You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 129 Saw the Demon! (Seeking monthly votes)
Inside the film processing room.

Cat gripped Yang Jinwen's belt tightly at the back of his waist, leaning his entire upper body inside, holding a flashlight in his hand.

When a woman's figure appeared in the beam of the flashlight, Yang Jinwen's pupils dilated violently, and his heart pounded.

He pulled his upper body back in and shouted outside, "Get a ladder! There are still people alive!"

"There are still people alive!"

In the kitchen outside, Jiang Bala and Fu Yun were stunned when they heard this.

My stomach, which was already feeling uncomfortable, suddenly tightened, and the two of them rushed in.

Sweating profusely, Yang Jinwen ordered, "Quick, get a ladder! Ma Weiwei is still alive!"

"Okay, okay!" Jiang Bala and Fu Yun stumbled and ran out again.

A moment later, they found a wooden ladder.

Yang Jinwen stepped aside, found two plastic straps in the printing room, put them on his left and right feet respectively, and then tied them tightly with rope.

"Do you have any gloves? Find me a pair!"

Fu Yun ran outside again, and by the time he brought it back in, Jiang Bala and Maozi had already lowered the wooden ladder.

Yang Jinwen put on gloves and looked at them: "Did you call back to the team?"

Jiang Bala immediately replied, "I called He Jinbo."

"Row!"

Yang Jinwen nodded, handed the flashlight to Jiang Bala, took a deep breath, and began to descend the ladder.

A foul and stuffy smell wafted from the cellar, filling the nostrils.

Yang Jinwen carefully descended, stepping on the horizontal beam across the cellar, and then jumped down.

His left foot landed on a rotten, moldy citrus fruit, and he heard a "smack" sound.

He didn't care about anything else and crouched down to run towards Ma Weiwei, who was lying in the pile of straw.

She was completely naked, her body covered in bruises, her face stained with blood, and she didn't even have the strength to lift her head.

Her neck, wrists, and ankles were all linked together by an iron chain, with one end, only one meter long, hanging out and locked to a hollow rock.

In other words, her hands, feet and neck could only be tucked together, making it impossible for her to stand up; the only thing she could do was roll over.

That hollow rock weighed at least a hundred pounds, holding her down and leaving her stuck in place with no way to escape.

At this moment, Ma Weiwei opened her weak eyes, her vision blurred. The fear and despair she had felt earlier were completely gone. Her stomach was shriveled and her cheeks were sunken; she was on the verge of death.

A person who is extremely weak cannot be aroused by any emotions, and she was no exception. She could only blink her eyes, but she couldn't even shed a tear.

Yang Jinwen squatted down beside her, quickly took off his shirt, and covered her with it.

Jiang Bala's shout came from above: "How's it going? Can you get up here?"

Yang Jinwen looked up and replied, "It's chained, we can't pry it open, we have to think of a way! Captain Jiang, throw down a bottle of water and find some clothes."

"it is good!"

Jiang Bala's head rose up, and after several minutes, he took off his clothes, wrapped a bottle of Laoshan mineral water he had taken from the car, and threw it down.

Yang Jinwen covered Ma Weiwei with the clothes, then unscrewed the mineral water bottle, sat down beside her, and looked into her eyes.

“Ma Weiwei, can you hear me? If you can hear me, blink once.”

Upon hearing this, Ma Weiwei blinked; her eyelids were turning blue.

"Listen up, I'm Yang Jinwen, a police officer from the North City Criminal Investigation Team. We're here to rescue you. My three colleagues are upstairs. Don't be afraid, we'll get you out of here right away. Blink!"

Ma Weiwei tried to close her eyes, a faint sound came out of her throat, and her lips moved.

Yang Jinwen held the water bottle to her lips: "Drink slowly, slowly."

Ma Weiwei opened her mouth, and a cool sensation seeped into her mouth, flowing down her throat and into her stomach.

She took small sips, initially unconsciously, but as she became more conscious, she opened her mouth wider and wider.

Seeing that they had drunk enough, Yang Jinwen quickly took the water away to prevent any accidents.

Ma Weiwei lay on her side with her eyes closed, seemingly recovering her strength.

Yang Jinwen sat next to her, keeping a close eye on her condition.

During this time, Jiang came down to the farm, and Fu Yun and Maozi found various cutting tools from the farmers' homes, such as machetes and saws, but none of them could cut the iron chain.

Moreover, that big rock was very hard; they tried to smash it for a long time but couldn't break it.

Fortunately, the city bureau officials arrived quickly.

Yang Jinwen heard the sound of police sirens coming from afar in the cellar.

A moment later, Wen Mo's voice rang out from above, as if he were talking to someone.

Immediately afterwards, a group of people came down. None of them were wearing protective gear. Yang Jinwen wanted to remind them, but they didn't care, as saving lives was the priority.

After the chains were removed, Ma Weiwei had regained most of her consciousness.

She was helped up the stairs by two policewomen, with a strip of cloth wrapped around her eyes to prevent sudden exposure to sunlight.

Yang Jinwen followed him up and saw that the room was full of police officers from the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The moment Ma Weiwei was brought out, everyone held their breath, their hearts pounding.

They had only one thought in their minds: if it weren't for Yang Jinwen and his team's relentless investigation, this girl certainly wouldn't be alive. Wen Mo gritted her teeth, looking at Yang Jinwen who had crawled out of the cellar, her heart filled with mixed emotions.

Not only him, but other police officers were the same.

Investigating a case thoroughly and bringing the perpetrators to justice is the duty of every police officer, but none of these can compare to saving a life.

