Blackmail has nothing to do with feelings, he wants money...

Zhou Han was called out when he was taking a shower. He wanted to curse, but he couldn't say anything when he heard Cheng Sizhou's miserable voice.

Something really happened to Wen Zichuan. According to Xu Jiaxuan's account, he may have committed violent acts. The situation is not optimistic.

Cheng Sizhou was extremely anxious. If Wu Meng had not stopped him, he would have grabbed a rope and tried to hang himself.

"I knew Liu Shixing ran away, but I didn't expect him to find Zichuan. If I had known earlier, I would have gone to the subway entrance to pick him up. It's only a few minutes away... I..."

"Just be quiet for a moment." Zhou Han puffed on his cigarette sullenly. "The police have filed a report, and I've contacted everyone I need to. The clue Xiao Xu provided is very useful, but it will take time to check the surveillance footage and locate the phone. We'll definitely find him before daybreak."

There were still ten hours until dawn, a whole night. What would Liu Shixing do to Zichuan? What on earth did he want to do?!

When he was in college, Liu Shixing was a hot-tempered man with excessive self-esteem. He would start a fight with others if they said something to him that didn't agree with him.

But Zichuan didn't provoke him. Could it be that because Liu Shixing couldn't find him, he turned to find trouble with Zichuan?

After all, it was me who implicated Zichuan.

Cheng Sizhou squatted with his back against the wall, feeling as if every inch of his skin was pricked by needles. He felt regret, guilt and self-blame. The huge sense of oppression made him want to retch.

Xu Jiaxuan remained remarkably calm throughout the entire process: "Officer Zhou, I've discovered something else."

"you say."

"There's a flower on the roof of that car."

"Flowers? What flowers?"

"It looks like this," Xu Jiaxuan pulled out his homework book and drew the shape of a bougainvillea. "They drove here specifically to knock people unconscious and take them away. It was a premeditated kidnapping. Also, it hasn't rained in the past two days, yet the van's wheels are covered in wet sand. Could they have come from the north?"

The northern suburbs is the last area to be developed in Dengyuan. Construction is going on everywhere, making the road conditions not very good.

Speaking of bougainvillea, although there are many places in the city where it is planted, there are not many places where the roadside infrastructure is being built and the height of the van's body can scratch the bougainvillea.

"You can do it, kid." Zhou Han nodded, turned around and went out to call the team.

Wu Meng sighed. What a mess it was all day long.

Although they have mediated many emotional disputes and have seen infidelity, quarrels, and beatings of mistresses, the fact that two men live together and are then visited by another man, stalked, fought, and kidnapped does not seem to be about love at all.

"Assault and kidnapping will result in a minimum sentence of three years, and the law will punish the criminals." Wu Meng squatted down with Cheng Sizhou, not knowing how to comfort this man who was almost a head taller than him.

"The law will punish criminals, but it will not prevent harm from happening." Cheng Sizhou is extremely pessimistic about the effectiveness of the law. If the law existed to prevent harm from happening, Dr. Cheng would not have lost half his life to the knife that was stabbed by the patient's family.

Afterwards, the law did punish the criminals, but it also changed the fate of many people.

Wu Meng didn't say anything else and patted his shoulder gently. At this time, Cheng Sizhou's cell phone also rang.

"Liu Shixing!! Did you... kidnap Zichuan?!" He shouted into the receiver, but couldn't control his trembling voice.

"Kidnapping? No," Liu Shixing feigned innocence and sneered, "Isn't he with you?"

"You're still lying! I..." Cheng Sizhou was about to say something when Wu Meng held his arm. He reacted instantly and changed his words, "Someone passing by saw you taking Zichuan away. Where is he now?"

He originally wanted to say that he saw it on the surveillance camera, but "checking the surveillance camera" is a privilege only the police have, which would make the other party realize that they had called the police.

Almost all kidnappers are very sensitive to "calling the police". Once they know that the police have intervened, they are very likely to take actions that further harm the hostages with the mentality of "I would rather die with someone else".

Liu Shixing's smile deepened when he heard his vague words: "I just wanted to invite Teacher Wen to come over and chat about professional matters.

"...Let me hear his voice."

"Sure, I'll let him talk to you."

Wen Zichuan's hands and feet were tied, and his head was dizzy. He didn't know where he was taken. The light around him was very dim, and only Liu Shixing's mobile phone screen was lit. He commented to Cheng Sizhou, "Coward."

"Hey, I just taught you, you can talk to him." Liu Shixing turned his face and spoke into the receiver.

"You... wish. No... it's impossible. I won't give you... a penny..." The pain all over his body connected together and formed a giant lock, even locking Wen Zichuan's throat.

"Zichuan! Zichuan, how are you?" Cheng Sizhou looked at Wu Meng for help. "Liu Shixing, come to me if you have anything to say! Don't touch him!"

"You mean, no matter what I want, you'll agree?"

"I promise, I promise everything. Ah, don't make it difficult for him!"

"No...!" Wen Zichuan shook his head weakly but firmly.

"He has already agreed, why are you objecting? Tell me!" Liu Shixing slapped his face hard.

In his opinion, Cheng Sizhou was a coward to the extreme.

If I have to say the good thing about him, it is that he always adopts a conciliatory attitude no matter what happens. He doesn't dare to fight back, but he is also afraid of making things worse. But if I have to say the bad thing, besides his hypocritical face being extremely annoying, if you want to get something from him, you have to force him hard.

