Swallowing the Seas

They had kissed many times, but never had it been so full of struggle and resistance, tit-for-tat and desperate, and finally softened resignation.

Wu Yu didn't end the hasty kiss until the messy footsteps came. As soon as his lips and tongue were separated, Song Hui and Liao Gang staggered after the police car, stunned.

Everyone watched helplessly as Wu Yu pushed the captain of the infantry against the door of the car, holding his shirt front that was soaked in the heavy rain with one hand, and the two of them almost brow to forehead, staring at each other like ferocious beasts.

"I know, Bu Chonghua. I have also personally sent away people I didn't want to send away, but some hatreds can only be repaid if they have been dormant for many years."

Bu Chonghua stared at him closely, his chest heaving and panting.That usually cold and serious face, but now it is full of rain, the brows are tightly knit, and the eyes are sharp, exuding a chilling tension.

But Wu Yu was unmoved, and stared straight into his eyes: "Whoever rescued Peng Wan, two hours have passed now, enough to leave the Nankai River Basin and even Jinhai. You have a car by yourself. Car, where do we go to chase? What if we catch up? What if the enemy’s firepower is stronger than the police imagined?”

"..."

The raindrops washed over their heads and faces, and Bu Chonghua's Adam's apple rolled up and down violently for a long time, and only the two of them could hear his hoarse voice: "I became a policeman to catch Wan Changwen, and I lived to catch him... ..."

"I know, I promise you that I will tell you as soon as I have any clues." Wu Yu leaned close to his ear, breathing hotly and in a very low voice: "I promise that no matter what happens, I will definitely solve this case for us."

Bu Chonghua's muscles that were tense to the extreme finally relaxed bit by bit.

Wu Yu closed his eyes.

He saw the flames burning gasoline, raging around the side, the blood-soaked young mother slowly got up from the ground, the firelight reflected on her sad and unwilling face, and drops of blood and tears fell into the fire along her cheeks: "You saved me!" Our child, you won't just walk away, right?"

At the same time, on the other side, in the depths of the collapsed tunnel, there was a hand pushing him forward, using the last bit of strength to push him to the distant light at the end, every word was like a branding iron that scorched the soul alive: "Go, go Go forward... If you want to live, you can't avenge anyone, you have to go forward!..."

"You'll avenge me, won't you?"

"You have to go forward, never look back... don't look back!"

……

Distorted flames, exploding tunnels, near-death cries, frantically flashing police lights... those images frantically flashed and overlapped, just like boiling paint blending together in the brain.Wu Yu's forehead was firmly pressed against the window glass beside Bu Chonghua. The force seemed to be venting, and even the bones were squeezed to the point of pain, but there was no sound, and no one could see his convulsed face.

He trembled and took a deep breath, and stood up exhausted, looking at the rain-soaked ground under his feet, the knuckles of his fingers on Bu Chonghua's shoulders were so hard that they turned blue.

"...I promise you." No one knew who he was answering in his hoarse murmur, "I promise to avenge you."

Police lights pierced through the rain, reflecting the dark night sky.The criminal police slowly gathered on the rugged river beach on a rainy night, and the body bag was relayed in the hands of everyone and carried to the forensic vehicle.

The Nankai River is surging, rushing towards the depths of the night.

Meanwhile, a hundred kilometers away.

The wilderness on both sides of the car window receded rapidly with the speeding wheels. In the back seat, Peng Wan hugged her son tightly, trembling from blood loss and fear, she didn't even dare to look at the two wearing masks, A man with a pistol.

They suddenly appeared on the river beach two hours ago and killed the kidnappers. At that moment, she thought it was over for herself and the child.But who would have guessed that the next moment they picked up her who was staggering, stuffed her into the off-road vehicle parked by the side of the road without any explanation, and then galloped all the way until now, the last scattered lights outside the window disappeared, and the night seemed so deep that it would never end.

Where is she?Where are they going?What are they going to do?

Waiting ahead is an unpredictable fate or death?

