he didn’t go to any school, and the reason for becoming a counselor the school didn’t give a clear reply, it just said that it has something to do with his brother-in-law.”

　　”The second suspect is the night shift security guard of the old campus – Zhang Li, this person is thirty-five years old this year, introverted, the complete opposite of Liu Zhe, very poorly liked, and a lot of students extremely hate him.”

　　”The third suspect is a member of the drawing club at the time, and the only female among the four suspects, called Zhang Shi Han. She is Zhang Li’s younger sister, and has a very poor relationship with Ma Ying’s sister, having argued with Ma Ying’s sister many times before she disappeared.”

　　Li Zheng stopped here, Chen Ge was listening intently, “Zhang Li is a security guard possessing the ability and conditions to kill, Zhang Shi Han possesses the motive and time to kill, but both of their life trajectories and western style sculptures shouldn’t be related, I still think that the first suspect is most likely to be the murderer. By the way, didn’t you say there was a fourth suspect?”

　　The man Liu Xianxian liked was Liu Zhe, and Chen Ge had followed him into room 3004 of Fang Hua Yuan neighborhood.

　　”Actually, according to our investigation, the fourth suspect has the highest possibility of committing the crime.” Li Zheng’s voice was a bit strange, he didn’t seem to want to say that person’s name: “This fourth person you’ve seen before is Dr. Gao.”

　　”Dr. Gao?” This answer was out of Chen Ge’s expectation.

　　”As you just said, whether it’s Zhang Li or Zhang Shi Han, their lives have nothing to do with art sculptures, but Dr. Gao is different.” Li Zheng’s voice slowed down, “Dr. Gao and I met five years ago, and after I shot the murderer for the first time, I received psychotherapy from him for two long weeks, and he and I became friends.”

　　Chen Ge listened attentively, he didn’t expect Li Zheng and Dr. Gao to have known each other five years ago.

　　”Frankly speaking, Dr. Gao is a very perfect person, I can’t see any shortcomings from him, on the contrary, he has more merits than I can count.” Li Zheng’s voice was a bit low, and Chen Ge understood why the other party would call him at this time, “I admire him, but that doesn’t mean I won’t suspect him. In the process of receiving his treatment, I learned a lot about him, including that he likes to collect artwork, is obsessed with Van Gogh’s paintings, and so on.”

　　”Liking artwork doesn’t mean he’s a murderer ah, could it be that you’ve seen the statue in Dr. Gao’s house?”

　　Hiding and transporting a corpse with the help of a statue, a modus operandi that seemed brilliant to others, had many loopholes when truly practiced. If Dr. Gao was the murderer, Chen Ge felt that he would use even more perfect means to carry out the crime.

　　”I haven’t been to Dr. Gao’s house, but I know that he likes those contrasting and visually striking works of art, and I also know that his car had entered the Jiujiang Forensic Science Institute late at night a few days before Ma Ying’s sister disappeared.” Li Zheng’s voice was a bit tired, “He knew the school well and avoided all surveillance. We also found that his car had appeared in the school’s neighborhood after expanding the scope of our pat-down investigation, and then it seemed to have disappeared. We compared all the surveillance cameras in the neighborhood and came to the final conclusion that he entered the middle of the school during those twenty-seven minutes of disappearance.”

　　”Wait, so is it possible that someone else was driving his car? Using his car to commit a crime?”

　　”That’s exactly what I want to talk about next.” Li Zheng’s tone slowly became serious, “There are most likely two murderers in this case.”

　　”Two?”

　　”Regardless of whether Dr. Gao is the murderer or not, it is a fact that his car had entered the school during that time period, and there are only two people who could have driven his car into the school, one being himself and the other being Liu Zhe.”

　　Li Zheng’s words made Chen Ge’s eyes widen, “Are you saying that Liu Zhe’s brother-in-law is Dr. Gao?!”

