Zhang Cheng lay on the ground and knocked on the iron lid below, and the echo was empty, indicating that there was still space below.
Zhang Cheng grabbed the roulette-like handle on the lid, turned it to the right, and with a sound of metal rubbing, the latch hidden under the lid was retracted.
Xia Lan patted Zhang Cheng on the shoulder, signaling him not to open it in a hurry, in case there was any trap below, it would be troublesome.
She turned her head to look at Dean Jiang, who was silent, snorted angrily, and said very seriously: "Shouldn't this be a warehouse down there?"
Dean Jiang sweated like rain, and stammered: "I don't know, it really has nothing to do with me."
Xia Lan slapped a slap on a table beside her, "When you are dying, you still want to deny it, I advise you to take advantage of our failure to confess honestly and strive for leniency, if we go down and find something, it will be too late for you to regret it."
"I really don't know anything" Dean Jiang's eyes flickered, he didn't dare to look at Xia Lan's expression, wiped his sweat with his sleeve, and muttered: "This must be left over from the previous time when the house was repaired, it may be that the workers cut corners at that time" "Hehe, you are really dying, and you don't know how to repent," Xia Lan sneered, "I know what you are thinking about now, waiting for that ghost to save you, or waiting for Zuo Ci to save you, I advise you to die of this heart, see this person next to me, he is not Maoshan Heavenly Master, this time he specially invited to assist us in handling the case, Zuo Ci has to run away when he sees him, you had better get acquainted" Dean Jiang's whole body trembled, and he looked at Zhang Cheng in surprise, "You are the Heavenly Master" Zhang Cheng's chin was raised, and he cooperated with a tsundere appearance, and did not answer.
Seeing Dean Jiang wavering, Xia Lan struck while the iron was hot and said: "I'm giving you a chance to atone for your guilt now, do you have to grasp the confession or resist to the end, and think about it yourself."
After finishing speaking, Xia Lan ignored Dean Jiang anymore, walked to Zhang Cheng's side and whispered in a whisper.
Dean Jiang stood in place, his expression was very entangled, and he hesitated for a long time before whispering: "If the police officer says it, can you really be lenient?"
Xia Lan smiled at Zhang Cheng, and when she turned her head to look at Dean Jiang, she instantly returned to her stereotyped appearance.
"It depends on how much you can say, and whether you are telling the truth or not, of course, if you want to lie, you can do it, anyway, everything will be revealed after we go down, and it will be up to you whether you are lenient or strict when the time comes."
"I said that I was absolutely telling the truth" Dean Jiang's psychological defense completely collapsed, and he sat on the ground.
Zhang Cheng glanced at Xia Lan appreciatively, this girl usually looks very aggressive, but she didn't expect her professional quality to be quite good, and she even took down Dean Jiang with a fright, no wonder she was able to become the leader of the task force at a young age.
Dean Jiang looked at Xia Lan with a gloomy face, and said slowly: "Officer, this matter was asked by others to do this, the basement here is indeed two floors, I sealed the lower layer according to that person's instructions, leaving only one entrance and exit."
"Who is the other person who is talking nonsense" Xia Lan glared and interrupted Dean Jiang's words.
Dean Jiang swallowed his saliva and said tremblingly: "It's the person in your photo, I don't know what his surname is, I only know that he comes every few days and asks me to send some patients below."
Xia Lan was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What did he ask you to send the patient for, where are these people now?"
Dean Jiang replied: "I don't know that these people have never come out since they went down, and every time I send people here, I don't care after that, as for what he did down there, I don't know at all." ” Xia Lan frowned, exchanged a look with Zhang Cheng, and asked, "Then how many patients have you sent to do this kind of thing, aren't you afraid of being exposed?"
"Seven of these people were sent back and forth, all of whom were mentally ill patients with no family members, and as long as they falsified a discharge record, no one would ask about it after that."
Xia Lan gasped, this is simply too terrifying The patients who were admitted to the hospital disappeared so inexplicably, and it would not arouse the suspicion of others, if she hadn't found out that there was a problem with this nursing home, I don't know how many patients would suffer.
"It's not just the patients."
Zhang Cheng asked, "I heard that several nurses have disappeared in your hospital within a month, what happened to these people?"
Dean Jiang sighed and said, "That person seems to be quite rich, and every time he comes over, he often gives the nurses some small gifts, and these nurses get along with that person when they come and go, and then they disappear not long after, because it is related to that person, so I don't dare to report the case."
After finishing speaking, Dean Jiang raised his head and said in a trembling voice: "The two of them haven't been here for several days, I know that this kind of thing will not be able to contain the fire sooner or later, so I secretly sealed the passage, I really don't know the rest, I was a ghost for a while, and I took his money, but the things he did really have nothing to do with me."
"It's okay" Xia Lan snorted angrily, "Locked those patients in the basement, without food or drink, do you think they can survive, these people can be said to have died because of you, now you don't know if you want to get away with it, you think it's too simple."
After speaking, Xia Lan took out the handcuffs and leaned Dean Jiang on the handle of an instrument.
"You stay here honestly, and wait for us to come up and deal with so many of your lives, you just wait to sit through the prison."
Zhang Cheng saw that he couldn't ask anything more, so he didn't delay, leaned down and grabbed the edge of the iron cover, and lifted it up with a force.
The iron lid was pitch black, with a mixture of musty and moisture, and a heavy rancid stench.
Zhang Cheng glanced down and found that there was a three-meter-high space below, but he couldn't look far from above, so he couldn't be sure what was underneath.
Zhang Cheng thought about it and turned his head to look at Xia Lan, "Why don't you wait for me here?"
"Then how can it be done" Xia Lan immediately shook her head, "I'm a policeman, I have to go down to collect evidence, in case something happens, the evidence will be destroyed, it will be troublesome."
Don't worry, I can take care of myself."
"Okay, you follow me, don't run around, that old ghost should be down there."
Zhang Cheng saw Xia Lan's firm attitude, and he didn't say much, he jumped down with both hands on the ground, and Xia Lan followed.
The two fell to the ground, Xia Lan immediately flashed a flashlight, vigilantly swept around, and found that the basement was much larger than the one above, about more than two hundred square meters, but the surroundings were empty, and there was nothing.
Zhang Cheng snorted and frowned: "There is corpse gas and ghost energy, it seems that this place is really a ghost nest." ”: