Chapter 33 Unexpected Free Climb
When Gu Yiliu arrived in Jiashui City, he was immediately picked up by the officers of the Jiashui City Public Security Bureau.
She looked at the two people who came to pick her up; their faces showed urgency.
"Comrade Peng, Comrade Yue, could you tell me about the current situation? How can I help?"
Peng Jie was driving when his companion Yue Shuyao said, "Let me tell you. The kidnapped child is named Lu Zhuoguang, and he's nine years old. He's been kidnapped for half a month, and the kidnappers are demanding a ransom every day. The result of our negotiations is that they will release him in five more days. His father is Lu Zhisong, a well-known wealthy man in Jiashui. After the reform and opening up, he made money and opened several processing plants. It's rumored that he's the richest man in the city, so this child was targeted."
"I called you here, Comrade Gu, because I want your help to find out where the child is being hidden. The child's parents even suspect that the child has already... been murdered."
Gu Yiliu looked at Yue Shuyao, "Can't you find out where he's hiding? Before paying the ransom, can't you confirm that the child is still alive? And can't the ransom be paid in full at once?"
“We can’t find them. We can’t get close to them at all. There are probably four kidnappers. They all have guns. We can only guess who they are. The kidnappers have been watching Lu Zhisong for a long time.”
For the first four days, the kidnappers were allowed to see the child once before the ransom was paid. From the fifth day onwards, they haven't seen the child again. The kidnappers claim the child is still alive. Also, the ransom is paid daily, which was the kidnappers' own request.
"That's what Peng Jie, who was driving, said."
He said that his unit had used all available methods, including the riot police and police dogs, and had now surrounded the place where the kidnappers were hiding.
“The other side has guns, and the child’s mother won’t let us force our way in; she can only negotiate. But we all feel we can’t wait any longer,” Peng Jie said anxiously. After discussions, they considered finding the child secretly, but they had already searched all the necessary areas and hadn’t found him yet, so they needed Gu Yiliu’s help.
From these few words of question and answer, Gu Yiliu roughly understood the urgency of the Jiashui City Public Security Bureau. They really couldn't afford to wait.
"How do you want me to help you?" Gu Yiliu asked.
“We know about your deeds. We have two pigeons, and we want you to call them to go deeper into the kidnappers’ hiding place to gather some clues. It would be even better if you could find out what the kidnappers look like.”
...
I had barely sat down at the police station when someone brought me two pigeons.
Peng Jie looked at Gu Yiliu and invited, "Officer Gu, shall I take you to the place where the kidnappers are hiding the child?"
Gu Yiliu glanced at him, then nodded. Peng Jie felt a little awkward, but he was anxious and couldn't wait any longer. He was afraid something bad might really happen.
Therefore, he simply pretended not to understand Gu Yilu's gaze.
So, as soon as Gu Yiliu arrived at the location, he went to the scene of the incident without resting.
The kidnappers were hiding in an eight-story apartment building under construction on the outskirts of Jiashui City.
As they neared their destination, Gu Yiliu asked Peng Jie to stop the car, and she released the two pigeons. She had already spoken with them in the car, and they were willing to help.
She released them beforehand because she didn't want them to be seen by others; who knows if the kidnappers would be watching the outside world all the time.
Gu Yiliu followed Peng Jie to their destination and saw a large crowd standing in front of the apartment building. The apartment building was spacious on all sides and in front of and behind it.
Peng Jie told her that some of the people here were brought by the owner of the apartment building. The apartment building under construction was being used to kidnap Tibetans, which angered the owner so much that he stopped doing business and would bring people here to guard the place for a while every day.
Some of the people were relatives of the Lu family and friends of Lu Zhisong.
"With so many people, even if they don't make a sound, won't the kidnappers get annoyed?" Gu Yiliu looked at Peng Jie.
The latter was taken aback, looking at the crowd in the open space in front of the apartment building.
There were a lot of people. Besides those who had stayed here all along, he counted them and stopped counting at 30. There were at least 30 people here.
He frowned. "The kidnapper never mentioned letting everyone leave. He just threatened us with the children when we tried to go upstairs. At first, we didn't believe him, but he fired a warning shot." Peng Jie's face darkened as he said this. It was blatant provocation. They were staying put for the children's safety; otherwise, they would have gone upstairs and arrested the kidnappers by now.
