mtlumby2d Chapter 289 The old man scavenging
Chapter 289 The old man scavenging
"Don't move! Let the bomb disposal expert come over." Su Xiaoxiao grabbed him.
The bomb is behind this door. The fuse should be connected to the door, and it will explode as soon as the door is opened.
The two bomb disposal experts had already arrived and were waiting outside. When they heard the call, they walked over and asked everyone to step back.
After checking, they asked everyone to leave the villa and come back after they had defused the bomb and confirmed it was safe.
Qi Lei led everyone to retreat. Some team members did not believe Su Xiaoxiao's talk about a bomb at first, thinking she was exaggerating. One team member even said a few sarcastic words to her, but Su Xiaoxiao did not bother with him.
If Qi Lei hadn't strictly ordered everyone not to act recklessly, they might have been blown away.
Thinking that he was able to save his life thanks to Su Xiaoxiao, the team member who had deceived Su Xiaoxiao was filled with shame.
They waited outside for two hours before two bomb disposal experts came out sweating profusely, holding the dismantled bomb in their hands.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Qi Lei stepped forward.
"Luckily you noticed something was wrong and called us over, otherwise it would have been too dangerous. There were two bombs planted inside, both of which have been defused. We've confirmed that there are no other bombs inside."
One of the bomb disposal experts wiped the sweat from his forehead and a proud smile appeared on his face.
Only after seeing the bomb disposal experts get into the car and leave did they go to the basement, where they found two people.
To be precise, it should be a person and a corpse.
The dead one was an old man in his fifties or sixties. The living one was Liu Zeyang, but he would also die soon if they didn't come.
The haunted sound Zhou Hao heard outside the basement was made by him.
The last time he was questioned by the criminal investigation team, after he came back, he went to Zhao Zhixiang to express his loyalty, saying that he had said nothing and that he was willing to go through fire and water for the Zhao family.
Zhao Zhixiang seemed to believe his words and kept him by his side. In fact, his target had always been Zhao Zhixiang, and dealing with Zhao Wei was just to make him lose his composure.
Unfortunately, he was too naive. Now that Zhao Zhixiang had discovered his identity, he would never trust him again.
When he was brought back to the villa by Zhao Zhixiang and Yu Ming, he was still complacent, thinking that he finally had the chance to get close to them.
He had thought of several ways, and as long as he had the chance to get close, he would definitely be able to kill them all.
Unfortunately, Zhao Zhixiang did not give him a chance. Yu Ming knocked him out and locked him in the basement. He never paid any attention to him again.
He stayed in the basement for five whole days, without anyone, without food or water, and without lights. It was completely dark, and only then did he know what fear was.
On the fourth day, Yu Ming came in again. At this time, he had completely lost the idea of revenge. As long as he could be kept alive, it would be fine, even if he had to become a dog.
But Yu Ming just left a body behind and walked out again without even looking at him.
Apart from making intermittent and weak cries for help, he was no longer able to do anything else.
The so-called haunted sound that Zhou Hao heard was actually his cry for help. Because he had no strength, the sound was intermittent and illusory, and it did not sound like a haunted sound.
They did not recognize the other body. The old man was only wearing a vest and shorts, and there were several holes on the vest. It could only be seen that his family was not well off. There was no other identifying information on the body.
"Xiaoxiao, what do you think?"
"Zhao Zhixiang and Yu Ming are so vicious. They planned it all out long ago, one thing after another, and almost trapped us all.
They arrested Liu Zeyang and locked him in the basement. After finding Zhou Hao, they told him that the basement was haunted.
They knew that we would find Zhou Hao sooner or later. After hearing from Zhou Hao that the basement was haunted, we would definitely go to check it out. They had already installed the explosives in advance, and they would explode as soon as we opened the door.
He probably knew that Zhao Wei could not be saved, so he wanted to avenge his son and drag us to be buried with his son."
Su Xiaoxiao felt a little scared when she thought about it. If her right eye had not twitched and she had not seen Qi Lei and the others being blown to pieces, she would now have to stand here and collect their bodies.
"Yes, it's really vicious. Zhao Zhixiang ran away by himself, leaving Yu Ming and Xu Yajun behind, diverting our attention and making us think that there was nothing unusual. It seems that Yu Ming is his best friend, and Xu Yajun may have been kept in the dark.
Our top priority now is to find Zhao Zhixiang. We must not let such a scum go unpunished."
Qi Lei clenched his fists.
"I think the other body in the basement is a bit strange. It's an old man that no one knows. He looks like he's from a poor family. Why would they kill an unrelated person?"
"Maybe it's not irrelevant. I have a hunch that the key may lie with this old man. Let the others clean up the mess here. Let's go back and check if anyone has reported missing in the past two days. By the way, check all the surveillance cameras around here to see when this old man entered the villa."
In the Criminal Investigation Team office, Li Yan has checked the alarm records of the past few days and found no one has reported a missing person.
The surveillance video around the villa has been obtained, and everyone is checking it separately.
They saw that two days ago in the morning, after Yu Ming sent Zhou Hao to the company, the criminal investigation team members in charge of surveillance also followed them.
Not long after, an old scavenger wearing a sun hat came to the door of the villa. He was pulling a small cart with a pile of messy paper boxes on it. He rang the doorbell of the villa.
Soon, the gate of the courtyard opened and the old man who was picking up rubbish walked in. They noticed that no one came out at this time, and the door inside was also opened, and someone let the old man in.
A full hour later, the old scavenger came out of the room with a large bundle of folded cardboard boxes in his hands. He put the cardboard boxes on a cart, pulled it out of the villa's gate, and considerately closed the gate.
The old scavenger who came out looked no different from the one who went in, wearing the same clothes, the same sun hat, and the same hunched back.
But Su Xiaoxiao knew that this old scavenger was no longer the one who went in. Other things could be disguised, but his hands were obviously different. How could a hand that had been working for years and a hand that had been pampered for years be the same?
The body found in the basement was the real scavenger. If their plan succeeded and the basement exploded, all the people would be reduced to ashes. They might not have thought that Zhao Zhixiang used this method to escape.
Unfortunately, the net of heaven is vast and no one can escape.
With this discovery, they quickly found out where the old scavenger lived. The old man had no residence in the city. He and several other scavengers lived under a bridge. But to their surprise, no one knew the old man's real name.