Be in low spirits

On the way back, Kong Zhixi said nothing. She still clearly remembered that the murderer cut her neck and walked away that day. Logically, she should have died that day, but now she had to catch the murderer who killed her by herself.

Until going to bed at night, Li Li did not dare to speak loudly to her, for fear that she would be upset again. He thought about it and felt that he was narrow-minded. He knew that she was hurt, but he was still angry with her. Now he could not find a way to ease the relationship between them. The situation was so tense, which was embarrassing.

In the morning, Li Li didn't see Kong Zhixi get up. He knocked on the door for a long time before she opened it. She sat on the bed wrapped in a quilt and said, "I don't want to go to work. I want to take a day off."

It's over now, I'm really scared. What if she never recovers from this? Will she never be able to get out?

"How about I accompany you?" Li Li was really worried.

"If I'm really dead, who would care?" Kong Zhixi suddenly felt as if everything had become meaningless.

"How can you say that? Don't we still have to find a way to get out?" Li Li walked into the room, found a place in front of the bed, and sat cross-legged.

"I thought of my father, my mother, and my work, but why have they all changed now?" As Kong Zhixi spoke, her eyes became red and tears fell.

Li Li was completely panicked at this moment. He didn't say anything, so why did she start crying?

He stood up and wanted to sit next to her to wipe her tears, but when she thought of sitting on her bed last night, her guard was suddenly raised and she didn't dare to do it. She bent over and raised her hands in the air, not knowing what to say to comfort her.

"Xixi, you...you are like this..." He hesitated and wanted to say something.

"Why do I still have to work when I'm in this condition?" Kong Zhixi felt more and more aggrieved and cried even louder.

"Xixi..." Li Li didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only sit next to her and accompany her.

She cried for a while, wiped her tears, looked at Li Li with tearful eyes and said, "I'm hungry."

Li Li nodded quickly and went to make breakfast.

After breakfast, Kong Zhixi returned to her cubicle, closed the door, and lay down on the bed to sleep.

Li Li was blocked outside the door. He sighed and whispered, "How come no one cares? Even if I care, can't you see it?"

He cooked at noon and knocked on the door for a long time to ask her to eat, but she refused to eat. He looked at the food and had no appetite, so he knocked on the door again and said, "Xixi, I'm going to go to the bureau. If you're hungry, just heat up the food on the table and eat it. I'll make dinner when I come back." After that, he packed up and went out.

Kong Zhixi opened the door and walked out. She took a look at the food but didn't eat it. She sat on the chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and rocked back and forth at the scenery outside the window, doing this from day to night.

Li Li worked until midnight. When he came back, he was dusty and pulled a stool to sit next to her. After a long silence, he finally said, "Xixi, the murderer has appeared. We..." Kong Zhixi was awakened all of a sudden. She opened her eyes and asked, "What?"

Li Li knew that this might be difficult for her, but this might be the only chance for her to cheer up quickly.

"The murderer has appeared, we don't have much time." In the darkness, neither of them could see each other's figures, only the sounds of talking and breathing.

"What exactly does he want?" Kong Zhixi couldn't figure out the murderer's motive.

"Are you...hungry? I'll make you something to eat. Have a good rest and we'll talk tomorrow..." Li Li hoped that she could cheer up as soon as possible.

"Let me do it." Kong Zhixi looked at the food on the table, and then looked at Li Li, who was covered in dust in the dark night. She felt a little distressed. What did he do wrong? After a tiring day, he still had to provide her with these false emotional values.

Kong Zhixi dumped the food into the trash can. Looking at the food in the trash can, she suddenly felt very sorry and tears began to flow like a tide. Li Li hurried forward to ask her what was wrong. She hugged him and cried, sobbing and saying that she was useless and wasted so much food.

This sudden hug and vulnerability made Li Li feel distressed. He remembered the scene of his mother having dinner with her before they got married.

