Chapter 105: Organs Intact, Nothing Missing

After telling the female officer the hospital’s name, Yu Dazhang stood quietly by the archive room door waiting.

Li Jun’s earlier words had reminded him.

Look for cases that had already happened.

Find every case connected to that hospital, then identify the connections between them.

Since so many abandonment cases occurred at that hospital, the bureau must have records.

Even if cases were dropped, there would still be related documentation.

Dropping a case means no guilty verdict was issued, so there would be no criminal record.

But the original case files would still be retained, primarily for internal reference and statistics.

To Yu Dazhang at this moment, these records were extremely important.

For the next hour, he watched as the female officer stacked file after file on the table by the archive room door.

“Alright, I’ve found them all.”

The female officer clapped her hands, a light sheen of sweat on her forehead, strands of hair stuck to her cheeks from perspiration.

“So many?” Yu Dazhang stared at the towering pile of files, his confidence wavering.

Would three days even be enough to read through them all?

“That’s a top-tier tertiary hospital you’re talking about,” the officer gave him a skeptical look:

“That hospital opened in 2009—I’ve pulled every related record from the past five years for you.”

This woman really takes her work seriously… Yu Dazhang decided he ought to cultivate better relations with his colleagues.

“Help me fill out the pickup form—I’ll be right back.”

Before the officer could respond, Yu Dazhang was already gone.

When he returned, he placed two drinks on the table.

“Thanks so much for your help,” Yu Dazhang said as he signed the pickup form:

“I’ll return them as soon as possible.”

He’d originally wanted to buy bubble tea, but there were no bubble tea shops nearby, so he’d settled for two drinks from the supermarket.

The gift was small, but the sentiment mattered.

The female officer showed little reaction to the drinks, but her actions spoke volumes.

“Let me help you carry them up.”

“No need, you’re busy,” Yu Dazhang said, hugging the entire stack to his chest and turning to leave.

Back at the branch, he placed the files on his desk, drawing curious glances from his colleagues.

“Dazhang, you studying for grad school?” one colleague teased.

Yu Dazhang knew he meant no harm and replied with a smile:

“Reviewing old case files to learn.”

He was being humble… everyone around him found it amusing.

A detective who’d cracked multiple major cases was now reading old cases?

Don’t tell us your solving skills were learned from other people’s files.

Seeing Yu Dazhang’s serious expression, they decided not to press further, assuming he was just killing time out of boredom.

Especially given his strange behavior in the hallway earlier that afternoon.

His colleagues all believed he was under too much psychological pressure and needed something to occupy himself.

After sitting down, Yu Dazhang stared at the files on his desk for a while.

He estimated there were sixty to seventy files; some contained only a single sheet tucked inside a folder.

He couldn’t examine them one by one—he needed to sort them first.

Deciding on a plan, he arranged them chronologically.

The 2009 files went on the bottom, stacked upward in order.

Why not spread them out?

Because there wasn’t enough space.

Yu Dazhang’s desk could barely accommodate ten files laid flat.

He couldn’t just take over everyone else’s desks.

During this process, Yu Dazhang noticed that the 2009 cases were the fewest, and the number increased each year.

Last year, there were seventeen cases; by the end of July this year, there were already nineteen.

This doesn’t include the one Yu Dazhang had just handled.

The number of cases increased year by year.

If the hospital truly had problems, the most likely reason for this trend was…

They were growing bolder!

Why?

Two possibilities:

1. Their actions had never been discovered.

Because everything went too smoothly, they grew increasingly bold.

This is habitual thinking, also known as cognitive bias.

Based on past experience, they believed it would always go smoothly—no one would ever uncover their crimes. 2. They felt invincible.

Only when you have backing do you become fearless and reckless.

It’s impossible for a private tertiary hospital to have no connections.

No amount of money alone could build a private hospital of that scale.

Since the frequency of cases increased over time, he’d start with the most recent ones.

Yu Dazhang steadied his emotions, then pulled out the documents from the top folder.

After quickly flipping through them, he picked up his pen and took notes.

June 28, 2014: hospital reported abandonment of a five-year-old boy in the pediatrics ward.

Move to the next file.

June 7, 2014: hospital reported abandonment of a seven-year-old girl in the pediatrics ward.

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Just last month, two children were abandoned… Yu Dazhang sensed something was wrong.

He was already growing concerned for these abandoned children.

The frequency was too high, and all cases involved pediatrics—anyone with eyes could see something was off, let alone a detective like Yu Dazhang.

Keep flipping.

May 9, 2014: hospital reported…

Another abandonment case.

When he picked up the fourth file, his hands were trembling slightly.

Someone might wonder why there weren’t other types of cases.

For example, medical disputes.

Because Yu Dazhang had only been given criminal case files.

The vast majority of medical disputes are classified as civil matters, not criminal cases.

To put it plainly, even if there was a fight inside the hospital, unless it caused injuries above minor, it wasn’t considered a criminal case.

Then what was it?

A public order offense.

Local police officers could handle it.

Records of those cases wouldn’t be accessible in the criminal investigation unit—they were kept and managed by the police station.

To be blunt, if it wasn’t a criminal case, it didn’t belong on Yu Dazhang’s desk.

Yu Dazhang opened the fourth file and flipped through it again.

Good—this time it wasn’t an abandonment case.

But the content inside surprised him even more.

April 26, 2014: patient’s family reported suspicion that a deceased child’s body had been tampered with.

Were the organs removed?

Yu Dazhang immediately thought of this.

Limbs and facial features couldn’t be missing—that would be too obvious.

If tampering had occurred, it must have been internal.

No.

If the child’s organs were missing, this would be a grave crime—the hospital would have been destroyed long ago.

There wouldn’t have been any later abandonment cases.

Without doubt, this case was clearly a criminal matter.

Suspected unnatural death caused by human intervention—definitely a criminal case.

He continued reading, and next came the investigators’ report.

The family noticed abnormalities shortly after the child’s death and immediately called the police.

After the officers arrived, they conducted a superficial examination of the child’s body.

No knife wounds or other obvious fatal external injuries were found.

Ultimately, under the family’s insistence, the body was sent to the Forensic Identification Center for autopsy.

The results showed all organs were present and intact, and the retinas were undamaged.

Since no evidence was found, the case was dropped, and the child’s remains were cremated.

The officers handling the case believed the family, overcome by grief, had mistakenly thought someone had tampered with the child.

In the end, Yu Dazhang was left bewildered.

Even if it was a misjudgment caused by grief, they still needed to explain why they felt the child was abnormal.

What was the reason?

A crucial link was missing!

It’s like a woman reporting: “I feel someone sexually harassed me.”

Feeling something isn’t enough—you must describe the specific actions.

Did he brush against you? Rub against you? Grab your hand?

You have to give a reason.

(End of Chapter)