Special Case Investigation Team

CHAPTER 3: DRUG POISONING CASE (2)

Liu Chang lives in an old community. After ringing the doorbell for a long time, a drunken man with a shaggy beard came to open the door. Cheng Jin showed his police ID card, the man sneered and let them in: “What do you want again? You said I was a drug addict, and now my wife wants to divorce me, are you happy?”

Cheng Jin and Wu Jian walked into the room, there was a strong smell of alcohol, the room was in a mess clearly looking like it has long since been cleaned up, Wu Jian asked him: “You said you stopped taking drugs, so mind explaining to us what is going on?”

“How the fuck should I know what’s going on, I’ve been clean for years, I’m definitely not going to do that shit again!” Liu Chang cursed.

Cheng Jin looked at him, “Have you ever been to a bar called Xie Du?”

“I haven’t been to a bar since I got married, I just go to work every day, get off work, and then go home back, how can I have time to do drugs!”

“Did you eat or drink anything in the hours before you took the drugs?”　

“No.” Liu Chang frowned, “I had a cold that day, my appetite was not good so I didn’t eat anything.”

“Didn’t eat anything?” Cheng Jin asked him to make sure.

“I drank water in the office and everyone in the office drank water from there.” Liu Chang thought for a moment, “I also ate cold medicine.” After saying this he went into the room to take the leftover cold medicine. Later that day after being hit by a car, he stayed in the hospital for a few days so he didn’t eat these cold medicines again. The hospital that prescribed him the cold medicine and the hospital he stayed in after he was hit by the car were both the Huiren Hospital.　

Cheng Jin saw that the middle opening part of the cold medicine was used which he found a little strange because generally most of the people start taking medicine from the side opening part, “this medicine was completely sealed, right?”

Liu Chang was stunned, and cursed: “Son of a bitch, who dares to fool Lao Tzu¹!? When I took it out of the carton, the aluminum foil in the middle was torn open. I did not think much about it and I took it out and ate it.”

Until Cheng Jin and Wu Jian left, Liu Chang was still cursing and swearing.

After leaving Liu Chang’s house, Cheng Jin fished out his cell phone to call Lao Zhang who went to check Zhou Hai, and reminded him to ask carefully whether Zhou Hai had been to Huiren Hospital before he died, and whether he had taken any medicine.

On the way back to the police station, Wu Jian asked Cheng Jin: “Team Cheng, do you really believe what Liu Chang said?”

Cheng Jin shook his head: “I can only say that what he said may be true. Go back and look at the situation on the Zhou Hai side with Ye Zi and Lao Zhang”

Not long after Cheng Jin and others returned, Ye Zi and Lao Zhang also came back, Ye Zi is a capable and beautiful policewoman, Lao Zhang who’s real name Zhang Zhongwei, was transferred from the anti-pornography team not long ago. Their findings were that Zhou Hai had not taken drugs. He had stomach problems, and a few days before his death, Huiren Hospital prescribed him with stomach medicine. The stomach medicine they brought back was bottled: a bottle of capsules, Ye Zi said, “This bottle is not yet opened, his family said Zhou Hai also carried a bottle with him.”

Cheng Jin asked Wu Jian to send all these medicines to the laboratory for testing, although he felt that the remaining medicines should be fine, but still to be tested for the assurance.

Cheng Jin asked Ye Zi and Lao Zhang to go with him to Huiren Hospital to ask about the situation, and asked other people in the team to go to other hospitals in the city to ask if there have been similar cases of poisoning recently.

They checked the hospital’s medical records, the toxin in Liu Chang’s body and Zhou Hai’s were the same, but because Liu Chang had a history of drug use, he had certain resistance to toxins, plus with the hospital’s timely rescue, he was eventually saved.

Cheng Jin asked the hospital if there were any other recent poisoning cases similar to this one, and the hospital director said there were two more cases, both in the intensive care unit, and the patient was still in a coma after resuscitation. The family members are also in the hospital, after asking the patients, they were prescribed stomach medicine at Huiren Hospital before they were poisoned. The people who were poisoned are those who lived relatively closer to Huiren Hospital, so they were sent to this hospital after being poisoned.

Ye Zi asked the director, “You didn’t think to call the police?”

The director also knew that the matter was serious, and said embarrassingly: “This…we have to go through the family’s consent before deciding anything regarding the patient ah……”

Cheng Jin left Ye Zi and Lao Zhang in the hospital, he went back to the police station to report to the chief, the chief was called Zeng Guoxin, a fifty-year-something old man. Cheng Jin was just about to start talking when the phone rang. It was news from a colleague he sent to another hospital. A poisoned person in Xinxing Hospital was out of danger. The poisoned person also went to the Huiren Hospital to buy stomach medicine before, because she went to work close to Huiren Hospital, so when she felt stomach discomfort, she went directly to the Huiren Hospital.

