Fire to the Abyss

Xia Yan took the map on the coffee table: "Let's assume that Nine installed a camera on the fourth floor, and there are stairs next to 402 and 404. In order to have a wider view, he should choose to install it directly at the door of the house. In this case, our people will The stairway will be exposed to the other party’s field of vision—so you must move quickly and break through before he reacts. There are two windows in 401, one on the north side and one on the east side. Lao Bai, take Xiao Li to the north side. Xiao Wu, you and Qian Zhijie go to the east building and find a place with a relatively wide view to guard against him jumping out of the window and escaping. Yang Ming, the three of you follow me up, and the others guard the stairs on both sides Mouth. Be careful, try to catch alive, and don’t shoot unless absolutely necessary.”

Bai Wenbin: "Lao Xia, isn't it too little for four people to go up?"

While checking the pistol, Xia Yan said, "There are quite a few. The space is too narrow. There are too many people and it's impossible to line up, which is inconvenient. By the way, you only have three sets of bulletproof vests here?"

Bai Wenbin looked around: "It seems that there are indeed only three sets here, and the rest are in the team, why don't you go back and get them?"

"Come on, it takes almost two hours to go back and forth, and the day lily is cold when you bring it back, so hurry up and get ready when you're ready."

Bai Wenbin had no choice but to take someone out quietly.Xia Yan sent the bulletproof vest to the other three people: "Come and put it on, I tricked you all here, if I didn't bring you back intact, if there are more masters like Liu Xiuyun, I'm afraid I'll be slobbered." drown."

Yang Ming glanced at Xia Yan with a complicated expression, and he had already dug out the routines of the police and gangster dramas in his heart. It seemed that every time he encountered such a situation, the one who gave up the bulletproof vest to others would always be shot.Yang Ming swallowed his saliva, and pushed the body armor to Xia Yan: "Captain Xia, you should wear it, your life is valuable."

Xia Yan immediately rolled his eyes at him: "I don't wear it because I am agile enough, even if I encounter danger, I am confident that I can dodge it. Are you as agile as me? If not, stop talking so much nonsense."

Before Yang Ming could reply, Xia Yan immediately put the body armor on him.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sky had gradually darkened, and a few lights were scattered around, making the poorly lit corridor feel like it was late at night.

The four of them reached the stairs on the fourth floor in the dark, their footsteps were light and almost silent.Following Xia Yan's order, the four rushed to the door of 401. Xia Yan and Yang Ming kicked open the not-so-secure anti-theft door together.

A man was opening the window in a panic, trying to escape by jumping out of the window, but was pushed to the ground by two other criminal policemen on the spot.

The man was of medium build, a little on the thin side, with a slightly poor bookish look, his face was sallow, and only a pair of eyes were shining.There is a thin scar under the neck extending from below the collarbone to the back of the neck, like a small snake entangled on his neck.He has slender arms and legs, and has no weapons in his hands. He seems completely incapable of resisting, and he has no intention of resisting—he just smiled helplessly, and then stretched out his arms cooperatively, allowing others to bring them to him. handcuffs.

Xia Yan himself did not expect that this person could be caught so smoothly. After all, none of the puppet masters who have fallen into the hands of the police is alive, and most of them, after being exposed, uphold the firm belief that they can take away one by one. Fighting to the death and breaking the net to the death is willing to die.

Xia Yan looked at the middle-aged man who was pushed down to the ground and looked embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Yo, you can be regarded as a well-known figure in our Chengzhou District. The brothers came here specially to wish you an early year, and by the way, You have arranged a new residence, high-quality single room, complete bathroom, quiet environment and good lighting, food and housing are all included, what do you think?"

Nine raised his eyes and looked at Xia Yan with a very calm expression. He smiled: "I don't dare to do it, thank you."

Seeing Nine's peaceful face, Xia Yan got up and looked around: "You were subdued so easily, but it doesn't fit the organizational style."

Nine replied with a good temper: "Ashamed, I regret my life."

Xia Yan paced back and forth in the room with his chin in his hand, and suddenly stopped in front of a dark trash can: "You have been at home for at least two days, and the trash can is empty, unlike me, who sits in the office for half an hour It can fill a bucket." Xia Yan paused, then tilted his head and smiled at Nine: "Or, did you just throw away the trash?"

Nine didn't speak, but Xia Yan keenly caught the flash of panic in his eyes.

"You threw it away in a hurry. It would be bad if something valuable got mixed in and thrown away. I have to find it for you."

Before Xia Yan finished speaking, Yang Ming was already searching around the house, and Nine's face gradually became tense.

The house is not big, with a simple layout. There is basically no place to hide things in the kitchen, living room and bathroom. The bag of garbage that disappeared has probably been thrown outside the house.But the two groups of people guarding the window didn't find anything, it can only be that there are other windows in this room.Xia Yanying's gaze swept across the room, and fixed on the curtain hanging in the bathroom.

He walked over quickly and opened the door curtain, and he found a small window.Xia Yan opened the window and looked down. There was a narrow alley below. The garbage in the alley was piled up into a small hill. On top of the hill, there was a bulging plastic bag. The plastic bag looked very new, and it must have just been thrown down. of.

