On the way back to the mining area from the suburbs of Maozhong City, Li Xiaohe and Xu Jianjun were anxious, eager to find Zang Qile, Yao Erwang and the four miners.

Different from the anxious mood of Li and Xu, and different from his previous calmness and rationality, You Junliang first cried non-stop along the way, and then his eyes were blank, and he was paralyzed in the seat, and the whole person seemed to be drained of his soul.

was already anxious and uneasy, but seeing You Junliang's appearance, people's hearts were much heavier.

The off-road vehicle reached Xiaojinggou and circled and rose to the top of the slope. Then go straight forward, cross the gap between the ridges, pass through the courtyard where Lao Gao and Lao Di are located, and continue to run forward.

As they got closer and closer to their destinations, Li and Xu became more and more anxious, and two more words "more" were added to their anxiety.

Climbing up the small slow slope, a group of police cars are in sight from afar, many policemen are in and out of the courtyard, and there are also police shuttles in the distance.

With one foot on the accelerator, the off-road vehicle came outside the courtyard gate and stopped.

The people in the car got out of the car one after another and walked towards the courtyard.

Criminal policeman Xiao Liu Ying was discharged from the hospital, greeting the "captain" in his mouth, but his eyes glanced behind Xu Jianjun.

A group of people waited into the courtyard, and Pang Yunsheng and Qu Forrest Gump became the focus of everyone's attention. Knowing it or not, it is realized that the two who just appeared must have something to do with the matter of the investigation.

Xu Jianjun was in front and went directly into the big room, and the rest of the people followed one after another.

The workers who were involved in the club-lifting were still in the house, but they had changed from a squatting position to a standing position, but all of them had sunken eye sockets and blue circles, and they had apparently not left the place all this time.

In fact, the policemen's faces are also very haggard, but they are freer than these people, and they should also close their eyes for a while to varying degrees.

Xu Jianjun gestured: "Lao Pang, Qu Forrest Gump, you both take a look." ”

Looking at these workers, Qu Forrest Gump shook his head slowly, the meaning was obvious, there was no one he knew, and there was no introduction from himself.

Pang Yunsheng stared at these people for a while, and then looked around, with a puzzled look on his face: "Which shift are you from?" ”

"Medium class." A tall man in the front row replied.

Pang Yunsheng asked again: "How many groups are there in your class, how many people are there?" ”

"I don't know how many groups there are, only that there are twelve people in our group." It's still the big tall man who replied, "I haven't been so concentrated at all, and everyone has their own work." ”

"What's wrong?" Xu Jianjun interjected.

Pang Yunsheng didn't answer directly, but gestured and walked towards the door.

Xu Jianjun waved at Li Xiaohe, Xiao Zhang, and Xiao Liu, followed Pang Yunsheng out of the big house, and went straight to a hut next to him.

Entering the hut and closing the door, Pang Yunsheng asked, "Team Xu, why are these people here?" ”

"At that time, the workers who had been told to come from the middle class had gathered here, and these people came. Later, under the encouragement of Zang Qile, Lao Bai, and Lao He, they chased the police car with tools and were left here. Speaking of this, Xu Jianjun asked rhetorically, "What's wrong?" ”

Pang Yunsheng shook his head: "The number of people is wrong, the middle class should be four groups, twelve people in each group, a total of forty-eight people." Now there are only thirty-six people, and one group is missing, and it is the group that You Junshan is missing. ”

Xu Jianjun said "ah": "There is a group missing, twelve people?" ”

Li Xiaohe and Xiao Zhang were also shocked.

"Call Lao Bai and Lao He." Xu Jianjun ordered.

"Yes." Xiao Zhang answered and walked out of the house.

Soon, Xiao Zhang brought Lao Bai and Lao He.

Xu Jianjun slowly paced in front of Bai and He, his eyes swept over the two of them coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Where are the twelve people who are missing in the middle class?" ”

"Missing, missing twelve people, what's the matter?" Lao Bai hurriedly said, "Lao Pang, are you talking nonsense?" When we came, there were 36 people in the middle class, and it was written on the work sheet. ”

"No, on the work sheet in March, there are obviously forty-eight people in the middle class." Lao Pang was also anxious, "Take out the work schedule." ”

"Take it, can it be written in black and white? ......Halfway through the words, Lao He stopped and looked at the criminal policeman Xiao Liu.

"Oh, here I am." Xiao Liu said, took out a plastic bag from his portable document bag, then put on gloves and took out the "Work Sheet" for March and April.

After emphasizing "don't touch it with your hands", Xiao Liu put the work sheets on the table one by one.

"Lao Pang, look, look, do you see? How many people are there? Lao Bai and Lao He both pointed to the paper.

"Altogether...... Eh, why did the middle shift in March become 36 people, I remember it was 48 people? Pang Yunsheng's face changed greatly, "No, no." ”

Xu Jianjun stared at Pang Yunsheng coldly: "What's wrong?" ”

"Which ......" Pang Yunsheng said suddenly, "That's right, the word is wrong, the word is not mine." You see, I was absent for three days in March, but the whole table was the same, which is not right. ”

"It's just you saying it, who can prove it?" Xu Jianjun continued to question.

