Breaking Through the Clouds

As if lightning had struck through his mind, Yan Yan had only one thought in the blink of an eye: No, it's not me.

It's Jiang Ting!

Fan Zhengyuan chased and killed Jiang Ting, and Jiang Ting was in the car when the group attacked the police; he was even shot because he was holding Jiang Ting in his arms at that time.

If that group didn't come for Li Yuxin, then their assassination target is self-evident!

Yan Xi's whole body was chilled to the bone, and he could not speak for a long time.

His expression was so rare that Vice Director Wei thought he was frightened, so he quickly softened his tone: "Of course, don't be too panicked. The contact is only the police's guess at the moment, and the criminals can only be investigated after they are caught. You must take good care of your wounds. I have arranged plainclothes patrols near the hospital. When you are discharged from the hospital, I will definitely let the people from the city bureau drive. Come to pick you up and go back to Jianning..."

"Ah, it's okay," Yan Yan came back to his senses, and forced a smile: "I was just distracted."

Deputy Bureau Wei looked at him awkwardly, desperately trying to hide his concern with an old face, so that his facial expression was a little distorted.

"It's okay, Fan Zhengyuan is already dead and can't die any more. The gang who caused the accident and attacked the police will be caught sooner or later. Who is behind the scenes will be revealed in the first trial." Yan Xie rubbed his chin and coughed. , Said: "I was actually thinking about Buwei and Shen Xiaoqi, are they awake? And Li Yuxin said that she saw two corpses at He Liang's execution site, which is likely to be the first in a series of kidnapping cases. A victim, is it not found somewhere yet?"

The old man surnamed Wei could finally find fault with him and scold him to cover up his overflowing affection: "How can you worry so much, kid? You are still not idle when you open your stomach? The city bureau depends on you alone to solve the case." Is it human?"

Yan Mo continued to sip his fish bones.

Wei Yao resentfully told about the current situation of Buwei and Shen Xiaoqi, the search of the kidnappers in the area where the Tianzong Mountain incident occurred, and the strange mineral water bottle at the scene, etc., and told him that the blockade has expanded to the surrounding areas of Tianzong Mountain and the border of Gongzhou Although the footprints and clothing fibers of the suspected kidnappers were extracted, no more valuable clues were found.

In addition, because Li Yuxin was suspected of being silenced, the place where she and He Liang met the kidnappers last year could not be pinpointed, which means that they knew there were two dead bodies but couldn't find them. The hall's blood pressure has soared in the past few days, and his mouth is full of anger. He is miserable. He drank two catties of traditional Chinese medicine to no avail.

As Yan Yan listened, the movement of drinking soup gradually slowed down, and Jiang Ting's voice inexplicably came to mind:

"At the beginning of midsummer, the beginning of July. This sentence means that in the evening of mid-July, the gorgeous sunset falls at [-]:[-], announcing the end of boyhood, the beginning of the time of punishment, and the long night that follows It's the entire execution process..."

"The person he really wants to execute is me."

Yan Xi put down the bowl in thought.

He vaguely felt that the crux of the current situation lay in Jiang Ting's vague words. In his unknown past, there had been events closely related to images such as betrayal and cowardice, and those memories were being manipulated by the mastermind behind the scenes. Realized through the execution ceremony, it evolved into today's serial kidnapping.

Even Hu Weisheng Ding Jiawang's drug gang and the sniper who killed Fan Si are inextricably linked to this matter.

But what exactly is the connection?

"Come on, you should rest first." Deputy Bureau Wei patted his sleeves and stood up: "Take a good rest and don't think too much. The city bureau has your remaining detachment in charge, and Qin Chuan has also been temporarily recruited to help. Your most important task Just don’t let them down, get back to health as soon as possible, and don’t leave any old wounds, ah.”

Yan Xi came back to his senses: "Qin Chuan came to the Criminal Investigation Detachment to help?"

"Then what's the matter, your team Yu has a heart attack, who dares to let her work overtime."

