Breaking Through the Clouds

——In the last 29 hours of the detection time, the life of the hostages has entered the critical juncture of the countdown stage, shaking the direction of the entire investigation of the Municipal Bureau.

Yan Yan didn't say a word, and seemed to be lost in deliberation and thinking, and slowly stood up from the computer.

Following his movement, Jiang Ting also stood up, and the two of them stared at each other face to face for more than half a cigarette before they heard Yan Yan spit out:

"You say, I listen."

Jiang Ting reached out and hung up a high-definition headset for Yan Mao, and put on another one for himself, and replayed the call just now from the beginning.The recording rustled, and the first sentence was: "Two hundred million, how are you getting ready?"

Jiang Ting pressed pause, "The kidnapper repeated this sentence several times when negotiating with Shen Xiaoqi's father. According to my memory, the voice line was thicker and lower every time he repeated it, and the ups and downs were very flat. The word '了' was used as a question. There is no voice at the end of the sentence, it is a more mechanical tone without emotional factors."

Yan Yan nodded.

"But when you started negotiating with the kidnapper, his voice changed." Jiang Ting canceled the pause, and a clear "ha" came from the headset, followed by:

"I'm right here, come and catch me, I'll wait for you."

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Ting stared into Yan Yan's eyes: "He had a very disdainful sneer before provoking, and the tail tone was obviously rising. What do you think this means?"

Yan Yan murmured: "Emotions."

"Yes, the tone that was still mechanical and flat just now suddenly became full of emotion, let's continue."

"If you can't get the money, you don't want this child's life!... That little brat is unlucky, if he is tied up, he will be tied up... Do you want to spare one without adding money? Dreaming!..."

Jiang Ting pressed pause again.

"If you don't know the background of this kidnapping case, and completely remove abnormal elements such as the blood-soaked jacket, white-tailed sea eagle, exorbitant ransom, and precise execution time, just listen to the above recording, and your initial conception of the kidnapper in your brain What's it like?"

Yan Yan pondered, "A traditional kidnapper who is greedy, vicious, and ruthless."

Jiang Ting nodded in agreement: "Yes, traditional and typical." Then he clicked to play for the third time.

Following his movements, the electronic voice rustled out the last sentence left by the kidnapper, cold and emotionless: "29 hours until the execution time."

The recording ends.

"Now." Jiang Ting said, "eliminate the established image of greed, viciousness, and ruthlessness in your mind, and only remember this last sentence; then contact bloody clothes, sea eagles, exorbitant ransoms, etc., whether your judgment on the other end of the phone happened Have you changed, are you still the traditional typical kidnapper?"

"..." Yan Yan suddenly looked at him.

Command the air in the car to tighten inch by inch.

"No, he has changed." Yan Yan said softly, every word seemed to be filled with disbelief: "He has become... an executioner."

Jiang Ting's expression remained unchanged: "Or, a ruthless executioner."

"This kidnapper has always given the police an elusive feeling because he expressed his intentions very contradictory. But if we divide the kidnapper's abnormal behavior into two parts and regard him as two different characters, everything will be fine. Explained."

Jiang Ting leaned back against the back of the seat, took off the headset, and pointed an index finger at Yan Xie: "First of all, he kidnapped Shen Xiaoqi, blackmailed Shen's family, and eagerly demanded ransom by threatening, full of malice towards the police. And taunt. When he appears in this role, keywords such as 'two hundred million' and 'execution' will never appear, replaced by 'you don't want this child's life' - obviously more inclined to A common term used when kidnappers threaten to tear up tickets."

Yan Xie thoughtfully, nodded and remained silent.

"But when he was an executioner, his motives seemed to have nothing to do with money. On the one hand, he couldn't take away [-] million yuan in cash, and he didn't ask the police for any means of transportation. No basic conditions were put forward; on the other hand, he abandoned the common emotions of traditional kidnappers such as ferocity and greed, and ruthlessly repeated the execution time limit again and again, showing an extremely strong desire for execution; A very strong sense of ritual."

Yan Yan suddenly realized something: "...a sense of ritual?"

