Summer sun shines on the beach.
The white sand grains are shining with crystal luster.
It's noon.
Inner seaside.
The waves hit the beach, layer by layer, and the white waves rise and fall.
The black reefs are like pearls embedded in the sea.
"Wei Boyan, Executive Officer Feng invited you here to help solve the case, not to show off your muscles."
Lu Wen finally found this guy on the beach.
The other executives were still busy in the villa, collecting evidence and investigating the causes and consequences.
This guy is good.
As soon as he took off his shirt, he started walking on the beach in shorts.
"What are those two big bottles in your hand? Don't tell me they're sunscreen! You actually came to the beach to sell sunscreen! Where is the reputation of District 10?"
"Young people are still not open-minded enough. Why don't you lose face when selling sunscreen?"
Wei Boyan smiled gently and placed two large bottles of sunscreen products on the beach.
He slowly made a few stretching movements, and the muscles all over his body were like a dragon swimming around his body. His bronze skin shone with a dazzling luster in the sun.
Soon, many members of the opposite sex came forward to chat.
And so the business came.
He gently applied the sunscreen to the girls' bodies, spreading it evenly with his hands.
Lu Wen sat silently aside. With his good looks, there were not many girls who came up to chat with him. Some even recognized him as a city hero and wanted to take a photo with him.
This face is so recognizable.
Even though he is an android, his popularity is not bad at all.
"Oh, sure enough, muscular men are no longer popular? Girls nowadays all like pretty boys like you." Wei Boyan sighed softly, as if lamenting the passage of time.
"The most important thing now is to do business." Lu Wen said.
"Is the on-site investigation and evidence collection over? Have you found any useful evidence? Have you deciphered the betrayal in the note?"
"None of them." Lu Wen shook his head.
"Look, it doesn't matter if there's one more or one less than me. Now the investigation has reached a dead end. It's just like many old cases in the 10th District. The murderer can't be found. Of course, many cases are because the executive officers back then were not qualified. , now this case is because the murderer has two brushes."
It's still the same situation as last time.
The whole process is passive.
It was not until the end that Lu Wen and the others finally took the initiative by finding the connection between the deceased and the unjust case twelve years ago.
And this initiative was probably given to them intentionally by the murderer.
"Two people are dead now, a cleaner and a former executive director. With such a big identity gap, if these two people were really connected, I'm afraid they would have been investigated long ago, and there wouldn't be no progress like this." Wei Boyan Shrugging, "So either we find a breakthrough clue, or... we have to wait for the third deceased to appear."
"So, you really sell sunscreen here?"
"How can you use the word "sell"? I am bringing a different kind of enjoyment to these girls." Wei Boyan said righteously, "By the way, let's find out more about this region. After all, the 15th District Executive Bureau gives What we look at is probably processed data, and the most authentic news often comes from the public.”
Lu Wen finally understood what Wei Boyan meant.
This is not District 10.
Therefore, this middle-aged man finds it very inconvenient to do anything and is helpless.
As the director-general of a region, his long-term experience tells him that what the Executive Directorate displays to the outside world is all whitewashed.
"There have been many shocking cases in the 10th District, but in the end, for the sake of the reputation of the entire district, we reported those cases in a simplified way to the outside world, and later deleted the news about those cases."
The residents of District 10 know only what they should know.
"For example, what happened with the doctor Zhang He?" Lu Wen asked.
"Yes, it's just that we failed to control the doctor Zhang He incident. It caused too much trouble and caused public resentment. Although we deleted all the news and reports about the incident after the incident, many people still remember it. "
Wei Boyan asked many people on the beach.
Finally, he actually asked for some news.
"In the center of this inland sea, at the bottom of the sea, there is a submerged city. Some people say that there are many treasures in the city, waiting for future generations to discover." Wei Boyan asked, his tongue drying up, and he took a sip of iced juice.
"That's it?" Lu Wen stared at him, "This news sounds almost like a fairy tale, and it can't be compared with the current case."
"Of course it does matter!"
Wei Boyan put down the juice in his hand and looked at the vast sea not far away.
