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Swallowing the Seas - Chapter 10

Published at 28th of April 2023 05:45:12 AM


Chapter 10

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   Wu Yu exhaled and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.

    The sky is getting late outside the window, and the glass window reflects the glowing computer screen. The search pictures on the page are amazingly different forms of skull helmets and human head masks, rotting, simulation, archaeological unearthed, overseas exhibit... But none fit He Xingxing's description of the murderer.

    Even if keywords such as "sacrifice" and "jumping god" are added to the search box, the resulting picture is very different from the vague scene in memory.

    ——Have I really seen it? Wu Yu thought.

    Bu Chonghua's words that day sounded again: "...Typical memory disorder-type stress disorder, which made him subconsciously tamper with and exaggerate his memory, which is the result of the interplay of fear, fantasy and real memory..."

    If stress disorder can confuse memory, how can we be sure that the scene more than two decades ago is real?

    Could this skull helmet really have nothing to do with religious behavior "over there"?

    Wu Yu stood up and walked a few steps. Through the half-covered blinds, you can see Bu Chonghua and the others in the detachment leader's office for a meeting. Even Xu Ju came down in person, sitting on the sofa with a solemn expression and listening to Cai Lin's report. result.

    Bu Chonghua's expression was attentive, his shirt cuffs up to his elbows, and he sat on the edge of the desk. Facts have proved that staying up late is the natural enemy of anti-aging. After the detachment stayed up for two whole days and one night, even the grass-level facial features of the police academy of the detachment did not hold up, the eyebrows were filled with anxiety and fatigue, and the eyes were full of scary Bloodshot.

    Cai Lin's voice floated from the crack of the door: "We have almost given up our efforts on the scene. From yesterday afternoon to today, the focus of the investigation has always been the social grievances of the Nian family, but no clues can be found. The problem is that there is no motive..."

    More than 80% of homicides are committed by acquaintances. Finding the motive is equivalent to overcoming the biggest problem, but this case has no clue about the motive.

    Wu Yu subconsciously took out a cigarette, before he had time to light it, Bu Chonghua suddenly raised his head as if he had a sixth sense, and stared at him through the crack of the door. Putting his index and middle fingers together a little bit apart, meaning no, accurate, and smoke. .

    Wu Yu: "..."

    From Xu Ju's angle, he couldn't see outside the door: "Hey? What's the matter with you?"

    "I pay attention to the health of my subordinates and show my few concerns as a boss." Bu Chonghua replied calmly and turned to Cai Lin: "Is the screening results of the morgues in major hospitals available?"

    Cai Lin said with a sad face: "Even the illegally operated private morgue has been dug out by us, not to mention the skulls, and even the uncorrupted heads have not lost records..."

    Bu Chonghua quickly pondered the case in his mind, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at Wu Yu outside the door, and saw him take a deep breath - at that moment Bu Chonghua felt that his ancestor's eighteenth generation was cordially greeted again. Again. However, unexpectedly, Wu Yu held back for a while, turned and walked out of the large office.

    Going outside to smoke, Bu Chonghua thought.

    He thought so, and he felt as if he paid a little more attention to this kid. Before he had time to get distracted to think about why, suddenly Liao Gang probed into the door and called Xu Ju, and then asked: "Captain, you asked the three groups to investigate the social relations of the Nian family before they came to Jinhai. Now they return the results. , Listen?"

    Xu Ju immediately forgot the previous incident: "Listen, how about it?"

    "Nian Daxing, forty-five years old this year, my hometown is in Yangzaozi Village, Gaochi County. I usually rent in Xiaogang Village in the suburban area around Jinhai. Floating migrant workers. According to the records faxed by the Gaochi County Police Station, they were a gangster who had sneaked, drank, and beaten his wife to the village committee for mediation seven or eight times. In those years in his hometown, he was domineering and often fought with villagers. He once seized half of his neighbor’s homestead."

    Xu Ju immediately said: "Then quickly follow this line to investigate and send someone to his hometown to find out?"

    Liao Gang hurriedly said to leave, but suddenly heard Bu Chonghua: "——Wait. He occupied the neighbor's land?"

    "Yes, the faxes we received are all police records, and each record contains a summary of the alarm..."

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    Everyone in the office was full of question marks, staring shiningly at Bu Chonghua, just listening to him whispering: "Nian Daxing has only a daughter, and it is considered a'unpopular' in those backward places. Even if it is a domineering bastard, it is at most some Taking advantage of trivial matters, it will never take the neighbor’s land forcibly. Now in many places, the homestead can be killed. Unless he has other reliance, it is enough to make other neighbors dare not provoke, but it is not involved in the crime. Otherwise, the local police station will not mention anything when cross-certified with us..."

