Breaking Through the Clouds

Yan Yan didn't wait for long, a police car came from a distance and stopped beside him.

Gao Panqing's greatest advantage is that he faithfully and meticulously executed every instruction of Yan Yan. When Yan Yan asked him to bring it "in person", he really drove Jiang to a stop by himself, and the car had not stopped yet. Then he lowered the car window: "Brother Yan, I just heard from the platform that there is a public phone booth near the Hongxing Road subway station, and I found that the girl suspected of Buwei made a few calls there, so are we now..."

Crash!Yan Xie forcefully opened the car door, pulled Jiang Ting's arm to pull him out of the car, and then shoved him into the Phaeton he was driving.

"You go to investigate the situation first, and focus on inspecting Shen Xiaoqi's hospital, school, Buwei's usual place, and her good friends' homes." Yan Xie's instructions were concise and clear: "Once you find clues, contact the radio at any time. act on your own initiative."

Gao Panqing said: "Yes!" Before they all landed, the Phaeton flew away with a bang, leaving only a curling tail of smoke in place.

Before Jiang Ting could fasten his seat belt, he was pushed backward by the inertia of the vehicle when it started.Immediately, I saw Yan Yan staring ahead, holding the steering wheel with his left hand, while his right hand was stretched out and inserted into his trouser pocket, and he accurately took out the sync monitor, and pressed and held to turn it on.

The small indicator light flickered a few times before returning to silence.

——The battery soaked in concentrated salt water is indeed exhausted.

Only then did Jiang Ting fasten his seat belt, rubbed his shoulders that were stiff due to the violent dragging, and said calmly, "What's wrong?"

"Where is Buwei?" Yan Xi asked without answering.

Jiang Ting said: "I'm not Buwei, how would I know..." Before he finished speaking, the whole person suddenly leaned forward, and it was Yan Yan who stepped aside and stepped on the brakes!

Beep beep—the car behind drove away with an angry horn, but Yan Yan seemed to have not heard it, and calmly turned to the co-pilot:

"Where's Buwei?"

At 06:30 in the evening, the setting sun gradually slanted to the west, dyeing half of the sky orange.The torrent of get off work and school washes over the city center. The dark car film cuts off any prying eyes, but the outside world can still be clearly seen from inside the car.

Students with backpacks, housewives in a hurry, and couples holding hands passed by on the sidewalk, casting curious eyes on this seemingly ordinary but extraordinarily spacious black Volkswagen.

Jiang Ting lowered his gaze, and Shaoqing raised his head and asked, "You don't think I hid that little girl, do you?"

There was no trace of joy or anger on Yan Xie's face, but every word was full of oppressive power: "You did it on purpose."

"You don't want her to tell the police more, so it's designed - you just let her go."

The mobile phone kept vibrating in the glove compartment, and reports from all walks of life continued to come in: traffic police, special police patrols, public security brigades, city bureau inspections...but there was no breakthrough news.Countless large nets were cast in the vast sea of ​​people, but the little girl in a white floral nightgown disappeared like a small fish in an instant.

Everyone is anxious and busy, and everyone is looking for her.

No one noticed the tense confrontation in the corner of the city.

"What do you want me to do, Yan Yan?" Jiang Ting finally spread his palms, as if a little helpless: "Buwei knows who I am and who I am. Even if she is let go, she can't be Stir up any disturbances, because it is already an outcast for the K of Spades; but if she is handed over to the police, do you know how many lies she will tell that cannot be verified? If you were me, what will you do?"

Yan Mo's every word seemed to be frozen: "So you handed her over to the king of spades to silence her?"

"No." Jiang Ting said decisively, "From the moment she fell into the hands of the police, the King of Spades has completely and completely disappeared from her world, and will never appear again. Of course, Bu Wei herself may still Didn't notice this, so she just made those few phone calls near the subway station that were destined not to be answered."

Yan Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was weighing the truth of his words extremely harshly, and said slowly after a while: "Why do you know the King of Spades so well?"

Just as Jiang Ting opened his mouth to speak, Yan Yan suddenly raised his index finger, which was a concise and powerful command to silence.

"Remember the time when we met the king of spades on the rooftop of Hu Weisheng's house?"

"..."

