Behind the Murder Volume I

Chapter 2: On-site

From the moment Zhong Han asked, Gu Xiaofan hoped that Tang Li would say no, but Tang Li agreed. Then she wanted to just say, "Since you two can go together, I'll stay." But she felt that it would be embarrassing and would make her seem guilty, so she didn't say it in the end.

Now, sitting in the car on the way to the crime scene, with Zhong Han sitting next to him, Gu Xiaofan felt that his intestines were turning green with regret. Why didn't he feel embarrassed to say that he couldn't go just now? If he had said so, he wouldn't have to sit next to this man so uncomfortably, on pins and needles. What if he seemed guilty? Anyway, he was guilty to begin with!

As the saying goes, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. I couldn't speak before I set out, and even if I regret it now, there is no way to regret it.

Zhong Han was quite quiet. He didn't say a word after getting in the car. In addition, Tang Li himself was a taciturn person. On the way to the scene, none of the three of them spoke. Gu Xiaofan secretly glanced at Zhong Han several times, but he didn't even look at him more, which made Gu Xiaofan very happy. He prayed silently in his heart that it would remain like this, and he would not interfere with others and would never recognize who he was.

City A is a city that is neither big nor small. In recent years, its economy has developed rapidly, and urban construction has also developed along with it. The urban area has been expanding year by year, and many old urban areas have been transformed into modern urban styles. Even the peripheral areas that were originally sparsely populated have gradually become popular residential areas.

This time they received a report that the construction site where the male body was found was located in such an area that was originally desolate, but with the city expansion in recent years, it has been transformed from a suburb to an outer ring city area.

Tang Li was a taciturn person and just drove silently the whole way. Gu Xiaofan and Zhong Han had no idea about the situation at the scene. Zhong Han seemed to be unfamiliar with Tang Li, so he did not dare to strike up a conversation with him. Gu Xiaofan, who was sitting next to Zhong Han, wished she could become invisible and had no intention of starting a conversation.

When they arrived at the scene, they learned that the man's body was buried under a deep foundation pit that had been dug before the construction site, so the criminal technicians and forensic doctors had gone down to the bottom of the pit to examine the body and take pictures of the scene. It was not convenient for Tang Li and his team to disturb them, so they simply chatted with the workers on the scene and asked about the specific circumstances of the discovery of the body.

After talking with several construction workers standing outside the pit, they learned that the foundation pit of this construction site had actually been dug a long time ago. As a result, when the foundation was dug and they were ready to proceed to the next step, the original contractor of the engineering team ran away with the money and could not be found at all. The workers on the construction site could not be paid, and they could not find the foreman, so they had to disperse in the end, leaving behind such a newly started construction site. The developer was cheated out of a large sum of money for no reason, and suddenly they were unable to make ends meet. Construction was suspended, leaving behind such a deep pit. It was not until more than a year later that they were ready to start construction again recently. As a result, on the first day of construction, a male body was dug out.

"Want to go down and take a look?"

When Gu Xiaofan was looking around at the edge of the pit, Zhong Han suddenly appeared beside her, his eyes looking down into the deep pit.