dark crossing

The owner and manager of the racecourse were brought under control immediately, and the police who were ready to go immediately blocked the scene and confiscated the communication equipment of all the people present.

The underground palace under the racecourse is bigger than what Shen Ting and Chu Huainan expected.

Chen Cong walked in the front with a gun in hand, followed by Wendi and a team of armed police officers dispatched temporarily.It had just rained a few days ago, and there was a musty smell in the damp basement. Through a dark and cramped corridor, a narrow door with the oldest padlock lay across in front of everyone.

It took only five minutes for lockpicking experts to open the door.With a light click of the padlock, a vast and bright space filled with invisible filth and filth was also opened by the world.

Rao Chen Cong, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, couldn't help being stunned when he saw this. It was difficult for him to count how many identical doors there are here, and there are only a thin wall between the huge number of rooms. , and the thick iron doors that seal the entrance and exit of the room are like isolation doors for radiation protection in a biochemical laboratory.

"This is not a simple isolation door." The explosion-proof expert in the team frowned and said, "This is a sealable explosion-proof door."

Due to the age, the numbers on the gray-white explosion-proof door can only be seen faintly, and the door frame has brown-yellow rust, but the round stainless steel door opening rudder is still shiny, and it is obvious that it has been used all year round.

Chen Cong continued forward with three armed policemen, while Wendi stayed in place with the lockpicking expert and the remaining policemen.

The visit of the police had already alarmed the underground managers. The lock on the narrow door was just a smoke bomb. When the lock-picking expert approached the explosion-proof iron door, a sharp siren sounded in the whole space. It also changed color in an instant, and continuously emitted a flashing warning red light.

Mu Mingsheng's habit of napping for many years was completely ruined by Li Shichuan's disappearance.Let alone a nap, he couldn't even sleep at night right now.

Therefore, when the alarm sounded under the racecourse, the entourage who knew that he hadn't taken a nap rushed into his office immediately: "Mr. Mu! The intrusion alarm at the racecourse has sounded!"

Mu Mingsheng said with a cold face, "Have you contacted Fu Teng?"

Fu Teng is the bald middle-aged owner of the racecourse.

The entourage shook his head nervously: "No, I couldn't get in touch. The phone was turned off. I contacted other people in the racecourse, but they were all turned off. I just sent people to the racecourse to check the situation. You can’t go in and you can’t go out, and the police who blocked the cordon said that there are guests who have lost their things.”

Lost something?Mu Mingsheng frowned, thought for a while and said, "Let me take care of Wan Hao a little more, if there is any change—" He raised his thumb and stroked gently on his neck.

The attendant's expression tightened immediately, he nodded and said, "I understand, let's do it now."

Chen Cong walked with the people for more than ten minutes before finally reaching the end of the tunnel. At the end, there were spots of sunlight scattered on the concrete stairs that turned upwards.

Remove the secret door on the top, Chen Cong couldn't adapt to the strong light for a while, he stuck the gun behind his waist, crawled out from the ground first, squinted his eyes and scanned for a week, and finally determined that this was near Kang Ren's old dormitory building !

He had just stood up straight when the intercom rang.

Wendi's urgent voice came from the intercom: "Team Chen, we have found the so-called 'management office' here, and now a door has been opened, and there is a little girl inside!"

Chen Cong frowned, and immediately contacted Jiang Zhi who was following Kang Ren's person in charge, and immediately made an order: "Take action immediately! Arrest Kang Ren's legal person, Wan Hao!"

Wan Hao is off today, not on duty.In order to ensure everything was safe, Jiang Zhi led a team to watch over Kang Ren's side, while Pan Xiaozhu waited a day and a night in the community where Wan Hao's family was located.After receiving the order, she immediately led people to the fourth floor where Wan Hao lived.

As the only female police officer, Pan Xiaozhu put on a soft voice and pretended to be a real estate staff member. After knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered, and finally they decided to force the door.

The door was quickly opened, but the room was quiet, not even a single person.

Wan Hao lives alone all the year round, and usually doesn't receive guests at home, so there are no guest slippers in the open shoe cabinet, and two leather shoes are scattered on the floor in the entrance, one front and the other reversed, and no slippers can be seen anywhere. .

Pan Xiaozhu, who has worked in criminal investigation for many years, immediately judged that Wan Hao should be at home, so he wore only one pair of slippers.

But her guess didn't seem to be correct.

Five policemen with guns including her searched the house but could not find Wan Hao.There was nothing on the desk in the study room. Pan Xiaozhu wiped the dust on the corner of the desk with her gloved fingers. She noticed with sharp eyes that there was a small square in the center of the desk that was lighter in color than the surrounding area—there should have been Putting something on for a long time, such as a desktop computer!

People are gone and computers are gone, which is really not a good sign.

Without waiting for Pan Xiaozhu to think about it, a colleague outside suddenly shouted loudly: "Attention! The door of the bathroom on the west side is locked! There may be something wrong inside!"

