Chapter 20: The Light That Kills
"Team Li, why are you here today?" Wang Shen smiled and shook hands with the traffic police captain.
"Hey!" Team Li sighed, frowned at the dead on the ground, looked at the truck not far away, and then looked around at the intersection. "Brother, you really don't know, this place has the highest traffic accident rate in the city. Every once in a while, there will be some big and small accidents, and even I feel evil. ”
"Are there frequent traffic accidents at this intersection?" Wang Shen didn't come to this road often, but after hearing what Team Li said, Wang Shen also turned around and looked around at this intersection and carefully observed the surrounding terrain. It didn't take long for Wang Shen to know the reasons for the high incidence of traffic accidents here. "Team Li, it should be because this road was not designed with a good perspective in mind."
"Who's to say it isn't. The elder brother is worthy of being a legend of the police force, and he can see through it at a glance. This intersection, when it was first built, the arc of the turn was too sharp, and there were dense buildings on both sides, which hindered the perspective of pedestrians on both sides, and the speed of the car was fast, which was very easy to cause accidents. ”
"When you find this problem, don't you think of a way to improve it?"
"I did think of something, look over there." Team Lee stepped out of the crowd and pointed to the large convex mirror standing at the intersection. This mirror, also known as a wide-angle lens, is designed to increase the driver's angle of view so that they can observe pedestrians and cars on the opposite side when turning.
"With this wide-angle lens, can't you improve the high incidence of traffic accidents?" Wang Shen looked at the wide-angle mirror, and the sun's light shone on the mirror, making the mirror glow with a faint silver light.
"This mirror has been installed for a while, and the effect is still obvious. Although there are still occasional minor accidents, the accident rate and severity have decreased significantly compared to the previous ones. Unexpectedly, there was another death today. Team Li sighed again, glanced at the man squatting on the ground, and then at the big words "Infinitus Transportation Company" on the truck next to him, and frowned heavily.
"By the way, Team Li, can I go and see the person who was hit?" Wang Shen asked, pointing to the dead man lying on the ground.
"Team Wang, are you still in charge of this now?" Team Li glanced at Wang Shen in surprise. "Yes, but the doctor just concluded that the person is no longer good." After speaking, Team Li took Wang Shen to the deceased's side. The staff next to him brought a white cloth and wanted to cover the deceased's body. Wang Shen waved his hand at the staff and squatted down beside the deceased.
Wang Shen noticed his feet and moved half a step to the side before he stepped into the pool of blood all over the ground. The deceased, a woman, was reportedly hit head-on by a cargo truck, suffering massive bleeding from broken internal organs and severe contusion to the outer skin tissue. The front of the truck is still stained with the woman's blood. The woman wears a long slip dress, and she should look a little graceful when she is alive. But none of this is what Wang Shen wants to investigate. Wang Shen came in to inspect the body of the deceased because he was on the periphery just now, Wang Shen glanced at the deceased and felt that the deceased looked like a person. Wang Shen moved his steps and asked the doctor to bring a pair of medical gloves to put on his hands. The woman's face was covered in blood, and her hair was scattered on her cheeks. Wang Shen took a closer look, and what he expected was right, the deceased turned out to be the escort girl "Sang" beside Zheng Wu!
Wang Shen stared at the deceased's face for a while, and his expression gradually became solemn. For a criminal police officer who has handled a lot of major cases, the first reaction when encountering death is "suspicion". Suspect what? Suspect all the possibility of killing, and then rule it out, and finally get an accurate result. Wang Shen took his eyes off Sang's face and fell on the driver who caused the accident.
Wang Shen stood up from Sang's side, slowly walked to the side of the driver who caused the accident, squatted down, and patted the driver on the shoulder. The driver who caused the accident held his shoulders with both hands, his body trembled, and he raised his eyes to look at Wang Shen, and the bloodshots in his eyes were intertwined.
"Don't be nervous. Do you smoke? Wang Shen comforted, took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed it to the driver, and lit it for him.
The driver shuddered and brought the cigarette in his hand to his mouth, then took a few sharp puffs, and suddenly coughed violently. The driver had a cigarette between his fingers, his hands were tearing his hair, tears were rolling in his eyes, and he showed an expression of even more pain than before. "Officer, how many years will I be sentenced? Officer, I can't go to jail, my whole family is pointing at me for dinner. Officer, I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean to, please, spare me. Suddenly, the driver grabbed Wang Shen's cuffs and begged while crying.
"I can't promise you anything yet. All verdicts depend on the results of the investigation on the ground. But ......" Wang Shen looked at the haggard face of the driver in front of him and paused. "How long has it been since you slept?"
