Cleansing Sin

In this city that never sleeps, the nights are always more lively than the days.

The same applies to the emergency department of a hospital.

Black market boxers, gang members.

Some had dislocated joints, some had been shot in the abdomen, and some had knives stuck in their foreheads.

The emergency room doctors were used to it.

However, there seemed to be an unusually large number of injured people tonight, and the cries of pain were also more frequent.

The moment the Hesheng Society members were taken to the hospital, Qing Chen, lying on the hospital bed, gently opened his eyes.

He knew that Wang Bingxu had also come to the hospital, and had even checked on him several times to see if he was there or not.

Qing Chen didn't need to lift his head to confirm while lying on his side in the hospital bed, because he remembered Wang Bingxu's footsteps.

With Wang Bingxu guarding this place, he couldn't leave the hospital...

But sometimes, hunters don't necessarily have to go to great lengths to find prey; they can simply wait for the prey to come to them.

Outside the ward, the doctors instructed the nurses to administer sedatives while muttering to each other, "I heard that several gangs went to besiege Heng Society together, and this is how it ended up... These gang members are really troublesome."

"Isn't the Heng Society known for rarely leaving any survivors?" the emergency room doctor complained. "It would be better if these gang members were all killed, so we wouldn't have to work ourselves to the bone in the middle of the night."

"Shh, the patient next to you is still awake," a nurse reminded him.

The emergency room doctor who had just been complaining calmly turned his head and saw the gang member next to him glaring at him. "What are you looking at? Next time you get attacked, you'll have to be brought here to me to save you. What's wrong with saying a few words to you?"

The club members slowly closed their eyes, remaining silent.

The emergency room doctors in the Fourth District have always been so arrogant, and among the people the gang members least want to offend, besides the corporations, the Public Security Management Committee, and the Federal Tax Administration, are these doctors.

While the hospital was in complete chaos, Wang Bingxu watched the commotion from the sidelines, even pulling aside one or two gang members whose injuries weren't too serious to ask them what had happened that night.

Ten minutes later, the agents from the PCE Public Security Management Committee arrived late and began their investigation as if nothing had happened.

In the dimly lit ward where Qing Chen was, the young man slowly got up and quietly walked out of the ward, his face changed.

He glanced down at his phone, as if everything was planned out. Just as he pushed open the door, two nurses pushed two members of the Hesheng Society past his room.

Those were the person in charge and the executive director of the Hesheng Society, the two most important figures in the organization.

Qing Chen stood silently at the door of the ward, waiting for the nurses to push the hospital bed away. Then, without changing his expression, he walked into the public restroom across the street.

Less than a minute later, a nurse in the corridor suddenly exclaimed in alarm. A red bloodstain was rapidly expanding on the chest of the leader of the Hesheng Society, staining the entire blue hospital gown red. The nurse reached out to touch the leader's carotid artery, but there was no movement.

Blood gushed from the chest of the head of the Hesheng Society, seeping into the mobile hospital bed beneath him and dripping onto the corridor.

PCE agents rushed over after hearing the commotion. An experienced veteran detective reached out and touched the victim's chest. "There's a penetrating wound to the heart, and it was just inflicted. Who was near the victim with a weapon just now?!"

The nurse replied somewhat fearfully, "No, I really didn't see anyone take the murder weapon. Only a teenager happened to be going to the restroom and walked past us."

The veteran detective sensed something was amiss. While the PCE Public Security Management Committee) didn't like to get involved in the messy affairs of gangs, it was a bit much for someone to commit murder right under the PCE's nose.

He looked up and saw that there were surveillance cameras at both ends of the corridor, but the problem was that all of them had somehow turned to blind spots and were not pointing at the scene of the crime at all!

Before he could continue thinking about anything, he saw Wei Zihao, the executive director of Hesheng Society, suddenly wake up.

Seeing the wretched state of his superior, he immediately scrambled out of bed and grabbed the old detective's arm. "Officer, save me, I don't want to die!"

The old detective frowned and pushed the other man away. "Who wants to kill you?"

Wei Zihao cried out hoarsely, "Officer, it's Heng Society trying to kill me! Look, our leader has already been assassinated. Please put me in jail, otherwise Heng Society will definitely take my life."

"You think you can just walk into prison whenever you want?" the old detective said coldly.

At this moment, Wei Zihao suddenly said, "I committed the burglary on Peach Blossom Road two years ago. If you don't believe me, give me a DNA sample for comparison. It will definitely match the murder weapon. There was also the mechanical limb robbery in District 6 three years ago, and the burglary in Upper Third District seven years ago..."

Wei Zihao listed a long string of crimes, enough to keep him in prison for life.

The detectives were excited. The most crucial of these cases was the theft case in the Upper Third District. Solving such cases usually earned them great merit!

But then the old detective suddenly said, "That theft case in the Upper Third District was solved this year! I remember the culprit was a man named Liu Dezhu!"

