Swallowing the Seas

Wu Yu let out a sigh of relief and rubbed the center of his brows tiredly.

The sky is getting late outside the window, and the glass window reflects the glowing computer screen. The search pictures on the page are all different shapes of skull helmets and human head masks, rotten, simulated, archaeologically unearthed, and exhibited overseas... But none fit Ho's description of the killer.

Even if keywords such as "sacrifice" and "jumping God" were added to the search box, the resulting pictures were quite different from the vague scenes in memory.

—Have I really seen it?Wu Yu thought.

Bu Chonghua's words sounded in his ears again that day: "...a typical memory disorder type stress disorder, which made him subconsciously tamper with and exaggerate his memory, which is the result of the interweaving of fear, fantasy and real memory..."

If stress disorder can confound memory, how can you be sure that the scene from more than 20 years ago is real?

Could this skull helmet really have nothing to do with religious practices "over there"?

Wu Yu stood up and took a few steps. Through the half-closed shutters, he could see Bu Chonghua and the others having a meeting in the detachment leader's office. Even Xu Ju came down in person, sitting on the sofa with a solemn expression, listening to Cai Lin's report on the investigation result.

With a concentrated expression, Bu Chonghua sat sideways on the edge of the desk with his shirt cuffs stacked up to his elbows.Facts have proved that staying up late is the natural enemy of anti-aging. After staying up for two full days and one night in the detachment, even the grass-level facial features of the infantry detachment police school could not handle it. His brows were full of anxiety and fatigue, and his eyes were full of scary Bloodshot.

Cai Lin's voice came out from the crack of the door: "We have almost given up our efforts on the scene. From yesterday afternoon to today, the focus of the investigation has been on the social grievances of the Nian family, but no matter how hard we search, we can't find any clues. Now the biggest The problem is not being able to find a motive..."

More than 80.00% of the homicide cases are committed by acquaintances. Finding the motive is equivalent to overcoming the biggest problem, but in this case, there is no clue about the motive.

Wu Yu subconsciously took out a cigarette, but before he had time to light it, Bu Chonghua suddenly raised his head as if he had a sixth sense, and glared at him through the crack of the door, with his index and middle fingers close together, meaning no, accurate, smoking .

Wu Yu: "..."

Xu Ju couldn't see outside the door from his angle: "Hey? What's wrong with you?"

"Pay attention to the health of my subordinates, and show my concern as a boss." Bu Chonghua calmly replied, and turned to Cai Lin: "Have the screening results of the morgues of major hospitals come out?"

Cai Lin said with a sad face: "We dug up even the illegally operated private mortuary, not to mention the skull, and there is no record of missing the intact head..."

Bu Chonghua was thinking about the case quickly in his mind, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at Wu Yu outside the door, and saw him take a deep breath—at that moment, Bu Chonghua felt that the eighteenth generation of his ancestors had been greeted cordially again again.But unexpectedly, Wu Yu held back again, turned around and walked out of the big office.

I went out to smoke, Bu Chonghua thought.

Thinking of this, he felt in his heart that he paid a little more attention to this kid.Before he could distract himself to think about why, Liao Gang suddenly entered the door and called Xu Ju, and then asked: "Captain, you asked the third group to investigate the social relationship of Nian's family before they came to Jinhai, and now they have returned the results , listen?"

Xu Ju immediately forgot what happened just now: "Listen, how is it?"

"Nian Daxing, 45 years old, and his hometown is Yangzaozi Village, Gaochi County. He usually rents in Xiaogang Village in the outskirts of Jinhai. He has done odd jobs such as cement workers, decoration workers, and warehouses. Personnel. According to the records faxed by the Gaochi County Police Station, he was a gangster who groped, drank and made troubles, beat his wife, and went to the village committee for mediation seven or eight times. Forcibly occupied half of the neighbor's homestead."

Xu Ju immediately said: "Then quickly follow this line to investigate and send someone to his hometown to find out?"

Liao Gang hastened to leave, but suddenly he heard Bu Chonghua: "——Wait. He took over the neighbor's land?"

"Yes, the faxes we received are all police records, and each record has a rough police situation..."

"wrong."

Everyone in the office was full of question marks, staring at Bu Chonghua, only to hear him whisper: "Nian Daxing only has a daughter, and she is considered an 'extinct family' in those backward places. Taking advantage of trivial things will never force neighbors to occupy their land. Now many places can kill people in the fight for homestead. Unless he has other reliance, it is enough to make other neighbors dare not provoke him, but it is not involved in gangsters. Otherwise, when the local police station cross-certifies with us, they won’t keep silent about it..."