Peng Wan has not closed her eyes since she was kidnapped, and finally felt a bit of numbness and drowsiness during the long period of fear.But just as she was gradually leaning her head towards the child in her arms, the cell phone of a man in front suddenly rang, and Peng Wan's whole body trembled in an instant!

"..." The mobile phone in the front row gave a few indistinct instructions. The man hummed a few times, then took the phone from his ear and swiped it quickly a few times. Said: "OK, no problem."

Then he turned his head and handed the phone to Peng Wan, and finally said the first sentence:

"Someone wants to talk to you."

Peng Wan's heart was beating wildly, and she took the phone and put it to her ear tremblingly, only to hear the male voice on the opposite side was a bit weird - she knew it was because of the software voice changer: "Hello, is this Peng Wan?" ?”

The man's voice was unspeakably gentle.

Peng Wan's lips were trembling all the time, and she couldn't make a sound. She only heard the clairvoyant explanation: "The two people in the car are hired by me, and I belong to your father."

——Wan Changwen's people.

Just a few words were like an explosive torrent of emotion, rushing through Peng Wan's bone marrow in an instant, causing her temples to throb; but the next sentence came to her eardrums, causing her pupils to constrict to the extreme in an instant— —

He said, "Your father wants you dead."

·

The next day, Nancheng Public Security Bureau.

"Ding Sheng, male, 22 years old. Deng Le, male, 23 years old. Both of them died at around 10 o'clock last night. The cause of death was gunshot. Among them, Ding Sheng was shot in the forehead, and the bullet came out from the back of the head. He was shot dead. Deng Le was shot first in the inner knee bend of the right lower limb, and the second shot in the occipital bone of the back of the head. Both bullets remained in the body. Both of them died on the spot. A total of five 9mm rifled earthen bullet casings were extracted at the scene. .”

Meng Zhao made his opening remarks with an extremely simple narration. The meeting room in front of him was filled with smoke, and everyone's brows were furrowed with solemn expressions.

"Ahem! That," Liao Gang cleared his throat vigorously, and said, "I'll briefly sort out the case for everyone."

Bu Chonghua wasn't in the city bureau today, so the detachment leader's seat was vacant.Liao Gang was seated in the first seat and second down. It was the first time in his life that he presided over a case of this level, which made him not used to it. Although he tried his best to appear calm and confident, everyone could see that he was just like everyone else in his heart. Empty hair void.

"At around 44:440 p.m. on Friday, the victim Peng Wan picked up her three-year-old son Tao Ze from the kindergarten, and then disappeared. It was confirmed that she was kidnapped by Ding Sheng and Deng Le, members of the underground rock band, and extorted ransom from her husband Tao Zhengqing RMB [-]. The next day, Saturday, the family members of the hostages prepared the ransom, but the kidnappers withdrew temporarily due to an accident. Tao’s mother cried bitterly on the street and was questioned by the police, and this vicious kidnapping was only possible. "

"Three hours after the command center received the alarm, the Municipal Public Security Bureau intervened in the investigation and found that the hostage Peng Wan's husband, Tao Zhengqing, had phone calls and chat records with Ding Sheng half a month before the incident, which means that Tao Zhengqing had planned to kidnap his wife and children. , highly suspected of defrauding family money."

"—But Tao Zhengqing himself firmly denies it." Meng Zhao across the long table interrupted while looking down at the materials, "At the same time, Zhang Fei also insisted that Ding Sheng didn't find out that he was cheating."

Liao Gang said: "Listen to her, a man whose head is green into the Hulunbeier prairie, how could he not have noticed it yet?"

Meng Zhao shrugged and spread his hands.

"At 8:15 last night, the kidnapper Ding Sheng took the initiative to call the sub-bureau, claiming that he would surrender himself with the hostages. The sub-bureau rushed to the Nankai River at 10:11, launched a large-scale search at 12 o'clock, and found the bodies of the two kidnappers at [-] o'clock. The two hostages have disappeared." Liao Gang took a breath, knowing that everyone present had participated in last night's operation, so he speeded up and finished the last few sentences: "The footprints of six people were extracted at the scene, that is to say, they were taken away. Peng Wan and her son have at least two murderers, but the police don't know the identities of the two murderers so far. Well, now everyone can talk freely about what they think."

