Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 55 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (14)
"This video was secretly filmed by police anti-narcotics officers when they were tracking drug dealers' transactions, but the person who filmed it... During the police's investigation of this drug trafficking group, three police officers have died strangely, so our special criminal investigation team got involved. , I didn’t expect our scouts to disappear too.” Sun Yaoming sighed after finishing speaking.

"Team leader, print out the screen shot of that old lady just now." Yan Yongjie said anxiously.

"What did you think of?" Sun Yaoming asked curiously, and hurriedly brought up the screen to print again.

"It's nothing, but I heard from Zhou Tong that he once met an old woman from the Miao family, and this old woman had a close relationship with the deceased Chen Xiang, but I don't know if it is the same person as the old woman in this video. Zhou Tong has a look, it might help the case." After Yan Yongjie finished speaking, she eagerly took down the picture from the printer.

"If the old woman mentioned by Zhou Tong is the same person as the person in the video, it means that Zhou Tong's case has an unusual connection with the case of the drug cartel. It seems that things are getting more and more complicated. You should be careful!" Sun Yaoming exhorted with some worry.

Yan Yongjie nodded and said, "Team leader, I'm going to find Zhou Tong right away. If I have a clue, I will contact you immediately! In addition, there is one more thing. I'm afraid I need to ask the team leader to help me investigate."

Yan Yongjie took out a miniature tape recorder and handed it to Sun Yaoming.

"This is a machine that Zhou Tong found in the jungle. It seems that someone deliberately left it for him. There are some strange recordings in it. I hope the team leader can take it to the forensic room for analysis and see if we can find some clues."

"Well, I will contact you as soon as I have any news." Sun Yaoming carefully put away the miniature tape recorder.

"By the way, here are some materials that you want the criminal investigation team to help you investigate, let's see if I can help you." After speaking, Sun Yaoming took out a file bag from the drawer and handed it to Yan Yongjie.

Yan Yongjie couldn't wait to open the file and read it.

"Great, I finally found a clue!" Yan Yongjie finally showed a long-lost smile after reading the information.

In the jungle under the night, the fog was getting thicker and thicker. Zhou Tong and his party stopped, barely cleared a place in the limited space, and lit a bonfire.

Zhou Tong, Li Ying, Jin Dan, Xuan Jingyi and Wang Ke sat together, but no one spoke, as if everyone was preoccupied, only the jumping fire from time to time made a "crackling" sound when burning the branches .

"Do you really know where Ai Chen is?" Li Ying finally couldn't bear it anymore and pushed Zhou Tong.

When the others heard the words, they also shifted their gazes to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong didn't say anything, just fiddled with the bonfire with a thick branch, turning a deaf ear to Li Ying's question.

What Li Ying hated the most was Zhou Tong's indifferent attitude. When her young lady got angry, she didn't care about it. Her thumb and forefinger mercilessly pinched Zhou Tong's thick buttocks.

Zhou Tong couldn't pretend to be deep now, she let out a scream, and then jumped up with her hands on her buttocks.

The others couldn't help but laugh too, the originally tense atmosphere suddenly became relaxed.

"You...you...you..." Zhou Tong couldn't laugh or cry, she could only point at Li Ying, but was speechless for a long time.

"What are you! I asked you something. You are deaf and insist on forcing me to do it!" Li Ying clapped her hands triumphantly, and then stood up.

"Forget it, I'm afraid of you!" Zhou Tong rubbed his buttocks with one hand, and took out the piece of paper that Xuan Jingyi gave him with the other.

Li Ying, Jin Dan, Xuan Jingyi and Wang Ke all immediately surrounded them by coincidence.

"See what's coming?" Zhou Tong asked with a puckered smile.

The four looked at the piece of paper, looked at each other again, and shook their heads together.

"Was it too light just now?"

Li Ying patted Zhou Tong's butt lightly, and Zhou Tong shivered all over.

"Don't worry, don't worry! I'll show you something again!" Zhou Tong quickly took out another photo from his pocket, but he showed everyone the back of the photo.

