Urban Night Returner

The deceased was Li Qiang, a migrant worker from Linyi who worked in Binhai with his wife Zhang Xiaoqing.A while ago, they were working on a construction site in Sifang District. After the work was finished, they only got 70.00% of the wages. The contractor promised to pay them all before the year, and promised to let them go home with the money for the New Year.Because they had worked with this contractor several times, and although the payment was not settled at one time each time, it had not been delayed for a long time, so everyone did not complain too much, and each went to find a job.Zhang Xiaoqing found a job as a cleaner in a rather large Internet cafe.A factory not far from the Internet cafe happened to be relocated, and Li Qiang worked as a loader there, and the husband and wife could still live in the workshop that had not been demolished, saving a lot of money for renting a house.Because Internet cafes open very late every day, Zhang Xiaoqing always goes to clean up after 11:12 pm, and can also help work in the factory to earn money during the day.Li Qiang can simply play with the computer, and is also very interested in the Internet, but he had no spare money to use the Internet for him before, so this time Zhang Xiaoqing found this job, and Li Qiang followed her to clean at night. Hours of computer, until the Internet cafe closes at [-]:[-], they will leave.

"So you didn't want to pay for climbing the tower crane?" Zuo Jian found the key point in Zhang Xiaoqing's intermittent crying.

Zhang Xiaoqing sobbed and nodded: "I didn't at first. That contractor is also someone I know, and I gave it according to the time he said a few times ago. We don't want to make trouble, as long as we can go home with the money for the New Year. But Li Qiang didn’t know what happened. He suddenly asked for money since last night. I said don’t worry. Evening. I didn’t take it seriously either. Who knew that after the work was done today, he suddenly disappeared. Later, the construction site here shouted that someone had climbed the tower crane. Woohoo—why is he so confused, he really went to climb? Later, the contractor also came and said he would pay him right away, so why is he still jumping..."

Zuo Jian glanced at Shen Gu, and continued to ask: "Before he asked for money, did anyone encourage him? I mean, did anyone ask him for money?"

Zhang Xiaoqing wiped his tears and shook his head: "I didn't hear that. We don't know the people in the factory very well, so no one will talk about it?"

"Before that day, had he been anywhere?"

"No. We work in the factory during the day, and he follows me to the Internet cafe at night. I clean up and he surfs the Internet. The owner of the Internet cafe is a good person. He sometimes says a few words, but he doesn't say anything. It's about money." As she spoke, she began to cry again, "Why is he so arrogant, what's going on?"

Zuo Jian and Shen Gu glanced at each other.Maybe only the two of them know that this is not a suicide or a misstep that happened together to beg for wages, but at least for now, they can't say it.

"There is no trace of her home." Walking out of Li Qiang and Zhang Xiaoqing's simple and temporary "home", Zuo Jian said thoughtfully, "Those things are not attached here."

"Could it be the construction site?"

Zuo Jian closed his lips and thought for a moment: "Go back and search carefully again, let's go."

Because of the fatal incident, the construction site was temporarily closed.There was still blood on the ground, a dried up pool, showing a vague human shape.Zuo Jian stared at the bloodstain for a long time, then clenched his fists: "Look at every corner."

Shen Gu frowned: "What do you want to see?" Although Zhong Lecen said that he was born with yin and yang eyes, he still didn't know how to search for the traces left by ghosts.

Zuo Jian was stunned for a moment before he realized that Shen Gu was not from their profession after all: "The traces left by ghosts are similar to a kind of stain, but they are different from normal stains. They are—" He was looking for a suitable one. In terms of language, Shen Gu already thought of the ghost encounter on the viaduct when he first met Zhong Lecen: "For example, the kind that can be seen but can't be erased?"

Zuo Jian nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, you should be able to recognize it when you see it. In short, it's not an ordinary oil stain or gray mark..."

Shen Gu felt that what he said meant that he didn't say anything, but he turned around and looked at every corner carefully.How big is a construction site?More than half of the building is enough for people to see, not to mention that there are scaffolding, reinforced concrete bricks everywhere, and only the two of them are tumbling, but it is a huge project.Turning around till dawn, Zuo Jian sighed as he knocked on his sore back: "Still not there."

Shen Gu straightened his body: "Actually, there are so many people on this construction site. Why don't others have this problem, which means that the problem is not on the construction site." Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.

