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Chapter 51 The Corpse on the Operating Table

As a Level D investigator in the Emergency Management Bureau, Chen Guokun's jurisdiction was limited to Tianmen County and some surrounding villages and towns.

In other plains areas, villages and towns are not too far from county-level cities.

However, Tianmen County is mostly surrounded by mountains. The town furthest from Tianmen County is almost a two-hour drive away, not to mention the small villages and hamlets in the mountains.

Therefore, Chen Guokun and his partner Tong Yu are actually quite busy. If something happens in their jurisdiction, he has to go and check it out immediately. If nothing happens, he also has to go to the more remote villages and towns in their jurisdiction from time to time.

Fortunately, the administration understood their situation and, although it was unable to send more investigators, it provided them with sufficient compensation in other ways.

For example, the number of peripheral investigators.

A regular Class D investigator is usually assigned two 'peripheral investigators', but Chen Guokun's case has been increased to five.

Together with Tong Yu, they make up ten spots.

With these ten slots for peripheral investigators, Chen Guokun wouldn't have to do everything personally. He could simply assign one peripheral investigator to a remote area to oversee any unusual events that might occur there.

Of course, all we can do is look after them; we can't solve the problem.

The peripheral investigators are just ordinary people.

Their salary and benefits are calculated at the level of a stable, government-secure job in the local area, including social insurance, housing fund, and even holiday gifts. In terms of benefits, they are comparable to those of a stable, government-secure job.

Aside from not having a real job, calling it a secure job wouldn't be wrong.

However, there are varying levels of ability among peripheral investigators. Some experienced investigators will first investigate and verify the anomalies they discover, and only notify Chen Guokun after confirming that it is a situation they cannot understand.

Chen Guokun really liked this kind of peripheral work, so he would apply for bonuses for them from time to time.

Chen Guokun was troubled by some unreliable escorts, as he wasted a lot of time on them.

But he couldn't say the other party was wrong, since they were indeed working hard.

In this case, it was discovered by a previously unreliable peripheral member.

The incident occurred in Longtang Town, a town in the south of Tianmen County.

Longtang Town is located outside the mountainous area and its transportation is even more developed than that of Tianmen County. It is also a popular spot for anglers and picnickers because of a large pond called "Longtang" next to the town.

The town has developed many tourist attractions around Longtang, which has contributed to its economic development.

If someone who didn't know the area went there, they wouldn't even think it was a town!

The peripheral member in Longtang Town is named Hua Yi, a man who has just turned thirty and has been working as a peripheral member for Chen Guokun for three years.

A few days ago, Hua Yi called Chen Guokun and said that someone had died at a place called "Future Medical Aesthetics Center" in Longtang Town.

Normally, given Hua Yi's background, he wouldn't delve into such matters; he would simply report it to Chen Guokun and wait for Chen Guokun to investigate.

But this time was different, because Hua Yi's sister-in-law worked as a nurse at the [Future Medical Aesthetics Center], so Hua Yi knew a lot about it.

When Hua Yi called, she said that a surgeon named Li Ming had died at the Future Medical Aesthetics Center, and that the accident happened while he was performing surgery on a client.

The situation was very strange. According to Hua Yi's sister-in-law, Li Ming picked up a knife and was about to operate on the anesthetized client when he suddenly stopped.

The scrub nurse next to him thought Li Ming was observing how to make the incision, but then, Li Ming suddenly blurted out a sentence.

"why you!"

When Li Ming said those words, he sounded shocked, but strangely, his body didn't react at all.

The scrub nurse initially thought she was hallucinating.

After that, Li Ming began to operate, and the scrub nurse suppressed her doubts.

But then, the scrub nurse noticed something was wrong.

She had performed many surgeries with Li Ming, so she knew his surgical procedures very well.

The client was getting double eyelid surgery and rhinoplasty, but Li Ming's incision procedure was different from usual. The scrub nurse assumed it was a new technique and didn't say anything.

But what happened next terrified the scrub nurse.

Holding a scalpel, Li Ming drew crisscrossing 'well'-shaped incisions on the client's face.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ming took a pair of tweezers from the tray in the hands of the stunned scrub nurse.

He used tweezers to hold the skin at the incision site in one hand, and used a scalpel in the other to cut the skin off the client's face bit by bit.

That level of dedication was absolutely unprecedented in my life as an instrument nurse.

At that time, the scrub nurse thought Li Ming had made a mistake in the surgical plan and reminded him in a trembling voice.

But Li Ming ignored her completely, silently peeling off a layer of skin and examining it under the operating light with tweezers.

Even with a mask on, the scrub nurse could see the bliss in Li Ming's eyes.

This situation completely terrified the scrub nurse.

Immediately, she dropped the tray and ran out of the operating room, heading straight for the store manager's room.

But the store manager was meeting with customers at the time, and she couldn't interrupt.

The store manager came out ten minutes later.

When she and the sweating store manager rushed to the operating room, through the glass outside, they saw a person with a bloody and mangled face lying on the operating table, while Li Ming stood in front of the operating table.

The store manager rushed into the operating room and berated Li Ming.

But when the store manager grabbed Li Ming and turned him around, he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, Li Ming's face was even worse than the face on the operating table!
The original skin on Li Ming's face had been peeled off, and what was on his face was a new face pieced together from the skin of the female client on the operating table.

When Li Ming saw the store manager on the ground, he immediately bent down and asked with a smile, "Do you think my face is good-looking?"

As he spoke, a piece of skin fell off Li Ming's face and stuck to the store manager's face.

The store manager ran out of the operating room like a madman, and the scrub nurse naturally didn't dare to leave him alone.

Once the store manager came to his senses, he realized that this medical malpractice had to be dealt with, or the store would be finished!
Afterwards, with more people by his side, he finally mustered the courage to rush to the operating room.

At this point, the female client on the operating table had disappeared.

Instead, Li Ming was lying on the operating table.

By the time the store manager and the others mustered up their courage and went over, Li Ming was already dead.

Even on his deathbed, Li Ming still had that patched-together face with a missing piece of skin.

Because it involved deaths and medical malpractice, the cosmetic surgery center was quickly shut down.

Upon hearing the news, Chen Guokun rushed over that very day.

Strangely, after searching the area, they found nothing.

It seems this is something a doctor who suddenly fell ill did.

But the day after Chen Guokun and Tong Yu returned to Tianmen County, Hua Yi called again.

Someone died at that already closed cosmetic surgery center.

They both died in the operating room, and both had their faces cut off.

This time, however, it was Hua Yi's sister-in-law, the nurse, who died!

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(End of this chapter)