Chasing the Mist

The afterglow of the sunset sprinkled the sky, and under the orange-red sky, a gust of wind blew across the snow-covered farmland, rolled up a layer of tiny snow particles, and continued to blow towards the vast distance.

The policemen were busy facing the wind, walking through the knee-high snow, the wind passed by, and their faces were as painful as a knife.

The police dog sniffed around, seeming to be looking for something.

With a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, Gu Xun kept pressing the lighter with his fingers, once or twice, but with his stiff and numb hands, no matter how hard he pressed it, he couldn't fire it.

"Damn!" He pulled out the cigarette from his mouth, stuffed it together with the lighter into his pocket, raised his head, and faced a pair of clear and penetrating deer eyes.

The person in front of him was wearing a hat, tied a scarf, and was tightly wrapped, only his eyes were exposed, and a voice came out of the cartoon mask: "Boss, what's wrong?"

Gu Xun glanced at the tall figure behind Meng Jia from the corner of his eye. In such cold weather, he was not wearing a hat and his ears were red.

"Search for dead bodies and suspicious objects."

"I'll look for it too." Meng Jia ran towards Zheng Tiancheng.

Lin Yiran looked at the gradually blurred mountains in the distance, "He won't leave clues around, don't waste time, Captain Gu."

Gu Xun didn't say a word, stared at his red ears for a while, lifted the down jacket hat and put it on his head, after this action, Gu Xun didn't stop, he raised his legs and walked forward, the snow was too deep, and his pace was a bit slow .

The fur fluff on the brim of the hat, and the face of Luo Lin was itchy. He froze for two seconds, touched the hat on his head, and then stepped into the snow, catching up with Gu Xun, "He is a thoughtful, mature and rigorous person. The purpose of committing crimes in heavy snowfall is to cover up the traces and let everyone search indiscriminately in the ice and snow, so it is better to carefully check the people around Gu Jingjing."

The provocation and ridicule was accompanied by strong hostility, Gu Xun looked too familiar, and a thought flashed through his mind in a short moment, did Lin Yiran come to the police station just to fight against him?Embarrass him?Deliberately bring out the cynicism at home to annoy him.

If this is the case, then Lin has also succeeded, and at this moment his heart is so stuffy that he can't breathe.

In the past ten years in the police force, he has solved countless small and major cases, but he couldn't solve the case of his own child. He had thought countless times about what he did that summer seven years ago to make him very dependent. His child, from a kitten to a hedgehog covered in thorns.

Gu Xun sighed, and unconsciously appeared in front of his eyes, the scene of Lin Yiran being furious and fighting with him, to avoid the fantasy from becoming a reality, he restrained his anger, and said word by word between his teeth: "Don't be too self-righteous."

Lin Yiran was not furious, and his mood was unusually calm, with an unexplained smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that smile, Gu Xun suddenly got goosebumps all over his body, his whole body was cold, and he grabbed the zipper of his clothes and pulled them to the neckline.

Zheng Tiancheng ran over huffing and puffing, "Boss, I didn't find anything except the pair of socks. The snow fell too much a few days ago and covered them all. Over there, we found roe deer and pheasant footprints... so no one of."

Gu Xun nodded, "Let's call it a day."

As night fell, the policemen who assisted in the search worked all afternoon in the bitterly cold weather, and their hands and feet were all stiff from the cold. When they heard that work was over, they all got into the police cars and complained about the ghostly weather in this cold winter.

The snow field returned to its former emptiness and loneliness, and was gradually swallowed up by the night. Lin Yiran was not in a hurry to get in the car. He walked a few steps through the snow, and came to the iron fence surrounded by the ice and snow world, looking at the colorful dream world inside the fence.

Lin Yiran stood at the position where his eyes were facing the Lover's Bridge. Couples of young couples were hugging and kissing each other on the colorfully lit ice bridge, playing and laughing. The bridge was bustling with people coming and going.

The vast darkness outside the iron fence stared at them like a pair of empty eyes.

When you laugh, can you see me in the dark night?My heart, my sorrow is here, why don't you look back?

The intertwined lips, the clinging faces, the embracing bodies... everything on the bridge makes me sick and disgusted.

Laugh!Go crazy!Let's make a fuss!

I'm sending you a gift to watch your laughter turn into fear and panic.

