Chasing the Mist

"Liu Yifeng's finger was chopped off again?"

Lin Yiran said "hmm." Looking at the passing street scene outside the car window, he thought about the relationship between Liu Yifeng and this case.

Gu Xun focused on driving with his eyes straight ahead, but he and Lin Yiran wanted to go together, "There are two situations. The first murderer knows Liu Yifeng and hates him or hates drinking. The same—provoke the police, and pick Liu Yifeng because alcoholics are easy to catch."

No matter what the situation is, it shows that the murderer knew Liu Yifeng well and lived by his side. Lin Yiran had a bold guess that that child Liu Yifeng might still be alive.

Is the person who chopped off his hand and the murderer in the disembowelment the same person?

Lin Yiran thought for a while, even if it wasn't done by one person, they were all accomplices. If you find one of them, it's not hard to find the other by following the clues.

Gu Xun murmured to himself, "I have already sent someone to watch Liu Yifeng, why is my hand chopped off?"

"Liu Yifeng often goes to Fumin Village to drink. The houses in the urban village are densely packed and the village roads are complicated. It's not difficult to get rid of our people. If it's not life-threatening, who wants to be monitored? Brother, take me to Liu Yifeng's house first."

The long-lost address warmed Gu Xun's heart, and his exhaustion dissipated. He was willing to be the driver, and the car stopped at Xinran Community. Gu Xun called Meng Jia to accompany Lin Yiran, and went back to the city bureau to do the most important thing at the moment—— Find Meng Fan.

The last time he was hospitalized, Liu Yifeng spent all his savings. This time, he went home to recuperate after simple treatment in the hospital.

Lin Yiran heard the sound of the TV when he was standing outside the door. People who entered the room with loud TV commercials had ear pains. Mother Liu was watching it with great enthusiasm, but she didn't know about the guests who came in.

Liu Yifeng put away the remote control, bowed his head and shouted next to his mother: "Go back to the room and sleep for a while."

Mother Liu: "Huh?"

"..."

Liu Yifeng simply gave up communicating, helped his mother into the room, closed the door, and said, "Comrade policeman, sit down."

There were several bottles of beer lying messily on the coffee table. Liu Yifeng picked up a bottle, opened the bottle with his teeth, spit the bottle cap into the trash can, and drank it with his head up, his movements flowing and smooth, and he did it in one go.

There was no alcoholic around Meng Jia, so she was taken aback when she saw this, and asked casually, "Can I drink without food?"

Liu Yifeng smiled, "Wine? Girl, beer is like water, I use it to quench my thirst."

Meng Jia:"......"

"What was that woman's name back then? How much information do you remember about her?" Time was running out, and Lin Yiran went straight to the topic.

Liu Yifeng leaned on the chair, crossed his legs, held the wine bottle with the remaining three fingers of his right hand, and mentioned that glorious time, with joy in his eyes, "My name is Miaomi, tsk! People are sweeter than honey, you know me Why don't you get married?"

Alcohol makes people relax. After drinking, people always talk a lot, and no one answers, and he can talk to himself very happily, "That face, that figure, no woman can compare to her, who wants to go back after eating delicacies Eat rough food, brother! It's not my brother bragging to you, the woman I slept with when I was young-"

Lin Yiran guessed that what he said later would become more and more limitless, so he coughed in time to stop his foul language, "Only know the name? Do you know the ID number?"

Liu Yifeng laughed, and patted Lin Yiran on the shoulder with his broken hand, "Brother, is dating you the same as checking your household registration? I don't have anything to do, why remember her ID number? Didn't I tell you that day, and then I went to her hometown to look for her , the neighbor said that their family moved out."

With such a high rate of duplicate names, finding someone by name is like finding a needle in a haystack. Lin Yiran asked again: "Which county is her hometown?"

"Qing County, Miao Family Village."

"Have you been in contact with young men recently?"

Liu Yifeng pointed, "You!" Then he sighed, "If the child Miao Mi and I lived, he should be about your age, and he might be a people's policeman like you." It is true.

"I am 23 years old." Lin Yiran said.

Liu Yifeng thought for a moment, "If that baby is still here, she will be 22 this year, one year younger than you."

"Have you contacted other young men besides me?"

