Daqing Criminal Division

【"I am in, 'circle'."】

This sentence was extremely mysterious, like the last call for help from the dark world to ordinary people, and for a moment the entire shocked council fell into a somewhat unusual commotion.

With the shaking of the paper window of the partial office, the atmosphere of people walking back and forth in the room became more and more dignified. Everyone inside quickly flipped through the files in their hands, and the voices of conversations with more than a dozen officials about the case came out one after another.

This important meeting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony is still going on today.

But about the mystery of the sudden one-off explosion of four cases in four different parts of the country at roughly the same point in time.

And how to use the existing personnel in the capital and timely rescue the publicly priced Dorogge has also become a top priority for everyone to discuss.

Because the household registration of the people was leaked and the kidnapping case more or less involved personal household registration, as well as issues such as the layout of city defenses in various links, so today it is not only the criminal department that is in charge of the case, but also someone who controls the capital and even the whole country.

The Ministry of Households, which has national household registration information, and the Ministry of Industry, who knows the overview of the projects in Shuntian Prefecture every year.

But among the three departments involved in today's discussion, if they really can control the overall situation, it is Na Sutu, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs who holds the power of the criminal department, as well as Costin and Nanjunji.

"People disappear from the polo field, I think it's time to thoroughly investigate the carriage and horse traffic."

"If there are Tibetans in the carriage, they will not be able to pass through the city gate of Jinshui Bridge. People just disappear out of thin air like this."

"In my opinion, it is necessary to determine whether it is human trafficking or deliberate extortion. How could this ordinary gangster have the ability to set up such a situation? It is incomprehensible, it is really incomprehensible!"

Among the officials of various ministries, there were different opinions, and there was no clear statement for a while. Regarding this, Fu Yu, who was dressed in a stone blue official uniform, and Duan Xiao, who was dressed in a dark blue official uniform, also sat below together, holding A wat board is holding his head and thinking about something.

Duan Xiao himself was sitting opposite Fu Yu.

The two turned their heads sideways, and faced a Nasu figure together.

The two of them were among the courtiers who were discussing a lot today, and they originally represented Nanjunji and Haidongqing respectively.

All the other people sitting in a circle representing all parties and discussing the case in private are waiting for who among these two people will take the initiative to speak up.

Including, that Master Nasutu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

At this moment, in the eyes of this old man with his shoulders back resting on the grand teacher's chair and who has high qualifications in the six departments, but now also looks very irritable and conflicted.

Fu Yu and Duan Xiao, two young people who couldn't be younger, are really hard to be elegant.

One was notorious many years ago, and Bao Buqi resorted to some crooked ways to get back to this position. The other is a son of a well-known Xungui family in Beijing. He has never heard of any ability before. Came here to fool around.

Letting them meddle in this matter is nothing more than letting Nanjunji and Haidongqing share power and delay the progress of the case. Nasutu, who has a deep-rooted prejudice in his heart, does not want to trust these two.

I don't even want these two people to climb on my head and point fingers at will.

This also led to the fact that before this, the four cases were always on the side of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. No matter how other parties asked for clues, the Ministry of Criminal Justice did not respond, so Nan Junji and Haidongqing were not able to intervene in time. Roger's disappearance.

"If you don't give it, you just don't want to give it."

"To investigate, the Ministry of Punishment needs to investigate in person."

This was said by Nasutu, who was mixed with personal emotions at the time.

However, this xenophobic move by the Ministry of Criminal Justice failed to wait for the news that Heyuan Gege had been found. Instead, it waited for this weird distress letter that changed the nature of the case in an instant, making the situation worse all of a sudden.

But Nasutu still didn't feel that he was acting arbitrarily.

He only felt that this was a matter within their criminal department, and that he had been deliberately ignoring the active investigations of the two sides, and there was nothing wrong with it, because this time, no matter who came to the Tongtiansou's case, it would be difficult to resist.

"Duan Junji, all directions."

Thinking of this, Na Sutu had no choice but to take the initiative to call out to these two people in a very unkind tone in spite of his own face as a veteran.

He originally thought that no matter what, he could not let the two juniors lose in momentum, and he also warned them not to get in the way of the case, but when the words fell, there was a weird silence on the other side.

"..."

I don't know if it was a deliberate appointment in advance. When a certain two people appeared like this today, they ignored him together, which made the other officials around look strangely sideways.

