The Devil in the World (21)

On Binjiang Avenue, due to the emergency action of the police station, the road was gradually congested, but a white luxury imported motorcycle was weaving between vehicles and pedestrians at lightning speed. It did not care about the lives of pedestrians and scratched several pedestrians on the road.

Lu He, who was following closely behind, was a little worried. He knew that if he continued to chase, more pedestrians might be injured or even a bigger accident might occur.

The suspect is extremely vicious, and Lu He is really unwilling to let him go. If he lets him go, he doesn't know how long it will take to find him.

Ahead, the white motorcycle suddenly turned right. Lu He didn't have time to hesitate and turned right immediately. The road was full of people. Fortunately, his skills were pretty good, but the performance of the opponent's motorcycle was obviously many times better than his traffic patrol motorcycle. If this was an endless road, the opponent would have left him far behind.

Turning the corner, he suddenly realized that his opponent had miscalculated. The road was very narrow and there was a large dump truck passing at the intersection. The suspect had to either make a detour or stop.

At such an important moment, he must not let him go.

He stepped on the accelerator, trying to rush forward and throw him off the motorcycle.

Just when he thought he had won, the suspect suddenly leaned sideways and raised one arm behind him. Lu He was very cautious. The raised arm instantly alerted him and he noticed that the opponent had raised a gun.

With a "bang", the Lu He did a high-speed drift, and at that moment a child ran into the road to pick up a balloon. When the child's mother screamed in fear, the Lu He made another sharp turn and the motorcycle slipped out. Due to the high speed, the car lost its center of gravity, and he and the motorcycle crashed into the bottom of the wheel of the dump truck.

At the critical moment, he used his palms to create friction on the ground, and he and the motorcycle stopped abruptly just half a meter away from the wheels of the dump truck.

When he looked up, he saw a white motorcycle parked in the middle of the intersection. The man in the white helmet on the motorcycle turned his head to look at him. The sunlight reflected on the mirror of the helmet was colorful, but Lu He saw his triumphant smile.

Watching the suspect leave, Lu He lay on the ground and punched the ground hard.

At this time, Lin Tao rushed over. When he saw Lu He's appearance, he was very worried and stepped forward to hold his arm. "Captain Lu, are you okay?"

"Run away!" Lu He said unwillingly.

When Lu He raised his arm, Lin Tao found that his fingers and palms were covered in blood.

"I'll take you to the hospital, Lu Dui."

"It's okay, just a scratch. Let's go back to the club. By the way, ask the technical department to check the bullet. The bullet just now should have hit..." Lu He said lightly, got up, and measured a certain direction with his eyes. He pointed with his finger, "That direction."

Carrying a gun without permission is already a felony, not to mention committing a crime in the street and attacking the police. Every gun and bullet has a source, and Lu He must trace it back to the source and get to the bottom of it.

Lin Tao called the police station and used the intercom to call the nearby patrol police. Soon a police officer came over and cordoned off the area in a small area, waiting for the technical department to come and inspect it.

After finishing the work here, Lu He's hands were unable to ride a bike, so Lin Tao parked Lu He's car on the side of the road and took him back to the Seattle club.

Soon, the two returned to the door of the club. At this time, the club had been completely sealed off and the criminal police were searching inside. Lu He rushed in quickly. He believed that his colleagues could complete this difficult task. He now had to go to the top eight floors as soon as possible to confirm the environment that Ruan Mengying was in at the time.

He concluded that the place in the photo was on the eighth floor, which must be a den of filth and dirt. He rushed up to the top floor along the stairs in the central lobby of the club. Along the way, he saw busy criminal police escorting groups of suspicious persons and confining them in the middle of the lobby on each floor. There were many people squatting in the lobby on each floor.

These people may be the staff of the club or the consumers of the club, but this club is definitely not simple.

The moment he stepped onto the eighth floor, Luo Xiaoguo, the team leader in charge of that floor, was counting the number of suspicious persons. When he saw Lu He going upstairs, he immediately came over, sweating profusely, and said in a hurried voice: "Captain Lu, you're back. Did you catch the white helmet?"

