There are still three and a half hours to go, and before it gets dark, we have to investigate where Dr. Fang went before he disappeared! ”

Chen Ge had a resolute attitude, he was with Lao Wu, and he didn't know that he thought he was a policeman, and Lao Wu was just a driver.

"Do you have to investigate before it gets dark? Do you have anything else to do at night? Lao Wu asked puzzled while driving.

"It's not safe at night in this city."

"Xinhai is the most secure city in central and southern China, and some business districts here are basically open for 20 hours, known as the city that never sleeps." Lao Wu held the steering wheel: "You young people should know more about these things than me." ”

Chen Ge smiled and didn't explain.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at Xinhai No. 2 Hospital.

There are a total of 11 tertiary hospitals in Xinhai, among which Dr. Fang's second hospital is ranked very high and is located in the most prosperous area of Xinhai.

"Hello, I'd like to inquire about someone." Chen Ge and Lao Wu, who was wearing a police uniform, asked the front desk of the hospital, and the nurse on duty didn't want to deal with Chen Ge, but after seeing the uniform on Lao Wu's body, his attitude was much better.

Accompanied by the nurse on duty, Chen Ge came to the otolaryngology department, where a doctor was examining the patient's body.

"Doctor Fang hasn't come to work for many days, and I don't know the specific situation, but the doctor's surname is Zhao, and he is a colleague and friend of Dr. Fang, so he should know some information." After the nurse on duty finished speaking, she left, and Chen Ge and Lao Wu waited for Dr. Zhao to finish examining the patient before entering the house.

"Which of you is a patient?" Dr. Zhao is very busy, he has not been resting well recently, the dark circles under his eyes are very heavy, and he looks a little unenergetic.

"We're not here to see a doctor." Chen Ge pointed to Lao Wu beside him: "This is the front-line criminal police of the criminal investigation team of the Municipal Bureau. ”

He didn't say his identity, nor did he say that Lao Wu was a policeman from the Hanjiang City Branch, and the whole sentence was all true, but it made people feel as if they were all members of the Xinhai Criminal Investigation Team.

"Detective?" Dr. Zhao realized the seriousness of the matter: "Are you here because of Dr. Fang?" ”

"Looks like you do know something." Chen Ge sat on the chair, and the real policeman Lao Wu stood guard at the door.

"The specific situation has been told to the people at the police station yesterday, I didn't expect your criminal police to come over today, is it true that Dr. Fang has really ......" Dr. Zhao didn't say anything further, but the meaning he wanted to express was clear to several people present.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't, just tell me what you know." Chen Ge picked up the pen and paper on the table and prepared to record, he gave people a very professional feeling.

"In recent weeks, Dr. Fang has been in poor condition, there has been a problem with the operation, and there are more patients complaining about him, which was almost impossible before, and Lao Fang is the best otolaryngology head and neck doctor in our country."

"Is Dr. Fang's mental trance related to his family?"

"I also met Lao Fang's family yesterday, his wife and daughter are normal, and they are very worried about him, by the way!" Dr. Zhao seemed to suddenly remember something: "I heard Lao Fang's wife say that Lao Fang often talks to himself alone, saying that they are coming, they are happy, and they have come. ”

"They're coming? Someone is spying on Dr. Fang? Lao Wu closed the door of the department and walked over, he didn't expect to follow Chen Ge to Xinhai to encounter such a strange case.

"In the days before his disappearance, the old party often stayed up all night, hiding in the window with a knife, and from time to time he would look out of the window, as if there was someone standing downstairs in their house. His wife and daughter were scared and occasionally looked out the window, but there was no one outside. Doctor Zhao sighed: "Lao Fang's wife was going to hire a psychiatrist for him, but before the doctor could get it, Lao Fang had already disappeared." ”

"Neither Dr. Fang's wife nor daughter saw anyone outside the window, right?" Chen Ge wanted to be sure.

"Lao Fang's wife didn't see anything, but his youngest daughter told the police station yesterday that there was a woman hiding in her house who was laughing all the time."

"The woman who laughs all the time?" Chen Ge's eyes narrowed, and two words appeared in his heart - don't smile.

"The people from the police station went to Lao Fang's house and did not find the woman, they thought that Lao Fang's daughter was too stressed and hallucinated."

