It snowed all night, covering the blood stains, but not the atrocities.
Su Yuncheng stood in the middle of the snow, feeling like he was back on the battlefield again.
Xiao Li stood behind him, licked his chapped lips, and his voice was trembling: "Here, what on earth happened here?"
He had never been on the battlefield. He still took over his father's job as a police officer. He usually dealt with petty theft work. Now that he saw this battle, his legs were shaking a little.
Su Yuncheng didn't look at him, turned his head slightly and said to Feng Wei: "Take a few people and find the survivors."
Feng Wei was a veteran after all, so he was quite calm when he saw this scene. He took out his pistol, loaded the bullets, and pointed at a few old police officers and waved his hand: "Follow me, don't wander around and damage the scene!"
They left, and Su Yuncheng said to the others: "Two people will guard the entrance of the village. If you encounter anyone who wants to go out, hold them down first, while the others will search for the bodies."
That human-shaped snow bag, the person buried underneath has no chance of survival.
"yes!"
Xiao Li and the other young police officers were a little confused. When they were picking up the snow bag, they didn't realize why their ordinary arrest turned into a murder case.
Su Yuncheng inspected the two corpses that had long been frozen hard, brushed the snow off his hands, and said to Xiao Li who was following him: "Record."
"Brother Cheng, how do you remember this?" Xiao Li took off his right glove and asked with a pen.
"Fighting in the village."
"ah?"
Xiao Li's eyes widened in disbelief. He looked around and his lips lost color: "What kind of hatred is this? One of our own people beating our own people? And you beat these old people to death?"
Su Yuncheng didn't answer and followed the chaos to find Wu Genmao's home.
As the source of chaos, this place is much more tragic than outside. The glass was smashed and blood spattered on the mud wall. There were several people lying scattered in the kitchen. The most miserable one had his head stuck in the stove pit and his shoulders were burned beyond recognition. Looking at the ice on his cotton jacket and the leaking iron pot, the fire must be a pot. The soup in it was simmering.
Xiao Li retched, took a few steps back, tripped over the threshold, and sat down in the snow.
Su Yuncheng looked back at him, did not accuse him, and extended his hand to him.
Xiao Li stood up tremblingly, holding Su Yuncheng's hand, and asked with red eyes: "Brother Cheng, what are they doing here?"
"Grab things." Su Yuncheng replied.
"How can you kill someone after robbing something?" Xiao Li didn't understand.
"Because," Su Yuncheng looked back at the kitchen, "they are hungry."
Xiao Li: "...?"
I don’t understand it even more.
Su Yuncheng didn't explain any more, and just asked Xiao Li and others to carry the bodies to the open space for subsequent processing and statistics.
Xiao Li and others retched while working. When he couldn't bear it anymore, he went to the wall to vomit for a while, then wiped his mouth and came back to continue working.
Feng Wei came back soon. He walked quickly to Su Yuncheng, frowned and said: "There are sixty-eight alive, sixteen men, and the rest are women and children. Their confessions are consistent. I just said there was a fight last night, but I’m not sure of the exact time because I don’t have a watch.”
"It was 7:35 when I left, and there was no movement at that time." Su Yun continued.
"Well, most of them are hiding at home and don't dare to go out, so they don't understand the situation." Feng Wei glanced at the messy Wu Genmao's house and said, "Apart from here, the home of Captain Cao Manfu is also very messy...and, it's already Cao Manfu’s body was found.”
"Go and have a look."
Cao Manfu's house was more chaotic than Wu Genmao's house, and there were more corpses.
Feng Wei pointed at Cao Manfu's twisted corpse and said, "I checked and found that the bones are basically broken. He should have been kicked to death... or it can be said that he died from pain."
The Cao family's cellar was wide open, with a few potatoes and radishes scattered on the ground.
Not far from Cao Manfu, there was Aunt Cao's body. The blood was frozen on her face and covered with a layer of red ice. She still held a pair of blunt scissors in her hand.
Su Yuncheng frowned and stepped into Cao's house.
The muddy footprints on the ground were so messy that it was hard to count how many people had been here. There wasn't much missing in the back room, but a few tables, chairs and benches were knocked over.
Obviously, those people came for food, and they all rushed to the cellar and kitchen, which allowed the back room to escape the disaster.
"Brother Cheng, there should be..." Feng Wei followed in and was about to speak, but Su Yuncheng raised his hand to stop him.
Feng Wei didn't know what Su Yuncheng had discovered, so he just instinctively closed his mouth and even breathed softly in cooperation.
Su Yuncheng narrowed his eyes and walked towards the locked wardrobe.
He picked up the iron lock and looked at the copper buckle.
There is a layer of indelible material on the copper buckle, and there are no metal traces left by frequent unlocking.
He took a step back and said to Feng Wei: "Open the door."
"Oh." Feng Wei held the gun and was about to break the lock.
"Don't use the gun," Su Yuncheng said, "There is someone inside."
Feng Wei didn't know how Su Yuncheng was able to confirm that there was someone inside through the wooden door. He put away the gun honestly, raised one foot against the cabinet door, held the iron lock with both hands, gritted his teeth and pulled back——
The lock was connected to the buckle, and he pulled it off abruptly.
Feng Wei opened the cabinet door smoothly, took a breath when he looked at the person inside, turned around and gave a thumbs up to Su Yuncheng: "Brother Cheng, it has to be you!"
Su Yuncheng ignored him, walked to the cabinet, looked down at Cao Dayue who was huddled inside, and asked, "Who locked you up here?"
Cao Dayue's face turned pale, and when she heard someone speaking, she immediately shrank back to the corner.
Su Yuncheng knew that she should know something, so he said patiently: "I am the police, you are safe now."
Cao Dayue's lips trembled, but she still didn't answer.
Seeing her like this, Su Yuncheng knew that he would be speechless for a moment, so he said to Feng Wei, "Take the person out and keep an eye on him."
After that, he turned around and went out.
The current situation of the Victory Brigade is too tragic. They need to deal with the aftermath and investigate the truth. But those who were alive were all of the same opinion, and they all said that they had never been out.
Su Yuncheng heard these words dozens of times and finally lost his patience.
His eyes were cold and he asked: "You haven't gone out, and the people outside are not alive, so where is the food that the Cao family doesn't have?"
"No, I don't know..." The person who answered was a pregnant woman. She held her lower back with one hand, blinked twice, and her expression quickly returned to normal.
With one person taking the lead, the others immediately started to echo what they said.
"Yeah, I don't know. They were fighting. Is it wrong for us not to go out?"
"We have seniors and juniors in our family. If we can't afford to offend, why can't we hide?"
Just as Su Yuncheng was about to say something, Feng Wei's voice suddenly came from behind him: "Fuck! Why are you running?"
Looking back, Cao Dayue shook off Feng Wei's hand and ran wildly in the snow while shouting "all dead" like a madman.
"Get her!"
Following Su Yuncheng's order, Xiao Li chased after him with a few people.
