Swallowing the Seas

Dark, silent.

"...Wu Yu..."

Is someone calling me?

"...Wu Yu...Wu Yu! Wake up!"

As if being dragged out of the drowsy and painful deep water, Wu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and the next second, a burning pain swept his whole body from his chest, making him curl up on the cold ground, and suddenly choked out a mouthful of blood foam !

"How are you? Where are you hurt?" A familiar arm hugged him tightly: "Wu Yu! Look at me! Wu Yu!"

Wu Yu gasped for breath, the dim light made him squint subconsciously, and then saw Bu Chonghua in a daze.

The blood on Bu Chonghua's forehead ran down his face, it had already dried up, his face was terribly pale, and his lips were all chapped.Wu Yu opened his mouth, and felt warm liquid flowing from the skin of his lips in the severe dizziness, and it took him a while to realize that it was blood.

"……you……"

"I'm fine, but you're hurt." Bu Chonghua hugged Wu Yu and sat up, letting him rest in his arms, and said in a low voice, "The car overturned from your side, it should have hit you." The head, abdominal cavity, and internal organs are also a little bit impacted. Don't move around, be careful of internal bleeding."

Wu Yu closed his eyes, and it took him a long time to barely recover a sliver of consciousness from the horrific spinning around. He opened his eyes and barely looked around: "This is..."

Bu Chonghua remained silent and did not answer.

The surrounding area is very dark, it looks like an abandoned warehouse, and the surrounding walls are green and moldy due to water seepage for a long time.The only small window on the upper level was nailed shut with several planks, the iron door was closed, and the outside must have been locked.

A black shadow curled up in the corner more than ten meters away, Wu Yu fixed his gaze, and with the extremely dim light in the window, his face changed uncontrollably: "Peng Wan?!"

The black shadow moved with difficulty, raised his head slowly, and finally revealed Peng Wan's plain face in the profile photo, but at this moment, his face was as pale and blue as a dead person, holding a motionless child in his hand, if it wasn't for breathing There are still slight ups and downs, and it looks as if he is dead. It should be her three-year-old son Peng Ze.

"What is this place? What time is it?" Wu Yu forced himself to sit up, "Why are we here?"

"She was here when I just woke up." Bu Chonghua leaned against the wall, and must have been injured, but he couldn't see clearly under such dark visual conditions, and he could only hear a very hoarse voice: "It should be The guys who crashed on the road brought us here, judging by the hunger, thirst and the change of light and dark outside, it may have been about 18 to 20 hours, and it should be the next afternoon."

"What do they want to do?"

"I don't know." Bu Chonghua smiled wryly: "The only window here has been sealed, and the door has been locked from the outside. I tried to open it, but I couldn't open it. I had to put the latch on the inside, and I couldn't touch it at all. Find out what the other party's plan is."

Wu Yu's mind was buzzing, and his temples were throbbing with pain. He gritted his teeth and stood up vigorously. Regardless of the severe pain in his chest and abdomen, he staggered forward, pulled out the latch and shook the door vigorously, but the solid double-layer solid wood-clad iron door panel did not move at all. , only the dust rustled down, choking him to cough out violently again.

"Cough cough cough cough cough cough cough—"

"It's okay, it's okay," Bu Chonghua hugged him forcefully, pushed back the door latch forcefully, put Wu Yu's head in his arms and rubbed it hurriedly: "It's going to be okay, don't worry, it's going to be okay..."

How could nothing happen?

Who locked them in, why didn't they kill them, and what did they want to do? !

"...don't waste your energy..."

At this time, a thin and trembling female voice suddenly sounded from the corner, and Bu Chonghua suddenly turned around, it was Peng Wan!

This was the first time Peng Wan spoke after they woke up, probably because of being too thirsty, her hoarseness was unbelievable, against her face that was not alive at all, she was like a female ghost in this cold cell: " They just want us dead, ha, they just want us dead..."

"Who are they?"

"It's them," Peng Wan said vaguely, "it's the people who brought us here."

The two looked at each other, suspicion arose in their hearts at the same time.Bu Chonghua carried Wu Yu to the corner and sat down, leaning on the wall to support his body and walked to check on her and her son's situation, but before they got close, Peng Wan screamed and hugged the child nervously: "Don't come here! Don't come here!"

Bu Chonghua said: "I am a policeman from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Nancheng Branch. We have been investigating the case of you being kidnapped by Ding Sheng and Deng Le outside. The night when the two kidnappers were shot to death..."

That evening.

