Breaking Through the Clouds

The director's office, which was already very spacious, suddenly became extremely empty. There were only Director Lu and Yan Yan, standing and sitting, looking at each other, so quiet that one felt a sense of oppression spontaneously.

Yan Yan finally moved.

He stretched out his hand to open the chair behind the desk, lifted his trousers and sat down casually, and said with a smile, "Yo, but I heard that this person is already dead. The rescue operation three years ago? Rescue who?"

Director Lu's seemingly always kind face showed no questioning or condemnation, and his tone was not bland, and he said slowly: "It is true that after the explosion, many people above believed that he was dead, but some people thought he was not. .”

There was no abnormality in the serious listening expression on Yan Yan's face, but he knew that a little wetness was oozing from his palm:

"Who?"

"Yue Guangping, the former deputy mayor and director of public security department of Gongzhou."

Lu Ju opened the thermos cup and took a sip of tea, swallowed it carefully, then put the thermos cup back on the table under Yan Yan's gaze, and made a soft sound.

"This incident is rarely known in the public security system. Even Lao Wei only heard about the part of the explosion. But in fact, after the explosion, the Gongzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a task force to investigate the failure of this operation. One of the leaders of the task force, Yue Guangping, the deputy mayor who had just retired at the time, proposed that Jiang Ting might not be dead, but was hijacked by drug dealers.”

"..." Yan Yan smiled shortly to meet Director Lu's gaze, "It's certainly not impossible."

Director Lu obviously didn't care about his answer: "The task force decided to adopt Yue Guangping's opinion."

"The top priority at the time was to try to rescue the missing police undercover 'Rivet'. According to analysis, he was very likely to be detained in an abandoned house at the junction of Gongzhou and Jianning, and he was in danger of being killed by drug dealers at any time. Not long after, the task force finally determined the specific location where 'Rivet' was being held, and decided to take immediate action, jointly with the police forces in Jianning and Gongzhou to carry out an assault, but it was too late."

"As if knowing that the police would come, the abandoned house caught fire before the police car arrived. After the flames were extinguished, the police dug up Jiang Ting's body with a gun and a 'rivet' in the rubble. The bullet killed him."

Director Lu stopped suddenly, and only Yan Yan's slight breathing could be heard in the huge office.

"The results of the ballistic analysis match the speculation. Jiang Ting's own fresh fingerprints were found on the handle of the gun."

Obviously the sound was not loud, but there seemed to be something suffocating and heavy in the void.

"Judging from this point alone, it is true that Jiang Ting is very likely to kill Rivet." Yan Xie finally said after a long time.

If you look closely at his answer, his answer is actually very flexible, it seems to agree, but in fact it is not killed, and there are even hints of suspicion, but Director Lu did not get to the bottom of it with him.

"That was the last time Jiang Ting appeared in front of people. He has disappeared since then. The public security system made a sacrifice and did not confer the title of martyr." Director Lu said lightly: "But I personally think that if he appears again, then It will be a harbinger of great danger to come again."

He stretched out his hand to pull back the computer monitor, and Yan Mao stared blankly at the handsome face with indifferent brows that turned around with the screen.

"Bureau Lu..."

"Well?"

Yan Yan opened his mouth, and finally heard his own voice: "What kind of person do you think Captain Jiang is?"

Bureau Lu tidied up the pile of scattered materials on the table, without saying a word, as if he was thinking about something.After a long time, he finally uttered a few words, saying: "Young, courageous, high IQ. Terribly high."

After a pause, he continued: "This makes me personally feel very uncomfortable."

--Very uncomfortable.

This was the second time Yan Xie heard the same description in just one hour, and his eyes changed unconsciously.

"You go back," Director Lu waved his hand: "The comrades in the criminal investigation have worked hard these few days. After the case file is transferred, we promise to give all the personnel involved in the operation a big vacation. Ah, you tell everyone, and then persist .”

Yan Xie said yes, got up and walked towards the door.

There was a lot of movement behind him. Director Lu was sorting out the case files. Yan Yan's hand touched the doorknob, and he stopped suddenly.He almost forced himself to turn around and face Director Lu again, taking a deep breath, as if preparing for something with this action:

"Is there nothing else you want to ask me?"

