Breaking Through the Clouds

The next day, Tianzong Mountain.

A Mercedes-Benz G bounced across the mountain road, and was cut into countless marks by the sharp branches along the way, and finally turned off with a bang and stopped on the side of the road.

"Fuck..." Yan Yan slammed the car door, touched the door and the hood with a bit of heartache, and helped out Jiang Ting, who had already turned pale from the shock: "It's really fucking hard to come to this damn place. .”

Jiang Ting waved his hands and couldn't speak, and suddenly covered his mouth: "Ugh—"

For a moment, Yan Yan thought he was going to vomit on himself, but then he realized that it was just retching, Jiang Ting coughed a few times before forcing down his churning stomach, took a few sips of water.

"Look at you," Yan Yan said with distressed face, "Don't hold on, what are you afraid of, let's get the certificate when you are pregnant."

With great difficulty, Jiang Ting swallowed the water with difficulty, and asked exhaustedly, "Do you know that in this wilderness, if you are buried on the spot for three months, no one will find you?"

Yan Xie: "Hey, you've put it on the table. Didn't you pay enough for nutrition or didn't pay enough for the dowry? Do you want to buy you two more half-jin dragon and phoenix gold bracelets to hang on your hands?"

The entrances and exits of several major roads in Tianzong Mountain were checked by the police. The area where the incident occurred was surrounded by a cordon, and he passed several checkpoints when driving up the mountain.Yan Yan knew that the road was difficult, so he specially drove out the G65 that had been parked in the city center for a long time and was covered with dust, but it was true that the closer to Fenghuang Forest, the more rugged and difficult the road, and finally he had to throw the big G to the side of the road.

The two of them walked through the woods with one foot deep and one foot shallow, supporting each other, and trekked towards the fiery red phoenix forest on the top of the mountain.

Yan Xie said: "Almost you can get it. Three matchmakers, six hires, eight sedan chairs, and the house can add your name, but you must listen to me when you get the certificate. Let's discuss other conditions. Whether the banquet will be held on your side or my side ? Or do both? If you don’t want the dowry, keep it for yourself as your own money, and I guess I have to subsidize you a little bit.”

Jiang Ting held on to the stone with one hand, and was pulled tight by Yan Yan with the other hand. He gritted his teeth and tried his best to climb up the steep slope. He staggered a bit before standing still.

"It's just that you have to take good care of your body." Yan Yan babbled and taught him: "Look at you, don't work so hard in handling cases in the future, if you have nothing to do, it would be nice to raise a dog and water the flowers at home, and why not go shopping and have afternoon tea... ..."

Jiang Ting supported his knees and panted for a while, "Here we are."

"what?"

Jiang Ting raised his chin to signal: "Execution place."

Yan Xie looked back, and on the top of the steep hill not far away, lush poinciana trees were scattered scattered. The open space was surrounded by a yellow and black cordon supported by wooden sticks, and a deep pit was obviously sunken in the ground.

——That's where He Liang was buried and Buwei Shen Xiaoqi was attacked.

"Afternoon tea is waiting for me," Jiang Ting sighed, got up and staggered over.

He Liang's bones had already been taken out and transported away, even a layer of sand, gravel and ash at the bottom of the pit had been planed off, and Gou Li personally supervised the transport back to the city bureau for inspection.Jiang Ting squatted on the edge of the inverted cone-shaped pit and looked down. Yan Xie came over and stood beside him, only listening to him say: "The depth is at least one meter."

"Hmm, to be exact, the deepest part is nearly two meters deep, and the excavated soil has been piled up in the Phoenix Forest. The bottom of the pit is covered with thick weeds, fallen leaves, wooden strips, etc. Most of the thin wooden strips have obvious traces of crushing."

"trap?"

"It should be a simple but effective trap. I made it myself when I went hunting in Africa a few years ago. First, I hollowed out the soil, made a load-bearing layer with wooden sticks and haystacks on it, and then piled up floating soil and fallen leaves, etc. The meat is used as bait; the prey comes up and breaks the flimsy stalks of the haystack, and falls into the pit with a bang."

