spirits in throat

In the office of the first criminal investigation team, Zhou Ye sat at the table, looking at the highway monitoring screen on the computer screen with a gloomy expression.

After driving the white van that Rong Zhao took away from the city, he headed towards the western suburbs.

The car turned into a country road in the western suburbs, where there were no cameras, and the car disappeared.

Last night, Zhou Ye took people to search the western suburbs several times overnight.

Near the place where the white van disappeared, a villager working in the field saw the vehicle and said that it entered Dapeng Village inside.

Dapeng village was searched from bottom to top. In addition to people, five search and rescue dogs were brought along.

The sense of smell of police dogs is [-] times that of humans, which cannot be replaced by any instrument.The police dog finally stopped in a clearing.

Physical evidence collected shoe prints on the ground, one pair belonged to Rong Zhao, the other three pairs, one pair belonged to the driver, and two pairs belonged to the kidnappers who controlled Rong Zhao.

In addition, wheel marks that did not belong to the white van were collected.According to the traces, the brand and model of the vehicle were obtained, which belonged to a Volkswagen Lavida.

After checking the monitoring at nearby intersections, a total of 26 Volkswagen LaVidas passed by within a reasonably inferred time frame.

Fortunately, the intersection monitoring is a newly installed high-definition camera. It is inferred from the wheel pressure that ten of the 26 vehicles carry 3-5 people.

By tracing the whereabouts of these ten vehicles, four of them stopped at nearby highway rest stops.The possibility of committing the crime by these four vehicles was ruled out by calling the surveillance at the rest stop.

As of noon today, four more vehicles have been released from suspicion.

The only two left are being tracked with all their might.

Zhou Ye leaned on the back of the chair and rubbed his sore temples.He led people to search overnight. He hadn't closed his eyes for two days and one night. There was a blue-black circle around his eyes. He didn't change his clothes, and his shirt was wrinkled.

Watching surveillance video for a long time made his eyes tired and his vision blurred.Zhou Ye picked up the eye drops by the table, raised his head and dripped a few drops, and took a few sips of refreshing coffee.

Bai Xudong stood by Zhou Ye's side, and couldn't bear to say: "Go and sit on the sofa for a while, I'll watch over here, and call you if there is any situation."

Zhou Ye waved his hands, his voice was hoarse because he was too tired: "No need."

"How about the little girl saved by Rong Zhao?"

Bai Xudong replied: "After being sent to the hospital to stop the bleeding last night, she was fine. Her mother has also arrived, and Fan Yao is watching over there."

Zhou Ye hummed: "It's fine."

That was the child Rong Zhao saved by sacrificing himself, so nothing happened.

Zhou Ye picked up the cigarette case on the table, took out the last cigarette inside, tilted his head, lit it, took a few puffs and said, "I'll go see that child in the afternoon."

That hospital is very close to the city bureau, and the round trip only takes half an hour.

As soon as Zhou Ye's voice fell, a new email popped up on the computer screen. The sender was a string of garbled characters. Years of experience in handling cases made Zhou Ye's heart lift instantly.

Bai Xudong frowned: "The kidnapper sent it?"

Zhou Ye put out the cigarette butt, called Wang Xiaoming and asked him to bring his notebook, and opened the email.

Inside is a five minute 30 second video.

Zhou Ye clicked on it.

In the picture, Rong Zhao and a Tibetan Mastiff are locked in an iron cage, with a heavy iron chain around his neck, and the opposite Tibetan Mastiff has made an attacking gesture.

Rong Zhao was forced to defend and attack, and trampled the Tibetan mastiff under his feet.

A hand appeared in the lower right corner of the screen, throwing a piece of meat into the cage, and the piece of meat rolled on the ground, stained with dust.Rong Zhao picked up the meat and gave half to the Tibetan Mastiff.

Bai Xudong was trembling with anger, he clenched his teeth tightly, and even his voice trembled a little: "This, this is too outrageous!"

Treating a person like a dog, making people compete with the dog for food, insults the dignity of a person as a person.

Zhou Ye looked at the computer screen, and the monitoring screen finally stopped on Rong Zhao's face.

He seemed to know that these people would send the finished video to Zhou Ye, and at the last second of the video, he smiled slightly at the camera.

It was a reassuring reassuring smile.

