More than an hour later, when the two of us came back from outside with full stomachs, we happened to see an investigator from the first department wandering around outside our department.
When he saw us walking out of the elevator, he immediately trotted towards us, and then said: "Lin Sijiu, Zhu Dingtian, where did you two go? This is what Director Cheng gave you.
It’s put away.”
After he finished speaking, the man thrust a document bag into my hand without waiting for our answer, and then trotted away from us.
After the man walked away, the third fat man suddenly laughed "hehe" and muttered: "I didn't expect the people in the first department to be so snobbish and call Director Cheng so soon..."
"Why do you care so much about others? Besides, he didn't call me wrong."
I'm not interested in what the people in the first section call their section chief. In contrast, I'm more interested in the next work. I don't know what kind of case Cheng Yang will give us to deal with. I hope it's not like
Last time Section Chief Gao dealt with the three fat men, he gave them cases that a discerning person would know the answer to at a glance.
When I took out the information from the document bag, the third fat man also closed his mouth and came to my side to look at the documents in my hand.
Judging from the documents, this case originated from a request for help in an online forum.
The owner of this request for help claimed to be a police officer from a local police station.
In the post, he claimed that within the jurisdiction of his police station, people often called the police in the middle of the night, claiming that there were often children coming in and out of an abandoned building nearby.
This police officer was the first person to call the police at that time. After receiving the report, he went to the reporting location to check, and he found children there, and there were quite a lot of them, there were dozens of them.
What surprised the police officer was that when he asked the children at the scene why they came to this abandoned residential building, almost none of the children was willing to answer his question. After that, the police officer
They took all the children back to the home and contacted them through various phone calls. It was not until noon the next day that all the children were handed over to their relatives.
The matter should have ended here, but in fact, the whole matter has just begun.
On the night of the next day, the police officer received another report. This time the report was from an office worker who was returning home from work. He accidentally passed by the abandoned building on his way to get off work, and ended up being killed.
I saw many children filing into the building.
After receiving the report, the police officer immediately rushed to the scene again. The result was the same as last night. He found no less than twenty children in that building, and some of these children he even found yesterday
I've already seen it.
However, when the police officer wanted to ask these children the reason for coming here, the children still kept their mouths shut without exception, and no one was willing to reveal the reason for coming here to him.
Seeing that these children remained silent, the police officer could only conduct an on-the-spot inspection in the building, but found nothing of value. In desperation, he had no choice but to take all the children back to the building and make phone calls at the same time, just like yesterday.
Ask the child's family to come to the police station to pick him up.
Since then, the police officer has received several reports. The children don't know why, but they still go their own way and go to the building in the middle of the night from time to time, whether it is the police officer's dissuasion or the children's family members.
No education, not even beatings and scoldings, can curse these children for breaking into the building at night.
The police officer who felt strange couldn't bear it anymore and reported the incident to his superiors. At first, his superiors took it seriously and sent people to seal the entrance and exit of the building for safety reasons.
.But who knew that the next night, the sealed entrance to the building would be torn down by those children.
This result finally exhausted the last bit of patience of the leader of the police station. He finally believed that these children were simply too bored and naughty. They had already done what they should do. The next thing they could do was to let the parents of those children
He came to take charge. So the leader finally rejected the proposal of the police officer who posted the message to continue investigating the matter, and asked him to call the parents of those children over and let them control their children.
This move by the police station leader finally had some effect. The parents who came to the police station to pick up their children that day, after being reprimanded by the police, also beat and scolded those children and promised not to let these children mess around in the middle of the night again.
After that day, the children stopped running for several days.
However, the good times did not last long. A week later, the police officer who posted the message once again discovered that another child would break into the abandoned building in the middle of the night every day. Because his superiors told him not to mind his own business, the police officer finally just
We can follow the old method and ask the parents to pick up the children every time.
As time went by, the police officer became accustomed to this kind of thing. Until one day, when he was posting on the Internet, he posted this matter out of boredom and wanted netizens to help analyze it.
Are those children doing that because they are naughty or for some other reason?
Seeing this, the third fat man next to me suddenly said: "What a coincidence, Sijiu, I discovered this information."
"Um?"
San Pang explained that it turned out that the first person in the bureau who discovered this little police officer’s post was actually himself, and it was he who made the decision after seeing the content of the post that this matter might be involved in a mysterious incident.
judge.
"Oh?" I was a little curious about Sanpang's judgment, "What do you think? If it were me, I would only think that this matter was just some children's mischief. Look, those children didn't have any trouble on their own.
, The two didn’t do anything to others, in the end they were just playing in that building by themselves. I think the police station director’s judgment was not wrong, those children just lacked discipline and liked to run out to play in the middle of the night.”
The third fat man chuckled lightly and didn't say anything directly. Instead, he pulled me back to the office.
When we got to the office, after the third fat man sat down, he said to me: "Sijiu, let's talk first. I am not sarcastic about you. Your experiences when you were young were different from ordinary people, so you don't know what normal people's experiences are.
How could children run out to play in the middle of the night? What's more, those children are not the first offenders, but run out again and again. This is not normal at all."
I nodded and said, "It's a little abnormal, but you also saw that those children didn't do anything else except going to an abandoned building?"
"The strange thing is here..." The third fat man knocked on the table and said, "Those children who are not going anywhere else in the middle of the night always run to an abandoned building. Don't you think it's strange?"
After a pause, the third fat man suddenly changed the subject and said, "By the way, Sijiu, have you ever heard of the story of the Piper of Hamel?"
After thinking for a long time, I shook my head: "I don't know, why did you suddenly talk about this?"
"We'll talk about this later. You listen to this story first." San Pang said.
"About eight hundred years ago, there was a rat infestation in Hamel, a small German town. When the whole city was helpless and was about to abandon the city and escape, a flute player in spotted clothes came here.
The flute player wore strangely colored clothes and had a flute on his waist. He said he could get rid of the rats, but he would need a reward. The residents of the small town said they would pay him fifty times as long as they could get rid of the rats.
So the flute player took out his flute and played a soft tune. All the mice ran out from the ditch, the room, under the cabinet, and under the bed, and followed the flute player.
The flute player walked to the river and continued to play the flute. The mice jumped into the river one after another, and they were all washed away by the river.
The residents were extremely happy, but when the flute player asked for payment, the residents suddenly regretted it and said they had no money to pay.
The flute player didn't say anything at that time, but left the town silently. But that night, when the moon was high in the sky and everyone was sleeping peacefully, a clear flute sound suddenly sounded in the air of the small town. Accompanied by the fluttering sound of the flute
, all the children in the city ran from home to the road, following behind the spotted-clothed flute player.
The flute player walked up the mountain while playing the flute, and all the children followed him. As they walked, the moonlight was gradually blocked by the clouds. The flute player and the children walked farther and farther, and finally they all disappeared in the mountain.
Inside. Since then, no one in the city has seen those children and the flute player again."