Lu He shook his head and said, "He ran away."

"It's okay," Luo Xiaoguo comforted, "If you can run away on the first day, you can still run away on the fifteenth."

Luo Xiaoguo was sharp-eyed and saw his palms. Both of Lu He's palms and fingers were covered with bloodstains from the friction between the asphalt and gravel. The skin was scratched and the bloodstains were deep. The bloodstains had already dried, but Lu He acted as if nothing had happened. He couldn't help but worry: "Captain Lu, what about your hand?"

"It's OK."

Lin Tao and Lu He followed and explained: "The white helmets opened fire, and Team Lu's car flew out to avoid the children."

Luo Xiaoguo said angrily: "If we catch this bastard, we must skin him alive!"

"How are things over here?" Lu He asked, looking towards the center of the hall.

There were dozens of men squatting in the hall, with a few women here and there. Many of the men were naked, wearing only shorts or something, and they all lowered their heads, ashamed to see people.

Luo Xiaoguo was still furious: "We found a lot of dirty stuff, there were several rooms with dozens of girls imprisoned. We have rescued some of them and put them in the lounge, and several female police officers are comforting them."

Lu He frowned deeply. He never expected that this place was even more evil than he imagined.

He asked, "Have they all been rescued?"

Luo Xiaoguo sighed: "I'll take you to have a look." He turned around and told Lin Tao, "Lin Tao, you are in charge here. Register them. Don't miss any information."

Lin Tao looked at the group of squatting men and could guess that they were the staff of the club and the customers who came to spend money. However, what they were consuming here were not the goods, but these fragile girls. He said solemnly: "Don't worry, Deputy Luo."

Led by Luo Xiaoguo, Lu He walked quickly towards the magnificently decorated corridor in the hall.

In front of a door, Luo Xiaoguo pushed it open and walked in. There was a tea room inside. The space was not big, with a small table and a teapot and cups for drinking on it. It didn't look like anything special. The room was very simple, with Chinese decoration style, except for a huge landscape painting on the wall. Compared with the small space of the tea room, it seemed a bit top-heavy.

Just when Lu He was puzzled, Luo Xiaoguo held up a card and said, "This is the card. It says Supreme VIP. Swipe it on this coffee table."

Lu He saw clearly that it was a pure black card with golden words on it. There was a silver lens the size of a playing card inlaid on a corner of the coffee table. At first glance, he thought it was the logo of the coffee table. Luo Xiaoguo put the card on the lens. After two or three seconds, he heard a "hiss" sound, and the landscape painting on the wall was split into two, revealing a door.

Luo Xiaoguo explained: "No one would believe that there are only a few teahouses on the eighth floor. It took a lot of interrogation to find this card."

As expected, there was a "other world inside". This ordinary teahouse actually had a secret door. Lu He was curious and stepped in. The door behind him slowly closed, but the scene in front of him stunned him.

Rather than calling this place an entertainment club, it would be better to call it a purgatory on earth.

Inside is a large private room with gorgeous decorations. The walls are covered with extremely gorgeous oil paintings of Greek mythology, and above the head is a magnificent golden ceiling with a hollow European style.

What came into view next was a circle of high-end sofas, on which were casually thrown men's clothes and trousers, women's clothes and underwear, as well as cigarette butts, repellent condoms, and various sex toys. On the marble tea table in front of the sofas were placed foreign brand red wine and rich delicacies. The scene was full of luxury and debauchery.

There was also white powder spilled on the table. Lu He had searched a lot of similar white powders before, so this might be the result of drug use.

The big TV on the wall was playing a video of a group of women in Indian costumes dancing nude. Maybe there was something wrong with the sound, as the nude dance in the video only had movements, but it was still uncomfortable for the eyes.

Lu He took a few steps forward, the glass cup rolling under his feet, but because the ground was covered with high-quality carpet, the sound was very small. Every step he took was like walking in the world of hell.

Because of this box, an even more shocking scene was presented.

