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"Jin Tao contacted Yao Zichen just now, and the next transaction will be at the south gate of Park Road Food Plaza. The time is eight o'clock in the evening."

"What's the matter with Dang Hao?"

"The party team has sent people to deploy."

"Deploy what? Sniper?"

"Didn't you suggest that he wait until Jin Tao shows up before ordering him to be shot?"

"...he finally listened to me."

Xia Bingyang pushed open the office door and walked in.

Ren Erdong followed him, and said anxiously: "It's two o'clock in the noon, less than six hours before the night's action? Where is Shao Tong? We haven't found Shao Tong, how will Dang Hao act?"

Xia Bingyang walked to the desk in silence, rummaged around, found a can of tea that he won from the old forensic doctor Lu, poured more than half a cup of tea into the cup, and then took the cup to the water dispenser standing in the corner walk over.

Ren Erdong followed him step by step, watching him fill the cup with scalding hot water, the hot water soaked the tea leaves, and the tea leaves overflowed and squeezed on the cup mouth, like water plants flooding in the river beach.

"You are not in a hurry, are you? Dang Hao adopted your proposal to deploy this operation. He is only responsible for killing Jin Tao, and the task of finding the child is on you. In case he kills Jin Tao according to the plan, If you haven't found a child here, you just wait to be dismissed!"

"Are you in a hurry?"

"I'm worried for you!"

Xia Bingyang turned sideways, raised his finger and pointed to the gloomy sky outside: "The car is in the yard, the gas is full, you go find it first, I will leave later."

Ren Erdong: "...what are you looking for?"

Xia Bingyang gave him a gouging look, and walked forward with a hot teacup in his hand: "If you can find the way out of the gate of our unit, I will give you my place. Otherwise, keep quiet and don't fucking make trouble for me."

Ren Erdong was dumb for a while, then smiled angrily, pulled out a chair and sat at the long table: "Okay, I will keep quiet, I won't make trouble for you. Shaotong, right? He loves to death. You too, you Love never dies. Even if everyone dies, the higher authorities will not be able to hold me accountable.”

Xia Bingyang ignored him, sat at one end of the long table, put the teacup full of tea leaves on the table, picked up a pair of clean disposable chopsticks left over from someone who ordered takeout, opened the chopsticks, put them into the teacup, and poured out the tea leaves Clamp the roots out.

Ren Erdong pretended to be looking at his mobile phone, and glanced at him from time to time. He saw him sitting on a chair holding tea as firmly as Mount Tai, but his eyes were not exposed, but sunk inward. His thoughts were obviously not in this office.

"...Where did you get the chain around your neck?"

Ren Erdong suddenly asked.

Xia Bingyang glanced at him after a while, then stuffed the necklace hanging outside the T-shirt into his clothes, threw away the disposable chopsticks with a few tea leaves stained on it, got up and went to sit behind the desk.

Ren Erdong thought that he had finally taken action, so he hurriedly followed him and stood behind him, only to see him open a video that Lou Yue sent to his mailbox.The person who recorded this video was Deng Yujie. Deng Yujie secretly recorded the scene where she met a woman who claimed to be Yu Jiao in the art gallery.The video is very short, less than half a minute. In this half-minute video, the woman who claimed to be Yu Jiao did not show her face. Presumably Deng Yujie was holding the phone in her hand when recording this video, and lowered her hands in front of her body. So the woman who claimed to be Yu Jiao only entered the country from her chest to her waist.In just 2 minutes, Deng Yujie only spoke less than ten sentences to this woman, including the sentence that the woman reported herself as 'I am Jiang Zhinan's wife, Yu Jiao'.

Xia Bingyang has never had time to watch this video. Today is the first time he has watched the video. He heard the woman's voice quite clearly. The woman's voice is very similar to Yu Jiao's, or she disguised her voice as Yu Jiao is very similar.If one judges only from the woman's dress, figure and voice, she is Yu Jiao herself.But she is not Yu Jiao, she is a woman who is familiar with Yu Jiao's clothes, her voice, and even her life routine. Maybe she is lurking in Yu Jiao's life, and that's why she knows Yu Jiao so well.

