Forensics

In the afternoon, in Wangshe Village.

It is around five o'clock now, but the sky is as dark as it is late at night, and the sound of rain keeps on.

This is the west side of the village, the closest to Luming Mountain.

The man was still roaring, his voice pierced through the rain, and amidst the rumbling thunder, it sounded very shrill and cautious.

The four police officers all looked into the rain for a moment.

Yu Shen asked: "Do we need to pull people back?"

"This is a lunatic, named Wang Tengyue. He is usually fine, and he will run out when it rains and thunders." The old village party secretary was not surprised. go home."

Yu Shen asked again: "What does he mean when he said that the earth dragon turned over?"

The old village party secretary turned on the light and said, "Our land is on the dragon's veins. In the past, whenever it rained, the dragons living underground would wake up and move their bodies with the sound of thunder. The nearby villages could feel it."

The old man spoke in a serious manner, and with the sound of rain outside, it made people feel that ghosts and spirits were really at work.

However, Lu Ying interrupted him: "The earth dragon turning over is a saying that people didn't understand earthquakes in the past. Our Penang is not on the earthquake zone, and there have been no earthquakes for many years."

The old branch secretary let out a chuckle: "You young people really have little knowledge. What you hear is deception, but what you see is believing. If you didn't live here, how would you know the power of the earth dragon to turn around?"

The old man continued: "This Luming Mountain was originally called Longyin Mountain, but the name was changed later. We locals all believe that there are dragons or something in this mountain."

He turned to the direction of Luming Mountain, folded his hands together and bowed.

Gu Yanchen looked out of the window into the distance, the rain was not as heavy as before, and the outline of Luming Mountain could be seen. While they were talking, the lunatic ran away to nowhere.

"When Penang was in a drought in the past, people would go to this mountain to pray for rain from the Dragon Lord, and it worked every time."

"A few decades ago, there were often strange sounds coming from the mountains, dragons would breathe, white smoke would suddenly appear from the mountains, and there would be earthquakes when there was thunder and rain."

Lu Ying couldn't listen to feudal superstition: "Then you said that there are earth dragons here, why don't we feel a little bit now? And has anyone seen dragons? Are there any pictures of dragons? Are there videos?"

The old village party secretary said: "The village invited Mr. Feng Shui to look at it. The earth dragon has been sleeping for more than ten years, so many disasters have been avoided."

Lu Yingdao: "Except for louder thunder, heavier rain, and darker sky, there are no other abnormalities, and these can be explained scientifically. Mountains can cause water vapor to condense. This is something I learned in high school geography. Knowledge. Luming Mountain is right on the precipitation belt, so there will be a lot of rain."

He almost wanted to give the old branch secretary an on-the-spot approach to science and explain the principles clearly.

"You, it's not that simple to stand up and talk without back pain. How many people in our village have suffered from it." To prove his words, the old man said again, "You look at that madman strangely, he went crazy because of ten A few years ago, Dilong turned over and a lot of big rocks fell from the mountain. At that time, he was with his father, and the adults pushed him away to save him, and he was hit on the head."

"It was the same rainy night that day, and the last words left by his father were 'Turn over, run away!' The child saw his father's tragic death, and has been crazy since then. Now it is only him and his mother, and the old mother can't hold him back. , so he will run out when it rains. You tell me that there is no earth dragon to turn around, so are these people's experiences all fake?"

Gu Yanchen frowned after hearing what the old branch secretary said. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but it was difficult to explain this phenomenon.Maybe they were hit by a mudslide?Or encountered a landslide?

He has checked a lot of information about Luming Mountain. The geology of this mountain is not good. It has been listed as an environmental protection object for a long time. It has been planting trees and afforestation, and no development is allowed, but he has never heard of any earth dragons.

Standing by the side, Shen Junci stretched out his hand to catch the raindrops falling from the eaves: "It's raining."

The rain was heavy for a while, and then gradually became smaller.

Gu Yanchen asked the old party secretary some more questions, and finally asked for a roster of the village 20 years ago from the old party secretary.

Four police officers came out from the old party secretary's house in raincoats.

There happened to be a farm restaurant on the west side of the village. Although the rain was a little lighter, but if you want to go back to the east, your pants and shoes will probably be wet. Why don't you rest here and discuss what to do next.

