i must be in hell

After Ning Xiao returned to the apartment, he continued to open the front of the rented bookstore to dawdle.The weather was getting hotter day by day, and he somehow felt restless.

Xu Shangyu hasn't contacted him for the past few days, and he doesn't know how the case over there is going.Ning Xiao was sitting in the house, scanning the opposite street corner to pass the time boredly, but found something was wrong inadvertently.

At the corner over there, a child has been looking at this side for a long time.If it is a general child who wants to borrow a book, why not just come over?Ning Xiao squinted his eyes to look carefully, but who knew that the child suddenly got up and ran away.

What are you doing!

Ning Xiao subconsciously ran out of the shop and chased after him, but across the road, it was the noon rush hour, and amidst the crowds, he still couldn't find the child in the end.

When walking back to the store, Ning Xiao was still out of breath.

Why did the kid keep staring at the store just now?And why did he run away as soon as he was discovered?The outline of his face looks familiar?

"Could it be..."

Ning Xiao was concentrating on thinking, when the cell phone rang suddenly, and the caller ID showed that it was Xu Shangyu who hadn't heard from him for several days.

"Hey, Officer Xu, what's the matter?"

"..."

The other party did not speak.

Ning Xiao paused, and pressed the phone.

"Xu Shangyu?"

"..."

Still no one spoke, and the rustling of the wind came from the microphone.There was no human voice until the phone was hung up, except for the occasional siren and wind, only someone's exhausted panting.

Then, he was hung up by the other party.

The call time is one minute and eight seconds in total.

Ning Xiao held the hung up phone tightly, his eyes darkened.After standing there for 1 minute, he got up to close the shop, then turned around and got on the bus.

Fifteen minutes later, he appeared at the gate of the Chengnan Criminal Police Brigade.Just over a week ago, he had just been cleared of suspicion and left here. At that time, he only felt that he had shaken off a heavy burden, and wished that he would never come back again for the rest of his life.But now, he ran to the gate of the police force by himself.

Life is really unpredictable, Ning Xiao sighed, and stepped into the gate of the police force without hesitation.

As soon as he entered the door, the first living thing he saw was not a person, but a police dog lying in the hall.The vigilant German Shepherd spotted strangers from afar, and immediately sat up straight when he saw Ning Xiao coming in, staring at him motionlessly.Ning Xiao ignored the mighty big police dog, but went directly to the reporting office.

"Hello, what case do you need to deal with?"

The voice of the clerk at the reporting office was quite gentle, but it was obvious that she was tired and her eyes were bloodshot.

At this moment, Ning Xiao realized that something was wrong. When he came last time, there were obviously no police dogs on duty in the lobby, and the atmosphere of the police force was not as solemn as this.After thinking about it, he decided to explain the purpose directly.

"I'm looking for Xu Shangyu."

The clerk in charge of the reception was obviously taken aback, and quietly pressed his hand on the internal communicator beside him.

"What did you say? Can you say it again?"

Ning Xiao then repeated it.

"I'm looking for Xu Shangyu, is he not here?"

Soon, he paid the price for his words.When the clerk suddenly stood up and yelled and backed away, Ning Xiao still didn't react. It wasn't until he was arrested by a group of fully armed criminal police who rushed out and pressed him tightly against the wall that he felt bad.

What the hell, Ning Xiao couldn't help but swear in his mind, what's going on with all this!

"Caught!"

"who is it?"

In the chaos, Ning Xiao, who was pressed against the wall, only felt his brain congested and dizzy.

"I don't know, does it look familiar?"

"Hey... wait..." Ning Xiao didn't recover from his dizziness until a familiar voice came.He looked sideways and saw a similarly surprised face.

Lu Fei stared at him with wide eyes. "How could it be you?"

Ning Xiao's throat was stuck, and he could hardly breathe.I sneered in my heart, I still want to ask, why is it such a bad luck again!Whoever comes to the police force next time will be an idiot!

"I seem to have made a mistake, wait a minute, I know this person." Lu Fei waved his hand to make the surrounding policemen release Ning Xiao, "He should not be a kidnapper, misunderstood, misunderstood!"

The people around let go of Ning Xiao suspiciously, but still surrounded him to prevent him from escaping.

Lu Fei passed through the crowd and walked up to Ning Xiao who was still coughing.

"What's the matter with you? Why don't you stay at home after clearing your suspicions, why are you here to join in the fun?"

"I still want to ask, heh." Ning Xiao stood up and said angrily, "Is this how your police protect the citizens? I finally realized it."

"Don't, don't, it's all a misunderstanding. Who told you to come at this time, and you said you were looking for Captain Xu." Lu Fei quickly explained: "Everyone is in a hurry, aren't you hitting the guns?"

Ning Xiao heard some clues from his words.

"What happened to your team Xu?"

Lu Fei was taken aback for a moment, looked at him with those same bloodshot eyes, and then smiled wryly. "By the way, you don't know yet."

"What happened?" Ning Xiao keenly smelled an ominous breath.

