Self-built houses in urban villages usually have no plan, and they can be built as they want. This house is a courtyard courtyard, which is not very light, so it simply sealed the roof on the second floor, making it a completely sealed box. With the roof, the yard can also be used as a poker venue, making full use of the limited space.
Now, the huge power of the gas tank explosion has blown the ceiling of this not very good quality to pieces. The hollow cement slabs fell one by one, blocking the way out of the house. The fire blazed into the sky, and there were occasional explosions. When other people escaped, they must have seen this scene.
Without professional tools, manpower cannot move the cement board, and it may die in the fire, and can only wait for the fire brigade. But now in this situation, when the fire brigade came, Fang Chuyang was burned to ashes.
Zhai Chen looked in through the gap of the cement board by the firelight, but saw nothing. There were no footsteps or calls for help in the house, and it was terribly quiet.
"Fang Chuyang!" Zhai Chen shouted loudly, picked up a cement board with his bare hands, threw it away, and crawled in.
More than ten years ago, he was brought home by Zhai Jianguo, and Fang Chuyang lived next to his house. At that time, in the old community, both houses were on the first floor, with a small yard built by themselves. The two families have a good relationship, and there is a thin wall of bricks between them, neither of which is built with cement, but just piled up like that.
He had just arrived at Zhai's house at that time, and when Zhai Jianguo entered the house to discuss with his family, he stood in the yard and was at a loss. Hearing the laughter of the boy next door, he crawled over the wall with curiosity for a while. I was used to climbing over the wall in the mountains, but I didn't know the wall was so weak that it fell down with a bang, burying him in the pile of bricks.
"Are you alright?" The young boy in ginger clothes moved away the bricks and squatted down to look at him. At that time, Fang Chuyang, who was twelve years old, was tanned playing basketball, and his teeth were particularly white when he smiled.
"Don't Chenchen know his birthday?"
"Chenchen is about the same age as Yangyang, why don't you just set a birthday."
"Then I'm the big brother!"
"No, I'm the big brother!"
"Crack!" The sudden abundance of oxygen caused the flames in the room to rise in vain, and the flames flew out, almost licking Zhai Chen's hair.
Zhai Chen rolled on the spot, dodged the open flame, and suddenly saw Fang Chuyang who was pressed under half a cement board. He seemed to have been knocked unconscious, lying motionless at the door of the living room, and the fire that was spreading in the room was about to burn his legs.
"Fang Chuyang!" Zhai Chen shouted at him, moving the cement board away in two or three times, and scooping up the man from the ground.
The gate of the yard was blocked by cement boards, and the police outside followed over the wall and came in. As soon as they came in, they saw that Zhai Chen had already found someone.
"Get out!" Zhai Chen carried Fang Chuyang on his back and shouted at the two little policemen as he ran. The two of them didn't know, so they came to help.
"Boom—" A monstrous flame suddenly burst out of the house. I don't know how many gas tanks were hidden in the kitchen, but it exploded a second time. The huge shock wave threw Zhai Chen and the two to the opposite wall. And the little policeman who just passed the wall was directly overturned.
Zhai Chen quickly turned over in the air, his feet pressed against the wall, and leaning on the muscles that were still useful at the moment, he slowed down the speed of the impact and avoided the end of his head and blood. But it was too late to adjust his movements, and he fell to his knees directly on the cement board and broken steel bars, gritting his teeth in pain.
Fang Chuyang was lying on his back, avoiding the tragedy of his body falling to the ground, and he was still unconscious.
The two breaths of oxygen temporarily inhaled were exhausted. The fire came over immediately, Zhai Chen didn't dare to delay, he carried Fang Chuyang and ran to the wall.
"Brother Chen, this way!" Chen Zhaohui rode on the wall to meet him.
"Huhu..." Zhai Chen's breathing became heavier and heavier, he gritted his teeth and carried Fang Chuyang back to the wall, handing over his hand, "Pull me!"
The thin Xiao Chen couldn't pull the unconscious adult man up by relying on his waist strength. Zhai Chen had to rely on his own strength to carry Fang Chuyang out.
Chen Zhaohui obediently pulled him and pulled him up.
"Crack!" I don't know what furniture was burning and fell off, and the bright flames slammed into their heads with the threat of death.
Zhai Chen tried his best, jumped up, and rushed out of the yard together with Fang Chuyang.
