Chapter 161 Who wants X? (Joint Chapter)
At two o'clock in the morning, only a few lights were on in the city police station building.
Looking from the night sky, it looks like a huge whirlpool in the dark clouds, slowly rotating and being sucked into the endless abyss.
In the corridor, Hu Changyu looked at the departing figures of Chen Hao and Luo Rui, his eyes suddenly dimmed.
For two whole days, he was under tremendous pressure and his nerves were tense.
When the escort truck was robbed, he used the power of thunder to seal off the city and arrange arrests. However, he did not expect that these gangsters were so cunning. They killed and injured more than ten people. Their methods were extremely cruel and vile in nature. It is true that in recent years Years are rare.
The people were robbed, the difficulties faced by the city police station and the public opinion from the outside world all fell on Hu Changyu's shoulders.
As the leader of a game, he can be said to be walking on thin ice and cautiously.
He originally thought that after Luo Rui rescued the people, the matter would be resolved satisfactorily, but it backfired.
He didn't expect that things would get so big and develop to the point where he couldn't control it.
He was given a chance from above, and more than once!
The warning from the top leader during the video conference room; Yang Xudong’s conversation after the meeting; and the press conference, as long as he doesn’t tell the truth, then everyone will be happy and the world will be at peace!
But he understood that if he chose to conceal it, the person behind the robbery would be able to escape justice!
What to do with those who died?
Is that all there is to it?
Hu Changyu knew that the only thing he could do was to choose not to compromise!
This is the most basic principle of a police officer!
Secretary Tan Zhitong has "off duty". Apart from him, only Yang Xiaorui is still on the entire floor.
"Bureau Hu, would you like some tea? I'll make it for you."
Yang Xiaorui's office is not on this floor, so she followed him.
The case is still under investigation. Although there are only a few people like Chen Hao and others, Yang Xiaorui, as a logistics staff, must stay in the police station and keep in touch with them at all times.
Hu Changyu smiled slightly: "Xiaorui, you go and do your work, I will wait for a while."
Yang Xiaorui looked at him: "Hu Bureau, Team Chen and Luo Rui will definitely catch them Stay here! If you are hungry, I have snacks,"
As she said that, she took out a piece of chocolate and handed it over timidly.
After Hu Changyu took it, he smiled and said: "Let me tell you, why does your criminal police office always smell like potato chips and chocolate? It turns out that you are eating it secretly every day?"
Yang Xiaorui blushed: "No, it's Wu Lei. His drawer is full of snacks."
Hu Changyu took the chocolate: "Thank you."
"Well, Bureau Hu, I'll go ahead and get busy." , if you have anything, call me.”
Hu Changyu saw her figure disappear at the top of the stairs, and then walked into the office.
He first glanced at the landline phone on the table. There were two phones, but there was no incoming call.
Hu Changyu sat back in his office chair and closed his eyes tightly.
Not long after, his personal cell phone rang.
When he saw the call, it was the call from his old partner Wei Qunshan.
After answering, Wei Qunshan did not say anything.
Hu Changyu didn’t speak either.
After a long time, the other end of the phone said: "Old Hu, why do you have to do this?"
Hu Changyu pursed his lips and still did not speak.
Wei Qunshan sighed and whispered: "Is your mobile phone safe?"
Hu Changyu frowned, he seemed to feel something, and replied: "This is my personal mobile phone."
Wei Qunshan: "Okay, listen..."
...
After the two police cars drove out of the police station building, they ran in different directions.
Because time is urgent, we cannot investigate slowly and can only act separately.
In addition to Luo Rui himself, there are two other people around him, both veteran detectives who choose to continue working overtime.
There were a total of fourteen hostages held at that time, excluding store manager He who was beaten to death, there were still thirteen left.
What they have to do now is to inquire about the situation before the explosion, hoping to find clues.
Chen Hao went to the hospital, where seven customers and two security guards with gunshot wounds were treated.
Luo Rui is looking for four female employees.
