Thirteen prisons

Chapter 17 Thief
Even though the cooling effect of the plaster was immediate, Zhou Yuan couldn't have a good impression of the next treatment.The next morning, instead of putting on plasters, he was left to lie for a few hours in what looked like a giant automatic massage chair.The doctor only told him to call it a physiotherapy bed.Zhou Yuan didn't know the reason, after turning on the power, the machine under the bed made a buzzing sound, and nothing else happened. Although it was boring, it was much better than the whole body plaster on the first day.

In the middle, Lao Hu came to visit Zhou Yuan, saw Zhou Yuan's appearance, and joked that he was sleeping on a high-end massage bed.Zhou Yuan has been in a state of insomnia for the past two days, and fell asleep lying on the physiotherapy bed without saying a few words to Lao Hu. When he woke up, he found that Lao Hu had left.

The afternoon therapy schedule was even more outlandish.When the little nurse brought him the thing, Zhou Yuan was taken aback and thought he had read it wrong.Because that thing is like a massage stick.It was a long metal rod with a round metal head attached to one end. He took it and touched it suspiciously, and immediately jumped up as if stung by a wasp, which made the little nurse giggle non-stop.Later, after being introduced by the little nurse, he realized that this thing is an electromagnetic acupoint massager.One end is a conductive metal, which can generate tiny electromagnetic pulses when connected, which can be used to stimulate acupuncture points when pressed on the human body.

Zhou Yuan became a little confused. Isn't this kind of thing recommended for old men and women by stores that sell health care products?No matter what, take it out for your own use.This is too childish, right?

He sent a WeChat message to Lu Ming.Lu Ming's tone was very light, as if he was not interested in these so-called treatment processes, he only told Zhou Yuan that acupuncture point massage in traditional Chinese medicine is not proven in Western medicine, but stimulating the acupuncture points is not harmful.

Yesterday's good luck seemed to come to an abrupt end. The so-called treatment all day had no effect, and the result of the temperature measurement rose to 38 degrees again.Although it was a little better than before the treatment started, this trend made Zhou Yuan a little nervous.Lao Hu and Lu Ming didn't show up until before going to bed at night, which made Zhou Yuan even more depressed, with a sense of panic of being forgotten.

That night, Zhou Yuan had a nightmare.In the dream, he was walking alone on a snowy plain.After walking alone for a long time, I suddenly saw a group of figures in the distance.Zhou Yuan ran towards them excitedly, and found that those people were almost unable to move forward due to the severe cold, and they were all slumped on the ground.But after seeing Zhou Yuan, they all showed strange smiles, and everyone stood up silently, scrambling to get closer to Zhou Yuan.Soon, Zhou Yuan was surrounded. He felt something was wrong, but no matter what he said, no one answered.People tried to squeeze in, just to get closer to him.

Then, Zhou Yuan saw a fire, which looked very warm in the wind and snow. People looked at Zhou Yuan one after another, and the expressions on their faces became greedy.The flames became brighter and brighter, Zhou Yuan suddenly realized that the light came from himself, he lowered his head in astonishment, and found that his body was burning at some point!The extreme fear made Zhou Yuan involuntarily exclaim!

"Ah!" The exclamation in the dream made Zhou Yuan get rid of the nightmare temporarily, and he sat up suddenly from the bed.But there was a person standing beside the bed.

That person didn't expect that Zhou Yuan, who was sleeping soundly, would suddenly yell and then wake up, and also froze in place.

It was only then that Zhou Yuan realized that this person was wearing a woolen hat that he would never use in summer. The lower edge of the hat was turned upside down, covering most of his face.From the figure, it looks very strange, not like someone I know.

Zhou Yuan didn't know why a stranger appeared in the ward after waking up, and that person didn't expect Zhou Yuan to wake up suddenly. This kind of scene was completely beyond the two's expectations, and they were stunned for a while.

But the next moment, that person came to his senses first, instead of fleeing to the door, he rushed towards Zhou Yuan instead.Zhou Yuan didn't know what he wanted to do, he instinctively felt that something was wrong, and suddenly lifted the quilt to cover him.The man was blocked for a while, but he still grabbed Zhou Yuan's arm through the quilt, one of them rolled over, and the two of them immediately rolled on the ground together.

Zhou Yuan was caught off guard and was crushed below. Fortunately, in the past two days, except for the child's play treatment, he did not take medicine or surgery, so he is not as weak as ordinary patients.He resisted and shouted, "Who are you?"

