unscrupulous couple

It's summer now, and all the stalls in the night market come out before it gets dark.The Industrial and Commercial Bureau allows vendors to set up stalls with licenses within the business district, so every business district in Ping City becomes more and more bustling with each passing night.

Zhang Bo took Cao Rui to the largest business district in the Eastern District, where there were more than a dozen nightclubs, bars and KTVs, most of which were owned by Sheng Yan.

It was the first time for Cao Rui to visit the arena. The other members of the second group scattered to inspect various venues. Cao Rui followed Zhang Bo into a nightclub.

The entire nightclub is in an industrial metal style, and the exterior walls are composed of mottled dark red stone bricks and intermittently exposed steel skeletons and pipes.There are four floors in total, the middle of the first to third floors is opened up and down, the ceiling is more than ten meters above, the exposed ceiling is full of rusty pipes, wires and spotlights, simple and rude.

Dim background lighting and dazzling metal spotlights hit the uneven concrete wall, interlacing light and shadow, psychedelic and rough.There are waiters and bartenders in punk retro shirts busy at the bar booths.

This is the largest nightclub in the East District and even the entire Ping City——Monk (monk). The four-meter-high thick silver-black double-opening iron gate connects peace, tranquility and unruly indulgence under the night.

It's seven o'clock in the evening, it's just getting dark, before it's time for the master, there are only a few people sitting at the bar, and young people usually come here to play one after another after dinner.

Zhang Bo walked in with Cao Rui, a short, fat middle-aged man with a bald head and half his face covered in tattoos trotted over to greet him: "Brother Zhang! You came so early!"

Zhang Bo reached out and pointed at this person: "This is Monk's boss, Pan Ke."

Pan Ke lit a cigarette for Zhang Bo: "Brother Zhang, what you say is really embarrassing me. I'm not the boss, the boss is Mr. He, I'm just a part-time worker. This little brother looks unfamiliar, newcomer ?"

Cao Rui shook hands with him: "Brother Pan, my name is Cao Rui, and I just arrived in the second group."

Pan Ke invited the two of them inside, and said as he walked, "Don't dare, just call me Lao Pan. You can just come to me when you are on tour in the future. What's the matter, Brother Zhang, have a drink or two?"

Zhang Bo shook his head: "Mr. He gave an order just now, and he has to be more careful recently, not daring to drink! How are you doing here these days?"

Pan Ke said seriously: "Nothing happened recently, strictly follow Mr. He's requirements, don't worry, dirty things won't come in!"

Zhang Bo nodded: "Has Tiaozi been here?"

Pan Ke thought for a while and said, "It's been a while since I've been here. It's not the end of the season now, and they don't have any tasks to catch up with. Besides, they also know that the places below Sheng Yan are generally clean, and they won't come here if they want to find fault. You Say yes?"

Pan Ke is a very reliable person. He has been the manager of Monk for several years. Zhang Bo is very relieved. He patted Cao Rui and said, "You follow Lao Pan around, familiar with the familiar places, and let him tell you where to patrol."

Pan Ke greeted Cao Rui warmly: "Let's go, Brother Cao, I'll show you around. Brother Zhang, please sit down first, call someone if you want something to drink!"

Zhang Bo waved his hand and found a corner to sit and smoke.

Cao Rui followed Pan Ke to go around the whole Monk, not even missing the toilets on each floor.The first, second and third floors are the bar, stage, dance floor, booths and small boxes. The fourth floor is the office area. The front door is on the main street of the business district. There are several restaurants and shopping malls on the opposite side of the road. The location is excellent. The back door is a road Small streets and dead ends are usually used by nearby restaurants and bars for unloading, throwing garbage, staff resting, and smoking here, and few other people go here.

Cao Ruizai went around the whole venue carefully, and Pan Ke closed the back door and said, "There is also surveillance at the back door, and there are no dead spots, just in case someone is in the back street..." He put his hand on his nose and sucked, Cao Rui I understand that many people have figured out the nightclubs they often go to, and will take drugs in the corner of the surveillance.

Cao Rui said: "The bathroom is also a blind spot for monitoring..."

