Chapter 397 Bandit Nest

"Dr. Jiang, you can't say that!" Ma Tao put away his smile and looked serious, "Wu Xiaoqian does have superpowers, but she is not a special police officer after all. Unless we have to, we'd better not involve her, otherwise something goes wrong. , I’m afraid it’s not easy to communicate.”

Gao Fei nodded in agreement with Ma Tao's concerns: "The most basic principle for the police when handling cases is to try to avoid involving irrelevant people in danger. Just like Brother Jin said before, one more thing is worse than one less thing."

Mulan Township is a small town. 20 minutes after driving by van, there are no buildings on the roadside. Except for the occasional self-built houses in the countryside that I pass by, there is flat farmland as far as the eye can see.

Putting aside Wu Xiaoqian's little episode, Gao Fei looked out at the field scenery through the car window.

On the newly harvested wheat fields, golden wheat straw stacks can be seen everywhere.

Walking along the road through the wheat fields, there is an old building standing in front of it, with various propaganda slogans on the wall, "To get rich in poor mountainous areas, have fewer children and more trees", it still shows the strong atmosphere of the times, as if it is left in the long river of time. of gravel, stubbornly refusing to go with the flow and keep pace with the times.

"This was originally the employee bathroom of a state-owned coal mine."

Jin Zhijian held the steering wheel, looked at the dilapidated building on the roadside, and casually talked about interesting things from his childhood.

"At that time, every household did not have a bathtub. To take a bath, you had to go to the employee bathhouse. It was free for families and children of the coal mine. Especially in the winter, taking a hot bath in the scalding bathhouse was refreshing, not to mention very comfortable. !”

"The ones who love taking baths most are the retired workers at the mine. Those old men don't have much entertainment, so they treat the staff baths as a senior citizens' club. They go there before dawn to take a bath and chat, and don't go home until noon."

"I remember when I was young, when my grandpa was still alive, he often took me to take a bath in winter. When I came out of the bathhouse, the cold wind blew, and my wet hair immediately became frozen and solid, as if I had applied hair gel."

"It's exactly the same as when I was a child." Wang Daqing continued with a smile, "There is a public bathhouse in my house now. Oil field workers and their families can go and take a bath for only one yuan."

"After all, it is a large state-owned oil field, and central enterprises still have basic employee benefits. It is much better than coal mines and cannot be compared." Jin Zhijian said with envy.

"It's not much better. It's getting worse every day." Wang Daqing shook his head gently, his eyes were filled with confusion, "It's not always like this in all parts of the Northeast..."

The van drove along the rural road for more than half an hour. The three abandoned buildings in front of it, almost surrounded by weeds and bushes, were the dens of Hong Debiao's gang. They were the middle schools affiliated with the Mulan Township state-owned coal mine many years ago.

"Mulan Township's economy is in recession. Most of the young adults have gone to the city to work. The birth rate has been declining year after year. Now there are not even enough middle school students in the township to fill a class. It is meaningless to continue to maintain the school. It is better to send the few students to Go to a boarding school in the city.”

Jin Zhijian introduced to the visitors.

"I graduated from that middle school. My alma mater was canceled eight years ago. It was abandoned and neglected. It was only last year that Hong Debiao and his gang took the opportunity to transform it into a church."

Jin Zhijian stepped on the brakes and the van slowly stopped near the school ruins.

Gao Fei was the first to get out of the car and accidentally saw a rusty steel pipe standing on the ground. After taking a closer look, he saw that it was a flag pole. It had been exposed to wind and rain, and was stained with rust. It was almost impossible to recognize its original appearance. .

The playground near the flagpole was originally a middle school playground, but now it is covered with weeds and shrubs. The chipmunks jumping on the branches have replaced the lively figures of the students in the past.

Standing under the rusty flagpole, Gao Fei looked toward the rising sun. The school building shrouded in the morning light had been reduced to ruins, a depressed and dilapidated scene, and only depressing silence filled the surrounding areas.

Gao Fei was not a child who grew up in this land, but being here, it was not difficult for him to understand why Wang Daqing always said that Mulan Township was "lifeless" and "cannot see hope". It was also not difficult for him to understand why Jin Zhijian, who returned to his alma mater, How desolate and sentimental I feel at this moment.

Maybe it’s like the song goes:

Living like this for 30 years

Until the building collapses

Ten thousand runaway horses

running in his mind

Living like this for 30 years

Until the building collapses

The darkness deep in the clouds

A landscape that drowns my heart

…

When Gao Fei was lost in thought, there was a sudden rush of footsteps in the bushes beside him.

Immediately afterwards, two men wearing camouflage uniforms and holding old-fashioned shotguns came out. They seemed to be security guards here.

"What are you doing!"

One of them yelled at Gao Fei with a fierce look on his face.

"Fellow fellow! We are tourists from out of town. When we saw the beautiful scenery here, we got off the car and came over to take a look and take some photos."

Ma Tao rushed to answer.

"Tourists? This is not the place you should be!" Another security guard waved his hand away impatiently, "You can't take pictures here, so hurry up and don't wander around here!"

"It's an abandoned middle school, and it's not private property. Why can't we visit and take pictures?" Gao Fei had a smile on his face and secretly put on a "warlock mask". "Look at how sneaky you are, you must be here." Are you doing something illegal?"

"What the fuck! Who are you saying is sneaky? I think you are the sneaky one!" The security guard raised his shotgun angrily, "If you don't get out, believe it or not, I will kill you!"

Gao Fei sneered and waved his hand, throwing out a green thorny vine out of thin air and hitting the security guard hard in the face.

The security guard was beaten to the ground and rolled over, covering his face and wailing, blood oozing out from his fingers, and the shotgun flew out of his hand.

The other security guard was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly raised his shotgun and pointed it at Gao Fei.

Gao Fei was too lazy to look at him any more, and shouted without turning his head:

"Hu Zi!"

The winged cat squatting in the bushes rushed out, pounced on the security guard like lightning, and slapped his hand with one claw.

"Wow!"

The security guard's wrist was bleeding, and the shotgun fell at his feet.

Before he could see clearly what was going on, Hu Zi had already pounced on him and slapped him twice in a row, scratching his face.

"Hu Zi, leave it alive!"

If Gao Fei hadn't stopped him in time, Hu Zi would have bitten off the throat of the prey.

The security guard who was beaten down by Gao Fei with the "whip of thorns" struggled to get up in pain, and found that his companion was pounced on by a strange cat with wings. He was so scared that he didn't even bother to pick up the gun, and turned around and ran into the bushes.

Just after running out for two steps, he was intercepted by a burly man holding a riot shield.

"Go back!"

Wang Daqing swung the big shield and hit the security guard's chest hard.

The security guard really rolled back obediently, and was hit by the big shield so hard that his eyes went black and he almost fainted on the spot.

Jin Zhijian rushed over with a bunch of shining handcuffs and skillfully handcuffed his hands behind his back.

"Illegal possession of guns and assault on police officers, you kid is going to be sentenced!"

The three vans that followed parked on the side of the road with their doors open. A group of plainclothes police rushed down and picked up the two subdued bandit nest security guards and stuffed them into two cars for interrogation.

Under the kind persuasion of the police uncles with reason and emotion, the two young men quickly confessed everything.