"Hallucinations are also related to certain memories, and they should think about it again." Chen Ge didn't comment on the police station's approach, he wanted to find Doctor Fang as soon as possible: "Doctor Zhao, do you know who the last person to see Doctor Fang was?" ”

"For the time being, it should be me." Dr. Zhao looked haggard: "Lao Fang took half a month's leave, but he suddenly came to work before he finished his leave a few days ago. I saw that he was in good condition, and thought that he had recovered, so I didn't think much about it, and made an appointment with him to get off work and have a few drinks. ”

"Dr. Fang disappeared in the hospital?"

"For the time being, after work, Lao Fang didn't go back, locked himself in the house, I didn't know what he was doing, and when I came to work the next day, I received the news that Lao Fang was missing." Dr. Zhao regretted a little: "If only I could pay more attention that day." ”

"You don't have to blame yourself, it's none of your business." Chen Ge frowned and pondered, he thought back to the scene when he first called Doctor Fang.

Dr. Fang also mentioned that he was being watched by Buxiao, and he also said that before the hospital warehouse was rectified, he found a letter in the old warehouse, and after opening it, it was written that he should go to an abandoned hospital in the middle of the night, and if he didn't go, something very bad would happen (see chapter 1007 for details).

"Doctor Zhao, some time ago, did the warehouse of your hospital be rectified once? Did Dr. Fang enter the old warehouse at that time? ”

"How do you know?" Dr. Zhao was very surprised, but in his opinion, the rectification of the warehouse and the disappearance of Dr. Fang were completely different things, and they could not be connected at all.

"You carefully recall, did Doctor Fang's abnormality start when he entered the old warehouse." Chen Ge put down the pen in his hand and stuffed the note that had recorded certain notes into his pocket.

"Like...... That's true. Dr. Zhao's expression was even more surprised, and the feeling that Chen Ge brought him was completely different from the feeling that the police at the police station asked yesterday: "In the end, it is a criminal investigation, it is amazing." ”

"If it's convenient, can you take us to the old storehouse now?"

"Yes, it's going to be abandoned over there anyway." Dr. Zhao has a strong relationship with Dr. Fang, and he is more than willing to help.

After saying hello to another doctor, Dr. Zhao walked out of the hospital with Chen Ge and Lao Wu.

"The old storeroom is not in the hospital?" Chen Ge was a little puzzled.

"A few years ago, our hospital moved, and the old warehouse is still in its original place, and it seems that there are only one or two independent departments left there."

Twenty minutes later, the three of them arrived at the original site of the hospital, and after getting the key from the management office, they entered the old warehouse.

The place had just been cleaned and tidyed, the rows of shelves were empty, and there was barely anything to be seen in the storeroom.

"At that time, when the warehouse was being renovated, which area was Dr. Fang responsible for?"

"It seems to be the innermost ones." Dr. Zhao took out the key and opened the iron door leading to the depths of the warehouse: "Because of the aging circuit, there is no light inside, the light is very dim, and the nurses who are traveling with me dare not go in. ”

"These warehouses are separated by iron doors, who designed them in the first place?"

"I don't know."

The three of them entered the storeroom and found things that didn't look like they would be used in a hospital at all, such as a worn-out white wedding dress, a pair of dusty shoes, and so on.

In the dimly lit room, the old shoes alone felt particularly frightening.

"I don't know how these things appeared in the warehouse, the first uncle who guarded the warehouse has been dead for a long time, this place is locked all the year round, if it weren't for the new director to rectify the warehouse, I'm afraid no one knows that there are so many shoes in the hospital warehouse." Dr. Zhao was holding a flashlight and a key, and he was also a little frightened.

"There are all kinds of shoes and they come in different sizes, so could it be that some caregiver likes to collect the shoes of the dead? He stole all the shoes of the sick and died, and hoarded them in the innermost part of the storeroom? Chen Ge said to himself, he didn't pay attention to Lao Wu and Dr. Zhao's increasingly bad faces.

"Your idea, to put it mildly, is a bit perverted." Dr. Zhao pointed to the shelves around him: "So many shoes on the shelves are all worn by dead people?" I found that your way of thinking about criminal investigation is different from ordinary people. ”

Lao Wu touched his nose beside him, he originally wanted to speak, but after hearing Dr. Zhao's words, he suddenly didn't know how to speak.

