chasing the dark

Chapter 91

With the results obtained, the direction of the investigation became clearer.

Ye Zhanzhou took the report, and before he could read it, the police alarm rang.

After understanding what the other party said, his expression changed, and he shouted towards the office: "Come out!"

Miao Wei, Xiang Guangming, and Jing Hong took people to visit, but they didn't come to the bureau, so Lao Yang and Li Haotian didn't need to go with them.

Ding Xuan, Jiang Yu, and a few auxiliary policemen were left to act immediately, and a group of people quickly left the office.

Xiaogu rubbed his red eyes and ran out: "Shall we follow?"

"Talk to Lao Shen, and I'll send him the address later!" Ye Zhanzhou kept walking, left without saying a word.

Two cars with flashing blue and red lights exited the gate of the Municipal Public Security Bureau one after the other, passing through the traffic, and finally arrived at the crime scene in the east of Mingyang after 10 minutes.

This is an abandoned auto repair shop, and a cordon has been pulled up outside the rusty iron gate.

"The person who reported the case was an old couple who scavenged waste. They saw that there had been no one here for a long time. They sneaked in through the door and wanted to find some scrap steel and iron. Looking at a mound of soil in the grass, a few sticks came out of it. Bones. They didn’t look like pigs or cows, so the two called the police.”

The patrol police who arrived at the scene first introduced the situation.

The auto repair shop is not very big from the outside, the width of a room plus two iron fence doors.After entering, the space is not small. The maintenance workshop extends from the door to the inside, connecting with several shorter bungalows in an L shape.On the right is an open space the size of a football field and a half. The asphalt ground covered with weeds is full of potholes, and there will be an incomplete white line not far away. It seems that it used to be a parking lot.

Between the parking lot and the courtyard wall is a piece of land, where wild flowers and grass grow lush.Near the base of the wall, there was a half-dived mound with a few bones scattered around it, and the surrounding area was also cordoned off.

"Here, here it is." The patrolman pointed to the mound and said, "It should be dug and buried, and it was dug by wild cats and dogs."

"The scale of this auto repair shop is not small, how can it be said that it is a shortage?" Ye Zhanzhou asked.

The patrolman said: "The water source is on the opposite side of the road. Isn't there a regulation to protect the surrounding environment of the water source. The auto repair shop and the restaurant next to it were ordered to close down the year before last, but the bottled water factory is still open."

"How many years has the auto repair factory been in operation?" Ye Zhanzhou looked at the surrounding environment. Judging from the oil stains left on the ground, it definitely didn't close down just after it was built.

"It's been a long time." The patrolman recalled, "This is the auto repair factory designated by the insurance company, and it has cooperative relations with several units. Our cars are also repaired here. Now they have moved to Tuanjie Road. The yard is idle."

"Who opened the door?" Ye Zhanzhou asked.

"We drove it." The patrolman said, "This land belongs to the district government. The people in the auto repair shop said that after they moved out, the key was given to the street office, but I called and asked, and the person who answered the phone asked who I don’t know. We borrowed iron pliers from the bottled water factory and broke the chain lock.”

Ye Zhanzhou snorted, then turned around and asked, "Have the technical investigator and forensic doctor arrived yet?"

Although based on his experience, he felt that there were human bones in the mound, but it was still necessary for professionals to give an accurate answer.

Jiang Yu looked outside the hospital: "The technical detectives have arrived and are taking things. The forensic doctor hasn't arrived yet."

Before the words were finished, Old Wu from the technical department had already entered the courtyard, followed by his personal disciple Li Ji and the intern Shi Hao who had just arrived.

Shi Hao is also a police university major, a senior in criminal technology.He had known Jiang Yu since school, and her eyes lit up when she saw her.Not daring to make a fuss in front of so many people, he raised his hand to his chest and waved it slightly as a greeting.

Old Wu stood outside the cordon, looked at it with his hips crossed for a while, then raised his head to look around: "I'm quite good at picking a place. If someone hadn't come in, it might have been buried for many years."

After speaking, he waved his hand and started to work.

Taking pictures, measuring, extracting traces... Under the command of Lao Wu, the on-site investigation work was carried out intensely and orderly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Zhanzhou pointed in the direction of the bungalow and asked the patrolman, "Is he the informant?"

The patrolman nodded: "Yes, there is also an old lady in our patrol car. She is scared, and my colleague is with her."

Ye Zhanzhou told Shang Jiangyu to walk towards the bungalow.

Compared with the high maintenance workshop, the five bungalows in a row are very small.Due to the long-term neglect, a lot of the cement on the wall has fallen off, exposing the red bricks inside.Some of the aluminum alloy doors and windows have been deformed. The front of the house is a concrete floor, and the surrounding areas without cement are covered with weeds like the yard, and occasionally unknown flowers bloom.

A skinny old man was squatting in the shadow of a corner, when he saw someone walking towards him, he stood up quickly, clutching the broken straw hat in his hands awkwardly.

As soon as he stood up, he looked even thinner. He was only about 1.6 meters tall. His skin was black and red, and his hands were dirty and wrinkled like his face. Actual age.

"What's your surname, uncle?" Ye Zhanzhou walked and greeted.

The difference in height was so great that the old man had to raise his neck: "My surname is Zhao."

Ye Zhanzhou lifted his trousers, sat on the concrete steps in front of the house, and waved: "Uncle Zhao, sit here and let's talk."

How could Old Zhao dare to sit side by side with him, so he moved two steps forward and squatted beside him.

Jiang Yu looked around, there was really no place to sit, and it was inconvenient to record while standing, so he had to squat down too.

Ye Zhanzhou took out a cigarette and handed it over: "Come on, have a cigarette."

Old Zhao waved his hands again and again, indicating that he didn't need it.

Ye Zhanzhou moved forward again: "Don't say you don't know how to smoke, you have cigarettes in your pocket."

Old Zhao was wearing a very ill-fitting checkered shirt, and the chest pocket was stretched out because the clothes were too bulky, revealing a crumpled cigarette case.

He twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and smoked a cigarette from the cigarette case in front of him.

Lighting it up for him and himself, Ye Zhanzhou took a puff, exhaled the smoke and asked, "Listen to your accent, isn't it from Mingyang?"

"Well, my hometown is Jinhua."

Jinhua is about 300 kilometers away from Mingyang, and is a well-known poverty-stricken county in the province.Although there have been many supporting policies in recent years, due to many reasons such as geographical environment, the per capita annual income has always been ranked last in the province.

"How did you get here?"

"My family has little land, so I can't make much money a year. I just came to this city and thought about making some money."

"How long have you been here?"

"Two years."

"Where do you live now?"

"Just two stops east of the water source, I rented a bungalow in the alley."

After the two asked and answered, Old Zhao's expression gradually relaxed.

Dust the cigarette in his hand, Ye Zhanzhou raised his chin toward the courtyard door: "That door should be locked, how did you get in?"

(End of this chapter)