The four words were like a switch, causing Peng Wan's whole body to tremble, and it was clear in such a dark room.

"——What happened the night Ding Sheng was shot?" Bu Chonghua was seriously injured, but he still keenly noticed her most subtle emotional changes: "You saw the faces of the murderers, and you know who they are, right?"

Peng Wan trembled all over, hugged the child and shrank into the corner desperately: "I don't know anything, don't come here, don't come here..."

"Did Wan Changwen bring you here?"

"I don't know, I don't know..."

"Who gave you the human bone helmet, why didn't Wan Changwen take your son away?"

"Shut up! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Peng Wan's spirit collapsed, and she even climbed up to beat and push Bu Chonghua desperately: "Shut up! Go away! Go away!!"

In the next second, she was pushed down mercilessly by Juli, and she staggered and fell to the ground.Wu Yu rushed up to protect Bu Chonghua, tried his best to push him to the other side, turned around and stared weakly and gasping at her who was sitting on the ground crying, and said coldly: "How does it feel to take the blame?"

Peng Wan's venting crying suddenly stopped.

"Did you think about the present when you pretended to be your husband and kidnapped yourself? Weren't you afraid of burning your hands when you got the human bone helmet from Qin Chuan?" Wu Yu pointed to the weak and unconscious child on the ground, "A mother puts her youngest son in this situation , do you have any regrets, Peng Wan?"

"!!"

Peng Wan froze there, even Bu Chonghua was taken aback.

"...What are you talking about?" Peng Wan took a breath, as if hearing something extremely absurd: "Kidnapping myself? Why would I do that?"

Wu Yu shook his head and laughed shortly, amidst the sarcasm there was a sense of helpless sadness: "Because your husband never thought of making you disappear. It is true that he cheated, his character is low, he is full of lies, and his credibility is questionable... But it's true that he never thought about divorcing you. The only one who wants you gone is you."

Peng Wan's lips trembled: "...you are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense..."

Wu Yu's next sentence interrupted her: "Qin Chuan came to contact you two months ago, right?"

Peng Wan was nailed there.

"Qin Chuan is an extremely successful broker. The so-called broker relies on his solid reputation and strong intelligence network to do business. I guess Qin Chuan has not let you out of his network over the years. At least he can let you I have always remembered that there is such a person as him, so when he reappeared two months ago, you would not be particularly surprised, and at the same time accepted his proposal to entrust you to hand over the human bone helmet to Wan Changwen, because it is your departure from the present An important opportunity for this kind of life."

"Your company often places overseas orders for horror simulation haunted house equipment, and it has its own customs declaration channel, which is very important to Qin Chuan, otherwise it would be difficult for him to transport things like human bone helmets back to China. But the sad thing is that even if you I successfully got this helmet, and there is no place to store it—you live with your parents-in-law, and your personal space is not respected at all. When the police were investigating the kidnapping case at your home, I saw your mother-in-law go through your closet. You won’t knock when you enter the bedroom of your husband and wife; the office is a good place for many people to hide things, but the nature of your work determines that you often run back and forth in various parks, shopping malls, and playgrounds. There is not enough space in the back of the electric car, and the small cloth packaging is too conspicuous, and the trunk of the car at home is at risk of being discovered by your husband; in desperation, you applied for the preparatory project for the haunted house in the amusement park two months ago, because In a haunted house, no one would suspect that the head in mid-air is not fake."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Peng Wan twisted her fingers tightly and said hoarsely, "What kind of head, what kind of helmet, I'm just working for the boss..."

"It's useless not to admit it, Peng Wan." Wu Yu said lightly, "Just don't doubt this kind of thing, once you go to investigate, it's easy to find evidence. The foreign orders you handled, customs declaration documents, logistics materials, handover records... The human bone helmet you installed in the mechanism has been found by our colleagues, as long as it is sent to the technical investigation for inspection, it is definitely covered with your fingerprints, how can you escape?"

Peng Wan's eyes widened instantly, and her mouth was bloodless.

"I guess Qin Chuan chose you because he knew that you were not ignorant of Wan Changwen's whereabouts." Wu Yu paused and said, "I don't know how you and your father communicated. , but I guess you've seen how rich he is and how quickly the drug business makes money. Wan Changwen is the only hope to get you out of this backwater, but you also know that once you and your son disappear, the Tao family and the police will At the same time, Frying Pot, your father will not accept you being followed by countless policemen, just like when he did not hesitate to throw the four-year-old you overboard when the police invaded the village."

