Chapter 12 Lost Again
Our way is blocked by a turbulent sea of fire!
The air was filled with scorched smoke, which made people breathless. The fire reflected on us, and my face also felt its merciless temperature.
Although I knew that it was extremely unsafe to get out of the car at this time, I still couldn't stay in the car. The burning building in front of me made me completely forget my task. The firefighters under the building are busy. Those thinly dressed people are probably evacuated from the building in time. They don't look serious, but they don't know if all the people in the building are in danger.
"Brother Lei, what are you doing?" Xiao Fu's voice pulled my thoughts back from the fire.
"Oh, it's okay. I just think the fire is too hot. I don't know if anyone is trapped in it and hasn't escaped." I can't help sighing that someone will definitely be killed in such a big fire.
"If I die in this, how miserable it will be. Ghosts are all black and burnt." As soon as Xiao Zhe said this, he immediately hit a thrill, "It's hard to think about it. After the disfigurement, even the female ghost looks down on me."
"You boy, I'm afraid it's only after the disfigurement that the female ghost will like you." I smiled and ignored Xiao Fou's obscene face. Instead, I went straight back to the car and asked Zhang Jiewei. After all, we still can't waste time here. "Find out if there is a way to get around and get to Jingfeng Road as soon as possible."
"There is no way around. This is Jingfeng Road." Zhang Jiewei stared at the sea of fire in front of him and answered me, "And the place where the fire broke out is the Mortide Hotel, No. 153 Jingfeng Road, where Ouyang Min stayed."
"What!"
Xiao Tshou and I exclaimed at the same time. This Jiewei is really amazing. The Moll Ted Hotel is in this sea of fire now! What about Ouyang Min? Is he in the sea of fire or overseas now?
My heart kept jumping anxiously. I rushed out of the car again and ran into the crowd in front of me, constantly looking for a face similar to Ouyang Min.
I shuttled through the crowd, but I couldn't catch that face. The firefighters are evacuating the crowd here, and my sudden appearance seems to have had a lot of impact on their work.
"Sir, please follow the staff to a safe place first." A similar staff member stopped me.
"Excuse me, has everyone been evacuated?" I can't wait to know the answer now. After all, Ouyang Min is the only person I can find who can help me solve this case. Besides... I really don't want him to be the next victim.
"Sir, please don't worry. Could you please come to our temporary settlement first? We will check the number of people as soon as possible." Although the staff understands my mood a little, it is more important for him not to let me affect their work.
"All right." I turned around and didn't mean to continue to pester. Now I can only pray for God's blessing, hoping that Ouyang Min will be fine. If Ouyang Min escapes, I should be able to find him at the temporary settlement.
With such a mood, I returned to the car. At this moment, Xiao Tiao and Zhang Jiewei have come out of the car. Looking at their enquiring eyes, I didn't answer anything, but said in an uneasily, "Let's follow them to the temporary place. After getting there It will be more convenient to find Ouyang Min.
Xiaotu and Zhang Jiewei both nodded, and then we followed the large army to the temporary resettlement site.
After parking the car outside the temporary settlement, the three of us found a hotel staff member.
"Hello, we are the case handlers of the Special Investigation Section of the Anyin Public Security Bureau. Now we are looking for someone here. Please cooperate with our work." Although there was an inexplicable fire, I was not in a particularly good mood at this moment, but given that the hotel staff was a super decent beauty, my tone was as gentle as ever.
"Yes, who are you looking for?" The attitude of the beautiful woman in the hotel is very gentle.
"Ouyang Min, I happen to stay at your hotel tonight." When I said the name, I was particularly worried.
"Ouyang Min?" The hotel beauty seemed to be very familiar with the name, and her expression was a little surprised.
"What? Do you know him?" As for the reaction of the hotel beauty, I think there should be something in the middle, or it has a lot to do with my investigation, but it's just out of my intuition.
"He is not with us now." The beautiful woman in the hotel answered yes, but her expression was not relaxed at all.
"Isn't it here?" Is Ouyang Min really buried in the sea of fire? In that case, God is really too good at teasing people. "So he didn't escape from the hotel building?"
"No, no, no... He's not there either." Seeing me so excited, the hotel beauty quickly explained.
"That's good."
Hearing this answer, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as Ouyang Min was fine, the information given to me by Gao Jianning should be correct. Did Ouyang Min leave the hotel after calling me and avoid the fire?