Ren Erdong said: "The voice is so similar, she must not be a voice actor?"

Xia Bingyang ignored him and continued to watch the video played on the computer; Deng Yujie recorded the video only to record the woman's words, 'I am Jiang Zhinan's wife, Yu Jiao'.After she recorded this sentence, she kept a distance from the woman who claimed to be Yu Jiao, and followed her not too close or far away.It is possible to talk at such a distance, but the woman's voice cannot be recorded, only her back is recorded.

At the end of the video, the woman took a glass of white water from the dining table and stood in front of the white wall covered with paintings. Next to her red lace dress stood a pot of plantains nearly two meters high.She seemed to have reached a certain consensus with Deng Yujie. Xia Bingyang saw her turn her body towards the camera, and raised the water glass in her hand to where Deng Yujie was.Then she took two sips of water and poured the rest of the water into the flower pot with plantains.

Her movements are very elegant, that kind of elegance and calmness is something that Yu Jiao absolutely doesn't have. The movement of her pouring the remaining water into the flower pot is like making tea with a precious tea set in her hand. After pouring along the banana tree for a week, the tea water Pour into flower pots along the swivel rim...

Seeing this scene, Xia Bingyang felt as if he had been bumped somewhere in his heart, and his heart beat faster for no reason. He rewound the video to the scene of the woman watering the banana tree, and watched it over and over again.

The more he watched, the more he felt familiar. The calm and elegant behavior of the woman in the video seemed to have been seen somewhere before...

He watched the video over and over again, but he didn't realize that the door of the office was pushed open. Lou Yue led a middle-aged man in and said, "Captain Xia, someone brought them here."

Xia Bingyang glanced at the man who was ushered in by her with an ordinary face and a stocky figure who couldn't be picked out from the crowd, and asked, "Who?" '

Lou Yue was speechless for a moment, then walked to the opposite side of his desk, and explained: "Didn't you ask Xixi to investigate the clues in Shao Yunfeng's secret photo of Yao Zichen six years ago?" Remind him again: "Yao Zichen's green short-sleeved dress, you said, is very similar to the one worn by a salesman in a shopping mall."

Xia Bingyang came to a sudden: "Oh, did you find out that it was the work clothes from that shopping mall?"

Lou Yue said: "It's not work clothes for shopping malls, but work clothes for volunteer activities."

"What volunteer?"

"Yao Zichen donated a sum of money to the 'Caring for Teenagers with Depression' public welfare organization as soon as he returned to China, and also participated in the organization's social fundraising activities. The green short-sleeved clothes are the clothes worn by the volunteers who participated in the activities."

As she said that, Lou Yue stretched out her hand to the nervous man standing aside, and said, "This Mr. Wang Hao is the founder and person in charge of the charity organization."

Xia Bingyang turned off the video, got up and walked towards Wang Hao: "Mr. Wang Hao? Sit down."

When Wang Hao was seated, Xia Bingyang asked him directly about Yao Zichen.Since Lou Yue had already indicated to him the police's intention to find him when he found him, he came here with full preparations, and he brought a thick handwritten list, all of which were social figures who had donated money .

He handed Xia Bingyang a four- to five-inch-thick notebook, and pointed to a page with a bookmark: "Six years ago, a man named Yao Zichen donated a sum of money to us. I wonder if it is what you are looking for?" people."

Xia Bingyang turned to the page with the bookmark, and quickly found 'Yao Zichen' in a list of names.Yao Zichen donated 12 yuan to "Caring for Teenagers with Depression" on June 6, 13.This number is particularly conspicuous in the amount of the full book, which ranges from a minimum of a few hundred to a maximum of tens of thousands.

Xia Bingyang closed his notebook, found Yao Zichen's photo from his phone and let Wang Hao identify him: "Is it this woman?"

Wang Hao only took one look, and said firmly: "Yes, yes, it is her."