    The homestead is divided according to the head of each household. The more males in the family, the more they can speak. Liao Gang wondered if the neighbor is a widow? Disability? Old man?

    Bu Chonghua's face suddenly changed, and he didn't know what he was thinking of, so he walked to the desk and turned on the computer.

    The second monk Xu Juzhang couldn't figure it out: "Hey? What are you checking?"

    "Intranet." Bu Chonghua stared at the screen fluorescence: "National Public Security Crime Database."

    Wu Yu went down to the front of the Criminal Investigation Detachment Building and took a deep breath of the cool air of the early summer night. Then he lit the cigarette, opened the phone address book, and unconsciously swiped the screen up and down.

    Do you really want to fight? He hesitated.

    He knew before Jinhai that he only needed to check in to work, get money on time, quit his job two years later, disappear silently into the sea of ​​people, and live steadily and mediocrely to old age. Even if he has no shame, he has no shame in his heart. Now, those bloody and bizarre murders should not have anything to do with him anymore.

    But don't know why, Nian Xiaoping's gray eyes and Bu Chonghua's sharp, bloodshot pupils flashed in his mind like a pantomime that was fast-forwarded.

    "..." Wu Yu let out a long sigh, and finally pressed the number with a cigarette in it—

    Yundian Airport.

    Lin Kang strode out of the arrival hall with a briefcase. A black car had already been waiting on the sidewalk. The driver got out of the car and opened the back door, calling Lin Ke.

    Lin Kang sat in the car without saying a word.

    The driver was used to his style a long time ago, and he didn't care about it. While starting the car, he carefully looked at him from the rearview mirror: "Where are we going now, Linke? Should I take you home or—"

    Lin Kang closed his eyes slightly and spit out two words: "The provincial government."

    The driver has been with him for a while, and he can feel that although he has no abnormal appearance on the surface, he is not in a good mood, so he didn't say a word, and immediately turned on the lights and turned.

     Just then the phone rang in the car.

    Lin Kang opened his eyes abruptly and connected to the phone. At that moment, his tone made the driver suspect that he had heard him wrong: "Hello?"

     "Is it convenient to talk?"

    The voice on the phone was slightly hoarse, but it had a calm texture. The driver was sure he had never heard it. He couldn't help but glanced in the rearview mirror, and unexpectedly found Lin Kang's eyes crooked, he was smiling!

     Lin Ke is actually smiling, is there something wrong with his eyes or the rearview mirror?

     "It's convenient, my plane just landed—what's wrong?"

     There was a rustle on the other side of the call, and it took a while to hear the voice vaguely said: "I want to ask you for help."

    Lin Kang sat up straight unconsciously, with a smile in his voice: "What are you busy?"

     Wu Yu stood on the sidewalk in front of the branch office, squinting his eyes in the smoke, and the night view of the bustling street was reflected in his eyes.

    "When I was in the south in my early years, I once went into a local village and happened to see a wizard wearing a human bone mask dancing to a great god. Sometimes I dreamed of the previous events at night. The human bone mask was quite scary. When I woke up, I thought about it. What kind of religious activities it is, I have also drawn down the picture, and I have been thinking about it all day."

    Lin Kang's smile slowly faded, and at the end he looked a little serious: "Do you often dream at night?"

    "Occasionally." Wu Yu dealt with vaguely, and said, "I just want to know what that mask is for. I feel that if I figure out a lot of things, I won't worry about it anymore. I heard people say Your authority can check things quickly, can you check it for me?"

    Lin Kang asked in a deep voice, "You often have nightmares at night, why don't you tell me?"

    Wu Yu was speechless for a while, and after a pause, he said discouragedly: "It might be a violation of discipline, so you can check it out."

    Lin Kang sighed quietly: "Wu Yu..."

    The driver knew that he should watch his nose, nose, and heart, but Chief Lin sighed, as if swallowing a thousand words, making the hearts, liver and heart of others tremble.

    Fortunately, Section Chief Lin didn't say anything after that sigh, and only gently said: "Then you can send me the picture you drew."

    It is illegal to disclose key clues when the case is unsolved, even if the counterparty is a colleague in a different jurisdiction. So Wu Yu previously copied the skull helmet and saved it in the phone album, and sent it to Lin Kang by SMS.

    The phone buzzed and Lin Kang glanced.

    "I know, leave it to me." He paused, as if he couldn't help it finally, and whispered to the phone: "Wu Yu?"

