"Dr. Jiang, you can't say that!" Ma Tao put away his smile and looked serious, "Wu Xiaoqian does have super powers, but she is not a special police officer after all. Unless we have no choice, we'd better not involve her, otherwise, if something goes wrong
, I’m afraid it will be difficult to communicate.”
Gao Fei nodded in agreement with Ma Tao's concerns: "The most basic principle for the police when handling cases is to try to avoid involving irrelevant people in danger. Just like Brother Jin said before, one more thing is worse than one less thing."
Mulan Township is not a big town. 20 minutes after driving by van, there are no buildings on the roadside. Except for the occasional self-built houses in the countryside that you pass by, there is flat farmland as far as the eye can see.
Putting aside Wu Xiaoqian's little episode, Gao Fei looked out at the field scenery through the car window.
On the newly harvested wheat fields, golden wheat straw stacks can be seen everywhere.
Along the road and passing through the wheat fields, there is an old building standing in front of it, with various propaganda slogans on the wall, "To get rich in poor mountainous areas, have fewer children and more trees", it still shows the strong atmosphere of the times, as if it is left in the long river of time.
of gravel, stubbornly refusing to go with the flow, and keep pace with the times.
"This was originally the employee bathroom of a state-owned coal mine."
Jin Zhijian held the steering wheel, looked at the dilapidated building on the roadside, and casually talked about interesting things from his childhood.
"At that time, every household did not have a bathtub. To bathe, one had to go to the employee bathhouse, which was free for coal mine families and children. Especially in the winter, taking a hot bath in the scalding bathhouse was refreshing, not to mention very comfortable.
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"The ones who love taking baths most are the retired workers at the mine. Those old men don't have much entertainment, so they treat the staff baths as a club for the elderly. They go there before dawn to take a bath and chat, and don't go home until noon."
"I remember when I was young, when my grandpa was still alive, he often took me to take a bath in winter. When I came out of the bathhouse, the cold wind blew, and my wet hair immediately became frozen and solid, as if I had applied hair gel."
"It's exactly the same as when I was a child." Wang Daqing continued with a smile, "There is a public bathhouse in my house now. Oil field workers and their families can go and take a bath for only one yuan."
"After all, it is a large state-owned oil field, and central enterprises also have basic employee benefits. It is much better than coal mines and cannot be compared." Jin Zhijian said with envy.
"It's not much better. It's getting worse every day." Wang Daqing shook his head slightly, with a confused look in his eyes, "It's not always like this in all parts of the Northeast..."
The van drove along the rural road for more than half an hour. The three abandoned buildings in front of it, almost surrounded by weeds and bushes, were the dens of Hong Debiao's gang. They were the middle schools affiliated with the Mulan Township state-owned coal mine many years ago.
"Mulan Township's economy is in recession. Most of the young adults have gone to work in the city. The fertility rate has been declining year after year. Now there are not even enough middle school students in the township to fill a class. It is meaningless to continue to maintain the school. It is better to send the few students to
Go to a boarding school in the city."
Jin Zhijian introduced to the visitors.
"I graduated from that middle school. My alma mater was canceled eight years ago. It was left abandoned and neglected. It was only last year that Hong Debiao and his gang took the opportunity to transform it into a church."
Jin Zhijian stepped on the brakes and the van slowly stopped near the school ruins.
Gao Fei got out of the car first and accidentally saw a rusty steel pipe standing on the ground. After taking a closer look, he saw that it was a national flag pole. It had been exposed to wind and rain and was stained with rust, making it almost impossible to recognize its original appearance.
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The playground near the flagpole was originally a middle school playground, but now it is covered with weeds and shrubs. The chipmunks jumping on the branches have replaced the lively figures of the students in the past.
Standing under the rusty flagpole, Gao Fei looked towards the direction of the rising sun. The school building shrouded in the morning light had been reduced to ruins, a depressing and dilapidated scene, and only depressing silence filled the surrounding areas.
Gao Fei was not a child who grew up in this land, but being here, it was not difficult for him to understand why Wang Daqing always said that Mulan Township was "lifeless" and "there is no hope". It was also not difficult for him to understand why Jin Zhijian, who returned to his alma mater,
How desolate and sentimental I feel at this moment.
Maybe it’s like the song goes:
Living like this for 30 years
Until the building collapses
Ten thousand runaway horses
running in his mind
Living like this for 30 years
Until the building collapses
The darkness deep in the clouds
A landscape that drowns my heart
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When Gao Fei was lost in thought, there was a sudden rush of footsteps in the bushes beside him.
Immediately afterwards, two men wearing camouflage uniforms and holding old-fashioned shotguns came out. They seemed to be the security guards here.
"What are you doing!"
One of them yelled at Gao Fei with a fierce look on his face.
"Fellow fellow! We are tourists from out of town. When we saw the beautiful scenery here, we got off the car and walked around and took some photos."
Ma Tao rushed to answer.
"Tourists? This is not the place you should be!" Another security guard waved away impatiently, "You can't take pictures here, so hurry up and don't wander around here!"
"It's an abandoned middle school, and it's not private property. Why can't we visit and take pictures?" Gao Fei had a smile on his face and secretly put on a "warlock mask", "Look at how sneaky you are, could you be here?
Are you engaging in illegal activities?"
"What the fuck! Who are you saying is sneaky? I think you are the sneaky one!" The security guard raised his shotgun angrily, "If you don't get out, believe it or not, I will kill you!"
Gao Fei sneered and waved his hand, throwing out a green thorny vine out of thin air, and slapped the security guard hard on the face.
The security guard was beaten to the ground and rolled over, covering his face and wailing, blood dripping from his fingers, and the shotgun flew far away from his hand.
The other security guard was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly raised his shotgun and pointed it at Gao Fei.
Gao Fei didn't bother to look at him one more time and shouted without looking back:
"Tiger!"
The winged cat squatting in the bushes suddenly jumped out, like lightning, it rushed towards the security guard and slapped his hand with its paw.
"Wow!"
The security guard's wrist was bleeding, and his shotgun fell to his feet.
Before he could see clearly what was going on, Huzi had already pounced on him and slapped him twice in succession, causing his face to blossom.
"Tiger, stay alive!"
If Gao Fei hadn't stopped him in time, the tiger would have bitten the prey's throat.
The security guard who was knocked down by Gao Fei with the "Whip of Thorns" struggled to get up. He found that his companion was knocked down by a strange cat with wings. He was so frightened that he didn't even bother to pick up the gun, and turned around and ran into the bushes.
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He had barely taken two steps when he was intercepted by a burly man holding a riot shield.
"Get back!"
Wang Daqing swung his shield and hit the security guard hard on the chest.
As expected, the security guard rolled back obediently. He was hit by the big shield and his eyesight went black, and he almost fainted on the spot.
Jin Zhijian rushed over with a bunch of shiny handcuffs and skillfully handcuffed his hands behind his back.
"Illegal possession of a gun and assaulting a police officer, you're going to have a hard time!"
The three vans that followed parked on the side of the road with their doors open. A group of plainclothes police officers rushed down, picked up the two subdued gangster lair security guards, and put them into two vehicles for interrogation.
Under the kind and sensible persuasion of the police uncles, these two stupid young men quickly confessed everything.
