Call for help
Little Radish Head was woken up by the heat.
Fang Yang helped him put on his clothes, tied his hands behind his back and threw him next to the fire stake. The hot flames were jumping quietly. If the fire was any bigger, it would have burned his eyebrows.
Water was boiling on the fire. Jiang Miao found two old gingers from his bag, washed them with snow residue in the snow, then washed them clean and threw them into the water to make ginger soup, which could drive away the cold.
"woke up?"
Carrot Head was frightened and tried to struggle with his hands but couldn't get free. His mouth was stuffed with a bulging cloth and he couldn't push it open with his tongue. He could only whimper and make weak resistance.
Su Le held the short knife across Carrot Head's neck and threatened in a low voice: "Don't shout, don't make a sound, or I will cut you with the knife and make you bleed on the spot!"
Jiang Miao added calmly: "If you want to kill him, then take him to a place a little further away. If the blood stains this place, we will have to find another place to rest."
Su Le raised his eyebrows: "Okay!"
The two of them talked back and forth and successfully intimidated the person on the ground. Tears welled up in his eyes and he nodded wildly to show that he would cooperate.
Fang Yang pulled the cotton cloth, and he immediately gasped for breath, but did not dare to make any sound.
After he calmed down a bit, Jiang Miao asked, "What is the goal of your organization?"
Asking such a sharp question right at the start, Carrot Head hesitated and dared not speak, and said vaguely: "Let's just get together and have a meal."
"Just a free meal?" Su Le almost laughed out of anger. "Why did you kidnap those innocent girls? What's the meaning of the slogan 'God bless our Lord, forever and ever'?"
Hearing this, a trace of crazy clarity appeared in Carrot Head's eyes, and he still refused to let go: "I don't know what you are talking about, and I don't care about these things."
This child looks to be about the same age as Fang Yang, and children in their middle school years are most susceptible to brainwashing.
Jiang Miao had no intention of persuading him, and asked again: "What is the name of your organization, how many people are there, what is the functional relationship, and who has the most power in the cave."
Luobotou didn't know how to answer this series of questions for a moment. Jiang Miao's face turned cold: "You don't think that we can ask you a few questions and you will refuse to tell us anything, so you can go back safely."
Carrot Head shivered as he felt the pressure. The blade on his neck was so hard that it could scratch him when he swallowed his saliva.
Although the man opposite him didn't look very old, the murderous feeling of slaughtering everyone rushed straight into his heart, so he chose to compromise very tactfully.
"We are called the Dragon Guard. I haven't counted how many people there are, maybe around a hundred."
Su Le retracted the blade: "Continue."
"The one who is in charge of the family is called the housekeeper. Generally speaking, he is in charge of our lives, food, clothing, housing and transportation. Those who go out on missions listen to the captain of the guards."
Home?
People who engage in pyramid schemes all like to use the same tricks as their families.
Butler? Chief of the Guard?
What a weird, half-ancient, half-modern, half-Western, half-feudal name.
Jiang Miao had nothing to say, so he asked again: "Do you know who was the person who came last night?"
Carrot-head's eyes evaded for a moment, and Su Le immediately noticed and shouted at him, "Hurry up and tell me! Don't even think you can make up a story to deceive people!"
"I, I only know that the chief guard and the butler were very respectful to him. I didn't go to the front cave yesterday because it wasn't my shift, so I don't know what they did."
Jiang Miao: "Does he come here regularly?"
"No, not very often, maybe once every one or two months."
"What happened last time?"
"It seems like it was two weeks ago. The last time the Lord came, he gave us a lot of oranges and fruits."
Jiang Miao raised his eyebrows: "My Lord?"
Carrot-head let the cat out of the bag, shivering as he lowered his head. Then he said frankly, "They give us food and drink, and such a good place away from the sufferings of the world. They are indeed saviors who save us from suffering. We should be loyal to them and we can't just put down our bowls and curse them."
"They just came here two weeks ago, why did they suddenly come again yesterday?" Jiang Miao murmured, suddenly remembering the original reason why they came here specially.
——The mayor’s daughter was captured.
