"Seeing the bewildered faces of the two of you, I should have guessed it. That's right, even if you don't believe it anymore, it's a fact, and if you don't even think about it, the rest is a fact. The escaped prisoners used this iron spoon to dig through the tunnels to freedom, and the traces on the inner walls of the tunnels matched the shape of the spoons, which also proved this from the front. ”

Zhang Bin couldn't help but exclaim: "How is it possible! How long does it take to dig with such a small spoon to open up a two-hundred-meter tunnel? Fifty years? A hundred years? How could it have taken only five years! ”

Sun Jianguo threw the spoon to him, spread his hands and said: "No way, I don't want to believe such a fact, but the fact is that the traces left on the soil on the inner wall of the tunnel coincide with the shape left by this iron spoon, and it is not one place, you go down to see it, the traces on the inner wall of the tunnel are arranged in the shape of fish scales, and when decomposed, it is the shape of a spoon." ”

Zhang Bin really didn't believe in evil and took the spoon, ran to the entrance of the cave and poked half of his body down, at this time I couldn't help it, and ran to the entrance of the cave, ready to wait for Zhang Bin to finish reading me to pick it up. Although I knew that Sun Jianguo would not fool us, I still didn't believe that a tunnel two hundred meters long was dug out little by little with an iron spoon.

Zhang Bin probed down for about half a minute, and when I raised my head, I saw him stunned, with a face full of disbelief, I saw his appearance, I couldn't help but scratch my heart, snatched the iron spoon from his hand, and poked half of my body into the hole.

The light below was dim, but I could still see a little, and I first looked at the marks on the inner wall of the tunnel, except for the foundation about 20 centimeters at the top, the rest of the part was made up of dirt. In order to look more closely, I almost leaned on top of it.

Even if I no longer believe that this is true, when I see the marks on the dirt, I have to admit the fact that this tunnel was really dug out with that badly worn iron spoon.

The inner wall of the tunnel about ten centimeters down from the cement foundation is more seriously worn, and it is not very clear to see, only some ravines and streaks can be seen vaguely, but further down, you can clearly see the traces of fish scales on the soil wall, and the shape of a deep concave.

I put the spoon in my hand on it and compared it, and the part that was worn off at the tip of the tip was completely matched, and I put away the spoon, and I felt it some distance down, and found that the marks on the inner wall were the same as the ones above.

Confirming this almost impossible news, I pulled my body out of the hole, looked up and saw Sun Jianguo and Zhang Bin's playful expressions, as if asking if this letter was replied?

I threw the spoon with a wry smile: "I really admire this person now, I really have perseverance, if I were me, I would have given up a long time ago." ”

"When I catch this guy, I'll have to ask him how he persevered."

Sun Jianguo put away his smile and said in a deep voice: "It's not that simple, he has less than a year left to get out, why do you choose to escape from prison?" Don't you two think that's abnormal? As the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, I feel that the original intention of this escaped prisoner is not so simple, there must be a hidden secret in it. ”

"Whatever, when someone catches him, the truth will be revealed."

Hearing Zhang Bin say this, Sun Jianguo shook his head: "It's not so easy to catch, since he can dig out a tunnel of two hundred meters with a spoon, then the situation after escaping must have been planned already before, such talents are the most difficult, they are more calm than us many times, typical don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles." ”

"Let's work first, you put these cement blocks together and see if they can be formed, even if you can't put them all together, you should still be able to get some information."

After another five minutes, just when we were waiting a little anxiously, Xiao Feng came over with a flashlight, still looking behind him.

Seeing that he was still walking over, Sun Jianguo couldn't help but say, "How did you get a flashlight to get it now?" Now that at least six hours have passed since the escaped prisoner, and every minute is precious, whose time are you wasting? ”

Xiao Feng immediately shook his head hurriedly and said, "No, no, captain, I'm here to get you something, I'm going to report the warden, Liang Xudong's escape can be said to be directly related to him." ”

Even if I guessed that Xiao Feng had something to say, I didn't guess that he wanted to say something like this, so I looked at him suspiciously: "En? How so? Is this difficult, what else is hidden? ”

Sun Jianguo also put on an expression as you said, Xiao Feng looked back again, as if he was afraid of someone eavesdropping, so Sun Jianguo asked Zhang Bin to go outside to watch to prevent someone from eavesdropping on the corner. After Zhang Bin went out, Xiao Feng immediately took out a small notebook from his clothes pocket and gave it to Sun Jianguo, and said: "Liang Xudong was a returnee before he was imprisoned, and he heard that he worked on Wall Street, anyway, he had a big background, and he was involved in a murder case five years ago, and then entered here. When the warden found out where he came from, he asked him to make a black account for himself.

