Chapter 1068: The Bottom Line
Hu Shengnan gushed endlessly. A mouthful of "ghost places", and as if disgusted, he removed the tape that had not been torn off from his body, threw it aside, and followed behind Director Ma in a few steps.
Qian Bin wanted to break out of the door directly and ask clearly, maybe this is to find a clue, but Zhao Liang stopped him.
"He's got a clue." Zhao Leng said a word directly, and Qian Bin immediately understood that the two of them saw Director Ma and Hu Shengnan gradually disappear into the night, so they dared to take a heavy breath and hide in a dark corner.
"If you rush straight up, you may incur unnecessary trouble." Zhao Leng took a deep breath and said, "If this is their territory......"
Zhao Leng's mood was very low.
Qian Bin's eyes widened in surprise, he knew what Director Ma meant to Zhao Leng. But I didn't expect that she could still be so calm and calm until now.
"What did he say?"
"He's talking about hell places." Zhao Leng blinked. "Think about it, what the hell is it?"
Looking at Zhao Leng's excited appearance, Qian Bin knew that this kid had found a clue and deliberately sold his own guanzi, shook his head, and said impatiently: "It's over if you say no, what dumb riddle do you want me to guess?" β
Zhao sneered: "I don't know the true face of Lushan, this is really just because I am in this mountain!" β
She stomped on the soles of her feet hard and said, "Isn't it strange that we searched all the places around here where we could find clues, and we didn't find a single suspicious place?" β
Qian Bin frowned and suddenly realized. "Is it in the dark compartment?"
solemnly realized: "This was originally a crematorium for burning corpses, but after the reconstruction, this secret passage was retained. Maybe this is the place where they secretly pass on information. β
"If they really know about it, why don't they come down and find out?" Qian Bin was puzzled.
"Maybe it's the fear of revealing the secret. I also learned about this tunnel by accident, and most people don't know about it, and maybe within their organization, only the upper echelons can find it,"
"That's a coincidence." Zhao Leng gasped. "That's what I thought, hell place, isn't this it? Look at this again. β
As she spoke, Zhao Leng spread out her palm, and a black paper tape appeared in her hand, Qian Bin looked at it carefully, scratched his hair, and shook his head.
"What's weird about that?"
"This fell from Hu Shengnan's body and was picked up by me, you see." Zhao Leng smiled mysteriously, stretched out his hand, Qian Bin took a closer look, and under Zhao Leng's signal, he took it to his hand and looked at it.
There was a gray patch on the adhesive strip, with some white powder, which looked a little like wall ash, and the back of the colloidal was wet, and there was nothing abnormal when it was turned over and over.
Qian Bin was stunned, shook his head and said, "What can be so special about this thing?" You can buy 180 of them at any convenience store. It's just that the tape doesn't work, it's all glued to the dust, and it's damp. β
Zhao Leng nodded.
"Officer Qian, you are very observant, and your observation is very subtle, sometimes you can detect the facts, you don't need to rely on your own actions in everything."
Qian Bin nodded.
"This tape further proves that we guessed correctly, this dust is not ordinary wall ash, judging from their dense structure and state, it should be the bone meal of the deceased, look."
As she spoke, Zhao Leng shook the remaining rubber strip in her hand, she shook slightly, the rubber strip seemed to sense something, shining with clear light in the night outlined by thick ink, faint like fireflies, almost invisible.
Qian Bin shuddered a little, this thing is taboo.
"What is this?" Qian Bin was stunned, these lights were dark and cold, and they looked even more terrifying against the background of the night sky.
"Ghost fire." The corners of Zhao Leng's mouth were raised, and he deliberately said it gloomy, which made Qian Bin's eyebrows jump in fright.
"It's phosphor powder." Zhao explained with a sneer. "There is a part of phosphorus in the bones of the dead, and after burning, some phosphorus powder remains, and when the powder is rubbed or heated, it will shine, as if it were burned. However, because of its faint brilliance, it is also called luminous. β
"Oh, oh." Qian Bin looked at the adhesive strip in his hand in a daze and calmed down. "So, it's all the ashes of dead people?"
Zhao Leng nodded.
It's still pretty scary. Qian Bin couldn't help but stay away in his heart, but his face refused to show the slightest sound, he put on a thoughtful look and looked at the rubber strip in his hand. "So, it's really a crematorium?"
Solemn smiled: "It can't be wrong." β
"And that's not all." Zhao Leng said: "Look at the back of this adhesive strip, it's very damp, you just mentioned it, Officer Qian." β
"That's right." Qian Bin nodded, the back of the adhesive strip was very wet, and there were even water droplets in some places. The strip, which is supposed to be smooth, has a certain effect of absorbing water.
"So, it's damp?" Qian Bin was stunned. "Where would that be?"
Zhao Leng raised his head and looked at the sky, and there was a trace of wet water stains in the air. "It's not surprising that the city is wet during the rainy summer season. But the building doesn't look like it's leaking, and I suspect there's a river nearby. β
"By the river?" Qian Bin was startled, and suddenly woke up: "No, this is ...... the previous corpse dumping case"
"I think so." Zhao Leng nodded.