Nasutu, who looked puzzled, didn't know what it meant.

Thinking that the two of them didn't hear it, they yelled a few times with a cold face and angrily, but no one paid any attention to it.

However, the two of them were bowing their heads and flipping through a dozen case-related files quickly, and none of them took the initiative to speak for a long time, as if a pair of ears were completely deaf.

Among them, Fu Yu saw a little faster.

Because as soon as it came up, his hand directly skipped the details of the case described above, and turned to the issue of the severed finger that he cared most about.

This is what Fu Yu personally cared about most, as he tapped his finger with a black fingertip, and then lightly landed on the file in front of him, sliding down with the handwriting.

This dropped severed finger is an important reason why all the people in the court can sit here and discuss why Dorogege appeared in Tongtiansou to be sold and planned to rescue him.

Whose severed finger is this?

Is it Heyuan Gege's own?

Was it chopped off by gangsters, or was it caused by some other mysterious reason? Fu Yu wanted to figure it out.

On the top was written the origin of half of the severed finger, its approximate length, the blood coagulation state of the superficial wound, and a general official description of how the piece of paper was found glued to the flag shoe.

According to the injury examination file given by the Ministry of Punishment, the severed finger was about an inch long.

The cut time, and the color of the blood.

It was about six to eight hours after this King Dorogge, the only remaining flag shoe in the canal was maliciously burned, but if some clothes fragments can be found, it means that Heyuan was originally All clothing and accessories were destroyed after being taken away.

Judging from the growth of the joints of the human body, the length of the nails, and the color difference at the edges, it should be a young woman between fifteen and fifteen.

This is very consistent with the situation of the missing Dorogge.

As we all know, due to their noble backgrounds, most of the women in the royal family in Beijing will have long nails before leaving the court. Such nails are easy to break in daily life, so some noble women will wear armor.

The armor is generally made of precious metals. If you want to take it off after wearing it, you have to be carefully assisted by the daily attendants. This results in long-term wearing, and it is bound to cause skin color difference if you don't take it off often.

Coincidentally, Duan Owl, who propped his head up, was sitting on the northeast side, facing the outer window.

One hand raised slightly towards the light of the window also held a printed rubbing, and everyone had a picture scroll of the victim.

On the black and white picture scroll where the victim was alone so his face was a bit pale.

It is Heyuan Gege's appearance and facial features, the clothes and decorations that were witnessed on the day of his disappearance, and the exact location of the polo field in Dabaoen Temple on the map of the capital.

From Duan Xiao, who has seen countless dead people, so that he has rich experience, so there will always be some special people from the perspective of observing ordinary people.

This 17-year-old Heyuan Gege has a typical appearance of a full girl, with a square face, full cheeks, somewhat high cheekbones, and red phoenix eyes with slender eyes.

On the day she went to the polo field with her children at home, her lips were painted with the half-lip makeup of a court woman, but it can be seen that she has a congenital underbite on her jawbone, which is a slight deformity of the development of teeth. There are three pierced earlobes on each earlobe for jewelry, which are only a month old.

Three pierced ears and a slight underbite on the lower jaw, this appearance still has distinct and recognizable distinctive features.

If Heyuan Gege just fell into a general human trafficking gang, these two points alone would not be able to deal with it at all, which also made this Dorogege himself not a regular person who would be mistaken or easily kidnapped.

The two of them stared at the case files in their hands and quickly came up with ideas for the first time. For a while, some key ideas converged in one place, but before the two of them had time to speak, there was already a record in front of them. The sound of slapping the table interrupted the two people's thoughts.

"Snapped!"

"Duan Junji! Bafang Erji!"

It turned out that Mr. Sutu, who was so old, stared at him and tried to make trouble over and over again, but no one answered him.

As a last resort, Sutu paused, confused by the soft nail, blushing, and called out to those two people at the top of his voice.

But just when this matter made everyone a little bit unable to get off the stage, Fu Yu, the bastard, seemed to be angry with Su Tu who had just seen the opposite, put his finger on the desk and raised his head to say something .

"Oh, I'm sorry, what's the matter with Mr. Sutu?"

"What do you think! Bafang Erji, is this the way your Fucha family treats others? This is a public discussion. Could it be that you deliberately ignored me!"

"Ignore it, of course I just don't want to. If I want to, I've already taken the initiative to talk to Mr. Sutu just now."

"You, what do you mean? You bastard! Your Ama was never as arrogant as you were back then!"

