[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi":3,"chapter-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-106":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 2014: I Am the King of Criminal Investigation",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315962,4529,"Chapter 106: A Man Vanishes?","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-106",106,"\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang reread the case file from the beginning, still feeling something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a sense of disarray, something deeply awkward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up his pen, recorded the case in his notebook, and drew a small triangle beside it as a marker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without realizing it, he had reviewed every hospital-related case from the past two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost all were reported by the hospital itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the earlier case filed by the patient’s family, there were two others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one, the child’s parents hadn’t abandoned him—they’d gone to raise money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their phone had been shut off for unpaid bills; when they returned, they found their child dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The parents suspected the hospital was responsible, so they called the police.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After investigation, no concrete evidence proved hospital liability; the case was withdrawn after mutual negotiation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third case filed by the patient’s family struck Yu Dazhang as the strangest—even unbelievable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The family claimed the child vanished during resuscitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yu Dazhang first read it, he thought he’d misread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after finishing did he understand what had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child’s mother, overwhelmed with worry, slipped into the resuscitation room behind a nurse during a brief opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to her, the bed in the resuscitation room was empty—no sign of the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doctors and nurses were all present, yet the child was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could examine further, the nurse shoved her out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the resuscitation room door was locked from inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fearing for the child’s life, she immediately called the police.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Police arrived on scene and immediately demanded a search of the resuscitation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, they found the child lying on the bed, receiving treatment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, the mother insisted she hadn’t been mistaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Police thoroughly inspected the resuscitation room again and found no other exits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the room had no windows—this was to maintain a sterile, stable environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since no evidence was found, the case was eventually closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the officer handling this case was highly responsible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He specifically noted at the end of the file: the child recovered and was discharged twenty days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This showed the officer, even after closing the case, still monitored the child’s subsequent condition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the full sequence of events, Yu Dazhang suddenly felt like he’d watched a sci-fi movie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the mother hadn’t been mistaken, where had the child gone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man vanishes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suppose the medical staff secretly pushed the child out of the resuscitation room while the family wasn’t looking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, once discovered, how did they get the child back in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mother had seen the child vanish; even if pushed out, she would have blocked the resuscitation room door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way to re-enter from the entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resuscitation room was a sealed space, and police had already checked—it had no other exits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the mother simply have been mistaken?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, how to explain it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang also noticed another detail: that hospital’s pediatrics had its own dedicated resuscitation room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He marked these two cases with special symbols.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to continue reading, he suddenly felt ravenous. Yu Dazhang looked up—his branch office was empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Off duty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He checked his phone’s time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already past eight p.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without realizing it, he’d spent over four hours reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Yu Dazhang had been constantly visiting hospitals lately, he rarely ate at home at night, so Li Xuehe no longer asked him when mealtime came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Criminal investigation work was like this—day and night, no routine at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He organized the case files and placed them in the branch’s archive cabinet, stretched, then called Qu Tuotuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as it connected, he got straight to the point:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll buy you dinner.” “It’s already this late, and you’re only thinking to ask me to eat?” Qu Tuotuo’s tone was irritated:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I already ate.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know you don’t eat late snacks… Yu Dazhang said with feigned disappointment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then there’s nothing I can do—don’t complain later that I never invited you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yu Dazhang!” Qu Tuotuo shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you doing this on purpose?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was right—he was doing it on purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not calling at midnight already counted as having a conscience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d finally figured it out: dating the opposite sex required tactics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At any moment, they might throw a tantrum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So you had to sprinkle in small tricks now and then to prevent them from lashing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back home, Yu Dazhang reheated the dishes his mother had already prepared, then ate while enduring Li Xuehe’s nagging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please... collect... 6...9...books...!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xuehe now wished her son would transfer to another department—even a patrol officer at a police station would do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, she didn’t want Yu Dazhang to remain a criminal investigator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, it was dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, his schedule was irregular.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her son had already vanished once, and now he was this fat—she couldn’t bear to endure losing him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mom, my job’s actually quiet now. Today I just lost track of time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang knew his mother worried, so he explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, I’ve been officially confirmed in my position—the bureau leadership values me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Li Xuehe reluctantly eased her mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I think you’ve lost weight lately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have I?” Yu Dazhang patted his belly—it felt unchanged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How would you know?” Li Xuehe pointed to a scale in the corner of the living room:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Step on it and see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang was genuinely curious whether he’d lost weight; the doctor had said his weight would gradually return to normal after the hospital visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped onto the scale and looked down at the digital display…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>143.5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the scale showed kilograms, Yu Dazhang mentally converted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He really had lost weight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amazing doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He truly felt the miracle—he hadn’t dieted deliberately, yet his weight had dropped without effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it had dropped this much—must be at least twenty jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably his appetite couldn’t sustain his 300-plus jin frame; after his endocrine disorder healed, his body began self-regulating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, Yu Dazhang didn’t want to lose weight too fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his past life, he’d watched many weight-loss videos on short-form platforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One side effect of rapid weight loss he couldn’t accept was loose skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In severe cases, it looked like rags hanging off the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though at 1.8 meters tall he wouldn’t look that bad, he still preferred natural weight loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, he returned to his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Dazhang lay on the bed and let his mind go blank for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four hours of reading over thirty case files, all while analyzing them, had overloaded his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t want to go bald before he was thirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After resting over ten minutes, he felt significantly more relaxed, his mind clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat up, pulled out his small notebook from his bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the rows of case entries, he gently traced them with his finger, finally stopping at a triangular marker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All organs were intact, no external injuries—how did you know the child had been tampered with?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He murmured to himself, preparing for tomorrow’s investigation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll start with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1170,"2026-06-20T14:22:46.062Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","234f505ba00190d31d9d026c2886b08b5517ee57ffddd129cf1ff9521cfe8095","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-107","reborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-chapter-105",763,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-2014-i-am-the-king-of-criminal-investi-cover.jpg"]