If the fledgling Yuan family wanted to go against the municipal government now, they would be making things difficult for themselves. It is absolutely impossible.
Jiang Miao was more inclined to believe that this group of people accidentally kidnapped the mayor's daughter while robbing passers-by.
Communications are poor now, and it took two days for Yuan Yiwei to receive the news. He hurried over to confirm the situation, but for some reason, he did not take his daughter with him when he left this morning.
Jiang Miao made a rash guess.
It seems that they are going to use kidnapping and extortion instead of robbery and go to negotiate terms with the mayor.
Once you understand this, it's not difficult to guess what the Dragon Controlling Army will do next.
The first thing to do, of course, is to write a kidnapping and ransom letter back, then negotiate terms, threaten to kill the victim, get some benefits, and get away successfully.
Yuan Yiwei definitely doesn't want to give up such a secluded place as this one, which means the place where the hostages are held must be changed, and he will definitely not trade around here anymore.
At that time, the cave will be the most loose and easy to break into.
Jiang Miao asked: "How many girls were abducted from your cave? Are there any special ones?"
"Special? How would I know?" Carrot Head was a little embarrassed. "I haven't even touched it before. How can I have the energy to do that kind of thing in such a cold day? I'm lucky to be alive."
"..." Jiang Miao: "Let me ask this question in a different way. Has anyone been held in solitary confinement after being abducted?"
"There are people in solitary confinement. There was one the day before yesterday."
With a definite answer, all of Jiang Miao’s previous assumptions would be valid.
It seemed that she had to intervene in this matter.
Unfortunately, it has been nearly twelve hours since Yuan Yiwei left, and the ransom letter has probably been delivered long ago. The next step is to transfer the hostages to a safe place.
Jiang Miao had been waiting here until he knew that the mayor's daughter had not left.
But it is already late at night, and if one wants to transfer the hostages, it would be most secretive and safe to do so when the night is dark and the wind is strong.
If the action takes place tonight, there will be no time to go to the city to seek reinforcements, and we will also have to convince them to believe this outrageous incident.
At this time, Jiang Miao thought of the security guard at the NSER workstation.
The country's military is highly professional and this is absolutely perfect.
I need to think carefully about the reason for asking them for help and the reason for appearing here so late at night.
After coordinating the testimony with Su Le, Jiang Miao sent Fang Yang to monitor the cave at the old place with a telescope. He looked at the time.
It is now 7:10 in the evening.
"I'll leave you my watch and telescope. If you see someone moving hostages with a fortune, record the time."
"Okay!" Fang Yang responded calmly and decided to stay here.
"The man is under guard. No matter what, you can't untie the rope."
"no problem!"
The straight-line distance from Wanlong Mountain to Yeming Mountain is only about seven or eight kilometers, but the winding mountain road takes twice as long.
Afterwards, Jiang Miao and Su Le traveled overnight.
On the way back, the two passed by yesterday's tent and smeared some black ash on their faces to cover their appearance.
Jiang Miao even left his down jacket to Luobotou and put on his tattered and dirty coat. After traveling for nearly four hours without stopping, he was starving and his lips were pale when he arrived at the workstation.
You can tell at a glance that the two of them are exhausted.
"--Help!"
Su Le originally had a part to play, but she really couldn't stand the desperate walk in the heavy snow, and she finally fainted when she was about to reach the destination.
There was a short slope down to the basin at the workstation. Su Le failed to brake and his foot slipped, causing Jiang Miao next to him to tumble down and fall flat on his face.
"Who is it?"
A theft had just occurred, so the security here seemed to be a little stricter than usual.
The muzzles of the guns were all pointed at him. Jiang Miao was too frightened to speak as he supported his unconscious companion on the ground.
At this time, a person whose style was obviously different from the others came over with a smile.
He was tall and slightly fat, and standing in front of Jiang Miao in his military coat, he looked like a wall, but he didn't look bloated.
He was seen pressing down the muzzle of a man's gun next to him and said, "Don't be so nervous. I can see that your troops are not like our city bureau, who often deal with ordinary people. Do you know how to serve with a smile?"
Behind him, an officer who was about the same height as him but obviously thinner sighed sadly: "Captain Liu, we just lost nearly a month's worth of rations. It's no wonder that the soldiers reacted so strongly when they saw the invaders."
