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Chapter 219
Chapter 219 Five Floating 56 Crisis
The slight sound of high heels sounded, tap, tap, tap...
Lin Chen suddenly turned over and sat up, the ward was extremely dark, he listened carefully, and there was a faint cry coming from somewhere, vague and erratic.
He turned on the phone and checked the time. At 21:11, Xing Zong hadn't called until now, indicating that they hadn't caught Shen Lian. It is obviously unreasonable that a single woman has not returned home after nine o'clock in the evening.
Lin Chen became more and more uneasy.
Suddenly, he discerned the sound of an ambulance from the faint sounds from outside the surrounding space.
One, two... more and more ambulances seem to be coming into the compound.
He looked up at the hanging bottle, only the bottom of the salt water remained, he pulled out the needle without hesitation, walked to the window, and looked down.
There were not too many people around the emergency building, but police officers in uniforms were vaguely visible, and there were some panicked people. Because of the high floor he was on, it was difficult to tell exactly what was going on below. Immediately afterwards, another police car drove into the hospital area, the back door opened, and Lin Chen identified the other person's identity from the figure of the person who got off the car and the bright top of his head.
He immediately turned around and went out. The corridor of the intensive care unit was empty, and the lights at the nurse station not far away were dazzling.
When passing by the nurse station, Lin Chen was stopped by someone.
"This patient, it's rest time now, you can't walk around at will, go to rest quickly."
Before the little nurse could speak, Lin Chen's cell phone vibrated frantically. The number on the screen did not belong to Xing Conglian or Dynasty. Lin Chen motioned to the nurse to wait a moment and connect the call.
"Lin Chen, please speak."
"Consultant Lin, are you in the hospital? Something went wrong with the arrest... The director is here and needs you to go downstairs immediately."
"Where are you?"
"We are in the emergency building, and the media is expected to come soon, please be quick."
"clear."
Lin Chen cut off the phone, briefly explained to the nurse that the situation was urgent, and ran towards the elevator.
When he arrived at the emergency building, the first thing Lin Chen heard was crying. Of course, it was normal for crying in the hospital, but the sound was so shrill, as if he wanted to take out his heart and lungs. Taking advantage of the gap between the opening and closing of the iron door of the emergency room, Lin Chen looked in and could only see a lot of blood-stained gauze. The nurse holding the plasma almost collided with him, Lin Chen hurriedly withdrew, and following the flow of people, he found the old director in the doctor's office.
Bureau Wu is about to retire in less than half a year. He has always been leisurely and indifferent. Lin Chen has never seen this old man frown.
"What happened, Xing Conglian?" Lin Chen asked.
Bureau Wu raised his head and glanced at him. When he heard the word Xing Conglian, the director frowned obviously. Lin Chen held the table and stood up straight, but he was extremely calm. There were several doctors sitting across from the desk, Lin Chen glanced at each other's badges, brain surgery, neurology...
What happened, experts in brain science from the entire hospital moved in.
Seeing that the chief did not speak, the assistant police officer on the side said to him, "Consultant Lin wait a moment, we are waiting for the punishment team to come and have a short meeting with the experts."
Lin Chen nodded.
At this moment, there were messy footsteps in the corridor outside the office, the door swung open, and Xing Conglian appeared at the door, with Zhang Ping, the deputy captain beside him. Dynasty is not here.
Xing Conglian was covered in blood from the front to his chest, his hands were red, and his coat went to an unknown location. Lin Chen and him looked at each other, Xing Conglian's eyes were numb for a few seconds, and then he saw grief in Xing Conglian's deep eyes.
"Come here and explain exactly what's going on today!" Wu Ju slammed the table, and everyone in the office was shocked.
Lin Chen turned his head, glanced at the rarely angry director, and said calmly, "Calm down."
"I've killed a policeman under my command, you fucking make me calm down?" The director's whole face became stiff, he patted the table, pointed at Xing Conglian and scolded, "Xiao An's girlfriend and parents will immediately Here, you go and explain to people why a good arrest operation turned out like this, and you shoot at will in the downtown area, who allows you to do this, have you considered the impact!"
Lin Chen replied in place of Xing Conglian: "He is performing official duties on the front line, and only he knows whether to shoot. I don't think the specific situation is clear, and I think it is unfair to hold the front-line police officers accountable when something goes wrong."
After speaking, he dragged two chairs from the corner and let the two who entered the door sit down.
Wu Bureau burst out with anger, but finally said nothing.
"Officer An died in the line of duty?" Lin Chen found a chair and sat down and asked.
Xing Conglian looked at him and nodded.
Lin Chen was shocked, looking at Xing Conglian covered in blood, he immediately understood where the blood came from. "Because of Shen Lian resisting arrest?" he asked Xing Conglian.
"No." Xing Conglian finally spoke, but didn't say any more.
Zhang Ping said: "We haven't seen Shen Lian at all."
"What happened at the scene, and why did it happen like this?"
