Breaking Through the Clouds

groggy.

excruciating pain.

……

Chu Ci twitched slightly, opened his eyes, and then closed them tightly again.

The high fever paralyzed his senses, and it took several minutes for his nerves to slowly feed back information about the hard walls behind him and the dusty ground underground to his brain, and then he realized in a trance that he had been kidnapped.

All the drastic changes that have happened in the past day and a half have passed by like a horse and a horse: I met a security guard in the warehouse, started to answer the phone call of the instructor under the threat of gunpoint, tried to leave a distress signal, and was knocked out immediately after hanging up the phone ...

Chu Ci exhaled a hot breath, tried to sit up straight, but just as he moved, he was shocked by the sharp pain from his ribs and took a deep breath.

—Yes, I'm hurt, he thought.

The kidnappers set the car on fire and pushed him towards the highway.It was so dark, and there were few people around, even if he called for help, he couldn't see a single person; when he passed the bushes, he had been preparing for a long time and ran into the gangster in a desperate attempt, and he tried his best to leave the gangster's blood on the broken branches and dead leaves... …

Then he was pulled up and punched several times by several people, and lost consciousness during the beating.

Why don't you kill me?This thought flashed through Chu Ci's mind in a haze.

Everyone knows that I was born in poverty and have few contacts. Even if I am kidnapped, there is no possibility of ransom.From the standpoint of gangsters, it is unrealistic to run with a living person who can run, scream, and call for help. It will undoubtedly be much more convenient for them if they are stabbed to death in the wilderness and buried casually...

Unless I still have use value.

What is the value?

Chu Ci was forcing himself to calm down and weigh the current situation, when a sudden rustling sound attracted his attention.He reluctantly opened his eyes, and when his vision adjusted to the dim surrounding environment, he was stunned.

... Ding Dang?

This is a dilapidated room of no more than five or six square meters. The only light comes from the concrete windows above the head that are sealed by iron bars.I don't know if it's early morning or evening outside, the gray sky reflects the silhouette of the girl on the ground, who is waking up from a coma in pain, uttering a vague dream: "...help...help...!"

Chu Ci immediately looked towards the door, but fortunately Ding Dang's voice was not loud, so it probably didn't arouse the vigilance of the gangsters outside.

"What's going on..." Ding Dang murmured in a low voice, sitting up with difficulty supporting the ground.But she was too weak, her whole body went limp as soon as she exerted her strength—fortunately, Chu Ci reached out to hold her in time, otherwise she would have suffered a concussion on the spot.

"...Chu Ci? Great, great, I knew you were fine!—"

Chu Ci suddenly put his index finger in front of his lips, signaling her not to speak.

Ding Dang suddenly fell silent, only listening to the gangster's vague conversation and footsteps outside the door, it took a long time before he gradually walked into the distance.

"..." The tense nerves of the two young people relaxed a little, Chu Ci frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

As soon as he said that, he regretted it.I saw that Ding Dang's trembling, which had been so hard to stop, was immediately aroused again, and even became more and more violent, his black grape-like eyes quickly filled with tears: "I, I want to surrender, I want to expose these people, but halfway Just be...just be..."

Chu Ci motioned her to lower her volume, "Surrender yourself?"

Ding Dang shook his head and nodded.

"...Feng Yuguang's matter is related to Ding Gong?"

Ding Dang nodded first, then shook his head again.She seemed very excited and didn't know how to speak. It took her a long time to forcefully suppress her emotions and said, "No, it's...it was me, I killed Xiao Feng!"

Chu Ci's eyebrows twitched.

"On May [-]nd, that night, Xiao Feng asked me to sing at the Nightless Palace KTV. He often, often wanted to ask me out, but I couldn't...Although I rejected him, he still insisted on singing in the city center alone. The place waiting for me to go..."

Ding Dang hugged his knees like a frightened and frightened little animal.

"I stayed at home very late, and my father and Hu Weisheng didn't come back until midnight, saying, 'that Feng can't pester you anymore'. At that time, I didn't understand what it meant until you were taken away by the police two days later. When I went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, I found out that Xiao Feng was dead, dead that night, and the person who killed him must, must be—”

Chu Ci interrupted her: "Who is Hu Weisheng?"

Ding Dang swallowed.

Chu Ci stared at her.

"...It's my boyfriend," Ding Dang admitted tremblingly, "It's my father, he insists on calling me, he insists on..."

In fact, no matter who Ding Dang associates with, it is not a problem for Chu Ci.But the girl's appearance at this moment is really too weird. She doesn't seem to be just determined by her parents to love her, but she seems to be tortured by a more terrifying and cruel secret, so that it is difficult to speak easily to others.

"He's a drug dealer..." Ding Dang finally broke down and hugged his head.