Watching Rong Zhao being chained and fighting with a dog, Zhou Ye felt distressed even without this smile. His internal organs seemed to be picked up with pliers, and his whole body was in pain as if he was about to suffocate.

The video footage was shot indoors, and the shooting location cannot be analyzed.

Wang Xiaoming came in with his laptop in his arms, and analyzed the email that Zhou Ye had received. The kidnapper was not stupid. The email was processed and used a foreign server, so the source could not be traced.

Wang Xiaoming recovered from his anger at the surveillance footage: "The email address cannot be traced, and this video has also been processed by professional computer experts."

But Wang Xiaoming is not an ordinary person. He is more skilled than those who process the video. He restored the video equipment used to capture the images, and reported the brand and model of the video recorder to Zhou Ye.

By contacting the brand, it was found out that this camera was sold at a counter on the fourth floor of Ginza a month ago, and the payer used cash.

Wang Xiaoming quickly called out the surveillance cameras at the counters in the shopping mall. While looking at the surveillance screen, he raised his eyes to look at Zhou Ye: "It's that person who looks very similar to you again."

Zhou Ye stood behind Wang Xiaoming, looking at the surveillance screen without saying a word, his eyes were as sharp as an ice skate, almost turning into substance to kill the person in the video.

Li Junwei has been missing for several days, and people from the Zhou family have been looking for him.Zhou Ye made a phone call and contacted the person in charge of investigating Li Junwei, but did not get any useful clues.

Zhou Ye used his lunch time to go to the hospital and bought a lot of toys at a toy store in front of the hospital.

Fan Yao stood guard at the door of the ward. When she saw Zhou Ye approaching, she rushed to meet her. Seeing Zhou Ye's complexion was not very good, Fan Yao swallowed the words she wanted to ask about Rong Zhao's whereabouts: "Captain Zhou."

Zhou Ye nodded: "You go to eat first, and come back after eating."

While walking, Fan Yao took out her mobile phone and called Bai Xudong. After hearing Bai Xudong's words, she was so angry that she almost dropped the mobile phone from her hand.

Zhou Ye knocked on the door and came in. The little girl saw him and called out sweetly.

The little girl is called Taotao, she is only five years old this year, and she is still in kindergarten. She is a single-parent family, and only her mother takes her with her.

Taotao's mother stood up from the chair: "I'll pour you a glass of water."

Zhou Ye: "No, I'll be leaving soon."

The bloody dress on Taotao's body has been replaced, she is wearing a white floral dress, a red coat, and still has two ponytails.A bandage was wrapped around the neck, fearing that the child's movement would not be conducive to the wound healing, so a plaster cast was applied to fix it.

I have already asked everything that should be asked. Taotao was snatched from the alley in front of her house. This has been confirmed by the surveillance at the intersection.

Because the kidnapper was covering his face, she couldn't see the kidnapper's face clearly, and because of his young age, she couldn't provide any effective clues.

Taotao's mother was buying sugar paintings at a small street vendor at the alley, but when she turned her head, she realized that the child had been snatched away, so she called the police.

The kidnappers drove Rong Zhao around the corner during the ten minutes when the police arrived at the scene.The time in between was calculated just right.

From the very beginning, the person Li Junwei wanted to attack was Rong Zhao, who tortured Zhou Ye by torturing Rong Zhao, making his life worse than death.

The little girl played with the Barbie doll that Zhou Ye brought over. While brushing the doll's hair, she raised her head and opened her big watery eyes and asked, "Uncle, is that police uncle back? Why doesn't he come to see me? I haven't said thank you to him yet."

Zhou Ye touched Taotao's head and smiled slightly: "He hasn't come back yet, when he comes back, he will be very happy to see the baby so healthy."

This was the first smile that Zhou Ye showed since Cong Rongzhao disappeared.

Zhou Ye once told Rong Zhao before that he was the person his master saved with his life, and he should live a good and healthy life so as not to waste his master's sacrifice.

The scene in front of him is the same, if Rong Zhao sees with his own eyes that the people he saved are safe and healthy, he must be gratified.

Taotao's mother opened all the curtains, the sun shone in through the window, a layer of light fell on the snow-white quilt, and the little girl's face was illuminated pink, really cute.

The child is dishonest, can't sit still on the bed, hugs the Barbie doll and wants to come down to play, throws off the quilt and jumps down.

A tiger plush toy fell from the quilt and rolled at Zhou Ye's feet.

