Death is the end for many people, such as the deceased himself, but for some people, death is just the beginning, such as the investigating police and relatives of the deceased.
That night, Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan stayed in the room and finished eating a bucket of instant noodles. Even after finishing dinner, the two discussed the results of the investigation in Chenjiahe. They both found that although the investigation had some results,
It seemed to be helpful in the investigation of the case, but after careful reflection, they found that nothing seemed to be investigated, which made them feel a little helpless.
This situation has happened before. After all, investigating the truth behind the murder of the deceased and understanding the past of the deceased is not an easy task. There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people, and everyone has a different view of others.
This is normal, but it is rare for the villagers of Chenjiahe to have such a consistent impression of Chen Qiumin. So Xu Lang decided to go to Chenjiahe again the next morning, and Luo Jiayan naturally had no objections.
There was nothing to say or anything to do all night.
The next day.
Xu Lang woke up as soon as the genius was bright. He didn't have the habit of staying in bed. After opening his eyes, he got up from the bed and went directly to the bathroom to wash up.
While washing up in the bathroom, Xu Lang found that his eyes were a little red and swollen, with dark circles, and a layer of fine stubble appeared on his blue chin. Looking at himself in the mirror, Xu Lang could only smile bitterly. Since Chen Qiumin
After the case happened, Xu Lang didn't have a good rest in the past few days. Last night, he fell asleep at around three o'clock in the morning. Now, Xu Lang woke up before seven o'clock.
normal.
After washing up, Xu Lang took the room card and went out, ready to wake Luo Jiayan up.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the room, he saw Luo Jiayan, who lived next door to him, also walking out of the room. The two met in the corridor and looked at each other. They both saw each other's fatigue and the dark circles on their faces.
Looking at each other and smiling bitterly.
Xu Lang planned to take Luo Jiayan with him today. The two of them went to Chenjiahe. He did not plan to contact the director of the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau, nor did he plan to find the policeman Chen Bo who helped them lead the way yesterday. However, when they came down from upstairs
When they arrived, they were surprised to find that Chen Bo, wearing a police uniform, had arrived in the lobby of the guest house early and was waiting for them. When he saw Xu Lang and the others coming down, he immediately came over to say hello.
After Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan saw Chen Bo, they looked at each other and saw doubts and confusion in each other's eyes.
It's true that Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan are from the city, but they are only here to investigate Chen Qiumin's affairs and have nothing to do with Hengtong County. If Xu Lang and the others come to Hengtong County to inspect or carry out other work
, Xu Lang is not surprised that the people from the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau did this. The problem is that Xu Lang and the others are not.
To put it bluntly, many people may know CSY in the urban area of S City, but Hengtong County is only a small county and is still far away from S City. Normally, people from the urban area will not come here, and Hengtong County
It is unlikely that the police know about CSY. After all, CSY has only been established for less than half a year. Moreover, the CSY criminal investigation team is very special in nature and seems to have great rights. In fact, they have no actual rights. They are only responsible for investigations.
It's just a major criminal case. Xu Lang and the others are not qualified to intervene in things like the appointment of cadres. Xu Lang knows this very well, and Director Chen of the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau should also know very well. Logically speaking,
Xu Lang and the others came here to investigate the case. Hengtong County Police cooperated. That was their duty. Even if they didn't cooperate, Xu Lang and the others had nothing to do. However, the other party was not only very cooperative, but also cooperated a little too much. For example, now
.
While Xu Lang was stunned, Chen Bo had already walked up to Xu Lang and the others and said, "Officer Xu, Officer Luo, you got up really early. Do you plan to go back or go out to eat?"
Hearing this, Xu Lang raised his eyebrows subconsciously, looked at Chen Bo and said, "Oh, we plan to walk around."
"Well, it's still early. We are a small place here. Most people haven't gotten up yet. You haven't had breakfast yet. Why don't we go have breakfast together? Even though our place is small, there are still a lot of delicious things.
Yes." Chen Bo said with a smile.
When she heard about the food, Luo Jiayan, who was originally interested in eating, changed her face unnaturally. She looked at Chen Bo and asked: "Is your breakfast here some weird stuff again?"
Bar?"
Chen Bo was stunned, looked at Luo Jiayan in surprise, and said, "Officer Luo, are you kidding me? What can be weird about breakfast? Isn't it just noodles, steamed buns, fried dough sticks and the like?"
Hearing what Chen Bo said, Luo Jiayan said nothing more, but turned to look at Xu Lang and asked for Xu Lang's opinion.
Xu Lang pondered for a few seconds, nodded with a smile, and said, "Okay, I happen to be hungry too."
Xu Lang agreed, and Luo Jiayan naturally didn't say anything. Just like that, Chen Bo took Xu Lang and the others out of the guest house, turned left and right on the street, and came to a noodle shop where many people were queuing up.
Chen Bo first took Xu Lang and the others to sit down at an empty table, and then went to line up to order.
Looking at Chen Bo's back, Xu Lang frowned, while Luo Jiayan also frowned with a baby face, looked at Chen Bo's back and said, "Are all the people here so enthusiastic?"
