I took the teacup handed by Team Cao, but suddenly found that the tea leaves inside were of different lengths, gray in color, and there were many broken tea stalks, which were very inferior old tea. It's very strange in my heart, Team Cao is usually very arrogant, even a little raunchy, but he is very particular about drinking tea, and there are dozens of catties of good tea scavenged from me in his hands. And no matter where he goes on a business trip, he always has to put a few barrels of good tea in the trunk, why did he drink so much tea today? Could it be that he forgot to bring tea when he came out? He forgot to bring his police officer ID and left his gun at home, but this is the first time I have seen it.

My thoughts are also a matter of a change of mind, two sips of tea poured down, the body suddenly warmed up, the spirit was also shocked, continue to speak.

"The mines of the Ming Dynasty and the mines of the Qing Dynasty were dug four or five times before a mine road hit that place, and an unknowable event occurred. During the Republic of China and the Japanese occupation, we have detailed information on the mines, and it was only in Article 16 that we dug that place. Why was Mine Chief Dai's first mine dug in that place at the end of the eighties?"

"Maybe it was an accident, but at that time, the only places that could be mined were from the Japanese to the north, and the geology determined that they should have come in order. Team Cao stared at the map and scratched his head.

"Not really, Team Cao, Director Qi told me that before digging the No. 17 mine, Mine Chief Dai and the others also dug a test mine, dug for more than half a year, and a lot of coal came out, and then burned three miners to death before sealing the mine. This matter was collectively pressed by the county party committee team back then, and no one knew. You see, the test mine of that year was probably in this location. The distance to the point at the bottom of the mountain is the closest. ”

"If you look at the current No. 17 mine, it seems that it has moved a few hundred meters to the north, but have you noticed that there is a small hill bag there, and the No. 17 mine moved north to avoid that hill bag, in order to be closer to that point, and moreover, the location of the mine was adjusted, and the direction of the mine was adjusted at the same time, in order to reach that point. ”

"This may be due to the direction of the underground veins, after all, we don't know anything about exploration technology, and we can't just look at the surface phenomenon. "Team Cao is still skeptical of my analysis.

"I admit the reason you said, but I have one more piece of evidence. On the day I first arrived at the mine, Xiao Lei gave me a large stack of basic survey data on the mine. It mentions that Pit 17 is currently being excavated by hand, with eight workers working in shifts. The other mines are mechanically excavated, with 20 people working in shifts. ”

"What does this mean?" Team Cao held the large tea jar, blowing the tea foam floating on it.

"Team Cao, what age do you think it is now, why do you have to spend time and effort digging manually if you can dig with machinery? Even if the conditions inside are complicated and the large excavation machinery cannot be used, then why insist on mining? Besides, how could this situation not be predicted at the beginning of exploration, you also said that technically, Dai Mine Manager is a professional man. Moreover, even if there is a real safety hazard and the machinery and equipment cannot be used, the excavation should have been stopped and the mine should have been replaced. Why do you have to keep digging for so many years, digging thousands of kilometers of tunnels, and what's the point?"

After listening to my words, Team Cao fell into deep thought. With a cigarette, he looked up at me, "Lao Chang, you mean that all this is a designed plan, and Chief Dai knows what's down there, right? But what is the purpose of his doing this?

"People die for money, birds die for food, I think, Dai Mine Chief is for coal essence jade, no, coal essence jade is still second, coal essence jade with water urchs is the target of his adventure. From the beginning of Dai's application for the resumption of production of the mine, he had a sales network from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, and the coal essence jade with water gallbladder dug up from the Chengjialing mine was smuggled out of the country from here. "I told the Cao team what Director Qi told me on the way to Chengjialing Mine, and the past story of him and Mine Chief Dai.

"Lao Chang, in fact, I've been worried that if you come into contact with this case, you will bring those ghosts and gods out to me, after all, there is no public opinion on the matter of spontaneous combustion of the human body, and it has been entangled in it, and there are many unsolved cases. But this time, I really admire you a little, relying entirely on investigation and reasoning, and dug up the most valuable truth, congratulations. After listening to my words, Team Cao shook my hand exaggeratedly and solemnly.

"Team Cao, don't be happy early, no matter how many artificial designs and plans we find, we can't avoid the thing called the operation fire, if it is really some kind of virus, it can't find a way of infection, the nearly 1,000 people in the mine have to be trapped inside, I don't care if I'm alone, you're miserable, what should Xiao Zeng do?" I scolded him with a wry smile.

"Lao Chang, in fact, your greatest credit is not to prove the horror of the unknown, but to prove the horror of human nature. Team Cao glanced at me meaningfully.

"What do you mean?"

