《System Only Gives Me Useless Gifts》75 - Club
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The ticket number lit up on the wall and the nurse repeated the number. Rouxi dragged Li Yun into the exam room where the nurse took a quick physical and a blood sample. After thirty minutes, they went into an office to greet a specialist. Doctor Ming examined Li Yun while asking some standard questions.
"Have we met?" Doctor Ming asked.
"I don't think so," Li Yun lied. He saw the cardiologist last week after a man named Piwei was stabbed last week.
Doctor Ming scratched his head, but he couldn't place why the patient in front of him looked familiar. "Everything looks fine so far, what were you doing when you collapsed?"
"Ah, well, my girlfriend and I like to seek a bit of thrill, so we went to a haunted house," Li Yun replied. "I got scare s***** and that's how it is."
Rouxi rolled her eyes and almost looked embarrassed to be in the same room as him.
"Ah, I see," Dr. Ming chuckled off the awkward atmosphere. "The heart can't handle a lot of thrill. You're still young, so it's understandable. Well, you should be fine. Come back to the hospital if you have any problems."
The consultation took less than ten minutes. Rouxi was unsatisfied with the exam, but Li Yun pulled her out of the office.
"I can't believe you told him that, I thought you would be less shameless," Rouxi said as they walked around the hospital.
"It's the truth, I don't lie to doctors," Li Yun cheekily said.
"Really?" Rouxi held onto his hand with hers and felt the warmth. It wasn't shaking like before and the sound of his pulse was calm. She smiled and rested her head on his arm. "It's good that you're fine."
He squeezed her hand to reassure her, and they walked a little further toward the lobby area.
"Do you know why Ju De is here?" she asked.
"He's helping me look for someone," Li Yun knew she went to the same university as Ju De, but he wondered if she knew him through Xuxu. "Did you meet Ju De at the same party you met Xuxu?"
"No, I met Xuxu when she visited Imperial City. Is he looking for another killer?"
"You know the property on Caoben street?"
"Ah, the doctor involved in the illegal organ harvesting? So the person works in this hospital?" Rouxi looked around. "There are a lot of doctors here, no wonder the police couldn't find anything."
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"I'm not sure, but this is the closest hospital in the area. It's going to be tough to profile a doctor who's just doing this for money," said Li Yun. Anyone could kill for money. The person didn't have to be a lunatic or a psychopath to kill for money, just desperate.
"But if it's someone normal, they would at least feel a sense of guilt," said Rouxi. "Someone who looks sickly, or someone who will overcompensate?"
"Or it could be the type that justified what they did, and lives normally." Li Yun thought those were the worst type of people.
"Okay, I'll help Ju De with the search."
"Rouxi, I am not asking you to help, and you're still a student, focus on that. Xuxu is already complaining about Ju De skipping class."
"Don't worry."
Li Yun sighed and let her be. If Rouxi helped Ju De with the organ harvesting case, he could focus on finding out what had happened in the haunted house. He messaged Bu Tao to send him information.
BuTao: Why are you looking into cold cases?
LiYun: Just curious, I was checking out a property and saw something that might be useful.
BuTao: it's a case from eight years ago, so I don't know much about it either.
LiYun: Can you find any connection between Mr. Jia Gutao and a man named Yudan?
BuTao: okay, I'll take a look.
****
"Is Song Meilin with Ju De?" Li Chang commented in the university's dining hall.
Wu Ling, An Zhang Mi and Zhu Ah Nin all looked over at the other corner of the room. They saw Rouxi and Ju De sitting together by the corner table. It was an unusual pairing.
Outside of Ju De usual group of friends, he didn't communicate with anyone else. Ju De would only sit with Ersan, but that was because they knew each other from high school. If Ju De hadn't met Ersan through Li Yun, they might be considered friends. However, Ersan rarely ate in the cafeteria. As an architecture student, he had no social life once class started. He was either sleeping or in the studio working on a project. So Ju De ended up sitting by himself and emitted a loner aura that made everyone avoid his table.
As for Rouxi, she sat at different tables depending on her mood. She knew a lot of people, but she wasn't particularly close to anyone. Even though she spent time with Wu Ling during the weekends, they don't usually sit together during lunch.