"So you have to find a way to get out of your shell, and at the same time prove to Wan Changwen that you are capable and capable, worthy of being his daughter, worthy of going back to Myanmar with him, and not becoming a burden for him to smuggle out of the country."

"So I planned this kidnapping case to tie myself up? Why did I use such an extreme method?" Peng Wan seemed to have heard a very ridiculous joke: "Can't I get divorced first and then disappear secretly? Can't I pretend to take my child on a trip and disappear? Obviously there are so many ways..."

"Missing a scenic spot can be a hot search, the movement is too big and uncontrollable; the divorce takes too long, and the Tao family will desperately fight with you for child custody. Wan Changwen will not take the risk to help you, and more importantly, he plans The smuggling should be the nearest, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have started acting so suddenly.”

Peng Wan was at a loss for words for a while: "...Then, am I not afraid that they will call the police?! Once Lao Tao calls the police, wouldn't I be exposed faster?! And what if the kidnappers hurt my son? Have you ever thought about this common sense?! "

"I've thought about it, so I once thought you were quite smart, and you deserve to be a technical person." Wu Yu said this plainly, without any irony at all: "If you were the only one kidnapped without your son, your father-in-law would definitely insist on calling the police. No one can persuade him to take out 44 yuan. If the ransom is set too high and exceeds the price the Tao family can pay, then they will cry for a long time at most and call the police. The police can also know immediately You are missing. So you set the ransom price for your mother and child very cleverly. A lottery ticket is exchanged for the precious "heart-heart grandson". to zero."

Peng Wan screamed: "But Tao Zhengqing called the police! Do you know that our mother and son were almost torn apart! Look at my injuries! Look at—"

"Speak well and don't take off your clothes." Wu Yu sighed, and said, "The reason for tearing up the ticket is because the kidnapper had an accident while collecting the ransom. He thought he was being photographed, so he evacuated the amusement park without even taking the money. And the police Knowing that you were kidnapped was also purely accidental, just because your mother-in-law was crying bitterly on the street. It happened that the police passed by and found the money bag from the trash can while interrogating her. Otherwise, your mother-in-law would probably have been beaten to death. Said."

Peng Wan froze there, completely stunned.

"...They didn't call the police?" She murmured, "Didn't they call the police?..."

"Yes, no." Wu Yu looked at her sadly, "If this can give you a little comfort."

Peng Wan stared back at him blankly, not only his pale face, but also his whole body seemed to be frozen, unable to speak.

"If no one took pictures when the kidnappers took the money, and if no policeman happened to pass by when your mother-in-law was crying, then judging by the strong distrust of the Tao family for the police, they would insist on at least three or four days before calling the police—and you worked hard to get it The blank period of three or four days is just enough for you to take your child and escape with a human bone helmet. When the police go all out to find Ding Sheng and Deng Le, and then follow the clues to catch your husband, everyone will think that your husband is cheating It was only by having an affair and colluding with outsiders that you killed your own wife and children. By that time, it is estimated that you have already smuggled out of the country with Wan Changwen, changed your name and changed your surname, and started a new life in the Golden Triangle."

"You must have thought a lot about planning this operation, Peng Wan. I guess when you pretended to be Tao Zhengqing to communicate with the kidnappers, you repeatedly told him that this was just a play and not to really hurt the hostages, so when Ding Sheng thought Tao Zhengqing called the police, he That’s why I was so shocked and angry, and didn’t understand how I was betrayed by my accomplices.”

Wu Yu leaned forward slightly, looked straight into Peng Wan's bewildered eyes, and expressed mixed feelings: "This plan should have been perfect, and everyone was under your control, if it wasn't for a series of emergencies that made it completely out of control if."

Peng Wan's trembling lips moved, and finally woke up suddenly from the shock, disbelief, and mixed emotions just now, and shouted incoherently: "No, no, I didn't pretend to be my husband to find the kidnapper! You have no evidence, You can't talk nonsense!"

"——Peng Wan." Wu Yu called her name again, with a helpless ending: "I said just now, you don't need to doubt everything you plan, as long as you doubt it, you will be able to find out the evidence. If I Let the technical investigation comprehensively sort out Ding Sheng's hard disk, network disk, and data flow records, and go back in time, and you will definitely find out how you usually find him to plan all this; then check the chat time one by one, and the conversation IP one by one , and compare Tao Zhengqing’s daily whereabouts one by one, you can always find his alibi.”

