"The rats have been mostly cleared out, so there shouldn't be any more problems."
"But didn't we already survey it thoroughly before?"
"I know what you mean. Those police officers before were just as meticulous as us, so the chance of a slip-up is very, very low. But what can we do now? How about we split up? I'll take you to Lester, and let Liu Yuning continue questioning the factory personnel, and also those survivors?"
"Sure, but I'm not going to Lester. Have Liu Yuning go with you. A couple working together is much better than a rookie like me." Xiaoxiaoling said this and then ran off. I shook my head, "Just say you don't want to go directly, why go through all this trouble?"
I sent a message to Liu Yuning saying, "I have a new assignment for you..."
"Alright, I knew it wouldn't be that simple. By the way, I had someone recheck the communication records of those people who crashed their cars. Do you know what I found?"
"No, tell me!"
"Haha, those people were all in contact with Yin Deyuan. But that alone doesn't prove anything. However, Yin Deyuan's suspicion is growing. We need to find substantive evidence as soon as possible and make him confess!"
"This is a good start." Twenty minutes later, we were in a private car on our way back to Lester. This time, we didn't drive a police car because it was too conspicuous. In fact, we hadn't before. According to the habits of criminal investigators, they would never drive police cars or wear police uniforms when carrying out secret missions.
You know, if you drive a police car with its siren and lights on, what criminal would be scared away? How could you possibly catch anyone!
Back in Lester, it was still night. But now there were indeed no more rats. What were present were normal creatures that only came out to forage in the dirt and darkness, like cockroaches and spiders.
This way, we could safely reach the previous shelter. That's right, we weren't going to the cement factory anymore. I think the place with remaining traces was the shelter. It was a tall tower, not an iron tower, but a tall tower located near the trees behind the cement factory. It had more than 20 floors and wasn't short. It was also quite spacious, no wonder they took shelter here at that time. When I went upstairs, I found some supplies still remaining. Later, I learned that there was also an air-raid shelter below. It turned out that this place was a former outpost left over from World War II. But at that time, rats were active below, so going to the air-raid shelter was obviously not feasible. Therefore, those people desperately went up the tall tower.
When we found Yin Deyuan and the others, they seemed to have heard some movement and were coming downstairs. They encountered our people on the second floor and were captured.
This time, we started from the third floor and scanned everywhere with our inspection tools. Since we saw them on the second floor, there shouldn't be any problems from the second floor to the first floor. Starting from the third floor, we split into two groups. I used the coroner's examination technique, and Liu Yuning used the Western examination technique.
Each of us performed our duties from different angles to re-examine the scene. Suddenly, I remembered something. At that time, I was busy with matters at the cement factory and hadn't personally come to inspect. Only Liu Yuning was here. I asked her, "Did you start your inspection from upstairs and come down?"
"Of course not. Wouldn't that easily destroy some traces? We started from the third floor, just like now!"
"And during the process, did you find anyone who moved anything there?"
"No, all those people were brought down by us, and then we started our work."
"Then you didn't find any physical evidence here?"
"Of course not, otherwise I would have told you long ago."
I didn't say anything more. From the second floor to the fifteenth floor, there was nothing. But on the seventeenth floor, I found traces of people living there, and quite a few discarded can wastes on the ground, as well as empty mineral water bottles.
At that moment, doubt arose in my heart. I asked Liu Yuning, "Don't you think this is strange?"
"What's wrong?"
"The supplies were all in the air-raid shelter, and there's no elevator here. To move so many supplies upstairs would require a lot of manpower, resources, and time. What does this mean..."
I deliberately tested Liu Yuning, to see how her brain was working. Unexpectedly, Liu Yuning seemed to understand quickly, "You mean, they knew about the plague beforehand, so they moved the supplies in advance, and then when the plague broke out, they lived here all along, and thus they wouldn't die."
I snapped my fingers, saying with a hint of excitement, "Exactly. It seems Yin Deyuan and the others did this intentionally. They really knew about the plague beforehand. I've checked the other floors, and there are no supplies. But we can try to continue upwards! To confirm it!"
We continued walking and reached the top floor. Besides here, there seemed to be nothing special elsewhere. But on the top floor, there were many footprints. Liu Yuning scanned them with her footprint light and examination lamp and found that quite a few people had stood here to observe.
The heels were turned inwards, and these footprints were not from the same person, they were extremely dense, proving that many people had stopped here to observe. Their faces were turned outwards, and they came up almost every day.
What could be seen from this vantage point? The situation at the cement factory.
Also, the panoramic view of Lester. Could it be that they were excitedly watching those people being slowly torn apart, and felt particularly thrilled about it...
I don't know why, but the image that came to my mind was like this. After all, if they came up here to observe so often, unless there was something interesting to see, why would they come up so frequently.
I took out my binoculars and looked around. At first, I didn't notice anything, but at a certain point near the cement factory, I saw a strange light coming from a window. That place was about on the fifth floor of the staff dormitory. Hadn't this place been evacuated? Why would there still be someone there? Could it be remaining residents of Lester?
I handed the binoculars to Liu Yuning and asked her to look in that direction. After looking, she said, "Why don't we go and check it out?"
I didn't say anything more and quickly ran downstairs with her. However, after going down only a few floors, we heard footsteps below us.
"Who?" We all shouted at the same time and then arrived at the eighth floor of the tall tower, holding our guns and pointing them around, but we didn't see anyone. When we came down, we noticed that the lights in the dormitory building not far away had been turned off. We all rubbed our eyes, wondering if we had just seen an illusion.