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Jiang Wen insisted on going to the police station with them, but even Guangji couldn't resist, so she had to let Jiang Yan sit in the back row and take good care of her.Huo Mingxu was sitting in the co-pilot, tapping the car door lightly and slowly with his index finger, his eyes were empty, he didn't know what he was thinking about.

There is a 75-second red light at the crossroads ahead, the sky is getting dark, and the lights of the whole city are being quietly lit up by people coming and going.Jiang Yan held Jiang Wen's hand, a heart seemed to be hung in the sky, and it seemed to be placed in an unfathomable abyss, and the spirit and will of the whole person were not settled.

Jiang Wen stared at the jumping red number, with various conjectures about Xi Zhikong's current situation in her mind.

When she spoke, her voice was hoarse, which startled Lian Guangji.

"I don't know if they gave Xiao Kong food, the child is in poor health...

"Will they hit him?" Jiang Wen didn't know who she was asking, she turned her head to look at Jiang Yan, and saw the worry in his eyes suddenly turned red again, "Xiao Kong is so afraid of pain..."

"Mom, don't worry too much."

Jiang Wen suddenly grabbed Jiang Yan's hand and shook her head, "Sister Yi Shu will definitely blame me, she trusts me so much, but I didn't take good care of Xiao Kong..."

The red light turned into a green light, Lian Guangji gritted his teeth and stepped on the gas pedal to merge into the main road, the phone suddenly vibrated.He glanced down, picked up the phone and handed it to Huo Mingxu, and said, "You Zhang Jian, send me a message and say I'll call him later."

Huo Mingxu took the phone and bowed his head to type quickly. While typing, he suddenly thought of something. After pressing the send button, he turned to look at Jiang Yan and asked, "At 08:30 this morning, Xi Zhikong sent a message to his boss asking for leave, yes ?"

"Ah."

"This person," Huo Mingxu said in silence for a moment, "has been monitoring Xi Zhikong for so many years, his every move may be in the eyes of others, and now we may all be monitored."

Jiang Yan was stunned.

After a while, he came back to his senses and asked in a low voice: "Prosecutor, if we call the police, is he really safe? Or, can the police really save him?"

Huo Mingxu stopped talking, slowly clenched his five fingers into fists, put the back of his hand on his lips, and watched the traffic outside the window without saying a word.

When the group arrived at the police station, Zhang Qijin happened to arrive too, and the chief received them in person.There were seven people sitting in the meeting room, besides Lian Guangji and his party of four, there were also Zhang Qijin, the chief, and a criminal police captain who looked equally young.

The director's surname is Yang, and the young captain sitting beside him is Rong Xia, who is just 32 years old this year.

Previously, Rong Xia and Huo Mingxu had dealt with each other and cooperated in several cases, but both of them had a bad temper, and occasionally disagreements occurred during the investigation process. Usually, the solution is to investigate separately. It sounds like Not scientific at all.

Director Yang knew that Lian Guangji had a lot of background, and sitting next to him was the chief prosecutor who couldn't see his head and tail, and opposite him was the well-known one-sided prosecutor in the Southern District.

He looked around, and it seemed that only Jiang Yan was relatively harmless to humans and animals, and it was not easy to "step on thunder", so he asked politely first: "This little classmate is—"

"Oh, this is my son, don't worry about him. Let's talk about business." Lian Guangji went straight to the point, and Director Yang smiled awkwardly and nodded again and again.

Jiang Yan carefully looked at the two strangers present, and finally his eyes fell on Rong Xia.Rong Xia felt that he was looking at him, and raised his eyebrows at him in a hurry: "Boy, what are you looking at me for, I have money on my face?"

"You boy!" Director Yang kicked him under the table and apologized: "I'm sorry, let me introduce you, Rong Xia, the captain of the criminal police of our sub-bureau. .”

Rong Xia curled her lips, turned her head to look at Huo Mingxu, and couldn't stop talking: "Hey, isn't this Prosecutor Huo?"

