Swallowing the Seas

The next day, Jinhai City Public Security Bureau.

"A three-year-old child was kidnapped before dinner on Friday. The crime happened on Saturday. He should have been imprisoned on Sunday. He was almost executed by the kidnappers on Monday night. He was locked in a secret room in the early morning of Tuesday. There was no incident for 72 hours. He drank water and didn’t eat, but he was still crying at the last moment, and he was crying very loudly.” Wu Yu strode across the corridor, the hem of the police uniform jacket on his shoulders lifted with his steps, and his gloomy expression was reflected in the glass of the office on both sides. Face: "There is obviously something wrong with this. The dispute between Bu Chonghua and Peng Wan should be because he noticed it, but Peng Wan tried his best not to let him get close to the child, so that there were scuffles left between his fingernails and between his teeth. Down DNA."

Jiang Ting by his side put his hands in his coat pockets, and his pace was also very fast. Liao Gang followed closely behind: "Could it be that Peng Wan is hiding water and food on his body, afraid of being robbed, so he dare not let you find out?"

Jiang Ting said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out, but if this is the case, Tao Ze's death would be too quick."

Liao Gang: "Huh?"

Jiang Ting explained: "There is a process for people to die of hunger, thirst and dehydration. The heartbeat increases, body temperature rises, organ damage, acute kidney failure or liver failure, blood pressure drops and hallucinations. A little boy crying loudly The chances of this sequence of events being completed in a few hours are very slim, so he should not have been so debilitated when the police arrived."

Liao Gang had an epiphany: "So..."

"So we need to see his cause of death report." Wu Yu stood in front of the office at the end of the corridor, turned his head and gestured to Liao Gang: "Deputy Liao will help me go to the Physical Evidence Office to obtain the inspection and analysis of the murder weapon. If you bring it out, try to take pictures with your mobile phone and send them to me, and then go downstairs and wait for a while, Professor Jiang and I will be ready soon."

"Hey! Yes!" Without saying a word, Liao Gang turned around and left in a hurry.

Wu Yu knocked on the door, then pushed the door open and walked in. An old police officer took off his glasses and stood up: "You are..."

"Geng Chu." Wu Yu stepped forward and shook hands with him, "I'm Wu Yu from the Nancheng Detachment. We met when dealing with the murder of Gao Ling in the [-] flood discharge tunnel. Do you remember me?"

The old police officer is Director Geng of the Forensic Medicine Office of the Municipal Bureau. When Bu Chonghua was there, he sent people to deliver cigarettes and fruits to the Forensic Medicine Office every now and then, and then whenever something happened, he would invite this great god out to help Xiaogui's Forensic Medicine Office. The relationship between the two sides It can be described as very harmonious.

But now that Bu Chonghua is mentioned, Director Geng's expression is also a bit complicated. He nodded and sighed helplessly: "I remember, I remember, it is now the Wu detachment! This is Professor Jiang from the Jianning Police Academy, right?"

Jiang Ting smiled and stretched his hand into his arms and was about to take out a cigarette, but Wu Yu was one step ahead of him, and took out a box of cigarettes and stuffed it into Director Geng's hand, it turned out to be Fuchun Shanju!

The cigarette case of Fuchun Shanju was already a little wrinkled, and Wu Yu didn't know how long it had been since Wu Yu hid it next to him and was reluctant to smoke it, so he just took it out and smelled it.Director Geng was an old smoker just like him, and his hands softened in an instant, and he was defeated after only two or three rounds of pretending, and put away his cigarette with great hospitality: "I have read the application you sent yesterday It's over, I want to check the autopsy reports of the victim Peng Wan and her son Tao Ze, right? Peng Wan's I'm ready, but that child..."

Wu Yu frowned slightly: "Is it not allowed to leak?"

"No, it's not." Director Geng wondered, "There was no autopsy."

Wu Yu and Jiang Ting looked at each other, both of them were a little surprised.

