Chapter 1: Bizarre Cases

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The iron door behind "Bang Dang" closed heavily, and Yang Xiaojun only reacted at this time, and he was free again. The sunlight was unusually dazzling, and he felt a little uncomfortable. Stood still, not knowing where to go. Although it was finally proved that he was innocent, a few days after he was taken away by the police, he had already been notified that he had been dismissed and that someone had sent his personal belongings to the detention center. Besides, even if the unit asked him to go to work, he couldn't face people's suspicious eyes, why only he survived the few people he worked with, and everyone else died inexplicably. He also wanted to know what had happened that night, except that he had slept deeply, and when he woke up, he found that the other people were lying upright and motionless, and he could not even hear the snoring of the fat man. He got out of bed and pushed Xie Laosan next to him, only to find that Xie Laosan's body was stiff, and his hairs immediately stood on end, and he hurriedly looked at several other people, and they all stopped breathing.

At this time, Yang Xiaojun's brain was blank, and he was stunned before he staggered out of the dormitory, shouting "Dead man, dead man", but no one responded to the dead silence on the construction site. Only then did it suddenly dawn on me that the work here had been completed yesterday, and the workers of the engineering team had gone home from vacation the day before yesterday. Today they should go to another construction site in Lintong, said that the unit sent a car to pick them up at 9 o'clock in the morning, and looked at the watch, it was already half past 9 o'clock, and the car had not yet come. I was about to go to the phone booth in the town to call the police, only to see a dusty road not far away, and a minibus with the Sixth Bureau of China Construction on its body came galloping. Yang Xiaojun ran out of the construction site quickly, opened the car door without waiting for the car to stop, and almost cried and shouted,

"Something happened, they all died".

The driver, Lao Li, and Manager Zhang, who came with the car, looked puzzled, Manager Zhang was stunned at first, and then asked: What is dead?

Yang Xiaojun repeated in a trembling voice, "All dead, the fat man, the third child, Lao He, Brother Li, and Zhao Liang are all dead", and as soon as he finished speaking, his legs weakened, and he slid on the ground against the car door, muttering to himself but couldn't hear what he was saying.

Manager Zhang's name is Zhang Wei, in his forties, is the project manager of the Xi'an branch of China Construction Sixth Bureau, after listening to Yang Xiaojun's words, he immediately ran into the dormitory, opened the door and looked, except for Yang Xiaojun who had just gotten up and was scattered on the bed, everyone else was lying motionless, and was about to raise his feet to go in to see what was going on, and suddenly thought "No, you should call the police first, you can't destroy the scene", and then retracted the left foot that had been taken, and then the driver Lao Li also ran over panting.

Manager Zhang stopped Lao Li and said, "I'll watch here first, you immediately drive to the town in front to call the police, there is a death here", at this time, the pager in the waist suddenly rang, startled him, looked down and said to Lao Li, "It's the company's phone, you report to the police by the way, call back to the company, tell me about the situation here, Lintong can't go for the time being."

Watching Lao Li drive away at a gallop, he came to his senses, and then looked at Yang Xiaojun, who was dull and muttering, and wanted to ask something, but seeing that he was frightened, he couldn't ask anything, and besides, he was not a criminal investigator, so it was useless to ask. You can only light a cigarette to calm your nerves.

After about ten minutes, Lao Li came back, and after talking to Manager Zhang about the situation, the two were silent and smoked the cigarette in their hands fiercely. About half an hour later, three police cars roared in, and then they watched the police set up a cordon around the construction site, and the forensic doctor in a white coat and two very capable criminal police officers entered the dormitory and began to investigate the scene. Three policemen approached the three of them, asked them a few brief questions, and then an officer drove them to the police force to take a record.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when the three of them arrived at the criminal police team in a police car, although they had not touched the rice since the morning, but at this time Yang Xiaojun did not feel hungry at all, and stopped at the door of an office after following the criminal police inside, and the policeman said to a few people sitting inside: "Xiao Zhou, Xiao Li, Xiao Wang, the three of you have made a record of these three people, it is the case at the construction site of the Qinling Expressway this morning."