They went in and took off their raincoats.

Gu Yanchen ordered a few farm dishes according to the menu written on a small blackboard.

Shen Junci compared the two sets of rosters he got: "This village now has a lot fewer people than before."

Roughly counting, except for those who died and those who got married, the permanent resident population decreased by one to two hundred people.

When the owner of the farmhouse heard it, he said, "Yes, anyone who wants to stay in this remote village has gone to the city to work. If it wasn't for taking care of the elderly at home, I would have left long ago."

After ordering the dishes, Gu Yanchen clicked on the police system with his mobile phone, logged into the household registration management center here, and began to check one by one. The focus was on checking out those young people who used to live in the village but have now left.Find the mobile phone numbers registered by those people one by one.

They called one by one, and they made more than a dozen calls in a row without any results.

The dishes came up one after another, Gu Yanchen greeted: "Everyone, let's eat first."

Lu Ying and Shen Junci also picked up their chopsticks, and only Yu Shen said, "Captain Gu, I'm not hungry yet, you guys eat first, I'll try some more."

He made a few more phone calls, saying that I would make another call, but his hands never stopped.

Lu Ying felt sorry for him, patted him on the shoulder and said: "People are like iron and rice is steel. You can sharpen a knife and chop firewood. You should eat something first, and I will fight with you later. I must contact everyone today." .”

Yu Shen's eyes were red, but he still refused to put down his phone. He said, "The last one, I'll eat after typing this."

Yu Shen made another call. The owner of this number was a woman with a gentle voice.

Yu Shen revealed his identity and explained the matter, and the woman opposite said, "I know that call, and I made the call."

The woman's voice was very low, but Yu Shen was still so excited that his hands were shaking.

He worked so hard for so long, but it only took 1 minute to get the confirmed news.

But without those previous efforts, they might not be able to find the woman who called.

Seeing that his expression was different, Lu Ying hurriedly asked, "Did you find it?"

Shen Junci and Gu Yanchen also stopped their movements.

Yu Shen put the phone on speakerphone, eager to confirm: "It was 15 years ago, July 7, right? Why did you call them then? What did you say on the phone?"

Finally approaching the truth of the year, he was so excited that he asked a series of questions.

The woman was a little frightened, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "I... I finished my high school entrance examination that year, and I lived in the village in the summer. He told me some legends about the village, and then gave me 20 yuan, saying that if you encounter an earth dragon turning around, let me call them and tell them."

"In July of that year, it rained heavily one night, and I felt Dilong start to turn over again, so I went to the small shop and called them to tell them the news."

Fifteen years ago, she lived in the village and studied in junior high school. She was not yet an adult. Later, she was admitted to high school and then a teacher. Later, she stayed outside to teach, so she was not contacted after several investigations.

It's Dilong turning over again!

Gu Yanchen took the phone and asked, "How does it feel for Dilong to turn over?"

The woman thought for a while and said: "The ground will shake, there will be strange thunder, smoke will rise from the mountains, and stones will fall. Generally, the earthquake will stop for a while, and each time it will last for several 10 minutes, and even last for several hours intermittently. .”

This is similar to what the old branch secretary said.

That night, Yu Changen and his wife came here to watch Dilong turn over.

They must have found something.

Yu Shen asked the woman a few more words, and told her to call them again if she remembered anything.

A few people had a hasty dinner and came out of the small restaurant. The rain outside had lightened a lot, and it was completely dark. The whole village was shrouded in white mist, like a paradise.Only the mud under their feet reminded them that they were still in the world.

After walking through a difficult road, Gu Yanchen turned around and took Shen Junci's hand.

Shen Junci lowered his head and held his five fingers silently.

The fingers of the two overlapped under the raincoat.

They walked for more than ten minutes when they came, and they walked for more than 40 minutes before returning to the canteen not far away.

There was a street lamp near the canteen, which turned on at this moment, illuminating the village.

When they came to the car, they took off their raincoats and prepared to get in the car.

Shen Junci suddenly stopped in his tracks. He seemed to have realized something, turned around to look at Wangshe Village, and looked at the hazy Luming Mountain in the distance.

The rain wet Shen Junci's bangs, his face was a little pale, and his eyes were far away.

What did Lin Xianglan discover back then?