Director Yang: "Rong Xia! Can you be quiet!"

Huo Mingxu glanced at Rong Xia, sneered and ignored him, and opened his notebook to read his notes.

Lian Guangji looked around, cleared his throat and said, "Ju Yang, we contacted before we came, this afternoon my son went to pick up my other son from get off work, only to find out that he didn't go to the company at all, and then we Go home and look for him, only to find that he has been kidnapped."

Huo Mingxu took out his mobile phone, and took out the pictures of Xi Zhikong's home scene in the album to pass to Ju Yang, but he was intercepted by Rong Xia halfway, pressed on the table to prevent him from moving, and looked through them one by one on his own.

"How old is this child?" Rong Xia asked casually.

Huo Mingxu replied coldly: "17 years old."

"17 years old?——Is this the case?" Rong Xia smiled, returned the phone to Huo Mingxu, took out the phone and made a call under his eyes protesting: "Clean up and get to work."

After hanging up the phone, he got up and patted his buttocks and was about to go out, but Bureau Yang stopped him and asked him, "What work?"

"Investigate the scene! Isn't this to catch the kidnapper? I contacted the technical department, the kidnapper—by the way, did the kidnapper contact you?" Rong Xia asked Lian Guangji with his hands on the table, seeing Lian Guangji shaking his head , He bit his index finger knuckles and remained silent for a moment, then turned to Huo Mingxu and said, "What did I say, sometimes you don't have to follow the vines, right? It's not good to just touch the roots the other way around, this time I'll uproot you , that's comfortable!"

Huo Mingxu: "..."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Sit down quickly!" Yang Ju tugged at the hem of his clothes, unexpectedly he dodged to the side deftly, dodged, stood aside, straightened his sleeves and said:

"Director Yang, I'm just an ordinary people's policeman. I used my job to overcome all difficulties and told you that something would happen in this case. Look, am I predicting things like a god?"

Jiang Yan raised his head and looked curiously at the captain of the criminal police who seemed not serious at all, and asked reflexively, "Then why did something happen?"

As soon as this remark came out, Director Yang was embarrassed.

It has to be said that Rong Xia and Huo Mingxu had a rare high degree of unity of opinion this time, but when they hit it off and reported to their leaders about the two cases, they were both criticized very tacitly.

Since Huo Mingxu was a little bit worse than Rong Xia, after the leader ordered him to stop touching the case, he continued to investigate through various non-compliant means, and was almost suspended.

On the point of persistent pursuit of all truth and truth, Rong Xia admires Huo Mingxu completely.

No one answered Jiang Yan, so he continued to ask: "Since Officer Rong found out that something might happen, why didn't he tell us?"

"Banquet—"

"And since there is a problem, why not let Prosecutor Huo continue to investigate? If it was earlier, even one day earlier..."

After saying that, Jiang Yan stood up.He looked at the police badges on the opposite wall, at the police badges on the chests of Zhang Qijin and Huo Mingxu, frowned and asked the biggest doubt in his heart: "What kind of identity, what kind of person, dare to be in Langlang?" Under the heavens and the earth, blaming other people for their crimes, and then arbitrarily kidnapping Xi Zhikong, isn't this the same as declaring war on the public prosecutor?!"

Zhang Qijin was silent, Director Yang was speechless for a while, Lian Guangji felt that Jiang Yan's words were a bit too much, and waved his hands to persuade him, but was interrupted by Rong Xia.

He put on a serious expression and a serious tone, and he no longer had a hippie smile, and said word by word: "I want to know too, Prosecutor Huo and I both want to know——

"Who is stopping us from catching the real culprit? Four years ago they dared to murder and plant blame. Two years ago, another person died at his hands and was thrown into the wilderness. Now a 17-year-old child is in their hands.

"Even if I take off this police uniform, I will find this person—or this group of people."