The man didn't speak, but just strengthened his hands, turned the quilt over Zhou Yuan's head, and at the same time pressed his body completely on Zhou Yuan's chest. Now Zhou Yuan couldn't yell for help, and soon Symptoms of hypoxia appeared, and my head began to feel dizzy.

"boom."

"Boom."

After two consecutive muffled sounds, Zhou Yuan suddenly felt his body loosen. He angrily tore off the quilt on his head, only to find that the guy with the hat was paralyzed on the ground, with a tall figure standing beside him.The door of the ward was wide open and was still shaking.

"Old Hu, are you Batman? He appeared when the people were in danger, and saved me again." Zhou Yuan stood up and took a few breaths of air, feeling choked up just now.He was quite surprised by Lao Hu's appearance, both pleasantly surprised and puzzled.For the two sounds just now, it should be that Lao Hu kicked open the door and rushed in, and then kicked away the guy who was pressing on him.He could see the power of Lao Hu's kick. Aaron didn't recover for a long time at that time, and the guy in front of him was obviously even worse.

Seeing that Zhou Yuan was fine, Old Hu stepped forward and tore off the man's hat. Zhou Yuan realized that he didn't recognize him, but keenly noticed that Old Hu frowned.

"Who are you? What are you here for?" With Lao Hu around, Zhou Yuan became more confident and asked that guy.

It was obviously summer, and that person was wearing a winter hat, obviously afraid of being seen.But at the moment when he was caught, he had an expression of indifference, ignored Zhou Yuan, rubbed his kicked waist, and simply sat on the ground and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

Zhou Yuan had just had a nightmare, and he was in a bad mood. When he woke up and encountered such a thing, his heart was filled with anger, and he wanted to go up to beat this guy up.Lao Hu stopped him with his hand, and said, "He is a well-known thief in Beiyang City. Has he entered the palace for the second time?" The last sentence was the one who asked.

Seeing that Lao Hu recognized him, the man said with a playful smile: "Master Hu, I really didn't know this was your friend, but I was discovered before I could make a move, so I am unlucky."

Zhou Yuan suddenly realized that this guy probably thought that some rich people lived in this VIP ward, so he sneaked in in the middle of the night to steal things.But what he found strange was, how could Lao Hu appear just in the middle of the night?

Lao Hu pulled the habitual thief from the ground, and said to Zhou Yuan: "I'll send him to the bureau, you call Lu Ming and ask him to come over. I'll be back in a while."

Zhou Yuan looked at his watch, it was past 02:30 in the middle of the night, and he suddenly showed a embarrassed look.He felt that he just met a thief, so he didn't need to make a fuss and call Lu Ming over in the middle of the night, but he still picked up the phone seeing Lao Hu's rarely serious expression.

Lu Ming was not on night shift today, but after answering the call, he rushed over from home in less than an hour. Zhou Yuan told him what happened just now, and Lao Hu just rushed back to the ward.

"Old Hu, what did you do with that kid? This time he has to be imprisoned for a few years." Zhou Yuan said bitterly. He hated thieves, especially thieves who stole money in hospitals. The treatment fee was stolen.Life-saving money is also stolen, this kind of person is simply damned.

"Attempted theft. The amount is not large, and the circumstances are not serious. Although he is a repeat offender, he will be detained for a few days at most." Lao Hu shook his head.

Zhou Yuan was a little disappointed, but fortunately, he had nothing to lose, so he could only do so.He asked curiously: "Old Hu, you are amazing, why did you appear so coincidentally?"

"It's a coincidence." Lao Hu walked to the door in two steps, took a small thing from the top of the door frame, and threw it to Zhou Yuan: "Pinhole camera, you can monitor it with a mobile phone. I installed it when I came to see you today , I have been in the hospital for a day."

Zhou Yuan looked at the camera in his hand. It was very delicately made, only the size of a coin, and I don't know where Lao Hu got it.Zhou Yuan asked puzzledly: "Why are you pretending this?"

Lu Ming stood by and heard them say these two sentences, and immediately understood: "Old Hu, you have been guarding in the hospital? Is this related to that...?"

Lao Hu nodded, took out a plastic bag from his arms and handed it to Lu Ming: "Look at this."

There was a towel in the plastic bag. As soon as Lu Ming opened the bag, he immediately frowned tightly: "Is this found on the thief?" Seeing Lao Hu nodded, Lu Ming's expression immediately became serious.

"What is this?"

"Ether." Lu Ming explained, then carefully sealed the bag again and put it in his pocket.

