Chapter 37

The City Anding Hospital was located at the foot of Mount Fenghuang, 20 kilometers from the suburbs, covering an area of about 60,000 square meters, built against the mountain. Tan Yang's ward was on the third floor of the Yiran Building near the foot of the mountain.

Gu Changzheng, led by the security officer, stepped into this single room located at the end of the corridor.

He had already noticed when going upstairs that this building was an old-fashioned building from many years ago. After going up the stairs, there was a corridor, and along the corridor was a row of parallel rooms. Outside the corridor, all were protective nets welded with steel bars as thick as a thumb, and every room had a large iron door, and the windows in the room also used protective nets made of the same steel bars.

The facilities in the room were extremely simple. A 1-meter-wide iron hospital bed had its four legs firmly fixed to the ground, and a low cabinet by the bed was also fixed to the wall. Everything else was just bare walls.

Gu Changzheng stood in the room and asked: "Are you sure Tan Yang returned to the ward before he disappeared?"

According to the hospital, after Tan Yang received treatment today, he was sent back to the ward by his attending nurse and hadn't come out again. When the nurse went over to distribute oral medicine in the evening, she actually found his room empty, and the person was gone!

The hospital security department reported to the police after receiving the news, then closed the room and organized personnel to search the hospital once.

Gu Changzheng looked at the room in front of him. The doors and windows were intact, without any traces of being damaged. Even the dust on the windowsill was intact, without any traces of anyone touching it.

He walked around the room silently a few times and really didn't find any problems. Even if he were placed here, he wouldn't be able to escape without damaging the doors and windows!

How did this Tan Yang do it? Or did he not return to the ward at all?

"Go and invite his attending nurse over; I want to understand the situation again." Gu Changzheng said to the security officer accompanying him. He didn't believe that a living person could disappear from a closed space without leaving any traces. There must be a problem in some link!

While waiting for the nurse to come over, Gu Changzheng discovered through the window that there was a passage about 2 meters wide behind the room, and then the hospital wall separated the hospital from the mountain behind. And a door welded with steel bars caught his attention.

At this time, Tan Yang's attending nurse had been brought over by the security officer.

Gu Changzheng looked at this middle-aged woman who was big and tall, feeling that she always looked a bit strange when looking at people.

"Captain Gu, this is Tan Yang's ward's attending nurse, Wu Yan. She was the one who brought Tan Yang back to the ward at the time." The security officer introduced.

Saying she was the attending nurse, in fact, half of the patients on this entire third floor, 15 people, were all the responsibility of Wu Yan alone. Gu Changzheng nodded and asked: "Nurse Wu, I would like to ask you to recall again, did you see Tan Yang enter the room before you left?"

Nurse Wu Yan squinted her eyes and said: "Yes, after the treatment ended, I brought him back to the ward, and then I left after closing the door. He definitely went in!"

Gu Changzheng looked into her eyes and asked: "Do you have an eye disease or did something get into your eyes?" Seeing the other party constantly squinting, he couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, it's nothing. My eyesight isn't very good, and there's always a foreign body sensation in my eyes. I'm changing shifts tomorrow and preparing to go to the city for a check-up. It's quite uncomfortable."

"Okay, I know. Sorry to trouble you, you go get busy!"

The security officer on the side saw that the questioning was finished so quickly and was about to speak when Gu Changzheng said: "What is that iron door on the back wall for? Who is in charge of it usually? Is there surveillance there?"

The security officer reached out and touched the back of his head, saying hesitantly: "Um, that iron door hasn't been opened for years. Usually, we patrol every day. As for surveillance, um, there shouldn't be any there!" He touched his head and scratched it constantly, seemingly feeling that what he said was wrong, and added: "Anyway, no one goes over there usually."

Gu Changzheng smiled. From his body language, he was already certain that he was lying. It seemed that that place was a management blind spot.

He paced to the window again, his eyes staring fixedly at that iron gate like an eagle! He suddenly pointed to that door and said to the security officer: "Take me there to have a look!"

"Okay!" The security officer probably also realized that the policeman stooping in front of him was not easy to fool, and he answered somewhat sheepishly.

At this time, Luo Fei had finished reading the duty log and walked out of the front administrative building, about to cross a leisure square surrounded by buildings on all four sides and walk toward him.

While waiting for Luo Fei, the security officer seemed to remember something and said: "Oh, Captain Gu, there is another situation. Today, Dr. Huang on duty upstairs said his access card was lost, and later it was found at the entrance of the nurse station on the first floor. This Dr. Huang is usually careless."

Gu Changzheng already had a plan in his heart. The so-called "room escape" was simply a false proposition! For a living person to escape from a well-closed room without external force was simply a fantasy!

He now had to go to the back wall to see clearly. If his expectations were correct, the lock on that iron gate should have been damaged!

After he went downstairs, Luo Fei had already run to him, panting. When he reached Gu Changzheng, Luo Fei panted and said: "Captain Gu, the entry and exit records and duty logs have no problems. The people entering and leaving every day are fixed personnel."

"You come with me. We're going to look at a place. It is highly likely that that is the exit Tan Yang used to leave the hospital!"

The two, led by the security officer, went directly from the first-floor passage to the back wall. This passage was usually closed, and only the security department had the key.

Gu Changzheng looked at the wall in front of him. The wall was more than 3 meters high, and a razor wire cage about half a meter high was also arranged on it. It was basically impossible for an ordinary person to climb over this wall.

So for Tan Yang to escape from here, prying open the iron gate was the best choice.

Sure enough, there were two faint footprints in front of the iron gate. Because this was all cement ground, the footprints were very unclear, but after careful observation, he still found some traces.

Gu Changzheng saw that his deduction had substantial verification. He signaled Luo Fei to avoid the footprints on the ground, ordered the security officer to stand still, and then walked quickly to the iron gate. He saw that this door was wrapped with an iron chain as thick as a thumb, and the interface was locked with a padlock the size of a fist.

Gu Changzheng sneered. Huh! It looked very powerful, but in the eyes of an insider, such a lock could be handled in a few seconds with a piece of wire!

He took a paperclip out of his pocket. This was something he had picked up when passing by the nurse station after becoming suspicious of this iron gate.

He bent the paperclip into a piece of wire, bent down to pick up the large lock, but found that the lock surface was very clean, without any dust. Then he slowly inserted the thin wire bent from the paperclip into the keyhole, twisted it left and right a few times, and the lock opened with a "click!" At this time, he discovered that the lock hook had popped open from the left side!

"Heh heh! Where does this Tan Yang have a mental illness? He's very smart!