"In the past few decades, people have been driving submarines into the submerged city in an attempt to find the treasures inside. And this is not a fairy tale, those treasures really exist."
"What exactly are the treasures?"
"I asked the little genius to check some relatively hidden information for me." Wei Boyan copied the information and gave it to Lu Wen, "Before the last war, for nearly two hundred years, this was still a large basin. The city in the center of the basin was rich and prosperous, and there was an insurance company that was quite famous at that time. "
Lu Wen flipped through the information.
A very special type of insurance, not selling insurance as we understand it now, but a company that keeps valuables safe.
You only need to pay a certain fee to store your valuables with this company and take them out whenever you want.
If the item is lost, this company will double the compensation.
The fees paid vary depending on the value of each item.
"Later during that war, the terrain was destroyed and floods flooded this place. It can also be said that the inland sea was farther away at that time, and later it all flowed into this basin."
According to records, a lot of things were submerged.
Gold and silver can only be considered ordinary, but there are also boxes of diamonds and jewelry, various family heirlooms, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc...
"About ten years ago, there was a team that had been planning for a long time. They went to sea on a calm day and salvaged it for a full month."
From the information sent by Xiao Tiancai, we can find that people on land at that time had already received the news from the sea.
The treasure has been found.
But those ships sank inexplicably while returning.
The submarine they rented disappeared.
"So that's it."
Lu Wen thought of the glittering treasures under Du Changqing's villa.
He thought they were all bribed.
Now it seems that part of it may come from this so-called undersea treasure.
"If this is the case, then in addition to accepting huge bribes, he also has many lives on his hands, so he deserves to die."
Lu Wen knows that there is a kind of kindness called hypocrisy.
Pretended kindness.
Many people do good deeds out of nature. They have a soft spot in their hearts and cannot bear to see others suffer.
There is also a type of people who don't want to do good deeds in their hearts, but their vanity drives them and makes them intoxicated with the honor and appreciation brought by every good deed they do.
"Even if it's really just hypocrisy, if you can be hypocritical for a lifetime and do good deeds for a lifetime, then you can be considered truly kind. It's a pity..."
People's hearts are not enough.
Du Changqing used money in exchange for reputation, and finally died because of money crimes.
"At that time, not all of the treasure-hunting organization went to sea, and there were still people who stayed on land. Can the living places of those people be found now?"
Lu Wen found that there was no such information in the information Wei Boyan gave him, so he asked.
"All dead."
Wei Boyan sent another piece of information to Lu Wen.
Those men went to sea ten years ago, leaving eight people on the shore waiting for news.
All those who went to sea perished in the sea.
The eight people who stayed on land also died one after another due to various strange accidents in the next three years.
Seven years ago, the last person died in his own home. It was found that he had eaten too much and his stomach wall had ruptured... and he was strangled to death.
"I'm not a fool, how could I push myself to death?"
Lu Wen looked at the person's information and found that he was just an ordinary person.
There is no big eater challenge, nor is it a career like mukbang.
Seven years ago, it happened to be the time when Du Changqing applied for resignation.
"Du Changqing's true crime is probably now clear." Lu Wen still didn't figure it out. "If you want those people to die for various reasons, Du Changqing will definitely not be able to do it alone. In other words, even if he can do it, there will be huge difficulties." A problem may be detected.”
"Those young executives didn't want to believe that it was him, so they attributed all the deaths of those people to accidents." Wei Boyan said.
This is faith.
Du Changqing is the belief of many young executives.
Like parents, more like celebrities.
If a certain case is discovered, it may be related to the person you believe in, and that person is also the director of the Executive Directorate, synonymous with authority.
Those young executives will choose to give up the pursuit, ignore all the unreasonableness in the case, and close the case hastily.
"Look, this is why I don't want to work with those guys in District 15. They are hiding something intentionally or unintentionally." Wei Boyan picked up the juice and took a sip.
"But I still have to work with them next, and I have to try to find the wandering poet."
Concealing the truth is only used against ordinary people.
Lu Wen didn't expect that these guys would hide certain things from other district colleagues.
