Incineration
The warehouse is far away from the city and is located in a remote area. There is a large wetland nearby, and the nights are cold with heavy dew.
Jiang Li woke up earlier than Li Ziyang. There was no one in the warehouse at that time. He moved and found that the rope tied him and Li Ziyang together.
He actually fell for such a crude trick as being drugged one day. It was all because Li Ziyang insisted on asking for coffee. The coffee was strong and was handed to him by Li Ziyang himself, so he was not prepared.
Two hours had passed and the effect of the medicine had gradually worn off. Li Ziyang woke up and struggled in fear, which made the rope tighter and tighter, causing pain in Jiang Li's wrist.
"Don't move!" Jiang Li reminded him, "There are people outside!"
A dim tungsten filament lamp hung above their heads. The large iron door was closed, but he could hear the sound of people pacing outside.
"Aren't we in the city?" Li Ziyang hadn't yet realized that he had been kidnapped when Jiang Li kindly reminded him, "We've been kidnapped."
"No, why would you tie me up? I haven't offended anyone."
Li Ziyang cried out for justice and was in tears.
Jiang Li immediately realized that the man was most likely coming for him, or for Yin Shilu's case.
"I'm sorry, I might have gotten you involved this time."
Li Ziyang stopped struggling and seemed to be deflated. "Forget it, let's think about how to escape."
Jiang Li actually did not agree with his suggestion. When he thought that the kidnapper was most likely the murderer, his first reaction was not to escape himself, but to not let the other party get away. However... there was also Li Ziyang, an innocent person implicated, around him, so he didn't know what to do.
They sat back to back on the cement floor. Li Ziyang found an angle and rubbed the floor with the hemp rope. Jiang Li said, "You'll keep doing this forever."
"So what do you say we should do? We don't have any other tools here, so I say just give it a try." Li Ziyang was obsessed with imitating the methods in TV dramas, and he joked as he went on, "I say, if we succeed in escaping this time, we'll be friends for life!"
Jiang Li burst out laughing, neither denying nor agreeing.
In the end, he decided not to let Li Ziyang take the risk with him. The old fan squeaked and he nudged Li Ziyang, "Hey, can you get out through that hole?"
Li Ziyang is thin, so as long as he can climb up, there will be no problem for him to pass through that entrance.
"I guess so."
After getting the answer, the man who hadn't put in any effort to grind the hemp rope suddenly loosened his grip, and the rope actually fell to the ground by itself. Li Ziyang was surprised and delighted, "You can untie it?"
Jiang Li rubbed his wrist and rolled his eyes at him, "Didn't I tell you I can't solve it?"
"Then you have the heart to watch me waste my energy!"
Jiang Li didn't waste time talking to him and pulled the other person to stand below. "Step on me and climb up."
Li Ziyang hesitated for a moment, "Really?"
"It's too late if we don't leave now. People outside may come in at any time. Hurry!" Jiang Li got ready and urged him.
Fortunately, Li Ziyang was not too heavy. With his height, Li Ziyang successfully took down the fan. He stuck his head out and saw that it was pitch black outside. He had no idea which direction was which.
"No, what are you doing here? Is this still in China?" Li Ziyang said, jokingly, "There are so many reeds outside, blocking my view. I can't see the road clearly."
"Don't worry about it. Just run first and call someone if you see them."
Jiang Li held him up, and finally Li Ziyang landed safely on the ground, stepping into the mud. Before coming out, he promised Jiang Li that he would come back to find him. Jiang Li just hoped that he would leave quickly.
Unexpectedly, the man had just gone out the previous second, and the next second the warehouse door opened wide, and the masked man held a knife to Li Ziyang's neck, with blood clearly on the blade.
Jiang Li frowned in displeasure. The other party said, "I don't want to hurt you at all. As long as you cooperate, I will let you go. Why rush it now?"
"How about this, you let him go and catch me."
The masked man chuckled and said, "I'm here to arrest you. Thank you for your help, little brother, but I won't refuse a hostage that comes to my door."
Li Ziyang felt the cold blade approaching and was terrified. "Brother, don't be impulsive! Also, please keep your hands steady! I feel... this blade is shaking!"
As a contact person, he still cares a lot about the integrity of his skin. What if he accidentally gets a scar on his neck?
"Be quiet!" The masked man did not reduce his strength at all, and Li Ziyang's whole body tensed up.
The masked man nodded and instructed Jiang Li to get the phone at the door. "Call the police and tell them to deliver the goods immediately!"
Jiang Li took out his cell phone and when dialing the number, the masked man asked him to show it to him or he would cut Li Ziyang's throat. When Jiang Li clicked on the most recently dialed number, except for the top number, an unfamiliar number caught his attention.
The masked man's pupils shrank slightly, then he quickly calmed down and held the hostage tighter.
The call was quickly picked up, and the hostage exchange originally scheduled for 10 o'clock was changed to 9 o'clock. Jiang Li did not say a word during the whole process.
Time passed minute by minute, the masked man still holding Li Ziyang's vital point. He and Jiang Li faced off silently. He knew Jiang Li would definitely take action. Originally, he thought, killing one is killing, killing two is killing, he will die anyway, so taking a few people with him is not a bad idea. But Jiang Li could no longer be killed, not only because of his unusual relationship with Chen An, but also because...
