Breaking Through the Clouds

"This freezer? The freezer is specially equipped with ice bags in our kitchen. The foreman asked me to get the ice. As soon as I opened the door, I saw this big brother fall straight up and hit me on the head on the spot——Comrade policeman, I really don’t know anything. Ah, I was scared to pee myself, if you don’t believe me, look at my crotch is wet now!..."

The flashing lights of the trace inspectors of the sub-bureau came one after another, and the technical investigators were busy collecting fingerprints, footprints and other on-site evidence.Wearing shoe covers, Yan Yan stepped over the survey board, squatted beside the corpse, and raised his chin.

The forensic doctor of the sub-bureau called out the deputy detachment strictly.

"How to say?"

"The deceased undressed abnormally, the spots on the corpse were bright red, and there were small blisters at the junction of the exposed part of the corpse and the waistband of the trousers. It was preliminarily concluded that it was in line with the phenomenon of freezing to death. It is difficult to judge the exact time of death, and there were bleeding from the eyes, ears, mouth and nose. The specifics will have to wait until I go back." A detailed autopsy will be done later."

Yan Mao pressed the corpse spot with her gloved fingertips, narrowing her eyes slightly.The tip of his eyebrows slanted into his temple hair, because of the deep eye sockets and the high bridge of the nose, this angle made his face look a little gloomy for a while, and he said, "That's not right."

Yan Xie, deputy captain of the criminal investigation detachment of Jianning City Public Security Bureau, concurrently the leader of the investigation team, deputy director level, third-level police inspector, Leo - well-known in the public security system, has been a policeman for more than ten years, and his various legendary deeds Can support ten Zhihu jokers, and was once selected as the top ten influential figures of the year by the city bureau for copying wine bottles and fighting drug dealers.

The forensic doctor of the sub-bureau did not dare to neglect, and quickly asked, "What do you think?"

"Abnormal undressing generally occurs when the body temperature drops, consciousness is blurred, and the temperature center of the brain thalamus sends out a wrong signal, that is, the person is about to freeze to death—but our big naked brother didn't take off his clothes in the In the refrigerator, did he freeze up before he got into the refrigerator?"

The forensic doctor was taken aback.

The forensic doctor didn't answer at that time, and Yan Yan didn't care, so he just said casually: "Old Wan, block the KTV and the back alley, let your team look for the clothes and belongings of the deceased, and focus on the wallet, keys, mobile phones, etc. , It is of great help to determine the source of the corpse. The technical investigation calls the monitoring, and by the way, pay attention to the disappearance record of the alarm center during this period and within the next 24 hours. A big living person is gone, and someone will definitely find it. "

Wan Zhenguo, the head of the criminal investigation team of the sub-bureau, dismissed his subordinates as he ordered, turned around and said, "I see Xuan. If he didn't sneak in through the back door, then there are a lot of people in this kind of place who get drunk and take off their clothes to pick up leaks." , there is no guarantee that anyone has already picked up the deceased’s belongings.”

The two of them squatted next to the body bag, staring at the big brother who was dying, and Wan Zhenguo pondered for a long time: "Do you think this man is a thief? He heard someone coming in during the theft, and he panicked and hid in the freezer." Go, accidentally play yourself to death?"

The criminal police have seen many cases of burglary and accidental death, but Yan Xie didn't answer, and after searching for a while, he said, "It's not like it."

"Ok?"

Yan Xie pulled down the waist of the deceased's trousers, and pointed out the edge of the underwear logo with two fingers: "The fabric is genuine, and it costs four or five hundred at a discount. It's better to buy big-name clothes and shoes for outerwear, and this kind of quality for underwear." , it’s a matter of consumption concept. If you are so rich and still come to be a ‘craftsman’, it’s too much pursuit, right?”

Wan Zhenguo let out a "hey--", folded his arms and squinted his eyes, looked Yan Yan up and down eighteen times, and then slowly said: "I say Deputy Yan."

"What is Deputy Yan? It's called Deputy Yan's detachment. Who is your deputy?"

Wan Zhenguo said: "Okay, Deputy Yan, you are really a Conan."

