I come from the abyss

The moment the gunshot fired, Jiang Heng reflexively raised his hand to cover the back of Li Zan's head, causing hot blood to splash on his arm and Li Zan's cheek.

In addition to Cheng Keyi, Cheng Ying and other five people who committed suicide, [-] other accomplices were subdued. To prevent them from committing suicide, the armed police first grabbed their wrists and searched them, and then notified outsiders to come in to help take away the hostages and wounded.

The hostages were taken away one after another, the wounded were sent to the hospital, the corpses were carried into body bags and then moved downstairs, the criminals put on hoods and were pushed into a police car. Li Zan and Team Xing made a request not to allow media reporters to take pictures of their appearances. Interviews of any kind are prohibited.

Team Xing agreed, and patted Li Zan on the shoulder to ask if he needed psychological counseling.

Li Zan shook his head and refused, and suddenly asked: "The whole restaurant has been checked, has everyone evacuated?"

Team Xing replied that they were all safely evacuated, and then asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Zan squeezed the base of his fingers, and suddenly opened the back door of a police car. Inside, Zhao Yanli was receiving the mineral water handed over by the policewoman, wrapped in a small blanket and still shivering uncontrollably.

Policewoman: "Captain Li?"

Li Zan got into the car: "I have something to ask her."

The policewoman got out of the car clearly, and when she saw Jiang Heng intending to get in the car, she asked Li Zan, who waved Jiang Heng in, and then closed the police car door.

The carriage is quite narrow, and it is particularly crowded when three adults are crammed in.

Zhao Yanli was still in shock, and asked vigilantly, "What do you want to do?"

Li Zan: "Eleven lives, the youngest are Cheng Ying and her brother, who are less than 25. For many young people, they may have just graduated and are thinking about whether to enter the society or continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination. But they become murderers. Suicide in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, who could have not died, if you had told me Lou Ji's plan earlier in the morning instead of just focusing on the news focus."

Zhao Yanli pursed her lips, feeling both unconvinced and flustered: "I didn't know that such a big event would happen tonight, I didn't expect... Even if I tell you that there is big news tonight, what can you do?"

"At least I can apply for assistance to defuse the bomb in the restaurant ahead of time, protect the hostages, and even take Cheng Keyi and her accomplices away before the party begins!"

Zhao Yanli tightened his fingers nervously, facing death is not as easy as when he found out that Xiang Changrong's family was wiped out. After all, he only glanced at the door at that time, and even Xiang Changrong's miserable death situation seemed to be mosaiced a day or two later. It's as vague as it is, and it's incomparable to the impact of watching a living human brain being blown out tonight.

In particular, some of the deceased's expositions before their death made her shudder, and it was only then that she realized what a horrific tragedy was hidden under the enthusiasm of the news she was pursuing.

The back of Zhao Yanli's hand was gouged out with a lot of bloodstains, thinking back to those sinners who were shot to death, what they described in the Qingshan Red Pavilion, the top of the Qingshan Red Pavilion, the top of the palace, the underground tomb of bones, and the memory of Cheng Keyi and others who committed suicide, panicked sharp.

She took out the mobile phone hidden in her pocket, and handed it to Li Zan with her head down: "I took screenshots of the text messages Lou Ji sent to me and stored them in my mailbox, as well as his hiding place these days. Cheng Keyi said Xiang Changrong Lin Chengtao and Lin Chengtao were killed by them, and you said that Lou Ji killed them. I don’t want to know the truth now, but one thing is certain, it was Lou Ji who attacked Yu Hongying. I can’t guess what the purpose is. It seems to be coming towards Qingshan Red Pavilion."

Li Zan took the phone, opened the mailbox, glanced at ten lines, and then handed it to Jiang Heng: "Have you found out where Lou Ji is hiding?"

Zhao Yanli: "You came to me, making me think that Lou Ji is a vicious gangster. Of course, Lou Ji is not a good person. I have to be careful. I decided to call the police after tonight."