"...Then Qin Chuan can't decide on many things. Should he ask Team Yu or Team Fang?"

The two looked at each other for a while, Deputy Director Wei couldn't help but laughed: "Hey, are you still going to make small reports and put eye drops?"

Yan Xie said: "Fang detachment usually makes small reports on me, isn't it polite? I'm also afraid that old Fang will plant some eyeliner on me in the team. When I go back, my actions will be watched by others. It's not good." Do something."

Deputy Bureau Wei seemed to want to say something, but he hesitated and only sighed.

Yan Yan was still thinking about the case, and he just talked about the personnel changes of the Municipal Bureau. Seeing Deputy Bureau Wei, he was sensitive to something: "What?"

"Instead of worrying about Lao Fang burying nails for you, you might as well worry about what will happen to Yu Detachment after he retires from illness." Bureau Wei lowered his volume by leaning into his ear, "Deputy Bureau Wang is retiring."

Yan Xie twitched his eyebrows.

"The car has its own way to the front of the mountain, and the boat is naturally straight to the bridge. If you look at the long-term, there is no obstacle that you can't get past." Deputy Director Wei patted Yan Mao on the shoulder and said earnestly: "Young people, health is the root of everything."

Yan Xie frowned, and finally nodded, and then Deputy Director Wei took Ma Xiang away.

·

As soon as Wei Yao left, the ward became quiet again. Yan Xie stared at the bottom of the fish soup in the thermos by the bedside, and kept spinning various thoughts in his mind.

Deputy Bureau Wang, who is in charge of personnel, is about to retire, which is not a big deal at all—people will retire when they reach their age. In the public security system, except for Jiang Ting, who has a halo from the sky, most of the police are step-by-step. Promotion, as long as you don't make too many mistakes, you can always be a police inspector when you reach the age.

The bad thing is that Yu Zhu is the candidate to take over as Deputy Director Wang, and Yu Zhu has just released the rumor that she is going to retire due to illness.

If the organization intends to skip Yu Thu, then there are still people who can be promoted under her. From the perspective of qualifications, prestige, merit and age, it is obvious that the best candidate is Fang Zhenghong.

Yan Mao thought he had no major conflicts with Fang Zhenghong, except that when he was young and ignorant and just joined the Municipal Bureau, one day he went to the anti-drug detachment next door to play with Qin Chuan. Fang Zhenghong saw the watch he was wearing and boasted casually: "Your watch is not bad, which store did you buy it from?" Yan Xie, who was a fool at the age of Erlang, took off his watch in public and said, "The Royal Oak is only more than 60 yuan. Team Fang likes to take it." Apart from Fang Zhenghong's embarrassment on the spot and his dismissal, there has actually been no other embarrassment over the years.

But Fang Zhenghong seems to hold a grudge, and he has become more cautious in recent years.After returning to the team this time, his behavior became more obvious. He even broke into the criminal investigation team and pointed at Yan Mao's nose and cursed. People couldn't help but wonder if he had reached menopause, and he couldn't control himself.

Yan Xie took a breath, forcibly cleared these messy things about personnel from his mind, and focused his thinking back on the case.

In his more than ten years of career as a front-line policeman, he has experienced many major cases with twists and turns and bizarre grievances, and even some coincidences have made people superstitious to the point where there is such a thing as dead souls complaining.But a case as weird and paradoxical as the current serial kidnapping, full of layers of foggy imagery, is really unprecedented.

Now think about what Jiang Ting said in the infirmary that day, this case seemed to be inducing him to explore the inner world of the criminal, and he had to think and even empathize from the perspective of the criminal, so that he was dragged into some kind of crime. When the malicious thoughts vortexed, what did he want to express?

As a person who almost completely refuses to talk to anyone, is Jiang Ting secretly calling for help without even realizing it?

"Why haven't you come yet..." Yan Yan looked at the time again and murmured.