He didn't want to hold Jiang Li hostage, but Jiang Li wanted to be held hostage by him.
The masked man said, "I'm giving you a chance. You can run now."
Li Ziyang's heart was in suspense. It looked like the masked man was going to let Jiang Li go. Then what about him...
"I'll just keep him." He added some strength and pinched his neck hard.
Tears welled up in Li Ziyang's eyes. This man was obviously a desperado. The fear reminded him of the scene of being abandoned in his mind. He was always abandoned by others, and he would be abandoned this time too.
"No, I won't leave."
The firm words pulled him back from his painful past.
"I'll replace him and let him go." Jiang Li said calmly.
Li Ziyang had a touched smile on his face.
In this confrontation where everyone had their own ulterior motives, only one outsider foolishly listened in.
After a while, the masked man threw a short knife to him and said, "Okay, stab yourself first, then switch."
Li Ziyang tried his best to stop him, "No! Go by yourself!"
Jiang Li got a dagger and pretended to stab himself. Li Ziyang kept crying until he seemed to have found a place to stab the knife and stopped. The knife flew towards them, and the masked man was carrying him, so his dodging was much slower.
Jiang Li, who was previously unarmed, got a dagger and started fighting with the masked man. Li Ziyang took the opportunity to break free from his restraints, picked up a brick on the ground, and wanted to help Jiang Li hit the masked man, but ended up hitting Jiang Li instead.
Jiang Li felt a pain on his knee, and the masked man took advantage of the opportunity to kick him. He knelt on one knee and cursed, then turned to Li Ziyang and shouted, "Run!"
Li Ziyang was still hesitating, "Are you okay?"
"I'm in trouble only if you're around!" Jiang Li had to deal with the masked man and persuade him to leave quickly. He was really exhausted.
Li Ziyang turned around and ran without hesitation. There was a faint light in the distance, and he ran towards it. The thought of saving Jiang Li made him burst out with strength he had never discovered before. He crossed the wetland at a very fast speed. When he got ashore, his legs were covered with mud. A familiar person got out of the leading car, and he fell into his arms without stopping.
Li Ziyin caught him and heard him say, "Jiang Li was injured while trying to save me!"
The masked man tied up the person as he wished. Jiang Li remained calm and showed no fear. Apart from the wound on his leg, the only wound he had was a cut on his arm.
If he guessed correctly, the masked man was going to drag Li Ziyang and Chu Tong to die together, because during the fight he clearly felt that the man was hiding something. If the hostage was Li Ziyang, he would definitely not survive.
It can be seen from this that belief education is still useful. Through learning by example, he now looks like a real policeman again.
"You were planning to leave no one alive, right? Why did you agree to let me go?"
The masked man took off his mask and no longer cared about anything else, but Jiang Li did not remember him.
Seeing his confused look, the masked man took his phone, unlocked it, and dialed a number. As soon as the number was dialed, the other phone in his hand immediately rang.
Jiang Li remembered that Huang Shuwen had borrowed his phone in the hospital to call her boyfriend, "It's you."
Cheng Tongguang nodded and said, "When I recognized you, I didn't want to kill you, but you insisted on coming up to me."
"Huang Shuwen...passed away?" Jiang Li guessed.
When he sent Huang Shuwen to the hospital, her cancer was already in the late stage and she would not survive for much longer.
Cheng Tongguang lowered his head and sighed. After a moment, he said, "Good people never live long."
"You wanted to avenge her, so you killed those people."
Cheng Tongguang confessed, "Yes, it was not wrong for me to kill them. Wenwen was in so much pain before she died. The tumor had spread all over her abdominal cavity. She was sweating profusely every day from the pain. I only killed them. It wasn't even one hundred thousandth of the pain she felt."
Jiang Li was not interested in his motive for revenge. "Do you know Xu Lanxin?"
His tone and attitude were not like those of a hostage at all, but rather like those of a police officer sitting in an interrogation room.
Cheng Tongguang didn't want to answer him at first, but when he thought that he would be the last person to talk to him before he died, he answered.
"Xu Lanxin, Yin Shilu's confidant, helped him deal with many dirty things."
"Then do you know what her relationship is with the Fu family?"
Ever since Li Ziyang said that Xu Lanxin had a special relationship with the Fu family, Jiang Li has been paying close attention to the Fu family.
"The Fu family? The one from Weiyun Villa?" Cheng Tongguang reminisced for a moment. "The Fu family has been investing in Yin Shilu's projects. I heard that Xu Lanxin brought in the investment, but I don't know if that's true."
"Why, as a police academy student, you want to get involved in these matters?"
"Xu Lanxin represents Yin Shilu, who in turn represents the leadership of Qu'an University. This means that Qu'an University has a vested interest in the Fu family. The experiment itself is likely something Qu'an University is interested in."
"Hmm..." Cheng Tongguang nodded slightly in agreement and applauded him. "That makes sense, but I don't care now. I just want Chu Tong to die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the most important person of the night finally took his place.
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