In the middle of the box, there is a large glass box that requires seven or eight adults to hug. Three girls are locked inside. They are wearing three different uniforms. The girl in the middle is wearing a nurse's uniform, the one on the left is wearing a flight attendant uniform, and the one on the right is wearing a uniform similar to that of a convenience store cashier.

The uniforms of the three girls all had the same features: two large round holes were cut on the left and right sides of the clothes on the chest, exposing the girls' sensitive parts nakedly.

A silver tag the size of a business card was tied to their right thigh with a red rope. On the tag was written their number, name, age, and work unit.

They are very young and beautiful, standing in different postures. The nurse girl holds a stethoscope in her hand and makes auscultation movements, the stewardess makes the welcoming movements of flight attendants, and the cashier holds a plastic hand clap in her hand and makes the welcoming movements of convenience stores. They maintain their respective movements, motionless, with drooping eyelids and stiff professional smiles on the corners of their mouths, as if waiting for and accepting some kind of "judgment."

If it weren't for the girls blinking or the trembling of their muscles, they would have been thought to be wax figures at first glance, but they are indeed living people who have been given certain "commands" that they cannot disobey and can only maintain these movements.

This was the first time Lu He had seen such a strange sight, so he asked hurriedly, "Can't open it?"

"It's electronically controlled. We've sent people to find a way to open it." Luo Xiaoguo said, "These private rooms are all glass boxes. The girls inside can't see or hear anything outside."

Lu He looked around again and began to imagine what had just happened here. When guests came here, they could choose girls of different identities from the glass cover.

After the selection, an electronic control device will open the glass door, and the selected girl will come out according to the instructions. Then the customer will enjoy sexual services directly in this box.

Ruan Mengying might have been one of them at that time. He could finally explain why Ruan Mengying was still wearing a scarf from Development Bank around her neck. It is very likely that the uniforms worn by the girls in the glass box now are their real identities in reality.

This also explains why there is a tag tied on the girl's right leg. The tag even states the girl's former workplace. For example, the girl in convenience store clothes used to be an employee of a famous convenience store chain.

Lu He didn't know why they fell into the devil's den and were imprisoned here. They must have been coerced and threatened. After repeated resistance, they finally failed and were forced to provide sexual services.

"How many boxes like this are there?"

Luo Xiaoguo replied: "At present, at least nine have been found on the seventh and eighth floors. The others are karaoke bars and cinemas, of course, all of which provide sexual services. There are also a lot of drug abuse, gambling and other criminal activities. I guess the box we are in is a group sex party."

"What is Group Pat?"

Luo Xiaoguo said: "When I first came in, there were five men and two women having sex. This is called group sex. You have to separate the body from the sex. In fact, the girls had no consciousness of rejection or resistance. It was basically gang rape."

Lu He clenched his fists, blood oozing from his bloodstained palms. He gritted his teeth and said, "Lao Luo, this is a large-scale organized prostitution ring that imprisoned and mentally controlled women. The people involved are insane and have lost their humanity. They must be dealt with seriously."

"It may not be that simple. There are a few boys imprisoned here."

"boy?"

Luo Xiaoguo said: "In a private room, when we entered, three old women were playing with a little boy. The boy was said to have taken medicine and had an erection for more than two hours. He was foaming at the mouth and convulsing all over his body, but the three old women didn't stop. The boy has been taken away by an ambulance, and I don't know if his life is in danger."

When Lu He's face turned pale, Luo Xiaoguo said, "When we came in, we found two or three men in suits who had just died. They should be high-level staff here. They may have committed suicide out of fear of crime, or they may have been shot to death. In any case, it seems that they destroyed the bodies and evidence."

Lu He felt a little uneasy. Before the arrest today, someone jumped off the building, and his identity has not been confirmed yet. What if the main culprit killed all the people involved in the case who knew about the incident before escaping? Or what if the main culprit was not in the club today and made people who knew about the incident commit suicide through remote control? Then this search and arrest operation would not be truly successful.

"There was something even more exciting," Luo Xiaoguo added, "Han Changlin and his team discovered a drug processing factory in the basement, and the second team even had a fierce gun battle."