He thought for a while, leaned on the wall, gritted his teeth and got out of the ward.

The single ward floor is not as crowded as the ordinary floor, and there are not many people visiting the patient. He walked all the way through the corridor before being discovered by the head nurse: "Oh, Officer Yan, why are you out for a walk alone, where is your family?"

"The family members eloped with someone!" Yan Yan said angrily, "Where's your phone? Lend me for it."

The head nurse hurriedly led him to the front desk and taught him in a rambling manner: "Next time you ring the bell and ask the nurse to send a mobile phone in, don't run out by yourself. Although it is a good thing to get out of bed and take two steps, if you bump into someone But what to do, the director said that you have to stay in the hospital for at least two or three days..."

Yan Yan could only deal with it and send her away, thinking that you are thinking I am confinement, people can get out of bed the next day after the caesarean section, so what is it if I lie in bed for a week?If you hadn't forced me to stay in bed and recuperate, I would have flown to the United States to play in the NBA now!

——Fortunately, the head nurse didn't know what he was thinking, otherwise the phone would be confiscated immediately, and he would be driven back to the ward to lock him up.

"Hello?" Jiang Ting's steady voice came from the receiver.

Yan Yan looked around, but there was no one passing by, only the little nurse at the front desk not far away was squinting at him, and as soon as his eyes met, he immediately got up and left with a blushing face.

"Lu, Gu, ask," Yan Xie lowered his voice and deliberately asked each word, "Where's my lunch?"

The voice on the phone was a bit noisy, as if he was standing on the street, after a while he heard Jiang Ting say: "I asked Ma Xiang to bring that bucket of fish soup to you, drink it."

"Where are you?"

"The screen of the phone is black, come and buy a new one."

"Then you bring me one too. It doesn't need to be too good. It can be used for two days casually. Oh, by the way, don't recharge the mobile phone with blue and pink pictures. If people see it, they think I'm a pervert." what to do."

"...Go back and buy it yourself, I won't go there."

"What? Why don't you come here?"

Jiang Ting's answer was still very calm and simple: "I almost bumped into your Deputy Director Wei when I passed by today. I saw that there were a few more plainclothes police officers from the local police station around the hospital building. They should be here to protect you. It is not convenient for me to show up in this situation. , let’s go back to Jianning first, see you later.”

As soon as the words were finished, Yan Xie felt that he was about to hang up the phone, and in desperation, she knocked over the decorative flower pot on the front desk, and turned the table over: "Wait!"

"what happened to you?"

"Are you okay, Officer Yan?" The little nurse who ran away just now turned back immediately: "Oh, be careful! What's going on, please sit down!"

"Yan Xie?" Jiang Ting's voice on the receiver was obviously not very stable: "What's going on, Yan Xie, please answer!"

Just as Yan Yan was about to say something, his eyes suddenly turned and he made the most correct decision as if possessed by a god. He didn't answer Jiang Ting at all. There was a heavy muffled sound like the ground.

Then he clicked and hung up the phone.

The little nurse was shocked: "Oh, Officer Yan, you..."

"It's okay," Yan Yan smiled at her, "I'm fishing."

As he said that, he got up and patted his buttocks, and walked back to the ward to watch TV under the inexplicable stare of the little nurse.

·

Half an hour later, Yu stood at the door of the ward, with one hand in his pocket and the other hand carrying a shopping bag from the telecommunications business hall. From the tense forehead to the straight lips, it could be seen that Yu was not in a good mood.

"What happened to you just now?"

Yan Yan innocently sat cross-legged on the hospital bed and played with the TV remote control: "I didn't stand still and slipped, what's wrong?"

"..."

"Oh, look, you are still running here in a hurry, really." Yan Yan immediately got up and took out a lychee from the imported fruit basket to peel, with a warm smile on his handsome face: "Come, eat fruit, eat fruit, specially I bought it for you."

