Breaking Through the Clouds

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"You have to love even after you die - you can't be happy if you don't love it -"

Yan Xie walked into the box, waved the waiter to retreat, then closed the door with his backhand, and the voices of ghosts and wolves in the corridor outside suddenly became quieter.

There were a few empty wine bottles scattered on the coffee table, and cigarette butts and lemon peels scattered half of the table.Yang Mei was curled up on the sofa with her bare feet, one hand resting on her forehead, her hair was loose, and the ermine fur slipped off her snow-white shoulders and spread out on the armrest of the sofa.

"How?" As soon as the door was closed, she immediately raised her red and swollen eyes and asked hoarsely.

Yan Mo didn't answer, picked up the half of the wine bottle, cut a small slice of lemon and stuffed it into the mouth of the bottle, took two sips before wiping his mouth and shaking his head.

Yang Mei sat up straight: "What do you mean?"

"There was news from Myanmar that the local Shan State police who surrounded the temple in the Gaide mountain area encountered counterattacks during the roundup, causing heavy casualties. Jin Jie and the others broke out."

Yang Mei's face turned pale.

"Wu Tun was taken away by the King of Spades, and Jiang Ting is also there."

The private room was dead silent, Yang Mei's lips with faded lipstick trembled slightly, and she saw Yan Xie standing in the middle of the room, drinking the whole bottle of wine in one gulp, and then gently put the empty bottle on the coffee table.

"Drink less, don't stay up late, eat more." Yan Yan said calmly, "Your body is your own, you have to take good care of it."

"...Aren't you in a hurry?" Yang Mei asked tremblingly in disbelief: "Brother Jiang fell into the den of drug dealers. I don't know what he is going through at this moment. He may be exposed at any time. Once he reveals his flaws, it may be worse than death." ...You are not in a hurry? You can still eat and sleep?! Do you know how perverted and terrifying this K of Spades is?! He is simply a born anti-social—”

"I know. But there's nothing we can do about it, and you have to recognize that fact."

Yang Mei stared at him as if she never knew Yan Mao.

"The most difficult thing for people is to accept their own incompetence. No matter how anxious we are, no matter how anxious we are, no matter how hungry we are, we can't improve the status quo. There are always things you can't help, take care of yourself , is the greatest comfort to them.”

Yang Mei's reddened eyes once again appeared watery: "But, but..."

Yan Yan sighed, stretched his hand over the tea table, and rubbed Yang Mei's messy hair.

"Only by forcing yourself to maintain your best condition at all times can you seize the opportunity when it comes. Even if it is just a tiny bit, it may become an opportunity for the final comeback, you know?"

Yang Mei sat in a daze, only to see Yan Yan smiled and stood up again.

Compared with the time when Yang Mei first met, he has changed a lot during this time.Yang Mei still remembers that he was handsome and unruly, with a windy walk, flicked away the Swiss army knife, slapped the top of the bar with a slap, and ordered me to order a Bloody Mary, and you will pour me a spoonful of black dog blood right now.Shocking arrogance overflowed from every pore of his body, and he was like an automatic luminous body wherever he went in the luxurious nightclub.

But now that brilliance has settled down, it has become deeper and restrained, and it has become a calm breath hidden in the bones.Only the slight lines of time running down the corners of his eyes can vaguely reveal a hint of emotion.

"I'm going back," Yan Yan nodded, then turned and walked towards the door.

"……and many more!"

Yan Xi paused.

"Brother Jiang...Brother Jiang has been waiting for you." Yang Mei looked at his slender and strong back, choked up and asked, "You will bring him back, right?"

"Even if he doesn't wait for me, I will bring him back." Yan Yan said lightly, opened the door and walked out of the box.

·

In the early morning of the mountain forest, thousands of birds sing together, the morning mist gradually fades up the mountainside, and water vapor floats in the green forest at the foot of the mountain.The jeep convoy at the entrance of the village is connected end to end, and a dozen horses carry it back and forth between the big house and the convoy. All they see are knives, guns, ammunition and boxes of "white goods".

Jiang Ting stood under the shade of a tree, with his coat on his shirt shoulders, and saw two bodyguards dragging a shapeless guy from left to right—that was Wu Tun.

Wu Tun's khaki robe was covered in blood, one sleeve was empty, his whole face was black and gray, and it was impossible to tell whether he was alive or dead.Jiang Ting stared at him indifferently from far to near, and when he got close, he suddenly saw Wu Tun's eyelids rolled up, and the whites of his eyes rolled out of his pupils, staring at Jiang Ting like a ghost.

In an instant, their eyes collided, and Jiang Ting lowered his eyes, his eyes full of indifference.

"#￥%#!" The Burmese bodyguard cursed a few words, then threw Wu Tun into the back seat.

