The Whale in the Mountains
Chapter 271 Thirteen Lives
Chen Xiao was completely bewildered.
Director Hao smiled sheepishly and said, “Chen Xiao, don’t be impatient. I’m not asking you to treat dead people, but to help me find out the cause of death.”
Chen Xiao frowned. He thought to himself, he wasn’t a forensic doctor, this kind of work shouldn't fall to him.
Just then, a man and a woman arrived at the entrance of the morgue.
The man was tall with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, looking righteous.
The woman was petite and cute, with a sweet appearance, but her serious expression gave her a great contrast.
“You’re here. Let me introduce you, this is the doctor Chen Xiao I mentioned.”
Director Hao introduced them with a smile.
The righteous-looking man glanced at Chen Xiao, his eyes slightly sinking, and said nothing.
After taking a look, the woman frowned directly and asked Director Hao with a questioning tone, “Uncle Hao, is this the miracle doctor you introduced to us? Is he…is he capable?”
Seeing that Chen Xiao was not only young but also had an ordinary demeanor, without any trace of a miracle doctor, the woman immediately became contemptuous.
Director Hao glared and said, pretending to be angry, “Qianqian, don’t talk nonsense. Don’t underestimate Chen Xiao because he is young, but his medical skills are far above mine. He has also been recognized by Sun Buzhou, the national medical master. If he can’t do it, then no one in Jiangbei can!”
“Is that true?”
The woman widened her eyes, apparently still not believing it, and asked Chen Xiao inexplicably, “Are you really capable?”
Chen Xiao smiled faintly, “Whether I’m capable or not, I have to try it first to find out, right? And until now, I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do.”
The woman looked questioningly at the righteous-looking man, it was obvious that he was the decision-maker between the two.
The man pondered for a moment and said in a low voice, “Doctor Chen, this matter is of great importance. I hope that no matter whether you can do it or not, you will not reveal what you see later, otherwise, it may bring unnecessary panic to society.”
Chen Xiao frowned, “Since you don’t trust me, then forget it. Director Hao, I have something to do at home, I’ll go back first.”
After saying that, Chen Xiao turned to leave.
He had gone through so much trouble to help his mother recover. Instead of being questioned inexplicably by these two people, he might as well go home and spend time with his mother.
“Hey, Chen Xiao, don’t go yet…”
Director Hao stopped Chen Xiao, “Don’t blame them, because this matter involves a bizarre murder case, so Team Leader Song is being cautious.”
“Oh, I forgot to introduce you, this is Team Leader Song Zijian, who is in charge of this case.”
Director Hao pointed to the righteous-looking man and introduced him, then introduced the woman to Chen Xiao.
“She is Luo Qian. Her father and I are old friends. Chen Xiao, you may not give them face, but you have to give me some face, right!”
Director Hao winked at Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao thought that Director Hao had been really good to him, so he decided to give him some face.
“Alright, let’s go in and take a look then.”
Seeing Chen Xiao agree to help, Director Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then opened the lock on the morgue door.
Chen Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly. Usually, the morgue didn’t need to be locked, but it was locked today, which meant that this matter was indeed not simple.
The door of the morgue opened, and a gust of cold air rushed out instantly, and the surrounding temperature dropped sharply.
“Doctor Chen, please come in!”
Luo Qian’s tone carried a hint of arrogance.
Yang Zhen followed Director Hao in, with Luo Qian and Song Zijian at the rear. After everyone went in, Song Zijian carefully closed the door again.
As soon as he entered the morgue, Chen Xiao saw more than a dozen corpses on the corpse racks.
Chen Xiao asked, “Which one is the murder victim?”
Song Zijian waved his hand, “These are all of them.”
“So many?”
Chen Xiao’s face showed a surprised expression.
He counted them, there were thirteen corpses in total.
Thirteen people dying at once, this was already a major case.
Chen Xiao stepped forward to check and casually asked, “Have they already done an autopsy? What did the forensic doctor say?”
Song Zijian replied in a calm tone, “Five forensic doctors have performed autopsies on them, but they found nothing, and they couldn’t even find out the cause of death of the deceased. If it wasn’t a last resort, we wouldn’t have asked Director Hao to come forward.”
Chen Xiao squinted slightly and said faintly, “If I’m not mistaken, there are already some rumors about this murder case, right?”
Hearing this, Song Zijian’s face was very ugly, but he still nodded.
“That’s right. Although we blocked the news as soon as the murder happened, the rumors still spread like wildfire, saying that it was a fierce ghost killing people…”
“A fierce ghost killing people?”
Chen Xiao smiled.
There was no such thing as a fierce ghost killing people in this world.
People and ghosts were separated by heaven and man, and they didn’t interfere with each other. Not only would fierce ghosts not kill people for no reason, they simply didn’t have that ability.
If fierce ghosts could really kill people, then all the bad people in this world would have been killed by them long ago.
And the so-called fierce ghost killings were usually controlled by evil techniques by those with wicked intentions.
The ones who killed people were never the fierce ghosts, the fierce ghosts were just tools for killing.
These deceased, the oldest was an old man in his twilight years, and the youngest was just a child of ten years old, and these people all looked somewhat similar.
Chen Xiao couldn’t help but ask, “Are they all from the same family?”
Song Zijian nodded, “That’s right, this is a family of thirteen. They usually live together and live in Bahu Guan Village in the suburbs.”
Hearing Song Zijian’s words, Chen Xiao was a little surprised.
In this era, it was rare to see such a large family living together, even in rural areas.
Seeing that Chen Xiao hadn’t gotten to the point after talking for so long, Luo Qian couldn’t help but become impatient.
“What I want to know is, have you seen anything? You see the kind of questions you are asking. Are you checking household registration?”
“Who said I didn’t see anything?”
Chen Xiao sneered, “There are no external injuries on the deceased, and the forensic doctor can’t find the cause of death, which means that these people’s deaths are indeed bizarre.”
“Great, you said another nonsense!”
Luo Qian crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.
Song Zijian frowned and asked tentatively, “Doctor Chen, you don’t also agree with the saying that fierce ghosts kill people, do you?”
Chen Xiao shook his head, “No, fierce ghosts killing people can’t do it without leaving any traces. These people died of poisoning!”