"No..." Half of Wen Zichuan's face was numb and he couldn't say a complete sentence.

Since he refused to speak, Liu Shixing didn't have much patience, so he just did it himself: "Brother Cheng, you know, I just returned to Dengyuan not long ago. I'm not well off and I still owe some debts. Can you lend me some money?"

Wu Meng moved closer and heard clearly that this was not about borrowing money, but clearly kidnapping and extortion.

"How much do you want?" Cheng Sizhou asked.

"Just ten million," said Liu Shixing.

"Ten million... Where would I get ten million?"

"Don't be modest. I may not have cash, but don't you have a house in a great location? I checked the house prices there. If you sell one and then raise some money, it will be enough."

Kidnapping, extortion, selling houses for money.

What happened when I was ten years old was like a thorn that pierced deep into my heart. Perhaps the long time temporarily concealed the pain, but the thorn was never removed.

Cheng Sizhou will always remember that his parents quarreled behind closed doors about selling the house to raise money, and both families tried their best but failed to rescue Jiang Anyi from the kidnappers.

How did things come to this? They had lost Jiang Anyi before, and he couldn't lose Wen Zichuan again.

Cheng Sizhou leaned against the cold wall, tears silently sliding down his cheeks. "Okay, I'll have my family sell the house to pay off your debt."

Wen Zichuan, who was on the other side of the phone, never showed any sign of weakness in front of Liu Shixing no matter how much pain he was in. Until he heard Cheng Sizhou's words, tears instantly fell.

Zhou Han had finished his call. He stood at the door and gave a look.

Cheng Sizhou understood what was going on, but in order to ensure that Liu Shixing would not become suspicious, he had to continue acting.

"You have to promise not to hurt him or let him starve..."

"You know, I've always been trustworthy. If there's any key progress, like when a property is listed online, I'll take a photo and send it to you."

“No, I want a video.”

"no problem."

"Give him the phone. I have one last thing to say."

“OK.”

The receiver moved closer again, and Wen Zichuan pulled the corner of his cracked lips and called him, "Brother Zhou."

Cheng Sizhou paused for two seconds, said solemnly, "I'm sorry," and then hung up the phone.

Zhou Han said that based on vehicle monitoring and mobile phone positioning, the "depravity zone" in the northern suburbs has been basically locked down.

The "Fallen District" has a real name, but it is rarely mentioned. It is called this because it is home to the largest number of low-level vagrants in Dengyuan.

They have no property and no stable jobs, so they can only live in dormitories, eat boxed lunches or instant noodles, and do odd jobs when they see a construction site that needs people, earning a meager salary to survive.

"Xiao Xu, you have to go to school tomorrow, so go home first." Considering the Xu family's special situation, Zhou Han didn't want a high school senior to get involved too much. "I'll take Teacher Cheng with me. Wu Meng, will you stay and meet us?"

Wu Meng nodded: "I'm on duty tonight, I'll be waiting for you in the community, call me if you have anything."

Zhou Han is a criminal policeman specializing in trace analysis. He is good at finding clues to solve cases, but he has to ask his special police colleagues to rescue the hostages.

Sitting in the car, Cheng Sizhou looked at the time, it was 11:10.

Less than two hours had passed from the time he learned that Wen Zichuan had been kidnapped to the time he rushed to the Fallen Zone to rescue him, but it felt to him as long as three or five days.

"Xiao Cheng, I won't delve into your relationship, but based on past experience, after a person is rescued, the psychological trauma is generally more severe and the recovery period is longer. You should be prepared."

"Yeah, I know."

"As for Mr. Wen, I heard from Zhou Yitang that he's a voice actor, which makes him a star. I suggest you take him to a hospital for a comprehensive checkup, so everyone can be reassured."

"Yes, I will."

Zhou Han was focused on the road conditions and couldn't see Cheng Sizhou's expression in the passenger seat.

He is a policeman and also an eyewitness to the "Girl Kidnapping Case" in the millennium. Although the two cases are similar only in certain elements and have no actual connection, Cheng Sizhou encountered them again, which easily made him sad.

After all, he heard from Shen Huifang that Jiang Anyi and Cheng Sizhou had been engaged as children.

If we put aside our professional identities and just consider them as good friends, Zhou Han is also worried about Cheng Sizhou.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he usually appears nonchalant and doesn't keep his mouth shut, he is actually very delicate and sensitive. I don't know how long it will take him to get over this incident, so I have to give him some comfort in advance.

"Brother Zhou, do you think that I am a failure in life?" Cheng Sizhou asked him.

"How could that be?" Zhou Han raised his voice to encourage him. "Look at you, you're so enthusiastic and righteous. When your sister Chen and Zhou Yitang couldn't rent a suitable house, you not only helped them, but you also took the initiative to move into the small study, leaving the master bedroom and the second bedroom for them, right? During Zhou Yitang's third year of junior high school, you tutored her countless times and didn't charge us a penny, right? Besides, you're tall, handsome, educated, and have a respectable job. By any standard, you're a talented person. How can you say you've failed in life?"

"But I can't protect the people around me. I always, always accidentally miss the opportunity to keep them... For example, An Yi. If I hadn't separated from her that day and sent her back to Dengbo first, maybe she wouldn't have been kidnapped. For example, today, if I had waited for Zichuan at the subway entrance beforehand, wouldn't he have been..."

"Don't blame yourself too much. You can't predict the future."

"They all trusted me so much, it's really hard for me to forgive myself..."