When he was young, Fang Zhenyue was a very naughty child. Because he was the youngest son and was particularly spoiled, he was often called a troublemaker. Even his parents could not control him, and his eldest brother Fang Zhenxuan had to take action.
He did not listen to anyone, but his brother, who was 6 years older than him, was his idol, and he had to listen to what his idol said. The eldest
brother could fly on a skateboard, every shot was a hit, and he could build a super luxurious castle with building blocks. He had watched all the episodes of "Superman", "Astro Boy" and "Judo Donkey Kong", so he learned everything faster and always won in fights...
Yes, Daddy and Mommy would be reluctant to spank him because they spoiled him, but the eldest brother didn't care about that. He would spank you if he wanted to. If you cried and complained, he would spank you even harder.
But the amazing thing is that even though his elder brother often bullies the younger, he is still the one who likes to play with him.
That day, the driver was the only one who came to pick him up from school. The kidnappers obviously targeted him. Because his elder brother took the initiative to ask to be picked up together, he was kidnapped together.
At that time, the kidnappers' skills were not yet mature. Many times, they only realized that such arrangements should be made in advance when problems broke out.
They only kidnapped the two brothers and had not even learned the skills to knock them out with drugs first.
The two brothers took their time to untie themselves in the car, and when the car turned into an alley to stop temporarily, they opened the door and prepared to escape.
But they were soon discovered by the kidnappers. In order to protect his younger brother, the eldest brother shouted "Run! Run faster!" while fighting with the kidnappers. The struggle was fierce enough to entangle the two kidnappers who rushed out first, giving Fang Zhenyue a chance to escape.
Fang Zhenyue was really a very smart child. He ran very fast and knew to find a cover to hide while running. After getting into the crowd, he immediately asked the adults for help and asked them to save their brother.
When he turned back, he saw the eldest brother being pulled into the car from a distance. The super strong boy's legs left the ground and was thrown limply on the car. Then the big door slammed shut, and the truck drove away in a cloud of dust, unable to be caught up in time.
Afterwards, someone called the police, and Fang Zhenyue was sent back to the Fang family villa by a police car.
A few days later, the kidnappers arranged to take the money at the most crowded time and place in Mong Kok. Because the kidnappers set up a relay, when the police held down the person who came to take the money, the girl had already handed the money to the man who hired her to carry the suitcase. The police stood up and tried to find the person who carried the suitcase in the tangled crowd, but it was impossible.
At that time, the kidnappers said that after getting the money, they would let the Fang family go to the Wong Tai Sin Temple to wait, but the Fang family and the police waited for several days and did not see the boy who was gradually growing into a big tree. It was not
until a few months later that the young Fang Zhenyue woke up one night and suddenly realized that his eldest brother would never grow into a big tree again. He no longer had a brother.
Later, the Forensic Department of the Hong Kong Police Station introduced a batch of new autopsy data from the UK, which gave the Fang family a new view:
when the kidnappers kidnapped Fang Zhenxuan and cut off a finger and sent it back to the Fang family to ask for money, Fang Zhenxuan might have been dead - the blood reaction on the finger should be the form that can only be seen after a person is cut after death.
Originally, Fang Zhenyue did not know this information, and the head of the Fang family was not prepared to tell him. After Fang Zhenxuan left, this arrogant little son grew up overnight, no longer acted recklessly, no longer made noises, and even often stayed alone in the room without seeing anyone. He already had a knot in his heart and was in enough pain, and no one wanted his small body to bear more.
The child's brain is not fully developed yet. When he is immersed in the grief of guilt and self-blame, he is likely to be mentally depressed, even lose his health, and never be able to return to normal.
But when Fang Zhenyue first entered adolescence and showed some signs of rebellion, he quarreled with his mother over a trivial matter. Under multiple factors, Fang's mother's emotions suddenly went out of control.