Jiang Ting turned his head and glanced at him: "The bait should be water, right?"

"It should be," Yan Yan said, "according to the on-site technical investigation's speculation, Shen Xiaoqi should have drank the bottle of water while standing on the trap, and his own weight collapsed the load-bearing layer, and then fell in unexpectedly and landed on He Liang. .”

They both fell silent for a moment.

Thinking about it, the scene was really scary, the ground under my feet suddenly collapsed, and I fell directly into the corpse to face to face...

Jiang Ting coughed: "Have you extracted the nearby footprints and fingerprints?"

"There are some footprints, and there are markers on the ground. However, it rained that night, and the scene was completely destroyed, so there is not much reference value." Yan Xie sighed and said: "At present What is certain is that there was more than one criminal who entered and exited the scene at the time of the incident, which is consistent with Li Yuxin's confession, and it should be a kidnapping gang appointed by the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Can the gang escape?"

"Look at the surrounding geographical environment yourself." Yan Yan pointed helplessly: "This hillside, bushes, primeval forest - I don't mean to just find a mountain nest to hide in, look at the grass nests all over the ground. They are more than half the height of a person, and they can’t be found at a distance of ten meters.”

Jiang Ting said casually: "Come on, your field work is rough." He stood up, but his legs became numb after squatting for a long time, and he fell into the pit uncontrollably.

"—Hey, be careful!"

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Yan Yan grabbed Jiang Ting and wrapped him in his arms just before he fell into the pit. Due to the impact of inertia, both of them took several steps back at the same time.

"..."

Jiang Ting's entire face was forcibly pressed into the shoulder socket by Yan Yan, and the smell of male hormones mixed with the pleasant smell of perfume rushed to his face.His expression became a little stiff in an instant, he slowly raised his head and took a half step back, just as he was about to say something to divert the topic without incident, but he found that there was a suspicious look in Yan Yan's eyes.

"Did you do it on purpose?" Yan Yan said.

Jiang Ting: "..."

"Then you have to go back to the car first. The scene of the crime here is so bad."

Jiang Ting took a deep breath and forced himself to quickly flash back to the touching scenes at the bottom of the river in Jiangyang County in his mind. After half a minute, his psychological construction and self-cultivation level had been geometrically improved, and he was calm. Said: "Let's go through the case again first."

Yan Xi pinched his chin, obviously still very suspicious.

"Judging from the traces at the scene, the kidnappers and the two victims' footprints came down the hillside respectively, and then the victim's footprints disappeared, and the footprints of several kidnappers deepened obviously. They should have carried the victim to the top of the hillside, in this position."

Jiang Ting walked to the place where the yellow pole was inserted not far away, leaned over to scrape through the grass, observed the traces in the soil that had dried up, and then walked back to the pit along the sign:

"I don't know what happened after that. Maybe Buwei was under the control of the kidnappers or passed out like Li Yuxin. Shen Xiaoqi came to the top of the trap alone to get water, fell into the pit dug by the kidnappers in advance, and then confronted He Liang. The ossified bodies wreaked havoc."

Yan Xie said: "But Li Yuxin's DNA can still be detected from He Liang's nails, which is enough to prove who killed him."

"As long as something happens, there will be evidence left... You see, Shen Xiaoqi struggled at the bottom of the pit and left obvious traces. During this process, the mineral water bottle fell into the pit."

Jiang Ting said as he squatted down again. The police had already set up stones on the edge of the pit as a support point. He wanted to climb down slowly to have a look, but Yan Yan stopped him: "It's too slippery, don't go down." Said Then he jumped into the pit nimbly and with a bang.

Jiang Ting gave up safely, squatted on it and watched Yan Yan check everywhere, and asked after a long time, "Did you find anything?"

"No—! What are you doing? Be careful not to fall down again and let me pick it up! Although I don't mind picking it up, don't do the same trick twice!"

Jiang Ting: "..."

