Section 1: Broken Strings

It was already more than eleven o'clock in the evening, the lights were still on in the conference room of the National Security Headquarters of the State of China, and an emergency meeting was being held here, but the atmosphere in the venue was very dull, no one spoke, the conference room was full of smoke, and everyone's face was very heavy.

Vice Minister Yu China cleared his throat: "Comrades, since everyone does not speak, let me say two words." So far, we have five scouts missing, and we have not found any clues, which is our dereliction of duty! Yu China's fists pounded on the table, and everyone's eyes were on him.

Yu Zhonghua looked around at the people present: "The purpose of convening everyone to hold this meeting today is not to hold anyone responsible, but to solve the problem. Yue Zhiwei, the missing person is your fifth inning, you say, what are your thoughts? Yue Zhiwei extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand: "Minister Yu, since the Fifth Bureau took over the Golden Buddha case, our reconnaissance work has made great progress, and it has now been ascertained that Xiao Hang Group is only a cultural relics smuggling gang, but secretly doing the business of selling state secrets." ”

Yue Zhiwei glanced at Yu Zhonghua: "I have already reported this to Minister Yu, we are ready to put a long line, catch big fish, and dig out the overseas organization that has conducted secret transactions with Xiao Hang Group, but at this time, our scouts have an accident." However, as far as we know, this matter should have nothing to do with the Xiaohang Group, but what makes people feel strange is that the scout who disappeared at the end sent me something through our channels the day before the disappearance. ”

After saying that, he took out something from the file bag on the table: "This is it, after the identification center, they think it is something similar to the strings, it should be a broken string taken from what kind of piano." ”

Yu Zhonghua said: "Broken string? Yue Zhiwei nodded, and Qin Xue also said, "Well, we have carefully examined it, and it is indeed a string, but we don't know what instrument this string should belong to." Yu Zhonghua took a look at it: "What material has been analyzed?" Qin Xue said with a bitter smile, "The analysis shows that it looks like the tendons of people or animals." Yue Zhiwei said: "So we think this should be related to a certain religious organization." ”

Fan Jianghe had been staring at the teacup in his hand, and when he heard Yue Zhiwei's words, he raised his head and said, "Yue Bureau, did the five scouts have any special encounters before they disappeared?" Fan Jianghe was the director of the first bureau, a master of decryption, and he intuitively thought that this matter was unusual. Yue Zhiwei said: "Yes, from their mission logs, the five people had contact with a woman named Elaine a few days before they disappeared. ”

Yu Zhonghua asked, "Why don't you report such an important clue?" Yue Zhiwei said, "This Elaine is our local guide, so we really haven't paid attention to this matter before." Fan Jianghe asked, "Where is this Elaine now?" Yue Zhiwei said: "Also missing, along with the last missing scout." ”

Yu Zhonghua said, "Director Yue, tell me about your plans. Yue Zhiwei Yue Zhiwei said: "At that time, our outstanding reconnaissance officer and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, Comrade Peng Gang, was mysteriously killed in the course of carrying out his mission, and the comrades who were with him at that time saw him as if he had been strangled by someone's neck, waved his hands, struggled, and then rolled to the ground, and he lost his breath, and it was useless for his comrades-in-arms to pull and stop him. ”

Yue Zhiwei glanced at Qin Xue: "The autopsy report given by the appraisal center at that time I remember saying that Comrade Peng Gang was suffocated to death, there were obvious strangulation marks on his neck, and there were remnants of tendons in his fingers. Minister Yan was very dissatisfied with the results of this appraisal at that time, and in full view of everyone, an excellent scout was gone, strangled alive, and no one had even seen the murderer. Finally, Minister Yan instructed that this case must be thoroughly investigated, but until now, we have not found a single clue. ”

Chen Bin pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at Qin Xue, who bit his lip as if he had made a great determination: "Minister Yu, we also found out when we made an appraisal of the broken string, let Chen Bin tell you about it." ”

Yu Zhonghua nodded, and Chen Bin said: "Leaders, when we conducted structural analysis of the broken string, we found that the molecular structure of this broken string and the one left in Peng Bureau's finger seam reached 99.99%, that is to say, the residue of Peng Bureau's finger seam belongs to this broken string!" ”

Yu Zhonghua did not speak again, and once this case was involved in peng gang's case, it was incomparably strange.

Finally, he stood up: "Well, this case will continue to follow up in the fifth round, as for the broken string and the Peng Gang case, at this point, no further mention, adjourn the meeting!" ”

Chen Bin's face was a little disappointed, and he looked at Qin Xue again, and Qin Xue shook his head helplessly.