"You're right, we need to rely on intuition and inspiration to solve the current problem, and don't forget that my intuition is also a supernatural phenomenon. This tea is just a refreshment, let's go to Dr. Chen's infirmary. ”

At this time, it was already midnight, and the office building of the mine was on the slope of the mountain, which happened to overlook the entire Chengjialing Town. The town was almost devoid of lights, and it was pitch black everywhere, like a monstrous beast lying between the two mountains, and the cold wind that came and went was like its breathing, heavy and hurried.

"Lao Chang, if the incident is really as you speculated, what do you think of our work in the next step?" As we walked in the direction of the infirmary, Team Cao and I continued our previous conversation.

"Tomorrow morning, we will send someone to control Mine Chief Dai, he should know the ins and outs of the whole incident. On the other hand, I think that Xiao Zhong's ability to persist until today is likely to be related to the antibiotics given to him by Dr. Chen. When the comrades of the epidemic prevention department arrive, they should conduct further analysis of the virus as soon as possible and strive to find a solution to the crisis. But in the end, the epidemic prevention department needs a sample of the virus, and when the equipment is ready, we still have to go to the next well to get the sample out. ”

"Often, my instincts tell me that the virus may not spread in as dangerous a way as we think. "Team Cao didn't seem to listen carefully to my advice, thinking about something to himself, and although he said that, his expression was the anxious expression that he had often had lately.

The Chengjialing Mine Infirmary is the westernmost end of the entire residential area, next to a steep cliff. Although there is only one floor, it is still very obvious because of the high terrain. This is a new house built a few years ago, but it is estimated that it was built in a hurry, and the doors, windows and exterior walls were not decorated, and the red walls and green frames looked very crude.

The main entrance of the infirmary had been sealed, and Team Cao opened the seal, unscrewed the door, pressed the light switch, and we entered the room. There are three rooms in the infirmary, the outermost one, the largest in area, is the consultation room, a set of desks, and two chairs. In one room, three walls are medicine cabinets that reach to the roof, and a hospital bed is placed by the window on the other side, which is supposed to be a disposal room.

In front of the row of medicine cabinets near the door, there is a black circle on the terrazzo floor, which is supposed to be the place where Dr. Chen spontaneously combusted. Team Cao squatted down, constantly changing the angle, and observed the black circle.

I kept thinking in my heart that Director Qi said that Dr. Chen should have detailed medical records, so I ignored Team Cao and opened the innermost door.

The innermost room was very small, less than ten square meters, with a dilapidated desk and a large tin filing cabinet. This should be Dr. Chen's office. I rummaged through his desk, and the spontaneous combustion of the miners before Dr. Chen's accident was supposed to be his last job, and if there was a record, it should have been on the desk.

But to my surprise, there was only a copy of the on-site investigation report of the Provincial Criminal Investigation Brigade on the table, but there was no marked handwriting on it, and there were many other documents, but none of them had anything to do with the case of spontaneous combustion. It seems that Dr. Chan did not leave any written record of this incident.

I went through his drawer again, and still found nothing. However, according to Director Qi's description, Dr. Chen was meticulous and meticulous in his work, and it really doesn't make sense that he didn't leave any records or notes on such a big matter.

I didn't give up, so I opened the filing cabinet again and rummaged through it. When I opened the filing cabinet, I immediately understood that Director Qi's description of Dr. Chen's personality should be very accurate. The shelves on the fifth floor are filled with file bags, each numbered, which is clearly arranged by year and month. I opened one of the file bags, and the diagnosis and treatment records in it were very carefully done, including the records of the doctor at that time, as well as the prescriptions I had written. In some of the files, there are notes that he later added.

In the remarks of one of them, I saw a line of small print, "I have an allergy to penicillin, and the prescription is in my personal file." "It seems that these are compiled by year and month, it should be a daily outpatient file, and Dr. Chen should have built a personal file for each miner, which is clearly classified and can be compared with each other, and Dr. Chen's file system is indeed very perfect.

I hurriedly rummaged through the filing cabinet again, but strangely, there was no personal file in the cabinet as mentioned by Dr. Chan. That's when I noticed that the bottom four floors of the filing cabinets on the fifth floor were full, and only the top one was empty. Could it be that the top floor is where the personal files are kept, but the files have been taken?

I was standing in the middle of the room staring at the filing cabinet, and Team Cao had already entered the room.

(Therefore there is the living, there is the living, the tangible, the tangible, the tangible, the sound, the sound, the colored, the colored, the tasteful, the tasteful.) Those who are born are dead, and those who are born and born are not finished, those who are formed are real, but those who are formed are not tasted, those who are sound are heard, but those who are sound are not tasted, those who are colored are revealed, and those who are colored are not revealed, those who taste are tasted, and those who taste are not presented: all of them do nothing. --"Liezi")