The homestead is divided according to the head of each household, and the more men in the family, the more talkative, Liao Gang thought to himself, is the neighbor a widow?disabled?elder?

Bu Chonghua's face suddenly changed, he didn't know what to think of, he quickly walked behind the desk and turned on the computer.

The second monk Xu Juzhang couldn't figure it out: "Hey? What are you looking for?"

"Intranet." Bu Chonghua stared at the fluorescent screen: "National public security crime database."

Wu Yu went down to the door of the criminal investigation detachment building, took a deep breath of the cool air in the early summer night, then lit the cigarette, opened the phone's address book, and swipe the screen up and down unconsciously.

Do you really want to fight?He hesitated.

Before he came to Jinhai, he knew that he only needed to clock in to work and get paid on time. After two years, he resigned and disappeared into the sea of ​​people without a sound. He lived a peaceful and mediocre life until he died. Now, those bloody and bizarre murders should not have anything to do with him anymore.

But for some unknown reason, Nian Xiaoping's gray eyes and Bu Chonghua's sharp, bloodshot pupils flashed alternately in his mind like a fast-forward pantomime.

"..." Wu Yu let out a long breath, and finally pressed the number with a cigarette between his fingers——

Yunnan Provincial Airport.

Lin Hao strode out of the arrival hall with a briefcase in his hand. A black car was already waiting by the sidewalk. The driver slipped out of the car and opened the back door, calling out to Lin Ke.

Lin Hao sat in the car without saying a word.

The driver had already gotten used to his style, so he didn't take it seriously. While starting the car, he looked at him carefully in the rearview mirror: "Where are we going now, Lin Ke? Shall I take you home or—"

Lin Hao closed his eyes slightly, and spit out two words: "Provincial Office."

The driver had been with him for a while, and he could feel that although there was no abnormality on his surface, he was in a bad mood, so he didn't say a word, and immediately turned on the lights.

Just then the phone rang in the car.

Lin Hao opened his eyes suddenly and connected the phone. At that moment, his tone made the driver suspect that he had heard it wrong: "Hello?"

"Is it convenient to talk?"

The voice on the phone was slightly hoarse, but it had a quiet texture, and the driver was sure he had never heard it before.He couldn't help but glanced in the rearview mirror, and unexpectedly found that Lin Hao's eyes were crooked, and he was smiling!

Lin Ke was actually laughing. Is there something wrong with his eyes or the rearview mirror?

"It's convenient, my plane just landed—what's the matter?"

On the other side of the call, the current was rustling, and it took a while to hear the voice vaguely say: "I want to ask for your help."

Lin Hao sat up straight unconsciously, with a smile in his voice: "What's the matter, tell me?"

Wu Yu stood on the sidewalk in front of the branch office, squinting his eyes in the curling smoke, and the night scene of the bustling street was fully reflected in his eyes.

"When I was in the south in my early years, I once entered a local village and accidentally saw a wizard wearing a human bone mask to dance to the God. Sometimes I would dream about what happened before at night. The human bone mask was quite scary. When I woke up, I wondered what the hell was going on. What kind of religious activity, and I drew the picture, thinking about it all day."

Lin Hao's smile gradually faded, and his face became a bit serious when he finally heard: "Do you often dream at night?"

"Occasionally." Wu Yu responded vaguely, and said, "I just want to know what that mask is for. I feel that if I figure out a lot of things, I won't always worry about getting over it in the future. I heard people say Your authority checks things quickly, can you check it for me?"

Lin Hao asked in a deep voice, "You often have nightmares at night, why don't you tell me?"

Wu Yu was at a loss for words for a moment, and after a pause, he said in discouragement: "It may be a bit of a violation of discipline, so let's just check it if it's not convenient for you."

Lin Hao sighed quietly: "Wu Yu..."

The driver knew that he should keep an eye on his nose, his nose, his nose, and his heart, but Section Chief Lin sighed, as if he had swallowed a thousand words, which made the hearts of others tremble.

Fortunately, Section Chief Lin didn't say anything after that sigh, and only said gently: "Then send me the picture you drew."

It is illegal to disclose key clues at the unsolved stage of the case, even if the other party is a colleague from a different jurisdiction.So Wu Yu saved a rough copy of the skull helmet in the photo album of his mobile phone before, and sent it to Lin Hao in a text message.

The phone vibrated, and Lin Hao glanced at it.

"Understood, leave it to me." He paused, as if finally couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice to the phone: "Wu Yu?"

