Chapter 26
"Captain Xiao, there are at least three people in this car. The faces of the two people near the window are unclear, and the other person in the back seat is wearing a white shirt with blood on it!"
Xiao Yuncheng frowned after hearing this and said, "It's Xu Ze and the others."
The police quickly arrived at the factory at Qingfeng Reservoir. Based on the information extracted from the ferns on Chen Hao's shoe soles, they went straight to the back of the Xiya factory and finally found a house hidden in the woods.
This house almost blends in with the woods. It is covered with vines all over. The whole house is green and cannot be seen from a distance without careful observation.
Xiao Yuncheng first asked the special police to investigate nearby. After confirming that there was no danger, he and his men kicked the door open. Everyone walked slowly inside with their pistols in hand. A strong smell of burnt food went straight into their noses. Xiao Yuncheng frowned and signaled Shi Qian to turn on the flashlight.
Their vision suddenly brightened, and they could finally see clearly what was inside the house: the ground was covered with burnt tea leaves, with specks of white mixed in with the black powder, the black and white were distinct, and it looked like it had been burned by fire; the entire room was almost airtight, with only one window, which was at the highest point, and several thick iron bars stood up to seal the window, it was simply a simple version of a prison.
Xiao Yuncheng looked around and confirmed that the house was empty. He then ordered everyone to investigate. Twenty minutes later, the trace examination personnel said, "There are indeed fingerprints and shoe prints of Xu Ze and Wu Tong here. If I'm not mistaken, this is the scene that appeared in the video."
Xiao Yuncheng nodded thoughtfully. If Xu Ze had already taken Wu Tong away, where were they now?
Chen Hao said that Xu Ze would go to the old chemical factory first, and he ordered Tu Mi again before that, so... Xu Ze might have a Tu Mi greenhouse near the old factory!
Xiao Yuncheng turned around, his feet treading on the soft, half-black, half-white tea leaves. He squatted down, gently pinched some powder between his fingers, and sniffed it. Shi Qian happened to pass by and, seeing this, asked in confusion, "Captain Xiao, what are you doing?"
Xiao Yuncheng was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Is there any factory here that used to produce combustible materials?"
"Combustible material?" Shi Qian rolled his eyes, as if he was thinking hard. Finally, he thought of something and replied, "There's production at the other end of Qingfeng Reservoir. What's the matter, Captain Xiao?"
"What's wrong? Look for clues." Xiao Yuncheng got the answer and stood up. He frowned and scolded Shi Qian: "Why are you wandering around instead of working properly?!"
Shi Qian said innocently, "No... The inspection team found Wu Tong's things and asked me to show them to you..."
Seeing that he had misunderstood Comrade Shi Qian, Xiao Yuncheng coughed twice to lighten the atmosphere, pretending nothing had happened, and asked, "What is it?"
"A blue bracelet." Shi Qian picked up the evidence bag, and a crystal clear sky blue bracelet lay quietly inside.
Xiao Yuncheng had seen Wu Tong wearing this bracelet before. It was the one Wu Tong wore on his left wrist when he was painting at home. The sky blue bracelet rested on his slender wrist, making Wu Tong's skin look a little whiter. He also asked Wu Tong what style of bracelet it was, but Wu Tong said he just bought it casually.
According to Wu Tong's habit, he usually brings it when he is painting, but why does it appear here?
Xiao Yuncheng took the evidence bag and looked at it carefully, and suddenly found something wrong: there seemed to be a few beads missing from the bracelet, and the weight was obviously wrong.
Xiao Yuncheng pulled Shi Qian over as he was about to leave and waved the evidence bag at him, "Take this bracelet to Hen for examination. This could very well be a clue left by Wu Tong."
Shi Qian agreed immediately, carrying the evidence bag and heading off to find the trace investigators. Xiao Yuncheng stood there and pondered: If that bracelet was indeed a clue left by Wu Tong, then what did it represent? What did it hint at? Why did Wu Tong choose to keep this one?
Xiao Yuncheng was thinking when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. He turned around, but there was no one behind him. He thought he was hallucinating, but the voice rang out again. He heard it clearly. The voice said, "Blue, haven't you seen it before?"
Wu Tong said this before when he was painting at home. He was also wearing this bracelet at the time, looking up at Xiao Yuncheng with a smile, saying that he had painted a blue flower and asked himself if it looked good.
Xiao Yuncheng then remembered the flower on Wu Tong's drawing paper. Both the petals and the appearance were basically the same as ordinary Tumi, except... the Tumi he drew was sky blue, a very clear sky blue, just the same color as his bracelet!
When Xiao Yuncheng realized this, he immediately ran to Shi Qian to get the bracelet back. He put on gloves and carefully took out the bracelet. Sure enough, several beads on this bracelet had different shapes. The third, seventh and twelfth beads were hollow inside.
Xiao Yuncheng asked Shi Qian for a pair of scissors. Just as he was about to push aside the beads and cut the rope, he noticed something strange about the rope. Shi Qian came over and asked, "Brother, what did you find?"
Xiao Yuncheng did not respond, but just looked at the rope carefully: there were three dead knots and seven sets of spiral knots on it.
The seven sets of spiral knots were the same as the knots Xu Ze used to tie the Tumi bouquet.
What was Wu Tong hinting at? Xiao Yuncheng thought as he cut the rope piece by piece and removed the three beads.