"What?" Lu Ju rolled his eyelids, "Not anymore."

"..."

Director Lu's tone was calm: "You grew up under the watchful eye of Old Wei. You are now the deputy branch of criminal investigation, and will be the chief branch of the division in the future. No matter what you do, you represent the Jianning City Public Security Bureau. We don't trust you. Who else can you trust? Go ahead."

Lu Ju's chubby body was leaning behind the desk, and Yan Xie was silent for a long time, then bowed to him, turned and walked out.

·

Huang Xing actually followed up. He was waiting anxiously at the entrance of the elevator. When he saw Yan Xie with his eyes, he immediately stepped forward in two steps: "Captain Yan..."

Yan Xie looked at him leisurely, and stepped into the elevator step by step.

Huang Xing rubbed his hands and followed in: "You asked me to locate the chip that day. It was a trivial matter, and I didn't intend to tell others. But after Director Lu returned to the Municipal Bureau from the scene, he came over to ask me personally like a prophet, and went to The Technical Investigation Department retrieved the location records, so I really..."

Yan Yan: "Huh?"

Huang Xing was actually not sure what happened, but only vaguely guessed that Yan Xie's request for location was related to the child's bloody clothes found at the scene.However, due to the limited technology in the province, Xueyi was reported to the Ministry of Public Security and then sent to Beijing's top physical evidence laboratory for inspection. The results were also directly submitted to Bureau Lu. Others did not know the inside story.

Judging from the few words Huang Xing heard, the DNA test results were related to the case that was sealed up a few years ago, Yan Yan probably got involved in it without authorization, and was called to scold by Bureau Lu.

"You said how could I expect this? I thought that either someone borrowed money from your family and ran away, or your girlfriend ran away, or your mother told you to follow your father..."

Yan Xie said: "Hey, the money belongs to my mother, my father will leave the house if he dares to cheat!"

Huang Xing immediately praised Shun Mao and flattered him vigorously, and asked guiltily: "Did Bureau Lu scold you?"

The elevator door opened, Yan Xie folded his hands, humming coldly, walked around Huang Xing up and down, until the latter laughed so hard that the muscles on his face were sore, then he pulled out his hand and patted him twice leisurely:

"I don't want to scold you, anyway, the five-star zenith swimming pool buffet barbecue that I planned to invite you to is probably useless."

Huang Xing: "..."

Yan Yan flicked his sleeves and walked away. Director Huang stared at his back in a daze, and said sadly for a while: "...Why didn't you say that there is barbecue?!"

·

Director Huang regretted it too much, but the ruthless landlord Yan Xie ignored it, and went straight into the office floor of the criminal investigation detachment. In front of him, he saw many criminal policemen holding a cup of milk tea and sharing snacks. The table was full of cakes, chocolates, pizza and jerky On the side, there are two boxes of bright red cherries as big as thumbs.

"Hey, eat and drink with public funds, give me some." Yan Xie took out a few cherries, ate them casually, and asked in a loud voice, "Who paid for the bill? Later, the detachment will be reimbursed financially, and Ma Xiang will remind you later." I will credit it as an informant fee!"

Ma Xiang ate the pizza and said vaguely: "Don't bother, it's the victim who came to express his condolences, here."

Yan Yan followed his gaze and looked out. A young man was standing in the corridor outside the big office. He didn't know what he was looking at in the distance—it was Chu Ci.

"Eat! You know how to eat!" Yan Xie immediately slapped Ma Xiang across the face: "You have eaten up half a month's internship salary!"

"Brother Yan, you don't understand." Ma Xiang burst into tears, and said with emotion: "We, the number one evil force in Jianning, have been walking around the rivers and lakes for so many years, and the first time we saw the victim come to the door not with a pennant but a real one." Really bring snacks, I can't control how much I send!..."

Yan Xie spat out the cherry pit, managed not to rub his hands on his five-figure trousers, hurriedly took out a tissue to wipe it off, and went out the door.