Yan Yan didn't change his face: "It's easy to say. I know that the comrades in the branch have always respected me and admired me..."

Wan Zhenguo said: "Wherever you go, someone dies. Even if you sing K, you will find someone who freezes to death in the freezer. Could it be that you killed this person? Hurry up and confess so that the brothers can go home and sleep."

Yan Yan slapped him on the back of the head, and laughed and scolded: "Bah! ——With your brother Yan's method, if I kill someone, can you still find out?" He took out a cigarette and dangled out.

"The surveillance at the back alley connected to the back door of the kitchen is always broken. There is usually no one there except for illegal parking. There are only two trash cans. As time goes by, I am impatient to fix it... No, comrade police, you say I will fix it. What is it doing, waiting to take pictures of illegal parking? That's the traffic police's business!"

"Lost something? We keep valuable drinks in a special wine cellar. What's there to steal from the pots and pans in the back kitchen? Yes, I've never seen this person, and he's definitely not a regular customer. Our store consciously abides by the law." , standardize the operation, and don’t even sell blended wine with an alcohol content of more than [-]. Comrade police, please tell me first, this person died in my shop, do we still have to pay?!”

The KTV has been emptied and cordoned off, and the police from the criminal university branch are taking notes for Yang Mei in the hall.Yan Yan walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, and the policeman got up immediately: "Deputy Yan, sit down."

Yan Yan hummed, and was about to sit down when he suddenly caught a glimpse not far away and paused.

A young man was sitting in a wheelchair, facing them sideways, being questioned by the police.

The dance hall that had just been cleared was full of mess, the smell of makeup and tobacco and alcohol had not dissipated over the years, and the lonely stage light came from the other side, making the person's dark hair, eyebrows, excessively pale skin, and the surrounding environment The extremely uncoordinated temperament is particularly abrupt.

Yan Mo lit a cigarette butt: "Who is that?"

The police signaled Yang Mei to answer.

"..." Yang Mei, who was anxious about losing money just now, swallowed her saliva, her voice softened a little, and said, "It's my fiancé."

The policeman's pen dropped with a snap.

Yan Mo's expression remained unchanged: "Why do you sit in a wheelchair?"

"I used to be in the county... my dear friend. Later, he went to Jianning to find me. There was a car accident on the road, and he fell into a coma for a while. He just woke up recently, and it's not convenient to move around..." Yang Mei teased her unnaturally. With long hair, he said, "I was just picked up from the hospital today, and I'm temporarily settled in the upstairs dormitory."

Yan Mo looked at Jiang Ting for a moment: "Which county are you from?"

Yang Mei said the name of an underground county, Yan Yan hummed and said, "Your county is quite outstanding."

Yang Mei felt guilty and didn't understand what he meant, so she saw Yan Yan got up and walked over.

"Did you see the deceased wandering around the back alley?" The policeman asked while recording, "How did you see it? What was the deceased doing at that time? Hey, Deputy Yan's detachment!"

Just as the policeman was about to stand up and give up his seat, Yan Xie pressed his shoulder back, and took the half-finished transcript, without raising his cigarette butt, and ordered: "Continue talking."

Jiang Ting turned his eyes away from Yan Xie's body, and took it back calmly.

"... At that time, he seemed to be waiting for someone."

Policeman: "Oh?"

"We didn't talk, we just had a face-to-face meeting. He was wearing a blue jumper with black shoulders, which looked a bit like a schoolbag. I only glanced at him from a distance, and he walked away immediately, looking like a wary soldier. Strong."

An agent from the sub-bureau came with an evidence bag: "Deputy Yan! We found this by the trash can in the back alley. Team Wan asked us to show it to you first!"

Yan Yan took it over and saw that there was a blue linen pullover in the evidence bag, "No wallet, mobile phone or keys?"

The detective shook his head again and again.

"Did you find the black backpack?"

The detective wondered: "I searched back and forth several times, only this sweater."

"All right." Yan Xie picked up the evidence bag and handed it to Jiang Ting, "Do you think this is it?"

