Chapter 16: The Old Empty Building

Bai Jingyu: You went this time, all of you were equipped with weapons, and when you came back, you submitted a report on gun control.

Su Mei: Boss, I've never fired a gun, what should I do if I lose it? Just let the barbarian bring a gun.

Drawing Dragon: Don't let Xiaomei carry a gun, this thing is not a joke, she will hurt herself, maybe even hurt me by mistake.

Prof. Leung: It's been a long time since I've fired a gun, but I've won a place in a sniper competition before.

Bao Chop: Is the place we're going to dangerous?

Bai Jingyu: There is a serious shortage of local police force, and it is hard to imagine that there are only six police officers in a county-level city.

The dragon said: Damn, can we not go?

Bai Jingyu said: This is also the reason why I sent a special case team, they need help.

The gut-digging took place in an old building, located in the center of the city, but surrounded by ruins.

There is a city where crows nest at traffic lights, cobwebs between the gears of factories, fungus on classroom desks, and poisonous mushrooms on faucets. What would it be like to walk through the barren grass of the shopping street, pull away the lala seedlings hanging down from the power lines, and walk into the abandoned post office? How many memories and sighs can an empty city hold! Lots of streets, dusk that no one knows, here are the first and last memories of more than 100,000 people.

The city, called Yumen, is a remote county-level city in the Qilian Mountains, born out of oil, and at its peak, the population of the city reached 130,000. More than half a century has passed, oil resources have been exhausted, the city government and oilfield bases have moved away one after another, residents have abandoned the city and moved out, and the city is full of abandoned buildings and aging facilities, and the city has become almost empty.

The special case team first took a plane to the provincial capital, and then took a bus to a neighboring city, where the police dispatched an off-road vehicle and sent a driver to escort it. The driver is a man with five big and three rough, and when he talks about the rain gate, he can't help but burst into tears.

He said that he was a native of Yumen, grew up in the city, and later moved out.

Now, the home where he has lived for more than ten years, the dust on the ground can sink deep into footprints, the park is overgrown with weeds, the abandoned bus station is full of rats, and the most memorable thing for every Yumen person is the big clock in front of the park, and the time has stopped forever at 3:25. The driver said that every time he went home, his heart was very sour, and when he went back to visit the grave in the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he only saw two people on the street.

The driver said, "You can't imagine what it's like."

Professor Liang said: We have turned the desert into our own city, and we have turned our city into a desert.

The driver said a sad word: the old one is demolished, where is the new one?

The mountain road went down the slope, the car was undulating and bumpy, and the people in the car were silent.

The aspens by the roadside were so tall and thin that it seemed that a gust of wind could break them, and the trunks were covered with white ash, and the ropes of grass were wet, and perhaps every tree had a parting person hugging and crying.

The off-road vehicle drove into the old city of Yumen, the only traffic light booth on Jiefang Road, which has been out of use for a long time due to the sharp decrease in the flow of people.

In a city, there is only one traffic light.

Six policemen from the Yumen City Public Security Bureau lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team, and they saluted the special case team together. After getting out of the car, the four members of the special case team noticed that the public security bureau building was dilapidated, it was still the old building of the 20th century, with electric wires crisscrossing it, and the foot of the wall of the public security bureau compound was overgrown with wild grass, and there were a few yellow sheep grazing grass with their heads down.

Su Mei said: Wow, the Public Security Bureau also lets herd sheep?

An instructor from the Yumen Public Security Bureau said: This is not a sheep herded by outsiders, a sideline, sheep raising is our sideline, kill one at night, please eat pot helmets and hand-grabbed mutton.

The instructor gave a brief introduction to the case and the local situation.

At present, Yumen City is an empty city, most of the units are empty, and the public security organs only have six policemen left. Some of the residents live in low-rent houses in the resettlement areas of Beiping and Santai, and most of them are the elderly, the disabled, low-income households, and laid-off workers who cannot afford to move out, and they receive low monthly premiums ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan. There are also some residents who live in the old city, and they are also living in extreme poverty, and they are afraid of the housing prices in the neighboring cities, and they do not know where to go. There are just over 20,000 people left in the city, and they are decreasing every day. It won't be long before Yumen City will become a dead city with no one and disappear from the face of the earth.

The victim's name is Chen Luomo, 19 years old, working in the old town of Yumen, her parents are far away, and she lives with her grandparents. The scene of the crime is an old building, and most of the residents in the building have been relocated, leaving only two families. Chen Luomo and her grandparents live on the fifth floor, and on the fourth floor, there is a restaurant on the house, but other than that, the whole building is empty. Because the public toilet was downstairs, Chen Luomo got up in the middle of the night to relieve his hands, and was attacked at the landing of the corridor between the fourth and fifth floors.

Chen Luomo thought that others mistook her for a ghost, so she said, "Uncle, I am a human, not a ghost."

This demon knocked Chen Luomo into a coma, and his modus operandi was outrageous, Chen Luomo's lower body was torn apart by the perverted demon, and his small intestine was pulled out of the backyard......

At that time, the proprietress of the restaurant, who lived on the fourth floor, heard the movement and went out to check, and the murderer fled. The proprietress thought that Chen Luomo was hanging on the rope, so she touched it with her hand, and it felt slippery and greasy, and after her husband came out with a flashlight, she was horrified to find that it was a piece of intestines!

