When the child appeared in front of them, everyone was stunned for a moment, the air suddenly solidified, and only the faint sound of coughing echoed among them.

"Ji Duan! Hurry up and find the door, these children are too weak!" Xie Jin came back to his senses and hurriedly looked for it with a flashlight. The door of the dog cage was right in front of him, closed by a rusty iron lock.

"It's still locked? It's really not a thing." Ji Duan scolded secretly and stepped forward to shake the iron door. The lock was not a decoration. Although the rust was a bit horrific, it still locked the iron door tightly. .

"Tong Tong, go up and ask Wang Zhong for the key, although he may not give it to you." Wen Liang commanded in an orderly manner, and he looked at Ji Duan again, "It's useless to shake the door, go to the side to see if there is anySomething that can be used."

Ji Duan didn't refute him, he turned around and rummaged through the pile of debris, trying to find a tool that could pry open the iron lock from this dark underground secret room.

But until a layer of ash fell on him, he couldn't find anything that was handy. Except for old clothes and some strange statues in the pile of debris in the basement, after searching for a long time, he only found a small piece of iron wire.

Holding the wire, Ji Duan stood expressionlessly in front of the dog cage. He had seen the scene in the movie where he used the wire to pry the door, but in real life, can he really do it?

"Give it to me, I'll come." Wen Liang patted Ji Duan's shoulder and took the wire from his hand. Seeing Ji Duan looking at him with distrust, he waved his hand, "Why? People are walking in the rivers and lakes, Always have some effort on your body.”

He broke the wire into an arc and inserted both ends into the keyhole. Wen Liang squatted down and fiddled with the small hole. His hands were dexterous and skillful, and it was not the first time he had done such a thing.

The iron lock bounced off with a "click", because the dog cage was not big, Xie Jin, the shortest of the three, got in first, followed by Zhang Chi, who was even thinner.

Xie Jin knelt on the ground and checked the children closest to him. They were all comatose due to dehydration and starvation. He picked up the children and turned from the cage with difficulty, and then handed them to the two people outside the cage.

Zhang Chi was crammed into this small space with limited capacity, recognizing the faces of the children one by one.

No no! No Yingying!

Zhang Chi was very anxious in his heart, and he didn't dare to use too much strength in his hands, so he could only patiently hand the identified children to Xie Jin one by one.

While looking at a boy, Zhang Chi heard the sobbing sound, which he felt was very familiar. After pulling the boy aside, he found that there was a girl curled up in the corner facing the boy!

"Yingying? Yingying!" Zhang Chi almost cried, he took the girl into his arms, "Brother has been looking for you for a long time! Finally, I finally found you!"

The girl was only five or six years old, and her little face was dark from nowhere, but compared to the hungry faces of other children, her face was still round.

"Brother...Brother, I'm so scared." Zhang Xingying buried herself in her brother's weak arms, her body trembling, "little brother, he hasn't talked to me for a long time, his body is turning ice, and I'm the only one left here. People, everyone is asleep..."

Zhang Chi picked up his sister, tears welling up in his eyes, and soon half of his face was wet. He didn't speak, his body became cold, and he fell asleep. Yingying still couldn't understand the concept of death, but was trapped in such a basement that never saw the light of day. Zhang Chi felt angry, but also grateful.

The cat climbed out of the cage. He saw Xie Jin was kneeling on the ground to feed the boy he had just rescued. Zhang Chi was always holding Zhang Xingying. He heard Xie Jin call the boy "Cheng Xin".

"You guys, do you know him?" Zhang Chi used up too much energy to be chased by monsters before, but now he is holding his sister again, only to feel that his arms are sore and unable to exert his strength. He can only put Zhang Xingying down first and hold on tightly. That little hand.

"It's the child of a second-hand electrical appliance seller in the flea market." Ji Duan held his mobile phone and pointed the camera at the children who were slanted on the ground. "I didn't expect that he was really here."

Xie Jin untied Cheng Xin's dirty clothes. The thin and small body was full of marks of being beaten. The body was not only dehydrated but also bruised. couldn't imagine what the child went through from disappearance to discovery.

"Xinxin, Xin Xin, can you hear me?" He held the back of the boy's head and fed him some water. Although Cheng Xin was in a coma, he could still swallow when he touched the water. Nothing serious, it should be the sequelae of long-term nervousness.

"No, I can't wake up." Xie Jin had no choice but to lay the boy flat and get up to see the other children. They only brought a small amount of food and two bottles of water when they came out this time, so they could only bring the dehydrated child first.

When they took turns transporting the children from the underground secret room to the ground, Tong Tong poked out half of his head from the room of the old Taoist Wang Zhong: "Wen Liang, that guy passed out, don't worry about him, right?"

"No need, what kind of inner pill, that's all because of me." Wen Liang didn't have time to take care of Guan Wang Zhong, he just glanced at Tong Tong lightly, his eyes were full of cunning, "You are responsible for taking good care of him, Tie up tight and don't let him run away."

Tong Tong seemed a little speechless, and with a sigh, he retreated to that room and went to stand by.

In front of the sinful alchemy furnace, Yu Yu put a few old sheets from somewhere, and the rescued children lay on it, and some began to gradually wake up after being exposed to the fresh air. Zhang Xingying is one of them.

After the little girl came up from the ground, she had been lying in her brother's arms, her wet eyes staring at the fainted friends in front of her, without saying a word.

