Mystery Pursuit

The walls and basement of the basement are plastered with cement. It is clean without dirt, and there are no corpses and bloody scenes as imagined by the police. There are piles of watermelons in the corner, which is just a basement for storing watermelons.

Lin Jie walked over, picked up a pile of watermelons, and after confirming that there was no one hidden in the pile of watermelons, he cursed, "Fuck!"

As far as the eye can see from the basement, there is nothing but watermelons. A few people stay below, stay for a while, and climb back to the ground along the ladder.

The basement was very stuffy. Climbing back to the ground, several people sat directly on the ground to rest. Lin Jie lay down on the grass with his hands crossed behind his head, "It's no use. Where can I hide people? Could it be in a grave?"

Wu Fei leaned back, leaned on the water tank, and said dejectedly: "There will be ground breaking in the hidden tomb, and it is easy to be found. I don't know whether Xu Min is alive or dead now. Alas! It feels like someone is holding a knife and killing everyone." It’s better to cut the flesh with a piece of meat and torment people alive than to give it a knife.”

These days, everyone lived and ate in Zuozhuang Town. During this period, Lin Jie’s child had a fever, and his wife called several times, but he didn’t return. Everyone devoted themselves to the case, but failed again and again, and loss was inevitable.

Wu Yuzhou looked at the vast forest in the distance, neither complained nor encouraged everyone, and remained as calm as before.

Yu Ye also didn't speak, and let everyone complain. Although these words are meaningless, they are better than holding them in their hearts. When Lin Jie and the others complained about it, Yu Ye said, "Go back."

Wu Yuzhou got up unhurriedly, and whispered into Yu Ye's ear, "Take Huang Yongqiang and Huang Yongtao back together, and ask them if they know about the basement."

Yu Ye responded, and the car turned into Xiangyang Village, the two brothers were as usual, one was playing games in the room, the other was sitting in the living room watching TV, someone disappeared to Huang Haidong and committed suicide These days, Huang Yongqiang and Yu Ye are already familiar, he asked: "Officer Yu Can I send Grandpa's body to be cremated?"

"Before you take the body away, please go to town with me and have a chat."

Knowing that the town mentioned by Yu Yekou refers to the police station, Huang Yongqiang was slightly surprised, "Didn't you always ask at home? What are you doing in the town?"

Yu Ye patted him on the shoulder, "Let's go, go to the town to go through the procedures, more formally."

Huang Yongqiang walked into the side sleeper, chatted with his younger brother, and pushed the wheelchair out. Before leaving, Huang Yongtao suddenly said: "Wait a minute."

Hearing the sound, everyone looked at him. He moved the wheelchair to the wall, took the prosthesis standing by the wall, rolled up his pants, revealing his incomplete calf, put on the prosthesis, put on his shoes, and put down his trousers under the eyes of everyone. , stood up, walked over, the pace was very steady, and there was no disability if you didn't look carefully.

The two brothers of the Huang family followed Wu Fei into another car. Half an hour later, Huang Yongqiang and Huang Yongtao entered different interrogation rooms. This time, Yu Ye and Wu Yuzhou interrogated the two brothers separately.

Huang Yongtao had the same cold face as the previous few times, his small eyes turned around, aiming at every corner of the room, looking around, his gaze fell on the one-way perspective glass, his gaze was like a cold sword, as if to penetrate the glass and shoot at the eyes of the people outside the window chest.

Lin Jie sat halfway on the table, took a few sips of water, and snorted coldly: "You are young, and your eyes are quite sharp. It's scary to look at it this way."

Yu Ye didn't care, rolled up the materials in his hand, tapped Lin Jie on the shoulder, "Let's go."

Entering the interrogation room, Yu Ye found out the photo of the basement and showed it to Huang Yongtao, "Do you know where this is?"

Huang Yongtao took the phone and swipe through the photos, "The basement of my watermelon field."

"Know why the basement was built?"

"Store the watermelon."

"Do you go in often?"

Huang Yongtao shook his head.

"Have you been in there recently?"

"No."

"Does Huang Yongqiang know about the existence of the basement?"

"I do not know."

"The basement was built by your grandfather?"

"Ah."

"Store only watermelons?"

"do not know."

