Chapter 24
Upon hearing this, Xuan Li rushed in with two forensic doctors. Chen Hao was slumped on the chair with his face up, and the white foam from his mouth flowed down his neck. Xuan Li and the others put on gloves and masks to give Chen Hao first aid.
After a while, Chen Hao stopped moving, and Xuan Li stood up with a gloomy face.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yuncheng asked puzzledly.
Xuan Li took off his mask with one hand, frowning: "He's dead."
Xiao Yuncheng's eyes widened when he heard this: "Dead?"
Xuan Li said that they had to wait for further autopsy to determine the cause of death. At this time, Shi Qian also came in: "Captain Xiao, are we leaving now?"
In the car, Xiao Yuncheng was steering the wheel, and Shi Qian was almost reaching from the back seat to the front seat with the locator. Finally, Xiao Yuncheng couldn't stand it anymore and pressed his head back.
Shi Qian was complaining about Xiao Yuncheng's violence against him due to his dedicated attitude when a police car drove into the Qingfeng Reservoir. Xiao Yuncheng met up with the special police who had arrived earlier, and they divided into four teams for investigation.
Qingfeng Reservoir is a reservoir 3,000 meters away from the Yunyue Industrial Zone. It is basically filled with heavy industrial factories, and the air is filled with the strange smell of chemical substances. Xiao Yuncheng led his men into an old chemical factory - the one Chen Hao mentioned earlier.
Xiao Yuncheng carefully searched the ground for clues with a flashlight, while several others were checking ingredients and fingerprints on the chemical workbench. Time passed minute by minute, and the police almost turned the place upside down.
Very bad news——they were fooled by Chen Hao.
The real factory is not here, and there is not even any fingerprint of Chen Hao here. At this moment, Xiao Yuncheng really wants to pull Chen Hao up and force him to tell the truth, even pretend to be dead, but it is obviously impossible.
"Captain Xiao, there are still no clues."
The trace investigators said they had no leads and there was nothing left to search. Xiao Yuncheng ordered the police to withdraw. He took out his phone and made a call: "Hello?"
"What are you doing?" Xuan Li's voice came from the other end.
"Chen Hao didn't tell the truth. He lied about the location of the factory." Xiao Yuncheng said.
Xuan Li was also at a loss for words: "Then why did you call me? Can I make him come back to life and ask again?!"
"That's not necessary. Just help me check something." Xiao Yuncheng walked out of the factory and looked at a moss-covered path that was completely out of place in the surroundings. He said, "Please check the surveillance footage for any ferns on Chen Hao's soles."
Xiao Yuncheng didn't tell the police to retreat. Instead, they waited in the car to listen to his orders. Lin Chen rolled down the window and shouted to Xiao Yuncheng, who was standing outside, "It looks like it's going to rain. Would you like to come in first?"
Xiao Yuncheng waved his hand without looking back. He looked around. This was the flood discharge channel on the east side, but the police found nothing, which showed that Chen Hao had lied. The address was correct, but he was being clever and deliberately said it wrong.
Xiao Yuncheng suspected that the chemical factory here at the flood discharge channel was too easy to be exposed compared to their drug processing factory, and the factory might be in a more hidden place.
Just as he was thinking, Xiao Yuncheng's phone rang at the perfect time. Xiao Yuncheng picked up the phone and was not surprised to hear Xuan Li's good news: "Yes! It's a rare fern that only grows near water."
Xiao Yuncheng hung up the phone, turned around and shouted to the police in the car: "Get to work!"
The east spillway does not lead directly to the waterway, but only to the west cliff of the reservoir, where there is a hot spring.
Xiao Yuncheng led his men around to the west cliff and, as expected, they saw a chemical factory separated from other factories by a road. Xiao Yuncheng ordered, "Search!"
"Captain Xiao, we found it! Chen Hao's fingerprint!"
"Captain Xiao, Xu Ze's fingerprints are also here!"
"Captain Xiao, a large amount of drug deposits has been detected!"
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So noisy...
Wu Tong woke up from his coma and found darkness in front of him. Only a small window on the wall shone a faint light, but it was not enough to illuminate the place. Wu Tong felt dizzy and wanted to stand up. He raised his hand and heard a metallic sound as he moved. He felt as if something was holding his wrist. With the help of the faint light, Wu Tong tried hard to see clearly - it was handcuffs.
Wu Tong realized that he was imprisoned, and he had to sit down and try to sort out the current situation: he found Xu Ze in Yunyue, Xu Ze said something to him, then sprayed something on him and fainted, and he knew nothing about what happened afterwards. Wu Tong didn't even know whether Xiao Yuncheng had found Xu Ze.
Wu Tong felt very troubled. Xu Ze was an antisocial personality. He would not be satisfied until he had given the police a hard time. Wu Tong could probably guess what Xu Ze would do next, but the question was: where was he?
This place is like a prison and you can't see outside at all. The only window is very high. In this empty house with nothing in it, it is unrealistic for Wu Tong to climb up and see outside, let alone contact Xiao Yuncheng and the others.
Just as she was thinking, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open. Xu Ze, wearing a gray sportswear, walked towards Wu Tong with a dinner tray. Wu Tong didn't want to see his face and tried to pretend to be asleep, but was immediately seen through: "I know you're awake."
Wu Tong had no choice but to open his eyes. Xu Ze held the plate in his hand, touched Wu Tong's head very gently, and said, "Eat something."
"No."
Seeing Wu Tong's resistance, Xu Ze also knew that Wu Tong was stubborn, so he had to coax him in a gentle voice: "At least eat a little, otherwise your stomach won't be able to bear it."
