It was already late at night, and it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening when Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan came out from the Boyang County Public Security Bureau.
Compared with the noisy city at night, the night in the small town of Boyang County is particularly quiet. There are no people on the streets, and most of the residential buildings are dark except for a few lights. It seems that every one
People living in this city fell into a deep sleep after a busy day.
Xu Lang declined Director Yang's offer to invite them to their home to rest, and also declined Director Yang's request to treat them to dinner. Xu Lang and Luo Jiayan went directly to the guest house in the county town and rented two rooms.
Xu Lang and the others, who had not eaten at noon, were already very hungry at this moment. If they were in S City, there would definitely be many small restaurants or night stalls still open on the streets at this time. However, this is Boyang
County, Xu Lang and the others saw no open restaurants on their way from the Public Security Bureau to the guest house, so Xu Lang ordered two buckets of instant noodles and some snacks from the front desk and took them back to the room.
The room in the guest house is not big, perhaps because no one has stayed there for a long time. When Xu Lang and the others entered the guest house, they smelled a faint musty smell. Although the sheets and bedding placed on the bed looked very clean,
, you can feel the dampness of the quilt when you reach out and touch it briefly. I don’t know whether it’s because it hasn’t been exposed to the sun for a long time, or because it’s close to the sea.
Xu Lang didn't particularly care about this. After all, as long as a man has a place to sleep, everything else doesn't matter. However, Luo Jiayan is a girl after all. Even if she is a policeman, when she smells the faint smell
There was a musty smell. Looking at the damp quilt, she still frowned subconsciously.
After Xu Lang bought the instant noodles, Luo Jiayan took the hot water kettle in the room to the bathroom to boil water and prepare instant noodles. She stayed in the bathroom for a long time with the kettle. The sound of water gurgling kept making Xu Lang.
Lang knew that she must be cleaning the hot water bottle constantly.
Xu Lang stood by the window of the room, opened the window, and the cool night breeze instantly poured into the room, blowing away the musty smell in the room. The wind blew Xu Lang's cheeks, and at the same time, it also blew Xu Lang's snow-white hair.
The long hair was blown all over the sky by the night wind. It looked like there were many white tentacles growing on Xu Lang's head, which was funny and weird.
It stands to reason that Xu Lang should be happy after the suspect appeared. After all, the appearance of the suspect means that the case has made new progress and a greater breakthrough can be achieved. As long as the suspect is caught, the case will basically be solved.
It was possible to sue, but Xu Lang couldn't be happy no matter what.
When I first thought about the results of the recent investigation and visits, I looked at the stacks of investigation reports on my desk, the names of the victims on the reports, and their photos. They looked so innocent in the photos.
And cute, but when Xu Lang saw their recent photos, he found that the originally clear and clean eyes were now covered with a light gray. Xu Lang tried not to think about the victims who had been hurt after being hurt.
How did he spend it? However, those cute and tender cheeks appeared in Xu Lang's mind from time to time.
Secondly, although the criminal suspect Yang Rongwei appeared, after a chase, he was still not caught. As for whether he escaped or was held hostage, no one knows.
Thirdly, after listening to Director Yang's account of Yang Rongwei's past, Xu Lang felt that perhaps the case they discovered now might be just the tip of the iceberg, and there might be more victims.
Thinking of this, Xu Lang's mood became solemn and gloomy.
If it was an accident that Zhou Jiamei discovered Yang Rongwei at the gate of No. 13 Primary School, then was everything found at the scene where Yang Rongwei's discarded bicycle was found also an accident?
Xu Lang hoped that this was an accident. If it was not an accident, it meant that Yang Rongwei had accomplices, or that someone had already targeted him and took him away before the police arrested Yang Rongwei. No matter which outcome it was,
This was not what Xu Lang wanted to see. What he wanted to know most now was where Yang Rongwei was. Catching him earlier would mean that one less little girl would be harmed.
The wisps of cool breeze made Xu Lang's thinking become clearer. While Luo Jiayan was boiling water, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Ding Haoqiong's number.
"Hey, have you found Yang Rongwei?" Xu Lang asked straight to the point.
"No."
Ding Haoqiong's voice was extremely tired, a little hoarse, and there was deep helplessness in the hoarseness.
Although Xu Lang guessed the result, Xu Lang was more or less disappointed when he heard what Ding Haoqiong said, so he also chose to remain silent.
"I heard from Lu Xing that you went to Boyang County. How is the investigation going?"
After a moment of silence, Ding Haoqiong asked.
Xu Lang briefly told Ding Haoqiong what he learned from Director Yang.
After listening, Ding Haoqiong was silent for a moment and said: "If the recent series of cases were committed by Yang Rongwei, then the reason why he committed the crime may have a lot to do with Yang Zifei."
Ding Haoqiong's words coincided with Xu Lang's guess.
"I think so too." Xu Lang said.
"Have you found Yang Zifei?" Ding Haoqiong asked.
"Since Yang Rongwei molested Ji Haijiao seven years ago, and Yang Rongwei was arrested and imprisoned to serve his sentence, she left Boyang County with her daughter Ji Haijiao. It is said that she went to live in S City, but the details are not yet known. I plan to go there tomorrow.