On the back of the photo was written the same handwriting as on the note:

Pigs eat piglets
Ducks eat duck eggs.

"Isn't this just the two lines written on the piece of paper!" Li Ying really couldn't see any tricks.

"Not only are the characters the same, but the handwriting, size, and even the distance between them are exactly the same!" After all, Jin Dan is a criminal policeman, so he can see the mystery at a glance.

"That's right! That's right!" Zhou Tong patted Jin Dan on the shoulder with an expression of appreciation.

Jin Dan avoids Zhou Tong's hand, with displeasure on his face.

Zhou Tong didn't care either, holding a photo in one hand and a piece of paper in the other, and placed them in front of everyone at the same time.

"What is the special meaning of this sentence?" Xuan Jingyi who had been silent all this time asked suddenly.

"I think it's a bit of a mess. Pigs eat piglets, ducks eat duck eggs, it's just nonsense!" Wang Ke couldn't see why, so he couldn't help cursing.

Jin Dan on the side also frowned, lost in thought.

"Don't be a fool!" Li Ying urged.

Zhou Tong glanced at Li Ying, then smiled bitterly and said, "I was puzzled by this sentence at first, but when Xiao Jing gave me this piece of paper, it stimulated my memory and made me I vaguely remembered where I saw such a similar picture, but the picture I saw seemed to be somewhat different from the one on the piece of paper, but now I finally figured out where the difference lies."

After finishing speaking, Zhou Tong superimposed the patterns on the paper on the back of the photo with words, and then adjusted it slightly. Through the firelight, the words and patterns were cleverly connected together to form a map with interlaced lines. There is a scimitar symbol and an arrow pointing to the left in the lower right corner of , and a cross mark in the upper left corner, which should be the destination.

"It's so amazing, you can think of all this, the old man is completely convinced!" Wang Ke sighed to himself.

"What's the big deal, this picture is messed up, how can I understand it, and can it help us find Ai Chen?" Li Ying said dismissively.

Jin Dan also nodded in agreement. Although this map looks like a map, it has no coordinates, let alone latitude and longitude. It is basically impossible to find people based on the terrain on the map.

However, Xuan Jingyi looked extremely excited.

Zhou Tong seemed to have expected it a long time ago, looked at Xuan Jingyi and said with a smile: "We can't understand this picture, but you must understand it?"

Xuan Jingyi looked at the map against the firelight, with a strange expression on her face, she slowly stretched out her hand, then flicked up a finger, pointed at the mark of the scimitar, and said slowly: "Here , this is the Daqing Miao Village that was destroyed by the fire!"

Chapter 16 Poison Arrow
It was difficult to walk in the jungle under the night, Yan Yongjie held a flashlight in one hand and GPS search equipment in the other, and struggled to find Zhou Tong and the others.

But in this peculiar jungle, the GPS could not find any signal, and the flickering screen never showed any bright spots.

Yan Yongjie had no choice but to stop and search for someone in the dark jungle, which was really irrational.

Due to the rush of returning, she hardly brought any camping equipment, so she found a slightly dry tree and set up a bonfire.At the end of the day, Yan Yongjie was indeed very tired, so she leaned against the tree and dozed off without knowing it.

She didn't know how long she fell asleep, but Yan Yongjie suddenly heard some strange sounds in a daze, she immediately woke up with a start, and looked around vigilantly.

The bonfire was almost extinguished, and the red flame was getting dimmer, and occasionally a flame or two would jump out.

Yan Yongjie held her breath, and her hearing gradually became clear. There was nowhere to hide the strange voice, and it all penetrated into her ears.

"woo woo woo woo……"

Crying, crying intermittently, the cry of a woman, like the rain that sneaks into the night with the wind, beating on Yan Yongjie's ear drop by drop.

Yan Yongjie's body couldn't help shaking slightly, in such a night, in such a place, a woman's cry, an inexplicable fear arises spontaneously.

She clenched her fist nervously, and then picked up the flashlight beside her.

