Chapter 18: Surfacing
The night is hazy and the autumn breeze is bleak.
A Santana with flashing police lights broke through the twilight, drove into the compound of the Public Security Bureau, and came to an abrupt halt in front of the office building. A tall and mighty police officer stepped out of the car, his cheeks angular and murderous under the dim neon lights.
"Lao Liang, is Zhu Ju out of danger?" Wei Ran walked out of the office building with a few logistics personnel, and just happened to hit Liang Jun in the face, he wasted no time in asking.
"Zhu Ju is undergoing surgery, and the specific situation is difficult to say now. Where are you going? Liang Jun replied hurriedly as he walked.
"Alas, I hope the old leader can survive this. I was organizing the logistics staff to deliver food to the police officers on duty outside the city. Although Wei Ran and Liang Jun missed out, they still turned their heads and replied enthusiastically.
Liang Jun didn't seem to hear what he had just said, walked straight to the elevator, reached out and pressed the button on the wall, and dodged into the elevator. Wei Ran, who had been standing at the door, looked at the empty hall, shook his head knowingly, and walked to the cafeteria with other police officers worriedly.
Why is Liang Jun only returning to the police station now? It turned out that after sending off the leadership team of the county party committee, he and Bai Xiaotang accompanied their families to wait for Zhu Qing and Nie Qing outside the operating room on the second floor.
Plainclothes captain Cao Yang rushed over with people, and Liang Jun immediately called everyone aside, briefly introduced Zhu Ju's injury, emphasized the current rampant degree of the underworld forces, and asked the team members to maintain a high degree of vigilance ideologically, implement 24-hour supervision of Zhu Ju, and ensure his personal safety. When the team members heard this, their steel teeth clucked, and they were all filled with righteous indignation.
At this time, Bai Xiaotang's mobile phone suddenly rang. After answering the phone, he lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said politely to everyone: "Deputy Director Liang, family members, the department over there has an urgent matter to find me, so I will not accompany you, and I will come over later."
"It's okay, such a big hospital, there are a lot of things waiting for you to deal with, so get busy!" Shangguan Hui, who was sad, waved at him and said understandingly.
Liang Jun came to Bai Xiaotang and asked about Zhu Ju's injury while seeing him off. It wasn't until Bai Xiaotang entered the elevator that Liang Jun turned around, pushed open the window on the side of the corridor with a heavy heart, lit a cigarette, and looked at the inpatient building opposite, puffing out the smoke depressedly.
Suddenly, a familiar face flashed in front of the door of the inpatient building. The fat hospital gown on his body seriously affected his judgment, and he couldn't even remember who that person was for a while?
Liang Jun threw away the cigarette butt in his hand in frustration, complaining that he was really old. It only took a few seconds to find someone who had only been seen once from a hundred photos, and it was effortless. But now my memory is decadent like an ordinary person.
"Beam Bureau, Liang Bureau! I saw that kid who slayed the dragon just now! Cao Yang pointed to the opposite downstairs and shouted in surprise.
When Liang Jun heard this, he quickly recalled in his mind that the scene that flashed just now was like waking up from a dream. He raised his eyebrows and ordered eagerly: "Leave two team members on guard, and the rest of the personnel will come with me."
The order is the police situation, Cao Yang instantly designated two team members to stay on guard, and he led the other team members to run downstairs along the stairs quickly. When everyone came to the front of the inpatient building, in the face of the crowd, Liang Jun decisively ordered to be surrounded and searched separately.
After a carpet search, everyone looked at each other and gathered again, reporting one after another that they had not seen the shadow of the dragon slaying at all, and Liang Jun was puzzled when he heard it. Can't you slay a dragon? He came out of the inpatient department wearing a hospital number, indicating that he had been hiding in the hospital, and at the same time implying that someone from the hospital was helping him. So why not stay in your room? Is it to escape?
"Liang Bureau, what should I do next?" A young investigator beside Cao Yang asked confusedly.
"Don't worry, everyone, as long as the dragon slayer is still in the city, it will be difficult for him to fly. The most important task now is to protect the Zhu Bureau. Leave two people to squat in the inpatient department, and the others will return immediately to prevent the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. I'll go back to the bureau and report on the situation at the hospital. Liang Jun decisively finished the order, quickly got into the police car next to him, started the engine, and roared away.
The actions of Liang Jun and others just now did not escape the eyes of one person. He sneered and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, took out his mobile phone and skillfully dialed a call, grimacing his face and arranging his next move in a low voice.
When the elevator door on the third floor opened, Zhang Lei, director of the command center, was reporting to Yang Guang in a panic the news of Zhang Feng's bizarre death. Liang Jun heard it clearly, he didn't expect so many accidents to happen in one afternoon. It seems that the capture of the dragon slayer has poked their sore spots, and the black forces of Sea Breeze have been making a final struggle.
