SS Chapter 33

At the pier, Rao Xian sneezed a few times. The all-night ordeal plus the rain until dawn made his head spin. He tested his forehead and felt an abnormal fever.

Seeing his pale face and the way he touched his forehead, Shao Hui asked if he was feeling unwell.

Rao Xian shook his heavy head and said he had a fever, asking Shao Hui if he could take over the command work. In fact, Rao Xian felt that the work was now winding down, and it would be better for Shao Hui to command, and he also skillfully let Shao Hui grasp the full command.

Shao Hui saw that Rao Xian was intentionally handing over the follow-up work to him—Rao Xian never took minor illnesses seriously when he led the team before.

Shao Hui asked Rao Xian if he wanted to go to the hospital, but Rao Xian refused. He asked Shao Hui to find someone to send him and Long Xinyu back, and reminded Shao Hui to communicate well with Li Guang’s people.

Shao Hui understood and instructed police officers to send Rao Xian back.

Long Xinyu was puzzled when he saw that they were being sent away before the matter was finished. It wasn’t until Rao Xian said he had a fever that Long Xinyu wanted to take him to the hospital. Rao Xian refused, saying he just had a cold and would be fine after taking some medicine, but his headache was severe, and his face was extremely pale. Long Xinyu didn’t argue and had the police officers send them back as he said.

Rao Xian mocked that his broken body couldn’t withstand such a heavy workload in the wind and rain. Long Xinyu didn’t say anything. Just as the two were about to get into the car, Rao Xian received a call from Sha Rou, saying that they had encountered violent resistance when arresting Zang Hao. During the crossfire, the supporting police officers arrived and had already killed Zang Hao and others, but there were also casualties on the police side. Multiple industries of Wanxing had caught fire, and clues and evidence may have been destroyed. Sha Rou’s voice on the phone was filled with deep anxiety and despair.

After Rao Xian hung up the phone, he staggered and almost fell, but Long Xinyu grabbed him. Long Xinyu found that Rao Xian’s face was red, and when he touched his forehead, it was scalding. He was forcing himself to hold on.

Long Xinyu was immediately alarmed.

Rao Xian, holding his dizzy head, said, “Sha Rou’s side went to arrest Zang Hao, and there was a firefight. Police officers were injured and killed. Zang Hao was killed, but the manor caught fire, probably set by Zang Hao and his men to destroy evidence.”

Long Xinyu exhaled. He had experienced a night of tension and his emotions had been strained. Seeing Rao Xian like this, he didn’t know if he should go back.

Rao Xian smiled bitterly, the follow-up matters were beyond his ability to handle.

The shooting, Tongtong’s origin, that card, and the trafficked people and contraband found on the cargo ship… so many things were piled up, and many exceeded his authority to handle. He, as a temporary criminal police captain, couldn’t handle it and could only ask for help from superiors.

After Huo Lenggang had made the arrangements, he took the time to call Rao Xian. Unfortunately, his criminal police captain was already delirious with fever, and Long Xinyu answered the phone.

When Long Xinyu and the others arrived home, Rao Xian was fed medicine by Long Xinyu and fell into a deep sleep. At this time, receiving the call, Long Xinyu wanted to wake Rao Xian, but Huo Lenggang considered Rao Xian’s physical condition and didn’t let Long Xinyu wake him, only instructing Long Xinyu to take good care of Rao Xian and report to the police station when he felt better.

Soon, the doctor arrived, put Rao Xian on an IV drip, and instructed that if the fever didn’t subside after this bottle was finished, he must be taken to the hospital.

Long Xinyu nodded, saying he understood.

After seeing the doctor off, he took a shower himself before going to watch over Rao Xian. The drip was very slow, and Rao Xian was sleeping soundly, his face abnormally flushed from the fever.

Long Xinyu smiled bitterly, wondering if it was because he met himself that Rao Xian’s life had changed, or if it was meeting Rao Xian that had changed his own life trajectory!

The experiences of these days surged in his mind one by one—some things should be investigated carefully, Long Xinyu pondered.

In the following days, the criminal facts that the police found were shocking: First of all, in the industries under Min Bocai’s name, two drug testing laboratories were discovered. From the remaining records, it could be found that they were conducting unknown human drug experiments. Among them, the composition of one drug was very close to the pink drugs found on Wang Ling and Qin Kai. Unfortunately, the experimental data was destroyed by the fire, explosion, and heavy rain, leaving very few clues for the police to pursue.

The video on the card that Li Guang obtained, after searching and comparing, showed that all the shooting subjects were trafficked teenagers and children. The card should be an experimental record.

As for Tongtong’s origin, Shao Hui interrogated the people who attacked Li Guang and the others. They only said that they were acting on Zang Hao’s orders. Zang Hao said that Tongtong was an important experimental product and asked them to bring the child back, but they didn’t expect the child to be accidentally killed.

