Human ladder

At 12:30 in the morning, 48 hours had passed since the first homicide, and [-] hours had passed since the second homicide.

The established task force office is now arguing endlessly. Lu Qicong insists that the source of drugs is not the whole point of the case, but Zhao Feng insists on it.

Lu Congqi, a junior living in a crack, didn't plan to fight, holding a bucket of instant noodles and staring at the monitor intently.

In order to be airtight and more secure, the clubhouse only has one camera in the corridor. To be on the safe side, they retrieved the surveillance records of the three days before and after the incident.

Lu Congqi's eyes were sore, he raised his head and moved his eyes.

"How many times have I said that holy meat is spreading throughout the market now, and there is no fucking number. What are you looking for?"

Lu Qi was smart and obviously in a hurry.

Zhao Feng argued with Lu Qicong red-faced: "Holy meat is expensive, use this to kill people? Or kill a nameless person who doesn't even have a fucking ID card?! Old Lu, are you okay?!"

Lu Congqi yawned tiredly, raised his wrist and looked at his watch: it's been 10 minutes, and it's been 10 minutes since we quarreled.

"See what the doorway is?"

The newly hired network security expert seemed to have a good impression of Lu Congqi. Seeing that Lu Congqi was sleepy, he came over to talk to him.

Lu Congqi shook his head, sleepless until now, and his will is a little bit sluggish: "The one in Zhongyan went to the toilet, and he must have staggered back after drinking too much, Nuo, look."

Lu Congqi skillfully dragged the progress bar to the middle and showed it to Xu Linqing.

Xu Linqing squinted his eyes for a while, and found that there was no way out, he shook his head helplessly, and said with a headache: "The Mirage website doesn't need registration at all except for the key, and now we only have this computer from Yan. , it may be very difficult to enter other entrances."

After a while, Xu Linqing didn't dare to confirm it himself, and said suspiciously: "I just think this website appears a bit abrupt...how could it be exposed in front of us?"

Lu Congqi thought about it, and he also had this doubt in his heart.

Everything was arranged by coincidence. If Yan's entry into that website was accidental, why was it precisely the video of the No.1 dead person?

And why didn't the murderer close the webpage when he was about to leave after clearly having killed someone?

And why did the murderer happen to die in front of him so coincidentally when he and Zhao Feng acted together—becoming his stepping stone.

How did Mingxun manage the timing of all this?

Could it be...Zhao Feng is also the person he arranged?

Lu Congqi looked at Zhao Feng who was drinking water with his head up, and his doubts became even more serious, but Lu Congqi didn't dare to tell him about the doubts, so he could only keep it to himself.

The office was quiet for a while.

For the time being, only the monitoring four-speed wheel on the computer is left.

"Well, it took so long for the FBI to destroy a 'Silk Road', and then Silk Road 2.0 emerged one after another, just like underground cockroaches, when you find one, it means there are thousands of them Cockroaches are under your feet."

Xu Linqing should be an occupational disease who is used to lecturing, and now he can talk endlessly for half an hour if he catches anyone.

Lu Congqi ignored Xu Linqing's words, and clicked Enter to check the surveillance again.

Staring at something for a long time can easily lead to visual fatigue and preconceived ideas in the brain. If you think you are familiar with it, your brain will automatically fill in the next scene.

Lu Congqi was afraid that he would miss something, so he divided the entire video into different modules like a jigsaw puzzle, and after the last few times, he pieced together a complete graphic.

He looked intently, his face was getting closer and closer to the screen, and from the perspective of others, it was almost pasted on the computer screen.

"..."

Seeing that Lu Congqi could just ignore him as a living person, Xu Linqing felt bored and kept silent.

In the end, it was Sun Tzu Ang who saw that Lu Congqi was working blindly by himself, and couldn't help but said, "Congqi, don't look at it, judging from the surveillance cameras you got back, Yan's indeed appeared on the night of the crime at the place that was agreed upon in advance." The private room——Yunshuijian, the whole clubhouse is just that one Yunshuijian, what’s there to see?”

Lu Congqi subconsciously denied: "No."

Because he denied it too firmly, he intimidated everyone for a while.

Everyone thought that Lu Congqi had made a new discovery, and they stretched their necks and waited for Lu Congqi to continue his analysis.

However, Lu Congqi finally suspended the monitoring, and then leaned on the chair in a daze for a while.

Sun Ziang encouraged him intentionally: "What did you find? Can you tell us about it?"

Lu Congqi pointed to the screen and said, "There is only one monitor for the entire corridor, and the layout of the corridor is symmetrical with rooms. The corridor is 20 meters long, and the distance between each room is about two meters."

After staying up most of the night, everyone got nothing, and now they managed to catch someone who had something to gain, and they didn't have time to listen to Lu Congqi here, so they urged: "So?"

Lu Congqi looked up and said, "What if there is more than one cloud and water space from the beginning to the end?"

Everyone present was experienced, and it was only because of his 'brainless bravery' that a green-headed idiot could come in from Congqi, so most of them made sense.

"You mean, it's not the corpses or those big living people who dropped the bag, but the private room?"

Lu Congqi clicked on the computer screen - the doors of the private rooms in the entire corridor were closed, it looked like copy and paste at first glance.