"Because the cause of death basically ruled out homicide, according to Bureau Song, the family members insisted not to perform an autopsy, so we can't force the child to be dissected-you know that we Chinese are relatively conservative in this regard. I received an autopsy last night. After your application, I looked at the file again, and it said that the body of the child was returned to the family [-] days ago, and based on this time, it must have been cremated by now."

—cremation.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no matter how suspicious Tao Ze's death was, it was covered by a blanket of brocade, and there was absolutely no possibility of knowing the clues from then on.

What can we do now?

The faces of both of them were very ugly, Wu Yu pondered for a moment, and asked: "Then, do you have any follow-up investigations, medical records, and other case files on the day of the rescue regarding the accident between the infantry detachment and me on the highway?"

Director Geng made it even more difficult: "Yes, but this case has already been assigned to the special case team of the Municipal Bureau. It stands to reason..."

Wu Yu stared at the old expert unrelentingly, his eyes were calm and powerful, as heavy as weight.Director Geng touched the unheated box of good cigarettes in his pocket, hesitated for a while and finally gave in, opened the safe file cabinet, took out a thick document, and put it on the table with a snap.

"Okay," he sighed, "but the two of you can only browse through the site at the Municipal Bureau, and all materials cannot be taken out of the special case team, understand?"

·

"...Here we come, the door breaker is here!" "Be careful! Everyone stand back! Three two one—"

Bang!

The dark screen shook violently, and only the flashlight could be seen in the camera, and then someone screamed: "Fuck, there are people!"

……

Wu Yu put down the file, "What are you looking at?"

There were only the two of them in the office, and Director Geng had already been called out.Jiang Ting sat in front of the computer and pressed the pause button, rubbing his temples: "It's a video of the police breaking down the door and entering the secret room when they rescued you. At that time, there were people from the Port District Public Security Bureau, the police station, the special patrol team, and the search and rescue police dog brigade. , one of the policemen at the police station had a law enforcement recorder on his shoulder, which happened to record what happened at that time."

Wu Yu stepped forward and stood behind Jiang Ting's chair, leaned over and pressed the mouse to play, and the screen on the monitor trembled again:

"Report to the Municipal Bureau, we have found two hostages from Bu Detachment and Police Officer Wu, and 120 is on the way..." "Where is the distribution box?" "This damn place is locked up Is it?" "What's in it, hey, be careful!" "Damn! Rinse the drainpipe, some children are dying!" "Where is it?" "Hurry up, come!"...

A video with a duration of 50 minutes and [-] seconds soon came to an end. Wu Yu's eyes behind the lens narrowed slightly, and he pressed replay again.

"Be careful! Everyone stand back! Three two one—" Boom!

"Damn it! Rinse the drainpipes, some kids are going to die!"

……

"Did you find anything?" Jiang Ting raised his head and asked.

Wu Yu stood up from the computer.

After he lost weight, he was a little out of shape, with deep-set eye sockets and high browbones, and his eyelids were unusually deep, giving him a dignified and sharp appearance.The flickering light and shadow on the monitor was reflected on the glasses, until the end of the third play, he shook his head.

"Maybe I was overwhelmed. I always felt that there was something strange in the details at that time, but I couldn't find it just by watching the video."

Jiang Ting laughed, took out the cigarette case, poured out two cigarettes, and threw one to Wu Yu: "Then you are better than me. I can only know that there is something wrong with my mind, but I can't actually notice it at all."

The two of them lit a cigarette together, and Wu Yu slowly exhaled a puff of white mist, mocking himself: "I'm not as good as you when it comes to solving crimes, and you're not as good as me when it comes to crimes. If there are any details that I can feel wrong but you can't, then it should be It must be that I smell the same kind of breath in the dark depths."

Jiang Ting said lightly, "Don't talk about yourself like that."

Wu Yu didn't say anything, the surroundings became quiet for a while, Jiang Ting raised his head and changed the subject: "Did you find anything worth noting in the case file just now?"

"Yes," Wu Yu said unexpectedly.