"Tsk, it seems that you have to add littering to your charges—"

Before Xia Yan finished speaking, he was suddenly pushed by someone, and the person who pushed him hurriedly called "Captain Xia, be careful!" Before Xia Yan could react, he lost his center of gravity, leaned forward, and a The bullet flew past his waist, blood was seen on his waist immediately, a searing pain swept over, Xia Yan immediately let out a "hiss" in pain.

He looked back, and at some point Nine had knocked the criminal policeman who restrained him to the ground, with an extra gun in his hand, and the black hole in the muzzle was pointing at him.If Yang Ming hadn't pushed him just now, it might have been more than just a scratch.

Nine aimed the gun at Xia Yan's head, a sly smile appeared on his withered face: "Goodbye."

Before anyone at the scene had time to react, Nine pulled the trigger.

However, the person who will see you next moment is him.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Bai Wenbin, who was guarding the opposite building, shot decisively first.A bullet pierced Nine's chest, blood spurted out, the gun in his hand fell with the sound, and he fell down as if his soul had been drained.

Xia Yan was spattered with hot blood, clutched his waist and shouted: "Hurry up and see if he's still alive!"

The policeman who was knocked down immediately got up to check: "Captain Xia, you're still alive."

The 26th day of the twelfth lunar month of this year is a memorable day for the Chengzhou police. For the first time, the Chengzhou district police caught a member of the puppet master who was able to breathe. Except that this person is still in the intensive care unit; no large-scale casualties were caused. , except that the leader was bruised by a bullet and had a few stitches.

"Nurse sister, it's almost enough. If you keep wrapping around like this, you won't be able to see my waist anymore." Although his mouth was full of sorrow, Xia Yan still smiled at the pretty little nurse like a winter jasmine.

When Yang Ming opened the door and came in, the unsightly "Xia Chunhua" bumped into his eyes, and the corner of his mouth twitched and turned his face away.

Seeing someone coming, the little nurse quickly fixed the bandages for Xia Yan, smiled at Xia Yan, got up and went out.

Yang Ming: "Ahem."

As soon as the little nurse left, she also took away the winter jasmine flowers on Xia Yan's face. Xia Yan said coldly, "What are you coughing, have you eaten flies?"

"Bah," Yang Ming walked in with a face full of resentment: "Captain Xia, don't you have a girlfriend? You even molested the little nurse while the Emperor Shan Gao was far away. Now that I saw it, I couldn't know about it." report."

"We broke up," Xia Yan sighed softly, "It just happened a few days ago."

Yang Ming was stunned: "Ah, what?"

"I don't know what to say. I didn't quarrel and nothing happened. I suddenly called to break up. Don't talk about it." Xia Yan stretched his hand in front of Yang Ming and said concisely: "Smoke."

Yang Ming just glanced at him indifferently, then pushed that arm back blankly: "In our hometown, even though your ex-girlfriend is still hot, a person who just molested other little girls is called a scumbag."

Xia Yan looked calm and indifferent: "Oh, then the folk customs of your hometown are really simple."

"Captain Xia, let me tell you, how could you accept it so calmly, Zhong—"

Xia Yan interrupted impatiently: "All right, all right, don't talk about it, forget about not giving cigarettes, and talk about business."

Yang Ming: "Your nurse sister specifically explained that smoking is not allowed, so you should smoke less, otherwise the salary will not be enough to pay the fine—"

Xia Yan interrupted rudely again: "It's business."

"Okay," Yang Ming finally returned to normal from the mother-son mode, and sat up straight: "Bai Wenbin's shot only pierced the lungs, and did not hurt any important organs. In short, it is a matter of time before we can be saved. Oh, he let me follow You said, he swears that he was really aiming at the shoulder, and he misses it because he was eager to save people. Also, he found a hard disk from that garbage bag, but the content is encrypted, and it is urgently cracking, and it will take a little time. Already I compared Nine's facial features with the household registration information, but there is no result yet."

Xia Yan snorted coldly: "If Nine can't wake up, I'll try to miss Lao Bai's head once. In short, I don't know anything, and everything will take time, right?"

"Well, the summary is very accurate—by the way, there is a discovery, and your informant may have a clue." Yang Ming took out his mobile phone and opened a photo, which was a cartoon puppet doll: "This is on the Nine computer. I found a program icon, but unfortunately you need to insert a key to run it. Without the key, our people can only watch it. This program should be related to the organization. Can you show it to the informant to see what it does? of."

"Well, good." Xia Yan was taking out his cell phone when Zheng Xing called.

Xia Yan frowned and pressed the answer button, and Zheng Xing's thick voice came from the receiver immediately: "Xia Yan, congratulations, you have become the first person to capture a member of the puppet master alive in more than ten years, you did a great job The leaders in the district appreciate you very much. When they heard that you were injured, they specially asked me to allow you to take a few days off. It happened that you didn’t take the annual leave of the year before and the year before last, so you should take it together and come back to work next year. .”

The leader's speech was still so calm and powerful that it cannot be questioned. He said it was congratulations, but he didn't hear any change in tone.As usual, Xia Yan didn't say a word, Zheng Xing hurriedly hung up the phone.

