After hearing Yue Xingwen’s words, the other students quickly started to use their brain to analyze—— The monsters that appeared in the night examination room were all ‘resentful ghosts’; They were produced by the dying patients in the cardiovascular ward during the day. These two examinations, during the day and night were linked together, so, who were the 20 people who died before they came to the cardiovascular ward?
Liu Xiaoxiao suddenly thought of a possibility. She looked up and asked, “Could it be that the students who were eliminated from the previous course also turned into resentful ghosts and appeared in the night examination room?”
Yue Xingwen pondered for a moment before he shook his head, “No. The elimination rate of the <Escape From the Laboratory> course was 30%, and the elimination rate of this <Cardiovascular Ward> course is certainly not low. If we put all the eliminated students in the night examination room, we’d be dealing with far more than 20 monsters, but hundreds of them.”
Looking at the scoreboard from Hua’an University before, there were so many students who were pulled into the library, not to mention that the library was pulling students from the universities all over the country. The students who entered this strange library were, at least, thousands of people. So, if the 20 resentful ghosts who appeared in the night examination room were the students who had been eliminated, the number would be completely wrong.
“That’s true!” Liu Xiaoxiao agreed. She frowned in thought for a moment and then said, “What if, someone out of the ten of us is eliminated? Will we turn into monsters at night?” This question sent a shiver down the students’ spine at the thought of being eliminated and then turning into skeleton monsters at night.
“It’s possible,” Yue Xingwen replied, “Assuming that one of us died in last night’s battle royale, there will be more monsters tonight. The student’s death itself will reduce our combat power, and it will create a vicious cycle as we will be dealing with more and more monsters in the future. It will make this course even harder to get through. In order to prevent this from happening, we still try to ensure that we all survive to the end.”
The kind of situation that Liu Xiaoxiao guessed was indeed possible. There would be more than 8 elite monsters tonight if they did not know how to cooperate with each other and more than 3 of them died in the battle on the first night, plus the 5 patients who died in the ward. It would be hard to survive for 5 days.
Therefore, it was crucial to get all examinees to join forces in the first place to pass this course.
It was conceivable that if there were no students with excellent leadership in other examination rooms, or some students who were too selfish and sacrificed other students in the battle royale, perhaps the entire examination room would be destroyed. Everyone could not help but be thankful that they matched with very good classmates in this examination room, especially Yue Xingwen, who was the first to offer cooperation and also calmly calculated the number of monsters.
Qin Lu put her globe in her hand away, looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Xingwen, who do you think the murderer is?” She decided to follow Yue Xingwen’s train of thought because she was not good at reasoning.
Yue Xingwen said, “The suspects we have locked so far include three doctors on duty and three patients. Since we had determined that the murderer had committed crimes for a long time, Dr. Sun was the first to be ruled out. He came to the cardiovascular ward for a rotation internship after graduating from grad school, and he had been in the ward for less than one month. He doesn’t meet the conditions for the crime.”
“Can the patient be ruled out?” Qin Lu wondered, “It will be inconvenient for the patients to commit a long-term crime right? Can a patient in the cardiovascular ward stay for several months?”
Then she looked at Liu Zhaoqing, who was studying medicine, and the latter replied, “In theory, patients in the cardiovascular ward won’t be hospitalized for too long, and those with surgical indications will be discharged after surgery after a few days of observations. Those who can’t have surgery will be discharged from the hospital after a week or two to recuperate, so it’s difficult to commit a long-term crime.”
However, Yue Xingwen did not think so, and said, “Do you remember the 80-year old grandfather who died last night?”
Zou Yuhang immediately raised his hand and answered, “I remember. He was from our ward, his condition had been very serious and it was said that he had been hospitalized for the 6th…” Speaking of this, Zou Yuhang suddenly reacted, “Hospitalized many times?!”
