Chapter 62#
Chapter 62: You Kill Me (2)
People were going everywhere. Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin picked a place with no people, walked to the bottom of the only building Gu Chenzhou had seen when he came in, and slowly walked up.
Wei Xiangjin didn’t really do much, just whispered to Gu Chenzhou. In this respect, his move to bring Gu Chenzhou tonight was wise—at least there was someone to chat with him to pass the time, right?
Gu Chenzhou responded in a low voice while looking around as before. When they reached the bottom of that building, Gu Chenzhou suddenly winked at Wei Xiangjin.
Wei Xiangjin followed Gu Chenzhou’s gaze and paused: in the pitch-black basement of the building, there was actually a horizontal bar on an electric meter slowly rotating! He silently drew his gun, opened the safety catch, signaled Gu Chenzhou to do the same, and at the same time made a gesture to the two policemen behind him.
The policemen also saw the rotating electric meter that Wei Xiangjin was pointing at.
They suppressed the urge to look up, drew their pistols, and walked carefully up the stairs.
One flight of stairs, two flights of stairs, three flights of stairs… A black shadow suddenly appeared!
The group walking up was startled. The two policemen standing at the front, whether out of nervousness or something else, shouted loudly: “Freeze! Don’t move! Put your hands behind your head and squat on the ground, or we’ll shoot!”
The black shadow obviously flinched, then suddenly turned and ran!
The two policemen didn’t shoot immediately as they said, but lunged forward to wrestle with the black shadow. One of them jumped from the left and tackled the black shadow to the ground, while the one on the right rushed forward and smashed the opponent’s back and head directly with the butt of his gun.
The black shadow screamed and fell to the ground.
Wei Xiangjin, standing at the back, then moved his finger slightly away from the trigger, and at the same time stepped aside to let Gu Chenzhou, who was blocked behind him, come forward.
“Go and have a look.” Wei Xiangjin said, took two steps forward, took out a flashlight, turned on the switch, and shone it on the face of the person on the ground.
After a moment of illumination, Wei Xiangjin waved his hand: “You continue to search, I’ll watch this person—you two go together, safety first.”
If nothing happened, it would be fine, but if something happened, the manpower here was indeed stretched. The two policemen agreed and walked into the corridor on the third floor, searching all the way with pistols and flashlights, focusing on the room where the electric meter was still turning just now.
After the policemen left, Wei Xiangjin stepped forward and lifted the handcuffed person, asking Gu Chenzhou:
“Do you remember this person?”
“If you remember, how could I not remember?” Gu Chenzhou asked back.
“What a coincidence.” Wei Xiangjin laughed, grabbed the person’s head and gave him another blow with the gun butt, smashing his head and then kicking him back to the ground, saying, “Damn it, daring to hit me with a car!”
Although more than half a year had passed, neither Gu Chenzhou nor Wei Xiangjin was unfamiliar with the person on the ground—he was one of the two drivers who hit Wei Xiangjin with a car nine months ago. The driver Peng Youchun, who was shot by Gu Chenzhou, was still in prison, while the other driver had never been found. Unexpectedly, coming to Dechang County for a mission, they actually bumped into this person by accident.
“Disappeared for nine months, how could he appear here…?” After Wei Xiangjin had vented enough anger, Gu Chenzhou said thoughtfully.
“How would I know?” Wei Xiangjin said, suppressing his anger. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the groaning driver on the ground for a while, almost wanting to pull the trigger and kill him directly—this was not impossible. If he led the team on the mission himself, he could kill the person first and then report him as a terrorist. This identity really wouldn’t wrong the other party!
Thinking of this, Wei Xiangjin became more and more depressed. He took out another pair of handcuffs, locked the person to the railing of the corridor, walked a few steps out, took a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth, lit it, and took a deep drag into his lungs.
Gu Chenzhou put his hands in his pockets and slowly walked to Wei Xiangjin’s side.
They didn’t stand on the third floor, but walked to the landing between the second and third floors. This way, they could see the scenery outside and monitor the driver above. If they lowered their voices a bit more, they wouldn’t worry about the driver hearing their conversation.
Because of the previous arrangement, the police force brought out tonight was almost scattered, searching extensively throughout the industrial park. Wei Xiangjin and Gu Chenzhou stood in the stairwell looking down, but actually didn’t see anyone. They looked at the deep black night sky and the few small saplings in the distance.
