Meng Yao hugged Meng Qi and cried on her shoulder.
Meng Qi gently stroked her back, comforting her, "It will get better, it will get better."
After crying for a while, she felt much relieved from the emotions bottled up inside.
Seeing that she had stopped crying, Meng Qi said, "Alright, let's go back to the ward. Don't listen to the doctors and experts' discussions. We don't understand what they're saying anyway, so let's just go with the final optimal plan."
"Okay." Meng Yao sniffled, raised her head, and returned to the ward with her.
As they reached the ward door, Meng Yao felt something was amiss.
She remembered that when they followed the experts out, she was the last one to leave, and she had closed the door.
But now the ward door was half-open. Could there be doctors and nurses inside?
Meng Yao quickly walked in and saw that besides Song Jiaping lying there, there was no one else.
However, the instrument tubes connected to Song Jiaping had all been unplugged, and his face was completely pale.
Meng Qi, who was following behind Meng Yao, also saw it and rushed out of the ward to find a doctor in a panic.
Meng Yao rushed to Song Jiaping's bedside, her hands trembling as she felt for his breath. Fortunately, he was still breathing. She quickly pressed the call button.
She felt like she couldn't stand up anymore, and she grabbed his hand, shouting, "Jiaping, you can't be like this, you absolutely cannot be like this!"
At this moment, the medical staff rushed over. The leading doctor told her to step aside and immediately reconnected all the tubes to Song Jiaping and performed another examination.
Meng Yao shivered, not understanding why this had happened.
Meng Qi kept hugging her and comforting her, "It's okay, it's okay."
After examining Song Jiaping, the doctor declared that he was out of danger. He first reprimanded the nurse in charge of the ward, then looked at Meng Yao and the others and said, "The patient is fine. Fortunately, these instruments didn't fall off for long, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable."
"Okay, thank you, Doctor." Meng Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
The doctor also asked curiously, "The tubes were all properly connected, why did they come off?"
Meng Yao felt a lingering fear and said, "This must have been done deliberately. We weren't in the ward just now. Someone did this while the ward was empty!"
"It seems we were negligent. This ward cannot be left unattended for a moment," the doctor reiterated to the nurse.
"Yes, it was done deliberately. We're calling the police," Meng Qi took out her phone and said to Meng Yao, "We must catch the person who tried to harm Song Jiaping!"
The doctor also agreed, "You call the police, and our hospital will cooperate with the investigation."
Meng Yao nodded and said, "Then let's call the police."
But she still couldn't understand who would deliberately come to Song Jiaping's ward to harm him.
They hadn't offended anyone in Lancheng, nor did they have any enemies.
She watched Meng Qi report the incident to the police, and they could only wait for the police to find out who did it.
After the medical staff left the ward, Meng Yao sat by the bedside, gazing at his gradually regaining color, her eyes filling with tears again.
Meng Qi also withdrew and returned to the conference room where the experts were discussing, leaving the ward to them so that Meng Yao could stay with Song Jiaping alone for a while.
Not long after the police were called, they arrived and inquired about the situation from Meng Yao and Meng Qi, then went to the hospital's monitoring room to retrieve the footage.
The discussion between the experts and doctors had concluded, and they told Meng Qi that they would provide the specific optimal plan tomorrow.
After dark, Meng Qi was supposed to leave, but thinking that someone could casually enter the ward and harm Song Jiaping, she was worried about Meng Yao. After informing Yao Feili, she decided to stay at the hospital.
Yao Feili listened to her and was a bit worried, wanting to send bodyguards to protect them.
Meng Qi said on the phone, "I'll decide after I ask Meng Yao. The police are investigating at the hospital now, so it should be fine tonight."
"Alright then, be careful yourself."
After Meng Qi hung up, she sat on the bench outside the ward, reflecting quietly.
Just then, the police officers investigating the surveillance footage walked towards the ward. Meng Qi saw two officers and stood up, asking, "Did you find out who it was from the surveillance?"
One of the officers asked, "Did you report it?"
"Yes, I did."
The officer then asked, "Who is the person lying inside?"
"He's my brother-in-law." Meng Qi asked, "Did you find anything?"
The officer took out his phone, flipped to a screenshot from the surveillance, and showed it to her, saying, "Indeed, someone entered the ward when no one was present and deliberately unplugged your brother-in-law's tubes and oxygen mask. However, this person was wearing a mask and a hat, and their face is not clear in the surveillance footage."
Meng Qi saw that the person in the screenshot was wearing all black, a baseball cap, and a black mask.
This was already considered a frontal view, but even their eyes were not visible. Moreover, she didn't recognize the person's build at all. She shook her head and said, "I don't recognize them."
The two officers exchanged glances, their reaction as expected. The officer who had been asking questions said again, "Do you know if your sister and brother-in-law have recently offended anyone or had any conflicts?"
Meng Qi thought about it and felt it was unlikely to be revenge, saying, "My sister and brother-in-law just returned from abroad, so they couldn't have any enemies here. Could this person be mentally unstable, doing bad things at the hospital for no reason?"
"That possibility cannot be ruled out," the officer said. "We need to ask your sister and examine the ward again for any clues."
"Okay." Meng Qi was about to enter the ward with the two officers when she suddenly remembered something and said, "Officers, I just remembered. My sister recently officially divorced her ex-husband. Could it be her ex-husband... but the person in the photo doesn't look like her ex-husband."
An officer quickly took out a notebook and wrote it down, asking, "What is her ex-husband's name, what does he do, and why did they get divorced?"
Meng Qi felt it was unlikely again and said, "But the person in the surveillance just now doesn't look like her ex-husband, so it shouldn't be him."
"It's up to us, the police, to investigate whether it's him. You just need to answer my questions."
Meng Qi roughly explained the situation between Hong Jiaxi and Meng Yao. The officers took detailed notes before re-entering the ward.
Meng Yao was staring intently at Song Jiaping lying motionlessly on the hospital bed, afraid of any negative changes, and didn't notice anyone entering.
Meng Qi cleared her throat and said, "Meng Yao, these two officers have reviewed the surveillance footage and have some questions for you."
Meng Yao then came back to her senses, released Song Jiaping's hand, and stood up.
One officer began questioning Meng Yao about the situation, while the other looked around the ward, trying to see if the person who entered to tamper with the medical equipment and kill Song Jiaping had left any traces.
The officer examining the ward checked carefully, not even overlooking the area around the instruments, but still found no clues left behind.
This officer judged that the person was not acting randomly, but seemed to be quite familiar with the ward's layout. When they entered to unplug the patient's tubes, they acted directly and should have been very calm.