Chasing the Mist

After a rain, the humid air was filled with coolness, and when the wind blew, the coolness penetrated along the skin to the bone crevices. Gu Xun couldn't help shivering, tightened his clothes, put out the cigarette, and looked forward.

The low and dilapidated bungalows are laid out in a patchwork pattern. The narrow path stretches around, the muddy path becomes a ditch, and the red bricks in the mud are paved at intervals to form a path for people to walk. At the end of the alley is the residence of the Gao family and his son in Baicheng.

Gao Meiyue's death was like a thunderbolt splitting the Gao family. Gao's mother became ill and passed away a few years later. Gao Guochang didn't want to stay in the home full of memories, so he sold the land and brought his son to work in the city.

Gu Xun stepped on a brick, turned his head, and said without emotion: "Follow."

Lin Yiran's straight and slender legs moved forward quickly, so fast that he and Gu Xun stepped on a brick.

A small brick, standing two big men.

The two eyes came from two directions, and the moment they collided, there was only each other in their eyes, the wind stopped in the ears, and the humidity in the air dissipated. For a few seconds, it seemed as if there were only the two of them in the world.

Gu Xun looked away uncomfortably.

Lin Yiran could see the slight change in his expression. The leg he stepped out consciously moved backwards, wanting to return to the original point. As a result, he lost his balance and lost his balance on one foot. Xun quickly followed with the other leg, stepped on a brick surface with his toes, stood firm, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief, but Gu Xun's joking voice came from his ear.

"What are you doing? Throw yourself in your arms?"

"..." Lin Yiran realized that what he was holding was actually Gu Xun's belt, and his arms were around his waist, and his body was close to him, as if he was hugging him, so he quickly withdrew his arms.

"Stand firm." Gu Xun stepped forward, away from the brick.

The two walked forward on bricks for three to two minutes, and stopped in front of a dilapidated small wooden door. Half of the white paint on the door had faded, and the exposed logs had fallen off. The door will fall apart.

The three bungalows in the courtyard are arranged in a concave shape. The windows on the left and right sides of the houses have no glass, and the window frames are pasted with posters of the Four Heavenly Kings to provide shelter from the wind and rain. The leftmost house is the residence of Gao Guochang and his son. The door is not padlocked. He stepped forward and knocked, but there was no response. He opened the door and walked in. When he stepped into the room, the moisture immediately hit his face.

The house is low-lying, and the windows have no glass. In broad daylight, the room is pitch black, chilly and gloomy. There is a person lying on the bed stretched out, and the small snoring is very rhythmic. With gray hair on the temples, he must be Gao Guochang.

There is a thin rope at the head of the bed, and a key is attached to it. Lin Yiran had seen this kind of switch at a relative’s house when he was a child. He walked to the bedside, grabbed the key under the rope and pulled it down. With a “click”, the light turned on, and the whole appearance of the house was displayed. Come out, more than [-] square meters, kitchen utensils are placed on the table at the door, a gas tank stands under the table, a double bed, a simple assembled wardrobe next to the bed, and a few pairs of shoes are scattered on the narrow floor.

Gu Xun lightly kicked away the dirty shoes blocking the way, stepped forward and pushed Guochang up.

Gao Guochang turned over and ignored him.

"Get up." Gu Xun pushed again.

Gao Guochang opened his eyes slightly, and saw two tall young men standing beside the bed in the gap, he lost all sleepiness at once, and sat up from the bed, "Who... are you?"

Gu Xun showed his ID, "Police!"

Gao Guochang carefully looked at the documents for a long time, still half-believing, "There are thieves around here again?" The two young men are both over 185 tall, and they need to look up when talking to them. There is an indescribable crushing feeling, which makes people uncomfortable. Open the quilt to expose the bedside position for them to sit on.

Gu Xun didn't sit down, "Where's Gao Xilin?"

Gao Guochang is over half a century old, with a thin body. He only went to elementary school for three years. No record of his re-employment was found.

Gao Guochang blinked, thought for two seconds, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed them to Gu Xun and Lin Yiran respectively, and said with a smile, "Are the two police officers tired? Have a cigarette?"

Gu Xun didn't pick up the cigarette, "Where's the person?"

Gao Guochang slowly retracted his cigarette, "It seems that we have a date. I said that I went out to meet friends, but I haven't come home for a few days. What's wrong with my Xilin?"

"Did he say where to go?"

Gao Guochang shook his head, "No, I never intervene in young people's affairs... What happened to my son?"

"It's nothing. Recently, the Municipal Bureau launched a re-investigation of old cases. We were in charge of investigating the case of Gao Meiyue's suicide. That's why we came here. Don't worry." Gu Xun lied.

