Chapter 13: Continuing the Game (I)
"The explosion happened without warning, and the police couldn't figure out why the criminals were blowing up an ordinary residential building. And usually **** attacks are accompanied by a clear purpose, but there is no threat or requirement for that explosion. The explosion came as suddenly as thunder and then quickly disappeared. But at the scene of the explosion, the Security Service found something strange, a playing card. That's right, it's the Joker's card. ”
"Did the clown blow up that building?" Yang Wenbin felt the blood rush to the top of his head, and stood up with a "swish", "Why!" Why do they do such a thing! ”
"Calm, calm. What am I telling you? Poppy stretched out his hand and made a downward motion motioning for Yang Wenbin to sit down, "No one knows why that explosion was, but I'm afraid the clown used such extreme means to kill someone in that building." The good thing about the explosion is that if it succeeds, all the evidence is destroyed, so how they caused the explosion, why they blew up an entire building, and what exactly was in that building, no one knows. We only know one thing, and that is that no one in that entire building survived, except for you, Yang Wenbin. ”
Yang Wenbin was silent and didn't say a word, but there was anger in his eyes that couldn't be hidden.
"I don't know what's special about you, but apparently the clown noticed you. You are the only survivor, which means that you are a huge threat to the Joker. Poppy looked at Yang Wenbin, "But not only are you not low-key, but you also deliberately expose yourself to the clown's sight." Should I say are you too bold or too small-minded? ”
"Ha, what kind of character is I, Yang Wenbin, worthy of such a racking of brains by a criminal gang against me?" Yang Wenbin laughed dryly, disapproving, "And if the clown is really as terrible as you say, if they want to kill me, I will not be in this world for a long time." How could I, a lame, skinny doctor, survive until now? ”
"They won't kill you, they use a means that are a hundred times more terrible than killing you." Poppy whispered, "Those people will make you regret being born in the world." ”
"Ha, this isn't an American gangster movie, it's not early, you better wash and sleep." Yang Wenbin didn't take Poppy's words seriously at all, just shrugged his shoulders and stood up, "You sleep in the bedroom, I'll sleep on the sofa, I'll help you make the bed." ”
Yang Wenbin was lying on the sofa in the living room, the wall clock ticking in the quiet air. The doctor let out a sigh of relief, hesitantly playing with the mobile phone in his hand, and after thinking about it, he still felt that he should make a call to Zhu Bo.
The year was almost over, but he couldn't find even one night to go back to spend time with the old man.
The "beep" sound from the mobile phone rang rhythmically, and soon after, "Your call was not answered, please dial again later".
I guess I slept...... Yang Wenbin thought with a hint of guilt in his heart.
I just hope this damn game ends soon, and no matter what, I'm going to solve this so-called final puzzle and pull it back beautifully.
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"It's going to be a difficult thing to find this guy we're looking for, even if it's just a corpse." Yan Junli spread the information on the table and sighed.
"Barber, taxi driver, lawyer, high school chemistry teacher......" Li Hong picked up the materials one by one and read the completely different introductions above, "How many identities does this Tao Mingliang have?" ”
"It seems that just like Poppy said, this Tao Mingliang is a former agent, and now he is a member of an international criminal organization, and it is not so easy to find this person by ordinary means." Yan Junli spread his hands and commanded Li Hong, "Xiaohong, pour me a cup of coffee." ”
"Captain, I want to protest. Why do I pour you every time you have coffee! Li Hongyi raised his hand rhetorically.
"Maybe it's because I control the wages you get?" Yan Junli showed a playful expression.
As soon as Yang Wenbin walked into the office of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, he saw Li Hong walking out of Yan Junli's office with a sad face and an empty cup in his hand.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"The guy who abused public power in the Yan team threatened me to pour him coffee in the name of salary every time." Li Hong's tone was full of dissatisfaction, "I'm not his servant......"
Yang Wenbin almost laughed out loud when he heard this, and simply took the cup from Li Hong's hand, "Don't worry, even if you don't pour him coffee, he won't dare to deduct your salary." Go get busy, I'll pour him coffee. ”
When Yang Wenbin pushed open the door of Yan Junli's office, Captain Yan was thinking about the stack of materials and the notebook they found yesterday, and his brows were about to wrinkle to the sky.
"Your coffee." Yang Wenbin put the cup on Yan Junli's table.
Yan Junli was stunned for a moment and raised his head, "You're here?" What about the poppy that walked with you yesterday? ”
"When she woke up in the morning, she was gone, still playing as impressively as usual, and disappearing without playing cards according to common sense." Yang Wenbin moved a chair and sat down opposite Yan Junli, "So, what's wrong with Tao Mingming's investigation?" ”
Yan Junli frowned and shook his head, obviously not going well, "Last night we turned Tao Mingming's residence upside down. The corpse in his refrigerator was Tang Yuankai, yes. And in addition to Tang Yuankai's body, we also found the remains of at least two different people's bodies, and the technical department is also conducting DNA comparison. I can't imagine how long it would have been since this incident had this ogre been discovered. But other than that, there are only a handful of clues that can find the whereabouts of this person. Tao Mingliang hardly had any friends, and his neighbors kept him away. I asked a few people nearby, but no one knew where he might go. ”
Yan Junli spread out the diary he found yesterday again, "It seems that we may really need to start investigating this clue given by the clown." ”
Yang Wenbin frowned with some disgust, "He just wants us to investigate in his way." ”
The diary is still the same shabby, no matter how many times you turn it over, it is no different from the last time you read it. The diary contains only a few sporadic entries, with no mention of people or places. The last journal entry is still followed by a blank page with no content.
"He said the diary was the first clue, right?" Yang Wenbin picked up the diary and muttered.