Fire to the Abyss

The New Year's Eve that year was not very cold, and the nursing home was also decorated with lights. Every dilapidated corner was hung with fiery red lanterns. A group of community volunteers cooked dumplings and brought various small gifts to visit the New Year and stayed behind. Elderly people in nursing homes.

After the volunteers ate dumplings with the elderly, they accompanied them to watch the Spring Festival Gala in the lobby on the first floor.After nine o'clock in the evening, the lengthy song and dance performance made people a little sleepy, and an old woman asked to go back to her room to rest.

A little volunteer girl helped the old lady up the stairs slowly. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the corner of the stairs, the old man felt something sticky on his feet. When he looked down, it turned out to be a puddle of blood.

The old man looked up the stairs, and found that the narrow stairs were covered with blood, which was particularly strange against the backdrop of the red lanterns on both sides.The old man yelled: "This, this is King Yan Luo's death!" Then he pointed to the red lantern and said, "This is the flower of the other shore!" He pointed to the blood-stained stairs and said, "This is the road to hell!"

After finishing speaking, the old man fainted before he could catch his breath. The little volunteer girl was so frightened that her legs went limp on the spot, and she sat down on the ground. The hands trembled so badly that the phone fell into a pool of blood.The little girl didn't dare to pick it up, so she just sat on the stairs until someone went up the stairs half an hour later, only to find the trembling little girl and the old man lying on the side, and successfully called the police.But none of the elderly, weak, women and children at the scene dared to go to the second floor to see what happened.

When the police rushed to the scene, the old man who fainted had really rushed to Huangquan, and the little girl was still trembling and speechless.The forensic doctor glanced at the blood-stained stairs and shook his head: "With such a large amount of bleeding, there must be no way to save the person."

The policemen went upstairs from the stairs next door and entered the room next to the stairs, and it turned out that a shriveled corpse was waiting for them.Next to the corpse, there was the puppet doll with "Eleven" engraved on it, and the deceased was the No.11 person killed by the murderer.

The name of the deceased was Li Jianguo, and he was one of the two old detectives suffering from dementia. His wife, daughter, son who was just in college, and his nearly ninety-year-old mother were all killed before him, and it was his turn again. He and his family of five were murdered so far.

It can be seen that the murderer had the deepest obsession with Li Jianguo. The technicians carefully searched Li Jianguo's palm-sized hut, and finally found a handwritten confession letter between his bed boards.

The letter explained how when he was young, he and the other four people fabricated perjury evidence to frame a gangster in order to solve a murder case and get a chance of promotion.In the first half of the letter, the notes were neat and clear, and the paper was neat and slightly old. It was obviously written a long time ago.The second half of the letter was the opposite. The handwriting was scrawled and the paper was relatively new. It was written after the murderer started committing the crime. The messy words were full of fear, obviously greatly stimulated.Presumably the demons already knew his dementia was fake and would come after him in no time.

So far, among the five people, except for the one who was completely paralyzed or almost cold, there was only one really stupid old man left.The old man didn't feel anything about the death of his family or colleagues. Anyone who went to see him would just laugh foolishly, like a kind of unintentional mockery.

According to the case mentioned in the letter, the task force finally identified the suspect. He Chengwu, nicknamed He Laosan, who was imprisoned for intentional homicide more than 20 years ago, was originally sentenced to life imprisonment. After 15 years, he was released from prison.

He was only 20 years old when he was imprisoned, had just married, and his wife was pregnant.Although he is a well-known gangster in the area, he also started to do some simple manual work in a packaging factory for the sake of the child in his wife's womb. Unexpectedly, he was arrested by the police not long after, saying that he was suspected of intentional homicide. , He Laosan had no way to explain. Later, the police found the victim's belongings in the small room he rented.

Although He Laosan claimed that he had never seen the victim or killed anyone, the evidence was conclusive. In addition, He Laosan was a frequent visitor to the police station because of fighting, and no one believed him except his wife and parents. Sentenced to life imprisonment.The wife fainted on the spot in court and suffered a miscarriage not long after.

He Chengwu fully fits the profile of the crime, and the special case team quickly launched the arrest work. Unfortunately, this person seems to have evaporated from the world, and there is no trace at all.He Chengwu's parents passed away a long time ago, and his wife is even missing.Numerous arrest warrants were issued, and the task force searched for more than half a year, but still found nothing.Fortunately, He Chengwu did not continue to commit crimes. The puppet doll with "Eleven" engraved on it may not only be the number of his murders, but also the end of his revenge.

Just when the special case team was about to disband after the investigation was fruitless, the familiar puppet doll appeared again, and in different cases, the murderers used different methods.Each puppet is engraved with a different English number, and the murderer corresponding to each number has its own characteristic criminal methods. "Ten" is good at sniping, "Three" is accustomed to arson, and "Five" is a drug dealer...

