The sun was setting in the west, the smoke had cleared, and the sky over Dingye City had returned to blue sky and white clouds, as if nothing had happened. How could it not have happened? The once bustling department store is now just a black-gray cement remnant, making a desolate sound of "rope" in the cold wind.

The police cordon around the building is still there, the police are still there, and there are many fewer citizens outside the cordon, but there are still people who stop to take a few glances from time to time. There was sympathy, compassion, or fear in their eyes, and some people sighed and shook their heads.

The merchants have also temporarily left the scene and moved to another area, where they are discussing and arguing with the shareholders of the department store under the attention of the relevant departments.

Although the fire department confirmed that the building is not in danger of collapse or cracking, it has still not been cleaned up, let alone allowed to enter. The city should not only organize the building management department to conduct a professional appraisal, but also wait for the progress of the police investigation into the cause of the fire.

The city leaders had also left the scene, and Chu Tianqi returned to his office.

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Sitting in the office, Chu Tianqi was busy with business for a while and private affairs for a while. One moment frowning, one moment rejoicing, and the mood shifts from time to time.

Today's fire is undoubtedly troublesome, a good building has now become like that, and there is still a lot of follow-up work, and it is not easy to deal with the work.

For the merchants, hundreds of thousands of things have become waste in an instant, which is a disaster, a disaster that makes people almost lose their money. The money invested has basically gone down the drain, what should we do with loans? What should we do with loans? Where is the living expenses of a family? Dozens of families have instantly fallen into a state of poverty because of this fire.

Not only the tenants, but also the shareholders of the building suffered heavy losses. Originally, this was one of the livelihoods they earned, and they could get rent dividends on time, but now they have become a pile of broken big cement blocks. Not only do they have to repair the building, but they also face compensation to the tenants, and they have to wait for the punishment of the relevant departments.

Although this is a disaster, although shareholders and merchants are inevitably lost, from the perspective of the general direction, there is no doubt that it is lucky. It is very rare that there was no death or injury in such a fire, which reduced a lot of trouble for the local government, and there is an essential difference in the characterization of the incident. It is precisely because there are no casualties that there will be no real family destruction scenes, and this kind of trauma is repairable.

Because there are no casualties, there will be no indelible psychological shadow for shareholders, merchants, and consumers. Sometimes the impact of "superstition" on people is very far-reaching, affecting many people, and even affecting a city.

It is precisely because there are no casualties that the headache index of the leaders has been reduced a lot.

Putting aside his business for the time being, Chu Tianqi picked up his mobile phone, looked at the pictures he received above, thinking about the wife who was a new mother, thinking about the seven-and-a-half-pound fat boy he hadn't met yet, and thinking about his parents who were very happy.

"Tuk tuk", there was a sudden knock on the door.

Chu Tianqi put away his phone and said, "Come in."

The door opened, and Sun Tingwu, the head of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, came, and this was his second time today.

At the suggestion of Mayor Chu, Sun Tingwu sat on the chair opposite and reported: "Mayor, after searching again, there is indeed no surveillance video hard disk, only the leads and connectors connected to the hard disk. Judging from the stains and attachments on the leads and connectors, it should be that the hard disk was missing before the fire.

When I first entered the scene, I was with a few police officers and armed police soldiers, and the first thing I looked for was the video hard disk, but I didn't see the scene at that time. This time I went in to search, it was based on the location information provided by Jinli, targeted, but there was still no trace of the hard disk. According to the gatekeeper's recollection,The hard disk video recorder should still be there last night,The reason why it is vague,Because they don't pay special attention when they're fine,At most, it's to look at the timely monitoring screen。 Therefore, the specific time of the disappearance of the hard drive has yet to be further confirmed.

Compared to the first time we entered the scene, the second search was much more detailed, and on the balcony on the third floor, we found suspected ignition materials. Whether it is or not, it needs to be further identified, it is just a pinch of mud in the ashes, and now it can only be judged to be suspicious. ”

Hearing this, Chu Tianqi interjected: "The janitor on the third floor is not there, the hard disk of the building was lost, and suspected ignition materials were also found, and they all happened on the third floor, and the fire also started from the third floor, this is strange." ”

"It's suspicious, it's very suspicious, it's not just that. Sun Tingwu continued, "Based on the findings and judgments at the scene, we interrogated the prisoner again. Now that the drunken strength of the prisoner is basically over, I am scared enough to see it, not only afraid of the relevant punishment I will face, but also afraid that I will almost let the fire burn to death.

