Chapter 21 Section 21

Kasagi's expression was stiff, his eyes were bloodshot, and his lips were pale.Dean Onogawa next to him groaned from time to time.From the two of them, I can feel one thing in common, which is timidity. While being in danger and fear, they must also be deeply afraid of losing their current status. Kazuyoshi Homma, the leader of the second special criminal investigation team, raised his head from the file, and stared harshly at the two hospital directors with sharp gazes from his sunken eye sockets. "Are there really only these six cases of medical negligence in the hands of the hospital? It's really rare."

"No, we explained it just now, it's not medical negligence, the six cases we mentioned are just possible misunderstandings, and there may be a few more cases in the future." Li Mu, who was explaining, sweated on his face dripping from the temples. "In fact, it has already appeared." Onogawa murmured, "The cases of patients or family members who were treated in the hospital before asking to explain the content of the treatment at that time have increased in every department." "Oh—" Honma looked at the dean with interest. "It should be affected by the threatening letter. Because the content of it leaked out and caused false rumors, former patients and family members only come to the door now, because there are not a few patients who are dissatisfied with the treatment results."

"Aren't those cases called medical negligence?" Honma raised the corners of his mouth deliberately. Onogawa's eyes widened in displeasure. "We have tried our best in every case, and there is no problem." "If it's true, there shouldn't be such a prisoner." Honma's gaze returned to the file again. "Is it possible that it was a vicious prank?" Kasaki looked at Honma with eyes asking for help. "It's not impossible, but you can't rely on such unrealistic subjective expectations now." Oh, Kasaki sighed, dropping his shoulders.

It seems that the team leader is quite capable, Nanao who was listening to this conversation thought so, otherwise he would not ask the question by himself. The mechanism installed in the men's restroom is just a smoke pipe, designed to emit smoke when the door is opened. Of course, since Nanao couldn't tell immediately at the time, Nanao immediately retreated after finding out, because he thought it was an explosive.It cannot be said that the hospital employee who noticed the smoke coming from the toilet and pressed the siren was wrong in judgment. When the guards arrived, Nanao had already discovered that the smoking object was a chimney, and it took a few minutes for the fire alarm to stop.

The fire engine arrived soon, and once it was confirmed that there was no fire, it retreated immediately.However, it took more than an hour to completely discharge the dense smoke, and it took even more time for the hospital that caused the commotion to return to calm. The investigators came from the Central Bureau, and then Nanao's colleagues from the Metropolitan Police Department also came, and the team leader Honma was among them. The scene was investigated by forensic personnel.During this period, Nanao described the incident to Honma and others in the hospital's affairs bureau.As far as the police are concerned, it is indeed much easier for the discoverer to be someone other than ordinary people, but this person happens to be Nanao, so Honma is a bit difficult to deal with.

A threatening letter was found at the scene, which read as follows: Two warning letters have been sent so far, but no sincere response has yet been received.Not only that, but you are also very dishonest in concealing the narration of medical negligence that the main purpose of the warning letter is from the media. It would be a big mistake to underestimate the execution of the warning letter, or to believe that the warning letter is purely a hoax.For this reason, although it was not our intention, we still decided to conduct simulation experiments.Presumably you have confirmed that the items we have installed are harmless smoke pipes.However, what would happen if it were a bomb?Can you spot it before it explodes?Also, how bad would the damage be if it exploded?Do you still make foolish assumptions that there will be no victims?

How to evaluate our execution is your freedom, but the only certainty is that this is the last warning.Next time, it won't be a chimney. Warner At this point, the Metropolitan Police Department can no longer take a wait-and-see attitude.Honma would do it himself because he had a sense of crisis and thought it was not just a prank. After leaving the Bureau, Honma ordered his subordinates to immediately investigate all the people who complained to the hospital. "Will the prisoner do such a thing on purpose?" Honma glared at Nanao, who was singing the opposite tune: "What do you mean?"

"Complaint to the hospital. I don't think he would have acted in a way that aroused the suspicion of the police." Honma pressed the file in his hand against Nanao's chest. "Maybe it's a cover-up!" "Cover up... is it?" "As soon as the police are dispatched, they will definitely investigate medical disputes. Regardless of whether there are complaints or not, we will investigate all suspicious cases. The prisoner may take defensive measures." Honma scanned the department with sharp eyes Said below. Nanao did not raise any further objections, and conducted the investigation together with Sakamoto.However, he still believed that this prisoner should not appear in such a simple investigation, and his evidence came from another agency that was discovered together with the smoke pipe.

The chimney was placed on the toilet seat, and there was a small tape recorder next to it, which recorded a male humming and getting dressed, and played it repeatedly, with the purpose of delaying the opening of the door.If there is no sound, the toilet door is always closed. In a place like a hospital, someone will try to open the door soon.In fact, even Nanao was fooled by the recorded humming and almost missed it. If the purpose of the prisoner setting up that kind of mechanism is to ensure the time to escape, there is really nothing to investigate.If the purpose is only for this purpose, then the prisoner only needs to install the organ in a more inconspicuous place and start the chimney with a timer, but why didn't he do that?On a technical level, the chimney is activated when the door is opened, which is obviously within the reach of the prisoner.

Boldly choosing to install mechanisms in men's toilets, places that are not used by a specific majority of people, Nanao believes that this is a clue that cannot be ignored.The characteristics of it are also the same as the previous two threatening letters. The prisoner not only targets the hospital, but also highlights his criminal behavior to the people who use the hospital. Nanao doesn't believe that correcting medical negligence is the prisoner's sole purpose. He strongly feels that the threatening letter and the smoke pipe commotion are preparations for some kind of behavior that the prisoner is about to perform.

Starting tomorrow, the security of the hospital will be even tighter.No, it has already started tonight. The number of guards has increased, and the police will be stationed. Even like the airport to prevent terrorists, even the trash cans have been removed.This makes it much more difficult for prisoners to conceal explosives. However, it is unlikely that the prisoner did not anticipate this situation.Nanao thinks that if the prisoner is so stupid that he can't even think of this, he won't design these mechanisms. The intervention of the police and the strengthening of security should be within the calculation of the prisoner. At the same time, he also expected that the hospital would not give in to intimidation.Even so, he caused a smokehouse commotion.Why is that? Nanao thinks there are three possibilities.First, the prisoner was not serious after all, nor did he intend to plant a bomb.Second.He is confident that he can break through the heavily guarded bombs. The last one might be- Smokehouse riots serve purposes other than intimidation.