"Does anyone else in the village know about the basement?"

Huang Yongtao slightly lowered his head to look at the table. His hair was very long, his bangs covered his eyebrows, he didn't look directly at Yu Ye when he spoke, and said impatiently in his voice, "I don't know."

"Why do you think Huang Haidong committed suicide? When we found the body, we found Ding Yueke's body next to the body. They knew each other?"

"I don't know." Huang Yongtao tightly clenched his hand hanging down beside him, his fingertips turned white, and his eyes were faintly angry.

Yu Ye was also a little annoyed when he didn't know several times in a row, and said sternly, "I don't know each other, but it's clean. Your parents disappeared when you were five or six years old. It was Huang Haidong who brought you and Huang Yongqiang up all these years. Grandparents and grandchildren The three of you depend on each other, live together every day, and live under the same roof, you don’t know anything, will I believe it?”

Huang Yongtao let go of his clenched hand, and his tone gradually calmed down. Only those dull eyes still hung down on the table and did not look at anyone. "Is it necessary to know each other very well when we live together? Grandpa and I meet every day, but we rarely communicate. , never asked about each other's affairs, he chose to end his life in this way, maybe there was some unspeakable reason, he didn't want to say it, and I naturally didn't want to know, it's better to be confused about some things."

"I don't interfere or comment on your way of life, but you have to know that two of the three missing people have died now, and they also have family members."

Huang Yongtao raised his eyes slightly, and as soon as his eyes met Yu Ye, they immediately lowered, "They are dead, what does it have to do with me? With that broken basement, you come to suspect me?"

Yu Ye still looked directly at Huang Yongtao, "If it's just an ordinary basement for storing watermelons, why is the hole covered up? Isn't it better to design the hole indoors for fear of people going in to steal the watermelons? The big tank of water, even an adult male, is difficult to move alone, so much effort is for fear of being discovered.

Why are you afraid of being discovered?

Because there is an unknown secret in the basement, which is known only to your Huang family, so we'd better open the skylight and speak the truth, there is no need to act. "

Huang Yongtao didn't speak anymore, and let Yu Ye and Lin Jie ask whatever they wanted, and they never opened their mouths again. If they asked too much, they got annoyed, so they simply closed their eyes to rest, and didn't even give them a look.

There was no choice but to suspend the inquiry first, and Yu Ye went out to the observation area to look at Wu Yuzhou.

Huang Yongqiang entered the interrogation room, sat upright and stared straight ahead, not daring to move. When Wu Yuzhou came in, he said with a naive smile, "If you have any questions, can you go to my house and ask? This is just like a TV show. It's scary."

"Relax, just treat this as your living room." Wu Yuzhou said.

Huang Yongqiang curled his lips, not daring to reveal his true thoughts, and still smiled innocently, "This room is scary, and it can't be used as my living room. If you have any questions, please ask as soon as possible."

According to the plan agreed in advance, Wu Yuzhou, like Yu Ye, first took out his mobile phone to show Huang Yongqiang the photos of the basement, and asked him if he knew the existence of the basement.

Huang Yongqiang works outdoors all the year round, his skin is tanned, and he does not pay attention to maintenance. He looks very old, his eyes are simple, and he belongs to the image of farmers in the traditional impression. He looked at the photo blankly, "There is no The basement, where did you find it? Did you make a mistake?"

Wu Yuzhou showed him a few more photos, "It's unmistakable, it's your watermelon patch."

Huang Yongqiang looked at Wu Yuzhou innocently, "Sorry, I didn't know there was a basement."

Outside the interrogation room, Yu Ye frowned. Huang Yongtao, who didn't go to the melon fields often, knew about the basement. Why didn't Huang Yongqiang, who often went to the fields, know about it?He pushed Lin Jie, raised his chin towards the interrogation room where Huang Yongtao was, "Go and ask Huang Yongtao how he found the basement?"

Lin Jie pushed the door in, and came out after a while, "Huang Yongtao went to play in the mountains when he was six or seven years old, and accidentally smashed a small water tank, and the water flowed out. He moved the empty tank and found the basement door.

