Chapter 5: The Great Pit of Corpses. Lost Souls. Massacre. Soldiers... (Continued)

  I shook off the female soldier's hand and said: "I'm not scared, I refuse to leave!"

  This time it was their turn to be stunned.

  "I said, 'I hope you understand that this is a crime scene and we are conducting an on-site investigation. It's not that you're holding guns to make us leave, but rather it's our right as investigators to ask you to leave! Even if you have legitimate reasons to ask us to leave, you must show your identities and explain the legitimate reasons, which is the bare minimum!'"

  "There's no need to tell you." The female soldier was somewhat annoyed.

  "I said, 'Okay, my position is low, but sorry to say that I belong to the Provincial Forensic Center and do not fall under your jurisdiction. You see that white-haired person? He's my superior, or the one who speaks with your superiors. They are directly responsible for me, and if they tell me to leave, I'll consider leaving my post! Look at their expressions - they clearly don't agree with you taking over, do they?!'"

  "Hey! You're still energetic!" The two male soldiers laughed, and two red bright spots immediately appeared on me. "Are you going or not?!"

  Sister is not afraid of anything big, I smiled: "I believe you won't shoot."

  "One of the soldiers suddenly whistled and shouted loudly: 'Brothers, situation zero! This woman actually dares to not leave!'"

  In an instant, I was covered in red dots! And who knows how many cold and emotionless eyes were staring at me!

  "Let me ask you one last time, are you leaving or not? With so many corpses here, we don't need yours!"

  At that moment, I really thought a lot, and I even thought: once they open fire, I won't even be able to make a flower pot, I'll probably turn into a pile of mud on the spot, and it's likely that my own craftsmanship will have a hard time piecing together my own corpse...

  I forced a smile and looked around at them, "I still believe you won't shoot. I know you've killed people, I can see it in your eyes, but I don't believe the soldiers of my country will shoot innocent people!"

  "If you don't leave, you won't be innocent, fire." someone ordered.

  Did he really give the order? He really gave the order! They're going to open fire!

  I heard the sound of guns being cocked, and it sounded like bullets were spinning in the barrel. I was so scared that I cried out loud, saying: "I don't believe you'll kill an innocent person, especially a little girl as cute and harmless as me! I'm powerless, I have no weapons, I don't even kill animals, and in college, I organized opposition to vivisection and saved countless dogs, frogs, and mice. If you kill me, your conscience will never be clear for the rest of your lives! As long as you still have a shred of humanity, from now on, whenever you see your own mothers, wives, daughters, or just any ordinary girl on the street, you'll remember that you killed an innocent person! I have an elderly mother in her eighties at home and unborn children...

  Until Wang Yong hugged me and comforted me, I was still saying: "...you are soldiers, the honor of soldiers comes from protection, indiscriminate killing of innocent people is not a soldier but a murderer! If you kill an innocent person, your most cherished honor will be gone, replaced by guilt that will follow you for the rest of your life..."

  Later, Wang Yong told me that he saw these soldiers had gone too far and hurried over.

  They didn't fire their guns, and after Wang Yong came over, they laughed and apologized together before dispersing.

  Wang Yong said that at the time, he was called and couldn't wake me up. I kept talking for over an hour without repeating myself, and everything I said was reasonable and to the point. He really admired me a lot.

  I don't even remember it now, and later on I slowly recalled a bit of it.

  But what's weird is that afterwards I found it weird myself, at the time I was so scared I cried and almost got hysterical, but I just didn't say "don't kill me, I'll leave."

  "Don't kill me, I'm leaving." — It's a matter that can be settled with just five words, isn't it?

  I have to admit, there's something wrong with my brain.

  …………

  I was really scared and prescribed a lot of medicine for myself.

  When I came back to myself and went to the mass grave, it was being constructed normally, as if nothing had ever happened.

  No one mentions the mass grave incident, as if no one had ever been to the construction site filled with corpses, as if we had never dug up the nine brutally killed bodies, as if the armed soldiers had never come.

  I asked Wang Yong: "What's going on? Were those soldiers called in by your phone call? What are they doing here? We thought you were just a rich second-generation coming to play, but actually, you're an undercover agent, right? What are you investigating? Are you investigating the Big Pit Murder Case? If so, why haven't you left yet? What else do you want to investigate? Who are you? What's your relationship with them? Are you all in cahoots? Are you looking for something? Is that thing extremely valuable?"