"After you knocked that killer named Ajie into the corridor, I climbed up to the roof and saw Spade K follow the corridor with a gun. Later in the hospital, I told you that I saw an unexplainable scene, but you They only cared if I saw the face of the King of Spades, but didn't ask what that scene was."

Yan Mao leaned forward slightly, at such a close distance, both of them could only stare at each other's eyes.

"What is that?" Jiang Ting said calmly.

Yan Yan stretched out his right hand, slowly unbuttoned the second and third buttons of Jiang Ting's shirt, and then pulled down one side of the skirt, revealing his thin and straight shoulders:

"When you fall down the stairs, dislocating your left hand is not an afterthought in the hospital."

He paused and said, "It was the K of Spades who connected it to you."

Jiang Ting's expression seemed to change, and he raised his hand to stop Yan Mao, but he was pushed back as soon as he made a move.

"From the time when Li Yuxin was interrogated in Jiangyang County, you knew that those 'executors' were just your substitutes. Then you told me that from the perspective of Spade King, you didn't betray the entire organization, but Betrayed him as a person—that's a complete lie, too."

"The fact is that in his opinion, he betrayed you."

"Then what is the relationship between you, K of Spades, and even this drug cartel?" Yan Yan pressed his thumb on the red mole on his shoulder, and looked straight into Jiang Ting's eyes: "—has been in and out Room 701 where Red Heart Q stayed, Jiang, Captain, and Captain who even left fingerprints on the inside of the door frame?"

Suspicion flashed in Jiang Ting's eyes, and he grabbed Yan Xie's wrist regardless of the obstruction: "What fingerprints are you talking about?"

"..."

"Who told you that I have been in and out of Room 701?"

Jiang Ting's skeptical expression did not seem to be fake, but before Yan Yan could answer, the radio rang suddenly: "Attention all, all attention, the inspection confirmed that the target was found near Dongping Subway Station. Repeat, the inspection confirmed that it was at Dongping Subway Station Target found nearby!"

Yan Xie resolutely withdrew his hand, grabbed the radio: "I'll go there now." Then he pulled the handbrake and stepped on the accelerator.

But then, Jiang Ting grabbed his hand again: "It's too late, she obviously took the subway to transfer after finishing the phone call!"

Jiang Ting half body leaned forward, this action made him and Yan Xie stare at each other, subtle changes took place in the air in the stalemate.He didn't let go, and Yan Yan didn't show the slightest sign of compromising; after being silent for dozens of seconds, Jiang Ting finally raised his head and let out a long breath:

"From Hongxing Road Subway Station to Dongping Subway Station, the bottom station is called Sanlihe, and there is a social children's welfare home called Jiayuan nearby. There was a transitional period between the death of Buwei's parents and the discovery by Wang Xingye. , should have been spent in this orphanage, and it was also the place where she first met the king of spades."

Yan Yan's rock-like cold and hard facial contours finally moved, but his doubts did not diminish at all: "How do you know?"

"...Because that's how I met the King of Spades back then."

The setting sun shone in from the front window of the car, half of Jiang Ting's side face was almost melted in the light, while the other half was in the stern blue darkness, he smiled at Yan Mao's gaze, even though the meaning was a bit self-deprecating: "Don't doubt. At this point, if I dare to continue to hide from you, can't I wait for you to find the Gongzhou police?"

·

The Jiayuan Social Children's Welfare Institute is a place that can't even be searched on Baidu maps, because it is located in the outskirts of the city, it is too far and remote.From the center of Jianning along Line [-], passing through the urban-suburban junction, to the Sanli River at the end, this welfare home with a mottled and rusty facade is hidden in the corner of the vegetable market; Rotten vegetable leaves, fruit skins, chicken and duck feces, and the flow of people carrying vegetable baskets also dispersed before the inconspicuous iron fence in the corner was revealed.

The faded words "Jiayuan Welfare Institute" and clumsy animal pictures were printed on the signboard, reflecting the last rays of the setting sun, making it infinitely dilapidated and desolate.

"Come here, come here." The old doorman squinted his eyes, pointed to the two-inch bareheaded photo of Buwei in Yan Yan's mobile phone, and said vaguely: "When the stall was closed just now, I saw this little girl walking by from afar. ——and looked into the door several times. Has she ever stayed in this courtyard? Then I don’t know, the house in this orphanage has been rented out long ago, so I just left it as a facade.”

