Breaking Through the Clouds

The next morning.

The surrounding area was gray, the first ray of morning light passed through the residential buildings and reflected on the bumpy stone roads, and the puddles left by the torrential rain all night reflected light like a mirror.

"Liu Wanqiu refuses to admit that he bought a red Camry with the license plate A9U766, and also has an alibi from two to four o'clock yesterday morning." Qin Chuan's tired voice came from the other end of the call, because it lasted for several days and nights. The reason for the inversion is very hoarse: "I personally took someone to investigate her alibi, and I can't see any flaws."

Holding the phone, Yan Yan lowered his head and got out of the narrow corridor.

There were crowds of people outside the cordon. The aunts and uncles stopped dancing today. Everyone was watching while eating buns, burritos, soy milk and fried dough sticks. From time to time, vivid descriptions and exclamations came out: "I heard that there are dead people inside! It stinks! Pulled out several big body bags last night!" "My wife caught the rape in bed! Stabbed the old mother-in-law and the mistress to death with a knife!" "Wow, it's so ruthless!..."

5 minutes ago, the plot was still "the gangsters robbed and stabbed a family of five". After going to the bathroom, the imagination of the people has risen to the bloody feud between the peacock woman Phoenix man and the shameless mistress. It can be seen that the old man these days What the aunts like to hear.

Yan Xie walked out of the corridor door and walked towards the police car. As soon as he made his debut, a new round of heated public opinion was aroused:

"Look, policeman, policeman!" "Why aren't you wearing a uniform? Where's the pistol?"

Yan Yan said in his heart that you are really a group of aunts who don't open the pot and carry the pot, so they ignored them, got into the car in the focus of many eyes, and asked on the phone: "Where is the time between two and four in the morning?" Proof of presence? Let me tell you that her husband’s testimony doesn’t count.”

"Liu Wanqiu doesn't have a husband, but has a boyfriend. The night before yesterday, I called a group of people to KTV all night to celebrate her birthday. Everyone can prove that she didn't leave until after four o'clock in the morning. I have already checked the KTV monitoring, unless we know the time of the incident. The guess is wrong, otherwise Liu Wanqiu would not have time to sneak away from the party and sneak into the scene more than ten kilometers away to commit crimes."

Yan Yan's face darkened: "What happened to that car?"

"Liu Wanqiu insisted that he never bought a car, and we have already contacted the Traffic Management Bureau to investigate."

The phone buzzed, it was the interrogation materials and related audio from Qin Chuan.

Yan Xie plugged in the earphones, looked down, and then showed an indescribable expression on his face:

"...Although it's wrong to judge a person by their appearance, this girl's appearance...will definitely be able to fascinate Hu Weisheng so much that she won't confess to death?"

Qin Chuan severely criticized him: "You are wrong, Lao Yan. First of all, in my eyes, there is no unattractive woman in this world. Secondly, although Liu Wanqiu looks a little ordinary, but her undergraduate and master's degree are all 211. You know, the more she looks like Hu Weisheng In this way, people who are mentally deficient in school and come out to mix with society early, the easier it is to have a blind obsession with good girls who are excellent and self-disciplined in the traditional sense?"

Yan Yan: "...My friend, you have watched too many TV series."

A criminal policeman came from a distance, stopped by the open car door, and seemed to want to say something.

Yan Yan gestured for him to wait a moment, only to hear Qin Chuan ask, "How is it? What did Chi Rui's search find?"

"It's no use." Yan Yan replied angrily, and habitually reached out to touch the cigarette, but found that the cigarette case was empty, "Fuck!" and slammed the empty case on the front window hard.

"Yo, what are you doing!" Qin Chuan asked, "Chi Rui has already run away?"

"Not only ran away, but also ran away cleanly. There was no clue found in the house. I have dispersed the police force of nine detective teams to investigate and investigate. At present, I have summed up several places where he may be hiding, including the chess and card room. , his sister's house, the hardware factory... have no clue at all. By the way, you've been eyeing the Ding family, right?"

Qin Chuan said: "Then I can miss this? Liu Wanqiu's parents and boyfriend, Ding Jiawang and his wife and their daughter are all on my list, and the staff has already dispersed. Just wait for my news."

Yan Xie nodded, and suddenly saw the criminal police winking at him.

"Why?" Yan Yan raised his head inexplicably.

The criminal policeman covered his mouth and whispered: "A man surnamed Lu just took a taxi and stopped outside the cordon. He said he was your friend, and he has been waiting for you for a long time..."