Zhou Ye was about to bend down to pick it up, but Taotao grabbed it first, turned around and put it on the bed, covering the stuffed animal with a quilt lovingly.

Taotao's mother smiled and explained: "This is a gift from the evening nursery school. Taotao likes it very much and holds it like a treasure every day."

Zhou Ye sat on the chair, stared at the little girl's face, and suddenly said, "Taotao, where's your father?"

Taotao's mother's expression changed. She had already told the police that she was a single mother who gave birth to a child and raised it by herself. Please ask the police not to mention her father in front of the child, for fear of hurting the child's weak heart.

Zhou Ye didn't seem to see the displeasure on Taotao's mother's face, and asked Taotao again: "Why doesn't your father come to see you?"

Taotao sat on the floor mat, lowered her head and played with the Barbie doll in her hand, as if she didn't hear Zhou Ye's words.

Taotao's mother's expression was not very good-looking, and she walked up to Zhou Ye: "Captain Zhou, can I take a step to talk?"

Zhou Ye got up, walked out of the ward with Taotao's mother, and closed the door of the ward behind his back.

Taotao's mother asked Zhou Ye angrily, why he said those things in front of the children.

Zhou Ye apologized, saying that he forgot about Taotao's situation for a while, and promised not to mention her father in front of Taotao again.

Taotao's mother's complexion improved a bit: "Taotao's father is a bastard, I have been taking Taotao to hide from him for several years, but luckily he has not been found.

Zhou Ye played with his phone carelessly, and flipped through the photo album. When he found Liu Dahu's photo, he obviously saw Taotao's mother's face change, and turned his head away.

Zhou Ye put away his mobile phone: "The record says that when Taotao was snatched into the car, you were buying sugar paintings in front of the small vendor next to you, right?"

Taotao's mother nodded: "It was time for dinner. Once the child ate candy, why would he want to eat again? I didn't want to buy it for her. She insisted on pestering me. She insisted on eating. She pestered me for a long time. I took her downstairs."

"In the past few days, I don't know why I'm arguing for sugar paintings every dinner, or I have to go out to buy toys, and I don't give up if I don't come out every night. Why do you ask this?"

Zhou Ye: "It's nothing, take care of the child."

Fan Yao came back after a good meal and saw Zhou Ye and Taotao's mother talking at the door of the ward.

Taotao's mother entered the ward, and Zhou Ye took Fan Yao to the end of the corridor, and said in a low voice, "Keep an eye on that little girl. I will ask Xiao Lin to join you in the afternoon, and he will bring her a miniature Tracker, find a way to put the tracker into that stuffed tiger on Taotao's bed."

Fan Yao was puzzled and said, "Is there a problem between Taotao and Taotao's mother?"

"Mother Taotao is fine, but Taotao is the one with the problem." Zhou Ye touched his pocket, looking for cigarettes, but found that he had already exhausted all the cigarettes on his body.

Standing by the window, Fan Yao felt a cool air rising from the soles of her feet, and it was clear that the sun was shining on her through the window: "She is only a child of six or seven years old."

"Captain Zhou, did you make a mistake?"

Fan Yao didn't doubt Zhou Ye's judgment, but she couldn't believe that the child should be the purest little angel.

After Rong Zhao disappeared, Zhou Ye's spirit has been in a tense state, all his attention is on tracking the kidnappers and searching and rescue Rong Zhao.

No one doubted that the little girl saved by Rong Zhao would have problems.

Fan Yao thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "I didn't think anything at first, but looking at it now, the child's eyes look a little like Liu Dahu's."

Zhou Ye: "We originally thought that it was just a coincidence that Taotao appeared at the door of the house and was robbed by someone. It was unfortunate that she bumped into it."

Fan Yao: "Could it be premeditated, she's a child..." Fan Yao still couldn't believe it.

Zhou Ye: "Recently, Taotao has been pestering her mother every dinner time, asking to come out. The kidnappers have been watching in the dark, and the signal for action is to wait for Rong Zhao to order."

Fan Yao frowned: "Tiger poison doesn't eat children. Liu Dahu had his daughter tied up and almost killed her. What is he doing?"

Zhou Ye: "For a person like Liu Dahu, if the word "profit" is at the top of his list, someone must have promised him huge economic benefits."

Zhou Ye returned to the City Bureau and asked Taotao to do a DNA test. After comparing with Liu Dahu's DNA, it was confirmed that the two were father and daughter.