However, Zang Hao had already been killed during the arrest, so Tongtong’s origin could not be found.

Li Guang wanted to find Tongtong’s relatives through the police, but he didn’t gain anything.

Some people and corpses were found in the discovered drug laboratory, but Luo Wenwen was not found.

How Luo Wenwen got involved, as well as the little boy Tongtong and the bizarre content of that card, had no reasonable explanation.

However, these things did not affect Long Xinyu. While the police were busy investigating Wanxing, he began to instruct Xiang Ze to investigate some things for him.

After Rao Xian finished the IV drip, his fever subsided very slowly. Before he could rest well, he was grabbed by the police station for case sorting, induction, summary, analysis, and merging of cases.

Unfortunately, all that were caught were small fries, and a lot of physical evidence was destroyed in the fire and explosions. The main suspect was also killed, and many details of the case could not be connected.

Lin Dong, the forensic doctor from the forensic team, led assistants to perform autopsies on the corpses found in the laboratory and discovered that many corpses had abnormal brain tissue. Tongtong’s brain tissue was also abnormally damaged, but the brain tissue lesions were lighter than those of the other corpses found. It seemed that these people were experimenting on older children to control the experimental effects.

Li Guang had once said that many of Tongtong’s reactions were not like those of ordinary children, such as being particularly stubborn and fierce. In this way, the child was a test subject for drug experiments.

These discoveries made Rao Xian try to link the arson and incineration case in Qin Shuqing’s parents’ laboratory twenty-two years ago with this case. However, due to the long time, the research projects in Qin Shuqing’s parents’ laboratory at that time were confidential, and it was difficult to corroborate them.

As for why the people on the card that Luo Wenwen sent were drawing Long Xinyu, there was no reasonable explanation because the parties involved could not be found.

Rao Xian was running around in circles, and Long Xinyu didn’t seem to be doing anything idle either. Strangely, every time the two of them met outside, it felt like a long-awaited reunion.

Rao Xian would tell Long Xinyu some of the case details that he could know and ask for his opinions. Long Xinyu would listen and occasionally complain that Min Bocai, the old man, was still playing high-end drug experiments, and occasionally curse the criminals’ mothers.

Although Long Xinyu didn’t say it, Rao Xian could feel that he cared very much about why those people in the video were drawing him. However, based on the clues and evidence currently available, it was impossible to see any direct connection between these cases and Long Xinyu, but they were circling around Long Xinyu’s surroundings, making it unclear.

What Rao Xian was most concerned about was what Long Xinyu said—how could someone like Min Bocai still play high-end drug experiments?

But it was true that the people who were killing people to silence them were Min Bocai’s men.

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Rao Xian had been so idle recently that he wanted to die. He finally had a day off, and Long Xinyu happened to be home as well. He insisted on dragging him to the museum to see an art exhibition.

Long Xinyu took Rao Xian to see a public art exhibition in a large museum.

The museum was divided into three floors. The first floor was sculptures, the second floor was landscape and figure paintings, and the third floor was abstract, still life, or symbols. In short, Rao Xian didn’t understand, but when Long Xinyu dragged him in front of a painting, Rao Xian understood Long Xinyu’s intention somewhat as soon as he saw the author’s signature: “Yue Zhonglin’s painting?”

Long Xinyu praised Rao Xian appreciatively: “Careful observation.”

Rao Xian was puzzled. Why did Long Xinyu want to take him to see Yue Zhonglin’s painting? The case they were investigating had no evidence to prove that Yue Zhonglin was directly related to the case, unless Long Xinyu had a new discovery.

“Found what?” Rao Xian thought that Long Xinyu was smiling slyly, wasting a good appearance.

Long Xinyu didn’t know that Rao Xian was slandering him and smiled, “Found a lot of things.”

Long Xinyu’s people even found that Chu Yao had participated in several art exhibitions and art auctions abroad, all arranged by Yue Zhonglin. For such art exhibitions and auctions, not to mention the admission fee, there would be an evaluation of the invitee’s identity and status before allowing entry.

After listening to Long Xinyu’s analysis, Rao Xian looked at the strange paintings around him and pondered: “Maybe he is good at investment and financial management, and the value of artworks is not easy to measure!”

“The source of huge amounts of property is unknown?”

“Yue Zhonglin is working for Min Bocai, buying and selling artworks?” This was the only thing Rao Xian could think of.

Long Xinyu shook his head and sighed: “Min, the old man, is such a refined person, what kind of artworks can he appreciate? And the drug experiments and human experiments we found, are they necessarily Min Bocai’s industry just because they are under Min Bocai’s company’s name?”

“Yue Zhonglin is self-disciplined?” Rao Xian guessed.

“Wrong, this person is a pervert!” Long Xinyu said decisively: “And a meticulous pervert!”

Rao Xian: …

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