In just a few minutes, Lin Yiran felt the mood of the murderer, standing in the dark night, peeking at Lover's Bridge.

The ice sculpture of a human head faced the Lover's Bridge, and those eyes widened in terror, looked at the couple in love on the bridge, just like what he saw now, the murderer must have found something near the Lover's Bridge that made him despair.

While thinking about it, his mind suddenly popped up, the phrase Zheng Tiancheng said about socks, how could there be socks in the deserted snow?Whose socks?

A hand suddenly patted him on the shoulder, "What are you thinking? Everyone is waiting for you, let's go." Meng Jia intentionally frightened him in the morning, but failed to scare him.

Lin also didn't move.

Meng Jia took a step, walked directly opposite him, raised her hand and waved in front of his eyes, "What's wrong?"

Lin Yiran shook his head, and then followed Meng Jia to the side of the road. There was only one empty seat next to Gu Xun in the car.

Gu Xun opened his legs, leaned against the back of the seat, and sat with only one support point on the back. The rest of the body seemed to have been pulled out of bones and collapsed into a puddle of water. With his eyes closed, he seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping. He sat on the sofa at home with a leisurely and comfortable feeling, like an old man who is idle and not doing his job properly.

Lin Yiran looked at Gu Xun, then at Xiao Kong beside him, and couldn't help kicking him.

Gu Xun retracted his legs swiftly, his eyes remained open, and his uncle-like sitting posture remained unchanged.

Meng Jia tactfully moved aside, "Sit on my side, Boss didn't sleep last night, he must be crazy sleepy now."

Lin Yiran squeezed to sit down, and the police car drove out of the country road, turned onto the main road in the suburbs, rolled forward, and left in the dust.

Zheng Tiancheng held the edge of the government bag in his hand, turned his head and said loudly: "In this cold weather, who would throw socks in the wilderness? Gu Jingjing? If it was her, did she throw them away during her lifetime or after her death? If after her death, why did the murderer throw them away?" Socks will be left behind? Accidentally lost? No, the socks were worn on the feet, but the body below the head has not been found, how could the socks be lost? Did the murderer carry the dead socks with him? The taste is really strong, oh my god, just think about it .”

Meng Jia whispered, "Brother Cheng, you have the socks in your hand, you should know the smell best."

Women's socks instantly turned into scent bombs, as if they would explode at any moment. Zheng Tiancheng curled his lips and said casually, "What's the hobby of carrying women's socks with you? Sock fetish?" He said while putting away the evidence bag.

Lin Yiran leaned forward, raised his hand to grab it, put his palm carefully, the pink winter plush socks with strawberry patterns, the color and style are exactly the same as the socks in Gu Jingjing's shoe cabinet, "How did you find these socks?"

As soon as the words finished, the old man next to him closed his eyes and meditated, sat up straight, leaned close to his ear, and said in a low voice, "Be quicker in your movements in the future, so don't waste everyone's time."

The faint smell of tobacco lingered in Lin Yiran's ears, a little warm and itchy. Gu Xun's movements were a little intimate, but his tone was cold, with a hint of warning.

The strawberry socks were discovered by Gu Xun.

The main entrance of Ice and Snow World and the road in front of the main entrance are monitored. If the murderer wants to transport the ice sculpture of a human head, he must not dare to go through the main entrance. Excluding this point, he can only enter through the surrounding fence.

The Ice and Snow World Station has a huge area, and the surrounding snow is deep and deep. Yesterday, the police force was limited, and many places outside were not investigated.

The murderer held the ice sculpture of a human head and climbed over the fence through the snow. It was impossible for Gu Xun to leave no traces in his series of actions. The more Gu Xun thought about it, the more something went wrong. After the meeting in the morning, he drove back to the scene.

The main road turns and enters a very narrow village road. The main entrance of Ice and Snow World is on the left side of the road, and the nearby village is at the end of the road.

Gu Xun parked his car on the side of the road and stepped into the surrounding snow. The snow was up to his knees. If he stepped on it, he would leave a deep snow pit. The distance between the black iron fence and the village road was not close, so he wanted to walk through the snow with a heavy load The ground will definitely leave a deep pit. Even if it snows, such a snow pit will be filled in a short while. But now, the surface of the snow is very flat, and no one has walked through it. So how can we not leave footprints? Wear snow?

