The ward organized by Xing Conglian was on the highest ground of Hongjing Hospital. Aside from that, there was nothing particular.

After finishing the admission procedures, Lin Chen had some blood drawn from his arm. He adopted Xing Conglian by means of the lengthy ward whereas holding the cotton ball on the within of his arm.

The rooms on either side of the hall have been principally single rooms, occupied by aged individuals. A few of them sat upright on the couch with severe expressions, as in the event that they have been educating their dejected subordinates on the other facet. Others relied on a sequence of tubes and ventilators to maintain their lives, whereas skilled nurses dozed off by their bedsides.

This must be the particular care ward of Hongjing Hospital, the place retired officers of a sure rank or individuals with particular relationships dwell. However Xing Conglian’s suggestion for him to remain right here ought to don’t have anything to do with privilege. It appeared that Captain Xing thought that the one rooms right here met his necessities.

Xing Conglian pushed open the door. The sky outdoors the window was already utterly darkish. The hospital robe that he needed to grow to be was folded on the mattress, and there have been a bunch of sunflowers on the bedside desk.

Lin Chen took a whiff of the odor of disinfectant within the ward and obediently sat on the mattress. He pulled down the tabletop by the mattress and patted the empty house subsequent to him, indicating for Xing Conglian to sit down reverse him.

Within the quiet ward, the place one might hear a pin drop. The 2 of them sat dealing with one another below the intense lights.

After sitting face-to-face for about two minutes, Xing Conglian couldn’t assist however chortle. “Is Advisor Lin attempting to speak to me and maintain a household assembly?”

Lin Chen regarded on the desk and requested Xing Conglian, “Do you discover what’s lacking right here?”

Xing Conglian regarded round and stated, “Black-suited bodyguards and delightful feminine caregivers?”

Lin Chen knocked on the empty desk and stated, “Captain Xing, we face a really severe scenario now. It’s already 6:30 within the night, and our dinner hasn’t arrived but. After studying about your id, I feel we have to have fun a bit.”

Xing Conglian breathed a sigh of aid, wanting like he was afraid of being scared to dying. Then he took out his telephone and requested, “What do you wish to eat?”

“KFC,” Lin Chen stated.

Xing Conglian paused his motion of dialing the telephone. “Advisor Lin, let me offer you an opportunity to appropriate your reply.”

“I wish to eat KFC,” Lin Chen stated.

“That’s a little bit of a capricious request.” Xing Conglian raised an eyebrow. “Your wound hasn’t totally healed. Are you able to eat one thing so greasy?”

“After surviving within the wild rainforest, I would like some fashionable industrial meals to assist modify my physique and thoughts.”

Xing Conglian checked out him very puzzled. “What did you say?”

“I simply wish to eat it. If I had a telephone that I might use in China, I might have made an excuse to go to the lavatory and secretly known as Wang Chao for supply.”

Xing Conglian laughed out loud. “Why name Wang Chao? Can’t you simply order from a supply service straight?”

“A thousand-mile dike could be destroyed by an ant-hole*. Irrespective of how huge your loved ones enterprise is, you continue to have to save cash. You utilize cellular coupons, member factors, and even save on supply charges once you purchase on-site.” Lin Chen replied.

*(千里之堤毁于蚁穴) Proverb referring to even a small downside or seemingly insignificant situation can result in catastrophic penalties whether it is ignored or left unaddressed for a very long time.

Xing Conglian stared at him for some time, then lowered his head and dialed Wang Chao’s telephone. Earlier than the decision was linked, he nodded and stated to him, “Is sensible.”

……

When the dynasty arrived, Lin Chen and Xing Conglian have been leaning towards the sickbed watching <Boonie Bears>.

A younger man pushed the door open, half-wet, carrying a giant bag of fried hen and some arduous drives in plastic luggage.

Seeing their cuddling state, Wang Chao was very dissatisfied and threw the KFC takeout and arduous drives on the espresso desk earlier than sitting down.

As if not stimulated sufficient, Xing Conglian lifted the mattress desk, tapped the tabletop, and stated to Wang Chao, “Hand it over. Do I’ve to go and get it myself?”

“Boss, you’re an excessive amount of!” Wang Chao shouted. “Leaving me alone within the amusement park is one factor, however why are you watching cartoons on the sickbed?”

“Properly carried out with the emphasis sentence, not unhealthy,” Xing Conglian half-seriously commented.

Wang Chao was once more upset, however he nonetheless picked up the takeaway bag and put it on the mattress desk.

After them for some time, Wang Chao lastly discovered an assault level and stated to Xing Conglian, “Massive Boss, what’s fallacious with you? You’re sharing a mattress with A’Chen Gege, who’s sick!”

Lin Chen was opening the paper bag of the finger-licking unique taste hen. He couldn’t assist however decrease his head and chortle when he heard this query.

