Just when everyone's eyes were focused on the interior of the truck, I noticed a figure quietly moving away from the truck and walking towards the direction where the courier parked the truck. This person was Xiao Wang, who had just eaten with me!
I saw Xiao Wang looking around furtively, as if he was afraid of being seen. I pretended not to see him, lowered my head to look at the express delivery placed at my feet, and stared at Xiao Wang out of the corner of my eye. I saw Xiao Wang come to his delivery truck, open the door, and take out a black plastic bag from it!
The plastic bag had a large capacity, and from the outer outline, it seemed to contain a box, and the size of the box was exactly the same as the empty bag I had seen three times before!
At present, it seems that the situation is exactly the same as I analyzed last night. The person who put the empty package in the truck was Xiao Wang, the courier of our company.
Who would have thought that it would be Xiao Wang? When I thought about how I had just eaten and joked with Xiao Wang, and how Xiao Wang and Xiao Li were always willing to help me every time I encountered difficulties, I felt very upset.
But if it was Xiao Wang, then some of the previous things could be explained. Why did the empty bag disappear for no reason when we were unconscious in the police car, even though no one had opened the police car? I had previously suspected that Lin Yingxue had hidden it, but now it seems that it was definitely because it was not that no one had opened the police car at that time, but that someone had opened the police car but was not noticed by anyone, and that person was Xiao Wang.
Perhaps Xiao Wang did not suddenly receive a call from their branch boss that day, asking him to go to the head office to pick up the express delivery slip, but he came to take away the empty package that was about to be taken away by us. He must have quietly hidden the empty package in his express truck before opening the door to wake us up, so we did not notice it when we checked the surveillance.
At this moment, I actually had the urge to step forward and warn Xiao Wang, not because I had compassion, but because I vaguely felt that Xiao Wang was not the real murderer.
But I was still a step too late. Although all the couriers were busy distributing the goods, the police who were ambushing around had already noticed Xiao Wang's abnormality. Before Xiao Wang walked to the truck, Lin Yingxue tore off the mask on her face and rushed towards Xiao Wang at a high speed.
Lin Yingxue took the lead, and Officer Yang also shouted, "Attack!" The group of ambushing policemen around them rushed forward and rushed towards Xiao Wang.
When Xiao Wang saw so many people rushing towards him, he immediately realized that something was wrong, but he did not surrender. He turned over and jumped into his delivery truck, and immediately started to flee towards the alley entrance.
The courier trucks were electric and started very quickly. In a blink of an eye, the police who were lying in ambush around them could no longer catch up. At this time, Lin Yingxue and Officer Yang jumped onto a courier truck each and quickly chased in the direction where Xiao Wang fled. Soon, the three vehicles drove out of the alley and disappeared from my sight.
Other police officers drove out all the police cars that were lying in ambush nearby and chased forward, while the couriers who were distributing the goods looked at each other, wondering why so many people were chasing Xiao Wang.
Of course, the most surprised person was Xiao Li, who was in the same branch as Xiao Wang.
"He committed a crime? Why are the police arresting him? Ji Wen, do you know something?" Among all the people, I was the only one who seemed relatively calm. Xiao Li naturally saw that something was wrong with me and immediately stepped forward to ask.
I shook my head without answering directly, put down the package in my hand, and walked towards the alley entrance while saying, "Don't ask too much, just work hard, you will know later."
Why did I go to the alley entrance? Because I found that there was a large group of people gathered at the alley entrance, and it seemed that something had happened.
When I arrived at the entrance of the alley, it had been blocked by the plainclothes police. From a distance, I saw a smashed courier truck lying on the ground in the middle of the road ahead. There was a lot of blood on the ground. The scene was very terrifying, but there was no sign of Xiao Wang.
I squeezed into the crowd and saw Officer Yang directing the operation. I stepped forward and asked, "Officer Yang, what's going on? Has the person been caught?"
When Officer Yang saw that it was me, he immediately sighed and said, "Alas, the kid was driving too fast and was crossing the road when he was hit from the side by a taxi. He was thrown out and then run over by a car in another lane. He has been sent to the hospital now. I don't know if he can be saved."
When Officer Yang said this, he went to the overturned courier truck and dealt with the aftermath with several police officers. I felt extremely depressed, and felt extremely lost and self-blaming.
If I hadn't told Bai Qi and Officer Yang about this last night, perhaps Xiao Wang would still be alive and well today. If I had stepped forward and caught him when I found Xiao Wang sneaking towards the express truck, this tragedy would not have happened. Now I can only pray silently in my heart, praying that Xiao Wang will be fine.
