when the moon whispers

case two baby

twenty dead ends

The outside of the window pane of the staircase corridor of the police station is still muddy with the remaining rain marks from the washing of the previous few days, vaguely and glaringly blocking the faint and hazy early winter moonlight.

Holding a semi-dry sterilized cotton swab in his hand, Shao Jie poked it motionlessly in front of the police mirror set up at the jogging platform in the office area, tilted his head and looked out the window expressionlessly, looking aimlessly at Night halo.

"What are you looking at? Depressed after being beaten up? — Shao Jie!"

Jiang Mo sauntered downstairs from the intelligence team's office with a copy of the surveillance files in hand, and the sound of his footsteps almost hit the ears of this stupid little ancestor who was stupefied.The wooden stake that seemed to be out of body was shocked by the police officer Jiang, dragging and dragging his mental head that had drifted to nowhere, and was inadvertently facing Jiang Mo's eyes after looking at the wound on the corner of his mouth and looking at him .Shao Jie was a little flustered, and when he turned his head sideways, he had already stepped on the edge of the stairs with half of his foot hanging in the air, and he wobbled a bit, almost throwing off the iodine bottle that he was not holding firmly.

Jiang Mo was quick, grabbed Shao Jie who was staggering and was about to fall down at any time, held the medicine bottle through the child's long but thin fingers with one hand, and firmly protected him inside the jogging platform before letting go He withdrew, raised his arm and snapped his fingers in front of Shao Jie, who obviously hadn't completely escaped from the chaotic state, and frowned slightly worriedly: "Except for a hit at the corner of the mouth, where else was it hit? Didn't hit you on the head? It looks like there's a swollen lump on your face—"

"Ah?" Shao Jie was overly shy and slow to react. He shook his head only when Officer Jiang raised his voice and repeated the question for the second time. I was on the electric pole in the alley, and I got this punch in the face, it’s okay, it’s not at all—oh, it hurts!”

Jiang Mo saw through the nonsense that the little ancestor was trying to keep his face straight, bent his index finger and tried to scrape lightly on the side of his red, swollen and blue cheek, and the moment his knuckles were about to touch the skin, he heard Shao Jie gasp With a cold breath, his eyes turned red instantly, and after he groaned twice, he stared at Jiang Mo with tears in his eyes.

Every time he saw Shao Jie pouting his lips in pity and being wronged, Jiang Mo inexplicably felt a sense of guilt for "molesting a woman from a good family".She placed him in the mediation room, borrowed a clean towel from a colleague at the police station, soaked it in cold water, and applied it to him——Jiang Mo's hands were too heavy, and he half bent down to pretend to be a technical guide for the treatment of bumps, bruises, and injuries, and straightened up When he was seated, Zheng Sijun turned the three brats into the law enforcement area to sober up when they saw three boys who were cursing, drunken, or sleeping at the mercy of others.

Jiang Mo looked at Shao Jie, and since he wasn't on his own territory, he didn't look too much like a police officer asking about the situation: "I just wanted to ask, didn't I send you back to the club this afternoon? What are you doing here at night? ? And got together with those three brats who drink too much and ask for money."

Holding the ice towel, Shao Jie faltered a bit: "...well... I went back, but you said in the afternoon that you were not sure why Yang Xiaoxiao disappeared, and we just had a rest today, so... I was just curious, I want to see it."

"He ran around in the alley here in a fever, and was robbed by three junior high school students who played truant..." Jiang Mo was speechless for a while, and squinted at him, and caught a glimpse of the child rubbing the towel used for wet compresses a few times He strayed a little bit, reached out to support his arm and lifted it a little bit, and he didn't know where he touched Shao Jie's soft and numb tendons. The pain made the little ancestor tremble, and Jiang Mo pitifully dragged along My heart trembled, and I couldn't help frowning.

"You were beaten here too? It's because the nearby residents heard the noise and reported the crime, and the policeman on duty is half a block away from you, otherwise your arms and legs would have fallen apart? Wouldn't you still play games or something? Really? What should I do if I get hurt?"

"No..." Shao Jie struggled and resisted a little, trying to save his face but failed, drooping his head in frustration: "I knocked my arm on the electric pole, and I stumbled when I dodged back. They really It just hit me once."

