Chapter 105: All the Organs Are Here, Not One Missing

After giving the hospital's name to the female officer, Yu Dazhang stood quietly by the archives room door and waited.

Li Jun's earlier words had reminded him.

Go look for cases that had already happened.

Find every one related to that hospital, then locate the connecting points among them.

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

Even withdrawn cases would have related documentation.

Withdrawal meant no guilty verdict had been handed down, so there would be no criminal record.

But the original records of such cases would be kept, mainly for internal reference and statistics.

For Yu Dazhang at this moment, this material was extremely important.

Over the next hour, he watched as the female officer piled documents one after another onto the counter by the archives room door.

"All right, I've found them all."

The female officer clapped her hands, a faint sheen of sweat on her forehead, the hair at her temples sticking to her cheeks from the perspiration.

"This many?" Yu Dazhang looked at the towering stack of documents, his heart a little unsteady.

If he had to read all of them, would three days be enough?

"You did say it was a top-tier hospital." The female officer shot him a look:

"That hospital started operating in '09. I've pulled every related record from the past five years for you."

This girl really takes her work seriously… Yu Dazhang figured it was worth building good relations among comrades.

"Help me fill out the requisition form. I'll be right back."

Before the female officer could agree, Yu Dazhang had already vanished.

When he returned, he set two bottles of drinks on the counter.

"Sorry for the trouble." Yu Dazhang said as he signed the requisition form:

"I'll return them as soon as I can."

He had originally wanted to buy milk tea, but there was no milk tea shop nearby, so he could only go to the supermarket and buy two bottles of drinks.

The gift is small but the sentiment is real; as long as the meaning gets across, that's enough.

The female officer didn't react much to the drinks, but her actions said everything.

"Let me help you carry them up."

"No need, you go on with your work." Yu Dazhang gave a bear hug, scooping a stack of documents into his arms, then turned and left.

Back at the detachment, he set the documents on his own desk, drawing curious glances from the colleagues around him.

"Dazhang, you're taking the graduate entrance exam?" one colleague quipped.

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

"Just looking at old case files, learning a bit."

He's actually pretty modest… everyone around was amused by him.

A guy who's cracked one big case after another, and now he's going back to read old cases.

Don't tell us your case-solving skills all came from learning off other people's files.

Seeing Yu Dazhang's serious expression, everyone figured they shouldn't say more and just assumed he was bored and killing time.

Added to his odd behavior in the hallway that afternoon.

His detachment colleagues all figured he was under too much psychological pressure and wanted something to do.

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

At a glance there were sixty or seventy, some of them only a single page, tucked into file folders.

He couldn't go through them one by one; he had to sort them first.

Once he'd made up his mind, he began arranging them in chronological order.

The '09 ones went on the bottom, then stacked up in order.

Why not spread them out?

Because there wasn't that much space.

Yu Dazhang's desk could lay flat at most about ten documents.

He couldn't exactly take over other people's desks too.

During the process, Yu Dazhang noticed the '09 cases were the fewest, then increasing year by year.

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

And that didn't include the one Yu Dazhang had just finished handling.

The cases were increasing year by year.

Assuming that hospital really had a problem, the most likely reason for this result was…

They were getting bolder!

Why would that be?

Two possibilities:

One, what they were doing had never been discovered.

Precisely because things had gone so smoothly, they grew bolder and bolder.

This is habitual thinking, also called a mental set.

Based on past experience, they assumed things would keep going smoothly and no one would uncover their crimes. Two, they had something to rely on, so they felt no fear.

Only with something to lean on would one be fearless and utterly unrestrained.

To say a private top-tier hospital had no backing—that would be impossible.

Money alone cannot build a private hospital of such a large scale.

Since the frequency of cases increases as time goes on, let's start with the most recent ones.

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

After flipping through them quickly, he picked up a pen and recorded notes in his notebook.

June 28, 2014: The hospital reported a case; a five-year-old boy was abandoned in the pediatric ward.

Moving on to the next file.

June 7, 2014: The hospital reported a case; a seven-year-old girl was abandoned in the pediatric ward.

Please... collect... 6... 9... Book...!

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

He had already begun to worry about these abandoned children.

The frequency was too high, and all involved the pediatric ward; any clear-eyed person would see the problem, let alone a criminal police officer like Yu Dazhang.

Continuing to flip through.

May 9, 2014: The hospital reported a case...

Another abandonment case.

When he picked up the fourth file, Yu Dazhang's hands even trembled a bit.

Surely someone will be curious: why are there no other cases?

For instance, medical disputes.

Because Yu Dazhang was transferred only criminal cases.

The vast majority of medical disputes are classified as civil disputes and do not fall within the scope of criminal cases.

To put it this way: even if a fight breaks out in the hospital, as long as it does not cause injuries above the level of minor injury, it is not counted as a criminal case.

Then what is it?

It's a public security case, that's all.

The local police station officers can handle it.

Records of such cases cannot be found in the criminal investigation team either; they belong to the police station for storage and management.

To say something a bit arrogant: anything that is not a criminal case cannot get onto Yu Dazhang's desk.

Yu Dazhang opened the fourth file and began flipping through it again.

Fortunately, this time it was finally not an abandonment case.

But the content above made him feel even more surprised.

April 26, 2014: The patient's family reported a case, suspecting that someone had tampered with the child who was already dead.

Were the organs removed?

This thought immediately popped into Yu Dazhang's mind.

The limbs and facial features could not be missing; that would be too obvious.

If tampering had occurred, it must have been inside the body.

No.

If it were discovered that the child's organs were missing, this would be a vicious case, and the hospital would have been ruined long ago.

Nor would there have been the subsequent abandonment cases.

Without a doubt, the nature of this case was definitely a criminal case.

Suspected unnatural death caused by human intervention; a solid criminal case.

Continuing to read further, next came the investigation report by the criminal investigation personnel.

The family discovered the anomaly shortly after the child's death and immediately made a police report.

After the officers arrived, they conducted a surface examination of the child's body.

No knife wounds or similar injuries were found, nor any other obvious fatal external trauma.

Finally, under the insistence of the family, the body was sent to the Forensic Identification Center for autopsy.

The result: the child's organs were all there, not a single one missing, and the retinas were intact.

Because no evidence was found, this case was simply dropped, and the child's remains were cremated.

The officer handling this case believed the family, overwhelmed by grief, had mistakenly thought someone had tampered with the child.

Reading to the end, Yu Dazhang felt a bit dazed.

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

Where is the reason?

A link is missing!

It's like a woman reporting a case and saying: I feel someone was harassing me.

Just feeling it isn't enough; you must state the other party's specific actions.

Did he press against you, or rub against you, or pull your hand?

You must give a reason, after all.

(End of this chapter)