Wufu Jewelry Store has its own employee dormitory. Three of its employees live in the dormitory, and the other one is from the city and lives in a rural area in the suburbs.
The staff dormitory is on the commercial street. Luo Rui led two people to the door and knocked hard on the door.
It was already early in the morning, and the people in the house might have gone to sleep, so he waited for a while before a panicked voice sounded in the house: "You...who are you?"
Luo Rui replied: " We are the police, sorry to bother you, we have an emergency and need to ask you, please Open the door. "
The door was not opened, and the voice said: "Wait a minute, I'll call the police, I want to confirm. "
These girls were held captive. , I finally escaped alive. How could I not be afraid when someone came to my door in the middle of the night?
"You don't need to call the police. Open the door a crack and look at me. You should know me. I saved you at that time."
This was very effective, and after a while, the door was opened a crack.
The girl who opened the door lit up when she saw him, and then opened the door fully.
"It's really you!"
Luo Rui smiled: "Can we go in?"
The girl lowered her guard: "Please come in, but only in the house Very messy.”
Luo Rui took two criminal policemen into the house, which was a house with three bedrooms and one living room.
Except for the girl who opened the door, the other two girls held fruit knives and spatulas from the kitchen.
It seems that what happened yesterday really cast a big shadow on them.
They were wearing pajamas, but they didn’t look tired, so they probably hadn’t fallen asleep yet.
Luo Rui said: "Sorry to bother you so late. We do have something very important to ask you."
One of the older girls said: "Yesterday during the day, we all talked about it in the police station. We said everything we knew."
Luo Rui: "I know, but there are still some problems. We need to ask again, this is very important, I hope you can cooperate?”
Open The girl at the door said: "Then you sit down and I'll pour you a glass of water."
Luo Rui waved his hand to refuse in a hurry: "No, let's start."
Hearing this, the three The girl was sitting on the sofa with her legs together. She was very nervous and repelled. She seemed unwilling to recall the situation at that time.
Luo Rui took the transcript handed over by his companion, which recorded the girl's confession yesterday.
Luo Rui had already read this information in the car. He sat opposite the girls and asked: "The time when the gangster broke into the jewelry store was after two o'clock yesterday, two and ten." "How many customers were there in the store before this?"
The girls frowned and seemed unable to remember.
One of the girls, named Xue Fangfang, replied: "Business was not very good that day, there were very few customers, and there were only seven people who were kidnapped with us."
Luo Rui nodded: "What was wrong with them at that time?"
"I didn't pay attention to this. They were all wandering around, and they didn't seem to have any intention to buy."
"What about before? Besides them, what other customers were there before two o'clock? The memory is more profound?” br>
She was unsure and looked at her two companions.
One of the girls nodded: "Yes, we were all greeting customers at the time, but I remember clearly that one customer bought a pendant, a gold pendant from the Future Buddha."
"Future Buddha?"
"It's Maitreya Buddha, also called Future Buddha. Men wear Guanyin, and women wear Buddha."
Luo Rui asked doubtfully: "Is it a female customer?"
Girl: "Yes, it looks like she came back from abroad!"
Luo Rui narrowed his eyes: "She came back from abroad? Did she buy it from you?"
The girl shook her head: "No, it was Yao Chun who made the order."
"Yao Chun?"
Luo Rui quickly looked through the record book, and a picture of the girl appeared in front of him.
The girl continued: "Yao Chun is an old employee and she is beautiful. When we were detained, she was bullied by gangsters! Manager He wanted to protect her, but Manager He He was beaten so badly... Wuwu, he was taken away by the gangsters, went to open the safe, and never came back..."
Speaking of this, the girls' faces immediately dimmed, and they kept Wiping tears.
Luo Rui breathed out. When the explosion occurred, he hid in the safe and saw the body of store manager He.
Whether it is the store manager in Guangxing City or the store manager He in this city, they are both real men!
Luo Rui still remembers that when Tang Seng hit the store manager with a hammer, he didn't say a word, and he didn't tell the safe's password until his death.
Although store manager He helped the gangster open the safe, he did so to make the gangster lower his guard and prepare to fight back.
