On the coal train heading east, Liu Handong was gasping for breath and in shock. Too many things happened in just one hour, and his brain couldn't handle it. His right hand began to bleed again, and the wound on his waist was soaked with sweat and was burning.
pain.
Liu Handong had a canvas waist bag tied to his waist, which contained all his belongings. It was these retirement certificates, ID cards, bank cards, keys, mobile phones, sunglasses, coins and a third-class merit medal that blocked most of the stabbings.
Let him survive by chance.
There was a bruise on his neck and it swelled up slightly, as if he was wearing a meat necklace. The other party had done it because they wanted to silence him because the kidnapping was discovered. This excuse seemed a bit far-fetched. Liu Handong felt that the other party had started from the moment he got into the car.
Just prepare to kill yourself.
Liu Handong didn't care why they kidnapped the little girl. He couldn't protect himself now. The kidnapper's accomplices were clearly scum among the police. His ability to quickly transport the two injured robbers away showed that someone had been following him... Thought of this
An idea flashed in Liu Handong's mind. These people were clearly trying to put the blame on him.
There was a piece of news in yesterday's Huaijiang Morning News, saying that a certain illegal driver who molested and killed a young female passenger in the suburbs not long ago was prosecuted or sentenced to death. Liu Handong does not have a computer and his mobile phone cannot access the Internet. The newspaper is his only news channel. This
Then the news he saw accidentally appeared in his mind, allowing him to quickly connect it.
Liu Handong couldn't believe the police's detection capabilities. The car that crashed was his, the bloody dagger had his fingerprints on it, he was the one who resisted arrest and fled, and he couldn't clear his name even by jumping into the Huai River. Kidnapping plus murder, it was all right.
Death penalty.
He tried his best to calm down and analyzed carefully, he found that the scrapped Poussin was bought from a small car repair shop for 5,000 yuan. He did not even show his ID card in the black market transaction, and the serial number could not be verified. The license plate cost 400 yuan.
It is not difficult for the police to find out his identity based on these clues, but it will take at least some time.
No one can prove their innocence, even if they find the kidnapped little girl, it will not help, because she has probably never seen the kidnapper, or does not know how many kidnappers there are, and there is no guarantee that she will not be mistaken for a group of bad guys.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have run away.
The train continued to travel east. If the police were not stupid, they must have known that they were trying to escape. The car was not safe. Liu Handong took a chance and jumped out of the car. He slowly walked back along the train track. It started to rain.
It rained harder, and there were lightnings piercing the night sky, followed by thunder. There was a culvert nearby. Every night, it was filled with scavengers and homeless people. Liu Handong, who was soaked, walked over and found a place under the culvert.
Sit down and rest in the empty space.
The old man sleeping next to him got up and stared at him. The lenses of his glasses were shining dimly in the night. Liu Handong was a little alert and moved back. The man asked: "Are you injured?"
"Yeah." Liu Handong didn't want to say more.
"Disinfect." The old man handed over a 250 ml bottle of Erguotou Baijiu.
Liu Handong took it, lifted up his clothes and poured it on his waist wound and right hand. The stimulation of alcohol made him wince suddenly in pain. The old man pulled out a piece of cotton from his quilt, lit it with a lighter, signaled him not to move, and pressed it on
On the wound, miraculously, the bleeding stopped.
"Thank you, scavenger?" Liu Handong said.
"Petitioner." The old man turned around, lay down, and fell asleep again.
When it was dark, the rain stopped. Liu Handong left from the culvert. The road outside was muddy and difficult to walk on. He walked for a long time before catching a private long-distance bus into the city. He spent five yuan to the long-distance bus station and transferred to a bus.
Returning to the house he rented, it was a four-story tube building from the 1960s. Liu Handong lived on the top floor in the west. It was extremely hot in the summer and the toilets were shared and often blocked. The only advantage was that the rent was cheap.
There was nothing valuable in the house, just two sets of clothes and a quilt. The quilt was handmade by Liu Handong's mother. He figured the police wouldn't come to the house so soon, so he wanted to take away his belongings.
As soon as he folded the quilt, there were heavy footsteps in the corridor. It was early eight o'clock in the morning. It was impossible to have so many visitors in the building. He poked his head out and saw a group of men filing up the stairs below, wearing black T-shirts.
, with his flat head and gold chain, he looks like a promiscuous person at first glance.
Liu Handong intuitively felt that these people were here to find him. There was only one corridor in the Tongzi Building where he could not escape. The windows of the house he lived in were equipped with cast iron railings and he could not get out. The only way was to go to the rooftop and climb down along the drainage pipe or anti-theft net. However,
When I came out, I saw that the iron door leading to the rooftop was hung with a large three-ring iron lock, and the road was blocked.
The gangsters had already come up. When they saw Liu Handong, they slowly took out the long knife and galvanized steel pipe wrapped in newspapers and walked over without saying a word. Liu Handong took a few steps back and grabbed a large wrench from behind his door.
He rushed over, knowing that if he didn't fight hard at this moment, there would be no life left to fight for.
The opponent did not expect Liu Handong to be so fierce and took a few steps back, but the people behind him continued to advance. The leading burly man pointed a knife at Liu Handong and said: "Chop him to death!"
