The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 508 "Explosion" (revised)
It was an ordinary autumn evening.

On October 10, the waiting hall of the train station was filled with the usual hustle and bustle.

This day, like usual, saw a large number of passengers crowding into the train station.

The flow of people here is very large, with tens of thousands of people coming in and out every day.

Passengers coming and going, dragging their heavy luggage, hurriedly shuttled through the crowd.

In the evening, there were still nearly 2 passengers waiting for the arrival of the train in the waiting hall on the second floor.

Some people were traveling far away for the first time and were chatting with others enthusiastically.

Some people feel hungry when it is almost time for dinner, so they take out the food they brought with them and eat it.

Some people were staring at the clock on the wall boredly, waiting for the ticket check.

They didn't expect that a nightmare was about to happen.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye it was 6:15.

A large number of passengers stood up from their seats. Their train was about to arrive at the station, and now was the time to queue up for ticket checking.

Master Sun, a cleaner at the train station, is currently organizing his tools in the cleaning room on the second floor.

This old Yanjing man, who has worked as a cleaner at the railway station for more than 20 years, has become accustomed to every sound in the station.

At this time in the train station, the roar of trains, the echo of broadcasts, and the crying of children were heard one after another.

Suddenly, an unprecedented loud "boom" tore apart this familiar order.

Amid the deafening explosion, Master Sun felt the entire ground was shaking.

He squatted down instinctively, and then heard screams one after another.

Before the loud noise, the train station was busy as usual, with passengers queuing up in an orderly manner to enter and exit the station.

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard from the corridor on the second floor, and many passengers fell to the ground.

Then the fragments of the chandelier on the top fell down like flowers from the sky, and the passengers screamed in fear.

They didn't know what was happening, but their instinct for survival made them rush downstairs frantically.

For a moment, the scene was extremely chaotic, with the sounds of children crying and women screaming everywhere.

In the crowd, some people abandoned their luggage, some got separated from their families, some tripped and fell, but they quickly got up and ran out of the train station with the crowd.

At first, everyone thought it was an earthquake, but then they saw flames and smoke coming out of the train station and realized that there was an explosion.

When Master Sun pushed open the door of the cleaning room tremblingly, the scene before him made this old man, who was used to seeing all kinds of human life, suffocate instantly.

Blood splattered on the wall in hideous patterns, broken glass fragments reflected an eerie light, and overturned luggage and broken items were everywhere.

Several railway workers in navy blue uniforms stumbled toward the center of the explosion.

In the thick smoke, they tried hard to identify the location of the wounded.

"Call an ambulance!" someone shouted.

In the station square, taxi drivers who were preparing to finish work immediately realized what had happened after hearing the explosion.

They drove their cars to the station and took the initiative to transport the wounded.

Cars loaded with injured people drove towards nearby hospitals with sirens blaring.

The police officers on duty near the train station felt a sinking feeling in their hearts; something had happened inside the train station!

They rushed to the scene and went upstream against the flow of people.

The explosion was heard on the second floor, and when the police finally arrived at the explosion site.

The scene before them shocked everyone. Some police officers who had poor tolerance for shock even ran to the side and vomited.

How tragic was the scene?

A man's body was lying in the middle...

Not far away was a charred patch of ground, which was obviously the center of the explosion.

That night, the explosion site was tightly sealed off, and Ge Shuping personally led a team to inspect the scene.

Criminal investigators searched inch by inch for fragments of the truth on the blood-stained floor tiles.

After investigation, it was found that the center of the explosion was the south corridor on the second floor of the railway station, and the affected area was about 700 square meters.

All the glass in the corridor was blown away, various items were scattered on the scene, and there were a lot of bloodstains on the ground and walls. It was a mess.

In the middle of the corridor, there lay a man's body that was unrecognizable, his muscles were burnt black...

At this time, no one knew that this mutilated corpse was the culprit of this horrific tragedy.

This explosion can be said to be extremely brutal and caused a lot of casualties.