Chen Ge, who was walking in the front, didn't reply, he suddenly stopped after passing through the two rows of shelves: "The shoes on the shelves in the front rows are neatly arranged, why did only the shoes on this row of shelves fall down?" Someone has fallen down here! ”

His pupils narrowed, and Chen Ge compared the position where the shoes fell, probably simulating the situation at that time.

"There was a guy about my height who saw something at this point under my feet, and he was so frightened that his body hit the shelves, and his shoes spread out in both directions." Chen Ge has a very keen insight, and he deduces a lot of things just by relying on the scattered position of his shoes: "What scared the victim should have suddenly appeared from behind him, and in the process of turning around, his body lost his balance and hit the shelf. ”

Chen Ge locked in a direction and walked there, his pupils scanning the shelves on both sides, and soon he made a discovery.

"What is this?"

There was a small paper ball hidden in an inconspicuous position at the bottom of the shelf, and Chen Ge unfolded it, with only one line on it - don't go into the last warehouse!

"Doctor Zhao, can you see that this is Dr. Fang's handwriting?" Chen Ge handed the note to Dr. Zhao, who shook his head after reading it.

"It's not Dr. Fang's words, but it appeared in the place where Dr. Fang had an accident, which means that someone kindly reminded Dr. Fang before he came in, but unfortunately he didn't care." Chen Ge took back the note, this was a very important clue, and he wanted to keep it for himself: "Doctor Zhao, can you still remember the person who entered the warehouse with Doctor Fang that day?" ”

"Yes."

"Is there any one of them who has the same handwriting as the words on the slip of paper?"

"It doesn't seem to be, the doctor's handwriting is relatively sloppy, and I'm used to making bills." Dr. Zhao confirmed it repeatedly, and finally said that the note was not written by Dr. Fang's companions.

"Isn't it from the hospital?" Chen Ge's brows furrowed, and after a while, he suddenly asked, "If you want to enter the warehouse, you must first get the key from the management office, could this note be given to Doctor Fang by someone in the management office?" ”

No more clues were found in the old warehouse, so Chen Ge hurriedly ran back to the management office with the note.

After comparing the handwriting, Chen Ge found that the words on the note were very similar to the words of a warehouse manager, whose surname was eat, which was a rare surname.

"Excuse me, is the eater there?" Chen Ge put away the note, looked at the photos of the staff on the wall, and asked loudly.

"Brother Ren took a leave of absence a few days ago, do you have something to do with him?" The people in the management office also thought that Chen Ge and Lao Wu belonged to the Xinhai Criminal Investigation Team, so they had a very good attitude.

Hearing that Shiren hadn't come to work for several days, Chen Ge immediately had a bad premonition in his heart: "Can you tell me where Shiren lives?" We wanted to go over and ask him some questions in person. ”

The people in the management office hesitated for a while, and then told Chen Ge the address of the apartment rented by Yuren.

"Brother Ren has a relatively withdrawn personality and basically doesn't talk to strangers, so you should be prepared to eat closed-door soup." The man in the management office also smiled wryly when he mentioned eating Ren.

"Does he have any strange habits? Or have you done something weird? ”

"There's nothing strange about it...... By the way, Brother Ren obviously lives alone, he doesn't have any family, but occasionally he will talk to himself, chanting some particularly terrifying words, such as eating hands, eating eyes, eating nose, etc. The people in the management office were uncomfortable just mentioning the words: "Once I asked him why he kept saying these things, and he told me that the horrible words were all the names of his family. ”

"He's weird enough, too." Chen Ge still didn't say half a sentence, he felt that there might be some connection between the family surnamed Eat and Buxiao.

After getting useful clues, Chen Ge asked Dr. Zhao to go back first, and he and Lao Wu came to the apartment building rented by Shiren.

They knocked on the door for a long time but no one opened it, and finally the landlord ran out and told them that they hadn't been back for several days.

The landlord also revealed a very important piece of information to Chen Ge, when Yuren left the apartment building for the last time, he carried a large bag containing water and various food, as if he had anticipated the danger and wanted to take refuge somewhere.

"If my speculation is not wrong, Yuren wrote a note to Dr. Fang, wanting to save Dr. Fang, but it didn't work, he was afraid of being retaliated against, so he fled overnight."

In Chen Ge's opinion, although this eater has a strange name, he should be a good person in general.

"If you want to find Dr. Fang, you still have to start by eating kernels."