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Chapter 16 Old Buildings in the Empty City

Chapter 16: Empty City and Old Buildings

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 should I do 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 is hard to imagine 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, where crows build nests on the traffic lights, the gears of factories are covered with cobwebs, fungus grows on classroom desks, and poisonous mushrooms grow on faucets. You walk through the grass on the commercial street and pull away the pulleys hanging from the wires.

What would it be like to walk into an abandoned post office? How many past memories 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 due to oil. At its peak, the city's population reached 130,000. More than half a century has passed, and the oil resources have been exhausted. The city government and oil field bases

Residents have been relocated one after another, abandoning the city and moving out. The city is littered with abandoned buildings, facilities are aging, and the city is almost empty.

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 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 very 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 poplars on the roadside grew so tall and thin that it seemed like a strong wind could break them. The tree trunks were covered with white ash, and the straw ropes wrapped around them were wet. Perhaps each tree had a person who cried after parting.

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

There is only one traffic light in a city.

Six police officers from the Yumen City Public Security Bureau lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team. They saluted the special case team together. After the four members of the special case team got out of the car, they noticed that the public security bureau building was dilapidated. It was still an old building from the 20th century with wires

They are criss-crossed, and there are overgrown grass at the foot of the public security bureau compound. There are actually a few yellow sheep grazing the grass with their heads down.

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. Raising sheep is our sideline. We will kill one in the evening and treat you to pot helmets 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 agency only has six policemen left. Some residents live in low-rent housing 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 ranging from 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 put off 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 City 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 city 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 demon knocked Chen Luomo into a coma, and its methods of committing the crime were horrific. Chen Luomo's lower body was torn apart by the perverted demon, and his small intestine was pulled out from the back court...

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.

, she was horrified to discover 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 seriously injured. When the police took the interview notes, she could not even describe the physical characteristics of the murderer. She only vaguely remembered the murderer.

He is a middle-aged man.

The door of the local hospital was sealed with bricks, and there were no doctors left. Chen Luomo was taken 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 occurred, a newspaper promptly reported on Chen Luomo's misfortune, which aroused social attention. Many enthusiastic people donated money and materials. Several experts and professors from the provincial hospital conducted consultations and examined Chen Luomo's broken leg.

The connection operation performed on 10 centimeters of 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 down the 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?

The instructor said: The murderer had already run away when they came out. 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 piercing with sharp objects. According to my analysis, it may be that the scale hook was used to hook the intestines first... and then the intestines were taken out with hands.

The instructor accompanied the special case team back to the crime scene

, there are not many crimes in the area where the crime occurred, and the public security is 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 and criminal motive have not yet been identified.

It is unknown, but the victim Chen Luomo was not raped or robbed. During the interview, 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.

Hualong said: The crime occurred at midnight, could 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. 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, and 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 rape.

He only held a steel scale with its hook hanging low, and a full moon hanging outside the window. He stood motionless in the corridor, just wanting to take a person's intestines out of his asshole.

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: Are the footsteps very fast?

Restaurant owner: I really didn’t pay attention at the time. It was important to save people.

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

Su Mei said: This person's psychological quality is strong enough.

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

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

The worker's name was Zhang Hongqi. His grandmother was somewhat deaf. When the police asked her questions, she waved her hands and pointed to her ears, meaning she couldn't 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, and it is impossible for China to have such a thing.

Grandpa and grandma acted indifferent to Chen Luomo's murder, as if they were talking about outsiders. Old man Zhang Hongqi babbled about his granddaughter's fault: I didn't let her come to work, but she did it instead. Something must have 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, and there is one missing step of stairs from the fourth to the fifth floor.


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