sneak peek

Gu Yexi stared blankly at Pan Weiren, who had been chattering for nearly two hours. On the surface, he seemed to be still listening, but inside he didn't know where the wandering spirit had gone.

Gu Yexi thought to himself, why on earth would I have such a talkative master? ? ? ?

Two hours ago, Gu Yexi was dragged by Pan Weiren to the office to listen to his speech. It is said that he had a lecture on Monday and wanted to rehearse in advance so that Gu Yexi could act as the audience.What Pan Weiren said, Gu Yexi didn't listen to a word. At the beginning, he was thinking about the case, but after listening to it for a while, he became sleepy. soul.

Gu Yexi looked at Pan Weiren's mouth opening and closing, and remembered the goldfish he raised when he was a child.At that time, he was only 6 years old, or 7 years old, or a little older. He didn't have a good idea of ​​age, anyway, he was raised in elementary school.He didn't remember why he wanted to raise goldfish at that time. It might be because he was bored, maybe because his deskmate was raising it, or maybe it was bought by his parents as a gift for him. In his memory, this story didn't have a beginning, and the opening scene was him staring at looking at a goldfish in a goldfish bowl.He only has two impressions of goldfish, one is very smelly, it is the kind of smell that makes you have no appetite and is only suitable for smelling when losing weight, and the other is their stupid mouths that seem to never close .The goldfish died later and was buried in mother's flower pot by Gu Yexi.

It would be great if Pan Weiren became the goldfish he was when he was a child, Gu Yexi thought, although his mouth was open, at least there was no sound.

Seeing that Gu Yexi was distracted again, Pan Weiren took the speech and tapped him on the head, "Concentrate!"

Gu Yexi was aggrieved, "Your little Momo is also in the bureau, why don't you look for him, but me? He is a good student, and he must listen to you seriously."

Pan was justified, "Isn't he investigating the case?"

"Ahem, did you forget something? We are in the same team, and I'm still the captain. I'm also investigating the case."

Pan Wei had a stern face, "Why, do you have a problem with my master now?"

Gu Yexi smiled wryly, "Don't dare, you continue."

Pan Weiren pushed his reading glasses and continued talking, not knowing if it was on purpose, and his saliva started to fly.

Gu Yexi frowned, looked at Pan Weiren on the other side of the desk, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, thinking of something.

He stood up with a "whoosh", which frightened Pan Weiren.

"What's wrong?! Want to rebel?"

Gu Yexi didn't care about explaining, so he blew a kiss to Pan Weiren, and was about to go out, "I know what the murderer is thinking! Ju Pan, I found your speech very inspiring! Listening to what you say is worth reading ten times." Year book. Your speech on Monday must be a success!"

Pan Weiren:? ? ? ?

Gu Yexi ran back to the office excitedly, startling Meng Ning and Mo Wang.

Meng Ning: "Hey, why is the boss so happy? Bureau Pan finally reimbursed you for your meals?"

Gu Yexi waved his hand, "It doesn't matter whether the food is paid or not, I know what the murderer is thinking!"

He picked up a glass of water and drank it down, and said: "Think back to the two murder scenes. There are chairs placed on both sides of the desk. The deceased is wearing a suit. It seems that the deceased is in the office of the company's management. Boss, is the murderer a subordinate?"

Mo Wang nodded, "Well, indeed."

Gu Yexi: "The murderer is a person who is unhappy in the workplace. He obviously has a lot of experience, but he has been stepped on by others all the time. Seeing that his peers have become managers, even those who are younger than him have become his boss. He is still at the bottom and listening to other people's lectures. Every time he sits on the chair in front of his boss's desk and listens to his boss beep beep, he starts wandering. He fantasizes about putting a plastic bag on his boss's head and killing him. He won't hear any more sounds."

Mo Wang and Meng Ning thought about what Gu Yexi was doing just now, and suddenly worried about Pan Weiren's life.

Gu Yexi glanced at Mo Wang, and immediately said: "I didn't mean to kill Pan Ju, I just thought about it, I was just thinking, goldfish."

Mo Wang: "Goldfish?"

Meng Ning: "Goldfish???"

Gu Yexi: "Uh, hey, isn't that the point, okay? The point is that the murderer has this in mind, and his preference is obvious, a strong leading man in his 30s."

