Breaking Through the Clouds

Tianzong Mountain.

The invisible minute hand in the void gradually points to the hour, the setting sun sinks slowly in the forest, and the ethereal blood red is smeared in the field of vision through the eyelids.

Shen Xiaoqi's hand twitched violently, and he woke up from the coma.

"..." He wanted to call Bu Wei, but his chapped lips moved, but no sound came out.After a long time, his consciousness gradually became clear, and he suddenly found himself lying on the open space at the top of the hill, with the top of his head densely covered with fiery red phoenix trees, which seemed to be on fire under the last ray of sunlight.

How did you get to the top of the mountain?

Shen Xiaoqi didn't think much, his attention was completely attracted by something not far away that could never appear here - it turned out to be a bottle of water.

A bottle of mineral water placed right on the ground!

For a few seconds, Shen Xiaoqi thought that he was hallucinating in a desperate situation, but his survival instinct completely overwhelmed his rationality. By the time he realized what he was doing, he had already climbed up the steep slope with all his strength and held on tightly. That bottle of water even spilled a few drops because of excessive shaking when the bottle cap was unscrewed.

How could there be water here?Who let it go?Will it be poisonous?

Shen Xiaoqi couldn't think of anything.All his mind and all his senses were focused on the extremely sweet liquid in his throat. He couldn't think of anything else. Empty water bottle in hand.

Immediately afterwards, he thought of something in a blink of an eye, and his mind exploded——

Step Wei!

Shen Xiaoqi turned his head suddenly, and before he could see the fainted girl not far away, all the accidents happened again.

With a bang, the mud splashed, and he suddenly lost weight, the ground below him collapsed, and his whole body fell into the pit along with countless hay and ash!

·

"The second investigation team has made no progress!"

"The first investigation team did not find the target!"

"Six Detective Team is expanding the search area to the surrounding area!"

The announcements on the walkie-talkie came one after another, and countless uniformed policemen led police dogs to trek through the complex primitive mountain forests, and suddenly barking and barking sounded one after another.

Qin Chuan raised the walkie-talkie: "This is the Four Detective Team! We found something!"

The police dog ran wildly in the forest, followed by the criminal police and search and rescue personnel. After a while, only the barking of the dog came from the thorn bushes behind the slope.In an instant, everyone was overjoyed. Qin Chuan didn't care that he almost stepped on the potholes and sprained his feet. He rushed to the front with both hands and feet. thornbush.

"Wow!" "Wow!"

The search and rescue team lost their voice in excitement: "It must have been found!"

Qin Chuan threw the machete away, and in desperation, he ignored the other things and pushed aside the thorny bushes——

·

"Cough cough cough..."

The pit was filled with smoke and dust, and the fall fell at least two meters deep, almost breaking Shen Xiaoqi's lungs out of his throat.

His fractured left arm was completely unable to move, but fortunately, it was cushioned by the fallen leaves so that nothing serious happened.After an unknown period of time, Shen Xiaoqi finally stopped his bloody cough, barely supported himself with the unbroken arm, got up from the wet soil under his body, and suddenly felt that the touch of his hand was not right.

He took a closer look, and saw that half of a rotten face was facing him, and the eyes that were clouded into gray balls were staring straight at him.

Shen Xiaoqi's brain was completely blank, and his whole body was trembling as if electrified. He wanted to crawl away but his limbs were weak.

"Ah...ah..."

It seems that after a long century, the inhuman scream finally broke out from his stretched throat: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

In a trance, the corpse turned into a grinning face with a big mouth gaping open, and the white bones were lifted up, imprisoning his hands with blood.Shen Xiaoqi rolled and crawled back like crazy, kicking his legs while screaming, his voice was indescribably horrific, until the back of his head slammed into the rocks on the edge of the pit hard, and finally his eyes went black .

Before losing consciousness, he vaguely heard a voice from above his head, as if someone had finally rushed over and stopped at the edge of the pit.

"...The police are here and are searching the mountain..."

"That's too late……"

Shen Xiaoqi's ears were buzzing, he couldn't hear anything clearly, and he collapsed to the ground with the rapid loss of sanity.

Until the last moment before his consciousness disappeared, he was still holding the empty mineral water bottle tightly in his hand.

·

Wow!The thorn bushes were pushed away with bare hands, Qin Chuan jumped up with his body, stepped forward a few steps, and suddenly stopped.

The policemen followed up one after another, and they all froze there for a moment.

A few police dogs were barking anxiously, sniffing something back and forth, but there was no one on the backside of the grass-covered slope, let alone Shen Xiaoqi and Buwei, there was not even a ghost except for the policemen.

Qin Chuan panted and raised his hand to look at his watch. It was already 4:[-]—there were only [-] minutes left in this life-and-death tug-of-war!

"The Fourth Detective Team reports the situation!" "How about Qin Chuan?" "The Fourth Detective Team, quickly report your situation!"...