Pan Ke: "During the period when the old man ordered the drug ban, people would check outside the venue, and there were also brothers from Sheng Yan patrolling inside. They caught a few drug dealers and tried to make an example of them. They knew the old man's determination, and they didn't dare to come to Sheng Yan again. The place under his administration is in trouble." He patted Cao Rui on the shoulder, "So, we can say that we have eradicated it from the root, the bathroom is okay, they dare not come in, but outside the back door is out of Monk's territory, how many The first time I saw them trading in the backstreet, I drove them away."

Cao Rui nodded.

In fact, the team members came to patrol the arena is also a deterrent, a few big men in uniform black suits standing there is indeed a deterrent.

It was completely dark, and the master started at eight o'clock. Today, Friday, almost nine o'clock, the dance floor was almost full. Someone called Pan Ke, and Pan Ke said to Cao Rui: "Brother Cao, please go around first, I have something to do."

Cao Rui: "You do your work first, I'll take a look later."

Pan Ke left, he went back to the first floor, but did not see Zhang Bo.After searching around, there was no sign of him, so he took out his mobile phone and called Zhang Bo.

Tonight's DJ is a newly promoted electronic music master in Europe. Many people came for him. As soon as he came on stage, people on the dance floor started screaming.

Cao Rui put the mobile phone close to his ear and covered the other ear. There was a busy tone on the other side of the phone. He went out through the front door. The moment the big iron gate closed, the noisy music was immediately blocked. He slowed down and followed the rhythm. With a heartbeat, he picked up his phone and dialed Zhang Bo's number again.

Still busy.Maybe go somewhere else.He called other people in the second group. Some people answered and said they didn't see Zhang Bo, some didn't answer the phone, and some answered that the other side was too noisy to hear.

Several venues were not far away, so he simply went to find someone. The team members at the first bar did not see Zhang Bo. As soon as he came out of the bar, he saw three police cars parked in the commercial area without lights or sirens. Outside the pedestrian street in the district, six police officers came down, three trotted into Monk, and three ran in from the back street.

His intuition was wrong, so he ran over quickly. Several young people wanted to go in, but two policemen blocked the door: "No entry!"

Cao Rui took off his suit jacket and tie, and walked to the door. The policeman said, "No entry, it's closed today."

Cao Rui: "What's the situation, is this?"

Police: "What does it have to do with you! Go away! Don't interfere with official duties!"

Cao Rui: "You let me in, I'm an employee of Monk."

The policeman looked at his shirt. Monk employees were indeed wearing shirts and trousers. Besides, no one would come to the nightclub dressed so neatly, so he said, "Call your boss and ask him to pick up people."

Cao Rui didn't have Pan Ke's phone number. When he was in a hurry, Pan Ke poked his head out from the door: "Hey! Xiao Cao! Comrade policeman, this is our employee... let him come in?"

The police turned sideways to let Cao Rui in.

Walking in, the loud electronic sound has stopped, and soft background music is playing.The people on the dance floor dance soothingly.

"What happened?" Cao Rui asked Pan Ke.

"What are you talking about? I just told Brother Zhang that I haven't been here for a long time. No, I just came to the door..." Pan Ke was also quite speechless.

Cao Rui asked: "Did you see the team leader?"

Pan Ke: "No! I didn't see you when I went downstairs just now. I thought you went back. Isn't Brother Zhang with you?"

Cao Rui shook his head.

"Maybe I went to the bathroom, or I was in the office."

Cao Rui felt that something was wrong. He should be able to hear the phone in the toilet or in the office.

He ran up to the fourth floor, and the offices were empty.

There was an open window in the innermost office, and he heard loud noises outside the window. Looking down from the window, several police officers surrounded two people, one large and one small, in the back street. Cao Rui was surprised, it was the team leader!

He quickly ran downstairs, saw Pan Ke, and ordered without stopping: "The team leader is held down by the police, in the back street, call Mr. He!"

what's the situation?Why is the team leader in the back street?Still pinned to the ground by the police?His mind kept spinning.

As soon as he turned into the back street, he heard Zhang Bo shouting: "...she was like this when I got here!"

One policeman was checking the person lying on the ground, while the other two policemen, with their backs to the back street entrance, handcuffed Zhang Bo.Cao Rui was about to run over, Zhang Bo saw him winking, Cao Rui immediately sneaked into the back door of a restaurant, and opened the door to observe.The police did not find him.

