Before Zuo Mu could react, the middle - aged policeman had already taken the young constable out to make arrangements.
The empty meeting room was left with only Zuo Mu and the severe - looking female police officer.
When there was no one outside, the severity on the female police officer's face vanished instantly. Instead, a look of curiosity came over her.
"I'm curious. Why on earth do you want to help us?"
Zuo Mu shrugged nonchalantly. "I helped, and that's that. There's no need for so many whys. Officer sister, if you really want to do me a favor, we must pretend we don't know each other."
"Heh," the female police officer chuckled, teasingly saying, "I thought you were fearless. To be honest, before I met you, I thought you were at least an accomplice if not the mastermind. But..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Zuo Mu made a stop - gesture in time, looking exasperated. "Officer, I'm just doing what a citizen should do. Not everyone is a bad guy, okay? Especially since I'm a doctor. I still have the most basic professional ethics."
"It's a pity that not every doctor in your hospital is like you," the female police officer said softly, waving the file in her hand. "Don't worry. With this, you've been cleared of suspicion."
Zuo Mu knew his words might not be heeded, but he still protested. "We junior doctors are just trying to make a living. Those really involved might not be the clinical doctors. You should keep an eye on the management and the black market."
A hospital alone couldn't carry out the business of harvesting organs from living people. There must be many hidden strings behind it.
The police officer naturally understood this. Seeing that Zuo Mu didn't want to continue the conversation, she put the file back on the table, nodded, and said, "Your involvement in this case ends here. What happens next depends on our capabilities."
Zuo Mu said indifferently with a straight face, "I wish you a smooth investigation."
The female police officer didn't try to hold him back any longer and let Zuo Mu leave the meeting room.
As for how to explain to the superiors later, she would think of something.
The police found a clue in a hidden room behind the operating room.
It was really strange. The operating room was supposed to be a protected area for patients and a safe zone for doctors, yet there was an unremarkable hidden room inside.
Maybe at first, no one had thought there was something fishy in the operating room. So, when the police noticed something amiss on the wall, then found the hidden door, and opened it, their shock was imaginable.
Especially after seeing what was inside, their confusion and anger reached the peak.
Team Leader Liu, who was usually good at hiding his emotions, saw that the dim room was far from simple.
Incubators and blood storage boxes were running on electricity, making a ticking sound.
The flashing lights on the boxes were reflected on the officers who had burst into the room, showing their shock.
This was a secret organ bank!
After that, they searched out as many as seven or eight unregistered human organs from the hidden room.
Looking at the well - preserved incubators, Team Leader Liu felt an overwhelming anger.
The shelf - life of organs was very short. One could imagine how these organs were just removed from the victims and then transported here, and then sold by the hospital to the desperate families of patients, squeezing out their savings.
The hospital, a place that was supposed to save lives, had actually become a den for the black market organ trade?
Gritting his teeth, Team Leader Liu looked at the organs and ordered, "Call the forensic doctor. Compare each one with Wang Lin's DNA!"
Although the deputies were also in shock, they immediately snapped out of it and got back to their jobs.
A conspiracy that had been lurking underwater for years was gradually showing its tip of the iceberg.
The next day, a news story broke out.
"XX Hospital is suspected of killing ordinary people and harvesting their organs for profit!"
This news really hit a nerve with the public.
There were scolding comments everywhere.
"Heartless!"
"Damn the hospital boss!"
"Give justice to the victims and the patients!"
In the past few days, the hospital had received the most scolding.
When Tang Tang saw this news at home, she was both shocked and angry. Zuo Mu was still working there, and Tang Gu was out of the country. They couldn't escape the blame for this incident.
First of all, she rushed "clomp - clomp" into Zuo Mu's study. So shocked was she that she even forgot to knock on the door when she entered.
Zuo Mu was sitting in front of the computer with a heavy look on his face. Hearing Tang Tang come in, he calmly closed the interface and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry?"
Tang Tang had run so fast that she hadn't even put on her shoes properly and was still out of breath. But she didn't care. She just walked quickly up to Zuo Mu, pointed at the content on her phone, and asked, "Is this true?"
After looking closely at the content on the phone, Zuo Mu instinctively wanted to deny it. But seeing Tang Tang's anxious face, and knowing that this hospital was related to her father, how could she not be worried?
He nodded, indirectly admitting it.
Tang Tang's legs went weak, and she almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Zuo Mu noticed her state and stepped forward to support her, preventing her from collapsing.
"Tang Tang," Zuo Mu said with a look of concern on his face. He helped Tang Tang sit on his chair while he stood. He tried to explain a bit, "You don't need to be too anxious. Uncle may not even know about these things."
"What if he knew? What if he didn't? These things happened in his hospital," Tang Tang felt suffocated and struggled to gasp for air.
Zuo Mu saw that something was wrong with her. She was probably suffering from hyperventilation - induced respiratory acidosis due to the excessive shock. So he took a file bag from the bookshelf and asked Tang Tang to breathe deeply into it.
After several rounds, Tang Tang finally felt that the buzzing in her head was getting quieter, and her rationality was gradually returning.
Zuo Mu made sense.
"But brother, Dad is not in the country right now," Tang Tang thought of this problem and felt a bit dejected.
Her father used to be her hero. But now these things were such a mess, and with Zuo Mu's confirmation, she didn't know how to face Tang Gu for a moment.
"Maybe we should call him and tell him not to come back," Tang Tang suggested, but then quickly denied it. "No, that's not good. Do we really want it to come to the point of a cross - border manhunt?"
"Have some faith in your father," Zuo Mu rubbed his forehead, his eyes firm. "I know what kind of person Uncle Tang is, and you know what kind of father and doctor he is."
Zuo Mu's words gave Tang Tang a sense of reassurance.
She looked into Zuo Mu's eyes, which were firm, gentle, and full of concern.