A group of people rushed to the door of the restroom, Pan Xiaozhu knocked on the door and shouted: "Wan Hao! I know you are inside! You can't escape! Don't make futile resistance!"

But no matter how much she shouted, there was still no movement in her voice.

Pan Xiaozhu, who failed to speak out, stepped aside, and the tallest male policeman in the team came up immediately, and kicked four or five times with all his strength to open the specially reinforced door.

There was only a "bang", and the door panel hit a hard object behind the door and bounced back again.Pan Xiaozhu rushed in with one stride, and before entering the door, a strong and pungent smell rushed straight to her forehead, which almost stumped her who thought she was not delicate at all.

Several male policemen followed her and entered the door holding their breath. The scene behind the door made their faces complicated.

"There's a bucket here," said a male colleague.

Pan Xiaozhu glanced at the dark blue airtight plastic bucket, frowned and said, "What is this? Why is it so sour? Could it be that this is a drug production site?" She pulled the rubber glove on her right hand. Fold: "I'm going to open the window, lest this smell is poisonous and knock us all down, you guys draw lots, let's open a box!"

The lid of the bucket was tightly sealed, and two male colleagues worked together to open the lid.

As soon as the lid was opened, the sour smell became more obvious. Although everyone was mentally prepared, a young policeman with junior seniority and the shortest working years couldn't help but spit it out.

As soon as Pan Xiaozhu opened the window, she heard a colleague vomit. She held her nose and looked back, and was dumbfounded—in that huge dark blue plastic bucket, a black, unrecognizable mummy was soaked.

Judging from the shape, this should be the corpse of an adult man whose musculature was severely carbonized, and according to Pan Xiaozhu's judgment of the taste and corrosiveness, the liquid in the barrel should be a strong acid with extremely high concentration!

Through the ensuing on-site investigation, several criminal policemen agreed that the victim did not die when he was placed in the acid barrel, but was in a coma.

Judging from the deep scratches on the barrel wall, the victim struggled after being awakened by a strong burning sensation, but in the end because the lid was sealed too tightly, he could not jump out of the barrel. During the struggle, he was burned to a mummy.

The assailant may have used sulfuric acid to destroy the corpse, but due to the wrong dose and insufficient soaking time, a brutally burned mummy remained at the scene.However, although the body could not be destroyed, the strong acid immersion still caused a lot of trouble for the police investigation-they could not guess the exact time of the death of the deceased, and they had to extract the uncontaminated dead body from the human tissue corroded by strong acid DNA, so as to determine the identity of the victim is not an easy task.

But fortunately, the forensic doctor overcame many difficulties, and finally identified the victim who was stuffed into the acid barrel. It was the missing homeowner Wan Hao.

Wan Hao died in his own home, and soon a suicide note matching his handwriting was found in the drawer of the desk.All the people arrested in the racecourse and the underground palace spoke in unison, insisting that the basement was run by Wan Hao, the director of the Kangren Psychiatric Hospital.

In this large-scale "basement", the police rescued a total of 150 teenagers and girls who had been sexually exploited and abused for a long time, and seized thousands of contraband and dangerous goods that were expressly prohibited from being traded on the market. , the overall weight of the items involved in the case reached [-] tons, and the total amount of items involved in the case exceeded one billion.

Wan Hao's debts have been eliminated, but the investigation will not stop there.When seeing that decent suicide note, Shen Ting couldn't help but sneer.These criminals are quite humorous. According to their preset logic, a victim who was sealed in an acid barrel actually committed suicide after leaving a suicide note?So, who put the lid on that barrel of strong acid?

Do they think the police are mentally retarded?

In fact, Shen Ting wronged the gang who killed Wan Hao.

That suicide note was prepared long ago, and it has been placed on Wan Hao's desk all year round.The reason is that in case something goes wrong, he can pretend to commit suicide and disappear.But he didn't expect that something really happened. He didn't even have a chance to disappear, so he took his life.

After Wan Hao's death, the police launched an unprecedented in-depth investigation against Kang Ren, and on the other hand, they sent Jiang Zhi and Wen Di to closely monitor Mu Mingsheng quietly.

But after visiting Chu Zhensheng, Mu Mingsheng never went out again.

The criminal investigation set up a task force to conduct a thorough investigation into the case of Wan Hao's murder.However, due to lack of monitoring, no witnesses at the scene, and the murderer did not leave any valid biological information, the initial police investigation progressed very slowly.But soon, the case had a breakthrough.The technical investigators extracted a complete fingerprint on the edge of the outer window sill of Wan Hao's house.Afterwards, by visiting nearby residents and extracting videos from individual residents’ homes equipped with private surveillance, the police discovered a short piece of crucial footage—the murderer did not take a safe passage or an elevator, but climbed the air-conditioning rack and climbed from the balcony. They turned into Wan Hao's house.