Swallowing the Seas

"About half a year ago, I began to faintly feel that there was something abnormal about him, but I still couldn't find any clues. It wasn't until four months ago that I was preparing to go to Hong Kong. Finally let me officially ring the alarm bell."

Zuo Qiu and Meng Zhao received different family members recently.She is highly educated and well-educated in her words and deeds. She wears a solid-color silk shirt with wide-leg pants, and a silk scarf with a good drape around her neck. Although she came here overnight, her face still retains the daytime makeup.

Meng Zhao gently put a cup of hot water in front of her, and asked gently, "When did you find out?"

"Once I asked for leave from Hong Kong to go home for the weekend—it was a surprise operation decided on the spur of the moment." Zuo Qiu covered his red eyes, wiped the corners of his eyes in a short while, and said, "There is nothing unusual at home. It looked normal, and I was surprised and excited and joyful. We went out to eat, watched a movie, and went home hand in hand. We met again when we met You Sheng was newly married; I secretly laughed at my own suspicion and sensitivity until late at night Waking up suddenly, just for no reason, to find that the other side of the bed was empty, and there were faint lights and voices in the living room."

"...This matter can be big or small, you have to be mentally prepared..."

Zuo Qiu put on her pajamas, and gently opened the door of the bedroom, only to see someone sitting on the sofa with her back facing her, with a slightly short and fat body, but a very calm voice, faintly like a superior mentor talking to a subordinate, both peaceful and undeniable a feeling of.

Li Hongxi stood by the coffee table in the living room with her hands hanging down. She couldn't see her expression clearly from such a long distance, but the extraordinary perception between husband and wife still made her aware that her husband was very upset at the moment: "...why? Possibly? Why did she suddenly disappear? What should we do now, what should we do if we find out, this is the cusp of the storm..."

"There are so many things like this, it's not so easy to find out, let alone you." The man paused, then changed the subject: "I'm worried about another thing."

"what?"

"She took away our 'big business.'"

Li Hongxi looked confused, and didn't realize what the other party was referring to for a while, but then his face changed drastically: "What?! You said——how could——"

His voice stopped abruptly, and the living room fell into an ominous silence.

"People don't care, 'big business' can't be lost." After a long time, the man finally spoke again, with a low and cold voice: "I have already arranged people to deal with this matter, try to deal with it as cleanly as possible, but you You have to be mentally prepared, in case... get it?"

Zuo Qiu held her breath. She had never seen Li Hongxi showing such a strange expression. It seemed that there was a trace of disgust, resentment and unwillingness mixed with fear. She gritted her teeth slightly but vigorously and nodded: "I understand."

Only then did the visitor seem a little satisfied, nodded, got up and left.

The moment he turned around, he happened to be facing the half-hidden door of the upper bedroom, and Zuo Qiu could see his face clearly at that moment—unexpectedly, he was not very old, maybe in his early 20s or early thirties, with a white face and slightly fat, not tall Tall, with a mole on his eyebrows.This face is the standard gentle and kind type, but for some reason, there is a hint of aura in the kindness that makes her feel frightened.

Zuo Qiu's intuition of danger caused him to lean back and hold the doorknob tightly.

In the darkness of the night, no one could see the gap in the door of the bedroom. Hidden in the darkness, she felt her heart beating, but her ears subconsciously caught the movement outside, and she heard the man leave. Li Hongxi sent her out of the house to the elevator door. Indistinct footsteps and farewell sounds could be heard in the corridor; after some time, she opened the door slightly with trembling fingers, and saw the dead of night outside the living room window, while the clock on the wall was still swinging, the second hand A ticking sound coincides with the minute hand.

It was three o'clock in the morning.

"The next day I asked Li Hongxi insinuatingly, saying that I seemed to hear him talking in a daze at night. Is there a visitor? Li Hongxi's expression was very flustered for a moment, but then he calmed down and told me that someone in his company knew a lot of inside information. The accountant left the job suddenly, and if he was hired by a competitor, he and several other leaders might be implicated, so the company came late at night to discuss the solution with him, but it should be resolved smoothly, so don’t worry.” Zuo Qiu took a deep breath and suppressed the choked ending: "But the strange fear in my heart is still lingering, I didn't even dare to stay at home until Sunday night... the next afternoon, I was upset Randomly boarded the plane to Hong Kong."

"This person said that he would arrange people to 'handle' this matter that caused them to lose their 'big business'?" Meng Zhao asked.

Zuo Qiu nodded.

The crazy Liu Li in the interrogation room appeared in Meng Zhao's mind—"That bitch Gao Ling couldn't recognize the reality, and dreamed that she had a 'big business', and as long as she finished the big business, she could get rich..."