He turned around and picked up the case file that was interrupted by the video just now, and threw it to Jiang Ting, pointing to the page that was opening: "The extravagant drug trafficking case in Daxing County, Laizhou City, Yunnan Province in [-] was a case in China. It was the first time that the dark web participated in the organization of drug trafficking, and the website was called Tea Horse Ancient Road. Based on various signs at the time, I speculated that the founder of Tea Horse Ancient Road should be operating this website in China.”

Jiang Ting's hand that turned the page suddenly paused: "——You deduced it?"

"Yes." Wu Yu said solemnly, "It's me."

He leaned back against the edge of the desk, with two buttons undone at the collar of his shirt, one hand in his trouser pocket, and the other holding a cigarette.In the light blue smoke, half of the side face is hidden in the shadow, the neck is winding down, and the muscles and bones have a smooth and hard texture like ceramics.

"Even if the kidnapper who hit our car on the highway was doing things for someone else with money, it wouldn't be so coincidental to run into this group of people ten years later, unless it was the same employer." Wu Yu's eyes behind the lens stared at Misty in front of him At this moment, he is not like a criminal policeman in the Nancheng detachment who is diligently handling the case, but more like a painter who was lurking alone in the border drug gang and strategizing, his voice was soft and condensed: "I always have a feeling , Peng Wan is not familiar with how those people operate, she may have been deceived in some way."

A gleam of light suddenly flashed in Jiang Ting's mind, and he felt something vaguely, and thousands of clues came to his mind: "Is it possible that the kidnapper told her..."

"Wait," at this moment Wu Yu raised his hand and stopped him: "Listen."

"?"

The footsteps of people coming and going outside the office, the noise of vehicles coming and going on the road further away, faintly mixed with the clearance calls of shops.

Normal people can't hear any abnormalities at all, not to mention that Jiang Ting's previous craniotomy affected his hearing, and he is weak in distinguishing subtle sound frequencies.He frowned suspiciously, and suddenly saw Wu Yu push the cigarette butt onto the table and said, "Liao Gang got into a fight with someone."

Jiang Ting was taken aback, started a fight?

He got up abruptly, walked away at the same time as Wu Yu, and turned left for more than ten meters when he left the office. After turning the corner, he saw a group of people surrounded by twos and threes in the corridor, looking downstairs over the iron railing and whispering: "Why?" Did you start arguing?" "What you said is the truth." "The reaction is too big, you must be a guilty conscience!"...

"What are you looking at here!" Yang Chengdong scolded from a distance, he happened to bring someone to the city bureau to get the documents, and just came out and bumped into this scene: "What are you doing here in broad daylight? Hey, what about you! It's gone! It's gone! — Hey Xiao Wu?"

Yang Chengdong squeezed over while scolding impatiently, and was about to speak a few words of persuasion, but Wu Yu raised his hand and blocked him: "Xiao Wu, you..."

Wu Yu squinted his eyes and looked downstairs. This was the source of the movement he heard just now——

"Just say it! Who am I afraid of?!" A middle-aged man was furious, and grabbed Liao Gang's collar instead: "Did I make up Bu Chonghua's murder, drug trafficking, corruption and bribery? Did I make it up by absconding with a gun while being escorted?" Your Nancheng detachment is the fattest in Jinhai, did I make it up?!"

"Let me tell you about the surname Zhao, there is no conclusion on the matter of the Bu detachment, and he has not been convicted of murder!" Liao Gang was not good at words, and his eyes were red with anger while holding the middle-aged man by the collar: "You are slandering! No evidence! You—”

"Deputy Liao, let go, let go!" "Both of you, don't say a few words!" "Hey, Deputy Liao, if you have something to say, say it well..."

"No conviction? Is it true that all of your Nancheng detachment was interrogated for half a month without conviction?" The surname Zhao pushed Liao Gang away: "As long as you still have the face to apply for this year's special subsidy funds, step heavy Don’t you have any idea of ​​how much money Hua has corrupted?! You’re all right!!”

"--you!"

Yang Chengdong lost his voice: "Wu Yu!"

Wu Yu remained motionless, grabbed the police jacket on his shoulder with his right hand, and tore it off with his backhand. While the sleeves of the jacket were flying, he slapped the iron railing with his left hand, using his strength to roll over and jump straight down to the second floor!

