Chapter 39 Locked
Nearly two months later, Tong Fan still felt a dull pain in his buttocks when he thought of the mysterious man. But although many people around him criticized his recklessness and impulsiveness, Tong Fan never regretted his actions at that time.
Even though he was just a police officer, from the day he put on the big hat, Tong Fan had the great ideal of eliminating all evil spirits and upholding justice in the world. Even if he was injured and bleeding and faced life-threatening situations, he didn't feel at a disadvantage as long as he thought that someone would be saved because of his efforts.
Tong Fan thought that after he was hospitalized, his encounter with the mysterious man ended. Unexpectedly, the criminal investigation team repeatedly questioned him about the details of his conversation with the mysterious man, and he never thought that he would receive that mysterious call again.
After hanging up the phone, although he was a little confused about the mysterious man's instructions, Tong Fan still executed them without hesitation. He grabbed the key and ran out the door without even changing his shoes, running all the way to Room 101, Unit 2, Building 5, which was only one building away from his home. The green security door was closed, Tong Fan hesitated for a moment, raised his fist and banged on the door.
“Bang, bang, bang, bang!”
The whole corridor was filled with deafening crashing sounds. Tong Fan yelled at the top of his lungs, "Open the door! I'm a police officer! Open the door quickly! I've called for backup. It's useless to resist! Open the door quickly!"
As he shouted, the mysterious man's words echoed in his ears.
"Don't rush in right away, or you'll be killed. The best outcome is to scare the enemy away before they have time to do anything."
"It's just that we can do our best and leave the rest to fate. Maybe it's too late."
"So, if you go, you may die. I can't guarantee your safety. But if you don't go, an old man and a child will definitely die. So it's up to you to choose what to do."
"I have notified as many nearby security forces as possible. The enemy is most likely a group of terrorists who have recently infiltrated City A. They have strong firepower. Do not act rashly before support arrives."
But Tong Fan did not choose to wait for help. When the neighbor was startled by the knock on the door, he said that his family also had a spare key of the Niu family across the street, and the old couple asked them to keep it in case they forgot to bring the key when they went out. Tong Fan gritted his teeth, asked for the neighbor's spare key, opened the door and walked in.
As soon as the door opened, Tong Fan smelled a strong smell of blood. Tong Fan thought something was wrong and rushed in. He saw an old man and a young boy lying in a pool of blood in the second bedroom, with scarlet liquid slowly spreading. The windows on the street side were wide open, and the security bars were cut open. Whoever was here before, they had disappeared at this time.
Tong Fan's legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees. He stopped the neighbors who wanted to follow him in out of curiosity, and walked over slowly , resisting the urge to vomit, carefully avoiding disturbing the scene.
After approaching, Tong Fan found that the old man was standing in front of the child, and several bullets had penetrated their bodies. He reached out and felt the skin under his fingers was still warm. Tong Fan felt sour in his heart, guilty and sad, and almost cried.
Then he was suddenly startled.
Tong Fan touched the child again in disbelief. The old man had passed away, but the child still had a weak pulse!
…
He once again received news about the missing crow, but Ouyang Rui could only suppress this clue as he no longer had the manpower to track down this mysterious organization that had no actual evidence of a crime.
There have been a lot of criminal cases in City A during this period. There are still some clues about the fire at the Meihao Shopping Mall that have not been sorted out. A man killed his wife and escaped in a certain community. An unidentified female corpse was found in the sewer . Two groups of minors in the old street imitated the Young and Dangerous and slashed people with knives, causing death. There are also the Wild Wolf mercenaries who kill people without blinking an eye.
Ouyang Rui suspected that the incident was related to the wild wolf. But the other party was very experienced, the scene was cleaned up very cleanly, and they avoided all cameras during their coming and going, leaving no useful clues. However, after all, they left in a hurry, and collected a palm print on the removed anti-theft window, and also collected a few footprints on the ground outside the window.
In the corridor outside the operating room, Ouyang Rui and Zhao Meng finished recording Tong Fan's statement. The operation was not over yet, and the nurse twice transferred blood bags from the blood bank. Although there were many things to do, looking at the red light on the door of the operating room, Ouyang Rui decided to wait until the results of the operation came out before leaving. He whispered to Zhao Meng, then sat on the cold bench and waited with Tong Fan.