Yue Xingwen nodded his head, “That’s right. As senior brother Liu said, the patient won’t be hospitalized for a long time, but he can be hospitalized as many times as the 80-year-old grandfather. Therefore, we can’t hastily rule out the possibility of the patient to be a murderer. Although it is more convenient for doctors to commit long-term crimes, the reasoning can’t be limited to subjective thinking, but we also have to find substantial evidence.”
When they heard the keyword of ‘long-term crime’ just now, everyone subconsciously thought that the doctor was more likely to be the murderer, after all, the doctor had been staying in the ward for a long time, was it not very convenient for them to commit the crime?
However, Yue Xingwen’s words made everyone understand—— If a patient who knew a lot about heart disease was admitted to the cardiovascular ward many times, then this patient also had plenty of time to kill people for a long time!
In this way, the scope of suspects was indeed narrowed.
Among the three suspects, those who had only been hospitalized once or twice could be directly excluded, and the suspicion of the patients who had been hospitalized many times had soared.
Yue Xingwen said, “We have to hurry up the investigation tomorrow and try to pinpoint the murderer on the third day. First thing in the morning, determine whether there is a patient’s death in the ward adjacent to you after you get up, and we will meet in the usual place after the doctors check in to exchange clues.”
At this moment, a familiar mechanical voice sounded in their ears, “The night examination is over, 0 dead students, please return to your wards to get some rest and prepare for tomorrow’s exam.”
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The students said goodbye to each other.
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When he woke up at 7am the next morning, Yue Xingwen turned his head and asked, “Senior brother, did you hear anything last night?”
Liu Zhaoqing rubbed his sleeping eyes and said, “I fell asleep after returning to the ward.”
Yue Xingwen frowned slightly as he glanced at the clean hospital gown on his body and said, “All those blood stains splattered on my clothes during the fight last night are gone, so it can be interpreted that the night examination room is an interdimensional space where were were collectively pulled, and the data will be cleared after we came out. But why can’t I control my desire to sleep when I get back to the ward?”
Liu Zhaoqing also realized this, he sat up and looked at Yue Xingwen and said, “Is the library system forcing us to sleep?”
Yue Xingwen thought carefully and replied, “I don’t think sleeping pills can make us sleep regularly and get up at fixed points.”
Each time, they were asleep instantly after the night examination was completed and woke up the next morning at 7am, no sleeping pills could do this. Yue Xingwen looked up at the clock on the wall and said, “It should be the library that did it. The library didn’t want us to catch the murderer overnight.”
If the students stayed up at night and all of them hid at the door to peek, they could directly see who the murderer was. The library forced them to fall asleep because it wanted them to look for clues and analyzed the murderer, rather than bumping into the murderer in person.
After figuring this out, Yue Xingwen got up and washed up. Then, he walked out of the ward to see if there was an accident with the patient next door.
At 8:30am, when the doctor began to round the room, Dr. Xiao once again asked the two people’s thoughts about the operations. Yue Xingwen felt awkward and said, “Doctor, I’ll reconsider about the surgery, my family isn’t here and no one has signed my consent form.” Liu Zhaoqing also had the same reason and said, “My parents are away on a business trip, and I have to discuss it with them first.”
Dr. Xiao replied, “Discuss it as soon as possible. The sooner you have surgery for such severe coronary stenosis at a young age, the better.”
Other students were also frightened by the ‘surgery’ word and their face turned pale, and then they began to look for excuses to delay the surgery.
After the doctor finished their rounds, Yue Xingwen and Liu Zhaoqing walked out of the ward together. As soon as they went out, they saw the nurses pushing a hospital bed through the corridor, covered with a white cloth under which the patient who had apparently died not long ago.
The two looked at each other and walked quickly to the rest area.
Seeing the students had arrived, Yue Xingwen asked softly, “Has everyone checked the adjacent wards?”
Liu Xiaoxiao nodded, “I went to check it first when I got up in the morning. The patients in the bed no. 6 and no. 16 next door are fine.”
