Chapter 20 Crematoriums
After thinking of some of the likes of the nightmare, I got up from the chair and startled Qi Yan next to me.
"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" Qi Yan looked at me strangely.
"It's okay, keep watching." I shook my head, sat back down, and continued to look at the picture playing on my computer.
After I finished watching all the videos, Zhang Wei also came back with a stack of materials, "Boss, I confirmed with the hospital that there was indeed a body that was taken away yesterday afternoon, which was requested by the family, and I also investigated the driver, named Chen Yiming, forty-two years old, with a son who is in high school, who disappeared a while ago." ”
"Oh, missing?" I took the information and looked at the photo above, it was a very honest and simple middle-aged man, it stands to reason that since I had a certificate from the hospital, I should not suspect him, but I don't know why, I always have a strange feeling, especially when I heard that his son was missing, this feeling was even stronger.
"Yes, it is said that he had a conflict with his family, ran away from home, and has been gone for a month, and he has not come back yet." Zhang Wei shook his head and said with some sighs.
"Check his son's information again, ask his homeroom teacher, or classmates, to see how he usually performs in school, and find someone to check if Chen Yiming has anything strange in the past month." I commanded again.
"Boss, do you suspect this Chen Yiming?" Zhang Wei hesitated and asked.
"It's still uncertain, in short, we can't let go of any bit of useful information, and now we will take this Chen Yiming as a key monitoring object." I said while writing down the address of the crematorium where Chen Yiming worked.
"Okay, boss." Zhang Wei nodded, and quickly went to work on the task I had assigned.
"Uncle Huang, how's it going?" Next, I came to Uncle Huang's desk, looked at Uncle Huang reading the information, and asked directly.
"There is only one family in the entire Ancheng District whose child died young, but it was three months ago, and it was a girl, two years old, although it is very unlikely, but I have asked people to check." Uncle Huang put down the information, looked at me again and asked, "What about you?" What did you find? ”
"I think the crematorium driver is a little suspicious." I said it directly.
"Why?" Uncle Huang's spirit was shocked, and his right hand unconsciously wanted to touch the cigarette case on the table, but when his hand touched it, he forcibly endured it, and just took the lighter in his hand and turned it.
"He has a son who disappeared a month ago." As I spoke, I handed the information about Chen Yiming just now to Uncle Huang.
"Son? How old is it? Uncle Huang quickly took the information and looked at it.
"Seventeen, high school student." I replied.
"Seventeen?" Uncle Huang frowned, "Isn't this age a little old?" ”
"It's hard to say, according to common sense, the nightmare mostly refers to the ghost baby, but it may also be some other things, now it can only be said to be very suspicious, I have asked Zhang Wei to lead people to focus on investigating this one named Chen Yiming." I pondered for a moment and said.
Ghost babies are nightmares, but nightmares don't just include ghost babies.
"Well, your suspicions are very reasonable, and we can't let go of even the slightest possibility." Uncle Huang flipped through the information and asked me again, "What are your plans?" ”
"I'm going to take a look at that crematorium." I had already made a decision when I was jotting down the address of the crematorium.
"Yourself?" Uncle Huang asked with a frown when he heard my tone.
"Well, I'm a small target, so I won't arouse suspicion, besides, I'll go to understand the terrain first, and I want to go at night, and I might find something at that time." I confessed.
"Wouldn't you be too dangerous yourself?" After knowing that this case might be related to that aspect, Uncle Huang held the spirit of twelve points and did not dare to relax in the slightest, and at this time he couldn't help but be a little worried when he heard that I was going alone.
"Don't worry, Uncle Huang, my apprenticeship is not for nothing, a little trick is still no problem, in addition, I will carry a gun, which is enough to protect myself." I smiled confidently, mainly because I didn't want Uncle Huang to worry too much.
Uncle Huang thought for a moment before nodding, "Okay, remember to turn the phone to silent, don't turn it off, bring the tracker too, I will take a few people to patrol that area at night, and contact me if there is something." ”
"Well, I remember, I'll go home and prepare first, I won't be here in the afternoon, I told Zhang Wei to check some information, and let him send you here directly." I thought about it and said.
"Okay." Uncle Huang nodded.
I went to get the gun first, and after explaining to Qi Yan again, I changed into civilian clothes and left.
Riding an electric car that had been in the parking shed for more than a day, I went straight to the crematorium.
This crematorium is located at the very edge of Anseong-gu, which is already a suburb, and you can see two chimneys dozens of meters high in the distance, and the surrounding area is a little empty, with only scattered buildings, and a thousand meters across the road is a village, and the surrounding fields are also planted with fruit trees, otherwise they are deserted.