But I didn’t expect that these two people would end up like this.
If Wufu Jewelry Store has a conscience, they should treat their families well!
Luo Rui cleared away the messy thoughts in his mind. He took a pen and sketched on the notebook for a while. He felt dissatisfied, so he tore it off with his hand, and then drew a new one.
Feeling satisfied, he held the book in front of the three girls.
“Have you ever seen this backpack? I’m not good at drawing. Please look carefully. This bag is black. There are three zippers on the bag. There is a trademark on it, which is a string of English letters. "Did this bag appear in the store at that time?"
The girls looked at it carefully, then looked at each other, and then shook their heads: "I haven't seen it before."
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Xue Fangfang: "Everyone was entertaining guests at that time, and when we were working, we kept our heads down and introduced the jewelry on the counter to customers, so we didn't notice it."
Luo Rui was a little disappointed, and then asked : "Listen to me, this bag is placed under the display cabinet at the end of the hall. Who is in charge of that counter?"
The three girls answered in unison: "Yao Chun."
< br>Yao Chun? Luo Rui muttered, then stood up: "Thank you for your cooperation, let's go first. If there are any more questions, we will disturb you."
Xue Fangfang said: "It's okay, officer, yes You saved us. If it weren’t for you, we would have died long ago. Cooperating with your police investigation is what we should do.”
The girls stood up and sent Luo Rui and the others to the door.
As soon as he walked downstairs, Luo Rui received a call from Chen Hao. His consultation at the hospital had just ended.
"Luo Rui, we found it. Based on the clues you provided, we asked the customers who were still in the store at the time and two security personnel. They all said they had seen a woman carrying that black backpack. , walked into the store. At that time, she was wearing tortoiseshell eyes and a hat on her head to hide her true appearance.
However, when she left, the two security guards recalled that they did not see her take it away. backpack, and she just left her front foot, The gangster then broke into the jewelry store and took the hostage, less than a minute apart!"
Before Luo Rui could speak, Chen Hao continued in an excited tone: "This is a very important clue! , if it can be confirmed that this woman is the manipulator behind the scenes, then it can support Director Hu’s speech at the press conference. In this way, it can show that our police department is not aimless, and it can also reduce the pressure on Director Hu’s shoulders! ”
But Luo Rui does not have such an optimistic attitude. When things have evolved like this, it is no longer a matter of right and wrong!
Little people see right and wrong, big people only care about interests!
Don’t imagine that if you are right, the leader will look at the problem again, and he will hate you even more.
There are too many things like this in history!
Chen Hao: "I have recorded a confession and painted a portrait of this woman. I will take photos immediately and send them to you."
Not long after, Luo Rui received a black and white sketch on his phone.
In the portrait, the woman seems to be only 27 or 28 years old. She is tall and wearing a black down jacket. It is early winter, and she is also wearing a summer women's hat.
Because it was drawn based on the memory of the security personnel, this portrait is very inconsistent. The nose and eyes lack details and are very stereotyped, so the woman’s face is blurry.
Is this woman the mastermind behind this?
Is this "X"?
Luo Rui walked towards the police car while looking at the photos.
The two veteran detectives who came to investigate with Luo Rui, one named Jiang Dawei and the other named Li Xueming, have been veteran detectives for more than 20 years.
The two sat in the driver's seat. Luo Rui opened the door and got into the back seat.
Li Xueming looked back at him: "Team leader, where are we going now?"
Luo Rui replied: "Go to Yao Chun's house."
Yao Chun's family lives in the suburbs, which is considered a rural area, but it is located to the east of the city. Not only is it not backward, but due to the expansion of the city, the farmers in that area are particularly wealthy.
Yao Chun’s family of three includes her and her parents.
Luo Rui always felt that it was not realistic to find X's portrait so easily.
The reason why X is used instead is because Luo Rui does not believe that this woman is the person behind the scenes.
The jewelry store and the escort vehicle were robbed, and X personally took action in order to make the robbery successful without any mistakes.