Meet Yang Zifei's parents and Yang Rongwei's father, and ask them, maybe they know the secret behind this." Xu Lang explained.
"I will also arrange for people to work in S
The city is investigating Yang Zifei to see if she lives in S city." Ding Haoqiong said.
"Okay, two-pronged approach." Xu Lang nodded slightly.
After saying this, the two of them were silent again.
"Do you think Yang Rongwei escaped with the help of his accomplices, or..."
Ding Haoqiong thought for a while, formulated his words, and said, "Or are you being held hostage?"
What Ding Haoqiong asked was what Xu Lang was thinking about at the moment. He thought about it and said, "There are two possibilities. Increase the scope of the investigation."
"I have doubled the scope of the search, but there are still no clues."
"Then continue to expand the scope of investigation, and..."
Xu Lang thought for a moment, hesitated, and said, "Notify the media in City S, give them Yang Rongwei's photos, and ask them to report this news."
"Do you want to use the crowd tactic to force Yang Rongwei to appear?" Ding Haoqiong asked.
"Yes, Yang Rongwei has a criminal record. He must have a certain understanding of the police's case-handling methods and a certain awareness of anti-detection. It is not easy for us police to find a person alone, so let everyone come together to find him."
"this......."
On the other end of the phone, after listening to Xu Lang's words, Ding Haoqiong hesitated to speak, as if he had some different opinions.
"What's wrong?" Xu Lang asked.
"The victims are all minor girls. If it is widely reported, it may cause secondary harm to those victims. I am worried that if someone discovers Yang Rongwei, he will do some irrational behavior, especially
They are the families of the victims." Ding Haoqiong said.
Xu Lang also considered what Ding Haoqiong said. He pondered for a moment and said: "Let each media grasp the scale of reporting and disclose the case to the media. I just want to use their power to find Yang Rongwei as soon as possible. As long as we find their
The person in charge, explain the stakes, they know what to do."
"Do you want to ask the farm bureau for instructions?" Ding Haoqiong asked.
"Yes, but regardless of whether the land bureau agrees or not, we must do it."
"Isn't this not good?" Ding Haoqiong said hesitantly.
"Just do as I say."
After saying this, Xu Lang hung up the phone. Then he rummaged through his phone's address book and found a familiar number and dialed it.
The phone rang for a long time but no one answered. Xu Lang did not hang up in a hurry, but waited patiently.
The first time, no one answered, so Xu Lang called a second time.
"Dingling bells..."
This time, the phone only rang once and the other party answered the call.
"Hey, who are you looking for?"
A man's voice came from the other end of the phone. His voice was a little rough and he was still breathing slightly. There was also a faint sound of a woman's snoring coming from the other end of the phone.
"Who?"
"Heiba, it's me." Xu Lang said slowly.
"Brother Lang?" the other party asked tentatively.
"Um."
After Xu Lang admitted his identity, the other party did not ask further, but fell into silence. It seemed that he was very surprised after receiving Xu Lang's call.
"Find me someone."
"Brother Lang, I don't do this anymore, you can find someone else."
To Xu Lang's expectation, the other party chose to refuse after hearing Xu Lang's request.
"Oh? Really? Then tell me, what industry are you engaged in now? Open a bar, or a bathing center?" Xu Lang said with a half-smile, his tone full of disdain.
"Brother Lang, I have quit my job and started working in a serious industry. If you want to find someone, go find someone else. I can help you introduce him." The other party still wanted to reject Xu Lang.
"Heiba, you think I don't know what you have done when I haven't been in S city for a few years, right? Believe it or not, when I finish the work at hand, I will let someone steal your so-called serious business and look at you
Is it really as clean as you said?" Xu Lang said sarcastically.
"No, please don't, Brother Lang, Master Lang, you are my uncle, I have finally done some serious business, you must not mess with me, I will look for you, can't you do it if I look for you?"
Hearing what Xu Lang said, Hei Ba was instantly scared. Although he was not a policeman, he had known Xu Lang before he graduated from the police academy. He knew Xu Lang and knew many things Xu Lang had done.
, precisely because he knew Xu Lang, he knew that Xu Lang was definitely not trying to scare him by saying this, and he also knew that Xu Lang would definitely not let him help unless he had no choice.
The reason why he rejected Xu Lang was that Xu Lang had left S City for several years, and Xu Lang's departure had loosened the shackles on him. No one was watching over him, and he began to commit crimes non-stop.
The edge is testing. For anyone, especially a person who has been in the gray area between the underworld and the white way all year round, he neither wants to offend the underworld people nor the white people. What he desires most is
Freedom, true freedom.
Secondly, he has known Xu Lang for a long time, and anything related to Xu Lang is very difficult, especially the sensational shooting six years ago, in which so many people died, and he was also afraid.
"Brother Lang, who are you looking for?" Heiba's voice sounded again.
"Yang Rongwei."
"Oh, that's the guy you didn't catch today."
Hearing that the person Xu Lang asked him to find was Yang Rongwei, Hei Ba breathed a sigh of relief and said in a slightly teasing tone.