Lu Qicong was very clear about their initial deployment, and said directly and firmly: "Impossible, Yan will tell him..."

Lu Congqi interrupted in an orderly manner: "Team Lu, Yan's report is Yunshuijian, right? He's inside, and you look for it by name outside. How would he know that you're looking for it wrong?"

All those involved in the initial operation fell silent.

Sun Ziang followed Lu Congqi's thoughts and immediately understood: "This Yunshuijian is different from the Yunshuijian we entered. The one we entered from the beginning was not a private room, and they did not exist. Who will go to the building to talk about it?"

"No, didn't Yan come out to go to the bathroom halfway through?"

Lu Congqi was a little tired, and now his voice sank a bit: "This is why he was killed. When you are in an unfamiliar environment, will you remember the name of the private room or the location of the private room?" Location? For someone with a poor sense of direction, would they rely more on road signs than directions?"

Lu Congqi clicked on the video and dragged the video to the scene where Yan came out to go to the toilet and staggered back.

In the video, Yan walked to the door of a private room, looked up at the sign on the door, and then opened the door to enter.

Lu Congqi paused: "He looked up and confirmed the name."

Video continues.

Yan pushed the door, half of his body was still outside the door, but he didn't wait for him to enter, but after a while, Yan retracted his head again and took two steps forward.

Seeing this, you don't need to look down to know what's going on.

Yan's thought he was going wrong.

In fact, people who watched the surveillance video later thought it was just Yan's drinking and going to the wrong private room.

In fact, what he entered was the real 'Cloud and Water Room' - the private room that later became the scene of the murder!

Someone sighed faintly: "If he hadn't come out to use the restroom halfway, walked to the already adjusted cloud and water room in a daze, opened the door and saw something he shouldn't have seen... maybe he would have saved his life?"

Lu Qicong sighed, with mixed feelings in his heart: "Let's stop here today, let's go to the scene of the crime tomorrow to have a look, so the service staff in the clubhouse, including the boss, are very suspicious..." Lu Qicong frowned , asked Sun Tzu Ang: "To summon them today, what did they say?"

Sun Ziang handed Lu Qicong a document: "The record is here... the whole process is roughly, I am innocent, I don't know, I will cooperate."

"..."

Lu Qicong held the hand of the interrogation record and didn't want to read it any more.

"Let's go, and go to the scene tomorrow to confirm the possibility that Lu Congqi said."

Everyone responded feebly, but at least they all breathed a sigh of relief and pressed their stiff necks, packed their things and left.

Lu Congqi didn't have much to pack, and now he walked out of the office empty-handed.

In the middle of the night, the entire corridor of the City Bureau was extremely quiet. Except for the person on duty, there was no one in the corridor.

He stopped in his tracks and saw Lu Qicong standing in front of the window sill restlessly, avoiding the monitor and taking out a cigarette to smoke, but he probably came out in a hurry and was fumbling around for his lighter.

With a "click", a beam of fire was in front of Lu Qicong.

Only then did Lu Qicong raise his eyes, looking at Lu Congqi who was standing in front of him at some point.

Lu Qicong had a cigarette in his mouth, and silently brought the end of the cigarette closer to the flames, the restlessness between his brows was more clearly blurred by the flames.

Lu Congqi said softly, "It's fine if you can't bear it."

Lu Qicong looked around vigilantly, then rushed to Lu Congqi and shook his head irritably: "The website, cameras, and the layout of the scene are not in the plan... I don't even know what Yan's saw, they want to silence you .”

"There is someone playing tricks behind this case, and what Ming Xun wants is that guy."

Lu Congqi remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lu Qicong asked him: "Do you think this matter may have something to do with the person who offered you a reward?"

Lu Congqi's face was cloudy and indistinguishable, and he said flatly: "I think it's almost my turn."

A phone call came in, and the father and son had been busy working on the case for a day, and now they rarely hid in front of the window sill to smoke a cigarette.

Lu Qicong hung up the phone impatiently, and said to Lu Congqi: "No, I won't let this happen."

He actually wanted to sit down and have a good talk with Lu Congqi.

But Lu Congqi has moved out of his home since he went to university, even if he rented a house, he never came back, let alone a phone call.

Seeing that the atmosphere was just right, Lu Qicong asked, "When will you move back?"

His tone was flattering, with cautious expectation on his face: "You are willing to talk to me now, which means you have grown up too." Lu Qicong's expression was tangled for a while, and he pleaded desperately: "Dad knows it's wrong, I shouldn't have treated you like this at the beginning... Now you are sensible, right? Dad will let you get rid of their control..."

Lu Congqi extinguished the cigarette butt and flicked it into the trash can, his eyes reflected the lights outside, looking alienated and indifferent, like a piece of thick glass: "What's so bad about this? There is money to be made, there are official promotions, You don't need to work desperately to solve the case and catch the murderer, you just need to maintain the peace and stability on the surface." He saw Lu Qicong looking at him with strange eyes from the spark, and suddenly lost interest, stopped talking and said: "Pick up the phone. "

Then he walked out of Lu Qicong's sight without looking back.

Lu Congqi knew that Lu Qicong was watching him all the time, but he didn't have the slightest nostalgia for that home, it was just a house assigned to Lu Qicong, what kind of home was it.