In the afternoon, Xu Lang and the others began to focus on Xie Zhiwen's story and contacted the police station near Xu Lang's community. They found comrades from the police station and asked them to help investigate the nearby scavengers to see if they could find Xie Zhiwen among them.
The man who sent the courier in question.
Lai Pi also gave Lu Xing the surveillance hard drive he took back from the Hummingbird Express location and asked him to try to recover the videos on the hard drive to see if he could find some useful clues. For example, on March 21,
In the evening, go to the person who sent the express delivery.
Throughout the afternoon, Xu Lang and the others were investigating and interviewing many scavengers with the police from the police station.
With the development of the economy, in the past, when Xu Lang was a child, he could still see some people begging on the streets, but now he rarely sees them. Of course, there are still some beggars, but most of these beggars are from
Begging is a profession. They beg in one place. As long as it is not windy or rainy, you can see their shadows almost every day. Of course, these people are still very few.
Besides the sanitation workers who clean the streets, the only people who dig through the trash cans every day are scavengers.
When Xu Lang and others investigated, they could see that most of the scavengers were elderly people, or middle-aged men and women. They were carrying snakeskin bags and rummaging in front of various trash cans.
Went there to look for some items that could be sold for money. When Xu Lang and the others saw these people, they thought they were all very old. After some questioning, they found out that many of them looked to be in their fifties or sixties.
He is actually only about forty years old, but he looks extra old due to being exposed to the wind and sun day after day.
A large part of these waste pickers have no fixed abode. Their sleeping places may be park benches, aisles under overpasses, or some unfinished buildings, temporarily suspended construction sites, etc., while some people
In some remote places, they built a house by themselves. The so-called house was just a few wooden sticks put together using the things they picked up. There were also a small number of retired old people who had nothing to do.
So they began to work as scavengers, selling the collected items to scrap collection stations in exchange for a meager amount of money. They did this not to make money, but simply to pass the time.
After a large circle of visits, Xu Lang and the others found nothing. They had no trace of the man Xie Zhiwen described.
"Brother Lang, could it be that Xie Zhiwen deceived us?" Luo Jiayan asked while holding a bottle of water, her face flushed, squatting on the side of the road, drinking water.
Investigating and interviewing scavengers is not an easy task. After all, they have to work hard to live and walk around. They cannot stay in one place. If Xu Lang and the others want to ask these people, they have to look for them one by one. Naturally,
They have to run with each other, so they have to walk a lot. Xu Lang and Lai Pi, one is a policeman and the other is a veteran. They are both men and have much stronger physical strength than women. Naturally, they don't think there is anything wrong. However, Luo Jiayan
It was a woman, and she was very tired after running all afternoon.
Hearing Luo Jiayan's question, Xu Lang also had this guess, wondering if Xie Zhiwen was deceiving him. However, Xu Lang thought about it and realized that there was no need for him to do this. First of all, he didn't know what was in the express delivery.
, Secondly, he is just a courier boy, there is no need to lie for someone who dies without knowing it, unless he knows the murderer.
However, after some investigation and visits, Xu Lang and the others found nothing suspicious. In addition, they were tired and thirsty. It was not surprising that Luo Jiayan had this idea.
Xu Lang did not immediately answer Luo Jiayan's question. Instead, he looked at Lai Pi and asked, "What do you think?"
Lai Pi thought for a moment and said, "Xie Zhiwen has no reason to deceive us."
Xu Lang nodded, and then asked: "Have you finished investigating the scavengers nearby?"
Luo Jiayan nodded and said, "The investigation is over, when will we go back?"
Xu Lang raised his head and looked at the setting sun. He took out his phone and looked at it. He found that it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon. Since the scavengers had almost completed their investigation and visits, they should go back. So, Xu Lang
He said: "Go back to CSY."
"Oye, go home."
Hearing Xu Lang say back, Luo Jiayan immediately stood up from the ground and shouted to Lai Pi. Xu Lang and Lai Pi were speechless for a while.
When working, Xu Lang and the others felt that Luo Jiayan was a very capable person who was very efficient and thorough in her work. However, sometimes, Xu Lang felt that Luo Jiayan was like a person who would never grow up.
Like a child, Xu Lang would do something and say some childish words from time to time, which made Xu Lang not know what to say about Luo Jiayan.
Xu Lang and Lai Pi looked at each other, stood up, and walked toward the parking place with a bottle of mineral water that was mostly filled with water.
"Help, help, call the police for me. Can any kind person call the police for me?"
At this moment, a man's shout suddenly came from not far away. Xu Lang and the others heard the sound and looked over.
This is a garbage disposal station. There are many people who come here to pick up waste every day. However, there are very few people living and working here, and there are also very few pedestrians on the road. It is not yet time to get off work, so there are only a few people on the street.
Apart from Xu Lang and the others, there were not many pedestrians.
