A burning pain ripped through my nerves. When I woke up, I found my head covered in blood, but I wasn't dead.

Only then did I realize that Zhang Hu's axe hadn't hit a vital spot, allowing me to survive for a few more moments.

I just fainted, but I didn't die a violent death immediately!

Swaying and staggering, I saw that it was already dawn. Only then, through the crack, did I see my own gate moving away, and I realized that they wanted to take me out and bury me.

I dared not struggle, for fear that if these people found out, they would hit me with a stick again!

Now my mother is dead, my wife is dead, and my sister is gone too!

If I die again, there will be no one to avenge them!

I forced myself to calm down, suppressing my grief and anger.

I know they want to destroy the evidence, so they'll definitely dig a hole and bury me!

If I play dead, I'm sure I can escape!

Maybe I can crawl out of the ground!

I want to live, to survive, so that I may have a chance to live and a chance to take revenge!

As long as I crawl out and report to the authorities, those people will definitely not be able to escape!

I thought I would soon be buried in the mountains near my home, but I never expected that Zhang Hu and Ma He would carry me to the mine.

Are they going to throw me into a deep pit?

When this thought popped into my head, I was terrified!

The mine I worked in has been around for many years. Some of the tunnels were abandoned after mining, and many places have cracks and collapses due to substandard mining practices. If I were thrown down there, I would definitely die and never be able to climb out again!

I was panicking and trying to figure out how to escape.

"Hey? What are you doing?"

Just then, I suddenly heard a voice calling out from the roadside.

It turned out to be Zhao Laoshuan, who was collecting coal ash on the mountain, walking towards us.

We often use dump trucks to haul our coal out, but the trucks are loaded with too much coal at once, and coal dust often falls off while driving. Many villagers from the neighborhood will then come to pick it up under the cover of night!

Zhao Laoshuan lived not far away, also in the old coalfield alley. He was a miner, but he didn't dare to openly bring coal down from the mine. He only dared to collect coal to sell in the early morning.

Old Zhao happened to run into them!

Zhang Hu and Ma He put me down on the ground. Just then, Zhao Laoshuan shone his flashlight on my burlap sack and exclaimed, "Why is there blood? What's in the sack?"

That idiot! Run!

Upon hearing this, Zhang Hu and Ma He immediately reached for their axes.

I was startled, thinking that my chance had come. I immediately struggled inside the sack, trying to untie the rope and get out.

But the moment I made that move, Zhang Hu and the other man, their evil intentions turned to evil. One of them came back and the other ran out. Without saying a word, they picked up their axes and chased after the fleeing Zhao Laoshuan.

Because I misjudged my physical strength and the tightness of the cloth bag, Ma He stabbed me in the stomach.

I was so exhausted that night, I had no good spots on my body, I was completely drained, otherwise I would never have given up and waited to die!

Through the gaps in the sack, I saw Zhao Laoshuan lying on the ground, his back twitching a few times before he stopped moving!

This poor man was silenced simply because he witnessed Zhang Hu and his companion burying the body.

How cruel they are!

An innocent person was killed by them!

The angrier I became, the more sorrowful I felt.

"Damn it, there's another one. What do we do?" Zhang Hu's voice rang out nearby; he had returned.

"Hurry up, stop dawdling, stop looking for some deep pit, just find a mine shaft and burn it with gasoline, get it done as soon as possible, otherwise we'll be discovered sooner or later!" Ma He went over and dragged Zhao Laoshuan over, and he and Zhang Hu each carried one of them on their backs, heading straight for the mine shaft.

My head was throbbing, and I was bleeding all over my body. I had no strength left to fight those two demons.

I watched helplessly as they lit the kerosene, and in the flames, I lost consciousness.

……

As Hu Jianjun spoke, it seemed he had long been accustomed to the sorrow, and his emotions calmed down.

Li Xiangnan offered him a cigarette, and watching him calmly wipe away his tears, he felt an overwhelming sadness in his own heart.

A family of five was brutally murdered.

If Chen Hanguo hadn't committed the crime in the street, this injustice from twenty years ago would never have been redressed!

At this moment, the doubts in Li Xiangnan's heart, no, it could be said that the doubts of the entire task force, were also answered.

One of the two charred corpses found in the mine was indeed Hu Jianjun.

The other person was Zhao Laoshuan, an innocent bystander who accidentally witnessed the scene.

The reason why Hu Jianjun's body was buried separately from his wives' bodies was because Zhang Hu and his men were afraid of being discovered and were forced to stop moving the bodies!

"Hu Jianjun, the reason you harassed the neighbors later was because of that night..."

Li Xiangnan suddenly looked up at the opposite side, reluctant to reveal the cruel reality, but he had no choice but to ask.

"They just stood by and watched someone die?"

Hu Jianjun looked exhausted, weakly exhaling smoke, and only said three words: "Otherwise what?"

Li Xiangnan remained silent.

He looked at Hu Jianjun, and Hu Jianjun looked at him.

Finally, he added, "My mother, my wife, my sister... their throats are hoarse from shouting, but no one comes to save us... If only one person had come to check on us... I know they... are afraid of Zhang Hu... no one dares to offend him..."

How do the neighbors know that Zhang Hu committed the crime?

Li Xiangnan was very puzzled, and guessed, "Perhaps the wind was too strong that night, and your house is too far from the old coal yard alley, so the people over there really couldn't hear you?"

Hu Jianjun remained silent, his eyebrows slightly lowered, as if to indicate that he had already exhausted all his energy by recounting the entire case.

Seeing that Hu Jianjun was about to fall asleep, Li Xiangnan quickly pressed his shoulders and shook him.

"Hu Jianjun, Hu Jianjun, wake up! Can you find any crucial evidence to prove that they committed the crime?"

"Hu Jianjun? Wake up, don't sleep!"

"Hu Jianjun!"

But no matter how Li Xiangnan called out to him, Hu Jianjun lay down in that soft chair, his eyes slightly open, before finally closing them completely.

Li Xiangnan cradled his head, gently set him upright in the chair, and sighed softly, "Hu Jianjun, whether or not I can wake you up again... thank you!"

He took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it carefully, and looked at Chen Hanguo, who had fallen into a deep sleep.

Just look at it.

Watching quietly.

Then, he stubbed out his cigarette, got up, went out, and went to the observation room next door.

The door opens.

One by one, faces came into view.

Everyone's eyes were bloodshot, practically spitting fire.

No one speaks.

But the silence was deafening.

"Let's go!"

When Li Xiangnan said, "Let's go," everyone, including Director Qi, silently rushed downstairs.

Thump thump thump, rumble rumble.

After a flurry of footsteps, the sound of cars starting up followed, carrying everyone towards the crime scene in Laomeifang Lane.

Half an hour later.

Li Xiangnan pushed open the wooden doors of the Hu family's house and came to the backyard.

The jujube tree has been dug up, revealing the buried well underneath.

All the police officers from Luzhou stood or sat by the side, without saying a word.

Two bodies lay nearby, and a forensic examiner was conducting an examination.

Li Xiangnan looked down into the well but didn't see anyone.

But there was no water in the well.

"Advisor Li," someone noticed his confusion and said, "there's a gap on the north side of the well; someone has gone out..."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangnan was startled and waved his hands around, "Let me down!"

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