You're Guilty: Conspiracy Scene 2 crime escalation

Chapter 50 Two visits to Jiatang Lake

Xu Tianhua and Su Caixuan have worked together for many years, and they were not wary of her at all, and she tricked her into making out the story of him and He Xiaoshun throwing a drift bottle by the Jiatang Lake in Zhao'an Botanical Garden.Xu Tianhua still laughed at He Xiaoshun's stupidity. After so many years, she has never changed her cell phone number, but no one has called her. The bottle has gone somewhere.

According to Li Guanlan's instructions, Su Caixuan used Xu Tianhua's words, she felt very sorry, and babbled to Li Guanlan for a long time afterwards.Li Guanlan comforted her and said, "We didn't intend to hide it from him. There is not much basis for this matter. It is a small-scale secret investigation. If the case cannot be filed in the end, there is no need to let him know."

Su Caixuan said: "How do you plan to investigate? This is cross-border law enforcement. Do you want to ask the police in Zhao'an City to cooperate?"

Li Guanlan said: "It has not been finalized that Zhao'an City is the place where the crime happened, so don't alarm them for now. The broken foot was found in Quzhou, of course we have jurisdiction. We will notify the Zhao'an City police when necessary."

Li Guanlan, Feng Xinran, and Su Caixuan drove to Zhao'an City at dawn the next day, and it was only around eight o'clock in the morning when they arrived.

All three of them were dressed in casual clothes. They hired more than a dozen young, strong and water-savvy migrant workers from the labor market, and they came to the Jiatang Lake at the foot of the botanical garden together.This is the only branch of the Juliu River in Zhao'an City, and the search area is easier to locate. If there are many branches, Li Guanlan really doesn't know where to start.

Li Guanlan stood by the lake and surveyed the surrounding terrain.Jiatang Lake is more than 20 meters away from the road, and there is only a two-meter-wide dirt road leading to the lake. Due to the large number of pedestrians, the soil on the road is very firm. It seems that even if it rains, it will not turn up too much mud. Still passable.On both sides of the dirt road are knee-deep weeds and dense groves. The forest is dark and gloomy. It seems that even when the sky is bright, few people go into the forest.

When we got to the lake, the dirt road diverged to both sides, and there was only a narrow corridor between the forest and the lake.After being soaked in the river for a long time, the corridor was extremely muddy. When people stepped on it, half of the shoes got stuck in the mud.

Li Guanlan told the migrant workers that he was a businessman from the provincial capital. Not long ago, he brought his girlfriend to the Jiatang Lake to play. He accidentally dropped an open backpack into the river, and the contents of the bag sank to the bottom of the river.Although it is not a valuable thing, it is quite commemorative, so the migrant workers are invited to salvage it.The things in the bag are miscellaneous and everything, in short, as long as you find something at the bottom of the river, you will bring it up.If there is no harvest, the daily salary per person is 120 yuan, and if there is harvest, the bonus will be calculated separately.

Zhao'an City is in the south of Quzhou, and the temperature is several degrees higher, and it is already spring.The water depth of Jiatang Lake near the shore is between one and a half meters and two and a half meters, which is nothing for people with good water skills.Moreover, the lake is far away from the urban area. Except for the sediment, there is not much domestic garbage, and the water surface is fairly clean.Migrant workers are very happy to take this job.

The three police officers watched the migrant workers go into the water to salvage, although they were calm on the surface, they were anxious in their hearts.This is a hot potato. In the face of the well-founded conclusions of the experts, they ignore the broken feet that float from the river from time to time, and no one can blame them.But none of them are wise and safe people, neither is Li Guanlan, nor is Su Caixuan, nor is Feng Xinran, who is becoming more and more mature in criminal investigation skills and conduct.They live with ideals and a sense of responsibility. Even if the reality makes this ideal full of holes and makes their way forward step by step, they will never compromise.Life is short, and you do it rashly, but if you want to look up to the world and be ashamed of your heart, why bother to compromise?

