Just when Xu Lang thought of Zhang Jinzhong and took out his mobile phone to call the comrades from the police station responsible for caring for Zhang Jinzhong at the hospital to ask about Zhang Jinzhong's situation, Lai Pi came back.
In fact, when Lai Pi came back, Xu Lang and the others were busy with other things and didn't notice Lai Pi at all. However, after smelling a bad smell, they all turned their heads and looked at the door, and then
I saw Lai Pi looking embarrassed, as if he had just crawled out of the sewer.
"Lai Pi, did you fall into the sewer?"
Fan Yang looked at Lai Pi looking like he had seen a ghost, covering his sexy lips with one hand, and asked in surprise.
Xu Lang, Ding Haoqiong and Lu Xing also looked at Lai Pi. They were all very curious and asked Lai Pi to go and see where Zhang Jinzhong said he was imprisoned. How could Lai Pi end up like this?
Lai Pi walked towards Xu Lang and the others, and said helplessly as he walked: "I didn't fall into the sewer, but I would rather fall into the sewer myself than go to a place like that again."
As Lai Pi approached, the unpleasant smell became stronger and stronger. The air in the CSY office area, which was originally very fresh, suddenly became turbid with Lai Pi's appearance.
Fan Yang and the others looked at Lai Pi approaching and quickly stretched out their hands to cover their noses. They subconsciously took a few steps back and looked at Lai Pi with strange eyes. Obviously, although they wanted to know what Lai Pi had discovered, but now,
They were even more reluctant to get close to Lai Pi. After all, the smell was so unpleasant that even Xu Lang frowned subconsciously.
Lai Pi ignored Fan Yang and the others, but walked to the spot where Luo Jiayan had just done, sat down, and slumped on the chair. Obviously, Lai Pi was exhausted.
After Xu Lang saw this scene, he winked at Lu Xing. After Lu Xing saw it, he immediately got up and went to the water dispenser, took a glass of warm water and handed it to Lai Pi.
Lai Pi was not polite to Lu Xing. He directly reached out and took the disposable cup, put the cup to his mouth and drank heavily.
After Lai Pi finished drinking, Xu Lang looked at Lai Pi and asked, "Have you found the place where Zhang Jinzhong was imprisoned?"
Lai Pi handed the cup in his hand to Lu Xing. He did not answer Xu Lang's question immediately, but said to Lu Xing: "Please give me another cup."
Lu Xing was a little helpless, but he still took the cup and walked to the water dispenser, filled Lai Pi with another cup of water, and handed it to Lai Pi.
After Lai Pi took it, he drank everything in the cup in one go.
After drinking the water, Lai Pi flattened the disposable cup, threw it into the trash can, burped, then looked at Xu Lang, nodded and said, "Found it."
"Where?" Xu Lang asked quickly.
Lai Pi looked at Xu Lang, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "You may not believe it, but that unfinished building is only one kilometer away from where we found Zhang Jinzhong."
"So, the place where Zhang Jinzhong is imprisoned is indeed an unfinished building?" Xu Lang frowned and asked.
Lai Pi nodded and said: "It is indeed an unfinished building, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time."
"You went in?" Xu Lang asked.
Lai Pi nodded.
"What did you find?"
"I didn't find anything at first. Apart from weeds and all kinds of garbage, there was nothing in this unfinished building. However, when I went to the basement, I found a lot of things in it.
"
"What are they?" Xu Lang asked.
Lai Pi did not speak, but took out his mobile phone, handed it to Xu Lang, and said, "I took a photo, you can see for yourselves."
Xu Lang took the phone and opened the photo album. Sure enough, he saw many photos.
Most of the photos were taken very dark, probably due to the dark environment at the scene.
Xu Lang started looking at the first picture and found that the first picture was of an entrance. The door was intact and open. Behind the door were several stairs. Because of the light problem, it was not clear how many stairs there were.
steps.
