when the moon whispers

Chapter 453: Accomplice - Entering the Mountain (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety-two Journeys into the Mountains (Part 1)
The communication line was silent for a while, and someone accidentally uttered a curse word in Chinese, but the whole channel suddenly started buzzing.

Lin Yu had tried to be as vague and tactful as possible, but even though he cautiously added the word "suspected" before the gun was lost, such an unexpected incident unexpectedly fell into the critical search operation. The police situation, which had barely left a little room for maneuver, skipped the process of assessing the degree of crisis and was pulled to the limit on the spot. Gu Xing at the other end of the command center was silent for nearly half a minute before clearing his throat and asked in a deep voice: "Have you checked the surrounding area? How did Song Yike call?"

"Based on the approximate location determined by the communication base station, it has basically flowed through..."

Lin Yu probably followed Chen Rui's stretcher to the ambulance. The originally incoherent signal was disrupted by the sound of the wind and the sirens of the ambulance. He pulled a reliable policeman who had been with him all day to take him to the hospital. He panted and moved to a place sheltered from the wind before finishing his preface: "I didn't see Song Yike, but I can look for his cell phone. In addition, I think we should talk to the village party secretary about the elderly people in the village inside and outside the house."

"…Someone tipped off?"

Lin Yu's remote report to Gu Xing stopped there, and the matter of the suspected loss of his service gun must have reached Director Gao's ears like a gust of wind. Captain Gu was dragged out of the command center as soon as he gave a concise and clear command in a hurry. Judging from the lingering words on the intercom, he was probably going to attend the emergency meeting of the city leaders.

Xiao Letian listened to the hidden meaning in a daze, pondered for a while, turned his head to look at his senior sister's tense face, and said, "Could it be that there are also Song Yike's accomplices in these two villages?!"

"pretty close."

Jiang Mo tapped the steering wheel twice with his fingertips. "Song Yike has dealt with us many times before. Now that things have come to this, it's basically an open confrontation. Logically speaking, there's no need to deliberately use a voice changer to mislead... And this call was made just to get us to find Officer Chen, so there's really no need to change the voice to process the background sound. Unless -"

Xiao Letian slapped his thigh and scratched the back of his head in annoyance: "Unless someone helps to mediate, Song Yike is worried that this little trick will be discovered and deliberately interferes..."

"Officer Chen's life is at stake, and it's easy to overlook this when you're anxious. Didn't you hear Team Lin's report just now? The old men and women from Fangnei Village and Fangwai Village have been squatting on the ground day and night because they are worried about the land occupied by the road construction in the village. No matter how obstructed this flat land is, it is certain that no one will notice it, not to mention that there are a lot of spare firewood piled up in the yard where Officer Chen was found... If they can find a cell phone, and someone can help divert the attention, I guess that if they hold the phone in the middle and lend a hand--"

Before Jiang Mo's subjective guess could come to fruition, the car's intercom began to shout that someone had found a broken cell phone that looked like it couldn't even use data in a water reservoir at the edge of Fangwai Village.

Xiao Letian's eyes widened, and Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows in surprise. He blinked and looked at the two cordons at the intersection near Song Yike's residence. He honked softly at the policeman on duty who looked a little familiar to him, then wiped the steering wheel in the direction indicated by the policeman's hand.

She saw from a distance the lady from the small shop who was eating sunflower seeds and watching the fun without sleeping. She followed the narrow road at the end of the alley and plunged into the low mountain where half of the slope was illuminated by the searchlight. She looked at the police officers who were huddled under the temporary awning to keep warm and rest. She braked and stopped her iron toad in a sheltered pit at the foot of the mountain. Aunt Li from the village committee was guarding the entrance to the mountain with her red armband. She was wrapped in a down jacket, leaning on a plastic stool, feeling a little sleepy. She was swaying in a daze when she saw a big jeep without a police license plate or headlights coming towards her recklessly. Her eyebrows raised and she stood up suddenly to block two young men who jumped out of the car and were about to lift the cordon to get in. She looked at them vigilantly for a few times, and only stepped back half a step when the two men took out their ID cards belatedly. She smacked her tongue as if she was disgusted with these two inexperienced faces, turned her head and saw the deputy director of the village police station rushing down the hillside to meet them. She was suddenly startled, and hurriedly picked up the loose cordon and raised her hand to let the people in.

The deputy director of the village police station was named Cao. He had just sent away Lin Yu and Huang Xingjun, who were searching the mountain for Chen Rui's whereabouts, and before the entire team could retreat, he received a call from Gu Xing and searched the entire mountain for the secret corner where Song Yike had hidden his body or ashes.

"There are ancestral graves on this hill that have been neglected for decades. Those police dog guys have had enough trouble with them."

Deputy Chief Cao ran up and down the mountain for who knows how many times. He squatted on a rock with his knees propped up for a while, took a few deep breaths, and pointed to the two energetic young men behind the row of flashlights hanging on the tree branches that were as bright as searchlights. "...But at least we found it, Song Wanwan's tomb."

The new tomb suspected to be the burial place of Song Wanwan was hidden deep in the woods on the steepest part of the hillside. The small mound was raked up and round, and the uninscribed tombstone was half lying on the mound, a little loosened by the digging of the "Achievements" little police dog.

Xiao Letian first rushed up the slope for a few steps, stood firmly on his feet, turned around and grabbed a handful of Jiang Mo who was climbing the slope, looked around the lonely tomb, and scratched his head in confusion: "Song Yike went to so much trouble and even specifically mentioned that we find his sister's tomb, but here... there is nothing - is he trying to trick us?!"

Jiang Mo didn't say anything at first. He brushed off the mud on his hands that were stuck when he was holding on to the tree trunk. He looked around the simple cemetery and shook his head slowly: "Song Wanwan's grave... shouldn't be here."

"But - can a police dog's nose go wrong?" Xiao Letian looked down at the black-backed wolfdog that was digging a hole and being held by its collar by its trainer. "The soil is new too... We can't... dig graves and try to do DNA tests, right?"

"There are no incense ashes or incense burners here."

Jiang Mo followed the police dog's twisted head and glanced at the stone tablet. After thinking for a while, he squatted over the pit and touched the soil in the pit. "Let's not talk about the distant ones. Officer Chen happened to meet Song Yike going up the mountain to burn incense before the accident. It hasn't rained for half a day, so there shouldn't be any traces——"

Jiang Mo paused his movements, looked up at the black-backed wolfdog that was still moving forward, gave it a thumbs up, and used his fingertips to dig out a blood-stained rag from under a ball of loose mud.

"Song Yike...he's trying to hold us all back."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"It's good to go with the wind, the sky is vast, and you can look down at the mountains and rivers."