Chapter 40: Where is the connection?
Back at the bureau, Jia and Huojin couldn't mask their shock. "Drug addict?"
Mingshen stretched his arms lazily. "She was fidgeting a lot, right? She is also underweight. She had a messy appearance too and her eyes looked glazed."
Jia thought back to the time at the hospital where she met her.
Wu Yue indeed looked shaky, agitated and very thin.
"That was because of drugs?"
"For the most part of it. She has just started it recently though it seems because her addiction signs are like a newborn baby. That's why you couldn't tell it. It's hard to decipher until you keenly look at the signs, and they could be confused with any other regular symptoms like depression or other health issues. Anyway, I got my confirmation when I learned what she was doing at my hospital."
"She said it was to take care of some formalities for her grandmother's death certificate."
"Bullshit," he slid a prescription on the desk in front of them.
Huojin struggled to read the handwriting. "Why do doctors have such terrible writing?"
"Excuse me? I feel offended. My entire existence is perfect down to my handwriting. The next time you include ME with the rest of the doctors, I will hang you down from the ceiling and overflow your body with opioids. Which this girl was having by the way."
Jia read from the prescription. "Buprenorphine."