Breaking Through the Clouds

"What are you looking at?"

Yan Xie's voice could be called soft, but as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Xingye's expression looked like he was caught stealing something, and he looked away in panic.

"No, no, I was wrong, look at my eyes..."

"I read it wrong?"

"Yes yes yes." Wang Xingye clasped Yan Yan's hand tightly with both hands: "You just said that my niece was kidnapped? Why did I sound so confused?"

Yan Yan laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and with a little force, the fat man surnamed Wang had to follow him to the side door on the east side of the breakfast room.

Originally, there were not many residents in this deserted homestay, and across a small corner aisle was the kitchen that had been emptied by the police.Yan Mao casually pulled up a chair and sat down, motioning for Wang Xingye to sit down too, then took out a cigarette case and smoked a cigarette, and handed it over to Zhonghua.

Wang Xingye was worried: "Squad Yan, look at my niece..."

"What did you see wrong just now?"

Wang Xingye was taken aback.

Under Yan Yan's straight and bushy eyebrows, a pair of eyes stared at him with a smile that was not a smile, and asked slowly: "Who did you take our police consultant just now?"

The flesh on Wang Xingye's fat face couldn't help trembling, his complexion turned blue and red, and beads of sweat rolled down his face again.

"It's okay, it's just you and me here." Yan Yan smiled slightly, but bit every word extremely clearly: "What to say, it doesn't matter, our police can find out everything."

"..." Wang Xingye repeatedly rubbed the soft Chinese stick in his hand, opened his mouth and closed it, opened his mouth and closed it again.He repeated this several times before he tremblingly pulled out a smile that was more embarrassing than crying: "Actually...it's nothing, it's just this... It's been several years..."

Yan Yan's smile remained unchanged, but his eyes sank.

"I'm not in the gallery intermediary business. I used to have two dollars in my hand, and I had some relationship resources. Those female painters I knew--" Wang Xingye blushed and tremblingly said: "The hotel has hired a lot of money for a long time. Who knew that during the anti-pornography campaign, the police just kicked the door and rushed in..."

Yan Yan's complexion was slightly stiff.

"You are also a man, Yan Detachment, you understand. I was frightened at a critical moment, and that scene was like my whole life..." Wang Xingye hesitated to speak.

Yan Yan was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Where did you get arrested for prostitution?"

"Hi, Guangdong!" Wang Xingye slapped his thigh: "Of course it can't be the same policeman, but when I looked at it just now, it really looks a bit like that, so I just saw a ghost!"

Is there such a coincidence?

Yan Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at the fat man in front of him without any emotion.Wang Xingye seemed to be lingering in fear, he put the soft Zhonghua that had been rubbed out of shape in his mouth, his hands trembled for a long time before he got angry, and immediately took a deep breath impatiently.

"..." Yan Xi suppressed his thoughts and lit a cigarette.

Photos of front-line criminal police officers at the deputy division level of the anti-narcotics department will not be published everywhere, let alone show their faces casually.Even after the sacrifice, not just anyone can log on to the public security intranet to look up photos and information, they have to have a certain level of authority.

In other words, Jiang Ting's identity is not so easy to reveal, not to mention the obvious changes in appearance, body shape and aura around him after three years of coma.

"—Don't mind, we are a criminal investigation team, and we don't care about prostitution and prostitution." Yan Yan suddenly smiled and changed the subject: "You know everything about your niece?"

The fat man breathed a sigh of relief when the matter of prostitution was finally exposed: "Yes, yes, I was running a gallery show in the south yesterday..."

"Buwei is your niece?"

"Hey, since you are a policeman, I'll just say it straight - that child is really not, I'm just a guardian in her school."

No?

A beautiful girl, and a male "guardian" who is not related by blood, Yan Yan couldn't help raising his eyebrows because of the imaginative space in it.

