After they all left, Hu Zi and Long Xiangtian stayed behind to carefully check the base to see if there were any clues left behind, and Wang Sicong also stayed behind.
Long Xiangtian first went to the room where they kept the documents and saw a lot of scattered papers on the floor. He picked them up one by one and found that they were images of the experiments done by those people.
There were early ones and later ones, and the changes were getting bigger and bigger. Long Xiangtian put these papers aside and continued to check them, but he didn't see any useful information. They had been completely destroyed.
Looking at the laboratory again, he found that all the bottles and jars inside were empty, and the useful medicines were probably taken away. Long Xiangtian became annoyed and slapped the experimental equipment, making a big hole.
Long Xiangtian walked out, pulled the doctor in, pointed at the bottles and jars, and said, "Haven't you been doing experiments here for so long? Tell me, what are these materials?"
“I don’t know, I don’t know…” The doctor also covered his head and cried. He didn’t know that those people had become like this. That group of people never allowed him to leave the room, so he had no idea what was happening outside.
Seeing him almost going crazy, Long Xiangtian had no choice but to go out. He saw a pile of debris in the corner. It was red and white. For some reason, Long Xiangtian felt familiar with it, as if he had seen it somewhere.
But he really had no clue, and this didn't look like a medicine, so Long Xiangtian didn't care too much about it.
Wang Xun and Long Xiangtian were ultimately unable to resolve the situation and could only report it to the local authorities. Officials immediately took emergency measures, sending people to provide treatment and blocking the news.
However, the people of Province Z eventually found out about this matter. After all, they had to come into contact with many medical staff and investigators in the process, and they were shocked and terrified.
"Wow, I heard that someone turned into a monster. What exactly happened?" People in the streets and alleys all like the excitement, so they chat with each other about the news they know.
"Hey, I heard it was brought out from the mountains..."
In order not to cause panic among the local people, the authorities said: They just accidentally ate something and now they have become like this. Their lives are not in danger and the authorities will do their best to help them recover as soon as possible.
However, this matter was too big and of such a bad nature that the province could not resolve it and could only report it to the central government in the hope of getting help.
The central government was also shocked and angry when it received the news, and said that it would investigate the matter thoroughly, while also ordering that the people must be appeased.
The media in Province Z is reporting this incident. As news personnel from the provincial television station, they naturally have to be on the same page as the official. No matter what is true or false, the purpose is to appease the people, and the people are indeed relieved.
However, some gossip media still waited at the hospital entrance to take full photos of the patients and even bribed the nurses in order to get more information to make profits.
"What are you doing?" Long Xiangtian saw a nurse in her twenties sneak into Xiaomi's ward, then sneak out and run to the stairs with her mobile phone in her hand, not knowing what she was doing.
Long Xiangtian keenly noticed the problem and followed up to question him.
The nurse was already doing something bad and was afraid of being found out. She was so frightened by Long Xiangtian's unfriendly questioning that she couldn't even hold the phone tightly and it fell to the ground.
The phone screen was still on. Long Xiangtian saw a photo appear on the screen. He immediately walked over to pick up the phone and was about to check it. The nurse also bent down hurriedly and tried to pick it up.
"Give it to me!" Long Xiangtian's voice was calm and not loud, but the sharpness in it made the nurse feel inexplicably cold, and she handed the phone to Long Xiangtian involuntarily.
Long Xiangtian looked at the high-definition photos of Xiaomi from different angles on the screen. His face became increasingly cold. He grabbed the nurse's wrist and asked through gritted teeth, "What are you doing? Where do you want to send these photos to?"
The nurse's wrist turned red and she was crying in pain. Of course, it was also possible that she was afraid of being exposed for doing something bad. Long Xiangtian did not pay attention to his strength, and of course the nurse did not dare to say that she was in pain.
She shed tears and trembled as she said, "No, I didn't think about where to send it."
"Don't tell the truth yet. Do you need us to go to the dean's office together?"
"No, I, it was a reporter from an outside newspaper who asked me to do this. They said that as long as I took a few photos for them and described the symptoms, they would give me half a million. My mother is sick...
I know it’s wrong to do this, but I really need the money. Please don’t report me. I won’t do this again!” The nurse cried and said she had no choice.
But Long Xiangtian had no sympathy for her at all. He directly confiscated her mobile phone and handed her over to the hospital director. The director did not expect that someone would dare to disclose the patient's condition privately. He immediately took serious action and warned others.
Long Xiangtian felt that this was not a good idea, so he told the leaders of Province Z. However, they could not send anyone to guard the hospital, otherwise it would tell others that there was a big problem. So they could only deal with those tabloid newspapers.
Finally, Long Xiangtian decided to transfer Xiaomi to another hospital and send him back to Qingyuan City. His original plan was to let him receive treatment here for a while, and then send him back when his condition was no longer so terrible, so as to prevent Brother Li from being too sad.
But after something like this happened, Long Xiangtian could no longer feel at ease. When he returned to his own territory in Qingyuan City, he no longer had to worry too much.
The next day, Long Xiangtian decided to take Xiaomi back with him. When Wang Xun heard that Long Xiangtian was going back, he came to see him off. Wang Sijie and Wang Sicong also came.
"Brother Zhou, you are about to go back. Please come to Province Z often!" Wang Sijie didn't know why she was reluctant to let Long Xiangtian go back.
"Okay, you can also come to Qingyuan City. Your brother is studying there. I will treat you well then!" said Long Xiangtian.
Then he asked Wang Sicong if he wanted to go back with him. Wang Sicong said that he still wanted to stay in Province Z for a while. Anyway, he would not study seriously if he returned to Qingyuan City, so he did not care about these few days.
Long Xiangtian thought about the boy's laziness. Although he seemed to be much more serious these days, it was only because of what happened in the cave base. If he returned to Qingyuan City, he would probably fall asleep as soon as he entered class.
After saying goodbye to a few people, Long Xiangtian contacted Brother Li again to arrange a time and boarded the high-speed train. Xiaomi couldn't take a plane in his condition, so even for the high-speed train, he had to use Wang Xun's help to buy a separate carriage.
The high-speed train traveled for five hours and stopped at the station in Qingyuan City. Long Xiangtian made a phone call, and then Li Hao came in with a few people. At first, only he came in, while the other subordinates were waiting at the door.
Although Long Xiangtian had already told him the general idea before so that he could be mentally prepared, when he came in and saw the person lying on the bed, Li Hao, a grown man and a big shot in Qingyuan City, almost lost his balance and fell to the ground.
"How could this happen?" Li Hao knelt beside the bed, crying and blaming himself for not protecting his son, allowing him to be kidnapped and suffer such hardship.