At first, Liang Xudong was unwilling, but later the prison director asked the prison boss to beat him and lock him up, and finally said that if the accounts were done well, it would be easy to reduce the sentence. If he didn't, he would have to live this life for eleven years. ”

I subconsciously asked: "In the end, Liang Xudong agreed to help him make black accounts?" ”

Xiao Feng looked around vigilantly and said in a low voice, "Otherwise, what else can I do?" At that time I saw that his legs were limped, and when he came in, he was a very white man, and he would be like a beggar all day long. ”

"What happened next? Do you know why Liang Xudong broke from prison? ”

He glanced at Sun Jianguo again and whispered: "I only know an approximation, about four and a half years ago, Liang Xudong began to help the warden make black accounts, and the income from the outsourcing project was ostensibly used to subsidize the prison expenses, but in fact, most of it went into the pockets of the warden or several other management of the prison. ”

However, the prison warden did keep his promise and helped him reduce his sentence several times, and by this year, there was less than a year left, and at the beginning of this year, several prison executives drank together, and one of them said what if Liang Xudong was exposed after he went out? Suddenly the pot exploded, I was pouring wine on the side, listening to their discussions, and finally decided to kill Liang Xudong in prison, and resolutely could not let people out. ”

"After that, the warden and several other management planned several accidents, but they were all avoided by Liang Xudong, but after several times in a row, Liang Xudong also seemed to find out that the warden was going to kill him, so he became more and more careful, and one night when I went to check the room, I saw him immediately shrink into the corner of the wall as soon as I made a little noise, and stared at the door with both eyes."

Then when I got up early this morning to check on people, I found that there was no one in his cell, and after inspection, I found that there was a hole in the ground under his bed, and then I found that he had escaped from prison. So a big reason for his escape from prison was caused by the prison warden's gang, if it weren't for the things he did, Liang Xudong would definitely not have escaped from prison? ”

Sun Jianguo shook his head with a smile: "Do you think that if he doesn't do those things, Liang Xudong won't escape from prison?" You are underestimating him, Liang Xudong's perseverance is beyond your imagination, do you know how this tunnel was dug out? Do you know why you can't find a digging tool? ”

Xiao Feng looked at him and said in a lost voice: "I don't know, captain, could it be that you found it?" ”

"See this spoon in my hand? This is the tool that Liang Xudong used to dig through the two hundred meters of tunnel, look at your expression, you don't believe it, no way, but that's the case, I have to admit it, if you don't believe it, you can lie down at the entrance of the cave to see if the traces on the inner wall of the tunnel are fish scales. ”

Xiao Feng obviously had an expression of disbelief, but after reading it, he also had a shocked expression on his face, and Sun Jianguo asked again at this time: "Why don't you report it?" Instead came to tell us? ”

"If the report was useful, a few of them would have stopped eating a long time ago, but someone in the prison has reported anonymously many times, not only has it not worked, but several people who reported it have been dug up and told them to go home directly, so I have not dared to report it, but this time, I heard that they meant to return the responsibility to me and let me carry the pot, and suddenly I couldn't bear it, so I told you

……”

At this time, Zhang Bin suddenly walked in from the outside, looked at the situation in the room, and whispered in Sun Jianguo's ear: "The warden is behind him, and he will come over soon." ”

"Okay, I know, you look at Xiao Feng a little above, he is a very important witness, don't let him leave your sight, I will go down with Xiao Xu, remember, you can't let Xiao Feng have an accident."

There were a few faint sounds of walking outside the cell, and Sun Jianguo briefly ordered: "Okay, understand." ”

Then I stuffed the ledger given by Xiao Feng before into my socks, took the flashlight, turned around and jumped into the hole on the ground, I waited on it for a few seconds, and heard the word "safety" coming from below, so I jumped into the pit.

There is a black pressure below, the space is very small, the longitudinal road is only about two meters deep, and then there is the crossway, if it weren't for Sun Jianguo who had already drilled into the crossway at this time, I couldn't stand in the cave at this time. At this time, the voice of the prison warden came from above, thinking that Zhang Bin would take the old oil on it, there should be no major incident, so he simply ignored it.

Laboriously curled up and squatted, moving the body to change a few postures, before the body was stuffed into the crossway, the cross-section of the cross-section is small, only about half of the vertical road, in a semicircle, can just accommodate the body of a person, no more places, hands stretched forward, if placed on both sides, can not put down the body at all.