If it is said that it will irritate people, Fu Yu can be called the first, and the other one who can be regarded as the number is probably only a certain surname.

But today, Duan, who has always been good at making up swords, was not absent as expected. Instead, he raised his eyes and added a sentence.

"I'm sorry, I really didn't hear it. It may be that Mr. Sutu is over [-] years old this year. He is too old and lacks breath, so that's why."

"Duan, Duan Yuheng! You—"

All of this is just as if the Ministry of Criminal Justice ignored both of them life and death before.

He really carried out vengeance, cunning, and narrow-mindedness to ten percent, and Su Tu was so pissed off by these two young but well-spoken bastards that he almost jumped up and cursed.

But it was a dumb loss to be turned against the general, so under the forceful dissuasion of his colleagues on both sides saying "big things are important, big things are important", that Su Tu fell down on the chair with a bare head and a white face, panting hard After taking two breaths, he opened his mouth again,

"Okay, okay, Nanjunji and Haidongqing are really good at lip service."

"...Then I have to ask personally, Duan Junji, and Bafang Erji, you two have finished reading, do you have anything to say about the case?"

These words finally revealed the serious matter in front of him.

The whole council is waiting to see these two people take the initiative to take the initiative to take over the "mess" of the Criminal Department, and everyone is also waiting to stir up this situation in the next public discussion.

But at the moment, in order to catch up with the clue that the servant said earlier, he glanced at Duan Xiao and saw that he and himself looked at each other, Fu Yu also looked away, stood up and walked forward to say something.

"Have."

"What's your opinion?"

Nasutu asked mockingly.

Just like what Nasutu said, Fu Yuta Ama was far from his character back then.

But who told Fu Yu that his style has always been like this, and he has a similar taste to Duan.

Or, in other words, he is a person who can compare with Duan Xiao who is more arrogant and bold in acting.

From the beginning, the two of them have a certain commonality of thinking and ideas, and they can grasp the clues of ordinary people to guess a way that is not easy to be discovered.

In order for everyone to intuitively understand the clues and connections between these four cases, Fu Yu stepped forward and raised an arm, with his back to everyone, and then only quickly scratched on the blank partition in the middle. A few strokes were written, and two servants replaced the scroll with a new one for people to communicate the clues of the case.

These "clues" like white connected spider webs are connected together by a pair of hands under the leadership of unknown thoughts and ideas.

Duan Xiao sat down and watched without making a sound, but when the fine 'spider webs' produced by his subordinates stopped, what caught everyone's eyes was a criminal web like a spider web. relation chart.

[Five pigs → Tongtian old man]

【→Shuncheon case】

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【Songyang case→Tongtian old man】

【→ Chuzhou case】

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【Tongtiansou→Taiping case】

【→Lin'an case】

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【Jiangning Case→Tongtiansou】

【→Shuncheon case】

This web of relationships, like a spider's web, roughly allows people to see the connection of clues between several key old cases of the Five Pigs in various prefectures in the past year.

But it is strange to say that in every case, Fu Yu uses "Tongtiansou" as the index of the incident, just like "Tongtiansou" is a spider's thread, each case itself is independent, but because With the existence of 'spider silk', everything will be connected together logically.

It was also when he withdrew his hand bluntly that someone standing in front of the crowd pointed to every clue on the head neatly, and said another nonsense without wanting to say anything.

"Hangzhou case, Jiangning case, Songyang case, the fundamental source of the three cases is actually the leakage of a person's identity and household registration information."

"Hangzhou common people's homes will receive notices delivered by unknown persons for no reason. The common people in Jiangning whose house was leaked, and the case of the man in Tiandu, Songyang, broke out at this point in time. It is most directly related to the disappearance of Heyuan Gege. , lies in the leakage of personal information.”

"...The household registration information of the people, leaked?"

"Yes, one of the six departments of the imperial court, the household department, helps to manage all the household registrations of each clan, official and common people after they are born, the records of becoming an official with fame, going to prison and doing business. This network connects the entire court. , like a 'clear net'."

"But after the 'Clear Web', there is a force that quietly formed a 'Dark Web' like a group of spiders without anyone noticing."

Fu Yu's eyes are full of heroism, and there is a strong sense of impact on the whole face. When he releases the often restrained light in those eyes that have been silent for too many years at once, there is a sharpness of the whole person. Unstoppable feeling.

