Chapter 16: Old Building in the Empty City
Bai Jingyu: When you go this time, you will be equipped with weapons. After you come back, you will submit a gun management report.
Su Mei: Boss, I have never fired a gun. What should I do if I lose it? Just let the savage Hualong bring a gun.
Hualong: Don’t let Xiaomei carry a gun. This thing is not a joke. She will hurt herself, and maybe even accidentally hurt me.
Professor Liang: I haven’t fired a gun for a long time. I have won rankings in sniper competitions before.
Bao Zhan: Is the place we are going to be dangerous?
Bai Jingyu: The local police force is seriously insufficient, and it is hard to imagine that there are only six policemen in a county-level city.
Hualong said: Damn, how can we not go?
Bai Jingyu said: This is also the reason why I sent a special case team, and they need help.
The intestinal excavation case occurred in an old building, which was located in the center of the city, but was surrounded by ruins.
There is such a city where crows nest on traffic lights, spider webs are covered with gears of factories, fungus grow on classroom desks, and poisonous mushrooms grow on faucets. What does it feel like if you pass through the weeds of the commercial street, clear the lala seedlings hanging from the wires, and walk into the abandoned post office? How much past and sighs can an empty city accommodate! Many streets, at dusk that no one knows, there are the first and last memories of more than 100,000 people.
This city is called Yumen. It is a remote county-level city located in the Qilian Mountains. It was born because of oil. At its peak, the city population reached 130,000. More than half a century has passed, and the municipal government and oil field bases have been depleted one after another. Residents abandoned the city and moved out of the city. The city has abandoned buildings and aging facilities, and almost became an empty city.
The special case team first took a plane to the provincial capital, and then took a bus to the neighboring city. The neighboring city police drew an off-road vehicle and sent a driver to escort it. The driver was a big and thick man. When talking about the rain gate, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
He said that he was from Yumen and grew up in this city since he was a child and later moved out.
Now, in his home where he has lived for more than ten years, the dust on the ground can be deep into footprints, the park is full of weeds, and there are group of mice at the abandoned bus station. The most unforgettable thing for every Rainmen is the big clock in front of the park, and time is always [31     Updated Fast] stops at 3:25. The driver said that every time he goes home, he feels very sad. When he goes back to visit the grave on New Year's Eve, he only sees two people on the street.
The driver said: You can't imagine what it feels like.
Professor Liang said: We turn the desert into our own city, and we turn our city into our own city.
The driver said a sad thing: The old one is demolished, where is the new one?
The mountain road was down the slope, and the cars were undulating and bumpy, and the people on the cars were silent.
The poplars on the roadside are tall and thin, as if a strong wind can break it. The trunks are painted with white dust and the tangled straw ropes are wet. Perhaps there is a parting person who has hugged and cried in each tree.
The off-road vehicle drove into the old city of Yumen, the only traffic light post on Jiefang Road. Due to the sharp decline in traffic, it has been out of service for a long time.
In a city, there is only one traffic light.
Six police officers from Yumen City Public Security Bureau lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team. They saluted the special case team together. After getting off the car, the four of them noticed that the public security bureau building was dilapidated and still the same old building as the 20th century, with wires crisscrossing. There were weeds growing at the foot of the walls of the Public Security Bureau's courtyard, and several yellow sheep were chewing on the grass.
Su Mei said: Wow, the Public Security Bureau also asked her to herd sheep?
An instructor from Yumen Public Security Bureau said: This is not a sheep placed by outsiders. Raising sheep is our side job. Kill one at night and invite you to eat pot and grab mutton with your hands.
The instructor briefly introduced the case and the local situation.
At present, Yumen City is an empty city, with most units empty, and the public security organs only left six police officers. Some residents live in low-rent housing in the two resettlement areas of Beiping and Santai. Most of them are elderly people who are unable to move out, disabled people, minimum living households and laid-off workers. They receive a minimum living premium of several dozen to hundreds of yuan a month. Some residents live in the old city, and are also in the difficult living group. They are deterred from the housing prices in neighboring cities and don’t know where to go. There are only more than 20,000 people left in the city, and they are decreasing every day. It won’t take long to go, Yumen City will become an uninhabited city and disappear from the earth.
The victim's name is Chen Luomo, 19 years old, working in the old city of Yumen. Her parents are far away, so she lives with her grandparents. The crime scene is an old building, and most of the residents in the building have moved away, leaving only two families. Chen Luomo and his grandparents live on the fifth floor, and there are also families who run restaurants on the fourth floor. In addition, the whole building is empty. Because the public toilet is downstairs, Chen Luomo gets up in the middle of the night to get rid of his hands and encounters an attack on the corridor platform between the fourth and fifth floors.
Chen Luomo thought that others mistakenly regarded her as a ghost, so he said, "Uncle, I am a human, not a ghost."
This demon general Chen Luomole was in a coma. His methods of committing the crime were outrageous. Chen Luomo's lower body was torn apart by a perverted demon, and his small intestine was pulled out of the anus...
