"Li Jing, if I'm not mistaken, all the bombings happened at noon." I asked Li Jing.

Li Jing nodded: "Although it is not particularly punctual, the explosions are concentrated between 11:30 at noon and 2:30 in the afternoon, not the peak period for commuting." ”

"What did you say?" I think there's something coming up with an idea.

"It's not rush hour." Li Jing looked at me, habitually frowning.

"yes, that's it." I excitedly said, "He's not the rush hour for commuting, it's the rush hour for the lunch break." Wait a minute, the officer in the afternoon said there's only one company here, right? ”

"What do you mean?"

"You don't have the experience of working in this kind of commercial company before, it's not the same as treating people in a hospital, most commercial companies will set their lunch break between 11:30 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and if the company doesn't provide lunch, most employees will choose to go out during this time except for bringing their own meals. In the past, when we were at ISCBS, we would jokingly call this phenomenon 'foraging'. I laughed a little, suddenly remembered that I hadn't explained it clearly, and then changed the subject back, "I mean it's not an off-peak time, it's a peak time on the sidewalk, and all the company's employees go out to eat." ”

"You mean, the suspect deliberately chose this time?" Li Jing stared at the office building not far away that was still lit up, the sky was completely dark, and the lights on the top floor of the office building had gradually turned on.

"Otherwise, according to the officer, if there is no one here because of feng shui, there will be no panic caused by the explosion here." But didn't I say before that I felt that the bus had a rollover accident here, which means that this place was specially chosen by the criminal, so there must be a reason for his choice. He chose this place for his own purpose, and it happened during the lunch break, and the employees of the company all went out to eat or returned to the company after eating. In short, there are a lot of people on this street. You just said that whether it is indiscriminate killing or not, all this kind of social revenge who creates panic has their own specific goals, and he does not choose other business districts, but chooses this deserted place, and if my guess is correct, I think there are only two targets for the suspects, one is the residents of this place, and the other is the company in that building. But there is usually no one living here, and if it was because of the blow of the company's bankruptcy before, he is more likely to make a bomb in the building, but put it on Bus Hill and then detonate it on this section of the road, then his target can only be the company employees who go out to eat at noon. Because there are no restaurants nearby, this phenomenon is not very common in City C, which is a city that loves food. Maybe it's really a feng shui problem, there really aren't any restaurants nearby, and according to the eating habits of the citizens of City C, they will definitely go to a place other than a stop to eat, and the most convenient way is to ride a bicycle. But three months ago, it was a scorching summer, so I chose to take the bus instead. So by planting a bomb on a bus, he wanted to cause panic not among the residents, but about the company. With that, I also looked at the building not far away.

Li Jing didn't speak, but put his eyes back on the scene again: "Now we need to verify your statement." Didn't you say that before that, the bus overturned here? Something must have been discovered, say, what do you think is abnormal? ”

"Traces." I crouched in the place I'd been observing all afternoon, "Here." It may be the reason for the restoration, which looks special in it, but it may be like the previous police officer said, this place loses money, so the hardware facilities have not kept up, and the repair of the road damage caused by the explosion has only been done in the most basic. You see the wall is freshly painted, but nothing has been repaired. I walked over and looked at the wall on the other side of the road, which had also been refreshed, and although it was roughly covered with impact marks, it still felt uneven to the touch. And here. I ran forward for a while and stopped in front of a new sign: "It's new." ”

Li Jing walked over and observed carefully: "En." It's new, but the old ones should be found in the evidence room, and the wall shows signs of repair. He looked at the ground again, "Freshly laid asphalt, so no brake marks can be seen now." However, if you look at the photos of the explosion site at that time, the explosion area caused by the moving vehicle has inertia, and the explosion distance should be farther than the one shown in the data. But because of the asphalt inside, we can only speculate that the car had stopped before the explosion, not overturned. ”

"But." I was a little unwilling, "You also saw the traces of repair on the wall. ”

"Don't forget that it could have been caused by an explosion." Li Jing replied to my question, "Before we saw the evidence, what we are now is speculation. Speculation is the easiest to be overturned, but there is one more thing that needs to be verified together. ”

"Something about the target?"

"That's right." Li Jing nodded in agreement, "I did ignore the general company habits before, just like the point you put forward, detonating a bomb in a sparsely populated place does not conform to the usual characteristics of an explosive offender - causing public panic, but it meets another characteristic, for the retaliation of a specific target, which company is the only target we can find, it seems that we now have to confirm whether the same company will appear at other bombing scenes." Now, go back. Li Jing pulled me up from the ground, and my eyes were still on the wall with patched marks.

When Li Jing pulled me up, I saw a figure flash behind a tree behind him: "Who?" I shouted.

Li Jing also looked back, but there was no figure at all. Li Jing's eyes widened suddenly, and he turned around and asked me, "Xiaozhi, when did the police officer who brought us here this morning say that this road was passed?" ”

"Today, today?" But I didn't pay much attention to it, but I vaguely remembered that it seemed to be like this.

"Did you see where he was running just now?"

It was just a flash, and I could only shake my head and tell the truth: "I just saw the photography flashing by, and then, when you turned around, I just happened to note that I realized it, and I didn't see it clearly." ”

Li Jing looked at me and hesitated, there were two paths behind the tree, one was to run along the road next to it, and the other was to follow the dirt slope behind the tree to make a viaduct. It was dark, and even if Li Jing didn't block my view, I didn't dare to be sure which way that man was going. But fortunately, there was a light rain this afternoon, and if you are lucky, that figure should be able to leave footprints behind the tree, but now it is only the two of us, so do you want to let him go for the time being? I looked at Li Jing, who was also struggling with this question now.

