Netherworld Investigator

"Actually," Wen Baifan deliberately faltered, "I have something to tell you."

Tang Xiaofeng sat on the office chair with his legs crossed, casually playing with a lighter. "Speak up if you have something to say, what are you doing hiding, you are like a little transparent in front of your Brother Feng."

Wen Baifan snorted softly: "The tone is quite loud, let's eat garlic for breakfast, and the laughter is loud."

"I haven't had breakfast yet." Tang Xiaofeng curled his lips, the canteen on the second floor was really terrible, even worse than the school canteen.On weekdays, Fu Ruyun would help him buy breakfast downstairs from his house every day, pack it in an insulated box and bring it to the office.He looked around and asked, "Brother Yun hasn't come back today?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Fu Ruyun's anxious voice coming from the door: "There's a traffic jam today, you haven't had breakfast yet."

"No—" Tang Xiaofeng watched in surprise as Fu Ruyun walked past him without looking sideways, and put a double-layer insulated box on Wen Baifan's desk.

She smiled sweetly at Wen Baifan: "The dumplings you want are sold out, I bought lean meat porridge and fresh shrimp rice rolls."

Wen Baifan lifted the lid, and the warm fragrance came out, "It's awesome, having a girlfriend is happiness, Xiaofeng, you should hurry up and find someone."

Tang Xiaofeng was startled, and it took him a long time to react, "You..."

"I just wanted to tell you about this." Wen Baifan looked back and forth between the two of them.

Tang Xiaofeng stared at Fu Ruyun's profile with complicated eyes.

Although he talked about Brother Yun, in Tang Xiaofeng's heart, he didn't really regard her as a buddy.

Fu Ruyun is quite good-looking, with a bright and cheerful personality, and can take care of others. It is always very comfortable to get along with her.

And most importantly, he could clearly feel that Fu Ruyun liked him. In many inadvertent moments, he could find her eyes mixed with admiration and affection staying on him.

There has never been a shortage of admirers by his side. Tang Xiaofeng, who has rich experience, knows the persistence and seriousness of this kind of good girl who is in love. Considering that we are colleagues and work on the same floor, if there is a blow one day, we will be very close to each other in the future. Embarrassed, so I didn't go any further.

Unexpectedly, my good partner actually made a move.

"It's so sudden, it's too unexpected." Tang Xiaofeng smiled pretending to be calm, but his tone was very blunt, "When did you see each other, why don't I know."

"Secret." Fu Ruyun twitched the corner of her mouth.

That somewhat forced smile was extremely dazzling in Tang Xiaofeng's eyes.

He took a deep breath and walked out of the office without looking back.

When closing the door, I didn't control the strength well, and there was a "bang" sound.

Wen Baifan leisurely used his chopsticks to cut off a piece of rice noodle roll, thinking to himself, you two should toss hard, how childish.

The case once again reached an impasse.

Tang Xiaofeng put the cup down heavily, splashed a little tea, and fainted the copy of the drug leader's information printed on the table.

"I must personally arrest that scumbag and avenge Dongsheng." He gritted his teeth and whispered.

When they were in the training camp, He Dongsheng and Tang Xiaofeng had a good friendship. Later, one of them went to the Drug Enforcement Division and the other to the Serious Criminal Investigation Division.After that, the two ushered in a completely different fate.

In a year and a half, Tang Xiaofeng and Wen Baifan worked together to solve several suspicious cases and received repeated awards from their superiors. He Dongsheng endured the humiliation and broke into the drug dealer organization, obtaining a lot of useful information for the police.

At this time, He Dongsheng unfortunately exposed his identity.

After losing contact for half a month, the police finally found his body tied to a pillar and burned alive in an abandoned factory on fire in the suburbs.

The results of the forensic examination made those tough men in the anti-narcotics department couldn't help crying.

The cause of He Dongsheng's death was suffocation caused by thick smoke, but before he died, he had been brutally beaten. There was no intact skin on his whole body, his ten fingers were shattered, and his tongue was even cut off.

The method is extremely cruel.

The person most suspected of committing the crime is the drug trafficker who discovered He Dongsheng's undercover identity.

However, no physical evidence left by the murderer could be found at the scene of the crime, and there is no direct evidence that can bring the drug leader to justice.