The seven-year-old child in the operating room was not only a victim, but also an eyewitness. According to the neighbors, the murderer may have detained them for more than three days. The reason for killing to silence them was probably because the grandfather and grandson saw their true face. If they knew that the child was still alive, they would probably kill him to silence him. Ouyang Rui asked Zhao Meng to arrange four armed police to provide temporary protection for the child.
It is said that the child has a grandfather, but he has not been contacted since the incident, and he may have been killed. The police have notified the child's parents, but they are far away in a foreign country and will not be able to return until tomorrow at the earliest.
Ouyang Rui hoped that the child could provide them with clues to catch the murderer, but he also knew that the boy was only seven years old. After experiencing such a thing and seeing his grandmother die in front of him, it was hard to say what his mental state would be like even if his body recovered.
Ouyang Rui was impatient and wanted to smoke a cigarette. He touched the cigarette box in his arms, said hello to Tong Fan, and got up to walk outside. As soon as he reached the stairs, he heard a voice shouting in surprise: "Uncle Ouyang."
Ouyang Rui turned around and was also a little surprised: "Yangyang, why are you here ?"
Standing there was Jin Yang. He had just gone to the first floor to pay Allen Neil and came up with a few boxes of medicine, when he saw Ouyang Rui, who looked bitter and resentful. They had known each other for many years. When Ouyang Rui was not yet the captain of the criminal investigation team, he had once attended the parent-teacher conference for Jin Yang on behalf of his father.
"I came here with the ambulance this morning." Jin Yang walked over and said, "A friend got into a car accident while trying to save me, and he's still unconscious."
This sentence contained a lot of information. Ouyang Rui reacted and his face became serious: "What's going on? Tell me in detail."
Although the incident was thrilling, it only took a few seconds to actually happen, and Jin Yang finished his story quickly. After listening to it, Ouyang Rui intuitively felt that this was not a simple drunk driving accident, because at that time and place, someone would drive drunk and drive so fast that he almost killed someone, most likely intentionally. However, he did not tell Jin Yang about his suspicions, but instead proposed to visit his friend.
——Such a quick reaction and such a decisive decision, if he was not prepared before the incident, then he is not an ordinary person. It is really necessary to meet such a "friend".
Jin Yang naturally would not refuse. He and Ouyang Rui walked to Allen Neil's ward together, opened the door, and what Ouyang Rui saw was not the injured person lying on the bed, but a boy leaning against the window playing with his mobile phone.
He immediately remembered the strange feeling he had when he last saw him.
Ouyang Rui looked at him carefully again and again. Apart from his outstanding appearance, the other party was just an ordinary teenager of about sixteen or seventeen years old. He did not have the strange feeling he had last time.
"Uncle Ouyang?" Jin Yang called out in surprise - he said he came to see the person who saved him, so why was he staring at Xiao Yuan?
Rong Yuan also looked over calmly.
Ouyang Rui laughed and said, "Yangyang, is this also your friend? We met him a few days ago. Why didn't I hear you mention him just now?"
In the description of the incident just now, Jin Yang blurred the scene where Rong Yuan rushed over to save him. When Ouyang Rui asked about it, Jin Yang smiled and said, "He is Xiao Yuan... He was running nearby at the time, and then we came here together."
Ouyang Rui had heard Jin Yang mention his best friend before, and he immediately showed an expression of "So it's you", and his demeanor became much friendlier.
Just then, Rong Yuan heard Wan Dou's voice in his ears: "Rong Yuan, I found it."
He expected that the murderer lurking in Niu Yaozu's house must have known the location of the nearby cameras long ago, and also expected that in City A, where there is such a large flow of people , the murderer could not have been avoiding the cameras all the time, and must have left a certain area and then swaggered back to the normal traffic arteries. So Rong Yuan asked Wandou to plan several escape routes that could avoid all the cameras, and set up dense surveillance at the end of each route, and finally locked on the person who might be the murderer.