Yang Jinwen, Maozi, Jiang Bala, and Fu Yun finally found Ma Weiwei, who had been missing for twelve days!
If it weren't for them, Ma Weiwei's fate would have been unimaginable.

When Wen Mo received the call, he had already imagined what was going on his way there, but seeing the photos on the wall still made him feel horrified and his heart sank.

Yang Jinwen was completely soaked, his face was covered in sweat, and his pants and socks were soaked through.

He stepped outside, took a breath of fresh air, and saw Yang Guochang and Lu Shaohua arriving as well, along with Wen Ling carrying a survey kit.

Yang Guochang and Lu Shaohua had just seen Ma Weiwei being taken away in an ambulance when they saw Yang Jinwen in such a disheveled state.

The two old men sighed deeply. Yang Guochang stepped forward and patted his arm: "Comrade Yang Jinwen, well done!"

Lu Shaohua pursed his lips and nodded repeatedly.

That look in his eyes came from genuine admiration and satisfaction.

Wen Ling put down her survey kit and walked over to him. She saw that he was shirtless and his hair was soaked. She asked with concern, "Are you alright? Are you hungry? I have some snacks in my car."

"Not hungry."

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "There's no one else down there. I didn't check carefully whether there were any bodies. I was dressed when I went down and didn't leave any footprints, but the others left a lot of marks when they came down to unlock the door. I need to remember these people."

"Mm." Wen Ling nodded, took out a tissue from her pocket, and wiped the sweat from his face.

Wen Mo came out and happened to see this scene. His pupils shrank slightly, but he didn't say anything. He turned around and discussed the situation with Yang Guochang and Lu Shaohua.

From 92, when Zhang Qian, a female student at Chengnan Health School, disappeared, until 97, when Ma Weiwei disappeared, in addition to two other women whom Yang Jinwen and his team did not track down, there were a total of nine missing women.

Judging from the photos on the wall, of the nine missing women, only Ma Weiwei survived.

In other words, there's a 99% chance the other eight people were murdered.

The technical team went down into the cellar, but dared not break the soil immediately, as it was covered with footprints and biological traces.

Although many of these items were recently left by our own people, they have damaged the scene, making it difficult to conduct further investigations.

A technical officer who came up from the cellar reported, "Chief Wen, the soil is flat and doesn't look like it's been dug. There shouldn't be any bodies down there."

Wen Mo's eyes flashed as he looked at the citrus grove outside the house and instructed several criminal police officers from the Municipal Bureau: "Go search in the grove. If you can't find it, bring the corpse-hunting dogs."

"Yes." Several people rushed out of the house, borrowed hoes and shovels from the villagers who were watching the commotion, and led more than a dozen people into the citrus grove.

After Hu Shusheng's death, Hu Aihua contracted out the citrus grove to her neighbor, the old farmer who had previously wielded the kitchen knife.

As soon as Jiang Bala reported the situation, the old farmer was led into the woods.

After Ma Weiwei was taken away by the ambulance, Yang Jinwen found a piece of clothing to wear, drank a big gulp of water, and then followed Wen Mo into the citrus grove.

Jiang Bala, Fu Yun, and Maozi were overjoyed at having successfully rescued Ma Weiwei. A tremendous sense of accomplishment and satisfaction filled them, so much so that they lay on the ground in the woods, using sticks to turn over the soil inch by inch, searching for a burial site.

It was afternoon, the sun was setting, but the weather remained unbearably hot and humid.

In the citrus grove, people were moving about everywhere, using hoes, shovels, and sticks to search for suspicious places inch by inch.

Wen Mo kept making phone calls, contacting the procuratorate to send someone over, contacting the TV station leaders, and contacting He Jinbo.

He Jinbo reported that they still hadn't found Hu Aihua's whereabouts, and the female reporter Zhang Wen was also missing.

The only solution now is to send a message to Zhang Wen, who has a pager on her, as suggested by He Jinbo, to be wary of Hu Aihua, this murderous devil.

Wen Mo agreed, his only condition being that Zhang Wen must live.

He Jinbo had no choice but to send out all his men and launch a thorough investigation.

Half an hour later, a voice came from the left side of the citrus grove: "Found it! I found the body!"

In the woods, police officers carrying hoes and shovels rushed towards the place where the message was being shouted.

This is on the edge of a citrus grove, in an open area, next to a dried-up ditch.

The turf was turned over, revealing a mud pit about half a meter square inside.

The cat knelt on the ground, its face, hands, and clothes covered in mud and grass clippings.

He stared wide-eyed at the thing wrapped in a plastic bag in the soil.

A human skeleton was revealed, specifically the thoracic cavity, inside which earthworms were wriggling.

Wen Ling led Zhang Lei, pushed aside the onlookers, knelt on the ground, put on two layers of latex gloves, and carefully used tools to dig away the soil so as not to damage the surface of the skeleton.

The group stood in a circle around the mud pit, watching intently as Wen Ling and the others slowly dug out the bones.

The body was buried very shallowly, wrapped in several layers of plastic film, but these were the thin plastic films used for crops. Because of the long time that had passed, the film had turned black and would rot easily if torn, leaving numerous holes.

Yang Jinwen saw that the body was buried face up when it was buried.

It was obvious that this was a woman, with hair like dry straw and bones that had begun to calcify. It looked like she had been dead for many years, not just recently.

Below the abdominal cavity, in the pelvic region, there are some small bones.

"What is this?" Yang Jinwen asked, pointing to the pelvic area.

Wen Ling sniffed, looked up at him with red eyes, and said, "These are the remains of a fetus!"

(End of this chapter)