Wan Yongkun and Li Yiting were placed in Wang Mazi's group, and after the explosion, two miners in this group were still frightened, so they resigned in a panic and went home, just enough for the two of them to rise to the top. Wang Mazi was demoted due to the conflict with Tao Sansheng, and he was a little depressed at first, but later, under Zou Qi's arrangement, it didn't take long for him to say that he would be guilty of meritorious service, and agreed that he would continue to work hard as the team leader, which finally made him feel a little balanced in his heart.

Because Wan Yongkun and Li Yiting have very good physical fitness and great strength, they have worked underground for a few days, except that they are not very skilled in technical work at the beginning, and they have done very well in the following days, and they have worked hard beyond imagination, so they have naturally been praised by Wang Mazi's group. After all, the more they work, the more mining volume of the whole group will go up, then the performance will naturally become better, and others can get more salaries. So the others quickly accepted these two new employees, and they were no longer inhibited when they worked, and they would chat or something when they had free time, but unfortunately because these people were just ordinary miners, they didn't witness the previous explosion, so they didn't get too many valuable clues for the time being.

But the careful Li Yiting still found something unusual, that is, their team leader Wang Mazi, who seemed to be absent-minded every day, and often got up when he did a good job, looked nervously at the walls on all sides, and continued to work after making sure that everything was normal. Other miners jokingly asked Wang Mazi why he became less timid after the New Year, and if he was worried about exploding again, if that was the case, he would simply resign and go home, but every time he mentioned this matter, Wang Mazi asked them not to talk nonsense, and the tone and expression were not like joking, and the miners were accustomed to following him as a matter of course, but Li Yiting felt that Wang Mazi must have something in his heart.

As a miner who has been working underground for several years, I should have understood the dangers of coal mine work for a long time, and it is impossible to tremble like this until now, otherwise I would not be able to do it for a long time. But Wang Mazi has become the team leader, but he shows a nervous look, which is really unreasonable, as the team leader, he rarely speaks or trains people, which is even more weird. Li Yiting knew that he was the miner who fought with Tao Sansheng and directly led to Tao Sansheng's dismissal, his identity was already quite special, and now such a bizarre fear made Li Yiting full of interest in him, and he was determined to find a chance to have a good chat with Wang Mazi.

After the shift change at the end of this day, the exhausted Wang Mazi was about to go home, and Li Yiting specially stopped him at the entrance of the mine.

Wang Mazi took a step back nervously and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Li Yiting was confused by his exaggerated reaction, he just called his name, why make such a fuss, but he still replied to him in a calm tone, "Team Leader Wang, we have just been here for a long time, thanks to your care, why don't I treat you, let's go to the town to fry two dishes and drink two cups?"

Wang Mazi heard that he was just invited to dinner, and breathed a sigh of relief: "No need, I have to go back to see my wife and children, and I have been feeling a little unwell recently, so I can't drink, so I understand my kindness." ”

"Oh, Team Leader Wang is so faceless, just eat a meal and don't delay your rest. Wan Yongkun helped and instigated on the side.

But Wang Mazi resolutely refused to go, and was in a hurry to leave. But now that the words have been spoken, Li Yiting didn't want to miss this opportunity to speak alone, so he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, tore them open and stuffed one into Wang Mazi's hand.

Wang Mazi found out that this is a pack of soft "China", he likes to smoke on weekdays, but it is all a few yuan, and he has not smoked such high-end goods for several years. Li Yiting looked at him like this, knew that he had found the right way, and simply stuffed the whole pack of cigarettes to Wang Mazi, Wang Mazi really couldn't resist the temptation now, so he smiled.

Seeing this scene, Wan Yongkun took the excuse that he could not light a fire in front of the mine, accompanied Wang Mazi to a place where there was no one, and then lit a cigarette for him.

Smoking "Zhonghua", Wang Mazi, who had been nervous for almost a week, finally felt more comfortable, he only took five minutes to finish a cigarette, and then took out the bag that Li Yiting gave him from his pocket, lit another one, and enjoyed it well.

"Huh, how come there is a mine here, it seems to be similar to the one we work on?" Wan Yongkun asked deliberately when he noticed that there seemed to be an abandoned mine not far behind where they were standing.

"Really, let's go see what's inside?" Li Yiting echoed, and then he was about to go over there.

Wang Mazi suddenly woke up, directly grabbed Li Yiting's arm, and said to him: "Brother, you can't just enter there!"

"Why?" asked Li Yiting.

"If you can't enter, you can't enter, I've been working here for a long time, if you want to live, listen to me. Usually you can work hard in the No. 3 mine, but don't run into other mines!" Wang Mazi solemnly reminded.

Listening to his thoughtful tone, Li Yiting could sense that this was by no means a threat, as if there was something unsightly in these vacant mines, which made his interest even stronger.

Li Yiting deliberately didn't listen to the advice and insisted on going in, Wang Mazi was really anxious, threw away the cigarette, rushed directly to the front of Li Yiting and Wan Yongkun, and blocked the way of the two with his body.

