fear of intimacy

In the dark auditorium, only the lights on the rostrum are bright, firmly attracting the audience's attention, and no one pays attention to the faint movements behind the rear seats.

"Are you ready? Hurry up!"

"Not yet, brother, your head is too big, I can't cover it with my clothes!"

"Oh, your coat is too short, change it to mine!"

In the dark, the moment the tablet computer lighted up, a coat was swiped open, tightly covering the secret activities going on in the corner.

"Li San, hurry up and start!" The bright light on the screen illuminated the four faces flushed with excitement, and the senior sister rubbed her hands excitedly to urge.

Li San is a young man with a short hair holding a tablet. He was about to click on the video when suddenly an external force pulled the tablet, and a low battery reminder popped up on the screen.

"Hey, who's stepping on my charging cable!" Li San yelled under his breath, quickly lifted a corner of his coat and popped his head to look.

In the dim light, a tall, dark figure stood in the aisle, condescendingly watching the scene under the coat, silent for a few seconds, and said in a subtle tone, "Are you gathering a crowd to watch a movie?"

"Fuck!" Li San immediately waved the tablet at the sound when he heard the voice - the shimmer cast a shadow under the young man's tall nose bridge, his lips were light-colored and the corners of his mouth were straight, his eyes looked a little disgusted.

"Zhou Xu, don't look at people with colored glasses, this is a variety show!" Li San was dissatisfied.

The younger brother who supported the clothes warmly invited: "Brother Xu, come and join us!"

The senior brother next to him slapped his head with his knuckles: "You are stupid, when will Xiao Zhou condescend to squeeze in with us?"

Zhou Xu really didn't seem to be interested. He nodded in a polite manner, almost alienated, and then took half a step back to go around to the seat.

The younger brother curled his lips and put down his coat.The three heads hung down again to the edge of the tablet.

Li San stopped Zhou Xu: "Hey, it's the variety show of reasoning and solving crimes. Don't you really like watching it?"

Zhou Xu paused, raised his three heads again, and looked at Li San inexplicably.

"What's your name?" Zhou Xu asked back.

"Angel's Apartment Murder," Li San replied.

Zhou Xu's expression in the backlight was blurred, he paused for a while, and he bent down and got into the small base.

The classmates all had shocked faces: "!!!"

Zhou Xu usually didn't play with them, it was a bit of a flower in the high mountains, but at this moment, he suddenly appreciated the face, and the three of them were flattered, and immediately squeezed each other very respectfully, abruptly moving out of a clean and spacious "squatting position" . "Please please."

The screen illuminated Zhou Xu's cold and pale cheeks, and the corners of his lips were slightly pursed, like a speechless person who couldn't be called an expression. "...Thank you." The voice was very weak.

Li San clicked on the screen, and the video started to play——

In a hut similar to a conference room, five people sat around a round table, and one was writing and drawing on the whiteboard facing everyone with a marker while explaining.

The senior sister introduced to Zhou Xu: "This case is about a housewife living in a high-end apartment who was murdered at home. The suspects include her husband, her husband's lover, her former company's subordinates, the director of the orphanage and the apartment building. Get off to the clerk of the coffee shop. Now that the evidence is collected, we are entering the stage of clue analysis."

Drawing a tree diagram on the whiteboard was a young man in a white shirt and black trousers. His back was thin and tall, and he turned to face the crowd with a handsome face.

The senior sister held her heart together: "Oh my god, this is my male god Tong Lin! You must go and listen to his new single, a cappella-style rap, the whistle in the verse is so poisonous!"

At the top of the dendrogram is a photo of a woman, and her name is written in white handwriting below - "Wu this person".Extending down are photos of five celebrity guests, with their respective roles annotated next to them.

Tong Lin connected a line between her husband Jiao Huihui and her female colleague Ding Shangyou, and explained to everyone around the round table: "Just now Dean Gao said that her husband Jiao Huihui's motive for committing the crime is because his wife suffers from child-rearing depression. , Rang Jiao will also feel pressured and want to get rid of this kind of life. Then I will talk about Ding Shang's motive for committing the crime!

Because the husband couldn't stand it and changed his depressed wife, he cheated on a female colleague, that is, Ding Shangyou.Ding Shang, you are a well-known social butterfly in the company, and you have an affair with many people.So here comes the question, Ding Shang, why did you choose Jiao Hui as a stable partner? "

Tong Lin's marker pointed across the table to the guest seat, and threw out the question.

He was referring to a bright-eyed beauty in a nude leather dress. Her curly hair was long and loose, and the ends of her hair were wrapped around her fingertips. The straw-yellow hair revealed a little nail polish, which was beautiful and bright.

"This is my goddess, Ding Lanlan!" The junior brother who was holding up the clothes whispered excitedly.

According to the role relationship in the script, Ding Lan's seat should be close to her husband's, but judging from the arm distance of the chair, she is obviously closer to the other guest on the left.

"Fate comes as soon as it's said, and I'm caught off guard," Ding Lan said with a contemptuous look on his delicately made-up face, and even hummed a song, "Love comes too fast like a tornado..."