At that time, the owner of the restaurant who lived on the fourth floor heard the movement and went out to check it. The murderer ran away. The owner of the owner thought that Chen Luomo had a rope hanging down, so he touched it with his hand and felt it was slippery. After her husband came out with a flashlight, she was frightened to find that it was a piece of intestine!
There was no light in the corridor. In the darkness, Chen Luomo could not see the murderer's face clearly. In addition, she was too frightened and seriously injured. When the police were making the inquiry record, she could not even tell the murderer's physical characteristics. She only remembered that the murderer was a middle-aged man.
The gate of the local hospital was blocked by bricks and there was no doctor anymore. Chen Luomo was sent to the emergency room of the health center by his boss and his wife, and was sent to the oil field hospital with better medical conditions the next day.
After the case, a newspaper reported Chen Luomo's unfortunate experience in a timely manner, which attracted the attention of the society. Many enthusiastic people donated money and materials. Several experts and professors from the provincial capital hospital conducted a consultation and the connection operation performed on Chen Luomo's broken 10-centimeter small intestine was very successful. At present, the girl is no longer in danger of her life, but further observation and treatment are still needed.
Professor Liang asked: Your case report was not written either. Should the murderer take out the intestines directly with his hands, or use something else?
Su Mei said: If you put your hands in and dig it out, it would be terrible.
The instructor said: The girl was in a state of unstable condition and had just finished the operation. Let's take it a little longer.
Bao Zhan asked: Where is the restaurant owner and his wife who live on the fourth floor?
The instructor said: When they came out, the murderer had already run away, they did not see it, and they could not provide many clues.
Professor Liang said: Someone must be sent to the oil field hospital, first provide psychological counseling for the victim, and then make detailed records.
The instructor said: The problem is that she is not willing to recall this now. Judging from the wound, there are traces of sharp instrument piercing. According to my speculation, it may be that she used a scale hook to hook first... and then used her hand to dig out the intestines.
The instructor accompanied the special case team to return to the crime scene
, There are not many cases in the area where the crime occurred, and the public security is good. After the incident, six policemen focused on searching for people who attacked women or robbed at night, and investigated nearly 500 people around the people. The suspect has not been identified yet. The motive for the crime is unknown, and the victim Chen Luomo did not suffer rape or robbery. During the visit, some people reported that on the night of the incident, they saw a man wearing green labor protection clothing walking into the building.
Bao Zhan asked: When?
The instructor said: In the evening.
Hualong said: The crime is midnight, will that person stay in the corridor and wait?
The crime scene was an old five-story residential building with debris piled up in the corridor, dark and damp, and the windows were facing north, and there was never any sunlight coming in. There was no light at night, so I could only grop up and downstairs. If I pass by a stranger, I would definitely panic. Walking in the gloomy corridor, if someone followed me behind me, I would feel inexplicable fear.
There was still a pool of blood in the place where Chen Luomo was attacked, and you can imagine the horrific scene at that time.
From dusk to late at night, he stood alone in the corridor, standing all the time. The cockscombs at the base of the wall were brightly blooming, and the empty pickled jars in the corridor seemed to have an ancient metaphor. He kept a tight-lipped mind about his thoughts, didn't want to rob or rape him, and only held a scale in his hand, the scale hook was hanging low, and a full moon hung outside the window. He stood motionless in the corridor, just trying to take out a person's intestines from his anus.
The special case team again asked the residents on the fourth floor that the restaurant owner and his wife had no change in their statements. They did not see what the murderer looked like, but they vaguely heard the footsteps of the murderer going downstairs.
Professor Liang asked: Are the footsteps moving very quickly?
Restaurant owner: I didn’t pay attention at that time, saving people is important.
Boss: I remembered that the footsteps were very normal, and the man walked slowly.
Su Mei said: This person has strong psychological qualities.
Boss: If you want to ask, please ask immediately. I really can’t live here anymore. We will move tomorrow.
Chen Luomo and her grandparents live on the fifth floor. The family is poor, the tables and chairs are old, and the walls are peeled off. Some old newspapers and calendars are posted. The old photos in the frame are yellowed. Chen Luomo's grandfather is a retired oil worker named Zhang Hongqi. Her grandmother is a little deaf. She waves her hand whenever the police asks her, and then points to her ears, meaning she cannot hear it. Old Zhang Hongqi is incredible about the case. When the special case team asked him, he insisted that this was a case that only happens in capitalist countries, and that this would not happen in China.
Grandpa and grandmother were indifferent to Chen Luomo's murder, just like talking about outsiders. Old man Zhang Hongqi raved about his granddaughter's fault: I didn't let her come to work, but she came here. Something happened now. It's such a sin. It's really a sin. She deserves it. She thought it was dirty and didn't go into the house and went out in the middle of the night...
The four members of the special case team looked at each other in surprise, the instructor comforted him a few words, and everyone stood up to say goodbye.
When he went downstairs, Hualong carried Professor Liang on his back, Bao Zhan walked in the front, and the others were behind. When he went downstairs to the fourth floor, Bao Zhan suddenly stopped.
Su Mei said: Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?
Bao Zhan said: Wait a minute, I think something is wrong with this staircase.
Chapter completed!