Certain sufficient, Xing Conglian answered with a hen wing in his mouth. “Oh, you continue to don’t know? A’Chen and I are in love…” He completed and pretended to look at Wang Chao casually and stated, “Sorry, I forgot. You’ve by no means been in love… tsk, tsk…”

Listening to this, {the teenager} was so indignant that he couldn’t discover any phrases to refute, so he might solely grind his enamel.

Seeing this, Lin Chen picked up the distant management and ended Bald Victor’s pursuit of Briar*, then stated to Wang Chao, “Come and sit down and eat. Watching cartoons is supposed to calm down.”

*Readability: Characters from Boonie Bears.

Wang Chao was the kind who was simply coaxed. Three seconds later, {the teenager} took off his footwear and squatted in entrance of them, fortunately munching on the hen nuggets.

Lin Chen obtained up and about, went to the lavatory, and introduced a towel, throwing it on Wang Chao. “Dry off first. Watch out to not catch a chilly.”

Wang Chao was moved. “A’Chen Gege, you’re a superb individual. There may be real affection on this planet.”

“How’s the surveillance?” Lin Chen sat again on the mattress, tore off a bit of meat, and requested.

Wang Chao virtually choked on a bit of hen. He regarded on the hen in entrance of him, then at Lin Chen’s face, and virtually cried, “Why am I so unfortunate…”

Teasing Wang Chao was actually enjoyable. Lin Chen rubbed the younger man’s moist head with a clear hand and stated, “Speak whilst you eat. I didn’t let you know to place down the meals.”

However Wang Chao stopped very critically. “Let me report briefly. First, the surveillance high quality of Hongjing’s Amusement Park is simply too poor—the previous black and white sort. Once we zoom in on the monitor, it’s arduous to see something. Second, I’ve taken out the arduous drive. We will join it to the TV within the ward and watch it, however the video footage of the incident continues to be very poor after being processed.”

Xing Conglian spat out a bone subsequent to him, feeling depressed that his whole plan was falling aside. He stated to Wang Chao, “Excuse me, sir, who allowed you to make use of the TV within the ward?”

“Oh, then ought to I exploit my laptop? I’m afraid it’s not handy for A’Chen Gege to observe. Shall I am going get it now?” Wang Chao requested.

Xing Conglian was livid. “Comrade Xiao Wang, it is a place for A’Chen Gege to recuperate. Don’t fall for his tips and get misled simply.”

“Boss, you’re proper. I virtually fell for it,” Wang Chao realized and stated firmly.

Anyway, the three of them have been usually simply separated into two alliances, so Lin Chen regarded barely helpless as he noticed the 2 of them now united towards him. “I actually suppose that Tan Kang could have come to the amusement park to fulfill somebody, so the video footage of the scene the place he was stabbed is vital.”

Wang Chao requested, “A’Chen, do you suppose the individual Tan Kang needed to fulfill can be close to the scene?”

“Not essentially close by, but when there’s such an individual, once they discover out the individual they’re ready for hasn’t come for a very long time and a murder has occurred within the park, they are going to come have a look,” Lin Chen stated.

“A’Chen, you’re proper. I’ll modify the video for you,” Wang Chao stated.

Wang Chao rolled up and about and began tinkering with the TV and laptop cables. Quickly, the display turned blue, after which a excessive gray-scale scene appeared.

As Comrade Zhang Xiaolong stated in the beginning, the video was very blurry. When zoomed in on the 27-inch LCD TV within the hospital, there have been numerous noises. From the black and white photos, solely a imprecise chaos on the scene could possibly be seen.

Nevertheless, the picture high quality had already been processed by Wang Chao, and two arrows with totally different colours appeared above Tan Kang and the assassin’s heads, barely indicating their positions.

Tan Kang walked throughout the bridge and handed by a person carrying a duck-billed cap and holding a balloon. The person solely barely raised his arm, and there was no abnormality seen on the time till Tan Kang leaned towards the signal and lay down.

“Repeat from 3 minutes and 10 seconds to three minutes and 30 seconds just a few instances,” Lin Chen stated to Wang Chao after anticipating some time.

The scene started to repeat, from Tan Kang holding his chest to being ran into by somebody and at last falling down subsequent to the signal…

By the tip, Wang Chao couldn’t eat something in entrance of him anymore.

“A’Chen Gege…” the younger man known as out softly.

“Cease,” Lin Chen abruptly stated.

Wang Chao didn’t react in time and pressed the pause button a bit late. On the display, Tan Kang had already fallen to the bottom.

“Just a little additional again,” Lin Chen stated.

The TV display lastly paused in the mean time when Tan Kang was about to fall and was suspended in mid-air.

Lin Chen and Xing Conglian exchanged a look, understanding one another’s ideas.

“What’s fallacious with this display?” Wang Chao requested tentatively.

“Don’t you suppose Tan Kang’s posture on the bottom may be very twisted?” Xing Conglian stated.

“Huh?”