That's too passive.
Gu Yiliu sighed inwardly. These kidnappers had Peng Jie and his men completely under their control.
Peng Jie sensed her unfinished meaning. He frowned, realizing he had overlooked this issue. "I'll have some people evacuated."
After he finished speaking, he went to make the arrangements, and then returned to Gu Yiliu's side.
"Are those the child's parents?" Gu Yiliu pointed at the woman sitting on the ground. She looked dazed, and her eyes were different from others, abnormally red and swollen. The man next to her sat beside her, occasionally looking up at the apartment building.
Peng Jie nodded.
Gu Yiliu watched them wait and guessed what was going on. She didn't say anything more and stood quietly to the side waiting.
Sure enough, a short while later, a young man handed a suitcase to Lu Zhisong. The two stood there for a short while and talked, mostly the young man talking and Lu Zhisong listening. After finishing with Lu Zhisong, the man went to talk to the woman on the ground and even reached out to help her up.
Lu Zhisong carried the suitcase to Peng Jie's side.
Yue Shuyao immediately took out a megaphone.
Peng Jie glanced at Gu Yiliu. Gu Yiliu turned his head slightly and looked at the pigeons that had somehow landed on the open ground.
"Coo coo~" Ready~
She nodded to Peng Jie.
“Listen up, people inside! The ransom is ready. Bring your children out and let us see them! We haven’t seen our children for 12 days. We must see them today!” Peng Jie put down the megaphone. He actually wanted to shout threats at them, but… he hadn’t threatened them for the past ten days, and now he was threatening them. He couldn’t help but sigh.
After they finished shouting, they waited for more than two minutes before a voice finally came from the apartment building. It was a very old voice, probably over 60 years old.
"We won't let you see the child! Put the money in the usual place! Wait a few more days and we'll release him!"
The child's father, Lu Zhisong, glanced at Peng Jie, took the megaphone from his hand, and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "You can't hurt the child. Feed him when he's hungry. I've had food prepared. As long as the child is safe, I will pay the ransom on time!"
"Since Mr. Lu is so generous, then you can rest assured and wait for us to release the person."
Gu Yiliu watched as Lu Zhisong carried the ransom money and approached the entrance of the apartment building, and then saw a basket being thrown down from upstairs.
She looked up at the apartment building and saw a head moving cautiously in the sixth-floor window. He was slowly pulling the basket up.
This person was very cautious; he even wrapped his face and head completely in black cloth.
“They’ve always been like this; we can’t find any flaws.” Gu Yiliu frowned upon hearing Peng Jie’s voice.
"You also have people guarding this place at night? Is there anything strange about it?" Peng Jie nodded.
Gu Yiliu also felt it was difficult. Not a single flaw could be overlooked. He could only pin his hopes on the two pigeons.
She watched as two pigeons flew to the rooftop and then slowly descended to the sixth-floor window.
Suddenly, there was a loud "bang".
There was also a sound.
"Gurgle!" Help!
The sound was short and filled with terror, and then it went silent in an instant.
All of this happened in an instant.
By the time Gu Yiliu reacted, he watched helplessly as a pigeon fell from the 6th floor.
She acted faster than she thought, running over and catching the pigeon with her bare hands.
The pigeon was shot in the abdomen, and blood flowed all over her hands. Her eyes turned red as she looked at it!
"Pigeon, you..."
"Dot! Dot! Dot!"
Gu Yiliu urgently called out to the system, "Please save it, please save it!" The pigeon's eyes were closed; she didn't know whether it was dead or alive.
Dian Dian never expected it to turn out like this.
"Yiliu, don't worry, it won't die for now. You should take it to the hospital quickly."
Gu Yiliu was stunned for a moment, then turned around and walked out without thinking.
"Comrade Gu..."
Peng Jie hadn't expected this. These were his pigeons, and a wave of sadness washed over him. He reached out to take the pigeons, but Gu Yiliu avoided him.
Gu Yiliu looked at him and said, "Go find the other pigeon, and wait for me to come back for the rest." A ruthless glint appeared in Gu Yiliu's eyes.
"Also, calm down the crowd." Gu Yiliu glanced at the frightened people.
