Chapter 393 Violation of Regulations
Late at night, Wu Yongcheng returned to the community tired.
He has not had a rest for many days since the dismemberment case occurred, and now the task force has entered Hongda to conduct a large-scale investigation and evidence collection. There are still many things to investigate.
He discussed with several leaders of the task force and decided to divide the people into two groups and adopt a rotation system for rest.
Everyone works hard during the day, and at night two groups take turns going home to rest, get a good night's sleep, and replenish their energy.
This ensures the progress of the investigation without dragging everyone down.
After all, no one knows how long it will take to solve this case.
So he was able to go home tonight, which was also his first day home after returning from Lujiang.
In fact, he didn't care at all whether he went home or not. He would be alone if he went home anyway. But since he was the one who proposed it, he couldn't make special arrangements for himself and make things difficult for other comrades.
Go upstairs, take out the key and open the door.
Just as he was about to enter the door, he suddenly turned around and pointed the gun in his hand at the darkness behind him.
He lives in an old residential complex and there are no lights in the corridor.
"Come out!" he shouted into the dark corridor.
With the light from outside the window, a figure slowly walked out from the shadows.
"Captain Wu, don't shoot, it's me." When Zhou Yi said this, he was stunned. Why did he feel like his head was a little bald?
After seeing clearly, Wu Yongcheng put away his gun and said, "Next time, be careful not to make a sound. If my hand slips, I might shoot you."
Having said that, he walked straight into the house without closing the door.
Zhou Yi understood and quickly followed him in and closed the door.
The house is not big, just a small one-bedroom and one-living room apartment. From the shockingly simple furnishings in the house, you can tell that this is just where Wu Yongcheng sleeps. It can be said that it has nothing he wants.
No wonder he always takes the initiative to be on duty even though he is the deputy captain. It really makes no difference whether he goes back or not.
Even the air was filled with a sense of desolation.
"Have you eaten?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"have eaten."
"Okay, I can't do anything if you don't have any food. I don't even have a bag of flour at home."
Zhou Yi's mouth twitched and asked, "Then why are you asking me?"
There was only a table and three chairs in the living room, one of which had a broken back.
Wu Yongcheng sat on the chair, took out the wrinkled cigarette box from his pocket, lit one, and then threw the cigarette box and lighter to Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi pulled over another chair, sat down and lit a cigarette.
Under the incandescent light, two grown men sat across the table, smoking silently.
Wu Yongcheng was a heavy smoker after all. He finished smoking before Zhou Yi had even finished half of his cigarette.
He stuffed the cigarette butt into a can on the table, which was full of cigarette butts.
"Who did you ask for our address?"
"Team Stone."
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "I can guess. After all, not many people know my home address. Tell me, you came back from the provincial capital and didn't go back to work at the bureau, nor did you go home. What did you want to do here so late at night?"
"Captain Wu, what is the content of the anonymous report?"
Wu Yongcheng wasn't surprised. He just squinted his eyes and looked at Zhou Yi: "Who told you this? Shi Tao or Chen Yan and the others?"
Zhou Yi replied: "Qin Beihai, Mr. Qin."
Wu Yongcheng was surprised: "Did you meet Mr. Qin?"
"Well, I stayed at Qin's house last night, so I came back a day late."
Wu Yongcheng nodded. This was indeed beyond his expectations.
"You want Mr. Qin to guarantee your admission to the task force?"
"yes!"
"Then what does Mr. Qin say?"
"He can go to the provincial department leaders to recommend me, but the prerequisite is that I have to resolve the anonymous report first."
When Wu Yongcheng heard this, he clapped his hands in his heart. Zhou Yi was able to ask Qin Beihai to come, which solved the final difficulty in his idea in the past few days.
He already had a solution for the report, but there was still a key issue that he couldn't resolve.
Now this key point has been solved by Zhou Yi himself.
But he couldn't express his thoughts in front of Zhou Yi, because Zhou Yi would definitely not agree.
"Then how do you want to solve this problem?" Wu Yongcheng asked.
"Captain Wu, I need to at least know what anonymous reporting is and what the report contains."
Wu Yongcheng touched his chin and said, "This involves the work of the task force. I'm breaking the rules and it's not appropriate for me to tell you this."
Zhou Yi quickly took out a cigarette and handed it over, then lit it for Wu Yongcheng.
"Captain Wu, if I can resolve the issue of anonymous reporting, then I can join the task force. If I join the task force, then knowing the task force's information won't be considered a violation, right? So this roughly means that my knowledge of the task force's information complies with regulations. Besides, I'm a forgetful person. I'll forget what I heard as soon as I leave this door, and I'll remember it once I join the task force." Zhou Yi smiled almost flatteringly.
In fact, he knew that what he said was just sophistry and nonsense.
But the fact that Wu Yongcheng let him into the house showed that he actually had a plan in mind.
All this nonsense I told was just a way for the other party to get out of trouble.
Wu Yongcheng smoked a cigarette, frowned and said nothing.
Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel nervous. After all, Wu Yongcheng was the deputy captain, so he had to be careful.
Suddenly, Zhou Yi thought of a more reasonable explanation.
