Volume Eight: Empty Mine

The "ding dong" doorbell indicated that there was someone outside the door, and police officer F, who had just lay down, got up angrily and came to the door and pressed the answer button: "Are you finished?"

But what surprised him was that it was not Long Jiao who appeared on the screen on the door, but Xue Qian, the station master, which made him a little embarrassed. He opened the door and apologized: "I'm sorry, I thought you were..."

"It's okay, I took the liberty to bother you," Xue Qian still had a smile on her face, and Officer F's behavior did not affect her in any way, "I'm really sorry that it's so late, but Mr. At seven o'clock, he will send someone over to take you to the periphery of the space station for adaptive training, and the day after tomorrow, he may directly enter the surface of Jupiter to investigate the scene of the crime, and please rest well tonight!"

"Oh, I see. Is there anything else?" Officer F was still embarrassed by his attitude just now.

"Other things are fine, your friend Dr. Long Jiao, we will send her and Dr. Gao Jian to the third space station and the sixth space station respectively, where they are needed," Xue Qian told Officer F about all the arrangements , "If there is anything, you can press the button in the room or come to me directly in my office!"

"Okay, thank you!" Officer F watched Xue Qian go to the cabins of Long Jiao and Gao Jian respectively. It seemed that he was arranging a schedule with them. He closed the door and lay down on the bed again.

"What a strange person. Does it mean that people will become weird after leaving the earth for too long?" Officer F looked at the ceiling of the cabin and fell into deep thought. There is a problem, the matter should not be as simple as the client said, and police officer F also felt that something was wrong, but where is the problem, he couldn't figure it out?

"Hey, what a tiring day!" Officer F turned off the light, closed his eyes, and fell into a drowsy sleep.In the darkness, there was a bright light on the ceiling facing Officer F. If he opened his eyes, he should be able to see that it was a camera.

"How?" It was Wang Zhijun who spoke, and he was currently on the seventh space station. The seventh space station was recently rebuilt and the smallest, because this is the only space station that does not use mining. He is Wang Zhijun. The general private residence, with luxurious interior decoration, is like a villa. It is divided into two floors. The upper floor is Wang Zhijun's bedroom and study room, as well as his wine cellar, which contains a lot of good wine he brought back from the earth. The lower floor is more like a living room, where the usual office and catering are located. There are only two attached small cabins around, which belong to the two most powerful assistants of Mr. Wang, and after the No. [-] space station is put into use, he will send the headquarters From the very beginning, the No. [-] space station moved here, but the general mining work does not require him to carry out. The high-level personnel on the No. [-] and No. [-] space stations are sufficient to deal with the problems that arise. Most of the time, he stays on the earth. Here It's just his palace.

"Everything is normal, Mr. Wang, his vital signs are normal, and he didn't realize that we were watching him." The assistant named Zhang Yan replied, and the "he" he said was referring to Police Officer F .

"Very good, let him come after all." Wang Zhijun touched his chin, as if he was satisfied with the current situation, "Keep an eye on him, I don't want to make any mistakes!"

"Yes!" The two assistants replied at the same time.

Police officer F is in good physical condition, just like what Dr. Gao Jie said before, his physical fitness is far beyond the upper limit of ordinary people's abilities, Xue Qian arranged for him a one-day physical fitness test, and he only took half a day to complete all of them. It was completed, which surprised everyone in the No. [-] space station, and he did not have any adverse reactions, so Xue Qian proposed to Wang Zhijun to let police officer F enter the crime scene on the surface of Jupiter in advance, and this proposal can be said to be Immediately obtained Wang Zhijun's approval, so after Gao Jian left, Xue Qian took him and Long Jiao directly to the scene for investigation under the suggestion of police officer F. In addition to checking, other possible accidents can be prevented. Xue Qian didn't say anything about it, so a team composed of Officer F, Long Jiao, and Xue Qian arrived on the surface of Jupiter in a small mining spaceship. The space suit was led by Xue Qian to the scene.

"I didn't expect this dress to be so light and not tiring at all." Long Jiao regained her childish temper, looking at everything around her curiously, "What material is this made of?"

"Well, this is a company secret, I can't reveal it." Xue Qian said with a smile, because there is no air and sound cannot be transmitted, they can only rely on the radio in the space suit to communicate, but this does not affect the communication between them. exchange.

"Here we are," Xue Qian pointed to the ground, where there was only a body bag with the murdered person in it, and some steel balls used in the development were scattered messily around.

"How long has he been dead?" Officer F squatted down and opened the body bag, observing the corpse inside.

"It's been about a week. Because there are no microorganisms such as bacteria here, the corpse will not be decomposed. And in order to protect the scene, no other treatment has been done except putting it in a body bag." Xue Qian is right, the corpse is only dehydrated, not any other changes.

"Well, he was hit to the temple by your 'steel ball' and died, right?" Officer F stood up and said to Xue Qian.

"Yes," Xue Qian replied, "It's obvious. Does Officer F have any other findings?"

"Not yet." Officer F made a gesture, indicating that he could go back. "Now he can be sent back to the spaceship. I hope he can rest in peace."

"How does he get along with other colleagues?" Officer F routinely asked Xue Qian after returning to Space Station No. [-].

"His name is Li Fei. He seldom interacts with others and spends most of his time at work. His relationship with us is not very good, but he will never have any enmity with anyone." Briefly discussed the situation with Officer F.

"Then is it possible that your 'steel ball' got out of control and caused this result?" Officer F looked into Xue Qian's eyes and asked.

"This is unlikely, because the 'steel ball' on site is the simplest model, and because the program is simple, there is basically no error, and we have checked that all the equipment on site is operating normally and there is no error." Xue Qian said The analysis report was handed over to Officer F.

"Oh, that's it." Officer F tapped his finger on the table slowly after seeing it, "Why does this person have little contact with you? In this environment, there are not many people. If you are still so introverted It's hard to survive here, isn't it?"

"Actually, he is not an employee of our company. He was sent by another company to detect and analyze the minerals here. He has not been here for more than three months." Xue Qian's words made Officer F understand the case. new perspective.

"It seems that things are not that simple." Officer F became serious. "I want to talk directly to Mr. Wang, and I will ask the station master to arrange it."

"Okay!" Xue Qian got up and left and walked to her office, preparing to report the results of the survey.

"Hey, what did you discover?" Long Jiao finally couldn't hold back anymore and asked after Xue Qian left.

"Nothing special," Officer F said, "just an ordinary crime, I'm afraid his death is just an excuse." (End)