Jiang Miao once again confirmed the two anti-radiation suits in his space that had been discarded due to the death of their owners.
Is this supply worth a month's ration for the entire workstation?
Are you kidding me?
Captain Liu walked up to Jiang Miao, squatted down, and asked amiably, "Little girl, what's wrong?"
Jiang Miao suppressed the doubts in her heart, quickly put into the role, bit her lower lip hard and raised tears: "Are you, are you police officers? Do you know the mayor?"
Upon hearing the mayor's title, Captain Liu immediately became serious: "What do you mean?"
Her words were incoherent, showing the incoherence of a victim: "We escaped. We ran for hours but couldn't get out of the mountain. The mayor's daughter is also inside. We have two friends inside too. The people inside are vicious and disgusting. Please save them... The mayor's daughter is also inside. Please save them, please!"
The disappearance of S City Mayor Wen's daughter is the most important case in the criminal investigation department. An old detective like Captain Liu, who is halfway to retirement, can only be sent to handle this unsolved case which is far away but cannot be avoided.
When he heard the little girl say that, he immediately asked: "The mayor's daughter? How do you know she is the mayor's daughter?"
Jiang Miao looked panicked: "When we were escaping, I heard them say they wanted to move the hostages and do something big."
Captain Liu attached great importance to the case and patiently inquired about the situation inside.
How were they abducted, what was the situation inside, how many people were abducted, whether their lives were threatened, etc.
When they heard the slogan "For thousands of years", the solemn expression on their faces could be described as dripping ink.
However, one of the girls fainted, and the one who was awake was frightened. She only said that she had been kidnapped a few days ago and took the opportunity to sneak out, and she didn't know much other useful information.
The information we know so far is that it is a cave, with hundreds of people, guns and guards.
It was such an important emergency but the signal was poor in the mountains and the pager couldn't be used.
The four people he brought were definitely not enough, so Captain Liu immediately asked Platoon Leader Li for reinforcements.
Platoon Leader Li looked embarrassed. "Captain Liu, I am not refusing. You call this a police call today, but in our army it is a combat mission! Without the order from the superiors, I will never send my soldiers out."
Captain Liu was anxious: "We don't need you to go on a mission, and we don't need too many people. Just borrow a squad of people."
"No, without a military order we really can't help."
Liu had no choice but to ask, "Where is the stationmaster Wu from your workstation? Can I ask him to apply for the headquarters?"
Platoon Leader Li said indifferently: "Something was lost in the station. The stationmaster was sad all day yesterday. In addition, the weather was getting colder and colder, so he fell ill."
"Where's the deputy station chief? Your deputy station chief Wang and my wife are old classmates. I can always go and catch up with him!"
"Deputy Station Master Wang is on a business trip to the next province and hasn't returned yet."
Captain Liu was so angry that he almost died: "This one is sick and that one is not here. Do we still need to apply to your military district?"
“That’s exactly what the procedure is.”
Time is running out and there is nothing we can do about it. We can't keep wasting time here.
Captain Liu could only walk back with his four men, Jiang Miao, and the fainted girl. A young man took the lead in supporting the fainted girl and carried her on his back, and the group of seven walked back one step deep and one step shallow.
Generally speaking, how could a victim who had been running around in the mountains like a headless fly for several hours remember the way he came?
Captain Liu was extremely lucky that it was snowing and there were footprints on the road. He just had to follow the footprints of the two people when they came.
On the way, Jiang Miao felt that the behavior of Platoon Leader Li in the workstation just now was really strange, and there was an intriguing feeling everywhere.
I couldn't help but ask Captain Liu: "Comrade police, why are those soldiers refusing to help us no matter what? Aren't they the people's soldiers?"
Of course, he still had to maintain his image to the outside world. Captain Liu sighed, "Alas, the army has its own rules and regulations. I was just impatient and forced others to do something."
She patted her chest and said thankfully: "Luckily we met you here. If you weren't here, we might have been beaten to death as soon as we rolled in."
Captain Liu also sighed: "It's just a coincidence that a terrible incident happened here, otherwise there would be no need to send our criminal police team there."
