Chapter 2 Chapter One

Three years later. In the middle of the night, Li Binliang was walking on the street alone. It was past eleven o'clock, there were no pedestrians on the street, and the surrounding area was very quiet. Almost all the buildings on both sides closed their eyes and fell asleep in the dark night.There is no moon in the sky, and even the stars are blinking their sleepy eyes. Only the occasional long sound of a train in the distance makes people feel that this small city is still breathing.The street lights were dim, and Li Binliang's lonely figure stretched long on the ground, moving forward with his footsteps.

Sleepiness hit Li Binliang, his eyelids became heavy, and he wished he could go home and lie on the bed immediately.However, it was late at night, and the taxis that were busy on the street during the day had disappeared, so he could only speed up and walk in the direction of home. Through an alley, he walked up another street. This is a pedestrian street. Although it is almost midnight, many buildings on both sides of the street are still brightly lit and neon lights are flashing. This is a well-known street in the city. Some people call it "corruption street" and others call it "yellow street".The reason why it is called so is because both sides of the street are full of entertainment venues, such as shampoo rooms, foot bath rooms, discos, karaoke rooms, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, video game halls... Of course, the most attractive are those bathing rooms. Center and several great hotels.Here, there are countless young and beautiful "ladies" entertaining visitors, as long as they have money, they can get any service.The most attractive thing is that no matter what kind of "service" and "entertainment" activities you enjoy here, you don't have to worry about safety issues. The public security organs rarely come here for inspection. Close one eye.Since its establishment, no establishment has received a heavier punishment.Look, isn't the tallest building in front of you the "Red Mansion"?Yes, its name is Grand View Garden, and it imitates the Grand View Garden inside, giving each floor or room a similar name, such as "Yihong Courtyard", "Xiaoxiang Pavilion" and "Hengwu Courtyard". However, there is nothing inside Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai are "ladies" from all over the country. According to their native places and personalities, they live in different rooms on each floor and receive guests with various tastes.There are also bathing centers, catering centers, massage centers, entertainment centers, etc., all services are available.Therefore, the business is booming and making money every day.

The owner of the Red House is Xu Tiekun.Of course, it's not just the Red House, one-third of the street belongs to him, but the Red House is the largest and most famous.The other two-thirds, half also have his shares.Although the last third does not belong to him, he still has to pay interest to him on a monthly basis.Because this street was opened by Tie Kun, and he is the one who guarantees the safety of this place.If any company does not pay the interest and makes him unhappy, then either the police station of the Public Security Bureau will come to the door and impose heavy fines, or a group of inexplicable thugs will come to the door and smash it up. tell everywhere.

Of course, the people who can come to this street to consume are definitely not ordinary people or working class, and most of the money spent is not in their own pockets.Just look at it every night, there is a lot of traffic, especially the cars that are shining with noble luster are lined up on the side of the street, which is very enviable.Look, although it is already midnight, there are still one or two cars parked at the entrance of some places.This street is a major contribution of Tie Kun to this city, and he is also proud of it. He even learned the word from nowhere, saying that this is his "Las Vegas".

Li Binliang was very indignant about this. He and his comrades in the criminal police brigade knew that this place was a place where there were many crimes and crimes, and they should be punished. Many of the cases they solved were more or less related to this place. related.However, they can only keep their actions on their lips, but they dare not act.Because, city leaders believe that this street has contributed to improving the environment for economic development and often give praise. Yes, this place belongs to Tie Kun, and he will never allow others to touch his territory.If anyone dares to challenge him, the end will be very bad.Did you see that dark, unlit building in front of you...

This building is called "City That Never Sleeps", and it has flourished for more than two months, but now it is empty.Its owner is Mao Canghai.This unknown outsider actually thought of this city to conquer the world, bought this building at a high price, and opened the "Sleepless City" entertainment venue, trying to compete with the red building, but now he doesn't know where his soul is now.Three nights ago, on his way home, he was mysteriously killed: stabbed in the fovea. This is the difficult case that Li Binliang and his brothers are investigating, and it is also the reason why he returned home tonight.

It has been three days since the incident happened. Judging from the current signs, it is difficult to make a breakthrough in a short period of time.Of course, it is normal that cases cannot be solved. After Li Binliang took office, he went through the accumulated case files for several years and found that there are many major and serious cases that have not been solved in recent years, including murder cases.Now, he has been in charge of the criminal police brigade for more than two months. All the major murder and robbery cases in the city have been solved except this one. Compared with this case, the detection rate is still very high. If this case cannot be solved, it should be said that it is nothing. Big deal.But this case was different. Mao Canghai who was killed was a foreign businessman who came to invest in this city, and had a great social influence.The city leaders also attached great importance to this case. The deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in charge of political and legal affairs, Liu Xinfeng, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and Mayor Wei Min all gave instructions that the Public Security Bureau should take all possible measures and try its best to solve the case in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, it will have a negative impact on the city's investment environment.For this reason, both the director Cai Mingchen and the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation Qin Rong are under a lot of pressure.Of course, the direct pressure is still the Criminal Police Brigade, and Li Binliang is the one with the most pressure on the Criminal Police Brigade.In the past three days, he led the comrades in the team to do a lot of work, but no strong clues were found.