Chu Ci faced him sideways, with a heavy expression, and was looking at the end of the corridor in another direction.Yan Xie stood still and looked over, only to see two policemen escorting Ding Dang, walking towards this side from a distance, ready to take him to the detention center.

Ding Dang looks different from the pure and weak when we first met, and the vicious and crazy one at the action scene.Yan Yan has been in the police for more than ten years, and the total number of criminal suspects sent to the detention center can fill up half the train. After the suspects plead guilty, they are also accustomed to various behaviors, such as despair, madness, unwillingness, despair, and even hatred. It is not surprising to have to report these.Dan Dingdang's behavior is different from what he has seen before. She stared at Chu Ci, her eyes seemed to be full of hatred, but when she got closer and observed carefully, it seemed that there was something more complicated and indescribable after hating poison .

Chu Ci looked back at her quietly, the two just passed by, and suddenly Ding Dang struggled to stop.

"Don't stop!" The police immediately yelled, but was stopped by Yan Yan's eyes.

"That night at the factory, before the police broke in, you said I was the mastermind." Ding Dang looked at Chu Ci, gritted his teeth and asked word by word, "How did you know?"

Chu Ci seemed to have expected her to ask this question a long time ago, and her reaction was very flat: "Because you said that Feng Yuguang asked you to go out to sing on the night of May [-]nd, this sentence is a lie."

Not only Ding Dang, but even Yan Yan suddenly felt surprised that "he actually knew".

"You...you actually, you already knew..."

Ding Dang paled in disbelief, Chu Ci seemed to want to say something, but swallowed it back instantly and smiled.

It was difficult for outsiders to notice that there was a trace of sadness hidden in that smile.

"Of course," he said, "Feng Yuguang packed a few review books in his bag that day before going out. Who brings books on a date?"

Ding Dang's hysterical shouts echoed in the corridor, and then he staggered and was taken away by the police, and gradually disappeared at the end of the stairs.

"Ahem!" Yan Xie cleared his throat and smoothed things over: "Come here, come here, and it's still so expensive."

Then Chu Ci withdrew her gaze from watching her leave, and turned back to hand the plastic bag in her hand to Yan Mo, as if a little embarrassed: "I didn't buy anything good, thanks to you who saved my life that day..."

In the plastic bag were two hard treasures.

Yan Yan said "Ouch", and after a couple of refusals, he still received it, and said with a smile, "It just so happens that there is a famine here, thank you, thank you. But it's really unnecessary, we didn't save you, you saved us—— If the hostages have three ups and two downs, the whole bureau will have to suffer, reports, reviews, bonuses, promotions, and how many people will be beaten by their wives when they go home."

Chu Ci laughed.

"What's the matter, high-achieving student?" Yan Yan teased, "Do you still have an internship? Go back to Beijing or go back to your hometown?"

Chu Ci said: "I originally booked the bus ticket to go back to Beijing three days ago. I happened to go to the station this morning to pick up my mother and my brother from our hometown for a trip. But the doctor said that he hit his head when the explosion happened, and the risk of leaving the hospital early is very high, so we changed it to today." Left in the afternoon."

"Then it's too late to invite you to dinner. Are you going to study for a doctorate when you go back?"

Yan Yu thought he would say yes, but unexpectedly, Chu Ci stretched her waist, the smile deepened in her eyes, and she replied, "Read a hammer."

Yan Yan: "..."

"I don't miss it for a long time. When I graduated from university, I wanted to find a job. My mother insisted on letting me stay in graduate school, saying that I should study more." Chu Ci said, "What's the matter? I'm sorry, if I had worked two years earlier, I would have sent him to junior high school."

Yan Mo didn't know what to answer, so he choked out a sentence for a while: "That's really difficult."

"It's okay, a research institute has asked me to prepare for an interview, and it will get better and better in the future."

Yan Yan nodded, and Chu Ci glanced at the time: "That won't delay your work, I'll be leaving first."

"—Hey wait!"

Yan Yan called him to stop, thought for a while, beckoned to a trainee police officer, took out the car keys and threw them over: "Go downstairs and drive my car, and I will take the victim to the train station later, and the team will use the public funds to pay for it." Please come back after a meal and issue an invoice."