Speaking of this, she seemed to realize that no matter how much she said, she was looking for love, so she turned to say: "I asked a friend to check the IP address, but I only found a fake address. Later, I asked someone of the highest rank to help me keep an eye on it, so I ended up in a small hotel. Found Lou Ji's trace."

Li Zan looked back at Jiang Heng: "How is it?"

"It doesn't look like it's fake." Jiang Heng put away his phone and said, "Lou Ji sent you a text message to inform you that there is big news tonight. It is very likely that he knew the plan of Cheng Keyi and others. They need a channel to speak out. It just so happens that you are the most famous A rising reporter, who controls the official account of People's Livelihood First, as long as there is news, the popularity will rise rapidly. You have been used by Lou Ji."

Zhao Yanli's face was unseemly pale.

Li Zan: "Go back to the police station to take notes. This time, please cooperate with the investigation. Don't play smart and conspire with the tiger. If you think you can control the tiger, maybe you will be eaten up next time."

Zhao Yanli didn't respond to his sarcastic remarks, Xu Shizhen was frightened and began to reflect.

Li Zan and Jiang Heng left the police car and went to another police car to leave the restaurant with Team Xing. There were still a lot of media reporters outside trying to block the road for first-hand news.

The restaurant was blocked, and the dense traffic flow gradually thinned out. The police cars separated at the fork in front of the road, walked up to the expressway of Xinzhou City Bureau, and went down to the hotel where Lou Ji was hiding. The red and blue police lights flashed into the long queue of cars. .

**

At midnight, the armed police broke into a certain room in a dilapidated hotel in Xiushan District, only to find that the palm-sized room had already been emptied. The ashtrays and trash cans had been cleaned out, and not even a single fingerprint was left.

On the wall opposite the big bed, there was a piece of white paper with a mocking smiling face drawn on it.

"Tsk, arrogance." A young armed policeman sighed: "Boss, do you think the criminal investigation team asked us to arrest this person who is planning behind the scenes? What happened tonight is so simple, this person is absolutely anti-social personality, harmful great!"

The head of the armed police slapped his subordinate on the back of the head: "Take the evidence bag and put it away, beep beep!"

The leader of the armed police walked to the half-opened window and looked down. There were only a few street lights on. Three or two pedestrians passed by the back alley, and a little ahead was the brightly lit alley, a night market street, maybe gangsters Just hiding in the crowd and watching them arrogantly and mockingly, it might be a waste of time.

**

At three o'clock in the morning, the Xinzhou Municipal Bureau was as bright as day.

Fifteen criminals surnamed Cheng were detained separately and interrogated alone for nearly two hours. Some of them saw their mouths gourd and refused to speak, some just shed tears in silence, and some younger ones glared at the police and yelled at them as perpetrators.

In the end, it was Li Zan who came forward to find a breakthrough, and four of them took the initiative to explain the ins and outs.

"My name is Huaqing. I didn't want my surname to be Cheng, so I changed my name. I originally wanted to be named Hua. Who knew that the registration officer misunderstood it and changed it to Huaqing. Age...27? 28? I don't know, I forgot mine. Age, when I was in the orphanage, I randomly registered my birth date, and the ID card said 29."

"You don't have to ask other people, they have been greatly stimulated tonight, don't hurt them anymore."

Li Zan moved away the light, crossed his legs, leaned against the seat, and stared expressionlessly at the woman locked in the criminal detention chair, with the criminal police taking notes beside him.

Under the pale light, a gray-blue metal door was closed tightly. Tiny mosquitoes flew by and stopped on one side of the one-way glass. On the other side were Jiang Heng and Team Xing watching the interrogation process.

Jiang Heng: "Have Huo Wenying and Cheng Bei been taken to the hospital?"

Team Xing nodded: "Our people are closely guarding them."