Xu Lang was not surprised at all that Heiba knew about this matter so quickly. If Heiba did not have such a strong intelligence network, Xu Lang would not have asked him to help find someone.
"Can we find him?" Xu Lang asked.
"I'm sure I can find it, but..."
"Give you three days to dig him out for me."
However, before Heiba took the opportunity to make a request, Xu Lang hung up the phone directly, because he knew what Heiba wanted. However, Xu Lang could give Heiba what Heiba wanted, and the public security agency could also give it. However, Xu Lang
Lang didn't want to give it to him easily. For people like Heiba, if they don't beat it from time to time, their fox tails will not be able to hide and they will go to heaven.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Lang put down his phone and stood by the window, looking at the dimly lit night outside. For no reason, he thought of a person, Sun Wenyao, and the mysterious organization behind him.
The Punisher's case is over, but Sun Wenyao has not been arrested yet, and he has come back. As for Sun Wenyao's return, Xu Lang doesn't know if he has returned to S City or somewhere. Maybe, at this time, Sun Wenyao will
In a corner of S City, he was observing every move of himself and the police. Perhaps, he was brewing a bigger case. In the Punisher case, not finding Sun Wenyao was the thing that Xu Lang felt most regretful about.
However, this is also a helpless move.
"Brother Lang, the noodles are ready."
At this moment, Luo Jiayan's voice sounded from behind Xu Lang, interrupting Xu Lang's thoughts.
Xu Lang came back to his senses and saw that Luo Jiayan was already holding a bowl of instant noodles, sitting at the table and starting to eat. While eating instant noodles, he was also eating snacks, making the sound of chewing food, as if the instant noodles
It was delicious. Xu Lang felt hungry when he saw Luo Jiayan eating so happily and deliciously, so he walked to Luo Jiayan, picked up another bucket of instant noodles and ate it.
After eating instant noodles, Xu Lang discussed tomorrow's itinerary with Luo Jiayan, and then asked Luo Jiayan to go back to her room to rest, while Xu Lang came to the window again and sat down, looking at the dark
In the night sky, he murmured to himself: "Yang Rongwei, where are you?"
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In that small room, the one-hundred-watt light bulb still emitted orange light.
The iron door of the room was closed tightly. Yang Rongwei was curled up naked on the iron bed, looking at the door with empty eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
After the strange man left, he never appeared again. He left nothing but a bottle of water.
The bottle of water was still at the door. Yang Rongwei never touched the bottle of water from beginning to end. Although he was hungry and thirsty at the moment, and his lips were chapped, he still had no intention of taking the bottle of water.
Who is the man? Yang Rongwei doesn't know, but he is sure that the other person is definitely not a policeman, and he has not fallen into the hands of the police. This should be something he should be happy about, but Yang Rongwei can't be happy at all. Instead, he is a little scared.
Where are you now?
Yang Rongwei had been thinking about this issue after the man left. At first, he hoped to hear some noises from outside, even some gossip. However, from when he woke up to now, he heard nothing. It was extremely strange outside.
Quiet, so quiet that it makes people feel nervous.
Yang Rongwei didn't even know whether it was day or night, whether he was in S city or had left S city. He didn't know.
Yang Rongwei curled up again, his eyes filled with bloodshot eyes. He licked his dry lips, but kept staring at the door. In addition to feeling hungry and thirsty, he also felt very cold.
Yes, that's right, it's cold. This kind of feeling is not something people feel when they are afraid, it's just pure cold. Yang Rongwei felt that the temperature in the room was very low, his skin was covered with goosebumps, and his clothes were
When I woke up, it was no longer there. Apart from the bed and the bottle of water, there was only the light bulb in the room.
The dual torture of cold and hunger made Yang Rongwei feel sleepy. He wanted to close his eyes and take a nap, but he did not do so and did not dare to do so. He was afraid that the man would appear after he fell asleep.
, what to do to himself, will he kill himself while he is sleeping? He doesn't want to die yet, at least, he doesn't want to die yet.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, and Yang Rongwei was getting more and more sleepy. He sat up from the bed suddenly, came to the door, picked up the bottle of water from the ground, and walked back to the iron bed to lie down. He didn't want to let the heat sink him.
The bed gets cold.
Lying on the bed, he looked at the water bottle in his hand, his eyes dim and unclear. He subconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked his chapped lips again, hesitating whether to drink the water in the bottle. Finally, after a battle between heaven and man,
After that, he unscrewed the bottle and took a small sip.
The cold water entered his mouth, making him groan subconsciously in comfort. He did not rush to swallow the water, but stayed in his mouth to feel if there was anything wrong with the water.
After about half a minute, he felt there was no problem, so he took a few more sips and then closed the lid.
About ten minutes later, Yang Rongwei felt a deep sleepiness coming over him. He could no longer hold on. He slowly closed his eyes, dropped the water bottle in his hand, and fell into a drowsy state.
After Yang Rongwei fell asleep, the originally closed iron door was opened from the outside. The man appeared at the door and walked straight in. He came to the bedside and looked at Yang Rongwei who was curled up in a ball with cold eyes.