Jiang Ting turned around and walked towards the big house, but stopped before he could take a step - at some point there was a person standing behind him.

It's Ajie.

Ajie's black vest and camouflage trousers, with his arms folded, the muscles in his arms look particularly strong, and there are several light-white scars scattered all over his light brown skin.He was scratched by shrapnel when the police rounded him up last night. He only wore one fingerless glove, and the other hand was wrapped with a bandage, with dark coagulated blood faintly showing on the edge.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, Jiang Ting turned to leave, but Ajie grabbed his elbow the moment they passed each other.

"It was you last night, right?"

Jiang Ting tilted his head, moved a little further away, the expression in his eyes was clear, it was clearly silent: "Are you sick?"

"The police just caught up with that time, and they just blocked the hillside where I am ambush. What's more coincident, they also prepared high-powered machine guns. We all know the process of the local military and police in Shan State. There is no layer. It is impossible to obtain such heavy firepower weapons without high-level reports and approvals, which means that the police have obtained our action plan for a long time."

Ajie leaned slightly, almost sticking to Jiang Ting's ear, and said softly, "Is that you?"

Although it is an interrogative sentence, it is completely declarative.

Many people in the convoy not far away glanced over, but they didn't dare to look too much, and quickly looked away.

Jiang Ting said: "If you are sick, go to the doctor." Then he pulled out his elbow and walked towards the village.

However, in the next second, he was strangled from behind, and Ajie half-supported and half-dragged him towards the bushes. Jiang Ting staggered back with his footsteps, almost tripping over the bushes.It wasn't until he walked down the dirt road that he was pushed heavily behind a tree, and then his neck was grabbed by a strong hand.

The distance between the two was less than half an inch, and Ajie's warning was low and cold: "Last night was my fate, but there will be no next time."

"..."

"I don't know what big brother thinks, but you don't do things sincerely, we can all see this. Be honest, live a good life, it's better than toss and die, understand?"

Jiang Ting looked back calmly: "Do you have evidence?"

Ajie didn't answer.

Of course there is no evidence.The fierce gun battle broke out like lightning, and ended hastily after a few minutes. There was no time or condition to capture any Shan State police alive. All questioning could only be based on suspicion.

The corners of Jiang Ting's lips slowly raised a subtle and mocking arc: "Besides..."

Ajie was puzzled, but he raised his eyebrows and asked softly with such a smile: "...Even if you have evidence, so what?"

"you!"

At that moment, Ajie subconsciously exerted force on the palm of his hand, Jiang Ting's neck was stuck, his trachea convulsed, and he coughed suddenly!

It didn't take long for him to have pneumonia, and this cough was so earth-shattering that he even choked up blood stars.Ajie was slightly startled, and hurriedly let go, only to see Jiang Ting half-kneeling on the ground, holding the ground with one hand, covering his lips with the other, his shoulders trembling violently.

"..." Ajie took half a step back before steadying himself: "What's wrong with you?!"

"Cough! Cough, cough cough—cough cough!!"

The cough suddenly stopped, and Jiang Ting seemed to spit from his throat, and he saw blood streaks coming out from between his fingers!

"...Come on! Come on!" Ajie rushed towards the dirt road, and shouted to a few horse boys who came looking for the sound: "Call the doctor in the village, hurry up!"

·

After half an hour.

Jiang Ting Heyi leaned on the back seat of the off-road vehicle, slightly closed his eyes, and the only Burmese doctor in the nearby ten miles and eight townships was chatting with a bodyguard.Shaoqing's bodyguard nodded to show that he understood, and said briefly in Chinese: "He said there is no major problem, but he should smoke less."

Only then did Jiang Ting open his eyes and exhale, mockingly said, "Nonsense."

The Burmese doctor was bewildered.

Jiang Ting gave up and asked the bodyguard casually, "I'm thirsty, do you have warm water?"

The bodyguard nodded and wanted to leave, but seeing that the doctor was still packing the box slowly, and the order of Square J sounded, he couldn't help hesitating for a while.But at this moment, Jiang Ting put his fist against his lips and coughed again. The bodyguard thought for a second that one of them couldn't speak Burmese, and the other couldn't understand Chinese, so he turned around and left in peace.

He got off the car, Jiang Ting suddenly raised his eyelids.

The doctor who was sitting on the side and slowly packing the medicine box just now wanted to get up, but Jiang Ting said softly, "Don't move, don't look at me."

It was clearly in Chinese, but the doctor lowered his head like a mirror, and still packed his things.

"Eighty miles east of Maocun, Yaoshan, Province S, China, there is a 'new product' underground, and it will be traded with a 'high-value customer' in a week." Jiang Ting remained sitting still, with his head turned inward, and he could not be seen from the car window The lips moved slightly, and the voice was as soft as a whisper, but the weight of each word was astonishingly heavy:

"very urgent."