Xia Bingyang showed doubts: "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure that we are just a small non-governmental public welfare team. There have not been many caring people who donated to us. Even if they donated, it was only a small number. But this Ms. Yao donated 15 yuan at once, which is too big. It’s rare, so I have a deep impression on her.”

"Not only did she donate money, she also participated in volunteer activities, didn't she?"

"Yes."

"Is she alone? Is there anyone else around?"

"Well... Yes, it's a man who seems to be her friend."

Xia Bingyang frowned, the word 'friend' was beyond his expectation.

Ren Erdong reacted quickly, and had already taken out the photos of Wu Zheng and Shao Yunfeng and put them in front of Wang Hao: "Is that man among these two?"

Wang Hao first looked at Shao Yunfeng's photo, shook his head while looking at it, and said "it doesn't look like it", then when he looked at Wu Zheng's photo, his eyes immediately fixed on Wu Zheng's photo: "This person is very similar, does he have scars under his ears? ? I remember that the man who accompanied Ms. Yao to donate money had a two-centimeter-long scar under his left ear."

Ren Erdong found another profile photo of Wu Zheng. This time, Wang Hao accurately pointed to an imperceptible scar under Wu Zheng's left ear in the photo, and affirmed, "It's him."

Xia Bingyang pointed to Wu Zheng's photo, looked at Wang Hao and asked, "This person claims to be Yao Zichen's friend?"

Wang Hao said: "Yes, we asked them if they are husband and wife, and whether they should register as 'Yao Zichen and his wife' to donate. At that time, they all said that they were just very good friends, not a couple or a couple."

Lou Yue felt extremely confused: "Friends? How could they be friends? Isn't Wu Zheng Yao Zichen's fiancé?"

Among them, Xia Bingyang was helpless in the chaotic relationship between the characters, but this question was a dead end, and only the person concerned could answer it.So Xia Bingyang pressed the question temporarily, and continued to ask Wang Hao: "Has this person been with Yao Zichen all the time?"

"When the donation was made, it was Ms. Yao who came with this gentleman. Later, Ms. Yao participated in our fundraising activities by herself."

"What did she do?"

"Help with some chores, nothing special... By the way, she also helped us draw a picture."

"Where is the painting?"

Wang Hao turned to look at Lou Yue: "This police officer took the picture—"

Before he finished speaking, Lou Yue got up and went out, and soon came in with a framed oil painting.She put the painting on the table and said: "This is the painting that Yao Zichen painted back then."

Although Xia Bingyang doesn't know much about painting, he can tell at a glance that the painting in front of him is at the level of a beginner. The most worthy of praise is that the colors are well matched. The red sunset over the blue-green plain dyed the entire sky red, filling the A sense of grandeur.Xia Bingyang is not only able to read some paintings, but also can see the incongruities in the colors, such as the dark green plain mixed with a little sauce brown, which is not like oil paint, because oil paint cannot mix such colors.

He propped his hands on the table, bent over to get close to the sauce brown spot, and said to himself: "What is this?"

It was an unintentional question, but it was answered.

Wang Hao said, "Oh, that's blood."

Xia Bingyang looked up at him, his eyes were as deep as the burning red sky in the painting: "Blood?"

"Ms. Yao accidentally cut her hand while drawing, and the blood dripped on the drawing paper."

Xia Bingyang didn't think about it, and he didn't have a reason to think about it. He almost subconsciously pushed the painting in front of Ren Erdong: "Give it to Mr. Lu."

Ren Erdong glanced at him with the expression of "I really don't know what you are doing", and carried the painting out.

Afterwards, Wang Hao was also taken out by Lou Yue, leaving only Xia Bingyang in the office.

Xia Bingyang walked to the window, and found that it was almost evening, and the sun was slanting towards the west among the tall buildings.He glanced at his watch, it was [-]:[-] noon, and there were still about four hours before the night's action.

There are only four hours left for him to find Shao Tong.