    Wu Yu groaned, and was about to smoke with a cigarette in it. Suddenly, there was a mobile phone in the shadow not far away. It was unique when taking pictures: click!

    The movement was extremely slight, inconspicuous to the extreme in the bustling streets, but in the flash of lightning, Wu Yu, who was half of his body, suddenly raised his head, looking for his reputation with incomparable precision, and then his hands were in the air.

    ——Nian Daxing was standing on the opposite side of the sidewalk. Before he could hide his mobile phone camera, his face was tense, staring at him from bottom to top.

    The green light turned red in the distance, and the crimson light reflected in the triangular eyes, glowing like a snake venom.

    Wu Yu had experienced too many moments of life and death, and he had a premonition at almost the same moment, and his pupils suddenly tightened. Lin Kang asked something on the phone, but he wasn't listening. He saw Nian Daxing's face twisted and opened his mouth to make a few lips:

    "Two, three, six, five, nine--"

    In the branch office, Bu Chonghua's cursor slid quickly from the densely packed web pages, and then stopped, and a dull and rigid two-inch headless photo of Nian Daxing appeared on the screen: "Sure enough."

    Xu Ju took a look: "Oh, this kid has a criminal record?"

    "But the police record we received..." Liao Gang stopped abruptly, and then reacted suddenly. The national criminal record database has not been completed. The police station’s criminal record is only kept for ten years, and if Nian Daxing is detained in another province Yes, the original police station may not have internet access!

    And in those particularly feudal places, apart from having many sons in the family, what else can deter the four miles and eight townships?

    ——Too big jail!

    "Nian Daxing, originally named Niangui, 14 years ago was sentenced to three years in prison for assisting in the sale of opium for less than 200 grams, and a fine of 5,000 yuan." Bu Chonghua read the record on the intranet verbatim, his eyes fell on the next line Above: "Yundian, Jinkang District Detention Center, Baoshan Prison, where the sentence was served."

    23659.

    The night breeze was cool and the laughter was noisy, no one noticed Wu Yu standing motionless on the sidewalk, his pupils slightly dilated.

    This string of numbers is like a key, suddenly opening an inconspicuous door in the memory corner, and the pictures that have been blocked for many years roar towards you. He seemed to see the fragmented sky outside the iron windows again, and there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and then the iron door of the cell slammed shut, and the guard raised his voice at the end of the empty and gloomy corridor:

    "Two, three, six, five, nine! Someone is visiting—"

    "I didn't expect it? After so many years, what can't be avoided or can't be avoided?" Nian Daxing grinned, his joyful tone almost couldn't control the yellow ice | fangs sprayed out: "put on the official skin So what, does Tiaozi know what happened to you before?"

    "Wu Yu?" Lin Kang seemed to hear something, and felt the breathing on the other end of the call tighten, and immediately asked, "What's wrong with you?"

    "..."

    "Hello? Wu Yu!"

    “The deceased’s property was not lost, there were no signs of indecent sexual assault, and the witnesses at the scene were unscathed. Excluding love murder, robbery, and interest entanglement, vendetta or extermination should be the most likely cause of murder. Nian Xiaoping and Fan Ling have no social grievances. If the direction of this case is right, the key point may fall on Nian Daxing's criminal record."

    Everyone in the detachment leader's office stood up, and Bu Chonghua said solemnly, "Nian Daxing didn't tell us the truth-Cai Lin contacted the Xiaogang Village Police Station and asked them to bring Nian Daxing over to help with the investigation. Go now!"

    Cai Lin jumped up and said, "Yes!" Then Fei also ran away.

    Bu Chonghua let out a long breath, rubbed the aching eyebrows at the knuckles of his middle finger, hula opened the window. The evening breeze swept in with the lively and lively urban atmosphere, instantly blowing away the strong smell of cigarettes, instant noodles, and deep-fried skewers in the large office outside, which was refreshing.

    A star of red light was shining under the shade of the tree at the gate of the branch, and Bu Chonghua looked intently, and saw that it was Wu Yu as expected, smoking a cigarette with his back facing him, and didn't know who he was talking to.

    -With whom? friend?

    The black Audi that drove away in front of the hospital that night and the text message that was not replied that night, both suddenly emerged from memory at the same time, giving Bu Chonghua a strange feeling in his heart.

    ......I really want to be stunned by the facts of the case. What matters to you in your private life. Bu Chonghua sighed to himself and was about to close the window. When Wu Yu finally turned around with his mobile phone, he seemed to be going back to the Criminal Investigation Detachment Building, but suddenly stood still and stood in a stiff posture that could not turn. Under the shade of the tree, staring at something not far away.