Xiao Qian stood beside Zhou Ye, looking down at the test comparison report: "Should we call Taotao's mother over and see what we can find out."

Sitting in front of the computer, Zhou Ye read Bai Xudong's visits and investigation records of the kindergarten and daycare institutions where Taotao attended: "Taotao's mother didn't know about it, she didn't know anything about Liu Dahu's contact with Taotao."

Kindergarten ends at 05:30 p.m. every day, and Taotao’s mother doesn’t get off work until [-]:[-], so she sends Taotao to the evening nursery, and picks up her children after she gets off work.

The qualifications of this day care institution are not complete, and the management is not strict. Children run around in the institution, as long as they don't run out of the gate anyway, Liu Dahu often sneaks in to find Taotao.

According to Taotao's head teacher in the kindergarten, the child's temperament is not stable. Growing up in a single-parent family, he is prone to personality defects. Sometimes he is very well-behaved, and sometimes he is very irritable.

Once I got into a fight with a little boy in my class and almost knocked out his eyes.The reason is that the little boy always laughed at her, saying that she didn't have a father, and her father abandoned her and didn't want her anymore.

Xiao Qian asked: "Do you need to bring Taotao to the Municipal Bureau?"

Zhou Ye shook his head: "No need, so as not to startle the snake."

"Children know very little, and Liu Dahu will not tell her his whereabouts at ease. At most, he will tell her that he will come to pick her up and ask her to keep their secrets and not tell anyone."

Zhou Ye paused and continued: "If someone promises to benefit Liu Dahu, he won't throw away Taotao after using half of it. He will definitely come to find Taotao."

Xiao Qian didn't understand, and the more anxious he became, the angrier he became: "After making such a big circle, what is Liu Dahu planning?!"

Zhou Ye didn't say much, and only asked Xiao Qian a word: "If you were Rong Zhao, and saw that the person you saved with your life was actually a little devil who took your life, how would you feel?"

To kill a person is very simple, a knife is enough, to completely destroy a person's spirit and belief, no matter how big the circle is.

Zhou Ye opened a newly bought pack of cigarettes, tilted his head, and nodded. He remembered the case of the Guan family extermination.

The Guan family took in those strangers who came to hide from the rain, and their kindness was exchanged for a massacre.How similar is Rong Zhao's situation today.

His heart was already full of scars, relying on Zhou Ye's love to support his life, whether he could withstand another devastation.

Zhou Ye said quietly: "I believe he can." He always believed that Rong Zhao was stronger than he imagined.

Zhou Ye took a few puffs of cigarettes, then turned around and asked, "How about the tracking results of those two cars?"

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Rong Zhao opened the iron chain around his neck with the steel wire in his hand, but did not take it off, pretending that he was still locked by the chain.

He leaned against the gate of the iron cage, with his hands behind his back, and quietly opened the two locks that locked the gate.

Someone is watching the surveillance, and there must be someone guarding the door. Rong Zhao calculated the time. It takes him ten seconds to run from here to the door. Ten seconds, the person on the other end of the surveillance can see him, but they may not have time to close the door. lock it.

The door was unlocked, and he kept listening, but no one locked the door.

Rong Zhao glanced at the direction of the gate, counted to three in his heart, quickly took off the iron chain around his neck, opened the cage door and ran towards the gate.

He opened the door, and the two kidnappers sitting on the chairs by the door heard the movement, grabbed the sticks at hand and went up to them.

The mustache said cursingly: "What a skill, I was able to escape from the cage." After speaking, he threw a stick at him.

Rong Zhao was exhausted, so he tied with the two and ran out of the kennel.

As long as they ran out of this gate and kept running to the left, into the small forest on the left, they would have a hard time finding him.

You can also go to the right, the road on the right is wider, and scattered houses can be seen in the distance, which should be inhabited.

You can also go straight ahead, there is a river in front of him, he is good at water, and he is confident that he can shake off a lot of pursuers.

As long as he ran out of the door in front of him, he could escape.

As soon as Rong Zhao stepped out of the door, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.Liu Dahu had already ambushed by the door and injected him with an injection in the neck.

Rong Zhao gradually lost consciousness and was locked back into the cage again.

Liu Dahu returned to the monitoring room adjacent to the kennel, looked at Li Junwei who was sitting in front of three computer screens watching the monitoring, and said a little dissatisfied: "Didn't you find out that he was unlocking the lock at the beginning? The steel wire was snatched back so that there would be no fight, my two subordinates were injured, and they were severely beaten."

