When the man's originally warm and clear voice came out through the voice changer, it was so deep and hoarse that it made one's skin crawl.
"The first task, get the USB flash drive that contains the audio files, oh, by the way, remember not to tell anyone."
"I know you are a detective with great powers, but..." He paused slightly, lowered his voice, and raised his tail.
"If you call the police, you will never see your lovely family again."
Song Yuhang stood in the corridor outside the bathroom, panting heavily, his eyes tearing apart.
"What exactly do you want?"
"It's not that good." The man sighed quietly, "I just want to play a game with Team Song."
"In order not to disturb us, you go ten steps forward now. There is a green trash can in the corridor. Throw your mobile phone in there. I will contact you again after I get the USB flash drive."
"Oh, that's right." The man glanced at his watch: "You have less than half an hour left, and I will start the electric shock again in half an hour."
"I'm also curious about how many electric shocks such a young child can withstand. I haven't told you yet. The voltage will gradually increase."
"Or, you don't want to play this game. It's just that such a cute child is about to close his account, tsk tsk, what a pity."
Song Yuhang was furious: "Stop!!!"
Listening to the growling and her violent panting, the man happily hung up the phone and raised his hand to signal for him to drive.
The cold wind blowing from the empty airport, not far from the sight, there is a green trash can standing quietly,
Song Yuhang seemed to be in a transparent glass cover with nowhere to hide. The overhead surveillance and the closed-circuit television in the corridor were like pairs of dark and vicious eyes, watching her every move all the time.
Shocked and frightened, she stood there trembling with her mobile phone, her usually calm eyes were full of panic.
For countless moments, she wanted to call back to the City Bureau for help, and ask the big guys to help her find it together. There are more people than strength.
There were also countless moments when I wanted to turn around and go back to Lin Yan and tell her the fact of being threatened.
But the kidnapper said: "Anyone."
anyone.
Her Adam's apple rolled up and down, and she could only swallow the bitter fruit alone.
She couldn't bet on the lives of Xiao Wei and Ji Jingxing.
And mother, when she thought of this, her hanging heart tightened even more.
For her who disappeared with Xiao Wei, it's probably more ominous than good.
At this time, I don't know whose child in the airport started crying. The sharp crying pierced her eardrum and pierced her heart hard.
Song Yuhang didn't hesitate anymore, wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, strode away, quickly typed a line, pressed the send button, and threw the phone into the trash can.
When she ran through the central hall of the airport, she turned her head and glanced at the place where they were sitting just now, and there was no one there.
The boarding announcement has already sounded, they should go, Song Yuhang felt a little bit in his heart, and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but his eyes were slightly moist.
Lin Yan, I'm sorry.
She muttered silently and ran straight to the parking lot.
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The last three minutes before boarding.
Song Yuhang still didn't come, Lin Yan knew what happened.
"You go, someone will pick you up when you get there, I have already arranged to accompany you."
Duan Cheng turned his head frequently: "Sister Lin..."
Lin Yan yelled sharply: "Go away, this is an order!"
After all, he sank into the raging crowd without looking back.
The three of them lined up to pass the security check.
"Sir, please show me your ID."
"Sir? Sir?" The staff called several times, and Duan Cheng dully pulled out his ID card from his wallet.
Just as the security inspector was about to pick it up, he seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and pulled it back again. He looked back at each other, and the other two nodded as well, with the same brilliance shining in their eyes.
He stuffed the backpack into the hands of the security inspector, and ran away: "I'm sorry, I'll store the things with you for a while."
Lin Yan looked for the coffee shop and knocked on the women's bathroom door one by one, but still found nothing.
She turned on the phone, and there was only one sentence on the screen: I'm sorry.
The inscription is Song Yuhang.
Lin Yan clenched her lower lip, her eyes were sour, I'm sorry, I'm sorry your mother!
She turned around and slammed her fist hard against the wall, causing the passers-by to jump in shock.
Fang Xin ran over from a distance, unable to speak: "Lin... Sister Lin, Lao Zheng... Lao Zheng said that he can check the surveillance."
A sneer twitched at the corner of Lin Yan's lips: "Don't bother, just bring your police ID and go directly to the control room at the airport."
"police."
Lin Yan said "policeman", but his actions were full of banditry. He kicked open the door directly, and the police officer's card was in the face of the airport staff.
A few people behind him also showed their police officer IDs to Lin Yan as a front, with awe-inspiring righteousness on their faces and a lot of panic in their hearts.
"The Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau was ordered to investigate the case. Get out of the way. We need to adjust the monitoring."
It was the little leader who was shoved away by Lin Yan just now and got up again, wanting to pull down their certificates and take a closer look.