Zuo Jian smiled wryly: "Why didn't you say that earlier?" If they had said it earlier, they wouldn't have to spend the night at the construction site.

Shen Gu said lightly: "I'm afraid I'll miss the clue."

Zuo Jian thumped his waist: "Not at home, not on the construction site - go to the Internet cafe to have a look."

Shen Gu glanced at him: "What happened to your waist?"

Zuo Jian's face flushed slightly, which was not so obvious in the just pale sky: "It's nothing, it was stretched two days ago."

Before the Internet cafe opened, Zuo Jian and Shen Gu grabbed the boss at home.When the boss saw two policemen coming to look for him, his face turned pale. He heaved a sigh of relief when he found out that it was not for him to let the minors into the Internet cafe. ? He jumped off a tower and hanged himself? How could it be? The first day he was still surfing the Internet in my Internet cafe, talking and laughing with his wife, and reading jokes on the Internet to her, why did he commit suicide when he turned around?"

"Did he bring up the matter of the contractor's wages owed?" Seeing that Zuo Jian had already gone between the computers to check, Shen Gu asked the boss.

The boss tried his best to recall: "I mentioned it before, but he said that the contractor was okay. Although he sometimes defaulted on the arrears, he paid them all in the end, and I heard that they didn't go back until the Chinese New Year. They should have received the money by then. .I didn’t talk to him very much, and I only heard a few words from him.”

This statement is the same as Zhang Xiaoqing's statement, which further proves that Li Qiang's death is indeed very strange.

"Which computer does Li Qiang usually use?"

"Not necessarily." The boss scratched his head, "We are still open at eleven o'clock, and there are many people here. He came over and used whichever computer was free. But the one in the corner is used more , because the place where it is placed is airtight, and the guests generally don’t like to use it, so it is most often left empty.”

Zuo Jianer heard them talking, and had already walked to the computer. Shen Gu heard him gasp suddenly, and walked over immediately: "What did you see?"

Left Jian pointed to the side of the computer screen: "Look."

Shen Gu leaned over to take a closer look.The computer in the Internet cafe is still quite clean, I don't know if it was cleaned by Zhang Xiaoqing.Now, under the light, there are faint black marks on the edge of the milky white plastic.Shen Gu stretched out his hand to wipe it, but nothing got on his fingers, and those black marks didn't change at all.

"Li Qiang was possessed here. That thing was hidden in his body, and then he was directed to climb up the tower crane when it was dark." Zuo Jian said this, and turned back to ask, "Do you remember the last time Li Qiang When he came, did anyone use this computer before him?"

The boss thought for a while, and said with certainty: "It was Wednesday, and there were not many people. No one has used this computer that day."

It was past nine in the morning when Shen Gu got home.Zhong Lecen didn't go to the clinic, but was anxiously waiting at home. When he saw Shen Gu, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Where have you been? I thought you were on a business trip, so why don't you tell me. Have you had breakfast yet?"

"No." Shen Gu sat down on the sofa, "He died, he fell from the tower crane and fell to his death."

Zhong Lecen said: "From the tower crane? Open the tower crane?"

"No." Shen Gu leaned on the back of the sofa, looked up at him, "I climbed the tower crane by myself and fell down."

Zhong Lecen frowned: "It's not suicide, is it? Otherwise you'd say you 'jumped' off."

Shen Gu nodded: "Yes. He was possessed by something. Zuo Jian told me to go over and hit one with his special bullet. I didn't expect that there was another one. After all, he was manipulating that person to jump down. Zuo Jian and I Jian is going to investigate this matter."

Zhong Lecen brought out breakfast and put it in front of his eyes, and asked worriedly: "Have you found out?"

"I found an Internet cafe that the man often went to. There were marks on both sides of the computer screen he used, and he should have been possessed there. However, there were too many people in and out of the Internet cafe, and Zuo Jian had already taken the video from the Internet cafe back to let him The technical department checked one by one."

"Well, then you should eat first, do you still have to go there?"

"Take a nap first and go in the afternoon. It is not something that can be done in a short while to check one by one."

"Then—" Zhong Lecen frowned, "Can you tell me what that ghost looks like?"

While gobbling it down, Shen Gu described the scene at that time in detail.Zhong Lecen gently touched his hand: "Don't be sad, you have tried your best."

