when the moon whispers

Chapter 468: Accomplice - Apology (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Ninety-nine Apologies (Part 2)
At 4:15 in the morning, looking eastwards over the gloomy layers of forest on Wandu Mountain, a faint hint of bright light mist could already be seen.

Most of the police forces that came to support the arrest operation came to nothing. Police cars with red and blue lights on were crowded in the manor of Wandushan Club. The flickering lights sometimes dimmed and sometimes cold, shining on the cheek of Captain Gu, who was holding his mobile phone and reporting the situation on the scene to Director Gao with an expressionless face and coordinating the follow-up arrangements.

Gu Xing was probably being scolded. He dodged the scolding while holding up the phone, scratched his ear and sighed before putting the phone back to his ear. Then he endured the dull scolding for two and a half minutes, and then threw Lao Gao's "criticism" hotline into Jiang Qing's arms. He pricked up his ears and heard Director Gao's voice, "You directly ordered a shot in the head without a clear assessment of the situation on the scene. Even the King of Hell is not as fierce as you." He tiptoed and sat down on the landscape stone pier by the roadside.

The media vehicles that were watching and reporting on the real situation at the scene of the major vicious case blocked half of the mountain road. The ambulance that had barely squeezed onto the mountain road to treat Song Zhiwen, who was suspected to be seriously injured and in shock due to blood loss, honked its siren heartbreakingly, but in the end, it didn't even get a breath of life and only had time to follow behind Zhu Silai and cover the blood gourd that was dragged out with a white cloth.

The emergency nurse who followed the car had a slightly bulging belly. She methodically confirmed the condition of the deceased with the doctor and the forensic doctor, then picked up Jiang Mo, who had a bleeding bruise on his wrist, and carefully disinfected it. She waited until she had fulfilled her duties and everything was secure before she glanced at the bloody mass of flesh stuffed into the body bag, sat on the curb with a pale face, and took two sips from the thermos cup carefully.

Xiao Letian tightly grasped the evidence bag containing Chen Rui's gun, and with his head lowered, he counted the bullets in the bag again and again. After confirming that they were correct, he handed them to Gu Xing before lowering his shoulders and relaxing them slightly. He walked lightly back to Jiang Mo, who was drinking a bottle of glucose with a painful look on her face, and took the glass bottle that was less than a third of the bottle left in her hand, pinched an orange-flavored fruit candy, and raised his hand to flick it at his senior sister's forehead.

"Uncle Master Zhu gave it to you. He saw you grimacing as you drank glucose from the small window in the attic just now. But when you pounced on Song Yike just now, you fell down and had severe hypoglycemia. I'll clean this for you, and you chew the candy. Uncle Master gave me two pieces, and I also had a share—"

Xiao Letian rubbed the wrinkled candy wrapper and looked at the foreign characters he didn't recognize for a long time but couldn't pronounce them. "Is this English? Why does it have tones? Which old classmate of Uncle Master brought this back from abroad?"

"Old Gu bought it, and asked me to ask Teacher Jiang what kind of candies are delicious abroad... Later, Old Zhu picked out two that he liked and asked me to tell Old Gu about it." Jiang Mo shook his head slowly, and when he was about to finish his words, he suddenly looked up, raised his eyelids and looked at the window of the attic of the wooden house: "Where can Old Zhu see me sitting here?"

"Yes, but I can only see half of your face and half of your head..." Xiao Letian raised his eyebrows as a matter of course, looked up at the side window of the attic, was stunned for half a second, and shuddered, "No, can't we sneak around from here? Song Yike doesn't even need to lean over, just shake his head and you can see... I wonder what this guy wants to do by gesticulating with an unloaded gun. Is he really waiting for the special police to arrive and scaring people with a gun to get himself killed?"

Xiao Letian failed to hold back his whispers and shouted out in surprise, scaring the emergency nurse who was standing not far from Jiang Mo. He nodded apologetically, frowned and put his hands to his mouth. He tilted his head slightly to follow the nurse's gaze, turned around and caught a glimpse of Song Yike, who was escorted into the car by four special police brothers after giving a detailed account of the crime scene. His brows immediately frowned.

Song Yike's face was covered in blood from the scratches he received when Jiang Mo pinned him to the ground. It was as if all the pain he had endured in order to divert the police's attention had now come back to him. He walked hunched over and staggered, with his head lowered as he shrank in the encirclement of armed special police, staring silently at the ground. When his anklet scratched the pedal of the car, he seemed to be brought back to his senses by the "clang clang clang" sound of metal collision. He raised his head, confusedly thinking of something, and suddenly half turned sideways, and saw Jiang Mo's face half blocking Xiao Letian from afar.

He didn't dare to look into Jiang Mo's eyes. His gaze only touched her face for a moment before falling down. His eyes swept across her wrists that were taped with tape, and then took a deep look at her coat that was soaked in blood and dried by the wind. "...Why do I always feel that he...Oh, forget it...Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor, murder pays for life, debts owed pay back--"

When Xiao Letian first saw Song Yike's eyes that were filled with resentment, he felt like a lump of cotton was buried in his heart. He curled his lips in an awkward manner, tilted his shoulder, fumbled out the phone in his trouser pocket that vibrated twice, took a look at it, then laughed teasingly and held the phone in front of Jiang Mo.

"Brother Jie probably didn't sleep after seeing the messy news online. He was waiting to ask you. He said he saw some media climbing over the wall to take pictures of Wandu Mountain. Reporter Zhao also sent someone to keep an eye on the first-hand information and prepare to cooperate with the police to report and post. However, he sent you two messages, but you didn't reply. He was worried about your safety."

"It just fell. The screen was broken when it hit the shelf, and then the SWAT guy stepped on it and broke it into a flip phone." Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows and smiled silently. He picked up the phone in his pocket that had "died heroically at a young age" and shook it at Xiao Letian. He spread his hands to take Xiao Letian's phone and replied to the message. Then, he looked at the other party's quick reply and breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his chin in response to Gu Xing's greeting and patted Xiao Letian's arm.

"Let's go and get to work."

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The reply message in Officer Xiao's dialog box did not have a subject. The two dry lines of words concisely stated the fact that Officer Jiang's "cell phone was broken, but everything was fine", and also gave a friendly reminder to "go to bed early".

Shao Jie raised his eyebrows slightly, lowered his eyes and tapped the frame of the phone. He stopped stroking the puzzle on the back of the phone case anxiously, and quickly typed a line of words in the dialog box to express his concern. Then he paused for less than half a second, and added "Good night, Officer Jiang" to Jiang Mo on the other side of the dialog box in a sticky manner.

"Good night! It's almost time for breakfast... Have you been up all night?"

Tao Fang held a hot compress bag and poked his head into the training room where two wall lamps were on. He sneered when he heard Shao Jie's throat-breaking scream. He stared at Shao Jie who was sitting on the sofa in the training room with no intention of moving. He blinked and thought for a while, then took two steps in his slippers and fell heavily beside Shao Jie.

"What's up? Something wrong?"

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