Chapter 337: Chapter 231: The Terrifying Truth!

The next second...

A pair of porcelain-white, completely veinless, unfocused eyes appeared right in front of him!

This is...

What the hell!?

Xu Liang paused for a moment in a daze, then turned his head to look at Feng Nan.

"What’s wrong?" Feng Nan saw this and couldn’t help feeling a bit puzzled.

"If I guessed right... when Li Guang had that stomach cramp, you weren’t by his side, were you?" Xu Liang asked.

Feng Nan froze for a moment, then nodded.

"Right, I was outside doing day work. It was the hospital that notified me, and then I rushed back... After I got back to the hospital, I got the death notice."

As she spoke, a faint trace of despair seeped through her expression.

Middle-aged, gravely ill herself, husband and son both dead... it really is enough to drive someone to despair.

Only...

"You’re sure the hospital’s explanation was stomach cramps caused by side effects of the generic drug?"

Xu Liang frowned and pressed again.

Why is it that the deeper this case goes... the more suspicious points there are!?

"That’s what they said, I remember it very clearly." Feng Nan said.

Off to the side, Yang Ruoxi looked him over and didn’t see anything wrong, then asked in confusion:

"What’s going on?"

"What did you find?"

Xu Liang paused, didn’t spell it out, hesitated for a second, then suddenly said:

"If I’m not mistaken... Li Guang’s blood type... is rather special, isn’t it?"

Hearing this, Feng Nan was stunned. She didn’t know how Xu Liang knew that. After thinking for a while, she said:

"Seems like it was... some kind of r-something negative blood type. The hospital told me when he was born, but I didn’t pay much attention, so..."

Hearing that.

Before Xu Liang could speak.

Yang Ruoxi suddenly froze, then the hairs on her body stood up. She blurted out:

"Rh-negative blood type!?"

Feng Nan paused, then hurriedly nodded. "Yes, that’s it, some Rh-negative blood type..."

At that.

With that confirmed, Xu Liang and Yang Ruoxi both looked distinctly grim.

What is Rh-negative blood?

Don’t most people just have A/B/O type blood?

Of course, it has a more popular name.

Panda blood!

A blood type that’s basically liquid gold, occurring in only about 0.3%–0.4% of the population!

How valuable is this stuff that it’s actually called liquid gold?

One thousand yuan for 200 milliliters!

And that’s just the floor price. On Western black markets, at the peak it can go for as high as three grand a bag, which converts to nearly twenty thousand yuan a bag!

If it’s urgently needed for surgery, the price goes even higher!

Some people, for profit, will kidnap those with such blood and turn them into blood slaves, having them give blood 10–15 times a month.

At 13 times a month, how much can you make?

And if you had ten such people!?

The profits are huge... far beyond what ordinary people can imagine!

If Li Guang had lived to grow up, in an ideal scenario he could practically live comfortably just by selling his blood!

So...

"Ms. Feng, what I’m saying is this."

"Although Li Guang did show signs of stomach cramps, and there are traces consistent with drug effects, the real cause of his death..."

Looking at Feng Nan, Xu Liang paused, his lips moving slightly. In the end he took a deep breath and said:

"Was because..."

"Massive blood loss!"

Mas... massive blood loss!?

In an instant, Feng Nan’s body shook. Staring in shock, she took a step back.

Yang Ruoxi also realized something at this moment. She looked at Li Guang’s completely pale skin, her expression extremely grim.

This is a side effect?

No.

This is clearly the classic appearance of massive blood loss!

Skin deathly pale, not a trace of redness in the eyeballs.

But if that’s really the case, then Li Guang was... drained of blood—literally bled to death!

Tianshan Hospital secretly drew blood from Li Guang behind Feng Nan’s back!?

"But my child had leukemia!" Feng Nan’s face went white, as if struck by a hammer.

She clutched the mortuary cabinet beside her, her mind buzzing.

"Leukemia doesn’t rule it out."

