Swallowing the Seas

"Playing the guitar?" Tao Zhengqing looked bewildered, and then shook the rattle violently: "I don't know, I don't know anyone who makes music at all!"

Yang Chengdong and Liao Gang looked at each other, and then subconsciously turned their heads together to look at Wu Yu.

Wu Yu put one arm around his body and propped his chin with the other. He looked up at the two of them in doubt, with a few words clearly written in his eyes: What are you looking at me for?

"You don't know this person?" The technical detective on the side picked up the high-definition enlarged side view of the kidnapper and asked Tao Zhengqing.

Tao Zhengqing shook his head even more, and smiled bitterly while shaking: "I really don't know, if you have a photo showing your face, I can think about it again, he is dressed like this, no one will recognize him except his own mother!"

Tao's family of five lives in three bedrooms and one living room. The average price of this lot is in the early [-]s, which is relatively expensive compared to the surrounding area because there is a key elementary school district.According to the investigation, this family has a mortgage, a car loan, and no investment house, and it should have already emptied the bottom line for the children to go to school in the future.

"My grandson, grandma's sweetheart, where are you!..."

"It's you crying with that! Cry! You still have the face to cry!" Father Tao scolded with snot and tears from the outside, "It's you who cried on the street and brought the police in this room, okay! People are running away! Who doesn’t run away when they see the police?!”

Mother Tao burst out: "Now you blame me for calling the police again! Whoever was reluctant to give up the money wanted to call the police first! Who said that if you don't call the police, you won't be able to get it back!"

"How can I be reluctant to give up money? How can I have it?!"

……

In the early morning, the noisy, cursing, crying, and shouting can be heard clearly in the whole corridor, and the doorway is crowded with neighbors watching the excitement, discussing one after another.

"Leave it, let it go!" The policeman of the police station stood impatiently at the door and drove away, "Don't gossip on the Internet, don't believe in rumors, reposting 500 times is considered a crime of defamation, I tell you!..."

"Liao Liao Liao Liao--Brother Liao! Brother Liao!" Zhang Xiaoli rushed into the bedroom from outside the door, like a big golden retriever with slippery claws, holding up his mobile phone in one hand, shaking so much that he was about to twitch : "Brother Liao is bad! It's bad! Hurry, hurry, look!"

Liao Gang is about to twitch as soon as he can't hear the three words: "Shut up! I can't blame anyone who is bad... Damn!"

Liao Gang stared straight at Zhang Xiaoli's cell phone that was brought up to his nose, his heartbeat and blood pressure instantly soared by [-], he clutched his chest and said dumbly, "...I'm not feeling well."

Yang Chengdong snatched the phone, and suddenly he saw No. 20 on the hot search list, #把帮打执44千440四#, and clicked on the marketing account of a video platform:

"Burst in Jinhai! I'll show you the news at the first time! Yesterday at noon in Jinhai City, a big mother knelt down and cried bitterly on the street in the downtown area of ​​Wuqiao District, which caused crowds of citizens to watch, and some police officers stepped forward to question her. After the lottery, the daughter-in-law and young grandson were kidnapped, and the amount extorted by the kidnappers was like a death notice, which was 44 RMB. At present, the reporter has gone downstairs to the families of the hostages to reveal the unknown secret behind this bizarre extortion figure to the public , hello, uncle, are you the neighbor of the person involved in the kidnapping case..."

"I—fuck—he—mother—!" Yang Chengdong clutched his cell phone, ran straight out the door, rushed down the stairs in three steps at a time, and saw a man carrying a video camera on the open space in front of the door. A female "reporter" in a short skirt and high heels is holding a microphone to conduct a live interview. The male neighbor in front of her is still gesticulating and talking nonsense: "Yes, I know! His family won a 500 million prize! Yes, it happened two days ago !..."

bang!With a loud bang, Yang Chengdong snatched the camera and threw it on the ground, yelling amidst the screams of the female reporter: "Is the steamed bun with human blood delicious?! You're so cheap! Come on! Pull me down! All the interviewees will be taken away to sign law and order, and they will be detained for fifteen days, my fucking surname is not Yang!!"

The open space was immediately flooded with scolding, struggling, reprimanding and crying. The well-trained criminal police of Wuqiao Branch were no better than the police in the area. into the police car.

Wu Yu looked away from the glass window upstairs, "This is the second time I've heard Deputy Yang's detachment clamoring that his surname is not Yang anymore."