"As long as there is a chat message showing that the IP is at your home, and your husband can prove that he was in a meeting at the time, then all suspicions against Tao Zhengqing will be overturned." Wu Yu looked straight into her red eyes: "Technology can't lie , Peng Wan, only people can do it. In this world, the person next to the pillow is the most important thing to guard against, and the person next to the pillow is the most unavoidable thing to guard against."

Bu Chonghua's eyes moved slightly, as if he glanced in Wu Yu's direction, but his eyes stopped halfway, and he retracted inch by inch after a few seconds.

Peng Wan was completely paralyzed on the ground as if the last bone had been completely removed, her eyes were fixed on Wu Yu.Her black eyes were obviously smaller than the whites of her eyes. For a moment, Bu Chonghua thought she was going to go crazy and rush up to attack Wu Yu, but just as he raised his hand to pull Wu Yu behind him, he heard a low, short laughter coming from her nasal cavity. It came out intermittently, like a rough iron hook scraping across the ice, and then turned into hysterical laughter mixed with crying.

Peng Wan trembled all over her body, her hands and feet were convulsed, she slowly leaned back against the wall, her messy hair pressed against the moldy wall.Looking at the dark and hazy void, she seemed to have witnessed the most ironic, ridiculous and tragic comedy with her own eyes. The ho-ho laughter shook the mouth full of blood, and the sharp sound pierced the eardrum.

"Peng Wan," Wu Yu seemed impatient, and moved forward half a step, but was grabbed by Bu Chonghua: "Peng Wan, you..."

"……Mother……"

The little black figure beside Peng Wan finally squirmed, whether it was talking in sleep or screaming, at first it was so light that the two policemen didn't notice, but Peng Wan immediately turned his head suddenly.

"I'm so sorry, Mom..."

At that moment, Peng Wan seemed to have been pulled out of the power supply, there was no movement, and all the madness stopped abruptly.

She just looked at the child beside her lap like this, then slowly stretched out her arms to hug him tightly and put him in her arms. She gasped for several times, and finally broke out into hysterical crying.

Wu Yu sat back slowly, leaned against Bu Chonghua's shoulder, and closed his eyes exhausted.

"Since when did you start to suspect her?" Bu Chonghua asked in a low voice.

Wu Yu slightly turned his head to look at him, with sadness deep in his eyes: "Do you know why she asked her family for a ransom of 44? Because of 440 kilograms of gold."

"Fifteen kilos of gold?"

"Yes, when Wan Changwen absconded 30 years ago, in order to keep a basket of fifteen kilograms of gold bars, he threw four-year-old Peng Wan overboard. The price of gold back then was $300 an ounce, and 15 kilograms was 529.1 ounces. It is worth 15 U.S. dollars, and the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and RMB on the day of the accident was 730 to 1." Wu Yu smiled wryly: "2.8 yuan is the price of a little girl thrown into the water by her father. It is also the hurdle that Peng Wan will always cherish in his life."

Bu Chonghua was stunned.

"Thirty years have passed, but the four-year-old girl still can't make it through... She still wants to know how much a child is worth in her father's heart."

As if a hot stream of soreness surged up his throat, Bu Chonghua's Adam's apple slid twice violently, panting and looking back at the daughter of his enemy.

"Baby, my baby," Peng Wan hugged her young son tightly, tears streaming down the child's dirty collar: "My dear baby..."

"Since you love your child, why did you take him to join Wan Changwen?" After a long time, Bu Chonghua finally spoke. This was the first time he spoke to Peng Wan in a fairly normal tone, even though he was suppressed faintly. Painful and angry: "Do you know how dangerous smuggling is, how many people will die along the way, and what will happen to drug dealers in the end?"

Peng Wan trembled and choked, shaking her head but unable to make a sound.After a long while, she finally tried her best to raise her head and look at the high window. A few gleams of bleak light came through the wooden slats, reflecting in her slack eyes.

"...My mother taught me since I was a child that I must have a boy. When I got married, my mother-in-law also said that I wanted a boy."

She hugged the child in her arms and smiled with tears in her eyes.

"I was so happy when I gave birth to my son. I felt that my life was worth it, and my mother must also think it was worth it. My husband was ecstatic, and my mother-in-law praised everyone. I lay on the delivery bed and looked at the wrinkled A wrinkled little baby boy who thinks he loves him, really loves him."

She shook her head with a smile, buried half of her face in the tender neck of her son, and murmured: "But I can deceive others, but I cannot deceive myself. No matter how much I want to love him, I still hate him in my heart."