Unlike the male corpse, the other victims, although suffering varying degrees of burns or explosion injuries, were intact.

At first, the criminal investigators thought it was an accident.

Perhaps the passenger was carrying bullets or other items, and the collision in the middle of the journey caused the explosion.

However, criminal investigators found that there were several traces left at the explosion site.

At the scene, the city bureau's criminal investigation personnel also collected a lot of steel powder pieces, scraps of cloth, bullet heads, broken wires, broken battery fragments, and remnants of explosives.

The explosive ingredients alone include RDX, dinitrodiazophenol, TNT and ammonium nitrate, with a total amount of 1 kilogram of explosives.

Also in the evidence bag were two deformed Swan brand 9-volt batteries.

It is obvious that the suspect used a battery-made ignition device to detonate two kilograms of explosives.

Could it be that this is the murderer's revenge on society?
Based on the evidence collected at the scene, the criminal investigation personnel had a preliminary portrait of the murderer.

The suspect is between 33 and 38 years old and is approximately 1 meters tall.

This person has a certain level of education and knows how to blast. It is very likely that he has served in the military or worked in the professional blasting industry.

The iron filings on the soles of his shoes indicate that he may have done manual labor in a machinery factory.

Such a serious and vicious case occurred at the train station and soon alarmed the headquarters.

The headquarters instructed Zheng Chaoyang, director of the Public Security Bureau, to personally lead a special task force and solve the case within a time limit.

The "10.29 Explosion Case" was investigated, and the task force members included Ge Shuping, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau, Zhou Weiguo, captain of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Corps, Sun Li, director of the branch bureau, and other elite officers.

The task force’s command center was set up directly in a conference room on the third floor of the train station.

Through the window, you can see the public security personnel downstairs busy setting up lights at the explosion site.

The photographer from the Municipal Bureau's Technical Department turned on a Japanese-made Olympus camera and began to record every detail of the scene.

On a square conference table, there was an enamel teacup in front of each person, but no one had time to drink water.

"This is not an ordinary explosive." Zhang, the director of the Municipal Bureau's Technical Department, put down the inspection report in his hand. "Judging from the power of the explosion and the residue, it is RDX, which is more powerful than TNT."

"Hiss! RDX?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, this is military explosive!

The smoke in the room grew thicker.

A young criminal investigator was recording every item found at the scene with chalk on the blackboard.

Also found at the scene were 103 pieces of broken steel, 84 bullets or fragments, 126 pieces of human tissue, several pieces of plastic wire, and fragments of a black handbag.

In addition, a bicycle key was found near the male body.

"This person is a professional." Ge Shuping, deputy head of the task force, pointed to the photo and said, "Look at the location of the explosion point, it was in the middle of the south corridor on the second floor, which is the place with the largest flow of people.

And judging from the residue, he used an electric ignition device to detonate the bomb, which shows that he has basic knowledge of blasting."

At this time, a forensic doctor in a white coat pushed the door open.

He held a preliminary autopsy report in his hand: the deceased was a man about 30 years old, about 1.7 meters tall.

When the explosion occurred, he was standing, holding the object containing explosives against his lower right abdomen and protecting it with both hands.

This was a deliberate suicide bombing.

"Wait a minute," Ge Shuping suddenly grabbed an evidence bag on the table, which contained three yellow millet grains, "Why is there this in the deceased's pocket?"

Everyone in the task force was silent, and no one could answer Ge Shuping's doubts.

Perhaps these three inconspicuous grains of millet seem to imply something.

Perhaps the person who chooses to die together has some stories in his life that they have not been able to touch upon.

The explosion at the train station soon attracted widespread public opinion, and some people even spread rumors... Damn, this is too outrageous!
If the case cannot be solved as soon as possible, it will inevitably cause panic among the people and affect the city's image.

In order to solve the case as quickly as possible, the headquarters urgently dispatched criminal investigation experts, trace experts, portrait experts, sculpture experts, and forensic doctors from all over the country to join the task force that day.

