Thirteen years ago, Du Heping was still the director of the Qingshan Town Police Station.

That day, shortly after he went to work, he received an order from the command center that there had been a robbery of a cash truck in the Sanyakou area, and asked him to rush to the scene, and the police force immediately sent someone to follow up.

He also specially instructed the robbers to have guns in their hands, which is very dangerous, and they must pay attention to personal safety.

Except for a female household registration officer, everyone else in the office went to the village to handle the case, and he had to fight single-handedly, driving the old Santana straight to the scene of the incident.

Sanyakou is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is dangerous, and it is the only way to Fengtai Town.

Out of the town station, along the cement road for less than ten minutes, turn right through a poplar forest, just climbed that steep slope, Du Heping smelled a faint smell of gunsmoke.

Slowing down the speed of the car, I looked closely, and sure enough, I saw a box-type Iveco parked on the right side of the so-called Hades Stone.

When he arrived, Du Heping stepped on the brakes and looked out.

In the grass on the side of the road lay a man in a security uniform, holding up a bloody hand and gesturing forward, "Quick...... Quick, chase, ran that way. ”

"How many?"

"Two."

"What guns did you bring?"

"Dirt guns."

Du Heping put up gear, stepped on the accelerator, and drove forward around Iveco.

After driving far, he fell back again, and he stuck out his head and asked the man, "Where are you hurt?" How does it feel? ”

The man pointed to his leg, waved his hand, and said it was all right.

Du Heping asked him to hold on, and the police force arrived immediately, and rushed forward with one foot on the accelerator.

I was about to climb to the top of the mountain, but I didn't see a single figure.

Looking through the car window to the northern slope of the mountain, wisps of white mist were wrapped around the mountainside, and several old eagles were hovering low.

It seems that they escaped by crossing the North Mountain.

The possibility of choosing the south direction is almost zero, and the winding for more than ten miles is full of steep mountain cliffs, and below the cliffs is a large river, and the water is turbulent all year round.

Du Heping walked along the road, bypassed the C-shaped winding mountain road and turned to the shady side of the mountain, and sure enough, he saw two people, one tall and one short.

The short man walked with a limp, looking as if one leg was long and the other was short, and he carried a spear in his hand;

Tall and young, slender and slightly thin, he carried a bag in his hand, and it was obvious that it was a money bag snatched from the cart.

Before they could react, the car had stopped on the side of the road less than twenty meters away from them.

"Put the gun down and squat on the ground!" Du Heping rushed out of the car and shouted at gunpoint.

The two of them stood still when they heard the sound, the cripple turned around, quickly picked up the earthen gun, and pointed directly at Du Heping, his wrinkled face was tense, and his eyes were hideous.

The tall man faced forward, didn't look back, and asked in a low voice, "Dad, what should I do?" ”

The lame man said, "Run, run to the bottom of the ditch!" ”

"What about you?"

"Leave me alone!"

Du Heping shouted again: "Put down the gun and strive for leniency, it's still too late!" ”

The cripple sneered, hooked the trigger with one hand, pushed his son with the other, and roared loudly: "Lao Tzu fought with you!" ”

Du Heping pulled the trigger......

He had aimed at the arm of the lame man holding the gun, but the bullet went straight into his left chest like an eye.

The cripple fell to the ground, and a puff of red smoke rose into the air.

The blood mist cleared, and the tall figure was gone.

The lame man lay on the ground, put his hands on his chest, and gasped and said, "It's me...... I did it, it's none of his business, let him go. ”

"At least he's an accomplice, and as long as he comes back obediently, he can be lightly punished."

The cripple smiled evilly and threatened, "He will kill you!" ”

"Does he have the guts?"

"Yes...... Yes, if you don't believe it, just wait and see, you're caught...... Can't catch him. The cripple closed his eyes and his arms drooped.

Du Heping walked over, pulled the pistol from his hand, ran down the mountain, and chased him until the bottom of the ditch, but he didn't see the kid.

Reinforcements arrived soon and an intensive search began, but nothing was found.

The 120 ambulance followed, and the paramedics confirmed that the lame man had died, and the escort was only injured in the flesh and flesh, and there was no major problem.

After counting, the only two savings bags in the cash truck were gone, and the amount of money robbed was 560,000 yuan.

What puzzled Du Heping was what he saw with his own eyes, the young robber who escaped was only carrying a savings bag in his hand, where did the other go?

Lu Fangzhi, the captain of the criminal police at the time, deduced that the robbers must have hidden the heavier bag and only brought a relatively light one to make it easier to escape.

But after two days of searching, the entire mountain was cut into holes, and even police dogs were used, and not even a single child was seen.

Soon the identity of the robber was ascertained, the main culprit was named Zhou Tiancheng, 41 years old, he turned out to be a terminal lung cancer patient; The accomplice was his son, named Zhou Yugang, who lived in Zhou Gezhuang, twenty miles away.

When Zhou Yugang was seven years old, his mother eloped with an upstart and went to other places, and only the two of them depended on each other at home.

……

In the early morning of the second day of the incident, the fog was thick, and a tall young man knocked on Du Heping's door.

