When the magic flower blooms

It was a violent explosion that everyone did not expect - the intention was unknown, and it didn't seem to be in line with common sense.

According to the memories of the commandos closest to the explosion point, they were preparing to rush from the B9 area to B5 to join the main force.Naga first noticed something unusual in the lounge on the west side of B7.Upon inspection, it was found that one of the walls here had been charged with explosives.Naga ordered the others to leave quickly and continue to B5.He and another team member stayed in the safe area for observation.

Almost exactly 1 minute later, the explosion happened.

It wasn't until the large force cleared up the stubborn gangsters and advanced to the explosion site that the situation was roughly understood—this was originally the rest area of ​​the laboratory.The bandits blasted a big hole about two square meters in the wall.The outside of the cave is not rammed concrete, but another huge and deep underground space.

Everyone turned on the night vision equipment and entered the underground space, and found that it was an abandoned civil defense fortification.Following the remaining tactical light sticks on the ground, they found the bodies of several bandits one after another, and found a wounded and unconscious team member and a password box with the Chimera logo in a locked warehouse.

Exploring further, another older explosion point connected the air defense fortification with the abandoned subway station. The smell of gunpowder smoke on the platform has not yet dissipated, but Naga's whereabouts are unknown.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Ming Ruoxing calmed down after learning everything.

He can basically infer that Naga is still alive-the logic is very simple, if those gangsters simply wanted to kill people, then Naga's body should have been found in the subway station long ago.In fact, killing one more police elite of the Yaan Bureau is of no benefit to Chimera, and a living hostage is always more useful than a dead body.

This seems to be good news, but when you think about it carefully, it makes people secretly startled.

Chimera's methods are cruel, and the hostages are often tortured to death.Most of the security police officers of the Asian Security Bureau have received torture training when they were trained, and they have strong will and endurance.In order to extract information from them, the gangsters often inflict torture several times that of ordinary people.

The password box that Naga took his life to get back has been shipped back to the headquarters.Through perspective, the lock cylinder inside the box was filled with explosives. After being safely disassembled by the bomb disposal team, the contents were finally seen.

Those were some important documents and contracts printed out, including some assets and business operations of the Chimera China Branch in Baidao.There is also an encrypted mobile hard disk, and it is estimated that the cracked content will be considerable.

All the above information has been gathered into the "nerve center" of the ASA task force.Ming Ruoxing gave up the opportunity to rest in rotation and devoted himself to sorting out and analyzing.The extracted information was quickly distributed to the economic case investigation department, and a thorough investigation of the commercial entities involved in the case was immediately launched.

The tireless efforts soon paid off - on the first working day of the second week, through the investigation of the capital chain of the commercial entities involved, the investigators found that several large money transactions were directly directed to a certain deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology secretary.At the same time, significant progress has been made in the preliminary investigation work: some members of the International Affairs Department of the Asian Security Bureau are suspected of having an interest relationship with Chimera.

The big net is closing in, and the inner ghost is gradually surfacing.At this moment when everyone was rejoicing and their momentum was high, Ming Ruoxing received an order to take a rest.

I worked continuously for six days and nights, during which the longest period was only a two-hour nap on the sofa.Although relying on energy drinks and espresso to barely stay awake, Ming Ruoxing's body is already approaching its limit.

He began to stare blankly with his eyes open, confused the two things he heard at the same time, became impulsive and irritable when listening to the interrogation conversation, and even wanted to throw away the earphones and rush into the conversation room to beat the person under interrogation.

The order to take a mandatory rest quickly popped up from the phone, and even the permission to drive was temporarily deprived.It was his brother's driver who escorted him back to the apartment with a message.

"If you don't take a good rest, then you don't need to participate in the next action."

Walking into the apartment elevator with heavy steps, Ming Ruoxing was standing in front of the door on the fifth floor when he came back to his senses.

In the past few days, he temporarily entrusted the white cat to the care of his juniors in the same department.The spare key card of Naga Apartment was also handed over.Facing the closed door at this moment, he was silent for a few seconds, bent down to put down the briefcase, and then slowly bent down and put his hands on the ground.

For two or three seconds, he seemed to disappear out of thin air, leaving only a pile of clothes falling loosely on the ground.After a while, the clothes squirmed, revealing a pair of pointed ears.

A snow-white long-haired cat got out and deftly entered the room through the cat hole under the door.After a while, the door was opened at a slight angle, and a long and thin hand stretched out, and quickly fished in the clothes and briefcase.

After the beginning of summer, Naga's white cat has already disliked the little nest, and collapsed on the coffee table, sleeping like a puddle of cream.Scattered bits of dry food and cat litter remained on the ground.Maybe it's because I haven't opened the windows for a long time, and the living room still smells of fish and cat feces.

It seems that the juniors are not very keen on the nanny job.

The tired body was mobilized again, and Ming Ruoxing energized and began to clean.Opening windows, sweeping the floor, completely replacing the cat litter... When the disgusting smell in the house completely disappeared, he finally collapsed on the sofa from exhaustion, and fell asleep after blinking his eyes.

No dream at all.

After that, Naga's spare room card returned to Ming Ruoxing.No matter how busy he is, he will come to clean the house at a fixed time every day.

The high-intensity work of the task force is still continuing.With the all-round advancement of intelligence, more and more government employees began to be investigated, and the locked insiders began to "disappear" at their jobs one by one.