Yan Yan felt very good about himself, stood up and patted his cuffs covered with dirt:

"The empty mineral water bottle was taken back by the technical team and inspected from the inside to the outside. Even the plastic on the bottle body was cut out for laboratory analysis. It is basically confirmed that it is an ordinary bottle of mineral water and has no messy drug ingredients. The saliva on the mouth of the bottle and the fingerprints on the bottle point to the same point, that is to say, if Shen Xiaoqi feeds Bu Wei mouth-to-mouth, then he drinks the whole bottle of water alone, and Bu Wei didn't catch it at all, which is in line with the "betrayal" in the kidnapping case imagery."

Jiang Ting nodded and remained silent.

"Let's restore the situation at the time of the incident," Yan Yan said: "Suppose the kidnappers chased, lured or coerced the two victims to come to the vicinity of Fenghuang Forest, and then put this bottle of water on the open space, which made them have a strong desire to survive. Shen Xiaoqi crawled over and drank it by himself, then fell into the pit; finally woke up Buwei, and forced her to execute Shen Xiaoqi who betrayed him just like Li Yuxin."

Yan Yan stepped on the stones and climbed up to the ground, squatted down and gestured:

"But at this distance, Buwei can't reach Shen Xiaoqi anyway, unless he smashes his head with a rock."

"Bu Wei may not have the strength to lift a big rock." Jiang Ting shook his head and said, "And the meaning of killing a person at close range is completely different from using a weapon at a long distance. You can tell from He Liang's nails——Li Yuxin must be It took a struggle to stab him to death. The method of killing is usually a very important and unchangeable part of the execution ceremony from ancient times to the present."

"So the kidnappers took a lot of trouble to get Shen Xiaoqi up from the pit, just to allow Bu Wei to stab him to death with his own hands? Why didn't they give Bu Wei a knife and get her down? It's obviously more convenient for a girl to be lighter."

Yan Xie and Jiang Ting stood by the pit, they looked at each other, feeling very strange to each other.

Suddenly Jiang Ting seemed to think of something: "...how many possibilities do you think the K of Spades was at the scene on the day of the crime?"

"If I were a drug dealer, I wouldn't dare to show my face when the police closed the mountain. Li Yuxin's confession also showed that the mastermind behind the scenes contacted her through a satellite phone. But it is more difficult to say about the K of Spades, mainly because we are in Hu Weisheng's house. I met him once on the rooftop, and the behavior of this drug lord seems to be..." Yan Xie frowned and thought about his words, "I think I have a long life."

Jiang Ting smiled shortly: "I don't think he will appear here, and he didn't talk to the scene on the day of the incident."

"why?"

"Command vehicle."

This answer was quite concise, but Yan Xi suddenly realized.

——Several command vehicles were nearby on the day of the incident, and any short-wave signals and satellite communications could not escape the channel monitoring system of the command vehicle.In other words, if a person like Spade K who monitored Li Yuxin's killing of He Liang the whole time, if he wanted to satisfy his extreme paranoia about the execution ceremony, he could only ask his subordinates to record the whole process!

"In the wilderness, it's impossible to carry a camera, but if the execution process is under the pit, the mobile phone can't record it clearly." Jiang Ting said lightly: "So we can only pull Shen Xiaoqi up, and several kidnappers surround the victim. Like when Li Yuxin killed He Liang..."

"But why were the two victims found at the bottom of the hillside and pushed down by the kidnappers?" Yan Yan wondered.

This question is really difficult to explain.

Even if they use all the evidence on the scene to try to restore the situation at the time of the crime, they can't grow the eyes of the sky, or turn back time, and go back to the scene to witness what the victim went through.

Jiang Ting took a breath, rubbed his gloved fingertips lightly on his throat, and murmured after a long time: "Perhaps Buwei made a completely different choice from Li Yuxin, so that she will also be executed... But anyway, it was weird to fall off a cliff."

Yan Yan was immersed in the case at first, but when he glanced at him, he saw him slightly raising his head and touching his slender and straight neck, and suddenly swallowed uncontrollably.