Criminal investigation is a career where the winners are kings and the losers are thieves. What the superiors and the public want is the result. As for whether the result is easy to get, or it is not within their scope of consideration to find the gold after all the hard work.Those a lot of heavy and trivial investigations, squats, investigations and visits are the main content of criminal investigation work, and after putting in so much effort, it is even more common for criminal policemen to be exhausted to the point of exhaustion and still get nothing.

Li Guanlan's heart has been tugging. After spending so much time, energy and money, if he gets nothing and returns empty-handed, even if others don't pursue it, he will not be able to pass this test.

Migrant workers kept climbing up the bank from the river, throwing all kinds of things they caught on the ground.In addition to plastic water bottles, foam lunch boxes, rope ends and other garbage, there are also some cloth strips, shoes, hair and other things that can arouse the interest of the police officers.But Li Guanlan was disappointed after his eyes lit up. Even if these objects belonged to the same deceased as the broken foot, with the current technical means, they could not be detected.Nevertheless, they picked out a few things that might help the case and sorted them into evidence bags.

A dozen or so migrant workers groped in the river for a while and then swam ashore to eat and drink to replenish their strength.After salvaging intermittently for two or three hours, the migrant workers felt a little tired, and the disappointment of the police officers gradually deepened.Li Guanlan has always been steady in his work, making decisions before acting, good at overall consideration, and strategizing. It is extremely rare in his criminal investigation career that he is both looking for a needle in a haystack and looking for a sword.

Working until noon, a round of scorching sun shines on the ground, making the ground a little scorching hot.In order to ease Li Guanlan and Feng Xinran's anxiety, Su Caixuan joked half-truthfully, "It's really hot, I also want to jump into the river to cool off."

Before Li Guanlan could answer, someone shouted hoarsely behind them: "No, no one can enter the water." Everyone concentrated their energy on the surface of the water, startled by the sudden shout, and looked back. The figure ran over panting, sweating profusely because of his fat body.

The man ran to the lake, waved to several migrant workers in the lake and shouted: "Come up, come up for me quickly."

Li Guanlan waved his hand in front of his eyes, attracting his attention, and said, "The lake here is wide and the water is not deep, why can't we go down?"

The man yelled: "There are piranhas in this water area, no one can enter the water, come up immediately."

Everyone on the shore was shocked, and Li Guanlan asked, "Is this true? Why hasn't anyone mentioned it?"

That person didn't seem to like to communicate in a normal way, and he had to shout loudly when talking face to face: "I'm telling you now? Come ashore to me if you don't want to be eaten."

Li Guanlan saw that he kept yelling and couldn't make sense of it, so he asked Su Caixuan and Feng Xinran to call the migrant workers ashore, and he himself pulled the man a little far away, and patiently communicated with him.It took a lot of work to figure out that the man was Liang Mangui, in his 40s, from Heqian Village, Liang’s hometown near the botanical garden. Because he was single and did not work, he liked to fight and do things arbitrarily. The botanical garden was developed into a tourist attraction. After the district, he was hired as a security guard for patrolling the park.

Li Guanlan asked him, "Why do you say there are piranhas in this lake?"

Liang Mangui stared and said, "Bearded fish, don't you know?"

Li Guanlan was shocked when he heard about this kind of fish, and said, "There are bearded fish in Jiatang Lake?"

Liang Mangui raised his right thumb, raised it over his ear, and pouted, "The biggest one is more than one meter long and weighs about thirty kilograms. Have you seen it?"

Li Guanlan muttered in a low voice: "I haven't seen it, but I have eaten it, and it tastes good."

Liang Mangui didn't hear clearly, and said loudly, "What, what did you say?"

Li Guanlan didn't answer him, but greeted the dozen or so people who came with him, and left with a little dejected look.

Back in the car, Feng Xinran asked for instructions, "What should I do next? Just go back like this?"

Su Caixuan had no idea and looked at Li Guanlan.

Li Guanlan didn't answer directly, but asked Su Caixuan: "Do bearded fish really eat people?"