When he saw this photo, Xu Lang discovered that the steps of the stairs were covered with thick dust. The dust was no longer gray, but dark brown. Obviously, the dust had accumulated for a long time, and it was still there.
It had been soaked by rain, otherwise it would not be in this state. Of course, what attracted Xu Lang's attention was naturally not the dust in the stairwell. After all, this was an unfinished building, and it looked like it should be the entrance to the basement. There was a lot of dust here.
It is normal for the stairs to be full of dust. However, it is precisely because of the presence of dust that several shoe prints appeared on the steps of the stairs.
Xu Lang looked at these shoe prints, then raised his head and looked at Lai Pi and asked, "Why are the shoe prints so unclear in the photo?"
Lai Pi shook his head and said: "It's not that the photo is not clear, it's that it's not clear in the first place. If you turn back, I even took a special photo of the shoe prints."
Hearing what Lai Pi said, Xu Lang swiped his finger on the screen and turned it backwards. After only two turns, Xu Lang saw the close-up of the shoe print that Lai Pi was talking about.
There were three shoe prints on one step, one of which only had the forefoot and was barefoot. Considering that Zhang Jinzhong said that he escaped from the basement, when Xu Lang and the others saw Zhang Jinzhong, he did
It's barefoot. This footprint should be Zhang Jinzhong's. Next to the barefoot shoe print, there are two sets of shoe prints. One of the shoe prints is left by the heel of the leather shoe, while the other shoe print is a bit strange. The shoe print is
Although it is also a mark left by the back heel, the shape should also be left by leather shoes, but it is not the shoe print pattern of the back heel.
, but the shoe print pattern on the forefoot. It seems that someone has repeatedly walked along this shoe print, causing the shoe print pattern to be blurred.
Seeing these three sets of patterns, one thing can basically be determined, that is, three people once entered this basement. The bare feet were left by Zhang Jinzhong. So, who left the leather shoe prints on the back of the feet?
?What made Xu Lang feel most strange and curious was the vaguest mark, where someone had repeatedly stepped on the shoe print. From the photo, the only shoe prints with value for extraction were the barefoot shoe prints and that.
Half of the leather shoe print. As for the last shoe print, it has no great extraction value.
After looking at the previous photos, Xu Lang continued to turn back and forth.
This was a very small passage with rooms on both sides. Xu Lang looked carefully and found that there were three rooms in total, only one of which had a door.
When he saw this photo, Xu Lang finally understood how dirty Lai Pi was, because in the passage, there was a layer of water on the ground. The color of the water was very turbid and black. He could tell at a glance that it was stagnant water.
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After this photo, there is a photo of the room with the door. The door is ajar and the door lock is still hanging on the door. The door is an old-fashioned iron door. Maybe because the environment in the basement is relatively humid, the iron door
It’s hard to tell what color it was originally, it’s covered in rust, and the paint on the iron door has peeled off.
After that, it’s about what’s going on inside the room.
The room is not big. There is a table and a chair inside. The table and chairs are very old and worn. They should have been found in the garbage. There are traces of burning candles on the table, and there is still a layer of wax on the table top.
, In addition, there is an empty bowl and a pair of chopsticks on the table. There are still some rice grains in the bowl, but the bowl and the chopsticks are already covered with a layer of white hair, which looks very
Disgusting.
The floor of the room was very messy. On the rough concrete floor, there was a small puddle in the east and a small pit in the west, which looked uneven. And on the ground, in addition to black water, there was also some excrement. Not only
There were blood stains on the ground and on the walls. In addition to these, there were blood stains on the ground. The blood stains were dark brown, giving people a very scary feeling.
The cleanest place in the room is in the northeast corner. There is a suit jacket that is originally black or has turned black because it has not been washed for a long time. There, you can see the outline of a huddled human figure. Look.
It looks like someone must have slept here. Thinking about it, this person must be Zhang Jinzhong.
In addition to the photos of this room, Xu Lang turned back and found that Lai Pi had also taken photos of two other rooms.
