when the moon whispers

Chapter 552: Rose-Power Failure (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Thirty-eight Power Outages (Part 2)
Gu Xing pushed open the door of the small conference room, holding the still-hot fire assessment report. A burst of inarticulate wails erupted from the other end of the corridor.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ah——!! Aang——”

Gu Xing looked back at the elderly woman who was trying to collapse on the ground and act like a spoiled brat, then slightly shifted his gaze to look at the pitiful thin figure whose movements were restricted by two uniforms on duty, and his brows slowly gathered together. He bent his knees against the door of the conference room, and then slapped Jiang Mo's head when he tried to look out, and took the opportunity to throw the hot potato that the fire department had just thrown to him into Jiang Mo's arms.

"The fire at the Jianghua scrapyard was not an accident, and it had nothing to do with a short circuit. A timed ignition device was found at the scene. You two were simply accused of accidental arson. Didn't you go to the hospital to complete the formalities? You're back now? I just heard from Mi Lu that you dared to drive back with a pillow hanging on your head and medicine in your hands, right?"

Gu Xing crossed his arms and glanced at Shao Jie, who was sitting upright beside Jiang Mo. He raised his eyebrows but didn't say anything. He stared at Shao Jie so hard that he felt guilty and grasped the armrest of the chair, ready to get up and avoid the conversation between the master and the disciple. He then relaxed his eyebrows and pressed his palms down, "You are also an eyewitness at the scene... Lin Yu has completed the interrogation procedures, right?"

"Anyway, it's the last shot, and the rest can be done by taking medicine. Team Lin and his team have field work in the afternoon, so they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to make it in time, so they just took the IV back - Director Gao was even there to listen." Jiang Mo's face was wrinkled in confusion. She held the file bag, raised her eyelids, and confirmed with her master before pulling it away with her lips pursed, "...It's scary."

"It's good enough that Lao Gao didn't get high blood pressure because of us two guys, how could you be scared by Lao Gao?" Gu Xing took two steps and threw himself into the swivel chair, then tilted his head to look at Shao Jie, who was still tense with his back and neck stiff, and suddenly realized who Jiang Mo was complaining for, and he frowned at Shao Jie in a teasing manner and said with a chuckle.

"When Lao Gao's face darkens, it's quite intimidating... But it's nothing serious. There were three fires and two explosions this week, one of which was intentional. The leaders above expressed their close attention, and the pressure is increasing. I have informed him about your investigation into the Jianghua dismantling factory. He didn't explicitly forbid it, but I guess he has a plan in mind. It's just that you have to make some reasonable moves when the pressure from the top comes."

"The leader is quite concerned about the area in Bazhuang." Jiang Mo snorted with an unclear meaning, and scratched the edge of the paper with his fingertips twice: "Is it really... deliberate?"

"Bazhuang Qijia Village finally got rid of the label of drug town and drug village. The fire started at such an inopportune time. If it is related to Liang Ming, Bazhuang will be considered to have failed in its supervisory duties. They were exposed from head to toe in the first half of the year, and they are still closely related to the criminal gangs half a year later... The village development project will most likely be stopped, and I don't know where to get the money back from the initial investment."

Gu Xing shrugged his shoulders, folded his arms and sighed, turned his head and raised his chin, nodded twice at the fire assessment report document, "The wires near the fire point in the station were indeed damaged and suspected of short circuit, so the fire department was still not reassured when they found the timed igniter next to the hydraulic press. He just told me that the second-in-command of their fire brigade wandered around the station until the second half of the night, combing through the tangled wires in the factory and even checking the surveillance... Unfortunately, no substantial clues or evidence were found to identify the arsonist."

"The surveillance was destroyed by external forces the day before Liang Ming's accident. Liang Ming had just let out a little rumor that Liang Ji had something to do with this junkyard, and then the yard was burned to ashes... If this happened by coincidence, no one would believe it if it was told to others."

Jiang Mo snorted, holding the report and looking up at Gu Xing: "That is to say, after the monitoring broke down, someone ran to the station and tampered with it. First, they destroyed all the oil pipes in the scrapped cars, and then poured ignition materials such as... engine oil and gasoline on the cars at the station." "The arsonist must have made two preparations." Gu Xing nodded, "After the monitoring equipment failed, the little mute should have poured engine oil in the station a long time ago. If no one came to search the scrap car dismantling plant, the timed ignition device would have ignited on time last night. But if someone showed up at the station early during this period, then they would have to rely on the tampering with the power line in advance and use the failure of the main line to create the illusion of an accidental fire."

Jiang Mo took a deep breath, looked over Gu Xing's shoulder towards the entrance corridor for a few seconds, then slowly withdrew his gaze: "What did the little mute say?"

"He gestured and explained that he was paid to do things... but it seems that he didn't even have any money. The old lady and the two of them only had one account for poverty alleviation. Every penny in it could be clearly explained where it came from and went to. The only thing was... the old lady said that one day when the little mute went out to sell scrap, he came back with a family bucket in his hands. He didn't spend any money, and gestured that it was given by an uncle."

Gu Xing rubbed his face helplessly, "He lacks great virtue... He dared to instigate a kid to kill and set fire for him just for a serving of fried chicken, hamburgers, French fries and cola. The little mute is still young, and he doesn't seem to know what the twists and turns are here. At most, he should be criticized, educated, imprisoned and that's it..."

Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter with the old lady throwing a tantrum?"

“Although the little mute may not know any key information, he is instructed by someone to do such a big thing. Apart from the fact that someone bribed him, he knows nothing about anything else…” Gu Xing pinched his taut brows and took a deep breath in annoyance: “Who found him, and where did he get the waste liquid and oil from to have him pour it on which car in the dismantling plant? The gestures were the same as the method, and no one could see clearly because of the mess. Before these situations are clarified, we can’t let him go. The old lady thinks that we want to arrest the little mute and put him in jail. She won’t listen…”

"Bazhuang development...it seems that the place where Xiaomaba's family lives is also in the planned area."

Shao Jie sat obediently for a long while, blinked twice, leaned over to Jiang Mo, and whispered, "I heard Han Lu say that those pieces of land seemed to have been taken from Shengcheng International."

"Wow, demolition." Gu Xing raised his eyebrows and glanced at Shao Jie in a teachable manner. Then he took out his mobile phone and threw the hot message that Zhu Silai had just sent to him for confirmation into Jiang Mo's hand.

"The body in the car under the hydraulic press has been identified."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"The red sun is fading, the green smoke is clearing, and the nightingales are singing a few times."