"Feng Fugui should not know these things." Wei Boyan said: "Du Changqing resigned seven years ago to ensure that everything was foolproof, so he would definitely assign young executives he trusted to deal with those strange deaths."
"Do you want to find all those young executives?" Lu Wen asked.
"Concealing information from colleagues and hastily closing the case, they are no longer worthy of being an executive. It happened that they were invited here this time, so help them clean up the moths."
…
The day's investigation ended quickly.
In the evening, the sun sets.
The sea water in the distance was stained crimson by the setting sun.
In the evening breeze.
Many executives sit together. Seafood barbecue is a specialty of this area, and seafood food stalls can be seen everywhere on the streets.
Dining room.
Feng Fugui called five executive officers to a table alone. These five were all first-level executive officers, but they had been in the executive bureau for some years. The youngest one had become a full-time executive seven years ago.
"These eight cases were handled by the five of you. Du Changqing assigned you to handle them at that time."
Eight people died under mysterious circumstances.
The five of them were silent.
The night wind carried the smell of barbecue, and the documents flipped page by page in the wind, uncovering some buried old memories.
…
Early the next morning.
All five people submitted their resignation applications.
Wei Boyan stood at the gate of the Executive Office of the 15th District and sighed: "Last time, that guy caught more than ten people in my district, and this time he caught more people in the 15th District. If this spreads again, On the Internet, it is estimated that someone should be holding a sign and shouting for justice at the gate of the 15th District.”
"You may have opened your mouth before."
Lu Wen looked at various social platforms.
The main news has not been released yet.
But he searched using '15th District' as the keyword and found that some self-media with relatively large fans were already reposting what happened in the 15th District in the past two days.
"It's funny to say that the wandering poet is just a criminal... Criminals will also have followers." Feng Fugui also stood at the door and sighed.
"If the Enforcement Bureau does a good enough job, fewer and fewer people will regard criminals as heroes." Lu Wen said.
The phenomenon of worshiping criminals is often divided into two types.
One is to regard criminals as heroes, such as the wandering poet outside now.
His supporters believe that the Executive Board cannot bring justice to everyone, so the world needs enforcers in the night to clear away all the dark corners of injustice.
The appearance of wandering poets just fulfilled their wishes.
Another kind of worship phenomenon is more bizarre...
Take the case of Richard Ramirez.
This criminal, known as the "Night Stalker", has committed countless horrific cases, including violent assaults, dismemberments, and finally killings. Most of the victims were women.
However, after this criminal was arrested, he actually had a huge female fan group in a very short period of time, and many women claimed to have fallen in love with him.
There are many such examples, such as Manson and Ted Bundy, one of the prototypes of the Silence of the Lambs.
"Why are you frowning all day? When you come to District 15, you should take a good look at the surrounding scenery." Wei Boyan sat next to Lu Wen and asked.
"There are so many things to do and I feel tired."
"Can bionic people also feel tired?"
"Who says not?"
It’s not easy to control three bodies at the same time, with so many things happening every day.
According to Wei Bo'an's information, today should be the day for the No Man's Land androids to negotiate with the Parliament.
Who knows how many unfair conditions those brainless guys in No Man's Land will agree to.
"Do you have any new information about this meeting in No Man's Land?" Lu Wen asked.
"It's still early. The scheduled time is to start at ten o'clock in the morning. It's outside an abandoned city that both parties agreed to. It's only around seven o'clock now. I'll let you know as soon as there is news." Wei Boyan looked at the time and said, "No Man's Land Those bionic people have nothing to do with you, so why do they think so much?"
"They are all bionic people after all, and we are all compatriots."
"The development of things is unpredictable. Even if you really want to change, you are only one person, and you can't stop the trend unless you have an army of androids that can change the direction of anything."
Time passed little by little.
Before ten o'clock, there was another dead person in District 15.
"The deceased this time was a bank security guard."
Feng Fugui distributed the information to everyone.
"What does a bank security guard have to do with the word 'betrayal'?"
…
Good night, all book friends.
There are only two updates today, and I will make up some more tomorrow.
Thanks to the book friend Love·Imprint for the reward.
(End of chapter)