"… Jiang Stops." Yan Ji was a little hesitant, but after thinking for a moment, he decided to say it, "You haven't seen him for twenty years. Maybe you haven't seen him, but he has been watching you."
Jiang Stops raised his head, "What?"
"We found a CD in Bu Wei's parents' old home. It contained some clips about you …" Time was tight, so Yan Ji could only briefly describe the contents of the CD. He then said, "Law enforcement recorders only started to be used about seven or eight years ago. From the dialogue in the video, the Gongzhou police weren't very familiar with it. They might have just come into contact with this kind of equipment. Non-incident law enforcement records have a time limit, usually between six months to a year. After this time limit, the backup will be destroyed. "
Perhaps it was because of the emotional turmoil after falling into the water, coupled with the long-term memories that caused his thoughts to be in a mess, Jiang Stops's usually clear and agile mind was a little stagnant. It took him a while to react, "… In other words, that CD was recorded a long time ago?"
"Yes, I don't know how this video was leaked, but it definitely fell into the hands of the King Of Spades later than when you met him again twenty years later."
The two of them didn't speak for a while. They could only hear the sounds of night insects coming from the grass in the distance.
In twenty long years, how did that little boy grow into a ruthless and well-hidden drug lord who made small drug dealers like Hu Weisheng tremble in fear?
What kind of mentality did he have when he secretly watched Jiang Ting become a Narcotics Officer step by step?
"Actually, I had a feeling a long time ago," Jiang Stops stared at Yan Ji's soaked collar and said abruptly.
"What?"
"Because of that kidnapping, I stayed in the hospital for half a month. On the day I was discharged, the King Of Spades was waiting for me outside the door. He said if I swore to never betray him, he would take me away from this small place. " Jiang Stops smiled. "For as long as I can remember, my life in the orphanage can't be described as full and warm … So when he said that, I was so happy that I went crazy."
Yan Ji suddenly recalled that at the entrance of Jiayuan Welfare Institute, Jiang Stops had indeed said, "Many places are like this."
That shouldn't have been empty words of comfort, but something he had personally experienced when he was young.
"Not long after, I was adopted to a big city. That was the first time I set foot in Gongzhou. I was sent to a public elementary school. But at that time, I didn't have a guardian. The so-called adoption was just a formality. I still lived alone in the old tube-shaped apartment next to the school. For two consecutive years, my living expenses were paid quarterly in cash. After I entered junior high school, that tube-shaped apartment was demolished, and I stayed on campus until I graduated from senior high school. "
"When I was young, I didn't feel that anything was wrong. When I entered junior high school, I vaguely figured out that there were a lot of things fishy. When I graduated from junior high school and was assigned to a branch, I had the ability to investigate my own files through various means. Only then did I realize that the so-called 'adoptee' actually didn't exist. The owner of the apartment had been out of contact for many years. If the junior high school had been stricter, they would have found that I was basically an unregistered resident. "
The background check back then was indeed not as strict as it was now. In addition, some provinces were not filled with people, so the enrollment policy was much more flexible than it was now.
However, even if the policy was relaxed, the possibility of an unregistered resident passing the background check without being noticed was very, very small. Someone must have helped behind the scenes.
Yan Ji pressed one hand on Jiang Stops' back. His rough thumb rubbed the back of his neck, as if to convey warm comfort. "If you didn't insist on investigating 'Blue Gold' and didn't find the drug manufacturing factory, do you think the King Of Spades would still appear?"
"… I don't know." After a long time, Jiang Stops said tiredly, "But it doesn't make sense to assume this, because as long as Blue Gold is circulating on the market, there will be clues one day. And I will definitely follow the clues and investigate further … Whether it is a few years earlier or a few years later, meeting the King Of Spades again was destined."
From the moment Jiang Stops entered junior high school, fate had already set this curse-like trajectory.
Yan Ji frowned slightly. "Have you ever thought that the King Of Spades deliberately made you a police officer?"
Jiang Stops snorted softly, with a hint of mockery and helplessness.
"Of course I thought about it, especially when I found out that there were people in Gongzhou's public security system who weren't clean."
Yan Ji looked down at him. "What do you mean?"
"After meeting the King Of Spades again, I carefully considered whether I should confess everything to my superiors, but in the end, I didn't dare to tell them about my connection with the King Of Spades. I was afraid that I couldn't explain it clearly, but I was also afraid that I would be caught off guard and killed, and all the clues would be cut off. So after thinking about it, I selectively told my superiors that there might be an underground drug factory hidden in the village, and that the police should take action to encircle and suppress it. "
"However, unsurprisingly, the operation was not very active. It could even be described as dragging. There were a few times when the news almost leaked out. Seeing this situation, I gradually understood what was going on. Sure enough, by the time the encirclement and suppression began, the factory had already been abandoned. Other than the waste used to make amphetamine drugs, no key clues were found. "
"From that time on, I knew that there were people in the upper management who were deeply infiltrated, and the King Of Spades was actually very polite when he said that he wanted to cooperate with me. Because even if I didn't want to cooperate, I had to do things according to my superiors' orders. For the King Of Spades, the result was the same."
Yan Ji's face didn't show the trace of coldness that rose from the bottom of his heart. "But you're not the kind of person who would sit and wait for death …"
Jiang Stops moved and slightly raised his head. Under the moonlight, he gave Yan Ji a very light smile. "No, I'm not."
"So you planned the encirclement and suppression of the plastic factory, and wanted to surprise him and give him a hard time?"
Jiang Stops's body was originally thinner than the average person, but because of his maintenance and fitness, he was thin with strength and toughness. After three years of being in a coma, his health was basically destroyed. Now, he was thin and weak. He no longer had the tightness of his body when he was young.
But in that not very strong body, there was an indescribable strength that was hard to break like steel.
"I spent a long time planning the encirclement and suppression, including reverse infiltration, stealing information, secret investigation, and so on. I knew that once the operation was exposed, the King Of Spades would immediately know that I was not an obedient partner. Naturally, the fate that awaited me was self-evident. So, since I was going to do it, I had to do it thoroughly. If everything went well, I might even bring down the King Of Spades. "
"During the long reverse infiltration work, I gradually got close to several undercover agents in the Gongzhou Anti-Narcotics Brigade. One of them had been in the inner circle for a long time. I still don't know his name. I only know that his real name is Wen, and his code name is' Rivet '."
— Rivet.
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