Xia Bingyang looked at the high-rise buildings across the street from the Public Security Bureau, and repeated the conversation between him and Jin Tao at Yao Zichen's house in his ears. Although he and Jin Tao didn't mention whether Shao Tong was safe, they were very clear about Shao Tong's safety. already dead.Jin Tao avoided it intentionally, and he didn't mention it, but they all knew that Shao Tong was dead.

Shao Tong is dead...

Shao Tong, already dead?

Suddenly, Xia Bingyang caught a strand of the thousands of miscellaneous threads floating in his mind.

Shao Tong is dead?That's right, Shao Tong is dead.It took Shao Tong two long hours from the time when Shao Tong's body became abnormal until he died.During the two hours when Shao Tong was on the verge of death, would Jin Tao watch Shao Tong die?

Shao Tong is Jin Tao's meat ticket. If Shao Tong dies, will Jin Tao be able to escape unscathed?

"The oil painting is handed over to Mr. Lu, and Mr. Lu said that the appraisal result—"

Ren Erdong pushed open the door and said listlessly with drooping eyelids. In the middle of speaking, he suddenly noticed Xia Bingyang coming out of the office like a gust of wind and blowing past him.

Ren Erdong turned around and followed his back downstairs: "Where are you going?"

Xia Bingyang shouted: "Hospital!"

There are no less than ten private hospitals and public hospitals in Weining City, plus thirty clinics, large and small.Xia Bingyang dispatched all the remaining police forces of the Second Division that had been mobilized by Dang Hao to look for the boy who was taken by a man who had been treated in various hospitals and clinics from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am yesterday. The man was crippled.

Because of Jin Tao's obvious characteristics, it was not difficult to investigate, but the policemen who were sent out failed one after another.

The sun is about to set.

Xia Bingyang parked the car in the parking lot of another hospital, stood by the front of the car and looked at the dim sun in the sky, then turned and ran towards the hospital building.

His long-awaited turnaround finally came at dusk. A nurse said to him: "At four o'clock in the morning yesterday, a man with a disabled left leg came here with a child in his arms. Low, heartbeat almost stopped. I asked the man what happened to the child, but he couldn’t tell. I hurried to find Dr. Zhu on duty, and when Dr. Zhu and I returned to the emergency room, the man disappeared again.”

Xia Bingyang: "Surveillance, I want to watch the surveillance!"

From the security room, they saw the crippled man rushing into the hospital lobby holding a boy wrapped in a blanket, squeezed to the front from the queue at the hospital triage desk, and yelled at the nurse frantically.The video did not record the sound, Xia Bingyang couldn't hear what Jin Tao was shouting, but he could see Jin Tao's face clearly, so he clearly saw the anxiety and regret on Jin Tao's face.This is by no means the concern a kidnapper should show for meat tickets.

Jin Tao was quickly taken to the emergency room, but a few minutes later, Jin Tao fled in a hurry with Shao Tong in his arms.Cameras caught him driving away from the hospital.

Xia Bingyang doesn't have time to think about these side details now, so he can only have doubts in his heart again, immediately contact the technical team, tell them Jin Tao's license plate number and the hospital where Jin Tao left, and ask the entire technical team to jointly track Jin Tao's whereabouts.

"Captain Xia, after the target leaves the hospital, drive west along the South Fourth Ring Road, then turn right on Shiguang Road."

Xia Bingyang was driving on the road with heavy traffic, with a Bluetooth headset on his ear: "Got it, you guys keep going. Dongzi turn on the light!"

Ren Erdong leaned out from the car window, put a police light on the roof of the car, and the siren blared instantly.

Xia Bingyang kept honking the horn, forced a way out of the blocked road, and sped fast under the increasingly dark sky.

A call came in, and Ren Erdong answered on his behalf: "Party team... We, we are looking for Shao Tong, hurry up."

Ren Erdong's face was anxious and annoyed, he tightly clutched Xia Bingyang's phone, turned his head and said to Xia Bingyang: "Dang Hao asked you, have you completed the task here, and whether you can act according to the plan."

