Swallowing the Seas

The rainstorm finally stopped.The pungent smell of burning rubber in the wilderness has long been washed away, but the huge burnt black marks on the road are very clear, and the crooked and mottled telephone poles still silently tell the thrilling and tragic moment of impact.Six cordons were drawn within two kilometers before and after, and hundreds of technical detectives dispatched urgently from various sub-bureaus rushed back and forth, and the scene was filled with a sense of tension and depression.

"Three two one!" "Get up!"

Several heavily armed forensic doctors worked together to "pull" the charred and distorted body of the driver out of the Humvee, and carefully carried it onto the survey vehicle.

Outside the guardrail of the expressway in the distance, Song Ping, Xu Zuxin, Lin Wei, Wang Jiuling, and Liao Gang stood in a circle in front of the twisted and overturned frame of the G63. The indescribably cold atmosphere froze everyone's lungs. It took a long time to hear Xu Zuxin's chest heaving two words: "...Fuck."

Everyone was silent, and two seconds later, he finally couldn't hold back the boiling blood, and threw his hands and cursed: "F*ck!"

Every inch of wrinkle on Song Ping's face was obscured by the early morning light. No one dared to make a sound, not even to sneak a look at his face. They all looked at the soil under their feet in fear, and it took a long time to hear that he was surprised. A calm voice rang out: "How about the results of the first wave of search and rescue?"

Wang Jiuling glanced at Lin Hao from the corner of his eyes, and saw that Lin Hao's face was unexpectedly pale, his lips were tightly closed, and his pupils were staring at G63 without moving. But there is no particularly valuable situation yet. Lin Ke and I have already made all the preparations for signal tracking. In addition, the surveillance videos at both the traffic management station and the city bureau are all in place, and the preliminary filtering will definitely be completed before tonight. In addition, we have also applied for negotiating experts, in case... some kidnappers hold hostages... request to negotiate with the Municipal Public Security Bureau..."

That's the worst case scenario.

The meritorious undercover painter actually capsized in the gutter of Jinhai City, and even got on board with a division leader. There should be a group of leaders in the local public security system. It would be better to hang yourself at the gate of the municipal committee.

"Who leaked the secret to Bu Chonghua about the port area?!" Xu Ju roared angrily.

Lin Hao was still in the state of being out of his body, and Wang Jiuling felt that he was about to cry: "No...no one. After inspection, it was found that the Bu Detachment had connected the mobile phone signal tracking equipment of the two kidnappers, Ding Sheng and Deng Le, without permission. When he was in college, he got full marks in the electronic information engineering major, and he has been working in the front line of investigation for so many years..."

"Damn it!!" Xu Ju was about to suffer from high blood pressure: "This is a fraud! Absolutely! Who would have predicted that Bu Chonghua would leave the team and act alone?! Who would have expected that Wu Yu would also be there In this car?! Why don’t you kill them and tie them away?! It must be Wan Changwen!! Report to the Public Security Bureau for Quanjinhai, all stations, docks, airports and highways—”

"No, Lao Xu." Song Ping said in a low voice, "It should not be Wan Changwen."

Xu Ju was choked up: "Why not..."

"Wan Changwen's group of drug lords who fled from the mainland decades ago. I have dealt with them for many years. They rarely dare to go deep into the hinterland of North China, let alone take the criminal police as hostages in the country. What's more For Wan Changwen, it is urgent to smuggle out of the country as soon as possible, and if he wants to smuggle, he must be absolutely quiet and low-key. He should wish to bury himself in the soil now, and threatening the police is not only for him. It’s not necessary, and it’s a big taboo.”

"More importantly, which car Wu Yu gets on is random, but Bu Chonghua's car itself is high-profile and conspicuous, which means that the chances of the other party targeting Bu Chonghua are far greater than Wu Yu. All the thugs should know that kidnapping a policeman of Bu Chonghua’s level will definitely do more harm than good—it’s not like kidnapping a high-level senior official to deter the Ministry of Public Security, nor is it as easy to blow up moral public opinion as kidnapping ordinary police or citizens. It made the police fearful. To be more critical, did the kidnappers believe in the morality of the police so much? Aren’t they afraid that we will deliberately give in to Chonghua as a ‘martyr’?”

