Inside the crematorium's security room, Su Tianyu checked the surveillance video. Seeing the man in the video wearing a grey work suit and a dust cap, he immediately turned around and shouted, "Security guard, come here."
"Go over there." Dabai pulled the security guard up and pushed him in front of the computer.
Su Tianyu pointed at the middle-aged man on the screen, frowned and asked: "You are on duty here every day, have you seen this person?"
The security guard stretched his neck and glanced at the screen: "I've seen this guy before."
"What does he do? Is he also a worker at the crematorium?" Su Tianyu asked.
"No, no, he's from the funeral clothing store next door." The security guard shook his head and replied, "He comes here every day to deliver things. I think his last name is Guo."
Su Tianyu immediately stood up: "What's the name of his funeral clothing store? Where is it?"
"Right next to it..."
"Forget it, just write it down for me." Su Tianyu tore off a corner of paper from the security work manual and handed it to the other party.
Two minutes later, Su Tianyu pointed at the security guard with the address and said, "I'm telling you, we are from the terrorist squad. If you don't believe me, you can check the phone number and verify with the terrorist squad. My name is Jin Maohui. You can't tell anyone about this, not even the police department, or you will be held criminally responsible."
When the security guard saw that Su Tianyu was talking so seriously, he nodded immediately: "I... I won't cause that trouble. I won't tell anyone."
"good!"
Su Tianyu threw down a sentence and left the security room with Bai Hongbo.
A few minutes later, everyone gathered in the courtyard. Su Tianyu opened the car door and said, "We have a clue. Let's go to the funeral clothing store next door."
Upon hearing the sound, Kong Zhenghui and others immediately got into the car and rushed to the funeral clothing store according to the address given by Su Tianyu.
It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and it was getting late. All the funeral clothing stores around were closed. Su Tianyu came to the door of a store called "The End of Life", leaned outside the window and glanced inside, and saw that there was still light inside.
"Dabai, knock on the door," Su Tianyu shouted, "There's someone inside."
Hearing the sound, Bai Hongbo began to knock on the door. After a while, a voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
"I'm ordering an urn." Dabai replied.
After a while, the door opened and a middle-aged man in a suit came out and said auspicious words: "My condolences, family members!"
Su Tianyu stepped into the room and looked at the middle-aged man again. He recognized him as the one who gave the flowers to Miss Jiushu.
The middle-aged man was also very polite. After leading everyone into the house, he asked, "Who in your family has passed away? Alas, this season is the peak season for deaths. Come, come and choose. We have all kinds of small boxes, and we also have matching funeral services..."
"Did you give flowers to a little girl today?" Su Tianyu asked.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment: "You are...?"
The two sides entered into a communication session. Su Tianyu showed his Coast Guard ID, which he had never used before, and asked about the flower in the capacity of a messenger.
When the middle-aged man saw that the other party was from the Coast Guard, he stopped trying to sell the urn and just said truthfully: "Oh, I was going to the crematorium to deliver something, and I bumped into a young man outside the yard. He asked me to deliver the flowers and gave me thirty yuan."
Su Tianyu frowned and asked, "What is his image?"
"He was wearing ill-fitting sportswear, carrying a bag and a mask, so I couldn't see his face clearly." The middle-aged man recalled and said, "Oh, yes, he had a scar on his forehead, the kind of rotten wound, which looked quite scary."
"No more?"
"That's all. I just gave him some flowers and said no more than ten sentences in total." The other party replied.
When Su Tianyu heard this answer, he felt a little anxious, because there was very little information from the other party, and there was no surveillance video at the place where the two met.
Who could this person be? Why would he send flowers to Jiushu's girl and pay tribute to Jiushu's deceased wife
Several figures flashed through Su Tianyu's mind, but he felt that his idea was too outrageous, and then he quickly denied himself.
Just as Su Tianyu was lost in thought, Kong Zhenghui, who had been waiting at the door, walked in: "Sixth son, something happened again."
"What's wrong?" Su Tianyu looked up.
"There was an explosion in Longcheng North Tunnel 403." Kong Zhenghui frowned and said, "It has collapsed. It was man-made."
Su Tianyu looked confused: "Why did the tunnel collapse?"
"Let's go and take a look?" Zhou Tonghui suggested.
"Let's go." Su Tianyu called everyone.
…
Around 12 o'clock in the morning.
Su Tianyu and his companions changed their clothes, put on caps and masks, and drove to the explosion site of Tunnel 403. But what they didn't expect was that there were so many people here that at least hundreds of cars were blocking the road. Even if they came openly, no one from the police station would notice them.
When everyone arrived, both entrances to the tunnel were blocked, and the cordon stretched out nearly one kilometer. The surrounding area was filled with cars from the rescue team, the police station, the judicial technology department, and even military vehicles.
Seeing the chaos among the crowd, Su Tianyu took off his mask, held a cigarette in his mouth, stepped forward, and asked several onlookers, "Brother, are you guys stuck here too?"
"Yeah." A middle-aged man in his fifties nodded and replied, "Damn, there was an explosion here, and there was no announcement on the radio. We rushed in and can't get out."
"What happened? I heard it was man-made?" Su Tianyu asked.
"Well, I heard it was man-made. Otherwise, why would so many police officers come?! Oh, this person is not in his right mind now. Why would they blow up the tunnel?"
"Has everything inside collapsed?" Su Tianyu asked again.
"No, I heard that it was just a load-bearing beam that was blown off. And the person who blew up the tunnel didn't seem to intend to cause bloodshed, and he even put up a no-entry sign at the entrance in advance. Otherwise... if he really wanted to take revenge on society, wouldn't hundreds of people have died in this two-kilometer-long tunnel?" the other party replied.
"Too."
Su Tianyu wandered among the crowd for nearly an hour and found out a lot of information.
The explosion in the tunnel did not cause any casualties, and the bandits chose a very tricky explosion point, accurately breaking the load-bearing beam at the north entrance, and seemed to be very familiar with the place.
After wandering around the scene, Su Tianyu and others drove directly back to Longcheng, stopped at a random intersection, put down their seats and lay down to sleep.
At around four o'clock in the morning, Wang Daolin called.
"Hello?" Su Tianyu yawned and answered the phone.
"The cases have been merged. The on-site investigation report from the police department is very consistent with the Baolong Mining case. Whether it is the modus operandi, the amount of explosives used, or the extracts from the scene, there is basically no difference." Wang Daolin whispered, "Two cases, done by one person."
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Uncle Wang!"
"You guys better be careful, the case will soon be solved." Wang Daolin was not directly involved in this case, but at this moment he could already feel the gangster's approximate motives and identities.
"I see."
After the two ended the call, Su Tianyu immediately shouted to Dabai: "Let's go find Miss Jiushu!"
"What's wrong?"
"I have roughly figured out his crime pattern, and also... guessed a direction." Su Tianyu frowned and said, "We have to hurry. If the direction is correct, we may be able to find this person before the police station."
That’s right, although Su Tianyu felt that his ideas were a bit outrageous, the truth was leading him in this direction.
Six o'clock in the morning, at a breakfast shop in Zhanan District.
Su Tianyu looked at Jiushu's daughter and suddenly asked, "Do you remember where your father and your brother worked?"