Wu Yu groaned, and was about to smoke with a cigarette, when suddenly, in the shadows not far away, the peculiar sound of the mobile phone taking pictures: click!

This movement was extremely slight, and it was extremely inconspicuous in the bustling streets, but in a flash, Wu Yu, who was originally on one side of his body, suddenly raised his head, looking for prestige with incomparable precision, and immediately paused with his hands in midair.

—— Nian Daxing was standing across the sidewalk, before he could hide his phone camera, his fleshy face was tense, staring at him from bottom to top.

The green light in the distance turned red, and the crimson light was reflected in the triangular eyes, glowing like the venom of a snake.

Wu Yu has experienced too many moments of life and death, and he felt something at almost the same moment, and his pupils suddenly tightened.Lin Hao asked something on the other end of the phone, but he didn't listen. He saw Nian Daxing's face contorted, he opened his mouth and made several mouth shapes:

"Two, three, six, five, nine—"

In the sub-bureau office, Bu Chonghua's cursor slid quickly from the dense web pages, and then stopped, and a dull and stiff two-inch bareheaded photo of Nian Daxing appeared on the screen: "Sure enough."

Xu Ju took a look: "Oh, this kid has a criminal record?"

"But the police records we received..." Liao Gang stopped abruptly, and then suddenly realized that the national criminal records database has not yet been completed, and the police station's non-criminal records are only kept for ten years, and if Nian Daxing is detained in other provinces Yes, the original police station does not necessarily have Internet access!

And in those particularly feudal places, apart from having many sons in the family, what else can deter the four miles and eight villages?

— Squat in prison!

"Nian Daxing, formerly known as Niangui, was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 14 yuan for assisting in the trafficking of opium 200 years ago for less than 5000 grams." Bu Chonghua read out the record on the intranet verbatim, and his eyes fell on the next line: "The place where I served my sentence is Yundian, Jinkang District Detention Center, and Baoshan Prison."

23659.

The night breeze was cool, and the laughter was noisy. No one noticed that Wu Yu was standing motionless on the sidewalk, his pupils dilated slightly.

This string of numbers is like a key, which suddenly opens an inconspicuous door in the corner of the memory, and the pictures that have been blocked for many years roar in front of you.He seemed to see the fragmented sky outside the iron window again, footsteps echoed in the distance, and then the iron door of the cell slammed shut, and the guard raised his voice at the end of the empty and gloomy corridor:

"Two three six five nine! A visitor—"

"Didn't you think so? It's been so many years, what can't be avoided is still inescapable?" Nian Daxing grinned, and the tone of joy could hardly be restrained from his yellowed methamphetamine teeth: "Put on official clothes and you can't hide." How about it, does Tiaozi know what happened to you before?"

"Wu Yu?" Lin Hao seemed to have heard something, felt the breath on the other end of the call tightened, and immediately asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"..."

"Hello? Wu Yu!"

"The deceased's property was not lost, there was no sign of obscene sexual assault, and the witnesses at the scene were unharmed. Excluding love murder, robbery, and interest disputes, vendetta or silence should be the most likely motives for killing at present. Neither Nian Xiaoping nor Fan Ling has any social grievances. If the direction of this case is correct, the key point may fall on Nian Daxing's previous convictions."

Everyone in the detachment leader's office got up one after another, and Bu Chonghua said in a deep voice, "Nian Daxing didn't tell us the truth—Cai Lin contacted the Xiaogang Village Police Station and asked them to bring Nian Daxing over to help investigate immediately, and go now!"

Cai Lin jumped up: "Yes!" Then he ran away like flying.

Bu Chonghua let out a long breath of foul air, rubbed his middle knuckles between the aching brows, and hula opened the window.The evening wind blows in with the bustling urban atmosphere, and immediately blows away the strong smell of cigarettes, instant noodles, and gutter fried skewers in the big office outside, which makes people feel refreshed.

There was a star of red light under the shade of the tree at the entrance of the sub-bureau. Bu Chonghua took a closer look and saw that it was Wu Yu, who was smoking and talking on the phone with his back turned to him. He didn't know who he was talking about.

— with whom?friend?

The black Audi that drove away in front of the hospital that night and the text message that did not receive a reply that night suddenly emerged from memory at the same time, giving Bu Chonghua a strange feeling in his heart.

... I'm really dazzled by the case. What's your private life to do?Bu Chonghua sneered at himself, and was about to close the window when Wu Yu finally turned around with his mobile phone in his hand, as if he was going back to the criminal investigation detachment building, but he stopped suddenly, standing still in a stiff posture that could not turn around. In the shade of a tree, staring at something not far away.