Xu Ju was stunned by Song Ping, and it took him a few seconds to react: "Then, according to what you said, why did the other party take them away? Wouldn't it be over if they were burned to death?"

"...I don't know either." Song Ping shook his head and said hoarsely, "I can't help but think of another possibility."

"what?"

There are no outsiders in the surrounding circle, and the bottom is above the division level.Several pairs of eyes were aligned on Song Ping, and even Lin Hao looked over with a pale face, not knowing what was going on in his heart, his pupils were pressed extremely tightly, and there was a faint cold light flowing.

"I'm thinking," Song Ping looked up at the blue-gray sky in the early morning, and said softly, "Could it be something he's doing or something he's investigating, and who's in the way?"

A gust of wind blew across the plain, blew over everyone's faces with different expressions, passed through the fragmented big G carriage, and disappeared far into the wilderness.

"—Bureau Xu! Director Wang!" At this time, Xiao Gui, the forensic doctor, came running far away, out of breath: "The fingerprints of the deceased were found in the Humvee involved, and the database system compared the previous convictions!"

Everyone's expressions changed for a moment, Song Ping stepped forward quickly, and grabbed the tablet computer from Xiaogui's forensic doctor's hand: "The extraordinarily large drug trafficking case in Daxing County, Laizhou City, Yunnan Province in 2005?"

Everyone rushed forward, but no one noticed that Lin Hao stopped suddenly!

"Yes, at that time it was discovered that the drug traffickers were transporting half a truck of opium across the border, and there was a fierce exchange of fire with the border guards. Five people were killed and four escaped. All of them were black households on the border, and their identities and names were not found out, but one of the fingerprints extracted and recorded on the scene matched the fingerprint of the driver of the Humvee, so it was definitely the same person!"

Xu Ju lost his voice in astonishment: "The kidnappers were those drug dealers who escaped back then? How is it possible? It doesn't matter at all?"

Song Ping turned his head: "Lin Hao, this case happened in your Yundian back then, did you... Lin Hao?"

Everyone looked around, only then did they see Lin Hao suddenly come back to his senses: "What's the matter?"

Song Ping's eyesight is so sharp, he saw the fleeting panic and unnaturalness in his eyes in an instant, narrowed his eyes and asked slowly: "Did you think of any clues?"

clue.

The distance between the two was only half a step, and at this distance, even the fine wrinkles at the corners of Song Ping's eyes could be clearly seen. In the blink of an eye, Lin Hao heard another voice that was more vicissitudes and aging. It was Feng Ting's solemn instructions before he left for Jinhai—— —

"Song Ping, you know his origin and identity, but you may not know how powerful he is. From adopting the orphans of martyrs more than 20 years ago to climbing up step by step over the years, he has not made a single mistake. , I didn’t say a single word wrong, I didn’t let anyone find fault or raise objections, and my resume is so perfect that it’s rare..."

"Lin Ke?" Song Ping emphasized.

"Oh, [-]." Lin Hao paused, as if considering something, frowned and looked at the fingerprints on the tablet: "I just went to Yundian at that time, so I didn't have a deep impression of it... ..."

"——The drug trafficking case in Daxing County in [-]." The office of the special situation team was filled with smoke, Zhang Boming held a cloud of smoke in his hand, and tapped his knuckles on the electronic map.

"In this case, the painter mentioned the existence of the dark web to us for the first time, and it was also the first time we discovered a drug trafficking case involving dark web platforms in China. In this case, more than 180 kilograms of cooked opium were seized, five drug dealers were killed, and they escaped. Four people, the two sides fired more than 120 rounds of bullets; it seems to be a small scale in a cross-border drug trafficking case, but for the special intelligence team, it has a milestone significance."

The young Lin Hao raised his head from behind the computer: "Because that was the first time we discovered darknet activities within the territory?"

