In the afternoon, Xu Lang and the others began to focus on Xie Zhiwen's story, contacted the police station near Xu Lang's community, and found the comrades from the police station to ask them to help investigate the nearby scavengers, and see if they could find the man who sent the courier Xie Zhiwen said among these people.

Lai Pi also handed over the surveillance hard drive he got back from the Hummingbird Express to Lu Xing, and asked him to try to recover the video in the hard drive to see if he could find some useful clues, for example, on the night of March 21, the person who sent the courier.

Throughout the afternoon, Xu Lang and the police at the police station investigated and visited many waste pickers to inquire about the situation.

With the development of the economy, in the past, Xu Lang could still see some people begging on the street when he was a child, but now he rarely sees them, of course, there are still some beggars, however, most of these beggars are begging as a profession, they are fixed in one place to beg, as long as it is not windy and rainy, heavy rain, you can see their shadows almost every day, of course, these people are still very few.

And when you go through the garbage bins every day, except for the sanitation workers who clean the streets, there are only those who pick up waste.

When Xu Lang and they investigated, it can be seen that most of those scavengers are elderly people, or some middle-aged men and women, they carry a snakeskin bag, rummaging around in front of various garbage cans, looking for some items that can be sold for money, these people, Xu Lang When they saw them, they all felt that they were very old, and after some inquiry, they found out that many of them looked like they were fifty or sixty years old, but in fact, they were only in their forties, but, day after day, the wind and sun, He just looks very old.

A large part of these scavengers have no fixed place, and their sleeping place may be a park bench, a passage under an overpass, or some unfinished buildings, temporarily suspended construction sites, etc., while some people have built a house by themselves in some remote places, the so-called house is just a few wooden sticks that they have picked up by themselves, and a small part is a retired old man, who has nothing to do, so they start scavenging and sell the things they pick up to the scrap yard. In exchange for a meager amount of money, they do it not to make money, but to pass the time.

After visiting a large circle, Xu Lang and the others found nothing, and they did not know the trace of the man described by Xie Zhiwen.

"Brother Lang, that Xie Zhiwen shouldn't have deceived us" Luo Jiayan took a bottle of water, her face flushed, squatted on the side of the road, and asked while drinking water.

It is not easy to investigate and visit the waste pickers, after all, they have to work hard to live, walk around, it is impossible to stay in one place, and Xu Lang They want to ask these people to ask, they have to find them one by one, and naturally they have to run, so they will walk a lot, Xu Lang and Lai Pi, one is a policeman, the other is a veteran, and they are both men, their physical strength is much stronger than that of women, so they naturally don't think there is anything, but Luo Jiayan is a woman, and after running for an afternoon, she is tired enough.

Hearing Luo Jiayan ask, Xu Lang also had this guess, thinking that Xie Zhiwen was deceiving himself, but Xu Lang thought about it, he didn't need to do it at all, first, he didn't know what was in that express, and second, he was just a courier brother, there was no need to lie about a death he didn't know, unless he knew the murderer.

However, after an investigation and visit, Xu Lang and the others found no suspicious places, plus they were tired and thirsty, several people were very tired, and it was not surprising that Luo Jiayan had this idea.

Xu Lang didn't immediately answer Luo Jiayan's question, but looked at Lai Pi and asked, "What do you think?"

Lai Pi thought for a while and said, "Xie Zhiwen has no reason to deceive us. ”

Xu Lang nodded, and then asked, "The nearby scavengers have all finished investigating?"

Luo Jiayan nodded and said, "The investigation is over, when are we going back?"

Xu Lang raised his head, looked at the sun that had been slanting to the west, took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon. ”

"Oh yes, go home."

Hearing Xu Lang say go back, Luo Jiayan suddenly stood up from the ground and shouted at Lai Pi, and Xu Lang and Lai Pi were also speechless for a while.

When they were working, Xu Lang and the others all felt that Luo Jiayan was a very capable person, very efficient, and very thorough, but sometimes, Xu Lang felt that Luo Jiayan was like a child who would never grow up, and from time to time he made some naïve deaths and words, which made Xu Lang not know what to say about Luo Jiayan.

Xu Lang and Lai Pi glanced at each other, also stood up, took the bottle of mineral water that drank more than half of the mineral water in their hands, and walked towards the parking place.

"Help, help, help me call the police, which kind person will help me call the police"

At this moment, a man's shout suddenly came from not far away, and Xu Lang and the others looked over when they heard it.

This is a garbage disposal station, and there are many people who come here to pick up waste every day, but there are very few people who live and work here, and there are very few pedestrians on the road.

At this time, a whole body is dirty and unkempt

The man in front of him is running wildly on the street, saying that he is running wildly, but in fact, it is similar to a normal person walking fast.