The next morning, a forensic expert from the medical school and a makeup artist invited from a film studio began a special task: to restore the face of the mutilated corpse.

They needed to get the face back to a point where it was recognizable enough.

Makeup artist Xiao Li has been working in the film industry for fifteen years and has restored the makeup of countless actors, but this is the first time he has faced such a "guest".

Xiao Li carefully filled the wound with special paint, trying to make the face look like it did at the last moment of its life: a square face, small eyes, high cheekbones, and some acne scars.

"Look at the roots of his hair," Xiao Li pointed at the dead man's hair and said, "It's white, it must have been dyed. At this age, he has white hair, it's probably premature graying..."

Using criminal investigation techniques, the task force reconstructed three portraits, all of which were inferred from the remains of the male corpse.

The general information we got was that this person had a square face, small eyes, was about 35 years old, and was about 1 meters tall.

He has a very strong body and a lot of muscles, but his skin is very dark and rough.

The most useful clue is a scar next to his ear.

It is difficult to find out the identity of the murderer based on this information alone.

Fortunately, some other traces left at the scene provided the task force with many clues.

The first important clue was related to clothing fragments. Although the man's body was blown to pieces and his clothes were almost destroyed, the expert team still analyzed useful information.

His shoes were produced by C-level Shoe Factory, his top was a work uniform from Yanjing Garment Factory No. 2, and his lower body was wearing a pair of military trousers.

From this, we can infer that this man is a worker who likes to wear military uniform.

The task force immediately took the man's portrait and went to factories near Yanjing to question him.

However, the city police's detectives visited all the factories and farms around Yanjing, but no one recognized the person in the portrait.

Nearby military units and government agencies also received the portrait, but they had never seen this person either.

What made the task force even more worried was that when they issued a bounty, it attracted a large number of opportunists.

These shameless criminals attempted to use false information to defraud the reward money, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the task force's work.

But there are so many people like this, where can we find someone without any identification?

The investigation into the murderer's identity was fraught with difficulties, but unexpectedly, a turning point appeared in three grains of millet.

At this time, an expert who had just joined the task force discovered;
The three grains of millet found in the pocket of the murderer's work clothes that were blown to pieces were red, unlike the ordinary yellow millet.

It turned out that this millet was used as bait for fishing in Xishan Province. This major discovery made the criminal investigation experts ecstatic.

Thus, there was one more person added to the portrait of the murderer: he was from Xishan Province, liked fishing, and had recently disappeared.

This clue is very important, so the task force immediately added it to the reward order, and the latest joint investigation notice narrowed the scope.

The harvest came quickly.

On November 11, an enthusiastic citizen told the visiting police officers.

She said the person in the portrait looked very much like her neighbor Wang Dagang.

Wang Dagang himself works at a tractor factory in Xishan Y City and likes fishing.

The height and age are all consistent, except for one thing: Wang Dagang has some premature graying of the hair, but his hair is completely black in the portrait.

Forensic identification revealed that the suspect's hair had been dyed.

That’s right, it’s really like finding something after searching for a long time without any effort.

The task force immediately called the tractor factory and found something wrong.

The worker, named Wang Dagang, had been missing for several days. His hobby was fishing.

The task force immediately retrieved the information of Wang Dagang, a native of Beijing. After graduating from junior high school, he responded to the country's call for educated youth to go to the countryside and went to Xishan to work as an educated youth.

He joined the army a few years ago, was demobilized four years ago, and was assigned to work in a tractor factory in Y City.

The entire task force was extremely excited, as Wang Dagang's age, height, and experience were highly consistent with the task force's portrait.

But what if Wang Dagang is still in City Y and has not returned to Beijing?
The task force sent Zhou Weiguo and his team to Y City to investigate overnight.

The findings were highly coincidental.

Wang Dagang went out at around 10 o'clock in the evening on October 28 and never came back, and he did not go to work on the 9th.

A colleague saw him leaving the factory carrying a bulging black briefcase.