Xing Conglian stated, “The assassin used a weapon about 2.5 cm huge to stab Tan Kang’s coronary heart. The inner strain of the guts was extraordinarily excessive. When he pulled out the blade, the blood gushed out immediately. The oxygen content material in his mind would instantly lower, and he would lose consciousness in a really brief time period. There was mainly no chance of survival… “

Lin Chen nodded, “In different phrases, he used his remaining willpower to keep up this very twisted angle earlier than dying. In fact, you too can say that it is because his ache brought about his physique to twist, however I nonetheless suppose that the rationale why he fell on this means is as a result of he subconsciously and persistently checked out a sure place within the amusement park earlier than he died.”

“The placement of the individual he was assembly?” Wang Chao abruptly realized. He shortly introduced up the map of the amusement park, and, based on Tan Kang’s perspective when he fell, he might mainly decide that he was wanting on the west facet of the park.

“Um…” Wang Chao marked out a tough, fan-shaped space on the map. “The carousel, European Fortress, Candyland…” {The teenager} sighed deeply. “This space covers a number of thousand sq. meters.”

“Are there another angles to the recording?” Lin Chen requested. “When he entered the unfamiliar space and had to decide on a route, he might need first regarded for the goal’s location after which made a alternative.”

Wang Chao adjusted as instructed, and certain sufficient, Tan Kang had additionally regarded up in the identical course earlier than that.

“This angle…”

“He must be one thing excessive?” Xing Conglian murmured.

Lin Chen considered the second when he stood on the similar angle and abruptly realized. “The European citadel.”

Wang Chao’s eyes lit up. “So, if I test if there was any suspicious individual lingering across the citadel when the incident occurred, we are able to decide that Tan Kang got here right here to fulfill somebody, and we are able to discover that individual?”

“If this suspicious individual didn’t take part in any amusement actions when he arrived and left in a rush, and even went to the scene of the crime, it could additional clarify the issue,” Lin Chen stated.

“Sure sir*!” Wang Chao exclaimed excitedly.

*Mentioned in English.

Xing Conglian clapped his fingers and abruptly interrupted their dialog.

“Perceive what that you must do and take your crispy hen sandwich and go away,” he stated to Wang Chao. “Keep in mind to proceed working extra time at dwelling, not solely to verify the contact individual but additionally to verify the routes of each the killer and Tan Kang himself.”

Wang Chao rubbed his ears, stared blankly on the TV display, then turned to take a look at the pouring rain outdoors the window. Lastly, he requested Xing Conglian, “Boss, the place ought to I am going?”

“Aren’t you going dwelling right this moment?”

Wang Chao was very stunned. “Boss, is that this what you name burning bridges after crossing the river*?”

*(过河拆桥) Idiom referring to being ungrateful or turning towards somebody who has helped you up to now. 

“Let me appropriate you, Comrade Xiao Wang. Asking you to go dwelling isn’t known as burning bridges, it’s known as being merciful. In any case, I nonetheless have the choice of kicking you out of the door,” Xing Conglian stated proudly.

“However nobody has lived there for half a month!” Wang Chao regarded horrified.

“It’s not such as you don’t receives a commission each month, and you’ll dwell wherever you need for those who suppose my home is soiled.”

“What about you?”

This query as soon as once more hit Xing Conglian proper the place it harm.

Xing Conglian stated proudly, “My boyfriend is within the hospital, and I’ve to stick with him.” Then, Wang Chao vigilantly, he stated, “Comrade Xiao Wang, I hope you’re not planning to remain right here. You’re like a 3rd wheel and an eyesore.”

Wang Chao stepped again and stated to Xing Conglian, “Boss, did you permit your face on the airplane? Ought to I am going get it for you?”

“No matter. So long as you permit the ward, you are able to do no matter you need.”

Wang Chao’s face was already pink with anger. Seeing this, Lin Chen needed to intervene and say, “That is actually not good…”

Upon listening to this, Wang Chao regarded up at Lin Chen with the harmless expression of a small pet, whereas Xing Conglian additionally turned his head.

Lin Chen stated, “Discover him a reliable housekeeping service to wash up the home so he can return to dwell there.”

Xing Conglian laughed out loud and virtually rolled on the mattress. “Comrade Xiao Wang, I’ll prepare for essentially the most succesful auntie for you. You’ll be able to go downstairs now, and I’ll name a taxi for you. Isn’t that considerate sufficient?”

Wang Chao was so indignant that he stood up from the couch and began packing his bag.

“What’s fallacious?” Lin Chen checked out Xing Conglian and requested.

Xing Conglian smiled and stated, “Nothing, nothing! I simply actually like your fashion as grasp of the home proper now.”

Wang Chao was choosing what meals he needed to eat from the KFC bag when he heard this. He glared at Xing Conglian, didn’t take the sandwich on the desk, and walked out of the ward in anger.

“Goodbye!” {the teenager} stood within the doorway towards the sunshine and stated angrily to them.