At this time, the driver Lao Li said, "Comrade policeman, we haven't eaten yet, can you give some food first, let's make a mat and then record it."

The policeman glanced back at the three of them and said, "Xiao Li, get three instant noodles for the three of them." After saying that, he got out of the police force and drove away.

The three of them were arranged in three different interrogation rooms, Yang Xiaojun had no appetite at all with instant noodles, and looked at a thermos on the table opposite, he knew where the interrogators' seats were and where his seats were, because this was the second time he had entered such an interrogation room. Naturally, I sat down where I was supposed to be sitting and slowly calmed down.

After more than ten minutes, a policewoman who looked about his age came in, looked at him after coming in, sat at the interrogation table opposite with a blank face, glanced at the instant noodles on the table, and said, "Why haven't you eaten anything?"

"Not hungry",

"Then let's start, my surname is Wang, you can call me Officer Wang, please answer every question I ask truthfully" After speaking, he took out his pen and pulled out the cap, spread out his notebook, and stared at Yang Xiaojun opposite.

Yang Xiaojun didn't speak, just nodded slightly, glanced at Officer Wang, and then moved his gaze to the ground, faintly feeling that this policewoman seemed to be more nervous than him.

"Name"?

"Yang Xiaojun"

"Gender"?

"Male",

"Age"?

“23”,

"Date of birth"?

"September 18, 1976, September 18 of the lunar calendar", he immediately added, used to it, when he was in college, everyone always used the September 18 incident to celebrate his birthday, so every time someone asked him about his birthday, he would subconsciously add it.

"Origin"?

"Hebei Julu"

"Political outlook"?

"Party member". At this time, I felt that Officer Wang raised his head and glanced at him, and then continued to make notes.

"Education"?

"Undergraduate"

"Place of work"?

"Xi'an Branch of China Construction Sixth Engineering Bureau"

"Position"?

"Project Supervision"

"Graduate school, major"?

"Civil Engineering of Tongji University"

"How many years have you been working in China Construction Sixth Bureau"?

"Three months for the Beijing head office, one year and nine months for the Xi'an branch, two years." At this time, I felt that Officer Wang looked at him again, he raised his eyes and looked at each other, and could see the doubts in the other party's eyes, and then said, "I went to school early, and the rural primary school is a five-year system", which is another habit of self-introduction, and his classmates all look at him as young and old, and always joke that he must have changed his household registration book, otherwise how can he be two or three years younger than his classmates.

At this time, I heard Officer Wang whisper, "I said, how can you work two years earlier than me when you are the same age as me", and I can hear that Officer Wang has a bit of a narcissistic tendency. Then he may have felt his gaffe, and immediately said seriously, "I will answer whatever I ask, don't say anything if I don't ask, and tell me about the specific situation last night."

Wang Xiaojun thought to himself, it turned out that he was still an intern, no wonder. Although he experienced a shock in his youth, he has now largely recovered. So I told you in detail about everything that happened to Manager Zhang from last night.

After the transcript was finished, Officer Wang left the interrogation room and said, "You can eat something first, and I'll go and make a report to the leader." At this time, Yang Xiaojun felt a little hungry, and after soaking the instant noodles for a minute, he wiped them out. As soon as he cleaned up, Officer Wang pushed open the door and said, "You go back to the unit first and wait, you are not allowed to leave Xi'an until you receive our notice, and you must cooperate with our investigation at any time.

Yang Xiaojun left the criminal police team and ate two large bowls of mutton steamed buns in a small restaurant near the unit, and then walked back to the dormitory, where his colleagues in the same dormitory were sent to Weinan for more than half a year.