Lu He was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Meng Siqi also participated in the operation today. He hurriedly asked, "No police officers were injured, right?"

"It's OK. It's going well."

Lu He nodded. He guessed that Han Changlin should have handled it properly.

"I can't hold the intercom with my hands," he ordered immediately, "Send the order through the intercom. No one in the club can be spared today, not even ants! In addition, all female and male victims must be brought back safely and sent to the hospital for examination. Their privacy must not be protected. I suspect that their spirits have been greatly damaged. Contact a psychologist for psychological counseling."

"Captain Lu, I thought of that, too. Don't worry." Luo Xiaoguo patted his chest and said, "I'll convey it in a moment."

Lu He's bloody palms curled up slightly, and he put his hands into his jacket pockets and walked out of the box slowly, feeling very heavy.

Luo Xiaoguo followed him and shouted into the intercom: "What are you doing? Why hasn't the door of the glass box been opened yet?"

The intercom replied: "Deputy Luo, the glass box is controlled by computers. During the surprise inspection just now, many computers were temporarily damaged. Now they are being restored as soon as possible."

Luo Xiaoguo said, "What about the Information Department? Isn't Lin Mingjia a top student majoring in computer science? Is she here?"

"It's coming, it's coming. The computer is recovering. Deputy Luo, please wait patiently."

Luo Xiaoguo gave a death order: "Stop pulling the strings. If you don't open the door in five minutes, I'll use an electric drill to open it."

Luo Xiaoguo turned off the intercom and said to Lu He, "Old Liu was in the province today. When he heard about the big incident here, he rushed back without stopping."

Lu He nodded and said, "Lao Luo, you've worked hard here. I'll go look somewhere else."

"Okay, you can do whatever you want with the team."

Lu He continued walking along the corridor and stopped in front of a door. He felt that this room should be facing the Sujiang Lighthouse.

He pushed the door open and went in. The room wasn't very big because the curtains were mostly drawn, making the environment a bit dark. The furnishings inside were of high quality and fully equipped, with a sofa, a bed, a desk, and a shower room. It was like a lounge.

He walked around the room, measuring the area of ​​the house, and his eyes slowly fell on the sparse pattern of the white curtains. He found that this pattern was very similar to the one in the photo, both of which were some kind of golden pattern in the shape of grass leaves.

He stood in front of the window and suddenly opened the curtain. Outside the window was a miniature of the city. The river was majestic and the surface of the river was vast. The whole scenery was extremely beautiful and breathtaking. A white chimney-sized lighthouse stood in the center of this magnificent picture.

His inference should not be wrong, this is most likely the place in Ruan Mengying's photo.

He took a few steps back, squatted down, put the four fingers of both hands together to form a square, and gestured the imaging range of the camera in front of his eyes.

If you squat down and take a photo facing the window, you can take a photo with the same perspective as in the photo, and the city scenery does not need to be shown in the window, only a white chimney is visible.

Lu He finally found the scene of the incident. Now all the people involved in the club have been detained, including the middle-aged man who jumped to his death, two or three people who died suddenly, and the man in the white helmet who escaped. Among this group of people involved in the case, he will be able to piece together everything about Ruan Mengying, and he will also be able to restore evidence of the evil crimes of the entire club.

No matter who is the culprit or the accomplice, he believes that they will not escape the severe punishment of the law.

Lu He stood up and turned around to see a pair of eyes staring at him in the window. He walked forward and took a closer look. He saw a white photo frame placed between several artworks. Inside the frame was a photo of a human face with a white mask that filled the entire photo.

The white mask covered the entire face, with a pair of smiling eyes visible through the two largest holes. The shadows were too heavy and the details of the eyes were not clear.

What kind of demon is hiding behind this mask? What kind of person would commit such heinous and innumerable crimes?

Lu He swore that he would arrest him personally!

However, the white mask was smiling at him!

The mask's nose also has two small holes, and its mouth is a long crescent-shaped opening that bends upward.

The whole mask looks like a smiling person, yet it exudes mystery and horror.