Seeing him stunned, Gu Yanchen stretched out his hand to protect him from the rain: "Get in the car first."

Shen Junci sat in the car, still in a daze, blinked his eyelashes, and suddenly said softly: "I see."

His usually cold voice trembled a little: "There may be private mines in Luming Mountain. In order not to be discovered by people, they will blast them during rainy nights and thunderstorms. That is the so-called earth dragon turning over."

With such an explanation, it seems that all the stories are reasonable. The white smoke is not the breath of the dragon, but the smoke and dust after the blast. The so-called earth dragon turning over is a local earthquake caused by the blast. .

These things have not happened again in the past ten years, not because the earth dragon fell asleep as Mr. Feng Shui said, but because the private mine stopped.

Lu Ying was taken aback: "There is a mine here? Why haven't I heard of it..."

Shen Jun said: "Those people who find someone to mine, will naturally find a way to delete all the news on the Internet, and prevent ordinary people from discovering this."

The information that Gu Yanchen collected has been processed, and the information on the Internet has been deleted.

Over the years, Zhen Jiaxu has been planting trees on Luming Mountain to remove all traces of mining.So Gu Yanchen climbed the mountain for a long time, and found no abnormalities, no corpses, traces, or evidence of crimes, because all the crimes had long been buried hundreds of meters deep underground.

Lu Ying asked again: "If there are people mining on the mountain, wouldn't people know it when they went up to the mountain to see it? How could it be spread so evilly?"

Gu Yanchen said: "This has something to do with the nearby terrain. Although Wangshe Village is facing Luming Mountain, it is next to the steepest side. It is difficult to climb up directly. They need to go around a long way to climb Luming Mountain. .”

When he said this, he suddenly understood: "Those disabled people who disappeared in the past may be miners who were coerced into mining on the mountain."

He had heard news in the past that people with mild disabilities were used as laborers, forcing them to work day and night in private mines.

Shen Junci hummed: "They may have found those people through the foundation."

All information is connected.

They seem to have finally unlocked the secrets hidden in Luming Mountain, only to be confirmed.

After hearing these words, Yu Shen felt chills all over his body.

Gu Yanchen made a decisive decision: "We will call in geological survey personnel tomorrow, and we can confirm this by measuring it with instruments."

Lu Ying asked: "Then if we find those people to go up the mountain, will we startle the snake?"

Gu Yanchen looked at the pitch-black forest and said, "It's time to grab the seven inches. Are you afraid that you will startle the snake?"

If there is really a private mine under Luming Mountain, and if someone is killed, the Hetu Chamber of Commerce and Zhen Jiaxu must be involved.

They fear the secrets here.

That's why they were eager to act when Lin Xianglan first found out about all this.

At that time, Lin Xianglan was only suspicious, and was silenced before he had time to report.

Today is different from the past. They found this place, and the supervisory team is still in Penang. Even if they search the mountains thoroughly, they must find out all the truth.

When the two returned home, their hair and shoes were still wet in many places.

Gu Yanchen pushed Shen Junci: "Go in and take a bath, don't catch a cold."

Shen Junci said: "Your shoes are also wet, the water heater can't supply it, why don't I go next door."

Gu Yanchen grabbed him tightly: "To what next door? Together."

The steam in the bathroom was hazy, quickly warming the body and dispelling the chill.

Gu Yanchen filled the bathtub with water, and when he stepped in, the water splashed out and fell to the ground.A slight touch can comfort the soul, the sound of water keeps running, and there is a lack of oxygen in the bathroom, making people breathless.

After the two of them took a shower, Gu Yanchen first dried Shen Junci's hair.

In the evening, Gu Yanchen was on the phone everywhere, communicating with the leaders and relevant departments.

Shen Junci compared the information collected by Gu Yanchen before. He searched specifically and found some traces of deletion.

According to the geological exploration data recorded in the early years, there are not only mines under Luming Mountain, but also valuable gold mines.As early as the Republic of China, mines were opened here, but the technology was limited at that time, and not many mineral deposits were dug out.

In the past few decades, Luming Mountain has been listed as an environmental protection area, and all geological mining and development activities are prohibited. Now it seems that Zhen Jiaxu may use this mountain as his private land by wooing the powerful.

