Spiritual Recovery: Gamification of Reality - Chapter 139

Chapter 139: Caught Stealing

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Old Bull did not stay here for long. After all, it was the peak period for supper. Be it his neighbors or foreigners who had come from afar, they had all come because of Old Bull’s skills.

Thus, Old Bull only said a few simple words before turning around and leaving with his two apprentices.

‘Still… ‘

Although Old Bull had only stayed for a short period of time, every word he said hit the nail on the head.

Xu Bail s marriage.

For Lil Bai’s marriage, the neighbors in the old factory had been worried sick.

Xu Bai chuckled as he watched Old Bull walk away. He shook his head and retracted his gaze. Then, he saw Gao Lan, who was holding her chin and staring at him.

Xu Bai looked at the expression on Gao Lan’s face and was silent for a while before saying, “I have the idea of getting married, but not now.”

Gao Lan smiled. “I know.”

Xu Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

Ever since he graduated from university and had some beauties, not only were his neighbors concerned about his marriage, but those beauties had also asked him indirectly.

In Xu Bai’s life plan, there was a marriage plan.

However, before the marriage plan, there was another plan.

His sister.

Xu Wei.

Gao Lan also knew this. She handed the treasure in her hand to Xu Bai and said with a smile, “I was just thinking about how you would investigate if you participated. ”

Xu Bai took the treasure in his hand and looked at Gao Lan.

“You’re a doctor.”

“I know.”

“Didn’t you just say that your hospital wants to deal with it in a low-key manner? An unclaimed body can easily disappear if no one reports it.”

“Yes, but I don’t want to deal with it in a low profile manner. After all, that’s my corpse.”

Xu Bai looked at Gao Lan, whose face was filled with an expression that said, “No one can take my body away from me.” He swallowed the barbecue in his mouth, frowned, and began to analyze the case.

“Didn’t you just say that the morgue’s security cameras captured the person who stole the body?”

“The surveillance footage is blurry, and the morgue is very dark.”

“What about the surveillance outside, the elevator?”

Gao Lan shook her head. “I’ve thought about this before, but when I went to the surveillance room and checked the surveillance footage, I realized that the surveillance footage didn’t match at all at the time of the incident.”

Xu Bai was slightly stunned.

“It doesn’t match. Lost it?”

“No, I didn’t lose it. It’s just that the surveillance footage doesn’t match. That afternoon, I clearly didn’t go to the morgue. In the end, I appeared in the surveillance footage of the elevator at the time of the crime.”

“This is… someone swapped the surveillance footage?”

“Right.”

Xu Bai looked at Gao Lan and fell silent.

“What happened?”

“That makes no sense.”

“What?”

“To be able to modify it alone and cover a time period of surveillance without being discovered, such a computer expert is enough to create a fake ID. There’s no reason for him to steal a corpse that no one cares about.”

“But they stole it.”

“That’s right.”

Xu Bai nodded. The truth was that the body had been stolen. No matter how unbelievable or incomprehensible it was, it was the truth.

Fortunately.

He was a professional detective and had come into contact with cases that were even more outrageous than this. For example, a case where the family was very rich but liked to rob convenience stores.

Criminals always thought differently from ordinary people.

For these people, there was no way to use common sense to deduce.

Except…

Xu Bai thought for a moment and looked at Gao Lan. “Do you have proof of identity for the corpse?”

Gao Lan shook her head. “When he was sent over, he was already unrecognizable. He couldn’t even be saved.”

Xu Bai shook his head. “If you put it that way, it’ll be hard for me to give you any directions for the investigation. After all, the two guards were fired by your hospital, and the corpse didn’t have any clues to investigate. The surveillance cameras didn’t find anything either. This means that there’s no one to suspect.”

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for the police to solve a case like this where the victim’s identity was unknown and there were no clues at the scene.

Moreover, it was a case that did not even have a corpse.

Xu Bai looked at Gao Lan. “In our law enforcement department, there’s a saying. Do you know what it is?”

Gao Lan shook her head. “What words?”

“No body, no case.”

Xu Bai said this sentence to Gao Lan. It wasn’t a famous saying, but it could be considered an unspoken rule. “Without a corpse, no police station would be willing to file a case. This is because solving such a case is far more difficult than solving the top ten cold cases in the Federation.” Gao Lan frowned. “So… there’s no other way?”

Xu Bai smiled.

The next second.

Xu Bai nodded.

“Of course there is. There’s no body or case. It’s just the method most police detectives would use. After all, this kind of case is time-consuming and troublesome. However, this case is different.

Different?”

“Yeah.”

Xu Bai smiled at Gao Lan. “Because you want to investigate this case.”

These were not words of love.

‘It’s not.’

Xu Bai touched his chin and asked Gao Lan about the details that didn’t seem important when the corpse was lost.

For example, the identities of the two guards.

