Chapter 1525: Flirting with the Forensic Doctor 38

Underground Hospital.

Wei Yan rarely went out on field work, which frightened Jin Chen into thinking he had Stockholm Syndrome, but Wei Yan himself explained it as:

Although the drug control was lifted by Jin Team on the first night, pretending to be stupid for a few days still meant occasional harassment, so he insisted on watching Gu Huan get caught before he could sleep without nightmares.

As the underground hospital had been a drug‑development base for the past few years, its scale was not small; Jin Chen searched while cursing the arrested deputy mayor, no wonder the Bishui Parking Lot, ruined to this ghostly state, was not renovated.

The deputy mayor had fallen, and now the case was being merged with a ten‑year‑old investigation; all the pressure from above weighed on Jin Chen, who resented anyone watching his every move in the investigation.

"There's no one left inside; could Gu Huan not even be in there?" Yi Tian gave a rough search, then returned to report to Jin Chen, who stared at everything in the hall and said in a low voice, "We don't need any staff here; as long as someone who knows how to prepare medicine can come in, it's strange to have many people."

Where could Gu Huan be hiding?

Not even a carpet‑style search turned up anything; could Gu Luming have deliberately given false information?

Just as he was wondering, Wu Lin suddenly leaned close to his ear and said, "I can smell it."

Smell what?

Jin Chen gave Wu Lin a surprised, silent look; the latter pressed his lips, uncertain, and said, "That day in the gallery basement I smelled the medicinal fluid drifting from the escape passage; ten years ago I smelled the same on Ghost Butterfly."

"Perhaps after I escaped, Gu Huan became Ghost Butterfly's successor."

But solving the case absolutely cannot rely solely on intuition; Wu Lin also knows this, and if his judgment is wrong he would just be wasting time.

"Forget it, I…" "Come on, I believe you."

Jin Chen had people continue searching outside for followers and Ghost Butterfly's confidants, then took Wu Lin and Duan Xiao Bai inside.

Yi Tian had wanted to come along too, but seeing Wei Yan's feeble, frightened expression, he could only stay by his side and keep searching.

After a few minutes, Wu Lin suddenly stopped, looked up at the new air vent opening, and typed a message to Jin Chen on his phone.

There's a smell in here… it's a moving smell.

Jin Chen made a split‑second decision and exchanged a meaningful glance with Duan Xiao Bai.

Then he took Wu Lin's hand with one hand and gripped his gun with the other, rushing to the next exit of the duct to set up an ambush.

At the same time, Duan Xiao Bai fired a shot at the other end, making Gu Huan think they were on the opposite side.

Sure enough, the crawling sound grew closer.

Jin Chen had already braced himself for a fierce fight with Gu Huan, but when the ventilation duct opened, a corpse fell out.

It was Gu Huan!

Jin Chen quickly shielded Wu Lin and retreated, raised his gun at the duct opening, climbed up to look, and found no one else.

As for the moving sound… it was just a wire threaded through Gu Huan; as the fan blades turned, they dragged the wire along a fixed direction.

"Gu Huan has been dead for more than twenty‑four hours," Wu Lin and Jin Chen, who had just come down from the vent, stared at each other, both puzzled as to who could have killed him.

Could it be that Ghost Butterfly has abandoned this pawn?

"Jin Team!" Yu Jue and Ke Xiu rushed back after searching for clues, their looks at Wu Lin complex, and they didn't even have time to be surprised by Gu Huan's corpse.

"We've found some… clues that aren't favorable to the forensic doctor Wu Lin."

Jin Chen's eyes narrowed; he knew that not only his own people had come to investigate the case today, and he couldn't suppress or hide the evidence.

Wu Lin's pupils contracted sharply.

— "First you have to learn how to kill… come, I'll teach you."

The memory combined with the present scene made it hard for Wu Lin to breathe.

Did he really kill someone?

If it was in the past it would be fine, but now…

Wu Lin looked at Jin Chen, and for the first time a bitter emotion appeared in the depths of his eyes.

—

"Take a look yourself—these files are all of the wrongdoings Wu Lin once helped Ghost Butterfly commit; pull any one out and it could land him in prison!"

The chief nearly exploded with rage; the city bureau officials and provincial leaders in the office just listened like that, and even after learning Jin Chen's identity they could not say a single good word.

After all, his relationship with Wu Lin lay bare here.

"If Wu Lin doesn't avoid suspicion, you'll have to go with him." The provincial leader gently told Jin Chen, "First let him be suspended, we'll make an exception to let you continue investigating this case, so we can clear his name."

Whether Wu Lin is innocent or not is another matter; Jin Chen knows this is about making him distance himself, and it's best not to admit any connection with Wu Lin.

He fell silent for a long time, then suddenly asked the chief, "Back then, was Old Mu killed by Ghost Butterfly while shielding you from a bullet, or did he commit suicide?"

"What? Of course it wasn't suicide." The chief didn't understand why Jin Chen suddenly asked that, then said, "Actually, back then I didn't know what had happened; I only remember suddenly receiving the encirclement order, rushing to the scene only to be seized by Ghost Butterfly's people before I could even see their faces clearly—Old Mu shoved me aside and took a bullet to the chest… There were lots of people around back then; when Old Mu died, they all just left."

Whenever the chief brought up this matter, his grief would not stop; he rubbed his face before getting up.

Many times, especially when he saw Wu Lin, he couldn't help but think: if he hadn't been rescued by the arriving special police, but instead faced those criminals together with Old Mu, perhaps things would have been different.

But later he learned that those people had been eyeing Old Mu for a long time, and even… had been eyeing Wu Lin.

As Jin Chen walked out, he was still thinking.

Old Mu wasn't a suicide, so why does Sang Xue's memory make it look like one?

What was Wu Lin doing that day, and what happened afterward, that caused him to forget this memory?

Until he saw An Jing waiting for Wu Lin in the office, her slender back held straight, hearing the sound she turned her head, also holding a faint smile.

"I've been suspended, right?"

Clearly she was smiling, yet it still made one's heart ache.

Jin Chen let out a silent breath of foul air, quickly strode over and pulled the person hard into his embrace, saying, "I didn't stop him."

"I know, it's not your fault." Wu Lin rubbed against him in his embrace.

He certainly knew that during this time Jin Chen had borne great pressure for him, even exposing his family's connections.

Wu Lin slightly lifted his head, a warm breath escaping from the tip of his nose to kiss the corner of Jin Chen's lips.

"I believe you can investigate the truth, but no matter whether you'll run into Ghost Butterfly…"

Some trembling fingertips lightly brushed over Jin Chen's brows, eyes, and face; Wu Lin rubbed his lips and whispered, "You must promise to stay safe, don't let yourself get hurt."

Jin Chen's throat bobbed as he clearly sensed Wu Lin's worry, pulling him close, foreheads touching, deepening the lingering kiss.

But the kiss was tangled with too much, leaving Jin Chen's first instinct a hint of panic.

He rarely felt such emotion.

Jin Chen whispered, "Guabao, don't run around."

"If you trust me, don't act alone, no matter what you're doing."

Wu Lin buried his face in Jin Chen's neck, eyes shut, unable to stifle his pounding heart—the vivid aliveness he could feel only when they were together.

"Okay."

"I'll be at home, waiting for you to return."

【Detected Villain Heartthrob Value +10, total 95!】

【Detected Villain Blackening Value -5, total 70!】