There was no light in the corridor, and in the dark, Chen Luomo couldn't see the murderer's face clearly, coupled with excessive fright and serious injuries, when the police made a record of the interrogation, she couldn't even tell the physical characteristics of the murderer, and only remembered that the murderer was a middle-aged man.

The gates of the local hospital are sealed with bricks, and there are no more doctors. Chen Luomo was taken to the emergency room of the health center by the boss and his wife, and the next day he was taken to the oilfield hospital with better medical conditions.

After the case, a newspaper reported on Chen Luomo's misfortune in a timely manner, which attracted the attention of the society, and many enthusiastic people donated money and materials. Several experts and professors from the provincial hospital consulted and performed a successful connection operation on Chen Luomo's 10-centimeter small intestine, which had been ruptured. At present, the girl is not life-threatening, but further observation and treatment are still needed.

Professor Liang asked: "You didn't write a report on the case, did the murderer directly pull out the intestines with his hands, or did he use something else?"

Su Mei said: If you use your hand to reach in and dig it out, it will be terrible.

The instructor said: The girl's condition is unstable, and she has just had surgery, so let's take a slow.

Bao asked: What about the restaurant owner and his wife who live on the fourth floor?

The instructor said: When they came out, the murderer had already run away, they didn't see it, and they couldn't provide many clues.

Professor Liang said: It is necessary to send someone to the oilfield hospital to provide psychological counseling to the victim first, and then make a detailed record.

The instructor said: The problem is that she doesn't want to recall this incident now, according to the wound, there are traces of sharp piercing, according to my speculation, it may be hooked with a scale hook first...... Then use your hands to pull out the intestines.

The instructor accompanied the special task force back to the crime scene

, the area where the crime occurred usually does not have many cases, and the law and order is good. After the incident, six police officers focused on searching for people who had attacked women or robbed at night, and nearly 500 people were screened in the surrounding crowd, and the suspect has not yet been identified. The motive for the crime is unknown, and the victim, Chen Luomo, was not raped or robbed. During the visit, some people reported that they had seen a person wearing green labor protection clothing walking into the building on the night of the crime.

Bao Shu asked: What time?

The instructor said: Evening.

Hualong said: The time of the crime was midnight, could it be that the person would stay in the corridor and wait?

The scene of the crime is an old five-story residential building, the corridor is stacked with debris, dark and damp, and the windows face north, so that no sunlight shines in. There are no lights at night, so you can only fumble up and down the stairs, and if you pass by a stranger, you will definitely panic. Walking in the gloomy corridor, if there is a person behind you, there will be an inexplicable fear in your heart.

There are still blood stains in the place where Chen Luomo was attacked, and you can imagine the horrific scene at that time.

From dusk until late at night, a person stood in the hallway, standing all the time. The cockscomb flowers at the base of the wall are in bright bloom, and the empty pickle jar in the corridor seems to have an old metaphor. He kept his heart tight, he didn't want to rob or rape, he only held a scale in his hand, the hook of the scale hung low, and a full moon hung outside the window. He stood motionless in the hallway, just trying to pull a man's intestines out of his asshole.

The special case team questioned the residents on the fourth floor again, and the restaurant owner and his wife did not change their statement, they did not see what the murderer looked like, but only vaguely heard the footsteps of the murderer coming downstairs.

Professor Leung asked: Are the footsteps hurrying?

Restaurateur: I really didn't pay attention at the time, it was important to save people.

Hostess: I remember, the footsteps are very normal, and the man walks unhurriedly.

Su Mei said: This person's psychological quality is strong enough.

Boss: What do you want to ask, hurry up and ask, we really can't live here, we will move tomorrow.

Chen Luomo and her grandparents live on the fifth floor, the family is poor, the tables and chairs are old, some old newspapers and wall calendars are pasted on the peeling walls, and the old photos in the frames have been yellowed. Chen Luomo's grandfather was a retired oil worker named Zhang Hongqi. My grandmother was a little deaf, and when the police asked her about anything, she waved her hand and pointed to her ear, meaning that she couldn't hear. Zhang Hongqi was incredulous about this case, and when questioned by the special case team, he insisted that this was a case that only happens in capitalist countries, and that there could be no such thing in China.

Grandpa and grandmother were indifferent to Chen Luomo's murder, just like talking about outsiders, and the old man Zhang Hongqi babbled about his granddaughter: I don't let her come to work, she is biased, and something is wrong now. What a sin, what a deserved. She didn't get dirty, so she didn't go inside the house and went out in the middle of the night......

The four members of the special case team looked at each other, and the instructor casually comforted each other, and everyone got up to say goodbye.

When going downstairs, Hualong carried Professor Liang on his back, Bao Chu walked in the front, and the others were behind, and when he went down to the fourth floor, Bao Chu suddenly stopped.

Su Mei said: Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?

Bao Chu said: Wait a while, I think something is wrong with this staircase.

Bao Shu turned around and went upstairs, he slowed down, step by step, his expression was a little weird, he pointed to the stairs with his finger while walking, he turned back twice, and said to everyone when he came back: That's right, I counted the stairs, the location of the crime, that is, the fourth floor, the fourth floor to the fifth floor is missing one staircase.