never forget [criminal investigation]

The city of "Dongjiang" is named after the river that runs through it.

Dongjiang water nourishes this land, and also records the bitter and happy life of generations of Dongjiang people.

Such as pieces of waves, or long, or short, or flat, or magnificent.

When the water is still, there are no waves, and people appreciate the beauty of the river.Only when the wind blows, will the most surging one emerge.

Perhaps after the wind stops, no one will remember how it rose against the wind.

But the Dongjiang water knows that every wave that has ever churned will be remembered.

"Matsuura" is a small pier, and it has been filled to the brim with boats entering the port at this time.The ship's side was ups and downs, stirring up waves of water.

On a starless and moonless rainy night, the river water was as black as ink, and the raindrops fell on it "shuashua". Only where the strong flashlight swept across, could the overlapping water patterns be seen.

An artificial floating island is connected to the shore, spreading out into a clearing in the river.

Xing Yue led the people to stand on it, and asked the dock staff who had just hurried over beside him, "How many ships are parked now?"

The staff member wiped the rainwater from his face, "Together the big and small, there should be 28."

Xing Yue looked into the darkness, "Is there anyone on board?"

The staff member shook his head, "No. People have already gone home. No one wants to stay on board in this weather."

"Is there a light on the shore?"

The man continued to shake his head and pointed in the opposite direction, "Only the office has lights."

Xing Yue thought for a while, then asked, "Is there a boat to Qinghe tomorrow?"

"Have."

"What time?"

"9:[-] in the morning." The staff member added, "If there is no wind on the river."

Xing Yue took out his phone and checked the time, it was exactly 9:[-] in the evening.

There are still 12 hours.

There were 12 people who came including himself.

There is only one way to get in and out of the pier, and it is full of police cars from the police station.

"Old Qin, you take a person to guard at the intersection." After Xing Yue finished speaking, he rushed to the others, "The rest of them will follow me and search each boat."

"Captain Xing, let me go with you! Let others guard it!" Qin Peng stopped him.

"No, you must go." Xing Yue was very determined, pushing Qin Peng away, "I can't let him escape from under your noses."

Seeing that Xing Yue was leaving with someone, the staff at the dock also followed, "I know this place well, I'll help you search together."

Xing Yue also rejected his offer and asked him to go back to the office and wait for orders.

With the police around, it will never be the turn of the masses to charge forward.

Back on the shore, 10 people, in groups of two, quickly spread out.

Before leaving, Xing Yue told them again, "Huang Tao is eager for revenge, and he thought that if he killed someone in prison, he would definitely die."

"If any group finds the target, call for support immediately. That person may have a hammer or other weapon in his hand, so be careful and stay safe!"

He wiped away the rainwater that fell into his eyes, and finally added, "If there is a chance, we must let Huang Tao know that the man from the prison engineering team was seriously injured by him, but he didn't die. He still has a way out."

"Yes!" Nine people said in unison.

"Action." The ten people dispersed in twos.

Xing Yue took Zhang Xiaowei straight to the farthest boat.

The sand on the shore was soaked in rainwater, stepping on and sinking.The large and small stones in the middle are wet and slippery.With one foot deep and the other shallow, the two ran towards the darkness that even strong flashlights could not penetrate.

When he got to the boat, Xing Yue grabbed Zhang Xiaowei, who was also drenched in rain, and said in a low voice, "Xiaowei, if you find Huang Tao, don't shoot unless you have to. If you shoot, you have to avoid the vital points. It's useful to keep this man."

"Yes."

"Besides, you should be more careful yourself."

"Don't worry, Brother Xing." Zhang Xiaowei clenched his fists.

Two people got on the boat, one at the bow and one at the stern, like pulling out a net, and pulling it towards the center little by little.

After searching carefully for nearly 10 minutes, it was confirmed that Huang Tao was not hiding on this boat.

The two jumped off and boarded the second boat next to them.

Just a small cargo ship.There was no one in the cabin, and the deck was flat, with only a pile of cables as thick as wrists coiled at the stern.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a place where people can hide.

Zhang Xiaowei still searched the bow, while Xing Yue went to the stern.

At this time, a gust of wind blew up on the surface of the river, and fine raindrops fell obliquely in an instant, like a bag of beans splashed on the deck.

Xing Yue had just walked to the stern of the boat, and before he could stand still, his body swayed abruptly.

He squatted down immediately to keep his body balanced.

Almost at the same time, he heard a soft "boom" from the stern of the ship, like a piece of wood floating on the water, hitting the side of the ship with the waves.

The flashlight shone in the past, and Xing Yue followed closely behind.