Sun Jianguo opened the road in front, I followed behind, the tunnel was a black pressure for me, although Sun Jianguo brought a flashlight in front, but because his situation was similar to mine, the whole person almost blocked the tunnel, and the light of the flashlight could not be transmitted to the back at all.

The two of us moved forward like maggots, put the hand on the ground with the outstretched hand, and then borrowed the arch force of the buttocks and waist, plus the climbing force of the toes, and used the three together, only to move forward less than ten centimeters, this is my current situation, thinking about the tunnel A total of two hundred meters away, I can't help but feel a little desperate, but think about Liang Xudong when he was playing this tunnel, he had to go back and forth every day, and he had to carry soil and dig holes, and suddenly felt more and more that this person's character was terrible.

I climbed forward for two hours, and I touched the four walls of the tunnel more than once, and the touch from my fingertips clearly told me that these were all dug out with an iron spoon. Not long after, I suddenly faintly smelled the stench coming from the front, and Sun Jianguo also said: "The front is the exit, I'm afraid the two of us will have to take a shower." ”

Thinking of this, I not only did not feel uncomfortable, but felt a sense of relief, according to the prison authorities, there was a septic tank at the end of the passage, and now I smell the stench, so it is not far from the end. I was uncomfortable crawling for the past two hours, not only my back hurt, but also my knees, elbows, and wrists were all worn out.

"It's not a big problem, I'm fed up this time, it's even more uncomfortable here than a low-profile crawler, and I'm going to die."

I thought it was only a dozen meters away, but I climbed hard for half an hour, and suddenly I felt like I was beeping a dog, but fortunately, a plop made me feel the dawn of victory, and I suddenly didn't care about anything else, and accelerated the strength of the arch forward, and for a while, the hot pain in several worn places was even worse. But I don't care so much, I just want to be liberated as soon as possible.

In the end, I also fell into the septic tank, and instantly felt that my body that had been suffocated for a long time was stretched, and I also took care of the fecal water that flooded my waist, and stretched my waist happily, and the bones all over my body "crackled", and I felt more comfortable.

After stretching my bones, I found that Sun Jianguo was looking at me with a strange eye, and when I saw me looking at him suspiciously, he said word by word: "Xiao Xu, no matter how hungry we are, we won't eat, your mouth is already stinky enough, no different from a crow's mouth, how can we live if it stinks again?" ”

I suddenly remembered the current situation, and just wanted to touch my face with my hands, only to find that my hands were already full of feces at this time, and my face was also splashed a lot, and the next second after I reacted, I felt like I couldn't cry.

"Let's go, there is an opening over there, which should lead directly to the Yangtze River, which is where Liang Xudong finally fled."

Although Sun Jianguo was also covered with feces, he was very calm at this time, and analyzed the situation for me for a while, including Liang Xudong's psychological activities and other aspects, thinking about these problems, I didn't care about the feces on my body, and later I moved closer to the septic tank with Sun Jianguo.

The outlet of the septic tank is quite large, there is a person to be high, there is no need to climb forward again, this time if you still need to climb forward, it can really drive me crazy, the height of the fecal water in the outlet is only up to the knees, and it is not too difficult to walk.

After walking for less than five minutes, I felt the fresh air blowing in from outside, walked about ten meters away, and finally stepped into the water of the Yangtze River with one foot.

After washing it and looking up and down, I found that the police uniform on my body had been worn out and couldn't be seen, like a dress worn by a flower child. turned around and glanced at Sun Jianguo, and found that he was not much different from me, both of them were a virtue.

"Vice Captain, what should we do now?"

Sun Jianguo may have disliked that the clothes on his body were too tattered, and he embarrassed the police by wearing them, so he simply took off his shirt and wrapped it around his waist, and then said: "Of course I am looking for a place to change my clothes, otherwise what else can I do?" Wearing this dress to find someone? Also ask nearby, Liang Xudong crawled out of the passage is definitely no better than us, the clothes on his body are also torn, in order to reduce the possibility of exposure, he will definitely buy a change of clothes nearby, but he has no money, so he can only steal the clothes of nearby residents, let's inquire in the neighborhood first. ”

It seems that there is a small fishing village not far from the river, I discussed it with Sun Jianguo, and I was about to go over there to take a look, when I was on the way, I suddenly remembered something and said: "Deputy captain, he doesn't necessarily have to steal clothes, Liang Xudong has helped the warden launder money and make fake accounts for so many years, and he can't make some oil and water for himself, and if he escapes from prison, he will definitely have to prepare for himself to go back, now in this society, it is difficult to move an inch without money, I feel that when he escapes from prison, he will have a little money on him." ”

"Yes, it makes sense, but if you wear tattered clothes and go to the store, this will definitely attract the attention of the other party, and I don't think a person with such a high IQ as him will not fail to think of this, so I think he either reserved a set of clothes to wear, or stole clothes from a nearby fishing village."