Rong Xia turned around and walked to the door, Huo Mingxu followed him heartily, but both of them were stopped by Zhang Qijin, and their feet stopped in place.

"It's good to be young," Zhang Qijin stood up and unbuttoned a button, pacing back and forth behind the chair with his waist in his arms.After about half a minute, he bent his fingers and tapped on the table, saying, "Rong Xia, right? Come and report what you have found. Huo Mingxu will also give a brief report."

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up, and the fist held by Jiang Wen loosened a little.

Zhang Qijin tugged on his tie, and said, "It is said that the public security, the procuratorate, and the law do not separate families, Director Yang, after listening to their reports, I will transfer the relevant information to the Municipal Bureau, and I will definitely ask you to cooperate when the time comes. Just like what Rong Xia said You don’t have to touch melons along the way. Sometimes you touch them along the way, and some people will not let you touch them. We started from Xi Zhikong’s kidnapping and went backwards. The unknown case of Xi Chuzhi started from this kidnapping case. Let's start. I won't interfere in the investigation work, I think Rong Xia is a good guy."

After hearing this, Huo Mingxu was more or less moved. He and Rong Xia looked at each other, and they both returned to their seats and opened the notebooks they carried with them.

The two briefly stated the situation they had so far, and Zhang Qijin leaned on the backrest and asked, "Do you know what you are talking about?"

"Zhang Jian, I have always been very strict with myself, how can I not know what I am talking about?"

Zhang Qijin laughed, looking at this crazy young man shook his finger at him: "It's still a little far from when I was young."

Huo Mingxu said, "Captain Rong, I have a question."

"Brother Huo, please tell me."

Huo Mingxu glanced at him: "If your investigation is in the right direction—"

"If there is no if, it must be right." Rong Xia snapped his fingers, went to the whiteboard and took a pen to write a line, and said: "The first phase of the housing project was originally a real estate project that the boss from the next city came to invest in. , but the company withdrew midway, and the City Anju Engineering Co., Ltd. took over legally and in accordance with regulations. Up to this point, everything was normal, but later—"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Ju Yang's expression, and swallowed the second half of the sentence cautiously.He coughed twice more, shrugged and sat back in his seat.

Huo Mingxu followed his gaze and looked over, Director Yang's expression was not very good-looking.

All the adults present suddenly fell silent, and Jiang Yan asked generously based on the spirit of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers: "What happened later? Did the uncle's case happen later?"

Lian Guangji coughed lightly: "Yanyan, don't talk about things you don't understand."

Jiang Yan then stopped talking.

"Rong Xia, go ahead and say, there is no monitoring and no reporters here, what else can't you say?" Zhang Qijin loosened the watch strap on his wrist, and said with a smile: "You have to learn from Xiao Huo, dare to go straight on the way Stop me from talking about this."

"That's fine, since you've given me the 'call', then I'll say it boldly."

Rong Xia's words were tactful, with the meaning of "anyway, someone above will take care of it for me" in his words, and his whole mood seemed to be more relaxed than before, and he seemed to be fooling around again.

"To tell you the truth, Prosecutor Huo and I risked all kinds of dangers a few days ago, and we've already figured out the matter. This is not a mysterious case, it's just—" He paused for two seconds, These words seemed to be looking at Ju Yang and said, "Injustice case."

Director Yang said: "Rong Xia, you need to pay attention to evidence when investigating a case. You can't designate this case as an unjust case from the very beginning and deliberately look for loopholes."

"Boss Yang, let him say that this is not a formal meeting." Zhang Qijin waved his hand and said to Rong Xia: "You continue."

At this moment, Huo Mingxu and Rong Xia showed an unprecedented tacit understanding. Rong Xia gave him a look, and he immediately understood, took out the information in the bag and pushed it in front of Zhang Qijin: "We have already grasped the information received by the executives of the City Anju Engineering Co., Ltd. The bribery party has basically figured out the relevant evidence of bribery. It is a seemingly normal private enterprise. Through certain——technical means, the actual controller of the company was found to be involved in gangsters. here you are."