"Yes." Jiang Ting said, "My personal opinion is that the role of the executioner whose motivation has nothing to do with money is the true identity of the kidnapper."

Yan Xie took out a cigarette, rubbed it between his fingers subconsciously, and repeated: "Motivation."

He seemed to smack these two words carefully, and pondered for a moment: "If the pursuit of execution is his real motive, then kidnapping is only a link leading to the final result - only through kidnapping can we achieve the goal of 'execution' The ultimate goal..."

Yan Xie stopped speaking, and rubbed his frowning brows vigorously with his middle finger joints.A certain guess seemed to come out of his mind, but it was vaguely uncertain.

"Kidnapping is a part of a ritual. And 'ritual' is the externalization of an individual's inner emotions towards something. It has the characteristics of emotional traction, displacement, and subconscious image projection." Jiang Ting paused for a while and said: " Generally speaking, the pursuit of a sense of ritual represents people’s desire to project their inner vision into reality, and commemorate, mark and identify it. Kidnapping, as the executioner’s inner vision, is also a necessary way to satisfy his desire for punishment, which shows that it is likely— —”

"This is not the first kidnapping case." Yan Qiao said suddenly.

He looked at Jiang Ting suddenly: "—every time the time is accurately reported, the repeated [-]:[-], this executioner is projecting what happened before!"

Jiang Ting was noncommittal, and finally nodded lightly and heavily after a long time.

Without delay at all, Yan Xie immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

"Hey Bureau Wei, I'm Yan Yan... The search and rescue has not progressed, and the kidnappers don't accept communication at all... Listen to Bureau Wei, I have a new idea for investigation..."

"What? What did you say?" Deputy Director Wei was surrounded by a bunch of phones in the conference room, and said, "What time is it, why are you trying to mess with me?!"

"I'm going to concentrate my manpower on looking through similar case files across the province in the past three years," Yan Xie said word by word. "This is probably not the first time the kidnappers have committed crimes."

The sun is gradually going west, and the time is passing by every minute.

On the expressway, three police cars roared past, rushing towards the busy city of Jianning during the evening rush hour.

With a bang, the door of the criminal investigation detachment's outer office was pushed open.

Yan Xie was followed by a large group of temporarily dispatched personnel from the technical investigation, graphic investigation, and material departments. While striding forward, he turned his head and gave an order: "The scope of investigation includes the entire province in the past three years. If there is a certain social relationship between the two hostages, it will be listed as the primary screening focus, and if only one family member of the hostage received a blackmail call and the amount of money is huge, it will be listed as the secondary focus; priority will be given to reviewing the old records that failed to rescue the hostages The old case may not necessarily have occurred in Jianning, and the police stations at all levels of the province's subordinate cities, counties, and towns are more likely..."

Everyone hurriedly followed behind, and a detective raised his hand timidly and asked: "Deputy Yan, it is rare to kidnap two people at once. Does the hostage have to be a young man and woman? Is it okay for a man or a woman?"

Yan Yan said impatiently: "Okay! If you can find it, it's fine! I'm not surprised what the child does these days!"

bang——

Suddenly Yan Yan bumped into something and almost staggered, only to hear a cold voice in front of him:

"We are not surprised what you did!"

Yan Yan covered his head and looked, only to see that the leader of the anti-drug detachment next door, Fang Zhenghong, was in front of him.

Fang Zhenghong still had that sallow complexion, with a very unkind expression on his face.Yan Yan glanced over and felt a little sad, but more than ten years of professional criminal investigation had trained him to be more tactful, so he immediately stopped talking to him, nodded with a slight smile, and walked away.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they passed by, Fang Zhenghong reached out and stopped him:

"There are only more than 20 hours left before the tearing of the ticket. You have pulled everyone back to look over the case files. Do you think you have too much time to kill?!"

Again.

Yan Xie stopped in his tracks, thinking for a moment in his mind, but the amiable expression on his face remained unchanged: "Oh, this matter. The Fang team didn't know about it. Bureau Wei believed that there was a high possibility that the kidnappers were not committing the crime for the first time, so we I hope to use the previous clues to try a new breakthrough direction.”

