Fire to the Abyss

When Xia Yan arrived at the warehouse Liang Song mentioned, more than half of the factory area was soaked in water. I don't know who offended the white lady. It seemed that there had just been a flood here, and the deepest part could cover the second floor.

Entering the factory is a downhill road, half of the road is flooded, the car can only park at the gate, Xia Yan led a group of people just entering the gate of the factory, a middle-aged man who was sweating profusely trotted up to him, wiping his sweat While saying: "Comrade, let's come back tomorrow for delivery. The water pipe burst. I'm looking for someone to repair it urgently. I think it will be terrible tonight."

Xia Yan looked around, the warehouse was slightly lower than the surrounding terrain, and it was indeed difficult to drain the accumulated water, but was the timing of the bursting of the water pipe too coincidental?

Xia Yan flashed his police officer ID: "When did the water pipe burst?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment when he saw the police officer's ID card, and then he collected his expression. He carefully sized up the police officer who looked a bit sloppy and seemed to have not slept in a few days, and unconsciously straightened his back. When I answered, I didn’t dare to look him directly in the eyes: “It was probably after twelve o’clock. I changed shifts at twelve o’clock. There was water in the building, so I quickly woke everyone up. Just now, some colleagues rushed to look at it, and found that several water pipes in the reservoir area burst, and the main water valve was also broken, which is why this happened.”

"Well," Xia Yan nodded slightly, then suddenly changed the topic, "Who is the person in charge of delivery here?"

The middle-aged man paused, and replied with a little confidence: "Comrade, I'm in charge of delivery, what's the matter?"

Xia Yan half-closed his eyes and looked the man in front of him up and down. He caught a trace of obvious panic in his eyes, and gave a look to Yang Ming who was beside him. Yang Ming accurately received the signal. The next moment, the middle-aged A pair of gleaming handcuffs were added to the man's wrist.

The middle-aged man looked suspiciously at the handcuffs on his wrists, then looked up at Xia Yan, expressing that he didn't understand the situation at all.

Xia Yan snorted coldly, and suddenly turned up the volume: "No wonder the sales department couldn't find the records. It turns out that you are here to accept private orders. You are so clever. It's a shame not to take care of the bank's vault!"

As soon as the middle-aged man heard this, he realized that he was completely exposed. He let out a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground with his buttocks slumped, his cheeks with deep nasolabial folds and his loose eyebrows collapsed.He breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed the word "Interpol" on Xia Yan's police officer certificate. After all, what he committed was not a criminal case, and it was logically not under the jurisdiction of the criminal police, but he didn't expect this to seem nothing The spiritual detective can see through himself in just one sentence.

The middle-aged man knelt on the ground, tugged at the corner of Xia Yan's clothes and howled: "Comrade, I know I was wrong, and I can't force it. I only took [-]% of the money for the private goods... I have a boss There are children, they are all waiting for my mouthful of food..."

Xia Yan let out an impatient "tsk", and pulled out the corner of his clothes from his hand: "There are so many pleadings, my ears are almost tingling."

Yang Ming looked at the man helplessly: "Captain Xia, this is too easy."

Xia Yan: "Yeah, I didn't expect it either, I just lied to him."

"What? Comrade, how could you do this?" The middle-aged man howled loudly, and looked at Xia Yan with extremely sad eyes, "You, you are not kind!"

"Honest? I didn't expect criminals to be quite demanding of others." Xia Yan patted his face lightly, "Okay, don't look at me with the eyes of someone who has snatched your daughter-in-law, explain it. Confessions are lenient."

The middle-aged man was carried by Xia Yan to a place where there were few people. He raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his head with difficulty, and sat down on the steps as if resigned to his fate, before he began to explain: "I have been in charge of this warehouse for several years. , all outbound orders have to go through me. About a year ago, a young man delivered the order. I checked and found no order records. When I was about to go to the sales department for verification, the young man stuffed me A pack of things, I opened it and saw that it was full of banknotes! There is such a thick stack, which is more than half a year’s salary! The young man said that he has some friends who want to buy our company’s high-end wine, but the price is too high from the sales department If I want to buy it directly from him, he will sell it to his friend at a price lower than the market price. As long as I turn a blind eye to him, I will share the money I earn in the future... then At that time, my wife had just had a second child, and the family really needed money. I thought about it and agreed, but I only wanted [-]%, police officer, what I said is true, he took most of the money, and he sent the goods Yes, I, I am at best a cover-up..."

"Yo, you've even thought about your charges? You're pretty good at helping the judge," Xia Yan sneered, "Tell me about this young man, where is he now?"

I didn't expect that the people's policeman in front of me was not only unkind, but also venomous. He was not at all like the police uncle who smiled so reassuringly on TV. It seemed that it was impossible to seek some comfort. The middle-aged man felt a little wronged He drooped his head and replied in a low voice: "This young man is Liu Yifa, 26 years old, he is quite strong, he is a foreigner, he seems to have come to Chengzhou to work hard after graduating from high school, I just changed classes with him, now... They should be draining the water in the reservoir area with a few young people."

Xia Yan looked at the "Castle in the Water" not far away with his hips crossed, and sighed: "I knew it would not be that simple--Let me ask you, Liu Yifa delivered the goods privately, so the inventory is not right? Click Won't it be exposed when the goods are shipped?"

Middle-aged man: "Every time he delivered the goods, he brought the bottle back, secretly filled some fake wine, mixed with water, and piled it in the innermost warehouse. Content. Usually, the shipments start from the outer warehouse, and the inner ones are usually not touched, and Liu Yifa also said that if it is moved to the inner warehouse, he has a way, so I agreed to him. "

Xia Yan: "The method he said, could it be that the water floods the golden mountain?"