There are warning signs and positions on it.
Duan Cheng coughed heavily, and several people took it back in unison.
Lin Yan, who was the leader, went straight to the big screen. Seeing that the operator couldn't get up, he grabbed the man by the back collar and dragged him up.
A tall man of 1.7 meters was shoved aside like a chicken.
"Old Zheng, come."
Zheng Chengrui nodded, walked over and sat down, and began to monitor backwards.
The staff in the central control room looked at each other in blank silence.
No one can figure out their identities. After all, they have the title of "Municipal Public Security Bureau". stop.
Duan Cheng supported his chair, and whispered: "Old Zheng, hurry up, you all have certificates, I'm a fake, and when the security comes, we won't be able to fly with our wings."
Zheng Chengrui's forehead was dripping with sweat, typing on the keyboard quickly, watching the monitor frame by frame.
A woman in a black jacket ran out of the bathroom hallway.
Lin Yan shouted "Stop", and the screen was frozen at the moment when she threw the phone.
The quality of the surveillance video was not very clear, and she couldn't see her facial expression clearly, but just from this movement, Lin Yan could sense something was wrong.
Alarm bells rang in her mind: "Look at the surveillance cameras in the parking lot."
Sure enough, the scene cut to the parking lot, and a white Audi slowly slid out.
"Damn it." Lin Yan spat hard, turned around and left, calling his people while walking.
"Hey, has Song Yuhang returned to the villa?"
After Song Yuhang took things from the safe, he trotted downstairs, just bumping into Lin Yan's bodyguard at the door.
The moment their eyes met.
Lin Yan gritted her teeth: "Stop her!"
With punches and kicks coming at him, Song Yuhang dodged sideways, grabbed his collar and threw him into the flower bed.
The rest of the bodyguards who stayed behind also rushed forward when they saw that their hands were moved.
Many of these people have met face-to-face, so she didn't stop her when she came in just now.
Song Yuhang's eyes turned red, and he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."
Kicking away the person blocking the way, he ran to the side of the car, opened the door and sat in.
The bodyguard jumped up and pulled the car window. Her eyes were red, and she stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.
The car made a sharp turn on the mountain road, and the bodyguard rolled to the side of the road.
Song Yuhang glanced back and saw that Qingshan Villa was getting farther and farther away from her.
Hearing the sound of fighting over there and the sound of sudden braking, Lin Yan almost gritted his silver teeth.
"Damn, chase!"
As soon as they ran out, patrol officers with electric batons surrounded them from afar.
It would be fine if he was interrogated normally, but with Lin Yan's identity and background, there was really nothing he couldn't handle.
But now, she couldn't afford to delay even a minute.
Several people looked at each other.
Lin Yan shouted: "Run!"
The four scattered and ran in different directions, disappearing into the crowd.
"Stop! Don't run!" The security guards chased after him.
One of them was wearing a uniform, out of breath from running, propping his knees, wiping the sweat from his forehead, with sharp eyes, he felt that the woman looked so familiar.
Isn't it Lin Yan, the forensic doctor of the Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau
He took out his mobile phone and called the city bureau with one call.
When Feng Jianguo received the report, he was drinking tea and reading the newspaper, and the tea was sprayed all over the table.
"what?!"
It's all fucking messed up.
"Master, it's not good." Lin Butler hurried into the bedroom and whispered something in his ear.
"The person we sent out last time also died, and the body has been found."
Lin Youyuan's pupils shrank, he put down the medicine bowl and coughed violently: "Stop... stop her, don't... don't let her go!"
As an outsider, or someone with a plan, he has maintained enough sobriety and reason, he is not easily irritated like Lin Yan, and he will ignore his blood impulse once it comes to him.
When he heard the news, he realized almost subconsciously who this bureau was targeting.
"Okay, I see, I'll make arrangements now."
The butler hurried out.
Lin Youyuan rubbed the center of his brows, thinking a thousand times: Could it be that there is another force involved
Who is it
Or, did he really come back
The old man slid the wheelchair, groped to the side of the bed, took out the mobile phone from under the pillow, and pressed the familiar number.
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"Miss." As soon as the driver opened the car door, Lin Yan dragged him down and sat in by herself. At the intersection ahead, she met three people who were rushing towards her. She turned the steering wheel and drove out of the airport ramp.
Lin Yan glanced back, and the police car honked its horn in hot pursuit. She gritted her teeth: "You didn't show your face, did you?"
The few people behind were obediently wearing masks and hats.
Duan Cheng shook his head: "Sister Lin, where can we find Team Song now?"
