Siheyuan: Starting from a Truck Driver

Faced with the disaster, the expedition team members were at a loss and quickly asked their superiors for help via radio.

The first to arrive were not the rescue team, but the investigation team led by Lao Mao.

The investigation team quickly cordoned off the adjacent tents where the remaining five team members were located.

During this period, Lao Mao and Lao Hei kept interrogating the team members, but to no avail.

For this reason, Li Aiguo was urgently called into the investigation team.

Li Aiguo opened his notebook, sorted it out, and put it back into the folder.

After a moment of silence, the old cat lit a cigarette and asked, "How about it? What do you think?"

"To explore the case, we must first confirm whether this is really a case."

This may sound far-fetched, but if there is nothing unusual about an event, even if you spend countless energy and resources, it may be in vain, because the real key is right under our noses, but we have been hidden from it.

In reality, many incidents that appear to be cases on the surface turn out to be misunderstandings.

As the team leader, Lao Mao nodded in agreement.

Li Aiguo handed the folder to Yan Zi and whispered, "From what I understand, the team leader suspected that the location of the landslide was illogical, so it seemed abnormal, right?"

The old cat was deeply touched. He stood up straight and pointed at Li Aiguo and said, "Did you see that? He is just a train driver. He found the problem that you searched all day but couldn't find after just one turn. This kind of extraordinary observation ability is not something that ordinary people can have."

Lao Hei touched his head and smiled foolishly.

"Captain, perhaps you were not there in person, so you don't know..."

Yan Zi told him about Li Aiguo's earlier insight into the cave collapse.

Since the investigation team and the rescue team belong to different organizations, only the rescue team gave Lao Mao feedback on the requirements to join the railway troops, but did not disclose the details of the cave collapse. This was the first time Lao Mao knew about this situation. After hearing this, Lao Mao showed a surprised expression, and praised Li Aiguo for his significant contribution in just one day. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "You have great potential in investigation and are very talented. Follow me in the future!" If talent can be measured by the system, then Lao Mao's words are not unreasonable. After all, Li Aiguo's 81-point criminal investigation skills are comparable to Sherlock Holmes, and he can notice clues that ordinary people ignore.

However, Li Aiguo thought to himself that what he really loved was always driving trains. Moreover, a rigorous investigation team like Lao Mao had many rules and a high level of confidentiality. Even marriages could be arranged by the organization. If it was a beautiful lady, it would be fine, as it would help him realize his dream of forming a football team. But if it was a big, strong woman, it would be difficult for him, Li Aiguo, to handle it. Well, don't mention that turning off the lights doesn't matter anymore, that's pure nonsense.

Facing Lao Mao's good intention, Li Aiguo politely declined. "What a pity," Lao Mao sighed, and further explained, "It is against common sense that the cave collapse occurred in this area that was originally impossible." Then, he called a small man and said, "He is my expert, who is good at investigating various materials. We have conducted a detailed investigation of the landslide area."

He was a small man with a thin body and dark complexion, looking a bit like a monkey. He rubbed the black dirt on his hands and spoke softly: "No traces of any suspected items were found at the scene, no traces of , Taian, ammonium oil, residues, or even hydrogen peroxide.

The old cat smiled bitterly and said, "But the result is nothing."

Li Aiguo had already anticipated this.

The members of the reconnaissance team have been selected through layers of screening, and their family background and ideological quality are very stable.

Usually these people don't have problems.

Then, Li Aiguo felt a flash of inspiration suddenly flash through his mind.

However, when he tried to catch it, it suddenly disappeared without a trace.

At this moment, Lao Mao explained his intentions to Li Aiguo. "You are an outsider, and sometimes you can see things that we care about but ignore. We will re-interrogate several team members tonight, and I hope you can sit in on the interrogation."

Li Aiguo naturally couldn't refuse such a request. "Okay!" he replied.

Stepping out of the tent and looking at the twinkling stars in the night sky, Li Aiguo tried his best to capture the inspiration that had just flashed. However, no matter how hard he tried, he could not come up with an answer.

"Why are you shaking your head?" He turned his head and saw Yan Zi staring at his head with a strange look in her eyes. Instinctively, Li Aiguo took a step back.

"Comrade Yan Zi, you are--" He hadn't finished his words.

"The team leader said you have talent in your brain. I want to pry it open and put it in my own head!" This carefree girl said such creepy words with an innocent smile, which was particularly scary in the dark. Li Aiguo touched his cold arm, shook his head and said, "Talent is innate. Even if you cut open your heart and brain, you can't find anything."

Yan Zi snorted and said with a wicked smile: "I was just joking. You know I'm not very old, but I'm a student of Kyoto University after all. How could I not understand these things? Look how scared you are."

"Let's go, the interrogation is about to begin."