Xu Lang narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
Seeing that Xu Lang didn't speak, Luo Jiayan asked again: "Brother Lang, have you been here before?"
Xu Lang shook his head and said, "No, this is my first time here. I have never heard of this place before."
"Ah? Aren't you a local? How could you not know?"
Luo Jiayan asked in surprise.
Xu Lang smiled bitterly and said: "Although I am a native of S City, in fact, apart from the urban area of S City and several nearby counties, I don't know and have never been to many other places."
"Oh, that's it. When I came here this time, I thought Hengtong County must be close to the sea, but I didn't expect it to be in the mountains. I really didn't expect it."
"I didn't expect it either." Xu Lang said casually.
"We found body parts in room 315. Someone must have been killed. Do you think Chen Qiumin is an ogre?"
Luo Jiayan took out a pack of facial tissues from her bag, pulled out two sheets, folded them together, and asked while wiping the seemingly clean table.
Xu Lang shook his head. He was not sure now. However, the results of yesterday's visit and investigation showed that Chen Qiumin had played with fire and tortured and killed small animals. Although these actions could not prove anything, they could show that Chen Qiumin was very dangerous.
There may have been some criminal behavior. Of course, this is just Xu Lang's guess. However, this possibility is very high. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why there was cooked food in the refrigerator in the room where Chen Qiumin lived.
Human flesh.
This is not the first time that Xu Lang has experienced such a case of cannibalism. Many years ago, when Xu Lang was the captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Team, the last case he investigated was when the criminal suspect killed his wife and then took his wife to death.
The corpse was dismembered and made into twice-cooked pork. When Xu Lang and the others went to arrest the suspect, he was eating, and the dish on the table was twice-cooked pork. After Xu Lang arrested the suspect, he couldn't stand the other party's words.
Because of this, Xu Lang was suspended for self-reflection, and Xu Lang also resigned.
Of course, this is a case that Xu Lang has experienced, and there are actually many similar cases that Xu Lang has not experienced, and most of them are abroad. Among them, in distant Africa, there are still cannibal tribes living in them.
Cannibalism.
Thinking of the cannibal tribe, Xu Lang suddenly thought of a very famous cannibal family abroad, the Sony Bin family.
This is a family with about fifty members. At the beginning, there were only two people, a couple. Because they didn't want to work, they lived in a cave on the coast. At first, they lived by robbing.
However, the money obtained from the robbery was limited, and they were worried about being discovered by the police. After the robbery, they did not dare to sell the money immediately after the robbery. However, people need to eat to survive, and they were in a robbery.
At that time, they killed a victim and brought his body back to the cave. When they killed someone for the first time, they naturally felt very frightened and frightened. Faced with the stolen finances, they did not dare to sell it, but
, they wanted to eat again, so they saw the corpse of the victim, and then they came up with the idea of eating human flesh.
When they ate the victim's body for the first time, they suddenly became obsessed with this feeling. So, for a long time, they no longer killed for the sake of robbing, but for the sake of killing.
Killing, they are not only afraid that the victim will call the police after being robbed, but also for food. Yes, they regard each living person as their food, food, and during this period, they gave birth to many children.
Children, the more children they have, the more food they need, so they kill people like crazy.
When this cannibal family committed the last crime, the only survivor recalled that this family moved very quickly when robbing and killing, just like well-trained soldiers in the army. They went from robbing to killing, and then to
It took less than ten minutes to dismember the body and finally take away the body. You can imagine the shock.
Of course, the final fate of the Sonny Bean family was naturally to be arrested by the police, and they were executed on the second day after being arrested. The youngest among them was only a few years old.
When Xu Lang saw the relevant case information for the first time, he found it incredible. When this case occurred, it was in the fourteenth century. People had already entered the civilized era, and the place where it happened was still in the city.
, it is hard to imagine and incomprehensible that they would kill people just to eat people.
Thinking of the Sonny Bin family, Xu Lang thought of the Chen Qiu Min case. He couldn't understand whether the human flesh in Chen Qiu Min's room was for eating. If so, then this was a real-life ogre.
Just when Xu Lang was thinking about the Sony family, Chen Bo came over with two steaming bowls of fragrant noodles.
When Xu Lang looked at the noodles in front of him and the beef on them, Xu Lang frowned subconsciously, but he didn't say anything.
When Chen Bo came back with his noodles, Xu Lang had already put down his chopsticks. Xu Lang only ate half of the noodles, while Xu Lang didn't eat a bite of the beef. The same was true for Luo Jiayan.
Seeing this, Chen Bo asked doubtfully: "Don't you eat beef?"
Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan looked at each other, smiled, shook their heads, and did not explain anything.
Seeing that Xu Lang and the others didn't explain anything, Chen Bo didn't think much and solved the noodles in the bowl in three strokes, five divided by two. Just when he was about to get up and go to pay, Luo Jiayan had already paid in advance.
After walking out of the noodle shop, Chen Bo looked at Xu Lang and asked, "Officer Xu, where are you going next? To the Maggot Bureau, or back to the guest house?"
Xu Lang thought for a while and said, "We want to go to Chenjiahe again to understand some of the situation."