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Wu Ling looked at Zhu Ah Nin curiously. "Does Ju De know Meilin?" She knew Ju De and Zhu Ah Nin had been dating for three years, but their relationship was rather unusual. They rarely talked about it even though they had been living together for over a year. "I didn't know Ju De can get along with anyone other than cousin Yun."
Zhu Ah Nin turned to the corner and saw Ju De sitting with Rouxi. She vaguely heard Xuxu helping underclassmen before and Rouxi was one of them. However, she didn't know they were close.
"They are working on a case," Zhu Ah Nin replied.
"What case?" Li Ching wondered.
"Random cold cases."
"Really!?" An Zhang Mi sounded excited. "Why are they working on cold cases?"
Zhu Ah Nin shrugged her shoulders, she wasn't sure either. She could read Ju De's lips, but Rouxi was facing the other way.
"Why don't we join their table?" Wu Ling asked. She could tell that Zhu Ah Nin also wanted to know.
In the meanwhile, Rouxi and Ju De were looking at the different photos of doctors scattered across the surface of the table.
"It's not the rheumatologist, he's not thorough and lacks any sort of methodological thinking," Ju De said as he threw the photo aside.
Rouxi looked at the twelve photographs still scattered on the table. "How did you get the photographs?"
"Someone hacked the hospital system and got the photos."
"Senior Fuzheng?" Rouxi knew they were all friends with Li Yun.
Ju De nodded and reorganized the photos. He didn't want to disclose too much information to her. It wasn't her reputation that worried him, but it was her ability to act normal. He did not know much about Xuxu's business dealings, but if his sister's business partner was Rouxi, then her identity wasn't simple. She had also fooled Li Yun before, so Ju De was cautious of her.
Rouxi heard two people near the table and glanced to see the girls heading their way. "Ah! Perfect timing you guys! We need more people for the Detective Club."
"Detective Club?" Zhu Ah Nin eyed Ju De carefully. "Why?"
"I was just passing by when I saw a bunch of pictures," Rouxi explained. "I asked him what he was doing, and he told me about the cold cases. I then thought it would be a brilliant idea to create a Detective Club."
"She basically invited herself," Ju De explained.
"Can we join the detective club!?" Zhang Mi enthusiastically asked.
After a quick introduction to everyone, they realized that Ju De was helping Li Yun as a consultant. Ju De was forced to explain the case. Wu Ling felt her head exploding. She wasn't used to solving cases and had no idea why she was pulled into the situation. Somehow, by the end of the week, they worked their way to narrowing the suspects to four people. Even Li Yun was impressed.
"Bufu narrowed down the doctors who had been in the area for ten years," Ju De explained. "We then found the four who were the most meticulous and had a cautious personality, and they are also skilled in surgery. It's likely they used organ harvesting as a way to get money and improve their skills."
"How did you manage to narrow it down to four so quickly?" asked Li Yun.
"My girlfriend, your girlfriend, your cousin, and their two other friends camped out at the hospital and chatted with everyone, with me pretending to be sick," Ju De said on the phone, sounding a bit annoyed.
"Why are you so annoyed?"
"I'm forced into this random detective club your girlfriend made up. I'm the only guy."
"Congratulations, you have a spring blossom harem."
"Spring blossoms my ass. They gossiped about the doctors and nurses like they know them personally."
A psychopath with five chatty university girls, it could be a show.
"Hey, you're not the only guy, you have two alumni sponsoring the club as well," said Li Yun.
"Are you seriously dating her just because she pulled a fast one over you?" asked Ju De.
"That's about it, does it even matter? We're just dating."
Ju De rolled his eyes, but then again, it was none of his business. After talking to Li Yun, Ju De shared the information with Bu Tao, who started a more thorough investigation. During the investigation, they found one doctor with unusual spending habits during the past ten years, a general surgeon named Doctor Tsang. Unfortunately, there wasn't any way to make a direct connection to the case. Being extra careful, there was no physical evidence to tie him with the case.
Li Yun had no choice but to visit Yide Hospital to investigate Doctor Tsang in person. He had seen him once before. After Piwai was stabbed, Doctor Tsang was the general surgeon who performed the operation.
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