"I, I, I don't have the previous work schedule, if only there was February, it would have my words on it." Pang Yunsheng was very anxious, but suddenly there was surprise on his face, "By the way, the workers can prove it, they haven't seen me in the past few days." ”

Xu Jianjun let out an "oh" and raised his head to signal.

Xiao Liu immediately went out of the house.

Pang Yunsheng continued to point to the "Work Schedule": "This is really not my word. Besides, this paper is too new, and I usually record work every day, and at the end of the month, it is dirty and dirty, and it is clearly written at one time. ”

"That's weird to me. Didn't you do the handover at the time? Can the work schedule not be handed over? Xu Jianjun questioned again.

"At that time, the Tibetan boss was on the side, and the urging was very urgent, and the salary schedule was in the hands of the Tibetan boss, so there was no handover at all. You ask both of them. As he spoke, Pang Yunsheng pointed at Lao Bai and Lao He.

Lao Bai echoed: "It was not handed over, and then the boss of Tibet gave us the watch." The two of us looked at the same number of people as they did years ago, and the names of the people were correct, so we didn't ask the boss again. ”

"So, those twelve are all years later?" Xu Jianjun asked.

"Yes, they all came on March 10th, and they were specially grouped into a group to go to a mine." After a pause, Pang Yunsheng suddenly said, "Should they all be ......?"

Xiao Liu pushed the door into the house and said to Xu Jianjun: "You haven't seen Pang Yunsheng in those days. ”

Xu Jianjun nodded slightly, and ordered Pang Yunsheng again: "Go, take us there." ”

After answering "yes", Pang Yunsheng should go first.

Xu Jianjun, Li Xiaohe and others quickly followed.

……

Led by Pang Yunsheng, Xu Jianjun, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Li Xiaohe, You Junliang, Lao He and seven policemen arrived in front of a cave. You Junliang had to follow, and Li Xiaohe also had to follow, and what the two said also made some sense, and Xu Jianjun agreed.

All of them changed into equipment for going down the mine, with work clothes, work shoes, hard hats, miner's lamps, self-rescuers, etc., towels around their necks, waterproof clothing, and eight policemen carrying necessary police equipment.

Before going down the mine, Pang Yunsheng deliberately checked all the equipment of the people, especially the miners' eyes - miner's lamp. It also focused on the chemical fiber clothes that are strictly prohibited to be worn and the electronic devices, cigarettes, lighters, etc. that are strictly prohibited to carry.

After confirming that everything met the requirements, Pang Yunsheng took out the "no pass" sign at the entrance of the cave and allowed everyone to go down the well.

In order, elevators were made in three batches - tank cages, and two policemen were left on duty at the wellhead.

Not long after the first two batches went down, Xu Jianjun, Li Xiaohe, You Junliang, and Lao He also took the cage.

When he walked into the cage, he felt okay, but when the cage went down with the sound of friction and the surroundings were dark, Li Xiaohe couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the tank cage to stop, and the three of them got out of the iron cage.

The eight people who arrived first were waiting.

The people gathered together and walked forward.

Under the reflection of the miner's lamp, there are brackets and nets on top of his head, and there are iron pipe columns on his side, as well as iron lotus tied to the column.

In addition to the light from the miner's lamp, the side and back are dark, and with the pillars and brackets, the scene is very terrifying, making people dare not fall behind at will.

I don't know who coughed, and immediately there were several echoes of different heights, and the hearts of the people who shook were so worried.

The whole queue was not moving fast, and people turned their heads as they walked, using miner's lamps to illuminate possible targets.

Under the light of the miner's lamp, the rock wall shone with a black-brown light, and there was nothing but the stone wall, which was the pillar.

All the way just now, the terrain was very slow and downhill, showing that people were getting farther and farther away from the ground. The previous vertical descent should have been about three or four hundred meters, but now it should be five hundred meters smaller.

I don't know if it's because of the lower terrain, or because it took a little longer to go down the well, Li Xiaohe felt that the surroundings were a lot colder, or maybe it was because no one came in for a long time.

According to Pang Yunsheng, this wellhead has been sealed before, and it was only opened after You Junshan and others arrived, and this mine was only opened by their group, and it was closed after the accident, and it was only half a month in total.

It is precisely because of this that when Pang Yunsheng talked about the situation of the twelve people and mysteriously disappeared on the work sheet, people immediately thought of this.

There are twelve people today, so there won't be any catastrophe in the dark, right? As time passed, as he got farther and farther away from the ground, the fear in Li Xiaohe's heart became even worse. I can't help but think about it: If something urgent happens, I'm afraid the time left for reaction is too short, can I escape in time?

"People."

"Someone."

The few people who walked in front made a sound.

"People, where are they?" Then people asked.

At this time, the people all stopped their steps, and the miner's lamp shone into an area where there was indeed a man curled up.

Originally, I was going to come down to find someone, but now when I actually see people, people can't help but be nervous. Whether this nervousness is fear or excitement at the discovery of the target, no one can say, but it may be both.

The people moved again, closer and closer to the man.

"Erwang? Yao Erwang is here. You Junshan suddenly shouted.