The criminal police who participated in the case finally realized that a crazy serial murderer had recruited a group of vicious criminals to form a criminal organization. The bureau named this terrible criminal organization "Puppet Master". The special task force of the puppet master was divided into several waves to track different code names separately. In the past ten years, except for arresting those who resisted and died at the scene, none of the key members of the puppet master were arrested, let alone promoting the entire organization.

Although the conditions for handling cases are much better than ten years ago, various instruments and equipment are advanced, and surveillance cameras are also popularized.But while the public security system is improving, criminal organizations have never let up. The puppet masters have become more and more sophisticated in their methods of committing crimes, and their anti-investigation awareness has also become stronger.The whole organization is as hard to find as a ghost, and occasionally a trace is found, and when they rush to the scene to arrest people, there is only a puppet with a pervasive smile, which seems to be a provocation and mockery to the entire public security system.

However, among the ghostly "puppet masters", there is one exception, that is Lu Yuan, codenamed "Seven", who is Xia Yan's senior in the police academy, two years older than him, the two met because of a small accident when they were young, and became good friends a period of time.They lost contact for a few years, and after meeting by chance at the police academy, they stuck together almost every day, and it wasn't until Lu Yuan graduated that the two became less sticky.After graduation, Lu Yuan worked in criminal investigation for more than a year. One of the cases he handled went wrong, and he was punished. He probably felt that criminal investigation was not suitable for him, so he resigned and went into business not long after.Xia Yan, as an aspiring young man who aspired to be a policeman since he was young, was very angry at Lu Yuan's behavior of giving up halfway, and he has been at odds with him since then.

The code name "Seven" has never appeared in various crime scenes, it was discovered by Xia Yan by accident. According to Lu Yuan's own account, he only does some peripheral work in the organization.Under Xia Yan's balance, he beat him up on the spot, but in the end he was not caught, and then through "coercion and temptation", coerced Lu Yuan into becoming his informant.Of course, he did not disclose this to Xia Lin, and the rest of the Chengzhou detachment only knew that he had an informant.

After listening to the story of the puppet master's inspirational development, Xia Lin stretched his waist: "I didn't expect there to be such a professional pervert in the small Chengzhou District." He stood up and patted Xia Yan on the shoulder hard. He said earnestly: "Xia Yan, one pervert is not scary, and a group of perverts is nothing. The scary thing is that these perverts work harder than you than you, and study harder than you. Come on."

Xia Yan propped up one leg in an awkward standing posture and told the story for more than an hour. When he was slapped like this by his brother, his slightly numb leg slipped forward, completely lost support, and fell down in an awkward posture.

Xia Lin smiled and said "Sorry" without apology, opened the door and left.

"Hey, you bastard!" Xia Yan cursed in a low voice, leaning on the wall and struggling to get up, but when he turned around, he met Yang Ming who just came in.

Xia Yan: "You didn't see anything!"

Yang Ming nodded again and again: "Well, I didn't see anything. I didn't see the handsome Xia Dui climbing up while leaning on the wall with a face full of kidney deficiency. I can't think of anything."

Xia Yan didn't want to know what Yang Ming was thinking of, his feet were numb and he couldn't move, so he could only cut Yang Ming up and down with his eyes: "Kidney deficiency is a hammer, your Brother Yan can fight for at least another 30 years."

Yang Ming glanced at Xia Yan with sympathy: "You have kidney deficiency at a young age, it's pitiful."

Seeing that Xia Yan had already started to move his fists and prepared to use himself as a sandbag, Yang Ming immediately put on a serious posture: "Captain Xia, for the three things, He Rong's monitoring could tell that he was hallucinating, and he didn't find anything suspicious. Vehicles passed by, and there was no one blocking the number plate; Liu Xiran contacted the detachment in about 15 minutes; in addition, the address of Zero’s hometown was found, and it was in Zhaojia Village, Beiyang Town.”

Xia Yan glanced at the time: "Tell He Rong not to watch the monitoring, and let her take charge of Liu Xiran. My informant said that how to avoid monitoring is an introductory course for puppet masters. , It’s useless to look at it again. Also, in 15 minutes, you and I will go to Zhao Yang’s hometown and get ready.”

Yang Ming muttered in a low voice: "I've been watching the surveillance all night for almost three days, and you said it's useless. Is your informant, Captain Xia, reliable or not?"

Xia Yan briefly recalled Lu Yuan's extremely naughty and unreliable smile, leaning on the back of the chair and uttering two words in an inscrutable way: "Reliable."