"What's that?" "Who is that?"

There was an exclamation in the corridor, and everyone crowded to the railing to look down, only to see that Wu Yu had landed on the ground and stood up. When Liao Gang heard the sound, he turned his head and felt like a savior:

"Wu Detachment!"

"..." Someone in the crowd involuntarily looked up at the corridor on the second floor, and whispered in surprise, "Did he jump down?..."

Wu Yu put the jacket lightly on his left arm with his right hand, and asked with a slight smile, "What are you discussing here?"

Downstairs, those persuading the fight, onlookers, and spectators stepped out of the way, and the one surnamed Zhao became timid: "Originally, what I said was the truth, so why don't people tell the truth?"

Liao Gang was furious and interrupted: "Facts? Facts, do you need to hide behind the car and tell people secretly? Facts, do you need to be afraid of being caught by me? You clearly—"

Wu Yu made a gesture to stop Liao Gang, "Are you Director Zhao of the Dongcheng Sub-bureau?"

Zhao's nose is not a nose and eyes are not eyes, and he looks at him a few times: "Are you again..."

"I'm Wu Yu, the criminal investigation detachment leader of Nancheng Branch. We met back then, but you may have forgotten."

Not only Zhao, but even Liao Gang were taken aback.

"In 2.76, during the encirclement and suppression of drug production dens in the area under Zhao's jurisdiction, a very large cross-border drug production suspect escaped. This person fled all the way from North China to Yunnan and Yunnan, passing through six provinces along the way. The assisted investigation report found nothing; in the end, the suspect tried to cross the border at a ferry on the border between China and Myanmar, and I pushed him from the boat into an underground river at [-] in the morning. He was full of stolen money and goods, and [-] kilograms of drugs were hidden in his body. When I brought people to the border detention center to perform escort tasks, I sat in the duty hall of the detention center."

Zhao's complexion has completely changed.

That's right, he really hasn't forgotten——

"...Deputy Zhao, hey Deputy Zhao!" "What's the matter?" "Who do you see that person? He sat there early in the morning when we came here. How many hours have you been flipping through a newspaper?"

Deputy director Zhao followed the evasive gaze of his subordinates, and saw a silhouette sitting in the corner of the detention center lobby, his entire face was covered by newspapers, only the thick black short hair on top of his head was exposed.Because of the backlight, I can't see the exact body shape, I just feel that the person is very young, very thin but quite solid, with a white short-sleeved T-shirt, black jeans, his right ankle is on his left knee, and he is wearing a pair of dusty and worn-out black shoes. High-top lace-up boots.

He was reading an old Burmese newspaper, and on his right wrist was wearing a string of gray and white beads pierced with red tassels, which looked like bones, wrapped four or five times around his slender forearm, and hung at the end A sharpened thing shaped like a human tooth.

The Buddhist bead looked very evil, Deputy Director Zhao carefully looked away, and whispered: "It may be a Burmese who came across the river to visit the prison. Don't provoke it casually, the locals are very rough..."

"It's only been a few years, Zhao Suo has been promoted, and he is not so cautious in his words." Wu Yu said with a smile, "Maybe it's because you haven't lost any prisoners in your jurisdiction in the past few years, and gradually you don't have a long memory. reason."

Surrounded by different expressions, the surname Zhao's face turned green and then pale, and after a while he managed to say: "You, what did you say about [-]? I don't even remember! What I just said was Bu Chonghua and I didn't say anything. other people!……"

"The Nancheng Detachment is integrated from top to bottom. When you say Bu Detachment, you're talking about me." Wu Yu glanced to the left and right with a pleasing expression. Come here as soon as you open your mouth in the compound, otherwise it would be bad to invite a team of inspectors, wouldn't it?"

Zhao Suo swallowed his saliva, and was completely frightened—is it not just bad?The person surnamed Wu is not generally stubborn, and he must not be the one who suffers after attracting the inspection team!

Wu Yu didn't say anything more, nodded politely, turned around and signaled Liao Gang to go with him.