Jiang Ting didn't seem to have noticed the white lychee, and took out a new mobile phone case from his shopping bag and threw it to Yan Mo: "There are at least four or five plainclothes people inside and outside this building. What did you ask me to do?"

Yan Mao caught it and saw that it was the latest Apple, exactly the same as the one he had damaged in the water.

He couldn't help laughing, thinking that Jiang Ting was indeed Jiang Ting, but he deliberately said: "So you weren't that worried about me, look, you still have the mind to continue picking up your phone, so you can see that you are not in a hurry to come here."

Jiang Ting said coldly: "I'm not a doctor, no matter how anxious I am, I can't insert an oxygen tube for you!"

"Oh, I'm still angry." Yan Yan's face was full of compromises, so I'll coax you: "Oh, isn't Bureau Wei coming just now, saying that the investigation has made new progress, and I'm anxious to discuss it with you, Shentan Jiang? Don't get angry, policeman, be good, come and eat some fruit." He stood up and pulled Jiang Ting into the armchair beside the hospital bed to sit down, then peeled an orange with his own hands, and stuffed it into his hand.

One advantage of Jiang Ting is that because he doesn't eat much and his blood pressure is always low, he will subconsciously eat a little of the food he puts in his hands.Yan Yan watched him unhappily tore a piece of orange and stuffed it into his mouth, his eyes lingered on those lips for a long time, then he looked away and said: "The people who attacked our grandson this time are probably the same group as Fan Si. "

Jiang Ting held the orange petals in his mouth: "What?"

Yan Xie relayed Wei Ju's words to him, originally he didn't want to mention the office struggle, but because Jiang Ting had witnessed Fang Zhenghong coming to the Criminal Investigation Detachment to scold the street, he explained the possible personnel changes of the Municipal Bureau in a few words, and then He said: "If the criminals who crashed and fired this time are in the same group as Fan Sizhen, or are employed by the same employer, then it's hard to say whether their target is you, me or Li Yuxin, and it is especially dangerous for you. "

Jiang Ting seemed to be lost in thought, and put the orange he just ate on the bedside table.

"Not necessarily," he said suddenly after a while.

"uh-huh?"

"The same bullet composition only means that the two batches of killers share the same purchase channel, or come from the same area. It does not mean that their targets are all me. If someone really wants to kill me that much, there are many opportunities in Jianning to do it. It was necessary to catch me sitting in the police car, which caused too much noise and was too difficult to finish, which was contrary to the logic of normal behavior.”

——This point of view is indeed reasonable.

"Really?" Yan Yan remained calm, "Then you think the bullet incident was just a coincidence?"

Jiang Ting said, "It's possible. It's also possible that the two groups of killers happened to use the same underground agent. This clue can be traced after you return to Jianning."

Yan Yan nodded, sitting on the edge of the hospital bed, propping his hands on his knees and muttering to himself: "It's a pity that although the hostages were recovered, Li Yuxin was silenced, and the kidnappers were lost in the end... It would be great if I knew more clues. "

Jiang Ting didn't seem to hear anything, stood up and said, "There is nothing we can do if we don't have any more clues. I'll go first, take care."

"Where are you going?"

"Yang Mei found someone to take me back to Jianning."

Yan Yan suddenly raised his head, but saw that Jiang Ting had already stood up, so he turned and walked towards the door of the ward.

Just like what Jiang Ting said to himself before, he has always been empty-handed and penniless, so he comes and goes very quickly, surprises people when he appears, and is difficult to keep when he leaves.Yan Yan stared at his back and twitched his eyebrows, knowing that he could not just leave like this. During this period of time, various speculations that had been lingering in his mind were running like lightning, and suddenly an extremely bold tentative idea emerged:

"—You know that those people want to kill you, but you still dare to leave me and act alone, do you expect that 'that person' will take action again to solve the problem like killing Fan Si?"

