"In Xiao Zhong's case, we have direct eyewitnesses, although the comrades of the criminal investigation brigade did not see how the karmic fire burned, but the scene was the best preserved and the most informative after that. The water vapor column caused the paint to peel off the ceiling, which we had not noticed before, and the breakage of the bulb, although mentioned in the field report, was not analyzed differently, and was obviously also caused by the high temperature. The most important thing is that the investigators made the mistake of taking it for granted, and when they saw the black circle at the scene of the crime, they thought that it was left by the spontaneous combustion of the human body, and they thought that the miners had been killed, and did not pay attention to the difference, and almost let the most important clues slip away. ”

"Team Cao, do you mean that the next cases were all falsified scenes? If so, where did the miners go, and what was their purpose?" This time, as Team Cao's investigation deepened, the conclusions they came to began to really surprise me.

"I don't know where the people have gone, but there is only one purpose for this, let's think that these miners, including Dr. Chen today, have been killed, so that these people can no longer be traced, completely disappear from the world, and the secrets behind them will be hidden forever. ”

"Team Cao, if it is like your analysis, these people could have completed this plan half a month ago, but why did Dr. Chen wait until today? And that Xiao Zhong, he is a person who can be determined to spontaneously combust the human body, why did it take almost a month to have a seizure? And most importantly, what did they do in the past half a month?"

"When I found out about the fake scene, I realized another problem, Chang, this is by no means one or two people can do it, fake the scene, transfer the miners, block the news, these things are not easy to hide people's eyes and ears, then Dai Mine Manager is the biggest suspect, only he has this ability to control, Dr. Chen is at least the insider, he has treated the miners, if you want to hide something, you can't get around him. There are also those miners who did not burn to death, who should also be participants in the program. ”

"So, at noon today, I asked Xiao Lei to leak a little bit of information to Dr. Chen, telling him that we are going to send the survivor of the mine, that is, Xiao Zhong, to Beijing for further examination. The Ministry of Public Security will also appoint an epidemic prevention team to station in the mine, and the Chengjialing mine will be completely locked down until the cause of the miners' deaths is clarified. Sure enough, when they got the news, they immediately went into action. ”

"Maybe it's because they still have unfinished business in the mine and they have to complete it, maybe it's because of our appearance, they feel that this secret may soon be exposed, and they have to speed up the plan, but these are not important now, the key is that the disappearance of Dr. Chen today makes me think that those miners may not have left the mine, but are hiding somewhere. ”

"If they want to hide here, the town is too crowded to be likely, and the mines are already closed, where can they hide?" I asked him again.

"I haven't figured this out, since they want to choose to stay, they must still be doing something in secret, a dozen dead people, or we won't find it, it's too difficult. However, the clues you dug up from Guangling gave me important hints, and there is one more thing that we have overlooked. ”

As we spoke, Team Cao's cell phone rang. "Xiao Lei's phone number, if I'm not mistaken, he should have also found that black circle at Dai Mine Chief's house. Team Cao took out his mobile phone, glanced at the caller ID, and told me.

"This should be the Plan B you just mentioned?"

Team Cao nodded and answered the phone. I couldn't hear what Xiao Lei was talking about on the other side of the phone, but he spoke quickly. Team Cao's expression was as usual, and after listening, he thought for a moment and said, "Xiao Lei, I can't wait, prepare the equipment, we will go down the well tomorrow morning." ”

"Team Cao, it's too hasty to go down the well now, we don't know the situation inside, the key is that we don't know how the virus is transmitted, it's too dangerous to go down. ”

Team Cao patted me on the shoulder and pulled me out of the door of the infirmary, the smell of disinfectant in the infirmary choked us a little bit.

Outside, the lights on the mine had all been extinguished, and the only light was the stars in the sky. It was only here that I felt so close to the galaxy, as if it was within reach.

Team Cao obviously didn't have the heart to look at the night sky, so he handed me a cigarette, and we found a leeward place and lit it.