"Lao Liang, you came at the right time, in response to the emergency just now, I will now report on the specific situation I have. At about half past three in the afternoon, Qian Hui, the secretary of the bureau, found that an important telephone record book was missing, and after verification, it was basically concluded that it was done by Zhang Feng.
In the morning, when checking the ghosts in the song hall, Zhang Feng left the venue with Zhu Ju, and none of the participating police officers confirmed where he was at that moment? Now it seems that Zhang Feng is the ghost of the police station, as for how he died, he must have been killed by murder.
At present, the special case group has been set up, and the comrades of the court and the procuratorate are still in the conference room, and the specific list of members will be discussed later. You now take the forensic doctor to the scene of the crime immediately, and Ding Wei will lead people to set up cards at major intersections in the city, and provide support at any time if there is a situation. Zhang Lei immediately notified all road blocks, no matter whose vehicle it was, to check it to prevent the dragon from escaping in chaos. We need to lay out the nets and muddy the water to get the fish to surface as soon as possible. Yang Guang first pointed out the ghosts lurking in the bureau, and then calmly gave the order to act. ”
"Lao Yang, there was a trace of dragon slaying in the hospital, he came out of the inpatient building wearing a hospital uniform, and when I led people downstairs to arrest him, he had disappeared. It is quite possible that he was ready to flee before venturing out of the hiding place. Liang Jun looked at Yang Guang's solemn cheeks and said regretfully.
"Oh, since he dared to show his head, it means that he has already planned to transfer or escape, and now he must have fled the hospital, and let the left-behind personnel monitor the movements of the inpatient department leaders, and implement further measures when the time is ripe. For now, let's follow the deployment I just made, and everyone will act separately! Yang Guang glanced at Liang Jun and ordered with a firm attitude.
When everyone dispersed, Yang Guang, who frowned, returned to the conference room and briefed the members of the task force on the case just now. Subsequently, in the name of the deputy team leader, he ordered everyone to immediately follow him to inspect the checkpoints.
In the abandoned factory near the garbage dump, a cordon has long been drawn. There were no electric lights, and the entire area was shrouded in hazy moonlight. At this time, Liu Tao, who was full of exhaustion, kept hovering outside the cordon, and his mind was full of the shadows of Zhu Ju and Zhang Feng.
An upright public security chief was plotted against by someone, and a director of a bureau office died tragically in an abandoned factory. Haifeng County, which seems to be calm on the outside, is lined with mountains and undercurrents on the inside. Could it really be that it has been controlled by powerful black forces? As the captain of the criminal police, Liu Tao was deeply confused and self-blamed.
At the scene of the crime, there was no one except for a few pursuing policemen sitting next to them to rest. A gust of night wind hit, and the dilapidated windows in the cordon made clanging noises from time to time, and the silent air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Not far away, the scarlet police lights kept rotating, and the dazzling light illuminated the empty factory building particularly eeriely.
Suddenly, a siren sounded from far and near. After a while, two police cars stopped next to Liu Tao, and Liang Jun and others walked out of the cars.
"Liang Bureau, there are three people's footprints at the scene of the crime, there is no fighting, Zhang Feng's police uniform is missing, and he is stabbed five times in the back, obviously he was attacked by someone. Oni San was stabbed in the chest and abdomen, the murder weapon was still inserted in his abdomen, the two bodies were five or six meters apart, and the cause of his death seemed to be killed by an accomplice. Liu Tao frowned and reported succinctly.
"Got it, let the forensic doctor take the evidence. Zhang Feng is a ghost in the police station, and he did it when the power was cut off in the song hall, and he stole Qian Hui's phone record book in the afternoon, presumably to hand it over to the murderer, but then he was killed. Liang Jun sniffed the smell of blood in the air and said in a heavy tone.
"Huh? Zhang Feng is an internal ghost? Is a phone call notebook that important? Liu Tao was stunned for a moment and asked puzzled.
"I won't explain it now. Zhu Ju was performing surgery in the hospital, and Cao Yang and others were there to protect him. The inpatient building found traces of the dragon slaying, but no progress was made, and it is likely that he had escaped from the hospital. In addition, a task force has been set up, and Political Commissar Yang is leading some members to inspect the checkpoints in the urban area. Ding Wei set up cards at major intersections in the city, and Wei Ran personally led the team to deliver meals to each duty point. Now you go back to the bureau to eat and rest and be ready to go. After Liang Jun made a brief report on the deployment of the police force, he patted Liu Tao on the shoulder lovingly.
After hearing this, Liu Tao rubbed his hungry stomach and nodded gratefully. Then he beckoned the other police officers to get into the police car, and disappeared into the hazy night in the blink of an eye.