"Boom boom boom!" The piles of poplar furniture burned, and the whole yard became a sea of fire.
"Huh...Fang Chuyang..." Zhai Chen lay on the ground, panting like a dog who suffered from heat stroke first, clutching Fang Chuyang's collar tightly in his hand, calling him in a hoarse voice.
Fang Chuyang's face was covered in blood, his eyes were closed, and he didn't seem to be in a good condition.
Gao Yusheng picked up Zhai Chen, put the oxygen mask on his face indistinguishably, and kept pressing the mouthpiece of the portable oxygen tube. The body name in his arms had obviously reached its limit, and he began to twitch slightly, causing his heart to throb.
"Don't talk, breathe in," Gao Yusheng hugged him tightly and whispered in his ear, "Brother, don't sleep, take a big breath, and you'll be fine soon."
The power in Zhai Chen's body requires a high concentration of oxygen to wake up. But when the oxygen is insufficient, he can also rely on the energy stored in the muscles for a burst, but then he will fall into a severe hypoxia reaction.
When he was a child in the mountains, Zhai Chen often had some farm work to do because he grew up quickly and looked like a young boy. Sometimes this happens when brute force is used.
At that time, the little Gao Yusheng didn't know what to do, so he could only comfort him with tears in his eyes.
The big mouthful of oxygen entered the lungs, and the dizziness, vertigo, and tinnitus gradually improved, and the body gradually regained strength. Zhai Chen raised his hand to hold Gao Yusheng's hand, and took off the oxygen mask: "I'm fine, just give Fang Chuyang two breaths, is he out of breath?"
"Cough cough..." Fang Chuyang coughed twice and opened his eyes, "You're out of breath."
"Fuck, you're awake, and you pretended to be dead for me to carry, shameless!" Zhai Chen took the oxygen bottle, pressed it on Fang Chuyang's nose and mouth, and blocked his scolding mouth in time.
Fang Chuyang didn't have the strength to struggle at the moment, so he could only stare at him with his eyes.
The originally lively and peaceful night market was disturbed by the explosion. Amid the firelight and the sound of discussions, it ended early.
The owner of the casino was bombed to death, and his wife cried dazedly after asking three questions. Most of the gamblers in the casino are people who live in Zhouzhai, and there are also other places who come here. It's a mixed bag with no particularly useful information.
"However, the debt list in the casino has been found, and it does contain Li Chao's name." Chen Zhaohui stood in front of Fang Chuyang's hospital bed and reported the situation of the overnight interrogation.
Fang Chuyang suffered from skin trauma, so much blood on his face looked scary, but in fact it was just a cut on his head. However, the man who was born and died yesterday, the doctor did not dare to let him go home directly, and stayed in the hospital for a night of observation.
"Has the cause of the accident been found out?" Fang Chuyang had gauze wrapped around his head, and there were a few scratches on his face.
"The fire department said that the liquefied gas tank in the kitchen exploded. There were three liquefied gas tanks in the kitchen and two upstairs, so it exploded a second time."
Fang Chuyang carefully recalled the last scene in the casino. The gamblers all followed in an orderly manner. The owner of the casino retreated secretly, as if he wanted to jump out of the bedroom window. He went to chase the boss, and at this moment, it suddenly exploded.
This is definitely not an accident.
"The boy who issued the leaflet has been locked, so I'll go catch him today." Captain Fan walked in with a smile, holding steamed buns and soy milk in his hand.
The pony yawned and followed, apparently it was another all-nighter.
"Why did you come here?" Fang Chuyang raised his head and took the bun from the captain's hand.
"Let's go out for breakfast, take a look at the deputy team, and go home for a while." Xiaoma said, and fell asleep on the empty hospital bed next to him.
No one could have imagined what happened yesterday. Originally, I just planned to use the pretext of checking the casino to arrest the owner of the casino for cross-examination, so that he could identify Sister Xia. Who knew that there would be an explosion at the scene, and the witness was instantly upgraded to a suspected murder case.
Everyone in the criminal police team was exhausted, only Chen Zhaohui, who was always energetic, was no different. But it may also be because his face is too dark to see the dark circles under his eyes.
"According to the roster of employees of the company that issued the flyers and the roster in the hands of the casino owner, it has been confirmed that the doll in Jinxin Trade City who sent the flyers is called Sun Dazhuang." Xiao Chen dutifully explained to the deputy team. Let's take a look at what Captain Fan means.