I rode around the crematorium twice on an electric car, but I didn't find anything suspicious except for the strange smell.
In the end, I simply went to the guard room, and it was an old man in his fifties or sixties who watched the door, and he didn't pay attention to me when he saw me coming, after all, this is a crematorium, and people can't ask who they are looking for, right?
"Hello, uncle, I want to ask if this crematorium is still recruiting people recently?" I took out a cigarette and handed it to him, the cigarette is not good, more than ten yuan, in line with my identity, if I take out the Chinese and inquire about the work, people will be suspicious when they see it.
The old man naturally took the cigarette, then took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it, and at the same time looked at me, "The young man looks very energetic, why do you come to work in such a place?" ”
"I don't want to, it's not good recently, the company is not doing well, the boss is going to lay off people again, so I can only find a job again, I heard a classmate who works in the crematorium say that now the crematorium is well paid, the salary is also high, and you can get six or seven thousand a month." I also lit one and accompanied the old man to start swallowing the clouds.
"Six or seven thousand? Trick ball, right? Except as a leader, who can get so much? The old man pursed his lips with disdain.
"How much can you take?" I asked again.
"Those who burn dead bodies generally take three or four thousand, and there are fewer people who clean them, but if you are brave enough to learn makeup, that salary is a little more." When the old man saw me coming, he opened the conversation.
"I'll tell you, don't think that makeup is very simple, you must know that this is to make up for the dead body, and there is nothing to die of natural causes, just afraid of those who died in car accidents, that is called a miserable, sometimes the head is flat, the nose is gone, you have to use a needle to prop it up, the mouth is crooked, you have to sew it up, the eyes are not there to make a fake, some stomachs are flattened, you can see the intestines below, and you have to stuff it back little by little."
"It's okay, I'm quite bold." I pretended not to be afraid, and at the same time, my pale face also appropriately exposed my heart.
The old man glanced at me and continued: "Generally, makeup is done during the day, but when you are busy, or if you are in a hurry, you have to work overtime at night, and then you are alone in the room. ”
"Isn't there someone on duty here at night?" I asked quietly.
"How can there be any on duty, as soon as they get off work, those people go home directly, as for the leader, they are not happy to stay here during the day, bad luck, at night, there are few people in the entire crematorium, I used to watch the door by myself, but a while ago we began to have conflicts with the family, temporarily moved to the dormitory over there to live, and at night I can still drink with me."
"If you have a conflict, you won't move here, right? Aren't you scared to stay here at night? I took the old man's words and looked at the row of dormitories that the old man had said.
There was a rope at the door, and there were two quilts drying on it, and it seemed that someone did live here.
"I've long been used to pulling dead bodies every day, and that person is also a poor person, too honest, bullied by his wife all day long at home, and his son ran away from home a while ago, and he kept saying that he had done evil with me when he drank with me two days ago." The old man said with some embarrassment.
"Iniquity?" I smiled coldly in my heart, if the case was really done by him, it was indeed a crime.
"Uncle, I think you might as well have a big dog, so you don't have to be afraid, and you have a companion." I continued.
"If young people don't understand, don't talk nonsense, you can't keep dogs in this kind of place, and it's easy to make taboos." The old man's face turned blank and he reprimanded softly.
"Ah, it's so exquisite, but it doesn't matter if you don't have a dog, anyway, there is a camera, you just need to sit in the guard room and look at the computer." I said, glancing up at the camera mounted above the door.
"Liar, that thing is black, and at night I can't see anything else except the gate, and I spend some unjust money." The old man clearly had some resentment towards the camera.
When I saw that things were almost the same, I was ready to retreat, so I said, "Well, then I'd better think about it again." "I stepped back at the right time.
"Well, the dead bodies are cremated all day long, and the dead air is heavy, it's okay to do it for a year or two, but it's not good for the body for a long time, and it will lose your life." The old man continued to persuade me, as if he was afraid that I would come to work.
"Uncle, thank you, I think I'd better find another job." As I spoke, I shoved the few cigarettes into the old man's hand.
"It's better for young people to find a decent job, I'm watching the gate at the crematorium, and my daughter-in-law there is not happy, and she usually doesn't even let me hold my grandson." The old man didn't refuse, and after taking the cigarette, he nagged again.
"Okay, goodbye, uncle." After I finished speaking, I stepped on the electric car and drove all the way away, without returning to the bureau, directly to the house, and began to prepare for the evening.