Chapter VII: Investigation
My question suddenly made He Ayi's forehead covered with sweat droplets, and he hesitated for a while, and suddenly remembered something:
"Well, wait a minute, I can show you the medical certificate from the hospital......"
He Ayi took out a medical record book from the drawer of the coffee table, and handed it to me with a sigh of relief.
On the cover of the medical record, it said "Aoyama Psychiatric Sanatorium", and I opened it and looked at the contents, and it didn't seem to be anything special.
"Well, Mr. Ji, can you show me the medical records?" Kirishima smoked road.
That's right, this person next to me is a psychologist, and he must be good at diagnosing and treating mental illness!
Hurriedly handed over the medical record book, Kirishima Xun looked at it for a while, and whispered: "This medical record book, there are a lot of problems......
"How?"
As I spoke, I glanced at He Ayi, and sure enough, I saw a trace of nervousness in his eyes that could not be concealed.
"Well, first of all, it's just a psychiatric sanatorium, and it doesn't seem to have the function of issuing a psychiatric diagnosis - generally speaking, this kind of psychiatric sanatorium is an affiliated or cooperative unit of a psychiatric hospital, and except for those nurses and managers who are really affiliated with the sanatorium, the attending doctors are all affiliated with the psychiatric hospital, and the doctor's duty is to regularly check the patient's recovery and determine whether he can be discharged......"
"In other words, the medical certificate issued by the nursing home is not actually authoritative and has no practical effect?"
"That's pretty much it. Also, Mr. Ji, look hereβ"
Kirishima pointed out a descriptive sentence that read: "The patient often has a trance, malaise, and hallucinations, and is preliminarily diagnosed with schizophrenia. γγ
Kirishima frowned, "This description is very unprofessional and ignores the facts. According to Mr. He's description just now, his wife was obviously in a trance during the day because she couldn't sleep well at night and had frequent nightmares, but even if she hallucinated because of this, she should have let the patient undergo hypnosis or take sleeping pills to have enough rest, and then observe the condition, how could it be characterized as schizophrenia all of a sudden? β
I snorted coldly and stared at He Ayi: "What else do you have to say?" β
"It's not...... I...... This ......" He Ayi's face was full of panic, sweating nonstop, and he couldn't even speak clearly.
At this time, the facts are basically clear: this He Ayi must have used some means to forcibly send his wife to a psychiatric sanatorium, as for the motive for the crime, let it be tried by someone from the police bureau.
I made a phone call to Cheng Cheng and told him that I had helped him solve a small case by the way, and asked him to send someone to arrest this He Ayi. On the basis of the information I have learned, I believe that the truth of the incident will soon be revealed.
Putting down the phone, I said to He Ayi: "He Ayi, you are suspected of using illegal means to restrict the freedom of your wife, Ms. Wang Huilun, and you have now been arrested in accordance with the law. You have the right to remain silent β if you don't, then everything you say can be used as evidence in court. You have the right to have a lawyer present at your trial β if you can't afford to pay for a lawyer, the court will provide you with a lawyer free of charge. Are you fully aware of your rights as described above? β
"W-What? Apprehend? β
He Ayi was already slumped on the sofa.
"Huh?"
Kirishima on the side was stunned when he heard this, and asked me in a low voice, "Mr. Ji, what you just said doesn't seem to be in accordance with the laws of your country, right?" β
I didn't change my face and replied in a low voice, "Well, that's what I learned from the police drama." β
"Oh." Kirishima nodded suddenly, "No wonder it sounds so familiar......
After a while, the nearest patrol police arrived at the scene, and in addition to formally arresting He Ayi and taking away the medical record book as evidence, I also handed over the rice cooker and two kitchen knives to the patrol police, and asked them to bring them to Section Chief Shen of the Forensic Science Department, asking her to test these things.
Although I judge that there is something else hidden in this case, we were indeed attacked by two kitchen knives just now, so I speculate that what Ms. Wang, who was imprisoned in the Castle Peak Mental Health Hospital, should not be a hallucination.