    Bu Chonghua said to his heart what he was looking at, so he followed his line of sight and looked forward. Through the canopy of the sidewalk, he vaguely saw the individual standing there, but could not see who it was.

    "Boss!" Cai Lin opened the door with his mobile phone: "The patrolman of the Xiaogang Village Police Station went to knock on the door of Nian's house. His wife said that he hadn't returned home after leaving the Public Security Bureau that day, and the phone could not be reached. He had lost contact!"

    Lost? !

    Everyone's complexion changed, and Bu Chonghua made a decisive decision: "Check the travel records under his name, tickets, air tickets, expressway toll booths at coach stations, cell phone call records within 48 hours, and surveillance videos of public telephone booths near his home, Wang Jiuling !"

    It happened that Director Wang slipped downstairs holding the instant noodles and was about to steal the marinated eggs from the cabinet of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. He staggered and said in a panic, "I, I, I only take one..."

    "Nian Daxing mobile phone triangle positioning, go now!"

    "Oh, you are so fierce, so fierce!" Director Wang hurriedly took a bag of marinated eggs in his arms, and quickly took an extra bag for the forensic room with noodles in his mouth, and rushed upstairs.

    The large office of the Criminal Investigation Detachment was suddenly busy, and everyone was walking quickly, and the air was full of tension. Bu Chonghua turned his head and closed the window, grabbed the office key, and was about to go upstairs to the technical team. Suddenly, he glanced at something out of the corner of his eye and turned his head back suddenly——

    "Wu Yu?" Lin Kang growled on the other end of the phone, "Answer me! What's wrong with you?"

    Wu Yu didn't answer and didn't move. Not far away, Nian Daxing smiled. It was a satisfied and greedy smile after holding a certain deadly handle. He said, "You are finished."

    Nian Daxing turned around and ran. At the same moment, Wu Yu flicked his cigarette butt into the trash can a few steps away, and the red light drew an arc in the dark, reflecting the high place in the eyes of Bu Chonghua——

    "It's okay," he said hoarsely, "turn around to contact you."

    Lin Kang: "Hello? What?"

    The call was cut off suddenly, and Wu Yu rushed out in the direction of Nian Daxing's escape!

    Bu Chonghua shouted: "The one with the surname Nian is there! Come here!"

    "Captain?" Liao Gangmi raised his head, before he had time to react, he saw Bu Chonghua turn to the desk in a whirlwind, grabbed his phone, called Wu Yu's number and pressed the call button, but no one answered it. I was hung up directly!

    "Hello, the call you are calling is busy..."

    Bu Chonghua rushed out of the office and kept telling Liao Gang: "Nian Daxing was at the gate of the branch just now, and Wu Yu was chasing him, and asked Old Wang to check the location of the two mobile phones surnamed Nian and Wu Yu at the same time, Cai Lin!"

    Cai Lin was eating instant noodles snoringly. Hearing the words, he flicked his chopsticks with the soup and water and rushed out, staggeringly shouting: "What's the boss?! Wait for me to go!"

    "Notify the Traffic Management Bureau, stop people along the way, car keys!"

    Cai Lin threw with all his strength, and the jeep key whirled over. Bu Chonghua slapped his hand without looking back, rushed down the corridor like lightning, and drove the lights. The police used the Wrangler to turn around with a beautiful triangle, rushed out of the gate, and whizzed into the road!

    Beep--

    The car horns came and went one after another, carrying angry shouts and screaming away: "What are you running?!" "Death!"...

    Wu Yu stopped, his whole body resembling a taut bowstring, and suddenly he swept his head back, and the left side of the light locked the back that flashed away from the alley more than ten meters away. The next moment he rushed into the alley, only to see Nian Daxing violently overthrowing the rubbish in the way, staggering to the front amidst the sound of clattering, striking "demolition" characters were painted everywhere on the fence not far away. Village in the city.

    ——The low-lying, chaotic, filthy and filthy ridden areas in modern cities are the best breeding ground for evil.

    The sound of the wind whizzed backwards from his ears, and Wu Yu's eyes flashed cold light, and the soles of his feet suddenly exerted strength, jumped up and stepped on the wall, flying over the wall for a few steps, easily surpassed the rolling and climbing Nian Daxing, and turned 360 degrees in the sky , Didn't even bring up a slight voice!

    "!"

    Nian Daxing stopped immediately and almost fell somersault. Looking forward along his trembling pupils, in the alley a few meters away, Wu Yu slowly stood up from the junction of light and shadow, his silhouette drawn sharp and narrow by the Leng Yue behind him.