There were cries and footsteps in the hallway, but the office fell into absolute silence, with incandescent lights flickering.
"I don't know." Xing Conglian said clearly.
"You fucking don't know!" Bureau Wu clapped the table again.
Lin Chen ignored the angry director behind him and everyone in the office. He held Xing Conglian's hand, his hand trembled a little, but he still tried his best to calm himself down, and said softly to Xing Conglian, "The hospital experts are here, we are here. Only the sooner the situation is figured out, the sooner the problem can be solved.”
Xing Conglian pursed his lips, and for a moment, he showed a look of extreme indifference, and then the focus gradually converged, Xing Conglian said: "We really don't know what the problem is. Around 21:00, our communication channel There was a noise, and then there was a riot at the barbecue stall at the entrance of the alley, the stall owner and the dining guests scuffled together, and the security officer died in the line of duty to protect the residents." Xing Conglian's report was very concise, "During this process, I opened Two shots were fired, one hit the barbecue stall owner and the other shot the suspect in the murder of the security officer, the ballistics and eyewitness testimony at the scene can confirm."
Lin Chen's thoughts changed, and he quickly knew where the problem was.
He believed deeply in Xing Conglian's gun law, but with Xing Conglian in charge, he made it clear that he hit the suspect, but the security officer still died.
Xing Conglian seemed to be caught in deep memories. He said: "This is my choice. I should have chosen to kill the suspect at the beginning, instead of choosing to remove his ability to act."
Lin Chen raised his head: "That is to say, your bullet didn't remove his mobility?"
"No." Xing Conglian said, "They don't seem to feel pain. They act purely on instinct. The incident happened so suddenly, we really haven't figured out what the problem is."
"The gun didn't remove their ability to move, how is this possible?" said the director of a department who had been sitting very quietly in the office, "turned into zombies?"
"The site has been completely blocked, and people from the Food and Drug Administration and the Epidemic Prevention Center have arrived before we come back."
"Epidemic Prevention Center?" Lin Chen asked.
"Because there was a biting phenomenon at the scene of the crime, some people could not control their emotions, so they reported it to the Center for Disease Control and Epidemic Prevention." Xing Conglian said.
"Is this a Resident Evil crisis!" Wu Bureau couldn't hold back again, "Catch people well, why did people suddenly start eating people?"
"How could this happen suddenly?" said another expert. "There have been no cases like this in our city in recent years."
"You are neuroscientists, you should know that the possibility of this happening still exists." Lin Chen said lightly.
"Yeah, it's either a brain lesion or a drug effect," another said, "rabies virus?"
"According to my judgment, the drug's effect is more likely." Lin Chen said.
"That's right." The experts discussed at length, "but what kind of drug is it, this needs to be examined in detail."
"However, the CDC is also right. I think it is necessary to conduct first-level biochemical isolation. It is best for all relevant personnel who have been in contact with the patient to be isolated and observed."
Lin Chen pursed his lips, and when he heard the other party talking about quarantine, he forced himself into the conversation. He said sternly: "I suggest looking for other reasons during quarantine observation to prevent people from panicking. After all, this case is already quite sensational, and there is another 'forced quarantine'. ' is an inappropriate word."
"Of course, but how exactly?" the doctor asked.
"It's still explained by drugs. If it is determined that the people involved in the fight and the murder have no subjective history of drug use, they should have taken drugs passively. The incident happened at a barbecue stall and there was a lot of smoke, so it is not ruled out that there may be related people who also passively took drugs. The possibility of drugs, for everyone's health, I hope the relevant personnel can be admitted to the hospital for observation." Lin Chen continued to say to the other party, "If the media asks you about the patient's condition, you can explain it by the relevant cases that have appeared in the United States. A few years ago, there was a case of homeless people turning into zombies and attacking residents and biting each other's faces in a town in the United States. The local police finally judged that the homeless people were affected by a drug called 'bath salts', thus There is a phenomenon of uncontrolled panic attacks.”
"Oh... I seem to have heard of it, but if the media asks why there are drug addicts suddenly appearing in barbecue stalls, and how do those crazy people ingest drugs? How should we answer?" Another expert asked.
Lin Chen was surprisingly calm from beginning to end: "Experts please tell the media that this part of the problem should be investigated by the police. You don't know the specific progress of the investigation, you can just push it on us." Lin Chen answered calmly.
"Okay, then let's see the patient first." Several experts got up one after another.
The office door opened, and media flashing lights and reporters' questions continued to sound at the door of the emergency center in the distance.
"I heard that there is a phenomenon of cannibalism?"
"Is it a real Resident Evil crisis?"
"Has the government withheld relevant information from the public?"
Several doctors walked to the door, and suddenly someone turned around and asked, "Why are you wearing our hospital gown?"
Hearing the reporters' voices one after another, Lin Chen was stunned for a while, looked at himself from beginning to end, and said, "I think it's time for me to change clothes now."