Liao Gang smiled wryly: "Can he not be in a hurry? If this case can't be solved, although he can still be called Deputy Yang's Detachment, he will probably only be Deputy Yang's Detachment for the rest of his life!"

Wu Yu hesitated to speak, and after a moment of deliberation, he said, "...I think it might not be a bad thing for this case to be popular."

Liao Gang was stunned: "Why?"

——Because the case is now at a dead end, why did the kidnappers leave without taking the money? To tear up the hostages without saying a word?

No one knows what the kidnappers are waiting for, but this situation is so deadlocked that people can't help but yearn for a variable to break the status quo, no matter whether this variable indicates illusory hope or deeper terror.

"I just feel that this may stimulate the kidnappers to respond." Wu Yu said vaguely, without further explanation, turned and leaned against the window sill: "It's just a pure intuition."

Liao Gang's mind was in a mess, and he could only nod dryly: "I hope that extortion amount is not really a death notice..."

"No."

"what?"

"It's too low-level, and it's unnecessary." Wu Yu stared at the dust floating in the air in front of him, and whispered, "It must have some special meaning...it's just that we haven't thought of it yet."

Wu Yu's side was backlit, and the lines outlined a full forehead, a straight nose bridge, and slightly delicate lips.Maybe because I have become thinner in the past few days, the eye sockets look very deep, and the double eyelids have become very obvious.

When he was leaning there quietly like this, there was a kind of special solemnity on his face because of concentration, as if the most real side of this person had finally revealed a little clue from behind the heavy chains.

Liao Gang felt that this person was a little different from when he first came here. He felt very strange in his heart, but it seemed to be the case. The feeling was indescribable, and he couldn't help but say for a while, "Xiao...Xiao Wu."

"Well?"

"..."

Wu Yu raised his eyes, and Liao Gang stammered, "After what happened last time... Bureau Xu held a meeting for us."

"A meeting." Wu Yu repeated thoughtfully, and then asked, "What did you say?"

"Ah, don't get me wrong, there aren't many people, only the criminal investigation, technical investigation, and anti-drug side have more reliable mouths and older qualifications. Director Xu said that he didn't announce it before to protect you, but after the reward on the dark web came out... ...If you think everyone doesn't know, it's not a problem to go on like this..."

Liao Gang swallowed, and finally spit out two words: "...painter."

These two words are like a mechanism, sealing the unknown treasures and fierce and sinister poisons in the secret room.

Wu Yu nodded without knowing the meaning, and said nothing. He lowered his head, lit a cigarette and took two puffs, before saying flatly, "It's okay, Brother Liao, that's all in the past. There are many things I don't understand, and I thank you for taking care of me." , I will ask you and Sister Meng more in the future, and the most important thing is to solve the case."

As he spoke, he flicked the ash on the window sill, "I'm eager to close this kidnapping case now, otherwise the suspicion on the infantry team will always be... hey."

These words were reasonable and reasonable, tactful and earnest—at this moment, Liao really felt that Wu Yu was really different from before.

He is better at being a man than before, but this kind of being a man is precisely because he no longer has to wear that clumsy and cowardly painted skin all the time.

"I know, we all hope that this case will be concluded quickly." Liao Gang patted him on the shoulder sincerely, and said, "Don't have any worries, what to do, how to do it, how to do it freely, as long as we can solve the case, what about our internal affairs?" It's fine... Hey, let's put it this way, as long as I am with you, Sister Meng, you will always be the favorite of our Nancheng detachment!"

"..."

The two looked at each other in blank dismay, and Wu Yu asked in confusion, "Your favorite?"

Liao Gang: "Oh, this word means..."

"Wait," Wu Yu suddenly raised his hand, motioning for him to silence: "Call."

Liao Gang: "?"

Wu Yu suddenly walked out, when the phone rang from the noisy outside!

"Quickly adjust the instrument!" "Shut up! Don't make a sound!" "Is the equipment ready? Is the equipment ready?!"

The whole living room fell into chaos the moment the landline rang. Yang Chengdong firmly grasped Tao Zhengqing's trembling shoulders with both hands: "You must have a conversation with your wife and children, try to delay the time, try to delay the time, you know?! Don't tell the kidnappers Agree to everything, don't be afraid to bargain with the other party, calm down! Calm down!"

Tao Zhengqing: "I, I, I, I..."

