Card Room

【Chapter 346, Consonance】

Yu Hanjiang drove to the Criminal Police Detachment of Qingshui Town.

At 23:40 in the evening, the office was brightly lit, Team Liu and the others were working overtime to investigate the vehicles driving out of the garage of Jinxiu Villa. Seeing Yu Hanjiang walk into the office, the young criminal policeman hurriedly stood up and said, "Team Yu is here!"

Yu Hanjiang nodded, strode to the monitoring screen, and asked, "Have you found any suspicious vehicles?"

"After four o'clock this afternoon, a total of 84 vehicles left the underground garage of Jinxiu Villa, 71 of which belonged to the owners of the community, and 13 were temporary vehicles; the owner's cars are easier to check, I have already called the property owner in turn Confirmed, no doubt found; 13 temporary vehicles, 10 of which have found their owners through the Traffic Management Bureau, but 3 have not been able to contact the owners..." Team Liu frowned, pointing to the monitoring screen and said , "Moreover, these three vehicles also disappeared during surveillance."

"Show me." Yu Hanjiang took the file and glanced at it, leaned over and held the mouse, and quickly reversed the surveillance video.

The three cars locked by Team Liu were all private cars, black, white, and red in different colors. They left the Jinxiu Villa community at 16:45, 17:10, and 17:30 p.m. respectively, and were monitored at the gate. recorded in.

But the strange thing is that after the three cars drove around the town, they disappeared from the surveillance network.

Yu Hanjiang presses the mouse to pause, and the screen shows the last place where the black car appeared, a residential area in the west of Qingshui Town, where the cameras are all broken; in another screen, the white car last appeared in the east of Qingshui Town; The car disappeared to the south.

The three cars drove in different directions, and very tacitly drove to the surveillance blind spot.

Yu Hanjiang said decisively: "They did it on purpose."

Captain Liu was stunned for a moment, rubbing his chin thoughtfully: "What Captain Yu means is that they deliberately drove to different road sections at different times in order to confuse the police and prevent us from determining the exact direction they left?"

"Well, we will divide the operations in three ways, which will make the investigation more difficult. These people are very professional in anti-detection capabilities." Yu Hanjiang zoomed in on the monitoring screen and carefully looked at the tire marks of the three vehicles. He switched the screen repeatedly, and the few people standing behind him The young detective was dazzled.

"The roads around the town are being built, so the road conditions in some sections are not very good, and there are no surveillance cameras." Seeing Yu Hanjiang's frame of the scene on a sandy road, Team Liu hastily explained.

"It's a red car." Yu Hanjiang straightened up, pointed to the tire marks on the screen, and said, "Vehicles with different loads will leave different tire marks when they pass through dirt roads. This red car should be full of people. It's obviously deeper than the other two cars. If I'm not mistaken, the person who was kidnapped was sitting in the back of the car."

"..." Team Liu slapped his head, "That's right, on a dirt road with bad road conditions, you can see the tire marks more clearly. They've kept everything secret, but let us lock the car that took the hostages!"

"What's the situation around Qingshui Town?" Yu Hanjiang whispered, "Give me a detailed map."

"Oh, good!" Team Liu found a map and handed it to Yu Hanjiang.

Yu Hanjiang picked up a pen and quickly drew three red crosses on the map: "The places where the three cars disappeared were in the east, west and south of the town respectively. The red car with the hostages disappeared in the south. Two black and white cars The car should be used to mislead the police, and the red car is the key." Yu Hanjiang raised his head with sharp eyes, "Is there no surveillance system installed in this area?"

"Yes." Team Liu nodded vigorously, "The surrounding areas of Qingshui Town have not yet been developed, and there are more than a dozen villages next to each other in the east, north, and south directions. Although the economic conditions are not good, the natural environment is beautiful. The city has already fallen. The document intends to develop it into a tourist area.”

"How many villages are there in the south?"

"Six." Team Liu briefly introduced the situation of each village.

In the urban-rural fringe, there are no wide roads, but country roads paved with gravel. There are several forks in the south of the town, leading to six different villages, and the villages are far apart. Without monitoring, no one knows where the car went.

Yu Hanjiang looked down at his watch—it was 23:55, and it was 5 minutes before it was 24 o'clock in the morning.

The information that can be obtained from the monitoring is limited, he can only infer that Xiao Lou and the others were taken to the south, and there is no more time to waste. Thinking of this, Yu Hanjiang immediately turned around and said, "I'll go find that car."

