Chapter 654 — Bearing the Guilt
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His family knew he worked away from home, but not what he actually did! The tattooed man spent very little here, barely needed money for anything, so all his bonuses over the years had gone back to the family.
The tattooed man felt he had gotten his money's worth out of this life. His younger brother and sister and his parents could live in comfort, and he asked for nothing more. He had done time in prison; he had no grand future ahead of him. If the An family had not thought well of him, there was no telling whether he would be sleeping in the streets by now.
So the tattooed man wished only that An Liwen, the young master of the An family, would get away safely; then all he would need was for the young master to look after his family afterward. As for the crimes of the kidney-harvesting ring, he had long since prepared to shoulder them alone.
It could be said that apart from Dr. Wang, no one else knew there was a boss standing behind the tattooed man.
Of course, Li Cihua, Bing Shao and the others knew as well, but they were all people of the underworld, and none of them would break the code to report him at the police station.
While the police had not yet come up, the tattooed man walked quickly to the operating room and saw Dr. Wang, his face blank and wooden.
Perhaps Dr. Wang had been thinking the same thing — he had long since expected this day would come.
"Brother Tattoo, the day has come?" Dr. Wang's expression was dull, but his tone was calm.
"Yes, it has." The tattooed man nodded.
"If we are taken in, what will the charge be?" Dr. Wang asked.
"Life, if not death?" The tattooed man smiled.
"You came because you want me dead, don't you?" Dr. Wang lifted his head and glanced at the tattooed man.
The tattooed man nodded honestly. "I'm afraid that when the time comes you won't hold out, and you'll give up Young Master Wen."
"Heh, hold out I could. But I don't want to anymore. I don't want my son to know his father is a criminal, a conscienceless doctor who cuts kidneys out of people for profit!" Dr. Wang said faintly. "My son dreams of becoming a doctor too. He was proud of his father once, and I don't want him to be disappointed... After I'm dead, tell the police I was coerced, will you? This is my last request..."
"Of course!" The tattooed man nodded. "You refused to yield to the coercion of evil, and took poison to end your own life. Your son will be proud of you still."
Dr. Wang smiled faintly. He stood, took a vial of reagent from the cabinet — the same kind he used to kill — but he had always kept one aside for himself. Deftly he drew the reagent into a syringe, then without hesitation injected it into his own body. Over the years, the money set aside for his son was already enough for him to study abroad... He hoped the boy would walk the right path and become a good doctor...
That was Dr. Wang's last thought, and then he slumped limply into the chair.
"Heh, my turn to go down and take the blame..." The tattooed man turned and went downstairs. Outside the headquarters, the police were already calling out through a megaphone. The tattooed man walked out with both hands raised, glanced at the wall of police officers before him — and there, in the very front row, stood Qiu Lingshan...
Only, why did the coat Qiu Lingshan was wearing look familiar? But the tattooed man had no time to think it over before the police rushed up, snapped handcuffs on him, and pushed him into a police car...
There had not been many people at the headquarters — with the nurses and a few hired thugs, only some twenty-odd in all. Against them, dozens of police cars did look like rather too great a show of force.
Still, this was, after all, a major case that had been flagged at the provincial level; a little extra attention was only natural.