However, she never regretted it, because this criminal was not only an important clue and witness in a major case, but he himself was also a perverted serial killer. In the missing children cases that have occurred over the years in the nearby cities and counties as well as in Changhai City, six of them were connected to this criminal. During this interrogation, knowing he had no chance of getting out, he confessed to these crimes and proudly told Lily Grant and the others.

He raped those little girls and dismembered them, even revealing the locations where he hid the bodies. Lily Grant then sent people to search, and sure enough, they found them all. Some had even been buried years ago, which is why Lily Grant flew into a rage and lashed out.

Standing to the side, Old Carter looked at Henry Brooks in astonishment. He hadn’t expected this young doctor to be able to suppress the captain with just a few words. Even though he had followed the captain for years and knew that, despite her bad temper, she wouldn’t act out without reason, every time he saw her intimidating and scaring people, he always felt she might strike at any moment. If it were him, even knowing in advance that the captain wouldn’t act, he could never be as calm and composed as this young doctor.

Not to mention, every word was so calm and composed, and he could even suppress the captain. Just now, he had thought this young man was a fresh college graduate, a greenhorn who knew nothing about society. Now, however, he felt something entirely different.

“This matter has troubled you a lot. I’ll treat you to a drink one day, let’s go out and have a good one.” Seeing the captain was quite embarrassed, Old Carter hurried forward to smooth things over.

If Henry Brooks really were a spoiled rich kid, he would never have accepted an invitation from a lowly police officer. But the current Henry Brooks was no longer a spoiled rich kid.

“Alright, let’s have a drink when there’s time.” After saying this, Henry Brooks added, “This guy is a masochist, and he definitely has mental problems. If you think you can get anything out of him just by questioning, that’s going to be tough!”

As Henry Brooks spoke, he shook his head, stepped aside to let Lily Grant pass, and walked toward Brian Foster’s chief on-duty office. Henry Brooks still had quite a few businesses under his name as a spoiled rich kid, but he didn’t want to go to any of those places now. He just wanted to be in the hospital environment, where he could still get some sleep.

After all these events, plus this surgery, his weakened body was reaching its limit and desperately needed rest.

“How strange…” Old Carter looked at Henry Brooks’s back in confusion. “We were only speculating and hadn’t even checked his medical records. How did he know?”

Lily Grant said irritably, “Let him brag. He’s just a doctor, you think he’s some kind of immortal? You stay here and keep watch. The chief wants me back for a meeting. It seems the higher-ups have also found information on this guy. Remember, keep a close eye on him. Without my orders, no one is allowed to approach him.”

“Yes.”

Chapter Four: Punishment, Lockdown

Henry Brooks barely managed to support himself back to the chief’s on-duty room, collapsed heavily onto the bed, and slowly closed his eyes. He began to think: this body just won’t do, he had to nurse himself back to health as soon as possible.

But his body was too weak now, and the equipment of this era was far too outdated. With his research in potential medicine, even using primitive methods could have some effect. However, with his current body, he probably couldn’t withstand any strong stimulation. So the first thing he needed to do was use some ancient secret recipes for recuperation to adjust his body, then strengthen his basic training, and after his body was stronger, gradually stimulate his potential and completely improve his condition.

Looking at it now, being reborn into this spoiled rich kid’s body had its advantages—at least he had the money to collect those ancient Chinese medicine recipes for recuperation.

Calculating silently based on the prices of this era, Henry Brooks figured that just the initial medicines for nourishing and balancing the body would cost at least a million. There was no way around it—he was just too weak.

If everything went smoothly, in three months he could definitely restore his body to peak level one fitness, which was the healthiest, most normal state for a person in this era.

Fortunately, although his potential medicine also relied on high technology, there were still ways to use primitive methods, just with less effect.

……

In the operating room, not long after Brian Foster took over, someone barged in and called him away. Brian Foster handed the remaining work to Isaac Bennett. By this point, the surgery wasn’t too difficult, especially since Henry Brooks had already solved all the tough problems earlier—there was basically no technical challenge left.

Still, it took quite a bit of effort, and after another busy hour, the surgery was finally over. The patient was wheeled to the intensive care unit, and Old Carter led three police officers to follow the whole way.

“Xiao Wang, you came over with the chief just now. Do you know who he is?” Back in the emergency room, it was already shift change. After handover, everyone was changing clothes. Isaac Bennett was still quite disgruntled: “So mysterious, like some kind of charlatan. This is a hospital, not his home. He just happened to guess right this time—if something really happened, who would take responsibility?”

“I don’t know either,” Howard Sullivan replied while changing clothes, humming and hawing. Even if Henry Brooks and Chief Foster hadn’t told him, he couldn’t just tell others about this kind of thing.

As they were talking, Brian Foster pushed the door open and came in. “You’re all here, great, saves me the trouble of looking for you.”

“Chief!” Although Brian Foster was only the deputy chief, he was directly in charge of them. And Changzhi Hospital was large, with a wide scope under the chief’s jurisdiction, so Brian Foster still had a lot of authority among them.