After the incident was completed, with five million in hand, X took out Ge Hong to replace him, and then killed his accomplices at all costs. On the one hand, he wanted to clear his existence, and on the other hand, he also gave an explanation to the police.
With such a meticulous layout, could X be the woman in the portrait?
While Luo Rui was thinking wildly, Chen Hao called again.
His tone was very excited: "Hey, Luo Rui, I asked Yang Xiaorui to retrieve the surveillance video of the gangsters breaking into the jewelry store. Guess what I found?"
Luo Rui: "Did this woman appear in the surveillance video?"
Chen Hao: "That's right! We have found a video of her walking out of the jewelry store. Her face is similar to the woman in the portrait. She is almost the same woman!"
Luo Rui pondered for a moment, and then said : "Team Chen, don't have high hopes."
When Chen Hao heard this, he became anxious: "What do you mean? "Luo Rui: "I mean, X is very cunning, she can't appear in the surveillance video"
Chen Hao: "Luo Rui, isn't this what you speculated earlier. ? You said it was possible that X pretended to be a customer, entered the jewelry store, and hid the backpack with bombs under the counter! ”
Luo Rui: "I said that, but I may be wrong. Do you think, if you were X, would you do this? I think this woman may be a 'scapegoat'!"
Chen Hao fell silent and remained silent on the other end of the phone for a long time.
Luo Rui sighed: "Captain Chen, if you want to know if this woman is Is the figure wearing the Tang Monk mask the same as this woman? In any case, this woman is a very important clue. If we find her, we can follow her and find X."
Chen. Hao's tone was very anxious: "Luo Rui , do you know that this case cannot be investigated slowly by us. The pressure faced by Bureau Hu is unprecedented. If the real culprit cannot be caught early..."
Luo Rui quickly caught the words: "I understand. So we have to move quickly! I am now looking for a female employee named Yao Chun. Yao Chun was the one who received this woman. What you need to do now is to find this woman as much as possible!" >
Chen Hao: "Okay, I hope everything goes well!"
Luo Rui: "I hope everything goes well!"
After hanging up the phone, Luo Rui looked out the window. I don't know when, the night sky Snowflakes were falling in the sky, and the snowfall was heavier than last time, leaving a vast expanse of white.
The police car left the city and drove on the suburban road.
Half an hour later, the police car stopped in front of a small building in the suburbs.
The place is not far from the main road and is surrounded by open fields.
It is said to be a small building, but it is actually like a small villa. There is a garden in front of the house and a small pond behind the house.
The small building seems to have just been built not long ago, and leftover waste materials can be seen around it, such as gravel, steel bars, and prefabricated panels.
This is Yao Chun's home, a single family. The nearest neighbor is behind the pond, at least five or six hundred meters away.
The information contained Yao Chun’s phone number. Luo Rui had informed her on the way here, otherwise no one would be happy if he suddenly visited her in the middle of the night.
Sure enough, as soon as Luo Rui got out of the car, he saw the lights on in the house.
He walked to the door and clicked the ring on the door.
After a while, a middle-aged man who looked like Yao Chun's father opened the door.
"Are you Officer Luo? I saw you on TV in the afternoon, you saved my daughter!"
Luo Rui did not deny that he was not a police officer, and he did not bother to explain.
"Hello, this is what I should do. Are you Yao Chun's father, Yao Jun?"
"Yes, it's me. We have been waiting for you for a long time."
He looked I glanced behind Luo Rui and saw two more people. There was a trace of vigilance in his eyes, but he still opened the door: "Come in quickly, it's cold outside and it's snowing."
Luo Rui and his companions walked into the house and sat on the mahogany bench in the living room on the first floor. Sitting there was Yao Chun and her mother.
Her mother is a typical rural woman, dark and thin, but looks very capable.
She quickly got up, made three cups of hot tea, and placed them on the coffee table.
"Officer, you have tea."
"Thank you, don't be so polite."
After Luo Rui sat down, he looked at Yao Chun, this is a very beautiful When I asked the other three female staff just now, they said that Yao Chun had been bullied by Tang Seng.