The technical detective said loudly: "OK!"

"Go go go go go go!!"

Yang Chengdong picked up the microphone with his own hands and handed it to Tao Zhengqing. The noisy living room fell silent instantly, only listening to Tao's father and mother's suppressed sobbing and Tao Zhengqing's trembling: "Hello... hello?"

Yang Chengdong gestured vigorously, and the technical detective quickly operated the equipment, and everyone around held his breath.

In that dead silence, the mechanical voice changed and gnashed his teeth clearly from the opposite side of the microphone:

"—Tao, you actually called the police?!"

Tao Zhengqing's fear was like a flood breaking through the embankment, and he burst out instantly: "No, no, no, we didn't call the police! Where is my son? Is my son still alive?! Please don't hurt him! Whatever you want, whatever How much money do you want..."

"You fucking wait for me!"

beep-

The air seemed to be sucked out, the sound had no medium and could not be transmitted, and everyone was floating in a complete vacuum.

I don't know how long it took before the technical detective murmured blankly: "Broken, broken?"

Waited for a whole day and night for a precious call, but hung up in less than ten seconds?

Tao Zhengqing seemed to be frozen, and Tao's father and Tao's mother were completely paralyzed on the sofa, and suddenly burst into more desperate and heart-piercing tears: "My precious grandson——!!"

Only then did everyone seem to be alive from a near-death situation, and sighs, discussions, and frightened whispers sounded around them one after another.Liao Gang and Yang Chengdong looked at each other, and the two people who were originally facing each other now had the same expression on their faces:

It’s over.

The two of them have been in the police force for 30 years and have handled many kidnapping cases. They know that the kidnapper's reaction now represents only one possibility-they decided to tear up their tickets.

But why?

Why didn't you even give me room to bargain, why did you mention "you wait" on the two phone calls, and why did you get provoked to such a frenzied point this time? !

There were rumbles in Wu Yu's mind.His instincts for danger had been honed beyond normal in those hard years, and certain paradoxical details were showing sneers to the police from the void, but no one around noticed.

"Tao, you actually called the police?!" "Wait!" "You fucking wait!"

……

what exactly is it?he thinks.

What is that faint trace of weirdness? !

Wu Yu stepped back step by step, as if deliberately putting some distance away from the surrounding world, looking at everything in this chaotic and desperate situation from a distance.

"I'm the only big grandson, my old Tao family has been passed down for three generations! Where are you, grandma's heart..."

"It was all caused by my father winning the lottery. As long as I get my family back, I can do whatever I want, even go bankrupt!"

"No, the time is too short to track at all, we can at most do a noise reduction process on the kidnapper's voice..."

"I said I shouldn't call the police! It's fine now! It's fine now!! What are you police doing for food? It was you who intervened that killed my grandson! No matter who you are, you'll be back early!!"

……

The old man's roar, the old lady's cry, and Tao Zhengqing's dry narration were sandwiched between the footsteps of the criminal police and the roar of conversation, like a torrent of noise, drowning out the glimmer of light that had just flashed in Wu Yu's mind.

At this moment, he suddenly felt his phone vibrating in his trouser pocket, and it turned out to be Wang Jiuling:

"Hey Xiao Wu, where is Liao Gang? Why doesn't he answer the phone?"

Liao Gang talked with Tao Zhengqing in the center of the crowded crowd, and at the same time was blocked by several subordinates for reporting and asking for instructions. From time to time, he had to turn his head to try to calm down the violent Yang Chengdong... He couldn't hear the phone ringing again, as long as his ears were not deafened up.

Wu Yu briefly described what happened just now, and asked, "What do you want Brother Liao to do?"

"Bu Chonghua said that he wanted to investigate Peng Wan's social relationship. You know this, right? The call and chat records transferred from the mobile phone operator and the software vendor are all in place. I am planning to send it to Liao Gang. Liao Gang will take it again. Show Bu Chonghua that Bu is already on his way to your place—do you have time now?"

"Why don't you send it directly to the infantry team?"

"Hey, are you stupid?" Wang Jiuling said, "Who dares to send the case materials related to Wan Changwen directly to Bu Chonghua, waiting for the inspection team to trouble me? Do you understand the principle of avoidance?"

Only then did Wu Yu come to his senses, and turned his head to look at Liao Gang, who was screaming hoarsely. At the same time, he suddenly saw a tall and straight figure flashing outside the open gate of Tao's house. His familiar gaze passed through the chaotic crowd, and he met him at the same time at the first glance. each other.