Su Caixuan said: "I don't know whether to eat living people or not, but I eat human and animal corpses. This fish tastes very good. We tasted it when we were on vacation in the botanical garden. Don't you have any impression?"

Li Guanlan felt his intestines and stomach wriggling slowly, feeling a little nauseous, and said: "At that time, I only knew that it was a carnivorous fish, but who knew it would eat corpses, so you can eat it?"

Su Caixuan smiled and said, "Isn't the meat that people eat all dead animals? Why didn't you say disgusting? Don't pretend to be merciful."

Instead of quarreling with her, Li Guanlan said to Feng Xinran: "Let's go to the city and buy two sets of diving suits. Those migrant workers didn't dive to the bottom of the lake, and what they salvaged were all worthless things. I miss my home in Tanghu Lake. There must be a great secret hidden, and we're going to bring it to light."

Su Caixuan said in astonishment: "What, you, you want to go into the water?"

It was past three o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to Jiatang Lake, the lake was quiet and there was no one there.Both Li Guanlan and Feng Xinran put on the cheap diving suits they bought along the way, put on plastic diving goggles, carried small oxygen cylinders on their backs, tied two big rocks to their bodies, jumped into the lake, and sank without a trace in an instant.

Su Caixuan stood quietly by the lake, watching the two crazy and unreliable comrades disappear into the lake, imagining the ferocious appearance of the bearded fish with sharp teeth, and the tragic emotion of "the wind is rustling and the water is cold" filled her chest.

Li Guanlan and Feng Xinran sank all the way to the bottom of the water, and soon their feet were on the ground.The two tried their best to swing their waists, barely stood still in the water, and looked around.The lenses of this poor-quality diving goggles were originally blurry, and the water in Jiatang Lake was extremely cloudy. The two of them could only see a distance of one foot.

Although Feng Xinran is good at swimming, he used to show off his skills in the swimming pool. He had never experienced wild bathing or diving. So I had to bite the bullet and go on.

The resistance in the water was great, and Feng Xinran had a heavy stone tied to his body. He only walked two or three feet away, but it seemed like he had walked thousands of meters on flat ground. His legs were so tired and his heart beat faster. Something hard, caught off guard, his heart beat suddenly, and a fine layer of cold sweat broke out from the skin from head to toe.He turned his head away by a distance of twenty or thirty centimeters, narrowed his eyes and took a closer look, and vaguely saw a skull with two rows of uneven teeth bared, and two black circles staring closely at him.Feng Xinran wanted to yell, but his mouth was blocked by the oxygen mask, so he couldn't make a sound, so the fear was stagnant in his internal organs, and there was no way to let it out.

After all, Feng Xinran is a criminal policeman, restraining his sense of fear, he let out a long breath, and spit out a string of bubbles around the oxygen mask.He raised his hand slowly, wanting to hold the skull in his hand, but he started with a heavy hand, only to find that there was still a bone attached to the skull.This dead bone actually stood upright at the bottom of the water!

No matter how courageous Feng Xinran was, after all, the things in front of him were too weird, and the underwater light was dim, and Li Guanlan could not be seen. Being in a strange and helpless environment made his sense of fear double. Delayed, thinking about asking for support after going ashore, and taking action after clarifying the underwater situation.

Feng Xinran untied the boulder that was tied to his body, paddled his limbs, and slowly floated to the surface of the water.Seeing that it was only three or four meters away from the shore, he took off his oxygen mask and raised his voice to call Su Caixuan: "Has the Li detachment come up yet?"

Su Caixuan put her hand over her mouth like a megaphone: "Not yet."

Feng Xinran was floating on the water, he was undecided whether to go into the water to find it or go ashore and wait, when suddenly the water beside him broke, and with a crash, a person came out, it was Li Guanlan.He raised his left hand high and paddled with his right hand. His movements were obviously deformed. He seemed to be experiencing great pain, but he forcibly endured it with a strong tenacity.