The flashlight emitted a white light, and as she shook her hand back and forth, she eagerly searched for the source of the crying.

Yan Yongjie tore apart the branches in front of her, jumped over the ancient tree trunk that had collapsed on the ground, and quickly approached the direction where the crying sound came from.

The voice became clearer and clearer, and Yan Yongjie's footsteps became slower and slower. She slowly pulled out her own gun from her waist.

Although the cry was just a few meters ahead, the light of the flashlight didn't have much effect in the dense forest.Yan Yongjie held the flashlight backwards in her left hand and held the gun in her right hand, trying her best to lightly step on the thick moss with her feet, passing through layers of tangled trees.

Yan Yongjie finally stopped, and the light of the flashlight penetrated the darkness without hindrance, shining on a delicate figure.

The strong light stopped the crying abruptly.

The delicate back slowly turned around.

Yan Yongjie raised the angle of the flashlight slightly, and tightened her finger on the trigger.

However, a familiar face appeared in front of her eyes.

"Li Ying!" Yan Yongjie cried out.

"Sister Yongjie, Sister Yongjie!" Li Ying couldn't believe her ears. When she found out that it was Yan Yongjie who came, she immediately cried and hugged Yan Yongjie.

Yan Yongjie also hugged Li Ying tightly, and hurriedly asked: "What happened? What about them? Where's Zhou Tong?"

"Old Wang is dying, the others are gone, and I don't know what happened..." Li Ying pointed at the place where she was standing just now and started crying again.

Yan Yongjie quickly shined a flashlight on it, and she saw Wang Ke lying on the ground covered in blood.She immediately ran forward, picked up Wang Ke, and checked the injury.

"Sister Yongjie, is Elder Wang still alive?" Li Ying looked at Yan Yongjie anxiously.

"Don't worry, he was just knocked out." Yan Yongjie said as she tore off her sleeves and bandaged Wang Ke's head.

"What happened here?" Yan Yongjie looked at Li Ying and asked after confirming that Wang Ke was fine.

Seeing Yan Yongjie, Li Ying's mood has stabilized a lot, and she is not as flustered as before. She shook her head and said, "I really don't know what happened. When I woke up, everyone was gone. I hurriedly looked for them , but I didn’t go far and found that Mr. Wang was lying on the ground with blood on his face, but he couldn’t see anyone else, so I started to cry when I got scared.”

"Then before you go to bed? And how did that girl named Xiao Jing come here? Did she say anything?" Yan Yongjie was anxious, and her tone was unavoidably hasty.

"Sister Yongjie, you must save Zhou Tong. I always feel that this time... this time... is different from before." Li Ying said with tears falling from her eyes.

"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to him!" Yan Yongjie said while holding Li Ying's hand tightly.

Li Ying wiped away her tears, nodded trustingly, and then told Yan Yongjie everything about what Xuan Jingyi said and Zhou Tong's discovery of the map.

Li Ying spoke eloquently, while Yan Yongjie sat beside her and listened quietly without saying a word.

"Everyone decided to set off early tomorrow morning and follow the map to find Ai Chen, but they didn't expect such a situation to happen in the middle of the night." After Li Ying finished speaking, she grabbed the innocent tree branch beside her and fiercely folded it in two. .

"Do you still remember the path drawn on the map?" Yan Yongjie finally asked.

Li Ying shook her head in frustration.

"It seems that the only way to find out the reason is from here!" Yan Yongjie said after pondering for a moment.

"Where?" Li Ying was puzzled.

Yan Yongjie pointed to Wang Ke who was still lying unconscious on the ground.

an hour ago...

Zhou Tong was lying on the ground, wrapped up in a ball, and the damp and cold air in the jungle at night made him sleepless.Li Ying, who was lying next to him, was already snoring lightly and regularly, and Xuan Jingyi, who was above him, seemed to be fast asleep, while Jin Dan, who was below her, had her back turned to her, and Wang Ke, who was sleeping across the campfire, was on the opposite side. But they couldn't see clearly, and they didn't know if they also slept peacefully.Zhou Tong suddenly felt a little funny, how did such a group of people get together.But when he thought of the current situation, he had to put away his smile. He felt a strong uneasiness. Was he getting closer to the truth, or closer to danger?Until now, I don't even know what the purpose of the black hand behind all this is.Thinking of this, he, who was always optimistic, couldn't help but sighed deeply.

