"Is there any danger?" Although the artist was bold and not very worried, Li Tianchou still pretended to be nervous and panicked on the surface.

"Don't worry, people are reliable. Besides, the border crossings in the north have been temporarily closed, so we can't go back and go through the formalities again and go around in circles in Yangon, right? Old man Pan didn't think so, but he was very satisfied with Li Tianchou's performance.

"Okay. I just want to see more of the scenery and don't want to get into trouble. ”

"Hey, you young man, you are not as good as my old man, according to what you say, the Chinese working overseas have to be frightened every day?" Old man Pan smiled indifferently, but his smile contained undisguised sarcasm, "This way, this way." The alley is at the end. ”

The two stopped in front of a low bungalow, and after Lao Pan looked around, he reached out and knocked on the wooden door. After a short period of effort, I heard the sound of footsteps kicking and pulling in the house, and stopped abruptly in front of the door, and then there was no movement for a long time.

Old man Pan stood patiently with his head held high, while Li Tianchou was silent, he knew that the people inside were watching through the door panel, but he couldn't understand why the two sides didn't speak.

With a creak, the extremely tattered wooden door was opened, and a short, thin middle-aged man stood in the door frame, with sunken facial features and even a collapsed nose, but his eyes were very attentive, looking at the two of them with a cold light.

Old man Pan clasped his hands together at this moment, and said with a smile, "Brother Lang, remember me, right?"

Lang Luo's snatchy gaze narrowed slightly, and after snorting at Old Man Pan, he stared at Li Tianchou up and down, undisguised his vigilance. Lao Pan hurriedly introduced, "This is my companion, a very decent young man, going to Myitkyina together." ”

Li Tianchou smiled at each other very friendly, but he secretly frowned in his heart, feeling that the words and deeds of the two were very wrong, this meeting seemed to have been agreed in advance, but from Lao Pan's words, it showed the meaning of a sudden visit, what do you want to hide this subtle contradiction?

At this time, Lang Luo suddenly smiled at Li Tianchou, then turned around and closed the wooden door with a bang and went back to the house.

"This?" Li Tianchou was puzzled, thinking that he had offended Lang for some reason.

"Ah, it doesn't matter, he's going to get ready. We'll just wait here. ”

Sure enough, in just three or two minutes, the broken wooden door was opened again, Lang Luo came out with a small cloth bag on his back, he changed into a grass-green military uniform, his feet wore the liberation rubber shoes commonly known in China, and a green military hat on his head, at first glance, he looked like a soldier in the sixties and seventies in China, but there were no badges and marks.

In my impression, this dress seems to be very popular in northern Myanmar, like a soldier but not a soldier, like a people and not a people, which may be the reason for the perennial war, or it may be because of the lack of local materials, in short, it makes people feel weird.

Lang walked in front without saying a word, and the old man Pan gave Li Tianchou a look and hurriedly followed, just like that, the three of them walked silently in the small streets of the town in the early morning, like ghosts, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

And at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the city, Xu Wen and others were on the second floor of a secret forbidden area as if they had seen the light of day again, greedily looking at the glimmer of morning light outside the window. After being quarantined for a day and a half, everyone was released except for Wu Fang, and the preliminary conclusion that they were not infected with the unknown biological virus made everyone feel a lot more relaxed, and in another half an hour, after the final results came out, everyone could leave this terrible place.

This time everyone seems to be in danger, but in fact they are very lucky, Wu Fang was indeed infected with a certain biological virus, although the symptoms are not too serious, but the difficulty is that the virus sample is brand new, between sarin and mustard gas, a new mutation between sarin and mustard gas, through the air with mature spores to invade the human body, causing infection, the incubation period will be two or three days to get sick.

The only fortunate thing is that there is no evidence that people can spread to each other, otherwise Xu Wen and others would not have been so lucky. But the emergence of biological viruses portends a very serious problem, and the opponent does not seem to be plotting one or two terrorist attacks, but a larger plot.

In this way, the direction of the whole case and the tone of the investigation have changed, and before there are further instructions from the superiors, the provincial public security department and the local state security department have taken swift action to close down and thoroughly investigate the wood factory as soon as possible.

On the one hand, combined with the case itself and taking the search for Yuan Hua and the three as the breakthrough direction, a careful investigation of the town was conducted; on the other hand, it was to sort out the reconnaissance trajectory that Wufang had walked, focusing on the periphery of the town and the Pampa port to carry out a dragnet investigation, and the small hotel where Wufang once lived had been ordered to close down, and after the people from the CDC left, the task force rushed into it again.

This series of quick and decisive actions seems to be calm on the surface, but everywhere reveals dullness and solemnity, especially the sudden closure of the wood factory by the police, so that sensitive people smell the smell of danger, the town is cloudy for a while, and the mountain rain is coming.