Huang Yongqiang was not at home for a while when he was a child, only Huang Yongtao was alone. They grew up separately, so that time they found that Huang Yongtao was alone in the basement. "

Wu Yuzhou also thought of the question that Yu Ye was thinking about, and he asked, "You go to the watermelon field every day, and you haven't touched the water tank?"

"I often go to scoop water in it, but I haven't touched them. The water tank has formed a fixed habit for many years, so why move it if there is nothing to do?"

Huang Yongqiang didn't know about the basement, which blocked Wu Yuzhou's next related questions, so he had to change the subject and ask, "Do you know the cause of Huang Haidong's death and his relationship with Ding Yueke?"

"I don't know. Grandpa has always been hardworking and capable. He hopes to earn more money and marry my younger brother and I. Except I haven't heard him say that he has troubles. Who is Ding Yue?"

Wu Yuzhou: "..."

For the next question, Huang Yongqiang and Huang Yongtao answered almost the same.

After leaving the interrogation room, Wu Yuzhou went to the corridor to smoke. Judging from the status, he knew that Huang Yongqiang's interrogation was unsuccessful. Yu Ye followed him to light a cigarette and smoked with him.

Wu Yuzhou stared at the faint light of fire between Yu Ye's fingers, "Since you quit smoking, don't smoke. Cigarettes are not a good thing."

Yu Ye patted his chest and smiled lightly: "It's so congested...the person handling this case is depressed."

Wu Yuzhou looked away and looked out of the window, "Remember what Captain Yu said last time that he quit smoking for the sake of his ex, and now he is letting go of the past when he relapses?"

Yu Ye: "..."

Speaking of which, it was because of Wu Yuzhou that he started smoking again. Although Wu Yuzhou still had no expression on his face at the moment, his tone could be heard to be a little unhappy.

Yu Ye hooked the corners of his lips and put out the smoke, "It doesn't matter whether it's the basement or Brother Huang Yongqiang, it seems that there is no problem now, maybe we have found the wrong direction for detection."

Mentioning this point, Wu Yuzhou also had a headache. The case has been investigated so far, three missing women, two dead and one missing, but the police are still going around in circles without any obvious progress. He took a long breath and slammed the cigarette, "I don't believe A perfect crime, as long as it has been done, there must be traces and flaws, I want to go to the basement again."

"Okay, I'll accompany you."

The environment in the basement was the same as last time. This time Wu Yuzhou brought a brighter flashlight, and the flashlight pointed at the wall to look at each place, "It's a bit strange."

Yu Ye leaned over, "Where?"

Wu Yuzhou pointed to the wall, "There are no people in the basement, so why are the walls and floors plastered with cement?"

Yu Ye used a flashlight to take a picture of the entire room from the roof to the ground, "The roof is also plastered, it's really unnecessary."

Wu Yuzhou squatted down, shined the flashlight on the ground, and still looked carefully at one place and one place. After a while, "Come and see."

Yu Ye moved the light of the flashlight from the wall to the ground, squatted down, and looked at Wu Yuzhou's finger, which was an ordinary concrete floor, and found nothing unusual.

Wu Yuzhou lowered the flashlight to allow more light, "Did you see it?"

Yu Ye lowered his head again, and under the illumination of two flashlights, he saw clearly the piece Wu Yuzhou was pointing at. Suddenly, a chill shot up his back. A long hair was wrapped in the cement. He raised his eyes, Meeting Wu Yuzhou's eyes, "No way?"

Wu Yuzhou shook his head lightly, "I don't know, let's dig it open first."

They returned to the ground along the ladder, dug out the shovel pick and other agricultural tools from under the bed of the melon house, and then went back to the basement, with the flashlight aside, the two raised the agricultural tools and planed towards the concrete floor.

The cement was hard, and digging the ground was not as easy as they imagined. The two of them were sweating profusely, but they only dug a little bit. If this continued for a day, they would not be able to dig the ground, so they had to call Lin Jie for someone to come.

When Lin Jie brought professional demolition personnel and tools, the speed was much faster. The worker suddenly let out a piercing scream, and everyone quickly looked over. A hole was dug out, and a white bone was exposed in the hole.

The author has something to say: I wanted to close the case in one chapter, but I didn’t finish it, so let’s wait another day, the case will be closed tomorrow, and I’m lost...