Meng Ning spread his hands, "What you said is very reasonable, but there are too many middle-aged men who are unhappy in the workplace, where to find them? How to screen?"

Gu Yexi blinked, "Uh, well, um... By the way, how did you screen the wounding cases?"

Meng Ning: "In the past two months, there have been five cases in which the victim was knocked unconscious in an alley. After waking up, they found that their wallets and mobile phones were lost, so they were all treated as robberies. The first one injured The victim has never woken up, and is still lying in the hospital. I looked at their statements, one was in a coma for a shorter time than the other, and the last one woke up after being unconscious for half an hour. It seems that the murderer really practiced .”

Gu Yexi gave a compliment, "Great!"

Mo Wang added: "The last four victims all said that they were knocked unconscious while walking on the alley, and after waking up, they were all dragged to the innermost hidden place of the alley, covered with garbage or paper, The mobile phone wallet was taken away. The first victim was knocked unconscious because he hadn’t woken up yet, but he was also found in a hidden place in an alley.”

Meng Ning was puzzled: "This murderer should just practice his hands. Why did he drag him to such a hidden place and cover him with garbage paper? It's really worthless."

Gu Yexi: "He practiced his hands, not only to let himself learn to knock people unconscious but not to death, but also to control the time of knocking unconscious, so he dragged people to a hidden place, hid and watched, wanting to know When will they wake up? If they are allowed to lie where someone passes by, they will be easily spotted by passers-by and called the police and taken to the hospital. He has no way of knowing how long it will take for the victim to wake up after fainting."

Meng Ning: "The training object has been found, what should we do next?"

Gu Yexi stared at the profiles of the five victims for a while, raising his eyebrows, "The fourth is a college student?"

Meng Ning: "Well, what's the matter?"

Gu Yexi: "The other four people all seem to be about 30 years old in age, and they also look like strong leaders, so even if the murderer is practicing, he doesn't randomly find someone to kill, but he chooses according to his preference. Yes. This college student is not in line with his preferences, and it feels like something strange has been mixed in."

Mo Wang: "Do you think the murderer didn't do it this time?"

Gu Yexi tilted her head, "But from the details, they are the same person."

Meng Ning spread her hands: "sooooooooo?"

Gu Yexi: "I think this college student may have had a conflict with the murderer before he was knocked unconscious. The murderer thought he was going to practice anyway, so he attacked him. Let's go tomorrow and maybe we can find out something."

On the way home, Mo Wang kept sneaking glances at Gu Yexi, as if he wanted to say something.

Gu Yexi: "What are you doing? Are you thinking about the case? Are you obsessed with my beauty? Or are you worried that I will murder your Uncle Pan?"

Mo Wang: "You owe me an ice cream."

Only then did Gu Yexi remember the prize-winning quiz that was raised at the scene of the murder, and thought, this little curly hair must have been thinking about this ice cream all day, right? ? ?

Gu Yexi parked the car first, and the two went downstairs to the convenience store to buy ice cream.There was a freezer full of colorful ice cream, and the two rummaged through it like treasure hunters, and finally picked up the same ice cream, but with different flavors, Mo Wang's was cantaloupe, and Gu Yexi's was chocolate.

This is not a high-end brand of ice cream, it is a local product that can only be bought in this city, and the price is very conscientious. Gu Yexi grew up as a snack, and 30 years have passed, and the price has not increased by a dime.

Mo Wang and Gu Yexi looked at the same ice cream in each other's hands, and smiled at each other.Gu Yexi bought a big bag in one go, saying that it could be saved as a prize for the next time.

Gu Yexi licked the ice cream, "Do the kids of your generation also eat such an ancient brand of ice cream?"

Mo Wang: "We are not so old..."

Gu Yexi waggled her finger, "Three-year generation gap is not a lot."

"Do you think we have a generation gap?"

"emmm, this is a very interesting question, I think, at least not in appearance, hehehe."

Mo Wang took a bite of the ice cream and changed the subject, "Goldfish?"

Gu Yexi was stunned for a moment, "Huh? Oh, goldfish. Don't you think that when Director Pan made a long speech, his mouth opened one by one, just like a goldfish in a fish tank, with its mouth open, swimming around stupidly. ?”

Mo Wang imagined it for a while, then laughed, "Yeah."

