Swallowing the Seas

The evening breeze was a little cool, but the cicadas were already faintly singing in the bushes beside the parking lot.Standing on the steps in front of the building, Wu Yu took out a lighter and brought it to his mouth, and said with a smile while pointing: "What treasure do you want to show me... Hey!"

His teeth were suddenly empty, and it was Bu Chonghua who smoked the cigarette and threw it into the trash can, then took out two packs of cigarettes from the inner pocket of his coat, and threw them into his arms.

"This is..." Wu Yu caught it and was stunned for a moment: "Fuchun Mountain Residence?"

Bu Chonghua said: "Smoke it, it's better than yours."

"No, it's too expensive," Wu Yu flatly refused, "Hurry up and take it back."

"Take it and smoke it, it doesn't cost money."

"No, I can't want this, it's not about money..."

Bu Chonghua insisted on giving it, but Wu Yu gritted his teeth and dared not accept it. The two went back and forth several times, but Bu Chonghua finally became impatient: "I got it from Bureau Song, it didn't cost any money, so just take it if you want it! "

"..." Wu Yu was stunned for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "I heard that the smokers all went in at the end, Bureau Song can..."

"Ju Song can't get in, he doesn't smoke." Bu Chonghua couldn't laugh or cry, "They only gave him one, and there were only five packs in it. He thought it was a 50 yuan pack of Liqun, so he slipped it into my house when he came to my house. The gatekeeper of the community downstairs is gone, and it was so easy for me to snatch it away - I, a dignified detachment leader, would be ashamed of snatching cigarettes from the gatekeeper, shut up and smoke you."

Wu Yu burst into laughter, and finally lit a cigarette with one hand on the fire, exhaled and smiled, "Thank you."

"Thank me for what, there are three packages sent to the Municipal Bureau of Forensic Medicine, you just happened to be by the way."

"By the way, thank you too."

Bu Chonghua looked away, with no expression on his face, and asked in a short while, "Are you used to smoking?"

Wu Yu said: "If you can't get used to smoking anymore, you can smoke opium."

Wu Yu's cigarette addiction is not the biggest in the detachment, at least not as big as Liao Gang who smokes two packs a day.But his cigarettes are cheap, with high tar content, and a cigarette is gone in three or four puffs, and there are hardly many smoke rings. He is an old smoker with very bad habits.Bu Chonghua nodded at him and said, "You should also smoke less, it's really bad for your health."

"Get used to it, it's hard to quit." Wu Yu asked, "You really don't smoke at all?"

"Don't smoke."

"Affected by Bureau Song?"

Those who engage in criminal investigation who do not smoke are like those who write code do not work overtime and high school seniors do not stay up late. Although it is not impossible, the number is so small that it is almost negligible. The only explanation is that Bu Chonghua was brought up by Bureau Song since he was a child. If he doesn't drink alcohol, the possibility of his son becoming a smoker and alcoholic is very small.

"Not really." Bu Zhonghua paused, and said, "I just try not to touch anything that can be addictive."

Wu Yu asked casually, "Why?"

The bright light in the lobby of the building extended a fan-shaped light strip along the steps, and the two sides of the fan were shrouded in the night, forming a sharp contrast.Bu Chonghua stood in a place where light and dark intersected, staring at an uncertain piece of floating dust in the air motionless, with the light reflected in his pupils, he whispered after a long while: "Because addiction can lead to weakness and addiction, and it will shake the original belief. The determination to complete a certain mission. There are only so many things a person can focus on in his life, and many times he can’t have both. I don’t want to make myself regret it when I finally have to make a choice.”

Wu Yu looked at his profile in the shadows, and suddenly felt a slight movement in his heart. Some hazy and bewildered emotions spread to the bottom of his tongue with the mellow aroma of shredded tobacco, and then melted away little by little, and finally disappeared in his heart.

Cars pass by on the road in the distance, lights are on in the duty room, and moths rustle against the light bulbs.They stood side by side with each other for a long time like this, Wu Yu held the cigarette butt between two fingers, looked at the faintly bright sky in the urban night sky, and said softly: "How can it be possible for a person to have no addiction in his life? That's too much for me. Be ruthless. Even if your parents are still alive..."

"So I'm just talking." Bu Chonghua interrupted him, patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "Let's go."

