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Chapter 16 Old Buildings in the Empty City

Bai Jingyu: When you go this time, all of you will be equipped with weapons. When you come back, you will submit a gun management report.

Su Mei: Boss, I have never fired a gun. What if I lose it? Just let Hua Long, a barbarian, carry a gun.

Hualong: Don’t let Xiaomei carry a gun. This thing is no joke. She will hurt herself, and she might even hurt me accidentally.

Professor Liang: I haven’t fired a gun in a long time. I once won a place in a sniper competition.

Bao Zhan: Is the place we are going dangerous?

Bai Jingyu: The local police force is seriously insufficient. It’s hard to believe that there are only six police officers in a county-level city.

Hualong said: Damn it, can we not go?

Bai Jingyu said: This is why I sent the special case team, they need help.

The case of evisceration occurred in an old building. The old building is located in the center of the city, but the surrounding area is in ruins.

There is such a city in China, where crows build nests on the traffic lights, the gears of the factory are covered with cobwebs, fungus grows on the classroom desks, and a poisonous mushroom grows on the faucet.

How does it feel when you come down from Lala Yang and walk into the abandoned post office? How many past events and sighs can an empty city hold? There are many streets and unknown dusk. Here are the first and last memories of hundreds of thousands of people.

This city is called Yumen, a remote county-level city located in the Qilian Mountains. It was born because of oil. At its peak, the city's population reached 130,000. Over half a century later, the oil resources were exhausted, and the city government and oil field bases were relocated one after another.

As a result, the residents abandoned the city and moved out, leaving the city with abandoned buildings everywhere, aging facilities, and an almost empty city.

The special case team first took a plane to the provincial capital, and then took a bus to a neighboring city. The police in the neighboring city dispatched an off-road vehicle and sent a driver to escort him. The driver was a tall and thick-set man. When he talked about the rain gate, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

He said that he is from Yumen, grew up in this city, and later moved out.

Today, in the home where he has lived for more than ten years, the dust on the ground can sink into footprints, the park is overgrown with weeds, and the abandoned bus station is infested with rats. The most unforgettable thing for every Yumen person is the big clock in front of the park.

The time stayed at 3:25 forever. The driver said that every time he went home, he felt extremely sad. On New Year's Eve, he went back to visit the tomb and saw only two people on the street.

The driver said, you can't imagine what this feels like.

Professor Liang said, we turned the desert into our city, and we turned our city into the desert.

The driver said something sad, "If the old one is torn down, where is the new one?"

The mountain road went downhill, the car was bumpy and bumpy, and the people on the car were silent.

The white poplars on the roadside grow tall and thin, as if a strong wind can break the tree. The trunks are covered with white ash, and the straw ropes wrapped around them are wet. Maybe every tree has a parting person holding it and crying.

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The off-road vehicle drove into the old city of Yumen. The only traffic light booth on Jiefang Road has been out of service for a long time due to the sharp decrease in the flow of people.

There is not a single traffic light in this city.

Six policemen from the Yumen City Public Security Bureau lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team, and they all saluted the special case team. After the four members of the special case team got out of the car, they noticed that the public security bureau building was dilapidated, and it was still an old building from the 1980s.

Electric wires crisscrossed the area, and weeds grew thickly in the corners of the Public Security Bureau compound. There were even a few yellow sheep gnawing on the grass.

Su Mei said: Wow, the Public Security Bureau also allows sheep herding?

An instructor from the Yumen Public Security Bureau said, "These are not sheep herded by outsiders as a sideline. Sheep raising is our sideline. We will kill one in the evening and treat you to Guokui and hand-caught mutton."

The instructor briefly introduced the case and local conditions.

At present, Yumen City is a ghost town. Most of the units are empty. The public security organs only have six policemen left behind. Some residents live in low-rent houses in the two resettlement areas of Beiping and Santai. Most of them cannot afford to go outside.

The relocated elderly, disabled people, subsistence allowance households and laid-off workers receive low insurance premiums of tens to hundreds of yuan per month. There are also some residents who live in the old city and are also very poor people who are deterred by the housing prices in neighboring cities.

, I don’t know where to go. There are only more than 20,000 people left in this city, and the number is decreasing every day. It won’t be long before Yumen will become a dead city without people and disappear from the earth.

The victim’s name is Chen Luomo. She is 19 years old. She works in the old town of Yumen. Her parents are far away from home and she lives with her grandparents. The crime occurred in an old building. Most of the residents in the building have moved away, leaving only two households.

Chen Luomo and his grandparents lived on the fifth floor. There was a restaurant on the fourth floor. Other than that, the whole building was empty. Because the public toilet was downstairs, Chen Luomo got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself.

There was an attack on the platform of the corridor between the first floor and the fifth floor.

Chen Luomo thought that others mistook her for a ghost, so she said, "Uncle, I am a human, not a ghost."

This criminal demon knocked Chen Luomo into a coma, and his methods of committing the crime were outrageous. Chen Luomo's lower body was torn apart by the perverted demon, and his small intestine was pulled out from the back...

At that time, the restaurant proprietress who lived on the fourth floor heard the noise and went out to check. The murderer escaped. The proprietress thought that what was hanging down Chen Luomo's lower body was a rope, so she touched it with her hand and felt it was smooth. Her husband came out with a flashlight.

