Monster 1

"We thought it would be very difficult to search for such a witness, but we didn't expect..." Lu Yunli shrugged his shoulders: "When we went to the village, the man's emotions were close to collapse."

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The witness was a 26-year-old man from a neighboring village.I heard that he used to be a gangster in the village, but later borrowed some money from the bank to start a small business, and the business was booming, and now he can be regarded as a golden bachelor.

But now, this man was sitting by the bed with a haggard complexion, staring dully at the two men in police uniforms in front of him. His unkempt appearance was even worse than the homeless on the street.

The man's elderly mother stood beside him with red eyes, and said to Hua Qi and Lu Yunli: "He has been in this state since he came back a week ago. He can't eat a few bites all day, so he just sits like this. Ask him what?" Don't say anything, how can I do this..."

"Auntie, don't worry, we'll just ask him something when we come here." Hua Qi took out Sun Jing's photo from his arms, put it in front of the man, and asked straight to the point: "Have you seen her?"

The man's eyes slowly turned to the direction of the photo, and he focused on the woman in the photo.Gradually, a crack appeared in the expression on the man's face.

He lowered his head and avoided looking at the woman in the photo, and said to Hua Qi in a dry voice, "I'm sorry."

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"Since he came home, he has been very guilty. He feels that he is a coward who can't save her. Every night, he always dreams of Sun Jing's ghost coming to him, asking him why he didn't save her—even though he was at that time. I still don't know what will happen to Sun Jing."

Xie Zhi'an asked: "He is very scared. In such an emotional state, it is easy to have memory deviation."

"Of course, but there is no way, he is the only witness." Lu Yunli paused: "Although I wanted to go up and punch him at the time."

"Most people will lose part of their ability to think when facing the most vicious people. Fear will make them forget the messy emergency plans taught in elementary school courses. This is very normal."

Lu Yunli retorted: "The truth is the truth, but the desire to beat someone will never disappear because of the truth, after all, it is a human life."

Xie Zhian asked helplessly: "...What about after that?"

"We drew a portrait of the suspect based on the man's description, and at the same time issued a warrant on the Internet. What's more, by coincidence: that afternoon, the rubble at the temporary parking lot of Dalong Mountain was cleared up, and Seventh Brother and Ming Yuan brought him I was in the police station in charge of dealing with the matters after the arrest warrant was released." When Lu Yunli said this, he said with aggrieved voice: "It feels like I have become an internal staff member."

Xie Zhian comforted subconsciously: "But this is also a very important link."

"I'm just kidding."

"..."

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I don't know if it is in response to what the magic stick said at the beginning, "The inside of this tunnel is a place where hundreds of ghosts walk through." The inside of the Dalongshan Tunnel is very wet and cold.When Hua Qi stepped in behind the search team, he shivered unconsciously, and even goosebumps appeared on his body.

The tunnel was so narrow that even Hua Qi, who was [-] in height, had to bend down a little to get through, not to mention Qiu Mingyuan who was following behind.

After taking two steps, Hua Qi stopped suddenly. He turned his head slightly and said to Qiu Mingyuan, "Mingyuan, wait for us outside. I will send you the geographic coordinates after I go with the search team."

Although Qiu Mingyuan said he was uncomfortable being stuck, he never had the idea of ​​going out and waiting. He shook his head and rejected Hua Qi's proposal: "It's okay."

Hearing this, Hua Qi didn't say anything more, but just gestured to Qiu Mingyuan from his side, motioning him to take out the gun in his waist.

The tunnel was crooked, and the group of people walked for more than ten minutes before they saw the entrance of the hole covered by dead branches.

Hua Qi blocked the sunlight pouring down his head with his hands, and squinted his eyes to look around: Most of the trees in the mountains are growing well because they are not disturbed by human life.But because of this, the path in the forest that is obviously in line with the idea of ​​"there are many people walking will become a road" has become extremely eye-catching.

After the search team brought police dogs out of the tunnel, they barked and wanted to go down this path. Hua Qi stood still and hesitated for a while, and then followed behind the search team members who were about to disappear in front of them.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Mingyuan followed Hua Qi, and asked him in a low voice: "You are very strange today."

"I feel something is wrong." Hua Qi, who has been maintaining a high level of vigilance, frowned and said, "Maybe I think too much."

Hua Qi seemed reluctant to tell Qiu Mingyuan what he thought, but the trust in the long-term cooperation also made Qiu Mingyuan not ask too much - if you can't give your teammates some space, the cooperation will not be long-term.

The search in the mountain went smoothly. It only took more than an hour for Hua Qi and the others to find a small courtyard house at the foot of the mountain.

This courtyard house looks nothing special from the outside, it has a regular design pattern, and there are some ivy crawling on the outside of the wall, it really looks like the place where some hermit lived.