The doctor tapped lightly on the box three times to show that he knew.

Jiang Ting said, "Be careful."

The doctor picked up the packed medicine box and got out of the car, and finally uttered three hoarse and awkward Chinese characters: "You too."

The car door opened and closed, and the small space around it became quiet again, as if nothing had happened.Jiang Ting leaned against the car window by himself. After a while, the bodyguards came to deliver the water. He took the medicine with the water as usual, and suddenly remembered something:

"By the way, what time is it, and when are we leaving?"

"There are still some things that haven't been counted..." The bodyguard didn't know why.

Jiang Ting seemed impatient: "Go and ask Wen Shao."

The bodyguard had to take the order and go.

Jiang Ting continued to stay in the car with his eyes closed, his facial muscles relaxed, and his expression peaceful and calm. Even if a professional psychologist came with a magnifying glass, it would be impossible to find the slightest tension or anxiety on his face.

However, time passed by, and the bodyguard had been gone for more than half an hour in a blink of an eye, but there was no sign of coming to answer.Jiang Ting finally opened his eyes and looked out the window. He saw a group of people gathered in twos and threes in the open space near the village not far from the convoy, and there seemed to be something wrong.

...something happened?

Jiang Ting narrowed his eyes and was pondering when suddenly there were two knocks on the car window behind him.When he turned his head, he saw that the car door was opened from the outside, but the person who appeared outside the door was not the bodyguard just now—it was Qin Chuan!

Somewhere, as if some worst premonition had come true, Jiang Ting's heart sank suddenly, but there was no abnormality on his face: "What's the matter?"

Qin Chuan's demeanor was slightly different from usual, and he didn't pretend to greet him, but directly made a "please" gesture: "Come with me."

Jiang Ting remained unmoved: "What's the matter?"

The two stood and sat for a while, and finally Qin Chuan smiled slowly:

"The village doctor just sent a message on his mobile phone, but I caught him. The King of Spades asked you to go over and ask a few words."

In an instant, Jiang Ting's pupils dilated extremely!

But then he calmed down, stood on the ground in front of Qin Chuan, straightened his collar, and then said in a deep voice, "Okay." Then he walked towards the big house first.

·

--Snapped!

The loud sound of the whip pierced the air, making the eardrums tense.The paulownia floor of the big house was glistening with blood, and the village doctor was so badly beaten that he didn't even have the strength to get up, and then came another whip—crack!

Blood sprayed on the ground, and the thugs grabbed the village doctor's collar: "What happened to you? Who told you?!"

"..." The village doctor mumbled a few Burmese words.

That shouldn't be the answer the thugs hoped to get, because immediately after he was pressed on the head and smashed to the ground, the torturer slapped him hard, and only heard poof!With a sound, the village doctor spurted out several broken teeth!

"Say no? What did you post?!"

"He was hiding on the mountainside with a mobile phone. It was too late when Qin Chuan found out with a few people, and he threw the mobile phone into the mountain stream. Later, they went up to search and found the Burmese police's signal enhancement in the valley. Yi." Spade K paused, and said slowly: "Ajie has already arranged for the villagers to go down to get their cell phones."

The network signal in the village is extremely poor, and most of the time it can only be communicated with the outside world by on-board satellite communication, but the information can be intercepted by the convoy.If the Burmese police enter the area, they can only carry their own communication equipment.

Jiang Ting stared at the village doctor who was rolling on the ground like a blood gourd in front of him, "Can you find it?"

"The find is also fragmented, and the possibility of data recovery is unlikely."

"..."

"Jiang Ting," Spade K looked at him and said gently, "They said that the last person the doctor was alone with before passing on the news was you."

Jiang stopped silent.

"Is there anything you want to say to me?"

Except for the louder and louder whipping and hoarse screams, no one around made a sound.But the rest of the bodyguards couldn't help but couldn't hide their glances, which were flickering and full of treacherous and indiscernible murderous intent.

After a long time, Jiang Ting smiled slightly, with self-mockery in his eyes: "What do you want me to say?"

Spade K said: "It doesn't matter if you express your position, clarify, explain, beg for mercy, or sophistry. You can say what you want to say. My brother can't play too many tricks in the first place."

"That's because you have already condemned me in your heart, so there is no need to say anything, right?"

Wen Shao looked at him with a smile.

Jiang Ting was too lazy to talk to him any more, so he walked straight forward.At this time, the thug was whipping down, pouring a scoop of blood and minced meat on the wall, and the village doctor, who had already been unable to utter a sound, convulsed and let out a scream!

Layers of blood soaked every brick and every inch of the wall in the house, dyeing the sand and cement into a never-fading purple.