Yan Xie couldn't control it for a while, and her voice changed tone: "The orphanage, which is financed by the state, has rented out all the houses privately? What about the children in the yard?"

The doorman glanced at Yan Mao with his cloudy old eyes, and shrank back vigilantly: "Children? I usually don't touch children."

Yan Yan wanted to say something, but grabbed his shoulder from behind with one hand, and pulled him back forcefully, then Jiang Ting whispered in his ear: "It's like this in many places, don't ask. "

Yan Mo ignored him, breathing in the air that smelled like fish and rotten shrimp, barely calmed down the boiling emotions, turned around and took out his mobile phone: "Hey Lao Gao, call the traffic police brigade of Sanlihe District, and call me Jiayuan Road Vegetables Surveillance video around the market, Buwei came here half an hour to an hour ago!"

Although Lao Gao was half a step behind Yan Yan, he has also rushed to the Sanlihe Police Station, so the on-site cooperation was very fast, and he called back after a while: "Brother Yan, are you near Jiayuan Road now?"

"Why, any news?"

"Buwei's mobile phone has just been turned on. Wechat sent out more than ten yuan. The recipient is a black car driver. We have asked the traffic police to stop the driver. He said that he did drive such a little girl 10 minutes ago. Get off at the Sanlihe Dam near the Hexu Road Bridge."

Yan Yan stepped on the accelerator: "Let the technical detective Lao Huang continue to locate Buwei's mobile phone, and I will go there!"

At eight o'clock in the evening, the west mountain is at dusk.

Both sides of the river bank were originally industrial land, but now many factories have been dealt with due to excessive pollution emissions.Yan Yan stayed away from the road beside the embankment, and chose a remote and desolate path to drive down. It was almost dark when he arrived near the Hexu Road Bridge; The iron bridge rushed towards the plain at the end of the line of sight.

beep!beep!

Yan Xie stopped suddenly, slapped the horn twice as if venting, and inserted his hands deeply into his hair.

"...It's useless for you to honk like this," Jiang Ting sat on the co-pilot, and said calmly, "What if she doesn't want to see you and runs away when she hears the noise."

Yan Xie's suppressed voice was full of anger: "Then what do you say?!"

Jiang Ting didn't answer, took out the cigarette case from the glove box, lit a cigarette, and the flames flickered on the side of his face.

"call……"

There was a faint fragrance of nicotine in the carriage, Yan Xie looked at him, and suddenly realized that this was the first time Jiang Ting smoked voluntarily.

——In the past, Jiang Ting would only ask for one when he saw him smoking, and he would only smoke a few puffs at most before the cigarette butt burned out slowly.

Jiang Ting tilted his head back deeply and took a puff of smoke. In the white mist, he couldn't see his expression clearly. He could only see the line from the bridge of his nose, lips to his chin facing the last bit of auspicious light in the sky. His slender and slender figure The neck extended all the way into the placket, and the collarbone was dented with a dark blue and cold shadow.

"She's nearby," Jiang Ting suddenly said in a low voice.

"what?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Yan Yan felt a little regretful in his heart, because he felt that his voice was not as cold and tough as before.But Jiang Ting didn't seem to notice it, he didn't even seem to be thinking about it, he just tilted his head and smiled shortly at Yan Yan: "Come with me."

Jiang Ting got out of the car first, and strode towards the embankment against the wind. Yan Xie hesitated for a moment, then slammed the car door and followed.

At this time, the sun had completely set, and the street lamps in the distance, one after another, extended to the dim dusk at the end of the horizon.In the farther direction, the vast sky is boundless, only the Chang Geng star is shining with a bright halo.

Jiang Ting held the cigarette between his legs, stepping on the soft grass with every foot.He saw the figure of the little boy in the void running across the field, running along a similar embankment, with his black hair fluttering in mid-air, running with his back to a certain predetermined front.

"I'm late today! I have a lot of work to do!"

A carefree child's voice wafts through the wind.

"It's ok."

"What are we going to play today? Do you want to swim? Or should we go pick dates and eat them?"