Jiang Ting didn't answer, just looked at his hand and nodded.

Yan Xie returned the evidence bag to the detective: "Give it to the technical detective, and tell the trace inspector by the way. Don't forget to print the fingerprints on the inside of the freezer door and compare them with the deceased. If they are correct, the deceased will drill himself." If it doesn’t match up, someone else closed the freezer door for him, then the nature of the matter has changed.”

The detective ran away in a hurry, but Yan Xie turned around, but didn't say anything, and looked down at Jiang Ting.

The policeman who took the record was a little stunned, Jiang Ting didn't speak, and the surrounding space suddenly became extraordinarily quiet.After a while, Yan Mo lit the wheelchair with a cigarette butt: "What's going on?"

"Car accident." Jiang Ting replied calmly, "Speeding into a truck."

"Can you still stand up?"

"The doctor said it will take some time to recover."

Yan Yan nodded, narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "Did I meet you somewhere?"

Jiang Ting faced his probing gaze, and made a dazed expression just right.

"What's your name?"

"Lu Chengjiang, it's written in the record."

Yan Xi repeated: "Lu, Cheng, Jiang."

The atmosphere became very weird for a moment, Yan Yan's face was hidden behind the cigarette, no one knew what this foolish criminal investigation team leader was thinking about, even the criminal police of the sub-bureau blinked and stood there in a daze at a loss.

Not far behind them, Yang Mei finished taking notes and walked towards this side nervously.

"It's cloudy and misty, and it's rainy; the eight faces are all in the same darkness, and the land becomes a river." Yan Mo rubbed his chin, and said suddenly: "Good name."

Yang Mei's footsteps stopped suddenly.

Jiang Ting replied calmly, "Thank you, officer."

"Okay, let you Lao Wan prepare to withdraw the team." Yan Xie took the transcript back to the police, turned and walked back: "The body will be transported back to the branch for an autopsy, and all those involved in the case will be summoned at any time, pony!"

Ma Xiang, his subordinate, was telling the technical detective of the sub-bureau, when he heard the words, he ran over quickly: "Hey! Brother Yan!"

"Drive away and go home."

"—Hey officer?" Yang Mei was very surprised, and subconsciously reached out her hand to stop him: "Are you going home now?"

Yan Yan said coldly: "Oh yes, I haven't paid you yet. Bring the POS machine and issue me an invoice. Ma Xiang, please remind me to call the 315 Consumer Association tomorrow..."

"Farewell, handsome guy!" Yang Mei, who loves money like her life, immediately persuaded: "I'm sorry to show up in the middle of the night, how can I ask for your money! No, no, no, no, no! Take it back and get it Go back! No! Take—back—go—!”

Yang Mei abruptly returned the card to Yan Xie with the posture of the people affected by the disaster filling the PLA with boiled eggs, with a warm smile on her face: "Oh, look at your birth... I actually want to ask, when will the investigation result be?" Come on, how soon will there be an explanation for this matter?"

Yan Xie took out a few banknotes and threw them on the bar counter: "Ask the branch office."

"You don't care?"

"If you're not involved in guns or drugs, you can only die three times and you won't be able to enter the city bureau." Yan Xie waved his hand, walked straight to the gate, and said without looking back: "Of course, if you are involved in guns and drugs, your black shop will be over—— Ma Xiang, leave!"

·

Yang Mei stayed where she was, watching the police carry away the body and cordon off the scene. After everyone had left, she wanted to cry without tears: "What's the matter. Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang?"

Jiang Ting crossed his fingers and said nothing.Under the light and shadow of the audience in the golden cave, one could see the sharp line of his chin winding along the side of his neck and sinking into the collar of his shirt.

After a while he said hoarsely: "I have seen him."

Yang Mei didn't react: "What?"

"Yan Xi."

Yang Mei was stunned, and saw Jiang Ting frowned slightly, and said slowly for a long time: "Five years ago, in a major joint case in Gongzhou Jianning that I was in command of, this person went deep alone and encountered drug dealers with guns. He was beaten to death on the spot by the bottom of the wine bottle. He sat on the stage at the celebration ceremony, and I sat off the stage, looking at him from a distance. Later, because of this incident, he was promoted to deputy team leader."