The air in the ward seemed to freeze for a moment, then Jiang Ting turned around:

"……What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean." Yan Yan stared into his dark eyes, and stood up from the bed: "What I'm curious about is, what kind of relationship is it that allows you to tell Li Yuxin that you have betrayed me?" That person, but at the same time so confident that that person will protect you?"

Jiang Ting's body was on one side, but he didn't fully turn around to face Yan Mao.His face seemed to be frozen in white, and he said calmly after a long time: "What betrayal, I lied to her."

Yan Yan's tough face remained motionless.

Jiang Ting said: "It's very common to induce a confession during the interrogation process, don't you take it seriously?"

"I don't have to take it seriously because it's already true."

Yan Mo walked towards Jiang Ting step by step, until she stood in front of him: "That's not a confession, nor is it an interrogation technique, it's because you have indeed seen the shadow of your past from He Liang, Li Yuxin, and Bu Wei, Shen Xiaoqi. The so-called 'betrayal' has nothing to do with the two murdered boys at all, it happened between you and the mastermind behind the scenes, and only the two of you know about it."

Although Yan Xie was not healed from his injuries, he was still half a head taller than Jiang Ting when he stood up. The oppressive feeling brought by the strong male body was especially obvious when the two faced each other, almost covering Jiang Ting's profile in the shadow. :

"—It's come to this point, you still don't intend to tell the truth, do you want to watch the kidnapping continue, Captain Jiang?"

"What do you think is the truth?" Jiang Ting said, "Don't bother, just tell me, and I'll tell you."

At such a close distance, Jiang Ting had to lift his chin slightly to meet Yan Yan's gaze, but his posture was still very calm, even a little bit like ice that could not be shaken no matter what.

Yan Xie slightly lowered his head, gritted his teeth, and put it close to Jiang Ting's ear: "The person who was betrayed by you, the mastermind behind the serial kidnappings, is the gunman whose face cannot be seen clearly on the roof of Hu Weisheng, isn't it?"

"..."

"His name is Spade K, the big drug lord behind 'Ting Yun'." Yan Xie said softly, "Ding Dang explained everything in the detention center."

Jiang Ting's pupils dilated slightly when the word "Ting Yun" landed.

"Jiang Ting," Yan Yan raised his head and stared into his eyes condescendingly: "I don't want to use threats to force you to provide any clues, because I know that with your IQ, you can easily tell lies that are more real than real gold. I hope you'll be willing to trust me and cooperate with the police, but I'll be very, very disappointed in you if you insist on defending the King of Spades—"

"If the person I risked my life to save had broken ties with a drug lord, and you were the one who sincerely paid the dog wrongly, what would you do?"

Jiang Ting nodded slightly, a sneer appeared on the corner of his lips, and then the smile became more and more obvious under Yan Xie's gaze.

"The root is broken." He repeated the word with that smile, raised his eyebrows and asked, "So you thought naming a drug after an anti-narcotics policeman is not an extreme humiliation, but some kind of old love? proof?"

Yan Xie didn't say a word.

"Or, the reason why you have questions about this aspect has nothing to do with the facts of the case at all, it's purely a far-fetched attachment to me of the desires in your heart that you dare not utter—"

Jiang Ting slowly dragged out the last sound of the last word, with deliberate ridicule: "Deputy Yan?"

In an instant, Yan Xi froze in place!

It's one thing to know the secret feelings that can't be expressed, but it's another thing to speak them out.What's more, in the current situation of extreme stalemate, tearing apart recklessly, that kind of huge embarrassment, the impact is extremely violent.

A bit of polite regret appeared in Jiang Ting's eyes, he turned around and went to open the door, his movements were clean and cold.

But when his fingertips touched the doorknob, someone grabbed his right shoulder, and then he threw it over with all his strength, and before he had time to break free, he was pushed against the door panel with a "bang!"

"Far-fetched?" Yan Yan said coldly, "You really think I dare not say it?"

Jiang Ting suddenly raised his head back, but the door was against his avoiding angle, and Yan Yan had already squeezed his chin and kissed him.