It has been more than three months since he returned from Liangshan Prison, and Qiao Sheng and his party have never found the hiding place of the organization. All the R&D personnel seem to have evaporated from this world, and they can't find the slightest trace. Even the families of these people don't know where they have gone, which is very frustrating.

The leadership above did not want to keep on with this matter, and had secretly disbanded the special operations team a few days ago, leaving only two people to continue to track down the whereabouts of the organization, and said when new clues would be found, the members of the team would be recalled again.

As the captain of the criminal police detachment of R City, Qiao Sheng can understand the leader's approach. After all, there are endless cases happening every day in R City, and they can't waste all their energy and manpower on such hopeless cases.

After the members of the organization disappeared, Qiao Sheng and the others also made a lot of efforts. When they arrived at the Liangshan Underground Prison and found that there was only a useless empty shell left, Qiao Sheng immediately sent a team of men to search the mountains and forests near the prison in detail.

In those days of early October, two heavy rains washed away all the traces left by those people when they fled, and there was little direction to trace. They had imagined that the organization might have another research base in the Daliang Mountains, but without specific coordinates, it was an impossible task to find a hidden entrance in the vast mountain forest.

When they were desperate, they thought of Qin Yu, the genius R&D who inadvertently left a set of coordinates and was later "kidnapped" by the organization, although he had now disappeared from the world with the people of the organization, he probably knew another hiding place of the organization, and even more secrets.

It took nearly half a month for Qiao Sheng to have every item left in this world before Qin Yu's disappearance checked more than twenty times, and the result was frustrating, they didn't achieve anything.

finally came to this point, Qiao Sheng was unwilling to give up like this. But he's tried everything he should try, and he doesn't know what else to do next.

During the investigation of the organization's whereabouts, they also caught some people who had worked for the organization, but those small characters who were paid to hire were only responsible for taking money and doing work, and they didn't know anything else. They didn't even know what research the organization was doing, let alone any other hiding place.

From time to time, Yao Jiangyue would ask them for news about the organization. She really wanted to do something for the police, but she was just an ordinary doctor, and she really didn't have enough to do about it. Of course, Qiao Sheng knew that the reason why Yao Jiangyue couldn't let go of the organization's affairs was because she, like herself, had something in her heart that she had always been thinking about.

The disbandment of the special operations team, Qiao Sheng did not have any opinion. Patiently waiting for new clues to appear, Qiao Sheng can also reluctantly accept it. However, not being able to find the whereabouts of the organization meant that he would never be able to know what Gu Liao had experienced at the last moment in the underground prison in this life, but this was the only thing he could not let go of no matter what.

If he hadn't decided to let Gu Liao stay in prison as an "undercover agent", Zhong Xin would definitely get Gu Liao out of prison at all costs. In that case, the rest of the story could have played out in a completely different script.

Qiao Sheng suspected that the organization should have taken Gu Liao away when they fled, just like they took away the other prisoners. Otherwise, if Gu Liao successfully escaped from prison, there would be no reason for him not to return to R City, no reason not to return to the team to report, and no reason for his family and friends to worry about him.

Qiao Sheng felt that his current self was clearly Gu Liao a few months ago, and Gu Liao was Qin Yu whose whereabouts were unknown. He now deeply understood Gu Li's mood at that time. A good person suddenly disappears from this world, and there is no one alive or dead, and such a thing is difficult to accept no matter who it puts on him.

Seeing Gu Li's mother's increasingly haggard appearance, Qiao Sheng's heart ached like a knife. Gu Liao joined the criminal police team because he admired him, and their whole family knew about it, and Gu Li's mother always had an opinion on this matter.

As we all know, the criminal police is a high-risk profession, often dealing with those vicious criminals, easy to be retaliated against by criminals, and occasionally facing life-threatening situations when performing tasks. There is no mother in the world who wants her son to always run to the most dangerous places, not to mention that Gu Li's father has been in poor health, and died of lung cancer a few years ago, she can't imagine how her life will go on if one day her son also encounters an accident.

It is for this reason that Qiao Sheng always takes Gu Liao closely at work and tries to keep him away from those dangerous places. But Gu Liao never appreciates it, but he is stubborn and stubborn, and he has his own opinions on doing things, and the two often have fierce quarrels at work.

People who know the situation know that Captain Qiao is doing this to protect Gu Li, but those who don't know the situation still think that the relationship between the two brothers is not good, and talk about him behind his back, saying that he is jealous of Gu Li's talent and targets his younger brother everywhere.

In the first month of Gu Li's disappearance, Qiao Sheng would take time out to visit Gu Li's mother every once in a while. Whenever asked about Gu Li's whereabouts, he could only lie that Gu Lime was on a secret mission and was not allowed to contact his family.

