Chapter 1808: Fire

If the case was reported today, then it means that until yesterday, the missing person had returned to his residence, which is the pipe in front of him, so why not leave any mud.
Ye Shikai gave out the confession from the reporter. The missing person was a 60-year-old scavenger. He also returned to the pipeline yesterday because the living conditions are too shabby. Daily necessities or something, but today no one can be found, so someone called the police.
"It's really strange, but in this environment, anything can happen, right? You just said that this tube is at best a windshield or something. If it rains outside, there must be running water inside. Isn't it?
Zhang Ting retorted.
"This is also possible." Ye Shikai put down his hands. After all, these are just his reasonings, and there is no basis, but this is also a helpless move. But here is a suburb, there is no camera nearby, and no one even knows this abandoned pipeline. There is still a person living without clues, and can only rely on reasoning to guess, and then look for evidence in reverse to prove reasoning.
During the talk, rain fell again in the air, and the clothes of the two were soon wet.
"Hello, let's go, this rain looks not small." Zhang Ting covered his hair with his hands to avoid getting wet by the falling rain.
"Wait a minute, we can just use this for experiments." Ye Shikai took out two umbrellas from the storage and handed one to Zhang Ting.
"What are you going to do."
"The rain yesterday was almost the same as it is now. We can just simulate how the pipeline will behave when it rains." Ye Shikai explained.
"Look at it."
There is muddy soil nearby, and the rain is not small, so the muddy soil becomes muddy mud. The two of them hold umbrellas and carefully look at the pipe entrance.
The rainwater was mixed with mud, turned into mud, and flowed down from the hillside, as well as the splashing rainwater, which quickly formed stagnant water. When the two thought that the water flow would flow into the pipe, the stagnant water and mud went down The stones at the entrance of the pipe all flowed down, but the inside was safe and sound.
It was only at this time that Ye Shikai realized that the stones at the door were deliberately placed like this, in order to drain the water and avoid the accumulation of water in the pipeline. Of course, some of the water was still flowing in, but it was only a small In part, it is absolutely not necessary to wash the mud footprints inside quickly.
"This stone must be the old man who scavenged for waste. It was put in order to prevent water from accumulating in the pipeline." With that said, Ye Shikai's guess was correct just now, how did the mud footprints there disappear.
"Could it be that the old scavenger wiped it out himself." Zhang Ting asked back.
"How can a person living in a pipeline be so particular, the only explanation is that some people don't want us to see these footprints, because ... while kidnapping the old scavenger, there are also footprints on the intruder's shoes, This will definitely become an important clue, so when the intruders leave, they can erase their footprints. "Listening to Ye Shikai said, Zhang Ting suddenly realized that everything seemed to make sense. If it was true, it must be The gang committed the crime and it was premeditated.
"There are now more than 20 cases reported. If it is a serial disappearance, then in other residences, the offender must have cleared all traces."
"Okay, I'll ask someone to check it immediately." Zhang Ting said excitedly.
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At this time, Zhang Ting's cell phone suddenly rang, but Ye Shikai didn't care. He looked around, hoping to find some clues.
Ye Shikai can now be sure that the missing old man was kidnapped here, but he really does n’t know the motive of the perpetrators. Who will kidnap a group of beggars and scavengers? It makes sense, but most of these old people are 60 or 70 years old. Where does the physical strength come from? If it is human trafficking, it does n’t make sense. Who will go to sell the elderly.
"Not good, not good." Zhang Ting said loudly.
"What is the matter, what are you so excited about?" Ye Shikai asked back.
"The news I just received was that there was a fire in the shantytown, and several of the missing people's residences were there."
"Big fire, you're sure, the rain is about to become stagnant." Ye Shikai looked at this day, how could there be a fire in this weather.
"It didn't rain just now, the fire was very big, and the firefighters arrived. With this heavy rain, my colleague called me just now," Zhang Ting explained.
"No, let's go and have a look." Ye Shikai felt a little uneasy. The fire came too suddenly, and there were many doubts.
"OK, let's hurry."
After two hours.
"This traffic jam." Zhang Ting couldn't help cursing. It was just at the evening rush hour, and the shantytown was too far away from them. In addition, it was raining, which affected the speed of the car.
"Okay, don't scold, or save some energy." Ye Shikai said lightly. This is also impossible. Yanjing's traffic is like this. Even if there is no big traffic jam, it may take an hour or two to arrive. The two were unable to arrive at the scene for the time being. Ye Shikai leaned on the vice seat and thought about these cases carefully. Since they were serially missing, there must be a connection, but they may have been ignored.
"Do you want something to eat." Zhang Ting took a piece of bread from the back seat and handed it to him.
"Thank you."
"I think this fire must be artificial." Zhang Ting said suddenly.
"I also have this hunch ~ EbookFREE.me ~ maybe they left the evidence, so I want to set the fire and burn it clean." Ye Shikai agreed. The shantytown itself is not well managed. If a fire occurs, Ordinary people do not think about arson.
"But now we can't get through it, depending on the road conditions, we might not be able to arrive at night."
"Relax, I have asked my colleagues to protect the scene, I hope this fire does not burn any clues."
After two hours.
"Sister Ting, you are too late." As soon as the two came to the scene, a policewoman hurried over.
"How is it going?"
"Not very good. Among the missing cases we investigated, three missing persons lived in this area, but now it has turned into ashes and ruins." The policewoman pointed to the house behind it, which had been burnt to the ground by fire.
Ye Shikai heard the news and rushed into the scene directly. If his guess was correct, there should be clues in it, but he didn't know if it was burned.