Reborn in 1995, Criminal Investigation Records

Dai Yan didn't expect that Zhou Yang would go down the ladder as soon as he finished speaking.

Helpless, he had no choice but to follow in the other person's footsteps and go down to the bottom of the well.

Although the skeletons had been moved, the smell still lingered. If Zhou Yang hadn't been there, Dai Yan would have almost vomited.

To his surprise, Zhou Yang seemed unaffected by the smell. Instead, he put on shoe covers and, holding a flashlight, peered back a few meters in the direction of the corpse.

There were no clues left at the scene, and even if there were, they would have been washed away in two or three months.

For Zhou Yang, the only valuable thing about this scene was its location; as for traces, very little was left behind.

Dai Yan wiped the water droplets off the well wall with his hand and put his ear closer.

"It's not quiet; there's the occasional sound of water. The waterway has probably been altered, or there's a leak in a new pipe nearby. They might have dumped the body here for convenience, but I'm more inclined to believe that no one has ever checked this well!" Dai Yan concluded.

"Amazing!" Zhou Yang gave a thumbs up, praising him from the bottom of his heart. You really can't underestimate anyone.

"I'd be even happier if your thumb were sticking out from up there..." Dai Yan joked.

The two climbed up again, but they were now dirty and had a rather peculiar smell.

According to Dai Yan's speculation, the person who dumped the body must have been quite familiar with the surrounding environment and knew the location of this semi-abandoned manhole.

So the two of them immediately went to find the person who had called the police about the incident – ​​Mr. Liu.

When Liu Chengyu arrived at the scene earlier, he had already questioned the person. After this incident, the leaders showed some concern and gave him a day off today.

Following the address registered at his workplace, Zhou Yang knocked on the door.

"Who is it!" a voice called out, and then the door opened, revealing a woman in her fifties standing behind it, looking at Zhou Yang and Dai Yan warily.

"Hello, we're from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. We'd like to speak with Mr. Liu to learn some information!" Dai Yan smiled and showed his police ID.

Zhou Yang clearly felt the woman's brow furrow slightly, but he still opened the door for them: "He's smoking on the balcony!"

Mr. Liu's house is in an old neighborhood, and the balcony is a passageway that you have to walk through from the bedroom to get there.

The balcony was bathed in sunlight, and even before the two of them got close, a wave of heat emanated from it.

Meanwhile, Master Liu sat shirtless in the sun, his back to them, emitting plumes of smoke, completely unaware that the two men were approaching.

"Master Liu, we are from the Municipal Public Security Bureau's Criminal Investigation Department..." As soon as Dai Yan spoke, the other person trembled violently, seemingly startled, and then stiffly turned his head, looking at the two of them with a blank expression.

Zhou Yang could tell that Master Liu had not yet recovered from the shock.

He pulled up a stool, sat down in front of the other man, lit a cigarette with a snap, and took a deep drag: "Master Liu, you don't need to be afraid. Let him come out of that dark, hopeless place and let us get justice for him. You've done right by him..."

Looking at the young man on the bench in front of him, Master Liu relaxed slightly: "I just keep thinking about that pale head and those dark eye sockets!"

"I know!" Zhou Yang turned and patted the other person's shoulder. "Think about it, he searched and searched before finding you. He knows you're a kind person, and he knows you wouldn't abandon him..."

"Really?"

"Of course, I'm a police officer, I wouldn't lie to you!"

......

Dai Yan stared dumbfounded at the two people squatting on the balcony. In Zhou Yang, he actually saw the shadow of his grandfather, that little old man who was always smiling and comforting people.

The conversation between the two seemed childish, but it didn't stop a faint smile from finally appearing on Master Liu's face.

"Officer, please have a seat, please have a seat!" Master Liu opened his cigarette pack and offered Zhou Yang another one. Only then did he notice that there was another police officer behind him, so he quickly got up and brought over a small chair.

Dai Yan quickly waved his hand, "I can do it myself, I can do it myself!"

According to Mr. Liu, he has been doing municipal maintenance work for nearly 30 years, and he has spent most of his life dealing with manholes. It is no exaggeration to say that he can locate the manholes on any street or road by feeling them with his eyes closed.

"Master Liu, your company hasn't assigned you any assistants, like an apprentice or anything?" Dai Yan asked with a smile, holding his notebook.

"I had some before, but how should I put it, I was too young to endure the hardship. But I can understand. Those with intelligence rely on their intelligence, those without rely on their strength. Just like me, I don't have any skills, so I can only rely on brute force!" Master Liu scratched his head and smiled sheepishly.

"I think the dimensions of this well seem a bit different?" Zhou Yang gestured to show the width of his own shoulders and that of Master Liu.

"You noticed? This is from a long time ago. Back then, due to limitations in technology and planning, the diameter was generally small, unlike now, where the diameter can basically reach one meter! Times have changed!" Master Liu exclaimed.

"So, is this opening now obsolete?"

"Yes, it's been abandoned for more than half a year now, around the beginning of the year..." Master Liu recalled, "Right, right after the Spring Festival when we started working again, this opening was on that abandoned list!"

It's July now. In 1995, even if people went back to work on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it wouldn't be until after February 14th.

To be precise, Mr. Liu's description was inaccurate. It means that the place was abandoned for a total of five months, and the body was placed inside for three months. In other words, the body was already inside two months after the place was abandoned!

"The east-west street today is called Ping'an Street. It's not exactly a new district. The street is about 280 meters long, and the sewage pipes that were laid before were about 800-1000mm in diameter. According to this standard, there are a total of 4 abandoned manholes on this street!" Once he started talking about the other party's professional knowledge, Mr. Liu started to talk non-stop.

"You just said that these openings were abandoned at the beginning of the year. Did you or your colleagues open them during that time?" Zhou Yang asked.

If the body had been opened at some point, the time required to dispose of it could be further reduced.

"Hiss... Have you ever opened it?" Master Liu took a deep breath, a hint of recollection appearing in his eyes, then he pursed his lips: "I've never opened it, and my colleagues certainly wouldn't either. We're divided into areas, and if there's any real emergency, unless I can't handle it, I'm the one who's doing the maintenance!"

"Did you mention the well being abandoned to anyone this year?" Dai Yan frowned slightly.

"Everyone in my unit knows this!" Master Liu replied.

"I'm not talking about your unit, I'm saying, does anyone in the vicinity of the well know that it's been abandoned?" Dai Yan realized he had made a mistake in his wording and corrected himself.

"Oh, right! I remember now!" The cigarette in Master Liu's mouth trembled, and ash fell in a flurry: "At the beginning of the year, the company assigned me an apprentice, but he left after only half a month!"