Xia Bingyang stared at the road ahead, stepped on the gas pedal again: "Let him stop talking a few words, don't fucking bother me."

Ren Erdong glared at him through gritted teeth, and said to Dang Hao, "Party team, give us another hour, yes yes, just one hour."

Half an hour later, Xia Bingyang parked the car in front of a dilapidated residential area in the old city, and when he got off the car, he looked up at the sky. At this time, the sky was completely dark, and lights were lit on the side of the street.

"Captain Xia, Jin Tao has entered the Leyuan community. There is no monitoring in the community, so we cannot continue to follow up."

Xia Bingyang took off the bluetooth headset on his ear, walked into the community with Ren Erdong, scanned the community, and saw a few old people sitting under a row of poplar trees chatting.He went over and chatted with the old people, and then asked them if there was a cripple living here.Perhaps it was because Jin Tao's characteristics were too obvious, four of the seven old people had an impression of a lame man who had just moved in.An old man pointed Xia Bingyang in the direction and said, "He lives in Building 5."

Building No. 5 has only six floors and twelve families live there.Before Xia Bingyang entered the unit building, he looked up and remembered the three families with lights on. He knocked on the door and asked them. A couple living on the third floor told them: "The cripple lives on the top floor."

Xia Bingyang went straight to the top floor, skipped 601 where the light was leaking from the crack of the door, and stood in front of the closed door of 602.He pulled out|shot|gun from the back, exchanged a glance with Ren Erdong, then kicked open the tattered anti-theft door, aiming the gun at the dark room.

There was no one in the house, and Jin Tao should have been surrounded by Dang Hao and others at this time.

Ren Erdong turned on the light, and the bleak light emitted by the dim incandescent lamp engulfed them all like a fishing net.

Ren Erdong picked up a white watch from a red lacquered wood coffee table: "Shao Tong's watch."

Xia Bingyang glanced at the watch, but did not put down the gun. The muzzle patrolled every corner of the living room: "Look for it separately."

Ren Erdong went to the bathroom, Xia Bingyang walked to the only bedroom, the bedroom door was locked, and he kicked it open.The bedroom door suddenly opened inward, the light from the living room leaked into the bedroom, and a figure appeared faintly on the bed.

Xia Bingyang pointed the gun at the person on the bed with both hands, walked slowly into the bedroom, fixed his eyes on the bed, felt the switch by the wall, and turned on the light in the bedroom.The light was on, and he could see the whole bedroom. The quilt-covered figure protruding from the bed could only be a child.

Xia Bingyang walked slowly to the side of the bed, lifted the thin quilt at once, and a thin and pale boy curled up on his side on the bed, with his eyes closed tightly, motionless.

Ren Erdong came out of the bathroom and stood at the door just in time to see the scene of Xia Bingyang lifting the quilt. After seeing Shao Tong, he immediately called Dang Hao and told Dang Hao that they had found Shao Tong and rounded up Jin Tao. Can go according to plan.

Xia Bingyang looked at Shao Tong who was lying on his side on the bed, pale and motionless, and he didn't feel the joy of completing the task, even heavier than before he found Shao Tong.Because Shao Tong is dead.

He slowly stretched out his hand to touch Shao Tong's bloodless face, thinking that it would feel cold, but it felt hot to the touch.This sense of rolling spread along the skin of his fingertips to his chest like an electric current, making his frozen heart beat again.

"The child is still alive!"

He hugged Shao Tong up and pressed his forehead against Shao Tong's. Shao Tong's forehead became hotter, and he felt Shao Tong's weak and slightly hot breath.

Ren Erdong rushed in when he heard the sound, and took the child from Xia Bingyang's arms: "He has a fever, take him to the hospital!"

As he said that, he rushed out, ran out of the bedroom and looked back, Xia Bingyang was still standing in the bedroom.

"What are you doing? Let's go!"

Xia Bingyang didn't look back, and said calmly: "You send the child to the hospital."