At that time, it was Ge Hong who was wearing the Tang Monk mask, that is, this scumbag, who raped Kong Fei's wife Xie Ying and killed their family of three.
Yao Chun is lucky, otherwise he would have ended badly.
Luo Rui took the tea cup and took a sip of tea. The other two detectives stood and did not touch the tea cup.
Yao Chun looked at Luo Rui and said in a very sincere tone: "Thank you for saving us."
Luo Rui waved his hand: "It's okay, it's my duty."
< br>Chen Hao had already sent the footage of
Unexpectedly, Yao Chun didn't look at his phone, but kept staring at him with a smile in his eyes.
Luo Rui coughed twice before she reacted, smiled sheepishly, and then looked at the photo.
“I know her. As soon as she left, the gangsters broke in with their back legs. When she was held hostage, I was still thinking that she was really lucky. If she had left one minute later, she would have been like us. What happened?”
“You can tell me more specifically. What was the situation at that time?”
Yao Chun nodded: “The business was not very good yesterday. After she came in, she went straight to my counter and sat on the chair and looked at it for a long time. I introduced her, but she didn’t say anything. , I was a little impatient, so I let her take a look.
When I went to drink water, she called me over and said she wanted to buy a pendant. It was a gold pendant from the future Buddha. It was quite expensive..."
Luo Rui interrupted her: "You Did you leave the counter at that time? "
Yao Chun nodded: "That's right. "
"About how long? "
"Only two or three minutes...should not exceed two minutes. ”
Luo Rui thought to himself that in these two minutes, while she was not behind the counter, this woman hid her backpack under the counter.
The surveillance in the jewelry store has been destroyed. If not, the scene at that time can be seen more clearly.
"What was her expression like?"
"She seemed a little flustered. When I gave her the pendant, she told me to place an order immediately, as if something was wrong and wanted to Look like leaving early."
Luo Rui thought, because the weather was too cold, he picked up the teacup and took two sips of hot water.
Yao Chun's eyes were always on him, and even her parents felt that their daughter seemed to have a crush on this young police officer.
While watching the news in the afternoon, my daughter kept talking about how brave and powerful the police officer who saved people was.
At that time, I thought he was dead inside, and my daughter cried very hard. Unexpectedly, the police officer named Luo Rui survived the disaster and was still alive.
Moreover, the TV was full of news about Luo Rui. The daughter had been sitting in front of the TV, watching the news reports. She seemed to have a feeling of admiration for the young police officer.
As soon as he received Luo Rui's call, Yao Chun seemed very excited and even dressed up specially.
Yao Chun looked at Luo Rui with burning eyes: "Officer Luo, are you looking for this woman again? Is there anything wrong with her?"
Luo Rui was thinking to himself and didn't hear what she was saying. .
Unexpectedly, Yao Chun's words woke him up.
"Officer Luo, I know this woman's name."
Luo Rui's heart suddenly stopped beating: "Do you know her name?"
Yao Chun couldn't help but nodded and said with a smile: "When our jewelry store makes an order, we always ask for the customer's name, and then the computer prints the order. In the future, if the customer wants a refund or after-sales service, the number can be given one by one."
Luo Rui quickly asked: "What is her name?"
Yao Chun frowned, as if thinking about it: "It seems...it's called Li Mina."
Luo Rui: "Li Mina? How to write this name?"
Yao Chun smiled. : "Stretch out your hand and I will write it to you on the palm of your hand."
Luo Rui refused: "You can just dictate it."
Yao Chun was a little disappointed, so he had to break up the words and repeat them again.
Luo Rui immediately wrote the name in the record book and showed it to her.
“Yes, that’s the name.”
“Thank you, this news is very important to us!”
Luo Rui stood up: "Then let's say goodbye. I'm sorry to disturb your rest."
Yao Chun also stood up with a disappointed look on his face: "It's so late, you policemen are really working hard. , Otherwise, it’s still snowing outside, why don’t we leave before dawn? Have I finished serving you noodles?”
