The younger police officer on the side probably hadn't seen such a scene before, and he couldn't help but run out of the ruins wall with his mouth and nose covered, holding on to the wall and retching uncontrollably.

"It was raining heavily when I called the police." I explained.

"That's right."

"That's what happened, just when I called you to call the police, it is possible that Pei Di killed them." I try to remember the thunder and gunfire of that time.

"Pedi? Who is it? ”

Xu Yong nodded his head as he listened, calmly and calmly, while the expressions of the officers on the side were cloudy and sunny, and I could see that the two of them had different views on what I had recounted, and the officer was obviously skeptical.

"Does it mean Pei Di is the one you rescued back to the village from the rainforest? However, the result was the opposite of what had happened before. The officer stared at the three bodies lying nearby. His face clearly read, "How can we trust you?" ”

"Director Zhai, let's take a step to speak." Xu Yong glanced at me and nodded at me. That look showed that he might believe me, but it wasn't easy to get others to believe in me.

A few strange armed police soldiers stood in the alley outside the ruins, chatting about the tragic situation inside, and the rest of the policemen gathered together and lit cigarettes, as if they didn't want to look into the ruins again. Xu Yong and Director Zhai were chatting about what happened just now at the entrance of the alley on the other side, and it is estimated that they will not be able to talk about the strange thing for a while, after all, even I, the party, can't figure it out.

On the other side, the police were asking about the situation from house to house in order to collect evidence, and after a while, the iron gate opposite the ruins creaked open, and the old farmer slowly poked his head out and looked at a group of policemen and armed police, "It's going to be a mess again in the middle of the night?" ”

"Hello, I'm Zhai Yuanbin from the town police station, there was an accident in the village just now, and we took the police to investigate." Before everyone could speak, Director Zhai stepped ahead of me to talk to the old farmer who opened the door.

"Police? You finally came, and you thought it was raining in the middle of the night and you would not be able to come until tomorrow. The old farmer was wearing a coat with sleepy eyes half-open, a little worried, and he looked like he had just crawled out of the bed.

"Yes, we came to the police to ask what happened." Zhai Yuanbin placed his body between me and the old farmer, and his eyes did not leave him for a moment, as if he wanted to confirm something.

The old farmer rubbed his eyes, glanced at the surrounding police and armed police, and turned his head, "Just now, the three robbers were holding guns and leading dogs as if they were looking for someone, but they were subdued by this young man in three strokes and two blows, and now they should still be tied up in the ruins opposite, right, there was a backpack with him just now." "The old farmer doesn't seem to know what just happened.

"Do you remember what the backpacker looked like?" Zhai Yuanbin asked.

"Hmm... He was not tall, about forty years old, dark and thin, but he looked quite strong, as if his legs and feet were injured. The old farmer struggled to recall, while gesturing with his hand Pei Di's height, about one meter seventy-five.

Zhai Yuanbin glanced back at me, and then made eye contact with Xu Yong, meaning that it didn't seem to be much different from what I just said. "You guys go over there and ask other fellows to make sure what the situation was before, and pay attention to politeness in the middle of the night."

Hearing this, several policemen arranged a few words with each other, and then dispersed in different directions in the village lane.

"It's wicked." Zhai Yuanbin also seemed puzzled, "It's better to ask the forensic colleagues in the bureau to come to the scene and confirm the identity of the body." ”

Xu Yong leaned over to me, patted my shoulder with one hand, wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "You kid always encounters evil things, so you can't ask for instructions before taking action in everything?" When you come back, you can't go back to the camp to see me, the old company commander, and then take a few people to accompany you, okay? ”

I heard that although there was dissatisfaction and admonition in Xu Yong's tone, he actually wanted to show Zhai Yuanbin, after all, I was still the first suspect at this time.

"It seems that the hidden situation still needs to be thoroughly investigated, and it is the first time I have encountered such a big difference between the report description of the case and the scene, and the specific details can only be confirmed when colleagues from the technical department of the municipal bureau and the criminal investigation team come. Xiaozhuang, please cooperate these days, and temporarily grieve in the town for a few days. ”

I understood what he meant, and it seemed that my freedom would be restricted in the next few days, pending the preliminary investigation results.

Seeing that my face was embarrassed, Xu Yong patted me on the shoulder again, "Since I'm back, I'll stay for a few days, I already have something to talk to you about, I haven't been able to find a chance for so long, and the last time I saw you, I was still in the hospital." Besides, if I don't get you drunk, I will let you go back, and the soldiers below will not be convinced in the future, that's all! Stay a few days before leaving! ”

I have never said a word when the company commander spoke, in the past, his words were orders, no matter the playground battlefield, or eating and drinking. shouted to rush forward, no one retreated, shouted and toasted, and no one had a drop of wine left.

"Okay!" I replied with a sharp line at the corner of my mouth.

I could see the unspeakable trust in his eyes, and he knew me best.