In one of these two empty rooms, there are ropes that are densely packed like spider webs, and on these ropes are clips filled with photos, and these photos are all of Zhang Jinzhong himself. Apart from the photos,
, Xu Lang also saw a lot of reports cut out from newspapers or magazines and pinned to the wall with thumbtacks, and these papers were all about Zhang Jinzhong, because not only did Zhang Jinzhong's name appear on them,
There are also photos of him.
In another photo, Xu Lang discovered that there was actually a wall calendar hanging on the wall, and it was this year's calendar. The date on the wall calendar was April. In the days before April 5th, it had been painted in red.
The pen circle fell off, and it was blank for the next two days.
In the last room, there were neither photos nor newspapers posted on the wall. The room was empty, but there were a few large characters spray-painted on the wall with red spray paint.
"Officer Xu, hello!"
When he saw this photo, Xu Lang suddenly narrowed his eyes.
It seemed that the other party had long known that Xu Lang and the others would find out here, and knew that Xu Lang would definitely come, so he left provocative words on the wall.
After looking at these photos, Xu Lang was silent for a long time without speaking.
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"Have you brought all these things back?" Xu Lang finally spoke.
Lai Pi shook his head and said, "No, in order to protect the shoe prints in the stairwell, I was the only one who went down there, so I didn't bring it back."
Hearing this, Xu Lang nodded, thought for a while, and said to Fan Yang: "You, Deputy Team Leader Ding, and Lai Pi are going there to carefully inspect the scene to see if there are any fingerprints or anything like that."
Available clues."
Hearing what Xu Lang said, Fan Yang and Ding Haoqiong looked at each other and nodded. However, when they saw Lai Pi's embarrassed look, they felt helpless.
After Xu Lang arranged the mission, Lai Pi rested for a while and left CSY with Fan Yang and Ding Haoqiong.
Luo Jiayan was still in contact with the police in Xingchuan City, and Lu Xing also had relevant information on investigating the car accident ten years ago, but Xu Lang fell into deep thought.
There were three people in the basement where Zhang Jinzhong was imprisoned. One of them was Zhang Jinzhong himself, and the other must be the murderer. So, whose was the third set of shoe prints found at the scene? Could it be that there were two murderers? Xu Lang didn't know.
Thinking of this, Xu Lang thought of Zhang Jinzhong again. He thought that he should go to the hospital to see Zhang Jinzhong. Firstly, he wanted to see how Zhang Jinzhong was doing. Secondly, he wanted to ask Zhang Jinzhong about the specific details of his kidnapping and imprisonment. There are also some details about Sun Qihang's case ten years ago, and then there is asking about the situation of the paralegal Shen Kaiwen who worked with him to defend Sun Qihang.
As the saying goes, action is worse than a heartbeat. Xu Lang didn't want to sit in the office and wait for feedback on the investigation results, so he got up and left CSY and went to the hospital.
Xu Lang had just gotten into the car after leaving CSY and was about to start the car when his cell phone rang in his pocket.
Xu Lang took out his cell phone and took a look and found that it was an unfamiliar phone number. This made Xu Lang a little confused, but he quickly answered the call.
"Hello."
"Is this Team Leader Xu of the CSY Criminal Investigation Team?" A man's voice came from the other end of the phone.
Xu Lang frowned and said, "I am Xu Lang, who are you?"
"Oh, I am Xiao Zhang, a police officer from the police station. Last night you called our director and asked us to go to the hospital to take care of a patient."
Hearing Xiao Zhang's explanation on the other end of the phone, Xu Lang was stunned at first, and then his heart sank suddenly, because Xu Lang had a premonition that Xiao Zhang's call must be something happened in the hospital, so Xu Lang Lang quickly asked: "Did something happen in the hospital?"
"how do you know?"
Hearing Xu Lang's question, Xiao Zhang was obviously surprised, but he quickly reacted and said quickly: "Oh, I called you just to report this matter to you."