Lin Yan raced on the high speed, almost turning the sports car into a racing car, dodging left and right in the crowded traffic, abruptly pulling a long distance from the police car.
She didn't look back, her face was stern: "I'll find a place to drop you off after getting off the expressway, and go back to each house, each finds each mother."
Song Yuhang drove down the mountain, and there was a folder on the passenger seat next to her. It was something she took out from Lin Yan's house, and it was all their hard work in investigating the case these days.
She glanced at it, forced herself to look away, and looked at her watch again. One minute had passed since the agreed time, and she couldn't help punching the steering wheel, panting heavily.
A mother and daughter were crossing the road on the zebra crossing in front of her. She pulled over and parked the car with the open window next to the public phone box on the sidewalk.
The bell rang in a hurry, like a reminder, but this place belongs to the suburbs, and the land is sparsely populated.
There was no one on the road except her car and the mother and daughter who had just passed by.
Song Yuhang stared at the public phone booth, his eyes were bloodshot, he pushed open the car door, ran over, and picked it up.
"Hello?" Her voice was panting rapidly, wishing to tear the kidnapper's body to pieces.
"First of all, congratulations, you have completed the achievements of the first stage, but it is still a minute late, so I still have to punish her."
"Why don't you guess, who will be let in this time, is it the big one, the small one, or..."
He paused for a moment, meaningful.
Song Yuhang squeezed the receiver and roared: "Don't touch my mother, don't touch them, what are you doing to me! Come to me!"
The man laughed: "Don't worry, Team Song, it will be your turn soon."
"Okay, let's go to the next location now. I'll just say it once. If you go late, they will die."
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After getting off the airport expressway, Lin Yan rushed into the side road before the green light turned red, made a detour on the viaduct, and successfully got rid of the pursuers behind him.
With a "creak", the tires rubbed against the asphalt road, making a sharp sound.
She opened the car door: "Let's go!"
Several people remained motionless.
Duan Cheng looked at her slowly, moved his lips: "Sister Lin..."
Lin Yan squeezed the steering wheel tightly, and looked back at them: "This matter has nothing to do with you, don't ask anything, the less you know, the better."
"But—" Several people protested.
Lin Yan turned his face away again, staring straight ahead.
"You have also seen that the people chasing me are not only the police but also some other unknown forces."
"Get out of the car, it's for your own good."
Zheng Chengrui pushed his glasses, he was still calm, the pursuers hadn't caught up yet, so they could talk for a while.
"But we're leaving, how can you find Team Song by yourself? There are so many people, so much strength."
"I have my own way." Lin Yan took a deep breath and urged them: "Hurry up, if you don't leave, the police will catch up and mess with me. Are you going to lose your future?"
Duan Cheng's face seemed a little confused: "Although I don't know whether what Sister Lin is doing is right or wrong, I think I should stand by your side."
"You are not only my superior, but also my friend."
The word "friend" is such a luxury.
In Lin Yan's past life, there were very few people who could be called "friends".
She bent her lips and smiled, and quickly returned to her sternness.
She thought it was just Duan Cheng's idea, but she wanted to persuade her again when she looked back, but she saw that these two eyes were all looking at her in unison.
At that moment, Lin Yan felt the loneliness and depression left behind by Song Yuhang, the sadness of being betrayed by his lover, and even his restless mood were all soothed a lot.
It was as if an invisible force had injected into his body.
Her whole body was shaken.
"Since we are friends, get out of the car."
She finished speaking coldly, and threw a communicator over.
Duan Cheng was startled, but when he saw the communicator smashed into his arms, he smiled again, opened the door and got out of the car.
A group of people stood on the side of the road watching her white car drive away, then randomly picked an empty restaurant and walked in.
Not long after they got in and sat down, a police car whizzed by.
Following a few vehicles with local license plates of different models, Duan Cheng picked up the steamed buns on the plate and took a bite.
It seems that Sister Lin is right.
She was indeed being targeted by various forces.
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"This... person has passed out, is it off?" The little child hung his head and leaned on the electric shock chair.
asked the masked man.
The man in a black suit standing next to him with his hands behind his back was expressionless, as if he was just a tool for communicating.
"The boss said that as long as she doesn't come, the phone will continue."
Another gangster who was a little fatter swallowed: "If this goes on, people will die."
Only then did the man in the black suit lazily raise his eyes, and his tone was still straightforward: "You are wanted criminals now, even if you don't do anything, the police will not let you go. When things are done, the boss will send you abroad. I will give you 50,000 U.S. dollars as a reward, and you will never have to be afraid of the police again.”
A jungle on the frontier.
Kuba hurried down from the wooden house and told the news to the old man who was basking in the sun in the courtyard.