Just as Chu Ci was about to resign, the intern policeman was overjoyed as if he had won a grand prize: "Oh, Brother Yan, I've wanted to drive your car for a long time, you are really my brother!" Far.

"Come back soon after delivery! You bastard!" Yan Xie yelled at his back, then shook his head helplessly: "If you don't finish running, you probably won't be able to come back. If you're a top student, I'll take you downstairs. "

In mid-May, summer is getting stronger, and the sound of cicadas can be heard intermittently in the shade of the trees downstairs in the Municipal Public Security Bureau. The golden sun is pouring down, casting dazzling reflections on the roads, roofs and the roofs of passing vehicles in the distance. .

Yan Xie sent Chu Ci to the steps of the gate, and said, "Then you should have a good interview, try to pass it once, and report the good news when you find a job."

Chu Ci solemnly agreed.

Students in their early twenties who haven't graduated, even if they have spent many years in the laboratory and developed a quiet and quiet temperament, they will not completely lose the youthful detachment and look in their eyes.Yan Yan waved his arms and watched him for a moment, as if he suddenly remembered something, and glanced around: "Hey, a talented student."

"Hey?"

"I'm a little curious about something. You're leaving soon, so I'll just ask one more question. How much do you know about the molecular formula of the new fentanyl compound?"

"You want to ask me if I can make it."

Yan Yan: "Oh, you are so direct and hurt your feelings..."

"It may not be possible, and it may be possible to study and study." Chu Ci said, "But I won't, don't worry."

"That's a lot of money—" Yan Xie dragged his tone, with a half-smile: "You worked so hard to save money for the North, and others spent a lot of money on feasting, is it fair?"

Chu Ci stood on the steps at the gate of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, with his back to the police badge hanging far away on the roof of the building, seemingly lost in thought.After a long time, he seemed to think about something, shook his head and said, "It's really not fair. But there is nothing absolutely fair in this world."

Yan Xie didn't say a word.

"When the recommendation came out, the whole school was in a commotion. People from other grades came to block the door of our classroom. I stood up on my seat to cover my face with my book, and my deskmate said, Chu Ci, life is so unfair. I study harder than you, so why can't I get into a university in Beijing?"

"Look, if even I feel that the world is unfair, what will those people who have no way out and no way out than me think? At least I can pass the test with my own strength and bring a better life to my family. This kind of satisfaction is no less than the happiness that the rich get by spending a lot of money."

Chu Ci looked up at the blue sky of Jianning in summer, with a slightly satisfied expression, then turned to Yan Xie with a smile and said, "So it's good that I'm down-to-earth and poor, those money stained with human blood are illegal. As for the decapitation, I think let it go."

He smiled and waved his hands, free and easy, strode down the steps, and walked towards the gate of the city bureau with the sun behind his back.

Behind him, Yan Xie opened Yunyan, lit one and smoked slowly, narrowing his eyes thoughtfully.

He suddenly remembered that he called Jiang Ting two days ago to ask for his opinion, and asked if he should tell Chu Ci about Ding Dang's motive for killing.Jiang Ting told him to follow the procedures, not to do redundant things, and not to simplify any necessary steps in handling the case.

Forget it, Yan Xie thought, it's not easy for others to become masters.

——Besides, he didn't even ask. Perhaps, there was no need to bother to tell him again.

"It's pretty good," Yan Yan muttered to himself, flicked the cigarette ash, took out his cell phone, turned and walked towards the City Bureau building.

"Hey, Jiang Jinghua? It's all right, have you had your third bowl of chicken soup? I'll tell you that Xueba is here to deliver food today, and I'll drop by to bring you two catties of cherries tonight..."

The sky is as clear as blue, and the summer wind blows over the tall buildings, over the busy commercial street, and whirls through the traffic and pedestrians; it sways the dense poinciana trees on both sides of the long street, and roars into the sky.

Over the bustling city of Jianning, clouds are gradually gathering, and the sun is hot and bright, reflecting on the silent silver police badge on the top of the Municipal Public Security Bureau building.

Volume II [-] Bloody Kidnapping Case