Jiang Ting squatted down, the village doctor did not know how many bones were broken, twisted out of shape, and the bloody sound of "ho ho" kept coming out of his throat.

"Convict me," Jiang Ting said flatly.

The village doctor's vision was blurred.

"They believe that I am the person who connected with you. When people are willing to believe in one thing, no amount of evidence is important. So if you confess me, not only can you live longer, but you can also protect the real undercover police. "

"..."

"However," Jiang Ting changed his voice, and continued in a very slight voice that everyone could hear: "You have been lurking in the village for so long, but you were suddenly discovered today. Don't tell me you don't Do you have any doubts? Is it just an unfortunate coincidence of running out of luck, or is it because of some other secret reasons that you can't imagine, you have to think about it carefully."

There seemed to be some change in the expression on the village doctor's bloody face.

Jiang Ting said: "I don't think you can get through today, but even if you go on the road, don't you have to be a smart ghost—what do you think?"

Everyone in the room had different expressions, only the heavy panting of the village doctor could be heard.It took me half a cigarette before I heard the village doctor speak intermittently and with great effort: "...pen...pen..."

His teeth had been knocked out, and it was very difficult for him to speak.

As soon as Spade K winked, his subordinates immediately brought pens and paper.

The village doctor grabbed the pencil with his blood-stained hand, and at that moment an extremely warm light burst out from the depths of his pupils, and he cast a desperate glance at Jiang Ting.Then he turned over and lay down in front of the white paper on the ground, slowly raised his head and glanced at the faces of everyone in the room.

As if feeling something, these bodyguards, who were used to seeing dead people, felt a little chilly, and a few of them even shivered under their clothes, and then the village doctor's gaze stopped.

——It settled on Qin Chuan's face in the crowd.

Gossip and chatter abounded, and suddenly the village doctor lifted his body, and his heart-piercing roar exploded like thunder: "——Say good things come true, go back and ask for credit, you think that if you kill me, no one will be able to keep an eye on you Is it a traitor!!"

Qin Chuan was stunned.

"You don't want to die! You don't want to die! You don't want to die——!"

All around for an instant, the air was completely silent.Immediately afterwards, no one expected that the village doctor would move so fast and so ruthlessly, holding a pencil in both hands and piercing his own throat with a puff!

With the throat as the center, the blood criss-crossed and descended, quickly forming a deep red pool of blood on the ground.The next second, the village doctor's lifeless corpse hit the ground, twitched twice and then stopped moving.

He could no longer feel any pain, and his soul was freed from the torture of death, and floated up into the void.

However, his eyes were still wide open, as if he wanted to continue looking at things in this world that were more important than life and death.

"..." There was a dead silence all around.

Jiang Ting lowered his head, as if stunned.

"That..." Qin Chuan's voice finally rang out after a long while, and he spread his hands towards Spade K with a puzzled expression on his face: "Although I really want to express my innocence...but his logic doesn't make sense at all, so I don't need to explain it Everyone understands, right?"

Spades K did not speak.

Jiang Ting stood up slowly, and it took almost all of his strength to let go of the fingers pinched into his palm under his sleeves, without making a sound.

Everyone looked unpredictable, as if some kind of paradoxical force gradually emptied the oxygen and squeezed everyone's lungs into an extremely distorted shape.

The stalemate lasted for several minutes, and finally Qin Chuan let out a long sigh, and murmured: "Well, it seems that there is indeed one more suspect now...Who will tell me what to do next? To be honest, this kind of It's something I've never experienced before, it's fucking exciting."

Spade K waved his hand, Jiang Ting stepped forward and stopped without saying a word.

"This kind of thing does happen occasionally, but fortunately we have a way to distinguish the facts." Spade K's tone was unusually calm, as if the dead body on the ground hadn't had any emotional impact on him at all.Then he added:

"In other words, the two of you still have one last chance to defend yourself."

Qin Chuan tilted his head to look at Jiang Ting, who only stared at his feet.

Spade K raised his chin to his confidant bodyguard: "I'll make another copy of what I prepared just now."

The bodyguard left in response, and Shaoqing appeared at the door of the big house again, only this time with a tray in his hand.

"I know that you are more resistant to this, but this is the last way I can choose. Don't worry, it's just a little bit, and it won't kill the beginner immediately."

The bodyguard stepped across the threshold and approached with strides. Jiang Ting and Qin Chuan's expressions became uncontrollably ugly as the things in his hands became clearer and clearer: they were two syringes.

There is a slightly turbid pale white liquid in the syringe. Although it is only a few milliliters, it will never be unfamiliar to anyone who has been exposed to drugs——

That's heroin.

Spade K stood there with his arms folded, looking at the two of them in turn, seeming a bit regretful: "Do you want me to get someone to help you, or do you do it yourself?"