when the moon whispers

Chapter 451: Accomplice - Lost (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety-one Lost (Part 1)

Halfway through the two miles southwest of Fangwai Village on Kangguan Avenue, there is a dirt road that is barely wide enough for a sedan to pass in one direction.

The dirt road was the dividing line drawn by the villagers' representatives of Fangwai Village and Fangnei Village on their own initiative. It was paved in a sloppy and perfunctory manner with a few shovels of earth. The gravel and weeds that had nowhere to be piled from the cultivated land on both sides of the narrow road were thrown onto the bumpy road surface, and were also broken by vehicles that accidentally passed by and tricycles that came and went to work in the fields. They also scraped against the chassis of the two newly commissioned field vehicles of the Municipal Bureau, causing the wheels to tilt.

Lin Yu held his cell phone in his hand and jumped out of the car which had just stopped with the handbrake on. He bent down and shone the flashlight at the bottom of the car which made his heart tremble with fear when a dull clang sounded. He turned around and waved to the auxiliary police officer in charge of driving to back the car to the intersection of the dirt road. He hurried a few steps towards Huang Xingjun's "Pioneer" which had driven headfirst into the farmland in the dark without paying attention to the road surface. He stumbled over two piles of corn stalks that were padding the mud under his feet. He turned his head to glance at the incoming call that had not been hung up, and took a deep breath.

"Captain Gu... Wang Hao tracked the location of the incoming call signal through that phone. It's not far from where Huang Xingjun and I disappeared after chasing the fake car. It's basically within this circle. There is a signal tower here. The positioning of the area within a few miles is almost all based on this signal tower as the center point. But this place is the border between Fangwai Village and Fangnei Village. There are farmlands on both sides. Residential houses can only be seen from a few miles away. If someone or a car passes by here in the middle of the night, it will be bright but at most we can see a bright headlight."

"But..." Lin Yu hissed, looking at the elderly women and men on both sides of the dirt road who had just come over with hoes and shovels to join in the fun, "Looking at this situation, maybe we can really find out something."

Lin Yu quickly reported a few words and hung up the phone. He rolled up his sleeves and rushed into the middle of the old men and women who were "united as one" to help the police comrades push the car out of the mud in the farmland. He waited until Huang Xingjun's car rushed back to the road. Then he scolded and panted, spat out the mud in his mouth, and chatted with the two old men beside him.

The old man first dusted off the dust on his body, then rubbed his palms vigorously with his clothes, and carefully examined the police officer ID that Lin Yu showed him. "Oh my... I said that this matter in the village was not a small matter, but they didn't believe it - look, the leaders of the Municipal Bureau have come here!"

"Sir, you are so kind to me. We are just ordinary policemen who came here to investigate. Who would have thought that the car leading the way would crash headfirst into the ground..."

Lin Yu saluted slightly and raised his hand to stop Huang Xingjun who jumped out of the car and ran towards him. He was going to ask Gu Xing if he had any instructions on the phone. He searched his pockets for a long time, then hooked his hand to pull the district policeman with the law enforcement instrument on his shoulder to his side, "Why is it not so peaceful recently? I saw it was the same today. The car in front of us didn't even turn on the police lights. As soon as there was a little noise, so many people from the villages on both sides ran over... I see that there is land all around here, and everyone lives quite far away, about two miles away?"

"If you want to say it's uneasy, it's not really, it's just that--" The old man supported the hoe with both hands, an obvious expression on his wrinkled face. He raised his chin and pointed lightly at the group of people who were clearly separated on both sides of the dirt road after they had finished "helping others", and twitched his tongue hard.

"Our dirt road has been in tatters for many years. In the past, there were not many cars passing through here. Usually, a donkey cart or a tricycle was enough for working in the fields. Kangguan Avenue outside is gradually being widened, and the village is also planning to build a few asphalt roads for sports cars. The new village party secretaries on both sides said that they want to push this road back and rebuild it, but it is so narrow and winding, how can it be enough? It must occupy land - you say where the line drawing and string pulling will occupy? Those two young village party secretaries are quick-handed. You can't guarantee that the excavator will come over as soon as they give the notice. We... during this period of time, we have been on duty in the shack at the end of the field in shifts." "Isn't it normal for construction to occupy land and there should be compensation?"

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows curiously, muttering to himself halfway, when the policeman beside him whispered in his ear: "These two plots of land in the village are collectively owned by the village, and are considered public property. Now no one cares who grabs or occupies them... They are mainly afraid of being at a disadvantage."

The old man had poor hearing and didn't hear the young policeman's explanation clearly. He just looked at his little action and glared at him, then turned around and pulled Lin Yu's sleeve and said, "Comrade policeman, just say that you have to rely on the fields to make a living for the rest of your life. That kid is very determined. What if you don't catch him at first sight?"

Huang Xingjun, who was waiting opposite Lin Yu with his hands on his hips, heard that this conversation seemed to involve him in the "two-village dispute" family affairs, so he raised his eyebrows and avoided him from a distance, waving his hand to direct the late search team to move forward along the dirt road, disperse and investigate in all directions, then turned around and raised the intercom and waved at Lin Yu twice - Lin Yu raised his eyelids and nodded in understanding, then turned around and continued the old man's words: "The shack at the end of the field is quite far from here, I don't think there are any board houses nearby... How long have you been watching here, have you encountered any strange or weird people?"

"Hey, why do we need a board house for just one night's sleep? We live in the cellar where we store vegetables in the winter, it's fine without any wind or rain. Hey, when did the notice of the ascetic training come out? It's been half a month, right? I'm so worried every day——"

The old man waved his hand, turned his head and asked the old lady beside him, sighed again and again, frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly patted Lin Yu's arm, "But you just said if there were any strange people coming... No one remembers, but there is a car, not from our two villages. Recently, it seems to have been seen several times in the middle of the night, passing by without stopping, and no one has thought about it before... Is this strange?"

The old man scratched his head, straightened his slightly hunched back, and moved closer to the photo of the cloned car that Lin Yu had found on his mobile phone. He tilted his head to look at it for a few seconds, and nodded almost accurately.

"We can't see the license plate clearly at our age, but the car model should look the same?" The old man examined it carefully for a few seconds, and was not sure so he called his old brothers over. After discussing it for a while, he slapped the handle of the hoe with certainty.

"That's right, police officer. We saw this car yesterday at midnight. We all saw it... Because it seemed that the car was not going fast at the time, but the window was rolled down, so we all heard it - the couple was arguing loudly!"

"...young couple?" Lin Yu's brows suddenly tightened. "Uncle, do you remember which direction the car went after passing this dirt road?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Why worry about gains and losses? In the end, a small gain is better than a perfect gain."