Zou Yuhang followed closely and said, “The patient next to me, bed no. 19, died. You should have seen the nursing staff pushing a hospital bed out just now when you went out, right? The one covered with a white cloth is the patient in bed no. 19.”
Yue Xingwen locked two suspects when he reasoned yesterday, the most suspicious were the patients in bed no. 19, no. 20 and no. 21. Three of them were engaged in the medical related industry. Among them, the patient in bed no. 19 was a retired professor from the medical school.
Yue Xingwen frowned and continued to ask, “What’s the situation in the right corridor?”
Ke Shaobi said, “The patient in bed no. 44 is gone.” Qin Lu added, “The old grandmother in bed no. 36 next door is also gone.”
Yue Xingwen pondered, “Three patients had died?”
It seemed that the murderer had relented, after the murderer killed 5 people in the first night, the murderer killed 3 people in the second night.
However, the death of the patient in bed no. 19 made Yue Xingwen puzzled. He suspected the three patients in the bed no. 19, no. 20, and no. 21 yesterday, but it turned out that the patient in bed no.19 actually died? Did the murderer kill the patient in the next bed directly, or was the murderer the doctor, and commit the crime at random?
Yue Xingwen took out the notes he had sorted out in the past few days, and looked at the information in it in contemplation.
Since the patient in bed no. 19 had died, then, the suspects’ options were only four——
A. Bed no. 20, 55-year-old patient with coronary heart disease, named Zhou Heng, working in pharmaceutical related work;
B. Bed no. 21, 56-year-old patient, Xu Dapeng, formerly worked as a medical representative;
C. The attending doctor Xiao Wen who stayed in the cardiovascular ward for a long time;
D. Ma Ping, a 30 year-old resident doctor, who was transferred to this hospital a year ago, also qualified as a long-term perpetrator.
These four answers were all deduced by Yue Xingwen’s reasoning, but… was his analysis really comprehensive?
Yue Xingwen always felt as if he had missed some clues.
He stared intently at the information in his hand. Suddenly, a flash of light went through his mind—— Since he could not continue his reasoning, then he should think backward from the result, he could do the reverse thinking.
He could not find a motive for the four suspects, A/B/C/D and felt that the murderer’s behavior was very strange, but he knew the result of the murderer’s crime, 20 people had died before and 8 more people had died in the past two days. He could start with the results, looked for clues and evidence, and then deduce who the murderer was.
Yue Xingwen’s mind suddenly cleared up, he immediately stood up and looked at Ke Shaobin, “Young Ke, let’s go to your room and open your laptop. No matter who the suspect is, I want to find the murderer directly from the available information.”
Lest a group of heart patients gathered in the ward would be scolded by the doctor, Yue Xingwen said towards the surrounding students, “Everyone go back first, I’ll analyze the information with young Ke and discuss the results with you guys when we have the result.”
The students went back and waited for the news.
Yue Xingwen came to Ke Shaobin’s ward with Liu Zhaoqing, and he conveniently carried the stool next to him to sit in front of the bed and asked, “Young Ke, you had copied all the information in the doctor’s office computer, right?”
Ke Shaobin nodded, “Yes, it was copied on the first day. What are you looking for?”
“Search the death cases in the information, and first find out all patients who died in the cardiovascular disease ward.”
Ke Shaobin quickly opened the information in his laptop, and searched the keywords.
Within ten seconds, a large number of patients’ information was listed on the laptop screen. In addition to the three deaths early this morning and the five deaths yesterday, a total of 48 patients died in the cardiovascular ward in the most recent year.
Yue Xingwen moved closer to look and said, “Death from respiratory failure, cerebral hemorrhage, and that has nothing to do with the heart disease cases can be removed. How many cases are left?”
Ke Shaobin locked on the patient whose death was caused by myocardial infarction and said, “There are 33 cases left.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Do the data analysis to pick out the cases that are concentrated within a few days, the death cases that took a long time apart can be eliminated as interference.”
