Breaking Through the Clouds: 85.Chapter 85

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"...Jiang Ting," Yan Xiu hesitated, but after thinking about it for a moment, he decided to say: "I haven't seen him in those twenty years, maybe it's just that you haven't seen him, but he has been watching you."

Jiang Ting raised his head: "What?"

"We found a disc in the old home of Bu Wei's parents. It contains some clips about you..." Time is tight, and Yan Xi can only briefly describe the contents of the disc, and then said:" Law enforcement recorders began to be put into use in China about seven or eight years ago. From the conversation in the video, the Gongzhou police are not very proficient in using them, and may have just been exposed to this kind of equipment. It is not an incident file. Law enforcement records are kept for a period of time, usually between six months and one year. After this time limit, the backup will be destroyed."

Maybe it was the emotional turmoil after falling into the water, coupled with the long recollection of the past, which led to confusion of thoughts. Jiang Ting's always clear and quick thinking was a bit stagnant, and it took a long time to react: "...That is to say, that disc was recorded very early. Are you down?"

"Yes, I don't know how this video backup was leaked, but it must have fallen into the hands of the King of Spades later than the time you met him again twenty years later."

The two of them didn't speak for a while, only listening to the sound of night bugs coming from the grass in the distance.

Twenty years of long time, how did that little boy grow into a big drug lord like Hu Weisheng who was so cruel and hidden?

What kind of mentality does he use to watch Jiang Ting step by step as an anti-drug police officer in secret?

"Actually, I felt a little bit earlier." Jiang Ting stared at Yan Xiu's soaked collar on the side of his neck, and said abruptly.

"How?"

"Because of that kidnapping, I stayed in the hospital for half a month. On the day of discharge, the king of spades was waiting for me outside the door, saying that if I vowed never to betray him, I would take me out of this small place." Jiang Ting smiled I laughed: "As far as I can remember, my life in the orphanage can't be called full and warm...So when he said that, I was crazy."

It suddenly occurred to Yan Xi that when Jiang Ting pulled himself at the gate of Jiayuan Welfare Institute just now, he did say "this is the case in many places."

That shouldn't be an empty comfort, but he experienced it personally when he was young.

"It didn’t take long for me to be adopted to a big city--it was the first time in my life that I set foot on the land of Gongzhou and was sent to a public elementary school. But I didn’t have a guardian at the time. The so-called adoption But it’s just a way of saying that I still live alone in the old-fashioned tube building next to the school. For two consecutive years, my living expenses have been in cash in the form of quarters at the door of my house. After the junior high school, the tube building was demolished, and I stayed at school until Graduated from high school."

"When I was young, I didn’t feel that something was wrong. When I went to the OUHK, I vaguely figured out that there are many strange things. When the OUHK is assigned to a branch office and has the ability to investigate my files by various means, I discovered that the so-called “adopters” actually do not exist. The head of the household of the Tongzilou has been out of contact for many years. As long as the government's political review is stricter, I will find that I am basically a shady."

The political review back then was indeed not as strict as it is now, and in addition to the dissatisfaction of the recruitment in some provinces, the flexibility of the admissions policy is much greater than it is now.

But—even if it is loose, the possibility that the black household will pass the trial without noticing it is very, very small. Someone should help.

Yan Xiu put one hand on Jiang Ting’s back, rubbed his back neck with a rough thumb, as if conveying warm comfort: "If you didn’t insist on investigating'Lanjin', you didn’t find that drug manufacturing factory. Do you think the king of spades will appear again?"

"...I don't know." Jiang Ting said tiredly after a long time, "but suppose these are meaningless, because as long as the blue gold circulates in the market, clues will be revealed one day, and I will definitely follow the path. Investigate... No matter how early or late, re-encountering the king of spades is doomed."

From the moment Jiang Ting entered the Principality, fate had already set this cursed trajectory.

Yan Xi frowned slightly: "Have you ever thought that the king of spades deliberately made you a policeman?"

Jiang Ting snorted softly in his nose, with a touch of ridicule and helplessness:

"Of course I thought about it, especially when I found that someone inside Gongzhou's public security system was dirty."

Yan Xi looked down at him: "How to say?"

"After the incident of re-encountering the king of spades, I carefully considered whether to confess all this to my superiors, but in the end I still did not dare to tell the connection between myself and the king of spades. I was afraid that it was not clear. On the one hand, on the other hand, I was afraid of being caught off guard and interrupted all clues. Therefore, after thinking about it, I selectively told my superiors that an underground drug manufacturing factory might be hidden in the village, and the police should encircle and suppress this. Action."