Seeing Xia Yan's unlovable expression, Yang Ming couldn't help asking, "What's the matter? What did the fat man say?"

Xia Yan: "He thinks I need some time too."

Early the next morning, the Chengzhou Detachment team rushed back, leaving Xia Yan alone in the hospital to recover from his injuries. Before leaving, the enthusiastic criminal policeman Yang Ming also took away the cigarettes he secretly bought for the team leader.

Although Xia Yan thought that a little scrape was nothing to heal, he managed to sew a few stitches, and the leader insisted on letting him stay for a few more days.Two days later, a special car was sent to pick him up. The driver was unequivocal. He didn't go to the Chengzhou detachment. He parked the car directly downstairs and watched him go upstairs before he would leave.

Not long after Xia Yan arrived home, Xia Lin came to visit. As soon as he entered the door, he was shocked by the cleanliness of the house: "Brother, I didn't expect to see the patterns on your floor in my lifetime!"

The spotless room Lu Yuan tidied up had not been polluted after a few days of business trip.

Xia Yan smiled very brazenly, and took the credit for himself: "What's the fuss, boy, your brother is not the same now, as a mature man, he will naturally take care of housework."

Xia Lin: "Does our family have the gene to do housework? How do I remember that I grew up in a house like a dump."

Xia Yan: "Ahem...you can rest assured that you don't need to say it out loud."

The two brothers exchanged their findings in the past two days, and chatted a lot of gossip. Of course, it was mainly Xia Yan who was talking, and Xia Lin was about to leave.Xia Yan felt like it had been a long time since he sat on the sofa and chatted peacefully with his younger brother - on the one hand, Xia Lin was always a little shy of him because of his father's affairs, and on the other hand, Xia Yan's sofa rarely sat on people .

Before leaving, Xia Yan pulled Xia Lin's sleeve boldly and said: "Tomorrow is Chinese New Year, let's have a reunion dinner anyway."

This time, Xia Lin didn't refuse right away. He was silent for a while before asking, "Do you know how to cook?"

The instant noodles they cooked were pretty good, so you should be considered good at cooking, Captain Xia said without changing his expression, "Of course I will!"

Xia Lin pushed the door and walked out: "That depends on the situation."

As soon as Xia Lin left, Xia Yan put on a sweater indiscriminately, and went out with the coat - after all, the refrigerator is still empty, and it's not good to bring your younger brother to drink the northwest wind during Chinese New Year.

Xia Yan dialed Lu Yuan's number as he hurried downstairs. Lu Yuan knew how to cook porridge, so cooking shouldn't be a problem.

Unexpectedly, the phone did not connect.Xia Yan seldom called Lu Yuan directly. Once he called, it was considered an emergency. Lu Yuan always answered his calls in seconds. This was the first time that Xia Yan had listened to the long ringtone.

Is there any accident?As soon as this thought came up, it occupied all of Xia Yan's thoughts. He felt his heart beating wildly, and then his feet were empty, and he fell to his knees on the stairs.

The wound on the waist was pulled suddenly, and dark blood stains immediately oozed from the sweater.Xia Yan didn't care, stretched out his hand to grab the rusty railing, and propped himself up.While clutching his waist injury and continuing to walk, he kept dialing the phone.

But still no one answered, only the regular "didi" sound came from the receiver, even though there was no difference between the pitch and the length of the voice, Xia Yan's voice became more and more desperate every time.

Xia Yan stumbled all the way down the stairs, and when he finally got into the car, he was covered in cold sweat. Just as he was about to go directly to Lu Yuan's house, the phone finally connected.

Lu Yuan said "Hello" in a low voice, his voice seemed to be deeper than usual.

Xia Yan was at a loss for words for a moment.

Seeing that no one answered, Lu Yuan asked again in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Xia Yan took a few deep breaths, and after a long time, he yelled at the phone: "I called you dozens of times before answering, and you asked me what's wrong?"

"I just had a meeting and didn't bring my phone."

Xia Yan sneered: "Why, criminals don't rest during the New Year?"

Lu Yuan on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Is there any emergency?"

At this time, Xia Yan's eyes drifted away, and he caught a glimpse of himself in the rearview mirror, and was immediately stunned - the face of the person in the mirror was as pale as paper, and his eyes were blood red. , The drug addicts who are addicted to drugs look at him in the same way.

He was tortured by a voice repeating in his head: Is this me?

Xia Yan closed his eyes for a while, and attributed the reason to the fact that he hadn't smoked recently, so he was more irritable than usual, and then continued: "I found something on Nine's computer that I want you to see, and I will meet you when I have time. Hmm... Also, can you cook?"

There was a rustling sound from the other end of the phone, as if Lu Yuan was chuckling in a low voice, but he didn't answer, he just said: "It's not convenient for me to talk right now, I'll contact you by text message." Xia Yan hasn't tasted it yet. Unexpectedly, he hung up the phone in a hurry.

Under Lu Yuan's guidance, Xia Yan bought some cooked food and relatively simple ingredients in the supermarket, as well as a serious cookbook, and then went home to study contentedly.