But Tong Lin interrupted her: "Falling in love with a married man? You've lost your morals. Besides, I still have evidence..." He held up a piece of A4 printing paper and signaled: "This is Ding On your pregnancy test report, it shows that you are three weeks pregnant. At the same time, I found Ding Shang on your mobile phone, and in the chat box between her and Jiao Huihui, I found that she has been instigating Jiao Huihui to divorce and remarry. Jiao I won’t complain that my wife’s illness has brought me a lot of pressure, and I want to escape from this house. It can be said that these two people have sufficient motives to attack Wu. My suspect is that Jiao Hui and Ding will have sex with you! "

After he finished speaking, the person in charge who was sitting at the round table facing the whiteboard raised his hand and rubbed his fingertips against the frame, and said, "Since two people doubt you in a row, then you are the one to speak next, Comrade Jiao Huihui, Give you a chance to defend yourself."

The costumes of the guests were all matched according to their roles. Only the host was wearing a well-tailored suit, with his fingers crossed in front of him, and the cuffs of his snow-white shirt neatly protruding. His temperament was incompatible with the office workers at this table.

This is Mr. Xin Hong, who plays the role of the new resident of the Angel Apartment. The senior sister explained to Zhou Xu.Xin Hong is an old drama player. He debuted as a child star and has acted in dramas for more than 40 years. Fan, middle-aged and popular again.

The male guest called by Xin Hong is Jiao Yuting who played the role of her husband Jiao Huihui.Jiao Yuting is a variety show star who is famous for his good looks. He is very lively and good at answering questions. He took the marker pen handed by Tong Lin and crossed out the exclamation mark next to his name—"I didn't say that, it's okay to have a bad relationship." Divorce, do you need to kill people! What kind of motive is this? Besides, I have been working at the company all day today, and I just came home. The alibi is sufficient! I should be the least suspect..."

He stretched out a hand beside Jiao Yuting, beckoning in front of Jiao Yuting's eyes, and then raised it to signal that he wanted to speak.It was the young man in the uniform of the dessert shop next to Ding Lan.

"Abetting others to commit suicide is also a crime of intentional homicide." The young man dismantled the scene with a smile.He had a rainbow candy printed on his face, and said such words with a smile, with a kind of innocent cruelty.

The senior sister became excited again: "This is my life, Chen Shu!!"

The senior brother was so frightened that he covered her mouth: "Keep down, do you want to call the boss?"

Jiao Yuting didn't understand what Chen Shu meant: "Huh?"

As a new player, Chen Shu was not stage-frightened at all, and calmly proposed an angle that no one had thought about before: "Don't forget, Wu himself stabbed himself in the heart with a knife handle at the scene of the crime, suicide cannot be ruled out." possibility."

The core contradiction of the detective variety show is to find the real culprit. There has never been a suicide case, and the guests present looked at each other in blank dismay.

Without waiting for everyone to ask questions, Chen Shu said: "Suicide can also have a murderer. If Jiao didn't use cold violence or verbal inducement to commit suicide because he rejected his depressed wife, he would also be guilty of intentional homicide. Therefore, Jiao Hui’s alibi cannot be established.”

Instigate suicide.

Zhou Xuhao's hand resting on his knee twitched slightly.

This is the first time the show has encountered such a situation since it was broadcast, and the guests were not sure whether this illusory method of instigating could be a way of killing people.If not, then Jiao Hui's alibi is true and impeccable, and the show would not set up an absolutely unsuspecting character.

Just when everyone hadn't recalled it, Xin Hong looked at Chen Shu through the lens, and first affirmed his thoughts: "Chen Coffee's point is very interesting, if you don't know how to focus, don't try to completely Take it out by yourself, and quickly tell your clues."

Jiao Yuting reacted: "Oh, ok. Uh, the person I suspect is Tongbufu. The clue is Tongbufu's phone chat records with colleagues in the company. My wife was Tongbufu's immediate boss before she left the company. Tongbufu is this person. As the name suggests, I am very dissatisfied with my wife. A woman told him what to do, and said a lot of bad things about my wife when chatting with colleagues. After my wife left, the company transferred someone else to take over her position. I am very dissatisfied with it. He feels that the boss After leaving, it was his turn to take over.

Just three days ago, someone told me that my boss was about to be transferred, and I felt that it was his turn now. In the end, something bad happened. She wanted to go back to work, but the company's top management agreed to reinstate her after discussion.Disagree and fail again.In the chat records between him and his colleagues, the words were angry and expressed strong resentment towards my wife.I think that's his motive for killing. "

Tong Lin challenged him: "What about the evidence? Tell the evidence, don't swear."

"The evidence is a USB flash drive I found in your office," Jiao Yuting said confidently, "Your USB flash drive recorded a video of you following Ding Shang, and the date is today. Ding Shang, you asked for leave today to go to the hospital for a pregnancy test. You found out about me and Ding Shang, so you secretly followed Ding Shang to get evidence. At the end of the video, Ding Shang came to Angel Apartment in the afternoon and opened my fingerprint lock, which means that you must have appeared at my house this afternoon. As for who killed my wife, you or Ding Shang, I don't know."