Even the design of the yard is very particular: rattan chairs placed under the grape racks, wooden tea tables, a set of blue and white porcelain tea sets, neatly arranged vegetable racks, and pressed furniture with a style of the [-]s. well.

Hua Qi, who was temporarily confused by the appearance, suddenly had a deep understanding of what it means to be "gold and jade on the outside but on the inside" after seeing the furnishings in the house.

This is a room that makes people feel afraid just by looking at it.

Iron chains can be seen everywhere, walls stained with blood and mottled, and even food boxes piled up in the corner—there are still food left in it, obviously, it is something for people to eat.

Being in it can even give people the illusion of hearing others wailing—this illusion made Hua Qi feel very bad. He rubbed his temples with his hands and hurried out of the room, breathing in the damp and cold mountain air.

Qiu Mingyuan asked worriedly, "What's the matter with you, Brother Seven?"

"I don't know, maybe I didn't pay attention to the cold." Hua Qi reached out and grabbed Qiu Mingyuan's arm, and said with difficulty: "First sort out the evidence inside, and I will take it easy."

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"In order to protect the ecological environment on that mountain range, the provincial government has issued documents on clearing up illegal buildings in the mountains two years ago, and it has been demolishing them for the past two years... Speaking of which, your family should not have violated any regulations over there. building?"

Being asked so abruptly, Xie Zhi'an was stunned for a moment, first said 'ah', and then coughed dryly, with a rare bit of embarrassment in his tone: "It has been dismantled."

"Yo." Lu Yunli looked at Xie Zhi'an for a while, and said in a very strange motherly tone: "My family also has it, it's nothing, don't be nervous."

Xie Zhian: "..."

"The Dalongshan area was the first to be planned and cleaned up. It can be said that the front, back, left, and right sides of the courtyard were cleaned up. who?"

"Land Planning Bureau?" Xie Zhi'an thought for a while, "No, you should go to the Environmental Protection Bureau if it involves ecological and environmental protection, but the demolition should be a matter of the Planning Bureau, right?"

"Your analysis is in place." Lu Yunzhi's tone gradually turned cold: "We were kicked like this. The evidence in that room was not enough for those people to pay attention to it. They even planned to line up a demolition team to come over. The courtyard house was demolished."

"If they don't cooperate, your case will be very difficult."

Xie Zhi'an vaguely felt that he should not ask any further questions, so he closed his mouth and observed Lu Yunli's expression.

It's just that Lu Yunli didn't expect to speak first: "The number of the anti-mafia case is 225, and it's been 23 days since the case started. After the arrest warrant was issued, there was no useful news at all. The only thing that each bureau will do is Passing the buck to each other, they don't want to bear the consequences and at the same time flout the loss of a life."

"Lu Yunxi...do you want to drink some water first?"

"When things get to the point where they cannot be resolved, they will always just think about how to calm things down, but Seventh Brother has a stubborn temper, he must investigate, and he went alone to collect a lot of evidence—whether it is useful or useless of."

For a smoker, it is very difficult not to smoke when encountering troubles.Just like the current Lu Yunxi—he took out a cigarette, pulled out all the shredded tobacco in it like ADHD, put it on a paper towel, and squeezed the two popping beads in the filter.

"You can smoke if you want."

Seeing Lu Yun's unconventional, slightly anxious behavior.Xie Zhi'an also knew that he was uncomfortable now, but he didn't understand why Lu Yunlai was so impatient.

His intuition told him that Lu Yunxi's actions were not because of the bottleneck encountered in the case, but because of...

The thought that suddenly popped up in his mind made Xie Zhi'an tremble. He lowered his eyes subconsciously to prevent Lu Yunli from seeing the surging emotions in his eyes, but Lu Yunli still noticed the subtle movements of his fists.

Hua Qi——Xie Zhi'an suddenly remembered that no one had mentioned Hua Qi's name since he had been here for so long.This is not like the treatment of a former leader of the investigation team who has retired safely.

Lu Yun looked at Xie Zhi'an firmly, and after a while, his voice came faintly: "It wasn't until something happened to Hua Qi that they had to cooperate with the police."

Xie Zhian asked hesitantly: "They could have chosen to suppress it, right? After all..."

It's just a policeman's accident...

Lu Yunlu suddenly asked Xie Zhian a seemingly irrelevant question: "Have you ever wondered why the old people in the military region had an accident before, and they would name and name and push the matter to me?"

Xie Zhi'an was slightly stunned, and subconsciously asked: "Why?"

"Hua Qi's hair is currently a senior member of the North City Military Region. He knew that after Hua Qi's accident, he secretly put pressure on them, and they had to cooperate." Lu Yunlan smiled wryly: "Power is really a good thing."

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Seventh Brother: I know that people don't speak secretly, I think I'm a gong.

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