Li Yiting and Wan Yongkun looked at each other, neither of them knew what kind of medicine was sold in Wang Mazi's gourd.

Seeing that the two of them were disobedient, Wang Mazi finally said his reason: "This is the No. 1 mine, the oldest one in our mine, there was a huge explosion about ten years ago, causing serious casualties, and since then, this mine has been abandoned." ”

"Oh, that's right! But since it's deserted, what's the matter with taking a look?" Li Yiting continued to ask.

Wang Mazi was anxious, thinking to himself why these two people were so stubborn, if it weren't for the fact that they were members of their own group, and they had just honored themselves with a pack of good cigarettes, they would be too lazy to bother to care. Some time ago, he saw the terrible grimace butterfly in this mine, so he was so ghostly that he was afraid that death would come to his door, but he was not good at telling others about it.

"It's all said, more than ten years have passed since the explosion, no one knows what's going on inside, it must be very dangerous, you have nothing to do and run in and die inside, and I have to be responsible, don't harm me!"

"Team Leader Wang, are you saying that there are often explosions here? I heard that there has only been an explosion this year, and if this mine explodes in the past, it will be too dangerous!" Wan Yongkun deliberately pretended not to understand anything.

"Then don't worry, although we have a small accident here almost every year, we basically don't die. At the beginning, because of the accident in this mine, the above sent people to re-manage the coal mine, and now it is very safe, and those small accidents did not cause many casualties. Later, the No. 2 pit was also closed due to the accident, so we are only mining the No. 3 pit now, but you can rest assured, because the accident just happened, the safety precautions in the mine are very strict, so it is absolutely safe in the short term!"

After all, Wang Mazi has been working here for a few years, and he habitually wants to speak for the coal mine for the newcomers' doubts, and although he has worked hard all these years, the mine is still okay in terms of salary, and he also wants to maintain it from the bottom of his heart.

However, from his words, Li Yiting at least knew that there had indeed been some accidents in the coal mine in the past ten years, and there were some conventions in dealing with them. On the surface, these accidents were minor and handled properly, but it still doesn't make sense why Wang Mazi desperately blocked them from going to the abandoned mine. Since Wang Mazi didn't allow it, they didn't think of the conflict to attract the attention of others, so they temporarily made a few jokes and left.

After Li Yiting went back, he found an opportunity to quietly come to the accommodation of the Beiting Detective Agency, and had a preliminary communication with Chen Tianyu about what he knew from Wang Mazi today, and happened to meet Shen Mingyue who also came back to report some things about Tao Mei.

Chen Tianyu is very pleased, the harvest in the past few days is much greater than in the past period, it seems that Shen Mingyue's strategy to break into the internal undercover agent is very successful. It's just a pity that Li Yiting and his contacts are still grassroots figures, and they still don't know the slightest bit about the core secrets, and there is no progress in the investigation of the explosion accident.

He decided to let Li Yiting, Wan Yongkun and Shen Mingyue continue to work undercover with peace of mind, while the others could identify themselves and seek the cooperation of the relevant local departments to start from the official level again to study the specific situation of the coal mine gas explosion head-on.

Chen Tianyu took out his mobile phone and dialed Xu Jie, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the DT Municipal Bureau. He and Xu Jie had a relationship, but they were not familiar with each other, but the previous Qin Wu section chief of the Safety Supervision Bureau had a relationship with Xu Jie was a high school classmate, and through the introduction, Xu Jie left his contact information to Beiting, so that they could contact him if they needed to.

At the moment, the local police are also suffering from the delay in investigating the cause of the gas explosion, whether it is the inquiry from the upper level or the pressure of public opinion, the police do not dare to relax, but no breakthrough has been made for the time being. Although the reported fatalities are ordinary accidents and only need to be solved in the city, the city is very worried that if similar accidents happen again in the short term, the consequences will be serious, and the trouble will be even greater, so they keep urging the police to find out the truth as soon as possible, so as to prevent it from happening.

Therefore, Xu Jie was very pleased with Chen Tianyu's intervention, and took the initiative to send a police car to take Chen Tianyu to the bureau for discussion. They obtained the relevant case files, scene investigation records, and eyewitness testimony of the case in the criminal investigation brigade, and found no flaws, but also did not show the reason for the sudden explosion in the mine.

Chen Tianyu suddenly asked a question: "Captain Xu, where are the bodies of the miners now?"

Xu Jie replied truthfully, "It's still in the morgue, and before the case is decided, I will definitely not let my family take it away." By the way, we conducted a preliminary autopsy in the early stage, and the miners did die from the trauma caused by the shock wave. ”

"How many corpses are there?" Chen Tianyu mentioned the key point seemingly casually.

"Five!" Xu Jie didn't understand why he had to confirm the number, the media reported it, isn't this a well-known thing?

Chen Tianyu nodded, he decided not to reveal the truth for the time being, of course the experienced Beiting thinker would not trust anyone easily.