After a while, Zhai Yuanbin and his police officers obtained preliminary information about the case and made a preliminary judgment, "You go back to the town first, and leave it to us first, and then continue to investigate and collect evidence when someone from the bureau comes in the morning." ”

"Okay, Zhuang Yan will also go back to the town together, it's useless for him to stay here." Xu Yong raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

Zhai Yuanbin paused for a moment and told me, "Don't leave the town for the next few days." ”

"Okay."

When I woke up to the town at noon, there were two policemen sitting in the room of the hotel in the town where I was staying, one of whom was the young police officer who had been with Zhai Yuanbin last night.

"Director Zhai is still at the scene, colleagues from the city bureau rushed to the institute early in the morning, and now two people are waiting for you in the institute, and the rest are also at the scene of the crime." The young officer landed with a sound, but there were dark bags under his eyes, and he could see that he had not slept all night.

"Then I'll wash up and go over, and the two of you go back to rest first?" I sat on the edge of the bed and handed him a cigarette.

"We'll be waiting for you downstairs." The young officer left the room with a cigarette and no intention of going back to rest for a while.

My suspicion is still the heaviest.

The police station in the small town has become much more noisy than yesterday, with an endless stream of police officers coming in and out, and more than twice as many people as usual. The police officers were all in a hurry, with serious faces, as if they had taken on a major case and mobilized all the police forces. Some people walked into the office with thick files, and some people rushed out of it with car keys and got into the police car, everyone seemed to be racing against time.

The first impression is that something big is wrong.

"Because of last night's case?" I was a little puzzled, and turned to the tired young policeman and asked.

"I don't know the specifics, but a group of people from the city bureau came earlier, and after a few hours of preliminary investigation, a group of people from the provincial department came, and it is estimated that it is the third group from the time I went to the hotel to find you just now." The young policeman wrinkled his eyebrows, his expression was serious, and his face clearly said that this case had exceeded the authority of their police station.

"That group didn't leave in the morning?" I asked and followed into the courtyard of the police station, the yard is not big, there are five cars staggered in the field where only three cars can be parked, not counting the two police buses outside the courtyard of the police station.

"You're on the scene with the director, go in, someone is waiting for you." When I entered the police station building, the young officer led me to a quiet interrogation room, and strangers who didn't recognize me threw strange looks at me.

Pushing the door open into the room, two old police officers, nearly fifty years old, sat on one side of the long table, the other side of the seat was empty, obviously reserved for me, and the curtains were not as tightly covered as the interrogation of prisoners. The room was brightly lit, and there was no sense of oppression, except that the expressions of the two officers looked more solemn than those of the policemen shuttling outside the room.

Before he could say hello, the police officer with a thin face and two bars and one star on his shoulders suddenly stood up with an angry face, and asked directly, "You are Zhuang Yan?" The young man who reported the case yesterday? ”

For a second, I just nodded slightly.

Seeing me nodding in acknowledgement, before I could react, the thin-faced officer immediately lost control of his anger, got up and rushed over and grabbed me by the collar directly, "It's you kid!" ”

With a punch, I could dodge and even throw him to the ground on the spot, but I chose to take a hard punch, and the left side of my face immediately hurt.

"Lao Li, don't do it! Ask first. The officer sitting next to him with a slightly kind face hurriedly came over to stop him, and although he didn't move, his eyes were also vicious when he looked at me.

I was at a loss for what to do, and I kept thinking about what had happened. Seeing that I didn't fight back, his eyes looked dazed, and the police officer surnamed Li took two steps back with his anger and sat back in his place.

"I'm sorry! Zhuang Yan, Lao Li Gang didn't hold back for a while when he was angry, my surname is Yang, you sit down now. The police officer surnamed Yang collected his face and tried to be as polite as possible.

Even though the atmosphere has been suppressed, I can still feel the smell of gunpowder in this small room, which could be ignited again at any time, what the hell is going on? I sat down blankly.

"Zhuang Yan, you may not know what you have done." Officer Yang's tone was calm, but his face was unusually serious.

"What did I do?" I was surprised.

"Let's start with why you went to that barren mountain and forest alone, as far as I know, it's not a scenic spot, and there are not many good people if it weren't for the local villagers, but we know that you are a good man, and a good soldier." Officer Yang pushed the paper cup to my desk, and the cup of tea was cloudy but lingered for a long time.

I couldn't help but think for a while, they seemed to have some information about me, and the past that I didn't want to mention was like a needle stabbing me in the chest, and I didn't want to open my mouth like a fish in my throat and want to hide it like this.

"Yesterday evening in the woods—" I deliberately pinched off the first half.

"Not from here, from why you went to that rainforest." Officer Li had picked up his pen to record something, but he slapped it back on the wooden table, his tone a little impatient again.

"Lao Li, don't worry, let Xiao Zhuang reorganize his thoughts, what we want to know is the previous thing, why do you want to go back to that rainforest?" Officer Yang was not so impatient, but his brows were already furrowed.