The old man listened to Cheng Jin tell the whole case and knew that this case was very serious, the old man immediately reported it to the top. The final instructions from the top was that this case is transferred to them to handle, they will set up a special team to investigate the case. They had already sent people to blockade the Huiren Hospital and other information about the case will be immediately sent over here by someone.

“Is this qualified as a terrorist incident?” Cheng Jin asked the old man.

The old man shook his head: “It’s not under our control now, don’t speculate.” The old man patted his shoulder, “Fortunately you found out about this early, otherwise I’d be in big trouble this time.” After all, this is his jurisdiction, if this kind of thing has not been discovered as early as possible, he’d certainly be responsible, “Cheng Jin ah, I have said for a long time ago that you will have a bright future!”

Cheng Jin was only 22 years old after he graduated, he graduated with the most outstanding grades from the University of Public Security, although there were also many other students who graduated with outstanding grades.

People think that he may not have any real skills, but he is indeed talented in criminal cases, and he always takes the lead in chasing criminals. He has suffered two gunshot wounds, one of which led him to hospitalize for two months. Last year, the captain of the first team was transferred away, and the old man announced Cheng Jin as the captain. The old man never thought that the youngest criminal police captain would be promoted by him in his bureau. But now he is very relieved and feels that he really is very pleasing to the eyes. Really worthy of being the youngest captain in the history of the bureau!

Cheng Jin smiled, and he didn’t want the old man to drag him to continue chatting, “Chief, it’s time to get off work now. I’ll go back first if I’ve nothing to do for now. Since yesterday morning, the people in my team haven’t closed their eyes, so I’ll inform them to go back and rest”

The old man stopped him: “You can’t leave yet. There will be someone coming in a while. If they ask any questions, you have to answer them. ”

Cheng Jin smiled bitterly: “Chief, isn’t it the same whether you or I answer them”

The old man said slowly and rationally: “The difference is, you are just too low-key. You have to let the people above see that I also have talents here. Don’t think that only they can solve big cases. ”

Cheng Jin couldn’t laugh or cry: “Well then let me first check the current situation of our team. ”

Ye Zi and Lao Zhang said that someone from their side will investigate further, and they were about to go back to the police station. Cheng Jin told them that a special team would investigate the case now and let them go back to rest. They will be notified if something happens. Cheng Jin also contacted the other people one by one to explain the situation, and asked them all to go back and rest first. 

Soon the people from the top came over, among three of them, Yang Simo was also there, and Cheng Jin was not surprised when he saw this: “Will you participate in this case?”

“I was also at the scene of the crime last night, so I was called to take a look.” Yang Simo smiled at him. 

The other two people, one of whom was a serious man in his thirties, frowned at them and then continued to talk to the chief. The other is a peach blossom eyed man who is always smiling. He looks twenty-six or seven. He walked over and greeted Cheng Jin: “You are Cheng Jin, right?. Our boss told us that you are very good.”

Cheng Jin looked at Yang Simo suspiciously, and Yang Simi shook his head to indicate that he didn’t know. 

“Hey, when did you and Xiao Yang meet?” The man asked Cheng Jin. 

When did we meet? The first time I met him was more than ten years ago. Yesterday was the second time. Today is the third time. Cheng Jin just smiled and said, “We met a long time ago.”

The man smiled and didn’t ask any more questions. He introduced himself and said, “My name is Bu Huan, which means rising step by step with happiness. The one over there is called Wei Qing, Wei of Wei state Qing of Qingshui².”

After Wei Qing and the chief had finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Cheng Jin, “You can come and participate in this case.”

Cheng Jin smiled. This person spoke as if he was giving alms. As long as he could solve the case, he didn’t care if he participated or not. He kept blinking innocently at him regardless of the old man’s presence, and refused: “No, I won’t go with you. I didn’t sleep all night last night. I have to go back and get some sleep. Goodbye.” After speaking, he nodded to the chief and Yang Simo and walked out. The old man glared at him, Yang Simo caught up with him in a few steps: “I’ll drive you.” The two of them walked away quickly. 

Bu Huan said, “We only have one car, and Xiao Yang just now said he would drive Chen Jin.”

Wei Qing glanced at him: “Then you can call another car. By the way, someone was called over to move the body along with the relevant evidence and other relevant information.”

Footnotes:

1. Lao Tzu: old man or old master or father. People use this word mostly to refer themselves as older or superior, kinda in an arrogance way. You might have read or watched many CN series where people use this word. Also popularly known as “laozi”(老子)

2. Qingshui: Qingshui District, also spelled as Chingshui District, is a coastal suburban district in western Taichung City, Taiwan.