Yan Xie's brain, which was a little sluggish because of the night, clicked, like a rusty machine turning suddenly, and he came to his senses.

"Ouch!" He hung up the phone and almost stood up from the passenger seat: "Let him in!"

·

Jiang Ting was wearing a hat and mask, and Yan Yan's windbreaker was draped over his arms. He was carrying a laptop for work, and walked towards the police car as he walked through the cordon under the guidance of the onlookers.

For some reason, when Yan Yan watched him stepping on the stone road, stepping over the puddles, his straight figure with slender legs, his handsome face even though he stayed up all night, and even his meticulous hair, Qin Chuan's words just now came to mind:

"The more mentally deficient you are in school, the earlier you come out to mix with society, the easier it is for you to have a blind obsession with good girls who are excellent and self-disciplined in the traditional sense..."

If Jiang Ting was a woman, would she be regarded as outstanding, indifferent, proud and extremely self-disciplined in the traditional sense?

Then I am...

Yan Xie shuddered suddenly, thinking that he must have been under too much pressure recently and hadn't seen Wuzhi girl for too long, and he must go to the bathroom to masturbate after catching those son-of-a-bitch drug-making kidnappers.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ting stood by the open car door, and casually threw the windbreaker to Yan Xie: "Are you cold? Put it on."

In an instant, Yan Xie revised his opinion.

Which good girl isn't the one who puts her clothes on her husband's shoulders tenderly, and throws her clothes away in a cold manner, what's the matter, she doesn't feel the importance at all!

"Didn't I tell you not to go out if you have nothing to do, and wait until I send someone to pick it up?" Yan Yan threw the windbreaker into the back seat, and said dissatisfiedly: "Do you know how dangerous it is to take a taxi?"

"It doesn't matter, it's not that sensitive yet."

"What is temporary insensitivity?"

Jiang Ting didn't want to say more, but Yan Yan bit him like a wolf and didn't let go. He had no choice but to simply say: "Fan Si died on the highway in the form of an exposed corpse. People who have the same purpose as him It will always stop for a while. Chi Rui ran away?"

Yan Yan: "Hey, why are you like this, which pot does not open and which pot you carry?"

Yan Xie gave a rough description of the situation, including Liu Wanqiu's alibi and the fact that Ding's family was under surveillance.Jiang Ting glanced at Liu Wanqiu's ID photo, but he didn't say anything, he didn't know what he was thinking about; Yan Xie picked up the cigarette case that was dropped in a rage just now, put it in front of his nose to smell, squinted at Jiang Ting, and said in a low voice Ask: "What, how do you feel?"

"Didn't the communication records of Hu Weisheng and Liu Wanqiu be found, including online social accounts, WeChat accounts, and money exchanges?"

"No," Yan Yan pouted and shook his head.

"The alibi is complete and has no obvious loopholes?"

"uh-huh."

"Isn't the household registration book, driver's license and driving record book borrowed by relatives at home?"

"The purpose of monitoring the Ding family is to investigate this matter."

Jiang Ting touched his chin and nodded slightly, then suddenly he heard Yan Yan nonchalantly asking: "What do you think of this girl?"

"?"

Jiang Ting looked at it with a purely professional gaze for a moment, then pondered: "The facial features are regular, the hair is slightly yellow, the teeth are white, no obvious plastic surgery can be seen, there may be a slight temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome...why?"

Yan Xie had an expression on his face asking me to tell you something good about you, and said slowly, "Beautiful, beautiful, isn't it?"

Jiang Ting raised half of his brows, and finally gave a positive answer after a long while: "I think it's okay."

The air freezes.

Residents went upstairs to Chi Rui’s house, and the police were coming in and out to collect evidence and search; outside the cordon, the police in the jurisdiction yelled to evacuate more and more idle grandparents; The sound of the car on the road came from afar, gathering into a busy and noisy morning full of fireworks.

Jiang Ting finally felt something was wrong with the atmosphere: "...Is there something wrong?"

Yan Yan slowly put away the photos, and said coldly: "You are really too much."

Jiang Ting: "???"

"When I wanted to spy on me earlier, I pretended to order a takeaway, pretending to be so gentle and sensible, and told me to 'remember to eat'; now it's better, I came to the scene early in the morning, empty-handed and didn't even bring a glass of soy milk! Dare to love you, you don’t need to pretend anymore, you just showed your true colors, even buying a meat bun for one yuan and five..."