At the beginning of the retrial, he still insisted on his original statement, saying that he couldn't remember the place or the person. He gave a further explanation when we told him about the suspicious findings at the scene and questioned his involvement in the case. I confessed to a few people, and also to a few places.

According to the prisoner, at about two o'clock in the middle of the night, a man named 'Three Tigers' called him and said that he wanted him to go out for a drink. is confused and loves to drink, and he is an old bachelor, and sometimes he goes out to drink flower wine with some people in society, and the other party invites him. The reason why these people invite him to drink is because in everyday times, through the introduction of confusion, they can buy goods with great discounts. And these people buy thousands, or even tens of thousands of things, and it is a lot of money to save once.

The 'Three Tigers' who called today have just met each other, but this person has already invited the prisoner to eat and drink in a daze, and said that both of them have a 'tiger' in their names, this is fate, and they should take care of it in the future. As for the care, he was confused and gladly accepted, he was nothing more than recommending these people to buy things, and he could not only get merchant discounts, but also someone to invite them to drink. Why not?

It's just that this time it's a little late, and he doesn't want to go. However, he was told to wait at a nearby intersection, where a car would pick him up. I also told him that there was a 'little sister' who introduced him to him, how the little sister was good, and how she was going to do with him. As soon as he heard what the other party said, he immediately came to his senses and quietly went out. When I went out, I was confused and afraid of losing things, so I locked the door of the building. It is estimated that in the second half of the night, the other janitors slept soundly, and did not hear the sound he made.

Sure enough, someone picked him up at that intersection and pulled him to a very dark place. When he got out of the car, he went straight into a very dark room, where there was already a woman waiting for him. Seeing such a young woman, she was confused and suddenly came to her senses, and the other party asked her to drink as much as she wanted, and she was confused after a while. In the process, I was confused and didn't be honest with my hands and mouth, and when I was thinking about having a relationship with a woman, I didn't know anything.

When the prisoner awoke in a daze, it was already dawn, and he found himself lying in a ditch in the wilderness, but he was covered with a thick quilt and a thick mattress. Originally, he didn't wake up from drinking, and in such a place, at first he thought that something similar to "Liao Zhai" had happened, but then he remembered some things yesterday. He managed to stop a passing car on the side of the road, went to the city, and then hit back to the scene of the fire. ”

"Isn't that it, why didn't he say it at first?" Chu Tianqi asked.

Sun Tingwu laughed "poof": "It's also interesting to say." The prisoner said in a daze that when he was drinking flower wine with the woman yesterday, the woman told him that he was not allowed to talk about that place, nor should he mention her, otherwise he would not have sex with him. At that time, he didn't take it seriously when he was confused, no matter what people said, he agreed, he only thought about good things. As a result, when I woke up this morning, there was a piece of printer paper pressed next to my pillow, and a warning was also made on it, but the condition of the warning became 'If you talk nonsense, be careful of being gelding, and you will become a eunuch in seconds'. It's a matter of confusion, so I haven't dared to say it.

According to the confused recollections, we also found the ditch, and sure enough, we found the bedding and pillows. But he couldn't remember the place he went to yesterday, and he didn't see where it was, and the woman was also meeting for the first time, and he didn't know the situation. According to the number he provided, we contacted the 'Three Tigers', but the mobile phone number had already been shut down.

According to the confused explanation, we checked the monitoring on the relevant routes, and there was not much gain. The place where the prisoner got on the bus in a daze was on the street south of the department store, and it was a van, and the driving track in the city could also be checked. But after the van went to the suburbs, it entered a blind spot of surveillance, and there was no way to find the place where it disappeared. According to another prisoner, he said that he changed cars once on the way, and the place of change was in the field, and he couldn't tell where it was. Then we also found out the van information, and it turned out that the vehicle had just been stolen last night, and the owner had called the police this morning. ”

Chu Tianqi let out an "oh" and said slowly: "Then to say that, the argument of aging lines should be untenable." ”

"It's certainly not the aging of the line. In addition, there is one more thing, and that is that the key to the confusion is missing. When we checked the nearby surveillance, we found that at about 4:10 a.m., there was a night pedestrian suspected of entering the department store. It was twenty-one minutes before the man reappeared on the surveillance camera. And this man was carrying a satchel, and I don't know what it contained. Based on this information, we can already conclude that this was a premeditated arson. Sun Tingwu concluded.

Chu Tianqi nodded: "It should be like this." Then he asked, "Why did the suspect set the fire and to what end?"

Sun Tingwu said: "We also have doubts and are doing further investigations. In order to reduce the unnecessary impact, we temporarily said that the fire was caused by the aging of the line. ”