At this moment, Duan Xiao, who was sitting and standing face to face with him, could see clearly in his eyes, but he also listened to Fu Yu's next words in his ears.

"Then there is only one possibility. Heyuan Gege's information was sold by another 'dark net' that also exists."

"That's why she disappeared indirectly."

"She has disappeared in the 'clear web' that all of us are in, but she is waiting in the 'dark web' for someone to see through the spider web of the 'Tiantianshou' to truly rescue her."

With this appalling statement, the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony meeting fell silent.

All the people who looked at each other found it unbelievable, but when the four cases were linked together, not only Nasutu found it unbelievable, but everyone also found it extremely bizarre, and the problem came.

'Tongtiansou', according to what the court currently has, that is, the horror picture scroll portrait cut from the dark net world, is the evidence of the existence of this world.

But the so-called 'dark web' under the control of 'Tongtiansou'.

What exactly is it, and where exactly is it is also incredible. If someone who doesn't know it sounds a little confusing.

Because what is the dark net, from the perspective of ordinary people who get up early every day, it is difficult to believe that it is something that really exists in the capital.

"Then, I dare to ask Duan Junji and Bafang Erji, what is the 'dark net'?"

"Is it a private way for the group of 'spiders' to communicate? Or is it a place with a hidden hole?"

In response to this, the servant of the household department sitting at the bottom was also facing Duan Xiao and Fu Yu's remarks at the meeting of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and asked everyone such a question with shock and hesitation on his face.

But this time, it was Duan Xiao who took the initiative to answer the question.

"It is said in ancient times that spiders are good at weaving webs."

"Net is a tool for people to catch butterflies, birds, and fish."

"It is also the earliest inspiration that ancient people got from insects like spiders. A dense web that can only be found in the dark is the dark web. It was originally defined by various unofficial histories from the previous dynasty. , from the Song Dynasty."

"The biggest strange case in the Song Dynasty originated from a 40-year-old Wuyou Cave, which was the Song Dynasty's mocking name for the Jingshi Ditch.

"In the Notes of Laoxue'an written by the poet Lu You, there was such an old case record, saying that the ditches in Bianjing City at that time were extremely deep and wide, and many refugees hid in them. They called themselves Wuyou Cave, and even stole women. It’s called the Ghost Fan Tower.”

"This statement, which still sounds unbelievable now, is because there were two places called Fanlou in Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, according to real historical records."

"One of them is called Dafan Tower, which is a brothel that is openly run by all the people of the Song Dynasty, and the other is in the unknown lower world in Beijing, which is called human trafficking, for the pleasure of desperadoes. I can’t find it, Ghost Fanlou.”

"The ghost fan building, which was operated underground in the capital from the Bianjing period, was not found by the government until the middle and late Song Dynasty."

"And this is the source of the 'dark net' world that we can capture for the first time from various historical events in the previous dynasty, because the 'dark net' has always existed since the Song Dynasty, and it is closely related to the 'ming net' opposite."

"And this is the legendary 'dark net' world that ordinary people can't even see in their lifetime."

"—!"

This conclusion, I'm afraid it really broke through the imagination of ordinary people.

"...Fucha Fu Yu, Duan Yuheng, you have said so much, but there is no evidence. If there is such a 'dark net', why has no one known about it before, and no one has seen it? This is a matter of great importance. No matter how convincing you are with one or two sentences, if you look around, there are still people in the Six Departments who are more qualified than you."

Among the six parts, Na Sutu, an old official with gray sideburns and a short gray beard who was sitting in front of the side hall to participate in the discussion, snorted sarcastically, then slammed the table and questioned loudly in public.

"Yes."

Duan Xiao didn't agree when he heard this, and then he raised his eyes to meet the doubts and speculations of the people around him and someone, and replied.

"But everything needs to have laws to follow and act according to the law."

"Let me just ask, what is behind Tongtianshou, if it is always there, what will it bring to the people of Jiangshan, do you adults know?"

"In this world, there is not only the prosperous and prosperous Shuntian Mansion, there are many mansions, fields, villages, juzi, merchants, weaving girls, and old women selling noodles in farther places. There are people who kill their close friends and hide them in stone statues of Bodhisattvas for money. There are also people who kill four daughters just to satisfy the evil desire in their hearts. They lose their means of livelihood due to changes in the court and can only hide in other people's homes in an attempt to occupy the magpie. Nest people also exist."