What's more, the drug dealer's mistress claimed convincingly that the drug dealer was staying with her when the crime happened, and the two were in the private room of the nightclub on Xiaochun Road, which can be proved by surveillance.

"Xiaofeng, take a break. How can your body survive this situation?" Fu Ruyun put down a few takeaway bags. "I bought you dinner."

Tang Xiaofeng blinked and avoided Fu Ruyun's sight.

He wiped his face, his eyes were red with exhaustion from the night.During this period of time, he devoted all his energy to this case and did not go home for two full days.

Under Fu Ruyun's worried gaze, Tang Xiaofeng picked up his coat and put it on his arm, strode over Wen Baifan who was lying on the table and fell asleep, and waved his back to her: "I'll go out for a while."

It is very difficult to completely isolate personal feelings from work, at least Tang Xiaofeng could not do this at that time.With a secret resistance, he did not fight side by side with Wen Baifan as usual when investigating this case.

However, the facts have proved that Tang Xiaofeng's personal ability is still very good.

With great effort, he finally opened the mouth of the drug dealer's mistress, and learned that the private room of the nightclub they were in had a secret passage that was not monitored, which was provided by the store owner to regular customers with complicated backgrounds.On the day He Dongsheng was killed, the drug dealer used to go out through the secret passage, and did not return to the room until three hours later.Under Tang Xiaofeng's repeated persuasion, the mistress was finally willing to act as a tainted witness.

But she said that the passbook and jewelry she had hidden at home had to be taken out first, and then moved into the safe house arranged by the police.

It's just that she didn't expect that after leaving, she would completely lose contact with Tang Xiaofeng.

The informant who followed Tang Xiaofeng told him that that night, the drug dealer stayed at his mistress's house for half an hour, then took her out of his arms, threw her into a car, and drove away.

Tang Xiaofeng is indeed outstanding, but the enemy's cunning and ruthlessness are beyond his imagination.

Throwing grass startled the snake, and it was even more difficult to catch it again.

Just when he was extremely distressed, his informant made a surprising move.

She waited at the door of the nightclub where Zheng Youqiang often haunted, took the opportunity to get close to him, and then yelled indecently, so that Tang Xiaofeng, who was lurking beside him, escorted him back to the police station for the crime of compulsively indecent and insulting women.It's a pity that Zheng Youqiang's lawyer also arrived very quickly, but no useful information was obtained during the interrogation. The other party also claimed to reserve the right to sue the informant for defamation.

Coming out of the interrogation room, Tang Xiaofeng shuffled forward, and a pair of familiar brown-faced work boots suddenly appeared in front of him.He raised his head slowly, and saw Wen Baifan standing at the corner of the corridor, apparently waiting for him.

"You're too impatient." Wen Baifan sighed in his tone.

Tang Xiaofeng's face was a little blue, and he strode past him with big strides, and said in a deep voice when his figures intersected: "It's better than you doing nothing."

The twists and turns of the case were far beyond Tang Xiaofeng's expectation.

On the way back from the police station, Zheng Youqiang disappeared from the car!

Forensics found no signs of struggle at the scene, except for a non-fingerprint playing card with a black JOKER on it.

In the bar, Tang Xiaofeng drank the wine with a livid face, and Fu Ruyun sat beside Wen Baifan, and said happily: "This matter must have been written by that poker ghost again, it's really great that he took part in this case. "She works in the publicity department, and she knows many things that have never been announced to the public.

Tang Xiaofeng's face suddenly became even more ugly. He didn't have any affection for this so-called poker ghost who pretended to be a ghost but was extremely popular.Originally, he was in high spirits when he cracked major cases again and again after he joined the job, but unexpectedly he stumbled repeatedly in the ghost poker case.

For a period of time, he stared at the few playing cards collected from the scene of the crime like a demon every day, thinking about defeating the invisible opponent.At that time, Fu Ruyun once teased him: "Everyone has nothing to do on duty, just fighting a few landlords, the four 2s and the two kings haven't exploded yet, but you suddenly exploded."

But this time, when he was most helpless, that sneaky guy actually made the suspect disappear directly.

This made him neither resentful nor reconciled.