Zhou Weiguo thought: "What if Wang Da went directly to the train station after leaving the factory? Then he had the time to commit the crime."

So, Zhou Weiguo led the investigators to continue visiting people who were familiar with Wang Dagang.

During the visit, we learned that the color and texture of the clothes Wang Dagang wore that day were the same as the fragments on the male corpse;
The towel fragments were also confirmed to be the labor protection supplies of the tractor factory;
Moreover, the bicycle key found at the scene also opened Wang Dagang's bicycle lock.

The other three grains of millet were also confirmed by Wang Dagang’s co-workers in the same dormitory.

Wang Dagang likes to use millet as bait for fishing. This worker named Ma Jiabao once gave Wang Dagang half a pound of millet.

Ma Jiabao also said that he put the millet into Wang Dagang's pocket with his own hands when they went fishing together in September.

Moreover, after smelling the shoes of the unidentified male corpse at the scene, the police dog accurately found Wang Dagang's shoes in Wang Dagang's dormitory.

Now, all the evidence points to the fact that the unidentified male corpse is Wang Dagang.

But where did he get the raw materials? Where did he learn how to make it? Where did he make it?
After investigation, Zhou Weiguo and others were shocked.

Wang Dagang once asked different friends for RDX explosives, detonator tubes, bullets, etc. under the pretext of bombing rats, bombing fish, and shooting birds.

Moreover, Wang Dagang had served as a railway soldier. After demobilization, he served as a militiaman in the factory. He had the conditions and ability to make his own homemade bombs.

At this time, Ma Jiabao provided the task force with a piece of information that half a month ago, Wang Dagang had offered to help him look after the house.

The task force took the soil from Ma Jiabao's home for testing and confirmed that the ammonium nitrate explosive component in the soil was the same as the explosive component in the Yanjing Railway Station bombing.

Now it is completely confirmed that the murderer is Wang Dagang, but what is his motive for committing the crime?
When it comes to the murderer of the bombing, many people find it incredible.

Since he had been a soldier and had a decent job in a tractor factory, why would he do such an extreme thing?

After investigation by the special task force, it was learned that Wang Dagang is 40 years old this year.

He was a native of Beijing. His family was well off and had some spare money for his studies.

When Wang Dagang finished junior high school, he thought he would not be able to get into university if he continued studying, so he responded to the country's call and went to the countryside.

Wang Dagang was assigned to Y City. After working in the local countryside for five years, he chose to enlist in the army and became a railway soldier.

Three years later, Wang Dagang retired from the army and became a worker at the Y City Tractor Factory.

For many ordinary people, this is a very good job.

But Wang Dagang didn't think so. He felt that the local area was poor and remote and was not a place for him to stay.

At the beginning, he was quite active in his work and received praise from his leaders.

But as time went by, Wang Dagang started to have wild thoughts.

Wang Dagang was still not satisfied and thought that since he had been sent to the countryside and served in the army, he should return to his hometown to become a cadre.

Now he can only stay in this small place, Y City, which makes him feel very helpless.

If he had just kept the secret, Wang Dagang wouldn't have gone to extremes.

After negative emotions arose, Wang Dagang's work attitude dropped sharply, even to the point of giving up.

Long-term self-abandonment caused him to have mental problems, and the last straw that broke the camel's back came from his girlfriend.

Wang Dagang’s girlfriend went to the countryside with him that year, and they agreed to get married after returning to Yanjing.

But after his girlfriend left Y City, Wang Dagang was still a small worker.

Wang Dagang was very anxious and asked his superiors many times to be transferred back to his hometown.

However, his work attitude in the previous few years was very poor, so he didn't even get this opportunity.

He was not included in several transfers, which made Wang Dagang feel more and more depressed.

His girlfriend waited until she was 30, but still couldn't wait for Wang Dagang to be transferred.

So she stopped waiting and looked for another partner to marry.

After hearing the news, Wang Dagang became disheartened and completely turned evil.

(End of this chapter)