Liu Yifeng shook his head, "Who among the young people would like to deal with a bad old man like me."

"Are there any boys my age among friends and neighbors?"

"Lao Zhang's son is 24 but he lives in Shanghai, and Lao Li's son is 21 and he is studying in university in Hainan...not anymore, the others are all girls." Liu Yifeng talked about all the junior boys in the social circle, rambling on After five or six minutes, there was no useful information.

Lin Yiran put his elbows on his knees and supported his forehead. "Okay, then you have a good rest and call me if you have a situation."

Getting up to leave, Liu Yifeng grabbed him, "Brother policeman, don't go!" Putting down the bottle, he stretched out his hand, "You have to give me an explanation for my hand?"

Meng Jia: "Uncle, we will notify you as soon as we find someone. There is no clue yet."

"Can't you police adjust the surveillance? Go to Zhang Ergou's house and transfer the surveillance in front of his house. He said that he saw the person who chopped off my hand in the surveillance. As long as I pay back the wine money owed to his family, he will tell I."

Lin Yiran hurriedly asked, "Where is his home?"

“Dongtou Ergou Barbecue in Fumin Village.”

Fumin Village and Xinran Community are only separated by a road. Xinran Community was originally called Fuqiang Village, but later it was valued by developers and turned into clean and tidy buildings, while Fumin Village across the road is still dirty and messy.

Lin Yiran and Meng Jia drove a few times back and forth along the road, but they couldn't find Ergou BBQ. They only found out the exact location after asking nearby villagers. The police car stopped by the side of the road and walked through the narrow alleys in the village.

The barbecue shop is at a three-way intersection, and there is a blackboard at the door, with chalk writing crooked: Ergou BBQ, and a surveillance camera hanging in the corner of the room.

It was earlier, the barbecue shop pulled the shutter door, Lin Yiran knocked vigorously, and after a while, a man with a big arm and a round waist and tattoos all over his body came out, with a tyrannical tone, "It's not open, come at night."

Meng Jia stopped him with her hand and showed her ID, "The police are here to check something, I hope you cooperate."

The barbecue restaurant was operated without a license. The boss immediately smiled when he heard the police, nodded and bowed respectfully to invite them in, and Zhang Luoge personally cooked a table for them.

Lin Yiran refused, saying bluntly: "We want to see the surveillance records outside your house."

Zhang Ergou invited them into the back room, and pointed to the computer screen, "All the monitoring is here, just look at it."

Lin Yiran and Meng Jia immediately went to work to find out the date when Liu Yifeng's hand was chopped off for the first time. At 12:25 in the evening, Liu Yifeng and another man came out of the barbecue shop. Walking alone staggering north, the small road in the village in the early morning, the lights were dim, and there were few pedestrians. After 5 minutes, there was a barbecue restaurant in the video, and the sound of the owner pulling the shutter door and talking to the boss. A man in a peaked cap, with his head bowed, walked northward at a very fast speed, and the surveillance video flashed by.

Lin Yiran pressed the pause button, "Height is 1 meters, thin, with vigorous steps, and the speed is in a hurry, as if chasing something."

Meng Jia: "In the middle of the night, I will definitely chase Liu Yifeng."

In the following surveillance video, no one walked by until dawn.

Last night was similar to the scene where Liu Yifeng had his fingers chopped off for the first time. In the early morning Liu Yifeng came out of the barbecue shop and walked northward. , I didn't find anyone in the corner at all, walked over for a while, raised my head with a baseball bat, raised my middle finger towards the monitor in front of me, and the black mask under the brim of the hat completely covered my facial features.

After turning off the video, Meng Jia said, "He knew we would investigate the surveillance and be nakedly provocative."

Lin Yiran took away the memory card of the barbecue restaurant's surveillance video, and it was almost evening when he and Meng Jia returned to the city bureau. The black clouds in the sky receded and when they came back, the darkness was overwhelming, indicating that a heavy rain was coming.

Zheng Tiancheng: "Boss, on the night of Li Meng's murder, I searched all the vehicles on the main road leading to Zijin Village, and found no sign of Meng Fan."

Gu Xun's complexion was uglier than the sky outside the window, and he flipped the lighter back and forth between his fingers.