Meng Zhao leaned forward slightly, stared into Zuo Qiu's eyes, and said in a serious tone, "Do you remember which night this conversation took place?"

"March NO.18." Zuo Qiu covered his mouth to prevent himself from choking again, and said hoarsely but firmly: "I have a round-trip air ticket record to Hong Kong, which is March NO.18."

March NO.18 is the third day Gao Ling ran away from home!

If calculated from this point, it can almost be concluded that Gao Ling is the one who will deal with these utterly conscientious people!

"Thank you very much for your cooperation in providing us with clues. Please try to keep in touch during this period of time. If you can still think of any details, please contact the police at any time." Meng Zhao shook Zuo Qiu's hand tightly: "If you need any help , you can also find me at any time, don't be afraid, we will guarantee your safety!"

Zuo Qiu's eyes were still red. She raised her head to let the tears flow down her nose and back to her throat. After a while, she looked at Meng Zhao: "Thank you, Police Officer Meng, I was just too unexpected. I... I and my husband are college classmates , His family has a feudal concept, and the conditions are not good. When he first fell in love, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford flowers. When he came to my house, he was almost kicked out by my mother. We broke through many obstacles to come all the way to the present, so many years of love , so many years of feelings..."

Meng Zhao patted her hand reassuringly.

"I once thought, if he really has someone outside, is it because I am too busy with work to neglect my family? Is it because I am too tough and ignore his feelings? I can't wait to use a microscope to see the flaws in myself from the inside out I searched all over for my faults, but I forgot one thing, scumbags will not be moved to become a little bit human just because you are gentle, virtuous, considerate and perfect, scumbags become scumbags because of themselves."

She paused, with tears in her eyes, showing a calm smile:

"If it doesn't bother me, I might need you to do me a little favor right now—do you know of a good divorce lawyer I could introduce me to, the kind that would make that scumbag walk out of the house empty-handed?"

Most of the policemen are no strangers to lawyers. Meng Zhao blinked, leaned closer to her ear, and smiled slyly:

"...I really know a few of them."

The door of the inquiry room was opened, and Liao Gang took off his earphones behind the desk outside: "You are breaking the rules."

Meng Zhao put one hand in his trouser pocket and raised his chin: "Sue me?"

Liao Gang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Meng Zhao raised his eyebrows and left with a smile.

·

"I see, I will send a summary of the transcript to me later... Tell the internal staff to pay attention to the emotions of the victim's parents. Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi's couple came to Jinhai for the first time, and they are not familiar with the place. Please take care of them. Feel free to contact the media..."

Bu Chonghua's voice on the phone could be heard in the water. Wu Yu finished brushing his teeth in front of the mirror, rinsed his mouth full of foam with the tap, pulled a towel casually, and walked out of the bathroom while wiping his face.

Bu Chonghua is a person who can strictly follow the work schedule the next day no matter how late he sleeps the day before. He wakes up at 07:30 in the morning, showers and washes up. Before hanging up the phone, as soon as he turned around, he saw Wu Yu walking into the room with his upper body bare, eyes drooping, yawning, and slapping the towel on the bed in the messy guest house.

He must have included Bu Chonghua in the safe and harmless white list. He wore a pair of jeans all over his body, hanging loosely on his waist and hips. Wet stepping on the carpet, leaving blurry footprints with the steps.

"Are you ready?" Bu Chonghua looked away and asked calmly.

"No rush."

"Don't you take a shower in the morning?"

Wu Yu opened a bottle of mineral water, drank it, and said, "Trouble. You act like everyone else, you're a civilized person, and you don't know what you're doing in the bathroom with the door closed."

"..."

Bu Chonghua's forehead twitched slightly, and he turned around, only to hear Wu Yu's hey suddenly: "Wait, someone grabbed you on the back of your neck?"

"?" Bu Chonghua stretched out his hand to wipe the back of his neck, and sure enough, the right side was slightly tingling, but because of the angle, he couldn't see it when he turned his head to the mirror, and it seemed that a piece of skin had been scratched by his hand.

It should be that I was scratched by some gangster last night when I was singled out in the audience, but the adrenaline secretion was high during strenuous exercise, so I didn't feel pain for a while, and I didn't notice it when I took a shower in the morning.

"It's swollen," Wu Yu said, "I'll give you some red medicine."

Bu Chonghua's first reaction was not to use it, but he swallowed the words and subtly acquiesced to the proposal.Wu Yu called and asked the front desk of the hostel for red medicine and cotton. Bu Chonghua sat on the edge of the bed with his back collar slightly pulled down. I wiped two handfuls of it around for disinfection, then soaked the medicine with cotton, and carefully applied it on the slightly red and swollen broken skin.