Early the next morning, everyone from the Special Criminal Division and the Criminal Police Team invited exploration experts and a supervisory team to go up the mountain together.

As soon as they came to the foot of the mountain, they encountered a lot of resistance. Workers who were planting trees on the mountain stopped them one after another and refused to let them drive up.

The workers were holding shovels and chainsaws, and it was obvious that the visitors were not kind.

Gu Yanchen knew that the tree planters here would stop the cars before going up the mountain, so he was afraid of trouble and always came by car, but he didn't expect that these people took chicken feathers as arrows and set up checkpoints privately, so arrogant .

He showed his ID: "We are the Special Criminal Division of the Municipal Bureau."

Lu Ying also said: "The police are handling the case, please get out of the way!"

The leading worker was aggressive: "I don't care if you are the police or not. We are from the forestry industry, and we are not under the control of your city bureau. Without the signature of our leaders, you are not allowed to go up."

Others shouted, "That's right, don't you know that cars are not allowed on this mountain?"

"Whoever dares to drive up the mountain, don't blame us for being rude! If you destroy a tree, can you afford it?"

Lu Ying whispered: "Isn't this just a car bandit in disguise? How many bribes did you accept for using power for personal gain?"

A group of cars was stuck at the foot of the mountain, and Secretary Cui stepped down from the car behind. The old man was wearing a Chinese tunic suit today, and his steps were not big, but very steady.

He came to the leader of the workers and reported his identity: "I am Cui Shihui from the provincial supervision team. Who is your leader?"

The workers also saw Cui Shihui on the news, and they were frightened, so they hesitated to give their names.

Secretary Cui said, "You call him, and I'll talk to him in person."

A worker dialed the number.

Secretary Cui took the phone. As soon as he showed his identity, the other party became respectful and began to blame: "We planted trees here according to the plan of the Municipal Planning Bureau."

Secretary Cui said in a deep voice: "Even if we want to plant trees and afforestation, we are serving the people. If we want to rely on a few trees to stop the murder case from being investigated, isn't that a joke that puts the cart before the horse? Even if we cut down trees and blow up mountains We need to find out what happened more than ten years ago."

The other party even claimed to be.

Secretary Cui said sternly: "I want to see who dares to give the green light and protect the underworld forces. Anyone who dares to stop the police from handling the case today will be dismissed in place!"

After he finished speaking, he handed the mobile phone back to the workers, and said unhurriedly to them: "I have already communicated with your leaders, whoever stops you will be regarded as obstructing the official duties of the police and will be detained for more than [-] days."

Those people should pray, they can't find anything today.If the crime is confirmed and evidence is found, everything related will be thoroughly investigated.I'm afraid there will be more than one or two people who will be dismissed at that time.

After receiving the order from their superiors, the forest workers took two steps back, removed the roadblock, and got out of the way of the blocked road.

Gu Yanchen is very familiar with the terrain here, and has been leading these people the way.

Several machines were pulled up to Luming Mountain, and those detectors could penetrate the thick rock and sand to scan the situation below.

Soon those prospectors found a sealed hole on the mountainside, which was suspected to be an abandoned mine.

Experts also found traces of gold mines on some rocks.

Several blasting personnel discussed and gave a specific professional plan.

With such painstaking efforts to hide it, there is a high possibility that there is a problem inside.

Secretary Cui made a decision, and the old man waved his hands decisively: "Blast the mountain!"

Workers cut down nearby trees, and professionals were busy laying fuses and explosives under the surface and getting ready.

Forensic doctors and physical evidence are on standby, ready to enter the scene to search after the explosion.

Shen Junci was standing in a safe place not far away. He was wearing a white forensic uniform, tall and straight, with a straight back and a handsome face with a dignified expression.

The wind in the mountains and forests blew the hem of his clothes, making a hunting sound.

Shen Junci's eyes were reddish, and he had a hunch that there must be something buried under those mines.

Gu Yanchen stood beside him, with a serious face, looking at the scene in front of him with his arms folded.

With a loud bang, the whole mountain trembled, and the mountainside of Luming Mountain was completely blasted, flying sand and rocks splashing, and the air waves kept rolling.

With their unremitting efforts, the evil sleeping in the mountains and forests will finally be uncovered.

The world is bright and bright, everything is under the dazzling light, and there is nowhere to hide.