The walkie-talkie was full of roars one after another, but the scene was dignified and tense, no one answered or even made a sound, and the faces looking at each other were all blue and white.A member of the forest search and rescue team couldn't help but almost burst into tears, and kept saying, "What should I do, Vice Captain Qin, why is the dog barking when there's nothing there..."

Suddenly Qin Chuan stopped him with a wave of his hand, stepped forward and squatted in the grass to search carefully for a long while, carefully drawing out something with his fingertips from the dead branches.

"This is……"

"Clothes." Qin Chuan stared at the few strands of fabric thread under the nails that others couldn't see at all: "This dyeing may be the camouflage pants worn by Shen Xiaoqi."

Everyone caught up at once, and before they had time to take a closer look, at this moment, something suddenly sounded faintly in the distance, like an indistinct scream, and then the birds on the treetops fluttered up. It made people look up.

"Wang Wang Wang!!"

The police dogs scrambled to the direction of the sound, Qin Chuan suddenly got up, and his roar sounded from all the walkie-talkie channels in every corner of Tianzong Mountain at the same time: "Follow up!"

Turning around the wilderness and the bushes, passing through the woods several times, it suddenly became clear that a large phoenix forest burned down from a high place.Everyone was stunned by the unexpected scene, and then saw the police dog pawing the ground and running frantically to a certain place in the shade of the hillside.

"The fourth detective team has found the target Phoenix Grove, and the police dogs have found it, and we are following up!" Qin Chuan thrust the walkie-talkie into his right shoulder, and followed in three steps at a time.

The search and rescue team stumbled and stumbled in the jungle where no one had passed by for many years. The aerial roots hidden under the humus layer were criss-crossed, and they would fall if they took two steps.But at this time, no one cares about the pain. Many people rely on willpower to get up and then fall, fall and then get up again. Hearing all kinds of noisy roars from the walkie-talkie:

"Eight seven!"

"Eight zero seven forty seconds!"

"Qin Chuan," Director Lu's steady voice came from the walkie-talkie, saying, "There is less than a minute left."

The nerves in everyone's minds are becoming more and more tense, almost reaching the limit, and the invisible lead is gradually burning to the end——

Qin Chuan gritted his back molars, drew his gun and slammed into the sky twice. In the twilight, countless birds wrapped in fallen leaves sang and flew away!

This is to deter possible kidnappers nearby, which is the same reason as a police car honking its horn, but no one knows whether it will be effective against such a frenzied perverted kidnapper.The policemen behind Qin Chuan stopped and looked blankly at the darkened sky. Except for the echo of gunfire in the valley, the surroundings fell into a desperate silence.

The search and rescue time is obviously so short and hasty, but at this moment every second is endlessly long.

tick-

At exactly [-]:[-], the dust stirred up by the footsteps slowly fell back onto the soil.

There was obviously no sound, but it was as if a heavy hammer smashed the invisible bomb in the void, and the barking of police dogs sounded in front of it!

"found it!"

"There! There!!"

Roaring tore everyone's eardrums, all the search and rescue teams in the valley raised their heads at the same time, and in the command vehicle at the middle of the mountain, Director Lu suddenly got up.

"Found it!" Qin Chuan ran towards the several police dogs gathered tens of meters ahead, and didn't even notice how many times he scrambled and fell. Drive up! Hurry up!—”

Looking down from a high place, Bu Wei and Shen Xiaoqi were lying quietly among the grass at the bottom of the hillside, and their bodies could not see any breathing ups and downs.

A line of sky leaked from the canopy changed from pale yellow to deep blue, and the night opened its magnificent curtain.In the world, only the blood bubbling from under the bodies of the young girls became the last touch of crimson and dazzling color.

·

Jiangyang County Hospital, emergency room.

The red light went out suddenly, and then the door was pushed open. At the same moment, Jiang Ting stood up abruptly, only to see the doctor come out while taking off his mask.

"The bullet has been dug out. The operation was very successful. It can be said that it is out of danger. However, although the internal organs and major blood vessels were not injured, how could there be so much blood loss? You need to rest for a while, young and young, don't know Heavy..."

The surroundings were spinning, and the doctor's voice became farther and farther away, gradually turning into nothingness.

"Oh, what's the matter with you—Nurse! Nurse!"

Jiang Ting's eyes darkened, his mind was in a trance, as if he felt that he was being supported by others.It took several seconds for him to regain consciousness. He was carried to a bench by the medical staff and sat down, surrounded by human voices.

"I'm fine, I'm fine...thank you." Jiang Ting's hands trembling like ice cubes, took the hot honey water brought by the nurse in a hurry, and took a sip from his lips.

"Comrade police," the head nurse squeezed out from the crowd, and handed over the constantly ringing mobile phone: "Your phone number."

Jiang Ting's cell phone hadn't survived, or something was wrong, it only rang but the screen didn't turn on, and the caller ID couldn't be seen.He glanced at the screen, picked it up and put it to his ear and asked, "Hello?"

"Hey, Consultant Lu, it's me, pony!"