Bu Chonghua thought about what he was looking at, so he looked forward along the line of sight, through the canopy of trees beside the sidewalk, he vaguely saw someone standing there, but he couldn't make out who it was.

"Boss!" Cai Lin pushed the door open with his mobile phone in hand: "The police from the Xiaogang Village Police Station knocked on the door of Nian's house. His wife said that he didn't come home after leaving the police station that day, and he couldn't get through to the phone. He has lost contact!"

lost contact? !

Everyone's complexion changed, and Bu Chonghua made a decisive decision: "Check his travel records, tickets, air tickets, long-distance bus stations, expressway toll booths, mobile phone call records within 48 hours, and surveillance videos from public phone booths near his home. Wang Jiuling !"

It just so happened that Director Wang slipped down the stairs with instant noodles in his hands, and was about to steal marinated eggs from the cabinet of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. Hearing this, he staggered and said in a panic, "I, I, I will only take one..."

"Nian Daxing mobile phone triangulation, go now!"

"Oh, you are fierce, what are you fierce!" Director Wang hurriedly put a bag of corned eggs in his arms, and after thinking about it, he quickly took another bag for the forensic room, with noodles still in his mouth, he rushed upstairs.

The big office of the criminal investigation detachment suddenly fell into a busy situation, everyone was walking back and forth, and there was a sense of tension in the air.Bu Chonghua turned around and closed the window, grabbed the office key, and was about to go upstairs to the technical team, when he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly turned his head——

"Wu Yu?" Lin Hao growled on the other end of the phone, "Answer me! What's wrong with you?"

Wu Yu didn't answer and didn't move. Not far away, Nian Da smiled happily. It was a satisfied and greedy smile after grasping a certain fatal handle, and said word by word: "You are finished."

Nian Daxing turned around and ran away. At the same moment, Wu Yu flicked the cigarette butt into the trash can a few steps away. The red light drew an arc in the dark night, reflected in Bu Chonghua's eyes from a high place——

"It's okay," he said hoarsely, "I'll contact you later."

Lin Hao: "Hello? What?"

The call was cut off suddenly, and Wu Yu rushed out in the direction where Nian Daxing was escaping!

Bu Chonghua shouted: "The one with the surname Nian is there! Come!"

"Captain?" Liao Gang looked up, but before he had time to react, Bu Chonghua turned to the desk like a whirlwind, grabbed his phone, called up Wu Yu's number and pressed the call button, but no one answered, and then The call was hung up directly!

"Hi, the number you dialed is busy..."

Bu Chonghua hurried out of the office, and kept telling Liao Gang: "Nian Daxing was at the gate of the sub-bureau just now, and Wu Yu was chasing him. Tell Lao Wang to check the location of the phones of Nian and Wu Yu at the same time, Cai Lin!"

Cai Lin was eating instant noodles with a sigh of relief, when he heard the words, he rushed out with chopsticks, soup and water, staggered and shouted: "What's the matter, boss?! Wait for me to go together!"

"Notify the Traffic Management Bureau, someone will intercept along the way, the car key!"

Cai Lin tossed it with all his strength, and the jeep key swirled towards him. Bu Chonghua took it in his hand without turning his head, and rushed down the corridor like lightning, and turned on the light while driving.The police Wrangler made a beautiful triangular U-turn, rushed out of the gate, and roared into the road!

Beep--

The car horns blared one after another, and they flew away with angry shouts: "Why are you running?!" "Die!"...

Wu Yu stopped in his tracks, his whole body was like a taut bowstring, he suddenly turned his head and swept, and from the corner of his vision, he caught the flashing back of the alleyway more than ten meters away.The next moment he rushed into the alley, he saw Nian Daxing violently overturning the rubbish and sundries blocking the way, and staggering forward amidst the noise, there were eye-catching "demolition" characters painted everywhere on the wall not far away. Village in the city.

——The low-lying, chaotic, and filthy corners of modern cities are the best breeding grounds for crimes.

The sound of the wind whistled from his ears and flew backwards. Wu Yu's eyes flashed coldly, and the soles of his feet suddenly exerted force. Bring up half a voice!

"!"

Nian Daxing stopped immediately and almost fell.Looking forward along his trembling pupils, in the alley a few meters away, Wu Yu slowly stood up from the junction of light and shadow, his profile was drawn sharp and narrow by the cold moon behind him.

"...Do you remember who I am?" Nian Daxing gritted his teeth and uttered a sentence, his fat face trembling.