The middle-aged man looked back at the appalling warehouse. He had already thought of something in Xia Yan's words, and his pair of squinted eyes widened twice their size: "Comrade, could it be that Liu Yifa did it? No, no, no, the recent sales It's not big, it won't move to the warehouse inside..."

"Maybe it was prepared for me." Xia Yan smiled inexplicably, "Do you know where he usually delivers the goods?"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know about that, I just take out the warehouse and get the money."

After 15 minutes, Xia Yan and several other colleagues simply cleaned up and went down to the "artificial lake" to catch "fish".I said I tidied up a bit, but in fact I took off the coat that was in the way, rolled the trousers to the thighs, and tucked the top into the trousers-no one thought that I would go into the water when I came, and I didn't bring any wading equipment at all.

Fearing that the mobile phone would fall into the water, Xia Yan briefly explained to Liang Song and threw the mobile phone into the car, leading a group of big men with their thighs exposed to blow up the groundwater.

I don't know how the person who drains the water works. I took the time to ask someone, and the water got deeper and deeper, and it almost reached my thigh after walking a few steps.

In this season when you can still breathe white air at night, the water is undoubtedly icy cold. Not long after a few people entered the water, the body temperature was gradually usurped by the cold water, and the body trembled uncontrollably, and was immersed in the water all the time. His legs were almost numb, and he persisted with a little willpower.

Judging from the number of floating objects on the water surface, the sanitation of the factory area is worrying. All kinds of domestic garbage are floating around wantonly, coming and going, and this is like a special meeting.Xia Yan opened the way alone, and Yang Ming held a flashlight next to him to illuminate. Xia Yan raised a wooden stick with both hands to push away the floating objects in front of him. His limbs were baptized by cold water at the same time, and his two rows of teeth trembled more and more intensely.

In addition, his fingers also had scars left by vandalism, as soon as his fingers touched water, it would trigger a kind of irritating pain. In addition, the water didn't look very pollution-free, Xia Yan could almost imagine the army of bacteria running along him The scene of the attack from the wound.Xia Yan decided not to confront the wall again.

The easternmost part of the factory is a staff dormitory, and in the middle is a two-story administrative building. According to the middle-aged man, the administrative building is just a decoration. There are few people from the headquarters, and no one usually goes to work. Behind the administrative building is the warehouse area.

After bouncing in the water for a while, several people finally reached a safe place - the second floor of the administrative building, each of them was as frozen as a chick with half-grown hair, huddled together to keep warm by shivering.

This building is really just like what the middle-aged man said, it is basically a decoration, the walls are peeled off in large pieces, there are no windows, and the wind blowing in has its own sound effect, very similar to that of an unknown creature. The roar frightened Yang Ming, an unsteady materialist, into tears: "Captain Xia, let's go directly to the warehouse to find it!"

Xia Yan twisted the water on his trousers and sleeves, but found that he couldn't use his hands at all, and it was still wet after twisting and twisting, so he simply grabbed the sleeve and bit it hard, tearing off the two pieces of the water-soaked sleeve. Down, quite efficiently transformed the long sleeves into a vest.

Xia Yan took the flashlight from Yang Ming's hand, and turned around domineeringly: "Let's go!"

After a few people found out, it took a few minutes to rest, and the water seemed to overflow another level. When they finally arrived at the warehouse, they found that the door of the warehouse was closed tightly.

"Strange, didn't it mean that the water pipe in the reservoir area burst?" Yang Ming looked back and forth, "The water should come from inside. In order to prevent the inventory in the reservoir area from being destroyed, the water in the warehouse should be diverted to the outside. That's right, for example, the administration building in front of it is useless and happens to be relatively low, why is the door closed?"

"That's right, won't the water inside accumulate more and more when the door is closed?"

"What the hell are these young men doing?"

"Hey, this door seems to be locked, it can only be opened from the inside..."

"Do you feel that there is a smell of alcohol here?"

"Nonsense, of course the winery smells like wine."

"No, it's stronger than the smell of ordinary wineries..."

When several colleagues were discussing with one another, Xia Yan let out a "hush" abruptly, then leaned over and put his ear on the door, listened for a while, and whispered: "There are sounds of smashing things and glass The sound of objects breaking."

Xia Yan looked around, and his eyes stopped on the small bay window above the door, then turned his head to look at Yang Ming, and compared his diameter with the length and width of the bay window, visually guessing that his size should be able to fit into the small bay window. In the bay window, for the first time, I agreed with the saying that "a small body can also be of great use".With a look of bitterness and hatred on his face, Yang Ming was pushed in through the bay window by a group of elders, and finally completed the task without disgrace.

Although there is only one door, the water level outside the warehouse has not reached the thigh, but the water level in the warehouse has almost reached his chest. When Yang Ming pulled the latch, the door was washed away by the huge water pressure, and the scene was like a flood. Like a dike, the water rushed out like a beast, and the flow was astonishingly large at that moment.Fortunately, the few people outside the door were prepared and found the climbing objects in advance, so as not to be caught in the water.

It's just that Yang Ming is more pitiful. He didn't have time to find the clinging object, so he could only hold on to the big iron door tightly, and then was washed away by the water along with the iron door. His arms were still clasped on the door, but his lower body was off the ground. , floating with the current, it looks a bit like a daylily swaying in the wind.

When the current subsided almost, Xia Yan took the "Day Lily" off the door, Yang Ming paused for a while, and then said blankly: "For a moment I thought I saw a tsunami..."