Bu Chonghua was born with light pigmentation, his pupils were amber, and his skin was fairer—healthy, firm, and evenly fair. It was two shades different from Wu Yu's paleness caused by perennially upside-down work and rest.His hair is also very thick, shining slightly in the morning light, with a good smell of shampoo, very different from the messy black hair that Wu Yu often cuts and cuts blindly in front of the mirror.

"It's thin skin and tender flesh," Wu Yu laughed with a little panting acid, "It's just a little injury."

Bu Chonghua said, "I envy you even more."

"Envy what?"

On Wu Yu's back, abdomen, and even arms, fine scars and scars and marks left by wounds healed abound. You won't feel it when you are wearing clothes or in a dark place, but if you look carefully at the light during the day, it will be quite shocking. feel.Bu Chonghua moved slightly, seemed to want to turn around, but held back, looked at the white hotel sheets in front of him and said, "Scars are the badge of a man, don't you think?"

Wu Yu couldn't help but laugh: "Medals are a fart, only those who are incapable are injured, and those who are capable can't even lose a hair."

"What do you mean?"

When Bu Chonghua turned his head, he saw Wu Yu throwing the cotton balls away, and he didn't bother to explain: "Okay, be careful not to get any inflammation."

He got up to get the unfinished bottle of mineral water, but Bu Chonghua quickly took away the cold water bottle: "Come back, the leader is asking you something."

One of them sat on the edge of the bed, the other knelt on the mattress, their eyes were fixed for a few seconds, Wu Yu was a little timid, he lowered his head and walked around himself, casually pointing to the dark growth of a small scar on his left elbow that had healed.

"——This, it was dragged out on the concrete floor. After drinking, the two big brothers depended on their younger brothers to fight fiercely. Each side sent a subordinate, and it turned out that the opponent's buddy was a Thai boxing champion. You can’t even touch a single hair. Do you think this can be called a medal? It’s clearly a mark of shame.”

Bu Chonghua looked at him, unable to make a sound for a moment.

"Medals for capable people are made of gold, and medals for those who are incapable are made of flesh and blood." Wu Yu said, "Come on, let's solve the case quickly, maybe after the [-] case is solved, we can also have a collective merit medal." Dai Dai."

He drew back the mineral water bottle, Bu Chonghua's hand paused in mid-air, and then slowly dropped it.

At this moment, the phone jingled, indicating that there was a new email—it was the transcript of the inquiry sent by Liao Gang.

Wu Yu took a closer look while drinking water, thinking it was Li Hongxi's wife Zuo Qiu's questioning materials last night, but when he opened it, it was Meng Zhao's record of going to the hospital several times to question Liu Li: "What are you looking at?"

Bu Chonghua tilted his head and looked into Wu Yu's eyes from a close distance: "I read Zuo Qiu's transcript last night, and I still feel a little suspicious."

Wu Yu's eyes were puzzled, and he leaned back a little to distance himself, motioning for him to say.

"We now know that the murderer of Case 10 is no longer a single person, but an organized and large-scale group. The 'Teacher Ba' whom the owner of the print shop saw occupies a very high position in this group, and may even be Leader. On the third day after Gao Ling ran away from home, "Teacher Ba" rushed to Li Hongxi's house overnight to tell him the news, and said that Gao Ling had taken a "big business" with him, and he wanted to arrange people to solve this matter. This so-called manpower should be Gao Baokang, who paid [-] yuan from 'Teacher Ba' to follow Gao Ling and wait for an opportunity to do it, but because of his whereabouts being exposed during the period, Gao Ling reported to the police once at the end of April."

Wu Yu nodded.

"The reason why 'Teacher Ba' arranged for Gao Baokang instead of Li Hongxi to deal with Gao Ling may be because Li Hongxi has culture, capital, and a relatively high status in this organization. He is not a low-level thug like Gao Baokang, so he is not I need to go out and do the dirty work myself." Bu Chonghua changed the subject: "But what I can't figure out is that Gao Ling was killed on May [-], no matter what purpose Li Hongxi sneaked into Gao Ling and Liu Li's house, why? He didn't go to Gao Ling's house until the police found the body on May [-]th?"

Wu Yu thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "Because it's on the trending list?"

"Yes," Bu Chonghua said in a deep voice, "Because this group of people couldn't be sure whether Gao Ling was still alive before the hot search."

——That is to say, they didn't know if the killer had completed the task before it was on the hot search, and Gao Baokang had lost contact with the organization!

"Did he already die in the Sili River?" Wu Yu asked unexpectedly.