Meng Jia entered the office, saw Gu Xun's back, and shouted: "Boss, we have discovered something." He poured out all the monitoring content in one breath, and after he finished speaking, he sneaked a glance at Gu Xun, still with a serious face, knowing that the most important task at present is to find Meng. It is complicated, and the discovery in the monitoring cannot solve the urgent need.

When everyone was at a loss, Gu Xun's cell phone rang, and there was a string of unfamiliar numbers. Before he could speak, Meng Fan's trembling voice came from over there: "Captain Gu...Zijinshan... ..Save me...in half an hour, if you don't...he will kill me alive, come by yourself, don't take anyone with you, please save me, please You...beep, beep." Before Gu Xun could speak, he hung up first.

Gu Xun felt Meng Fan's fear and strong desire to survive. He put the phone back in his pocket, took out a cigarette casually, lit it, and the smoke entered his lungs, and his brain gradually calmed down.

Meng Jia pulled the corner of his clothes, "We don't know anything about the murderer, it's too dangerous to be alone, Boss, I'll go with you."

Gu Xun's cell phone rang again, and it was the number just now. Gu Xun gave the cell phone to the technical detective first, and then he picked it up after he was done with the work there, with the same trembling voice of Meng Fan: "If that little policeman under your command wants to come... ....He is very welcome....Let the policeman come and experience his skills."

Gu Xun has encountered a lot of perverts in the past few years as a policeman. He has seen many tricks when dealing with these people. It was a hundred times more uncomfortable than humiliating himself. He threw away the half-smoked cigarette and crushed it hard under his feet. The hand holding the phone trembled slightly, "Meng Fan, don't be afraid, tell me who he is?"

"Beep!" The call was cut off again.

The technical investigation colleague came over, "We tracked it down, it is indeed in Zijin Mountain."

Gu Xun turned and walked out, Lin Yiran stepped forward and grabbed his arm, "I know you are eager to save people, but how many people are on the other side? Are there any weapons? I don't know. Go to die alone?"

"It takes four to 10 minutes from here to Zijin Mountain, and I only have half an hour. I don't have time to think about other things. I can't watch Meng Fan being autopsied." Gu Xun said firmly that he could not refuse.

Lin Yiran didn't speak. He glanced at the clock on the wall at 19:05. He moved his hand down Gu Xun's wrist and slid it to his fingertips. He squeezed it firmly, "Brother, be careful."

The fur-fried animal stabilized in an instant, Gu Xun's eyes returned to calm, he nodded, broke away from Lin Yiran's hand, and hurried downstairs.

The others also hurriedly got into the car, and secretly followed Gu Xun in the car. The car was silent, and the depressed people were almost suffocating. Lin Yiran stared at the mobile map software for a while, and asked, "Where is Meng Fan in Zijin Mountain?"

Technical investigation: "North mountainside."

"When we get to Zijin Village later, let's not take the main road, go through the neighboring village, go around to the south of Zijin Mountain, and then divide into three groups, walking from east, west, east, west to Meng Fan's position, scattered for a while It is not easy to be exposed, and second, if there is a change in the location of the scene, our people can be there in time."

Time was tight, and there were not many people involved in this operation, only five people in the car.

Zheng Tiancheng: "Okay, Jiajia and I take the northern route, can Xiaoran take the southern route by herself?"

Lin Yiran made an OK gesture, his heart fluttered and he couldn't be at peace. He leaned his head back on the seat back, closed his eyes, and forced himself to be at peace.

It was dark and the rain was pouring down. Big raindrops slammed on the windshield, and the wipers kept swinging, but it was still impossible to see the road ahead.

In order to arrive on time, Gu Xun drove like flying.

The driving detective stared at Gu Xun while looking at the road. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. He felt powerless, rubbed his eyes, and turned his head, "Brother Zheng, are you here for a while?"

"Okay!" Zheng Tiancheng just agreed, and changed his words again, "It's raining so hard, and the boss is driving so fast, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep up with him when we stop and change places. You just hold on for a while."

As soon as the words fell, a truck suddenly came out of the side road, and quickly slammed into the SUV of five people.

"Bang!" A loud noise exploded in the rainy night.