"Do you need to send reinforcements?"

"No need." A large number of police officers will startle the enemy and cause the other party to tear up their votes. Yu Hanjiang dare not take this risk. He waved his hand and said, "Thank you everyone. If you find anything, Team Liu, please contact me immediately."

Yu Hanjiang turned around and left the detachment, drove his own black private car, kicked the gas pedal, and the car rushed towards the south of Qingshui Town like an arrow from the string.

In the middle of the night, there were few pedestrians in the small town, so Yu Hanjiang drove the car to the highest speed with a sullen face, and in a blink of an eye he came to the place where the red car disappeared from the surveillance. The road conditions here are bad, and he saw the last camera on the side of the road flashing an infrared light. Further forward is the country road, no street lights, no monitoring.

The dark country road is like a beast with its mouth wide open, almost devouring people.

Yu Hanjiang parked the car at the intersection and opened the map.

According to the car lights, there is a three-way intersection in front of you. After 10 kilometers to the left, there is a T-junction, which leads to two villages; if you walk 10 kilometers to the right, you will also encounter a T-junction, which leads to four different villages. .

In other words, the forked road leads to six villages, and Xiao Lou may be escorted to any village. Even if he drives the car to the highest speed, it will take 30 minutes to reach the nearest village, and it will take 180 minutes to check one by one.

It was too late.

Once he finds the wrong village, it is likely to delay the best time for rescue, resulting in the brutal killing of the three of Xiao Lou.

This is not a maze where you can return to the original place if you make a mistake, but a multiple-choice question of life and death.

He simply cannot afford the cost of making the wrong choice.

Which of the six paths is right?

The car disappeared in this area around 6:00 pm. At that time, it was the rush hour. Many villagers from various villages went to work in small towns, so there was an endless stream of vehicles on the road, and the tire marks were so messy that they could not be seen at all. Tire tracks left by a clear red car.

The thread is broken again.

Yu Hanjiang returned to the car with a sullen face, and the phone just turned on, and received a message: "We have arrived at Xishan Cemetery."

It was sent by Shao Qingge.

Yu Hanjiang replied: "Be careful."

Shao Qingge: "You too. When twelve o'clock arrives, we will have a heart-to-heart connection."

After he finished speaking, he completely deleted the chat history, carried a box of ransom money, and came to the location designated by the other party with a few teammates.

Xishan Cemetery, the eighteenth row, the tenth tombstone from the left.

In the early morning, there was no one in the dark cemetery. The willow trees beside the cemetery were swaying in the wind. Under the hazy moonlight, the tree shadows on the ground stretched their teeth and claws, like evil spirits dancing.

Going to the cemetery in the middle of the night is already scary, not to mention, they don't know who is watching them secretly.

Shao Qingge turned on the flashlight, led his teammates quickly to the tombstone, and put down the box full of cash.

He pointed the tombstone with the light of a flashlight, only to find that there was a printed A4 paper on the cold tombstone: "Put down the box, leave the cemetery, drive down the mountain and turn left."

Shao Qingge frowned, took out his mobile phone and sent a message: "It is agreed to hand over the money and the person, where is my friend?"

The other party said: "Follow the instructions, otherwise, you will only see their corpses."

Shao Qingge had no choice but to put down a box of gold coins, and led his teammates out of the cemetery.

At 24 o'clock in the morning, all card skills were refreshed, and no one noticed. In the darkness, a figure suddenly appeared and then disappeared——Shao ​​Qingge summoned Qin Guan.

At the same time, Shao Qingge's voice sounded in Yu Hanjiang's mind, and the telepathy channel had been established.

"We have been under surveillance. There should be hidden cameras near the cemetery. Judging from the reaction of the other party, Xiao Liu pretended to be you and let Little Red Riding Hood follow behind, which did not arouse their suspicion for the time being. The ransom has been placed in front of the designated tombstone. The other party asked After we left the cemetery, we drove to the left." Shao Qingge quickly told Yu Hanjiang about the situation in the cemetery.

"To the left?" Yu Hanjiang took out the map and looked at it. Mr. Shao's current location is in the Xishan Cemetery. After going down the mountain, go to the left. It is a country road. Continue along that road...just to the south of Qingshui Town fork in the road.

"Follow their instructions." Yu Hanjiang whispered in his mind, "They may lead you to the place where the three of Xiao Lou are detained, and then kill everyone together."