The case is difficult, but it must be solved.Even if the city leaders do not give instructions, Li Binliang will not let it go easily.Such a big case cannot be solved and cannot be explained.Although he has not been a criminal policeman for a long time, he has such a drive: to be a criminal policeman is to solve a case. If you can't solve a case, especially a case that has a great social impact and people's attention, how can you be a criminal policeman?He also felt that solving the case was a bit like those difficult mathematics and geometry problems he did in middle school. You could solve it over and over again, but you couldn’t solve it no matter what. Don’t be discouraged. Find the key to the solution.At that time, you only felt an indescribable sense of victory that filled your body and mind... It was the same for this case, as long as you pursue it hard, you will be able to break it in the end.It is precisely because of this that he has not returned home once since this case happened.Before dinner, his wife and daughter called him to ask him to go home. The four-year-old daughter said on the phone that she missed her father and cried while talking.It moved him, otherwise he would not have come home.

By the way, Li Binliang is now the instructor of the criminal police brigade, the brigade captain was hospitalized due to illness, and he presided over the work of the brigade.Tonight, because of Mao Canghai's murder case, he was so busy going home late at night. The location of "Corruption Street" is not very good, and it is not a prosperous area in the city. Therefore, after walking through a street, it is a very remote road.Li Binliang felt sleepy again and couldn't help yawning a few times.He thought for a moment and decided to take the shorter path.So he turned to a sidewalk.

It is said to be a side road, but it is actually a narrow alley with walls and houses on both sides.There are no street lights, so it looks very dark, but Li Binliang is not afraid.One is that he is very courageous, and the other is that he has been a criminal police officer for more than half a year, and he has been trained so much that he doesn't know what it means to be afraid.What's more, with a pistol in his arms, he is even more fearless.Without even thinking about it, he walked down the sidewalk. This sidewalk is not wide enough for a car to pass.Li Binliang was walking on the sidewalk when he suddenly remembered the murder of Mao Canghai.He was also killed alone at night. He had seen his body. It was a middle-aged man with a strong body, but in the dark night, someone stabbed him in the heart, and he couldn't get up again... Terrified, he became vigilant, looked around, and couldn't see anything clearly because of the darkness in front of him.He suddenly felt an inexplicable fear, and felt that there seemed to be a criminal hiding around him, and he would suddenly pounce on him at any moment... He couldn't help touching the pistol at his waist.

An ominous intuition hit my heart. Many years ago, he discovered that he had this intuition, and whenever something ominous happened, he always felt an inexplicable fear.When he was still in middle school, once he was teaching in the classroom, he suddenly felt uneasy, and ran home before school, only to find that his mother had a heart attack, and the family members were all down. He was rescued by the township health center. If he came back a little later, his mother might have died.Another time, when he was in middle school, when passing through a small forest on the way home from school, he felt his hairs stand on end, and he felt that something was wrong, so he made preparations, but the few men with ulterior motives who were ambushing in the woods and planned to attack him failed. ... Now, this feeling came again, and it was even stronger. He looked around again, but found nothing unusual.He calmed down, secretly laughed at himself for being timid, and continued to walk forward. At this moment, he heard the sound of a motor behind him. He glanced back and saw a car.Judging from the shape of the car, it is a Jeep.He turned his head and continued to walk forward, and suddenly felt that the sound of the car behind him was wrong... Turning his head again, he saw that the jeep was driving towards him with its lights off, at an extremely fast speed. The sidewalk is very narrow, and there is nowhere to dodge, and the jeep is approaching in the blink of an eye.Li Binliang yelled: "Stop, someone, I'm the police..." But the jeep continued to rush towards him as if it was unmanned.He had no choice but to run forward quickly, and the jeep followed closely behind, getting closer and closer.Obviously, it was coming towards him, bumping into him.Now it was too late to draw the gun. In the instant of life and death, a rush of blood rose from his body and mind. He suddenly stopped, turned around, and rushed towards the oncoming jeep, just when the jeep was about to hit his body. Immediately, he jumped up, jumped on the car cover, jumped on the roof of the car, another somersault from the car, and fell behind the car. He fell heavily on the ground, his palms were scratched, his arms and thighs felt like they were broken, and his head hit a stone by the roadside. He felt dizzy and nearly fainted.However, he warned himself, not to faint, not to... In a trance, he saw a jeep stop in front, the door opened, a person jumped out of the car, and ran towards him briskly, with a long and thin thing shining in his hand cold light.Li Binliang's heart was beating wildly. He struggled to pull out the pistol from his waist, loaded it, pointed it forward, and cried out with difficulty: "Don't move, I'm a policeman..." Li Binliang twitched his fingers, felt a shock in his hand, saw the flames coming out of the muzzle of the gun, and then couldn't hold on any longer, his eyes darkened and he passed out.