Jiang Miao gradually turned the topic to something he was concerned about: "Bad incident? How bad is it? Could it be murder?"
In fact, the word "murder" is a hook she deliberately threw out for the interlocutor, allowing the other party to give a positive or negative answer based on this hook, thus allowing the conversation to continue naturally.
Jiang Miao had already thought about how to continue asking after being denied, but she never expected Captain Liu to say, "That's right, they killed two people and robbed a whole truck of canned food and vegetables! They are completely lawless."
She paused and exclaimed, "Who is so brave that he dares to come to the army and kill people?"
To be honest, this answer was a bit outrageous. Jiang Miao began to think that the case that Captain Liu was investigating might not have much to do with anti-radiation clothing.
"This is definitely a gang crime." Captain Liu began to think divergently. Thinking that there was such a group of desperate criminals nearby, he couldn't help but ask: "Did you see a bald-headed man in that cave? He was short and thin, and his body shape was probably... about the same as you."
Jiang Miao was already numb.
"I'm sorry, I was so scared at the time that I didn't pay much attention to these details. It's all my fault for being so useless that I couldn't provide you with any useful information."
"Don't blame yourself, don't blame yourself. I was just assuming." After all, looking at the style of those bandits who kidnapped, robbed and abducted people, they were really capable of killing and robbing the army.
When they reached the fork in the road, Captain Liu handed the car keys to one of them and asked him to drive back overnight to report the matter to the bureau and request reinforcements.
Captain Liu also had the girl who fainted taken back to the police station and taken care of her.
As soon as the two of them left, Jiang Miao walked slower and slower and finally fell headfirst into the snow.
"Little girl! Wake up!"
Jiang Miao woke up and cried, "Police comrade, I really don't want to go back to that place. I can't walk anymore and want to go home."
Having a girl who is exhausted by your side will indeed slow down the team's pace. If you can just keep moving forward, it doesn't matter whether there is someone to lead the way or not.
"Okay then. I'll ask Xiao Qin to take you to the car."
"Ahem, no need." Jiang Miao struggled to stand up: "I'll follow the same path I just took. If I walk faster, I can catch up with them. I won't delay you from catching the bad guys. Go quickly."
After saying that, she very considerately ran down the mountain. The sky had become dark again with only a little moonlight. The little girl staggered a few steps and almost fell.
Seeing that they were about to catch up, Captain Liu turned around and said, "Let's go."
He sped up while leaving marks on the road.
The number of enemies and our own side was far greater than theirs, and the two victims provided too little useful information, so they could only go there to get a preliminary understanding of the situation.
If we really want to take action, we have to wait for the main force to arrive.
Jiang Miao saw them turn around and leave from the corner of his eye, so he immediately turned sideways and hid in the woods beside him. He waited until both sides had gone far away before he quietly came out.
Why would the people at the workstation lie about the case?
There were more than a dozen security guards on the scene at the time. Why did everyone accept the story of killing two people and robbing the entire vehicle and kept it a secret from the criminal police team? And why did they not say a word about the two radiation protection suits that should have been reported missing?
Jiang Miao turned and walked towards the workstation, ready to make a surprise attack.
She wouldn't let this huge blame be put on her little bald head.
No matter what, we must get to the bottom of this.
It's late at night again.
The people at the workstation did not go to bed early today. There was a room that was still brightly lit in the early morning. Except for a few people who were on duty as usual, everyone gathered together.
Jiang Miao put on a Mediterranean mask and repeated his old trick, jumping down and hiding under the windowsill of the lighted room.
There were nearly thirty people sitting in there, except for the seven or five people patrolling outside, probably all the people in the workstation were here.
"…It's much more serious. I don't think we can handle it tomorrow. In a few days, all the evidence will be gone. I don't think it's a problem."
Platoon Leader Li pondered, "I was too risky at the beginning. I shouldn't have reported two lives. Fortunately, there were two girls interrupting, otherwise even my mental strength would not be able to withstand the old detective's detailed questioning. He is worthy of being a veteran detective. If it weren't for the cleverness of his brothers, I would have been fooled by him."
