"Dead: Gong Wei, male, 45 years old, current captain of the Criminal Investigation Team 2."

"Yesterday, my former subordinate, Li Ze, disappeared after taking over the shift. This morning, his wife called the bureau to ask for leave. This afternoon, a citizen called the police and said that a male corpse was found in a pond on the outskirts of the city. It was confirmed to be Gong Wei."

"The medicine bottle found on him was found to match the substance found in the suspect's body after testing."

The police officer who gathered the materials took out a glass medicine bottle from the evidence bag, which still had a little transparent liquid left in it.

"What was the cause of death?"

Mu Yuan asked.

"The cause of death was confirmed by the medical examiner to be drowning. The estimated time of death was around 8am this morning. There were no obvious signs of a fight on the body, and no drugs were detected in the body. It is tentatively determined to be suicide."

Mu Yuan: "Has the surveillance been restored?"

The police officer replied: "With the help of Consultant Qi, the surveillance has just been restored. It has been confirmed that it was Gong Wei who entered the material room last night and poisoned the ingredients."

"Li Ze's suspicion has been cleared for the time being?"

"No," Mu Yuan turned the pen in his hand, "I haven't asked him why he deleted the surveillance footage. He has been cleared of the suspicion of poisoning, but he is not suspected of being an accomplice."

"..."

trial room.

"Li Ze, do you have anything else to say?"

Li Ze looked at the restored surveillance video and was silent for a long time before speaking.

"How is Captain Gong now?"

The middle-aged policeman looked at the female police officer who was recording.

"he died."

"What...what did you say?"

Li Ze's voice was full of disbelief, and the middle-aged policeman added fuel to the fire.

"He committed suicide this morning."

"Impossible! How could he commit suicide? He has a wife and children to support, he can't possibly..."

Li Ze suddenly realized something and closed his mouth. His pupils rolled around in his eye sockets and he almost trembled.

"What do you know? Li Ze, do you have anything to do with this matter? Why did you help Gong Wei cover it up? Are you an accomplice?"

The middle-aged policeman pressed forward step by step.

"I didn't know... I didn't know it was poison..."

Li Ze covered his face with his hands, his voice choked and defeated.

"...I don't want to see my master being ruined because of this, so I deleted the surveillance video. As for the rest...I don't know."

When asked again, Li Ze started crying, shaking his head and just said that he didn't know.

"Advisor Qi, do you think what he said is true?"

The police officer stood outside the one-way glass and asked Qi Yan, who was looking through the autopsy report beside him.

"It should be true."

Qi Yantou didn't even raise his head.

"Is it true that he doesn't know?"

This time Qi Yan did not respond immediately. She flipped through the high-definition photo of the corpse without changing her expression and calmly said something nonsensical.

"He has a family too."

"?"

The police officer didn’t understand.

Qi Yan had no intention of explaining. He picked up the report, stood up, and asked as he walked out.

"How was the body found?"

"It seems that a citizen went to a pond outside the city to fish and happened to get hooked on the body."

"Wild fishing? In this weather?"

"right……"

"Miss Qi, long time no see."

Suddenly, a cheerful male voice with a strong nasal tone was heard.

A middle-aged man in casual fishing clothes and a bucket hat turned around.

Behind him, one on each side, stood two bodyguards in suits and leather shoes, which looked quite a grand occasion.

“This is the person who reported the case.”

The police officer whispered a reminder beside him.

"Sir, I don't remember ever meeting you."

Qi Yan responded to the other party's greeting.

The middle-aged man smiled brightly and spread his hands.

"Look, it's only been a short while since we last met, and yet you're already so distant. Have you forgotten? A few years ago, you worked for me as an errand boy, and in the blink of an eye, you've become even more beautiful."

He looked her up and down and nodded with satisfaction.

Qi Yan did not seem offended and just raised her hand slightly. The police officer left tactfully.

The middle-aged man also cooperated and asked the bodyguards behind him to step back a few steps, and suddenly there were only two sides left in the hall.

Qi Yan took a step forward, very close to him, and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Mr. Duan, you did this, didn't you?"

She shook the autopsy report in her hand, and Gong Wei's cause of death was still clearly visible on it.

Duan Pengbo still smiled: "You want to trick me? Let me guess, do you have a recorder in your pocket?"

Qi Yan stood up, his clear eyes darkened, "You don't have to deny it, I don't have any monitoring equipment."

Duan Pengbo always loved to laugh, and he had many laugh lines at the corners of his eyes, which were now wrinkled so deeply that they sank into his skin.

He opened his mouth slowly and spoke silently.

——'It's me.'

Qi Yan's eyes changed color, and she clenched her hand holding the autopsy report, staring at his smiling face that was wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, without saying a word.

"But you have no evidence, what can you do to me?" Duan Pengbo seemed to be challenging him. "I have witnesses and sufficient alibis. He committed suicide, and the police will only close the case this way."

"Heh," Qi Yan sneered, "You are really lawless."

"Same here," Duan Pengpu said modestly, "I'm still far behind you in forcing Mr. Han to death."

"..."

Qi Yan straightened his lips and glanced at the fishing gear piled beside him.

Since he dares to show up blatantly and even provoke, it proves that he is not afraid of investigation.

Qi Yan withdrew her gaze, not wanting to waste time with him, but Duan Pengpu stepped in front of her like a amiable elder.

"Since we've met, why don't you go have a meal with your Uncle Duan? After all, he was my subordinate before, so you shouldn't be so rude to me, right?"

"You want to poison me too?"

Qi Yan smiled.

"I do want to."

Duan Pengpu also laughed.

"It would be great if you were just an ordinary soldier or a policeman."

He shook his head, that would be much easier to deal with.

Qi Yan's smile turned cold, "That's a pity, I'm not."

After saying that, she strode away without waiting for the other party's response.

Duan Pengpu looked at her straight and indifferent back with great interest, and couldn't help but sigh that time passed so quickly.

Suddenly he turned to the bodyguard and asked, "Am I old?"

Two bodyguards: “……?”

"How could that be, sir? You are always young, and look like a 20-year-old boy."

"Yes, yes, sir, you look very young, you can't tell your real age at all."

The bodyguard was obviously used to this kind of flattery and adapted to it very well.

Duan Pengpu enjoyed it very much. He was visibly in a better mood and even started humming a song.

"I also feel like I'm pretty much the same as when I was twenty years old~"

"..."

Imperial City Public Security Bureau.

parking space.

Shen Rao stood in front of a low-key car and swiped his phone. He looked up as if he sensed something, and when he saw Qi Yan coming out, his dark eyes suddenly lit up and he waved at her.

"Ayan!"

Qi Yan's originally tense expression relaxed when he saw his somewhat silly behavior.

She hurried forward, opened the car door for him, and scolded him.

"It's so cold outside, don't stand outside the car waiting for me next time."

As Shen Rao was pushed into the car, he smiled and said, "I want you to see me the first thing you see when you come out."

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