Fang Chuyang frowned slightly: "Are you going to catch it today? Now that the clues about Sister Xia are broken again, it's better to keep him and see if there will be a connection."
"Catch it now, there's no need to wait. Since the casino was bombed, interest groups must have been alerted." Captain Fan said decisively. The implication was that Sister Xia could no longer contact Sun Dazhuang, and might have already escaped.
"It's impossible for a human trafficker to work so hard. Human traffickers only want money and don't kill people." Fang Chuyang disagreed, "There must be someone else who created the bombing." Now it seems that Sister Xia's business of abducting and selling people is not the owner of the casino. The most dangerous business introduced, there must be a bigger case behind it.
"Murder and silence, this is provoking the desperadoes." The pony turned over, muttered something, and fell asleep again.
"These are just speculations. If they abduct and sell children to do something unconscionable, they will also be shot." Captain Fan insisted that for known suspects, one can be arrested one by one.
It is imperative to arrest Sun Dazhuang today.
"You have a day off today, you don't have to go to the team." He directly gave Fang Chuyang a vacation.
"But..." Fang Chuyang wanted to say something, but was stopped by Captain Fan, who seemed to hear someone approaching.
"Yo, they're all here," Zhai Chen came in with a lunch box, and was startled, "Come and have dinner together."
"No, we have to go back to handle the case," Captain Fan patted Zhai Chen's shoulder, "Chenchen made another contribution yesterday, so I have to hold a commendation meeting for you."
"Don't, you don't know how popular I am now. The fans who hold the commendation meeting can smash the door, which is prone to accidents." Zhai Chen said seriously, as if he was already a popular little fresh meat.
"Brother Chen, sign me." The pony struggled to get up from the bed and asked Zhai Chen to sign.
"Come, wait for you to wake up."
After sending away all the brothers from the criminal police team, Zhai Chen opened the small table on the hospital bed and put all the things in the lunch box on it. This is the snack that Gao Yusheng asked Cantonese morning tea to pack, each of which is exquisite.
"This was bought for you by our family, look at how considerate it is." Zhai Chen couldn't help showing off, but seeing Fang Chuyang's stinky face, he stretched out his hand and pushed him.
"What?" Fang Chuyang glared at him with a very bad tone.
"Hey, I said, you treat the brother who rescued you from the fire like this?" Zhai Chen stared back.
"Am I begging you to save me?" Fang Chuyang didn't appreciate it, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
"Hey, hey!" Zhai Chen pretended to be angry and raised his hand to grab the chopsticks and not give him to eat, but Fang Chuyang skillfully avoided him.
Fang Chuyang ate two barbecued pork buns angrily: "The last time the cult happened, the captain insisted on copying that den, which led to the middle part of the clues of the other dens. If it wasn't for Gao Yusheng's help, that matter would be over. Well, this time again!"
Zhai Chen didn't know what happened, it sounded like Captain Fan and Fang Chuyang had a disagreement, but the second half of the sentence was very clear: "Yes, our Yusheng is very powerful, but this time it has nothing to do with him. , and I can't expect him to be any more helpful."
Fang Chuyang choked his throat with a mouthful of barbecued pork, and regretted telling Zhai Chen this very much.
I have to change the medicine again in the morning, and I can't be discharged from the hospital for the time being. Zhai Chen is by the side to accompany Fang Chuyang. But there is no WiFi in this public hospital, and the mobile phone signal is very poor and cannot play games. Zhai Chen sat in a chair boredly, and read a book in his bag.
"Yo, have you read the book yet?" Fang Chuyang felt strange.
"Yeah." Zhai Chen replied arrogantly, holding the book with relish, and when Fang Chuyang came over to look at it, he turned his back at the same frequency and didn't show it to him.
As a criminal policeman who is accustomed to investigating the root cause, Fang Chuyang was immediately intrigued and chased to see what it was. Pian Zhai Chen just didn't show it to him, and said while hiding, "Ah, it's so beautiful, hahaha, it's so interesting."
Fang Chuyang wrapped his elbows around his neck and dragged him onto the hospital bed, only then did he see the book in Zhai Chen's hand - "Gaoyuan Welfare Institute Propaganda Manual".
"… "
Officer Fang thought seriously about whether the criminal police hacking to death his brother on the household registration book could reduce the sentence.