The man's hair was unkempt, he didn't know what was stained on his face, it was pitch black, revealing a pair of big frightened eyes, and as his mouth closed one by one, a mouthful of white and neat teeth was revealed, and his upper body was wearing a shirt that was supposed to be white, but now, the white shirt was covered with dirt, one red, one black, and one yellow, and it looked like it had been turned out of the garbage heap, like a canvas.

There are a few buttons of the shirt that fall off, as the man runs, the man's skin is exposed, and the man's lower body is wearing a pair of black trousers, at this time, the trousers have already been tattered, there are holes everywhere, one of the legs in the process of running, revealing the white skin, obviously, the pants have taken off the line, and the man's feet are not wearing anything, barefoot girl is running on the road, here is not a cedar road, but a gravel road sprinkled with a lot of stones, the man is running on the road with one foot deep and one foot shallow, The soles of his feet had been cut by stones, and blood was oozing out, dripping on the road, but the man didn't realize it, just ran forward, kept shouting for help, and from time to time turned his head to look behind him, as if something was chasing him behind him.

When ordinary people see the appearance of a man, they either think he is mentally ill or think he is a madman, but when Xu Lang saw the man, he noticed the man's arm for the first time.

The man's left hand covered the wrist of his right hand, and the man's right hand was nothing from the wrist down, bare, and wrapped in a blood-stained gauze, the white gauze had already been stained red by blood and turned black-brown.

Just when Xu Lang and the others turned their heads to look at the man who was shouting for help in his mouth, the man also noticed Xu Lang and them, so he ran desperately towards Xu Lang and them, and shouted loudly while running, "Help me, help me, please, help me"

When the man ran towards Xu Lang and them, the pedestrians on the road looked sideways, muttered to the people around them in a low voice, pointed and pointed, and saw the man running towards Xu Lang and them, and the people standing between the man and Xu Lang hurriedly hid towards the side of the road, as if they were afraid that the man would find them.

"Poof."

Just when the man was less than fifty meters away from Xu Lang and them, probably because he was running too fast, his foot stepped on a pebble, he didn't stand firmly, his body stumbled, and he fell directly to the ground, splashing a large amount of dust.

After the man fell, his dark face showed a strange flush, he raised his head, looked at Xu Lang and them, stretched out his left hand, and shouted hoarsely, "Help, help."

After Xu Lang and the others saw this scene, they immediately ran towards the man.

Lai Pi was the first to run to the man's side, squatted down, and helped the dusty man up from the ground, while Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan also ran.

Before they could fully approach the man, Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan smelled a pungent stench, which came from the man's body, with the smell of sweat, feces and urine, blood, and rancidity, Xu Lang raised his eyebrows slightly, but still walked to the man's side, looked at the man who was supported by Lai Pi, and asked, "What danger is encountered?"

"Quick, help me call the police, someone is going to kill me." Xu Lang asked with a frown.

"Quick, help me call the police, help me call the police, someone is going to kill me, someone is going to kill me"

After the man saw Xu Lang, to be precise, he saw Xu Lang just now looking at the time and holding the mobile phone in his hand, he didn't know where the strength came from, he rushed towards Xu Lang, stretched out his left hand, and was about to grab the mobile phone in Xu Lang's hand, while grabbing the mobile phone, he shouted loudly.

Seeing the man's reaction, Xu Lang's brows became more and more frowned, and after Lai Pi discovered the man's abnormal behavior, he immediately twisted the man's left hand behind his back and subdued the man.

After the man was subdued by Lai Pi, he still rushed towards Xu Lang, staring at the mobile phone in Xu Lang's hand with a pair of red eyes, and shouted vigorously, "Give me the mobile phone, I want to call the police, someone wants me." ”

After getting closer, Xu Lang found that the reason why the man's face was so black was not that he was so black, but that it was covered with dust, and other things, after the man's struggle, beads of sweat the size of beans stretched out on his forehead, and the sweat wet his cheeks, and the dust on his face was impacted into a ravine.

Xu Lang shook his head at Lai Pi and said, "Let him go." ”

After saying this, Xu Lang handed the mobile phone in his hand to the man.

After the man saw the mobile phone, he wanted to stretch out his right hand to pick it up, but after his right hand was stretched out, he couldn't catch the phone, and his left hand was subdued by Lai Pi, and he began to struggle desperately.

After Lai Pi heard Xu Lang's words, he let go of the man's left hand.

After the restraint was untied, the man immediately stretched out his left hand to catch the phone, and pressed the screen of the phone a little jerky.