At that time, she sat on the sofa, her hands clenched into fists, restrainedly supported on her side, her eyes were angry, and perhaps with a little hatred, she said to Fang Zhenyue:
"If it weren't for you, your brother wouldn't have died."
"Ah Xuan was so good to you, but you killed him."
At that time, Fang Zhenyue finally got the answer to the question he had never dared to ask. Perhaps when his brother covered his escape, his brother had been killed.
When he returned with a few adults to rescue his brother, his brother, who was held by the kidnappers, was limp. Perhaps he was not unconscious, but dead...
Since then, he has hardly ever spoken to his mother again.
He needed to become a policeman earlier and wanted to catch the murderer who killed his brother as soon as possible, so he entered the police academy after the preparatory course. On the first day of duty, he got the information of the kidnappers and read the latest report on Fang Zhenxuan's severed fingers.
He also understood that because of his escape and call for help, the kidnappers felt out of control, and the helplessness and powerlessness made them fall into fear. At this time, Fang Zhenxuan, who had delayed the kidnappers in order to let his brother run fast, became the most urgent problem that the kidnappers needed to solve when they were emotionally excited - so they killed him.
Fang Zhenxuan could never come back, and he used his life to build a living shield for Fang Zhenyue...
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If I didn't run away, if I didn't call a group of people to run back, they wouldn't kill me." Fang Zhenyue's voice seemed to be separated by twenty years of time and space, low and erratic.
This was his headache that could not be cured for twenty years.
The two sat against the wall and talked about the past. Hearing this, Jiayi sat up, moved to Fang Zhenyue's side, stretched her arms around his neck and gently hugged him, leaned her face on his shoulder, and rubbed it again and again.
She stopped looking directly at him, and Fang Zhenyue quietly let the tears flow out, and then quietly wiped them away.
No matter how much comfort he gave, it would not be of much use to an old illness that had not been cured for decades.
Jiayi just hugged him gently, and waited for him to calm down, sort out his emotions, and recover his spirits. Then she stood up and stretched out her thin but strong palm to him. When he put his palm in, she tightened it and pulled him up.
When they left the room, they both turned back into sharp detectives, more rational than emotional, and all their energy was focused back on the case.
At that time, the members of O and Group B were assigned two tasks:
1. Check the kidnappers who were stalking near the wealthy man's house;
2. Check the van.
The police were investigating in a low-key manner, while Fang Zhenyue took Jiayi into his small study.
Although the walls were not covered with newspaper clippings, nails, and red lines like in the movies, Fang Zhenyue also collected information on all kidnapping cases in the past 20 years and posted them on the wall in chronological order. On the wall facing the door, there was a huge map of Hong Kong, on which the locations of all kidnapping cases were marked with large and small red dots, and the time of occurrence was also noted next to them.
After introducing all the information he had collected to Yi Jiayi, he turned around and said to her while standing in the middle of the study:
"...the cases during this period were not committed by them. They suddenly disappeared 18 years ago and have not committed any crimes since. Now, they have finally spent all their money."
...
In the next 12 hours, the kidnappers suddenly started to frantically use notes and phone calls to communicate. At
18:00 in the evening, Lai Fuhao received the second call, which only told him to immediately take 2 million Hong Kong dollars and go alone to the flower pot at the door of OSIPHAH on Old Bailey Street in Central to pick up the note, without anyone else.
Because the call was too short, the location of the call could not be located.
The police had to immediately arrange plainclothes ambush, and Lai Fuhao drove there alone.
Under the flower pot at the door of the Thai innovative cuisine restaurant, a note that had been left there a long time ago was found:
[Go to stall No. 7 on the first floor of No. 1 Queen Street, Sheung Wan, order a portion of Shacha beef noodles, and finish it. The bag of money was placed on the outside of the right foot. 】
The police immediately inferred that the robbers wanted to send someone to steal the money that Lai Fuhao had placed at his feet while he was eating, so they set up an ambush again based on this inference.
However, when Lai Fuhao finished a plate of beef noodles with difficulty, the money was still there.