"I heard from my colleagues that the three of them are habitual offenders. This police station alone has dealt with them four times. The one who bullies you is a fool who doesn't care about anything." He let out a sound, and his tone was not very kind: "Wandering around so late, I wonder if there is any result?"

Shao Jie sat up straight when he heard the words, and tried to close the corners of his eyes to be serious, as if he suddenly regained his energy, nodded and said: "There are many narrow alleys and unsealed old residential areas from Lixing West Street to the Red Building. On the outer wall, I found a route that can avoid the existing monitoring... When this road ends, you can go directly to the South Road bus station."

Jiang Mo immediately frowned vigilantly, and glanced at the door of the mediation room: "This side of Lixing Street... There have been vicious cases before, and surveillance has been added. Now the roads should be fully covered. You mean there are still dead spots. ?”

"The old communities are not closed, and the camera that can adjust the angle may have a dead space. It sounds good to say that it has full coverage..." Shao Jie muttered the last sentence very softly, and put down the towel Quietly took a look at Jiang Mo, pursed his lower lip cautiously, and continued: "The alley where I was beaten is one of the surveillance blind spots. If you don't believe me, I can show you there."

Jiang Mo frowned first.

In fact, she didn't really want to repeatedly involve Shao Jie, an unlucky guy who had nothing to do with the case, but with the key clues in front of her, Jiang Mo couldn't just give such a guy a fat beating for providing evidence for no reason. The silly boy kicked it away.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Jiang Mo stood up, patted Shao Jie on the shoulder for him to follow, left the mediation room and went straight to the police station, knocking on the countertop as a greeting to Zheng Sijun who was pouring water to relieve his hoarse throat, He said bluntly: "Is there any formalities for the beaten victim to sign? If not, I will take him away. I need your help."

Zheng Sijun graduated in the same year as Jiang Mo. He was a young policeman, and his awe-inspiring uprightness was all due to shouting. After a cold season, his voice was hoarse and he could break three syllables in one sentence: "...There is no loss of property, and there is no claim for compensation. If he accepted the mediation, he would be able to withdraw. The three underage drinking and making troubles are all familiar with the way. They will wait for the parents to come later, and the police station will come forward for the follow-up education. If he doesn't want to wait for the parents to come and cry and shout Apologize to the child, it's okay to withdraw, I will contact you if there is anything."

After finishing the business, Zheng Sijun scratched his head: "But Brother Jiang, what's the matter, please invite me... so——"

Before Zheng Sijun could finish his ups and downs, Sun Xiaofang, who had just spit up and came down to change his clothes, walked up to Jiang Mo with a haughty face, clasped his belt with his thumb, gave Shao Jie a serious look, and then looked away. Falling back to Jiang Mo's face: "What's your relationship with him?"

Jiang Mo took half a step back subconsciously, and lightly bumped into Shao Jie with his slightly bent elbow in his jacket pocket.

An obvious dodge reaction——Shao ​​Jie keenly captured Jiang Mo's fleeting panic, tilted his head to look at Officer Jiang's side face, and was about to ask in a low voice, but Jiang Mo steadied his footsteps again and took a picture of Shao Jie's face. Shoulder: "...Go out and wait for a while."

Sun Xiaofang was obviously quite dissatisfied with Jiang Mo's gesture of avoidance. He looked over Jiang Mo and looked at Shao Jie's back. The moment he opened his mouth to intercept, Jiang Mo interrupted him in a calm tone: "Officer Sun, can you tell me what you are asking first?" mean?"

"What do I mean? Is this the way you talk to your elders?" Sun Xiaofang has a staid and fiery temper. From the very beginning when there was no conflict and his front teeth were knocked out, he was at odds with Jiang Mo. The tone of the big and small was angry, and he suppressed his voice not to make any embarrassment in the realm of being dealt with by the police, "Forget it, I don't care about this with you today-do you know where this kid wandered here? He came all the way from the alley on the other side of the red building."