Lu Fei looked at him for a while, before throwing out a big news.

"Team Xu has been kidnapped. We haven't heard from him for 48 hours, and the kidnapper just contacted him half an hour ago. He wants us to pay 80 ransom, otherwise we will wait to see the body."

"..."

It took Ning Xiao a full 30 seconds to receive the news.Xu Shangyu was kidnapped?The kidnapping of a captain of the criminal police is a big or small matter. It is very likely that it will be a terrorist attack against the police. It is no wonder that the police are so vigilant.

But subconsciously, Ning Xiao thought that this was by no means a terrorist attack.He turned to look at Lu Fei and asked, "Where's Zhang Weiwei?"

"What?" Lu Fei never thought that his mind would jump off like this, and he immediately switched to another matter.

"Zhang Weiwei, that is the child whose mother committed suicide by taking poison. Aren't you looking for him?" Ning Xiao asked, "Did you find it?"

"Who still has the time to find a child at this pass?" Lu Fei said anxiously: "Our captain's life and death are unknown! Of course, these trivial matters are left to the community police and family members to do it themselves."

"Small matter?" Ning Xiao said, "In my opinion, it has a lot to do with it." He asked again. "Where's Zhang Weiwei's mother's body?"

"She...has closed the case with suicide. Of course, the family members will take her back for cremation. Hey, what do you mean!"

Ning Xiao didn't pay any attention to Lu Fei's noise beside him, but sank into his own thoughts, and slowly straightened out his thoughts.

Zhang Weiwei disappeared; Xu Shangyu was kidnapped;

Zhang Weiwei's mother was cremated; the kidnappers demanded a ransom.

Disappearance, kidnapping, corpse, ransom, cremation.Is it just a coincidence that so many unreasonable things happened at almost the same time, or...

Ning Xiaowu opened his eyes, at this moment, the coincidence of these events was connected by a node: the suicide case of Zhang Weiwei's mother!

"Lu Fei." He lowered his voice and said slowly: "If I say, the disappearance of your captain is not simply a kidnapping case?"

Lu Fei's pupils constricted instantly, "You'd better finish this sentence."

"Just less than half an hour ago, I just received a call from your captain, but now you tell me that he has been kidnapped, and the kidnapper is ready to tear up his ticket at any time. To be honest, I don't think this is kidnapping at all, but—"

Ning Xiao looked up and looked around at the heavily armed criminal policemen in the hall, and he continued under the heavy siege:

"The aftermath of a murder."

Three days ago, Xu Shangyu had just obtained enough evidence to overturn the suicide.One day later, Xu Shangyu disappeared.

Zhang Weiwei's mother was about to be cremated, and at the same time, the kidnappers began to ask for ransom and threatened to tear up the ticket.

Ning Xiao is sure that the perpetrators behind all these incidents have only one purpose, and that is - to cover up the evidence of the murder!This is really a big game of chess.Ning Xiao had a feeling that he was being counted in, and this recognition made him extremely angry.

He looked at the detectives who were still in shock, and asked, "Is today the cremation time of Zhang Weiwei's mother?"

Lu Fei paused, "How do you know, what else do you know?" He grabbed Ning Xiao and shook him vigorously, "Say, where did you know? What did our captain call you for? What did he say? "

Sure enough.

Ning Xiao was determined in his heart, looked at Lu Fei who was pulling him to shake, and said: "Do you still want to save your captain, if you don't want to, just keep shaking."

Lu Fei immediately let go of him when he heard the words, and said pitifully, "It's about our captain's life, Comrade Ning Xiao, tell me what clues you have."

"I will, I just hope you have time." Ning Xiao asked, "What is the time limit given to you by the kidnappers?"

"Tomorrow morning."

In other words, there are less than twelve hours left.

Ning Xiao frowned: "My only suggestion now, Lu Fei, is to take your people to prevent the cremation of Zhang Weiwei's mother immediately!"

He looked at the slightly hesitant police officers and said, "This is the only chance, otherwise you will not only lose a squadron leader, but also indulge in a murder."

The voice fell, and there was a suffocating silence in the hall.

After nearly a minute, Lu Fei roared.

"Let's go! What are you still doing in a daze, a dead horse is a living horse doctor!"

The criminal police were shocked and ran out of the gate in a hurry.

Watching them leave, Ning Xiao secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, these detectives are not stubborn.In this way, the plan finally started the first step.

He held the phone tightly and looked at the dark lock screen, as if he was watching an invisible murderer hiding in the darkness.

Ning Xiao looked at the screen and clenched his fists tightly.

No matter who you are, I will not let your plot succeed.

"That's right." Ning Xiao, who was running outside, turned around, "Just now we said that our captain called you, what did he say?"

Hearing this, Ning Xiao looked up at Lu Fei, and he remembered the silent phone call from Xu Shangyu again.

In that conversation with only endless wind and noisy sirens, there was no language, but it surpassed all languages.

A few seconds later, Ning Xiao smiled and said:

"He said: Come here and save me, detective."