Yang Xiaojun lay on his bed, his head resting on his hands and carefully recalling the events of the past few days, for fear of missing a detail, and hoping that his memories could quickly assist the police to solve the case. Three months ago, six people were sent to the construction site of the Qinling Expressway, although he has always been withdrawn and not good at socializing, and the relationship with colleagues in the unit is not good, but he gets along with these five people quite well, and they can be regarded as sharing weal and woe, and in the blink of an eye, they are separated by yin and yang, and they really can't accept it in their hearts, and they want to bring the criminals to justice as soon as possible.

Just thinking about it, I heard messy and hurried footsteps in the corridor, and was about to go out to see what was going on, when I heard someone say, "It's the middle room", and then the dormitory door was pushed open, and two policemen came in. The policeman in the back said, "Yang Xiaojun, you are now suspected of murder, we will take you to the police station to assist in the investigation in accordance with the law, I hope to cooperate well and don't leave anything to chance."

Yang Xiaojun's mind suddenly went blank, and he mechanically got into the police car under the escort of the two policemen, and the people in each dormitory poked their heads out and muttered something in a low voice, and there were a few colleagues standing sporadically in the corridor and on the stairs, seeing this situation, they hurriedly stood against the wall, gave way to them, looked at him with strange eyes, and ran back to the dormitory to ask what was going on after they passed.

When he arrived at the criminal police team, Yang Xiaojun was surprisingly calm, he didn't understand why he changed from a survivor of a criminal case to a criminal suspect in a blink of an eye, but he always believed that the clear person cleared himself, there must be a misunderstanding in the middle, as long as he has a clear conscience, there is nothing to make a fuss about.

The treatment this time was completely different from the last time, and the interrogation room was also different from the afternoon, as soon as he entered the interrogation room, he was fixed to the iron chair, and his hands were locked on the armrests on both sides of the iron chair. Then two policemen came in, all of whom he had seen, one was the male police officer who sent him in the afternoon, and the other was still Officer Xiao Wang, and after Officer Xiao Wang came in, his eyes were no longer soft, and he looked cold.

After the two sat down, the male police officer said in a cold and majestic tone, "Yang Xiaojun, I am Gao Bo, deputy captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of Gaoling District, Xi'an City, and now I will interrogate you in accordance with the law, confess leniently, resist strictly, we will not wronged a good person, nor will we easily let go of a bad person, I hope to actively cooperate with the work of the police, do you understand?" Yang Xiaojun did not answer.

"Did you understand what I just said?" Team Gao repeated.

"Understood".

"Then let's start, Xiao Wang will make a record"

"Why, motivation?" Team Gao asked.

"Ah, oh, I didn't kill"

"The psychological quality is not bad, worthy of being a college student, then let me ask you, what did they do on the night of the crime, and what are you doing?"

"Fat man, Lao He, Lao San, Brother Li, are smashing the red one, and Zhao Liang is watching the game"

"What about you?".

"I just started reading books for a while, boxing outside for an hour, and that's what I'm used to every day. When they came back, they didn't play anymore, everyone washed up, and then they went to bed."

"Boxing, do you know martial arts?"

"Well, family heirloom".

"Then He Bing (Lao He) has the eye of the needle on his hand, Zhao Liang also has the eye of the needle on his leg and stomach, and there is a small slight burn mark around the navel, how to explain it?"

"Lao He, oh, He Bing had a cold and tonsils inflammation two days ago, and I pricked and bleed his hands at the acupuncture points of Shaoshang, Shangyang and Shixuan. Zhao Liang had an upset stomach that day, and I had needles on several acupuncture points on his stomach, such as Tianshu and Shuidao, and I also did moxibustion treatment at Shenque acupoint."

"Huh? Do you also know acupuncture? You don't have wormwood, and you don't see professional acupuncture equipment, how do you do it? ”

"It's also family heirloom. I always carry the needles with me, usually in a small tin box next to my pillow. It's all in my dorm now, and they sent it back to me this afternoon. Hot moxibustion cut ginger slices can also be made with cigarettes"

"I don't see it, you really know a lot of things" At this time, the expressions of Captain Gao and Officer Wang also eased a little.