Wei Xiangjin suddenly said: “Sometimes I think, if I could just carry a gun and rush over to shoot those two people dead—”
Gu Chenzhou laughed: “Create a model in a game, and you can shoot them a hundred times.”
Wei Xiangjin said: “Hey! I might as well go practice shooting targets!”
“Rule of law society.” Gu Chenzhou spread his hands, “Calm down, Young Master Wei.”
“If I wasn’t calm, would I be standing here talking to you?” Wei Xiangjin glanced at Gu Chenzhou and said worriedly, “When do you think this political struggle will end?”
“If it’s fast, there will be results this year. If it’s slow, maybe it will be fought for five or ten years, and the outcome is not certain yet.” Gu Chenzhou smiled, his expression appearing very calm.
Perhaps because one family was in the military and the other in administration, although Wei Xiangjin and Gu Chenzhou grew up together, while the former was crisp and direct, the latter, although not sloppy, often appeared deeper and softer than the former—in Wei Xiangjin’s words, “full of bad ideas”.
Wei Xiangjin shook his head, smoking the cigarette in his hand, and said nothing more.
At this time, rapid footsteps suddenly came from the stairs. The two looked up together and saw one of the policemen who had followed them running down and saying:
“Major Wei, a secret passage was found upstairs!”
The cigarette in Wei Xiangjin’s hand almost fell to the ground. He and Gu Chenzhou ran up with the policeman. When they ran to the first room on the left of the stairs on the third floor, the driver locked on the stairs suddenly shouted: “I was wronged! I didn’t do anything! I just came in for a while at night, how can you arrest people indiscriminately?” His voice got higher and higher, and his tone became more and more righteous, “I will definitely report you! You are violently enforcing the law and retaliating!”
Every sentence poked at Wei Xiangjin’s sore spot. Wei Xiangjin cursed “Damn it”, turned his head, lifted his sole, and kicked directly at the other party’s mouth and cheek!
The secret passage mentioned by the policeman who ran down was in the first room on the left. While Wei Xiangjin turned his head, Gu Chenzhou, the policeman who ran down, and another policeman all ran in again. There were no lights in the room. They rushed into the bathroom with flashlights following the first policeman. The flashlight shone there, illuminating the passage under the moved bathtub.
Gu Chenzhou was about to step forward when he heard a scream from outside!
Several people looked at each other. Gu Chenzhou frowned slightly and turned to walk out: “What happened?” He asked Wei Xiangjin outside the room.
Wei Xiangjin, standing outside, obviously heard the scream just now more clearly. At this moment, he was frowning, walked a few steps down the stairs to the landing between the second and third floors, and looked towards the front of the building—the warehouse they had entered at the very beginning.
“The sound came from over there.” Wei Xiangjin said, “From inside the warehouse.” He paused and asked Gu Chenzhou, “How is it upstairs?”
“There is a downward passage under the bathtub in the bathroom.” Gu Chenzhou replied.
Wei Xiangjin nodded, pressed the walkie-talkie, and heard the latest order inside—people near the scream go and check.
Wei Xiangjin waited for the order to be repeated, reported his findings here to the other end of the walkie-talkie, and after confirming that the other party received it, said to the two policemen: “You guard here, I’ll go over there and have a look.”
The place he mentioned obviously referred to the warehouse behind this building.
“I’ll go with you.”
Time was too fast. Gu Chenzhou ran with Wei Xiangjin without thinking much, but after running towards the warehouse for a while, his steps unconsciously slowed down. Things were developing too frequently. Since he arrived in Dechang County, it was simply one thing after another…
“Xiao Zhou?” Wei Xiangjin took time to look back and call out while running, reminding Gu Chenzhou, but he didn’t stop or slow down—not being able to find the person on the other end of the walkie-talkie was not a good sign no matter how you looked at it.
Gu Chenzhou hummed. He looked back at the building, his eyes flickering slightly, then looked at the warehouse close at hand. He still didn’t say anything, but quickened his pace to catch up with Wei Xiangjin and rushed towards the warehouse—with that time for thinking and discussion, they could speed up and rush forward to see the result directly.
The warehouse door was still open.