Fu Ruyun was very dissatisfied with Tang Xiaofeng's attitude, and over the silent Wen Baifan, she said to Tang Xiaofeng: "The poker ghost deals with criminals whose crimes are so bad that they have caused public outrage. Why do you always have to make trouble with him? .”

Tang Xiaofeng sneered, and retorted: "These practices of his are lynching. The prisoner deserves to be punished. Is it because he is guilty or because he has aroused public anger? The standard of crime and punishment is naturally judged by procedures. When it comes to public anger, anger It's just an emotion, wouldn't it be too dangerous to use emotions as a criterion for judging things?"

Fu Ruyun was irritated by his attitude. In fact, she was happy to see what Poker Ghost did. In the end, she just couldn't bear Tang Xiaofeng's death because of the case. She didn't expect to be dealt with like this dress down.

"If you think that as long as there are police and the law, justice can be upheld, it would be too arrogant." When she opened her mouth again, she couldn't help saying, "You have worked hard for so long, but there is no way to bring Zheng Youqiang to justice. , he just accomplished something you couldn't do."

Tang Xiaofeng fell silent all of a sudden.

At this time, Zhao Ming, who was wiping his glass on the bar counter, also slowly said: "There are many places in this world where the sun cannot shine, and people in the dark need lights, but you said that the chaotic shadows on the wall will To make people in the cave mistakenly think that this is a real image, lose their judgment, and forcefully extinguish the only burning torch, isn't this also a kind of ignorant cruelty?"

After a pause, he continued: "This world is maintained by people's hearts. If crimes cannot be stopped in time, more crimes will only spread and corrupt people's hearts. Don't you think so?"

"Yes, but..." Tang Xiaofeng was at a loss for words for a while, he raised his head and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, "But I always feel that the savior or something is just a disguised win over by the gangsters. It's not going to make the world a better place."

"This is because the world might not get better." Zhao Ming glanced at him, poured another glass of wine and put it in front of him, "but without justice, it will only get worse."

"Justice that is out of control will make society worse." Tang Xiaofeng took a sip sullenly.

"How did it get out of control?" Zhao Ming smiled slightly, "We always say that we hope that bad people will be punished. What is retribution is that people hope that besides the law, there is morality, human hearts, and the power of public order and good customs. The person you want to bring to justice is just the executor of such a spirit."

Later, Zhao Ming asked Wen Baifan what method he used to get Zheng Youqiang out of the private car.

Wen Baifan sighed lightly.

Tang Xiaofeng said that he did nothing, but this is not the case.

He has been secretly investigating Zheng Youqiang's social relations, and he has much more evidence than Tang Xiaofeng.

The simpler the strategy, the less likely it will reveal its flaws, but again, the simpler the strategy, the more accurate information support it needs.

The reason why Zheng Youqiang dared to be so arrogant in front of the police was that someone at the top had been providing him with sex.The leak of He Dongsheng's identity is also inseparable from this high-level executive.

So, he pretended to be the official and deceived Zheng Youqiang away, that's all.

Zhao Ming glanced at the wall with the black Joker pattern not far away.

Tang Xiaofeng must have never imagined that Zheng Youqiang, whom he wanted to find with all his heart, was locked up just across the wall from him.

Zhao Ming smiled with satisfaction, and said to Wen Baifan: "In three days' time, you can bring the prey to the old place."

Memories come to an abrupt end.

Holding the old mobile phone, Wen Baifan silently read the last text message Tang Xiaofeng sent him in the inbox.

"Come quickly, Yidian Biotechnology Park, No. 68 Kechuang Avenue."

It was sent seven years ago on January 1, the day they had an accident.

Kechuang Avenue is located in the Science City on the southern outskirts of Chaocheng. It used to be a barren suburb, but it was planned as a modern science park ten years ago, and many industries such as biotechnology, electronic technology, cultural media and art design have successively settled there.However, compared with the prosperous city center, it is still inaccessible.

The Yidian Biotechnology Park was the place where the two had an accident, and it was also the entrance used by the organization to receive criminals who would not be tried. It was the "old place" that he and Zhao Ming called.

A huge cloud of suspicion hangs over Wen Baifan's already dim memory.

On that day, why did Tang Xiaofeng let himself go to this place...