"I saw him when I was patrolling over the red building. I was consciously wandering around in the alleys where no one was haunted in the middle of the night. I just went upstairs and adjusted the surveillance. If it wasn't for the three junior high school students who stopped him , there was no camera at all to capture how he walked around from the Red House to the West Street South Road!" Sun Xiaofang grabbed his hair, seeing that Jiang Mo didn't react much except for a slight frown, he clenched his fists and shook for a long while, almost in a kind of reprimand Pointing at her nose with a gentle gesture: "What do you mean by asking me, I would like to ask what your idea is? How did you meet him? Why did he go to the vicinity of the crime scene—"

"The crime scene in the red building three years ago is now just an ordinary residential area." Jiang Mo stared at the finger that was almost on the tip of her nose, closed his eyes for two seconds, and looked back at Sun Xiaofang's angry and suspicious gaze, "Again Or, just now you have checked and confirmed his identity information. Three years ago, he was still a child with no hair. Do you have to doubt all the colleagues on duty? That’s right, that’s how you suspected me at the beginning—”

"Jiang Mo!"

When Sun Xiaofang heard this, it was as if a gunpowder keg had exploded, and his temper, which was barely suppressed, stepped on a spring and rushed to the sky.He reached out and grabbed Jiang Mo by the collar, his clenched arms were already in the air, and Zheng Sijun, who was behind the police station, leaped onto the stage and flew to hug him, holding his master tightly and shouting at Jiang Mo: "Jiang Mo!" Brother! If you don’t want to withdraw first, I will advise my master..."

The moment Jiang Mo was pulled by his collar, he seemed to be strangled by the throat, and he was suffocated for a moment before he came back to his senses.With complicated emotions, she tore off the wrinkled collar, turned around and walked a few steps in suspense before realizing that the soles of her feet were a little erratic and weak, and her eyes were mottled and white as if she couldn't breathe well, and she stared at the steps in front of the police station. But he stepped on the air as if he couldn't measure the depth, and at the moment of weightlessness, he slammed heavily into the arms of Shao Jie who was wandering in front of the door worriedly and awkwardly, and he breathed slowly.

The almost simultaneous heartbeats of the two seemed to hit Shao Jie's ears.

Shao Jie was a little dumbfounded, and it took a while to realize that the mighty police officer Jiang seemed to have no strength to struggle and push away from his arms.Shao Jie tentatively patted Jiang Mo's back, and hesitantly rolled his concerned words from his throat to his mouth. Just as he was about to say "um", he heard a "gurgling" sound that broke the current situation first. An intimate scene that looks intimate.

"...It's okay, it's just that I'm hungry and a little dizzy after eating the lunch at noon—"

Jiang Mo lowered his head and supported Shao Jie to stand still. He smiled angrily, rubbed his nose, and then looked up at him, "Did you eat meat at night? You look delicious." Officer Jiang obviously didn't want to hear Shao Jie's words. Jie asked with concern, and made a casual excuse, but always felt that the words sounded a bit awkward, cleared his throat and turned away, walked a few steps and then turned around, tilted his head and pointed in the direction: "Let's go, lead the way. "

"...Ah? Oh... yes, Yang Xiaoxiao avoided the monitoring route..."

Shao Jie's arm resting on Jiang Mo's shoulder was still there, panicked for a moment, reluctantly accepted Officer Jiang's resistance to the panic being detected, awkwardly raised his arm in mid-air and raked the hair on the back of his head , Xiao Suibu followed Jiang Mo less than half a meter away, picked up the topic that Jiang Mo had thrown on the ground, and echoed in a low voice, regardless of whether Jiang Mo could hear it: "The stewed yam and mutton stewed by the aunt in the dormitory will be eaten later. Here is an opportunity to show you a taste. Go this way."

In view of the fact that Yang Xiaoxiao was dragging her heavy body in the third trimester of pregnancy when she disappeared, whether she voluntarily escaped from the monitoring range or was kidnapped and dragged away, Yang Xiaoxiao actually did not have many options for "disappearance" to disappear out of thin air when she left Lixing West Street. route".