My mother is a businesswoman and she puts profit first in everything, but it's different with her. She is looking forward to the two of them getting married. Every time she sees her daughter-in-law, she is all smiles and calls her "girl" all the time. At that time, I thought it was because she felt guilty for breaking up their previous relationship, so she urgently wanted him to get married as soon as possible.

Kong Zhixi was tired of crying on the sofa, so Li Li carried her to the bed, covered her with a quilt, tidied up the things in the kitchen, took a shower and went to bed.

In the morning, the two returned to the bureau. Li Li was responsible for checking the identity of the deceased, his address book, and his relatives and friends. Kong Zhixi went to the forensic room first and looked at the body.

Like the previous cases, the deceased was hung in the hotel room and was found by the cleaning lady. The cause of death was poisoning, oleander poisoning. I checked the hotel surveillance and saw the time when the deceased went in. I saw several suspicious people wearing hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps, with similar height and build. This is new. Others destroyed the cameras, but this guy actually found a few people to disrupt the view.

"This shows that he is not afraid of the police, but why did he stop for a while?" Kong Zhixi began to analyze. She felt vaguely that this might be related to her.

"This is a big headache. I'm afraid the family members will make a fuss." Li Li returned to the bureau, rushed to the forensic room and began to complain to the two people.

"Will you two die if you solve a case and then go back to the office to discuss it? Is it more interesting to discuss it around a corpse or what?" Lao Sui felt that these two people were becoming more and more alike. Solving a case was like eating, they either discussed it while chewing the food or discussed it around a corpse.

"Has the identity been found out?" Kong Zhixi turned a deaf ear to Lao Sui's words and asked Li Li.

"Well, a rich second-generation, an illegitimate child, his mother will probably come and kill him soon." Li Li looked very troubled. After hearing this, Kong Zhixi walked to the office, and Li Li followed closely behind.

She looked through the files from the day of the crime, checked the surveillance, and watched the images of the suspects for a long time. She looked up and said to Li Li, "Can we go to the scene again?"

Li Li took the car keys, waved his hand and said, "Let's go."

The scene was very peaceful, not like a murder scene. Only the cordon at the door told outsiders that something bad had happened here. The hotel's lobby manager followed the two men and stood guard at the door.

"What are the meanings of places like shopping malls, squares, and hotels? Datura, acacia, and oleander are all poisons... And you're not afraid of investigation? The dead are all rich people..." Kong Zhixi began to talk to herself. What do these clues mean to the murderer?

"The person who killed me was not the same person as him." Kong Zhixi said, staring at the hook on the ceiling.

"What do you mean?" Li Li asked.

"The one who killed me was that gangster. He was instructed by someone. It doesn't seem like he was well prepared in these cases against the rich people." She shook her head as she spoke, but she didn't understand why the murderer killed these people.

"There is a person mentioned in the case file who is very suspicious. We can go and check it out." Li Li squatted on the ground, checking the dust on the ground.

"Who?" Kong Zhixi also lowered her head.

Li Li glanced at the lobby manager standing guard at the door and said, "Bar owner."

"Let's go." Kong Zhixi put her hands in her pockets and walked slowly towards the door.

There were not many people in the bar during the day, except for a security guard who was taking a nap on a chair.

"Uncle! Wake up!" Li Li shouted a little loudly, then showed him his police ID.

"Hey, what's the matter? Tell me." When the old man saw that it was a policeman, he lost his temper.

"When does this bar open? Do you know the bar owner?" Li Li raised the bar sign with his chin.

"Isn't it written here? After 9pm, which boss are you talking about?" Although the security guard's tone sounded a little impatient, his attitude on the surface was gentle.

"Does this bar have many owners?" Li Li didn't expect this.

"There are several. One is surnamed Zhuo, one is surnamed Lin, and the other is surnamed Liu. Which one do you want to ask?" The security guard became interested at this moment, stood up, looked at Li Li and asked him.

"Will they all come here?"

"Not really. Most of the time he comes occasionally. Boss Liu comes here quite often, though. He's the person in charge of the bar. I heard that he contributed the least to the bar's shares, so he has to do more work." He sat down again now.