  I asked Wang Yong many questions, but Wang Yong didn't answer any of them. Instead, he asked me: "Pig, are you free tonight?"

  "Who's a pig? Who's a pig? Roll over you cow baby!"

  "Pig, I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

  "Huh...... okay."

  That meal was treated by those soldiers that day, saying it was to calm me down and make amends. (If they hadn't invited me to dinner, I would have suspected I was hallucinating.)

  They are really familiar with Wang Yong, I guess they are comrades-in-arms. Wang Yong must have been assigned a secret mission to pretend to be a forensic doctor at the Provincial Hall.

  However, they were tight-lipped and I couldn't get any more information out of them. During meals, they hardly spoke, only saying two phrases: "We've offended you" and "Let's eat."

  I kept an eye out and saw a soldier leave with Wang Yong, so I pretended to go to the bathroom and followed them. I saw them walking shoulder to shoulder, very close, and vaguely heard the soldier say something about "dates" and "the dates aren't very good".

  Wang Yong walked back and found me following him. I didn't avoid it either, asking: "What's wrong with the jujube? What's not good about the jujube?"

  "What's with the dates? You're saying your brain isn't too good! Can't blame them for saying that, your reaction at the time really wasn't a normal reaction."

  Originally pinched my ear and said I'm brainless... Waterfall sweat...

  After those soldiers invited me to dinner, they never appeared again. I didn't find out anything in the end. Wang Yong said they gave me a code name, called "Date". I broke into a cold sweat.

  I still can't forget the case of the mass grave, but life has to go on.

  The cold bench will also continue to sit.

  My cold bench has gotten even colder. I don't even get to participate in the cases that nobody wants to handle, and even looking at case files in the archives is met with a cold face.

  Soon Mr. Chen found me and talked to me, I guess he probably wanted to get rid of me and send me back where I came from.

  "Little Qin, girls are indeed not suitable for our line of work. Have you ever thought about changing careers?"

  Chen Lao said so, I really didn't expect it. Not even letting me return to the city, directly wanting to sweep me out of the forensic team.

  "I asked: 'What do you mean, Old Chen?'"

  "Actually, it's like this. I have a job offer from a research institute, which is very good, in a university with a great environment and atmosphere, and the salary is much higher than ours. Why don't I introduce you to them? By the way, haha, Little Qin, can I take another look at that self-developed skull-opening tool of yours? Just for 5 minutes..."

  "Isn't this what you meant?"

  Two weeks ago, Old Chen still thought highly of me, holding my self-developed skull-opening tool and almost directly calling him "Master". After all, I have a solid academic foundation, work experience, and even learned practical things from abroad. In any aspect, I am one of the top candidates.

  The turning point of everything was when the "broken" director of the municipal bureau met with us!

  The head of the municipal bureau is called Zheng Yuanshan, don't blame me for scolding him like this, he really isn't a good thing.

  This dog farting Zheng is the director of the provincial capital city police bureau and also the director of the provincial police bureau, with various official titles in charge of various departments.

  Director Zheng himself is also from a forensic medical background, so he attaches great importance to forensics. As soon as we arrived, he personally met with us.

  He was quite amiable, except for me. He shook hands with each of the forensic doctors who came to accept the selection, except for me and another female forensic doctor, he was also very encouraging. But when it came to me, Director Zheng stared at my face for three or four seconds, then suddenly began to lecture as if I didn't exist.

  At that time, Old Chen still thought highly of me and specially introduced me: "Director Zheng, this is Little Qin, a very powerful new generation!"

  Director Zheng's gaze swept over my head, his voice as light as a feather: "Where is it? Obviously there's no one. We shouldn't look below the sea level, remember everyone, our vision should be high and far-reaching, don't lower your heads."

  I was so angry! I almost got into a fight with him, but Old Chen pulled me out.

  Damn it, Secretary Zheng!

  But others may be insignificant, yet they hold high positions and have great power, from then on I was relegated to a cold bench.

  Alas, a thousand skewers of mutton cannot dispel the melancholy in my heart.

  I asked Old Chen if I looked like a big enemy of Director Zheng, because he stared at me for three or four seconds, which is not normal. Old Chen said it was nothing, Director Zheng was just joking.

