Case XVII: Once upon a time 3
"Xiaotian, there is a discovery." Xu Ang handed a mobile phone to Jiang Tian, "I asked my colleagues in the hall to help carefully check the satellite images near Yingshan Village to see if there is the mysterious town that Xiao Zhang said, but it turned out that traces of suspected buildings were really found in the deep mountains eleven miles away from here, you see." ”
Jiang Tian zoomed in on the satellite image in Xu Ang's mobile phone, and really saw the house vaguely, but maybe because of the age, the house was covered with moss or trees blocked it, and he could only vaguely see some outlines, and it was really difficult to find if he didn't observe carefully.
"I think that regardless of whether the legend of the year is true or not, and whether it has something to do with the current 'angel' potion, we should probably go and find out about the hairy monster." Xu Ang looked at Jiang Tian and said.
Jiang Tian hesitated for a moment and nodded solemnly.
"Although I don't know what you are talking about angels or something, but in this deep mountain and dense forest, you are not familiar with life, and there may be danger, so don't take this risk. Otherwise, I'll go with you. Xiao Zhang's face was worried.
"It's okay, don't worry, I've been in the army before, this kind of jungle is not a problem, and you can kill a bear with your bare hands! Ha ha! Xu Ang half-jokingly.
"Yes, Brother Zhang, don't worry, Brother Xu and I will go back quickly, you can stay here."
"Xiao Zhang, in this way, you can hold this satellite phone and keep in touch at any time." Xu Ang took out a phone from his bag and handed it to Xiao Zhang.
"That'...... Well, you must be careful, although I have never seen any wild beasts in this mountain since I was a child, but after all, you must be very careful, and if you encounter danger, contact me immediately. ”
"Okay."
……
A bird flies by, dropping a drop of bird droppings to cover up a cloud of dust. So the dust was hidden under the filth, and although it was not visible, it never disappeared.
Do you say this is a concealment of sin, or are you replacing it with a greater sin?
"Xiaotian, what are you worried about?" Xu Ang looked at Jiang Tian, who had been frowning all the way, and asked.
"I'm wondering, if the legend is true, if those armies and hairy monsters are true, then it means that the 'Angel' project has been launched more than sixty years ago or even earlier, and the 'Angel' potion has been successfully developed? If it succeeds, what is He Qiang, who has painstakingly developed for many years? What is Pang Zhenjun doing now? What was the state of the 'Angel' project during the period between more than 60 years ago and He Qiang began to study? Jiang Tian stopped and covered his head, "I can't figure it out more and more now." ”
"Then don't think about it for the time being, as long as we give us enough time, all the mysteries will be solved, you think, the once so hidden 'angel' plan has been dug up by us little by little, I believe in you, Xiaotian."
Jiang Tian didn't answer, his eyes looked straight ahead.
The surface of the simple cement houses is covered with moss, which has been rubbed into the mountains by time as much as possible, but it is unwilling to highlight the vague outlines again and again, telling the world that they once existed alive.
Crippled walls, rusted iron windows, and broken doors, time has used these evidences again and again to advise them that they have been forgotten in the past, to forget who they are, and they are always waiting for someone to bring them back from the past to the present and embrace the future.
More than 60 years of waiting day after day finally came to an end at this moment, as if it was destined in the dark, and it could not be forgotten.
"It looks like it's burned." Jiang Tian walked into a cement room, looked at the faintly blackened wall with a flashlight, and said, "It seems that after the army withdrew from here, everything was burned." ”
"Xiaotian, come on, there is a discovery." Xu Ang shouted loudly outside the house.
Jiang Tian hurriedly ran out of the door and saw Xu Ang not far away standing in front of a bulging earthen bag, shining a flashlight.
A grave.
Jiang Tian came to Xu Ang's side, and just wanted to ask Xu Ang what he had discovered, but his eyes fell to the grave, but he was completely stunned.
This is a very old tomb, judging from the time when the monument was erected, it was almost 60 years old.
There were two things that surprised Jiang Tian.
One is the "Tomb of Platoon Leader Xu Jingshan" engraved on the tombstone, and the other is that there is a photo of a woman on the ground in front of the tombstone.
Xu Jingshan is Jiang Tian's grandfather, that is, Jiang Tian's mother's grandfather.