"Tsk tsk, just tell me if you want to see it, I still have a copy." Zhai Chen took out another copy from his bag with a sullen smile and threw it to Fang Chuyang. This is Gao Yusheng's book, which was stuffed into his bag yesterday.
Fang Chuyang was not interested at first, and leaned on the bedside to think about the case. Suddenly remembering what Chen Zhaohui said yesterday, I couldn't help but pick up the brochure again. This booklet is a color page, and because of the various photos in the welfare home, some introduce volunteers, some introduce donors, and more are children.
It's nothing unusual, but Zhai Chen just watched it with relish.
"I said, you can just watch normal children, but are you so happy watching disabled children?" Fang Chuyang didn't understand his brother's aesthetics. This guy always likes to take care of children, and even adults who are a few years younger than him are entertained as children. He sometimes suspects that Zhai Chen misses Gao Yusheng too much and has some kind of mental illness.
"Healthy kittens are cute, but disabled kittens aren't cute? You are discriminating." Zhai Chen didn't forget to hurt him after he finished speaking.
"If I discriminated against the disabled, I would have swept you out." Fang Chuyang quarreled with him.
"What does this triangle mean?" Zhai Chen had turned to the last page while speaking. It was the topographic map of the orphanage, and there was a black triangle sign in the corner of the building.
Fang Chuyang turned to the last page: "How can there be a triangle? If you say you are disabled, you will act."
"You're lame, you can't see such a big triangle?" Zhai Chen took a look at his book.
"I don't have it here." Fang Chuyang pointed to his page.
Putting them together for comparison, Fang Chuyang's picture is clean, while Zhai Chen's picture has a solid black triangle abruptly. A neat equilateral triangle that looks like it was printed.
"It is estimated that some child drew it naughty." Zhai Chen guessed.
Fang Chuyang asked one more question out of the detective's intuition: "What is this place?" The location marked by the triangle is at the corner behind the building. In the usual search of the crime scene, this kind of corners are the most prone to accidents.
"We didn't visit here." Zhai Chen shook his head. The orphanage was not a tourist attraction, and it was impossible for them to take them to see the cafeteria and boiler room.
Gao Yusheng was busy in the office, and when his work came to an end, he looked up and there was no one on the sofa. Looking at the phone, a morning passed, not a single text message, let alone a phone call.
"Siri, is my phone working fine?"
The screen of the mobile phone flickered, and the small microphone logo of artificial intelligence appeared:
[Everything is normal on your phone.]
"Then why didn't you get the text message?"
Siri seemed to be stunned for a moment, and the ECG-like cursor moved back and forth:
[This morning, you received 3 bank account changes, 5 operator pushes, and 11 spam advertisements.]
"..." Gao Yusheng stopped talking.
Just at this incident, Zhai Chen pushed the door open with a "bang" and came in: "Yo, what's the matter, who bullied you?" From his point of view, Gao Yusheng, who was sitting behind the desk, was full of grievances. When I was a child, I was the same as when the jujube was robbed by two dogs.
"Why are you back?" Gao Yusheng blinked, his emotions just like the autumn frost when he met the sun, and disappeared in an instant.
Zhai Chen came over to look at him, and found that there was nothing. He thought he had read it wrong: "Fang Chu just changed his medicine, so he ran to investigate the case like a grass growing in his butt."
Sun Dazhuang, who distributed flyers in Jinxin Trade City, has already left the city and returned to his hometown. Captain Fan wanted to organize people to arrest them across provinces, but there was no one in the criminal police team, so Fang Chuyang wrapped the gauze and went.
"Brother..." Gao Yusheng called him suddenly.
"Huh?" Zhai Chen, who was pouring water for you, looked back at him.
"You... What do you want to eat at noon?" The words he wanted to ask felt too abrupt, but Gao Yusheng silently swallowed the first half of the sentence.
"Whatever, if you're busy, I'll go out and buy it for you." Zhai Chen took a sip of mint water and filled Gao Yusheng's cup.
Gao Yusheng said that he was not busy and could go out to eat, and took a sip of the mint water that Zhai Chen poured for him. Seeing the man sitting back on the sofa and playing games, he felt his gaze and raised his chin at him: "What are you doing, do your homework well."
Zhai Chen looked at his eyes, after all, it was not much different from looking at Zhai Mengmeng.
This kind of cognition made Gao Yusheng feel a sober pain, bowed his head and typed a line: How to chase after brother