Tang Tang was afraid of drowning in those eyes. Flustered, she quickly averted her gaze. Finally, her rationality returned.
"If my dad isn't around, I'm afraid the police officers won't involve me anymore," Tang Tang said with a bitter smile.
"Don't worry," Zuo Mu ruffled Tang Tang's hair, trying to comfort her. "I trust Uncle Tang. You should too."
Zuo Mu's voice was soft yet steady and powerful, offering Tang Tang a little solace from her grief.
Bathed in the bright sunlight, both of them felt that the atmosphere had changed.
As it turned out, Tang Tang's hunch was right.
Two days later, the police came to the door.
Hearing the rhythmic doorbell ringing, Zuo Mu knew what was coming. He motioned for Tang Tang to stay put and went to answer the door himself.
Sure enough, it was an old acquaintance outside the door.
The serious - looking female police officer.
This time, she was also in plain clothes, accompanied by a young rookie who looked rather green.
"Officer?" Zuo Mu had been interrogated before, so they had met. Pretending not to know her at this moment would be too obvious. So he called out to her generously.
"May we come in, Mr. Zuo?" The female police officer was straightforward. She took out the search warrant in her hand and showed it to Zuo Mu.
They even had this?
Zuo Mu grumbled inwardly, but on the surface, he remained calm and invited them in.
Once inside, the officer scanned the place and found it to be an ordinary bachelor's apartment. However, the occasional small dolls and the girly sticky notes indicated that Zuo Mu wasn't the only one living here.
Sure enough, in the living room, Tang Tang was anxiously following the news of these days. The hospital's stock price had plummeted, and she couldn't reach Tang Gu. She knew that her unreliable father had probably ditched his work and gone off to some place without network to enjoy himself, leaving his worried daughter here in a hurry.
Seeing the visitors, she was very polite. "Hello, sister." She didn't recognize them as the police.
The officer was a bit surprised and turned to Zuo Mu. "You don't live alone?"
Zuo Mu had a headache and didn't know how to explain. He simply introduced, "She's Tang Gu's daughter. Uncle can't come back for now, so he asked me to take care of her."
Hearing that she was Tang Gu's daughter, the police officer felt a bit pity.
She came today to ask for some information. Tang Gu's daughter might have something worth digging into. But seeing this high - school student, she thought it was so unfair for a child to be involved in this.
After sitting down, the officer got straight to the point. "I'll be blunt. Now that we can't reach Tang Gu, you're his emergency contact."
"Emergency contact?" Zuo Mu was a bit confused. 'When did he become this?'
The officer explained, "It means that if Tang Gu doesn't show up, you can act on his behalf."
However, Zuo Mu wasn't happy at all. He was already dealing with a mess, and now he had to get involved with the children's matters too.
"I don't know what you're searching for. One of us is Tang Gu's under - age daughter. She doesn't understand many things. As for me, I'm just a young man who has known Uncle Tang for a long time. I'm on the periphery in the hospital. I'm not interested in the issues you're concerned about," Zuo Mu said helplessly, as if he himself was wronged for being involved in all this.
"Zuo Mu, that's your name, right?" The officer sat on the sofa, her expression tense. "Do you know why? The DNA results are out."
This was what Zuo Mu and Tang Tang were most concerned about. Tang Tang had vaguely heard from Zuo Mu that the organs had been found, but there had been no news about the results.
"What's the result?" Zuo Mu couldn't hide his eagerness.
"Simple. None of them matched."
Zuo Mu heard the news he least wanted. There was no need for him to doubt the police's results.
The police first handed the inspection report to Zuo Mu.
Zuo Mu glanced at it briefly. Good. All the results were below 90%. It basically ruled out any connection with Wang Lin.
But this was also what Zuo Mu was most afraid of.
Among so many organs, none of them matched Wang Lin's.
So, where were the organs?
Were they intercepted by someone else, or was this just the tip of the iceberg?
Zuo Mu felt a chill run down his back.
So he roughly guessed the officer's purpose. They came to see if they had any more clues, and it would be even better if they could involve Tang Tang.
"You can ask me, but Tang Tang is just a child, and she has no idea about this at all. Shouldn't you let her avoid this?"
"This..."
The female officer was stuck. Logically speaking, as Tang Gu's biological daughter, Tang Tang couldn't avoid this.
But she could roughly guess Zuo Mu's thoughts. He didn't want this child to be dragged into the whirlpool and affect her studies.
Zuo Mu had helped her before, so she should have agreed to this request.
But Tang Tang spoke up. "Did you even ask for my opinion?"
"I can help the police, but you must find my dad and bring him back, okay?" Tang Tang said very carefully.
Zuo Mu felt a twinge of sadness.
This little girl was forced to be involved in these boring things at such a young age.
She was already so innocent.
"Little girl, if you remember any clues during our conversation, you can just say it." The female police officer was usually very kind when dealing with minors, especially this little girl who looked cute and smart.
Tang Tang nodded.
"This is just part of the report," the officer took out another thin document from her briefcase and motioned for Zuo Mu to open it. "This is the real deal."
Zuo Mu took it, with a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, it was another DNA inspection report.
The objects of inspection were the cardiac epidermal tissue and Wang Lin's skin tissue.
The results were a high match.
This was...
Zuo Mu was stunned. Had Wang Lin's heart been found?
But where exactly was it found?
"This was also dug out from your hospital," the female police officer said a bit coldly. "In a different place."
Zuo Mu's heart sank.
This meant that the operating room wasn't the only place for disposing of the stolen goods.
"Right. We found that there was an identical room in the equipment storage," the officer said.
Tang Tang was a bit confused.
Zuo Mu sneered. "It's quite complete."
"So I'm very curious, Zuo Mu. Judging from your mental state, I always feel that there are some innocent people in your hospital."
"If everyone is involved, I might as well quit my job," Zuo Mu was quite confident about this.
The female police officer shook her head, propping her hands on the table. She said earnestly, "Let me give you a piece of advice, young man. You're not the legal representative of the hospital. You're just a contract worker. It's better to keep yourself out of this. You still..." As she spoke, she quietly shifted her gaze to Tang Tang.
Was she suggesting that he should cut ties with Tang Tang?
Zuo Mu found it a bit funny.
"That's impossible. I've been acting as Tang Tang's guardian during this period. I know what kind of person she is. So don't bother with this idea," Zuo Mu simply refused this suggestion.