Li Jing just pulled me to look around the tree, there were many footprints under the tree, and I couldn't distinguish which one was new with the naked eye, but I glanced at the big tree, compared the position of the figure in my memory, and touched Li Jing: "It's probably so high." I glanced at Li Jing, who was standing, "A little shorter than you, but definitely taller than me, I feel more than 1.75 meters." Should I be 42 or 43 in shoe size? Just look for a relatively large footprint. ”

Li Jing looked for the footprints I said with the flashlight of his mobile phone, and sure enough, there was a shallow irregular footprint that looked like a new step attracted Li Jing's attention, we followed the footprints forward, the rainy soil was slightly slippery, carefully avoiding the footprints on the ground, we finally came to the side of the small dirt slope, the footprints disappeared at the end of the dirt slope, it seemed that we were on the road. Li Jing looked around, and finally found a road condition monitor on a street lamp, and the corners of his mouth finally turned up, but immediately said strictly, "Xiaozhi, it seems that we have to speed up." ”

I looked at him a little puzzled. Li Jing rubbed my hair: "Xiaozhi, I don't know if the two of us will find out if he will be a positive or negative stimulus, but no matter which stimulus, the result is not good for us." ”

"I still don't get it."

Li Jing pulled me back, I still looked back from time to time, the original fear of the explosion, coupled with the unknown figure I saw just now, made me always uneasy, until I returned to the main road, my heart was completely relaxed.

Li Jing saw my nervousness, as if to ease my feelings, and Li Jing and I elaborated on his judgment: "As I said before, bombers and arsonists have some characteristics that are more similar, such as they both like to return to the scene. Today is the first time that this road has been reopened to traffic after the explosion, whether it is for the perpetrator of the bombing, it is an opportunity for him to re-witness the panic he once caused, the longer the repair time drags on, the stronger the sense of success he feels in his heart, but because we are at the scene with the police officer during the day, he does not dare to show up lightly, but the desire to re-control himself urges him to return to the scene. The suspect probably didn't guess that we would return in the evening, so when he saw us, he was even more panicked than we were. And our arrival may add a lot of psychological pressure to the suspect, and he will guess on his own whether we have discovered something. He will respond to this pressure in two ways, the first is that our investigation is a positive stimulus for him, which makes him more excited, which usually occurs in the explosive maniac who has sought attention several times, so that they are likely to cause explosions more frequently in order to attract more attention, so that more people will be hurt; And the other possibility is that our investigation is a negative stimulus for him, which is more dangerous, we have no way to find him, and we don't even know when he will cause another bomb, which is like a bomb that does not know when it will explode, creating greater panic at the public level.

"If that's the case, we're not right about a suicide attack." I remembered Li Jing's speculation before.

"We can't be so arbitrary, now we only know that the person just now may have something to do with the explosion, but we can't be sure that there is only one explosive. By the way, there is surveillance in that place just now, if we can shoot it, we can compare it with the video we collected in the afternoon, and see if it can overlap with the face of one of them, so that we can at least have a direction for investigation. But anyway, we all have to go back to the police station, so it's always good to have some questions. Li Jing smiled, "Although I don't know if it's good to take you to investigate this case, but you always have to get out of the shadow in your heart by yourself, and believe that one day you will become strong to protect others from the same harm, so don't be too nervous, there will be a good result." ”

I nodded and said no more.

I went to the traffic brigade again, and retrieved the surveillance at the time, and sure enough, on the elevated road near the scene of the explosion, at the same time, a person was found in the monitoring and climbed onto the elevated road, and ran away along the elevated road, and then in the monitoring of another place, it was not found that he continued to appear on the highway, and there was no accident report, it seems that it may be a ride or ran away from another place. The surveillance was too dark to see his appearance at all, but I could still guess that his height was about 1.75 meters through the comparison between him and the road railing when he was running, which was roughly the same as the back I saw before.

In order to get the appearance of the man, Li Jing applied to send this information to Shi Hao for clarification.

After that, we went back to the police station, and the officer on duty had already helped us get all the evidence in advance, although there were no old bombed-up road signs, but all the photos of the police station in City C were kept, much more complete than the first information we saw. Li Jing sent the photo to Shi Hao and asked to take it to the real room for injury comparison, to see if the damage to the various buildings in the photo was caused by the explosion or the traces left after the impact.

At noon the next day, Shi Hao sent us a clear photo of the fugitive, and by the way, he was able to compare it with Guò, and sure enough, he found the same face in the video that was passed to him earlier. Even more coincidentally, the owner of this face has a very close connection with the victims of the bombing. Before the bombing, the owner of the face had been a laid-off employee of the same office building. But it is not clear why she was fired.

"Are there any other victims who have been dismissed?" Li Jing asked into the phone.

"Wait a minute, I'll check." It didn't take long for Shi Hao's voice to come from the microphone, "I found out, there is an employee of a company who was also fired shortly before the explosion, by the way, you should be interested in this information, and you heard the same as yesterday, this company is really terrible, I found a post on the Internet, after the bombing, this company did not give a pension to any of the victims' families, because the explosion was a break time, and the company is not responsible for it." It's really a black-hearted company. ”

Li Jing didn't comment too much, but asked Shi Hao to send the information about the person who escaped yesterday and the dismissed victim who died in the explosion. He also instructed Shi Hao to check again to see if there were any branches of this company near other bombings. After agreeing, he urged the latest report on the damage at the explosion site by the way, and was about to hang up the phone, when Shi Hao's voice rang again: "Li Jing, do you really think that Xiaozhi is willing to come back with you?" ”

Li Jing hung up the phone directly, turned his head and said to me, "It seems that we need to go to this company." (To be continued.) )