Breaking Through the Clouds

As the vehicle roared forward, Yan Xie only felt heavy in his arms, without any response.

Jiang Ting's eyelashes were tightly covered, and from Yan Yan's top-down angle, he could only see the small half of his quiet and handsome side face, and his breath was light, steady and long.

"..." Yan Yan waited for a long time, his beating heart slowly fell back to his chest, and he exhaled almost silently.

"Okay," he murmured.

Regardless of whether Jiang Ting is asleep or awake, this is the most reasonable and most suitable way of responding to his EQ—always leave a little room and space for everyone to change.

It seems that everything has happened, and it seems that nothing can happen.

But the moment Yan Yan leaned his head on the back seat and closed his eyes, he knew that what had happened in his heart was unavoidable.Just like a seed is accidentally thrown into the rich soil, the moment it sprouts sprouts, its roots have been tightly entangled deep in the heart, which can no longer be ignored or easily pulled out.

Yan Xie tightened his arms around Jiang Ting's shoulders.

He knew that no matter whether the person in his arms was asleep or awake, the most appropriate thing to do at this time was to let go.

But he didn't do that.

·

At nearly five o'clock in the morning, at the entrance of the Jiangyang County Detention Center, the windows of the Cherokee were lowered, and Yan Xie handed out his police ID.

The staff on duty looked at it in awe, and waved for someone to raise the safety gate.

Both Yan Mao and Jiang Ting are very familiar with the detention center.Criminal suspects awaiting judgment in custody and prisoners with a remaining sentence of no more than six months will stay here. Only those who have more than half a year of their sentence after the verdict is handed down will be transferred to the prison, commonly known as "Shangshan".

Li Yuxin was caught stealing multiple times as a minor, and her sentence will not exceed one year. After deducting the months spent in obtaining evidence and transferring lawsuits and wrangling back and forth, there is only half a year left in her sentence when she is sentenced, so she is locked up here.

However, although it is not formally imprisoned, the environment of "under the mountain" is much more obscure and complicated than that of "upon the mountain".After all, prison management is now strict and standardized, and death row inmates and felony prisoners are controlled separately; but in the detention center, serial murders, arson, drug trafficking, and even arms smuggling can be seen by all kinds of people, and the police will take action when encountering situations. I don't even have much scruples about getting on a stick.

After the group registered, they were personally led to the interrogation room by the leader on duty of the detention center.At the gate of the iron fence, Yan Xi asked Ma Xiang and Xiao Zhang to wait outside, and only led Jiang Ting into the house. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the police came with Li Yuxin who had been woken up in the middle of the night.

When the iron door slammed open, Yan Xie said softly, "Huh?"

Li Yuxin is a girl who is much prettier than in the photo.

She doesn't have the thrilling beauty of Buwei, but she is naturally delicate and beautiful in appearance. After half a year of prison torture and ten hours of detention every day, coupled with desperation, despair and depression, and wearing rough and ugly prison uniforms, she is Couldn't be exhausted.When she was held down by the police and sat on the interrogation chair, her thin white fingers were pinched against the armrest with convulsions, and even her joints were trembling, showing the texture of ivory.

Yan Mo's eyes flicked across Li Yuxin's face, which was clearly trying to hide her fear, and she frowned slightly: "Did she get beaten?"

Those who enter the detention center are beaten twice. Although it does not conform to the mainstream propaganda of a harmonious society, in fact everyone understands what is going on.

Unexpectedly, the two policemen denied at the same time: "No, she is detained every day, and she goes to the library to read when she comes back."

"Be honest, minor, the leader told me not to be locked up with the drug dealer and murderer, where can I get beaten?"

Yan Yan's doubts were still unresolved, so he signaled the two policemen not to handcuff Li Yuxin, and don't leave yet. He went forward and gently lifted up the sleeves of the little girl's prison clothes, looked at her arms, and then turned behind her, brushing her hair and He glanced in the back collar.

There was really no bruising or bruising, unlike the look of being beaten all day.

But for some reason, Li Yuxin seemed to be more nervous, and even trembled uncontrollably all over her body.

Yan Mao didn't know why.

If this was in some poor country, maybe he would suspect that being a hell policeman was illegal and what happened to the little girl.However, the Jiangyang County Detention Center is a very strict and serious place in terms of scale and management. If you want to think about it in that way, unless you are shooting a novel.

Yan Yan turned back to the interrogation table, stared at Li Yuxin from top to bottom, touched his chin, and asked for a while, "Are you afraid of me?"

After several seconds, Li Yuxin spit out two words like a gossamer: "...no...yes..."

- That's what "yes" means.

Yan Yan felt relieved and signaled the police to leave.The iron door closed again with a few bangs, and only he, Jiang Ting, and Li Yuxin were left in the room, sitting face to face in the dark and quiet interrogation room in the early morning.

Yan Yu subconsciously glanced to the side.

