21st Century Necromancer

Facing a criminal suspect who might die at any moment, Officer Maori couldn’t afford to neglect him, as the clues would end with the person’s death.

Therefore, after the condition of the man with terminal stomach cancer had stabilized, Officer Maori interrogated him again. However, the man determined to die became only more steadfast in his idea of suicide, showing no willingness to speak.

In dealing with a bedridden criminal suspect who might die any time, Officer Maori couldn’t use any extreme methods, and even had to ask questions in a soft and detailed manner, for fear that any emotional agitation might prove fatal for the suspect.

Under such circumstances, the investigation naturally made no progress.

The investigative deadlock made Officer Maori’s already thinning hair increasingly trend towards baldness, but the work still had to be done, and overtime still had to be worked.

On one hand, he directed his subordinates to expedite the investigation into the identities of the two deceased persons, while also continuously urging UDI to deliver the autopsy report; on the other hand, he contacted Tokyo University Hospital, hoping to have the criminal suspect transferred there, to extend the suspect’s life as much as possible.

It has to be said that having been a police officer for many years, although Officer Maori was a bit lazy, not fond of working overtime, and preferred to be a relaxed wage thief, he still had a strong ability to get things done.

Under Officer Maori’s supervision, his police officers worked at 120% efficiency. Although the progress was minimal, they finally gained some new leads.

Firstly, UDI had confirmed that the body found at the cremation case scene was indeed that of the washed-up female singer who was supposed to have died at the piranha solution case scene. She hadn’t died at the piranha solution scene, but at the cremation scene instead.

As for the causes of death, both the remnants from the piranha solution case and the charred body from the cremation case showed traces of a large amount of fentanyl, confirming that both bodies had first been injected with a large dose of fentanyl before perishing, and then dissolved with piranha solution or burned with gasoline.

Once they had the forensic results, the police conducted another search of both crime scenes and indeed found syringe needles left behind, confirming that both victims had been injected with fentanyl.

With this, the case suddenly made new progress. The two cases were connected to the attempted suicide case by the important clue of fentanyl injection, leading the police to infer that there must be a connection between the three cases, and that someone might even have planned and pushed for all of this behind the scenes.

Moreover, when the police reinvestigated the two crime scenes, they also found that someone had lit white candles nearby after the incident, seemingly to console the deceased.

And at the time of the incidents, surveillance footage from around the crime scenes captured the traces of a young girl.

With the new clues, the police naturally quickly focused the investigation on this girl, while UDI hastened the identification of the deceased from the piranha solution case.

However, even with new leads, Officer Maori didn’t give up on the suspect still lying in the hospital. After all, ten birds in the forest are no match for one in the hand, and no matter how many clues there are, they still require investigation—couldn’t compare to getting a breakthrough directly from the suspect, could it?

So after Officer Maori wrote several reports, the Metropolitan Police Department finally intervened and coordinated the transfer of the suspect to Tokyo University Hospital for personal treatment by Chen Yu.

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"Professor Chen, we entrust this suspect to you, and we implore you to do everything possible to save his life. He’s implicated in two murder cases, and the police really need his testimony." In the hospital, within Professor Chen Yu’s office, officials from the Metropolitan Police Department, along with Officer Maori, earnestly requested Chen Yu to preserve the life of the criminal suspect.

Chen Yu didn’t give an affirmative answer, merely flipping through the medical records in his hand, looking at the suspect’s test results.

After a while, Chen Yu finally finished reviewing the medical records and then addressed the two policemen, "The patient’s condition is very serious. His stomach tumor has spread, and it has spread throughout his body. Traditional treatment methods will not be effective.

Even if we forcibly perform surgery to remove the tumors, it is unlikely to save the patient’s life. Generally, in such cases, the patient would be transferred to internal medicine for palliative treatment to extend the survival time and improve the quality of life. Usually, patients like this can survive for about another year." ƒreewebɳovel.com

"A year?" Officer Maori looked at the official from the Metropolitan Police Department, and the two of them exchanged glances. If the case investigation could make a breakthrough, it would be fine, but if the investigation hit a deadlock, one year would not be enough to conclude the case and go to trial.

Therefore, the official from the Metropolitan Police Department asked Chen Yu, "Professor Chen, is there really no way to extend this suspect’s life? You’re the domestic expert in this field, is there really nothing you can do?"

"It’s not that there are no methods, but it’s a treatment plan that is still in the experimental stage and has not yet been tried clinically. So I cannot be certain whether it can cure this patient," Chen Yu explained to the two policemen. Indeed, he did have a treatment plan for patients with systemic cancer cell metastasis.

But as he said, the treatment plan was still at the laboratory research stage and had not been applied clinically.

Of course, to say whether Chen Yu could save this person, the answer was certainly yes. Could a Demigod Level Necromancer not revive a mortal who was still breathing? That’s a joke!

Not to mention late-stage cancer, even if only a head remained, Chen Yu had a way to revive him. The difference simply lay in whether the person was worth the effort for Chen Yu or not.

However, now that the police had come asking for help, Chen Yu couldn’t just outright refuse, especially since he was indeed interested in validating the new treatment plan he had developed, to see if it could cure a patient with metastasized cancer cells.

So, after going around in circles with the two policemen for a bit, he agreed to take on the matter.

After receiving Chen Yu’s agreement, the two policemen left his office. As for whether they could cure the criminal suspect, the policemen only had a fifty-fifty expectation.

They didn’t place all their hopes on Chen Yu curing the suspect and prying his mouth open; instead, they focused more on investigating the clues they already had.

"Have you investigated the warehouse where the suspect attempted suicide? To whom does that warehouse belong?" On the way out of the hospital, the official from the Metropolitan Police Department questioned Officer Maori.

In response to the official’s question, Officer Maori explained, "We’ve already investigated. It belongs to a wooden sculpture artist. We previously brought him back to the police station for questioning, but he knew nothing."