Xu Liang took a deep breath and said, "Leukemia blood isn’t the same as ’toxic blood’. It’s also banned from being collected."

"But there’s no effective method to test leukemia blood. As long as someone wants to sell it, it can still go for a high price!"

Panda blood is gold.

Even if this piece of gold is tainted with filth, it’s still gold!

In fact...

The people selling blood only care about money. They don’t give a damn whether drawing the blood will cause problems afterwards.

The fact the hospital secretly drew blood in the first place already means it wasn’t to replenish the blood bank, but for illegal trade. Since that’s the case, the people drawing blood weren’t going to back down just because Li Guang had leukemia!

In fact...

"There’s a lot of toxic blood circulating on the black market."

"That toxic blood is not much different from leukemia blood, and it’s even cheaper, but people still sell it." Xu Liang said.

"Toxic blood" means blood from AIDS and similar patients.

This kind of blood carries an extremely high risk of infection. In some sense, it’s even more dangerous than leukemia, yet it still floods the black market. In some Western country that’s one of the world’s biggest blood exporters, they even sell toxic blood officially...

So...

Xu Liang withdrew his gaze and let it fall on Li Guang’s arm.

This time he went over every inch, inside and out, carefully scanning.

He finally found a... tiny wound.

Left by a needle!?

Xu Liang’s heart tensed. He immediately took out the camera he carried and snapped a photo.

"Click, click, click!"

The sudden series of sounds instantly drew the attention of the medical staff. Facing their puzzled looks, Xu Liang calmly put away the camera and patted Feng Nan on the back.

"Time to go."

With that, under the eyes of the staff, he left the morgue.

Feng Nan wanted to say something. Right now her insides felt like they were splitting apart, she couldn’t even breathe properly, as if a hand was clamped around her throat!

If the child had died from illness, she could accept that.

But... but being bled to death, drained alive!

Even though this wasn’t a definite conclusion yet, just the thought alone was enough to plunge Feng Nan into despair.

She didn’t dare imagine what Li Guang went through before he died...

"Shh~"

Yang Ruoxi hushed her, supporting her and signaling her not to spread the news.

Feng Nan’s face was ashen. Forcing herself to stay upright, she slowly walked out.

The medical staff were a bit confused, but still showed respect. After all, her child died at just eight years old. Anyone would find that impossible to accept; any reaction would be normal.

Not long after.

They slid the cabinet back in place, then led the group out of the morgue.

"Sss~!"

They took the elevator back up and returned to the first-floor lobby.

As the elevator doors opened.

Feng Nan staggered out and was helped onto a public bench by Yang Ruoxi.

Su Yu, who had been waiting in the lobby for quite some time, had been about to speak, but froze when she saw this scene.

"What happened to her?" Su Yu asked, stunned.

"We found some things."

Xu Liang replied, then asked in return:

"What about you? What did you find?"

At that.

Su Yu’s expression turned serious. Her face looked downright ugly, her eyes very dark.

"There’s something wrong with the charges..."

Something wrong with the charges?

Overcharging, or inflated prices? Or something else?

"Senior, see for yourself." Su Yu said no more and handed him the report in her hand.

Xu Liang took it suspiciously, then suddenly froze.

The report showed that Feng Nan’s husband, Li Ye, died on April 2nd, but...

The records of his IV drips were dated...

April 5th!

Starting from the 2nd, they continued all the way to the 7th. Every infusion had clear records, and the amounts given were quite large.

This is...

"Giving an IV to a corpse!?"

The man was already dead, but the meds hadn’t stopped... they were still pumping glucose into a corpse!??

Xu Liang was stunned on the spot, looking at Su Yu in total disbelief. He couldn’t hold it back anymore.

Li Ye’s payment records, Li Guang’s massive blood loss, the inexplicable stomach cramps...

The investigation has only just begun, and a flood of mysteries is already crashing down on them.

"What the hell is this hospital trying to do!?"