Wu Yu remained silent.

"It's okay, I remember you, every time I see this, I will think of you!" Nian Daxing lifted the baggy hurdle vest, and there was a crooked scar on his belly, which was as long as half a palm: "— - Can't imagine, from Yundian to Jinhai, separated by more than half of China, there will be a fucking day when I meet my old friend!"

He looked Wu Yu up and down, and there was undisguised malice in his small eyes: "You have the ability, and you have put on this tiaofu, isn't it just as simple as sending money to find a way out? You say, if tiaozi Knowing that you are a fucking escaped prisoner, can you still get out of the cell for the rest of your life?!"

Wu Yu couldn't see any emotion on his face: "What do you want?"

Nian Daxing grinned, extremely proud: "What do you think I want?!"

"You want money?"

Nian Daxing didn't expect him to be so straightforward, and immediately became more proud: "Money? I don't need money! How about it, tell me how much you should pay me for medical expenses and mental health for taking such a big knife on my stomach. Damage fee? Your note keeps saying that the Skynet is restored, and you bumping into my face is considered retribution, huh?"

Wu Yu knew that he was stalling for time, so he slowly touched his lower back with his right hand, and gently pulled out a dagger from his belt.

The blade of the dagger was extremely narrow, and it was unknown how long it had been sharpened. The moonlight swayed on the blade, reflecting a cold arc.

Nian Daxing didn't realize it: "Besides, how much money do you have? If I want to get rich, I don't lack connections. There are so many people who want to kill you! Now is not the time to be in prison. It's useless to use fists alone. I want to see what else you can do..."

Wu Yu shifted his weight forward imperceptibly, and his dagger-holding hand slowly dropped to his side—but at this moment, the sound of a motorcycle came from the direction of the village in the city behind him, approaching rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, he was close!

Woo-woo-the engine suddenly stopped, and motorcycle headlights flashed in front of and behind the narrow alley at the same time.Wu Yu's eyes were squinted, and he saw that the dilapidated square inch of the place was brightly lit, and then seven or eight gangsters came out of the car with crowbars and kitchen knives, with malicious intentions. The alleys at the front and back ends were blocked.

Then a luxury car drove slowly behind the motorcycles blocked at the end of the alley, the door opened, and a man in his fifties with a round head and big ears came out, probably because he was born from the heart, and his face was very special. Bad:

"Ten years, God really has eyes!"

Wu Yu's gaze fell on the man's hand, and he saw nothing unusual about his right hand, but the left cuff was empty, and his expression changed subtly.

He finally remembered who it was.

——Or, he finally remembered how he chopped off this hand.

Five or six police cars rushed out of the gate of the sub-bureau, flashing eye-catching red and blue lights, and quickly blended into the streets of the city at night.

"Three groups of 0027 and three groups of 0027. The target passed the main entrance of Mingzhu Entertainment City on Wenxing Road 5 minutes ago. Repeat again. The target passed the main entrance of Mingzhu Entertainment City on Wenxing Road 5 minutes ago. It's over!"

Bu Chonghua had the steering wheel in one hand and the walkie-talkie in one hand: "Understood, I'm rushing over."

"Brother Hua! The target is approaching the intersection of the expressway exit and Xinhan Road, and is moving south!"

The police car turned across the road like lightning, and Bu Chonghua hit the steering wheel with one hand until he died, and at the same time his heart sank.Not far south of Xinhan Road is Old Changping District, where the largest urban village in Jinhai City is scattered. It is said that it is going to be demolished at the end of the year. Even cars can't get through, so where can I find someone? !

"Boss!" Cai Lin yelled in the wind and lightning: "They are heading towards the village in the city!"

There was a sharp hiss, and the tires stopped sharply amidst the sound of rubbing. Bu Chonghua slammed the car door with his backhand, his expression cold and stern.

Behind him are row upon row of high-rise buildings, but in front of him are scattered narrow alleys, dilapidated roads and low shanty houses. There are pools of puddles on the ground, and the dirty and black old-fashioned air conditioner is humming.

"Where is the third team?" Bu Chonghua walked into the alley and asked softly into the walkie-talkie: "How is the technical team?"

"We will arrive in seven or eight minutes at most. Director Wang is asking someone to track the location of Nian Daxing's mobile phone!" Cai Lin paused, and other channels in the background came one after another. He didn't know what messages he received, and suddenly he said, "Brother Hua?"

"how?"

"Director Wang can't contact Wu Yu." Cai Lin said suspiciously, "He said that Wu Yu's phone has an anti-tracking device."