This actor is full of tricks.

"There are three scripts now. Since I'm in Sanjiang, I should finish filming the Joker script first, and then deal with the matter of the benevolent father without any distractions."

Lin Jue mentally confirmed the order in which he would receive the scripts and boarded the bus home.

When Fang Hao was halfway there, his phone rang. The caller was Chen Fu.

"Hello, Captain, is the mission complete?" He answered the phone in a relaxed tone. He guessed that the Sanjiang Inspection Division had probably gone to that mental hospital. Did Chen Fu have some good news to say for calling this time?
"Do you have time? Come to the Inspection Department."

Chen Fu's voice sounded very hoarse and full of fatigue, which made Lin Jue's heart sink and a bad premonition rise: "I'll be right there."

"Come to the vice minister's office when you arrive. I'll be waiting for you here." After saying that, Chen Fu hung up the phone.

Looking at the phone screen that was gradually going dark, Lin Jue sighed softly. Judging from Chen Fu's tone, things must have gotten to a very serious point.

When the bus pulled into the next stop, Lin Jue hurriedly got off, hailed a taxi, and headed straight for the Inspection Department.

As soon as he arrived at the Inspection Department, he noticed that the atmosphere was very strange. Everyone's face was ashen and lifeless. Almost no one was talking. Some were squatting and smoking, while others sat blankly in their seats, their eyes vacant, seemingly lost in thought.

Lin Jue headed straight for the investigation department on the fourth floor. As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he froze on the spot.

In his memory, the investigation department had five teams, each with four people in front of it, which meant there were at least twenty people on the entire four-story building.

Now, the fourth floor is empty and eerily quiet, without a sound. The investigators' seats are piled high with documents, but there is not a single person there.

Is this still the investigation department I remember?
Lin Jue's heart sank to the bottom. He found the deputy minister's office, which used to be Chen Fu's office, but the sign on the door that read "Captain Ye You" had been changed to "Deputy Minister's Office".

It seems Chen Fu has been promoted.

Lin Jue knocked on the door and whispered, "Captain, it's me."

"Come in." Chen Fu's barely audible voice came from behind the door; Lin Jue wouldn't have heard it at all if his hearing hadn't been so good.

He gently pushed open the door. The room was dark, with no lights on and even the curtains closed. He could only vaguely see a blurry figure sitting behind the desk and a cigarette butt flickering in the air.

"Why aren't the lights on?" Lin Jue reached out and turned on the switch on the wall. The dark room was instantly filled with light, and Chen Fu could be clearly seen slumped in the boss's chair.

The captain of the Nightshade Squad looked dejected, his hair was messy, his clothes were covered in dust and mud, and the ashtray on the table was piled with cigarette butts.

Lin Jue sat down opposite Chen Fu, opened his mouth as if to ask what had happened, but ultimately didn't ask. The main reason was that Chen Fu's current image was too drastic. He had met Chen Fu many times, and every time the other party looked invincible. He had never seen him look so dejected and tired.

"Want a cigarette?" Chen Fu didn't even lift his eyelids, stubbed out his cigarette, and prepared to get another one from the pack, but the pack was already empty. Frustrated, he crumpled the pack into a ball and slammed it against the wall: "Damn it!"

"Take mine." Lin Jue handed over the cigarettes he had prepared, and also took one for himself.

Through the smoke, Lin Jue seemed to see Chen Fu's eyes slowly redden. Lin Jue didn't know how to begin. His gaze swept to the nameplate on the desk that read "Deputy Minister Chen Fu," and he asked, "Captain, you got promoted? Did you break through to the fourth rank?"

Given Chen Fu's current state, he certainly couldn't take the initiative to ask about the mental hospital; he could only wait for the other party to bring it up themselves.

Chen Fu didn't speak, he just kept smoking. After a long while, he finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "That mental hospital has disappeared."

Mental hospital...

Disappeared! ?

"Did you go to that mental hospital? What do you mean by disappearing?" Lin Jue pretended to be unaware.

"Literally, it just vanished into thin air. Several buildings disappeared right before my eyes, like a pencil drawing that was forcibly erased from the paper with an eraser."

Chen Fu's words were curt as he stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray: "Three days ago, headquarters sent a team consisting of two fourth-tier leaders, a dozen third-tier experts, and four squads from the Sanjiang Inspection Division, who went to that mental hospital together."

Two fourth-rank officers, a dozen or so third-rank officers, and four squads from the Sanjiang Inspection Division?
This configuration is enough to show how much importance the Inspection Department headquarters attaches to that mental hospital. Putting aside everything else, if this team were to go all out, it would be enough to turn Sanjiang City upside down.

"And then?" Lin Jue asked. According to what Chen Fu had said before, the strongest person in that hospital was probably at the fourth level, and with that kind of configuration, they could completely overturn the entire hospital.

"At the time, the minister and I stood guard outside the hospital, while everyone else went inside. The two sides communicated through miniature earpieces and were equipped with miniature cameras that transmitted real-time images, which were then recorded by the clerk."

It must be said that the audit department was indeed very well prepared.

"One more." Chen Fu asked for another cigarette, lit it, and continued his story: "At first, everything seemed normal. After we went into that hospital, we even found that it was still open for business."

"The hospital is still open?" Lin Jue was taken aback. He thought the hospital had been abandoned and turned into a paradise for ghosts and monsters, but Chen Fu told him that it was still open. How could a hospital that had been sealed off still be open?
“That’s right.” Chen Fu nodded and took a deep drag on his cigarette. “When our people went in, there were even medical staff who came up to greet them. They treated our people as patients who came for treatment.”

"This is completely different from the first time we went to that hospital. It's not like that bizarre and strange hospital we saw before at all. It's like time has been reset and the hospital has returned to its original normal state."

"To be on the safe side, Minister Bai ordered them not to act rashly, but to pretend to be patients and follow the words of the medical staff, to sneak into the hospital and investigate the situation before taking action."

"The medical staff even went through the admission procedures for our people in a very professional manner, put on wristbands, and arranged wards and attending physicians for them."

"Did those medical staff admit you to the hospital without even checking you?" Lin Jue asked rhetorically.

“Is it strange? But it’s not strange that it happened in that hospital.” Chen Fu shook off the half-burnt ash. “Those guys weren’t weird, but they were even less like living people. They were like machines operating a specific program, arranging hospitalizations without asking any questions.”

(End of this chapter)