He didn't argue hard with Fang Zhenghong either, he only used Deputy Bureau Wei as a shield.Sure enough, Fang Zhenghong didn't continue to entangle with this topic, he snorted from his nasal cavity, opened Weibo on his mobile phone and threw it over:

"Then Deputy Bureau Wei asked you to do this?!"

Yan Yan looked down.

A big V with millions of fans posted a blog: The traffic police in Jianning downtown blew their horns to clear the way for luxury cars, and the hot search was removed for no reason. Where did the luxury cars come from?The local traffic police did not dare to respond positively, and the netizens were deleted and banned by Zha Lang. Why is it so tricky to cover up?

The accompanying picture shows the coded S450 rushing away under the red light, and the audience was outraged, with six thousand retweets and over ten thousand likes.

"..." Yan Yan said with a smile: "With this rhythm, the Daben is considered a luxury car. If you don't know, you might think you drive a Bugatti Veyron..."

Fang Zhenghong withdrew his phone: "Why didn't you report it to Bureau Lu and Wei Bureau as soon as it was on the trending search, and ask the official account of the Municipal Bureau to come forward to clarify? I was anxious to use my own network to withdraw the trending search in seconds, but it caused a bigger and worse incident. Public opinion, now who doesn't say you have ghosts in your heart!"

The half-smiling expression on Yan Xie's face disappeared, and he said lightly: "Now everyone knows this method of manipulating public opinion, just find a few big Vs to buy a batch of sailors, and the excitement will pass in just two or three days. If you really care about online public opinion about everything, will you still be able to handle the case? Why are there so many officers in charge of the navy?"

"Tell this to the traffic police brigade next door!" Fang Zhenghong snapped, "The head of the traffic police brigade came to the city bureau to scold you all morning! You haven't gone far yet!"

This is the place of the criminal investigation detachment. Fang Zhenghong scolded his head and face without mercy. Not only did everyone in the office stand up with ugly faces, even the trainee policemen outside the corridor in the distance stopped in fear.

Not far away, in the deputy detachment captain's office.

Hearing the movement, Jiang Ting suddenly got up from behind his desk, walked to the door, and looked sideways through the glass.

Fang Detachment is usually very strict in discipline and frugal in style. It is not a secret in the city bureau that they dislike Yan Yan, who has a slightly slippery wrist and extravagant living habits. Live, so many years have not had a big problem.

Yan Xie didn't know why Fang Detachment came back from an illness, and it seemed that his temperament had changed drastically. Seeing that he found fault with him a few times, he fell ill again today.But what he knows is that the Jianning criminal investigation of the deputy provincial system is half a level higher than that of drug control. In theory, he and the Fang detachment are equal; After the detachment, there will be no majesty.

"Fang team," Yan Xie took a breath, crossed his hands in front of him, and asked with a slight smile, "Which bureau chief are you asking me today, Bureau Lu? Or Bureau Wei?"

"you--"

"I did not handle this matter properly, but it happened suddenly, and there is no other way. If Director Lu or Deputy Director Wei have any objections, then I will accept their criticism and I will definitely pay attention in the future."

Fang Zhenghong's bloodless face, which had just recovered from his injury, became flushed: "Don't bring Lu Bureau and the others out to talk about things, you know in your heart how many things have been covered up! Don't worry about it! To put it further, in the drug manufacturing case last time, everyone watched you slip away from the scene..."

"I was going to arrest the sniper shooter, and I explained to the two directors afterwards." Yan Yan interrupted him coldly, "The Fang team may have not participated in the operation for too long, and I am afraid that the company should act in a hurry. 'Forget these four words."

Fang Zhenghong suddenly raised his voice: "Urgently follow the authority? I'm afraid it's you, the deputy detachment, who doesn't know what's hiding in the office!"

Yan Yan's momentum was unyielding, but his heart froze instantly.

What does he mean?

Does he know something?

Yan Xie withdrew his gaze and sneered, and when he looked up again, he followed this movement and quickly glanced at the door of his office not far away.