Wu Yu's cell phone was stuck to his ear, and the corners of his lips curled up.

"You can send it to me." He said steadily into the microphone, "The infantry team is coming up, I just showed it to him."

Bu Chonghua should have come directly from home. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and navy blue trousers. Because of the exquisite tailoring, he looked strong and good-looking. When he came, the aunt couldn't help but look back.

"You smoke again and don't eat?"

Wu Yu bit his cigarette butt with his canine teeth, glanced around from the corner of his eye, approached slightly and said softly, "Isn't this waiting for you?"

The two looked at each other, and at that moment Bu Chonghua saw a secret hint from Wu Yu's eyes - he wanted to kiss him.

But there were people all around, and people ran past in the corridor at any time, there was no place to hide for half a second, so Wu Yu actually did it on purpose.

Bu Chonghua's Adam's apple slid up and down violently, forcing himself to look away, and stuffed him with the takeaway bag in his hand, "Here's it, take it!"

——Bu Chonghua has the ability to make Wu Yu eat good food no matter how urgent the case is, no matter how anxious everyone is, I can work around the clock without sleep and with high intensity.This is very similar to Cai Lin's parents, but Cai Lin's house made everything from Buddha Jumping Over the Wall lobster porridge to fried vegetables and lion heads. Although Bu Chonghua has a strong learning ability, he has not yet mastered this skill. , I can only order it from a five-star hotel, and the box full of prawn dumplings and fresh fish balls is still very hot.

Wu Yu held the cigarette in one hand, and opened the compressed email package that the technical team had just sent with the other. Before the other policemen rushed over to help him lift the warning belt, he bent down and got out, and handed the phone to Bu Chonghua: "That's right. this."

Bu Chonghua took it over and looked Wu Yu up and down.

"what happened?"

"Yang Chengdong's subordinates wanted to run over to carry the security belt for you just now, did you see that?"

When Wu Yu was with Bu Chonghua, most of his attention was on Bu Chonghua. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "For me?"

"Not for you or for me?"

——Of course that's impossible. The Wuqiao detachment and the Nancheng detachment are old enemies. His subordinates can't do this in front of Yang Chengdong.

"I'll get used to it in the future." Bu Chonghua looked at the communication records on the phone without raising his head: "I said that one day you will hold that knife and be looked up to by everyone."

The tone of his words was flat, but meaningful, and seemed to have some very strong and hidden emotions.

For some reason, Wu Yu felt a little weird, but he couldn't describe it. After a long while, he flicked the cigarette ash, shook his head and smiled, "Hey, what are you talking about?"

Bu Chonghua asked Liao Gang to check Peng Wan's social relationship, in fact, to check whether Wan Changwen's people came to her, otherwise a big living person with his son was kidnapped inexplicably, who knows if it has something to do with her father.

Although according to the development of the case, this possibility has become very small, but the size of the compressed package is still quite considerable. In the past six months, all Peng Wan's communications, chats, downloads, and browsing records have been stuffed into it— — This must be the fault of the little technicians. If the team leader receives this unimportant thing in the bureau, a row of people in the technical team will definitely lose their heads.

The two of them stood in the ventilation area of ​​the corridor, browsing the compressed package head to head.Wu Yu reads things very carefully and quickly. It is a special skill trained in his undercover career. He can watch it twice as much as Bu Chonghua read it once, and finally came to a conclusion: Peng Wan has no personal hobbies.

She is on mother and baby forums the most, with a lot of browsing records and few posting records. The only main post is to show her son: "Healthy baby boy is born with six catties and nine taels of happiness." In the womb" and "Looking for a girl to turn a boy".Her biggest worry recently is the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. She likes and collects a lot of posts about how to deal with mother-in-law who snatches children and how to face tricky mother-in-law bravely. For a Chanel wallet worth 500 yuan, I am afraid that I will buy a fake product if I look for a purchasing agent.

Wu Yu touched the 20 yuan street stall in his trouser pocket with his cigarette butt in his hand, and said to himself that it was really not worth it, what would you do with 500 yuan...

