Chapter 322: Factory Beside the Highway

The plane took off from Kang'an City again. Cen Lian closed his eyes and wanted to sleep for a while, but he couldn't sleep at all.

This case has been going around in circles for the third province. It's only here that the approximate location of the drug trafficking gang is found, which means it will take some time to completely catch them.

"I can't sleep, why can't you sleep?" This time, Wu Qiushan sat next to Cen Lian. He was looking out the window and didn't know what he was thinking.

Cen Lian looked at a line of text bubbles that was very annoying on the plane and said helplessly, "I saw something wrong, but I can't tell what's wrong."

As Conan's sixth sense has been tested by several major cases, when Cen Lian said this, several pairs of eyes had already looked over.

Qu Zihan sat in the row behind them and asked excitedly, "Is it some vicious criminal?"

Tang Hua has even begun to use his eyes to search for the wrong person that Cen Lian mentioned.

Hearing this, Cen Lian quickly stopped their further actions.

"He looks like a habitual thief at best," he said, looking at the content on the text bubble, "the total sentence is less than three years."

Qu Zihan and Tang Hua immediately lost interest.

After handling too many big cases, they often encounter criminals who start at fifteen and can shoot at any time. Such petty thieves seem a little unattractive.

But Cen Lian was relieved when he saw this thief.

During this period, he often saw corpses of more than ten pieces as soon as he opened his eyes, and even a complete corpse was rare. He wondered if there was something wrong with this world, or if some strange matching mechanism was added to it, so that all the cases they encountered were those that could be taken out and shot in ten minutes.

It seems that this world is still normal.

"Do you suddenly feel that this world is still normal?" This time Wu Qiushan did not observe Cen Lian's expression, but expressed his feelings, "After this case is over, let's take some normal cases when we come back from vacation."

He suspected that if this continued, the first reaction of the police officers in the support brigade to a new case would be to kill a few people and divide them into pieces.

Cen Lian nodded in agreement, and also felt that they needed to regain a normal worldview.

…

When they were about to arrive in Hailan City, Cen Lian saw the endless grassland below through the window of the plane.

“Is it my illusion? Why does the grass seem a little yellow?” Tang Hua whispered.

“Don’t you see what month it is now?” Qu Zihan was obviously experienced in traveling. “It’s already mid-August. In half a month, the grass will be even yellower.”

The ignorant Cen Lian and Tang Hua sighed together.

Lin Xiangqi looked at the grassland and the Greater Khingan Range in the distance, and said faintly, “We went to three popular tourist provinces in July and August, and even passed by several well-known scenic spots, but we didn’t go to any of them.”

“We can’t go this time either,” Cen Lian turned his head simply, “Let’s not look at it. It’s uncomfortable.”

After getting off the plane, the people’s police who were not qualified to travel passed through countless tourist groups holding flags and gathering, and finally found the people from the Hailan Municipal Bureau who came to pick them up.

"Mr. Cen, I've heard a lot about you." The person who came to pick up Cen Lian was Liu Zhigang, who had been in contact with him before, followed by several other young policemen. "The car is outside, let's get in and talk."

This case is not suitable to be discussed outside. Cen Lian followed Liu Zhigang to the parking lot and saw a 22-seat Coaster waiting for them here.

"There is only one big car in the bureau, so let's make do with it." Liu Zhigang touched his nose as he looked at the car that had some paint peeling and looked weathered. "It's only been driven for eight years, it's still new."

Cen Lian remembered the 15-year-old Santana in the police station when he was in the police station before. Compared with that, this car is indeed new.

"Now is the peak tourist season, there are more tourists," Liu Zhigang said to Cen Lian after the car drove out, "so this case may be more troublesome than imagined."

As a famous tourist attraction in the country, Hailan City is also an absolute peak tourist season in summer. As soon as the car drove out of the airport, several tourist buses were seen whizzing by, each of which was full of tourists.

"It's really troublesome," Cen Lian could already imagine the grand scene in Hailan City at this time, "What does the drug enforcement department think?"

This case is obviously to be handled together with the drug enforcement brigade. Cen Lian knew that Liu Zhigang was very straightforward, so he didn't hide it and asked directly.

"Jin Qunfeng from the Guisui City Drug Enforcement Brigade is here. He is the detachment leader and attaches great importance to this case. He is waiting for us to go back for a meeting." Liu Zhigang had a headache, "Old Lu just told me that Guisui has some other information, but he can only tell you when you arrive."

Cen Lian knew that the old Lu he was talking about was Lu Wenbin, the detachment leader of the Hailan City Drug Enforcement Brigade. It seems that for this case, the drug enforcement detachments of the two cities are all elite.

At this time, the car was already driving on the highway.

Cen Lian and Liu Zhigang talked a few more words, and then heard Qi Yan suddenly called him.

"Cen Da, look to the west of the car!"

His voice was unprecedentedly urgent.

Cen Lian subconsciously looked out of the car window, and when he saw an abandoned factory building, he opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

"Liu Da, what is that place!" He didn't care about anything else, and directly pointed at the six-meter-high abandoned factory building and asked Liu Zhigang.

"It was a factory that produced some lathes before. I don't know much about it." Liu Zhigang scratched his head and remembered after a few minutes, "Is there something wrong with this place?"

Now it was Cen Lian's turn to explain. He couldn't say that this place had appeared in his dream, and he also dreamed that Tan Ximing was killed here.

"A person I investigated before appeared nearby," Cen Lian finally chose a very vague statement, "Is it troublesome to go there from the highway?"

"No trouble." Liu Zhigang saw that Cen Lian had some things that were difficult to say, so he didn't ask more questions and directly instructed the driver to get off the highway and go to the abandoned factory.

Qi Yan looked at the abandoned factory that was gradually approaching with excitement. This was the place he found on the map!

The closer the factory got, the more Cen Lian could feel a strong sense of familiarity.

Although there was only a short thirty seconds of synaesthesia at that time, the place he saw with his own eyes a few days ago was quite clear to him. He could even roughly distinguish where Tan Ximing died.

Wu Qiushan got off the car with Cen Lian carrying the survey box, and within five minutes, he found footprints outside the factory.

"The footprints are not long old, at most half a month." He immediately made a judgment.

It matches the time when Tan Ximing was killed!