The old man likes tea, and standing next to him is an Asian girl with low eyebrows, who is only about ten years old, making tea for him.
He waved his hand to signal people to go down.
The girl was barefoot, and when she bent over and bowed, there were shocking marks of being beaten on the back of her neck.
Kuba approached him: "Would you like to send someone to stop him? It's too much to startle the snake."
After staying with the Chinese for a long time, I can use proverbs.
The old man smiled, waving his cattail fan, with a peaceful face.
"No, let him go, he doesn't have the ability, so he doesn't deserve it..."
He took a sip of the brewed tea, and the blank space was intriguing enough.
There was a colorful parrot on the old man's shoulder, and he followed suit: "I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it..."
Kuba backed off.
The old man spread out the ration in his hand, and gently caressed the soft feathers of the parrot.
"Good boy, eat."
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After entering the city, the road conditions get worse.
Lin Yan had no choice but to start a city rally with the pursuers.
The white sports car shuttled in the alley, the rearview mirror was squeezed crooked, the wheels ran over the washboard of the people washing clothes on the side of the road, and the water basin was overturned, causing people to curse.
"Fuck you, can you drive?!"
As soon as she finished speaking, several black cars squeezed in, knocked over the cage at the entrance of the opposite pet shop, and there was a flutter of chaos.
Lin Yan didn't forget to think even in such a tense time.
Why did Song Yuhang use a USB flash drive
She understands that she must be forced to do so.
only…
She remembered what the mysterious man in the provincial capital had said to her.
"Song Yuhang is credible, but not completely trustworthy. Don't forget whose apprentice she is. You have been in danger again and again, and there is no news of the inspection materials handed over to the provincial department. How can you be sure that it was not done by someone close to you?" Woolen cloth."
"You are black, she is white, there is no guarantee that one day, she will abandon you for the sake of so-called justice."
Lin Yan bit his lower lip to bleed out, only to feel a raging fire burning in his chest, which almost burned his sanity to death.
It was too late to step on the brakes against a wall in a trance.
Lin Yan bumped into it head-on, there was a buzz in his head, and the airbag popped out.
"Clatter—" the windshield cracked open, and the broken glass brushed against the corner of her eye, leaving a bloodstain.
The broken bricks and tiles that hit the head and covered the face dented half of the roof.
Lin Yan gritted his teeth and turned the steering wheel to the right. The tires rubbed against the ground and sparks appeared, and he flew out of the ruins.
Seeing a police car coming out of the side to block the road, she increased her horsepower, stepped on the accelerator, and turned into the main road with a perfect drift.
The black car behind her was not so lucky. After chasing her out, it hit the police car head-on.
The speed of the two cars was not low, and there was a loud "bang", the black car spun around and hit the sidewalk, and instantly overturned, emitting black smoke.
The crowd panicked and screamed.
The police car was hit by a nearby landscape tree, the trunk of the bowl-thick tree snapped off, and the fire was completely extinguished.
The driver leaned on the steering wheel, transparent gasoline gurgled from the fuel tank, and a pungent smell permeated the air.
The sound of an ambulance in the downtown area rang.
Lin Yan glanced back, cold sweat came down his forehead, and Zheng Chengrui's voice came from the headset.
"Sister Lin, we found it. Team Song drove to the direction of Yeling Mountain in the north of the city."
A few people hid in Zheng Chengrui's house after escaping the pursuers, with the curtains drawn, and Duan Cheng watched at the door.
Zheng Chengrui was typing on the keyboard, and Fang Xin watched the monitor with him.
Lin Yan drove onto the highway out of the city.
"okay, I get it."
She closed her eyes and pursed her lower lip slightly: "Go and verify one more thing for me, I don't feel at ease if others do it."
She reported the address of Song Yuhang's home.
Zheng Chengrui picked up the computer and stuffed it into his bag and went out with them.
The car drove downstairs to Song's house.
When several people raised their feet and wanted to go up, Fang Xin pulled them back, and frowned at the footprints on the residual snow on the ground.
"What's wrong?"
"There was a fight here." She stepped on the ice slag lightly and walked around.
"One footprint, two, three, four..."
It is a basic skill to identify footprints in trace inspection.
Fang Xin squatted down, reached out to touch it, and took out his phone to take a photo.
"It's a woman's footprint, with a lot of dragging, going from here to there."
Looking in the direction of her fingers, two prominent wheel marks are clearly visible.
Thankfully it snowed last night.
When the photo was sent to Lin Yan, she immediately recognized who the footprint belonged to.
When passing each other in the corridor in the morning, she noticed that Ji Jingxing was wearing a pair of thick-soled leather boots.