"Captain Wu, the findings made before the task force was established are still under the jurisdiction of our Third Squadron, right? So, I won't ask about the investigations after the task force was established. I'll just ask about the investigations before that, about our Third Squadron's own cases. Is that okay?"
After hearing what Zhou Yi said, Wu Yongcheng thought for a moment and finally said, "That seems to make sense."
Zhou Yi knew it was done, so he quickly asked what was going on.
Then, Wu Yongcheng told him what happened after he left, how the task force was established, what the anonymous report was, and why Lu Xiaoshuang became a suspect.
On the night of May 1st, after Lu Xiaoshuang was rescued from an abandoned mine in Xinbei Town and sent to the hospital, Zhou Yi stayed with Lu Xiaoshuang.
He no longer participated in the subsequent investigation of the case.
But Wu Yongcheng and his team were not idle. The first thing they did was to block the entrance to the abandoned mine and prepare to search and explore the mine.
Because Wu Yongcheng concluded that Lu Xiaoshuang was a grown-up girl and it was impossible for her to disappear for more than 30 hours and then go into the mine on her own.
So he must have been forcibly controlled and thrown into the mine by some method.
However, no police officer in the entire municipal bureau had ever encountered the experience of going down into a mine to conduct on-site investigation, which means that no one had any experience in this area.
This was a rather troublesome matter, so Wu Yongcheng did not act rashly. Instead, he first went to the local place to understand the situation, preferably to obtain the mine drawings.
However, due to various historical issues, the mines in Xinbei Town are in a rather chaotic state.
The mayor, who was pulled out of bed, told Wu Yongcheng that in the later period, the coal mine's output continued to decrease, and the mining rights of the coal mine were subcontracted to others.
The coal bosses who took over later became very rough and irregular in their work for the sake of profit. Not to mention the mine drawings, many mines were illegally mined without being reported.
This is also the reason for the rapid depletion of underground coal resources in Xinbei Town.
Take the mine they wanted to investigate for example. This was not a problem with a single mine at all, but a problem with many nearby mines that were connected together. Because they started digging from different places and the construction process was not standardized, they dug into places that had been dug before.
Therefore, the interior of these mines is winding and interconnected, and the cost of burying them is too high. The local government simply cannot afford it, so the only option is to seal the entrances in the lowest cost way.
Wu Yongcheng looked solemn after hearing this. Even he didn't know that there was such a place in Hongcheng. Then, wouldn't these abandoned mines be the perfect place to abandon and hide corpses?
Is this too much? I guess I need to report this to my supervisor and resolve this safety hazard.
But at the same time he also had a question.
Is the person who threw Lu Xiaoshuang here the same person who committed the dismemberment case?
If so, why did this person choose to dump the bodies everywhere instead of moving the body parts here and throwing them into this mine?
Obviously, the probability of a body being discovered if it is thrown outside is much greater, and isn't it more convenient to throw the body parts inside than to throw a living person inside?
If not, it means there may be two cases, one dismemberment case and the other kidnapping and murder case.
That night, Wu Yongcheng did not dare to act rashly. He simply blocked the entrance to the cave, sent people to watch it, and waited until dawn to make any move.
Because the mayor said that these mines are actually quite dangerous. First, the space is narrow. If the police want to go in for investigation, they can only go in one by one, and they have to tie ropes around their waists, otherwise it is easy to go astray.
Secondly, the mine is at risk of collapse at any time due to irregular mining practices, and many parts of the mine may have already collapsed.
Third, the harmful gases inside are very dangerous. Not only are they harmful to the human body if inhaled, but they may also explode if they encounter open flames.
It is generally very dangerous for people who have no experience in mining operations to go down.
When Zhang Jun sent people down to rescue people, he was looking for people who used to work as miners in this town.
So the next day, the police made the necessary preparations before sending people in to investigate.
However, the entire exploration process lasted from morning to night and was quite difficult.
Because the people who go down are not allowed to bring radios, if static electricity in the circuits causes a methane explosion, no one can take responsibility.
Because several people from the town had gone down to rescue people before, the distance from the cave entrance to the location where Lu Xiaoshuang was found was basically destroyed, making it difficult to extract effective footprints or other traces.
According to the description of the townspeople who went down into the cave at that time, after they found Lu Xiaoshuang, they first dragged the person out. When they were more than 20 meters away from the cave entrance, they called the people above to come down for help and then lifted the person up.
The place where Lu Xiaoshuang fell was about fifty or sixty meters away from the cave entrance, of course not in a straight line.
The investigators determined the place where Lu Xiaoshuang was last found through the dragging marks, which happened to be at a fork in the road.
Then we continued to check in both directions of the fork in the road, and found many traces of crawling on the ground, which were very messy.
Based on these traces, Wu Yongcheng speculated that Lu Xiaoshuang must have crawled in the dark mine for a long time just to find an exit.
The reason she had to crawl was because she had no protective measures on her body, not even a mask. After inhaling harmful gases, her body had an adverse reaction, causing her to crawl on the ground.
When Wu Yongcheng talked about this information, Zhou Yi appeared calm on the surface, but in fact his heart was broken.
He could hardly imagine how desperate Lu Xiaoshuang must have felt in the pitch-black mine as she lay on the ground, struggling to crawl forward bit by bit, not knowing where the cave entrance was at all, let alone how long it would take her to escape.
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