Chapter 18: The Basement

"Happened to me? Then I must have quit my job first, and then find the murderer and beat him half to death, and then let the law punish me. Speaking of this, Sun Jianguo completely lost his usual gentle appearance, and looked a little angry. After a while, it was restored to the original state, and some did not know how to say: "Xiao Xu, to say a word of conscience, the current legal system is indeed not perfect, and many times it is because of the conflict between law and human nature, but we must believe that the country and society are progressing, and the law is gradually growing at the same time, and there will always be a day when it will be perfected." ”

I nodded involuntarily: "Also, society has been progressing, and the law has been improving. ”

"Then why don't you hurry up and go to find clues, and I'm here to pull a quack!" Sun Jianguo said that he was about to kick, and I immediately dodged back, and my center of gravity was unstable in a hurry, and I sat on the ground with my ass.

"Hey, something is wrong!"

It hurt a little, but my attention was quickly drawn elsewhere. As soon as I sat on the floor, I felt that something was wrong with my voice.

Sun Jianguo pretended to be puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?" Paralyzed? ”

I said what I just felt: "Vice Captain, when I just sat down on the ground, my voice was a little crisp, not dull, I felt that something seemed to be wrong on the ground, and it seemed to be hollow under the tiles?" ”

Sun Jianguo was really puzzled this time, touched his chin and thought for two seconds, and said uncertainly? "Hollow? Basement? Hurry up, I'll take a look! ”

Pushing and pulling me aside, Sun Jianguo lay on the ground and gently tapped with his finger joints, when the joints hit the tile where I was originally sitting, the sound became a little crisp, and after a few laps to the periphery, the sound would gradually become dull, and in the end it was a completely thick sound.

"You go find a crowbar, hurry."

Sun Jianguo hurriedly urged me to say, and then seemed to remember something, took off the keys from his waist, inserted one of them into the brick crack, and said without raising his head: "Forget it, I don't need it." ”

I saw that he was struggling to pry with a key alone, and the effect was minimal, so I took out a bunch of keys and inserted them into the tile joint, raised the tiles little by little, and after three or four minutes of busy work, finally pry up the tiles on the ground.

Underneath the tiles was a dark hole, and it was impossible to see what was going on, but as the tiles were lifted, a cold wind rushed in front of them, mixed with a foul smell, just like the smell of the two corpses.

Sun Jianguo reacted immediately, notified Li Jun with a pager, asked him to bring people to support, and blocked the periphery.

Then let people go to the police car to get a flashlight, under the light of the flashlight, the situation in the cave can be seen clearly, the inner wall of the cave is full of potholes, the traces of shovel digging are clear, and two wooden wedges are driven into the hole entrance, and the knotted rope ladder is tied to the bottom.

At this time, the entrance of the cave was already full of people handling the case, Sun Jianguo looked around and said: "I'll go down first, and when it's safe at the bottom, I'll shake it up three times with a flashlight, Xiao Xu, you come down again, as for the others, wait for Lao Li to arrive and listen to his arrangement." ”

"I'd better go, I'll react quickly if there'...... situation"

Before I could finish speaking, I saw Sun Jianguo holding the flashlight in his mouth, and the lower half of his body had already gone down to the hole, propping his hands on the edge of the hole, and climbing down the rope ladder.

I don't know if it's because the speed is fast or the hole itself is not deep, but after seven or eight seconds, I saw that the rope ladder had stopped swinging, and the person should have reached the bottom, but somehow I didn't shake the flashlight up.

After waiting for nearly a minute, I saw the flashlight at the bottom of the hole flick up a few times.

I immediately stepped on the rope ladder to climb down, the hole was indeed not deep, only about four meters deep, and soon I also went down to the bottom, with the light of the vice-captain's flashlight, I could roughly see the situation below, and also understood why he did not immediately go up the flashlight.

At the bottom of the cave is a space of about ten square meters, with a height of about two meters, and people have a feeling of suffocation when they stand in it.

In this small space, there are two iron cages about half a meter in length, width and height on the left, which seem to have living creatures inside, and make noises from time to time. When I got closer, there were nearly thirty black cats crammed into the small space inside, the hair on the black cat's body was glued together by dark red blood clots, and the eyes were green and shining in the light. Seeing a bright light coming in, the cats who were accustomed to the dark environment looked very manic, jumping and neighing in the cage, and when the cats neighed, I noticed that the corners of their cracked mouths were stained with blood, and some of the black cats climbed onto the cage wall, making room for the bottom of the cage, revealing the minced meat, internal organs, intestines and other things that had been gnawed and mutilated at the bottom of the cage.

Thinking that these might be the body parts of the deceased Liu Shuqian, I immediately wanted to open the cage, but Sun Jianguo stepped forward to stop me: "These cats are likely to carry rabies virus, don't act rashly yet, wait for professionals to come." Cover your nose with clothing to prevent respiratory transmission of the virus through saliva molecules in the air. ”

It sounded like that, so I didn't dwell on it anymore, took off my vest and covered my mouth and nose, and looked at the other place.

On the right side of the cage against the wall was a boxy mound, about the size of a table, about a meter high, covered with wooden planks and a tablecloth, which was stained with a mottled dark red liquid. The tablecloth is made of plastic, and the basement is underground, which is relatively cool and the air is not circulated, so the dark red liquid on the tablecloth has not solidified. Touching it directly with my hands will leave traces of myself, and it will bring difficulties to forensic identification at that time, so I carefully dipped the corner of my shirt on it, took it to my eyes and looked at it, and when I touched it closely, a smell of blood with the smell of rust entered my nostrils, even the smell of corpses in the air was not covered.

Then I pinched it with my hand, and there was a slimy touch on my fingertips, which made me more sure that the dark red liquid on the tablecloth was blood.

Sun Jianguo's face was ugly, and he said slowly: "It's blood, that's right, this should be Zhang Hanyang's corpse platform." ”

On the edge of the tablecloth were two knives, half the width of a household kitchen knife, the blood on the handle of the knife had become dark red coagulated, and there was also a trace of coagulated blood on the surface of the knife. After a brief glance, I moved on to the next one.

As my eyes moved, I suddenly saw some white powdery stuff scattered at the bottom of the platform, so I crouched down and looked at it carefully, but I couldn't tell what it was.

Sun Jianguo said on the side: "It should be the sodium hydroxide purchased from Guo Chao, which was sprinkled on the ground during use. ”