He knelt on one knee at the stern of the boat, his eyes followed the cold white light beam, along the side of the boat, inspecting the water surface inch by inch.

Under the light of the flashlight, the pitch-black water of the river showed a strange blue-gray color, turbid, cold and bottomless.

Just when the light was about to move away, a few tiny bubbles came up, touched the water surface, and shattered silently.

Xing Yue leaned out, and the beam of flashlight locked the area.

Soon, more blisters came up.One string after another, getting denser and denser, like being boiled by the light of a flashlight.

Along with these blisters, a black shadow is also approaching the water surface.

Finally, there was a sound of "crash", the surface of the water bloomed, and a head came out, followed by shoulders.

It was a bald head, with water rolling off a bluish scalp.

With a sound of "huh", the bald head opened his mouth wide, and swallowed the most exhilarating breath before he was about to die, catching the rain.

"Huang Tao!"

Xing Yue immediately handed over the flashlight to his left hand, and stretched out his right hand to grab him.

Huang Tao was immersed in the icy river water. His face was pale, his lips were bruised, and his eyes were gray. Except that he was desperately breathing, he was no different from a dead person.

Seeing that he was about to be grabbed by the collar by Xing Yue's hand, he regained his sanity, continued panting, waved one arm with difficulty, and swam away a little farther away.The submerged cable was in his other hand.

"Yes, yes, it's you!" Huang Tao also recognized Xing Yue, "Again, it's you again!"

At this time, Zhang Xiaowei also ran over upon hearing the sound, and two beams of light converged on Huang Tao's face.

"Huang Tao, listen to me. You swim over here, I'll take you back, you still have a chance, everything is in time!"

"Hmph." Huang Tao's face was stiff, his lips trembling unceasingly, "It's late, it's late, what, everything, it's late."

"I, killed, killed two, people, but, the most, the most damned, still, still alive!"

"I want, kill them!"

Xing Yue handed the light to Zhang Xiaowei, clasping the side of the boat with both hands, "Huang Tao, look at me, look at me! Listen to me!"

"The worker in the prison is not dead. You injured him, but he is still alive. You still have a chance! There is still a way out!"

Huang Tao's gray eyeballs moved, and the muscles on his face twitched, "Hmph, do you think, I, I will, believe it?"

"You guys, the police, all of you..." Before he could finish speaking, he seemed to lose consciousness suddenly, and his whole body sank into the water, but immediately got out again with a jolt.

He gasped harder, his lips trembling so that he couldn't say another word.

"Huang Tao!" Xing Yue shouted, "You believe me! That person is not dead, you still have a chance!"

"Your life is not over yet!"

"Think of your son!"

Huang Tao's chin was already submerged in the water. Hearing this, he suddenly struggled upwards.

"If I remember correctly, he is only 14 years old! He is not yet an adult, and he still needs you!"

"Since you went to prison, he was sent to your parents. Your daughter-in-law remarried, but he still has a mother in name. If you kill her, your son will really have no parents!"

"Do you have the heart? He is only 14, do you have the heart to let him live like this for the rest of his life?"

"As long as you live, he will have a father! He will have support! He will have a home!"

"Listen to me, come back, go back with me, reform well, and strive for a reduced sentence! Get out one day earlier, and you can reunite with him one day sooner!"

"Isn't this kind of day worth looking forward to? Isn't it more worth looking forward to than killing his mother with your own hands and letting him live alone with hatred for you?"

The man in the water had long been weeping, trembling and whimpering.

Tears, rain, or river water, he probably couldn't tell the difference.Because tears are also cold.

"Huang Tao," Xing Yue suppressed his temper, passed his hand over again, and stretched it to the limit, "Swim over slowly, and I will pull you ashore."

Huang Tao's eyes were dull, as if frozen.As if hearing Xing Yue's words, he swayed, but could no longer move forward.

He didn't open his mouth to breathe again, his lips didn't tremble any more, he didn't struggle, just sank so silently.

"Fuck!" Xing Yue stood up with a "whoosh".

"Brother Xing!"

Two flashlights danced wildly on the river, and before Zhang Xiaowei could reach out to stop him, Xing Yue had already thrown off his coat, and plunged into the dark river from beside him.

"Brother Xing!!!" Zhang Xiaowei yelled hoarsely at the river where Xing Yue disappeared.

Soon, Xing Yue popped up, "Don't come down, hurry up and call for backup, call an ambulance!"

Throwing this sentence to Zhang Xiaowei, Xing Yue dived down again.