    "...Do you remember who I am?" Nian Daxing's face trembled with fat, and he gritted his teeth and uttered a word.

    Wu Yu said nothing.

    "It's okay, I remember you, and I think of you whenever I see this!" Nian Daxing tucked up the loose hurdle vest, and there was a centipede-like crooked scar on his belly, half a slap long: "- —Unexpectedly, from Yundian to Jinhai, across most of China, the day when he met his deceased!"

    He looked up and down Wu Yu, his little eyes flashed with undisguised maliciousness: "You have the ability, and you have put on this skin. It should be more than just sending money to find a way, right? You said, if it is a paper Knowing that you are a fucking fugitive, can you still get out of the cell for the rest of your life?!"

    No emotion could be seen on Wu Yu's face: "What do you want?"

    Nian Daxing grinned, very proud: "What do you think I want?!"

    "You want money?"

    Nian Daxing didn't expect him to be so straightforward, and he suddenly became even more proud: "Money? I don't need money! Let's talk about it, but you can tell me how much medical expenses and spirit should I pay for when I slapped me in the stomach. Loss fee? What do you always say that the skynet is restored, is it retribution if you hit Lao Tzu, eh?"

    Knowing that he was delaying time, Wu Yu slowly touched his back with his right hand, and gently drew a dagger from the belt.

    The blade of the dagger was extremely narrow, and don't know how long it had been sharpened. The moonlight shone on the blade, reflecting a cold arc.

    Nian Daxing had no sense: "Besides, you can have a lot of money, I want to get rich, but there is no shortage of ways. There are so many people who want to kill you! Now is not the time to squat in jail. I want to see what else you can do..."

    Wu Yu moved forward imperceptibly, and his hand holding a dagger slowly dropped to his side-but at this moment, there was a motorbike blast from the direction of the city village behind him, hurriedly approaching, and he was near!

    Woo-woo-the engine stopped suddenly, and motorcycle headlights flashed at the front and back of the narrow alley. Wu Yu's eyes were pierced, and the dilapidated square inch of land was brightly lit, and then seven or eight gangsters came down from the car carrying a crowbar and holding a kitchen knife. The ground blocked the front and rear lanes.

    Then the motorcycles blocked at the end of the alley slowly drove up to a luxury car, the door opened, and a man with a round head and big ears in his fifties emerged. It may be because of mutual affection that he looks very good. Bad:

    "Ten years, God has eyes!"

    Wu Yu's gaze fell on the man's hand, and he saw that his right hand was completely normal, but his left cuff was empty, and his expression changed subtlely.

    He finally remembered who this was.

    ——In other words, he finally remembered how he chopped off this hand.

    Five or six police cars rushed out of the branch gate, flashing dazzling red and blue lights, and quickly merged into the night streets of the city.

    "Three sets of 0027, three sets of 0027, five minutes ago, the target passed Wenxing Road Pearl Entertainment|City Main Gate, repeat it five minutes ago, the target passed Wenxing Road Pearl Entertainment|City Main Gate, it's over!"

    Bu Chonghua has a steering wheel and a walkie-talkie: "Got it, I'm rushing over."

    "Brother Hua! The target is near the intersection of the expressway exit and Xinhan Road, and is moving to the south!"

    The police car turned across the road like lightning, Bu Chonghua hit to death with one-handed steering wheel, and his heart sank. Not far to the south of Xinhan Road is the Laochangping District, scattered with the largest urban villages in Jinhai City. It is said that they are preparing to be demolished at the end of the year. It is now a stage where it is difficult to monitor and the countless alleys are complex and numerous. The car can't get through, where can find someone? !

    "Boss!" Cai Lin shouted in the wind and speed switch: "They are heading towards the village in the city!"

    With a scream, the tires stopped abruptly with the sound of rubbing, and Bu Chonghua slammed the door with his backhand, his face grim.

     Behind him are row upon row of tall buildings, but in front of him are scattered narrow alleys, dilapidated roads and low shanty houses. Pools of puddles gather on the ground, and the dirty and black old-fashioned air conditioner hums.

     "Where are the three groups?" Bu Chonghua walked into the alley and asked softly to the walkie-talkie: "How about the technical team?"

     "We'll be there in seven or eight minutes at most. Director Wang is letting people track Nian Daxing's mobile phone location!" Cai Lin paused, other channels in the background one after another. I don't know what information he received, and suddenly he said: "Brother Hua?"

     "how?"

     "Director Wang can't contact Wu Yu." Cai Lin suspiciously. "He said that Wu Yu's mobile phone has an anti-tracking device."





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