Chapter 19: I'd rather be a demon
Zhou Feng grabbed my shoulders and almost knocked me out again.
I said you let me go first, Zhou Feng coughed dryly, looked at me a little embarrassed, and looked expectant.
I also knew that the matter was urgent, and immediately gave an affirmative answer, Zhou Feng rushed out as if he was crazy, and I heard him shouting in the corridor.
"Go and get me back the reporter who came to report the crime a few days ago!"
I was a little dazed, vaguely felt as if I had provided another useful clue, I didn't know where I was injured, anyway, it hurt everywhere, and I felt confused as soon as I stood up.
"Captain Zhou said to let you rest here......" The little nurse hurriedly chased after her, but I ignored it.
I still haven't finished speaking, and Zhou Feng's temperament is too anxious this time.
Running outside with the pain on his body, he was soon in the town and saw a burst of police lights flashing in front of him.
When I walked over, the house was already surrounded by clusters, and Zhou Feng's brows were twisted into a pimple and he was walking out.
"Why are you here?"
Zhou Feng's face is not very good-looking, you don't have to guess to know, there must be no gain, and this guy actually said that he wanted to send me back.
"You don't have your business here, the murderers are two people!"
This is simply the rhythm of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, Lao Tzu has been busy with you for a day and two nights, and he sent me away with a word?
"How do you know those two are human?"
Zhou Feng pointed behind him impatiently, his apprentice was carrying two strange things in his hands, which seemed to be stilts, but there was a semicircular piece of iron, which was black and non-reflective.
"This is called bouncing shoes, it is a popular thing in the city, wearing this thing, as long as a person can easily jump up to two meters high."
The young policeman shook the thing in his hand and made a crisp sound, I had nothing more to say, no wonder the guy made a sound similar to a spring when he passed in front of me, it turned out that this thing was doing tricks.
"Have you found out?"
I'm still a little reluctant to try to find out as much as possible to satisfy my curiosity.
"This is not something you should care about, I'll have someone send you back in a while!"
Zhou Feng waved his hand impatiently, his tone was undoubted, I was depressed in my heart but I was powerless to argue, and at the moment when Zhou Feng turned around and walked away, I stopped him.
"According to what you said, the person I met today is the same reporter who reported the case before, you...... Do you think that reporter looks like someone? ”
"Huh? What do you mean! Zhou Feng's eyes were tired, and it seemed that he had reached the limit.
"I've always felt like I've seen that person somewhere, and when I was at the mouth of the alley today, it was this guy who threatened me, and now I think about it......"
"You've seen him, why didn't you say it earlier?" Zhou Feng's tone was full of reproach, and I said in my heart that you didn't give me a chance, but I still continued the inference just now.
"Don't you think that reporter looks like the boy rescued from the mine!"
When I said this, I felt a little nonsense myself, but the eyes were so similar, even if they weren't the same person, they were definitely related.
"You say that...... It's a bit like that! Zhou Feng's originally gloomy eyes immediately showed a bright light, as if the sun was about to rise in the middle of dawn.
I said what are you waiting for, hurry up and find out the rescued teenager, maybe one of the murderers is him.
"This is impossible, the child has been in a trance since he was rescued, and he doesn't communicate with anyone, and we have always had a lot of doubts and want to ask, but ......"
Although Zhou Feng's tone was suspicious, he still made a quick call.
"The child who was rescued...... Yes, my surname is Zhou, what do you say? When did it happen? ”
From Zhou Feng's tone, I could tell that something must have happened to that young man.
Sure enough, Zhou Feng hung up the phone, looking surprised.
Then he told me that the child was missing, and although he had just found out, no one knew exactly when it happened because there were so many children in the shelter.
At this point, the threads are almost all connected.
Although it was only a preliminary speculation, Zhou Feng and I had almost the same idea.
After the boy was rescued, he should have been holding back, quietly running out of the shelter, returning to this town, back to the place where he was captured and spent several years without seeing the light of day.
He killed people, and there was a helper, who should be his brother, and the killing was to vent the hatred in his heart, so he brutally stoned people, and of course he was always thinking about the bronze chest dug out of the mine.