While talking, a phone call came in suddenly, Team Xing went to the side to pick it up, hung up the communication after saying a few words, walked back to the original position and said: "Yu Hongying committed suicide, is in first aid, and is not out of danger yet."

Jiang Heng: "She's hiding a secret, so she can't die."

Team Xing frowned: "What?"

Jiang Heng: "The people who attacked Yu Hongying were not people like Cheng Keyi, but the purpose of the attack was to warn, what was the warning? Cheng Keyi lynched and executed so many people, but Yu Hongying, one of the masterminds of the Red Pavilion, was spared." ,reason?"

Team Xing: "Yu Hongying is especially concerned about her career, ruining her career and making her suffer alive is worse than death."

Jiang Heng: "For Xiang Changrong and Lin Chengtao, ruining their careers can make their lives worse than death. For Cheng Keyi and the group of people who are determined to die, the only way to be happy is to solve the enemy with their own hands. Even if you want to Seeing the enemy's life is worse than death, being tortured, the premise is to be alive, the pleasure of revenge lies in watching the enemy's pain."

He turned to look at Team Xing: "Cheng Keyi and the others want to commit suicide collectively, so it is absolutely impossible for Yu Hongying to live, unless she must live."

Team Xing's face became serious: "I asked the police to keep an eye on Yu Hongying." After a pause, he hissed: "You are a criminal consultant in Dongcheng District, come to our detachment... Do you have an application?"

Jiang Heng: "I have applied."

Team Xing: "That's okay."

At this time, in the interrogation room.

Hua Qing was a little restless, rubbed his fingers and asked, "Can you give me a cigarette?"

The criminal policeman next to Li Zan slapped the table and scolded: "Where do you think this is?"

Hua Qing licked her lips: "I'm sorry, comrade." She pulled up her sleeves to reveal a row of needle holes in her arms, grinned and said, "I was forced to take drugs before, but then I quit them desperately, and I got a problem with smoking again. .”

Many people who quit D addiction will choose smoking instead, and they are more addicted than ordinary people.

Li Zan: "Give her one."

The criminal policeman next to him had no choice but to go out to borrow it, and Team Xing, who was watching outside, gave one and helped light it by the way.

Hua Qing took a puff of cigarette, and said with the curling white mist: "Our appeal is also very simple. You also know that a thorough investigation of the Red Pavilion case, Cheng Wanke, who was executed five years ago, was just the principal who was pushed to the surface. The one who is an abandoned child. Everyone else is let go, big and small officials, capitalists, lawyers, judges, teachers, doctors...there are many, a business within the ring, Cheng Wanke had a list at that time, in which It records all the people who participated, in order to win over and coerce them at the same time, pull them into the same boat, and let the people in the museum go to sex and bribe them.”

"Only a few people were sentenced, and the boss behind the scenes couldn't even be seen, so the police made hasty convictions."

Perhaps it was because of the obvious contempt and sarcasm on Hua Qing's face, Li Zan corrected, "The Red Pavilion case is not over yet."

Hua Qing: "What do you mean?"

Li Zan: "There are too many doubts in the case, and it involves a lot of things. The case is declared closed, but it is actually unresolved."

Hua Qing was stunned: "Really?"

After a moment of silence, he didn't say anything more.

"We were rescued. Those who were sick were sent to the hospital, and those who were addicted to D and X were sent to professional institutions for rehabilitation. After that, they helped us change our name, apply for a new ID card, and introduced us to work. During that time, we really thought we could start In the new life, everyone is very positive, it is the kind of mood that walks out of the haze, fears and yearns for the sun, but unfortunately the good times don't last long."

"Some of us were killed, and it was judged to be an accidental death. At first, we thought it was an accident, but then too many people died, such as car accidents, work injuries, drowning... What's even more funny is that a sister stepped on a marble and fell down the stairs in August of her pregnancy. , the ambulance was delayed due to traffic jams, the pregnant woman was bleeding profusely, and in the end, two people died.”