"No." Zhang Boming paused, and said, "Because that was the first time we found a Chinese e-commerce platform on the dark web, and its name is Tea Horse Ancient Road."

……

"I really don't know." Lin Hao looked up at Song Ping, and shook his head with a normal expression: "This kind of drug trafficking case has nothing to do with our online investigation, but I agree with Bureau Xu's opinion. Unlikely."

Song Ping looked at him calmly for a moment, nodded, and handed the computer back to Xu Zuxin: "It's possible that they are using other people's money to do things for others, and there may be black hands behind the scenes. But anyway, it's an important clue. Immediately set up a task force, mobilize police forces from across the city, and start investigating along this line!"

Xu Zuxin was so angry that his throat was hoarse: "Understood!"

Under the vast sky, police lights flickered like ants, and countless police dogs scattered around the accident site.

But are the missing Wu Yu and Bu Chonghua still alive?How long can you last?

Rolling dark clouds gathered over the city, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts.

"……Mother……"

"Baby," Peng Wan hugged her child weakly, put her face on the soft hair on the top of the child's head, and murmured so hoarsely that she couldn't even hear herself: "My treasure, my treasure..."

Wu Yu felt as if he was lying in hot and sour water, without a trace of strength in his whole body, exhaustion, pain, thirst and hunger all disappeared, and he was so numb that he didn't even have a trace of consciousness.The skylight shining through the wooden slats changed from dark to bright and then from bright to dark again. The long torment made everyone lose their sense of time. They couldn’t tell whether it was a few hours or a few days. The illusion that has been quietly waiting for a lifetime.

Peng Wan's pats were already weak to the point of weakness: "Don't be afraid, baby, don't be afraid of my baby..."

When Bu Chonghua moved, his wrist was suddenly grasped in the next second. Looking back, he saw Wu Yu opened his bloodshot eyes at some point, staring straight at him. Shaking his head, his eyes filled with a silent pleading.

The trouser pocket contained the note handed in by the kidnapper.

Only the two of them saw that piece of paper. At that time, Peng Wan struggled like crazy and wanted to come up to read it, but Bu Chonghua quickly tore it up and put it in his trouser pocket. Put it in the trouser pocket, as if I have forgotten its existence.

—But they all knew it wasn't.

The balance of morality and survival is only temporarily maintaining a delicate balance. The time bomb is always hanging above their heads, making a ticking countdown sound, getting tighter and tighter, more sinister and paradoxical, like a devil's grin gradually Approaching the ear from the darkness.

Bu Chonghua stared at Wu Yu's weak eyes for a long time. The distance between the two of them was only a few inches. After a long while, he finally leaned over and kissed Wu Yu's messy temple, and said in a low voice, "I just went to see if there is any... There is no way out."

"..."

Wu Yu's lips, which were covered with dry blood scabs, had a slight smile line, and he nodded and let go of his hand.

In fact, there is nothing to see. This whole abandoned warehouse has been turned over countless times by them. There is an open space in the middle facing the door. Window, there is a red-painted drainage pipe on the wall next to the window, leading from the roof to the ground; on the left and right sides of the open space, there are more than ten rows of empty iron frames in disorder, full of floating ash, and it is unknown that they have been vacant how long.

The entire warehouse covers an area of ​​more than 300 square meters. Except for the double-closed iron doors inside and outside, the four sides are solid walls without any gaps. The ventilation pipes are only more than ten centimeters wide, and the drainage pipes are only thick enough to drill rats.

Bu Chonghua touched the entire wall covered in black mildew for countless times, despairing to the end, leaving only a numb calmness, just about to stand up while leaning on the iron frame beside him, suddenly a fishy sweetness rushed straight into his throat: "—— Cough! Cough! Cough..."

Streams of blood froth twisted up from the internal organs, as if even the chest cavity was about to be shattered into pieces and sprayed out of the throat, but he covered his mouth with his fingers tightly, not daring to cough too loudly, not daring to make a sound that Wu Yu could hear in the distance There was no movement, but the heat sprayed on the palm of the hand fell to the ground drop by drop along with the palm prints, exuding sticky blood.