"Unsurprisingly, the action unfolded very inactively, and it could even be described as procrastination. There were a few incidents that almost leaked. Seeing this situation, I gradually understood what was going on. At the time of the encirclement and suppression, the factory had been abandoned, and no key clues were found except for the waste materials used to manufacture phenylpropylamine drugs."

"Since that time, I have known that someone at the upper level has been penetrated very deeply, and the king of spades is actually a very polite way of asking me to cooperate-because even if I don’t want to cooperate, I have to follow the orders of my superiors. Come and do things, the result is the same for the king of spades."

Yan Xiu's face did not show a trace of coolness rising from the bottom of his heart: "But you are not the kind of person who sits and waits..."

Jiang stopped moving, raised his head slightly, and gave Yan Xiu a very light smile in the moonlight: "Yes, I am not."

"So you planned the encirclement and suppression of the plastic factory and wanted to give him a cruel surprise?"

Jiang Ting was originally thinner than the average person, but because of maintenance and fitness, he is strong and tough. After three years of being in a coma, his health was basically ruined, and his skinnyness now disappeared from the tight muscles he felt when he was young, just thin and weak.

But in that not very strong body, there is an indescribable force that is hard to break like a steel bar.

"I spent a long time planning that encirclement, including reverse penetration, stealing information, secret investigations, etc. I know that once the action is exposed, the king of spades will immediately know that I am not an obedient partner. , It’s natural to wait for my fate; so since I’m going to come, I’ll have to do a thorough one. If it goes well, it’s even possible to get rid of the king of spades."

"During the long reverse osmosis work, I gradually approached several undercover agents of the Gongzhou Anti-drug Corps. One of them was a long-term insider. I still don’t know what his name is. I only know his real name, Wen, and his code name. It's called'rivet'."

——Rivets.

Yan Xiu's cheek muscles tightened slightly, and he knew that he had finally touched the name-the undercover policeman who had left a lot of color in the deepest part of Jiang Ting's heart.

"The infiltration work of the anti-drug portal is highly confidential: the periphery is implemented by rotation, with considerable randomness; and each inner circle is fixed to a direct contact person, and the name, background, and kinship of the inner circle are not It is shown in the public security system that only the corresponding contact person knows. This confidentiality mechanism has caused many policemen who died in undercover work to wait for several years or even more than ten years before they can disclose their identities. It can be said that it is a purely dedicated group. And rivets are one of them."

"Compared to other undercover agents, Rivet has a quality that I admire very much, that is, professional level of caution-perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, it is cowardly. He has a strong sense of self-protection and handles intelligence. The flexibility is very large. Sometimes I would rather let some crimes go than risk being suspected by drug dealers. Of course, this is not the quality we openly encourage, but I personally still compare..."

Jiang Ting was hesitant to speak, and Yan Xi nodded to him, indicating that he understood.

"So later, several undercover agents were suspected to be exposed. Only the rivet has been lurking very well, and even had a chance to come into contact with the Red Heart Q. The 1009 project three years ago-the case of the explosion at the anti-drug scene at the plastic factory, was caused by Red Heart. For a large drug transaction planned by Q, the key news was passed to the police by rivets."

Yan Xiu's heart moved, and he remembered part of the inside story that Wei Deputy Bureau once told him: "——Rivet once sent an encrypted email to the police. After decoding, it is the drugs and illegal armed forces hidden in the ecological park base?"

Jiang Ting lowered his gaze and nodded.

Countless speculations flashed through Yan Xi’s mind. He knew this question was very cruel, but he still asked:

"...Then why did you temporarily transfer the police to the plastic factory before the operation?"

The message sent by the rivet made it very clear that the real drug trade was in the ecological park, and the plastic factory was just a well-disguised trap.

As long as Jiang Ting has a trace of reason, he shouldn't personally send his teammates into this death hell, which contains tons of powerful explosives.

The dark night enveloped the sky, the crescent moon was hidden deep in the clouds, and the reeds swayed in the distance of the rocky beach, like countless weird ghosts swaying in the dark night.

"...The police force was not temporarily transferred, but was originally in the plastic factory. The command vehicle at the ecological park base was just a bluff." Jiang Ting's hoarse voice finally sounded: "Because I don't believe this. The authenticity of intelligence."

Yan Xi was shocked.

"Before the operation started, I confirmed through various channels that the ‘rivet’ had been sold to drug dealers by insiders."

Jiang stopped halfway up and turned back, and moved a little away from Yan Xiu, burying his face deeply in his palm. The tips of his blue nails reflected the water in the moonlight, and the dark night blocked the shivering:

"After the exposure of the rivets happened, I urgently formulated the opposite plan, with elite police forces to fully control the plastic factory trading site. But at the same time as the operation started, I suddenly learned that more than 80 items were found at the ecological park trading site. Kilograms of drugs, at that moment I realized...I realized..."