Jiang Ting's expression was blank, and the psychological shock caused by "gentle and sensible" instantly killed "Your hands are so beautiful".

"Wait, wait." Jiang Ting hurriedly interrupted his chatter, reached out and took out a thermos cup from his computer bag, and stuffed it to Yan Mo without any explanation: "This is for you."

"Hey?"

It was Yan Xie's turn to be stunned. He opened the thermos, and a strong aroma of black tea came over his face.

"...You are not..."

"I think it's all disassembled anyway, so I have to give it to you, the real owner, so I prepared it specially for you." Jiang Ting said sincerely, "Take it and drink it while it's hot. Don't spill it on the computer. I'll go to the bathroom."

Jiang Ting turned around and left, Yan Yan was stunned for a few seconds, furious: "You think I'm stupid! You caught my sheep and said it was knitting a sweater for me! Take it back, I don't care!"

·

Chi Rui, 35 years old, was born in the surrounding counties of Jianning and has a criminal record.

No one knows what kind of courage the high-achieving chemistry student who was hijacked had. When he was pushed out of the car, he suddenly violently pushed down the kidnapper with a gun, drove him into the bushes, and tried every means to make the kidnapper stay behind. blood.

The hostage may have received a terrible punishment for this, but his agility and bravery at that moment pointed out an extremely valuable clue to the police.

The criminal police detachment lived up to this lead.Before ten o'clock in the morning, Chi Rui's life story, including daily communications, driving records, money transactions, social interactions... It's like the abdominal cavity cut open by a scalpel, every blood vessel, every nerve, and every muscle is exposed. under police X-rays.

"Chi Rui doesn't have a wife or child. He has a good woman who lost his way in the bathing city, but the suspicion has been ruled out; we asked his parents and sister to try to contact him, but there has been no response. The last time he was seen was at 09:30 the morning before yesterday. Driving a Nissan pickup was recorded by surveillance at a gas station near Wuhai New District, and then disappeared.”

"According to the analysis by the police, Chi Rui's hiding place may be an underground drug manufacturing factory of a criminal gang. At present, the Wuhai New District Bureau and various police stations have already started operations and are preparing to implement intensive surveillance."

Yan Xie was sitting in the driver's seat of the Grand Cherokee, and the scout's report in the Bluetooth headset was so loud that even the back seat could hear it.

Yan Yan took a bite of the steaming meat buns——Jiang Ting finally surrendered, and accompanied by Han Xiaomei, he personally bought four buns and sent them back to Deputy Yan's detachment, ending the endless nagging.Then, while chewing, he raised his head and glanced at the back seat, only to see Jiang Ting listening very intently, holding a thermos cup that had long run out of heat, leaning forward slightly, and looking at him, the two of them instantly Their eyes collided.

Jiang Ting mouthed silently:

Wuhai New Area?

Yan Xie nodded to show that he understood, swallowed the bun, and said loudly into the microphone on purpose: "Wuhai is a new industrial zone established in the past two years, and it has not yet developed. It is too difficult to investigate with a sparse population. Is there any other clues that can quickly locate the hiding place of Chi Rui and others? Are the mobile phones monitored?"

Jiang Ting took the map of Jianning handed over by Yan Xie, and quickly unfolded it. After looking around for half a circle, he circled "Wuhai Industrial Zone" with a red pen.

The investigator said: "Chi Rui used a mobile phone number without a real name, so he couldn't do accurate triangulation, but we have taken down the surveillance of the main factory areas, business districts, residential areas, and surrounding subway stations. Once a suspect is found, we will immediately Notify the criminal police detachment and go down to the police station!"

Yan Xie said, "Okay." Then he cut off the communication, frowning extremely tightly.

"Methamphetamine will produce a lot of harmful substances and a pungent ammonia smell during the synthesis process. If the process is not perfect, it will easily arouse the alertness of neighbors. But if the production process is perfect, professional vacuum machines and cement reservoirs are needed. , Industrialized air filtration systems are difficult to complete in residential areas." Jiang paused, tapped the map with his pen, and said solemnly: "Narrow down the scope of investigation to the unused or abandoned factories around Wuhai District. Look, private chemical factories, hardware factories, and mold processing enterprises are the key points.”

Yan Xie quickly wrote it down while listening, and sent a text message to Ma Xiang.

