Chapter 140

Gu Changzheng pointed to a place on the drawing and asked: "What about here? Is it sealed?"

Director Zhang looked at it for a long time and said: "Oh! Captain Gu, this is not an entrance, it is the interface between the ventilation duct and the ground!" Gu Changzheng said: "From the drawing, this interface happens to be on the periphery of the hospital area. If the hospital area has not undergone major changes over the years, then this place is still on the periphery! Let's go! Let's go and see!"

After saying that, he said to Liu Han: "Liu, put away the drawing! Director Zhang, we want to borrow the drawing for a period of time."

Director Zhang nodded and said: "It's fine, Captain Gu, you take it and use it. Do you want me to take you to see the basement entrance?"

He wanted to prove that what he said was the truth, and it was impossible to enter the hospital basement casually.

Gu Changzheng also wanted to go to the scene to see. He had a strong feeling that the hospital's basement was not that simple!

Several people walked together to the inpatient department and came to a narrow small iron door at the entrance of the first floor. Then Director Zhang took out a bunch of keys from his waist and pointed to the iron lock as big as a fist on the iron door: "Captain Gu, this is the entrance that originally led to the basement."

After finishing, he opened the big lock and pushed it inward with force. Only hearing a "Squeak" sound that made people feel very sour, followed by a moldy and damp smell rushing toward everyone!

Director Zhang, who was standing at the very front, was choked and coughed "Ka Ka". Behind the door was a staircase. It was dark inside. Liu Han took out a flashlight and shone it inside, but found that there was a cement wall not far down the stairs!

After the moldy smell inside faded a bit, Gu Changzheng raised his foot and walked down. Liu Han also followed closely and went down together. After walking down more than ten steps, the two came to the cement wall. Gu Changzheng reached out and patted the wall surface. Some cement mortar powder stuck to his fingers. The wall surface looked like it had been there for some years! It seems Director Zhang's words were indeed no problem.

He raised his head, and the flashlight in his hand shone toward the roof following his gaze. It looked seamless and there were no new traces.

Gu Changzheng thought for a while, turned and went up, still deciding to go and see the ventilation duct shown on the drawing.

However, regarding this ventilation duct, Director Zhang expressed that he hadn't paid attention to it. In his opinion, this should be a place that had long been abandoned and useless.

Several people bypassed the periphery of the inpatient department according to the diagram. However, the place marked on the diagram was a row of bungalows! Gu Changzheng asked: "Director Zhang, which unit do these houses belong to?"

Director Zhang adjusted his glasses and said: "This row of bungalows was built by the original enterprise in the 1990s. The previous planning purpose was for staff leisure rooms. Later, the enterprise reform took place, and these rooms were classified as tertiary industry. Now they are rented out as storefronts!"

"Can houses in this kind of family courtyard also be rented out?" Liu Han on the side asked curiously.

"Hehe! There are quite a few residents in our unit's family courtyard! These storefronts used to be some breakfast shops, small grocery stores, etc., and some people have rented them to do business in recent years." Director Zhang said.

Gu Changzheng looked at the row of houses in front of him. He pointed to the 3rd storefront from the left and asked: "Director Zhang, what is this one used for?"

Director Zhang said: "This seems to be a warehouse!"

Gu Changzheng gave an "Hmm" and called: "Liu Han! Arrange the tools for breaking the wall, let's go in and see what's going on now!"

Several people returned to the iron door leading to the basement of the inpatient department. Not long after, Liu Han dragged a pointed pickaxe he didn't know where he got, walked to Gu Changzheng and said: "Captain Gu, it's not easy to find handy tools at this time, this will do, but as long as it's not a concrete wall, this can also work!"

Hearing this, Director Zhang hurriedly said: "It's not concrete, it's just ordinary red bricks, with cement mortar plastered on the outside."

"That's good!" Liu Han responded.

Going down to the basement, Liu Han swung the pickaxe and smashed it against the wall with force. Sure enough, a piece of cement block as thick as a finger fell off, revealing the red bricks inside! Half an hour passed, and a big hole half a person high was smashed into the wall!

Liu Han dropped the pickaxe and was about to drill inside. Gu Changzheng grabbed him: "Don't rush, wait a while before going in!"

Then he used a flashlight to shine inside from the wall hole. It was empty inside, and it seemed there was nothing. After ten minutes, Gu Changzheng bent over and drilled in, and Liu Han and several police officers also drilled in one after another.

The space inside was very large. As soon as several people entered, they felt a chill strike, and then the ground illuminated by the flashlight was full of small water droplets. This was cold condensed water formed by the large temperature difference between inside and outside. Several people continued to walk inside. Liu Han, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped his footsteps!

Gu Changzheng, who was behind him, asked: "What's wrong?"

"Captain Gu! Look what that is?" Liu Han stretched out his right hand and pointed into the distance and said.

Gu Changzheng and several others followed the direction he pointed and shone the flashlights in their hands over in unison.

Only seeing a pile of red and white things on the ground ten meters away! Some with better eyesight had already shouted: "It looks like a human corpse!"

Gu Changzheng ran a few steps forward quickly and suddenly raised his arm: "Everyone slow down! It's a corpse! Don't get too close!"

Several people froze upon hearing this! There was indeed a problem here!

"Liu, you on the left, I on the right!" Gu Changzheng instructed simply. Liu Han gave an "Hey!". He knew Gu Changzheng meant for the two to survey the situation on the left and right sides of the corpse respectively to see if there were any missing items or other clues.

According to the current status of the corpse visible to the naked eye, this corpse should have been in the basement for a long time! Gu Changzheng approached the corpse cautiously. Only seeing a red piece of clothing covering the corpse, judging from the shape, it looked extremely like a woman's dress. Could the deceased be a woman?

The corpse fell to the ground with its feet facing the direction they came in. Gu Changzheng used the flashlight to shine from the feet upward and found that the ground at the waist of the corpse presented a deeper color than the ground. He guessed it should be blood stains formed by the blood flowing out of the corpse penetrating into the cement ground.

At this time, Liu Han called: "Captain Gu! There is a muddy footprint here!"

"Oh?" Gu Changzheng turned his head and looked. Only seeing a string of footprints appearing at the position illuminated by the flashlight in Liu Han's hand, extending all the way inside.

It seems my guess was correct. This basement has another entrance! Gu Changzheng murmured in his heart.

By this time, Zhang Qiang had somewhat reacted. He looked at Su Ruonan and said, "You aren't a police officer, are you? The clue you said he had about where Xiaozhi is... you were lying to me, right?"

"Understood!" Liu Han responded and left the basement with two police officers.

Tonight is destined to be another sleepless night! It's just that his master Lu Haoxuan is still missing, and this basement, which has been abandoned for many years, has appeared with a skeleton of unknown identity! This mysterious hospital!