Chapter 60: The Cellar Was Really Digged
"This time we solved more than one case!" said Tian Guoqiang.
Deng Xiuzhen was waiting for the next words, but Tian Guoqiang said, "Is there any water to drink?"
"Yes, yes, sorry I forgot. Please sit down first, I'll go get some water." Deng Xiuzhen agreed and hurried to get some water. Usually she would go find Tian Guoqiang. Just now she was so focused on hearing a major case that she never thought about the fact that she was the host and Tian Guoqiang was the guest, and she should entertain the guest.
After taking a sip of water to calm down, Tian Guoqiang told Deng Xiuzhen: After listening to the story Deng Xiuzhen told him, he immediately arranged for someone to secretly keep an eye on Chen Chuang, and he and a colleague secretly went to the two-story building where Chen Chuang lived to check.
Chen Chuang's house really has a basement, but it was not originally used as a basement. It was just because the house was built on a dry ditch. The house needed to have a flat ground, so the ground needed to be raised when laying the foundation. Cement pillars were poured under the ditch, and reinforced cement was cast on the pillars.
Chen Chuang used bricks to fill the gaps on the left and right sides of the pillars to form a space (the front was filled up to the same level as the road, and the first floor was right at the entrance. The land at the back was basically higher), and opened a door on the left side of the house (towards the river).
"Did they really dig a cellar in the basement?" Deng Xiuzhen felt it was a bit mysterious.
Tian Guoqiang glanced at her and said, “The basement is well built, and waterproof and moisture-proof panels are installed on the walls.
There are some sundries piled up, and they are stacked neatly.
I walked around the basement, checked the floor carefully, moved all the clutter away, and found nothing.
Then I went to the house again and looked around. There was nothing unusual. There was a yard behind his house. It was a large yard with many trees, flowers and plants. There was also a pavilion near the wall.
I looked around the yard, but I didn't find any roofs or cellars. The pavilion was also very ordinary, made of cement..."
"Hey, can you please pick out the main points?" After listening for such a long time and still not being able to understand any problem, Deng Xiuzhen became a little anxious. The key point was that she still had to make dinner and the children were almost done with school.
"Don't interrupt me! What's the hurry? I'm getting to the point. This case has a big impact. People from the province are coming. I have to make a report. I have to explain things in detail, right?" Tian Guoqiang said after taking a sip of water. After several contacts, he unknowingly regarded Deng Xiuzhen as someone very familiar, and his speech became very casual.
"Okay, okay, go on." Deng Xiuzhen brought the dishes over, moved a stool and sat down, listening while picking vegetables.
Tian Guoqiang twitched his lips, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and continued, "We didn't find anything, but there was a smell in the yard, the smell of dead rats that you mentioned.
I followed the smell and found a few things like exhaust holes under the eaves, and there were no pipes on the inside or outside walls.
I put a soft steel wire in it and found that it was hollow and very deep.
This is definitely not right!
Remembering what you said about the underground ventilation pipe, I went to the basement to take a look again.
That guy is really talented! Didn't they say that the walls of the basement are all waterproof and moisture-proof? There is a secret door on the back wall. The secret door leads to his cellar. The guy said it is his underground palace, and he is the king there, like an emperor.
Instead of digging directly downwards, he dug a passage more than one meter wide from the back wall of the basement towards the yard.
Then he dug two meters deeper and dug a cellar of more than 40 square meters, which was divided into a large room and two small rooms. Six women were imprisoned inside. The oldest was in her 30s or 40s, and the youngest was only 15 or 16. They ate, drank, defecated, urinated, and slept in the large room. One of the small rooms was used by him to "favor his harem."
"That beast!" Deng Xiuzhen cursed angrily, feeling deeply frightened. If it weren't for that fly and her own intuition, she would probably have been locked up as well.
"You call this a beast? He did something even more beastly than this!" Tian Guoqiang continued, "The other small room was empty. In the lower right corner of that small room, more than two meters down, he dug a cellar of more than ten square meters.
The passages and cellars were built with brick and cement walls, with stainless steel plates on top and cement on the ground. The stainless steel plates were covered with tarpaulin and soundproofing cotton. Originally, the outsiders could not hear the women shouting from several meters underground. With these measures, even if the women screamed at the top of their lungs, no one outside could hear them.
The people imprisoned in the cellar above were already dead enough to be cut into pieces, and what was happening in the cellar below was simply…"
Tian Guoqiang felt like vomiting when he thought about it.
Deng Xiuzhen looked at Tian Guoqiang without saying anything, and had long since stopped working. She couldn't guess what was going to happen next, but she felt it was definitely not a good thing.
"If he meets someone who is disobedient, tries to escape or resist, he will kill them and then drag them to the cellar to make corpse fertilizer." Tian Guoqiang's voice became much lower.
"Use it as corpse fertilizer?" Deng Xiuzhen couldn't believe it.
"Well, because they're making corpse manure, there's a dead rat smell and a lot of flies. Even though it's done underground, the smell and flies can come out of the exhaust vents."
Both of them were silent.
After a long while, Deng Xiuzhen asked, "Why is he doing this?"
Tian Guoqiang replied: "After the house was built, he started digging the cellar. At first, he dug it to hide the abducted women and children. Later, when the abduction was severely cracked down, Song Qinghua and Liu Xiaozhen were arrested, and a group of children were rescued. He felt that if he continued to do this, there would be problems, so he retreated.
I don't know where I heard that the price of growing blood orchids was ridiculously high. He kept the women who didn't sell, first to satisfy his own twisted mentality, and second to bleed them to grow flowers.
It’s troublesome to bury someone after beating him to death, so why not make fertilizer and grow special trees, which may be very valuable…”
"Did he traffic in women and children before?" Deng Xiuzhen asked in surprise.
"Yes, he is the old man, Song Qinghua and Liu Xiaozhen really didn't know he was an old man.
Chen Guohu knew it, but he didn't dare to say it because he was afraid that Chen Chuang would kill his wife and son.
Chen Chuang is a cruel and extremely perverted person.
When he was digging the cellar, he tricked a foreigner into helping him. He locked the man in the basement, chained him, and forced him to do the work, saying he would let him go when the work was done.
After finishing the work, he killed the man, buried him at the bottom of the cellar, and covered him with cement.
He didn't kill Chen Guohu because Chen Guohu discovered that he had killed someone and recorded the incident. He not only recorded it, but also took photos with a camera.
One time he forgot to turn off the flash of his camera, which alarmed Chen Chuang. Only then did Chen Chuang realize that Chen Guohu had been following him.
Chen Chuang said: If Chen Guohu dares to tell anyone, he will kill his entire family.
Chen Guohu brought trouble upon himself and threatened Chen Chuang to protect himself: I have hidden the evidence in a secret place. If anything happens to my family, the evidence will be exposed.
The two restrained each other, and then they became like-minded and became accomplices. "
"The person who went to my house to put the ash bucket was Chen Chuang?" Deng Xiuzhen suddenly became enlightened.
“Yes, he wanted to find the evidence that Chen Guohu had hidden.
They were worried that if they didn’t find it, someone else would move in and find it, so they played tricks and spread rumors.”
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