"Yes," Wei Zihao said, "We were being investigated too closely, so they found a bastard named Liu Dezhu to take the blame for us! He was the one who took the fall for all the cases I just mentioned, but the real culprit wasn't him, it was me!"

The PCE agents were stunned. Wei Zihao had confessed to any crime in order to escape the Heng Society's pursuit and go to prison.

At that moment, no one noticed that a transparent thread on Wei Zihao's wrist suddenly came loose, and a boy walked back to the ward from the public toilet, as if nothing had happened to him.

The old detective suddenly pointed at Qing Chen and asked the nurses, "Wasn't that him who just walked past you?"

The nurse shook her head. "No."

"Really not?" The old detective frowned.

"No, this is what he looks like. If it were him, I would definitely remember him," the nurse said.

The old detective rushed into the toilet, only to find that the window was wide open and cold air was blowing in from outside.

He peered out the window, but there was nothing there.

Did they already escape through the window? This is the first floor; jumping out of the window to escape would be incredibly easy.

At this moment, Qing Chen returned to the ward and lay down expressionlessly, in the same position as when he got out of bed, without changing at all.

The key to clearing his name is not how many members of the Hesheng Society he can kill, but finding the real culprit.

All of this happened very discreetly tonight; it would be difficult for anyone who wasn't involved to see through the layers of mystery.

Qing Chen's phone vibrated in his pocket. He opened it and saw a message from Yi: "Actually, if that PCE Level 3 Inspector is serious, you still have a weakness. After all, he would at least ask you if you saw any suspicious people when you came out of the toilet."

Qing Chen thought for a moment and replied, "If I were an ordinary person, of course there would be flaws, but it's different now. Wang Bingxu will help me solve this flaw."

"What do you mean?" Yi was a little confused.

Qing Chen did not answer, but put down his phone.

At that moment, Wang Bingxu was also drawn to the commotion in the corridor. He glanced at the bloodstains on the ground and the PCE agents, and felt that something was wrong.

Why is it that nothing happened at the entrance of other wards, but something happened at the entrance of this ward?

He hurried to Qing Chen's bedside and found that the boy's sleeping posture was exactly the same as before.

Qing Chen turned around gently. "Oh, what brings you here?"

"Oh, the boss was worried the doctor wouldn't take you seriously, so he sent me to check on you," Wang Bingxu scratched his head. "I'm glad you're alright. I'll head out now."

The next second, the old detective had already turned back from the toilet to the corridor, wanting to enter Qing Chen's ward to check on him.

As a result, he bumped into Wang Bingxu as soon as he opened the door.

Wang Bingxu coldly asked, "What do you want to do?"

The veteran detective coldly replied, "PCE is handling cases. If you don't want to die, get out of here."

But then Wang Bingxu swung his arm and slapped him across the face. "My name Wang Bingxu. This ward is full of Li's people. Who the hell gave you permission to come and investigate?"

The old detective was spun around on the spot after being slapped, but the first thing he did after stopping was to apologize. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know you were from the Li family."

"Get out," Wang Bingxu said.

The ward door was closed, and the room fell into darkness again.

Outside the ward, Wei Zihao was sobbing, "What just happened? Officer, I'm innocent!"

"You were just listing the evidence of the crime with such certainty, but it's too late to say you're innocent now," an officer said coldly. "Our people are already searching the evidence hiding place you mentioned. Don't worry, we'll definitely make this an ironclad case for you."

Qing Chen took out his phone. "When will Liu Dezhu be released from prison?"

"We just need to wait until Wei Zihao is formally investigated by the PCE Security Committee tomorrow," Yi replied.

"Huh, isn't there any other procedure in between?" Qing Chen asked in confusion. "Logically speaking, the case should be reopened and retried first, then all the evidence should be gathered to declare Wei Zihao guilty, and only then can Liu Dezhu be released without charge."

"Wei Zihao's case is already a done deal. I can pull some strings for you and release Liu Dezhu early," Yi said. "Anyway, whether there's one more or one less person inside, no one will notice. Remember, three days from now at midnight, go pick up the Forbidden Item ACE-011 'Winning People Over with Conquer by Virtue'."

Qing Chen couldn't help but sigh. In the confines of the prison, Yi truly had everything he wanted. He wondered why the Federation would grant such immense power to an Artificial Intelligence.

This may be related to Yi's father Ren Xiaosu, who held a pivotal position in the entire history of the Federation. Yi should be considered a legitimate second-generation official.

Yi asked, "Is there anything else?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment and said, "Please thank Li Dongze for me."

According to Li Dongze's style of doing things, all the members of Hesheng Society should have been killed tonight, but for Qing Chen's sake, Li Dongze left some survivors for each gang.

"Aren't you going to thank me?" I asked curiously. "I helped a lot tonight too. If it weren't for me, Hesheng Society wouldn't have been sent to this hospital... By the way, I've recently developed a crush on a girl..."

Qing Chen closed his eyes and stopped replying to messages.

After waiting for a while, I asked, "Is it still there?"

"Qing Chen, are you still there?"

"Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?"

Have some food, there'll be another chapter tonight.