He made an inviting gesture, and after a few minutes, there was a dead silence in the conference room.

"..." Liao Gang's open palm froze in mid-air: "Damn it, you really don't have any thoughts?"

"This is the ninth case meeting I have held since 1:9 in the morning, and the first eight all ended in suffocation and despair." Sitting in the corner, Yang Chengdong's eyes were red, and he said coldly, "What do you want to hear? You tell me, I'll tell you."

"Damn!" Liao Gang slapped the table, exhausted and annoyed, and turned around twice with his arms akimbo: "How is Tao Zhengqing's trial going?"

"He grabbed the ground with his head, tried to harm himself, and refused to speak except for calling for a lawyer."

"If you don't say anything, you will be interrogated to death!" Liao Gang blurted out angrily: "Now he is the only card in our hand, and no one except him may know the clues from Wan Changwen's side!"

Yang Chengdong sneered sneeringly: "What if you don't say anything after being interrogated to death?"

Indeed, they are now in the 21st century, and the Jinhai City Public Security Bureau is not an [-]th-line township.The more important the case, the less he could resort to means. If Tao Zhengqing really gritted his teeth to the death, would they still be able to lynch his teeth?

It was as if an invisible suction pipe sucked the last trace of air out of the meeting room, suffocating everyone's alveoli.Like a cornered beast, Liao Gang picked up the infrared pen and smashed it on the whiteboard, then stopped suddenly as if thinking of something, and looked to both sides of the long table:

"Where's Wu Yu?"

"..." Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they all looked at an inconspicuous empty chair in the corner, but Wu Yu didn't come.

Zhang Xiaoli raised his hand timidly: "Small...Little Angkor said he won't come today, I guess he's out to visit the scene..."

Liao Gang and Yang Chengdong looked at each other, and they both saw a glimmer of hope gradually rising on each other's faces—did Wu Yu discover something?

Jinhai City Water Amusement Park.

The weather was cloudy, but there were still many tourists. The colorful balloons were held by the children, and there were bursts of exclamation and laughter from the rapids not far away.Wu Yu, in a white shirt and jeans, sat on a stone bench and squinted his eyes, staring at the happy couples on the roller coaster. Suddenly, a huge ball of banana ice cream topped with chocolate hazelnuts appeared in front of him.

A smile appeared in Wu Yu's eyes, and when he turned around, he saw Bu Chonghua standing behind him in casual clothes, a tall and straight figure outlined in a black short-sleeved T-shirt with a refined texture and a slim fit, holding a green apple ice cream in the other hand, exuding a fresh air. Bitter fragrance.

"Why don't you eat chocolate?"

Bu Chonghua said: "Because the content of this pure fruit juice is 45%, and I have to control my calorie intake in order to maintain my attractiveness in the marriage relationship."

Wu Yu laughed out loud.

The two walked side by side while eating ice cream, passing through the bustling crowd and juggling clowns, the merry-go-round played music with the lights, and many girls would look back at them when they passed each other, with a scent of fragrance. The laughter goes away.

"On the second day after the kidnapping happened, the kidnappers asked Mother Tao to put the ransom money in the trash can at the front door of the amusement park. Father Tao was waiting to pick him up at the back door of the amusement park, while Tao Zhengqing was waiting for a call at home." Wu Yu pointed to the distance. The front door of the playground, gestured backwards, and said: "According to the speed we measured just now, it takes about half an hour to walk from the front and rear doors of the playground, and it takes 10 minutes to drive around the main road. Considering that it is Saturday, the traffic peak period, it may take 15 minutes in heavy traffic.”

Bu Chonghua nodded: "But this location doesn't make sense. The amusement park is a surveillance-intensive area. There are a lot of people on summer weekends and the traffic is very busy. It is easy to be exposed and difficult to escape. In case the hostages make noises in the car to attract The attention of passers-by is also very troublesome."

"So the kidnappers may have chosen this place for other reasons."

