17. Money chain
Although Huang Wolf Xian was extremely surprised by the identity of our police advisers, he quickly calmed down and advised us not to investigate further. He said we didn't know who we were dealing with, and that the rest of the matter was not something we could handle.
Huang Wolf Immortal let us see his house, he said that he is a fortune teller, and now he can live in such a haode house because of Shan Liande, and he can get a five-figure remuneration every time he suppresses ghosts. Although Shan Liande is retired now, no one should want to touch him, because there are too many people behind him.
What I mean by the Yellow Wolf Immortal tomorrow, although Shan Liande is no longer in a high position, he and people who are inextricably linked still exist. Some of these people once sent Shan Liande to the position of director, and some of them were promoted by Shan Liande in the position of director.
But things have come to this point, and I can't give up anything. The most important thing is that I think if Shan Liande is really guilty, the person who once supported him behind his back is more likely to choose to draw a line with him, rather than trouble me and Qiao Wei.
After coming out of the Yellow Wolf Immortal's house, Qiao Wei and I also went back to our respective homes, and today's investigation is going to end here.
It was almost eleven o'clock when I got home. Originally, I thought that after a day of tossing, I would fall asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow, but the reality was that I couldn't sleep at all while lying in bed tossing and turning. The questions I had been asking me were going through the years, and it seemed that I couldn't have fallen asleep today without a plausible answer.
So I simply sat up, turned on the bedside lamp, put the pillow behind my back, and then opened Lao Zheng's notebook that recorded the number of corpses, and while looking at it, I also sorted out all the clues and questions in my head.
Every page and entry in Lao Zheng's notebook is numbered by date, and the number of corpses "transported in", "sent out", and "now preserved" is recorded in each date.
I simply opened it when I first got it. At the time, I thought it was more like a warehouse inventory book, but now that I look at the number of corpses, I am even more sure that this is a corpse inventory record.
The notes were recorded from '01 onwards, and the number of corpses "brought in" and "sent out" was between thirty and fifty per day, while the number of corpses "currently preserved" remained at about five hundred.
Judging from the overall trend, the number of corpses "transported" is obviously more than the corpses "sent out", and the number of corpses "preserved" has been growing, 01, 02, 03 In the past three years, the number of corpses preserved has increased by more than 300, and by the beginning of 04, the corpses preserved by the funeral home have been close to 1,000.
However, this increase in the number of corpses came to an abrupt end in May 04, followed by a drastic decrease in the number of corpses! But this sharp decrease has a strange embodiment in Lao Zheng's notebook - it's just that the number of corpses "preserved" is greatly decreasing, while the number of corpses transported out is still stable as before, that is to say, the number of corpses stored is completely inconsistent with the number of corpses transported!
Lao Zheng's notes also drew many question marks on these records of the number of corpses.
It is clear that this drastic change in the number of bodies is something that the funeral home does not make public. Lao Zheng is a person who believes in ghosts and gods, so in his opinion, the decrease in corpses in the funeral home may be caused by the corpses turning into zombies, and his pursuit has inadvertently led to a huge secret, which is also the key to Lao Zheng's death.
I closed Zheng's notepad while closing my eyes and trying to find a key piece of the puzzle that could stitch all the bits and pieces together.
Huang Wolf Xian, the director of the public security bureau, the funeral home, the abandoned air-raid shelter, the overpass bridge, the garbage dump, and ...... Money!
It's money!
The house of the Yellow Wolf Immortal is at least a million yuan, and he said that he can't make so much money by telling fortunes and divination, so his money is all given by Shan Liande who hired him to suppress ghosts. The fundamental purpose of Shan Liande to spend this money is not to suppress ghosts, but to maintain the money chain hidden behind him.
Air-raid shelters, overpasses, garbage dumps, these places are all places where the scavengers of the Lang Dynasty are concentrated, and the Yellow Wolf Immortal suppresses ghosts in this place, which means that people have died here. At the same time, there was a sharp decline in the number of waste pickers near the dump, who were undoubtedly all dead, and whose bodies were sent first to the funeral home and then to the dump for burial.
This process may seem redundant, but in fact there are huge benefits hidden in it!
Thinking of this, I didn't feel sleepy at all, I immediately called Qiao Wei and Tang Hui to explain everything I thought to him in detail, and Tang Hui also told me after listening to it that he would inform Lei Qishan immediately.
It didn't take long for Tang Hui's phone to call me again, and he told me to let me go to the criminal police team immediately, Lei Qishan was going to hold an emergency meeting, and Qiao Wei and I were the people who had to be present.
Fifteen minutes later I arrived at the small conference room of the Interpol team, and then all the people who were attending the meeting entered the room. The people who participated in the meeting this time were similar to the last time Hu Minghui was arrested, except for Lei Qishan and several deputy captains and detectives, there was only one more Cui Qi who was in the same group as Tang Hui.
When everyone arrived, Lei Qishan immediately opened and said: "It's just one thing to call you here in the middle of the night, we have to solve a big case!" Thunder, you tell everyone what you think of first. ”
I nodded at Lei Qishan, and then walked to the front of the conference table and said to everyone: "Let me ask you a question, if the police find the nameless corpses, what will Zuihou do with these corpses?" Can anyone tell me? ”
"If the identity of the body cannot be found and no one claims it, Zuihou will send it to the funeral home." The vice-captain replied.
"Yes, one of the jobs of the funeral home is to preserve the nameless bodies. This work has been going on, and the number of nameless corpses has been increasing. However, in '04, the number of nameless corpses suddenly plummeted, but this sharp decline was not made public, but was accidentally discovered by an employee. The employee died six months later, and there is no investigation file for the case. ”
These few words of mine quickly attracted the attention of everyone present.
I immediately continued: "I haven't done any authoritative surveys, but the shoppers and scavengers near the dump have almost disappeared in recent years, and I remember that I used to meet people on the street who were dressed in tatters and stopped cars and demanded money, but now I don't see a single one. I haven't heard of any management policies for the Liulang in our city, so where are these Liulang and the scavengers? ”
Everyone looked at each other but no one could answer, but someone asked me, "What are the two things you said are related?" ”
"Of course it is! These scavengers and scavengers are the most nameless corpse source! They have no relatives, no friends, no one cares about their lives or deaths, and it is no exaggeration to say that many people will feel happy or relieved when they die. And after these bodies are sent to the funeral home, no one will come to claim them! So the question arises, what to do with these corpses? ”
This time, I didn't wait for anyone to answer, so I continued: "The funeral home claims that they will keep these bodies forever until someone comes to claim them, but the reality is that they threw these bodies into the garbage dump and buried them at will. On the one hand, they dispose of these corpses in the cheapest way, and on the other hand, they are constantly receiving financial subsidies to preserve more and more corpses, and where does this money end up? I think it's nothing more than the director of the funeral home, the deputy director, or some other small leader. Also included is Shan Liande, the former director of the Nanhuai Branch of the Public Security Bureau. ”
As soon as I finished speaking, everyone at the conference table immediately began to discuss, and then the deputy captain asked, "You mean that the people of the funeral parlor are slaughtering the rogue and scavengers, and using this method to quickly replenish their inventory of nameless corpses?" ”
"Nope! Quite the opposite! I shook my finger at the deputy captain, and then said: "If it is for money, even if you don't kill Lang Han, there will be enough nameless corpses to continue to be transported into the funeral home, according to Lao Zheng's notes, the number of corpses stored in the funeral home will exceed two thousand in a few years." The action of killing Lang Han should be a special hobby of someone in this money chain, but he tied Shan Liande in through this money chain, and used this bureau chief to cover him to continue killing! ”