Especially Lu Zhisong and his wife. The two of them stared blankly at the apartment building.
Peng Jie nodded.
Gu Yiliu lifted his foot and left.
Yue Shuyao walked over to Peng Jie's side. "Brother Peng, let's be careful tonight. Let's climb up the wall. These people... their mental fortitude is too strong. I suspect something really happened to the child..."
Pengjie nodded. "We can't wait any longer." It was their mistake.
He took out a whistle and blew it three times. Only then did a pigeon fly back and land on his shoulder, but it was so frightened that it kept trembling slightly.
He held the pigeon in his arms and gently patted its back.
“Officer Peng, Officer Yue…” Peng Jie turned to look at the couple.
...
On the sixth floor of the apartment building, four masked men were counting money while discussing the gunshot they had just received.
"Old Wang, why did you fire that shot? Why did you shoot a bird?"
"This is a signal. Tell him to find a way to get rid of the person quickly. I don't want to wait any longer." Old Wang spat, took a bundle of money for himself, and then took three more bundles, placing them in front of the three men.
"Keep it safe and find a secluded place to store it. When the time comes, find an opportunity to notify your family to come and get it."
After dividing the money, he took out four loaves of bread from the bottom of the box. Old Wang looked at the loaves of bread and searched the box again. He found nothing but money. His eyes turned cold. He picked up one and took a bite out of hatred.
The man opposite Old Wang watched him eat, then took one and ate it too. "I don't want to wait anymore. Damn it, who knew these policemen would be waiting downstairs all night long."
“That bastard didn’t even give us a bottle of water, only four loaves of bread. Old Wang, Old Yuan, I regret it. If we can’t escape, we’ll die.”
Old Wang said coldly, "I didn't want to live the moment I fired the gun. At the latest, Officer Peng downstairs will take action tomorrow."
"What about Boss Lu's son..." Old Yuan glanced at Old Wang.
Old Wang's voice was dry; he hadn't drunk water for two days: "...Let's go see his son. If he's alive, bring him down. But we need to think about how to drag that bastard down with us. He won't admit it if we just go downstairs like this. We didn't get our wages, and we even lost our lives, so we have to take someone down with us. Anyway, he's not a good person."
Old Yuan's face was grave.
He looked at the other two and said, "Let's go check on the child together."
Old Wang also got up.
Ten minutes later, the four people carried a child back to the 6th floor. The child had his eyes closed and his face was flushed.
The four of them looked on, and Old Yuan suddenly said, "Has this child gone stupid from the fever?"
Old Wang: "I don't know."
"..."
"Hopefully Officer Peng will be tougher this time."
Downstairs, Peng Jie and Yue Shuyao began to disperse the crowd.
Those who refused to leave were forcibly driven away.
Meanwhile, Gu Yiliu rushed to the hospital and, regardless of whether it was her specialty or not, asked the doctor to remove the bullet from the pigeon.
I was busy at the hospital until the afternoon before I finally finished. The pigeon seemed quite resilient; after an afternoon of IV drips, it finally woke up.
"Coo coo!?" Officer Gu! Am I still alive?
Gu Yiliu nodded.
"Coo coo..." There are four people...
"You don't need to say anything more. Don't worry, I'll avenge you." Gu Yiliu no longer intended to ask Pigeon for help.
Helping them is truly an undeserved misfortune for them.
She plans to do it herself.
After the pigeon finished its IV drip, Gu Yiliu carried it back to find Peng Jie and the others.
"Are you planning to take action tonight?" she asked Peng Jie. "I'm planning to climb up there tonight and take a look. I have to avenge the pigeon."
Having been in contact with animals so much, Gu Yiliu really couldn't bear to see these little animals get hurt.
“We could have done it ourselves. You’ve made a fool of yourself this time,” Peng Jie sighed.
Gu Yiliu declined to comment on their speed and ability in handling the case, but she did intend to participate.
"I owe two pigeons a favor, so I'll go up. You can't go as fast as me."
Peng Jie raised an eyebrow.
As soon as it got dark, he witnessed what it meant to be "faster than you."
He watched as Gu Yiliu, who didn't even need a safety knot, must have used a clever trick to climb up with his bare hands; in any case, it seemed to him very fast.
She can leap up a floor by stepping on a single fulcrum.
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