Chapter 410 - Id Love To See It
Beauty and the Bodyguard
Lin Yi noticed that Mrs. Tang had put her stand out already on the food street, and decided to go over and greet her with a smile. âAunty, are you coming back to the business?â
âYi! Itâs been a while! Your uncle Tangâs alright now, so Iâm putting my stand out again!â Mrs. Tang was about to start a short chat with Lin Yi when she saw him take out the keys for his car. âYouâre going out?â
âIâm going to get Tang Yin and also see how Uncle Tangâs doing.â Lin Yi nodded.
âAlright, you go ahead then! Remember to drive safely!â Mrs. Tang was bursting with joy at that response- Lin Yi was going to see her daughter! Seeing him treat her daughter so well was the best feeling sheâd ever get. âRight, have you eaten yet?â
âNot yet, Iâll eat later.â Lin Yi said honestly.
âJust in time then, I have two skewers of barbequed chicken wings here, eat them first! Donât starve yourself.â Mrs. Tang quickly seasoned the chicken wings before handing it to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi didnât reject the courtesy. He took the sticks of chicken skewers with a smile, nodded at Mrs. Tang, and got in the carâ¦
Song Lingshan rushed to Songshanâs First Hospital after receiving a report from an subordinate.
This was the sixth time. The sixth!
Lingshan rubbed at her forehead, the pressure getting to her.
In less than one week thereâd been six cases of the homeless, beggars, and disabled losing a kidney and thrown near a hospital!
This wasnât just simple crime anymore- Lingshan conjectured that this was a criminal organization at work!
âWhatâs the situation?â Getting out of the car, Lingshan noticed her subordinate Liu Wangli standing at a corner and preparing the police crime scene tape.
âCaptain Song. The victimâs been sent to the emergency room, and Iâve sent men to investigate the crime scene. This isnât the initial crime scene; the victimâs just been dumped here after having his left kidney cut out. The crime probably started around four in the morning, and the victimâs been placed here at around eleven in the morning. Thereâd been too many cars entering the hospital, and we havenât found a witness yetâ¦â Wangli smiled bitterly as he reported what heâd found out through investigation, understanding how pressuring the stress was for Lingshan as well. It was the sixth case, and things were getting extremely serious. The upper-levels hadnât issued them a time limit yet, but it was coming sooner or later.
The victims may be the homeless, the beggars, and the disabled, but they were all equally important as the common man in Song Lingshanâs eyes. It didnât matter what their position on the social ladder was, Lingshan would strive to break the case and bring the mastermind to justice regardless.
Lingshan nodded her head weakly at Wangliâs report. âHowâs Liu Bojia?â
Liu Bojia was the victim of the psycho serial killer from before, the one whoâd almost gotten killed. Bojia never revealed anything to the police, but Lingshan never loosened her focus and investigation on him!
A long time later, Lingshan managed to locate a suspicious clue- around six in the afternoon, on the day Bojia had been attacked, a phone call got through to the police station via a public phone in Bojiaâs living area.
According to the officer whoâd received the phone call, the man who made the call sounded very frightened as he told him about a criminal kidney-selling organization, and that it was very likely that they were aware of his discovery. The man then requested protection from the policeâ¦
He wasnât being very clear with his information at the time, and refused to give his contact information when asked. With no options left, the officer asked for a police team to head to the public phoneâs number, but no one picked up anymore. Nothing was out of the ordinary when they arrived at that public phone, and that was the end of it.
The incident passed by without anyone paying much attention to it, but Lingshan now connected the clue to the current case after investigating the call records for that night!
A criminal organization of kidney-sellers⦠Were these six cases all linked with each other? Lingshan only felt that slightly even now that Bojia getting attacked was connected with the kidney cutting case.
âBojia hadnât woken up yet, and heâs living on the mechanical support for his breathing⦠The doctor said that heâd be done for instantly if that support ever got disconnectedâ¦â Wangli sighed and shook his head, a bitter smile on his face. He was telling Lingshan to give up on that lead.
Lingshan frowned, but there wasn't much she could do. She understood the type of situation Bojia was in, but still hoped for a miracle, even if that miracle only gave Bojia a momentâs consciousness to give the police intel to work with! That miracle never came.
Before his current situation, Bojia would always stay silent when asked questions, as if he were terrified of something. Whenever he got tired of the questioning, heâd tell Lingshan and her colleagues that his family was already dead, that he was having it as tough as it got, that he didnât want to die and that he wanted Lingshan to let him go.
Bojiaâs injuries hadnât recovered at the time, and he was still hospitalized- as a result, Lingshan didnât rush things. She thought that Bojia would calm down and fortify himself mentally after getting out of the hospital, that sheâd have a shot there in getting answers⦠when the unexpected happened.
A car horn sounded- it was Lin Yi, who wondered what the hell this Miss Song was doing, blocking the hospital entrance. Let him pass!
Every other car avoided the entrance when spotting Lingshan and Wangli in their police uniform, along with other police officers milling about. Theyâd all chosen the back door to gain entry into the hospital, but only Lin Yi was daring enough to honk at the police.
âWhatâre you honking at, canât you take the back door?â Lingshan frowned, quite frustrated- this honking was coming out of nowhere and interrupting her thought process! She was trying to solve a case here!
âYou think everybodyâs the same as you, entering the police team through the back door??â Lin Yi retorted, curling his lips.
(donât know if this works in english, but taking the backdoor is what Lin Yi says Lingshan did, using money and connections to get into the police force without getting in properly and honestly.)
She realized that it was Lin Yi honking at her- the words that followed made her face grow pale with anger. âWhat did you say?! Whoâre you calling a back-door walker!!â
âWe both know who.â Lin Yi said with a curl of his lips. âGet out of the way, I have something more important to do than talk to you!â
With that, Lin Yi stepped on the gas, intent on getting into the hospital.
âWait!â Lingshan stood in front of Lin Yiâs car all of a sudden, blocking him. The bigger the rush Lin Yi was in the more she wanted to obstruct him! âI have something to ask of you!â
â......â Lin Yi hit the brakes and stopped the car, speechless. âI say, you dumb woman, as bad as your case-solving rate is you shouldnât be thinking about suicide, right? Even if you wanted me to kill you with the car we should do it someplace isolated, right? What do you think youâre doing, doing this here in front of all your subordinates! I wonât be able to get away if I killed you!â
âYouâ¦â¦â Lingshan was furious at this point. She gritted her teeth and glared at Lin Yi. âCall me a dumb woman or back-door walker again, and Iâll give you hell!â
âYouâve been giving me hell since day one!â Lin Yi was amused. âSo thatâs you being kind, apparently? Show me what hell is like then, Iâd love to see it!â
Wangli cleared his throat- he couldnât watch this any longer. âCaptain Songâ¦â What was the captain thinking, bantering with Lin Yi in front of all her subordinates? What would they think of this behavior??