Gu Yexi: "Don't tell him, otherwise he will cheat me again."

Mo Wang: "Does he often cheat on you?"

Gu Yexi rolled her eyes inwardly, "It's still the kind that is justified."

Mo Wang hesitated, "Is it okay to put me in your team?"

Gu Yexi scratched her stomach with a little guilt, "Well, it doesn't count."

"Really?"

"Ah."

"Have you ever raised goldfish?"

"Well, I feel that everyone raised goldfish when they were young, right?" Gu Yexi stuck out his tongue and licked the ice cream dripping on his fingers.

"Uh, you like goldfish?"

Gu Yexi looked at the sky and thought for a while, "Now that I think about it, goldfish are pretty ugly, especially those big ones. They are really ugly. They stare with eyes and mouths, and they are stupid."

He paused, then added, "It's really not about you, Uncle Pan."

"If so what do you like?"

"Is it an animal? Emmmm, a cat?" Gu Yexi looked silly with the ice cream on his beard stubble.

"Have you ever had a cat?"

"No."

"Why don't you have a cat?"

Gu Yexi shrugged, "No reason, I still like to stay at home every day, eating, drinking and playing games. You haven't seen me resign, have you?"

Mo Wang took out a tissue, "You have ice cream stuck to your face."

Gu Yexi held the ice cream in one hand, and a bag of ice cream in the other, and when he didn't have time to pick up a tissue, Mo Wang reached out and gently wiped it off for him.

There was something ambiguous in the air, burning silently, Gu Yexi felt a little embarrassed for the first time.But seeing Mo Wang's face as a good student, he felt that maybe he was thinking too much.

The next day, Gu Yexi and Mo Wang went directly to the college student's school to question him.The college student's name is Li Jin, and he is a third-year student.

Li Jin had classes all morning, Gu Yexi and Mo Wang sneaked into the classroom and called him out when the first get out of class was over.The students in the classroom saw two handsome police uncles suddenly appear, and the sleepy classroom suddenly became lively. Some people whistled and booed, and some took out their mobile phones and patted them.Mo Wang was a little embarrassed, and went outside the classroom to wait.Gu Yexi carelessly made a coquettish "V" to the camera.

Li Jin was a little confused, "What's the matter? Did you find my mobile wallet?"

Gu Yexi: "Well, not yet."

Li Jin: "So you caught someone?"

Gu Yexi: "Not at all."

Li Jin whispered BB in his heart: Then what are you doing here? ?Are you being handsome? ?

Mo Wang: "Your statement said that you didn't see the person who knocked you out?"

Li Jin: "He knocked me out from behind. I didn't even realize it. I just knew that my eyes suddenly went dark, and then I woke up in the garbage dump."

Gu Yexi: "Do you know how far the place where you were knocked out from the place where you woke up?"

Li Jin shook his head, "I was looking for a classmate that day. It was the first time I went to that place. I didn't know the main roads, let alone small alleys. I got lost when I was trying to find my way out. I wandered around in the alleys for a long time. "

Gu Yexi: "Did you have any conflicts with anyone that day?"

Li Jin was puzzled, "You mean, the person who robbed me quarreled with me that day and wanted to take revenge on me?"

Mo Wang: "It's possible, did you quarrel with someone that day?"

Li Jin scratched his head, "Uh... I was on the subway that day, because it was crowded, I accidentally stepped on a person's foot. I was going to apologize, but that person stared at me fiercely. Said I did it on purpose. I got angry, who stepped on you on purpose. This car is so crowded, even if I step on you, you don’t have to look at me with eyes that kill the whole family? So I muttered a few words, he I was not happy, I saw that the momentum was wrong, and someone got off the car next to me, so I moved to a position far away from him. I don’t know if this counts?”

Mo Wang: "When you got off the car, did he get off with you?"

Li Jin shrugged, "I was playing with my phone all the time, so I didn't pay attention to him."

Gu Yexi: "Do you remember what he looked like?"

Li Jin shook his head, "It's been two weeks, I don't have any memories, I just met him once, I just remember his fierce eyes."

Gu Yexi walked out of the teaching building while calling Meng Ning, "Ning, adjust the day Li Jin was knocked out, he was on the subway surveillance, he said that he stepped on someone's foot shortly after getting on the train, and the two got up together If there is a conflict, I suspect that person is the murderer."