"Fuck!!" Zhang Xiaowei wished he could split the water.But then he yelled at his companion not far away, and at the same time let his flashlight flash alternately.

The river water was icy cold and there was no light.This darkness is more suffocating than the lack of oxygen.

Xing Yue held his breath and dived quickly.You can't see anything, you can only feel it with your body.

This should be the place where Huang Tao sank, but the underwater current was raging, and Huang Tao had already loosened the cable.

Xing Yue dived four or five meters, but found nothing.

He quickly turned around at the bottom of the water, paddling desperately along the direction of the current.

The icy river water gradually made his hands and feet less controllable, and his chest hurt like it was about to burst.

Xing Yue estimated his limit, and bubbles kept escaping from his mouth.

Hold on!Hold on a little longer!

Continue to dive down the current.There is endless darkness in front of my eyes, and there are only gurgling undercurrents in my ears, like the banners of ghosts calling their souls.

The body temperature is dropping rapidly, but the chest cavity is burning.

At the moment when he felt that he was about to explode|explode, a piece of something passed through his fingertips, like cloth.

Xing Yue immediately kicked in that direction, a ball of clothes was caught in his hands, and his body fell down with the weight of the ball.

Xing Yue has reached the limit.Following the tangle of clothes, he found an arm, then the chest.

With the last bit of his strength, he clamped the man's ribs, using his hands and feet together, and began to float up desperately.

Hold!How far is the water?He wants to curse!

There were countless red-hot iron sticks protruding from the chest cavity.For a moment, he really wanted to give up, to take a quick breath, even if only the river water was inhaled into his mouth and nose, and then sink into the bottom of the river comfortably without struggling.

Then all suffering will be over.

At this time, there was a bright light in front of his eyes, which was the beam of light from a strong flashlight, swaying on the water.

Still have to live, still can't give up.

With a "wow", he hooked Huang Tao and got out of the water.

He took a deep breath, breathing desperately, the most ordinary and yet most extraordinary air in the world.

"Brother Xing!!"

It was Zhang Xiaowei's changed voice.

He faced the flashlight, trying to see how far he was from the shore, but the glare was so dazzling that he didn't have the strength to raise his hand to cover it.

"Plop", "Plop", someone jumped into the water and quickly approached him with a life buoy.

He was still panting violently, pressing his trembling fingers on Huang Tao's neck.

Fortunately, the pulse is beating.

Fortunately, they are all alive.

At the same time, Xiang Hai has already reported his discovery to Zhou Xun, and told the whole process of meeting Zhang Xiang.

After listening, Zhou Xun patted him on the shoulder heavily, and then fell silent.

He frowned and smoked.The soot accumulated for a long time, and finally fell on the pants.

Seeing that he didn't intend to deal with it, Xiang Hai endured it for a while, and finally stretched out his hand to flick the pinch of soot.

"Xiang Hai, you did a good job!" Zhou Xun finally put out the cigarette butt, and patted Xiang Hai on the shoulder twice, "Sit and wait for a while."

Xiang Hai nodded.

Zhou Xun went to the meeting room with his mobile phone.

When I was free, I felt that my clothes were wet.Remembering that he still kept a T-shirt in the office cabinet, Xiang Hai took off the skull hoodie, turned out the T-shirt and put it on.

I sat there and looked at my phone for a while, but there was still no news from Xing Yue.

I ran to the window again, but the car in the bureau did not come back.

Having nothing to do for a while, he hooked out the necklace hidden in his clothes.The concentric lock still carried his body temperature.

A few minutes later, Zhou Xun came back, with another cigarette in his hand, and said when he entered the door, "Team Jiang will come right away, let's wait for him for a while."

"Yes." Xiang Hai hid the necklace in his clothes again.

Soon, Jiang Yuan arrived, with some drops of water hanging on his short hair.

He called Xiang Hai over, and the three of them sat together, "Let's talk about the situation just now in detail." He had to listen to Xiang Hai's most original report before he could make a judgment.

So Xiang Hai told the whole thing again, from beginning to end.

Jiang Yuan also fell silent after listening, but soon stood up and started pacing back and forth.

"That Zhang Xiang, has he promised to introduce you?"

"I didn't say I'm dead, let me wait for the news." Xiang Hai followed him, "But I think it should be fine."

"Your personal situation, he didn't suspect?"

"No." Xiang Hai smiled, "He also said that if I enter the factory in the future, I have to learn to be smart and stop being so lazy."

At this time Zhou Xun asked, "Did you leave the phone to him?"

"Yes, but I left another number, which I got just a few days ago." Xiang Hai was a little proud, "He added me on WeChat, and before I left, I made a few circles of friends."