After Jiao Yuting finished talking about his doubts about the dissatisfaction, it was Chen Shu's turn next.He stood up, took the markers, walked to the whiteboard, and began to explain his ideas in an orderly manner.

"My suspect is Dean Gao. I found a lot of clues in Dean Gao's room. First, she claimed that Wu invited her to a party after six o'clock in the afternoon, but according to the chat records I found in her mobile phone , this person Wu actually invited her to meet at four o'clock in the afternoon..."

The female guest sitting next to Jiao Yuting raised her hand to interrupt him: "But I have something to do in the afternoon, so I made another appointment."

"The process is like this, but you sent a message after four o'clock to say that you hope to make another appointment, but Wu did not reply to your message. It is not impossible to say that you directed and acted on your own after committing the crime. "

The female guest Gao Yingying who played the role of Dean Gao interrupted again with staring almond eyes: "I have a video of checking in at the Internet celebrity restaurant at four o'clock in the afternoon."

Jiao Yuting responded in surprise: "You are a 58-year-old old lady, and you still follow the trend?"

Chen Shu continued: "The old lady is very good at playing with her mobile phone, and she can also change her face with AI. After restoring the video of your restaurant check-in, it was found that it was actually sent by someone else. After you borrowed it to change her face As your own alibi. So where exactly are you this afternoon?"

The suspect routinely asks: "It doesn't matter where you are, if you say I murdered Wu, do you have evidence?"

Chen Shu picked up a photo album on the table, opened it and showed it to everyone: "This photo album records all the experiences of every child in the orphanage from admission to adulthood. Please see the photos marked with red crosses. You can find detailed information on the people in the photo on the back. By looking for common ground, it is not difficult to find that these crossed children have gained a decent life after leaving the orphanage, and their economic income belongs to the middle and upper classes. This page—— Wu's photo was also crossed out. Is it reasonable to suspect that Dean Gao is cleaning up those people who got a better life after leaving the orphanage?"

After listening to Chen Shu's analysis, Jiao Yuting immediately dragged the chair away from Gao Yingying, with an exaggerated startled expression: "Wow, you woman! What kind of mentality, can't you see others?"

With an inscrutable smile on his face, Chen Shu sorted out his clues slowly, carried him back to his seat and sat down.

Next it was Ding Lan's turn.When she was standing together, her appearance was a bit wrong——

"Huh? Isn't this our Shu Bao's apron? Why is it on her?" The senior sister was puzzled.

It was about Ding Lan's waist with a light brown apron, and a milky coffee garland flower on the front, which didn't match her sexy leather skirt at all.

A replay was given later.It turned out that during the evidence gathering stage, Ding Lan was inconvenient to move in a leather skirt with high slits, so Chen Shu lent her his apron.

Ding Lan is also a new player, but she is not as stable as Chen Shu. She still needs Chen Shu to give her a prompt on the stage.

"Uh, my suspect is Chen Coffee. Because he has worked downstairs in the Angel Apartment for two years, and has a good relationship with Wu, so good that Wu often invites him to his house. If he suddenly doesn't Please come and visit Wu, I think Wu will definitely open the door for him..."

"Motivation." Chen Shu covered his mouth and reminded in a low voice.

"Oh yes, the motive is the high school loan documents owed by Chen Coffee and a diamond necklace that I found in the coffee shop. In the photo taken with Chen Coffee before the victim Wu, this is what Wu wore around his neck They found a diamond necklace, but they were not at the scene of the crime, but were found in Chen Coffee's shop. I think Chen Coffee's motive was to kill people for money."

"Evidence." Chen Shu continued to remind.

"Ah, the evidence is that I also found a pair of blood-stained sneakers in Chen Coffee's shoe cabinet. I think this is evidence that he has been in and out of the crime scene."

Ding Lang finally finished his speech after stumbling.

Xin Hong teased the two newcomers: "You two also help each other, Ding Shang, you suspect Chen Coffee, and ask the suspect to remind you to go through the process."

There was laughter in the meeting room.

Ding Lan couldn't help but leaned on the table and bent over with a smile.

When the video was put here, the senior sister suddenly woke up: "The boss is going to finish his lecture in 5 minutes! Hurry up!"

A few boys were watching enthusiastically, and she was taken aback.The senior brother was confused: "How do you know?"

"Nonsense, I have revised the boss's speech 99 times for him, and today is the hundredth time I reviewed it. No one knows it better than me!"

Hearing this, Li San turned off the tablet without saying a word, and the small space was suddenly dark.The junior brother put away his coat in the dark, and the senior brother and the senior sister bent over and buried themselves behind the front seat and groped back to their own seats.

Li San grabbed Zhou Xu's wrist: "Hey, they've passed, you can sit next to me."

Zhou Xu withdrew his hand and sat down silently without saying a word.

In the next second, the lights in the lecture hall were brightened.

"...So, hypnotism is not a miraculous witchcraft. It also has many limitations. There are more rules, and a short lecture can't finish it. Thank you for coming." On the podium, the speaker put down the microphone, He bowed deeply to the audience at the edge of the speaking platform.