And the woman in the photo is Jiang Tian's mother, Xu Wenxin!
"How so, how so?" Jiang Tian sat on the ground, "Why is Grandpa's tomb here?" Didn't he die in the line of duty and be buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in H City, how could he be in Province G? And, Mom, Mommy......"
Xu Ang had heard Shen Sen say that Jiang Tian's mother disappeared when he was a child, and in the past ten years, Jiang Tian had never talked to anyone about his mother, and he always thought that his mother had abandoned him and run away from this family. And Jiang Tian's grandfather, according to Director Jiang, Xu Jingshan was posthumously named a martyr and buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in H City because he sacrificed his life in the line of duty.
Now, not only Xu Jingshan's tomb appeared in the experimental base of that year, but also Xu Wenxin's photo appeared here!
One mystery after another, making it completely confusing.
"The photos are very new." Jiang Tian slowly picked up Xu Wenxin's photo, "The tombstone has also been wiped down, it seems that someone has been to this place recently, could it be you, my ...... Mother? ”
At this time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Xu Ang and Jiang Tian were in front of Xu Jingshan's tomb in a daze, one standing and the other sitting.
Xu Ang's phone rang.
"Xiaotian, it's not good, something happened." As soon as he heard this, Xu Ang hurriedly grabbed Jiang Tian's shoulders and lifted him up.
"What, what's wrong?" Jiang Tian was a little dazed.
"Zhang Yuanfu was killed."
……
How many degrees can a person's head be rotated? For ordinary people, it can rotate more than 180 degrees left and right.
But what about this ninety-year-old? Well, I've seen the Axe Gang boss who was killed by the Huoyun Evil God in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu", and that's pretty much it.
And then what?
Zhang Yuanfu's hands were separated from his body by two or three meters, and he was hung on the beams of the house in unison.
What was it that held his hands?
A belt.
A belt from sixty years ago.
Sixty years of being hidden in an iron cabinet under the bed.
The mountain road was rugged, so the police arrived at the scene at around 5 a.m., and around the same time, Jiang Tian and Xu Ang also returned to Yingshan Village.
The deceased Zhang Yuanfu had deep fingerprints on his head and arms, and the forensic doctor made a few strokes of his own hand, with an incredible expression on his face.
"Hell, how is that possible?"
"What's wrong?" Xu Ang hurriedly asked.
"The head and hands of the deceased were not made like this by some tool, and looking at these purple and blue fingerprints, it seems that some person with great strength rotated his head three and a half times alive, and ripped off his two arms with his bare hands."
"Yes, is it possible?" Xu Ang said incredulously.
The medical examiner shook his head, saying he didn't know.
"Who the hell is it? Why do you do this to grandpa? Xiao Zhang glanced at Zhang Yuanfu's corpse with red eyes, turned his face away, and said sadly.
Jiang Tian looked at the green military uniform stained red with blood on Zhang Yuanfu's body and asked, "Who changed this dress to Zhang Yuanfu?" ”
"This, I don't know, I remember the last time I saw my grandfather, he was wearing a black coat!"
Xu Ang called Xiao Zhang's father, Zhang Guoqing, and asked him about the green military uniform on Zhang Yuanfu.
"Yes, this dress was something that Dad asked me to take out from under the bed and help him change it." Zhang Guoqing recalled, "It was probably about ten o'clock last night, and after my father's birthday banquet was over, I helped him back to his room to rest." I was about to leave when my father stopped me and told me to take out an iron cabinet under the bed. I opened the cabinet, and inside was a dusty green uniform. Dad asked me to put it on for him, and I said that the clothes were so dirty that he couldn't wear them, and we were so cold in the mountains, I was afraid that he would catch a cold. But Dad didn't listen, and slapped me, I couldn't resist him, so I could only shake off my clothes a few times, and then help him change them, and then Dad let me go first, and he wanted to stay alone for a while. ”
Zhang Guoqing said that tears fell, and slapped himself hard, "I regret it, if I didn't leave at that time, my father wouldn't have ......"
"It's not your fault, don't blame yourself." Xu Ang pressed Zhang Guoqing's shoulder and said.
Zhang Yuanfu has two small red books on his chest.
Jiang Tian picked up the little red book and flipped through it a few times, and the first page of them was a half-portrait of the founding leader.