Jiang Ting leaned back on the back of the chair, with his hands in his trouser pockets, his side was indifferent and emotionless, and he didn't look back.

"Ahem!" Yan Xie cleared his throat, using this to forcefully concentrate, and turned to the little girl opposite: "Li Yuxin?"

"..." Li Yuxin buried her head tightly.

"I'm Yan Yan, deputy head of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Jianning City Public Security Bureau. I have a case that I would like to ask you to provide some clues about He Liang, the victim in the 712 kidnapping case last year."

——He Liang.

The moment the words landed, Li Yuxin's panic almost reached the extreme, and even the naked eye could easily see the unstoppable shaking and trembling of her whole body, as if a crumbling dam was on the verge of bursting under the impact of the flood.

But then, completely different from this panicked reaction, she answered clearly and fluently:

"I don't know, I don't know anything."

"I don't know this guy at all."

Yan Xie and Jiang Ting looked at each other, both of them were a little surprised.

"You don't know? Then what are you afraid of?"

"……I do not know anything."

"On July 12 last year, He Liang disappeared on his way from school. On the same day, his parents received a call from the kidnappers extorting 100 million yuan in cash. The next day, your parents came to the Jiangyang County Police Station to report that you were missing. They suspected that you were being scolded. After that, she ran away from home in a fit of anger; but contacting the time when your mother saw you for the last time, your so-called running away and He Liang's kidnapping should have happened at the same time."

"..."

"You didn't run away from home, did you?"

"..."

"You know what happened to He Liang, but you don't dare to say it." Yan Yan leaned forward with his upper body, put his hands on the table, and stared at the little girl's dark hair: "What are you afraid of, Li Yuxin?"

"I don't know! I don't know what I said!!" Suddenly, without warning, Li Yuxin's scream pierced the air, and Yan Yan was immediately dodged back, "—I don't know him at all! I don’t know anything!! Let me go!!! Let me go!!!”

Snapped!Snapped!Li Yuxin began to hit her head with her hands, tearing her hair desperately, her face was flushed and purple.That posture was almost self-mutilation, the iron door was pushed open with a slam, and two policemen on duty rushed in in shock. Forcibly put her hands behind her back.

"Don't be handcuffed!" Jiang Ting shouted: "You can control it!"

"Two comrades from the Municipal Bureau, we must act according to the regulations..."

Yan Yan said sharply: "Listen to him! If you are handcuffed, you won't say anything!"

As soon as the words were finished, Li Yuxin changed her tactics and knocked her forehead against the edge of the iron table desperately.Boom!With a muffled sound, Jiang Ting was the first to cover the little girl's forehead with his hands, and his knuckles hit the sharp edge of the table immediately, hissing in pain.

Yan Yan: "Are you okay? ——It's okay, get out! Get it under control! I'll talk to your leaders!"

The second half of the sentence was yelled at the police, which could be described as stern, and the suspicious police had to leave the interrogation room nervously.

"Are you OK?"

Jiang Ting clutched the back of his hand, and began to be so painful that he couldn't speak. After a while, he shook his head to signal that he should not worry about himself.

"..." Yan Xie took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the boiling rage in his heart.

Li Yuxin was still writhing and struggling, her face was covered with bruises, and her eyes shone like a wild beast with a desperate look.Her appearance was indeed a little frightening, Yan Xie twisted her hand instead, and looked down at her face from the side, gradually, the anger was gradually overshadowed by a more sensitive intuition.

"At all?" he repeated suddenly.

Li Yuxin gritted her teeth and remained silent.

"I just said that I hope you can provide some clues about He Liang's kidnapping case. You said that you don't know him 'at all'. This kind of reinforced tone is usually not used for the first denial. Could it be that someone has interrogated you before?"

"..."

"Or," Yan Yan said coldly, "You have already rehearsed the question and answer about the He Liang case many times in your heart?"

Li Yuxin's struggle gradually weakened, and after an unknown period of time, she stopped completely, and she sat there numbly and stiffly without speaking. Yan Mao carefully tried to let her go, but she didn't respond.

"Li Yuxin, look into my eyes."

The girl's vision is loose and empty, without focus.

"We're not here to hold you accountable," Yan Xie softened his tone, and said, "We came overnight because another pair of boys and girls were kidnapped."

I don't know if it's because of the sincerity in the words, but the meaning itself, Li Yuxin's black and white eyes turned, and she glanced at Yan Yan.

"Yes, a couple surnamed Shen in Jianning City received a call from the kidnappers the day before yesterday asking for a ransom of 16 million yuan, but they couldn't even pay a tenth of it. You and He Liang were 16 years old when they were kidnapped, right? The girl this time is not even [-] years old, her name is Bu Wei, and her birthday will be next month. The boy’s name is Shen Xiaoqi, and the kidnappers informed us that there are only more than ten hours left before his execution."