Jiang Ting asked, "What do you think?"

"Oh, huh? What?"

Jiang Ting: "..."

The two stared blankly at each other, and Yan Yan hurriedly looked at his watch to hide his absent-mindedness: "Let's go, what time is it? It's useless to read on, let's wait until the victim wakes up."

——Indeed, in the current stalemate and unpredictable situation, only when Buwei or Shen Xiaoqi wakes up can they provide key clues, otherwise it is difficult to make breakthrough progress.

There was nothing Jiang Ting could do. It was past four o'clock at this time, and it was estimated that he would arrive in the evening when driving back to Jianning City.The two of them could only walk down the steep hillside cautiously and staggeringly, Yan Xie helped Jiang Ting who was about to fall from time to time, and walked for a long time before returning to the big G car through the woods, like riding a bouncing car It seems that the off-road vehicle with superior performance is driven down the mountain.

The carriage was bouncing and bouncing on the bumpy mountain road. Yan Xie took out the cigarette case and signaled to Jiang Ting.

"Look at your face." Yan Yan lit a cigarette by himself, and said, "I will treat you to dinner when I return to the city, and make up for it."

Jiang Ting's calm and clear voice when he was analyzing the case was quite weak at the moment: "If you mention eating again, be careful I'll spit it in your car..."

Before the words fell, Yan Xie looked over in horror, and stepped on the brakes with a thud.

Jiang Ting's drowsy mind finally remembered that this is the top-end G65. If he really vomited in the car, he would probably be caught and sold by Yan Yan... Selling his kidney, he quickly sat upright: "It's okay, I can still- —”

The next second he choked.

Yan Yan didn't open the window, and didn't drive him out of the car. Instead, without hesitation and impatiently, Shua took off his shirt, put his hands in front of him and said, "Spit it up."

Jiang Ting: "?"

Jiang Ting gritted his teeth and endured all of Jiang Ting's overwhelming desires at the moment he saw the label on his shirt, but Yan Xie didn't care about it at all.Seemingly unintentional, he deliberately turned his body around, fully showing the strong lines of his upper body, and sighed: "The time and money I have been willing to be cheated by my personal trainer over the years are just for this moment!"

Jiang Ting: "..."

Yan Xi started the car with emotion, his naked muscles stood proudly under the sunlight.Beside him, Jiang Ting held the clothes that must be more expensive than the car washing fee with a blank expression, and never thought of throwing up all the way.

Yan Yan just like this, with a cigarette in his mouth, shirtless, drove the big G that was so cool all the way back to Jianning, and harvested countless horns along the way.When getting off the highway, he was accosted by the beautiful car owner in front, and he couldn't help but feel very complacent. He looked sideways at Jiang Ting several times, with the meaning of "Look, why don't you hurry up and get acquainted with the goods".

Jiang Ding covered his face with his clothes and pretended to be asleep.

The two didn't return to Jianning until after eight o'clock, and the sky was getting dark.According to Yan Xie, it has been very tiring in the past few days. At this time, we should go to a restaurant with an atmosphere to have a good meal. If it is not possible, we can order a "not shabby" takeaway seafood porridge, and let Jiang Ting see what it is It was authentic geoduck; however, he hadn't decided which seafood porridge takeaway was not shabby, when suddenly his cell phone rang, and it was the City Bureau's number.

"Hello, old Gao?"

Yan Yan listened intently for a moment, Jiang Ting stopped pretending to be asleep, and lifted his clothes to reveal his face.

"Okay, I see, I'll take a look later."

Yan Xie hung up the phone, then looked at Jiang Ting and sighed, affectionately and lovingly: "Why can't I even let you have a good meal?"

"..." The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder struck too hard. Jiang Ting wanted to ask him what Gao Panqing said, but he forgot the words in an instant.

Fortunately, Yan Xie's rage was stopped, and he took the initiative to give him the answer: "Lao Gao called to say that Bu Wei woke up, and her mental state is not very good."

He paused, and asked apologetically, "Can I buy you two buns?"