"Yes." Bu Chonghua allowed Wu Yu to hold his hand and took a bite of the crushed fruit on the green apple ice cream, and said, "When a novice commits a crime for the first time, he usually tends to the area he is familiar with when he chooses the location of the crime. , a few will choose places with unusual meanings. But this playground does not have much intersection with the lives of Ding Sheng and Deng Le, and underground bands have not performed nearby, and it is impossible to have any childhood memories. Therefore, the two Basically it doesn’t work.”

"What about Tao Zhengqing?"

"No. It's an hour's drive from Tao Zhengqing's house, and his son is not old enough to play in the water park."

Wu Yu nodded thoughtfully.

The ransom amount and the place of exchange are indeed too strange. If there is only one unreasonable place, it can be barely explained as the kidnappers' whim.

But what if everything goes wrong?

hum- hum-

Wu Yu's phone vibrated suddenly, and when he took it out, he saw that the caller ID was Liao Gang.Bu Chonghua just wanted to signal him to pick it up, but then he broke the button, and put the phone back into his trouser pocket without any change in expression.

"..." Bu Chonghua said: "If Director Xu knows that you are going out with me to investigate, even I can't save your quarterly allowance. Prepare to spend my salary card in the next six months."

Wu Yu asked back: "What field investigation? My boyfriend has been in a bad mood recently, so I skipped work and went to the playground with him."

Bu Chonghua looked at his slightly raised black eyebrows, and his heart suddenly moved, as if he was hit hard on the apex of his heart by something hot.

"how?"

Bu Chonghua withdrew his gaze, wondering what he was thinking, and said slowly after a long time: "... I haven't been to an amusement park for a long time."

Wu Yu laughed and asked, "How long?"

"More than 20 years."

Wu Yu immediately understood what was going on.

"In the spring when I was nine years old, when the peach blossoms were all over the street, my parents once took me to an amusement park near my house and bought three red bean ices at the popsicle stand. I still remember that the price at that time was [-] cents. Qian, they both went to the Yunnan-Yunnan border a few days later. Since then, I have never walked into a park or playground. Coincidentally, I have avoided such places for so many years on patrol and duty, until today." Bu Chonghua hung down Looking at the ball of green apple ice cream that Wu Yu had licked most of in his hand: "So when I learned that the kidnapper was holding Wan Changwen's daughter to pay the ransom at the playground, I was thinking, maybe there is such a thing in the world. Something called destiny."

The two of them fell silent, and the laughter and screaming music became very clear for a moment. A group of children running around squeezed them, screaming excitedly into the distance in the crowd.

Suddenly, Bu Chonghua's sideways hands tightened, and Wu Yu secretly grabbed them, and he squeezed hard before separating.

"Will you leave me?" Bu Chonghua asked softly.

Wu Yu said: "I am willing to accompany you to the amusement park until you are 80 years old. Everyone in line for the roller coaster will let us go first. If we don't, they will be too embarrassed to go. What about you?"

"..."

There was a glimmer of light in the depths of Bu Chonghua's eyes, and then he stood still, hugged Wu Yu tightly, and exhaled a trembling, scorching breath from his chest and lungs.

"I got mad at you on the beach last night, it wasn't mean, I'm sorry."

He paused and said hoarsely, "I will never leave you either."

The crowd was turbulent, shoulder to shoulder, and some people cast curious and unintentional glances as they passed by.

The two of them had never been so close in public before. Wu Yu's ears were a little hot, and he lowered his head pretending to be innocent, and suddenly looked over Bu Chonghua's shoulder and the bustling crowd, and saw a glass window standing next to a flower bed on the roadside. The notice board is headed up to the outstanding personnel of the park, and there are two rows of photos of people with red backgrounds pasted below.

"?" Wu Yu caught a glimpse of something, and his eyebrows twitched: "Wait a minute."

"what happened?"

Wu Yu stepped forward quickly, and with a single step Chonghua motioned him to look at the photo, and sure enough, the woman in the last half-length photo in the second row was very familiar, and it was——Peng Wan!

She turned out to be an excellent employee of this playground?

The two looked at each other, feeling very ridiculous for a while, Wu Yu said in astonishment for a while, "...doesn't she work in an equipment manufacturing company?"