The driver looked at Wang Shen, let go of his hand, stopped coughing and pleading, and took a few more puffs of cigarette. "I've been shipping goods for the past two days, so I haven't rested much." The driver was honest and explained his situation in the past two days. Team Li was also listening, holding a notebook and making basic records.
"You're driving tired." Wang Shen was a little helpless and reminded softly.
"I can't help it." A big man just cried on the side of the road. The driver cried for a while, then wiped a handful of tears and continued: "My child is seriously ill, my wife ran away with someone again, I don't work hard to make money, and the child's life can't be saved." You city dwellers with decent jobs, how will you know the hardships of our migrant workers? ”
After listening to the driver's description, Wang Shen and Team Li glanced at each other and were silent for a few seconds. "Did you know that woman?" Wang Shen pointed to Sang not far away and asked.
"I don't know, how can I know." The driver shook his head desperately.
"You calm down first. I would also like to know more about the circumstances of the accident and would like you to tell us the truth. Wang Shen gently patted the driver's shoulder again to soothe his emotions.
The driver nodded.
"Are you familiar with the conditions on this road?" Wang Shen began to ask questions.
"It's familiar. Because the transportation routes assigned to me by the company have not changed this year. I pass by here almost every day to deliver goods. ”
"In other words, you're in charge of transporting this area, and you're very familiar with the road conditions in this area?"
The driver nodded again.
"Then do you know that this intersection is a place with a high incidence of accidents?"
"Yes. So I was very careful when I was driving. Officer, you have to trust me. I wouldn't have committed such a low-level traffic accident just because I didn't get a good rest. The driver began to defend himself again.
"Haven't you been in a traffic accident before? Oh, I'm just referring to this intersection. Wang Shen was very eager to hear the driver's answer to this question.
"No, not once." The driver shook his head violently.
"Okay, then please tell me, if the reason for this accident is not due to fatigue driving, what is the reason?"
The driver fell into a brief silence. Suddenly, the driver raised his head and looked at Wang Shen. "It's light! That's right, it's the light! The driver was a little excited, grabbed Wang Shen's cuffs again, and stared at Wang Shen with a pair of bloodshot eyes.
"Light?" Wang Shen glanced at Team Li, Team Li shrugged his shoulders, and both of them were a little incomprehensible to the driver's words. The traffic police standing around heard the driver defend himself like this, and they all whispered. In fact, they all laughed at the driver behind his back, making up such a clumsy reason.
"Can you tell us a little bit more about what kind of light it is?" Regarding the driver's answer, Wang Shen still maintained an understanding attitude. And Wang Shen did want to know how the driver would explain that the light caused the traffic accident.
"I'm very careful every time I drive to this intersection. But when I first drove to this intersection today, a bright light came through. I was nervous, and I didn't know if I stepped on the accelerator. By the time I got back to it, I saw a man lying in front of the car. I don't really know how it all happened. ”
A glare of light? If the driver wasn't lying, where did this glare come from? Wang Shen stood up and looked around the intersection, his gaze lingering on the wide-angle mirror not far away for a few seconds.
"It's a sunny day today, the sun is big, could it be because of the sun?" Team Li stood behind Wang Shen, looked at the big sun overhead, and said this casually.
"No way, it's the first time I've been on this road for so long, and I've encountered such a situation." The driver immediately rejected Team Li's opinion and told his own experience.
Wang Shen turned his head to look at the driver, and then at Sang lying on the ground, and the doubts in his heart became heavier and heavier. But this suspicion is very disturbing, because Wang Shen is not even sure whether there is even the slightest relationship between the traffic accident, the bright light, the driver and the dead Sang.
"Team Li, there's something I need to discuss with you." Wang Shen leaned his head close to Team Li's ears and lowered the volume a little. I saw Team Li nodding his head constantly. "That's troublesome Team Li, I'll go back to the police station first." Wang Shen said hello and left the scene of the accident.
Soon, Wang Shen's car drove into the door of the temporary detention center. Wang Shen got out of the car, and two policemen took Wang Shen all the way into an interrogation room. Wang Shen sat in the interrogation room for a while, the teacup in front of him steaming with a hint of heat. Soon the door to the interrogation room was opened. Zheng Wu was escorted into the interrogation room by two policemen.
"How are you! What else are you doing! Zheng Wuyi saw Wang Shen, he was a little excited, and he turned around and wanted to walk towards the door. Zheng Wu's move was immediately stopped by the two prison guards around him. The prison guards escorted Zheng Wu and forcibly pressed him to a chair.
"I'm here today because I want to ask you something. If ......" Wang Shen paused and thought about what he was going to say next. "If the clues you provided today are really helpful, then I can intercede with the judge for you."
When Zheng Wu heard Wang Shen say this, his anxious state finally calmed down.