Shen Gu's movements stopped suddenly.Zuo Jian asked him to come back to catch up on sleep, but Zuo Jian didn't see what caused his exhaustion.In fact, in terms of physical strength, tossing for three days and three nights may not make him so tired. His tiredness lies in his heart, because even though he hit the target, he still failed to save that life.Only Zhong Lecen could see this.

Zhong Lecen sat down beside him: "Don't keep thinking about that hostage, not everything will happen again and again. Some things are not your responsibility, so don't take it on yourself."

Shen Gu looked at him for a while, smiled, and hugged him to touch his messy hair: "Educated me? What about you?"

Zhong Lecen kicked him angrily: "Take it as the liver and lungs of a donkey with good intentions!"

Shen Gu smiled and kissed him: "Okay, I'm fine, you go to the clinic."

Zhong Lecen went to the clinic, and Shen Gu rushed to the bureau immediately after washing the dishes and catching up on sleep for an hour.Zuo Jian was still catching up on sleep in his office, while Xiao Heizi was staring at the technical department for investigation.

"Any clues?"

"No." Xiao Heizi shook his head, with a puzzled face on his face, "It's true that no one has accessed that computer that day, the person sitting next to him did, but——what are you looking for?"

Shen Gu thought for a while: "You'd better ask the left team. By the way, did you take pictures of Li Qiang surfing the Internet that day?"

"No. The place where the camera is placed is above that computer. You can only see the top of Li Qiang's head from the camera, and nothing else can be seen. Hey, don't change the subject. If I asked something before, you let me go Ask the left team, and the left team asked me not to ask, I said what secret do you have?"

Shen Gu perfunctory him: "If the left team doesn't let you ask, then don't ask."

Little Heizi insisted: "No. Don't think I don't know. The left team went to the Armed Police Detachment to borrow a sniper rifle. Those who climb the tower crane, what do you want a sniper rifle for? It's not to shoot people down, is it?"

Shen Gu sighed, young man, he just has the drive to ask the bottom line: "Let me ask you, do you believe in ghosts in the world?"

Little Heizi's eyes widened all of a sudden: "No way, Brother Shen, what kind of background do you believe in? You can lie to me. Find a good reason, okay?"

As soon as the door of the examination department next door opened, Liu Wu came out: "What are you arguing about!" He looked like he had worked overtime all night, with two obvious dark circles hanging on his face, which affected his image a bit.

Xiao Heizi found a reinforcement, and he yelled at him, "Liu Gong, tell me, do you believe in ghosts in this world?"

Liu Wu looked at him with the eyes of a psychopath: "Are you out of your mind? Is there a ghost? You grab one and let me see it?"

Little Heizi was aggrieved: "Hey, I didn't say that! It was—"

Liu Wu interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Come on, come on, talk about any boring things, go do your work." After speaking, he hurried along the corridor to the toilet.

Xiao Heizi was dumbfounded: "Hey, I didn't say that! Why do you despise me?"

Shen Gu laughed: "What's wrong with Liu Wu?"

Little Heizi complained: "Obviously you said it, why did he despise me? Something happened last night, it should be in the early morning, two punks stabbed each other with knives in the disco, one stabbed the other Stabbed to death, and then the one committed suicide by jumping off the building. Witnesses said that both of them had hallucinations from an overdose of ecstasy, so they moved the knife. The one who stabbed the person later probably committed suicide in fear of guilt after being sober. Liugong must have called in the middle of the night. Someone called him over to work overtime for an autopsy. It is said that he is not good at work, but he has a bad mood, so his face is so ugly."

Shen Gu frowned: "It was such a mess last night!"

Xiao Heizi nodded: "That's right. In addition to the three-vehicle accident in the east, everyone probably didn't sleep last night."

Zuo Jian came out of the office yawning: "Come here? Heizi, have you finished watching the video?"

"After reading it, there is nothing there, captain. No one has used that computer for a day. The camera can only see the top of Li Qiang's head, and nothing can be seen."

Zuo Jian frowned and waved to Shen Gu.Xiao Heizi followed them into the office with a shameless face: "Captain, can you tell me something at least? I have no problem with running errands, but you can't keep me so confused, right? Knowing the truth, wouldn't it be better?" Serving the people all the time, isn't it?"