That brand is very popular this year, of course she also has it.
Lin Yan put her fingers between her eyebrows, pinching red marks on her fair skin irritably.
Sure enough, she didn't expect it.
With a "creak", she pulled over on the highway and stopped the car, letting out a deep breath.
"Stop chasing Song Yuhang, I don't believe it. In such a big Jiangcheng, no one saw three people being kidnapped alive?!"
"Old Zheng, change the direction of investigation and check the whereabouts of that group of people."
Duan Cheng nodded: "I'll go door to door and ask."
Fang Xin: "I'll go too."
Zheng Chengrui jumped into his car. He worked long hours and was the only one among these few who had a car.
As soon as he sat in, he immediately turned on the computer and tapped the keyboard quickly.
"Sister Lin, I can't use my intranet account. I don't know how long I can hack into it. I'll do it as soon as possible. Also, do you have their photos? Send them to Duan Cheng and the others to find someone."
Lin Yan picked up her mobile phone and wanted to check Song Yuhang's news to see if there was any, but she saw the photo she posted that day at a glance.
"I will always be loyal to ideals and you."
Her eyes were hot, and she almost shed tears.
Damn, liar, big liar.
Do you know that if you go today, you will betray your ideals and me.
Lin Yan only felt that there was a long gap in her heart, and the wind was blowing in, blowing her like falling into an ice cave, and her internal organs hurt.
"Sister Lin, Sister Lin?" Zheng Chengrui called her anxiously.
Lin Yan wiped away the water in her eyes, and scrolled through her dynamics, but there was nothing there.
This is her first and only one.
Lin Yan supported her forehead with her hands, sucked her nose, and forced back the tears. For a moment, she wanted to throw the phone out.
However, in the end, he just squeezed tightly, clenched his back molars, quickly adjusted his emotions, and sat up straight.
"No, I don't have any here."
"Name? Let me see if I can figure it out." Zheng Chengrui asked.
Lin Yan gave it to him, reached out and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the bridge, and lit it tremblingly.
Her car was badly damaged, and the bitter winter wind poured in through the broken car glass, which quickly turned her hands pale, and even extinguished the smoke a few times.
She took a deep breath, and the dots of fire flickered in the twilight.
She was forcing herself to calm down.
This is the first time that the technical detective has been separated from Song Yuhang to handle the case alone.
No matter how messed up she is, the children following her will only mess up.
In that USB flash drive were Guo Xiaoguang's and Guo's mother's lives, and even Chunan's.
She wanted to keep it no matter what.
Song Yuhang carried the three lives of the Song family on her back, and she wanted to keep them no matter what.
But what if we can only choose the lesser of two evils
How will Song Yuhang choose
She should know that taking away the USB flash drive is tantamount to killing her, taking away all her hope of surviving, and also burying the "Fenyang Wharf Corpse Dismemberment Case" forever, never seeing the light of day.
Lin Yan clenched his fists, his nails dug deep into the flesh, and bit the skin of his mouth to smell blood.
Song Yuhang, how would you choose
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"Yes, Officer Song is really punctual."
According to the agreement, Song Yuhang found the mobile phone he had put in the waterproof bag in the toilet cover of the gas station bathroom at the highway intersection, opened it and saved only one phone number, and dialed back to the other party.
The man smiled, but his voice was hoarse: "Okay, let's start the next game, see you at Yelingshan Tunnel."
"What on earth do you want to do?!" Song Yuhang's eyes were red, and he was so emaciated that he had no human figure in just a few hours. Because of the violent running, his hair was piled up on his forehead in a mess.
"Didn't I say it? I want something on your body."
"Then let's deal face to face, let me see them." Song Yuhang replied hoarsely.
"Yo, you promised so readily?"
She managed to gather herself together and walked out: "Nothing is as important as my family's life."
The other party smiled, as if he had understood her intentions a long time ago.
"Don't think about delaying time, or asking for help with your mobile phone, the signal receiver terminal connected to the mobile phone is on my side, whether you are calling or sending text messages, there will be reminders, you make a call outside , send a text message, I will kill a person, hahaha... "
His heartbroken laughter came from the receiver.
Song Yuhang was out of breath, her internal organs were throbbing, she gritted her teeth, and jumped out word by word.
"If you dare to touch them with a finger, I will never give you anything!"
The man returned to his home, sat on a chair, poured a glass of red wine, and cleared his throat.
"It's okay, you can destroy it, it's better for me, it's just..."
He looked at the face of the child carved in pink and jade on the screen, and licked his lips.
"Such a small child has to suffer so much, and my heart aches."