Yan Zi hopped around like a little white rabbit, walked towards the neighboring tent with her hands behind her back, leaving Li Aiguo alone muttering, "These people are so weird. The people in the investigation team are like freaks."

The adjacent tent had been set up as a makeshift interrogation room. There was no need for a table, so the investigation team simply built one on the ground with tree trunks and covered it with canvas. Although it was not strong, it was strong enough to bear weight. The seats were just a few broken stones as a substitute, and the stones for the investigators and the interrogated were slightly different: the investigators sat on a flat surface, while the suspects had to face sharp edges.

There are decorations like iron chains above the tent. Even if they are not scary, they do create a serious and depressing atmosphere.

"Are you satisfied? These are all my ideas." Seeing Li Aiguo examining the so-called "decorations" in the tent, Yan Zi held her head high and said with a little pride.

It seems that our imagination is correct. If you want to do such an exaggerated thing, you must be a middle school student.

Of course, Li Aiguo could only respond with a helpless smile to the middle school girl with a penis next to him, and gave a thumbs up, saying, "Great, awesome!" He pointed to the high-hanging iron chain and asked.

Lao Hei's expression became unusual.

He wanted to laugh, but tried his best to restrain himself. He clapped his hands vigorously and announced, "The interrogation will begin soon. Xiaobai, bring Zhou Xianfeng in."

After a while, a middle-aged man with a beard walked into the tent.

Lao Hei sat on the stone bench and motioned to the stone bench opposite to him. "Sit down, Zhou Xianfeng." When he said this, his eyes fell steadily on Zhou Xianfeng.

Brother Hei did not intervene in Zhou Xianfeng's hesitation. In this situation where the suspect has not yet been identified, trust and procedures among comrades are more important. So he took the official document and began to interrogate in a low voice:

"Name?"

"Zhou Xianfeng."

"Place of origin?"

“I’m from Sichuan.”

This was not the first time such an inquiry had been conducted. After a concise and clear identity verification, Heige went into the core question: "What were the specific details of the day the case occurred?"

Observer Li Aiguo discovered Heige's special interrogation method. Usually, he would ask a series of questions, wait for a while, and then repeat the same questions. Heige's eyes always followed Zhou Xianfeng's answers. Once the answer was slightly different, he would approach like a predator, keenly and mercilessly.

Unfortunately, Zhou Xianfeng's answers were similar to the previous ones, even if there were slight differences in words. This made Heige quite frustrated. There was almost no substantive progress in the half-hour interrogation. Li Aiguo had already understood most of the case.

Seeing that there was no breakthrough in the interrogation, his mind began to wander. It felt like losing a beloved item, unable to eat or sleep peacefully, but Li Aiguo believed that it might be the key clue to solve the whole thing.

However, the interrogation did not bring any valuable clues about Zhou Xianfeng. Zhou Xianfeng is in his forties and is a retired veteran. He was once the soul of the team. After returning home from the army, he performed his duties diligently in the mine management position. Later, under the guidance of the party organization, he got married and had two lovely children. Perhaps it was the stability of life that made his love fade away. He applied to the exploration department to seek new challenges despite his family's opposition. There, he performed well and was awarded many times. When the country needed to select explorers again, even in the face of heavy family pressure, he signed up again and vowed to make a difference in the exploration business instead of being driven by money. The next few explorers who were interrogated were in the same situation. They were all top figures carefully selected from the exploration teams, with impeccable political qualities and backgrounds.

The interrogation has not yielded any results. At this moment, fatigue creeps in, and Li Aiguo lights a cigarette, trying to wake himself up.

Inside the account.

Looking at Li Aiguo, Liu Diquan first showed a look of astonishment and shock, then his eyes flushed, and he expressed his feelings in a choked voice. The grievances that had accumulated for a long time came out like a flood. His big hand tightly grasped Li Aiguo's arm, as if he had grasped the last support.

Feeling his trembling, Li Aiguo understood why this tough man in his twenties or thirties would cry in front of others. The depth of his grievances may have put him under tremendous pressure physically and mentally, even to the brink of collapse.

Li Aiguo turned to Lao Hei and raised his chin to indicate: "What method?" Hearing Li Aiguo's question, Lao Hei just snorted and shook his short hair slightly.

"See, you're safe and sound." Li Aiguo opened his cigarette box and handed Liu Diquan a cigarette, lit it for him skillfully, and said softly, "The superiors will be fair and they will find out the facts clearly."

"You are right to be patriotic. Our grievances can always be cleared up." After taking a few deep puffs of cigarette, Liu Diquan's mood eased a lot and he seemed to have regained his calm.

Li Aiguo helped him sit on the rock and asked with a smile: "I didn't expect that Diquan, you also joined the prospecting team." Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped and his expression became solemn.