"No, no, it's not what you think." Wang Xingye waved his hand again and again with a cigarette in his mouth: "Let me tell you the truth, her father was my brother who was a friend of mine in the early years, and died in an accident with his wife. It happened three or four years ago. On the one hand, her father had some financial involvement with me and gave me money when I was in crisis; on the other hand, I felt sorry for her and was afraid that she would go astray , so I paid for her to go to school. Anyway, the nine-year compulsory education, the tuition and living expenses are not much, and after graduation, I can go to a high school that doesn't need to choose a high school, and I will do my best..."

"Yo," Yan Yan flicked the cigarette ash, and said casually, "You are really a good person."

"Hey, what you said is right, a good person is not counted, as long as he is worthy of his conscience."

"I just listened outside. Didn't you receive a blackmail call from the kidnapper?"

Wang Xingye said: "Don't mention the extortion call, I didn't even know she was kidnapped. When I received the call from the Public Security Bureau in the morning, I thought it was a scam!"

"Why, you don't have much contact with your niece and daughter?"

"This is really not much..."

"Why?" Yan Yan became interested: "As an uncle, don't you just pay money and don't care about it?"

Wang Xingye took a few puffs of cigarettes, seemed a little confiding in his heart, sighed and said, "What do you say, how can I answer it?"

Yan Xie didn't respond, and looked at him with a half-smile.

"When Buwei's parents had an accident, she was only twelve or thirteen years old. This age is really troublesome. If she was younger, she could be half a daughter, and she would take care of me in the future; if she was older Even if you are eighteen or nineteen years old, maybe you can be my daughter-in-law after being coaxed." The fat man smiled without embarrassment: "But at the age of twelve or thirteen, I don't rely on both ends, and I am about to enter the rebellious period again; It doesn't matter how much you care about her, if someone thinks I'm a pervert who likes little girls, how can this be explained?"

Yan Xie nodded to signal him to continue.

"Besides, this girl lives on campus, and I usually run art exhibitions in other places. I don't know where to start if I want to care about it. A phone call in a week or two is not bad." Wang Xingye spread his hands and said, "Do you think so?" This reason?"

His explanation is indeed reasonable.

Yan Yan asked: "Then do you know that Buwei disappeared at the same time as a boy this time?"

"That one is called Shen Xiaoqi, right? I just saw that couple outside, and they cried a lot. But to be honest..."

Wang Xingye paused, and Yan Yan made a "please speak" gesture: "It's okay, there is no one else here except you and me. If you have any doubts, feel free to raise them with our police."

The expression of neither embarrassment nor embarrassment on Wang Xingye's fat face appeared again: "I don't want to mention this in front of the couple, but I will tell you directly. The phone kidnapper who blackmailed [-] million only called I gave it to him, which means that the target is his son, and it has nothing to do with my niece, right?"

"..."

"That is to say, my niece was a kidnapper from the very beginning. If she hadn't been with his son at that time, nothing would have happened now, right?"

Yan Xi didn't affirm or deny, just didn't say anything.

"Although she is not my own niece, I have raised her for three or four years anyway. If something happens to the little girl, his son will at least be considered a half-murderer! Just like that, he and his wife had the nerve to ask me to borrow money just now. Want me to chip in to pay the ransom? What do they think?!"

Wang Xingye became excited while talking, Yan Yan quickly put out his cigarette, and patted him on the shoulder calmly: "I know it's not easy to make money these days, please trust our police..."

"How can you be like that? Let alone 20 million, it's hard for me to pay [-]! And why should I raise the ransom for his family? Who knows what evil things his family did to attract kidnappers? Involved my niece?!..."

The fat man was probably also nervous to a certain extent, and he couldn't stop his cursing chatter once he opened it.While being polite and comforting, Yan Xie took out his mobile phone to see if there was any update from the city bureau, when suddenly he heard two light knocks on the door.

When he looked up, he saw Jiang Ting was standing by the door frame, with one hand in his trouser pocket, and a mask on his face, revealing only a pair of black and calm eyes:

"The kidnapper called and asked the police to pick it up."

Yan Yan was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, got rid of Wang Xingye who was about to yell at him in a few words, ordered the police to come over and take care of the emotions of the kidnapped family members, and then got up and rushed out of the kitchen.