"Did he tell you where he went? We must find him as soon as possible." I can't help asking that if Ouyang Min is alone outside now, the risk factor should be increased. After all, we don't know what the "thing" hidden behind this case is going to do and what the purpose is.
"This..." The beautiful woman in the hotel looked a little nervous, as if she mentioned a topic she didn't want to mention. "I don't think you will see him."
"How is that possible? Isn't he in your burning hotel building?" I didn't understand what she meant, but my heart hung up again.
"His body has been taken away by the police this evening. I'm afraid you have to go to the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau." The beautiful woman in the hotel said hesitantly.
"The corpse! How can it be a corpse? He just talked to me on the phone a few hours ago!" These two words are particularly harsh to me. I just talked to Ouyang Min on the phone before. Why did it become a corpse again?
"I really didn't lie to you. This evening, the hotel suddenly issued a fire alarm. As a result, Mr. Ouyang Min burned in the hotel corridor. The fire was very strong. When we arrived, he had already turned into a scorched corpse. Now that I think about it, I'm still afraid!" The beautiful woman in the hotel looked afraid and even mixed with a trace of panic. "Although only the fire was found in the corridor at that time, and it had been extinguished, I didn't expect that such a big fire was inexplicably ignited tonight. If it hadn't been for the timely evacuation, I'm afraid that we would have been buried in the fire."
After listening to the words of the hotel beauties, I looked back at Xiao Tiao and Zhang Jiewei in disbelief. They were also stunned. This matter was really incredible. If there is no contact in it, I won't believe it!
"We don't dare to publicize this kind of thing happened in the hotel. Fortunately, Mr. Ouyang Min died in the corridor. Usually, no one passed by, so no guests knew about it. After that, we called the police, and the police came to take away Mr. Ouyang Min's body, and Mr. Ouyang Min's room was also blocked by the police. The hotel beauty continued to talk to us. After experiencing these things today, I think she can only dare to talk to us so freely now.
"Is there any surveillance video of Ouyang Min's death at that time? Has the reason been clearly investigated? What does the police say now? How could this fire happen?" My mind is now confused by this sudden thing, and I don't take into account the situation of the beautiful woman in this hotel at all.
"Sir, I'm sorry, you asked so many questions at once that you didn't react." The beautiful woman in the hotel replied with some embarrassment.
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, please answer it slowly. Let's start with the question of the surveillance video." I'm the first two now.
"The surveillance video in the corridor has been transferred by the police in our Liutaihe City. As for the others, they should have been destroyed by the fire now. Why did Mr. Ouyang Min burn up? The staff of our hotel don't know anything about this." The beautiful woman in the hotel stopped and waited for me to continue to ask.
"What is the cause of this accident? Have you investigated it clearly?" Now I don't have time to think, as if everything has left the original track.
"Sir, the fire hasn't been extinguished yet? What's the reason for us to investigate? Besides, that's also a matter of the police. How can I, a small hotel worker, know? The beautiful woman in the hotel felt a little impatient. After all, she has been questioned by me like a prisoner. Anyone will feel uncomfortable.
"I'm sorry, I didn't consider this problem. The fire is so big. Is there no warning before? Someone will find it, right? Didn't the fire alarm still work when Ouyang Min died? Although I don't want to continue to force her to push so hard, I'm so bad that I can't control my emotions at this time.
"The building was on fire at night. At that time, we didn't know why the fire alarm didn't go off. I guess it was broken, otherwise the fire would not have spread to this point." Thinking of this, the beautiful woman in the hotel also felt that there was something wrong. The fire was really strange.
It's unusual. First of all, it is impossible for such a big fire to burn for no reason, and the alarm system was still good when Ouyang Min died, and it didn't take long for the alarm system to break down inexplicably. The fire burned the whole building. If there is really evidence related to the case, it is estimated that it has all been destroyed in the fire. If I connect the things I have encountered in the past few days, I have every reason to believe that there must be an extremely close connection between these things, and behind this, there must be someone controlling it. With all this.
"Well, thank you. What's your name? Leave me your contact information. If there is any more problem, I hope you can try your best to help us. I must clarify that now I don't have the heart to think about other issues except the case, and I will never take this opportunity to get beautiful information!