"Is this the result of your investigation during this period of time?" Director Yang glanced angrily, and Rong Xia immediately protested:

"Isn't Bureau Yang! What do you mean 'this is'?" He stood up and walked behind Huo Mingxu, put his hands on his shoulders, bent down and smiled at his side: "This is me sharing the bed with Prosecutor Huo." Pillow' took a while to come up with."

Huo Mingxu: "Please don't destroy my innocence."

Lian Guangji told Jiang Yan not to speak if he didn't understand, but he couldn't help asking: "So now, in fact, Officer Rong and Prosecutor Huo have investigated who is the real murderer behind the scenes?"

Rong Xia shook his head: "Not all, the only thing missing now is a 'melon'."

"What melon?" Jiang Yan asked reflexively, and just as she finished speaking, Jiang Wen's cell phone rang suddenly, breaking the calm she had managed to maintain in her heart.

"'Melon' is here." Rong Xia raised her index finger and pressed her lips to make a silence gesture, then turned around and opened the door to call in colleagues from the technical department, "Ms. Jiang, now the technicians will use this call to locate At the location where the call came from, we will immediately gather the police force, all you have to do is to keep calm as much as possible and buy more time for my colleagues."

Jiang Wen's arm was still trembling when she picked up the phone, Jiang Yan pressed her wrist and said in a low voice: "Mom, don't worry, you can save Xiao Kong only if you don't worry."

She nodded hesitantly and pressed the answer button: "Hello...Hello?"

The receiver was silent for a long time, no one spoke, and everyone present held their breath and stared at the mobile phone. The investigators were nervously doing positioning and data analysis, slowly narrowing the scope of the mobile phone by peeling cocoons from the complex and huge data network. .

Jiang Wen calmed down and said, "Hello?"

"You have called the police."

"We—" No matter how much mental preparations were made, when she heard the other side say this, she could only think of the cruel words on the wall that made her frighten her out of her wits.She was speaking tremblingly, when Rong Xia suddenly pressed her hand, motioning for Lian Guangji to continue communicating with the other party.

"I said that if you call the police, the child will die. Prepare to collect the body."

"Wait a minute!" At the critical moment, Lian Guangji loudly prevented the other party from hanging up the phone. He cleared his throat and said, "What conditions, you say, as long as the child comes back safely."

The other side sneered, but still didn't answer.

"Money? Do you want money?" In order to stabilize the other party, Lian Guangji decided to pretend not to know the other party's intentions and deal with them slowly. Rong Xia gestured "OK" to him.The other side of the phone was silent again, Lian Guangji paused for two seconds and then said: "I am Lian Guangji, Xi Zhikong is my adopted son, I can afford as much as you want, but I want to confirm that he is still alive. "

After he finished speaking, Jiang Wen suddenly slumped on the chair and grabbed Jiang Yan's wrist tightly, pressing her palm on her heart and clenching her teeth.

"Money? The last thing I need is money."

The other side finally spoke.

The technicians had narrowed down the location to the outskirts of the southern district. Huo Mingxu stood up and walked to Rong Xia, bent down and pointed to a location on the screen, then nodded to Lian Guangji.

Lian Guangji immediately said, "Then why did you kidnap my son?"

"Why don't you know very well? What did those stupid policemen teach you?"

Hearing this, Rong Xia was really angry, thinking that the first thing to do when someone is arrested is to beat him up first—if conditions permit.

"...Listen, not only do I have money, I can provide you with everything you need. Now we haven't called the police. Do you understand what I mean?" This sentence was ambiguous, and there was another long silence on the other side.

When the sound came out again, Jiang Yan's heart stopped beating when he heard it, and he jumped to the side of the phone and almost shouted out of control: "Kongkong!"

