dead innocent

When the sun sets, the sunset is particularly bright red. I thought it would be a bright night tonight, but the sky has been covered by black clouds, but the moon has not risen, and there is not even a single star in the sky. The air is full of autumn. Since then, the cool air has become more and more obvious.

"got windy."

Su Wan closed the office window, turned around and leaned against the window sill, put her hands in the pockets of her white coat, and said, "It should rain tomorrow."

Yang Kaitai stood in front of her desk, holding a document and read it carefully, but still answered the question: "Have you checked the weather forecast?"

"That's not it."

Su Wan took her hands out of the pockets of her white coat, clasped the round nails of her left index finger, and said in a childish and cute tone: "At this time of the year, the cold air from the south will go north, and now—it's time to reach Yinjiang."

Yang Kaitai raised his head and looked at the dark night with brilliant lights outside the window behind her, as if he had thought of something, a pair of thick black and clear eyes were fascinated.

"How's Team Fu's injury?"

Su Wan asked while biting her nails.

Mentioning Fu Yi, Yang Kaitai's eyes flashed, he quickly lowered his head, and flipped through the documents in his hand: "...It's very serious. The doctor said that you can only walk on the ground after removing the thread."

Su Wan pretended to be old-fashioned and sighed: "The two captains walked away, injured, you are busy."

"Well, I'll take the report away, and you should—you can get off work."

Yang Kaitai opened the door, imitating Chu Xingyun's tone unskillfully.

Su Wan raised her head, smiled at him and bent her almond eyes: "Hey, thank you."

Yang Kaitai blushed, closed the door and left.

On the way upstairs, they saw Zhao Feng coming down the stairs, so they stopped at the stairs and waited for him a few steps.

"How about it?"

Yang Kaitai asked.

Zhao Feng spat: "My lord doesn't say anything, he's like a dead person. I'd like to see if he can exercise his right to remain silent in court. Is this Fang Yu's autopsy report?"

Zhao Feng wanted to take the information in his hand, but he raised his hand and dodged it.

"I'll ask him."

He rolled up the documents and climbed up the stairs a few steps, held the doorknob of a detention room on the third floor, frowned, froze for a while with a heavy face, then opened the door and walked in.

This room is more closed than the interrogation room. It is a small room surrounded by four walls. There is only a table and an iron chair in it. The extremely strong incandescent lamp is lit, and the hot and powerful light illuminates the small room. The light in the cell was several times brighter than the daytime.

Qin Xiao was sitting on that iron chair, with the baffle in front of him, his handcuffed hands resting powerlessly on the baffle, and he was indifferent to the sound of the door opening, closing his eyes as if falling asleep, and tilting his head to the side side.

Yang Kaitai closed the door, and first turned off the strong light that made people uncomfortable.As soon as the light source was turned off, Qin Xiao felt that the sense of light that had tortured him all day also disappeared in his mind. He opened his eyes, and the bright room returned to normal. His eyes, which had been stimulated by strong light for a long time, could not adapt for a while. Shaking black shadows floated in the air.

Later, he saw a face similar to Yang Kaitai coming to him, helping him remove the cold handcuffs on his hands.

He thought he was hallucinating, and when the brief trance passed, he saw that the person standing in front of him was really Yang Kaitai.

"are you hungry?"

Yang Kaitai also removed the baffle, bent slightly, looked at him and asked.

Qin Xiao seemed to be stunned, staring at him in a daze, without saying a word.

"My colleague said that you haven't eaten all the time. This is not good. You have to eat more. I'll get you something."

With that said, Yang Kaitai turned back and walked out of the detention room, leaving a door ajar.

Qin Xiao quickly woke up from his stupefaction. His handsome face was pale and his hair was messed up for a few days. The black shirt on his body looked like a rotten vegetable leaf. At this moment, he looked like a mess tramp.

He looked at the half-open door, rubbed the bloodstains on his wrists from the handcuffs, and felt an impulse in his heart.As long as he breaks out of this confinement room, he can regain his freedom.

But soon, the strong flame that was jumping in his heart was extinguished - Yang Kaitai's face flashed in front of his eyes, and the care and tenderness in his eyes, he hadn't seen that kind of look in Yang Kaitai's eyes for a long time, it only existed in their communication during those days.

All of a sudden, Qin Xiao had the illusion that Yang Kaitai treated him as before, and there was no more hatred between them.

That's right, he not only hates Zhou Shiyang, but Yang Kaitai even more. He will never forget how angry and resentful Yang Kaitai said to him at the door of the room where Zhou Shiyang died that day, "You can't pay for a thousand or ten thousand deaths." Zhou Shiyang's life! 'This sentence.

During the few days he was locked up in the police station, he was not worried about his final outcome, he was just thinking, if it wasn't Zhou Shiyang who was lying at the scene of death that day, but him.Will Yang Kaitai show the same anger, the same sadness, and cast a vicious curse on Zhou Shiyang with the same hatred for his death——

He hadn't found the answer until just now, when Yang Kaitai appeared in front of him, his caring and gentle way of treating him made him believe that he would.

So, he didn't want to run away.

A few minutes later, Yang Kaitai came back with a lunch box and a box of snacks.He closed the door gently, instead of sitting behind the table, he sat on the floor in front of the table, and then beckoned to Qin Xiao: "Come and sit."

Qin Xiao wanted to be vigilant, but his body seemed uncontrollable, he walked across to him, and sat down cross-legged like him.

Yang Kaitai handed him a disposable lunch box containing a few steamed buns, gave him a pair of chopsticks, and said, "Have some." After speaking, he unscrewed a bottle of drink and put it in front of him.