Yang Xiaojun was noncommittal, waiting for the next round of inquiries.

"You say it again, what happened yesterday, recall it carefully, be detailed, and don't miss a single detail." Yang Xiaojun repeated it again, and couldn't think of any difference.

After the completion of the last section of the road the afternoon before yesterday, all the construction personnel of the engineering team left the construction site that day. Several logistics staff in charge of cooking left some ingredients for them, and helped them sort out the remaining important supplies and most of their personal belongings before following the company's car.

Several of them have to wait for the road surface to harden completely, and then do some necessary inspections and inspections the next day, and the company will send a car to pick them up and transfer them to the next construction site. Although it is summer, it is still very cool in the mountains most of the time, and it will be relatively hot only at noon during the day, and the freezer at the construction site has also been pulled away, and the meat is found to be slightly spoiled when cooking the next afternoon, which is also a common occurrence in outdoor construction. Everyone didn't take it seriously, Brother Li was very good at making stewed meat, and all the meat was stewed, it tasted very good, and nothing was wrong, and in the end, the two bottles of Qinchuan Daqu left on the construction site were reimbursed when eating.

According to the usual amount of wine, these two bottles of wine are enough for the fat man and Lao Li, Yang Xiaojun doesn't drink, and everyone knows his habits and doesn't greet him. Zhao Liang had a little diarrhea at night, and he got better soon after treatment. The difference between him and everyone else is that he didn't drink, is there something wrong with the wine? It's impossible to think about it, every time you go to the construction site, the company will bring a few boxes of Qinchuan Daqu, everyone will drink a little every day to relieve fatigue, and the meat has deteriorated a few times when working on the construction site. Zhao Liang also squinted in the afternoon, his stomach was not covered, and he caught a cold.

Captain Gao asked a few more detailed questions based on his account, paused for a while, and saw that Officer Wang had finished recording.

Then he asked, "Do they play with color?" ”。

"It's not big with a little bit, it's all a dime at the bottom, and the win or loss in one night is only ten dollars or eight yuan, and it is generally the next day when you win, you buy a pack of cigarettes and smoke it together."

"You don't smoke?"

"Don't smoke"

"What else is there about you that is different from them?" I could hear that the tone of the senior team softened slightly.

"I wake up early every morning, find a quiet place to box, read at night, exercise before going to bed, and then wash up and sleep."

"What kind of boxing do you practice, which is also a family tradition? Strenuous exercise at night affects sleep."

"Half-step collapse boxing, also practicing Yanqing boxing, are all our family martial arts. After sleeping, meditation and breathing exercises will be carried out, so that the combination of movement and static exercise is very effective, and it does not affect sleep."

"Do you know how to do qigong?"

"My grandfather is a famous local doctor, and he is very good at bone grafting, massage, and acupuncture, which require some qigong skills to do well, and I started practicing it when I was three years old." Speaking of his grandfather, Yang Xiaojun's heart was full of pride, and then he immediately became sad again, and his grandfather had been away from him for eight years.

"Well, is there anything different about your subjective feelings these days from the other day?"

"It's no different, it's just that since I arrived at the construction site for three months, I have slept better every day than in the first half of the year, and nothing else"

Then the Gao team asked a few more about the events that happened before and after the three months before and after the time he arrived at the construction site, and Yang Xiaojun had a good memory and spoke in detail.

After a short silence, the senior team said, "Let's get here today, before the matter is fully investigated, I will first wronged you to stay in the detention center for a few days, don't have a psychological burden, believe us, things will always come to light one day."

In this way, Yang Xiaojun's second interrogation ended, and he was taken to the detention center of the criminal police team to wait for the final result.

Yang Xiaojun thought that he only needed to wait for the police to solve the case before he could go back to work, but the development of things was completely unexpected by him, which only increased his doubts, so much so that it directly changed the direction of his life.

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