Li Junwei looked at the screen, where Rong Zhao couldn't see, the whole room was filled with invisible cameras.Except for ghosts, no one can hide under such strict surveillance.

All Rong Zhao's small movements were magnified ten times and twenty times and transmitted to the three computers.

Li Junwei leaned on the back of his chair and smiled: "Don't you think this is very interesting, give a person hope, then extinguish his hope, little by little it turns into despair, until he accepts the fact that he is a dog .At that time, even if you open the door and let him run, he won't run away again."

When the elephant trainer trains the baby elephant, he will tie the baby elephant with an iron chain. The baby elephant does not want to be restrained, so he tries his best to break free.

When the baby elephant grew up, he was still bound by the iron chain, but he never dared to try to break free again.Obviously, with its strength, it can easily break free from the chain.

Here's the scary thing about mind control.

Liu Dahu raised his eyes to look at Li Junwei, and thought, this one is also a terrible lunatic.

Li Junwei looked at the monitor screen, and Mustache found the steel wires on Rong Zhao's body. Rong Zhao had lost consciousness, lying on the ground with an iron chain around his neck.

"Let him run away a few more times. If he runs away too much, he won't dare to run away again." Li Junwei turned his head and said to Liu Dahu, "Stop the recent dog fighting first, and it won't be good if he is chased here by the police."

This kennel was originally opened by Li Junwei. He raised and trained these dogs here, regularly organized dog fights, and made profits through gambling.

Later, Li Junwei bought the kennel at a high price and became the owner of the kennel and Liu Dahu's boss.

Li Junwei glanced at Liu Dahu: "Did you do it cleanly when you kidnapped people? Did you leave any clues for the police?"

Liu Dahu shook his head: "No, the one who snatched people into the car directly covered his face."

Li Junwei glanced at the time: "Okay, go get busy."

Rong Zhao was lying on the cold concrete floor, woke up by a basin of cold water, with a "boom", Mustache threw the basin aside, squatted down and looked at Rong Zhao.

His left cheek was swollen from Rong Zhao's beating, and his heart was also kicked. Two or three hours later, it was still hurting. He didn't know what the boss was thinking, but he couldn't swallow it.

"Dinner is going to be in a while, have you decided which dog to fight with?" Mustache curled his lower lip contemptuously, and turned his head to look, "How about that yellow Alaska, or the shepherd dog next to it?" ?”

Rong Zhao opened his eyes, sat up from the ground, touched the place on the back of his neck where the needle had been pricked, wiped the water from his face, looked up at Mustache, and was too lazy to talk to him.

Seeing that he couldn't be provoked, Xiao Huzi directly put his hand into the cage, trying to grab Rong Zhao's sleeve, but Rong Zhao held him down with his backhand, firmly pinned his palm on the steel rod of the cage, and pressed hard.

"Ah--" Mustache screamed out in pain as the entire back of his hand was pressed into a distorted posture.

Rong Zhao let go of his hand, even gave a stingy look, and uttered a word coldly: "Get lost."

In a fit of anger, Mustache took out a machete pinned to his waist: "I will hack you to death!"

"Little Hu," Liu Dahu came in through the gate, and stopped him sharply, "Put down the knife!"

Xiao Huzi glanced at Liu Dahu, not daring to do anything wrong, kicked Rong Zhao's iron cage hard to vent his anger, turned around and left.

Liu Dahu walked up to Rong Zhao: "You won't be able to escape, save yourself some effort."

Rong Zhao sat on the ground, looking down at the shoes on his feet.

Zhou Ye helped him choose this pair of white sneakers. Zhou Ye insisted on wearing couple shoes with him, so he took two pairs of the same pair.

It was raining when they came out of the shopping mall, and the two of them were holding a black umbrella. When they got home, he didn't get a drop of rain on his body, but Zhou Ye's clothes were more than half wet.

Rong Zhao tied up the shoelaces and tied them into a pair of the most beautiful bows.

If he can't escape once, he will escape twice, if he fails twice, he will escape three times, and if he fails three times, he will escape four times. Even if he fails a thousand times or ten thousand times, he will never give up in his life.

As long as they don't kill him, he'll keep running, keep running.

He had to go back to find Zhou Ye.