"Shen Xiaoqi's parents only have his son, just like He Liang's parents only have him, and your parents only have you." Yan Xie paused, turned his back to the morning light outside the iron window of the interrogation room, and stared at Li Yuxin.After a while he finally asked that sentence:

"He Liang is dead, right?"

Li Yuxin remained motionless.

"But you are still alive, and Shen Xiaoqi and Buwei should be alive too. We can't give up any hope of saving the living, don't you?"

"...It's useless," Li Yuxin said suddenly.

She had just gone crazy, her voice was hoarse and her tone changed, and it took Yan Xie two or three seconds after the three words were spoken before she realized what she was talking about.

"useless?"

"He will die." Li Yuxin said quietly, "She will become like me."

Yan Xie looked at Jiang Ting, and met the latter's equally suspicious eyes. In an instant, they both realized that the other party's understanding of the two "ta" was the same as their own - Shen Xiaoqi would die, and Bu Wei would become the next Li Yuxin.

As expected, Li Yuxin was kidnapped together with He Liang, and the executioner was really copying the serial case!

"Have you seen the kidnapper, right?" Yan Yan blurted out, "He asked you to watch him execute He Liang? Didn't he?"

Li Yuxin smiled at him strangely.

"What did that kidnapper look like? Why did he do this? How did he kill He Liang?!"

The little girl's smiling eyes remained unchanged.

"Li Yuxin!" Yan Yan couldn't help growling: "Two children the same age as you are about to die! As long as you are willing to provide clues, I promise you will count it as a major meritorious service! I promise you can get out immediately! Li Yuxin !"

"Isn't it good to die?" Li Yuxin brought that weird smile, and spoke softly, as if she was afraid of waking up from the dream: "I want to die even in my dreams."

Yan Yan and Jiang Ting were stunned at the same time, and then, with lightning speed, the little girl slammed her head on the table!

bang——

This time there was no need for Jiang Ting to make a move. Yan Yan, who had been prepared for a long time, shot up like lightning. Before Li Yuxin raised her head to hit her a second time, she grabbed her with a bang and locked her tightly in his arms, completely ignoring her. Struggling frantically on the verge of death, the blood bubbling from his head stained his whole body.

The iron gate was knocked open for the second time, and the on-duty leader of the detention center, the police and others rushed in quickly. Footsteps, exclamations, roars, etc. mixed into a ubiquitous din.Someone was calling for a doctor, someone was calling, someone was trying to handcuff Li Yuxin and take him away... In the chaotic scene like porridge, Jiang Ting slowly stood up, his eyes fixed on Li Yuxin's lips.

Blood was all over her head and face, flowing from her nose to the corners of her mouth. When her lips opened and closed, she could even see scarlet soaked between her teeth.

But that didn't stop Jiang Ting from recognizing her dreamy mouth shape.

"Zhong Xia...Wei Young..."

"July……"

——Midsummer Night Mang, July is still young.

As if the fog was torn apart by the ghost's claws, the heart contracted fatally, and the cold blood rushed to the top of the head in an instant.The time represented by those eight characters linked the kidnapping, the bloody clothes, the execution, [-]:[-]... countless clues that seemed familiar but also difficult to distinguish, all of which were strung together in an instant.

Jiang stopped and let go.

He slumped back into the armchair without a sound.

Li Yuxin was handcuffed by the police, covering her head with hands and feet, and rushed to the infirmary of the detention center.Yan Xie was negotiating with the leaders of the detention center, his voice was stern and loud, almost arguing, even Ma Xiang and Xiao Zhang who was outside the door broke in.

But Jiang Ting couldn't hear anything clearly.

He seemed to be sinking gradually in deep water, away from the whole world a little bit, but everyone stood on the shore and argued dimly, and no one noticed that he was gone.

So it was like this, he thought in a trance.

—but why?

What is the purpose of this grand and bloody performance since the last ray of light fell on the horizon?

"...Consultant Lu..."

"Consultant Lu?"

……

Jiang Ting suddenly raised his head as if awakened, and then he noticed that the crowd had dispersed at some point, and only his group and the leader of the detention center with a bad face were left in the empty interrogation room.

Yan Yan actually knelt on one knee by the chair, holding his fingers: "What's wrong with you? Are you all right?"

"...Ah," Jiang Ting took a breath, and when he stood up, he noticed that his clothes had been soaked in cold sweat: "It's okay."

Yan Yan then stood up, but did not let go of his hand: "You are injured."

Jiang Ting bowed his head.

His left hand had just been slammed against the edge of the sharp iron table, and the joints of the three fingers were bruised and swollen. It looked quite scary—one could imagine the result of Li Yuxin's forehead blow.

Yan Xie supported his palm with one hand, lifting the injured knuckles in the air, and supported Jiang Ting's shoulder with the other hand.This posture is very intimate, but Jiang Ting's sanity is not as clear as usual, and he subconsciously followed Yan Xie forward, only to hear him say in a deep voice, "Go to the infirmary and deal with it."