"Sun Xiaomeng, this is my number." As the hotel beauty spoke, she picked up the pen used to register the register in her hand and wrote it on the paper. After writing it, she handed me the note.
"Thank you!" I took the note, took a look, and put it in my trouser pocket.
"Let's go to the Liutaihe Public Security Bureau now and learn about the situation with the police over there." I turned around and said to Xiao Zou and Zhang Jiewei.
"Well, let's go now." Xiaochu answered, and Zhang Jiewei had begun to move forward. Sure enough, he was the one with the most professional driver potential among us.
Xiao Frust and I followed Zhang Jiewei and didn't take a few steps. I looked back at the hotel beauty named Sun Xiaomeng. She still sat calmly in her seat and was busy with the work she was working on, as if our previous conversation had never happened.
As I walked, I tried to sort out these sudden problems. First of all, Ouyang Min was burned to death in the corridor for no reason, which is also what I can't figure out most. I took out my mobile phone and looked through my call record. It showed that the call time between me and Ouyang Min was clearly 11:40 tonight. But according to Sun Xiaomeng, something happened to Ouyang Min in the evening. In this case, who is the person who is talking to me?
Ouyang Min is dead, but someone took his mobile phone and pretended to be him to talk to me on the phone! Then the person who talked to me on the phone...
Wait!
Something is wrong!
I quickly dialed Gao Jianning's phone and waited anxiously for a long time before the phone was connected.
"You boy, didn't you be on standby at any time? It's so slow! Hurry up and check Ouyang Min now. No, where is Ouyang Min's mobile phone!" For Gao Jianning, I have never given him a good face. Who let this guy always be shameless? I have to be angry before I can be honest.
"Yes!" Hearing me roaring so much, Gao Jianning finally didn't dare to neglect. After answering simply, I heard the sound of him tapping the keyboard.
"Report! Ouyang Min, no, Ouyang Min's mobile phone is within 100 meters with you as the center!" In less than a minute, Gao Jianning's reply came from the phone. The tone and volume were not inferior to me at all.
"One hundred meters!" Although I know that the distance should not be very far, I still didn't expect it to be so close.
If everything is correct, then the person holding Ouyang Min's mobile phone now is the behind-the-scenes planner who made all this! Even if it's not, it definitely has something to do with the behind-the-scenes. One hundred meters, I looked back at the temporary placement point behind me, and the visual distance was just about 100 meters!
"You keep staring and report to me the distance between me and the target at any time!" As I spoke, I ran back to the temporary resettlement site again. After a few steps, I turned back and said to Xiaochao and Zhang Jiewei, "You guard around the temporary resettlement site separately and observe if there are any suspicious people coming in and out."
Then I walked around while making a phone call, "Is the direction right? How many meters?"
"Yes, it's close, eighty-five meters!"
Gao Jianning's answer couldn't help but make me excited. I'm afraid this is the first time I've been close to the truth since I took over this clueless case.
There is no wrong direction, and the goal is most likely to be within the temporary settlement.
"What about now?"
"60 meters!"
"Fifty meters!"
"Thirty meters!"
"Ten meters!"
My heart beat faster and faster. As I walked, I swept through these people in the temporary resettlement site with my eyes. You should know that my goal is hidden in it.
"It's not good! The target is moving, and now it's 20 meters!" Gao Jianning said anxiously.
"Which side?" I quickly turned my body and observed the interior of the temporary settlement to see if there were any available people.
"At eight o'clock."
After receiving Gao Jianning's instructions, I quickly found my position. The moment I turned around, my afterglow caught a figure quickly turning out of the settlement.
"The target is moving fast!" Gao Jianning's voice stimulated my eardrums.
"Oh no!" I cursed in a low voice and quickly caught up.
"Turn left!"
"Turn right at the next intersection!"
I have no time to think at all, so I can only follow Gao Jianning's instructions. The only thing I can be sure now is that I hear the sound of high heels. It doesn't seem easy to run so fast in high heels.
"The speed of the target is accelerated, as if it were in a car!" Gao Jianning's voice also became urgent.
I quickly accelerated my pace, turned the corner, and saw a black van galloping away not far away. The disparity in strength made me give up the idea of continuing to track, so I had to say to the other end of the phone, "You continue to track that mobile phone signal and report it to me at any time..."
At this moment, I was suddenly hit by something in the back of my head. As soon as the pain came, my eyes were dark and I was directly unconscious.