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"My miserable Xiaoqi—! Mom, what to do, what to do—!..."

From far away, Shen's father's desperate roar and Shen's mother's hoarse crying came from the commanding car. Tan Shuang and his students huddled at the gate of the farmhouse compound, hugging and crying into a ball.

"Who made them all crowded here?" Yan Xie became furious when he saw this scene, and he dragged a criminal policeman and shouted in a low voice: "Take the minors away! Command the car and don't let so many people surround it!" Immediately afterwards, he strode up to the command vehicle.

The technical investigation and negotiating experts urgently dispatched by the Municipal Bureau were sitting in the car wearing headsets, all of them looked like they were facing an enemy.Gao Panqing had just eaten two mouthfuls of the cold boxed lunch, when the phone rang, it was all spilled on the seat of the command car, but at this moment, she couldn't care less, holding the phone solemnly: "Captain, I'm looking for you."

He deliberately didn't call out Yan Mo's last name.

Yan Xie picked it up and saw that it was Shen's father's mobile phone, and the screen clearly showed that it was in a call.

——This mobile phone has already been synchronized in real time by the Technical Investigation Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Hundreds of kilometers away, Huang Xing and the others are racing against time to try various methods to crack and locate it. hope.

The negotiator silently mouthed a few words to Yan Xie: Delaying time——

Yan Xie nodded to indicate that he understood, then turned on the loudspeaker and said in a deep voice:

"I'm Yan Yan, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. What do you want to do?"

He just reported his name directly!

Before finishing speaking, Gao Panqing silently said "Fuck!", mouthing angrily: You fucking want to die? !

Yan Mao raised his hand to stop him, it was an extremely decisive and even stern gesture.

"Two hundred million." A dull and ruthless electronic voice came from the speaker, asking, "How are you getting ready?"

Yan Yan looked at the negotiator expert, and the old professor nodded to him while staring at the technical detective distractedly.

"Money is not a problem, but I need to know the safety of the hostages first." Yan Xie paused, and his tone was very strong: "The family members of the hostages cannot afford the [-] million ransom. .If you have already torn up the hostages and the country pays [-] million for nothing, then even if you go to the ends of the earth, the Ministry of Public Security will not let you go!"

Mother Shen let out a sharp inhalation.

Several criminal police immediately rushed over, they couldn't care about anything, and dragged the family members who were about to go crazy, covering their mouths and dragging them down forcibly.

The electronic voice sounded softly, which seemed to be a mocking chuckle, and said, "I'm right here, come and catch me, I'll wait for you."

"How can you get the money if you are caught?"

"If you can't get the money, don't want this child's life!"

— This child.

The moment everyone heard these four words, everyone's eyelids twitched, and Yan Xie almost blurted out: "Where is another girl? The object of your blackmail is the Shen family. Can you return the other girl?"

There was a sudden silence on the phone.

Yan Xie and the negotiator looked at each other. It seemed that even the latter had no idea, so he could only gesture for him to wait patiently.

Three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds.

Yan Xie felt beads of sweat descending from his burly temple hair, across his cheeks, and gathered on his chin, triggering a subtle itching.

He almost subconsciously shifted his gaze to look outside the car. Jiang Ting was standing by the car door, not looking at him or anyone, with his eyes half closed and his head tilted slightly.

For an instant, Jiang Ting's profile gave Yan Xi a feeling, as if he was catching some slight vibration in the air, or the voice from the kidnapper's side in the loudspeaker - something that no one heard or paid attention to. Arrived, almost imperceptible sound waves.

For some reason, his isolated and sober posture gave Yan Mao a strange sense of stability.

"That brat is unlucky. If he is tied up, he will be tied up." Suddenly, the eerie electronic voice came again, with cruelty and arrogance: "Do you want to spare one without spending money? Dreaming!"

The negotiator gestured violently, and Yan Yan immediately understood the meaning: "It will take time to prepare [-] million cash! We are willing to provide you with transportation and unnumbered banknotes, but it is impossible to do it before [-]:[-] tomorrow evening! You have to stretch the time to—”

The negotiator typed up a few numbers in succession, Yan Xie stared at his hand tightly, and shouted at the phone: "At least three days later, at twelve o'clock in the evening, the cash on our side will be..."

