I can dream about my own death.

Chapter 28 Some died, some fled

Li Mubo got into a police car and hurriedly drove to the First Municipal Hospital.

Li Yucheng and the other two hurriedly returned to the Volkswagen and drove closely behind Li Mubo.

Five minutes later, both cars arrived at the hospital parking lot at the same time.

After getting out of the car, Li Mubo rushed into the hospital's inpatient building and frantically pressed the elevator floor buttons.

Wang Feng turned on the camera and recorded the scene.

The elevator doors opened, and the group hurriedly went inside. Li Mubo frantically pressed the close button.

As the elevator ascended, Li Yucheng asked, "Officer Li, that migrant worker only had gallstone surgery, right? That surgery shouldn't be life-threatening. How come he suddenly died? What happened?"

"All I know is that the hospital gave the reason as heart failure. But when I looked at the migrant worker's previous medical examination report, I found that apart from gallstones, he had no other illnesses, and his cardiovascular system had always been very healthy. This sudden heart failure is too abnormal. I even suspect that this was a deliberate murder to cover up the crime, but these are just my guesses. We have to wait for the forensic doctor to give a scientific autopsy report to determine the specific cause of death of this migrant worker," Li Mubo analyzed.

The elevator doors opened, and Li Mubo immediately stepped out and headed straight for the nurses' station.

The nurse on duty saw Li Mubo about to walk around the nurses' station and came in, so she asked, "What are you doing here?"

Li Mubo immediately showed his identification: "I'm from the city police department, and I'm here to investigate the surveillance footage on this floor."

The nurse on duty glanced at the identification and immediately stepped aside.

Chen Wensheng and his two companions also wanted to go in for an interview, but were refused by the nurse on duty.

Li Mubo quickly scanned all the surveillance footage of the migrant workers.

Five minutes later, Li Mubo noticed something was wrong.

The migrant worker's condition became noticeably abnormal after receiving an injection; his face appeared extremely painful and contorted, and he frequently clutched his chest and cried out in pain.

The nurse noticed the abnormality and reported it.

The attending physician said that after the patient underwent surgery, the anesthesia wore off, and it was normal for the unhealed wound to be very painful, so he prescribed the migrant worker a few strong painkillers.

After taking painkillers, the migrant worker's complexion improved somewhat, and he then drifted into a deep sleep, eventually dying in his sleep.

"No! The migrant worker is clutching his chest, not his surgical wound; he's clearly experiencing heart pain. All of this abnormality occurred after he received those two injections."

Li Mubo immediately sensed that something was wrong.

He immediately checked other surveillance footage from the same time period to track down the two bottles of medicine.

Everything went smoothly from the time the medicine left the warehouse until it entered the inpatient building.

After entering this floor, the nurse delivering the medicine lingered for 20 or 30 seconds longer in a blind spot of the surveillance cameras, which was highly unusual.

Li Mubo pointed to the surveillance footage and asked the nurse behind him, "Call this nurse over."

"Xiaofang, come here for a moment," the nurse called out into the break room.

The nurse who delivered the medicine came out of the break room.

Li Mubo immediately asked, "Why did you linger in this blind spot of the surveillance cameras for so long while you were delivering the medicine?"

Nurse Xiaofang recalled carefully for a moment, and then said, "Yesterday, when I was delivering medicine to a patient, I was accidentally bumped into by a patient at this corner, so I lingered for a little longer."

"You were just bumped into, nothing else happened?" Li Mubo asked with a serious expression.

"No...no!" Nurse Xiaofang stammered, her eyes darting around.

Li Mubo immediately saw through Nurse Xiaofang's lie and said, "If you lie again, I'll take you back to the police station for questioning."

Nurse Xiaofang was immediately startled and hurriedly said, "The patient bumped into the medicine delivery cart, and a lot of medicines were knocked over. The patient apologized to me while helping me pick up the medicines that had fallen on the ground, which delayed things for a little while."

"What? The patient picked up the medicine for you?" Li Mubo immediately noticed something was wrong.

Nurse Xiaofang didn't dare to hide anything: "Yes! He kindly picked up all the medicine that had fallen on the ground for me and then walked towards the stairwell exit."

The head nurse, standing nearby, said sternly, "Xiaofang, do you know that if medication is spilled while being delivered to a patient, it must be reported? If there is damage or medication mix-up, giving the patient less or the wrong medication could have extremely serious consequences. Why didn't you report this abnormal situation?"

Nurse Xiaofang said timidly, "Those medicines all had labels with the patients' names on them. I didn't see any damage or confusion, so I didn't report it and delivered the medicines to the patients according to the normal procedure."

Li Mubo took a deep breath and said helplessly, "The suspect's drugs were probably switched at this time."

After saying this, Li Mubo immediately asked the nurse Xiaofang to describe "the appearance and physical characteristics of the patient who hit her".

Nurse Xiaofang described it in detail.

After comparison, it was discovered that this "patient" was not a patient on this floor and was not a patient in the hepatobiliary surgery department at all.

Li Mubo immediately called his colleagues and asked them to retrieve the surveillance footage from the entire floor to find the "patient" who had knocked over the trolley.

Soon after, a professional forensic doctor arrived at the scene and conducted a thorough autopsy on the body.

The final conclusion was that the patient had used an excessive amount of digitalis, resulting in severe digitalis poisoning and cardiac arrest.

"Patients in the hepatobiliary ward don't need digitalis. In other words, the medication that migrant worker was given must have been switched by the 'patient' who overturned the cart. This migrant worker was murdered to silence him."

Li Mubo's expression turned ugly.

After interrogation and investigation, the police learned that there were five suspects in the gold case. Apart from Lao Zhou, who was arrested, the migrant worker was poisoned to silence him, and the other three all fled Changfeng City and disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people.

This means that if the "patient" who poisoned the victim cannot be caught, and as long as Lao Zhou doesn't give a confession, the case may end here.

The missing 60-plus kilograms of gold were never recovered.

Li Yucheng asked, "Officer Li, the suspect is now dead in the hospital, and this lead has gone cold. What are your plans for investigating this case going forward? Do you have any new directions?"

Li Mubo remained silent for a moment before speaking: "After the gold robbery, various departments conducted strict checks on all vehicles entering and leaving Changfeng City. The three suspects who escaped couldn't have taken the gold out of Changfeng City, meaning it's still inside. Therefore, following the clues, our police station is confident we can recover all the gold. Our current investigation is mainly focused on Lao Zhou. Once we get him to talk, everything will be solved."

Li Yucheng and the other two could all tell that this was clearly official rhetoric in response to media reporters.

This statement implies that if the police cannot get information out of Lao Zhou, then there is a very high probability that the more than 60 kilograms of gold will not be recovered.

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