Wu Yu didn't say anything else, and nodded, the red light of the cigarette butt drew an arc in the night, and fell into the trash can accurately.

Except for the criminal investigation detachment, which was busy all night, all other departments were off work, and every floor of the office area was immersed in darkness, with only the bright and lonely light shining in the corridor.Both of them did not take the elevator at the same time, and walked up the stairs, and each other's footsteps echoed monotonously in the stairwell, as if the pressure of closing the case due to the conflict of interests above, the raging public opinion from the outside world, and the bloody and treacherous murder crimes in the rainy night were all the same. It gradually faded away in the interlaced breathing of the two of them, and turned into a distant cloud in the sky behind them.

"Hey," Wu Yu suddenly caught a glimpse of something, turned his elbow and stepped down to Chonghua, motioning him to look downstairs from the gap between the handrails of the corridor.

——The entire row of offices of the technical team has been emptied, except for the anatomy room at the end, which is brightly lit, as if there are still people inside.

"The forensic doctor hasn't left yet?"

The two looked at each other, Bu Chonghua thought for a while and said, "Let's go and have a look."

The dissecting room was filled with the slight airflow sound of the purification system. A corpse with its chest and abdomen fully opened was placed on the stainless steel countertop, and a palm-sized cake box and several lilies were placed in the sink.Director Wang was wearing a light blue surgical gown, and was using tweezers to lift the incision on the front wall of the pericardium. He tilted his head slightly to describe something to forensic doctor Xiaogui; forensic doctor Xiaogui had a digital camera hanging around his neck, nodding while recording, sometimes frowning carefully observing under the shadowless light pericardial cavity.

Knock knock, the door was knocked twice.

"Are you having dinner here?" Bu Chonghua opened the door and asked loudly.

Wang Jiuling shivered, and said angrily, "You don't go swimming in the Sili River in the middle of the night, why go to the morgue to scare people!"

Bu Chonghua looked at the cake box in the sink, then at the clock on the wall, and seemed to realize something, but he didn't return to Wang Jiuling.He beckoned for Wu Yu to come in, then walked into the dissecting table and stood observing for a while, then suddenly asked: "—I remember that Lao Yu opened the chest and abdomen cavity, why did he suddenly open the Y-shaped knife?"

Wang Jiuling ignored him.

Forensic doctor Xiaogui looked at Wang Jiuling and said in a low voice, "Director Wang said that the victim was young, and the part of his throat was too obvious when he was cut open. You can use the collar to cover the sutures, and the remains will be clean when sent to cremation. "

——Lying quietly on the dissecting table was Nian Xiaoping, the victim of Case [-].

Wang Jiuling didn't utter a word or refute. He closed his chest and abdomen with sutures. After a long while, he sighed and said, "Actually, there's nothing good about being dead. It's just a piece of frozen meat."

Bu Chonghua raised his chin towards the wall clock on the wall that was approaching zero: "Are you celebrating frozen meat's birthday?"

"What, what birthday, I'll take it home and eat it myself!" Wang Jiuling was quite stubborn, "Why do you come here in the middle of the night, donkey-faced, and you only think of condolences after finishing your work? It's too late! It's worthless !"

"I didn't intend to condolence to you at first. Wu Yu and I just came back from eating steamed East Star Spots outside. What's the result of your four tests? Did you find anything new?"

Wang Jiuling: "..."

"It's not counted as the fourth examination, so I just pulled it out and made a random slice to see if I can perform a miracle." Forensic doctor Xiao Gui quickly gave Director Wang a step down, and said to Bu Chonghua, "It's still similar to the preliminary autopsy results on the spot. One wound, one wound tube, 7.5cm in depth and 3.5cm in length. The angles of the two wounds are both acute, and the murder weapon should be a double-edged lancet. The traumatic heart rupture caused acute cardiac tamponade and died.”

It's not just about the same, it's exactly the same.

Bu Chonghua took a long breath, and turned around to ask Wu Yu, "Can you have another flash of inspiration?"

The last time it was at this dissecting table, Wu Yu "felt wrong" and found Gao Baokang's DNA between Gao Ling's teeth.The six eyes of the three people all cast their gazes together, Wu Yu was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "My inspiration has been digested along with the steamed Dong Xingban..."