"Okay, keep in touch." Shao Qingge led his teammates down the mountain, started the car, and turned to the small road on the left.

***

At the same time, in the dark secret room.

Xiao Lou and Lao Mo were discussing the case when the connection was suddenly cut off.

Both of them were awake, chatting in their minds all the time, and the iron gate on Lao Mo's side had never been opened, so the possibility of him being stunned suddenly was ruled out. If the heart is broken, it can only be - at 24 o'clock in the morning, the card skills are refreshed.

The tacit understanding can only be maintained for 24 hours, and the target can be changed after refreshing the skill every morning.

The current time is exactly 24 o'clock.

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and shouted outside the door: "Is anyone there?"

There was no sound from outside.

Most of the cards in his card bag, such as Li Qingzhao and Tao Yuanming, can only be activated and summoned by holding them in his hands. At this time, his hands are tightly bound and he cannot use these cards.

But the skills of two cards are exceptions - Qin Guan's telepathy, and Xiao Yu's passive protection.

Because "Heart Consonance" establishes a spiritual channel, this skill can also be manipulated by spirit. However, Xiao Yu's protection of his brother is passively triggered. Once someone takes Xiao Lou's life with a knife, Xiao Yu will immediately come out to help his brother. However, until now, Xiao Yu has not come out, proving that Xiao Lou is not in an extremely dangerous environment.

There was no one outside, Xiao Lou took a deep breath, and immediately used his spirit to release the skill signal of "Talk of Mind".

Yu Hanjiang received the signal.

Mr. Shao has just connected, so another Qin Guan card - it can only come from Xiao Lou!

Yu Hanjiang's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly picked up the communication.

A familiar voice sounded in my mind: "Han Jiang, are you there?"

The man's voice was as gentle as in memory, but there was a little anxiety. A trace of ecstasy suddenly rose in Yu Hanjiang's heart. He suppressed his excitement and whispered, "I'm here! How are you, Xiao Lou? Are you injured?!"

Hearing his concerned voice, Xiao Lou's heart warmed up, and he hurriedly said, "I'm fine, but I don't know where we are being locked up. How is the situation over there, are you not arrested?"

"No." Yu

Han Jiang quickly explained: "They used your mobile phone to send a message asking Mr. Shao to bring the ransom. At present, Mr. Shao, Qu Wanyue, Long Sen, and Liu Qiao are on the way to pay the ransom. I will find you at the intersection south of Qingshui Town. "

Time was running out, and the two didn't have time to greet each other carefully. Yu Hanjiang resolutely put the topic at the most critical point: "Xiao Lou, can you describe the surrounding environment as much as possible?"

"Concrete floor, closed secret room, iron door. There are three people on the other side, two men and one woman. The two younger brothers call the one who takes the lead 'Brother Rong', and it is probably the Brother Rong we are looking for." Xiao Lou closed his eyes, Feel the surroundings carefully. Although he couldn't see anything, because of the loss of vision, his sense of hearing and smell became very keen, "Just now when the three people came to make sure I was awake, I smelled a strange smell, a fragrance, Leng Lie, it should be... plum blossoms."

Xiao Lou wasn't sure what the smell was at first, but after thinking about it carefully, that elegant fragrance was obviously a floral fragrance, and it appeared on a man's body, not like perfume, but more like a natural floral fragrance. For example, the fragrance brought by the other party passing by a field of flowers.

There are not many flowers blooming in February. Xiao Lou searched his knowledge base carefully and determined that it was the cold fragrance of plum blossoms.

"Plum blossom?" Yu Hanjiang hurriedly picked up the map, which he had marked on the map just now according to Team Liu's description. There are six villages near Qingshui Town, one of which is called "Qinghe Village", where a large number of plum blossoms are planted. The city is also planning to use "Plum Blossoms" as the theme to turn this place into an eco-tourism resort.

At this time, early spring is approaching, which is the season of plum blossoms.

If those people passed through the large plum blossom grove, they would naturally contaminate their body with the smell of plum blossom and bring it to Xiao Lou. The fragrance of plum blossoms is not strong, but very light and cold, thanks to Xiao Lou's keen awareness.

"Protect yourself, I'll come to rescue you right away." Yu Hanjiang folded the map and put it in his pocket, threw the car on the spot, activated the Qinggong card, and ran towards Qinghe Village!

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