"...huh...huh..."

I don't know how long it took, Bu Chonghua gasped and stopped coughing, his eyes turned black, he half-kneeled on the ground for several minutes, and then he stood up clasping the wall bricks by willpower, and walked out of the rows of empty iron frames step by step , without looking at the pair of mother and child by the drainpipe, and moved to the wall of the open space next to the door.

Wu Yu curled up on the ground in a dazed state, both his physiology and his mental consciousness were at the limit, but he felt Bu Chonghua's footsteps, and opened his eyes with difficulty, looking up at him: "You..."

"I'm fine." Bu Chonghua said hoarsely, and sat down beside him: "I'm just a little thirsty, don't worry."

Wu Yu nodded, and after a while, he murmured, "...can you give me a hug?"

A soreness that was more painful than before went up to the throat, along the nasal cavity and up to the eye sockets, but Bu Chonghua couldn't make a sound.He stretched out his hand to hold the familiar, thin and hot body in his arms, let the back of Wu Yu's head rest on the hollow of his shoulder, and rested his chin on the top of Wu Yu's head.

They used to cuddle up to each other and read books like this every night. The bed was spacious and clean, the lights were warm and dim, and there were all kinds of Wu Yu's favorite candies, snacks, and fruit cut into pieces with toothpicks. He forced Wu Yu to finish eating these snacks. Be sure to brush your teeth again before going to sleep, sometimes you will pick up Wu Yu and carry him into the bathroom, and then put the toothbrush into his mouth.

But now he can't do anything, he can only do his best to hold the person in his arms tightly, so that Wu Yu can feel a little bit of peace in the pain of high fever and internal bleeding.

"Bu Chonghua..."

"Shh," Bu Chonghua suppressed the sour throat spasm, "don't move, you may have some intracranial hemorrhage."

But Wu Yu insisted very much, even though it was so soft that only breath remained: "No, listen to me, while I can still speak."

"..."

"When I was young, I used to think about how I might die. I saw girls dragged out to be buried alive, I saw people tied to a log and burned to death, and I saw the Shan State army wiped out by drug dealers. They all died. It's miserable, none of them died without crying, and none of them died in the arms of their own family members."

"But I can." He said softly, "It's all because I have you."

Bu Chonghua trembled and panted: "Stop talking..."

"I don't care about the integrity of the skin after death, I just want you to live." Wu Yu closed his eyes, as if he wanted to smile briefly, but the arc disappeared very slightly: "I want you all to persist for a few more days, I I want you all to wait until help comes, no matter what happens later... I love you."

"I told you to stop talking!" Bu Chonghua roared hoarsely.

Wu Yu said, "I love you."

He turned his face away with all his strength, and his cold and cracked lips brushed against Bu Chonghua's cheek, that was the last tender kiss.

Bu Chonghua hugged him tightly, buried his face in the crook of his neck, his teeth were trembling uncontrollably.He wants to say I love you too, always will, but he can't say it at this moment; he has never been so clearly aware that everything in front of him is his own doing, if he hadn't opened his mouth on a rainy night On that uninhabited road, if he hadn't let Wu Yu get into his own car out of selfishness, or even if he hadn't crossed the thunder pond to force Wu Yu into his own world earlier...

Then everything could be different now.

"We will definitely wait for the rescue, hold on a little longer, at most...Wu Yu?"

Bu Chonghua's pupils dilated rapidly, and his hoarse murmur suddenly changed: "Wake up and don't sleep, Wu Yu!"

——In the dark, Wu Yu's whole body was hot, and he leaned back in his arms weakly, his eyes were tightly closed and there was no sound, and blood gushed out of his nasal cavity!

The intense blood was reflected deep in Bu Chonghua's pupils, as if announcing the end of the last countdown, the bomb detonated in the void, pushing the heavy balance to one end!

Bu Chonghua's hands trembled uncontrollably, panted and raised his head, meeting Peng Wan's frightened eyes not far away.

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"I must be the first male lead in our family who said 'I love you' for the first time in his life, and the other party replied 'you f*ck shut up'..."