Breaking Through The Clouds

Chapter 52

--With only twenty-nine hours left in the detection time, the life of the hostages had entered the critical juncture of the countdown stage, which shook the entire investigation direction of the Municipal Bureau.

Yan Xie didn't say a word. He seemed to have fallen into consideration, and slowly stood up from the computer.

Following his action, Jiang Ting also stood up. The two of them stared at each other face to face for a while before Yan Xie spat out a sentence:

"You say, I'll listen."

Jiang Ting stretched out his hand and gave high-fidelity headphones to Yan Xie, put on another one himself, and replayed the phone call from the beginning. The recording rustled, and the first sentence was: "Two hundred million, how are you preparing?"

Jiang Ting pressed the pause button, "The kidnapper repeated this sentence several times when he was negotiating with Shen Xiaoqi's father. According to my memory, the voice tone during each repetition was thick and low, and the fluctuation was very flat. The word 'le'[1] was used as a question without raising the voice at the end of the sentence. It was more like a mechanical tone without emotional factors."

Yan Xie nodded.

"But when you started negotiating with the kidnapper, his voice changed." Jiang Ting canceled the pause, and a clear "ha" came from the headset, followed by:

"I'm right here, come and catch me, I'll wait for you."

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Ting stared into Yan Xie's eyes: "He gave a very disdainful sneer before the provocation, and the end tone was obviously raised. What do you think this means?"

Yan Xie murmured, "Emotions."

"Yes, the tone that was mechanically flat just now suddenly became emotional, and then continued on."

"If you can't get the money, it means you don't want this child's life!... That little brat was unlucky, so he is tied up, .....You want to spare one without spending any money? Dream on!..."

Jiang Ting pressed pause again.

"If you don't know the background of the kidnapping case, and completely remove the blood-soaked T-shirt, white-tailed sea eagle, sky-high ransom, precise execution time, and other abnormal factors, and just listen to the above recording, you will have a preliminary idea of the kidnapper in your brain. What's it like?"

Yan Xie pondered: "A greedy, vicious, ruthless traditional kidnapper."

Jiang Ting nodded in agreement: "Yes, it is traditional and typical." Immediately after he clicked to play the recording for the third time.

Following his movements, the electronic voice rustled out the last sentence left by the kidnapper, cold and emotionless: "Before the execution time... Twenty-nine hours."

The recording ended.

"Now." Jiang Ting said, "Remove the established image of greedy, vicious, and ruthless from your mind, and only remember this last sentence. Then contact the bloody T-shirt, sea eagle, sky-high ransom, etc. Did your judgment of the kidnapper change? Or is he still the traditional kidnapper?"

"..." Yan Xie suddenly looked at him.

The air on the command vehicle tensed bit by bit.

"No, he has changed." Yan Xie said softly, every word seemed unbelievable: "He has become... an executioner."

Jiang Ting's expression remained unchanged: "Or maybe, a cold-hearted execution officer."

"This kidnapper has always been elusive to the police because he expressed very contradictory intentions. But if we divide the kidnapper's abnormal behavior into two parts and treat him as two different characters, everything can be explained."