The only thing that has gone nowhere is the whereabouts of the Naga.

No bodies, no relics, no sightings of any kind.Although the relevant search work has not stopped for a moment, the man seems to have sneaked into the invisible dark world together with the remnants of the Chimera.

In this way, the surprise operation has passed for a month.

This year's rainy season has come earlier, and the air has become hot and humid almost overnight.At ten o'clock in the morning, after 24 hours of work and standby, Ming Ruoxing returned to the apartment with tired steps, parked the car in the underground garage, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar animal squatting next to the entrance elevator.

It was Naga's white cat, who seemed to have just come back from the rain, was completely wet, and huddled in a corner, helpless.

Ming Ruoxing walked quickly to pick up the cat, and after confirming that there were no wounds on its body, he took it up to the fifth floor.

The moment he stepped out of the elevator car, he suddenly found that the door of Naga's house was open, and some packed sundries had been piled up in the aisle.When you get closer, you can still see three or four workers in blue uniforms, busy in the living room.

Ming Ruoxing rushed to the door in two or three steps to question, and the answer he got was also very reasonable: Naga has been out of contact for more than a month. According to the relevant management measures, the dormitory he occupies will be vacated, and all items will be temporarily handed over to the apartment for temporary storage. , ready to be handed over to the family.

"It's only been a month. He just disappeared and didn't die. How can you treat a person who disappeared on the battlefield like this!"

Ming Ruoxing stopped these porters and tried to reason with them.But the other party just kept citing the same terms to emphasize the necessity of action, and the tone became more and more impatient.

"Don't talk nonsense with us anymore, the rules are the rules! If the person is not dead, then we will help him move them back one by one!"

The words fell like a spark on the dry straw.Tired and resentful, Ming Ruoxing forgot to control his emotions, and he almost never treated a stranger so rudely.

"Who gave you the right to treat a policeman who gave his life for important information like this...not even leaving him a home where he can go back? If you want to move, you should step on me first!"

Both sides feel that they have the truth and refuse to give in to each other.If the neighbors hadn't heard the sound and rushed over, I'm afraid it would have turned into a fist fight.The matter quickly reached the upper echelons of the Yaan Bureau, and the result was that they each hit [-] boards: the time limit for vacating the apartment was postponed indefinitely; He should be held accountable, but he must adjust his emotions as soon as possible so as not to affect his work.

Ming Ruoxing is still not convinced, but he also understands that it is pointless to continue to argue.Up to now, right and wrong are not important, what is important is that he must guard that apartment until the day that guy comes back.

Perhaps it was this extremely stubborn belief that formed a supernatural induction.On the second day of the conversation, the headquarters received a video from Chimera by special means.

Upon receiving the news, Ming Ruoxing, who was on his way home from get off work, turned around sharply.When he rushed to the meeting room, the long table was already full of relevant persons in charge.

The video is only 5 minutes long, all shot in a closed room.Perhaps it was to create a tense and terrifying atmosphere. Under the dim incandescent lamp, there were rust-red stains all over the ground. In the center of the picture was an old restraint chair. The man tied to the chair was wearing an orange-red prison uniform with his head Covered by a black hood, the face cannot be seen.

But Ming Ruoxing's heart tightened all of a sudden.

In the third second of the video, two Chimera gangsters dressed in black and wearing masks entered the frame, and one of them took off the hood of the man in the restraint chair.

At this moment, there was no sound in the conference room.Some even frowned silently.

The man on the chair was indeed a Naga, but he was quite different from the elite of the Asian Security Bureau that everyone knew.

The beard was unshaven, the chapped lips were bloodless, the curly black hair had been shaved, and the bare scalp was covered with scars from punctures and cuts.The sharply thinned cheeks were sunken, covered with bruises and dried blood.

If it wasn't for the gleam of life in those slightly opened eyes, this would almost be a dry corpse.

In the video, Chimera made a simple and direct request-the exchange of hostages.Naga in exchange for a Science and Technology official who was identified as a Chimera spy during an undercover investigation last week.The time and place of the exchange must be decided by Chimera.If the Asian Security Bureau refuses to exchange, the execution will be carried out publicly after seven days.

At the end of the video, the camera returns to the front of the restraint chair.A voice orders the naga to speak to the camera to demonstrate his mental condition.

The man who seemed to be dying slowly raised his head and whispered his name and alarm number.

"My birthday...is May 07...and...take care of my cat."

The video stopped abruptly here, and all that was left was a few lines of text on the black screen prompting the time and place of the transaction.The leader presiding over the meeting cleared his throat, indicating that everyone can start discussing.

Naga's immediate superior and director of the Operations Department immediately raised a question: "Orochi's birthday is not in 07, nor is it in May. This is a hint. He has something to tell us."

All kinds of speculations immediately followed one after another, and it seemed that each one was very reasonable.Only Ming Ruoxing, with a livid face, decided to give the correct answer after some ideological struggle.

"In a joint exercise three years ago, we agreed on the same code. In May 07, it was a hint of the Bureau's work rules, Article [-], paragraph [-]."

The meeting room suddenly fell silent, and someone called up the content of the rules stored in the mobile phone.

"Willing to give, to take responsibility, to sacrifice—"

"He wants us to give him up. He wants to stop this hostage exchange."