"My father said that Hu Weisheng hid a package of extremely powerful drug samples. He used to work for a particularly big boss and stole them from his transportation chain. It is said that the big boss had someone synthesize the drug by pure chemical means. Many raw materials in the manufacturing process are not controlled by the state; what's even more frightening is that it can be absorbed through skin contact, and even a single milligram of it can make people addicted, and after becoming addicted, you can only relieve symptoms by taking the same drug... ..."

Chu Ci's face changed color slightly.

——Abandon plant ingredients, bypass most of the country's controlled raw materials, and make it with pure synthetic methods. More importantly, it can also be absorbed by the skin.

Once this drug formula is announced and mass-produced, it will become popular at home and abroad in minutes, and it may even provoke the rhythm of the second Opium War.

Ding Dang was sobbing: "My father and those people had a bad idea and wanted to research the same drug. However, the structural formula is really too complicated. They stole a lot of controlled raw materials from chemical factories and failed to make it. Some of them failed. The compound contained in it is also highly toxic——later, I secretly investigated and found out that my father and Hu Weisheng used this failed compound to pass off some kind of drug and sold it to Xiao Feng, which killed him..."

Chu Ci's headache was about to split, and he pressed the center of his eyebrows tightly.

"Impossible," he said suddenly after a while, "I can't think of any compound that can be so powerful."

Ding Dang shook his head to express that he didn't understand, and kept wiping away his tears.

Chu Ci asked: "Where did you say Hu Weisheng stole it from? Who researched this drug?"

"I, I don't know either." Ding Dang raised his tear-stained face and said pitifully, "I never asked, I only heard Hu Weisheng mention it to my father once - he didn't dare to say the name of the big boss, It’s just that in the southwest area a few years ago, they all respectfully called that man the K of Spades..."

Spades K.

With a click of the door lock, Ding Dang jumped up, and both of them looked at the closed door at the same time.

The door was pushed open, and the first thing that appeared was the muzzle of a black hole. Ding Dang screamed before Chu Ci decisively covered his mouth and dragged him away.Immediately afterwards, the kidnapper they all knew—Wang Le, an electrician from the chemical plant, walked into the room holding a gun, stood in front of the two hostages, and stared at them sullenly.

"Are you done talking?" He asked coldly.

Chu Ci didn't say a word, and the frequency of Ding Dang's trembling could be seen with the naked eye.

"You," Wang Le pointed at Chu Ci with the muzzle of a gun: "Come out with me."

·

City Bureau, interrogation room.

Yan Xie pulled away the chair, signaled Gao Panqing not to record with his eyes, and then sat down.

Ding Jiawang was handcuffed to the interrogation chair behind the iron table. I don't know if it was because the posture was too uncomfortable, or because of the doubled madness and fear when he was about to die. I can't stop the depression and decadence seeping from the bone marrow.

——But experienced detectives know that people like Ding Jiawang who firmly believe that they will not be caught tend to become more stubborn at this time.Because he subconsciously refused to believe that he would miss, and always felt that as long as he continued to resist, as long as he gritted his teeth and refused to give a confession, the matter would still have a slight turning point.

"You're not looking for my daughter, what are you still doing here?" Ding Jiawang twitched the corners of his mouth, and pulled out a mocking smile: "Want to force a confession? Or did you prepare some false evidence to blackmail me? It's useless, I have nothing have no idea."

As expected of an engineer, he may be the most educated person in the drug gang, but he even thought of the possibility of fraudulent confession by the police.

But Yan Yan was very relaxed, poured a glass of water and said, "Let's have a chat."

Ding Jiawang looked at him warily.

"Don't be so wary, I didn't want you to say anything, your wife said everything she can say." Yan Xie drank in front of him, and smiled: "Although what she knows is very limited, she can barely piece it together Make a rough idea—so now, you don’t need to speak, I say, just listen.”

"..." Ding Jiawang remained silent, as if he had expected that his wife might not be able to survive the interrogation, and he didn't express much surprise.

"Your gang was first formed by you, the electrician Wang Le, and the security director Diao Yong out of working relationships. Chi Rui, who has an illegal gun crime record, is an 'outsider'. The reason why he joined is probably him. The reason why I like to go to the chess and card room, participate in gambling secretly, and met the electrician Wang Le at the gaming table."

"At the beginning of the establishment of the gang, your main activity should not be to make drugs, but to smuggle various raw materials from chemical factories to synthesize some controlled drugs - Adderall, modafinil, flunitrazepam, etc., plus a little more at most MDMA—but the profits from these illegal prescription drugs are very limited, and even if you continue to sell 'Roddy Rape' such as flunitrazep to illegal porn KTVs like Sanchunhuashi, the income is still stretched thin."

Yan Yan leaned forward slightly, crossed his fingers, and propped his strong elbows on the table:

"Until you got to know Sanchun Huashi's old client, Hu Weisheng."

Ding Jiawang's breathing finally became rapid.

"Hu Weisheng once worked as a retailer under a very powerful and deeply hidden drug lord. Although he has left that organization now, he secretly brought out something." Yan Xie said word by word: "You Found a business opportunity from this thing, and officially started drug production.”