"It will be all right."

"Do you play the violin? Can I hear you play the violin?"

……

"Jiang stop."

"..."

"Jiang Ting!" Yan Yan wrapped his arms around his shoulders, almost forcing his whole body into his arms: "Wake up!"

Jiang Ting stopped in his tracks abruptly, only then did he realize that he had reached the edge of the embankment.

There is a drop of several meters under the feet, and the river rushes through the sharp bend in the night, reflecting sparkling spots—not far ahead, a girl in a white dress sits on the edge of the embankment with loose hair, facing the river, naked feet dangling in mid-air.

That's Buwei.

When the girl heard the sound, she turned her head, her eyes stared straight at the two of them, and suddenly a strange smile appeared on her pale face:

"What are you doing here, didn't you promise to let me go?"

Yan Xie looked at Jiang Ting—Jiang Ting's face was not much better than hers: "What you told me is that you will continue to go south with the money."

"...go south." Buwei murmured dreamily, "but where can I go? I have nothing... nothing."

She was sitting on a high place on the embankment, with the strong evening wind blowing her hair, and even her laughter was indistinct: "I called him, but that number became empty. He really doesn't want me anymore. Could it be Did I really do something wrong? I have always asked myself to do what he wanted, so I haven't performed well enough?"

A trace of sadness gradually appeared in Jiang Ting's eyes, as if he wanted to say something.

But Yan Xie squeezed his hand lightly, which was a hint to stop him.

"The man surnamed Wang told me to accept the 'test', so I lured Shen Xiaoqi and the others to Tianzong Mountain. I pretended not to know the childish tricks of those children-why do they do? I have never been with those idiots. People in this world, even if they don't pretend to be smart, I still have a way to hook Shen Xiaoqi into the mountains. It's ridiculous that the kid still led me around in the woods, and when I saw the opportunity to push him, he fell into the pit and fell Broken arm, I took the opportunity to record his screams..."

In an instant, Yan Xie understood, no wonder Shen's father and Shen's mother heard Shen Xiaoqi's screams as if they were being beaten severely when Shen's father and Shen's mother received the blackmail call. It was really Buwei who recorded it and gave it to the kidnappers!

"I tried my best to bring him under the phoenix forest...it was really hard work." Buwei laughed, a little complacent and sly: "But I know that the plot of the year was so hard, so I should also restore it all , because what 'he' wants to see is a reenactment! Sure enough, Shen Xiaoqi said that he would repay me, and even this oath completely copied the original script, isn't it good enough for me?"

The plot of the year, the original script.

In just a few words, Yan Yan's brows suddenly twitched.

"It's all because the police came too fast, and those people brought by Wang Xingye are ruthless and stupid!" Suddenly, Buwei's tone became particularly sharp: "They should film the execution process, and let 'him' witness me killing Shen Xiaoqi with their own eyes. , but those little guys actually said that there was not enough time! They also said that the police were coming soon! In my hurry, I could only push Shen Xiaoqi down the hillside—as long as he died, I would be considered a successful test, and I could really replace you people!"

The last few words were so sharp that it was almost ear-piercing, Bu Wei climbed up from the steep and narrow embankment, and stared at Jiang Ting fiercely.

"..." Jiang Ting shook his head slightly, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start. After a while, he smiled wryly: "But you don't know what kind of person I am..."

"Shut up! I almost succeeded, just a little bit!" Buwei's roar could be called hysterical: "It's all because those bastards are cowardly and cowardly. They were scared out of their wits when they smelled the police, and they didn't dare to take me. Go? They even pushed me down the hillside, trying to kill me! If it wasn't for them, how could I not be able to complete the execution?! How could I be abandoned?!"

In that roar, Yan Xie finally understood the confusing truth about Tianzongshan's kidnapping.

Buwei should have taken the knife from the masked man in black robe and stabbed Shen Xiaoqi to death like Li Yuxin.However, at that time Qin Chuan had already led a search near the Phoenix Grove, and the approaching police gave the kidnappers a sense of urgency, so they decided to simplify the execution process, and in a hurry, Buwei had to push Shen Xiaoqi off a high place, without even having time to check him Is it really exhausted.