"The life and death of good and evil in the world all exist in the lives of the people."

"Everyone, have you ever seen people who really died on the street because of starvation? Or were they used as white ducks and sent to prison to change lives just because of one or two taels of silver? In the end, the unjustified corpses are all ordinary people. When they died, they were beyond recognition, and when they were buried, they turned into a pile of loess."

"In the end, who and when will they come to avenge them."

"Being born in this mountain and river, as a human being, can I get the minimum right to live?"

"Is it a country? Is it a home?"

"Is it the king? Or are you adults who have received the salary of the country, but are fascinated by the prosperity of Shuntian Mansion that has been destroyed once?"

"Parent officials, officials should be the knives and sheaths of the country, and the parents of the common people, but the world is too big, and there are too many crimes that we can't touch. As time goes by, the dreams of the past, the hearts of the people Aspirations, but also become a pool of stagnant water."

These words are harsh, but they are also resounding in the discussions of these six departments.

And up to this point, Duan Xiao obviously has something to add to this, because right after Fu Yu finished saying this, he also stood up immediately, and said in front of the others,

"This severed finger was not left by the gangsters' threats, but by He Yuan himself."

This statement was a bit jaw-dropping, no one dared to think how a weak woman like He Yuan would cut off her finger when she was about to be taken away.

"Then...why did Heyuan Gege keep this finger when he was kidnapped?"

"Everyone may wish to take another look at the wound on the victim's severed finger."

Duan Xiao said so, but he didn't care about the questioning of other officials in the meeting, so he said again,

"Then, let's look at the section of the severed finger that is cut obliquely toward the nail cover."

"It can be seen that when the finger was forcibly severed by external force, the sharp weapon should have hit the victim from the front. If an ordinary person held Heyuan Gege's hand from the side, even if she was subdued at that time, she would still die of severe pain. The wound surface was distorted and irregular, but the wound was very neat, so there was only one possibility, she realized that she was about to face a catastrophe, so she gritted her teeth and grabbed something, and then left the finger with the other hand."

"Armor set."

"This should also be the tool she used to cut off her own finger."

"This resulted in only one possibility for this matter. Heyuan Gege took off the nail cover and cut off a finger, sending out the last sliver of help to everyone after disappearing in the dark net world."

"She knows that the other party knows everything about her, and she has no way to escape, so she puts all her eggs in one basket, hoping that someone will pass through this 'circle' and go to that place to save her."

"This pool of stagnant water."

"There's always someone to break."

"I, Duan Yuheng, would like to be No.1 here."

After Duan Xiao finished speaking, he leaned against the back of the lacquered red wooden chair behind him. His eyes were like stars against the black fur on his collar. looking at each other.

But Fu Yu and Duan Xiao didn't stop here. Instead, facing everyone's gaze, they directly pursued the victory and added another sentence.

"Fifteen days, with Shuntian Mansion as the center of the four cases."

"Based on the time limit of the 'comparison', Nanjunji and Haidongqing will, first, unravel why the Hangzhou government has a large-scale civilian information leakage case raised by the household department."

"Second, solve the information leakage case of one person and his family in Jiangning Mansion."

"Three, solve the mystery of why men in Tiandu, Songyang sell information and force women to commit suicide."

"Fourth, the most important thing is to rescue this Duoluogege according to the mysterious circular call for help and ensure that she must still be alive in the world."

"..."

fifteen days.

This is how Fu Yu and Duan Xiao personally handed over a "comparison" limit to the six parts.

Whether it can be solved depends on their respective abilities.

"Bafang Erji, are you willing to fight?"

"it is good."

"Then I would like to ask Mr. Duan to teach you a lot."

The author has something to say: the historical record of the person who lived in the sewers in the Song Dynasty and the crime of abducting and trafficking people is true. It was said by Lu You himself. You can go and find out what is Wuyoudong.

The dark web that appears here is not a dark web that actually has computers that can access the Internet in our modern times, but it is a non-physical analogy, which is equivalent to a huge criminal network. This is also the same as why the spider was called a spider in the first place.

Speaking of which, I originally expected that there would be less than five chapters after finishing this chapter, and I had to add two more chapters to explain some things when I was writing the outline in the middle of the night. It was all because of the two stinky men, Old Duan and Lao Cha, who made me want to clean up this mess sooner. Come on, hurry up and start being lazy and scratching your feet...