Seeing that the comer was wearing a police uniform, Du Heping's wife Yang Xiuzhen relaxed her vigilance and opened the door.

The comer's expression was heavy, and he called out to his sister-in-law, saying that Director Du was stabbed with a sharp knife in the execution of the mission, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do it, and he wanted to see her for the last time.

Yang Xiuzhen was stupid and went out in a daze.

She followed the man out of town, and as soon as she walked into an abandoned factory building, she was strangled by a rope and tied to a concrete post.

The man took out a scalpel from behind him, put it against Yang Xiuzhen's chest, and said, "Do you really want to know who I am?" ”

Yang Xiuzhen's eyes widened, and her face was full of horror.

Zhou Yugang said: "I am the one who robbed the money, my father was shot and killed by your man, he is too lonely, I want you to accompany him underground." ”

Yang Xiuzhen gasped and said, "He's on a mission, that's his job." ”

Zhou Yugang sneered and said, "My father's shotgun didn't need to be loaded with gunpowder, he shouldn't shoot, he shouldn't have killed my father, I let him live rather than die!" ”

Yang Xiuzhen first dissuaded and said that you are still young, you can't make mistakes again and again, killing people is to pay for your life.

"Lao Tzu has already died once, don't be afraid!"

The tip of the knife cut through the thin clothes, pierced the skin, and swirled violently.

Yang Xiuzhen screamed miserably, and suddenly bit the perpetrator's ear, and blood flowed out of the corner of her mouth.

"it! You're still a she-wolf, let you bite...... Let you bite! Zhou Yugang scolded frantically and stabbed indiscriminately.

……

The screams drew a scruffy, disheveled homeless man, who grabbed a steel bar and rushed forward with a shout.

Seeing that the gangsters were scared away, he picked up the bloody woman and ran all the way to the hospital.

When Du Heping arrived, his wife was already dying, and she used her last strength to tell her husband that he was a robber, not a policeman, and that you should take good care of your son, and then closed her eyes.

In the evening of that day, a middle-aged village woman went to the Qingshan Town Police Station to report the case, saying that when she passed by Sanyakou, she saw a gray van rolling down the cliff from the side of the Hades and falling into the deep river.

During the flood season, the river is surging and rolling down, and it is difficult to salvage a car in the valley dozens of meters deep.

With the cooperation of the relevant local departments, more than a dozen young and middle-aged men who knew water from the surrounding villages were summoned, and they worked from upstream to downstream and from downstream to upstream for three days and three nights, not to mention the car, not even an iron shell.

According to the analysis, after the Zhou prisoner escaped from the rubble, he robbed a van, and in the process of escaping, he hit a cliff and fell into the river.

At this point, the 4.13 cash truck robbery case was announced to be solved: the main culprit resisted and was killed on the spot; The accomplice fell into the river and died while fleeing by car.

Du Heping did not accept this result and raised two questions: First, where did the gangster's van come from?

If it was robbed, why didn't anyone report it?

Second, when the car was hijacked, there were still two savings bags in the car, why did the robbers have only one in their hands when they fled?

He repeatedly asked the leaders to continue the search and investigation, and he was full of emotion, insisting that the person who killed his wife was still alive and was hiding in a corner and staring at him.

The organization took into account Du Heping's mental state and family situation, adjusted his work, and transferred him back to the police station.

In the more than a decade that followed, Du Heping dreamed countless times of the murder of his wife—foggy, messy ruins, and swarms of rats jumping around.

She was tied to a concrete pole behind her back, her black hair scattered, and her eyes were terrified.

A blue-faced, fanged demon stood in front of her, scalpel in hand, and with a single blow, brutally slicing at the muscles of her chest.

The woman writhed her fleshy limbs, her voice hoarse.

……

Du Heping's eyes were hazy with tears, and he looked up at the top of the mountain in the distance.

There was a white cloud floating on the top of the mountain, and the face of his wife Yang Xiuzhen loomed above the white cloud, and she was vaguely heard whispering: "The bad guy is coming, you hurry up and catch it, go and catch it." ”

In the blink of an eye, the white cloud was gone, and disappeared without a trace.

Du Heping's heart rippled, and he felt a faint pain.

He walked to the valley on the south side of the boulder and leaned down to watch.

At this time, the surface of the river sank a lot, and the stones on the bank were exposed, with clear water marks on them.

He pointed to the jagged, bizarre rocks and said to the two young men behind him, "More than ten years ago, the water was so deep that it barely overran those stones. ”

He Xiaoyu knew what he was thinking, and comforted her: "It's been so many years, don't torture yourself anymore." ”

"There are some pains that I can't forget." Du Heping turned around and asked, "If a car falls from this direction, what is the survival rate of the driver?" ”

Gu Weitao said: "Almost zero. ”

Du Heping shook his head and said, "But that person has come back to life, and he is still alive and well, do you believe it?" ”

"Master, are you alright?" Gu Weitao stared at him and asked.

"What I'm saying is true, and it's very likely that I'm living a beautiful life."

"Where is he?"