, only to be horrified to see that it was a piece of intestine!

There were no lights in the corridor. In the darkness, Chen Luomo could not see the murderer's face clearly. She was too frightened and was in a serious condition. When the police took the interview transcript, she could not even tell the physical characteristics of the murderer. She only vaguely remembered who the murderer was.

A middle-aged man.

The door of the local hospital was sealed with bricks and there were no doctors left. Chen Luomo was sent to the emergency room of the health center for rescue by his boss and his wife.

The next day, he was sent to an oil field hospital with better medical conditions. After the case, a newspaper promptly reported on Chen Luomo's misfortune, which attracted social attention. Many enthusiastic people donated money and materials. Several people in the provincial hospital

Experts and professors consulted, and the operation on Chen Luomo's broken 10cm small intestine was very successful. At present, the girl's life is not in danger, but further observation and treatment are still needed.

Professor Liang asked: You didn’t write in your case report. Did the murderer take out the intestines directly with his hands, or did he use something else?

Su Mei said: It would be terrible if you put your hands directly in and take it out.

The instructor said: The girl's condition is unstable and she has just undergone surgery. Please take some time off.

Bao Zhan asked: Where are the restaurant owner and his wife who live on the fourth floor?

Instructor: When they came out, the murderer had already run away. They didn't see it and couldn't provide many clues.

Professor Liang said: Someone must be sent to the oil field hospital to provide psychological counseling to the victim first, and then make a detailed record.

The instructor said: The problem is that she doesn't want to recall the incident now. Judging from the wounds, there are traces of sharp objects being pierced. According to my speculation and analysis, it may have been hooked with a scale hook...and then the intestines were taken out with hands.

The instructor accompanied the special case team back to the crime scene. There were not many crimes in the area where the crime occurred, and the security was good. After the incident, six police officers focused on searching for people who had attacked women or robbed women at night, and investigated nearly 500 people in the surrounding area.

, the suspect has not yet been identified. The motive for the crime is unknown, and the victim Chen Luomo was not "qiangjian" or robbed. During the visit, someone reported that they saw a man wearing green labor protection clothing walking into the building on the night of the crime.

Bao Zhan asked: What time?

The instructor said: In the evening.

Hua Long said: The crime occurred at midnight, would that person have been waiting in the corridor?

The location of the crime was an old five-story residential building. There were debris piled in the corridor. It was dark and damp. The windows faced north, and no sunlight ever came in. There was no light at night, so I had to fumble up and down the stairs. If I was with a

When a stranger passes you by, you will definitely panic. When walking in a dark corridor, if you are followed by someone behind you, you will feel an inexplicable fear in your heart.

There was a pool of blood where Chen Luomo was attacked, and you can imagine the horrific scene at that time.

From dusk to late at night, a man stood alone in the corridor. The cockscombs at the base of the wall were blooming brightly. The empty pickle jars in the corridor seemed to have an ancient metaphor. He kept his thoughts secret, and did not want to rob or "qiangjian"

, only holding a steelyard in his hand, the hook of the scale was hanging low, and a full moon hung outside the window. He stood motionless in the corridor, just wanting to take out a person's intestines from the "piyan".

The special case team once again questioned the residents on the fourth floor. The restaurant owner and his wife's statement did not change. They did not see what the murderer looked like, but only vaguely heard the murderer's footsteps upstairs.

Professor Liang asked, were those footsteps coming in a hurry?

Restaurant owner: At that time, I really didn’t pay attention. It was important to save people.

Boss Wife: I remembered, the footsteps were very normal, and the person was walking slowly and leisurely.

Su Mei said: This person's psychological quality is quite tough.

Boss: What do you want to ask? Ask quickly. I really can’t live here anymore. We will move tomorrow.

Chen Luomo lives with his grandparents on the fifth floor. The family is poor, with old tables and chairs, peeling walls, some old newspapers and calendars, and old photos in the frames that have turned yellow. Chen Luomo's grandfather is a retired oil worker.

, named Zhang Hongqi, and her grandmother was somewhat deaf. When the police asked her questions, she would wave her hands and point to her ears, meaning that she could not hear. Zhang Hongqi felt unbelievable about the case. When the special case team questioned him, he insisted that

This is a case that only occurs in capitalist countries. How could this happen in China?

Hualong said, you have watched too many news broadcasts, the party-state is not as beautiful as you think.

Grandpa and grandma showed indifference to Chen Luomo's murder, just like talking about outsiders. Old man Zhang Hongqi babbled about his granddaughter: I didn't let her come to work, but she did it anyway. Something happened now, what a sin.

, she really deserves it, she felt dirty, so she didn’t come into the house and went out in the middle of the night...

The four members of the special case team looked at each other, the instructor said a few words of comfort, and everyone stood up to leave.

When going downstairs, Hualong carried Professor Liang on his back, Bao Zhan walked in front, and the others followed. When he went down 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.

Bao Zhan turned around and went upstairs. He slowed down and climbed up the stairs step by step. His expression was a little weird. He pointed at the stairs while walking. He turned back twice. When he came back, he said to everyone: Yes, I counted the stairs.

The location where the crime occurred is on the fourth floor. From the fourth to the fifth floor, there is one missing step of stairs.


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