Zuo Jian laughed and motioned him to close the door: "I knew you would not be able to hold back sooner or later. However, I didn't tell you because I was afraid that you wouldn't believe it—"

Xiao Heizi raised his hand: "Left team, you don't want to use some ghosts to perfuse me like Brother Shen, do you?"

Zuo Jian glanced at Shen Gu, who shrugged at him.Seeing the expressions of the two, Xiao Heizi couldn't keep his mouth shut: "No way..."

Zuo Jian said solemnly: "Comrade Wu You, if you don't believe what I said in this office today, please forget it all when you go out, but if you believe it, you must also be careful not to let it go wrong in your future work." Affect you, can you do it?"

Little Heizi stood there stupidly for a long time, and finally moved towards the door: "I, I'll think about it, I'd better think about it and listen..."

Shen Gu watched him move out, then looked back at Zuo Jian: "Scared him?"

Zuo Jian smiled: "Normal people wouldn't believe it when they heard this for the first time, right? However, I think this time it might be a big deal. Only the two of us can't handle it. If he can accept it, one more person can help." Okay. By the way, does Mr. Zhong have time? I think——I'll ask him to do me a favor too."

Shen Gu frowned: "Is the matter going to make a big fuss?"

Zuo Jian looked solemn, turned on the computer and called up something: "This was captured by the camera at the scene of the serial car accident last night, come and see—"

The car accident was caused by a red Mazda, which was driving well, but suddenly turned around on the double yellow line, and the car behind couldn't brake enough to hit it directly, causing the third car to rear-end.The driver of the car who turned around died on the spot, and the person sitting in the co-pilot was seriously injured and died in the hospital after rescue.The driver of the hit car was also seriously injured, and the four people in the third car hit the rear had injuries of varying degrees, but fortunately none of them were too serious.

Because it was taken at night, when the vehicle turned around, it was still far away from the traffic lights, and the camera only vaguely captured the shadows of the two people in the Mazda car. Shen Gu almost lay down on the computer screen: "You mean, in the car—— Two people?"

"Can you see it clearly?" Zuo Jian pointed to a blurry gray shadow on the screen, "You also think it looks like this?"

Shen Gu stared at the place where his fingers were pressed, and nodded slightly after a while: "It looks like the shadow of the third person, but from this angle, the third person should be sitting between the two of them, there is no seat there. "

"And there is no trace of a third person at the scene." Zuo Jian tapped the screen vigorously with his fingers, "The vehicle was completely deformed after the collision, and the doors on both sides could not be opened, and they were still cut open. If it was a person, where did he come from?" Come out? Unless, he is not human."

"On the same night, two incidents..."

"Yes, so I don't think it's accidental, I'm afraid, it's a group of..."

"A group of ghosts commit crimes?" Shen Gu found this statement really unbelievable, "Ghosts also commit crimes in groups?"

"This kind of thing is rare." Zuo Jian smiled wryly, "But two things happened in the same night, I don't think it's right. Hey, what happened to the triplet ghost you mentioned? It hasn't appeared since then ?”

Shen Gu immediately understood what he meant: "Do you suspect it's them? I don't think so. If it was them, Xiao Nan would have died eight times out of ten times. And it doesn't look like possessed. Le Cen also said that it doesn't look like a ghost. "

Zuo Jian scratched his head: "Oh, I still have to find clues."

Shen Gu thought for a while: "Will Diba's murder case also..."

Zuo Jian smiled wryly: "I hope not. I was just about to go and have a look. There is no camera in that place, so I have to ask the boss. Oh, by the way, first ask Liu Wu about the results of the autopsy. Cough, I am really Unexpectedly, Liu Wu was so angry when he got up, and he worked rather quickly, but his face was drawn—tsk tsk, it was like the bottom of the pot. In other words, when I was there before, I really never met such a big temper of."

Liu Wu's anger at waking up had obviously not subsided, and he said with a sullen face, "Both the deceased took ecstasy, and the murderer took especially a lot. It's entirely possible that he was hallucinating."

Zuo Jian heaved a sigh of relief.This breath was too relieved, Liu Wu asked very bluntly: "Why, the left team seems to be very happy to hear the result?"

Zuo Jian smiled wryly: "No, then what, let you take half a day off and go home to sleep, don't make such a face. Ahem, pretend I didn't say anything, Shen Gu, let's go and go to work."