However, at this moment, Wang Ke on the opposite side moved his body, then stood up, looked around where other people were sleeping, and then walked into the jungle.Zhou Tong thought it was "convenient" for him to get up, so she still buried her head and lay silent.However, as soon as Wang Ke left, Jin Dan turned over and got up gently, and followed Wang Ke into the jungle.

The unusual behavior of these two people aroused Zhou Tong's curiosity, and he also got up carefully, and followed behind the two of them.

Wang Ke stopped after walking a short distance, and then seemed to be looking for something, and squatted down on the ground from time to time to dig around.After a while, he seemed to have finally found what he was looking for, with a look of excitement on his face, but at this moment, something unexpected happened.

Jin Dan, who had been hiding behind, suddenly rushed forward and slapped Wang Ke on the back of the neck.Wang Ke fell down in response, and hit his head on the rock beside him, blood gushing out immediately.

Zhou Tong didn't expect that Jin Dan would attack Wang Ke suddenly, and just wanted to stop, but before he opened his mouth, a white and smooth hand covered his mouth from behind.

"Don't make a sound!"

Surprised, Zhou Tong turned her head to look, and it was Xuan Jingyi who came.

Xuan Jingyi let go of Zhou Tong, made a "shh" motion with her fingers, and squatted beside him.

Zhou Tong didn't know why Xuan Jingyi stopped him, so he could only hold back his temper and continue to look at Jin Dan.

Jin Dan quickly bent down, and took the thing he just found from Wang Ke's hand, because it was far away, and it was blurry under the moonlight, Zhou Tong and Xuan Jingyi still couldn't see what it was. .

After Jin Dan got the things, he didn't return, but walked in the opposite direction.

"Let's follow!" Xuan Jingyi said boldly and calmly as if she was a different person.

"What about Mr. Wang?" Zhou Tong hugged Wang Ke, whose face was covered in blood, a little worriedly.

"He just fainted, and his life is not in danger. Do you want Jin Dan to leave just like that?" Xuan Jingyi said anxiously.

Zhou Tong hesitated for a moment, and finally let go of Wang Ke first, and followed Xuan Jingyi in the direction where Jin Dan was going.

"Why did you stop me just now?" Zhou Tong asked Xuan Jingyi while trying to find Jin Dan's footprints in the night.

"With his skills, even if we have two more people, we may not be his opponents. Besides, if you want to find out the truth, you can't startle the snake." Xuan Jingyi said in a flat tone.

"How did you know that Jindan knows martial arts?" Zhou Tong raised his head and asked suspiciously at Xuan Jingyi, who was still pale.

"I think I know him, and if I guess correctly, I know where he is going now." Xuan Jingyi smiled sadly.

"You should have something to tell me." Zhou Tong stood up with a serious expression.

"You will know soon, but now we have to catch up with Jin Dan first." Xuan Jingyi couldn't help but take Zhou Tong's hand, and led him through the jungle familiarly.

The first ray of sunshine in the morning tears through the dark jungle and brings life to life.The crystal clear dewdrops on the leaves, the clear chirping of birds in the forest, and the cool breeze are all refreshing.

But not everyone can enjoy such a morning, and Wang Ke is just one of them.When he opened his eyes, he found that he had been tied like a rice dumpling, hanging from a tree, dangling around.But what made him even more unbelievable was that under him stood Yan Yongjie and Li Ying, two dainty beauties.

"Li Ying, Yan Yongjie, you... what are you doing?" Wang Ke looked at Yan Yongjie and Li Ying and shouted.

"Sister Yongjie, are we really going to do this?" Li Ying didn't dare to look at Wang Ke, and whispered in Yan Yongjie's ear with some embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)