A Bad-Hearted Doctor is Unbearably Beautiful - Chapter 15

Old Third Song was surprised to hear that Zhang Dalong and Liu Tingting had died at the scene. After that, no matter how they interrogated him, he maintained that their deaths had nothing to do with him.

Yunting Garden

A high-end residential complex in the center of Shenzhen.

Lu Xiao and Shen Zhao arrived at Zhang Dalong’s residence. The entire complex had extensive greenery, and the buildings were spaced much further apart than in a typical complex. Facing the entrance was a European-style fountain with a continuous stream of water.

At the security booth by the entrance, a security guard in a crisp black uniform politely stopped them and asked which resident they were visiting. After Lu Xiao took out his police ID, the security guard nodded and cooperated, letting the two of them drive in.

Just as Lu Xiao was about to start the car, he suddenly remembered something. He opened the portrait of the scar-faced man on his phone and asked the security guard if he had seen the person before.

The security guard shook his head. “But we work in rotating shifts. Do you have a specific time period for the person you’re asking about, Officer?”

Lu Xiao thought for a moment. “Around three days before Lunar New Year’s Eve.”

The security guard thought about it and then said, “Wait a moment.” He then called another person.

A man around 50 years old arrived. He looked at the photo in Lu Xiao’s hand, put on his glasses, and looked at it carefully several times before shaking his head.

“Three days before Lunar New Year’s Eve, we did have a strange person come by, but it wasn’t him.”

Hearing this, Lu Xiao immediately pulled the car to the side and began to listen to the security guard’s detailed description of the person’s strangeness.

“Tell me in detail. What did that person look like, and what did he come here to do?”

“His looks… Ah, I’m bad with words. I can’t describe it clearly. Officer, we have surveillance. Do you want to take a look?”

“…You should have said so earlier!” Lu Xiao nodded. The conditions for grassroots police officers to investigate cases have gotten better now.

The middle-aged security guard led the two of them to the surveillance room and brought up the surveillance footage from the night three days before Lunar New Year’s Eve.

The three of them quickly scanned the surveillance footage. The middle-aged security guard suddenly paused the screen. “See, this is the person.”

Lu Xiao and Shen Zhao looked at each other after seeing the surveillance footage. Their expressions were very grim.

Who else could that person be but Old Third Song?

“That scoundrel lied to me!” Lu Xiao’s anger flared up, and he wished he could rush back to the hospital right now and give Old Third Song a few kicks to the stomach.

Shen Zhao, ignoring the furious and frantic Lu Xiao, asked, “Does the surveillance footage have sound?”

“No.”

“Then do you remember what was strange about him?”

“Oh, you can tell that most of the residents here are quite wealthy. Even if they don’t drive in, they’re dressed a bit more presentably. He rode an electric bike and rushed in that day, and he didn’t know that our entrance has an electromagnetic keycard system. I asked him what he was doing here, and if he was making a delivery. He got mad, called me a snob, and insisted he was a resident here.”

“And then?”

“I saw that his arguing at the entrance was making a bad impression, so I let him in.”

Shen Zhao nodded and then fast-forwarded the video.

“Do you security guards ask every person who comes in?”

“No, we only ask people with unregistered license plates and people we don’t recognize.”

“Do you remember what time this person on the electric bike came out?”

“I think… it was less than an hour later. Our complex has a green button at the exit. You just press it, and the door opens. That idiot couldn’t figure it out and fumbled around for a long time.”

Shen Zhao sat at the desk and watched the two video clips of Old Third Song entering and exiting the complex. He gently tapped his fingers on the desk.

He turned to look at Lu Xiao, preparing to leave the surveillance room, but he found that Lu Xiao was not doing well.

“Are you… okay?”

“Do I look okay?” Lu Xiao said, breathing heavily and patting his chest to calm himself down.

“I see… your blood pressure is high. You don’t have much time left,” Shen Zhao said with a smile.

Lu Xiao wished he could spit out a mouthful of blood. “That damn Old Third Song!!!”

Lu Xiao pulled out his phone and called Wang Deng.

“Hey, Brother, what’s wrong? Why are you so angry? Did you get into a fight with Dr. Shen?”

“Don’t say that!” Lu Xiao immediately covered the phone guiltily, afraid that Shen Zhao would hear something.

Lu Xiao: “Where are you right now?”

“Wu Di and I are going door-to-door next to the medical center.”

“Let him do it alone. You go back to the bureau. That little scoundrel Old Third Song dared to lie to me! He went to Zhang Dalong’s complex three days before Lunar New Year’s Eve. Get the interrogation team together and give him a good interrogation!”

“Okay… okay.” Wang Deng shakily hung up the phone.

Wu Di said with stars in his eyes, “Was that my handsome, rich, and mighty Big Brother Lu on the phone?”

Wang Deng: “…Kid, you should get your head checked.”

Shen Zhao saw Lu Xiao hang up the phone and urged him to leave.

“Let’s go. Let’s go to Zhang Dalong’s house first. You’re a police captain, but you’re so easily startled.”

Shen Zhao gave Lu Xiao a sideways glance.

“Wait for me!” Lu Xiao ran a few steps after him and told the security guard to contact the property management to help open the door.