Zhang Bo raised the volume a little so that Cao Rui could hear: "I just came out to take a breath and saw this child poking his head at the door of Monk, and no parents followed him. Two young people in their 20s came over and dragged her away. I saw something was wrong. I chased after her... and saw her lying on the ground..."

The two policemen grabbed one arm each, and escorted him back: "Don't tell us this, there will be plenty of time for you to talk about when you get back to the bureau."

"Cough!" Zhang Bo coughed, "Speaking of which, it's a coincidence that you guys came here..."

Cao Rui understood what Zhang Bo meant, and there was something strange about this matter.The child who suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Bo, and the police who came in a timely manner, no accident, the monitoring of Monk's back door should also be broken.

When Zhang Bo passed by the back door of the restaurant, he glanced at Cao Rui through the open door and shook his head slightly.

The other policeman picked up the child and walked out. It was a little girl who looked about ten years old. Her hair was not long and she was tied into a ponytail. A lot of hair was scattered outside. She looked messy and her face was a little pale. squinting.

After the police took Zhang Bo and the little girl away, Cao Rui went back to Monk, and the Monk police also withdrew. Pan Ke saw him and asked anxiously: "What's going on? I just saw Brother Zhang let the note be copied away." !"

"Did you call?"

"I've called. I don't have Mr. He's phone number. I called Team Leader Xue. He said he would bring someone over right away."

Cao Rui: "Go and check the monitoring at the back door."

Pan Ke responded, and came back a few minutes later: "It's strange, the surveillance camera at the back door is broken, but it was fine yesterday!"

Cao Rui asked him to fix the surveillance system, and then called other members of the patrol team. The other venues were fine, and the police did not come.

Cao Rui's heart sank, this incident was probably aimed at the team leader.

After Zhang Bo was taken to the police station, he was directly locked in the interrogation room and pressed on an iron interrogation chair.

He laughed: "Heh! I haven't sat in this seat for so many years! What's the matter? Now I'm too lazy to go through the process, so I'll just go to trial?"

A young policeman locked the table on his interrogation chair without saying a word.

Another policeman came in, older: "Long time no see! Team leader Zhang Er!"

Seeing him startled, Zhang Bo grinned loudly, "Hahaha! Zheng Hongsheng! It's you again!"

Zheng Hongsheng still put the pen and paper on the table, leaned on the edge of the table and said: "Lu Shan, born on November 11, xxxx, died at 11:08 this evening. The cause of death was a knife pierced through the heart. She was only 30 years old. Years old." He left a transparent evidence bag on the table, inside was a sharp single-edged knife over 11 centimeters long, covered with blood.

Zheng Hongsheng continued: "Here is the physical evidence, only your fingerprints on it."

Zhang Bo was so angry that he stood up. The metal interrogation chair was welded to the ground and remained motionless.

Zhang Bo roared angrily, "You can even kill a child!" He knew from the time the police showed up that he had been tricked, but what he didn't expect was that the other party would kill the child to frame him!

Zheng Hongsheng looked at him coldly: "You can even kill a child? That's right, Zhang Bo, are you still the Zhang Bo I know? Sheng Yan has changed his boss, has your conscience changed too? Can you kill even a child?" I have to go!"

If he hadn't seen the blood hole in the girl's chest with his own eyes, and if his colleague hadn't handcuffed him back, he would never have believed that Zhang Bo would do such a thing.He has known Zhang Bo since he was a small policeman. The Zhang Bo in his impression, although he is a frequent visitor to the bureau, has never done anything harmful to nature, and he can even be said to be very enthusiastic and chivalrous. A kind-hearted man, when he sees him on the street, he will take the initiative to say hello, put his arm around his shoulder and say that there is something wrong, brother is covering you!

He sometimes wonders why such a person is doing something wrong, why he is willing to work for others in the gang.He understands a little now, perhaps deep down in Zhang Bo's heart is the desire to be above the law and life, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Zhang Bo suddenly sat down very decadently, and sighed, a fresh life was lost so easily, although he didn't kill him, but he died because of him.

He lowered his head, clenched his handcuffed hands on the cold iron table and stopped talking.