The smell of food awakened his long-sleeping intestines and stomach, and finally there was a desire to eat in his internal organs that were like steel.Qin Xiao is like a poisonous snake that has been sleeping for the whole winter, awakened by the softness of spring, and walks out of the cave to look for food when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.

He didn't use chopsticks, and ate the buns in a leisurely and unhurried manner, raising his eyes to look at Yang Kaitai from time to time.

Yang Kaitai seemed to have forgotten his existence, and flipped through a document in a white envelope.A few minutes later, from the corner of the eye, I saw Qin Xiao put down the empty lunch box, so he wanted to stand up: "There are still some outside, I'll get you some more."

"no need."

When Qin Xiao opened his mouth, he startled himself too. His voice was hoarse and tired, and he was no longer as energetic and arrogant as before, looking downcast and embarrassed.

Yang Kaitai sat back, his eyes as calm as water rested on his face, he picked up the drink bottle and handed it to him: "Drink some water."

Qin Xiao picked up the bottom of the bottle and drank half of the drink, when he suddenly heard him say, "We found Fang Yu's body."

Yang Kaitai spread out the document and turned to face him, speaking in a flat tone as if chatting with him: "Do you want to see it?"

Qin Xiao swallowed the drink stuck in his throat with some difficulty, lowered his head, glanced roughly at the white paper printed with typeface, and did not speak.

Yang Kaitai looked at him, his eyes were calm, his voice was soft, still with the clear boyish voice that he was familiar with and longed for, and said warmly: "Fang Yu was killed by cutting off her larynx. Her neck is full of your fingerprints. And there is your skin tissue under the fingernail of her right index finger."

Yang Kaitai told the evidence he left on Fang Yu's body in a gentle voice, but Qin Xiao kept his head down, indifferent, and even his eyes didn't change.

Yang Kaitai could tell that he was too cold and heartless.The ghost of a girl is not enough to knock on the door of his closed heart, make him lose his composure, and make him repent.

He suddenly stretched out his hand and touched Qin Xiao's right hand on his knee. Qin Xiao suddenly raised his head to stare at him, and subconsciously clenched his right hand into a fist.

Yang Kaitai lowered his plain eyes, a little force broke his defense and vigilance, pulled his right hand to his lap, found a cotton swab and alcohol from the bag he brought, and gently tapped the cotton swab soaked in alcohol. He smeared the circle of flesh on his hand that was torn by the handcuffs.

"You did it on the spur of the moment. You didn't prepare in advance, and you didn't want to kill her, did you?"

Qin Xiao watched him treat the wound on his wrist meticulously and gently, his eyes were turned upside down and dizzy for a while, he couldn't help swallowing, and said, "Yes."

"But your strengths are vastly different. Her struggle is useless to you. Even if you don't want to kill her, you can't change her fate."

"... I didn't detect her breathing, and I panicked."

Yang Kaitai lowered his head and blew lightly on the broken piece of flesh on his wrist, as if coaxing a child, his voice became softer and judo: "Are you afraid?"

Qin Xiao's throat rolled violently, as if he was eager to express something to him, he looked at him warmly and earnestly and said: "Well, I was very scared at the time, but that girl is dead, I can only find a way to deal with her corpse."

"I know."

Yang Kaitai put his hand on the back of his hand to comfort him: "So you brought her to the old town?"

"I had no choice. I picked her up in Zhou Shiyang's car. She also thought I was Zhou Shiyang who got in the car. I could only take her to the project site that Zhou Shiyang was in charge of."

"Why isn't Zhou Shiyang with you?"

"He drank too much and was drunk by me."

"Oh, that's why you went to find Fang Yu alone?"

"Ah."

"He must know about it, after all, you drove his car away."

"Yes, but he is also afraid and dare not speak up."

Yang Kaitai didn't continue to ask, the reason was very simple, because of Director Tan and the power of the Tan family.It was Zhou Shiyang's car that picked Fang Yu up, so Qin Xiao had [-] million ways to frame Zhou Shiyang.Later, didn't he do exactly that?He tried every means to pour dirty water on Zhou Shiyang.

"...how could he make a fuss?"

The cotton swab in Yang Kaitai's hand gradually came to rest, and he lowered his head and gave a very light laugh, his voice suddenly became low and sad, and said: "He is dead."

Hearing him mention Zhou Shiyang's death, Qin Xiao seemed to be suddenly awakened by a hurricane blowing away the fog in his mind, and looked at him in a daze, a little at a loss.

Yang Kaitai looked up at him and smiled.But he clenched his teeth, his eyes trembled violently, and the blood-stained hatred in his eyes made his facial features distorted and ferocious: "Qin Xiao, I will definitely let you be sentenced to death."

After speaking, regardless of his reaction.Yang Kaitai suddenly stood up, dropped the cotton swab in his hand, took away a video camera erected in the corner, and walked out of the cell without looking back.

The moment the door was closed, he heard Qin Xiao's wanton laughter from behind him.

"Haha, I knew it!"

Qin Xiao shook his head and laughed wildly as if feeling a little bit of emotion. His laughter was incomparably evil, incomparably insane, and at the same time incomparably joyful and incomparably sad.

Yang Kaitai stood at the door and couldn't help but froze.He was amazed how a person could make that kind of crazy and complex yet simple and warm laughter.

It was crowd laughter, not human laughter.

Then he heard Qin Xiao shouting loudly: "Sambo—Sambo!"

With a thud, he closed the door, and Qin Xiao's voice was never heard again.

Qiao Shishi, who was waiting outside the door, was taken aback by him, and rushed over to grab his shoulder: "Sanyang? What's the matter? Why are you crying!"

Yang Kaitai clenched his teeth and clenched his fists, his heartbroken grief made him convulse and tremble uncontrollably.

He had never been so sad before, and in the future—probably he would never be so sad like this again.