“Captain, I’ll access the 110 alarm platform and check again to see if any calls came in but were not reported to the local police station. Because once a police call is received, the police are bound to attend, and I suspect they’re holding back at the alarm call level.”
“Is that possible?”
“It’s not possible under normal circumstances unless ……”
Monk didn’t finish his sentence, but I knew exactly what he was going to say next, unless someone had the means to hack the platform at the key.
“Check it out.” I said.
I sat in the garden, anxious inside, Ningcheng was nothing like Tongcheng.
The evils in Tongcheng were all floating on the surface, but the ones in Ningcheng were hidden deep down, not visible on the surface, but in fact there were dark currents underneath.
Many things seem to be scattered, but in fact they are inextricably linked, with an invisible giant hand manipulating everything in the shadows.
“Captain, we’ve found it. There are seven phone recordings that have been deleted, and normally such recordings can’t be deleted.”
“Lustful. Was it artificial or did someone hack into the system?”
“It should be artificial, there’s nothing wrong with the system.” Meng Meng said, “Because it’s the first day of the New Year and there are fewer duty officers, all these calls were received by the same person.”
I said, “Confirm if this is the only person on duty at the platform today, and if someone in the system has also tampered with it.”
“They don’t have the guts to tamper with the system, I’ll check it out.”
The sound of snapping and tapping on the keyboard came from the other end of the phone, after another moment, Meng Meng was shocked and said, “Captain, let you guess right, all the calls coming in from the Thoughtless Mountain area today will be received by the same person, they have planted a very small Trojan horse program in the system, if you didn’t go looking for it, it would be hard to find it.”
I covered my forehead with mixed emotions.
What the hell was Jiang Ming up to.
Meng Meng asked, “Captain, should we reflect this to the leaders of Ningcheng?”
“Don’t, don’t tell anyone yet, can you remove this Trojan horse without any detection?”
“In theory you can, but if they get someone to test it every day, it will soon be discovered.”
“Then you keep it for now.” I said.
Monk said, “Captain, it seems that someone is targeting the Thousand Gates.”
I let out a long sigh, “It’s more than targeting, it’s just riding the face. Alright, I already know, you be careful not to let anyone know that we found this out. Then, you help me find out about a person called Yun Dye.”
“Captain, I have something just in time to tell you.”
“Hmm?”
“I’ve tracked down Lin Fang’s whereabouts.”
Lin Fang, my heart thumped, the name hadn’t been mentioned for so long that I would have forgotten about it if Mon Mon hadn’t said it.
“Keep an eye on her.”
“No, Captain, I used the database to scan Lin Fang’s face yesterday and found that she had appeared once on Fengqi Street in Ningcheng. And, judging from the surveillance, she was following you.”
I chuckled lowly, “That’s interesting, and then what?”
“There’s only this very short piece of footage, the rest is gone. Do you think it could be that she’s showing her face on purpose to tempt us to check her out?”
I couldn’t rule out that possibility, Lin Fang had always wanted to meet me in private, she had a lot of leverage in her hands and wanted to use those in exchange for her brother.
But her brother’s case was about to be adjudicated, intentional homicide, a non-negotiable death, so what was the point of her looking for me?
I laughed, “You give me the address of the camera where she shows her face.”
“Captain, you’re going to look for her?”
“We’ll see. This woman is really undying, I was so nice to her and she treated me like a fool, now I’m too lazy to bother with her and she has to fall back on me, what’s the picture.”
“Captain, when are you coming back? The gun trafficking case is stuck, there’s no progress at all. That shipment of guns arrived in Inner Mongolia and then it didn’t move, we don’t have anything to check now, everyone is at a standstill.”
“In that case, then let’s stop investigating the ones that are, everyone take a two-day break.”
“Captain?”
I laughed, “Just in time to give you all a year off, listen to me, don’t investigate that Inner Mongolia gun, don’t tell anyone, just secretly contact the Inner Mongolia police and seize the penny.”
“You think that’s a front?”
“How far is our city of Tong from Inner Mongolia, and it’s usually shipped south or west, but this gun is shipped north, is it on a national tour? We’re letting people wiggle a bit. Take an annual holiday, it looks like this is not a simple case, the old man wants us to make it quick, I’m afraid it won’t work.”
“Yes, Captain! Captain, one more piece of news, Arashi was almost killed again yesterday, someone pulled his ventilator, luckily Zhao Zichen had instructed the doctor to keep an eye on Arashi and saved him.”
“How long has this been going on and someone still has to have Arashi dead, it looks like Arashi knows something pretty damning.” I said, “Contact the chief and transfer Arashi to the military hospital, I’ll see what other bullies and snakes can have the power to get into the military area and kill people.”
“Yes!”
When I hung up the phone, Xiao Gong was in the room again, urging me to go to dinner.
I stood up and turned around and was startled by a woman’s face behind me.
Her eyes were swollen and red, from crying, her face was covered in tears and she was white from crying.
“Holy sh*t, a female ghost, Yiyi Wu! What’s wrong with you, you’re standing behind me and scaring me.”
Wu Yi Yi sobbed, then laughed again, and after laughing for a while, she actually cried again, like a psycho.
“Zhang Chao, I’ve heard your secret, you’re having an affair with a woman! You can’t get away with it this time, I have the recording.”
She cried triumphantly as she shook the phone in her hand.
I looked at the distorted grass next to me and said, “Did you just squat there and cry?”
Wu Yi Yi froze, “It’s none of your business.”
“Your brother is looking for you, he wants to apologise to you, come back with me quickly.”
“I got your recording, hey, aren’t you scared?”
I cried and laughed, “I’m scared to death, let’s go, wash your face and go back for dinner.”
No sooner had I finished my sentence than my ear bones twitched uncontrollably and I subconsciously looked up in the direction from which the sense of danger was coming.
A cold, glowing arrow was pointing at us from a distance.
“Watch out!” I snapped and threw Yiyi Wu down.