"What's going on?" Xu Lang asked with a frown.
"You caused the patient in our care to disappear."
"What? Missing?"
Xu Lang, who had a bad premonition in his heart, immediately raised his voice after hearing what Xiao Zhang said.
"Yes...I'm sorry, Team Leader Xu, I didn't think highly of him. I..."
Xu Lang suddenly raised his voice, apparently frightening police officer Xiao Zhang, who apologized profusely on the phone.
However, what Xu Lang wanted to hear now was not Xiao Zhang's apology, but wanted to know how Zhang Jinzhong, a living person and a very weak patient at that, disappeared from the hospital.
"How did he disappear?" Xu Lang asked after calming down.
"I don't know either. I just went out for a meal. When I came back, I found that he was missing, so I quickly called you to report the situation."
After learning the result, Xu Lang immediately wanted to yell, but Xu Lang held back. Firstly, Xiao Zhang was not his subordinate and was not under his control. Secondly, Zhang Jinzhong was missing now. Find out what happened to him. What is missing and why is it missing? This is the key. Swearing will not work.
"You wait at the hospital, I'll be right over."
After saying this, Xu Lang hung up the phone, threw the phone on the passenger seat, started the car, and drove towards the hospital.
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After Xu Lang drove to the hospital, he took the elevator directly to the ward where Zhang Jinzhong lived. After opening the door, he saw a young policeman in his early twenties wearing a police uniform. At this moment, the young policeman was looking anxious.
He kept pacing in the room. After hearing the sound of the door opening, he immediately turned his head and looked at the door.
In addition to the young policeman, there were two nurses in the room. They were looking at the young policeman curiously. After the door was pushed open, they subconsciously turned their heads and looked at the door, and then saw the gloomy face.
Xu Lang.
After Xu Lang entered the room, he glanced at the three of them first, and then looked at the hospital bed.
Last night, when Xu Lang left, Zhang Jinzhong was still lying on the hospital bed. But now, the hospital bed is empty and the cup has been pushed aside.
Xu Lang did not speak immediately, but walked into the bathroom in the ward. The door to the bathroom was closed. Xu Lang opened the door and took a look, and found that the bathroom was also empty. He looked at the door again and found that the door was empty.
No one either.
After confirming that Zhang Jinzhong was indeed not in the hospital, Xu Lang walked out of the bathroom, came to the young policeman, and asked, "Are you Xiao Zhang?"
The young policeman nodded, his face flushed, and the guilty look on his face was clearly visible. He nodded first, and then lowered his head, not daring to look at Xu Lang.
Seeing Xiao Zhang like this, Xu Lang, who originally wanted to say a few words to him, gave up the idea.
"When did you find out that Zhang Jinzhong was missing?" Xu Lang asked.
"Fifteen minutes ago."
Xu Lang took out his cell phone and looked at the time. It was now 4:10 in the afternoon. Fifteen minutes ago it was 3:55. At that time, Xu Lang was looking at the photos Lai Pi brought back.
Xu Lang looked around and found that Xiao Zhang was alone, so he frowned and asked, "Didn't I ask your director to send two people here last night? Why are you alone?"
Xiao Zhang raised his head and glanced at Xu Lang, then lowered his head again and whispered: "I was on duty with another colleague last night. After receiving your call, I came over. As for why I am the only one, Director
He said that it doesn’t take that many people to take care of a patient, it’s enough for me alone.”
"Did you notice anything unusual when you were taking care of Zhang Jinzhong?" Xu Lang asked after pondering for a moment.
Xiao Zhang thought for a while, shook his head and said, "There is nothing abnormal. He is just like a normal patient. He is just lying on the bed and sleeping."
"Has he eaten?"
"I ate it. I bought him breakfast this morning and he ate it all."
"What about noon?" Xu Lang asked.
Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "No."
"Why didn't you eat?" Xu Lang looked at Xiao Zhang and asked.
"I was not in the hospital at noon. I went back to the hospital."