"Afterwards we checked, and there were no children in that building, and no one bought marbles. Where did they come from? Some people also denied it. After all, marbles killed people, and no one dared to admit that they had bought marbles. Then a motorcycle Collided with a tricycle, the owner beat the traffic police, causing a traffic jam, hindering the ambulance first aid? How about the death of a pregnant woman, and the owner of the accident received money from unknown sources afterward, what should I say?"

"But in the final analysis, there is no direct evidence. Everything is just a conjecture that is too coincidental. It is useless to call the police. Only we know that the real owner of the Red Pavilion has come back to take revenge."

"He's going to kill us all! He won't allow us to be born again!"

Hua Qing's eyes were dark: "He won't let us be reborn, so we'll let him die!"

"Who is he?"

Hua Qing stared fixedly at Li Zan, and suddenly smiled: "It's up to you police to investigate."

Li Zan: "Even you and Yu Hongying don't know who he is, so how can we find out? The evidence related to the red hall, including those who knew the insider, were all killed. There is no place to check."

Hua Qing provoked: "It means you have no skills."

Li Zan: "It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Even if you stand in front of the police station and commit suicide, you can't find out the results if you force the police to investigate. Five years is enough for the people behind the scenes to destroy all traces of his presence."

Hua Qing's expression was stiff: "You want to fool me?"

Li Zan: "Whether we let us deal with small fish and shrimp and close the case, or continue to track down and catch big fish, it depends on whether you are worthy or not."

Hua Qing asked back: "I'm not cooperative enough?"

Li Zan: "What do you think?"

He looked at Hua Qing quietly, his eyes were calm, and his eyes were full of comprehension, as if he could see through Hua Qing's performance traces of laughing and cursing at a glance.

Hua Qing tensed into an obvious straight line from the fingers holding the cigarette to her arms. After a while, she turned her mind several times, and finally realized that she couldn't please Li Zan by playing tricks, so she slowly relaxed.

After thinking for a moment, Hua Qing compromised: "We don't know the origin of his appearance, including his name. We only know that Cheng Wanke called him Mr. Song. A sister from the Hongguan who was quite favored by his side heard Mr. Song talking in the room one day. The source of a batch of goods, I don’t know what kind of goods, it seems to be going to Xinjiang, using HK as a transit point, and leaving Yuejiang City.”

Xinjiang?

golden crescent.

Li Zan, who was particularly sensitive to that place, suddenly had a heart beating fast.

"It is said to be shipping, but the idea is actually to open up a route. One road will be opened once, and the upper and lower strongholds will be determined. It will be arranged at one time. It will be much more convenient to bring in goods from Xinjiang next time."

"Mr. Song doesn't live in the mainland, but usually lives in Hong Kong. He travels between Hong Kong and Macau. He heard that he opened a casino in Macau and a hall in Hong Kong. I don't know about the rest."

Li Zan: "What product?"

Hua Qing shrugged: "It's either arms or drugs, what else can there be?"

Li Zan: "The red house is engaged in trafficking and flesh and blood business. Normally, people are thinking about smuggling people under logical thinking, but you are very sure to rule out this conjecture."

Hua Qing shook the cigarette ash, turned his body sideways, and felt a little uncomfortable: "We traced some clues, and guessed that it is more likely to be drugs. I heard that you found out the Asahi Group's peddlers?"

Li Zan asked sharply: "Is it related to the Asahi Group?"

Hua Qing raised two fingers and said, "Six years ago, or seven years ago? Anyway, it was related to the fire in the research institute. The batch of drugs shipped out was divided into two parts, one for the Golden Triangle and the other for the Golden Triangle." new moon."

Li Zan: "That transaction clearly records that the share is only enough to provide the Golden Triangle."