　　”That’s right! This is actually a double crime, the person who killed Ma Ying’s sister and came up with the idea of transporting the body through the sculpture was Liu Zhe, and the one who carried it out specifically should also be him. But this person was very stupid and exposed a lot of clues, so if he were to complete the crime by himself alone, it wouldn’t take more than a few days for him to reveal himself. But the strange thing is, we looked through the case files of that year, all the clues that the police could think of when investigating were cut off, what’s even more terrifying is that some of the clues just disappeared a few hours before the police arrived, and it’s like there’s an invisible hand interfering with everything in the darkness.”

　　Li Zheng sighed softly, “Liu Zhe couldn’t do any of this at all, I’ve been a police officer for more than ten years, and as far as I can remember, the only person who can do all of this is Dr. Gao.”

　　”But why did Dr. Gao go out of his way to help Liu Zhe cover up the crime?” Chen Ge voiced his biggest doubt.

　　”Liu Zhe is the younger brother of Dr. Gao’s wife and the only living relative of Dr. Gao’s wife.” Li Zheng seemed to know what Chen Ge wanted to say and spoke ahead of time, “Dr. Gao’s wife passed away seven years ago due to a car accident, taking care of her family was her wife’s last wish.”

　　Chen Ge wasn’t Dr. Gao, he couldn’t experience that feeling, so he didn’t open his mouth at this time.

　　”Chen Ge, I know that you and Dr. Gao have a good relationship, but I hope you can be a bit more sensible at this time. I’m calling you this time because it’s Team Yan’s intention, we suspect that there’s something wrong with Dr. Gao, but all the clues and omissions have been handled cleanly by him, so we can only be considered as mere suspicions at this point.”

　　”What do you guys want me to do?”

　　”Gao Ruxue is Dr. Gao’s only daughter and the person he loves the most, for us to go and contact Gao Ruxue without evidence will only make Dr. Gao become more cautious, so this matter can only be done by you.” Li Zheng politely stated his true purpose: “Gao Ruxue is a breakthrough, you have saved her life, she will definitely not be wary of you. So we need you to go to Gao Ruxue and find out the truth.”

　　”Let me go?” Chen Ge had always been spontaneously going around “seeing justice”, this time being officially authorized by the police, he was suddenly still a bit uncomfortable.

　　”Only you are the most suitable.” Li Zheng talked to Chen Ge for a lot more, he did not force Chen Ge, but only had such a proposal.

　　Hanging up the phone, Chen Ge sat in the middle of the darkened carriage, his complexion extremely complicated.

　　Liu Zhe’s brother-in-law was Dr. Gao, which meant that the real owner of Room 3004 in Fang Hua Yuan District was Dr. Gao.

　　The laptop full of information about his haunted house belonged to Dr. Gao, and he was also the one who took the video from the visitor in the hospital that day.

　　Chen Ge didn’t bother thinking about whether or not to help Li Zheng, he was thinking about a more frightening question.

　　”Dr. Gao is the president of the Weird Tales Association?”

　　As his body swayed with the car and the road was in poor condition, Chen Ge took out his own cell phone and rummaged through it to find the information that Dr. Gao had sent over a few weeks ago when he had first gone to the Third Sick House.

　　At that time, he didn’t know anything about the Third Sickness Building and asked Dr. Gao to get a copy of the Third Sickness Building’s patient’s information, and now that he thought about it, there was a big problem with that information, it wasn’t something that anyone could easily get, but Dr. Gao only took a very short amount of time to take it out.

　　”Why did he help me at that time?” Chen Ge looked at the information and couldn’t guess what Dr. Gao was thinking, “Did he merely find it interesting, or did he want to use the semi-abandoned Third Ward Building to try me out?”

　　After Zhang Ya bloodied the third ward building, the connection between Dr. Gao and Chen Ge became significantly less.

　　Before that, whether it was Men Nan or that friend of the Pen Fairy’s, it was Dr. Gao who had brought Chen Ge there.