Jiang Ting didn't have the strength to answer, and looked up at the clock on the white wall.

"News came from Tianzong Mountain. The hostage, Consultant Lu, was found! ——Phoenix Grove! Both Buwei and Shen Xiaoqi are alive, alive!!"

The background sound of Ma Xiang's roar was extremely noisy, and he must have just received the news.Jiang Ting withdrew his gaze, the three words that came out of his throat were hoarse and flat, he couldn't hear any signs of weakness, and he didn't have the slightest emotion of joy, anger or excitement, he just said, "Got it."

"Deputy Team Qin is leading people to block the entrance and exit of Tianzong Mountain, trying to catch the kidnapper overnight. After eating the bear's heart, the leopard dares to attack the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the City Bureau! This time we will not let a fucking fly go, we must take it These grandchildren are uprooted!..."

Jiang Ting hung up the phone and gently threw the phone to his side.

"Are you okay, Comrade Police?" The head nurse worriedly looked at his face that did not look like a living person at all: "Come on, help this police officer to the ward for an examination. He may have acute hypotension. Ask someone to take two Glucose up!"

Jiang Ting thanked him, was supported by the little nurse and walked forward, and suddenly struggled to stop.

"I'm sorry," he said in a frighteningly low voice, and he had to get close to be heard, but he was still very polite: "Can you put me next to the policeman who is doing surgery inside, if it's not troublesome... ..."

The head nurse hurriedly agreed, Jiang Ting nodded, turned around and was carefully supported to leave.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Jiang Ting, who finished his examination, was lying in the ward with an infusion needle in his hand, and beside him was Yan Yan who had just been pushed in and settled down.

The chief expert personally led people to arrange all kinds of medical instruments and monitoring equipment, and was busy for a long time, until all the machines and hoses were in order, and the doctors and nurses retreated one after another.As the door closed, the snow-white ward suddenly became quiet, only the heart rate monitor beeped slowly and flashed red and green.

Jiang Ting turned his head and looked at the bed next door.

Yan Yan was wearing a breathing mask, which covered most of the outline of his side face, but his handsome eyebrows and eyes were still clearly visible under the branched black hair and sharp-edged forehead.

"..." Jiang Ting stood up forcefully and pulled out the infusion needle.

The back of his hand was slender and white, and the light blue blood vessels were very obvious. A stream of blood dripped out along with the needle, but he didn't seem to feel it at all. Holding the bedside table, he walked to Yan Yan and sat down next to him, heaving a long breath.

Yan Xie's heartbeat and vital signs were very stable, and with the ups and downs of breathing, warm white air was slightly emitted from the oxygen mask.Jiang Ting grabbed his hand and clenched it tightly, feeling that hand that was full of tiny scars and calluses pressed hard on his palm, even to the point of aching.

The slight pain finally made him confirm that the man was still alive and lying in front of him.

Jiang Ting breathed out silently, raised his hand to smooth Yan Mao's serious frown even in a coma, and then looked carefully at Zhang's handsome face, a trace of something that he didn't even notice gradually appeared in his eyes. Warm and sad emotions.

"...Bai has a shrewd look," he murmured, "Stupid."

Jiang Ting was extremely tired, he leaned over and rested his forehead lightly on Yan Yu's strong arm.

·

The mountain forest has been completely plunged into darkness, the wind passes through the treetops, and the howling of wild beasts can be faintly heard from the distant hills.Several police cars surrounded the command car with their high beams on. Qin Chuan had a satellite phone on his shoulder.

"Old Yan is out of danger? All right, I'll go, good luck. ... Yes, the two victims should have fallen from the top of the hillside. It's hard to say if they stumbled. I can't tell. In addition, there is a pit on the top of the hillside There is a young male corpse inside, according to Li Yuxin's confession, it should be He Liang, and he has already pretended to be sent to the Municipal Bureau with Dagou... Hey! It's been almost a year since he was buried! ...Yes, yes, I understand, if there is any situation, please contact the city bureau immediately."

"Deputy Qin, Deputy Qin!" Gao Panqing jumped into the car and said, "Come on, I found something!"

Qin Chuan was caught by Gou Li and applied yellow potion on both hands, unable to hang up the phone, he turned around with his head tilted and shoulders shrugged: "What's the matter?"

Gao Panqing lifted the physical evidence bag in his hand, and under the bright headlights, he saw an empty mineral water bottle in the bag: "This was found by trace inspection at the bottom of the earth pit where He Liang's bones were buried. A small amount of liquid remains, and another bottle cap has been packed separately."

--Mineral water bottles?

Qin Chuan took the evidence bag and looked at the light, and suddenly took a "hissy" breath: "...He Liang's bones were buried in July last year."

Gou Li didn't understand what it meant: "Yes, they're all bones."

"But the production date of this bottle of Nongfu Spring...was three months ago."

The carriage suddenly fell into silence, Qin Chuan, Gou Li and Gao Panqing looked at each other, a slight chill slowly creeping up the bone marrow.