Fifteen minutes later, Xia Yan put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked out of the gate of the Chengzhou Detachment like 15 million. He saw Xia Lin walking towards him with a cup of coffee.

Xia Yan's tongue was tied on the spot: "You, you, aren't you going back to school?"

Xia Lin raised the coffee in his hand: "I went to buy a cup of coffee, your coffee is too bad."

"Hey, I'm busy, the detachment is not a kindergarten, you go back to school..." Before Xia Yan finished speaking, his phone rang, and he quickly took it out to take a look. It was Zheng Xing, his immediate boss, a bald and Fat old man.From Xia Yan's point of view, Mr. Zheng's main job is to find fault with himself.

Xia Yan looked at the phone, his two sword eyebrows almost knit together, but Xia Lin nodded his chin to signal him to answer the phone.

Director Zheng's steady voice came from the receiver: "Xia Yan, I just learned about the Chengda poisoning case. Xia Lin, a young man, performed very well in the case and has a very stable personality. I have already approved him to be an intern in the detachment." Now that you have entered this case, you should lead him more and strive for a major breakthrough, that's all."

Before Xia Yan could say "no", the vigorous and resolute Director Zheng hung up the phone.Xia Yan kept his mouth wide open and looked at Xia Yan in disbelief—how on earth did this kid handle that fat man?

"Let's go, Xia Dui," Xia Lin took a sip of coffee, turned around and walked outside, and turned back to Xia Yan with a smile after walking a few steps: "Xia Dui, quickly shut your bloody mouth, you'll drool!" stay out."

Yang Ming glanced at Xia Yan's silly face, and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist: "Hahaha, Captain Xia, one thing is one thing, hahaha..."

"What are you laughing at? Your smile is as low as the Mariana Trench. Are you embarrassing?" Lin's back muttered in a low voice: "Hey, this brat."

Just as they walked to the parking lot, a few people came in from outside the detachment yard. Xia Yan squinted his eyes and looked towards the gate of the yard. When he saw the little girl walking behind, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had never seen a female classmate in eight lifetimes. like.

He grabbed Xia Lin and walked towards the little girl, and shouted enthusiastically from a long distance: "Liu Xiran, here, here."

When Xia Yan got closer, he realized that Liu Xiran had really lost a lot of weight, and now his cheekbones could be seen on his baby-fat face.In front of Liu Xiran was a stylishly dressed woman who nodded politely to Xia Yan.

Liu Xiran called out "Brother Xia Yan" in a low voice, and said to the woman, "Mom, I'm fine, you can go to work."

Xia Yan put on a professional and serious smile at the right time, and said to Mother Liu: "Hello, I am Xia Yan, the captain of the Chengzhou Detachment, and this is my brother Xia Lin, who is the same as your daughter. Don't worry, we Will take care of her."

Liu's mother glanced at Liu Xiran, and nodded lightly: "I heard Xiran said that Xia Lin's brother is a criminal policeman, but I didn't expect such a coincidence that Team Xia happened to be the captain here. Xiran has been in a bad mood these days. It’s too stable, since it’s with you, I can rest assured.”

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries before Xia Yan sent Liu's mother outside the courtyard.

Looking at the haggard Liu Xiran, Xia Lin couldn't help feeling distressed, and said softly, "Little fat man, you won't be cute if you don't eat well."

Liu Xiran pulled out an ugly smile: "You never said I was cute when I was fat." As soon as Liu Xiran said the words, she immediately thought of the only person who always praised her cuteness by her side——Zhao Yang. The words turned into whimpers: "Be sure to catch him."

Xia Lin nodded solemnly: "Yes."

Xia Yan trotted over just in time to see Liu Xiran wiping tears, without saying a word, raised his fist and lightly beat Xia Lin's head: "Stinky boy, I left for 2 minutes, and you made the little girl cry?"

Xia Lin immediately thumped back: "What nonsense, she's not crying, she's just letting the water out of her mind."

The scene of the two brothers pinching each other finally made Liu Xiran laugh, "Okay, you two stop pinching, don't you have business to do?"

Xia Yan slapped his head, only to remember that Liu Xiran was his half savior, which gave him a chance not to play with Xia Lin, the great Buddha.Xia Yan cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "Comrade Xia Lin, today you are in charge of talking to Comrade Liu Xiran about the suspect's situation. You go in and say hello to He Rong first. I'll be off duty right away. If you have any questions, call me."

Xia Lin glanced at Xia Yan angrily. Of course he wanted to go out with him, but he was indeed the best person to talk to Liu Xiran.

After Xia Lin entered the office building of the detachment, Xia Yan took out his mobile phone treacherously, "Xiran, I remember that there is a young man named Xu in your detective agency. He is tall and handsome. Give me his phone number."