"That's right." Qian Bin nodded. It's no secret that the city's climate is changeable and the rain clouds are treacherous, as the river erodes the nearby riverbank when the tide rises, and a crematorium garbage transport pipeline that extends into the river is spontaneously created.
"The sewer needs to be extremely developed, especially under this kind of facility, after all, the smell of the dead is very unpleasant, and if it is soaked in stagnant water, the work of the crematorium will not be able to continue, and this is the bottom."
Zhao Leng stomped his feet: "Under our feet, there is probably an empty drainage canal, this kind of place, did they already know about this place?" Maybe there's a clue here. β
"So what are we waiting for?" Qian Bin was impatient, and if he couldn't do it, he would dig open the ground under his feet, and go directly to the ground to rescue people directly.
Zhao Leng stretched out his hand and grabbed Qian Bin.
"Don't worry, let's find the entrance first. And...... I can't figure it out a little. Zhao Leng said.
Qian Bin squatted down and began to look for the entrance, he was eager to try, and he was indeed a little impatient. While looking for the entrance in the nearby haystack, Qian Bin accosted him: "I can't figure it out, what's so unfigured about it?" β
Zhao Leng pondered for a moment and said, "Hu Shengnan, this Officer Hu is indeed very smart, but I think she seems to have discovered me." β
Qian Bin stopped, paused, and said, "Won't take it?" Then why didn't he say anything. β
Zhao Leng smiled bitterly, when Qian Bin saw Hu Shengnan for a few minutes, it was not this face, and Zhao Leng couldn't forget the bitter and hateful appearance for a while, and now the tone of words immediately turned one hundred and eighty degrees.
"This man is indeed not simple." Zhao Leng sighed. "Although he was not restricted from moving, presumably, Director Ma and him must have been threatened by something. But at this point, the signal he sends to us is still not a call for help, but a place to tell us where the clues are. β
Qian Bin listened to Zhao Leng's analysis and also fell into deep thought. If he had been in such a critical situation, would he have made such a decision? This neighborhood should be surrounded by this mysterious organization, and I don't know what danger is hidden, but this powerless old uncle does have a bit of bloodiness that sees death as home.
Qian Bin didn't say anything, and Zhao Leng raised his concerns first.
"But there's one thing I find odd. But according to what you said, Officer Hu communicated with us, why didn't the horse bureau say anything. β
"Maybe there's another arrangement?" Qian Bin didn't think it was strange. "After all, people are also people, how can they do anything without missing anything, there will always be times of negligence."
Zhao Leng squinted, he was confident that Director Ma would not be such a careless person. Eyes focused on the adhesive strip, what did Director Ma want to do, since he disappeared, the major cases in Lincheng have been confusing, and they have emerged together, which really makes her feel uneasy.
But will he really make a mistake? If not, how can this "carelessness" be explained? Zhao Leng stared at the strip for a long time, but still didn't find an answer, but Qian Bin was not idle.
"There it is!" He exclaimed quietly.
Zhao Leng followed the voice to find the past, Qian Bin deserved to be a scout, and he still felt first-class keenness. I saw him kick open a bottle of glass cans, turn over a handful of messy haystacks, and see a narrow well that could only accommodate about one person under a damp pile of rotten reinforced concrete.
Zhuang Yan immediately snatched his hand and said, "This is the ditch leading to the riverbedβbefore they find out, let's slip away!" β
Qian Bin reached into his hand, and his whole arm was submerged in the well, and the distance was deeper, deeper than they imagined. There was no bottom in the black hole, and the two of them didn't dare to go straight into the well easily.
Zhao Leng paid attention, he asked Qian Bin to take off his coat, and he also unbuttoned his coat, and the cuffs of the two coats were tightly tied together by him and connected into a short rope.
It's a pity that the summer coat is really thin, the rope is neither strong nor long enough, so as a support, Qian Bin didn't say a word, grabbed the "rope" at one end, braked an inch of soil with his front and rear feet, and slid diagonally into the well, only less than two meters, he touched the solid cement.
Zhao Leng heard the sound of Qian Bin landing on the ground, so he also followed.
The two hesitated for a few steps in the dark, only to realize that this was not a pit for launching water, but a deep ladder that had been artificially repaired, and judging from the touch of the surface, it should have been poured with cement.
The two of them walked deeper by the faint light on their mobile phones, and the sound of footsteps made a heavy sound of water, which was really damp, probably originally a water or water station, and was abandoned and turned into a prison cell by this mysterious organization.
The deeper he went, the more Zhao Leng felt a dull pain in his shoulders and waist. The dampness in the depths was far greater than the ground, and it seemed that the moisture had spread along the surface to the ground, and Zhao Leng's scabbed wound had just been tossed several times, and then began to surge again, and the pus-black blood began to seep out.
Zhao Leng staggered a step, and in the faint light, a familiar voice sounded in his ears.
"Be careful!"