"I said I don't want to eat, get out of here." Wu Tong's tone was a little heavier, but he really hadn't eaten for a long time and had almost no strength left.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Xu Ze had no choice but to sit down in front of him, lowering his head and showing no emotion: "Why do you... hate me so much? Tongtong."
When Xu Ze called him Tongtong, Wu Tong felt nauseous. He closed his eyes and whispered, "How dare you ask me? Don't you know what you did?"
"But I'm also seeking revenge..."
"You're fucking doing this for profit!" Wu Tong retorted mercilessly.
Xu Ze looked very aggrieved, his voice choked a little: "Then I won't give up on you, I promised you."
Wu Tong sighed, and he sat up and moved closer to Xu Ze, narrowing his eyes dangerously, almost touching his nose to his. "Then let me ask you, why did you abandon me?"
Xu Ze was stunned. He remembered what Wu Tong said about "abandoning". Twenty years ago, when they escaped, it was he who sold Wu Tong to Chen Xiuping in exchange for his own life.
Although he had thought about going back to save Wu Tong at the beginning, he had nothing. Blindly saving people was undoubtedly like an egg hitting a stone. He knew that he was not capable enough, so he decided to go back to avenge Wu Tong when he grew up. However, he did not expect that Wu Tong also survived. They met unexpectedly at an art exhibition three years ago. Only then did Xu Ze know that Wu Tong was still alive and had become a famous painter.
Seeing Xu Ze didn't say anything, Wu Tong leaned back and just looked at him quietly without making any movement. Xu Ze was silent for a while, then picked up the plate and said to Wu Tong almost pleadingly, "Eat some."
"Eat it first and show me." Wu Tong was worried that Xu Ze would put some drugs in the food.
Xu Ze smiled bitterly and murmured, "So you no longer believe me..."
As he spoke, Xu Ze picked up half of the steamed bun, took a bite, and swallowed it in front of Wu Tong: "Is this okay?"
Wu Tong finally picked up the other half and started eating it half-heartedly. He chewed the bun in small bites, and the starch began to secrete sugar in his mouth, and the sweet taste spread. Wu Tong reached out to Xu Ze for water, and Xu Ze helped him unscrew the bottle cap and took it.
"What are you going to do next?" Wu Tong asked him after swallowing the remaining small bite in his mouth.
Xu Ze lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then suddenly asked, "How much time do you have left?"
Wu Tong was stunned for a moment before replying, "It will definitely take half a year. If you want to do it..."
Before Wu Tong could finish his words, he suddenly felt dizzy. He looked at Xu Ze in disbelief, realizing that he still hadn't escaped. Xu Ze looked at him gently and said, "Then I'll take you to get revenge first."
Xiao Yuncheng asked them to take pictures of all the traces, and he searched around the factory himself, but found nothing.
"What's wrong, Captain Xiao? Is there any problem?"
Shi Qian walked out. Xiao Yuncheng crossed his arms and asked, "Didn't Chen Hao say that Xu Ze liked Tumi and that was why he came here first? Then what was his purpose in coming here? There's no Tumi here."
Suddenly, Xiao Yuncheng's phone rang. Xiao Yuncheng was curious about who was calling. As soon as he picked up the phone, he heard Xuan Li's anxious voice: "Yuncheng, go back to the Municipal Bureau right now!"
“What are you doing?…”
"Xu Ze is looking for you!"
It should have taken nearly an hour to get there, but Xiao Yuncheng managed to get back to the Municipal Bureau in less than half an hour. He pushed open the door of the conference room and saw Xuan Li, Murong Tonghai and several other criminal police officers inside. Murong Tonghai waved at him, motioning him to come over.
Xiao Yuncheng didn't understand why, but he still squeezed into the crowd. They gathered in front of a computer that was playing a video. When Xiao Yuncheng saw who was in the video, his pupils suddenly contracted - Wu Tong!
In the picture, Wu Tong was tied to a chair and unconscious. Xu Zedu appeared in the picture. He smiled at the camera, took out the syringe in his hand and shook it at them.
"Wu Tong!"
Murong Tonghai immediately pressed Xiao Yuncheng's shoulders and said sternly, "Calm down!"
Xiao Yuncheng's hands were shaking, his eyes fixed on the screen. Xu Ze seemed to see Xiao Yuncheng's broken emotions, and smiled triumphantly. He slowly walked towards Wu Tong, gently pulled up his arm, and inserted the syringe filled with unknown medicine into Wu Tong's vein. As the medicine was pushed in, Wu Tong began to tremble, and his pretty face wrinkled with pain and discomfort, and a line of tears flowed down.
"Officer Xiao, do you want to save him?"
Xu Ze played with the empty syringe in his hand. Standing behind Wu Tong, he stroked Wu Tong's face with his fingers, as if tracing his outline. Xu Ze lifted Wu Tong's chin and said cheerfully, "If you can find me, I'll return him to you. How's that?"
The sound of burning flames began to echo in the background, and Tu Mi began to appear on the screen, gradually blocking the camera. Just before being blocked, Xu Ze said, "Countdown: 48 hours."
The screen was completely blocked by the Tumi. The snow-white Tumi started to burn without any warning. The flames and the Tumi formed a strong collision. Finally, the picture went black, reflecting Xiao Yuncheng's frowning and serious face.
Murong Tonghai finally spoke up: "The hostage is now in danger. We must hurry and rescue the hostage, Xiao Yuncheng, within 48 hours."
Murong Tonghai turned to Xiao Yuncheng and said solemnly, "The hostage's life is now in our hands. We must act without delay!"
"yes."
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