The murderer’s style of crime was ‘massacre’, he would not kill one person at a time, and those death that took a long time apart should be the interference that really died of a sudden myocardial infarction and have nothing to do with the murderer.
Ke Shaobin sorted out the cases according to the order of death time, and after eliminating all the interference of only one death several days apart, he said, “There are 26 left.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Remove all the patients who died during the day, and leave only the early morning ones.” During the day, the ward was full of people, and the murderer could not commit the crime, but there was also the possibility of accidental deaths in the cardiovascular ward, and these were also interferences.
Ke Shaobin eliminated the death cases during the day and in the evening, and picked out all those that died in the early morning hours. He looked at the laptop screen and said excitedly, “The remaining patients are exactly 20 people, which is matched with the monster data from the night examination room!”
Liu Zhaoqing looked at these cases and clenched his fists tightly, “It seems that these 20 people are all the victims who were killed by the murderer before?”
Yue Xingwen nodded and said calmly, “From these 20 cases, find the first deceased.”
Ke Shaobin quickly locked the earliest time of death to find his objective, “The first one was a 78-year-old lady who died of an acute myocardial infarction at 2:10am on June 1st.”
Yue Xingwen pointed to this case and said with certainty, “This old lady is the first victim killed by the murderer.”
Ke Shaobin and Liu Zhaoqing looked excitedly at Yue Xingwen—— He used the database data analysis and reverse thinking method to accurately lock the first victim that the murderer killed six months ago!
Only by finding the first deceased can the murderer’s modus operandi based on psychology.
Yue Xingwen said, “I made a mistake in my reasoning yesterday, because it was not the first time the murderer committed the crime. He knows the environment of the cardiovascular ward like the back of his hand, and doesn’t need to kill the near one first and then the far one.”
Yue Xingwen paused and continued, “The first victim died on June 1st six months ago, find out all the doctors on duty and patients who were hospitalized at the same time, and then compare them with the patients and doctors who stayed in the cardiovascular ward for the past two days.”
Since the murderer was committing a long-term crime, they had to compare all the personnel on the scene at the time of the first case with all the personnel in the cardiovascular ward at the current case—— The people who was present in both cases was the biggest suspect.
Ke Shaobin began to search quickly.
The first victim died six months ago, and there were a total of 40 patients hospitalized in the ward that day, and the doctors on duty happened to be Xiao Wen and Ma Ping; And of those 40 patients, there were two people overlapped with the past two days of inpatient admissions to the cardiovascular ward.
One was called Zhu Yuanbo, who was currently living in the VIP-1 ward. The other one was Xu Dapeng, currently living in bed no. 20, this person was one of the suspects Yue Xingwen locked yesterday and worked in a pharmaceutical-related industry.
Yue Xingwen said, “Compare the bed number of the first deceased, and the distance between the two suspects.”
Ke Shaobin found out the bed number of their hospitalization six months ago and said in surprise, “The old grandmother who was killed six months ago, was staying in the bed no. 10, the two suspects; Xu Dapeng was staying in bed no. 40 at the time, and Zhu Yuanbo… was living in bed no. 11 next to the deceased!”
—— This was the principle of proximity.
Yue Xingwen’s analysis theory yesterday was actually correct, but he was wrong about the time of the murderer’s first time, and the suspects he identified were deduced based on the murderer’s ‘first crime’. In fact, yesterday was not the murderer’s first crime.
The murderer committed the crime for the first time in six months ago, killing the patient in the next bed.
This additional question was not limited to the four options of A, B, C, and D.
The ‘E option’ that he missed, the mysterious patient that currently stayed in VIP-1 ward might be the real answer!
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This murderer is a really psycho
Thank you for new chapter
Thanks for the chapter ~
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I once saw a series about a person being paid by old people to free them of their misery but then the person got addicted to the feeling and continued even without someone paying them. Was suddenly reminded of that after reading this haha
Also, thank you for the chapter!
Interesting, would you mind telling us the sauce? :3
thanks for the chapter!!