when the moon whispers

Chapter 546: Rose-Disappearance (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Thirty-five Missing (Part 2)
"You're not sleeping in the middle of the night, wandering around the yard... Isn't Xiao Shao with you?"

Gu Xingyang pushed Hu Xu, who had been following him all night and was extremely sleep-deprived, towards the parking lot. He also lifted the iron frame on which Jiang Mo had been hung with medicine but had not yet been sent back to the ward and put it in front of the bench in the corridor that was sheltered from the wind. He took out his cigarette case, turned it around and put it in his pocket. He yawned halfway and a can of still warm coffee came to his hand.

"He was the one who was busy with the procedures for my inspection. I finally managed to keep him asleep so I could sneak out."

"I just took it from Yu Luo in the emergency room." Jiang Mo crossed his arms and sighed, "But Nurse Xiao Huang said it would affect the efficacy of the medicine, so she didn't let me drink it. I'll give it to you. Just treat it as sugar water."

Gu Xing raised his eyebrows and put the can of coffee into his pocket without hesitation: "Nurse Xiao Huang - that's the sister that Huang Xingjun always talks about, right? Just now I saw her staring at me, hesitant to speak, I thought she would open her mouth to ask about her brother's condition... Before coming to the hospital, she repeatedly warned me and Hu Xu not to scare his sister, otherwise when the case is over, he will be beaten when he returns home."

"I heard from Yu Luo that the brother and sister had a quarrel the day before. I'm worried that he can't save face again." Jiang Mo thought about it for a while, "When I saw the news and went to take pictures, wasn't he still wandering around in front of the camera? Was he injured?"

"The explosion point was buried near the wastewater pipe. He protected the kids and stayed behind. He got hit on the back of his head and got burned by the flames. He was afraid his sister would see it, so he didn't dare to come to the Central Hospital. Later, he went to the Burns Hospital for treatment. Fortunately, it wasn't that serious. He slept in the hospital for half a night and came back. He, Lin Yu, and Yin Guiping are holding the line in the bureau. The leadership has Secretary Li to explain. Old Zhu and I just went to see Liang Ming. He was worried and planned to study it further. I took this opportunity to come over and take a look before Old Gao comes back at around 7 o'clock to question us."

"The accident at Binshui Mansion was quite serious... Liang Ming had just been lifted into the ambulance when the city leader's private car stopped on the open space next to Binshui Mansion. This is the first time I've seen a leader run faster than a reporter." Jiang Mo curled his lips and tilted his head to look in the direction of the intensive care unit. "Did Letianer see it?"

"You can't just visit the intensive care unit whenever you want. Only one family member can go in, so how could it be my turn?" Gu Xing waved his hand, drooped his head and sighed. He was silent for two seconds before looking up, carefully examining the ripped skin on Jiang Mo's face. "...I just had a few words with Letian's dad and Qin Zhaoping. Lao Gao was afraid that the leader of Letian's family would ask us for an explanation. In case the old man is unhappy, it's better to try to get him lenient in advance, right? This case... I only have these two precious children, and I almost lost them all..."

"Binshui Mansion... I heard from the property management that the building where Liang Ming lives seems to be occupied by the father-in-law of a provincial leader. Fortunately, when the explosion occurred, the old man and his nanny were taking a walk outside and had not returned yet."

Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows, snorted briefly, was silent for a while, and suddenly turned his head: "Have you finished searching the tire factory?"

"There were countless scrapped flammable materials piled up in those broken factories. Once they caught fire, they would never stop burning. Before I came back, the flames were basically out. But... the search is still ongoing. The fire department has also left people and vehicles. It will probably take at least noon today to completely clear the factory building at the center of the explosion."

"Wen Chen..." Jiang Mo swallowed, his voice distorted in his throat: "Have you found him?" "Do you mean the whole person... or just the pieces?"

Gu Xing was numb the moment the waste tire factory exploded. He first heard the sound of Huang Xingjun discovering the detonation timer, and with a forehead full of cold sweat, he methodically arranged for the people waiting in the factory to collect evidence and evacuate as soon as possible. He even told Jiang Qing, who was watching from the top of the pump station a few hundred meters away, to be prepared to prevent any impact. However, in the chaos of the various groups reporting on the retreat, he heard Wen Chen's words: "The corpse in the sewage outlet inside the factory building... I seem to have seen it often when I was in Fengxi."

Gu Xing frowned, his forehead twitched for half a second, and before he could open his mouth to curse to wake himself up, the roar of the explosion shook his ears with the screaming buzzing sound that has not dissipated to this day. Gu Xing was silent for a while, smiled bitterly and shook his head slowly: "It's just that we can't find the whole thing... No one is alive or dead, not even a piece of bone residue. Old Zhu took the children who were doing the appraisal and borrowed the firefighters' clothes to go in and look for it. With the explosion point as the center, there is not a single...remaining item within a radius of hundreds of meters above, below, left and right. The fire comrades checked the source of the explosion in the factory building. According to the on-site investigation, the center of the explosion was not powerful enough to crush bones and ash. Since theoretically, at least a human figure can be found... According to what Old Zhu meant-"

"The possibility of missing is greater." Jiang Mo's face was wrinkled, and he stared at the ground with his head down. "So, under the premise that we don't even know whether the person is dead or alive... you are searching, not rescuing, and you are also prepared to... dig to the bottom."

"You picked the words and it fell on me?"

Gu Xing raised his eyebrows and raised the tip of his shoes twice, "What did you...find out?"

"I can't sleep. I always feel that something is wrong with the explosion in Binshui Mansion. The drug enforcement brothers have been watching Liang Ming's residence for a long time. Apart from the commotion caused by the Asia Bridge installation outside the community yesterday, Liang Ming's home, except for the satellite phone locked in the safe, has basically been searched inside and out for anything suspected of contact... It's hard to bury igniters under the noses of the police while avoiding the drug enforcement brothers who will be furious if they see a rat hole..."

Jiang Mo took a deep breath, frowned and remained silent for a long time before he slowly sighed: "So... I asked the little boy security guard to help me find out some information."

"For example, the gas pipeline in Binshui Mansion has never been inspected since it was scrapped. For another example, the last person to investigate the hidden dangers and study the condition of the pipeline was Wen Chen, who initially led the team to stake out the pipeline. Also, because the identities of people entering and leaving the pipeline need to be checked, all maintenance work is performed by the police and property management personnel, except for the elevator that exploded on the day when Wen Chen was on duty because of a fault."

Jiang Mo suddenly stopped, turned his head abruptly and looked into Gu Xing's eyes, biting his back teeth and hesitantly frowned, his voice so light that it floated in the wind.

"Master, was it true that Wen Chen was forced to return to the team because of Zhang Yibai's accident... it was just a cover-up?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"When the orioles begin to sing, spring is the best time of the year."