At first, Gu Li's mother could barely believe this statement, but after a long time, she would inevitably not be suspicious in her heart. After all, she knew a little about Qin Yu's disappearance from Shu Qing. Later, in order to find Qin Yu's whereabouts, Gu Liao went out of the house, and since then he has not heard from him. She always felt that there should be some kind of connection between the two things.

Of course, Qiao Sheng couldn't tell her the truth, including Qin Yu's family, and now they didn't know what was going on in Liangshan. For outsiders, the existence of the organization is still a huge secret, and as for the whereabouts of Gu Liao and Qin Yu, Qiao Sheng himself cannot give an answer.

Gradually, Qiao Sheng stopped visiting Gu Li's house, because he couldn't stand the same lie every time to deceive an injured mother. Later, he didn't even want to answer Gu Li's mother's phone, and he didn't know what to say. Lie to her and say that Gu Liao will be back soon, let her continue to wait? Or is it that Gu Liao encountered danger during his mission, and it is likely that he will never come back? He couldn't say a word of these two sentences, so he chose the easiest solution: escape.

At noon on January 13, 2016, Qiao Sheng took a nap in the office after lunch. R City was inadmirably calm for a few days, and as soon as there were fewer cases, people became lazy. In the dimness, he heard a cacophony of voices coming from the hallway outside. He slept soundly, didn't want to pay attention to the gossip outside, lazily turned over on the sofa, squinted his eyes, and went back to sleep.

Just then, someone suddenly pushed open the office door. Then, he heard a young scout say to him in a panic: "Captain Qiao, this aunt wants to see you no matter what she says, I really can't stop her!" ”

Qiao Sheng sat up and glanced at the door in confusion. After a glance, he suddenly came to his senses, opened his mouth, and asked in surprise, "Auntie, why are you here?" ”

"How did I get here? It's not because you're avoiding me and not answering my calls. The woman replied angrily.

This middle-aged woman in her fifties is named Qiao Nianzhen, Gu Li's mother, a retired teacher at R City Normal University. She is usually a gentle-tempered and knowledgeable person, but in the face of the fact that her son's whereabouts are unknown, I believe that no one can control their emotions well.

"Captain, this ......" Investigator Xiao Meng looked back and forth in the room for a moment with an embarrassed face, Qiao Sheng immediately waved his hand at him and said, "It's okay, you go out first." I talked to my aunt. ”

After Xiao Meng left, Qiao Sheng got up and vacated the position of the sofa, let Qiao Nianzhen sit down, and dragged a swivel chair to sit opposite. Don't look at his official position, he is usually majestic and respected in the criminal police team, but in front of this woman, he is like a child who has made a mistake, so nervous that he doesn't even dare to breathe.

"Qiao Sheng, you tell me the truth." After being silent for a long time, Qiao Nianzhen asked straight to the point, "Where did that kid go?" ”

"Oh, didn't I tell you, Gu Liao is on a very confidential mission, and he can't get out of it for the time being." Qiao Sheng felt very helpless, and moved out the previous set of rhetoric as it was. Qiao Nian really didn't buy his account, and continued to ask, "Then where is he now?" What are you doing? When will I be back? ”

"I can't really say that." Qiao Sheng smiled apologetically, habitually took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, smoked one, and was about to light it, when he suddenly thought that his aunt hated others smoking in front of her the most, so he took it back stupidly.

"I said......" Qiao Nianzhen subconsciously lowered his voice, "Did your leader send Gu Liao to be an undercover agent?" If it is, it doesn't matter. I don't have to know exactly what he's doing. You just have to tell me if he's doing well now, whether he is safe or not, at least let me put this stone in my heart down......"

"Don't worry." Qiao Sheng gritted his teeth and said against his will, "We didn't arrange for him to do anything dangerous, it's just that this mission has a high level of secrecy, and we must not disclose the slightest bit of information to outsiders." We hope you understand us. As long as he can successfully complete the task, he will definitely contact you as soon as possible. ”

As soon as he finished saying these words, Qiao Sheng couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth. Seeing a slightly relieved expression on Qiao Nianzhen's face, he suddenly felt very uncomfortable in his heart. Which is more hurtful, lie or truth? If sooner or later one day it is impossible to avoid being hurt by the brutal truth, perhaps there should never be false hope left in the first place.

Silence spilled between the two.

A few seconds later, a loud phone ringing broke the silence in the office. Qiao Sheng picked up the phone like grasping a life-saving straw. He would rather go to the crime scene to catch the bad guys now than stay with Gu Li's mother anymore.

However, after listening to what the other party narrated on the phone, Qiao Sheng not only did not feel relieved, but his mood was even heavier than before. After a few days of calm, there was another murder case of a bad nature in R City, and this time the victim had a very special identity, and it turned out to be the father of the serial corpse killer Wei Chi Liang, who had been wanted by the police for more than two years, and the former owner of a real estate development company and a wealthy man in R City-Yu Chilong.