The Castle Peak Psychiatric Nursing Home is also located in the southern district, at the foot of Castle Peak on the outskirts of the southwestern city. After Kamiru Kirishima and I walked out of the Tungjing ElysΓ©e neighborhood where Ho Ai Yi lived, the next step was to meet the poor lady who had been framed by her husband.
I had already written down the signature of the attending doctor in the medical record book, and through Shen Tangzhi's relationship, I quickly contacted the other party by phone.
The doctor must have played a dishonorable role in this incident, and probably engaged in some kind of dirty deal with Ho Ah Yi, and after my hard and soft work, the psychiatrist's psychological defenses collapsed.
He told the truth: Ms. Wang apparently had only mild hysteria and the uncommon nightmare-induced mechanical phobia, a far cry from so-called schizophrenia.
I didn't refuse my request to visit Wang in person, but he said that it was impossible for me to ask for any useful information when I went to see her now, because in about ten minutes, the doctor injected her with a large amount of tranquilizers, and she is now in a semi-comatose state, which will last for at least 48 hours.
"Dr. Bao, I suggest you turn yourself in to the police department yourself β before the police come to your door and arrest you. I suspect they may already be on their way. β
Hanging up the phone, I said to Kirishima, "You don't have to go to a psychiatric sanatorium, let's go straight to the second printing house in Kita-ku." β
When we arrived, there was a large crowd of people at the entrance of the second printing house, and there was a commotion, as if a group of reporters had been driven out of the printing house by the workers.
Kirishima and I hurriedly got out of the car and rushed over, and as soon as we learned about the situation, we realized that after the police bureau conducted a scene investigation and sealed off the scene of the accident, this group of tabloid reporters actually slipped into the factory area over the wall, and after being discovered by the workers, the previous scene appeared.
After revealing his identity, a leader-like man commanding the workers reluctantly let us in.
However, the leader, surnamed Wang, stated to us that he was only a workshop director and did not have access to the site, but he could take us to the factory manager.
On the way, I found out that at some point, Kirishima put on a pair of sunglasses.
I asked her why, and she whispered: "The color of the worker's uniform ......"
The uniform of the employees of the Second Printing Factory is dark blue, and Kirishima Fumino happens to suffer from dark blue phobia, so it's no wonder that he has to wear sunglasses.
We met the manager of the second printing house, Hu Tianheng, in the office building of the factory.
Hu Tianheng has a very common image of a middle-aged man: a medium-sized chubby build, bald, beer belly, he wears a dark gray checked shirt, and speaks in a typical official tone.
Because of the deaths of two workers in the printing house, he is agonizing over how to save the printing house from the negative press, especially the tabloid reporters.
"Consultant Ji, is there anything else you police don't know? The scene was also inspected several times, but nothing was found......"
There was obvious resentment in Hu Tianheng's tone: "Now that our factory is being messed up by those annoying reporters, the workers can't carry out normal production and life at all, we have cooperated enough, but can the police help us get rid of those reporters first?" β
"Manager Hu, don't get excited, I fully understand your feelings." I said in a calm tone, "The key to all the problems is not those journalists, but the bizarre murder that happened in your factory." As long as the truth of the facts can be found out and announced by the police, the people will naturally lose their curiosity, and those tabloid reporters will be scattered. β
"Huh?"
Hearing me say this, Hu Tianheng's eyes lit up, but he quickly sighed again: "That's what I said......
I smiled: "In addition to being a special adviser to the Seongnam Police Bureau, I also have another identity, that is, a spirit detective. β
Hu Tianheng frowned, but seemed to think of something: "Spirit Detective? β
I deliberately lowered my voice, leaned closer to his ear and said, "If Manager Hu inquires a little, you can know that I have dealt with many similar bizarre incidents for the police, so now I am very likely to be the person who can best help your factory's predicament in Quanjinguan City." β
After my half-truths, the manager Hu was finally completely convinced by me, and he agreed to take us to see the printing press that caused the accident.
It was a huge prepress consolidator, with bare gears on an assembly line with conveyor belts, sharp blades and stamping plates, which seemed very dangerous.