"The organization of this criminal gang is quite tight, and at least four members have been known so far: Diao Yong, the security director, is responsible for guarding and stealing chemical raw materials; Chi Rui, who makes guns and holds guns, is responsible for violence and supply of weapons; In addition, there is a woman whose specific responsibilities are unknown but who has a relationship with the Ding family. It may be mainly to seduce Hu Weisheng. Ding Dang, who cannot produce an alibi, and Liu Wanqiu, the owner of the car, are both seriously suspected."

Jiang Ting's tone of voice when analyzing clues is always steady, no matter how dangerous and urgent the case is, the words from his mouth are very stable, without a trace of anger.

This is very incongruous with his young and handsome appearance - because the last person Yan Xi knew who had this kind of veteran cadre temperament was Director Lu, the head of the Jianning City Public Security Bureau.

"In addition, judging from the footprints at the scene last night, besides Chi Rui, there should be at least two kidnappers, one of whom is a driver who is very familiar with the internal monitoring of chemical plants." Jiang stopped talking, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Turn on the work computer on the passenger seat.

The surveillance video of the chemical plant in the early morning of yesterday was being played repeatedly on the screen—the red Camry avoided all the cameras in the front light, the driver was wearing a mask, gloves, and a sun hat, leaving only an extremely unclear silhouette for the police, Then disappeared into the thick night.

Yan Xie's gaze also fell on the monitor, and he took a low breath with a "hiss":

"However, everyone in a chemical company who has access to monitoring, down to the ordinary security guards, up to the technical department and the deputy general manager, even the outsourcing company that installed cameras for the chemical plant back then; has the ability to grasp the accuracy of each surveillance camera. The people there have been completely wiped out by the city bureau."

Jiang Ting leaned back into the back of the seat, frowning, folded his arms in front of his chest, and subconsciously stroked his neck with one hand.

This is just a habitual thinking movement, but when Jiang Ting raised his chin, the line from his mandible to throat, collarbone and even hidden into his collar appeared extraordinarily slender, just looking at the subtle movements of his fingertips , you can feel the warmth and softness of the skin.

Yan Yan's Adam's apple suddenly slipped, and he hastily looked away.

"If no female footprints were extracted at the scene last night, which means that the female robber was not present, why did she drive her car?" Jiang Ting murmured, "Could it be that the driver doesn't have a car himself? Or is it a special model? Don’t dare to drive on the road casually?”

Yan Xi hummed twice perfunctorily, pretending to concentrate on staring at the screen, and pressed the pause button again and again.

"Or," Jiang Ting thought thoughtfully, "as long as the driver's own car appears on the monitoring system within the chemical plant, it will be recognized immediately?"

The hidden meaning behind this sentence is like a small needle, traveling along Yan Mao's nerves to the brain, and lightly piercing his most sensitive criminal investigation consciousness—at the same time, there is a clear click, and the screen freezes, Xie's gaze was fixed on a certain place on the screen.

"...Jiang Ting," Yan Yan said unsteadily, "Look, the driver is wearing gloves."

Jiang Ting leaned forward slightly, and saw that a certain frame was magnified eight times and blurred out the scene of the driver's cab—it was a sharp turn, the driver's hands were placed on the top of the steering wheel, and the street lights were shining from one side, which was relatively clear sharply outlines his glove.

The color of the glove is quite special, the five fingers are black, the back of the hand is gray, with a bright red trademark faintly printed on it, and the cuff is unusually wide.

Yan Yan asked, "What do you think this looks like?"

Jiang Ting shook his head doubtfully.

"Jie, Yuan, hand, and gloves." Yan Xie said word by word, "By surveying the power system, you can grasp the direction of the monitoring circuit, and then locate all the monitoring cameras; and the electric emergency repair vehicle is very eye-catching, so it can only be used by female robbers. The car goes out to act—Ma Xiang!"

Yan Xie picked up the walkie-phone and ordered sharply: "Immediately go back to the stolen warehouse of the chemical plant for re-examination, and try to extract the talcum powder that fell off the insulating gloves from the scene. The No. 2 kidnapper should be an electrician in the plant!"

The walkie-talkie buzzed, and a few seconds later, Ma Xiang's hurried voice sounded:

"It's not good, brother Yan, the news just came from the city bureau that the little girl named Ding Dang has been hiding from the surveillance personnel by changing clothes and going to the bathroom in the mall..."

"Ding Jiawang and his daughter have escaped!"