Someone comforted him: "We have no other choice. In this world, if we don't report someone's life, the criminal police team won't come."
"Yes, platoon leader, we can only apply for the redeployment of supplies from the military district if we have a receipt."
"Think of something happy, we'll have a full meal soon."
"I thought it was still some white flour and canned rice or something like that. Now there's no beef or mutton, no seasonings, just plain white rice."
"Be content. Do you know what other platoons in our military region eat when they are out in disaster relief? They eat steamed bread and sweet potatoes soaked in water. When the water washes away, they can only eat tree bark. Now you can still eat a meal of plain rice. Why are you so unhappy? Why are you complaining?"
"That's right. Even so, we are still relying on Stationmaster Wu and his team. Our own supplies are just bran rice and sweet potatoes..."
The last person to speak lowered his voice until he shut up completely.
After a while, Platoon Leader Li said with an unpleasant expression, "Go, do fifty push-ups outside as punishment."
It's freezing outside, fifty?
But he didn't dare to disobey the platoon leader's words, so he stood up and walked outside.
Inside the room, Platoon Leader Li once again issued a serious warning: "It's the end of the world now. Everyone has only heard about it but has never really experienced hardship outside. They don't know what the world is like. I will never stop anyone who wants to go out and experience it!"
Everyone kept silent. Who is willing to endure hardship these days?
"If you don't want to, just keep this matter to yourself and don't mention it again even if you die." Platoon Leader Li was also very vague about this matter: "If anyone says this again in the future, I will never tolerate it. Meeting adjourned!"
After the exercise, everyone returned to their own beds, and the one who was punished to do push-ups opened the door and walked outside to begin receiving his punishment.
Jiang Miao hid in the darkness at the back door, holding his breath and blending into the darkness.
He waited until all the lights in the room were turned off before quietly leaving from under the window.
In fact, everyone who came here spoke vaguely and I didn't hear any useful information.
But Jiang Miao has always been good at grasping the key points. The words "Stationmaster Wu", "supplies" and "taking advantage of others' influence" are definitely the key to this matter.
She turned over and climbed up the small cliff, then left quickly.
There are at least thirty security guards here, and with the number of researchers underground, the number is probably even greater. It is human nature to lie in the report and want more compensation for supplies.
Why use the word "getting some benefit"?
Suddenly, she stopped and looked back at the workstation hidden in the darkness.
Is it possible that the security guard is the only one left in this huge NESR workstation?
Jiang Miao took off his hood and took out a motorcycle from the space, riding all the way from Yeming Mountain to Wanlong Mountain. After getting off the motorcycle, he jogged forward. Relying on the advantage of being more familiar with the route than Captain Liu and others, he barely arrived near the cave before them.
"Sister!" Fang Yang greeted softly and waved at her.
"How's it going, is anyone out?"
"Yes!" Fang Yang began to repeat, "At 10:10, more than a dozen motorcycles drove away with people. I used a telescope to vaguely see someone with his head covered, but it was too dark, so I didn't know if she was the mayor's daughter."
"Okay, I'll give you a task."
Children like to complete tasks alone. Fang Yang immediately became excited: "Sister, you tell me."
"Leave from this direction now, go around to where we are camping, move the supplies stored there to the car, and then wait for me in the car."
"No problem." Fang Yang quickly agreed, looking around and asked, "Why don't I see Sister Lele?"
"She went back to the city first." Jiang Miao handed the car keys, drinking water, compressed biscuits, and a lighter to Fang Yang, and said, "Be careful to hide in the car. I will probably be back tomorrow."
"Okay!" Fang Yang took over the task and left. At this time, Team Liu's men were also lying in ambush near the cave.
The people sent by Captain Liu set out from Ye Mingshan at about 12:40. A round trip to the city, plus the time for reviewing the troops, took four hours, which was more than enough.
This means that action will not take place until at least five in the morning.
As for Jiang Miao, she planned to find a secluded place to hide and take a nap.
Since I've come all this way and put so much thought into this matter, I have to get something before I leave.
There is also the time bomb Yuan Yiwei.
She always felt that the people who sent bodyguards to pry open her door were from the Yuan family.
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