After the three fat men finished speaking, Officer Jiang let out a sigh of relief. He seemed to be really sure until this moment that we really wanted to investigate the affairs of those children when we came here this time.
Probably because of this, compared to when we first met, Officer Jiang began to take the initiative to assist us.
He said: "You two, there is no problem in going to the food court, but if I were you, I would wait a little longer. According to the previous situation, in a few hours, those children will go to that building to party.
.Don’t you want to see with your own eyes what’s going on with those children?”
"Tonight?" Sanpang looked at the time on his phone and said with some surprise, "Are those children still going there every day?"
"Yes. I have talked to many parents of their children, but it didn't work very well. Their families tried to take care of them at first, but over time they just let it go. Some parents even asked us to do it, saying that since their children were so
If you like to play there, let us send someone there to take care of it every day... I really don't know what those parents think, they are so thoughtful and don't worry about their children at all..."
"We don't care about those parents' affairs." The third fat man waved his hand and said to him: "Comrade Jiang, since you said you can see the condition of those children with your own eyes at night, then just do as you say. I will do it now
Go to your boss and ask him to grant you a leave. We will need you to assist us for a while."
Officer Jiang seemed happy to be able to continue investigating the children. He nodded and said happily: "No problem, I'll leave it to you two. I'm going to prepare some things now, and we'll meet outside in a while.
"
After that, Officer Jiang and we started to do our own business. As he said just now, the third fat man went to Officer Jiang's leader to discuss the matter. In addition to getting the other party to agree to film Officer Jiang to assist us for a period of time, he also asked him if he wanted to
We drove a police car. The car we drove here was an ordinary commercial car. Sanpang thought that it would be more convenient to use a police car with local license plates for local investigations.
As for Officer Jiang, when we got everything ready and arrived outside the police station, he was already waiting outside with a briefcase.
Fatty San threw him the keys to the police car that was coming, and then asked Officer Jiang to take us to find some food nearby. We will definitely stay up late tonight. With Fatty San’s personality, he naturally wants to feed his stomach before staying up late.
We have some good ones in reserve. Officer Jiang wanted to treat us to a meal at his own expense, but the third fat man took out a bank card that was given to investigators from the 749 Bureau when they went out to investigate, and told Officer Jiang not to be polite, just find it for us.
The best part is that both of our expenses can be reimbursed anyway.
In this way, the three of us ate and drank outside. After lingering for several hours, seeing that it was already past midnight, Officer Jiang pointed to his watch and told us to set off.
The location of the food court is not remote, and it is only a twenty-minute drive from where we eat. Because he was afraid of alerting others, Officer Jiang parked the police car at a street corner. Although it was still several hundred meters away from the food court, it was still there.
I could barely see what was going on over there.
Sitting in the car, Officer Jiang pointed to a three-story house in front of us covering an area of more than 10,000 square meters and said: "That is the food court. Because the location is good, I think it was still very lively when it opened.
, but due to a fire and the financial problems of the developer of the food court, it has become a lot desolate in the past few years. However, this situation probably will not last long. After what happened to those children, I went to inquire about it.
However, it seems that the developer here is planning to auction off the food court and the land. I am afraid that the food court will be demolished in a year or two."
I was sitting in the back row. When I heard what Officer Jiang said, I was a little interested in what he just said, so I asked: "Comrade Jiang, what was the specific situation of that fire? Did many people die?"
Officer Jiang replied: "That's not true, but the fire was quite severe. I heard that most of the shops on the second floor of the food court were involved."
Originally, I had thought that this incident might be related to ghosts, but if no one had died in the food court, then my guess would not be valid.
Sitting in the passenger seat was Fatty Three. He was holding a telescope we had prepared before. He looked at the food court for a while and then said: "Comrade Jiang, how long will it take for those children to arrive?"
Officer Jiang looked at his watch: "It should be soon. According to my experience of watching sentries several times, the earliest children will arrive around one o'clock in the night, and then all the children will enter around two o'clock."
Food court.”
"So late?"
To be honest, even though I have read the case information and heard Officer Jiang’s story with my own ears, I still can’t believe that so many children ran out of the house so late at night and came to a room.
In the food court that once had a fire, are the families of those children so tolerant that they would not care if their children ran out in the middle of the night?
I was still feeling aggrieved by the indifference of those parents to their children. The third fat man sitting in the front row suddenly patted the center console and said: "Here, Sijiu, a child is here!"
After hearing this, Officer Jiang and I immediately picked up a pair of binoculars and looked in the direction of the food court.
The food court has been closed for many years, and even the street lights there are very dim. Fortunately, there are lights from other building signs on both sides of the road, so we can vaguely see the situation around the food court.
Under the dim light, a group of children who looked like primary school students appeared on the edge of the road near the food court. These children were wearing red scarves, school uniforms, and carrying small schoolbags behind them. If it hadn't been too late, they looked like
Just like a group of students who are about to go to school.
After approaching the food court, the primary school students first looked around, then ran across the road and ran to the side of the food court building.
That place happened to be in the blind spot of the surrounding buildings, so we couldn't see clearly what was going on there. But at this moment, Officer Jiang explained to us: "There was originally a platoon there.
The air outlet, the exhaust outlet is not big, but it is just big enough for a child to climb in, and that’s where the children got into the square.”
Hearing this, I couldn't help but frown and said, "Exhaust vent? Comrade Jiang, since you know where they got in, why don't you seal that exhaust vent first?"
Officer Jiang sighed: "It's not that easy. To tell you the truth, this food court is so dilapidated right now. In addition to the exhaust vent, there are countless gaps in it that people can sneak in. We sealed a lot of them before.
Gaps, but those children are also very capable. Some of the gaps we sealed were demolished within a few days. Even the ones blocked with cement were smashed by them, so the institute simply ignored them.
"
"Every hole blocked with cement will be smashed away?" The third fat man exclaimed, "Aren't they all little brats? Do they have that strength?"
Officer Jiang hurriedly explained: "Well, this is all my fault. I forgot to tell you two that in fact, in addition to the elementary school students you just saw, there are also teenagers who go to the food court in the middle of the night.
Students, elementary school students don't have the strength to break the blockade, but those junior high school students do. Hey, just in time, look over there!"
Officer Jiang suddenly pointed to a street corner not far from our police car, where a child in casual clothes was walking by. Although he was wearing casual clothes, judging from the child's appearance, he was only thirteen or fourteen years old.
As we were walking towards the food court, the child suddenly turned around and glanced at us. We were so frightened that San Pang wanted us to lower our heads and hide, but Officer Jiang stopped us at this time.
He said: "You two don't need to be nervous or hide. I have been here several times to monitor you, and those children have already noticed me."