The group waited for more than ten minutes, but still no suspicious person appeared, so Lai Fuhao had to turn back in disappointment.
However, he had only driven a few hundred meters when he received a call from home. The kidnappers called again and did not allow him to go home. They asked him to immediately withdraw another 2 million Hong Kong dollars and take the suitcase with the money to look for clues behind the stone pillar in front of the Shangri-La Hotel in Taikoo Plaza on Central Court Road.
There was indeed a note pressed with a stone:
[Go to the door of No. 197 Johnston Road, Wan Chai, and meet a young woman wearing red high heels and a small red bag]
The police were excited again, but they didn't expect that the kidnappers could not suppress their greed and eagerness and came to take the money.
After the police ambushed again, Lai Fuhao appeared in front of No. 197 Johnston Road. Among the people waiting in line for the meal, there was indeed a young woman wearing red high heels and a small red bag.
But when Lai Fuhao walked over, the woman immediately took his arm and asked him why he didn't just get a room and what he wanted to eat?
After several inquiries, we found out that this woman was just a prostitute who opened a business. Her business cards were scattered everywhere. She had no idea who had called her just now and asked her to come here to meet a distinguished customer. She only said that it was a man who called. She thought it was a business visit and the other party insisted that she wear red shoes and carry a red envelope. Maybe it was some kind of fetish, so she did as he said and came here to wait...
The police and Lai Fuhao were fooled again. They were annoyed and angry, but they had no choice but to do as he asked.
Then, Lai Fuhao ate fish balls at a food stall in Causeway Bay, looked for the woman in a yellow mesh shirt and yellow high heels at the Star Ferry Pier, looked for the note at the Avenue of Stars in Victoria Bay North, dropped off his suitcase in Tsim Sha Tsui, and went to Hung Hom to find clues about the child’s whereabouts. He was then ordered back to Tsim Sha Tsui to retrieve the suitcase.
The police dispatched the fastest team and dispatched them efficiently throughout the process. They did not block the person who dropped off the note, nor did they track down the person who made the phone call, and they did not see any of the kidnappers who actually came to meet Lai Fuhao.
They seemed to be trapped in an endless maze, being directed by the kidnappers to run around, feeling frustrated, angry, and exhausted.
At this stage, Fang Zhenyue was very stable and did not take any action. He just kept thinking with Yi Jiayi, trying to find the possibility of finding the real information about the kidnappers.
Dylan, the commander of the mission, listened to the feedback from the detectives who were doing surveillance and signal tracking in Fang Zhenyue's villa. He learned that Fang Zhenyue was taking Madam Yi to a meeting without any hurry. Finally, he couldn't help but call Fang Zhenyue.
"This is just the kidnappers' fatigue tactics. When "the wolf is coming" is said too many times, the police will be slack and distrustful. Only then will the kidnappers reveal truly valuable information." Fang Zhenyue has studied kidnappers for many years. I believe that the kidnappers who have not committed a crime for 18 years have also studied this work.
It is obvious that he is now well versed in how to deal with the police.
"You mean, the kidnappers knew that Lai Fuhao had called the police?" Dylan caught this from Fang Zhenyue's overly jumpy thoughts.
"That must be the case. Next, the kidnappers will probably order Lai Fuhao not to allow the police to continue to get involved." Yi Jiayi's voice rang beside the phone.
Sure enough, at ten in the morning, Lai Fuhao received a threatening call from the kidnappers, warning him that he must immediately cut off contact with the police.
So 15 minutes after the call was hung up, the plainclothes officers living in Lai Fuhao's house left the Lai family villa and returned to the Central Police Station.
The task of talking to Lai Fuhao in the villa was handed over to Fang Zhenyue and Yi Jiayi. Next, they will communicate through the monitoring equipment and long-distance intercom left in Li Fuhao's home.
At this point, almost half of the control of the entire mission has been handed over to Fang Zhenyue and Yi Jiayi. !