Chapter 180: Chisel the Wall (G)
I was worried that after a long time, the anomalous magnetic field would gradually weaken and disappear, and then the clues would be completely lost, and time could not be delayed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoTeam Cao and I had the same concerns, discussed with Captain Wang, transferred a few capable police officers from the bureau, and everyone prepared some equipment and food and set off.
Thirty years have made the project of that year unrecognizable, and even the entrance to the air-raid shelter that Lao Cai and the others entered at the beginning cannot be found. Instead, there is a dozen storey residential buildings. Captain Wang found the local police station, and then went to the district planning bureau to check, only to determine that the air-raid shelter that Lao Cai and their construction entered was in the basement of one of the residential buildings.
A group of 10 of us, with lighting equipment, went down to the basement of the residential building. This basement is on the lowest floor of the tower, with no elevator access, only a hidden fire staircase to go down. The basement area is not large, about forty square meters, dark and damp, and there is a strong musty smell. Many rats, because of our presence, scattered and fled. It is estimated that during the construction of the building, a large iron gate was installed at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, which is now rusty, but there is no padlock on the lock ring of the iron door. A police officer was about to push open the iron door, but was grabbed by Team Cao.
Team Cao took a flashlight and carefully shone the lock ring, drove everyone to the door of the basement, and began to search in the basement little by little. Captain Wang, apparently aware of the problem inside, also took a flashlight, searching for people on the other side of the basement, and we all looked at the two of them nervously, not knowing what they were looking for.
The basement had obviously been vacant for a long time, with a lot of discarded building materials and sundries, all covered with a thick layer of dust, and there were many messy footprints on the ground, large and small, deep and shallow, and it was impossible to see why.
After a while, Captain Wang called Team Cao, and the two of them squatted on the ground and whispered a few words, Team Cao put on plastic gloves, picked up a rusty door lock, put it in a plastic bag, and the two walked back to the door of the basement.
"This lock was picked open not long ago, and it has fingerprints on it, Xiao Duan, you immediately take the lock to the technical department and compare it with the fingerprints on the partition of the vent of the vault. Captain Wang excitedly handed the plastic bag to a police officer.
"There is nowhere to find when you step on the iron shoes, it seems that that gang of thieves has a deep relationship with Lao Cai's air-raid shelter project. Team Cao said to Lao Cai with a smile.
Lao Cai hurriedly waved his hand, "Captain Cao, it's impossible, I don't know how many of our people are left, all of them are about to enter the ground, who would have such an idea? Even if they have this idea, they don't have the ability." ”
"Of course it won't be the same group of people you used to be, even if it is, it won't wait for thirty years to do it, but this group of people also learned about the events of that year, and learned about the way to the outer wall of the vault. Team Cao smiled and patted Lao Cai's shoulder.
"Xiao Cheng, you go back to the bureau now, transfer a few more people, and check the people who entered the air-raid shelter provided by Lao Cai again, the deceased must have a death certificate, and those who are alive must find someone, Lao Cao, let's go and explore first." Captain Wang quickly arranged the work, and Xiao Cheng answered and hurriedly left the basement.
"Now I wonder that there may only be two people in this group, and if you can't figure it out, it's still one person, you see, although there are a lot of footprints at the door, there are two new footprints, and the footprints are the same size. But one or two people can complete this shocking case, which is hard to believe. Team Cao said as he pointed to the footprints in front of the iron gate.
Entering the bomb shelter through the iron gate, it was damp and cold, and every joint tingled me. The air is obviously circulating, and countless dust particles are poured into the nasal cavity, making it a little uncomfortable to breathe.
Lao Cai entered the air-raid shelter and walked in front, it seems that he still remembers the structural layout inside. After more than ten meters, we should have entered the mountain, and the walls on both sides were exposed with hard rock formations. Turning an alley, Lao Cai stopped in a small alleyway, which was only more than two meters deep, and there was an iron cabinet full of rust.
Lao Cai opened the cabinet door, and the dust came out, and it was full of some worn wires, tangled in a chaotic manner. Lao Cai took a closer look and said to us, "Someone has touched the wires, this is the distribution box we installed when we built the air-raid shelter, many of the wires are aging, and someone here has repaired them again." Those who understand this must be who we were in the group of people back then. ”
Saying that, Lao Cai closed the switch of the electric switch, and the light bulb on the top of the alleyway flashed twice, emitting a dim light, although some of the bulbs were broken, but the narrow alley was still paved with a layer of old photo color, at that moment, as if going back in time, we returned to that passing era.