Yang Mei's heart skipped a beat.

"This person doesn't play cards according to common sense. I used to..."

Yang Mei asked: "What was it?"

Jiang Ting paused for a long time before saying, "I don't agree with him being promoted to the deputy branch because of this, but I still appreciate this person himself."

For some reason, Yang Mei's intuition as a woman made Yang Mei feel that Jiang Ting seemed to be hiding some inside information, but what exactly was hidden, and why he kept silent, but Jiang Ting didn't say anything.Yang Mei waited for a long time, and could only say awkwardly: "Well, fortunately, fortunately, this case did not fall into his hands..."

Jiang Ting pushed the wheelchair with both hands and turned around, as if foreseeing something, he shook his head: "Maybe I should listen to you and stay in the hospital for a few more days."

The Grand Cherokee turned off its lights and sped through the empty streets in the middle of the night.Yan Xie sat in the co-pilot, flipped through the photos of the scene one by one with the dome lights on, and suddenly raised his head to look ahead, thoughtful.

Ma Xiang glanced at him while turning the steering wheel: "What's the matter, Brother Yan, let's go eat a bowl of noodles to sober up?"

Yan Yan didn't answer, but suddenly asked, "Did you see that wheelchair-bound man?"

"Oh, brother Yan, I knew you were going to say this. Don't worry, that kind of sick beauty lamp is not the popular type now. You will always be the number one police officer of the Jianning City Bureau in our hearts..."

"Don't you think he looks familiar?"

Ma Xiang was stunned for a moment, "No wow."

"But I always feel like I've seen this person somewhere."

Yan Yan closed his eyes, and opened them again after a while.He tried his best to search in his mind but found nothing. In the chaotic memory, traces of indescribable palpitations spread from the base of his tongue accompanied by a strange taste. With a flash of thought, he sank into the abyss of memory.

After a long while, he took a deep breath and murmured, "But I can't remember it right now."

·

At the same time, the suburbs.

At the end of the wasteland is the sea of ​​city lights, the night wind blows over the top of the mountain, the stars are shining in the distance, and the tulle-like Milky Way spans the sky from above.

"Tianshu, Kaiyang, Yaoguang, Big Dipper. Following the arc of the handle is Arcturus, the first-class bright star in the constellation Boötes, and looking further along, the white star is Spica."

The girl turned her head and looked at her lover, her beautiful eyes were full of admiration: "It's so bright!"

"Yes, Spica is the brightest star in Virgo, 260 light-years from Earth."

Her lover paused slightly, remembering something, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips:

"In ancient times, Spica was called the head of the 28 constellations. It is brave and decisive, and can be good at fighting. But do you know? No matter when you observe it, Spica is pure white, just like Virgo, completely pure without a trace of flaws. white."

His voice is deep, mellow and gentle, like a slightly intoxicating night wind.The girl's heart was bewitched with a sliver of courage, she suddenly took half a step forward, raised her head, and said in a trembling voice: "You..."

At this moment, the car satellite phone rang not far away.

The man smiled and beckoned her to wait a moment, turned around and walked towards the off-road vehicle, answered the phone: "Hello?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, but also followed.Half of her lover was hidden in the shadows, and she couldn't see the expression on her face clearly. She only heard a few words coming from the microphone on the other side: "...the situation of bed 538, after that..."

After a moment, he said, "I see."

He hung up the phone and stood by the car door for a while.

Long and short insects chirped in the distance, and the lingering and fragrant air of spring and early summer swept across the plains and rivers, brushing the girl's soft long hair.

After an unknown amount of time, the man turned to look at her, and said, "It's time to go back."

"But Mingming said tonight..."

Her lover is still very gentle: "get in the car."

The girl pursed her lips, but she had no choice but to refuse, so she walked forward sullenly.

Under the night sky, a modified H2 passed through the undulating wilderness and drove towards the vast sea of ​​lights at the end of the horizon.