"Hey." Director Wang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved his hand to signal forensic doctor Xiao Gui to help move the corpse back to the bed, and said, "Forget it, this case has already passed the stage of finding clues from the corpse... I think you might as well Go to the Sili River for three incense sticks, worship the river god, and try your best to find Gao Baokang who has never seen anyone alive or dead. If you can’t find it again, you should respectfully apologize and ask Chen Yuanliang to go out by this time tomorrow Yes, his son spent money to find a barrister, and he just visited the city bureau during the day, if you dare to release him one minute late, you have to be careful, he will demand compensation from the state."

Bu Chonghua's face was not very good-looking.

"...you are all looking for Gao Baokang, but it reminds me of that joke again." Forensic doctor Xiaogui forced a laugh: "—'Nancheng Detachment Nancheng Detachment, may I ask whether you lost this Jin Gao Baokang, that Yin Gao Baokang, or Is it the bronze Gao Baokang?''No River God, what we lost is the Gao Baokang who murdered and dived in the [-] murder case.''You are so honest, then I will reward you with gold, silver and bronze Gao Baokang, that is worthless Gao Baokang, the murderer, should stay at the bottom of the river!'..."

Bu Chonghua looked at him with a blank expression on his face, only Wu Yu said "Ha! Ha!" twice, although everyone could tell that because he didn't understand the point of laughter, every word he tried to utter are full of doubts.

"..." Forensic doctor Xiaogui said coldly, "I'll feel better if you don't laugh."

Director Wang pushed the corpse back to the morgue with his own hands, and turned off the lights when he came out. The cold and silent space fell into darkness again, only the neon lights on the street faintly peeking through the gaps in the curtains, outlining the undulating shadows under the white cloth.

That is Nian Xiaoping.

She was already very thin, and she was even thinner when she was covered by the white cloth, sticking there like a piece of paper had no weight.Under the trundle lay a limp bouquet of lilies, the last lilies that had been hastily bought just before closing, and a small, lonely pink cake box was covered under the petals.

The second hand ticks, the minute hand moves to the central axis, and a new day arrives.

The criminal police and forensic doctors stood silently at the door of the mortuary. After an unknown amount of time, Bu Chonghua said softly, "Happy 16th birthday, Nian Xiaoping."

We run into walls everywhere, we are exhausted, but we still can't get out of this desperate situation.If there is a god in the dark to fulfill everyone's birthday wishes in this world, I only hope that your soul will not disperse, there is a spirit in the sky, and help us show a way to avenge your grievances.

"...Go home, go home," Director Wang took a deep breath, turned around and waved away Wu Yu and Xiaogui forensic doctor: "Young people, don't suffer like this, go home and sleep, and come to the meeting early tomorrow. Let's go, let's go !"

Forensic doctor Xiaogui took off his gloves and surgical gown listlessly, Wu Yu also rubbed his sore cervical spine and shoulders, and was walking towards the stairs when the cell phone rang behind him through the corridor outside the morgue.

"It's mine," Bu Chonghua looked at the call and answered, "Hello?"

Wu Yu, Director Wang, and forensic doctor Xiao Gui all looked back at him, only to see Bu Chonghua stop suddenly: "How did they determine that?!"

"..." I didn't know what was said on the phone, but I vaguely heard the tone of the voice was very excited. After a while, I saw Bu Chonghua raised his head and looked at Wu Yu, his pupils dilated slightly, and his expression changed obviously.

"I see." His Adam's apple rolled up and down, as if trying to suppress all his emotions, he said hoarsely: "Then let someone do a DNA comparison, and before the results come out, send them to the Nancheng Branch immediately, no matter if it is true or not. !"

Bu Chonghua hung up the phone, everyone seemed to have a premonition, their eyes were involuntarily shining, Director Wang even took half a step forward anxiously: "This is—"

"They found Gao Baokang."

The corridor suddenly fell into great astonishment, shock and disbelief, and then everything turned into surprise, hitting everyone head-on from the void, forensic doctor Xiao Gui lost his strength and staggered half a step, leaning against the wall speechless.

Director Wang was so excited that he covered his heart with one hand: "How did you find it, what's the situation, where is he now..."

"Found it in the river."

Bu Zhonghua paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Accurately, it is one-half of Gao Baokang."