Zhou Xun laughed, "Okay, you, what circle of friends are you doing?"

"It's just playing mahjong, eating and drinking." Xiang Hai smiled, "There are also Jiugongge selfies."

Zhou Xun was a little curious by what he said, "Bring it to me?"

Xiang Hai tapped his phone and handed it over.

Zhou Xun took it, brought it to Jiang Yuan, and watched it with him, "Here, is this yellow hair you?"

"Yeah." Xiang Hai chuckled, stroked his bangs with his fingers, "I bought a wig."

"And the big gold chain?"

"Fake, plastic." Xiang Hai's shoulders trembled.

"Okay! Really!" Zhou Xun smiled and returned the phone to him.

Jiang Yuan also showed a rare smile, looking at Xiang Hai with approval and anticipation.

"Xiang Hai, this discovery is very important, and your suspicion is very reasonable." He lit a cigarette, "It would be best if Zhang Xiang could introduce you to the factory. If not, we have to find another way."

"Yes." Xiang Hai immediately became serious.

The smoke was lingering, covering Jiang Yuan's expression.

After half a cigarette in silence, he raised his eyes, his eyes penetrated the smoke, and looked at Xiang Hai.

"This is a rare opportunity and an unprecedented challenge."

"Xiang Hai, are you ready?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiang Hai straightened his back, saluted with the most standard posture, and answered loudly.

"Yes! I'm always ready!"

At Songpu Wharf, the police car made way for an ambulance rushing in.

Covered with a thick blanket, Huang Tao lay on the sofa in the dock office, saving his life.

Xing Yue took off his wet clothes, put on the work clothes of a dock worker, and wrapped himself in his coat, and saved his life.

"Brother Xing," Zhang Xiaowei's eyes were red, "You know, I've never been so scared in my entire life."

Everyone in the room fell silent with lingering fear.

They are thankful, but also afraid, and understand that no one has a second choice.

Xing Yue raised his hand to signal Zhang Xiaowei to come over.

It may be due to soaking in cold water for a long time, coupled with the rapid panting after holding his breath for a long time, his throat is almost speechless at this moment.

Zhang Xiaowei wiped his eyes, lowered his head, and came to him.

Xing Yue touched his wet head, then pressed his shoulder, finally picked up his hand, and held it together.

The door of the office was pushed open, Qin Peng led a few white coats, carried a stretcher, and the cold wind rushed in.

Huang Tao was handcuffed and sent to an ambulance.Xing Yue followed.

"Team Xing!" Qin Peng grabbed him, "Let's take our own car!"

Xing Yue shook it thoroughly, leaned into his ear, and said in a hoarse voice, "I have something to ask him."

Then he straightened up and leaned back again, "By the way, report the situation to Bureau Xu, he is still waiting."

"Also, ask him if he can detain Huang Tao in the sub-bureau first, and don't send him back to the No. [-] Prison. Just say I said so."

After speaking, he patted Qin Peng on the shoulder, turned around and got into the ambulance.

The rain hadn't stopped, and the ambulance was driving through the wind and rain with flashing warning lights on it.

In the car, Huang Tao was lying on a stretcher with his eyes closed tightly, motionless, only his chest rising and falling slightly.

Xing Yue sat beside him, waited for a while, and pushed his arm.

Huang Tao slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes slanted to this side.

Xing Yue handed the phone to his eyes.

"It's inconvenient for me to speak now, and so are you. But I have a few questions I want to ask you, can you answer me?"

Huang Tao's eyes moved again, and then he nodded slightly.

Xing Yue continued to type on the phone, and then handed it to him.

"Who told you the news of your daughter-in-law's remarriage, cellmate?"

Huang Tao shook his head.

"Prison guard?"

Huang Tao continued to shake his head.

"Discipline?"

Huang Tao nodded.

Xing Yue's expression remained unchanged, and he typed the second question.

"You still stay outside when the construction workers change shifts. Is this a temporary arrangement?"

Huang Tao nodded.

"Only you are arranged?"

Huang Tao shook his head.

"You injured that person, and when you went out with the construction team, did someone check your identities?"

Huang Tao still shook his head.

Xing Yue bit his lower lip.

"Do you know Yuan Guoping?"

Huang Tao thought about it, then shook his head.

Xing Yue typed the last question.

"If you are sent back to the first prison, do you feel that you are in danger?"

Huang Tao's eyes widened suddenly, and he tried his best to look at Xing Yue.After staring for a while, he slowly turned back.

After thinking for a long time, he finally nodded heavily.

Xing Yue put away his phone.