"There are no open parking spaces in the nearby neighborhoods. Unknown vehicles can't escape the surveillance. That means that people probably walked through the neighborhoods and disappeared after leaving the surveillance area." Yang Xiaoxiao lived That building is considered a middle-rise building, and you can go directly from the fire escape to the next-door unit, and walk through the community. Most of the roads in the residential area can avoid surveillance. In fact, as long as you pay attention to a few intersections, you can walk unimpeded. Here to the side door—"

Shao Jie stopped at the side gate of Lixing Nanfang, pointed at the buildings at the intersection of scissors ahead, and motioned Jiang Mo to pay attention to the direction of the surveillance camera: "What the surveillance can capture is the position of the driving gate, this small railway station that is open all year round The door should not be photographed. On both sides of the fork at the intersection of scissors, there are regular six-story residential buildings, but for some reason, there is no camera on the road leading to the bus stop... It seems that there is no camera to go out from here. Is it not within the jurisdiction of the Lixing Street Police Station?"

"There is a fence in the community, but the floor height is relatively low, and the old building has a semi-basement. At the time when the surveillance was installed, the uncle and aunt refused to let it go, saying that the camera could take pictures of the house, but then they gave up. The place is not far from the wholesale mall, so trivial The police stations in the two jurisdictions will take care of it, and they usually go on duty twice more." Jiang Mo confirmed the surveillance through Zheng Sijun, and replied after learning that the route of the two of them was indeed not captured. The gap in the news should catch up with the conversation.From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Shao Jie's inquisitive expression, and briefly explained: "I was an intern at this police station before I went to criminal investigation, otherwise how could I have made a grudge."

Shao Jie didn't expect Jiang Mo to explain directly to him without hesitation, he choked on his own saliva before he could speak, coughed for a long time and brought the topic back: "Anyway, my guess is that if Yang Xiaoxiao is kidnapped Because of the disappearance, this intersection is the most suitable key location for parking and transfer; if Yang Xiaoxiao leaves by himself, he can walk to the bus station along this road. It is just in the middle of two major intersections, and the road monitoring coverage is not complete But I didn't figure it out, if it was kidnapping, what was the plan? Was it money? Or..."

"The bar also came to look for Yang Xiaoxiao when she disappeared. Her lover just wanted to spend money to make her disappear. These two people are either confident, or they don't have the brains to keep a low profile—"

Jiang Mo thought about it quickly, and blurted out his thoughts for most of the time before he stopped abruptly.She wrinkled her nose in annoyance, glanced at Shao Jie meaningfully, cleared her throat and continued: "This girl has her own agenda, and I'm more inclined to leave Lixing Street by herself. But both To avoid monitoring, and try to avoid the time when the residents are active... Either in the middle of the night or early in the morning, but this bus station does not stop the night bus? If you take a taxi or online car-hailing-it is too easy to be transferred The car is recorded, and it is not convenient for her to drive her own car, if she needs to conceal her whereabouts..."

Under Jiang Mo's serious gaze, Shao Jie raised his palms and swore that he didn't hear anything. He clasped his hands in a polite manner and stood there for a moment. Then he said: "Then... just find someone who won't casually reveal her whereabouts to be her driver?"

"But the problem is, who can she turn to in such a situation?" Jiang Mo raised his eyelids and gave him a look, shivering with his coat pockets in his hands, "Let's go, let's go to the side of the bus station first."

Shao Jie, who was so tall and tall, was a bit slow to walk on a telegraph pole, and was "coerced" by Jiang Mo, who was about to run out of patience, to speed up and go straight to the bus station-Shao Da really lacked exercise. I looked around for a while, and then I went into a local 24-hour convenience store beside the road without looking back. My eyes fell on the monitoring screen with a limited range at the door, and I stared straight at the drowsy man on duty. The clerk showed his ID.

The clerk just took a nap, squinted his eyes to recognize the police badge on the certificate, and assisted in calling the indoor and outdoor surveillance in a daze. He yawned halfway, when he heard the female policeman who was checking the surveillance slammed down. On the countertop, she was so frightened that she burped, and most of her drowsiness disappeared in an instant.

Shao Jie held the Guandong cooking he just bought and moved to Jiang Mo in a hurry: "Found it?"

"He is really a person who can help her conceal her whereabouts." Jiang Mo said "tsk", "You are tight-lipped, Doctor Huang."