The reporter, who claimed to be a tourist from other places, deliberately took a photo of the time of the crime, portrayed the image of the man who died tragically in the mine, and forged the illusion of a demon revenge and murder to hide their true identity.
Our previous speculations were all wrong, because we completely ignored a weakling person who should not be suspected.
I didn't expect that the boy who was rescued from his dying life would become so violent and murderous, if it weren't for the fact that tonight, I took off the face towel on the face of one of them, I'm afraid that I would still be kept in the dark, I don't know whether it was a human or a ghost who killed people.
Now that the truth is close to being revealed, but the person has run away, working in vain for several days and nights, it is no wonder that Zhou Feng's mood is capricious.
I asked the policemen afterwards who threw bricks behind me to help me, but everyone told me that I was lying on the ground when they ran back into the yard.
In the end, I was sent back at dawn, there were no ghosts in the whole incident, we had been played around by two young people, I was a little frustrated, and a little unwilling, but I couldn't do anything about the rest.
In the past few days, I have always had in my mind the pale face of a teenager, and the big eyes that sometimes became angry and desperate, and sometimes became weird and crazy.
The teacher seems to have changed her temperament in the past two days, for a day and two nights have not returned, I haven't asked a word, I have stayed up for two days in fear, and I feel that this matter seems to have really passed.
But it turned out to be nothing more than self-consolation.
When Zhou Feng appeared in front of me again with red eyes, I made up my mind that I would never cooperate with this guy again, and I had already experienced enough of the routine of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.
"That Zhao San was found dead in the woods outside the town."
Zhou Feng threw the cigarette case to me, lit one by himself, and was not in a hurry to continue.
I sighed, but in the end I couldn't beat my curiosity.
"Those two guys did it?"
"Judging from the way of death, it should be right, and there is another news......"
Zhou Feng stared at me, which made my heart a little hairy, and I guessed that this was definitely not good news.
Then he told me that Li Shan and his son tried to escape during the process of being escorted, Li Ergou was killed on the spot, and Li Shan ran away.
Things seemed to be starting to get exciting again, and I tried to guess the purpose of the middle-aged policeman in front of me, who of course wouldn't come all the way over, just to satisfy my curiosity.
If I say anything, you can finish it in one go.
Zhou Feng said that someone had seen Li Shan on the road, and he did not choose to flee to other cities, and speculated that he had come all the way here according to the route.
I immediately thought that Li Shan had desperately escaped and actually chose to return to this place, there must be something important to deal with.
Now that his mine has been seized, all his family property has been confiscated, and he is left with a single person in the whole family, and there is nothing worth his nostalgia here.
Unless, Li Shan had already hidden the copper box, and he wanted to come back and take it away!
The cause of everything was the bronze box, and it was this thing that ruined his reputation, and even ruined his family, of course, it was impossible to give up easily.
"And what do you mean by telling me? I won't worry about Li Shan looking for me to take revenge! "I think it's almost impossible because he's not going to be able to protect himself now.
"The dead man's mine has been carefully surveyed by someone from above." Zhou Feng immediately passed me another bombshell news.
"The pit didn't collapse on its own, it was artificially diverted with water and then washed away!"
The lighter in my hand fell to the ground with a click, and I didn't speak for a long time, so I looked at the location of the Li family mine in a daze.
It is hard to imagine that on a rainy night, those black miners who were deceived and trafficked from all over the country sweated in the mines, just to be able to eat one meal a day, so that they would not be beaten to death.
Suddenly, one day, they were pleasantly surprised to find that they had dug up a shiny box in a place that was originally only pitch black, and sent it to the boss in a hurry, thinking that they could exchange it for freedom.
In return, however, they were mercilessly slaughtered, like a herd of livestock, trapped alive in a dark mine, where the flood washed over their bodies and the huge stones smashed their faces.
Most of them survived until the third day, because there was no water in it, and perhaps they also called for help and tried to remove the stones blocking their escape, but in the end they ended their miserable lives in despair and unwillingness.
I was finally able to understand why the boy who had escaped death, after regaining his freedom and light, would throw himself into the dark slaughter without hesitation.
Hatred had completely baptized his soul, and the boy had become a demon, but not voluntarily, but persecuted by human greed and cruelty.
But is it really just because of a bronze chest that was dug out of the pit?