When I returned to the head office, I found that Xiao Li and several couriers were already walking towards the scene of the incident. I also felt at a loss. I absent-mindedly sorted my goods and drove to deliver the express.
There were not many goods today. At one o'clock in the afternoon, I finished delivering today's goods. After returning to the store, I signed for the express delivery slip and hurried back home. I had no mood to play games. I opened a movie "Justice, My Foot" starring Stephen Chow, which I had seen before. I wanted to relax myself and not blame myself too much for what happened today.
I don’t know if I’m the only one with this habit, but I never get bored of some classic movies I’ve watched even if I’ve watched them a hundred times. I’ve basically memorized the lines from “Justice, My Foot,” but I’m still very happy every time I finish watching it. On the other hand, some movies nowadays I won’t watch a second time after watching them once.
I was watching when I heard someone knocking on the door. I got up and opened the door. It was Bai Longfei. He told me that he had something urgent to ask me to go to the Binhe Police Station, and it seemed that he needed me to testify about something.
I was also very worried about Xiao Wang's injuries, so I immediately took a car with Bai Longfei to the Binhe Police Station, and followed Bai Longfei to Officer Yang's office.
There were not many people in Officer Yang's office at this time. There were still only Bai Qi and Lin Yingxue. As soon as I walked into the room, I saw a familiar black plastic bag on Officer Yang's desk, and there seemed to be a box inside.
This is exactly the plastic bag that Xiao Wang took out this morning!
"Ji Wen, come here, please help check if this empty package is the one you have been delivering for three days." When Officer Yang saw me come in, he immediately opened the black plastic bag on the table and took out a box that was exactly the same size as the empty package I had been delivering for three days.
I took the box but didn't look at it immediately. Instead, I turned to Officer Yang and asked, "How is Xiao Wang doing?"
After hearing this, the room fell silent. After a long while, Officer Yang said, "He was crushed by the wheel and his cervical vertebra was broken, which caused his trachea to rupture. He died despite failed rescue efforts."
Although I had guessed the result from the bloody scene in the morning, I still felt uncomfortable when I heard Officer Yang say it in person. I felt my eyes become a little blurry, and I immediately took a deep breath to let the moisture in my eyes flow back.
I tried not to be too sad, picked up the empty package in my hand and looked through it carefully, and soon I found that this empty package was not the same empty package I had seen several times before, because there were no signs of the tape being removed, and from the surface of the package, it seemed to be a brand new box.
"This doesn't look like it. It's not the same package as the one I delivered before. Have you opened it to see what's inside?" After confirming it again and again, I handed the package to Officer Yang.
Officer Yang frowned, turned his head and glanced at Bai Qi, then said: "I opened it, and there was nothing inside. I'm sure this thing is just a tool to point to the victim, and it has no other use."
I took another look at the empty package and asked, "Isn't there a delivery note on this package?"
"No, but we found the courier slip that was supposed to be stuck on Xiao Wang's clothes pocket. It is now being processed by the technical department for handwriting identification. We also sent someone to the recipient's home to check. It seems that this case has finally been solved."
Officer Yang felt relieved and let out a long sigh. The stone that had been weighing on his heart for a long time was finally put down completely.
Seeing Officer Yang so happy, I couldn't interrupt him, but I couldn't help but turn to Bai Qi and say, "But in my opinion, if this case was really solved, you wouldn't have gone to the trouble of asking me to check if this package was the one I delivered before, right?"
Bai Qi smiled and said, "Yes, although all the current clues can prove that Xiao Wang is the murderer, there are still many doubts. For example, why did Xiao Wang go to such great lengths to steal the empty bag from you? Why is the empty bag found in Xiao Wang's car different from the one that was stolen?"
After hearing this, Lin Yingxue said, "Maybe he has obsessive-compulsive disorder and doesn't want us to get the box before his plan is completely completed? Or maybe the box is very important to him, so he stole it and quietly changed the bag. We can go to his house and search it later and find out."
I looked at the serious Lin Yingxue and wondered how did you get into the special case team with such a weird imagination
Bai Qi seemed to see through my thoughts and said, "Ji Wen, do you have anything to say? Or have you discovered anything else?"
"In my opinion, there are far more doubts than these. First of all, considering Xiao Wang's age, he was at most 13 or 14 years old ten years ago. How did he kill so many people? This is totally illogical. Also, what about those hearts that were dug out? Why did he dig out people's hearts? I didn't have much contact with Xiao Wang, but this man shouldn't be so cruel and violent. Besides, why did he kill these people? What was his motive? So I think that the murderer of this case, and the heart-digger ten years ago, is not Xiao Wang, but definitely someone else!"