Gu Xun stood by the side of the road leaning against the car window, looking at the village at the end of the road where the smoke was rising, he smoked heavily, and a gust of cold wind blew by, his brain was instantly sober.

When the Ice and Snow World occupied the land back then, many villagers became rich overnight and moved to live in the city one after another. What will happen if you go to the ice and snow world?

Gu Xun immediately started the car and drove into the village. He met a snow sweeper on the side of the road. He pushed down the window of the car and asked, "Ma'am, I want to ask you, is there a small road to the world of ice and snow nearby?"

The aunt held the broomstick, looked up and down the car he was driving, then shook her head with a half-smile, "No."

Gu Xun showed his ID, "I'm a policeman, come here"

In the middle of the conversation, the aunt interrupted with a smile: "Yo! The police are still evading fares?"

Gu Xun swallowed the words on his lips, followed the aunt's thoughts, and said without blushing: "280 tickets, our salary is not enough to support our wife and children, how can we afford to travel, alas! The children are on winter vacation. Crying and shouting to come to play, I can't help it."

"To break the ice, it will cost 280 if you carve it indiscriminately..." The aunt ran into a fellow of the same kind by chance, and she talked about it for a long time before telling the location of the path.

A well-trodden path in the field at the east end of the village extends to the iron fence. The road surface is slippery and uneven, and there are temporary steps built of red bricks beside the iron fence. Children can easily climb in on the steps.

Gu Xun squatted next to the steps, brushed aside the fresh snow on the surface, and rummaged in the snow for more than ten minutes. When he was about to give up, the pair of strawberry socks appeared.

When he found the path and found the strawberry socks, Gu Xun didn't talk about it, but said lightly: "I found it in the snow."

"I was in Gu Jingjing's dormitory, and I saw the same pair of socks." Lin Yiran fell into deep thought, and left the socks behind. Did the murderer do it on purpose or not?Where are the socks, and where are the feet? .

Zheng Tiancheng: "When I arrive at the Municipal Bureau, I will take the socks and send them for inspection. Boss, I checked all the surveillance cameras near the Ice and Snow World in the morning, and found nothing abnormal, and the interviewing staff also found nothing abnormal. The Ice and Snow World held New Year's Eve on the evening of the 31st. At the party, at the corner you asked to focus on, there was a lot of traffic in the first half of the night, all of which were private vehicles, and it was difficult to see which car had a problem from the outside, but in the second half of the night, the snow fell harder and harder, and there was not a single car passing by. "

Meng Jia remembered that she didn't report back to work, so she hurriedly said: "Gu Jingjing is an innocent and cute little girl in the eyes of teachers and classmates. She would blush when talking to boys, and she has a pure face. There are many boys chasing her at school. , but she is in love with her boyfriend, and she has no scandals with the opposite sex, and there is no gossip. In the class, except for the roommates, she rarely contacts other students. The relationship between the roommates is quite harmonious. The three roommates answered in the same way. There is a boyfriend from another school who goes out to see him every weekend. He basically doesn’t go back to the dormitory from Friday to Sunday. During the conversation, one roommate hesitated to speak. Maybe he was hiding something. Need to talk again in private."

When the words fell, Zheng Tiancheng was the first to express his opinion: "I see my boyfriend every weekend? Her boyfriend is very suspicious. Have you ever met her boyfriend?"

"I haven't had time to meet her boyfriend, and her roommate's only dissatisfaction with her is that she doesn't pay attention to hygiene and has bad living habits."

Zheng Tiancheng: "A beautiful little girl, how can she not pay attention to hygiene? Could it be that her roommate is too hypocritical?"

Meng Jia: "It's really not hypocritical... Lin Yiran opened her closet, and all kinds of dirty clothes rolled out of it, and... Anyway, the smell from the closet makes people sick to my stomach."

Zheng Tiancheng curled his lips and frowned, "Have a pure and lovely face, but have the lifestyle of a big guy who picks his feet? This contrast is too big, but most boys don't care about this, the big deal is that they pick their feet together, and by the way, they have a stronger taste."

Meng Jia:"......"

Lin Yiran: "..."

Gu Xun: "..."

Zheng Tiancheng: Huh?Why is it suddenly quiet?

Discussing work along the way, the car soon arrived at the Municipal Bureau, and as soon as they stepped into the office, Gu Jingjing's parents and boyfriend surrounded him.