Abyss of ignorance

Old buildings have the benefits of old buildings. This detention center, which has been preserved for more than 100 years, has not been moved or rebuilt. The receipts placed in an inconspicuous corner, thought to be of no use, have been taken out again after decades of passing.

I don’t know what use the maintenance records that I put in a corner cabinet besides being a proof of sporadic expenses. It’s just a default work habit one after another.

However, because of such a humble habit, Lin Xiaodong obtained extremely valuable information for him.

Fortunately, the number of repairs to this independent prison cell is not too high. The head of the cell did not forget to explain enthusiastically: "Although our detention center has been in existence for more than 100 years, the construction quality is very good, especially This independent cell, except for individual repairs, has not been seriously damaged."

Lin Xiaodong listened while flipping through the bills, "Found it!" He whispered, this is a repair sheet from 1998, clearly recorded, repairing the wall of the cell, the serious master even wrote down the repair sheet. The location of the wall, [-] centimeters below the small window, is damaged about [-] centimeters in square.

"Director, how long will it take for you to deal with such small damages?" Lin Xiaodong raised his head and asked.

"I'm ashamed to say that although Xu Binyong's incident happened recently, our detention center has been a demonstration unit for decades. In addition to normal work, we also have a lot of tasks to receive inspections and visits. That's why we attach great importance to maintenance work. If there is any kind of damage, it must be repaired within a week." The director of the house said.

“一周之内？”林晓东脸上不禁露出了笑容，“那太好了！我得看下1998年7月14日至7月21日之间的关押记录。”

"Captain Lin, you can check it directly by logging into our file system. In the past two years, we have carried out paperless office reform and have entered all the previous detention records into the system." The director of the room said that he was already in Lin Xiaodong The computer on the opposite side opened the file system to help him log in.

Lin Xiaodong was a little excited. It was only a week. Even if it was extended to half a month, there would not be many people in custody.

He thought that he had quickly entered the query time in July 1998, and after pressing the Enter key, he waited for the result of the query.

However, the place where the search result is displayed is blank.

He thought it was a system problem, and tried it again, but it was still blank.

"Is there any problem with your system? Can't find the result?" Lin Xiaodong asked the director of the room.

"No, we need to use this system often, I'll try it." The director of the house said, he entered other time in the system at will, and as soon as he pressed the Enter key, a long list of search results immediately appeared , Time, personnel, and reasons for detention are all available.

When Lin Xiaodong saw it, he suddenly had a bad premonition. He hurriedly expanded the time range of his search to the whole year of 1998. Sure enough, a series of dark messages appeared on the screen.

He leaned closer and looked at each item one by one. This cell was almost never vacant that year, until the week when he needed to know the most, it was actually out of gear.

"It shouldn't be a whole week to repair the wall?" Lin Xiaodong murmured.

"That's not necessary, it will be done in two or three days, and July is summer, so it will be faster." The director of the house said affirmatively.

"Do you still keep the original materials of the detention in 98?" Lin Xiaodong continued to ask without giving up.

"The advantage of our institute is that we can store the materials, and I will send someone to find them immediately." The director of the house responded positively.

"No, where is the information, let's look it up by ourselves." Lin Xiaodong stood up from his seat. Before Xu Binyong's case was investigated, everyone in the detention center would be suspected. Such things cannot be left to others.

The head of the house took them to an attic in the detention center.

"This place was used as a sentry tower during the war. Now we have remodeled it and used it as an archive room." The director of the room took the key and led Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng to climb up the narrow and steep stairs at night.

The sound of the keychain "Kang Dang, Bang Dang" echoed in the quiet passage, as if bringing them back to the treacherous era a hundred years ago.

Those distant blood, tears and gunpowder smoke have been swallowed up in the years. Lin Xiaodong watched the director of the room open the door of the sentry tower with an unskilled technique, and secretly prayed that the record he wanted to find was still there.

As expected, it was the highest place in the entire detention center. The moment the door was opened, there was no old musty smell in the room. Instead, it was a bit like the smell of books in the library.

The piles of materials, some in cardboard boxes and some in metal cabinets, are not neat, but they insist on throwing all the materials here, which is a rare thing.

"In 1998..." the head of the house muttered, looking for it in the small room with his back bent, and it took about ten minutes before he shouted excitedly, "I found it!"

In a corner, on a cardboard box, the words "98 Detention" were scrawled with a marker.

Lin Xiaodong hurried forward, tore off the tape on the top, and opened the cardboard box. Fortunately, the notebooks inside were neatly stacked according to the month, and it didn't take much effort to find the records for July of that year.

The detention records of the entire detention center were mixed up. Lin Xiaodong searched for the records related to that separate cell in the scribbled registration records.

However, after July 7, the records for a whole week are gone.

"Team Lin, there are traces of being torn off here!" Yue Jianfeng looked at it and said, and saw that between the two pages of the record book, there was still the root of the remaining paper, and several pages had been torn off.

"Huh, there is no silver 300 taels here!" Lin Xiaodong said angrily, looking around, he suddenly realized something, quickly picked up the tape he tore off just now, and observed carefully.

Yue Jianfeng followed behind him, and asked, "It seems that someone got there first?"

However, Lin Xiaodong didn't think so: "No, this tape, look, it doesn't look like it was re-pasted."

Yue Jianfeng took a look, sure enough, the adhesive tape was covered with old dust, it seemed that it had been sealed for a while.

"Director Fang, how often do you file this kind of information?" Yue Jianfeng asked.

"Well, the situation here, I haven't been here for a long time, so I can't really tell, but usually it's just packed up at the end of the year and put away, otherwise it will be lost if it stays in the office." The head of the house replied.

"Team Lin, this is not right. If it was a record that was torn up before it was sealed, it wouldn't be because someone had a foresight decades ago. You know that we are going to check the information today?" Yue Jianfeng said and Lin Xiaodong looked at each other.