"I remember that the electrician back then was Lu Jindong, who died five years ago. Lao Zhao, who didn't talk much, said a word behind Lao Cai. Lao Cai lowered his head, fell into deep thought, and asked Lao Zhao while closing the cabinet door, "I remember that I followed the lantern out and never came back, it seems to be an electrician?"
"It seems that the surname is Ding, is it Ding Dongguo, or Ding Zhenguo? I don't remember very clearly, he is usually a very silent person, and he doesn't talk much to everyone. After his disappearance, Lu Jindong was transferred from the factory, and we stopped working for a week because of this incident, which I have an impression of. Lao Zhao and Lao Cai stood side by side, looking at the distribution box and were stunned.
Lao Cai shook his head and smiled apologetically at us gathered next to him, "That gang of thieves is very familiar with this bomb shelter, and even the wires and wirings that haven't been used for decades can be repaired, I feel like it's one of those people back then, but I really can't think of which one?"
"Lao Cai, your clues are very important, let's go first to take a look, and when we go back, please carefully recall the people who entered the air-raid shelter back then, and we will investigate them one by one. Seeing that the lights in the alleyway were on, Team Cao turned off the flashlight in his hand, patted Lao Cai's shoulder, and beckoned everyone to go to the depths of the air-raid shelter.
As it went deeper, the air in the bomb shelter became turbid, and the dust raised from time to time made people's throats very uncomfortable. Soon, Team Cao and Team Wang walked at the front of the team, they signaled us not to follow too closely, but turned on the spotlight flashlight, kept gesturing on the ground of the laneway, stopped from time to time, squatted on the ground, while studying on the ground, while constantly whispering and communicating. I knew they must have discovered something.
But this suspense Cao team never gave us an answer, that is, we stopped and walked, and discussed repeatedly, but the speed of our progress was greatly reduced, and a full hour passed, and we only walked five or six hundred meters.
Finally, we came to a fork in the roadway, and there were three roads in front of us. One of them is illuminated by lights, while the other two are pitch black.
Lao Cai stepped forward and told us that these three forks in the road existed when they entered the air-raid shelter, and the one with the lamp led to a large material reserve that they used to dig and repair in the air-raid shelter, which was large-scale, consisting of a hall and six small warehouses, and was the core of the project that year.
The other two are unlit, one is to the outer wall of the bank's underground vault, but there are many forks on the road, many of which are connected to the ancient Tibetan soldier caves, dense like spider webs, the passage map they drew back then, the main painting is here, but according to Lao Cai's memory, this road goes down a few hundred meters, which is the iron gate that the public security department later installed, isolating this area.
The other road, winding and deep, is an old alleyway hundreds of years ago, I don't know where it leads, and the missing workers were all on this road, so they don't dare to explore it anymore, and no one knows what is hidden inside. A little further in from the fork in the road, it is the entrance of the roadway that they closed with rubble and muck.
Lao Cai was obviously consulting us to go that way first, but Team Cao just nodded to Lao Cai and did not make a decision, but instead told us about what he and Team Wang had discovered.
Judging from the traces left on the ground of the roadway, someone came here not long ago, but the footprints inside are very chaotic, and it is difficult to judge whether it is one person or two people for a while, but there are definitely not many people. These tracks were apparently repeated in the laneway several times, with all three paths entering, and it seemed to take a lot of time to determine the correct route.
But the biggest problem is that, according to the Cao team's assumption, more than 100 kilograms of gold either have a means of transportation or two people to carry separately, but with such a load, the footprints when returning should be very different from the usual footprints, for them old criminal investigators, it is very easy to distinguish, but no such footprints were found in the lane.
There are only two possibilities, either the thieves did not go out along this road after their success, and there are other paths to follow, or the gold did not leave the bomb shelter at all and was hidden somewhere.
But in any case, we are getting closer to the truth, and that is enough to get excited. But for some reason, I always had a hunch in my heart that this case might be far from what we see now, and that perhaps a bigger mystery was hidden in the dark alleyway. It's just that I couldn't have hoped that this cold premonition would be wrong.
(Extrapolating the past and testing the present, so don't be confused.) First and then degree, so it should be pawned. Set up the right to change, so untie the knot. Inclusion will be smooth, so there is no blame. Peduncle terrier, so meritorious service. Diligently, so keep the end. --"Plain Book") (To be continued.) )