"Yingying, are you alright?" Zhang Chi squeezed the little girl's fleshy hand and said worriedly, "I was just... I saw that little boy named Cheng Xin was protecting you at the innermost, can you tell my brother? How did you meet him?"

Cheng Xin was at their feet, her mouth slightly open, breathing the fresh air with some effort, Zhang Xingying's eyes fell on his face and nodded.

"I met my little brother here. Because I always cry, the bad guy wanted to take me away. It was my little brother who stood in front of me, and he was beaten."

Zhang Xingying spoke intermittently. Although the expression was very simple, the speaker had no intention of listening, and it was not difficult to imagine what kind of torture Cheng Xin experienced in the process.

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." Zhang Chi was already in tears, he sniffled, and hugged his sister tighter, "If it wasn't for him, you might have...don't talk about it, it's good to be alive. "

Zhang Chi's tears wet Zhang Xingying's floral dress. He knew that he was wrong. Although there was an alchemy furnace with children's corpses behind him, he was not a saint. He could only find his living sister by chance. Just happy about it.

The night in the low-rise building in the old city was broken by the honking of police cars and ambulances. Because too many lives were involved this time, there were more than ten ambulances alone. Xie Jin also took the initiative to withdraw from the live broadcast after hearing the siren. As an adult present, transfer the children to the door, and try not to let them see the purgatory-like scene in the alchemy furnace.

Xie Jin also called Cheng Zaimin, who was taking care of the old mother in the hospital after all this, and told him that the child had been found, and now Cheng Zaimin is estimated to be on his way here.

"Don't move, you are the reporters?" The police car braked suddenly in front of the unit building, and a leading policeman jumped out of the car. Because the report call said that there was a major homicide here, he was fully armed.

The dark muzzle was aimed at the three of them, Xie Jin stood at the front, and he could clearly see that the gun was loaded.

Police, guns, brightly lit night... Xie Jin felt a sudden tingling in his eyes, followed by buzzing and tinnitus. His gesture of raising his hand to cover his head attracted the attention of the police, and all the raised guns also faced each other. took him.

"He's not the murderer...Wen Liang, do you have something to say?!" Ji Duan almost subconsciously stopped in front of Xie Jin to explain, but he later realized that ordinary people couldn't see him, and turned to ask Yu Wenliang for help, " Say something for him, Xie Jin is sick again!"

"Comrade police, you have misunderstood." Wen Liang gave him an OK gesture in the dark, and a few strides rushed to Xie Jin, "We are the reporters, as for why we are here, it's a long story. , why don't you hurry to rescue the children first? Let's go to the bureau and talk?"

The policeman who stood in the front looked like a captain raised his brows. After all these years of reporting the case, this was the first time he saw a person who asked to go to the police station to talk to him. This person was actually a Taoist priest dressed in a weird way.

"Taoist?" He put away his gun, and gestured to the other detectives who were on guard on both sides. These people bypassed Xie Jin and Wen Liang and rushed in to the room where the first crime scene was.

Wen Liang nodded and shrugged as he raised his hands: "Yeah, I'm just an ordinary enthusiastic citizen passing by. You can check the Jincheng Academy of Fine Arts incident on the intranet, which is also a catastrophic homicide that we worked with the local police to solve. ."

A very enthusiastic citizen.

The captain-looking policeman sneered in his heart, and he heard Wen Liang ask again, "By the way, what is your last name, police officer?"

"Lu Xiao, deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Tanjiang City Public Security Bureau." Deputy Lu shook hands with Wen Liang politely, "Now we want to investigate the scene of the crime, the two of you please."

"Are we going too?" Wen Liang's eyes swept across Xie Jin's face inadvertently, and then grinned at Deputy Captain Lu and smiled, "Come on, even your police see it as cruel and inhumane, there is no need to let the two of us go. Ordinary people read it again?"

Wen Liang's glib explanation made Lieutenant Lu want to refute. He just opened his mouth and was about to say something. There was a sound of electricity coming from the walkie-talkie attached to his waist, and then a police officer's voice came from inside: "Lieutenant Lu! Come here! Here... here is simply, I can't describe it, you hurry up and take a look!"

Deputy Team Lu was silent for a moment. He looked up at Wen Liang's respectful face, and replied, "Okay, I know, I'll be here soon."

He stuffed the walkie-talkie back into his pocket, and waved to a criminal policeman who was on standby in the car. Wen Liang saw the little criminal policeman running over, and kept nodding at the instructions of Deputy Team Lu.

"Then I'll go first, the two of you will wait here first, and then we'll go to the city bureau to make a record, thank you for your cooperation." Deputy Team Lu gave Wen Liang a deep look before turning around and entering the unit, making sure that he would not be chaotic After running, he cautiously ran into the house.

"Hey, I said." Watching the little detective get back into the car, Wen Liang patted Xie Jin on the shoulder, and found that the man was still shaking, "I found out at the Jincheng Academy of Fine Arts before, are you particularly afraid of the police? "

Xie Jin's body froze, something he had feared for many years was hit by someone, and now he doesn't even know what to think about.

But Wen Liang didn't mean to let Xie Jin go this time. He grabbed Xie Jin's thin shoulder with one hand and looked confused. He seemed to want to penetrate everything about Xie Jin.

"Xie Jin, why are you afraid of the police? Have you done anything that deserves special attention from the police?"