Bu Wei thought that she had completed the so-called test and would be picked up by her accomplices and sent to the King of Spades, but she didn't expect that the kidnappers would not even be sure that she would escape unscathed, let alone escape with her who was extremely weak?

So maybe the subordinates made the decision without authorization, or maybe the K of Spades gave acquiescence or even hinted; in short, they did not take the risk of taking Buwei away from under the nose of the police, but tried to silence her on the spot, and simply and rudely pushed her off the cliff.

Therefore, when the police finally arrived at the foot of the phoenix forest, both Buwei and Shen Xiaoqi fell to the bottom of the hillside, but in fact the kidnappers had already used their familiarity with the terrain to escape.

Jiang Ting said with difficulty: "He abandoned you, do you want to abandon yourself too?"

There are no guardrails on the embankment, only stone piers, and an iron chain is connected between every two stone piers, so that they move forward along the river.Buwei stood at a high place, and the iron chains could only stop her calves. The girl's crumbling figure was fragile and crazy in the evening wind: "Shut up! What do you know?! I have nothing at all, and there is nothing in this world. These rotten people! Rotten people!! If I don’t earn money by myself, I will never have anything! Like those poor, worthless and hopeless rotten people!!”

"But what about you! You just took away what should belong to me so easily! If it weren't for you, I would have succeeded, and I would have returned to him smoothly!!"

"Buwei," Yan Yan suddenly said, "Don't stand there, get closer inside."

The height of the iron chain is not enough to stop her, as long as Bu Wei is not careful, she may fall off at any time.But Yan Xie's reminder didn't have any effect. The girl rolled her eyes, looked at Yan Xie suddenly, and provoked a charming and provocative smile: "Needless to say, hypocrisy, you just want to arrest me and go back to work." .”

Yan Xie's answer was very calm: "You were under the age of [-] when the incident happened, and you did not pay full criminal responsibility. Coupled with factors such as the loss of parents at a young age and the instigation and instigation of adult criminals, the court should give a lighter sentence. According to my Judging from the experience in handling cases, it should be capped at three years. Your life is still very long, and it is far from over, so let's stand closer."

Buwei's smile suddenly widened, and the arc was full of deep malice: "So my life is not over yet?"

Yan Yan frowned.

"Yeah, in the eyes of hypocritical and useless adults like you, as long as you don't die, it's not over." Buwei lowered her voice, lowered her head, and stared at Jiang Ting from bottom to top: "So 'he' abandoned me, isn't it nothing in your eyes? All the things that should belong to me have been stolen by this despicable villain, isn't it nothing?"

"Those were originally..." Jiang Ting tremblingly said: "Those crimes, blood-stained money, perverted activities... shouldn't belong to anyone..."

Yan Yan looked over suddenly, and was shocked to find that Jiang Ting was really shaking.

"Buwei," he opened his mouth, and the ending sound was mixed with obvious tremors: "Look at me, I'm not as good as you imagined at all? Don't be anyone's shadow, just be yourself, and live openly and honestly. Okay? You're still so young, you don't even know that the ideas he instilled in you are actually wrong..."

Jiang Ting couldn't hide his incoherent speech at all, so he could only keep his mouth shut, pinching his brows hard, trying to calm down his emotions.

"Liar." Buwei said coldly, "You liar."

She moved half a step outwards, this time her heels were really hanging in the air, her center of gravity tilted outwards shockingly, Yan Yan suddenly took two steps forward: "Buwei!!"

"I'm dead." Buwei seemed to be talking to herself: "He has abandoned me, what's the point of me staying in this disgusting world?"

Immediately, she raised her head sullenly, looked at Yan Yan and smiled, the corners of her eyes clearly flashed with delicate malice:

"But even so, you can never catch me."

Yan Yan's pupils suddenly constricted——

The corner of the girl's skirt drew an arc in mid-air, and she fell down the river bank!

It's faster than lightning, and it's not even a speed that the human eye can see clearly.No matter how much Yan Yan recalled afterwards, he couldn't figure out why he was half a step behind.

Jiang Ting was like an arrow leaving the string, flying in mid-air and grabbing Buwei's arm in a flash——

boom!

Jiang Ting hit the ground hard, and his upper body slid out of the embankment due to inertia, hanging in mid-air dangerously.