"ah?"
Chen Bo looked at Xu Lang and the others in surprise and exclaimed.
Xu Lang was startled by Chen Bo's sudden reaction and asked quickly: "What's wrong?"
"Oh, it's okay, it's okay."
Chen Bo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with his head lowered.
Xu Lang looked at Chen Bo and frowned.
"Officer Xu, didn't you go to Chenjiahe yesterday and learn about the relevant situation? Why do you still want to go?"
After a while, Chen Bo asked tentatively.
"Oh, it's nothing. It's just that when I was doing the investigation and visit yesterday, I was too anxious and didn't ask some questions clearly. I plan to ask them in the past." Xu Lang explained.
"How about I ask the village chief to come to the county? The village chief has been working in Chenjiahe for decades and he knows many things. What do you think?" Chen Bo suggested, looking at Xu Lang.
Hearing this, Xu Lang stopped and looked at Chen Bo for a while before saying, "Officer Chen, you don't seem to want us to go to Chenjiahe. Could it be that Chenjiahe has any secrets?"
"Ah? Haha... How is this possible? You have also seen that our roads are not good, and it is still a long way from here to Chenjiahe. I am worried that something will go wrong on your road." Chen Bo quickly explained.
road.
Xu Lang squinted his eyes and looked at Chen Bo for a few seconds, then smiled, shook his head, and said nothing more.
Just like that, the three people returned to the door of the guest house again.
After returning to the guest house, Xu Lang stopped, looked at Chen Bo and said, "You don't have to follow us anymore. Go back to work. We'll go get some information and then come back."
"This... is not good. Otherwise, I'd better go with you." Chen Bo looked embarrassed.
"What's wrong with this? We're just going to understand the situation. We're not arresting criminal suspects. It's okay. You can go back." Xu Lang said with a smile.
"this......"
Chen Bo wanted to say something else, but after seeing Xu Lang's unyielding look, he swallowed his words, nodded, said "pay attention to safety", and turned around to leave.
When he walked out of the guest house, he stopped several times, turned his head, looked at Xu Lang, hesitated to speak, and finally left without saying anything.
Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan stood at the door of the guest house, looking at Chen Bo's back as he walked away. Both of them looked not very good.
Chen Bo is very suspicious and behaves very strangely. He seems to be trying his best to prevent Xu Lang and the others from going to Chenjiahe. Why is this? Could it be that Chen Qiumin's case really has something to do with Chenjiahe? However, according to the previous investigation,
, Chen Qiumin has not come back since she left Chen Jiahe more than two years ago. What does his death have to do with Chen Jiahe?
If it's not Chen Qiumin's case, could it be that Chen Jiahe is really hiding some shady secret? If this is really the case, then what is this secret? Is it related to the case that Xu Lang and the others are currently investigating?
Thinking of this, Xu Lang felt that no matter why Chen Bo stopped them from going to Chenjiahe, they must go to Chenjiahe.
So, Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan did not go back to the guest house, but went to the parking lot and prepared to drive to Chenjiahe.
Xu Lang was still driving. Luo Jiayan sat in the passenger seat and started the car. The car slowly drove out of the parking lot and onto the road to Chenjiahe.
On the way to Chenjiahe, Luo Jiayan looked ahead, frowned and said, "Brother Lang, have you noticed that the man named Chen Bo is strange? He doesn't seem to want us to go to Chenjiahe."
Xu Lang nodded and said, "Did you see it too?"
Luo Jiayan nodded and said, "Why do you think this is?"
Xu Lang shook his head. He didn't know why now, but Xu Lang was sure that Chenjiahe might not be as simple as he had seen before. Maybe he could find some clues this time when he went to Chenjiahe.
The car stopped after driving for about twenty minutes after leaving Hengtong County. It was not that Xu Lang and the others suddenly changed their minds about not going to Chenjiahe, but because they could no longer move on.
On the road leading to Chenjiahe, a landslide occurred. The originally narrow road was completely covered by collapsed stones and mud. Xu Lang and his car could not move forward at all. At this time,
Seven or eight people were wielding hoes over there, clearing the road.
Xu Lang, who was sitting in the driver's seat, frowned again when he saw this scene.
Yesterday, when they were going back and forth on this road, this situation had not happened, but now it suddenly happened, which is very abnormal. If it was due to heavy rain and landslides, it would be okay, but,
It hasn't rained in nearly a month, and the sun is shining every day. How could the mountain collapse just because it was said to be collapsing?
Xu Lang parked the car, opened the door, came to the crowd, found the oldest old man and asked: "Old man, what's going on?"
"I don't know, this place suddenly collapsed."
"When can it be cleaned up?" Xu Lang asked.
The old man turned his head and glanced at Xu Lang, then at the car parked not far away, shook his head and said, "I don't know, it will probably take several hours to clean up."
After saying this, the old man asked again: "Are you going to the front? If that's the case, I advise you to go back."
Then, the old man stopped talking to Xu Lang and began to wave his hoe and continued to clean up the collapsed mountain. Xu Lang stood there, looking at the scene in front of him, and frowned again.