Hu Tianheng said that this is a large-scale integrated printing processing machine, imported from Germany, and is also a high-precision equipment in China, it stands to reason that this machine is unlikely to have such a big accident, and the technicians in the factory also tested the machine for the first time, and did not find any fault at all, it must be that the two workers carried out some strange operations, which led to the murder.
This machine is divided into several parts, roughly composed of a series of machines such as a plate processor, dryer, mixer, gluing machine, paper cutter, etc., which are linked into a whole by conveyor tracks.
The two machines with very dangerous blades and stamping plates are the cutter and the stamping machine, which I focused on.
Among them, the stamping machine and the ground near it were covered with blood, and there were even fragments of corpses left on some mechanical components - it is said that one of the workers was swept into the stamping plate and pressed into a piece of meatloaf by the stamping machine on the spot.
The cutter with its terrifying sharp blades looked like it was fine, but the diminutive Kirishima smoked on the baffle under the cutter and found some blood remaining.
"How can there be blood down there?" Hu Tianheng was very surprised, "Normal people can't get in, it's impossible for this machine to be lifted, right?" That's nearly 3 tons! β
Mr. Hu, who could not speculate on what had happened, said he was in his office in front of the workshop β he stressed several times β that he was at least two or three hundred meters away from the scene of the accident.
He heard screams coming from the workshop, and by the time he hurried in, two workers had fallen to the ground and died.
I nodded, not dwelling on this further.
In view of what happened to me in the He family, and the strange dream I experienced myself, I am almost certain that there must have been some bizarre incident in this printing shopβthis was the cause of the deaths of the two workers, and as for the manager Hu in front of me, who was anxious to clear himself of responsibility, this incident should really have nothing to do with him.
"Is there anything else out of the ordinary? Especially when it comes to the two workers who had an accident. I prompted him.
"Uh...... Ah, I remember. Hu Tianheng clenched his fist and slapped his palm, "Before the accident, I did hear some rumors that some workers had frequent nightmares recently and had poor rest. That morning, when I was having breakfast in the cafeteria, I also met Huang Guoqing and Dou Jiaming, and they seemed to say that they had an identical strange dream last night, related to some mechanical monster - the two of them talked very energetically as if no one was around, and even I walked by and didn't say hello to me......"
Hu Tianheng firmly believes that the accident must have happened because of their fatigue from work.
"Consultant Ji, everyone will have nightmares when they can't sleep well - I have also had nightmares and even insomnia, but now that the social pressure is so great, everyone needs to work hard, even if I am tired, I will not be negligent to that extent because of this." He added with some ill-intentioned intentions.
Hu Tianheng's so-called "negligence" refers to the death of the first worker.
The printer, Dou Jiaming, was in charge of operating the processing machine, and he was caught in the machine when the accident occurred.
But it is difficult for him to explain the second death, when Huang Guoqing was working on the other side of the workshop, and when the processor failed, he was pouring glue into the glue container of the glue applicator more than 100 meters away.
Hu Tianheng reasoned that Huang Guoqing must have left his original place of work for some reason, and when the accident happened, he was probably chatting with Dou Jiaming β they may still be talking about the dream about machinery.
Then, too, he was injured by a terrible accident - he must have staggered away from the stampering machine, returned to the glue place with a fatal wound, and then collapsed to his death.
I didn't refute Hu Tianheng's reasoning at the first time, and from his skilful words, I believe that he also used the same rhetoric when facing the previous police.
What can support the possibility of Hu Tianheng's reasoning is that Dou Jiaming had been involved in the stamping machine at that time, and the tragic degree of the scene caused all the witnesses present to not notice that there was another victim who was staggering away from the scene and fell to die next to the gluing machine.
However, paradoxically, the direct cause of Huang Guoqing's death was that his throat was cut open, and the place where he died was bleeding all over the place, but the ground along the way from the plate processor to here was very clean, and there was no blood at all.
This alone makes Hu Tianheng's reasoning untenable.
What I'm thinking about is - this Hu Tianheng is obviously not a fool, so why did he come up with such a set of loopholes?
Is it simply to protect the factory's reputation?
It doesn't seem to be necessary, even if it turns out that Huang Guoqing died of murder, it will not be worse for the factory than the current result.
So, he must be hiding something, and he must have a stake in it.