"You've even figured out how to dismantle it..." Xiao Yuncheng smiled bitterly.
Xiao Yuncheng gripped the butt of the gun tightly and smashed the first bead with a "bang". Shi Qian was stunned when he saw Xiao Yuncheng's action. Everyone looked at Xiao Yuncheng after hearing the sound. It was quiet for a moment as if Xiao Yuncheng was the only one in the whole world.
"Trace examiners, come over here." Xiao Yuncheng waved behind him, and several trace examiners immediately stepped forward. Xiao Yuncheng picked up a small piece of tape from the bead fragments and said, "Take it and enlarge it."
Without a word, the trace inspection officer brought Xiao Yuncheng to the technical vehicle. Xiao Yuncheng handed the small piece of tape to them for disposal. After a while, the trace inspection officer looked up with a look of shock: "...This is the construction drawing of the old factory."
Shi Qian was incredulous after hearing this and said, "You mean, Wu Tong hid the old factory's construction drawings inside as a clue for us?!"
If this is true, then this clue will become a major breakthrough. No one knows how Wu Tong did it, but they are amazed at the young man's intelligence.
"There are two more." Xiao Yuncheng spread his palm towards them, as if he was not too shocked by the clue. "One also has something inside, and the other may have words engraved inside."
The trace examiner was stunned for a moment before immediately taking the two beads. While they were examining the traces, Shi Qian secretly approached Xiao Yuncheng and whispered to him, "Do you know something?"
Xiao Yuncheng lowered his eyes. He knew it, but he regretted that he knew it too late. It turned out that Wu Tong had given him a hint a long time ago.
"He made this whole bracelet in my house without my knowledge. He did it to... help us break through." Xiao Yuncheng replied in a deep voice.
Shi Qian listened attentively. Xiao Yuncheng didn't say anything else. He just walked closer to the trace examiners and watched them study the marks on the bead. After a while, one of the trace examiners looked up, met Xiao Yuncheng's eyes, and said, "There's a small piece of magnetite stuck inside this bead."
"Magnetite? What does this mean?" Shi Qian asked.
Xiao Yuncheng thought for a moment and said, "Go check the construction drawings of the old factory and see if there's an iron ore factory there."
Shi Qian immediately ran out. As soon as he left, another trace examiner said, "There's something engraved inside this one."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuncheng walked up to him and asked, "What is engraved?"
"It looks like longitude and latitude, 23°12'!"
Xiao Yuncheng was stunned for a moment, then snapped back to his senses. He immediately shouted, "Locate at this latitude now! Quick!"
Everyone immediately got busy. There were still twelve hours left before rescuing the hostages. No one dared to delay any longer, and no one wanted to let down the key evidence that Wu Tong had risked his life to leave behind.
Half an hour later, there was finally news. The technical investigation team accurately located the location through the dimensions, and Xiao Yuncheng and his team set off without saying a word.
The positioning shows that it is not far from Qingfeng Reservoir, only four to five kilometers away.
Xiao Yuncheng was about to step on the accelerator to the bottom. Shi Qian and Lin Chen in the car held on to the handles on the roof tightly to avoid being thrown out.
Xiao Yuncheng suddenly turned the steering wheel, and the car turned around at high speed on the empty road, then accelerated and rushed forward. Shi Qian didn't hold on tightly, and he crashed directly into Lin Chen, crushing Lin Chen and making him scream.
Fortunately, the journey was not long. Shi Qian and Lin Chen staggered out of the car with the help of others. When Xiao Yuncheng saw them, he looked puzzled: "What happened to you two?"
Shi Qian: “…”
Lin Chen: “…”
Seeing that they did not answer, Xiao Yuncheng stopped asking. Just a few minutes later, other policemen arrived. They looked at Shi Qian and Lin Chen with pale faces, and immediately understood and cast sympathetic glances at them.
They walked inside step by step with guns in hand - this factory was even more dilapidated than the chemical plant just now. The air was filled with a smell of iron, and fine ore fragments were scattered on the ground.
Xiao Yuncheng asked everyone to search separately. He concluded that Xu Ze and the others were not here because Wu Tong had hinted: the rose flower.
"Let's take a general look at this factory, mainly looking for the Tumi Flower Room."
Xiao Yuncheng led five people through the middle of the factory. They looked around vigilantly, with beams of flashlights shaking alternately. Xiao Yuncheng hid behind the wall and looked into the room. After confirming that there was no one around, he waved to the back to signal them to continue moving forward.
They quickly passed through the factory, and the headsets continued to transmit the reconnaissance results of each team: "No abnormalities."
"Go to the back of the factory." Xiao Yuncheng said, holding the headset.
Fifteen minutes after their separation, the three teams reunited and gradually made their way to the back of the factory. The further they went, the darker it became. Everyone turned on their flashlights to illuminate the way, until they realized there was no road ahead, only a wall. Xiao Yuncheng frowned and walked forward, trying to touch the wall.
"Hey, Captain Xiao..."
Just as Xiao Yuncheng put his hand on it, he exerted a little force, and the wall that seemed to be a dead end moved.
The wall is actually receding!
"Everyone, come and push this wall!"
The policemen rushed to help without any hesitation. The wall was still receding and light gradually came out from the cracks in the wall. They actually pushed the wall out!
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