A picture suddenly appeared in Liu Handong's mind. He was chopped into a pile of stumps and his body was cut off. His mother was beside him in agony. For a moment, he was filled with strength. He glanced downstairs and suddenly rushed over, knocking the burly man into the railing.
The railings of the old building from the 1960s had long since decayed and broke under the strong impact. The man fell from the fourth floor, and Liu Handong jumped down immediately after him. The two of them fell heavily to the concrete floor below, with human flesh cushions as buffers.
, Liu Handong was still blinded by the fall, and his ears were buzzing. When he looked back, he saw the group of people upstairs running downstairs, and one of them pulled out a pistol from his waist.
There were two "bang bang" sounds. The first bullet hit the cement floor and splashed a ball of debris. The second bullet hit Liu Handong's back. He felt burned by the fire, but it was not very painful.
The burly man underneath him had blood oozing from his mouth and nose and was motionless. Liu Handong got up and ran. When he ran to the front of the building, he saw two police cars speeding towards him in the distance. He quickly turned around and ran. He had been wandering around the area for the first two days after moving here.
After walking around for several times, I became familiar with the terrain. I quickly entered the morning market selling chickens, ducks and vegetables, and got rid of the pursuers.
He was shot in the back and started to hurt. Liu Handong pulled some clothes from the clothes drying rack on the roadside and put them on. He walked through the crowd. The courage he felt when he jumped down from the fourth floor had dissipated. Now he was filled with deep fear and fear.
I am confused. It was clear that the kidnapper wanted to kill me before, but today it is a bit hard to understand that he is still pursuing me.
A little girl passed by, and Liu Handong suddenly realized that the kidnappers must have thought that he had hidden the meat ticket. They were not here to kill him, but to find someone else.
Being involved in a sudden case for no reason, Liu Handong felt that his luck was extremely bad. No one could count on him at the moment. He had to rely on himself to survive.
He walked to a small shop selling cigarettes and alcohol, saw a public phone, and remembered that he had not called his mother yesterday. After hesitating for a moment, he still made a call. It was his stepfather who answered the phone. Liu Handong hung up immediately.
After throwing down a one-dollar coin, Liu Handong took a Huaijiang Morning News and turned directly to the case focus column on page 8. It still serialized the follow-up to the murder case of the black driver, and there was no report on last night's case.
The reporters in the case focus section of the Morning News usually have a lot of free time, reporting on trivial neighborhood disputes. Such a major case last night was not reported. There are only two possibilities. One is that the police are still solving the case and do not want to expand the impact, and the other is that someone took the case to the next level.
He covered his head, just like the two robbers who disappeared out of thin air. The water in this matter was much deeper than he thought.
Feeling a stabbing pain in his back, Liu Handong stretched out his hand and touched it. The bullet was faintly lodged under the skin but did not penetrate deeply. It must be that the power of the Six-Four Small Cannon Smashers was too weak and the bleeding was minimal. Liu Handong decided to go to the scene of last night's crime to take a look.
Maybe we can find some clues, but again, now we can only rely on ourselves.
An inconspicuous Chery car was parked on the roadside. It was covered with dust and had not been touched for at least a month. Liu Handong held the key chain in his hand, and the four-edged key tip of the anti-theft door protruded from the gap between his fingers.
He walked over and smashed the window glass with a punch, got into the driver's seat, took off the baffle under the dashboard, pulled out a few wires, found two and wiped them, and the car started.
Half an hour later, Liu Handong arrived at the scene of last night's crime. The road was still busy with traffic, dust was flying, excavators roared, and workers wearing safety helmets shuttled back and forth. It was a busy scene. The crashed Poussin had already been towed away.
There was no trace of a car accident.
Liu Handong parked the car on the side of the road and got out of the car to observe the scene. He looked at the pile of cement prefabricated boards. The guy who wanted to strangle him in the back seat last night was thrown out. His face was penetrated by steel bars, but he did not die on the spot. He wanted to kill him in a short time.
It was almost impossible to rescue him from inside, because pulling it out rashly would cause secondary damage, unless... the entire prefabricated panel was lifted away. He observed again that this pile of prefabricated panels had one less than other stacked prefabricated panels. His guess was correct.
Wrong, the other party has the ability to use construction machinery in a short period of time. Maybe the construction site is full of their people.
Looking at the surroundings, it is late summer, with lush trees and luxuriant crops. There is a village not far away. People who are afraid and helpless in the dark will definitely walk in the direction of the light. The girl in the woven bag is likely to be in that village.
inside.
Liu Handong returned to the car and was about to start it when he suddenly saw someone in the back seat in the rearview mirror. He turned sharply and saw a pair of familiar eyes staring at him.
It's the girl from last night.
After trying hard to find no place, the person he was looking for unexpectedly came to his door. Liu Handong couldn't restrain his excitement. He started the car and said: "You have to testify for me. I didn't kidnap you. Don't be afraid. I'll take you there."
Police station.”
As soon as the girl heard the words police station, she immediately looked frightened and shook her head violently.
Liu Handong braked to a stop and asked her, "Where do you live? I'll take you back."
The girl still shook her head, looking extremely anxious.
"I'm not going here, I'm not going that. What do you want to do? What's your name? Can you speak?" Liu Handong said angrily. This girl refused to speak no matter how much I asked. She was so anxious.