Hua Qing: "You only need to mix a little bit out of each bag and add some flour to hide it from the Golden Triangle. It's very common to be short of catties. The reason why Golden Crescent only needs a little bit is because it needs a new type of poison. With the refining method of Grade 1, it is undeniable that the woman surnamed Lin is very talented in crime."

Li Zan: "Are you familiar with Lin Chaoqi?"

Hua Qing: "We found her."

Li Zan: "Did you find out or Cheng Keyi found out?"

Hua Qing: "Different?"

Li Zan: "It seems that Cheng Keyi found out... Did she just tell you, or tell everyone? You didn't want to survive. If you didn't change your mind temporarily, you might die with this important information—"

He raised his head suddenly: "It's not like normal people's approach, unless you still have someone outside to support you, you can continue with the rest of the plan afterward."

Hua Qing shook the cigarette ash and denied it softly: "Comrade, you have a big brain."

Li Zan: "The favored woman accompanying Mr. Song is called Cheng Kaidi, isn't it?"

Hua Qing suddenly trembled violently for a short time. If it wasn't for her sudden pale face, she might be mistaken for an illusion.

Li Zan lowered his voice and spoke slowly: "Cheng Katie betrayed Mr. Song, was brutally murdered, dismembered, packed in her beloved Katie doll, and placed in the Red Pavilion as a collectible for you to watch. Is it? Cheng Kaidi found evidence to report to the Red Pavilion, she saved you, but it was also because of her, Mr. Song couldn't get rid of the hatred in his heart, and chased and killed you who survived afterwards—"

"No! No!!" Hua Qing suddenly shouted excitedly, tried to get up but was imprisoned, and beat the interrogation chair with both arms, and yelled frantically as if the cigarette butt burned his wrist without pain: "He lost the goods! Someone He can't find out if he is guarding himself, so he finds brothers and sisters who have accompanied many people and heard a lot of news, ask them for the news, and then kill them! It's not Sister Xiangyang, it's not——it's not her!"

She screamed and kicked angrily, and Li Zan jumped over the long table to stop her but couldn't stop her from self-harming. Fortunately, the door of the interrogation room was opened quickly, and the doctor who was waiting outside rushed in to give Hua Qing a tranquilizer.

Hua Qing fell weakly on the stretcher, and when being carried out, she moved her fingers, stared stubbornly at Li Zan's eyes, and repeated weakly: "It wasn't her...she saved us, she saved a lot of people by dying. ,A lot of people……"

Hua Qing burst into tears, her eyes filled with sadness and despair.

For the first time, Li Zan regretted that the interrogation process could arouse the criminal's emotions to achieve the purpose of the interrogation. He should not have ignored the fact that the prisoner is also a victim, and rushed to stimulate her before the other party's emotions came out of the extreme state.

"I said something wrong, I apologize, it was Cheng Katie who saved you, she is very brave and kind, I know, everyone in the police station knows it and feels sorry for it."

Hua Qing cried, making people realize that she is not very old, she has only been walking in society for five years, and it may only be two or three years to truly live like a person.

"We...we saw..." she said intermittently: "The day she was killed, dismembered, cooked...we all saw it."

Hearing this, the faces of all those who knew about the case changed. They couldn't imagine what Hua Qing and the victims had suffered back then, and what kind of hell they lived in. They let them watch their companions being killed, dismembered, and tortured. What a terrible blow to the spirit and psychology of cooking corpses and making them into exhibits!

Someone in the crowd whispered: "...kill one as an example."

Killing Cheng Katie, who was trying to escape from the Devil's Nest, shocked everyone, and severely shattered their desire for freedom from body to heart to soul. Even if they were saved, some souls would always be imprisoned in the Red Pavilion, and they would never be able to escape.

"She knew she was going to die, and she told us to live."

"You don't know how beautiful she is when she smiles... She is very good-looking, very good-looking..."

Hua Qing fell into memory, talking to himself, the effect of the sedative came on, his voice became smaller and smaller, and he gradually fell asleep.