Xia Bingyang has always been so elusive, Ren Erdong gave up asking him to understand, and quickly walked downstairs with Shao Tong in his arms.

Xia Bingyang stood alone in the bedroom, looking at the boxes of medicines on the bedside table.Among them were antipyretics and anti-inflammation medicines, which were bought by Jin Tao for Shao Tong to take.But the other two boxes of medicine were obviously not bought by Jin Tao.

Shao Tong suffers from autism and needs to take psychotropic drugs.These medicines are prescription medicines, and you can only buy them with the doctor's order and according to the doctor's orders, but the two boxes of western medicines that Jin Tao can't buy suddenly appear in this bedroom.

Xia Bingyang picked up a medicine box, the medicine box had already bottomed out, and there were only four or five pills left. He poured out one pill, and smelled a pungent smell. The smell that emanates...

The phone rang suddenly, and as soon as he picked it up, the old forensic doctor asked, "Whose blood do you think belonged to?"

"Yao Zichen."

The old forensic doctor laughed: "That's not right, the blood type doesn't even match Yao Zichen's, let alone DNA."

Xia Bingyang stood up slowly holding the phone, and stood there blankly for a while, his head seemed to be so chaotic that he couldn't even hear his own voice: "It's not Yao Zichen? How could it be, that's Yao Zichen's blood."

Forensic Lu said: "I am very responsible to tell you that the drop of blood does not belong to Yao Zichen. Moreover, the DNA of that drop of blood cannot be matched in the information database, but it was successfully matched with the DNA outside the information database."

"What do you mean?"

"I extracted the DNA from the hair you gave me last time. After comparison, it is consistent with the DNA extracted from this drop of blood."

The old forensic doctor seemed to think his words were too official, so he added an explanation: "Hair and blood belong to one person."

The old forensic doctor hung up the phone, Xia Bingyang was still standing stiffly in the bedroom where Shao Tong lay, dazed and confused...

Ji Zheng told him that six years ago, a woman jumped off the building in Wei Qingyang's villa, and her body disappeared, leaving only a hair on the scene.Then he found a painting painted by Yao Zichen six years ago. There was a drop of blood in the painting. The blood and the hair came from the same person, so Yao Zichen was the woman who jumped off the building in Wei Qingyang's villa.

But Mr. Lu told him that the blood and hair left by Yao Zichen six years ago did not match the information of Yao Zichen six years later, which is the current Yao Zichen.

How is this going?

Didn't Yao Zichen jump off the building and die?

Why is Yao Zichen still alive?

Suddenly, Xia Bingyang made an extremely bold guess, which made him feel chills all over.

Could it be that Yao Zichen six years ago is not the same person as Yao Zichen six years later?

He was trapped between the two Yao Zichens and struggled for a long time before he saw a pot of small green radishes placed on the edge of the bedside table. You have to swim around.

Xia Bingyang walked over and picked up a glass next to several boxes of medicine, which contained cold tea.He picked up the cup and tilted the mouth of the cup downward, and the water in the cup flowed along the mouth of the cup into the glass jar with green radishes.He spun the cup and poured the water in the cup in an elegant, calm, slow, tea-like gesture, just like the woman who appeared in the video...

With a 'crack' sound, the glass fell from Xia Bingyang's hand and shattered on the floor, shining a cruel and beautiful white light.

Xia Bingyang turned around and rushed out of the room, took out his mobile phone and dialed Dang Hao's number: "Don't shoot Jin Tao! Yao Zichen wants to use the police to kill Jin Tao!"

He finally understood that Yao Zichen was the one who united with Jin Tao to kill Jiang Zhinan, Yao Zichen was the one who joined Jin Tao in kidnapping Shao Tong, and Yao Zichen was the one who tried to cause Shao Tong's death and kill Jin Tao under the guise of the police.

The Yao Zichen six years ago may not be the Yao Zichen six years later.

Both he and Ji Zheng ignored another deceased whose body has not been found yet—Susie.

The author has something to say: If you don't understand, go back to Chapter 87.