The rustle of the wind blowing over the reeds, the rushing of the river, the sound of the train passing by the railroad tracks in the distance...It is entangled with the hustle and bustle that goes back in time, mixed with the rapid footsteps on the scene, and the screams from the earphones. Together.

"...Two inflection points, group B is ready, repeat the two inflection points, group B is ready..."

"The A-point sniper team is in place, and the vision conditions are good..."

"All firepower at the scene is in place, and the command vehicle command vehicle! Did you break in?"

"Command car, please reply, do you break in?!"

……

No, don't break in, withdraw all——

Withdraw all soon——

Jiang Ting's ten fingers penetrated deeply into his hair, and even his scalp felt the tingling of his nails. But no matter how strong the regret and pain are, it will not be able to reverse the established trajectory that has occurred in the memory, and the tragic facts that have been flying in flesh and blood.

He heard his voice speaking into the microphone:

"Group B breaks and breaks in, take action!"

All the details that followed were repeated countless times in the nightmare, and even the time the phone rang was accurate to the minute and second. Jiang Ting’s soul was floating in the air. He saw himself sitting in the command car wearing wireless headphones three years ago, frowned and glanced at the satellite phone, and immediately picked it up-he could even recall what he was thinking at the time: At this critical moment, what important news is there to report to the Ecological Park?

Yes, he didn't know at the time that the bell was actually the singing of the devil's coming.

All tragedies and crimes are at that moment when the real climax |

"Team Jiang! Good news! The on-site operation of the Ecological Park Base is over!" Someone on the phone said excitedly: "We have seized a large amount of drugs and are sorting and weighing them to be shipped back to the city bureau!"

Slap——

The satellite phone came out and fell to the ground.

But Jiang Ting could not hear or feel anything. All the air in his lungs seemed to be evacuated in an instant. For several seconds, he didn't know if he made a sound. When he realized it, he realized that his throat was completely hoarse:

"The action is cancelled, all retreat——"

"Retreat!!"

But it's too late.

At the same time the roar resounded through the plastic factory through the radio, the fire rushed into the sky, the air wave overturned the roof, and the explosion overthrew all police cars around the scene!

"Team Jiang is back!"

"Stop him!"

"It's not good, Team Jiang rushed in!"

……

The burning wall collapsed and overturned, burning in all directions, and even my eyes felt hot. Jiang stopped standing in the invisible sea of ​​fire, as if from that moment on, he had never been able to get out of this heart-piercing purgatory.

The sirens screamed, from far to near.

……

"Jiang Ting," Yan Xiu grabbed his shoulders and shouted in a low voice: "Be sober, Jiang Ting!"

At the far end of the railway, changing red and blue dots were faintly shining in the night, and police sirens were looming in the sound of the raging river.

——The Jianning police who searched both sides of the river finally arrived.

"I was... kidnapped from the scene of the explosion. I was blindfolded for a few months and detained in a drug manufacturing stronghold. I could smell the nearby chemicals, but I couldn't tell the location. Environment, I don’t know what’s going on outside... Several times I thought I would die there."

Jiang Ting breathed in quickly and forcibly calmed the turbulent emotions, his two wrists were forcibly grasped by Yan Xi and moved away, revealing red eyes:

"Until the king of spades said one day that they caught the police undercover trying to escape, I knew that Rivet did not escape in the end."

Yan Xi stared at him closely and said in a low voice: "At that time, Yue Guangping was organizing police outside to rescue you,"

"No, it is to save the rivet." Jiang Ting corrected bitterly, "I am a traitor in their eyes."

"..." Yan Xi wanted to comfort him, but couldn't say a word.

Jiang Ting smiled palely: "It doesn't matter to me, but it's a pity that the police arrived too late. Before the rescue operation outside officially began, the king of spades took me to the rivet. Place, gave me a gun..."

Yan Xi could almost guess what happened next, and couldn't help but change his color slightly.

"...he said that as long as I kill the rivet, I can leave, otherwise I will die with the rivet."

Jiang Ting took a deep breath and tried to raise his head.

He didn't say a lot of things, Yan Xi could feel it. But even the most determined and tough-minded people have scars that can't be touched and can't bear to look back. They are engraved in the depths of the soul with blood, and there is no other way but to let time heal slowly.

Yan Xiu stretched out his hand to hook the back of his neck and rubbed his cold and blue cheeks vigorously: "Did you pull the trigger?"

Jiang Ting shook his head tremblingly.

"Did you kill the rivet? Jiang Ting, look at me." Yan Xi squeezed his face and forced Jiang Ting to look at himself: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what happens, you killed the rivet. Right?"