"Judging from the speed and water level of the Sili River on May [-], the chance of drowning is quite high, but Gao Xia reported that her nephew often goes wild swimming with others in summer and is extremely skilled in water, so another possibility cannot be ruled out. He ran away." Bu Zhonghua paused, and said slowly: "If this hypothesis is true, then the police are not only searching for him, but also the...human bone helmet he took away."

Human bone helmet.

After Gao Ling disappeared, "Teacher Ba" told Li Hongxi that people are not important, but big business cannot be lost. What does big business mean?

Gao Ling trekked several kilometers to the river embankment on that rainy afternoon. What was in her bulging schoolbag that convinced her that she could get rich overnight?

Li Hongxi, who sneaked into Liu Li's bedroom late that night, obviously bought wires, tape, black plastic bags and a lot of detergent, but after Liu Li entered the house, he hid in the closet and did not do anything until he was found. What is he looking for before going home?

Bu Chonghua sat on the edge of the bed and turned his head, Wu Yu sat cross-legged behind him, holding a mineral water bottle in one hand; the two looked at each other, and each saw the answer that was about to come out from the other's eyes.

"That human bone helmet," Bu Chonghua said softly, "maybe it's the 'big deal' that Gao Ling took away."

The room was terribly quiet. After a long time, Wu Yu finally screwed on the bottle cap slowly, and rubbed the center of his brows vigorously: "What is the relationship between Gao Ling and those people?"

Bu Chonghua said, "Pass over the funeral bed."

Wu Yu didn't understand.

"Do you remember what I said? Anyone who organizes a cult is inseparable from several goals: money, sex, and desire for control. Almighty God is no exception. Crossing the death bed is a way for them to attract new members This method allows young women who have been brainwashed to have relationships with people. It is hypothesized that this can convey the will of God and achieve the effect of unity of spirit and body; and those women are mostly from the wives, daughters and relatives of members of the organization, and have basically no education. Mostly from a rural background.”

Bu Chonghua opened the transcript in the email. The first few pages were the first time Liu Li was questioned, that is, the time when his drug addiction broke out in the Nancheng District Branch: "I have been vaguely suspicious since the earliest contact with Liu Li. Why did Gao Ling Always scolding her parents in front of her as "blood-sucking, uneducated, harming her"? If blood-sucking can be barely understood as asking her to work to earn money to support her younger brother in the future, what does it mean to be uneducated and harm her? The accusation of patriarchy in the family seems to be different. Then Meng Zhao went to the hospital to talk to Liu Li several times, and found that as long as she mentioned Gao Ling, she would repeat these words over and over again. What came up the most, even far surpassed the resentment of not letting her go to school."

"——What did Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi do to make her grit her teeth and hate them for being uneducated? How many times did a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl far away from the county town have sex with Li Hongxi who lives in Jinhai City before she became pregnant? The family lives under the same roof, and the underage daughter's abnormality for such a long time, do her parents really not know at all?"

Bu Chonghua threw his mobile phone on the bed sheet, and said coldly: "From the first time I saw that couple crying heartbreakingly in the corridor of the Public Security Bureau, I began to suspect that something was wrong with them."

Wu Yu nodded silently, and seemed to have some headaches, and asked, "Then... what should we do now, go back and interrogate Gao Ling's parents?"

This is impossible. First of all, the police have no real evidence and cannot use coercive means to interrogate the parents of the victim. Secondly, Gao Wei and Xiong Jinzhi obviously came prepared, and all indirect inquiries will have no effect.

What's more troublesome is that the couple only identified the body after Gao Baokang lost contact and Li Hongxi was arrested, which means that the cult organization behind it has realized that it has entered the police's sight.Any investigation on Gao Weixiong Jinzhi now, or even the slightest change in attitude, will directly lead to the consequences of scaring the snake!

Bu Chonghua breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We have to go back to Jinhai to continue digging, digging into Li Hongxi's financial situation, Gao Baokang's social relations, and the source background of the human bone helmet. Such a valuable thing cannot suddenly appear in Jinhai for no reason. Haishi, no matter whether 'Teacher Ba' and the others want to sell it or take it away, there must be a series of crimes behind it that have not been discovered by the police."

Wu Yu moved his stiff shoulders and neck thoughtfully, and Bu Chonghua looked at him, only to see him stop in a short while, sitting on the bed and shaking his head.

"My way of thinking about problems is different from yours."

"..."

"Gao Ling's hometown, Jiarui County, is not far from Ninghe. It takes at most half a day to drive there." He raised the corners of his eyebrows at Bu Chonghua, and the ends of his slender and thick eyelashes curled up, a little agitated: "Go and have a look?"