——He knew that Jiang Ting was standing behind the single-sided visible glass door, and he met his gaze in an instant.

"Look at what you said," Yan Yan said jokingly with a half-smile, "Let people who don't know hear this and think that I have a little lover in the office."

Fang Zhenghong couldn't see his appearance the most, and got angry on the spot: "I tell you, Yan, that the Skynet is extensive and not leaking, you..."

Suddenly, a steady and familiar female voice came from behind everyone:

"There are only more than 20 hours left in the kidnapping case. If you don't go through the case files, what are you looking around here?"

Everyone turned their heads in unison, and Yan Xie's eyes lit up.

At the gate of the criminal investigation detachment, a female police officer in her 50s with short hair was standing with her hands behind her back, with a thin body and a peaceful face. Everyone in her sight lowered her eyes involuntarily, and there were buzzing discussions in the distance of the office hall.

Judging from Fang Zhenghong's expression, he was extremely surprised, and then his sparse one-word eyebrows were tightly frowned, as if he suspected that he had read it wrong:

"... Yu detachment?"

Yan Yan just wanted to step forward, but before he could move, he was stopped by Yu Detachment with a wave of his hand.

"Fang team's opinion is very correct. Young people nowadays are not stable enough. Indeed, when they see criminals, they dare to go after criminals alone, and they don't take their own safety seriously." Yu team walked into the office amidst everyone's avoidance. He raised his hand and nodded Yan Yan from the air, with a stern expression on his face: "Be sure to pay more attention in the future!"

Yan Xie nodded in agreement.

"However, since the time for kidnapping cases is getting less and less, our older generation should put the overall situation first, and don't distract their young people's energy from criminal investigation for the time being." Detachment Captain Yu eased his tone and smiled. He turned to Fang Zhenghong and said, "You mean it, Team Fang?"

There seemed to be an invisible string gradually tightening in the void, and no one dared to vent their breath.

The flush on Fang Zhenghong's face gradually faded, and turned into that sallow and blue complexion again.He looked Yu Detachment up and down, he didn't know what he was thinking about, and after a long while, he hummed in a neutral voice:

"It's what you say it is."

Captain Yu nodded his head in approval.

Fang Zhenghong turned around and left, but suddenly stopped when he reached the door.He turned his head in the eyes of everyone, looked at Captain Yu with deep meaning, and asked, "However, that energy is really focused on business, isn't it Team Yu?"

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for her to answer, he walked away and went straight out of the door of the Criminal Investigation Detachment.

Only then did the string suddenly loosen, and the gloomy pressure in the air suddenly lightened.

"What are you doing here! Hurry up and go to work! What time is it, what time is it!" Yan Xie's roar resounded through the office, and all the policemen hurriedly slipped away holding the case file, hid in their respective seats and began to rummage wildly.

"Young hostages! Have social connections! [-]:[-]! In the past three years, I will find out every suspected fraud case of kidnapping and disappearance! Don't be dazed, hurry up!!"

The entire Criminal Investigation Detachment was shivering from the yelling, and everyone wished they could learn to apparate in an instant.It wasn't until there was no one around that Yan Yan changed his face in an instant, and hurried forward: "Captain Yu, I heard that you have undergone heart bypass surgery... why are you here today?"

Yu Zhu, head of the criminal investigation branch of the Jianning City Public Security Bureau, who was in his early fifties, raised his skinny hand and pressed the position of his left heart, and said with a smile, "I'm old, and the oil is finally exhausted."

Yan Mo's pupils shrank slightly.

Captain Yu patted him on the shoulder: "I came to the bureau today to talk to Bureau Lu about retiring from illness."

The author has something to say:

Yan deputy detachment: Fuzheng came too fast, let me take it slowly...

In fact, at Yan Yan’s age, it’s really rocket-like to be promoted to a vice-provincial city’s criminal investigation department. It’s not just talking about high-level criminal investigation. .In reality, it may take another five to ten years to reach the authority of Yan Yan, but in the novel, authority is treated as art, bow~