As if the air was broken into ice, Jiang Ting's answer finally trembling and seeping out: "...no..."

"It's not me...it's not..."

"You killed him." The king of spades murmured from his ear with a smile: "Remember, he died for you."

In the corner across from the "cell", the figure curled up and squatted, but his eyes were horribly bright. Although Jiang Ting did not want to see or listen, he did see it. The two words were clearly written in those eyes looking at the muzzle of the gun, and the same two words were repeatedly repeated in his mouth——

"Shoot, shoot."

Shoot, Team Jiang.

Shoot--

All the rest is left in memory. Jiang Ting gritted his teeth and twisted the muzzle, but before he had time to aim at himself, his hand was forcibly grasped and twisted back to the front forcibly, and then his index finger was pressed. Pulled the trigger!

The gunfire went off.

"He died for you," the voice repeated in the depths of his brain.

"No one will believe you anymore, no one will listen to any word you say. The crimes and sentences so far have been written at the beginning of the story--"

"Everyone wants you to be a traitor, otherwise where does justice come in?"

The police siren is getting closer, and the beam of the flashlight is blaring across the river.

"Everything can’t be explained to others, because it’s not clear in itself. The adopter who brought me out of the orphanage back then, the tuition and living expenses for a few years in middle school, and the political review materials when I was admitted to the U.K. University; I am How did I escape from the drug cartel, why was it not killed, why the test of the bullet that killed the rivet completely matched the traces of my gun barrel... None of these countless doubts can be explained clearly. My files and my entire life are everywhere. I found the inextricable connection with the king of spades."

"So if I were you, Yan Xiu, I wouldn't believe a word of the above."

Jiang Ting’s whitish mouth is slightly curved upwards, although his eyes are full of bloodshot eyes: "Yue Guangping is dead, the rivet is dead, all the details that happened after the 1009 plastic factory bombing, except for the king of spades, only myself. I know. Even if you are willing to listen to me, I can’t tell why my fingerprints appeared in the door frame of Room 701. If I were you, the safest thing to do is to hand over Jiang Ting to the police."

Several beams of flashlights gradually approached, and the search personnel shouted vaguely.

Yan Xiu's eyebrow peak jumped violently.

What should I do? He thought to himself.

Do I believe him?

Jiang Ting broke free from Yan Xiu's arms, his figure was a bit shaky, but he gritted his teeth and barely stood up:

"The Jiangyang County Hospital you asked me why I refused to tell the truth. In fact, all I told you were the truth, but I concealed part of the inside information. The reason why I concealed it was not because I was afraid that you would be involved in this muddy water. , But because I don’t believe you."

Yan Xiu whispered angrily: "I--"

But then he was interrupted by Jiang Ting: "I can't let myself believe in you, because I have nothing now, only this lingering life. If one day you resell me, , This life may not last until the day of returning to Gongzhou."

Jiang Ting couldn't help but smiled bitterly: "But it is necessary for me to live, otherwise so many people will die in vain, who is counting on this blood debt?"

The barking of the police dog got closer and closer as the wind got closer, and at the end of the bridge in the distance, the hurrying figure of colleagues appeared indistinctly under the street lamp.

Yan Xi looked back into the distance, and then decisively went to La Jiangting, trying to make him squat down to reduce his visibility, but Jiang Ting forcibly retracted his wrist and took a half step back.

Dark clouds cover the night sky from afar, and the salty water vapor on the river bank is getting heavier and heavier. They were so high and one low, they looked at each other, Jiang Ting's face was pale and expressionless, and he outlined a clear silhouette in the thick black night.

Finally, Yan Xiu asked: "Then what's going on now, what forces you to believe me at last?"

"..."

"Is it because I was afraid that I would send you out indiscriminately, so I had to do it? Or are you finally willing to open your eyes and see what I have done for you?"

After a long time, Jiang Ting said slowly: "...I can see everything you have done..."

His eyes are still calm. He always has a way to suppress all weakness, regret, sadness and pain in a very short time, let the dripping blood settle in the bottom of his heart, make the spine that supports the soul scarred but difficult to break, forever moving forward.

"I have never had the siblings of my parents, I have never experienced the love between men and women, and I have not even made any friends. Even friendship is quite scarce. If there has been someone closest to that position in my heart, that The person is you."

He paused and looked at Yan Xiu: "But I can't let myself respond to this feeling...I don't want to lie to you."

Yan Xi's fingernails clenched his palms, and he gasped low and hurriedly. He heard the chirp of a police dog running not far away.

"So Yan Xiu," Jiang Ting said coldly, "Whether you want to hand me over, you decide for yourself."