"..."

Under the eyes of everyone, the surname Zhao couldn't hold back his face. Although he didn't dare to talk anymore, he still couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Wu Yu's back, and cursed a few words almost silently.

——In fact, these two sentences were so soft that no one could hear them clearly except himself, but at this moment, Wu Yu suddenly turned around like eyes in the back of his head, grabbed his neckline with his right hand, and concealed it with lightning speed. Er Zhishi pushed a few steps and threw him against the wall!

thump!

Zhao Suo felt a sharp pain in his back, staring at his eyes, and his throat tightened before he recovered his senses—Wu Yu was holding his skirts with all his hands, and lifted him up against the wall forcefully!

Everyone just woke up like a dream, and they screamed: "What's wrong?!" "Wu detachment calm down!" "Calm down and don't mess around!"

"...Help, woo woo woo..."

Zhao Suo's face was red all over, his feet couldn't help leaving the ground, he grabbed Wu Yu's bulging wrist but couldn't even make a sound, only to see Wu Yu slightly approaching his ear and smiling slightly:

"Our locals are very wild, Zhao Suo, have you forgotten?"

Zhao's feet were kicking desperately, and Wu Yu threw his hands on the ground the next moment, coughing violently!

"Oh, old Zhao, are you okay?" "Pull them apart quickly, pull them apart!"

……

Everyone rushed forward, but Wu Yu sneered, put his left hand on his jacket and his right hand in his trouser pocket, turned around and walked away.

There was a crowd of people in the corridor on the second floor, Jiang Ting pressed on the railing, and only slightly loosened his tense shoulders when he saw that he was fine.Yang Chengdong had already brought people down, and he stood dumbfounded in front of the gate of the Municipal Bureau and looked this way, with a look of worry, anxiety, and shock mixed with the expression that the three views had been refreshed.

Liao Gang hurriedly pushed through the crowd to catch up with Wu Yu: "Xiao Wu—Wu Detachment..."

"Next time, don't engage in this kind of verbal dispute with others. I have not met everyone by chance." Wu Yu said calmly without stopping, "There are only a few people who care about the truth in this world. Most of the truth is only the part of the truth that the human eye can see."

Liao Gang was still angry: "I just wanted to explain things to him at first..."

"Everything has difficulties, but it doesn't mean it can be explained clearly." Wu Yu interrupted him, "Revenge and justice are usually just stories in legends. The story doesn't need us policemen to kneel on the ground and hold a magnifying glass to find clues and clues inch by inch. proof."

Liao Gang woke up as if a basin of ice water had been poured over all his unwillingness and anger. After a while, he felt a little ashamed and changed the subject with a sigh: "Did you find anything upstairs?"

Wu Yu said: "No, Professor Jiang and I were just watching the body camera video of the rescue day, when we were suddenly interrupted by your yelling."

"Can you hear the movement here in the office on the second floor?" Liao Gang asked in amazement.

"Of course I can, I don't have your voice—"

Wu Yu stopped in his tracks, and for some reason, his expression suddenly changed.

Liao Gang didn't understand, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

"...Here we come, the door breaker is here!" "Be careful! Everyone back off! Three two one—" Boom!

"Where is the distribution box?" "Is this place locked up?" "What's inside, oh, be careful!"

"Fuck! Rinse the drainpipes, some children are dying!" "Where is what?" "Hurry up, someone!"

……

The chaotic human voice in the video is stripped and cocooned, every tone amplitude and every inch of volume level are quickly fixed and disassembled by the brain, and a sound wave diagram composed of countless undulating curves is spun and raised.

In the intricate sound track, a certain voice suddenly stood out, like a sharp knife cutting through the darkness——

"What, what's the matter?" Liao Gang was puzzled: "What's the matter, Xiao Wu?"

Wu Yu raised one hand and turned his head slightly. Liao Gang saw that his jaw line was tight and cold, and the corners of his eyes showed a long arc because of the tightness: "—that video is indeed strange, I want to Go up and look again."

"what?"

"I may know what happened to the murder in this secret room."