"Lao Chang, you should have also thought that Mine Chief Dai had prepared a self-immolation scene at home, and his actions could only prove that he was the mastermind of this series of incidents, and there should be no doubt, I suspect that they are not hiding in the No. 17 mine, but the experimental shaft you mentioned that has long been sealed. ”

I admit that Team Cao's analysis has some truth, but I still have a question in my heart, "Team Cao, Xiao Zhong and Dr. Chen's incident happened this afternoon, we blocked the road in and out, it was when I was having dinner in Guangling in the evening, and this time was completely enough for Mine Manager Dai and them to secretly leave the Chengjialing Mine. ”

"Often, have you forgotten my habits? Without adequate preparation, I will never reveal any useful information to the suspect. There are only two roads from Chengjialing Mine to Guangling, I have arranged for people to set up a card check outside, the road on the national highway in Guangling, the Provincial Public Security Department also has a police force pre-control, there is a net outside, but there is no trace of Dai Mine Chief, there is no escape, it must be hidden nearby. ”

"The mine was closed before we came, and the mine has cameras on the elevator going down, so it is impossible for anyone to enter again, so it can be ruled out. With so many people, it is impossible for us not to know about the Chengjialing on foot, and the current temperature, walking hundreds of miles in the mountains at night is purely suicidal and can also be ruled out. And most importantly, how did they hide the ten miners without knowing it? I can't think of any other place than the test mine. ”

"Lao Chang, in fact, I know what you are thinking, don't worry, there shouldn't be much risk in the well. If they dare to go down the mine again, it proves that they know how the virus spreads, and there is not much danger, but what I am worried about is that the mine road below leads in all directions, and who knows where it leads? If we don't go down sooner, I'm afraid we won't see these people again. ”

"I immediately arranged for Xiao Lei and a few of them to go to the vicinity of the test well to investigate, so many people transferred to the past, there will definitely be traces, the traces are confirmed, and we will act again." After Team Cao finished speaking, he fiercely extinguished the cigarette in his hand in the corner of the wall.

In the morning of Chengjialing, it was still foggy, and although I knew that the sun had already risen, I couldn't tell its exact location at all. The silence around is perhaps due to the fact that the mountains are so barren, that the barren topsoil cannot support the most humble plants, and of course there will be no birds.

The compound of Chengjialing Mine is very lively. At dawn, our first batch of supplies was transported from the provincial epidemic prevention station, which was a full 20 sets of chemical protection suits, a batch of first-aid medicines, and an ambulance. The timely appearance of the equipment gave the Cao team no longer a reason to stop me from going down the well, so I could only sigh, spread my hands, and agreed.

In the second half of yesterday night, Xiao Lei and Xiao Duan, under the leadership of the old workers in the mine, had found the test shaft that had been abandoned for ten years, and found that the originally closed mine entrance had traces of re-excavation, but it was very hidden, and the original mine mouth was not excavated, but from the north of the mine mouth more than 30 meters, a mountain cliff excavation, bypassing the closed mine mouth, directly opening up the mine road. In this way, this project is by no means just completed in the past two months, and judging from the traces of excavation, it is at least two or three years old.

Along with the equipment, there was also a thin man in his thirties, who was not good-looking, and the only thing that was impressive was that he had a pair of eyes that were whiter than pupils and a somewhat white complexion. The headquarters called the Cao team before, it was a reinforcement sent by the Shanxi Bureau of Geology and Mining, a cave expert with more than ten years of prospecting experience, named Liu Xiaowu.

Liu Xiaowu is very cautious, so cautious that it makes people anxious. He checked each piece of chemical protective clothing one by one to see if it was damaged, whether each rope and buckle were secure, and whether the power of each miner's lamp was sufficient.

Liu Xiaowu's mantra is, if the equipment is not complete, what is the difference between going down the well and being buried? Cao was dejected when he heard this, but after all, he was also sent from above, and he had to rush hundreds of miles of mountain roads to help, so he had to turn his head and chat with us, out of sight and out of mind.

A total of ten people were preparing to go down the mine together, Cao Team, me, Xiao Lei, Xiao Duan, Liu Xiaowu, Lao Qin, Da Xu, old miners who were familiar with the underground situation in the mine, Sun Ping, deputy captain of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Brigade, and his two investigators, Xiao Tian and Xiao Li. The remaining dozen or so people were responsible for setting up a temporary communications and rescue center at the wellhead as a logistical support for the operation.

We didn't put on the chemical protective suits right away, after all, there was still a mountain road to walk, and it took a lot of time to get used to the most ordinary movements in that closed suit. Curator Qi also insisted on going down the mine before, but Team Cao took a lot of time, especially to let him try the weight of the chemical protection suit, miner's lamp, and rope before convincing him to stay in the mine.

(Manmi can't, the scholar of Tho can't, he can't use people, and he is inferior to those who are not used.) The good cannot be related, and the wicked cannot neglect the danger. Make friends from the world, there is nothing to say to others, and you can't say that people are poor. The king wants to benefit, the big one can't, and the small one doesn't feed the one. Cultivating righteousness and righteousness, the big cannot be specialized, and the small cannot be attached to the extinction. This is enough to see the survival. --"Yanzi Spring and Autumn")