Luo Rui smiled and said, “We still have things to deal with.”
As he said that, he and the two detectives walked outside. It rains harder and the temperature drops suddenly. Tomorrow morning, the snow is expected to be very thick.
Yao Chun held the door: "Officer Luo, when you are free, can I go find you?"
Luo Rui got in the car: "Yes, I'll treat you to dinner when I'm done."
Yao Chun looked surprised: "Then it's settled, you write down my phone number , be sure to call me.”
She immediately reported a number.
Luo Rui repeated it in his mouth, and Yao Chun waved to him happily.
They got into the police car and left in the heavy snow.
After driving onto the main road, Li Xueming, who was driving, smiled and said: "Team Leader Luo, that girl just now was interested in you."
Luo Rui smiled: "Really?"
" Why not? I don’t believe you can’t see it.”
Jiang Dawei, who was sitting in the passenger cab, also joked: "Captain Luo, you are now a life-saving hero. You are young and promising. I am a woman, and I will like you too."
Luo Rui blinked. Blinking: "Then am I not very lucky?"
Luo Rui didn't care about Yao Chun's thoughts.
When I asked her to have dinner, I really wanted to express my gratitude, nothing more.
Luo Rui took out his cell phone, called Chen Hao, and told him the investigation.
After hearing this, Chen Hao was very excited. As long as he had a name, it would not be difficult to find this woman.
"Luo Rui, you are such a blessing. I will go back to the police station right now, hoping to find this woman after dawn!"
"Okay!" Luo Rui hung up the phone.
Li Xueming and Jiang Dawei started smoking cigarettes because they were too sleepy after staying up all night.
Luo Rui opened the back seat window a crack to let in fresh air, but the wind was too cold, so he had to endure it.
Not long after, Luo Rui was too tired and injured his right side, so he drooped his head and fell asleep in the back seat.
The police car was driving in the heavy snow. When it entered a section of road with fields on both sides and no human habitation, Li Xueming saw a triangular warning sign erected in front of it.
A black car stopped in the middle of the road, as if something was wrong.
Because the road was too narrow, Li Xueming could not drive the police car over. He waited for a while and saw a man checking something in front of the car.
Jiang Dawei was impatient. He opened the car door: "I'll go down and take a look."
As soon as the car door opened, a biting cold wind blew into the car. Luo Rui was sitting in the back seat. Immediately woke up from the cold.
Before he could open his eyes, he heard a loud shout in his ears.
"What are you doing? We are the police. Don't mess around."
"Ah! Stop!"
Luo Rui opened his eyes alertly and saw several people in front of him surrounding Jiang Dawei. .
Just as Li Xueming was about to get out of the car, a pistol stuck out of the car glass and pressed against his head.
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Time went back to five minutes ago. When Yao Jun had just turned off the lights and wanted to go upstairs, he heard the sound of a car engine outside the door.
The police left less than half an hour ago. Could it be that they have returned again?
He didn't open the door, but Yao Chun ran downstairs. She had already changed into pajamas and was about to fall asleep.
"Dad, are they Officer Luo and the others? Are they back again?"
Yao Jun turned on the light and shook his head: "Silly girl, it's so late and you're still not asleep, you should It’s a passing car, they’ve been gone for half an hour, and you’re still thinking about him.”
"Officer Luo is a hero. He saved me, so what if I pledge my life to him? I am determined to pursue him."
Yao Jun curled his lips. His girl had always been bold and spoke carelessly.
However, Officer Luo is indeed handsome. If he doesn’t have a girlfriend, it would be quite worthwhile to become his son-in-law in the future.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Yao Jun was about to open the door, but Yao Chun said first: "Dad, I'll go, I'll go!"
Yao Chun happily ran to the door. Without any warning, she took off the latch and opened the door.
The biting cold wind poured into the house, and she couldn't help but shiver.
While she was still dazed, a big hand wearing black gloves pressed her face and pushed her into the door.
Immediately, two masked men broke into the house. One of them turned around, looked outside the house, and then closed the door tightly.
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