Gao Guochang let out a long breath, then lit a cigarette, smoked, and couldn't hide the loneliness in his eyes, "Everything has changed in 13 years, and there is no proof of death, what's the use of re-examination?"

Lin Yiran opened his mouth slowly: "I read the files back then, and the autopsy report showed that Gao Meiyue's virginal||female||membrane was old and ruptured, with slight lacerations. She was only 17 years old at the time. There are two reasons for this phenomenon. First, she had a boyfriend, and second, she had been raped, and she had scratches on her forehead. Combining these two points, the police suspected that she had been assaulted during her lifetime, but her roommate and class teacher said that she was under a lot of pressure to study. The mood is unstable, and I have seen her have close contact with boys outside the school. The police found the boy outside the school mentioned by the classmates. The boy admitted that he was dating your daughter and had a relationship, so he committed suicide and closed the case. You didn’t believe the police investigation at the time As a result, I went to the police station several times to call for injustice... What? Is it not wronged now?"

In the last sentence, Lin Yiran pronounced the words very heavily.

Gao Guochang's hopeless eyes suddenly burst into huge waves, and he shouted angrily: "Fart!"

After achieving the goal, Lin Yiran smiled lightly.

"I don't know what kind of daughter I raised since I was a child. Yueyue is very obedient, studies well and looks beautiful. The teachers like her very much. She ranks first in the county in the high school entrance examination, and she is the only one in the whole school who went to the city to study in high school." Speaking of his daughter, Gao Guochang's dry eyes gradually became moist, and his voice softened: "Even if Yueyue falls in love early, he must be looking for a good student with good character and learning, not that little bastard." While talking, he unconsciously fantasized The scene where the daughter grows up, finds an excellent partner, and lives an ordinary and happy life, but when it comes to that little bastard, the phantom scenes in front of him suddenly disappeared, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I asked that kid to argue, and I was beaten up by him. I secretly tracked him down and found that his family lived near the school, he graduated from a high vocational school and had no serious job, and he was never in the habit of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling at a young age, my daughter would never like such a boy, there is clearly something tricky in the middle."

Although Gu Xun had been with Gao Meiyue for two years, he didn't care about girls and gossip about the class at that time, so that he has no impression of those things now. If it weren't for this case, he still thinks that Gao Meiyue jumped off the building like the class teacher As I said, because of the heavy pressure of study, now I have been pushed away a little bit, and my heart is like a drifting rainstorm, which has chilled my heart.

Lin Yiran quickly picked out the key points from his broken words, "Besides that little bastard, who else are you following?"

"There are also Yueyue's roommates. Because of her boyfriend, the police heard from them. I suspect they are lying. If you reverse the case, don't let those three roommates go. I met one of them later. Girl, I met privately with the gangster and their class teacher, but unfortunately I didn't have a mobile phone at that time, so I couldn't take evidence to the police."

Gu Xun handed out a photo of Wu Shanshan and put it in front of him, "Is that her?"

Gao Guochang put on his presbyopic glasses, looked in front of his eyes, and took a closer look, "It's just her, she can't be wrong."

"Does Gao Xilin know about you following these people?"

Gao Guochang nodded, "My son was in elementary school at the time, and he was very sad when he knew that his sister had an accident. Our house is small, and we all sleep with the child. Usually, I chat with my wife, and he can hear everything. Let me beat you up, to be honest, I haven’t said those nonsense words in these years.” After a pause, he sighed, and then said: “When is the time for retribution, the bad guys will get their retribution sooner or later.”

While they were talking, Lin Yiran opened the zipper of the simple closet, and it was a mess full of men's clothes. He scanned it from top to bottom, and half of the silver metal was exposed at the bottom of the closet. He pulled it out to look at the latest ipad, and turned around and asked, "Is this a tall man?" Shirin's?"

Gao Guochang: "I bought it some time ago. I don't know what to use it for. He often watches movies with it."

There is no password set on the tablet, and Lin Yiran slides it open. There are only a few video software, and the playback records are all movies, "Memories of Murder", "Zodiac", "Black Dahlia", "Green River Killer", "Jack the Ripper"

Lin Yiran quietly stuffed the iPad into Gu Xun's hand.

Gu Xun glanced at it, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body. These movies were all based on real cases. He turned off his iPad, "We need to take this back to the police station temporarily."

When Gao Guochang heard this, he faintly sensed something, and quickly said: "That's not okay, you have to get his consent for my son's things, and you can't just take them away."

"Don't worry, I will tell him when I see him." Gu Xun took out a cigarette, handed Gao Guochang one, took two puffs, and said lightly, "Gao Meiyue's roommates were killed recently, do you know?" ?”