Seeing this, Feng Xinran didn't have time to think about it, and swam towards him with all his might.Li Guanlan didn't seem to see him, and swam to the shore without looking back, but at an unusually slow speed.Feng Xinran saw that he was only two feet away, within reach, but Li Guanlan still ignored him, feeling strange, suddenly there was a wave between the two of them, and a big fish jumped out of the water.The fish seemed to be pulled by something, and only halfway out of the body, it suddenly sank into the water again.

Although Li Guanlan was wearing an oxygen mask, Su Caixuan could still vaguely see the painful expression on his face, her heart tightened, and she understood the danger he was encountering.Almost without thinking, she raised her hand and threw a rope that she had prepared earlier towards Li Guanlan.The rope drew an arc in the air with a whistling sound, and landed precisely within the reach of Li Guanlan's hand.Li Guanlan's left hand is still clenched, while his right hand grabs the rope.Su Caixuan dragged her hands desperately on the shore with all her breastfeeding strength, while Li Guanlan straightened her back, and with the strength of the lake water, she tried her best to rush to the shore.The two cooperated like this for two or three times, and Li Guanlan finally threw himself on the shore, dragging a large black fish weighing about ten kilograms with a fierce appearance by the ankle of his right leg.

After the fish left the water, its viciousness decreased greatly, but it still clung to Li Guanlan's ankle tightly.Su Caixuan picked up a branch as thick as an adult's arm from the ground, and hit the bearded fish on the head with all her strength.I don't know if it was because of her amazing strength when she was in a hurry, or the fish was at the end of its force, under Su Caixuan's blow, the fish straightened up twice, finally let go of its teeth, and lay down at Li Guanlan's feet, fan-shaped. The mouth opened and closed, and the scissors-like tail was still wriggling.

At this time Feng Xinran also climbed ashore, took off the oxygen mask, and was so shocked that his face turned pale.

Li Guanlan grinned in pain, dark red blood gurgled from his right ankle, a deep wound stretched from the tendon to the right calf, and a seven or eight centimeter long piece of flesh was torn off by the bearded fish.

Su Caixuan took a brief look at his injury, did not dare to delay, ran back to the car quickly, took off the first aid kit, scrubbed and disinfected for Li Guanlan, then applied the medicine to stop bleeding and promote muscle growth, and wrapped it neatly with a bandage, Another injection of anti-inflammatory pain relief injection.After all, she is proficient in business, Feng Xinran was dazzled by the sidelines, and before she knew how to help, Su Caixuan had already completed this set of actions neatly.

The painkiller injection worked quickly, and the pain on Li Guanlan's face was significantly relieved after the injection, but blood continued to ooze from the bandage.Su Caixuan took out the medical ice pack again, pressed it hard on his wound, and said, "What's going on? Is this bearded fish really attacking living people?"

Li Guanlan grinned and said: "It's okay, I saw this big fish underwater, but unfortunately I didn't have any fishing gear, so I caught it with my legs, and I will have a tooth sacrifice tonight."

Su Caixuan snorted and said, "Okay, if you bite so badly, don't take the opportunity to show your revolutionary optimism. Fortunately, this fish is not too big. If you encounter a fish weighing more than [-] kilograms, maybe you will catch it." buried at the bottom of the lake."

Feng Xinran thought that Su Caixuan's worry was not unreasonable, and a layer of goosebumps appeared on her body, so she quickly changed the topic and said, "Captain Li, what else did you see underwater?"

Li Guanlan spread out his left hand, revealing two broken bones with a diameter between one and two centimeters: "I touched two bones on a stone at the bottom of the lake, and was bitten by this guy just as I was thinking about it. I found nothing else."

Feng Xinran described his encounter with a skeleton face-to-face at the bottom of the water.

Li Guanlan was so excited that his pale face flushed, "The result of this trip was more satisfactory than expected. With your discovery, half of the mystery of the broken foot is solved. You should contact the Criminal Police Team of Zhao'an City now. Let them find a professional salvage team."

(End of this chapter)