  Chen was so irritated that he said Director Zheng had always been biased towards female subordinates, which is simply sexism.

  I wanted to reason with Director Zheng but couldn't see him. He's such a high-ranking official, if he doesn't want to see me then I really can't have a good conversation with him.

  You said he's such a big shot, much bigger than I don't know how many times, why did he do something so excessive? Absolutely a problem with his character!

  "By the way Xiao Qin, do you have a boyfriend? I'll introduce one to you, how about that?"

  Old Chen pulled me back from my memories, I didn't respond, biting my lip and staring at this little old man with narrowed eyes.

  "Girls, getting married and having kids is the best. Staying at home to take care of the children, they won't be affected by the wind or rain. It's not like when I first started working, now the field of forensic medicine is too competitive, girls are still better off getting married..."

  "Mr. Chen, you don't know," I interrupted Mr. Chen, "the competition is even fiercer in that line."

  "No..." Old Chen smiled and opened his mouth to continue persuading.

  I interrupted him again, "Lao Chen, I'm only asking you one question, was it Director Zheng's intention?"

  Chen's face flashed with embarrassment, and he said, "No..."

  I interrupted him again, "No need to say more, your micro-expression has already told me. That's it." After finishing speaking, I stood up and left.

  "Hey, Xiao Qin, that skull..." Old Chen called out to me with a pleading look in his eyes.

  "You don't even help me, why should I play with you!"

  I slammed the door shut with a loud bang, and the people in the corridor stared at me with their mouths agape as I walked away.

  Maybe no one dares to slam the door on Old Chen, but for me, this is already being polite. Holding back anger.

  I've written a signed letter and reported that dog fart Zheng Bureau Chief to the Provincial Governor!

  This son of a bitch is completely useless!

  Nowadays, society is still more or less a patriarchal society. He has a bit of gender discrimination and I've tolerated it, but he's openly trying to suppress me to death. I really don't know what I did to offend him!

  He's just a municipal bureau chief and provincial police bureau chief, such a big shot, can't even get along with a small forensic doctor like me!

  But it's more likely that he just underestimated women and was joking, he himself may not even remember me, a small fry. However, the sycophants around him thought he didn't think highly of female forensic doctors, especially me, so they took every opportunity to suppress me in order to curry favor with him!

  Isn't there a story about Qianlong casually praising a boatwoman and then his subordinates forcibly taking the boatwoman into the palace?

  I'm so angry my stomach is shaking!

  I don't know who those bastards are! Anyway, this bill can only be counted on his head!

  And I made it clear in my report that if nothing is done, I will take it to the next level, and if still nothing is done, I will take it online, and abroad. Some countries would love to collect these negative news about our country. I don't care, I've already done this, let's see who gets burned!

  It just so happens that our provincial governor is also a woman, and she's an outstanding and formidable one at that.

  It seems like the provincial governor has spoken out, and my work has finally returned to some normalcy.

  Although I don't get to handle cases involving giants, dismemberment, or corpse waxing, and dangerous and stimulating cases are not assigned to me either, occasionally they will give me simple non-normal death events to process.

  Every day I work and participate in petition cases, assist in traffic accident appraisal, and the cold bench has basically returned to its original temperature before the big tomb.

  Wang Yong is still here, I really wonder how he's still here, he can't even hold a scalpel and yet pretends to be a forensic doctor following me around every day.

  Chen Lao and his wife made up, and they returned home with a warmth that was so sweet it made young people look away; the other forensic doctors were busy day and night; often only I and Wang Yong were left in Lan's mansion.

  Wang Yong practices Tai Chi and also punches a sandbag, it's enjoyable to watch him exercise.

  As the warm sunset slanted in, I leaned against the century-old wooden window frame, admiring his robust muscles, fluid movements and his energetic vitality.

  Wang Yong saw me staring blankly at him and asked: "What are you spacing out about?"

  "It's not daydreaming, it's profound." I said.

  Wang Yongle: "Come on, sister, I've been learning humor with my brother for two months."

  "Who dares, still big brother is mighty, big brother is humorous."

  ……

  Wang Yong has always been a question mark, I don't even know where the problem is or what the answer is, but I really feel that everything is in front of me, just a little bit away from uncovering all the facts, just lacking a small trigger...

  But where is this opportunity...

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