Yue Zhiwei got into the car and was about to start the car when he received a call from Yu China's office. Secretary Yan said on the phone, "Yue Bureau? Minister Yu invited you to come to his office. ”

Yue Zhiwei rushed to Yu Zhonghua's office, Yu Zhonghua motioned for him to sit down on the sofa, Yan Zhengyang poured him a glass of water, and then closed the door and went out. Yu Zhonghua came over from his desk, sat down on the sofa, took out a soft box of "panda" cigarettes wrapped in light blue, and threw one to Yue Zhiwei: "Zhiwei, there is something for you to do when you are called back." Yue Zhiwei took the cigarette, put it on his nose and sniffed it, reluctant to light it.

Yu Zhonghua said: "After the meeting was adjourned, I reported the situation of the meeting to Minister Yan, and Minister Yan instructed that the Peng Gang case and the case of the disappearance of the investigator should be investigated together, but the investigation must be carried out in secret. The investigation work is still the responsibility of your five bureaus, but Minister Yan suggested that a special department be set up under your five bureaus, which has only one code name, called 'Trick Domain', which is specifically responsible for the secret investigation of strange cases, and the peng Gang case and the case of the disappearance of the investigator should be handed over to this department. ”

Yue Zhiwei said: Minister Yu, you see the personnel of the 'strange domain'... Yu Zhonghua waved his hand: You don't have to Yu China on the issue of personnel: You don't have to Yu China and laugh: What? Any ideas? Yue Zhiwei said, "How come?" The Minister assured that Zhiwei would certainly give them their full support. Yu Zhonghua said: "The department of 'Trick Domain' cannot be known to outsiders, even if we are only limited to a few leaders, so they must also have external identities to facilitate their handling of cases." Yue Zhiwei said, "Well, our fifth bureau originally had eight divisions, and their external identity is five bureaus and nine divisions." ”

Yu Zhonghua pointed to the note that Yue Zhiwei was holding and said, "Well, that's it, you'll contact him tomorrow, Minister Yan can say, this person may not necessarily agree, but Minister Yan confessed, no matter what method you use, you must let him come out to preside over this work, and only he can be competent." Yue Zhiwei stood up: "Promise to complete the task." ”

Back at the appraisal center, Chen Bin said: "Director Qin, do you think this case will be the same as Director Peng's case, and it will not be resolved again?" Qin Xue said darkly, "I don't know, Xiao Chen, this case is too weird, it has exceeded the scope of our cognition, so the department leaders will naturally be very cautious." Chen Bin sighed, "But Director Qin, Peng Ju is your fiancé, don't you want the cause of his death to be revealed?" ”

Qin Xue said, "Well, Xiao Chen, don't say anything, I believe that the ministry will definitely not give up the investigation." Xiao Chen, you are also an old man in the ministry, what you can say and what you can't say must be measured, you must strictly abide by the confidentiality system. Xiao Chen said, "I see, Director." ”

Early the next morning, Yue Zhiwei drove to Kan'er Hutong.

"No. 89 Kan'er Hutong, it should be this." Yue Zhiwei saw that the door of the courtyard was open, so he walked in, and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl was brushing her teeth by the water pipe in the courtyard, And Yue Zhiwei asked, "Little girl, is there a person named Shuyi here?" The little girl pointed to the room to the south.

Yue Zhiwei knocked softly on the door, and it took half a day before the door opened: "Who?" This early morning also let no one sleep. A man in his thirties looked at Yue Zhiwei sleepily, the man's hair was a little long, it looked very greasy, as if it had not been washed for a long time, and the beard was stubble. Yue Zhiwei smiled and asked, "Is Shu Yi staying here?" The man looked up and down at Yue Zhiwei, let go of the door, dropped a sentence of "come in," and turned and walked toward the house.

Yue Zhiwei followed into the house, the room was chaotic where there was a ground for his feet, and the man straightened the pile of clothes and books on the sofa: "I'm too messy here, let you see the smile, come, sit." He had a pair of stinky socks in his hand, and felt that it was not appropriate to put them anywhere, so he simply tucked them into his pants pocket. Yue Zhiwei looked at the room, not like there were other people, he looked at the person in front of him again, Oh my God, he wouldn't be Shuyi!

The man sat down on a small bench opposite him, his feet crossed and stretched out to the front: "I am Shuyi, what is the matter with me?" Yue Zhiwei looked at yanbu for a moment, he didn't expect Yan Bu