"Keep to the side of the road..." Yu Lanchuan squeezed out a sentence through his teeth, "Stop the car."

The dilapidated jeep didn't even have a buffer, and stopped with a "squeak". Yu Lanchuan shivering opened the passenger door, got out of the car, and took a few deep breaths of the fresh mountain air.

The driver Gan Qing glanced out inexplicably: "Why did you get out of the car?"

This is a mountain road, with cliffs on both sides of the road. Yu Lanchuan was standing on the edge of the cliff, with a tragic back, as if he was about to jump down.

After hearing the question, Yu Lanchuan looked back at her faintly: "I want to adjust my mental state."

The author had something to say: "Well, I'm a novice driver in my internship period. I don't drive well. I just need to criticize and correct me." Gan Qing advised him, "Be more liberal, my cute master. It's not worth it to commit suicide."

.”

The cute host exploded on the spot: "As a novice who just got his driver's license two weeks ago, I can understand that you make mistakes - pressing the brake instead of the accelerator, parking sideways to occupy two parking spaces, using the wiper as a turn signal... it doesn't matter. But

I can’t understand why you started speeding since your internship! Playing drift! Don’t you think you are too precocious?”

Gan Qing: "..."

Yu Lanchuan: "Get out of here and hand over the steering wheel!"

Gan Qing: "Wait."

Yu Lanchuan: "You still have..."

Gan Qing suddenly pointed forward: "Look at that."

Yu Lanchuan followed her gaze and saw two embarrassed teenagers running towards their car. The boy in front was about fourteen or fifteen years old and had long flowing hair that would make the dean angry. The girl behind looked younger.

, I staggered along, and there were scratches on my face.

The two teenagers waved at them desperately and ran to the front of the car. The girl looked so tender and skinny at the sight, her face turned pale as she gasped, and she was speechless while holding on to the hood of the car. The boy looked at Yu Lanchuan.

He and Gan Qing turned around and spoke on behalf of the two of them: "Brother and sister, do you still have room in the car? Can you give us a ride?"

"Wait, why do you need to give me a ride?" Yu Lanchuan frowned, "Fortunately it's dawn now. If it had been dark just now, two people suddenly ran out of the mountain, and it would have been scary - where are you two?

For what?"

The girl glanced at the boy quickly, as if looking at his face: "We are..."

"We ran away from home together." The boy interrupted her quickly. As he spoke, he deliberately pushed back his half-length hair, exuding an aura that imitated the gangster movies of the last century, "

We didn't want to go to school anymore, so we rented a car and went up to the mountain to play - the cave scenic spot in front of us, you were going there too, right? Halfway through, the driver suddenly asked for extra money. We didn't want to spoil him, so we got out of the car.

Already."

"Hey," Gan Qing smiled and pressed against the car door, "You learned how to elope at such a young age?"

The boy's exposed hands and feet were tanned and his skin was rough. It looked like he was used to doing work. The girl next to him was panting and his legs were trembling constantly - this was many times for people who were not used to walking on mountain roads.

It was a reaction that would only occur when going up and down the mountain. But the boy only had a thin layer of sweat falling on his hair, his face was not red and he was not out of breath.

Gan Qing: "Which school do you two go to?"

The boy's eyes flickered quickly, and the girl next to him took over: "Yizhong."

"City No. 1 Middle School?" Gan Qing raised his eyebrows and turned to ask Yu Lanchuan, "Let's drive here from the city for six hours, right? What kind of chartered car can take six hours? I'll call one next time, too.

Don’t bother opening it yourself.”

"No, it's the No. 1 Middle School in the county," the boy immediately corrected, "There is also a middle school in our county."

He subconsciously avoided Gan Qing's smiling eyes, and quickly looked through the surface to see which of the two was really easy to talk to - he approached Yu Lanchuan and begged: "Brother, give us a ride."

Yu Lanchuan remained silent, patted Gan Qing, and the two of them changed seats as the driver and co-pilot: "We are going to the scenic spot..."

"We are going too." The boy said hurriedly, "We don't take up any space, and the trunk will do. You can just drop us in the county seat on the way back."

The girl looked nervous. While waiting anxiously for the car owner's answer, she looked back involuntarily, and her hands hanging by her sides were rubbing the seam of her pants unconsciously.

"Okay," Gan Qing spread his hands, "It doesn't matter to us, as long as you two are not afraid that we are bad guys."

Only then did Yu Lanchuan nod, cherishing every word like gold.

The Jeep looks dirty and old from the outside, but the interior is quite elegant. The inside is clean and spacious, not stuffy at all, with a faint scent of grass and mint floating around, and a bunch of dried flowers hanging on the rearview mirror.

A wool blanket was placed on the back seat, covered with a book of Gibran's poems. The girl carefully put the blanket and book aside, crossed the back of the seat, and looked back into the trunk - it was very lively in the trunk, and there was a tent.

, fishing rods, beer, picnic equipment, photographic equipment... There is also a guitar standing in the corner.

It has the flavor of "poetry, wine and singing".

The boy struck up a conversation and asked, "Where are my brothers and sisters from? Their accents don't sound like locals."

Gan Qing mentioned the name of a tourist town: "Have you heard of it?"

The boy was stunned, but the girl nodded quickly: "Well, it was very popular in the past few years. There are direct buses to many places. I often went there when I was a child."