"It's time until execution," the electronic voice from the phone interrupted him coldly, without any ups and downs: "29 hours."

"At the earliest, the night after three days—"

call ended.

Yan Yan's voice stopped abruptly, everyone looked at the computer screen at the same time, and the time in the upper right corner was silently changing to 15:09PM.

There was an eerie silence in the car.

——Execution time, 8:09 tomorrow night.

"I..." Yan Xie wanted to drop the phone, but he restrained himself at the last moment, and gently put the phone back on the table with bulging veins on the back of his hand.

The negotiator winked at the technical investigator solemnly, and the technical investigator understood, and immediately called Director Huang of the Municipal Bureau to inquire about the positioning results.

Yan Xie took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a big drag, and spat it all out.In the curling white mist, he forced himself to close his eyes, his handsome face was sharp and sharp, and when he opened it again, he had returned to the shrewd, fearless vice-captain of criminal investigation in the past.

"There is still time." His voice was hoarse and deep: "Tell the technical detective to step up the investigation of Shen Xiaoqi's car rental company, send people to the Forestry Bureau to help track down the route of the white-tailed sea eagle, and use 'Tianzongshan' as the key word to attack the hostages." Parents, family members, relatives and friends, school teachers and classmates, browser search records, etc. conduct a comprehensive screening. I don’t believe that this tourist destination fell into Shen Xiaoqi’s mind from the sky. Whether he or Bu Wei first proposed to come to Tianzong Mountain These two children must have been strongly influenced by some kind of information!"

"Yes!"

Gao Panqing didn't care about eating anymore, and quickly ran out with a group of criminal policemen.

Yan Yan finished smoking in two or three puffs, and just as he stubbed out the cigarette end, someone patted him lightly on the back of the shoulder.

"..." He suddenly turned around, only to see Jiang Ting got into the command vehicle at some point, standing beside him, and said, "Listen to the recording again."

"what?"

"The technical investigation should have a recording of the kidnapper's phone call just now." Jiang Ting said, "I suddenly had... an immature guess."

Yan Xie didn't quite understand what he meant, but he knew the legendary Jiang team's criminal investigation ability, so he immediately greeted the gray-haired negotiator, asked the technical investigator to retrieve the recording, and brought Jiang Ting to the computer forward.

"Two hundred million, how are you preparing?"

"I'm right here, come and arrest... Don't want this child's life if you don't get the money... Want to spare one without spending money? Dreaming!"

"It's 29 hours from the execution time."

—The rustling of the electricity stops, and the recording is interrupted.

"How is it?" Yan Mo asked in a low voice.

Jiang Ting didn't answer, and clicked on replay.

"... Want to spare one without spending money? Dreaming!"

"It's 29 hours from the execution time."

……

"Two hundred million, how are you preparing?"

"what."

……

"Very weird." Jiang Ting suddenly pressed pause and murmured.

Yan Yan looked at him: "What's wrong?"

The two of them leaned together with their heads close together, Yan Yue turned his face slightly, and it happened that Jiang Ting was also looking over.The distance between the two is only a short distance, and even the eyelashes of each other seem to be close together, and each can see the tired red threads in each other's eyes.

"The kidnappers seem to be two people." Jiang Ting said softly, "Or, he deliberately showed two completely opposite personalities in front of the police."

Yan Mao's sharp brows furrowed again: "Huh?"

"Do you trust me?" Jiang Ting asked suddenly.

"..."

There was complete silence for a few seconds, and it seemed that even the air was not flowing, and the hustle and bustle outside the command car became more and more distant.

"I brought you by my side not because I believe in you," Yan Yan said in a low voice, "I hope to believe in myself."

Jiang Ting stared at him with beautiful eyes, and said after a while, "Then listen, my next analysis may shake the entire investigation direction of the Municipal Public Security Bureau."