sneak peek

Everyone followed Pan Weiren into his office in a dazed and nervous way.

With a solemn expression, Pan opened a locked cabinet, found a box inside, and handed it to Mo Wang, "This is... your father gave it to me before he died."

The others looked confused, "Huh? Mo Wang's father? What's going on? How did you know each other?"

Pan Weiren didn't bother to explain, so he glared at them, "I don't have time to explain now, let's talk about it later."

Mo Wang opened the box, and there was a dagger of the same model as Nian, and it was not a toy, but a real dagger that could stab people to death. He looked at it repeatedly, his eyes full of doubts, "This? This is my father's?"

Pan Weiren nodded, sat on the chair and drank the tea in the cup in one breath, and began to recall the past, "At that time, he said that it was given to him by a friend, and he was reluctant to throw it away, but he couldn't take it with him, so he entrusted me to keep it. Who knows, hey..."

Mo Wang: "What's going on, when did he give it to you? A friend's dagger? Which friend? Why can't you take it with you?"

Pan Weiren motioned them to sit down, "Don't worry, I'll tell you from the beginning. Back then, there was a big case in the anti-narcotics department, and your father was borrowed as an undercover agent. You should know about this, right?"

Mo Wang nodded.

"Well, I won't talk about the specific process. Anyway, in the end, the drug gang was successfully wiped out, but unfortunately your father died in the final operation. Three days before the campaign, he suddenly contacted me and asked to I met at a place. It was then that he gave me the dagger for safekeeping."

"What did he say?"

"At the time I thought it was weird because we were about to start an operation soon. We shouldn't meet. If we were found out, we would fall short. But his tone seemed disturbed, so I agreed to meet. He didn't specify Say what happened, but I can feel that he should have done something against his conscience in order to advance the operation, and that incident should be related to this dagger. He entrusted me to help keep it, and don't tell Others, come back to pick it up after the operation is over."

"Why can't you tell other people? What's against your conscience?"

Pan Weiren shook his head, "I don't know, he didn't say anything. He just said it was a private matter and had nothing to do with the action, so there was no need to tell others. At that time we couldn't meet for too long, and we were worried that our identities would be exposed. We met for about 5 minutes, and we each After leaving, I didn’t have time to ask about many things. After your father died, I wanted to return the dagger to your mother, but I didn’t know where it came from. I was afraid it would bring danger to you, so I chose to lock it in my office. Here, sometimes I think of your father, so I take it out and have a look."

After hearing this story, everyone was a little shocked. They never expected that a simple child kidnapping case would develop into a homicide case, and a mysterious criminal with black household registration was involved behind the scenes. Mo Wang's father before.

Mo Wang looked even worse than before, and after a long silence, he said, "So, Nian is after me."

Pan Weiren: "This has nothing to do with you."

"No, he came after me," Mo Wang raised his voice slightly. "He deliberately dressed up like me, and used a dagger as an attack tool. His father's name was Mo Nian, and the prisoner called himself Brother Nian. Also, I remembered Now, there is also a caterpillar scar on my father's right hand. Xiao Fang's death and Gu's arrest are all because of me."

Pan Weiren: "What's the use of thinking about it now? Are you blaming yourself that people will be resurrected? Will the brat come back? And this is a matter of the father's generation, and has nothing to do with you."

Mo Wang: "How did the dagger come from? Haven't you tracked it down for so many years? Don't you have any clues? The file of that case..."

Pan Weiren interrupted him, "I read the dossier, but it wasn't mentioned at all. Besides, your father said that this is a private matter. The deceased is gone, so it's not easy for me to spy on it."

Huang Jiade: "That man is not much different in age from Mo Wang, so he is the child of Mo Wang's father's enemy family? He came here for revenge?"

Pan waved his hand, "His father's identity was well concealed back then. No one knew that he was an undercover agent for the police. People on the side of the drug bandits thought that Mo Nian died to protect Zhang Dan, the leader of the drug bandits. A monument was erected."

Meng Ning: "But apart from seeking revenge, it seems that there is no other motive? Maybe it wasn't the enemies he met during the anti-drug operation, but before that, but something happened just at that time, which caused him to want to Give the dagger to Ju Pan for safekeeping."

Ju Pan frowned and sighed, "Maybe. Hey, I should have tracked down the dagger back then, but now that it's been so long, it's very difficult to track down."

"The focus now is still on the story behind this dagger. Pan Ju's should be the original version, which may lead us to new clues. Let's start from here, what do you think?" Jia De seemed to be asking for everyone's opinions, but In fact, I have been observing Mo Wang's reaction.

Mo Wang didn't say anything, just nodded his head in agreement.

The others left Ju Pan's office first, and Mo Wang was left behind.

"Don't worry too much," Pan comforted, "That kid is very clever, he's fine."

Mo Wang said nothing, just stood.

"This has nothing to do with you, don't blame yourself too much."