However, although she hated her mother-in-law very much, her husband and wife relationship with Tao Zhengqing was fairly stable.The two have brief phone calls and WeChat chat records during working hours every day, and the content is mostly ordinary household chores. Wu Yu started to look at it half a year ago, and it was almost always: "Wife, when will you come back to send your baby to get vaccinated?"" 04:30" "Okay" "Wife, why don't you burn this to eat at night?" "Bean sprouts are not easy to buy ==" "Will my cousin give me a red envelope for my second marriage?" "? We will give you whatever Hanhan gave you last time How much?" "Okay, I've died of poverty recently" "Oh, what can I do"...

"There's nothing wrong with talking between husband and wife," Bu Chonghua said in a low voice.

Wu Yu nodded and said nothing.

This is indeed the case—half a year ago, four months ago, two months ago, half a month ago, the day before the kidnapping... There were occasional arguments between husband and wife about the attitude of the mother-in-law, Tao Zhengqing, like most men in the world, chose Other than that, the conversation is as usual: "My wife, our company leaves work early today" "That's great, can you pick up the baby on the way?" "Okay" "Old Tao, don't forget to bring milk powder for the baby when you come back at night Already~" "ok.jpg" "Pick the date to be fresh"...

I can't say how sweet it is, but at least it's very close. Compared with many young couples who get married and divorced now, it's pretty good.

Wu Yu casually extinguished the cigarette butt on the stair railing where dust had accumulated for an unknown number of years, and exhaled wearily: "Let's go, nothing can be seen."

Bu Chonghua didn't see anything unusual either, just as he returned the phone to Wu Yu, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"how?"

"..."

Wu Yu stood there in a daze, the weirdness just now rushed straight to his heart, hitting his throat with his heartbeat.

He has seen a lot of information in the process of being undercover for so many years, some are true, some are false, some are true, and some are half true; Eighteen different joint schemes can be produced in one shipment, and the truth is only hidden in the most subtle lines.

Still not right, he thought.

There seems to be something wrong between the couple.

Wu Yu signaled Bu Chonghua to wait, then opened the chat history again, and carefully read the last one two days ago from the first one half a year ago—"The eggs downstairs are not very fresh, tell mom not to steam them for the baby"— —Four hours after sending this message, Peng Wan and her three-year-old son were both kidnapped, and their lives are unknown until now.

"..." Wu Yu turned off the phone, "I see."

"Know what?" Even Bu Chonghua was very surprised.

"I know something is wrong with this couple."

"My wife and I met on a blind date six years ago. We have been married for four years. Not to mention that we love you to death, at least we are kind and never blushed." Tao Zhengqing stood in the couple's bedroom with red eyes, pointing to the surroundings. The furnishings and the photo frame introduced to the police, "My wife is a very virtuous woman who takes care of her husband and children, takes care of the family, and has a nice and gentle personality. I really can't think of any enemies we could have..."

Yang Chengdong suppressed his temper and comforted him: "Don't worry too much, our police will try our best to find a solution."

"It doesn't matter how much it costs, even if it's a waste of money." Tao Zhengqing lowered his head and wiped his eyes vigorously with the palm of his hand, and said hoarsely: "As long as my wife and children can come back, as long as this turmoil can pass, our family can still be intact, really. You can sell everything you want..."

knock knock.

Everyone looked around, and saw Wu Yu standing at the door of the bedroom, with a polite attitude: "Excuse me, Mr. Tao, can you show me your mobile phone?"

"...Mobile phone?" Tao Zhengqing was taken aback for a moment, then hesitated, "Will my mobile phone be helpful in saving my wife and children?"

Wu Yu said: "Not necessarily, but maybe you can try."

Tao Zhengqing wiped away his tears, unlocked the phone and handed it to him without hesitation: "Then you see, I am a small employee, and there is nothing invisible."

Yang Chengdong frowned and stretched his neck, wanting to see what Wu Yu was planning, but he saw that Wu Yu opened Tao Zhengqing's Moments homepage, and in the blink of an eye—it really seemed like a blink of an eye, he found what he was looking for , throwing the phone back to Tao Zhengqing, calmly looking directly at the man with red eyes:

"Does your wife know about your cheating?"

In an instant, Tao Zhengqing was struck by thunder, and Yang Chengdong was also stunned.

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?!" Tao Zhengqing came to his senses. He was so angry that he was shaking all over but couldn't speak. He stretched out his hand and put the phone straight in front of Wu Yu, wishing he could turn it upside down and show him: "God damn it!" Cheating?! I cheated in my dream?!"