　　”Characteristics possessed by number ten: has seen my skull crushing doctor’s mask, is aware of the police’s actions, has long slender fingers, has a close relationship with me, knows the Jiujiang Forensic Science Institute well, and refers to the corpse on his back as his wife ……”

　　Chen Ge found that Dr. Gao perfectly matched all of the characteristics that Ten had displayed, and when he thought about it carefully, Ten’s voice was also a little bit similar to Dr. Gao.

　　Height, size, and cloaked in black robes, Number Ten and Dr. Gao slowly overlapped.

　　”Could it really be him?” Chen Ge’s fingers clenched as he remembered the time he and Dr. Gao had gone to Pen Xian’s friend’s house together.

　　That friend of Pen Cen’s was suffering from severe depression, and after Chen Ge had brought Pen Cen there and eased the man’s condition, Dr. Gao had said a thank you to Chen Ge in place of the patient.

　　That thank you was definitely from the bottom of his heart, Chen Ge could still remember every word Dr. Gao had said, and he really couldn’t believe that such a person would be the president of the Weird Tales Association.

　　”Doctor, patient ……”

　　Come to think of it, the fundamental reason the Weird Tales Association was founded was because it wanted to help ease the pain of those patients who used morbidly radical techniques to treat themselves in an attempt to gain salvation, wanting to become a normal person.

　　But the result of doing so was that they fell deeper and deeper into hell, until finally they no longer deserved to be called human.

　　”Was all of this secretly planned by Dr. Gao?”

　　Chen Ge had once heard people from the Weird Tales Association say that in order to save a patient who was afraid of water, they drowned the source of his fear, his father, right in front of him, a treatment that was simply heartless, impossible to be accepted by the world, and could only be implemented in the shadows of the city.

　　Holding his cell phone, Chen Ge felt a little confused for the first time.

　　He could whack after the lunatics in the third sick building without hesitation, but he couldn’t lay his hands on Dr. Gao.

　　Whether it was when he was treating Men Nan or when he was dealing with the other patients, Dr. Gao had behaved impeccably, and he could tell that he was wholeheartedly trying to save those people.

　　”People, really are a very complicated thing.”

　　Chen Ge leaned against the carriage, cradling the white cat in his arms, and glanced outside along the crack of the carriage.

　　”It’s almost dawn.”

　　After driving for another hour, the moving company’s car didn’t enter the city, and when he dropped Chen Ge off at the edge of the suburb, he suddenly said that he had something urgent to rush elsewhere.

　　Chen Ge was so disorganized in his thoughts by a phone call from Li Zheng that he didn’t think much about it, said thank you, and got out of the car.

　　Watching the moving company’s van go away and being blown by the cold wind, Chen Ge came to his senses, “This driver isn’t quite right.”

　　When he first sat in the car, the car was bumpy, the road was getting worse and worse, and it was obvious that the other party didn’t take the main road, and seemed to be trying to pull him towards some remote place.

　　The transformation started when he received a phone call from Li Zheng, the driver seemed to have heard Chen Ge and the police on the phone, which turned the car around and drove back onto the main road again.

　　”Is he trying to kill someone? Only changed his mind after hearing me and the police on the phone?” While Chen Ge was thinking about it, a cab came head-on in the direction the van had left in the distance.

　　Waving his hand, Chen Ge stopped the taxi and sat in.

　　”Master, go to the New Century Paradise in the western suburb of Jiujiang.”

　　”It’s early in the morning, the paradise isn’t open yet, right?”

　　”I’m a staff member there.” Chen Ge smiled and pointed at the road the driver had just come from: “When you came over just now, did you see a moving company’s van? That driver ……”

　　”A van? Didn’t see ah, the whole road is just a car by myself.” The cab driver was even more surprised than Chen Ge.

　　”Didn’t see it?!” Chen Ge stroked the white cat’s head, “So am I meeting a ghost moving? But the white cat didn’t give me a hint either?”