"Well……"

A cloth strip was stuffed into Xi Zhikong's mouth, and his hands and feet were tied behind his back.He has been in this position for three hours. At this time, his hands and feet are numb, and his spirit and will are facing a great test.His eyes were also bound by a black cloth, and only some faint light came in. The fear had passed, and now his physical strength was exhausted, so he could only grunt a few times weakly.

"Let him talk!" Because Jiang Yan was too nervous, he clenched his hands into fists and slammed them on the table, making a loud noise.After a few seconds of rustling, he heard Xi Zhikong start to cough violently, and he took a long time to recover from the cough.

Then Xi Zhikong cleared his throat with difficulty, and responded hoarsely: "I...I am here."

Jiang Yan's high-hanging heart fell to the ground in an instant. He sat on the chair and covered his face with his hands, so nervous that he felt nauseous. He crushed his will and trampled under his feet, and wanted to cut him into pieces, skinned and cramped, leaving no bones left.

Suddenly, his whole body was so painful that he couldn't straighten his back. His heart that had just fallen began to beat rapidly and rushed to his throat, blocking all his breathing.

Xi Zhikong seemed to feel the heartbreaking pain of his silence through the mobile phone, bit his lower lip and tried to keep his tone calm, and comforted him: "Brother Yan...Kong Kong is still there..."

"Xiaokong! Xiaokong, are you alright?..." Jiang Wen's voice suddenly amplified, she grabbed the edge of the table, her fingernails turned white from too much force, and said with a breath, "Don't be afraid, Aunt Wen will definitely save you!"

"Aunt Wen, don't worry, I'm not!" The phone was hung up, and Xi Zhikong's mouth was stuffed with cloth strips again, he retched reflexively, and then retreated in resistance.

—He couldn't see his own eyes, he didn't know if he was afraid now.

Investigators narrowed the area down to an abandoned industrial park, and could no longer confirm the location in detail. Rong Xia immediately took his mobile phone and made another call. After a few words in a hurry, he walked up to Director Yang and asked him with his head down: "Director Yang, even if you don't touch that case, at least you have to rescue him first, right? You can say a few words."

Director Yang said: "People must be saved, we need to save them first."

Jiang Wen's phone rang again.

She picked it up without delay, and the investigators immediately started to locate it again.

The voice was still the same as the phone call just now, but Huo Mingxu, who was standing behind the investigators, suddenly saw the location and ran to the village in the city more than ten kilometers away from the abandoned factory. Obviously, only 2 minutes had passed.

"Too cunning." He gritted his teeth.

"Don't bother trying to find a position. If you can catch it, why should I spend so much effort?"

Jiang Yan grabbed the phone and said, "What the hell are you trying to do?!"

"What do we want to do? Tsk, what do you think we want to do?" The man put the phone in front of Xi Zhikong again, pulled out the cloth from his mouth, took off the black cloth from his eyes, and kicked him on the leg. "Come on kid, tell yourself."

Xi Zhikong snorted, bit his lower lip and gasped for breath, and said, "Wen, Aunt Wen..."

He had just started, but he couldn't say anything after that.

If he was asked to give up on overturning the case for Xi Chuzhi, he might have been able to say it before, but now he is unwilling to say a word.

The man saw that he was silent, so he slapped him and then kicked him. The voice echoed through the speakerphone in the entire conference room. Jiang Wen immediately shouted: "Don't hit him! Don't hit him! I promise everything I promise. !"

"Are you going to tell me?!"

"..."

"——Xiaokong! What do they want you to say? Tell Aunt Wen quickly!" Jiang Wen was emotional, and there was a faint pain in her abdomen. She lay down on the table and said again: "You Tell Auntie... Hurry up..."

"Aunt Wen... I have to reverse the case—"

Before Xi Zhikong could finish his sentence, the man hung up the phone and squeezed his chin with one hand to force him to look up. Seeing the hatred and firmness in his eyes, his heart trembled a little, and he tied the black cloth around him again. With fierce eyes, he said:

"You're not very young, you're quite tough, okay, uncle will find a way to make you obedient."