Outside the interrogation room, Technical Investigation Department:

"There are 33 small-scale private enterprises and factories related to processing and packaging in the Wuhai Industrial Zone. Taking the gas station that once appeared in Chirui as the center, there are [-] companies within a diameter of [-] kilometers."

"Director Huang's location is here! Wang Le called his family for the last time at 08:30 the evening before yesterday. The phone signal location is near the post office north of Fuyou Road, Pingzhuang, Wuhai District!"

"So with the post office as the center, there are six processing and packaging factories within a diameter of [-] kilometers. If we compare it with the surrounding gas stations that Chi Rui has seen before—"

"Three! After overlapping the action ranges of the suspects Chi Rui and Wang Le, there are still three processing factories left!"

"List the registration information, geographical location, and detailed topographical maps of these three factories," Huang Xing stood up from his seat, and said in a deep voice, "summarize the list and send it to Deputy Yan's detachment."

"...I don't know what you're talking about," said Ding Jiawang's muddy voice in the interrogation room, "I didn't make drugs."

"Whether you made drugs or not is just my speculation until a sufficient chain of evidence is formed. Of course, speculation is fine. But I said that we are just chatting now and not taking notes, so you don't have to be too nervous."

Yan Xi adjusted a more comfortable sitting position.

His well-tailored shirt fits his body perfectly, outlining his wide shoulders, narrow waist and muscular curves. The cuffs are rolled up to his strong elbows, his fingers are relaxed and crossed, and the delicate and complicated floating tourbillon on the watch dial is very conspicuous in the light.

Sometimes when Yan Yan enters the interrogation room, he doesn't look like a criminal investigation deputy detachment, but more like a cold and professional lawyer who makes people feel fearful, even his smiling expression reveals a hint of blood.

"The main purpose of your daughter Ding Dang's association with Hu Weisheng is for his drug trafficking channels, and more importantly, for this bag that Hu Weisheng hid. As an expert, you know its value from the first glance, and you realize If you can analyze the structural formula of this new type of drug and realize mass production, you may even establish an underground drug city—”

"But contrary to expectations, your academic ability is not worthy of this ambition." Yan Yan smiled, "Feng Yuguang's autopsy results showed a lethal dose of scopolamine, and I am sure that the bag of real blue powder in Hu Weisheng's hand is Won't kill a junkie. That said, your imitation is a total failure."

At the same time as he heard the word blue powder, Ding Jiawang's body visibly shook violently.

"So when you found out that Chu Ci might be aware of the theft of chemical raw materials, you advocated not to silence him, but to take him away. Because you already know very well that your talent is limited, and you may not be able to cherish this bag in your lifetime. The sample of the blue drug has been mass-produced, so there is an urgent need for the assistance of this talented student who has completed his master's degree at a top university in the country at the age of 21."

Ding Jiawang's complexion became more and more gray, cold sweat dripped down his back, and soon drenched his back.

"...What you said is all made up..." He murmured hoarsely: "The interns I brought stole controlled chemical raw materials, which has nothing to do with me..."

"You'd better think again, Engineer Ding."

Yan Yan's eyes were sharp but his tone was flat, and his words were slow and forceful, as if they could be nailed into Ding Jiawang's brain: "The kidnapping can still be turned around, but if Chu Ci dies, the nature of the whole matter will change. Fully cooperate with the police You can fight for a chance to reduce your sentence, you still have a wife and children, why do you have to run to your death? As an educated person, you might as well think about it for a few more minutes, this is the last chance I will give you."

Time passed by every minute and every second, as long as it seemed endless.

"I didn't sell drugs," Ding Jiawang twisted the handcuffs nervously, and repeated mechanically amidst the clattering noises: "No, I didn't make drugs, let me out quickly..."

Yan Yan sighed slightly.

At this moment, Ma Xiang's voice sounded in the Bluetooth headset: "Brother Yan, we have brought Diao Yong up, and we will be in the interrogation room later!"

"Understood." Yan Xie let go of the headset, turned to Ding Jiawang, and shrugged regretfully: "It doesn't matter, although you choose to give up this opportunity, there will be people vying for it."

Ding Jiawang seemed to sense something, and raised his head in panic, only to see Yan Xie standing up and patting Gao Panqing: "Come on."

Gao Panqing nodded: "No problem, Brother Yan."

Ding Jiawang subconsciously: "What, what?"

"Do you think we really want to open a gap in you? No, the police have a professional profile of who is most likely to break down in a criminal gang. Our target was not you from the very beginning, and your textbook-like stubbornness We were not disappointed."

Yan Xie stood at the door, turned around and smiled.His facial features are very handsome, but this smile looks a bit domineering:

"Let's make a bet, within 10 minutes, I can ask that security supervisor Diao Yong to pour beans out of a bamboo tube, and even spit out a few nests of rats in your drug factory--Old Gao, help him start the timer."