The lights inside were on. In the black night, this light did not illuminate the road ahead, but shone faintly, appearing mysterious.
Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin ran to the front of the warehouse. Wei Xiangjin, contrary to his urgency just now, calmed down from his expression to his body. He drew his gun, opened the safety catch, signaled Gu Chenzhou to wait outside, and walked forward slowly himself.
Gu Chenzhou glanced at Wei Xiangjin, said nothing, directly pulled the slide of the gun handed to him when they came in, and walked towards the warehouse with Wei Xiangjin, one on the left and one on the right.
The last few steps of the concrete road in front of the door, the diagonally open large iron gate of the warehouse, bypassing the iron gate to the large warehouse full of shelves and goods—
As soon as Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin entered the warehouse, they quickly raised their guns and aimed forward!
Silence without any sound.
The two looked at each other, split up without saying a word, and after quickly and cautiously patrolling the surroundings, Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin met again.
“No one.” Wei Xiangjin said, walking to the place where bloodstains remained on the ground, touching it with his finger to test the temperature, and said, “Where did the person go?”
“We go back immediately.” Gu Chenzhou’s eyes were slightly cold, “If that scream was directed at us, maybe more than one person will be missing soon.”
This was referring to the locked driver.
Wei Xiangjin clenched his fist, took a deep breath, and didn’t use the walkie-talkie, but turned and ran back directly. But this time, the two bumped into the police team leader who was leading the team back halfway.
“Major Wei, let’s go together!” The person in charge said concisely to Wei Xiangjin, waved his hand vigorously, and walked up the building.
Because of Wei Xiangjin’s message just now, the teams that hadn’t found any clues before came back intermittently. In the short journey, people kept joining. By the time everyone arrived downstairs and went up the stairs, except for the police guarding the entrances and exits, basically all members had returned to the team.
On the third floor, the driver was still locked next to the railing of the stairs. Two policemen, one standing next to the driver watching, and one guarding the door of that room, were vigilantly observing the surroundings. They didn’t breathe a sigh of relief until they saw the main force coming up.
Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin also breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this scene, and silently walked ahead of the main force with the person in charge.
Seeing so many people coming up again, the locked driver immediately started shouting again that he was wronged and the police were violently enforcing the law.
The police team leader glanced at the driver, frowned when he saw the shoe print on the other’s face, and his eyes swept sternly towards the policeman guarding the driver.
The policeman really felt like he couldn’t explain himself, so he could only hintingly look at Wei Xiangjin’s position.
The police team leader followed the gaze and looked, understood in his heart, said nothing, and just asked: “Who is this?”
“He appeared suddenly when we were going upstairs. Just in case, we guarded him first…” The policeman only explained half of it, and Wei Xiangjin interrupted, “This person is related to a case in the military, and we are investigating it.”
Everyone thought in their hearts, violence is violence, but you can actually drag a military case into it—only a fool would believe you!
But speaking of it, this wasn’t something too surprising. The police team leader made an expression of deep belief and sudden realization, saying: “So that’s it!” He quickly changed the subject and continued to talk about the major drug lord case he was tracking, “—This person will be locked here, let’s go in and see that passage!”
Of course, one room couldn’t fit so many people.
The police team leader specially selected a few veterans as the first wave to go in, then quickly opened the door and walked towards the bathroom.
The professional at the front shone his flashlight forward, suddenly froze for a moment, then shook his flashlight there again—then turned to turn on the bathroom light.
The ceiling light in the bathroom flickered, and then white light poured down like water.
The eyes of the people crowded at the bathroom door were cast under the moved bathtub—but where was the passage? It was just a few broken tiles under the pried-open bathtub, with some loose soil in the unevenness.
The professional at the front seemed to think it wasn’t enough after turning on the light. He stepped forward and used the tool in his hand to push aside the broken tiles, and knocked down again.
The sound was clear, the concrete floor was solid.
Seeing this scene, the police team leader’s expression changed suddenly, and he said extremely sternly: “Major Wei, please explain what is going on? Where is the passage you mentioned?”
After a brief shock, Wei Xiangjin couldn’t help looking at Gu Chenzhou beside him.
And Gu Chenzhou, standing beside him, had surprise clearly written on his face for the first time.
And in this surprise, there seemed to be a little bit of inconspicuous realization.