I asked again, "Is it possible to go away with the ferry on the river?" This will get you out of the place a little faster. ”

Sun Jianguo stopped and thought for a while, then looked back at the river and said uncertainly: "It's not good, if the money is enough, if the reason is made up a little more, the boat boss may really take him." No matter how much we don't care about it for now, Jiang Mian's mission is not something we can manage, our task is to find out the direction of his escape. And I have a hunch that Liang Xudong is definitely not just a simple way of escaping from prison to find freedom, you have also climbed that tunnel, you also know what is in it, this is just the time we climbed, at that time he was able to dig such a tunnel with a spoon, I don't know how much perseverance is supporting him, thinking of putting aside his identity as an escaped prisoner, I really admire him. ”

"Basically, until now, I haven't found any flaws or clues left by him, such a person, his heart is calm and terrifying, worthy of working on Wall Street back then, and his psychological quality is not ordinarily strong."

I nodded approvingly, as I could see from digging tunnels with a spoon that this kind of person was far from being comparable to ordinary people.

I asked around the fishing village, and I didn't ask which family had lost their clothes, if Liang Xudong didn't go to buy clothes, then he was very likely to walk from the Yangtze River, thinking of this, I told Sun Jianguo what I thought, and he also felt that there was a great possibility that he could not find his trace on the land.

I was thinking of buying a set of clothes, but I knew that this place was too far away from the city and there was no place to change clothes, and I thought that this place was not far from Laoshan Prison, so I planned to go back to see what was going on over there Zhang Bin.

When I walked to the gate of the prison, although I was dressed in tatters and had a foul smell on my body, the sentry who watched the gate still knew Sun Jianguo and me, so he let the two of us in.

I walked to the cell according to the way I came, and as soon as I entered the door, I found that the warden was still staying inside at this time, and Zhang Bin was unhurriedly piecing together the cement fragments on the side, Xiao Feng was standing by the door, and when he saw us coming in, he immediately quietly made a look, and for a while I didn't understand what his eyes meant.

When the warden heard the voice, he looked back, and when he saw that it was us, he hurriedly stood up and asked, "Deputy Sun, are you back?" What do you think? Are there any clues? ”

"Not for the time being, this escaped prisoner named Liang Xudong is too cunning, I followed him to dig the tunnel and searched for it, but I didn't find any clues, and it stinked, do you have any extra clothes, take a set and I'll make do with it."

The warden thought for a moment and said in embarrassment: "No, there are only a few sets of prison uniforms......

"Forget it, Binzi, what's the situation on your side?"

As soon as he heard that it was a prison uniform, Sun Jianguo rejected him without thinking about it, and asked Zhang Bin instead, Zhang Bin stopped the work he was putting together, raised his head and said, "It's okay, there was a little accident, but I settled it." ”

"Also, deputy captain, I think it is necessary to take this person named Xiao Feng to the city bureau, he is very suspicious of helping Liang Xudong escape from prison, if there is no help from people inside the prison, Liang Xudong can't dig such a long tunnel by himself, and the excavated soil and stones have nowhere to be piled up, the only possibility is that someone inside the prison is helping him."

Sun Jianguo turned to look at Xiao Feng, saw his panicked face, glanced at the warden again, and said: "Warden, I may have to take your little brother to the police station for a good interrogation, the current situation is not that I don't give face, no matter where I am, escaping from prison is a big thing, if people can't be caught, how many people will be affected, you should know." ”

Seeing this, I roughly understood what Zhang Bin meant, he wanted to use such an excuse to bring people to the city bureau for protection, if he was missing as a witness, it would not be easy to convict the prison director and others.

I thought that there was a guilty person like this, and the warden would immediately agree, but I didn't expect that after Sun Jianguo finished speaking, he suddenly became silent, looked at Xiao Feng, and then looked at Zhang Bin and didn't know what he was thinking.

When Sun Jianguo asked us what we thought about this case on the way, Xiao Feng, who was in shock, suddenly said, "I probably guessed something." "Oh? You talk about it. ”