At this time, a man who was all dirty and unkempt
The man in front of me was running wildly on the street. He said he was running wildly, but in fact it was almost like a normal person walking fast.
The man's hair was disheveled, and he didn't know what was stained on his face. It was pitch black, revealing a pair of big frightened eyes. As his mouth opened and closed, a mouth of white and neat teeth was revealed. He was wearing a white shirt on his upper body.
shirt, now, the white shirt is stained with dirt, one red, one black, and one yellow. It looks like it was dug out of the trash, like a canvas.
Several buttons of the shirt fell off, and as the man ran, the man's skin was exposed, and the man's lower body was wearing a pair of black trousers. At this time, the trousers were already in tatters, with holes everywhere.
During the running process, one of the legs exposed its pure white skin. Apparently, the pants had taken off the thread, but the man was wearing nothing on his feet. He was running barefoot on the road. This was not an asphalt road, but an asphalt road.
It was a gravel road with a lot of pebbles scattered on it. The man was running on the road with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The soles of his feet had been scratched by the stones. Blood seeped out and dripped on the road. The man was completely unaware. He just kept running.
He ran forward, shouting for help, and turning his head to look behind him from time to time, as if something was chasing him behind him.
When most people see a man like this, they either think he is mentally ill or crazy. However, when Xu Lang saw the man, he immediately noticed the man's arms.
The man's left hand is covering the wrist of his right hand, while the man's right hand has nothing from the wrist down. It is bare and wrapped with a blood-stained gauze. The white gauze has been stained red by blood and turned into dark brown.
Just when Xu Lang and the others turned their heads to look at the man who was shouting for help, the man also noticed Xu Lang and the others, so he ran towards Xu Lang and the others desperately, shouting loudly as he ran: "
Help me, help me, please, help me..."
When the man was running towards Xu Lang and the others, the pedestrians on the road looked sideways, whispered to the people around them, and pointed. When they saw the man running towards Xu Lang and the others, they stood beside the man and Xu Lang.
The people among them hurriedly hid towards the roadside, as if they were afraid that the man would find them.
"Plop."
Just when the man was less than fifty meters away from Xu Lang and the others, perhaps because he was running too fast, he stepped on a pebble and lost his balance. His body stumbled and fell directly to the ground, causing a splash.
Large amounts of dust.
After the man fell, his dark face showed a strange flush. He raised his head, looked at Xu Lang and the others, stretched out his left hand, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Help, help..."
After Xu Lang and the others saw this scene, they immediately ran towards the man.
Lai Pi was the first to run to the man's side, squatting down and helping the dusty man up from the ground, while Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan also ran over.
Before they even got close to the man, Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan smelled a pungent odor. This odor came from the man's body. It smelled of sweat, feces, urine, blood, and
Xu Lang raised his eyebrows slightly at the rancid smell, but walked to the man's side, looked at the man supported by Lai Pi, and asked: "What danger are you encountering?"
"Quick, call the police for me, someone is trying to kill me." Xu Lang frowned and asked.
"Hurry, call the police for me, call the police for me, someone wants to kill me, someone wants to kill me..."
After the man saw Xu Lang, or to be precise, after he saw Xu Lang checking the time and holding the mobile phone in his hand, he didn't know where the strength came from, and he rushed towards Xu Lang, stretched out his left hand, and wanted to
He went to grab the mobile phone in Xu Lang's hand, and shouted loudly while grabbing the mobile phone.
Seeing the man's reaction, Xu Lang's brows furrowed even more tightly. After Lai Pi discovered the man's unusual behavior, he immediately twisted the man's left hand behind his back and subdued the man.
After the man was subdued by Lai Pi, he still rushed towards Xu Lang, his red eyes staring at the mobile phone in Xu Lang's hand, and kept shouting: "Give me the mobile phone, I want to call the police, someone wants to
me."
After getting closer, Xu Lang discovered that the reason why the man's face was so dark was not that he was originally so dark, but that it was covered with dust and other things. After the struggle, the man's forehead stretched out.
Big beads of sweat wetted his cheeks, and the dust on his face was shaken into gullies. His cheeks, which were dark just now, suddenly turned black and white, like a cat with a painted face.
Xu Lang shook his head at Lai Pi and said, "Let him go."
After saying this, Xu Lang handed the phone in his hand to the man.
After the man saw the cell phone, he wanted to reach out his right hand to pick it up. However, when he stretched out his right hand, he could not pick up the cell phone. Lai Pi restrained his left hand, and he began to struggle desperately.
After Lai Pi heard Xu Lang's words, he let go of the man's left hand.
After the restraints were released, the man immediately stretched out his left hand to catch the phone, and pressed the screen of the phone in a somewhat awkward manner.
Seeing the man's awkward movements, Xu Lang said: "No need to call the police, we are the police."