"It's related," Mo Wang said in a low voice, "how could it not be related?! The prisoner kept reminding me, but I didn't feel it. Even if I hadn't seen the dagger, but the name, the scar on the tiger's mouth, and the imitation of me Look, I should have figured it out a long time ago that it was aimed at me."

"even if......"

Mo Wang interrupted Pan Weiren, "When Gu disappeared, he was behind me, and I didn't respond. If I could figure it out sooner, how could I be so careless. If I figured it out earlier and told Gu, he is so smart, They will never be captured."

Pan Weiren sighed, "What will happen will happen. It's useless for you to blame yourself now. Go back and check the source of the dagger carefully. Don't think about messy things."

late at night.

"Little Momo, let's rest for a while." Meng Ning handed Mo Wang a takeaway, "I've been checking for a long time, and I'm sure I need to rest."

Mo Wang took the food and put it beside him without any intention of eating.During the past half a day, they searched through all the cases that Mo Nian had handled, searched countless documents, and asked many old police officers, but they couldn't find any information about the dagger.Seeing that Gu Yexi had been missing for more than ten hours, Mo Wang felt more anxious every minute.The more clues he couldn't find, the more useless he felt. He thought he had improved a lot compared to before, but in fact without Gu by his side, it seemed that he didn't understand anything and there was nothing he could do.

He felt that if the two of them switched positions, Gu would probably have rescued himself a long time ago.

"What's wrong?" Meng Ning looked at Mo Wang, whose expression was getting worse and worse, and was a little worried.

"It's okay." Mo Wang shook his head, pulled himself together, and opened another file.

Meng Ning snatched the file away, forced the steamed stuffed bun into his hand, and gave him another cup of coffee, "If you go on like this, you'll hang up before you find the boss. Hurry up and give your sister something to eat!"

Mo Wang bit the bun somewhat mechanically, staring at the file that Meng Ning took away.

"Little Momo," Meng Ning said in the tone of a confidant big sister, "I remembered what the boss said to me before, and it's probably appropriate to repeat it for you at this time."

"Ok?"

"Do you remember the corpse gift box case? At that time, I felt that those people died were my responsibility. The boss said that I was just an excuse for the murderer. He wanted to do it so he did it. He would have found it without me." Other excuses. This is the same as the current case. I know you think that Xiao Fang's death and the boss's arrest are all related to you, but in fact, even if it is not because of you, Nian will have other reasons for the crime , someone else will be victimized, it’s useless to dwell on this, the most important thing now is to get the boss back. If the boss is here, I think he will tell you the same.”

This is indeed what Gu would say. Mo Wang imagined Gu's voice saying this to himself, and he seemed to calm down a little. He nodded, "You are right, the most important thing now is to find Gu."

"I think the dagger must be a breakthrough, but we are looking at it now, like a headless chicken, it seems useless."

"Then what new ideas do you have?"

"Hmm..." Meng Ning held his chin and flipped through the files, "I don't know, what would the boss do if he was here?"

Yes, if Gu Zai, what would he think?Mo Wang tried to turn on his Gu Yexi mode, "There were three days before the action, and my father and Uncle Pan should not meet, but he wanted to take the risk of sending the dagger away, explaining two points, the first is that this dagger is very It may cause his undercover status to be questioned and cause the operation to fail, so he cannot take it with him. The second is that this dagger is very important to him, and he is reluctant to throw it away, so it must be kept by someone he trusts."

Meng Ning picked up the dagger and pondered, "How can a dagger reveal your identity?"

"This dagger is not sold on the market, and there is no information about it anywhere. It is probably custom-made. There is an English abbreviation of MN on the bottom of the handle, which should represent Mo Nian. It is probably a gift."

"That is to say, the drug bandits will know who the person who sent the dagger is when they see this dagger, and if your father is found out to have a relationship with this person, it will expose his identity as an undercover agent. Then who will this person be?" What? The police? Other undercover agents?"

Mo Wang shook his head, but he didn't figure it out either.

Meng Ning pointed to the portrait on the whiteboard, "Also, since your father's identity as an undercover agent was well concealed and the dagger was given away by him at that time, it means that the drug gangsters didn't find out about their relationship. How did Nian know? How did he get involved in the whole thing?"

Mo Wang picked up the dagger, "The dagger my father gave to Uncle Pan and the two daggers that the prisoner forged, except for the English lettering on the latter without the bottom of the handle, they both look exactly the same, and even the small details have been restored. Could it be... ...Did he get the blueprints for the dagger?"

"It still doesn't make sense, he got the design drawings, and then?"

Mo Wang subconsciously touched his right hand, feeling as if he had suddenly figured out something very important, "If the prisoner regards his father as an enemy, why should he use his father's name as his own name? Why should he imitate him in his own name?" An identical scar? Also, why is he imitating my hairstyle and clothing, just for fun? Or is he trying to tell me something?"

Meng Ning's eyes widened, "Do you mean that you two have a special relationship????"