Gan Qing: "We opened an inn there."

The girl relaxed a little: "What is the name of the inn? Next time I will take my family with me."

"The store has been closed and sublet," Gan Qing looked back at her and smiled, "We have lived here for nearly four years, and we are a little tired of it. We are planning to change places soon. We are going on vacation before we leave to see this province.

Let’s take a look at all the scenery and then go south.”

The girl's eyes lit up: "Can I still live like this?"

"The inn doesn't make any money, it's just enough to support daily life," Gan Qing laughed, stretched out his arm and put it on Yu Lanchuan's shoulder, "I mainly got involved with a rich man who can make anything from investing."

Yu Lanchuan: "Fuck you."

Before the girl could even smile, Gan Qing suddenly asked, "What's your name?"

The girl blurted out: "Jiang Ling."

"Jiang Ling," Gan Qing paused, a smile flashed in his eyes, and said with pretense of confusion, "Hey, I seem to have heard this name somewhere..."

"No... it's not that 'Ling', it's... the 'Ling' of 'Ling Dang'," the girl panicked and began to speak incoherently, "Many of us have the surname Jiang, maybe their names sound like..."

The boy pulled her hard, and the girl realized that she was getting darker and darker, and her face turned pale.

Gan Qing leaned on the back of the passenger seat and looked at her with a half-smile: "Hey, how do you know which 'Ling' I'm talking about?"

Before she finished speaking, Yu Lanchuan suddenly braked hard.

Gan Qing slowly turned around, tapping his knees with his fingers, his smile disappeared, and his eyes darkened.

This mountain road is very narrow, only about the width of two cars. Cars going up and down the mountain have to go here. If they encounter each other, they will pass by each other. But suddenly two parallel pickup trucks came down from the opposite side, fighting each other.

Come here and block the road ahead completely.

Immediately afterwards, there was a "chug" sound from the exhaust pipe behind them, and several broken motorcycles appeared out of nowhere, blocking their way back.

Yu Lanchuan glanced around and said word by word: "Run away from home?"

The boy pursed his lips into a thin line, and the girl collapsed and cried: "Help, please help me..."

This matter started two days ago. The father of the girl Jiang Ling is the head of the criminal investigation detachment of the prefecture-level municipal public security bureau under his jurisdiction——

Three days ago.

Police cars were stationed outside the mountainous town, ready to block any fish that slipped through the net. Suddenly, there was a shout not far away, and then, a group of lunatics who made themselves look like Death Eaters ran out of a small courtyard.

They split up and fled. Upon seeing this, the criminal policemen lurking everywhere immediately swarmed in, equipped with explosion-proof shields, batons, and stun guns, as well as several raiders armed with real guns.

This time, the provincial public security department issued instructions to carry out a province-wide unified crackdown on the cult organization "Elysium".

This "nirvana" especially likes to build dens in remote areas, trick some left-behind elderly people into becoming their loyal followers, and then use it as a base to expand along the route of "rural areas surrounding cities". If there is any disturbance, turn around and there will be no access to those roads.

Once the cockroaches are found in a convenient place, they will "spring again" in the coming year. Fighting against them is similar to eradicating cockroaches in the city. Spreading cockroach killers on each household does not work. The entire community and the city must be thoroughly eradicated before the cockroaches can be eradicated.

A few years ago. This time, the police had been planning for a long time and were well prepared. They cooperated across provinces, mobilized informants, and numerous bounty hunters. They also contacted a large number of local young people who had gone out to work and returned to their hometowns to work as "undercovers." They then concentrated their raids to eliminate this intricate cult.

Uprooted.

This den in the town is a key task. Team Jiang from the Municipal Bureau went to the scene to supervise the arrest operation and tried to catch them all. After a burst of coyote smoke, all the cult members were arrested and brought to justice. A total of 11 people were hiding in a den in the town.

In the local residence, the landlord is a believer and takes care of their daily life as if they are a god.

Team Jiang looked at it and saw that the number of people matched the information reported. He waved his hand and said, "Take them all away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a wizened and thin old lady rushed out and tied up two arms like reed sticks: "Don't leave! That's the Great Master! He's here to save us, what are you going to do!"

A criminal policeman said: "What a great mentor, aunt, that's all a big lie..."

The old lady spat in the young policeman's face and said viciously: "You will be punished!"

The policeman was caught off guard and did not move away. He stood there and touched his face, very surprised.

Captain Jiang saw from the corner of his eye that one of his children was being bullied and became furious: "What's going on?"

"They are an old couple. The house belongs to them. Their children are out of town. They have been sending money for more than three years and have never seen anyone. Their family is relatively wealthy. You see, they built this three-story building by themselves.

.This old couple only has a grandson beside them. They have no spiritual sustenance and usually have nothing to do. They follow these people all day long and fool around. They believe in their 'nirvana' and don't even care about their own grandson - the child skipped school for half a month.

I'm about to be expelled from school."

After hearing this, Team Jiang became even more angry and said, "Isn't that just harboring criminals? Take them away together!"

"Look at these two, they are in their 70s and 80s. You have to stay away from them when walking on the street. Who will be responsible if something happens to them when they are brought back? Should we detain the two harboring criminals, or should we invite one back?

What about the living ancestors? Captain Jiang, I think it’s better to focus on criticism and education.”
To be continued...