When he heard the word police, the man who was fighting with his cell phone suddenly stopped what he was doing, raised his head, stared at Xu Lang with a pair of blood-red eyes, and asked, "Are you the police?"
Xu Lang nodded and said, "We are the police."
"Since you are a police officer, why aren't you wearing a police uniform?" the man asked, staring into Xu Lang's eyes.
"Who told you that police must wear police uniforms?" Xu Lang asked.
After saying this, Xu Lang took out his ID and placed it in front of the man.
After the man saw the ID that Xu Lang handed over, he looked at it carefully for a while, then raised his head, looked at Xu Lang and asked: "Are you really the police?"
Xu Lang nodded again and said nothing.
"Comrade police, uncle police, grandpa police, please, help me, someone wants to kill me." The man shouted hoarsely.
"Tell me what's wrong, who wants to kill you?" Xu Lang asked.
Hearing Xu Lang's question, the man kept shouting: "Someone wants to kill me, someone wants to kill me..."
Just when Xu Lang wanted to continue asking who wanted to kill him, the man suddenly blinked, his body softened, and he passed out. If Lai Pi hadn't been holding him up, he would have been like a soft-footed shrimp.
Fell to the ground.
Seeing the man suddenly fainted, Xu Lang discovered that the gauze on the man's right hand had fallen to the ground after falling and struggling violently, revealing a dark red wound with several pustules. At this moment
, the pustule has burst, and yellow and viscous liquid and light red blood flow out from it.
It looked like the man was exhausted and passed out.
Xu Lang didn't waste much time and immediately said to Lai Pi: "Put him in the car and take him to the hospital."
After saying that, Lai Pi held the slender man in his arms and walked towards the police car.
Xu Lang sat in the driver's seat, Luo Jiayan sat in the passenger seat, and Lai Pi held the man in the back seat. As soon as the car door closed, Xu Lang started the car and went straight to the hospital.
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The police car drove towards the hospital at lightning speed. Xu Lang's face was very solemn. As he drove, he looked in the rearview mirror from time to time, observing this slovenly and embarrassed man through the rearview mirror.
"How is he?" Xu Lang asked solemnly.
After Lai Pi observed the man carefully, he said: "He passed out and is very weak. We must go to the hospital as soon as possible."
Speaking of this, Lai Pi looked at the man's right hand that was still bleeding, and his face became very serious.
Just now outside, Xu Lang and the others could smell the unpleasant smell around the man. However, at that time, the location was spacious and the smell was not very strong. But now, in the small space of the car, this unpleasant smell is very strong.
It was rich and pungent, and Xu Lang frowned, while Luo Jiayan covered her nose with one hand and turned her head to look at the man in the back row, her willow-leaf eyebrows almost frowning into a line.
"Snapped."
"Please... let me go..."
The man lying on the back seat, with his eyes closed, suddenly stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him. He slapped Lai Pi in the face who was checking the man's injuries, and shouted indistinctly "Let go".
words like that to me.
The man's intact left hand and right hand without a palm kept waving in the air. The expression on his face was very painful and twisted, and his chest heaved violently. The blood from the wound on his right hand was thrown out with the man's movements.
It fell on the four walls of the police car, some of which fell on Lai Pi, and some of which fell on Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan.
Because Luo Jiayan was leaning sideways, facing the back row, a few drops of blood fell on her baby face, and Luo Jiayan's face suddenly turned dark.
The man's abnormal behavior immediately caught Xu Lang's attention. He glanced at the rearview mirror again and found that the man's chest was rising and falling violently. Xu Lang knew that he could not delay any longer, so he increased the accelerator and sounded the alarm.
, and rushed towards the hospital.
The car quickly arrived at the entrance of the hospital. As soon as the car stopped, Lai Pi opened the rear door, took the man out of the car, and ran quickly towards the hospital, shouting loudly as he ran: "
Doctors, nurses..."
After Lai Pi got out of the car with the man in his arms, Luo Jiayan also unbuckled her seat belt and ran inside. After Xu Lang parked the car, she followed him into the hospital.
When Xu Lang entered the hospital, he saw Lai Pi put the man on the bed with the help of several nurses, and was pushed inside by several nurses.
Rao was lying on the hospital bed, and the man was still waving his hands in the air, shouting: "Someone wants to kill me, someone wants to kill me..."
It's a pity that his voice became lower and lower. Except for Xu Lang and others who listened many times, none of the nurses could clearly hear what the man was saying.
Soon, a group of people arrived at the door of the operating room. They carried the man to the hospital bed, and then stopped Xu Lang and the others outside the door. One of the nurses said to Xu Lang: "Please wait outside and pay the hospitalization fee."
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After saying this, with a snap, the door of the operating room was closed by the nurse from the inside, and the operating light also turned on.
After Xu Lang took a deep look at the operating room, he took out his wallet from his pocket, handed it to Lai Pi, and asked him to go through the hospitalization procedures.