Looking at the man's awkward movements, Xu Lang said, "Don't call the police, we are the police." ”

Hearing the word policeman, the man who was fighting with the mobile phone suddenly stopped what he was doing, raised his head, opened a pair of blood-red eyes, stared at Xu Lang, and asked, "You are a policeman"

Xu Lang nodded and said, "We are policemen." ”

"Since you're a police officer, why aren't you wearing a police uniform?" the man asked, staring into Xu Lang's eyes.

"Who told you that the police must wear police uniforms," Xu Lang asked rhetorically.

After saying this, Xu Lang took out his ID and put it in front of the man.

After the man saw the document handed over by Xu Lang, he looked at it carefully for a while, then raised his head, looked at Xu Lang and asked, "Are you really a policeman?"

Xu Lang nodded again and did not speak.

"Comrade policeman, uncle policeman, grandfather policeman, please, help me, someone is going to kill me." The man shouted hoarsely.

"What's the matter, tell me slowly, who is going to kill you," Xu Lang asked.

Hearing Xu Lang ask, the man still shouted vigorously, "Someone wants to kill me, someone wants to kill me"

Just when Xu Lang wanted to continue to ask who was going to kill him, the man suddenly had his eyelids, his body softened, and he fainted.

Seeing the man suddenly faint, Xu Lang found that the gauze on the man's right hand had fallen to the ground after the fall and a violent struggle just now, revealing a dark red wound, and there were several pus pockets at the wound, at this moment, the pustules had burst, and yellow and viscous liquid flowed out of it, as well as faint red blood.

It seemed that the man was exhausted and passed out.

Xu Lang didn't delay much, and immediately said to Lai Pi, "Carry him to the car and go to the hospital." ”

After speaking, Lai Pi took the soft and slender man in his arms and walked towards the police car.

Xu Lang sat in the driver's seat, Luo Jiayan sat in the co-pilot, and Lai Pi sat in the back seat with the man in his arms.

The police car drove towards the hospital at a gallop, Xu Lang's face was very solemn, he was driving, while looking at the rearview mirror from time to time, and observing this sloppy and embarrassed man through the rearview mirror.

"How is he?" asked Xu Lang with a solemn expression.

After Lai Pi carefully observed the man, he said, "He passed out and was very weak, let's hurry up and go to the hospital." ”

Speaking of this, Lai Pi looked at the man's right hand, which was still dripping blood, and his face was very heavy.

Outside just now, Xu Lang and the others could smell the unpleasant smell around the man, but at that time, the location was wide and the smell was not very big, and now, in the car with a small space, this unpleasant smell was very strong and pungent, Xu Lang frowned, and Luo Jiayan covered her nose with one hand, turned her head sideways to look at the man in the back row, and her willow eyebrows were about to wrinkle into a line.

"Smack."

"Please let me go"

The man lying in the back seat, with his eyes closed, suddenly stretched out his hand, waved it in front of him, and slapped Lai Pi in the face who was checking the man's injuries, and shouted in his mouth words like "Let me go".

The man's intact left hand and his right hand without a palm kept waving in the air, the expression on his face was very painful and distorted, his chest also rose and fell violently, and the blood from the wound on his right hand was thrown out with the man's movements, falling on the four walls of the police car, some of which fell on Lai Pi's body, and some fell on Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan's bodies.

Because Luo Jiayan was sideways, facing the back row, a few drops of blood fell on her baby face, and Luo Jiayan's face suddenly darkened.

The man's abnormal performance immediately attracted Xu Lang's attention, he glanced in the rearview mirror again, and found that the man's chest was rising and falling violently, Xu Lang knew that he couldn't delay longer, so he increased the accelerator, sounded the alarm, and galloped towards the hospital.

The car soon arrived at the entrance of the hospital, and as soon as the car stopped, Lai Pi opened the rear door, picked the man off the car, and ran briskly towards the hospital, shouting loudly "Doctor, nurse" as he ran

Luo Jiayan also got out of the car with Lai Pi holding the man, she also unbuckled her seat belt and ran inside, and Xu Lang followed into the hospital after parking the car.

When Xu Lang entered the hospital, he saw Lai Pi put the man on the hospital bed with the help of several nurses, and was pushed inside by several nurses.

Rao was lying on the hospital bed, the man's hands were still waving in the air, and his mouth was shouting "Someone wants to kill me, someone wants to kill me"

It's a pity that his voice is getting lower and lower, except for Xu Lang, who has listened to them many times, the nurses have not heard what the man is talking about.

Soon, the group came to the door of the operating room, they carried the man to the hospital bed, and then stopped Xu Lang and them at the door, one of the nurses said to Xu Lang, "Please wait outside and pay the hospitalization fee." ”

After saying this, with a snap, the door of the operating room was closed by the nurse from the inside, and the operating light was lit up.

After Xu Lang took a deep look at the operating room, he took out his wallet from his pocket and handed it to Lai Pi, asking him to go through the hospitalization procedures.