Chapter 5: An extra corpse
When we arrived at Wang Botao's office again, the secretary said that it was inside, needless to say, I also knew. Through the crack in the door, I clearly saw that in addition to Wang Botao, there was another person inside.
When the secretary let us in, I thought to myself who that person would be, and was surprised to find that Wang Botao was the only one inside. Did you just look dazzled? At the same time I wondered, Wang Botao's eyes also showed a look of surprise when he looked at me, flashed, and said with a smile: "Xiao Ke! Didn't you just come this morning? Why are you here again, it's not that Uncle Wang won't help you, it's really hard for me."
I thought to myself that you don't have to embarrass me this time, just in case this Wang Botao is difficult for himself, I smiled back and said, "Uncle Wang, do you have to give an order?" ”。
That's right! Wang Botao nodded his head violently, with a serious expression, and said solemnly: "Xiao Ke, as long as you can take out the order." Uncle Wang didn't say a word, and immediately asked Xiao Li to take you to the archives."
I deliberately showed an embarrassed expression and made a gesture of turning away, "Uncle Wang, do you really just need a general order?" ”。
Well! Wang Botao was a little impatient and waved his hand. I glanced at Wei Hua next to me, and Wei Hua immediately stepped forward, took out the general order from his arms, and spread it on the table. This Wang Botao's face suddenly became extremely ugly, and he pointed at me and Wei Hua, "You two boys actually designed to frame me."
Seeing that Wang Botao was going to cheat, I hurriedly took out my mobile phone, "Uncle Wang, you know that my father is an archaeologist, and he is more rigorous in thinking and cautious in doing things. I accidentally recorded what you said just now, and you know, we are both your students, and we know a lot of teachers in school, if that ......."
That's enough! Wang Botao glanced at me and Wei Hua hatefully, and sneered: "Sure enough, it is a top student from our school, and there is no ambiguity at all in doing things. Xiao Li, take them to the archives, remember, you can only let them stay for an hour, not even a minute. If you dare to release the water, you will be ready to take a long vacation from today."
It's finally done, Wei Hua and I each breathed a sigh of relief, I didn't expect to encounter so much trouble when going to an archive.
Xiao Li led us to the top floor of the library, the long corridor was cold and dim, and people couldn't help but feel a little cool, "I won't go in, you only have an hour." These are your gloves, bring them now" Xiao Li had a businesslike expression.
Thinking that Wang Botao said so desperately, and there was no chance to please him, Wei Hua and I didn't procrastinate, and after each put on gloves, we entered the archives one after the other.
As soon as I entered, there was a strong smell of ink. At a glance, there are rows of bookshelves, and the most important thing is that there is no clear logo on the bookshelves above, and it is estimated that the administrator is more clear.
I couldn't help but feel embarrassed, I gestured to Wei Hua, now I can only look for a needle in a haystack, one person is responsible for half of it, looking for something big happened in the school on April 7, 1999.
I walked to the bookshelf, my head aching, and there was a faint flickering image in my head. "Have I been here before?" I was surprised to think that there was not much time to think about, so I quickly opened each file with both hands, and my eyes only scanned the table of contents.
When I got to the bookshelf in the third row, I took a sharp breath and realized that there was a note on one of the archives. The seal is not surprising, the main thing is that the note on this seal turned out to be my own, and the date on the seal happened to be April 7, 1999.
At this time, Wei Hua walked over with a newspaper in his hand, his face was very pale, and he was about to speak, so I hurriedly stopped and said, "Wait."
I opened the seal and opened the tin box, and there was no pile of materials in it that I had seen before, only a small round wooden box. I picked it up and glanced at it slightly, there was only one piece of paper stuffed in the wooden box, it was obvious that this paper was secretly printed by someone, could it be that I printed it myself, so why didn't I have a little impression?
When I picked up the paper, I saw four or five big characters written on the top: Hainan, Wutou Village, there is an Arabic numeral "8" under the word, and there are no other tens.
Odd! I couldn't help but whisper, Hainan - Wutou Village, the expression is very clear, but what does the word "8" mean? Sensing that there was nothing to gain, I immediately put the paper back into the wooden box, and after sealing it, I saw that Wei Hua's face was still a little pale, and he said in confusion: "Wei Hua, what's wrong with you."
Wei Hua motioned for me to go to the table on the side first, and I followed, and Wei Hua immediately spread the newspaper on the table, only to see that the whole newspaper had the words "April 7, 1999 Haichang No. 1 Middle School Fire Incident". And then there's a big picture below, where the fire is fierce and many of the injured are lying unconscious on the ground. Wei Hua pointed to a figure in the corner of the picture, and the figure was none other than Xiao Ye, who we couldn't be more familiar with. Next to me, there was also Wei Hua.
I was suddenly shocked and said with a smile: "Wei Hua, what do you mean by this?" ”。 Wei Hua had a suddenly realized expression, "Xiao Ke, April 7, 1999 happened to be the school's 60th anniversary, and Xiao Ye happened to be wearing a big red robe and a pair of red leather boots on that day.
It was said that it was red leather boots, but I saw a pair of dazzling white sneakers in the picture, which looked very dazzling under the red dress. "Wei Hua, what do you want to say?" A cold sweat spilled out of my back, and I wondered.
Wei Hua didn't speak, turned the newspaper to the back, and on the fifth day of the fire, the police began to come out and rule that the fire was an accident. But immediately the media came out to accuse and uncover a strange thing, that is, eight big words on the cover of the newspaper: an extra corpse.
The newspaper wrote that one of the bodies was undetectable because of the high level of burning. The principal decided to count the list of schools, and at this time strange things happened, out of a total of 11 people who died, only 10 were identified, matching the missing students. And the extra person becomes an "unexpected person".
In the end, the school came out to refute the suspicions of the outside media, and this extra person must be a migrant worker on campus. Originally, the matter should have ended here, but some media took a lot of effort to count the campus staff one by one, and finally found that there were a lot of people, which means that this extra person is not what the school said. The matter got bigger and bigger, and in the end, it was the mayor who took action himself, and it was the end of it.
I raised my head, saw Wei Hua's expression, and my face changed greatly: "Wei Hua, are you suspicious......" I myself was shocked, if this is the case, then the impact of this matter is too great, and I can't draw conclusions without clear evidence.
Boom! Boom! Boom! A few knocks rang out at the door, "It's time".
I scanned the editor-in-chief and address of the newspaper, glanced at Wei Hua, and said in a low voice: "Tomorrow at seven o'clock in the morning, I will go to your house to look for you."
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