"Wait. What's the situation?" Zhou Yuan was a little confused, and turned to Lu Ming, "What is ether? Why does it sound so familiar to me?"

Lu Ming simply explained: "A kind of anesthetic, usually used for general anesthesia in medicine."

Lao Hu added: "Many criminals will also use it. But if the dosage is not well controlled, it will easily cause deep coma."

Zhou Yuan understands now, there are quite a few such plots in TV dramas, when he covers his mouth with a handkerchief, the victim becomes paralyzed and passes out, it seems that this is the thing.He was a little scared: "Is this considered bad behavior? With this as evidence, can the guy be given a heavier sentence?"

Lao Hu ignored Zhou Yuan, went to the bed and sat down: "Zhou Yuan, do you have any enemies?"

Zhou Yuan was taken aback by the question, and after thinking for a while, he said: "No. Aaron is the one who has had a holiday recently, but the matter is open, he probably won't trouble me now."

Lao Hu nodded: "He didn't have a murder weapon on him, and he didn't know you. So he didn't have the motive of revenge." Then Lao Hu asked again: "After you woke up just now, what was his first reaction?"

"We were all stunned for a moment, and then he jumped up and beat me—it wasn't considered a beating, he just covered my head with a quilt." Zhou Yuan said immediately, after all, this happened just now, and he was very impressed.

"If he really wanted to steal something, and you couldn't see his face, why wasn't his first reaction to run away?" Old Hu asked rhetorically.

Lao Hu’s question made sense, and Zhou Yuan was speechless for a while. This is a hospital. Although it is midnight, there are definitely a lot of people awake in the whole building. If you turn around and run out, you can still run smoothly. However, he chose to take the initiative. If Zhou Yuan made a big noise when he resisted, he would definitely not be able to run away after someone found out.A novice thief might be nervous to do this, but as a repeat offender, his unwise behavior is indeed abnormal.

Lu Ming said, "So, he didn't come to steal anything at all. His goal is you, Zhou Yuan."

"Me?" Zhou Yuan was a little astonished, and then said mockingly: "Old Hu said that he didn't take revenge, he didn't come here in the middle of the night just to beat me up for no reason, right? I'm not a woman, could it be that he You still want to kidnap me and take me back to be Mrs. Yazhai?"

But Lao Hu and Lu Ming didn't answer the conversation, instead they looked at Zhou Yuan with flickering eyes.Zhou Yuan was stared at a little nervously, thinking of the use of ether just mentioned, he said with a dry smile: "Is he really trying to rob me? What is he trying to do?"

"How is the effect of today's treatment?" Lu Ming asked an irrelevant question.But when it came to Zhou Yuan's worry, he described today's treatment process, and said dejectedly: "Yesterday's temperature dropped a little, but today it went up again."

"Now we can basically confirm our guess." Lu Ming shook his head slightly: "The worst possibility has appeared. It is not this thief who wants to rob you, but that third party."

"Fuck, why?" If Zhou Yuan's mood at this time could be described in one sentence, it would be a hell of a dog.

Old Hu said: "You have to think about it yourself. What's so special about you?"

"By the way! What's the thief's name? You can ask him. I'm afraid he won't tell you if you torture him!" Lu Ming's deduction made Zhou Yuan a little flustered. He felt as if he had really become a guinea pig, and became emotional.

"No way, it's just our speculation now, and there's no evidence." Lao Hu slapped the edge of the bed vigorously: "He killed him to steal things, and he can be detained for a few days at most. Since the third party is so rich, the thief must He has been firmly bought, and even if he can be sentenced to a few years, he will never let go."

Lu Ming also agreed with Lao Hu: "Zhou Yuan, the so-called treatment these two days is obviously just perfunctory. You can no longer pin your hopes on it. But at least one thing is clear, the third party is very interested in you. Even at the expense of asking someone to try to rob you. So we must first figure out what is in you that he is interested in?"

Yeah, what's so special about me?Zhou Yuan calmed down, the only special part of his body was this strange disease.It can be seen that people who have been begging for money, fame, and sex have never known that there are still people who are interested in illness?

Zhou Yuan suddenly had a terrible idea: Maybe the deaths of Xiaoqing and Lin He were also related to that third party.And Lao Hu installed the camera ahead of time quietly, which shows that he also believes that there are obvious traces of human interference behind this incident.Although Lao Hu saved himself again, another aspect proved that the matter was more complicated.

(End of this chapter)