Gao Guochang stared wide-eyed, shook his head desperately, and couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes, "I...don't know." After a while, the surprise gradually turned into fear, "You...wouldn't suspect that I killed Are they? Oh, I followed them back then. Later, my daughter-in-law became ill because of her daughter, and my son was young, so I was left as the mainstay of the family. How can I care about the dead, since then I have never been to school, nor have I followed those students."

Gu Xun and Lin Yiran made eye contact and were about to leave, "Gao Xilin is back, call us."

Leaving the muddy path and getting into the car, Gu Xun didn't drive right away, he pressed the car window to smoke first, the air penetrated into the nasal cavity after the rain, and the internal organs felt refreshed, and the black clouds receded from the sky above the low square, revealing a Light blue, a rainbow appeared at some point in the light blue sky.

"Look at that." Gu Xun pointed to the sky, turned his head, his eyes fell into Lin Yiran's line of sight unexpectedly, but Lin Yiran did not look at the rainbow, but was looking at him intently.

Gu Xun felt an indescribable awkwardness, but he didn't hide or twitch. Instead, he looked up to Lin Yiran and patted his head, with a forceful tone: "Look at the rainbow, what am I doing?"

Lin Yiran was caught, and slowly looked away, blushing and saying: "Rainbow is not as good as you."

Gu Xun: "..."

He took a breath of smoke, coughed for a while, and slowly recovered after a while.

Throwing himself into his arms first, and then talking about love, the child has been so bold recently, if he continues to let it go like this, he will go to the house in a few days to reveal the roof tiles, he smiled to himself, turned sideways, squeezed Lin Yiran's chin hard, his brows were sharp, "even if you tease me When it comes to flowers, I don’t like men either, be honest with me, and get out immediately if you take advantage of it.”

Lin Yiran took the tip of Gu Xun's hand quickly, broke it off from his chin, squeezed it hard, lowered his head and kissed the back of his hand lightly, then raised his head and smiled slightly, curled his eyebrows and eyes, and said softly: "Okay, I'm obedient."

Gu Xun: "..." Is there anyone as obedient as you?

A burst of tingling electric current suddenly ran from the top of his head all over his body, Gu Xun immediately withdrew his hand, as if bitten by something, it hurt and itched, he was not in the mood to lose his temper, kicked the accelerator and jumped out, his mind was in a mess, and he almost broke At a red light, the car stopped before thinking of business, dialed Zheng Tiancheng's phone number, and soon a rough and loud voice came from over there

"Boss, I was about to call you when you called, we have a good understanding."

"Young poor, if Gao Guochang knew Gao Xilin's whereabouts, he would secretly report to him and arrange for two smart people to come and watch near his house."

"OK, I want to tell you that Meng Fan has been missing since the day Li Meng's case happened until now. There is no progress in interviewing and monitoring, and he disappeared for no reason."

"Where was the last place he appeared in the surveillance?"

"After Meng Fan got rid of our people, he took a taxi to Zijin Mountain. The driver who took him told him that he would go to Zijin Village after getting off the car. But we searched all over that village, but we couldn't find him, and no villagers had seen him. To hell."

"Then the village is not equipped with surveillance, right?"

"No."

"Don't look for him in the village. Zijin Village is just a transit point. He was picked up in the village that night."

"Damn! Got it, I should check all the vehicles that came and went on the main road of Zijin Village that night."

Gu Xun turned on the speakerphone, and Lin Yiran listened to the whole process of the call with a more serious expression, "We have to find Meng Fan as soon as possible, I'm worried that he will be the next victim."

"The murderer imitated Jack the Ripper to commit crimes, and Jack only killed women. According to this line of thinking, the next target is more likely to be Zheng Yuan."

"Jack didn't cut off the victim's uterus, let alone put the victim's five sense organs into the uterus. This shows that the murderer imitated Jack while adding his own emotions in it. He hates women's reproductive function, but women alone can't do it. Breeding a new life, during the expedition on April 4th, the six people happened to be three couples, and the one with Wu Shanshan was Meng Fan."

"If Gao Guochang's words are true, then Gao Xilin has disappeared for the past few days." Gu Xun drove faster, wishing to fly back to the city bureau immediately and devote himself to the search for Meng Fan.

The speed of the car was extremely fast, and the car was very quiet. At this time, Lin Yiran's cell phone rang suddenly, and Liu Yifeng's crying voice over there said, "I said comrade policeman, I met a hacker again, and my middle finger is gone. What the hell am I going to do?" Who did you provoke? Do you care about this matter?"

Lin Yiran froze, covered the phone's microphone, and said softly, "No, the murderer is likely to commit the crime tonight."

The author has something to say: I finally finished my work, and I will resume the normal time update tomorrow.