After a while.

Xu Bai raised his eyebrows.

Seeing this, Gao Lan asked tentatively.

“Do you have any leads?”

“Something like that.”

Xu Bai shrugged. “After all, you were the one who told me this information.

However, from what you’ve said, I can only say that if they want to steal a corpse from your hospital’s morgue at five o’clock in the afternoon without alerting anyone, it’s definitely not just because these guys have superb methods. There might even be a spy.”

Gao Lan, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, had a glint in his eyes.

“You mean the two guards?”

“Maybe it’s a guard. Maybe it’s someone else. Maybe.”

“I don’t understand.”

“You need to swipe your card to take the elevator to your morgue floor, okay?

Also, you need to swipe your card to open the door to the morgue, right?”

Any hospital that set up a morgue on the first basement floor of the inpatient building would have to swipe a card to light up the button to go to the morgue.

There were tens of millions of patients who visited the morgue. There was no guarantee that one of them would not be stupid or look for trouble to go to the morgue to look for excitement.

Of course.

If there were no buttons in the morgue, many patients would accidentally enter the basement.

In short…

Xu Bai shook his head and said, “No matter how good this computer expert’s skills are, he might be able to hack into the surveillance system remotely and modify the surveillance system, but he has no way to replicate the card that can open the elevator on the basement level and the key to the morgue. If he wants to do these two things, there must be a mole. After all, if they’re coming for the John Doe’s corpse, they only have one or two days to prepare. Before the John Doe arrives at your hospital, they can’t guarantee that the corpse will arrive at your hospital.” Gao Lan nodded thoughtfully.

The next second.

Gao Lan smiled and looked at Xu Bai. “Forget it, let’s not talk about this anymore. We agreed to have supper, not for you to come out and give me professional advice.”

Xu Bai laughed and said, “For you, I can do anything. Why? Are you not going to investigate?”

Gao Lan smiled. “Family scandals should not be aired in public.”

Xu Bai smiled but did not say anything.

This was probably the reason why they chose to deal with the hospital management who did not report the case internally.

In short, whether there was a mole or not, this was a scandal. If word got out, it would be harmful to the hospital’s reputation. Even if the body was recovered, it would not bring any practical meaning to the hospital’s reputation.

As the topic of “Hospital Corpse Throwing Case” came to an end, Xu Bai and Gao Lan began to officially eat supper.

An hour later.

Xu Bai and Gao Lan greeted Old Bull, who was still busy in the kitchen, and chose to leave. “Going home or going to my place?”

“Hospital.”

Gao Lan flipped her phone over and let Xu Bai see the message that had just arrived on her phone. She said helplessly, “Another emergency patient has arrived. Sorry.”

Xu Bai did not mind. “It’s fine. Shall I give you a ride?”

Gao Lan waved her hand and took out her car keys. She rang the car not far away and kissed Xu Bail s cheek. “No need. It’s faster for me to drive myself. Good night, Lil Bai.”

Xu Bai didn’t force her. He just told her to be careful and then watched Gao Lan get into the car. Then, the engine roared and they drove away from Old Factory

Street.

Back home.

Xu Bai walked to the wine cabinet and poured the remaining bourbon into his mouth.

The next second.

Xu Bai looked at the time and smacked his lips. “Sleep, sleep.”

Her mother had said it when she was still alive.

She hadn’t gone to bed at 2:30 in the morning. Nothing good must have happened.

However, just as Xu Bai was washing up and preparing to sleep, a room in the Su Manor in another part of the city was brightly lit.

Zhu Cong, who was invited, sat on the sofa with a frown. He looked up at Su Mingli, Su Ruyu, and Su Bancheng.

“Hiss!”

Zhu Cong sucked in a breath of cold air, he could not figure it out no matter how he thought about it. “Your Su family’s concealment of the heavenly secrets, coupled with my Thief Sect’s Cause and Effect Transfer Technique, there’s no reason for Yin World to notice it.

As he spoke.

Zhu Cong looked at Su Mingli, who also had some immortal aura, and said angrily, “Hey, old man, didn’t you say that this method was foolproof?”

Su Mingli glanced at Zhu Cong and said in a deep voice, “When I observed the river of fate, it was indeed like this.’

“Then how did Yinshi find out?”

“After all, that’s the vast Great Desolate World. With the Heavenly Dao around, there’s also an empress guarding the Yin World. My River of Fate can only observe the next five years in the vast Great Desolate World.”

“You…”

The corner of Zhu Cong’s mouth twitched. “You didn’t mention this at that time.”

Su Mingli looked at Zhu Cong with a serious expression. “Didn’t you say that you transferred Su Meng’s karma to Zuo Lei?”

Zhu Cong rolled his eyes. “Nonsense. Karma transfers. At most, blood relatives. Isn’t that common sense?” Su Mingli was speechless..