The police searched the carpentry factory repeatedly, but did not find much of value, and the wooden sculpture that Wu Fang said resembled a real person was sealed as a dangerous object in a makeshift physical evidence room. Previously, disease control personnel and biochemical experts had carefully conducted a detailed inspection of the row of small bungalows, and extracted hundreds of samples in order to find the active spores of the unknown virus, which are currently being tested and screened intensively.

All personnel of the carpentry factory were secretly vetted in the name of "quarantine", including the strange old man and the dog.

But the result is not ideal, from a few young workers can not ask anything, are local to the town, only know that the wood factory was originally the Bai family's industry, a year ago to the town of a middle-aged man surnamed Qian, the money boss in the county still has a business, so the four seasons back to the town of the time is only a handful, we do not know much about it, in the factory in charge of the master are two masters, one is called Gyatso, the other is called Bubo Riman, are Jing people, also was the apprentice of Bai Baixiong, the others know very little.

Hao Kecheng, who was in charge of the presiding judge, put the main direction of attack on the weird old man and the two masters, but did not achieve the expected results. The old man was much more difficult than he imagined, he looked demented, his chaotic eyes were almost squinted, and the other party was half-asleep and half-confused all afternoon. No matter from what angle he asked, the old man only turned over a few words, "I am a poor man, when I was about to starve to death, Director Bai took me in, and I am a janitor." ”

Judging from its background investigation, it is also very simple, the old man's surname is Lai, the specific name is unknown, about fifteen years ago, wandered from other places to the town, starved at the door of the Bai family's house, and was rescued by Bai Baixiong, he was pitiful and took it in, and let the old man be on duty in the wood factory, take care of the factory, and be a husband.

In the two censuses, the police of the town office originally wanted to take the old man in as a foreign population or send him to his hometown, but the old man was sometimes normal and sometimes stupid, but even when it was normal, he couldn't tell where his hometown was, so he had to be forcibly contained. But soon after, the old man ran back by himself, and squatted at the gate of Baijiayuan, Bai Xiong was helpless, and came forward to find someone to apply for a temporary residence permit for him, and after a few years, he was registered as a permanent resident, which was regarded as having a household registration.

Fifteen years is only a general number, because the people in the town really can't remember the exact time, even Bai Baixiong himself doesn't remember it. But in any case, Lao Lai settled in the town, and he spent most of his time in the carpentry factory, occasionally going around the town to buy a bottle of wine, or watching people play chess, and then squatting in front of the white house for a while.

Although the behavior is a little weird, it is not annoying, and it has not offended anyone in the town. So, over time, the people in the town accepted him, only knowing that this was a lonely and poor old man.

The interrogation performance, the results of the investigation, and the confession were all strikingly consistent, and there was nothing suspicious about the poor old man, let alone the extremely dangerous words that Wu Fang had mentioned. Li Zhong was not convinced, and when he took the old man out of the temporary interrogation room, his fingers were pressed on the old man's shoulder blades, and the old man's face turned pale in an instant, and he staggered and fell to the ground, completely looking old and decrepit.

Li Zhong was greatly embarrassed, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help the trembling old man, but Hao Kecheng, who was silent on the side, suddenly looked cold, and another person appeared in his mind, Fan Carpenter, who had passed away, there seemed to be no connection between the two, but there was a same number that strung them together, fifteen years, is it a coincidence?

In other words, fifteen years ago, two outsiders came to the town, one was a Fan carpenter who came from a wealthy family, and the other was a down-and-out wandering old man. Eventually, both men put down roots in the town and became half locals. The difference is that Carpenter Fan had a tragic encounter and finally died, while Lao Lai remained unknown until the incident in the carpentry factory.

On the surface, these two people have little intersection in the same town, at most they just nod and say hello. Is there any deeper contact between the two? Hao Kecheng is not easy to draw conclusions, but Carpenter Fan went to the carpentry factory or the surroundings more than once late at night before his death, but this is the result of technical verification, and the mud marks on the two pairs of rubber shoes are the best evidence.

However, in the later investigation and visit, the carpentry factory denied this, and only Lao Lai admitted that he once saw a dark shadow wandering around the carpentry factory in the second half of the night while on duty, but he could not be sure whether it was a carpenter Fan.

The investigation of Carpenter Fan's movements before his death has reached an impasse, and several mysteries have also made Hao Kecheng hesitate, first, why did those two pairs of rubber shoes hide outside the courtyard of the Fan family? Second, they are also carpenters, why did Carpenter Fan never interact with the Bai family during his lifetime? Is it because of the light of his peers? Or is Bai Baixiong hiding something? Or are the people of the carpentry factory collectively lying?