Chasing the Mist

Meng Jia sat slumped on the ground, her eyes froze without blinking, panic quickly occupied all her thoughts, she couldn't think anymore, her mouth was slightly opened, and she couldn't speak a word.

Gu Xun stretched out his hand, put his palm on her shoulder, stayed for a moment, then retracted, all the words were pale, he turned his head and looked out the window, it was the golden autumn season, but the house was as cold as winter, the two of them stood in front of each other After a while, he bent down to help Meng Jia get up.

Meng Jia seemed to be holding on to a life-saving straw, holding Gu Xun's arm with all her strength, and kept murmuring: "Boss, boss, boss..."

The boss didn't say a word of what he said later.

Gu Xun still raised his hand and patted her on the shoulder, "The murderer will be found, trust me." When he said this, his vision was blurred, and that layer of mist blocked the face hanging on the door frame.

"Yesterday we were investigating the case together, saying goodnight to each other before going to bed... This is fake... I was dreaming... Zheng Tiancheng, come out, I don't like this kind of dream... Get out of here." Meng Jia began to speak incoherently.

Gu Xun: "I'll help you out first."

Meng Jia staggered out following Gu Xun. When she reached the main entrance, she suddenly turned around and ran back. She stood by the door, staring straight at the face hanging on the door frame. A layer of cold sweat broke out from her white palms. She was soft and cold. Touching Zheng Tiancheng's cheek with his palm, that face had long since lost its warmth, and the heart-pounding shriek resounded again, with despair and sadness echoing in the empty house.

Gu Xun took Meng Jia's hand away, "Jiajia, don't spoil the scene, calm down, I'll call someone over right away."

Meng Jia grabbed Gu Xun's arm tightly, squatted on the ground and cried loudly, the crying could not go away for a long time, with the crying, Gu Xun's heart fell to the bottom, unable to climb out of the endless black abyss, how much he thought Comfort the girl, "Don't cry, he will come back."

I don't know how long Meng Jia has been crying, Gu Xun's wrist has been numb, and the sudden ringing of the mobile phone interrupts their frozen posture and crying.

"Get up first, so as not to get dizzy after squatting for a long time, I'll answer the phone." Gu Xun took out his phone, only to realize that his hands were shaking and his breath was also unstable. A word "Hello" seemed to use up all his strength.

Lin Yiran sensed that something was wrong, so he didn't say anything about himself, so he asked first, "What's wrong?"

Gu Xun took a deep breath and calmed his breath, "We will meet later and tell you, did you find anything?"

"The police dogs found something behind the watermelon field where Shen Yici was killed. We are digging, but we don't know what's inside."

Gu Xun knew exactly what they were about to dig up, and said calmly, "I'll go there right away."

Hanging up the phone, Gu Xun called other colleagues and a forensic doctor to investigate the scene, and settled Meng Jia before he left Shen's house. He got in the car and became addicted to cigarettes. He opened the rainbow candy box and poured candy into his palm. I came over to see that the candy box was empty, and threw the box to the back seat of the car. I slapped the steering wheel hard with my palm, and drove out of the village with a kick of the accelerator.

He rushed to where Lin Yiran was, got out of the car, and heard someone shouting from a distance, "Come out, come out, it's a corpse."

When everyone dug out the whole body, the scene was silent. It was a male body without a head. They had seen the clothes on the body yesterday, but no one dared to say it. A straightforward intern who just arrived in the crowd said: "The clothes seem to belong to Brother Cheng."

The old detective with the intern glared at him, and the intern obediently kept his mouth shut.

"Take it back to the bureau." Gu Xun didn't say too many words, but everyone had guessed it.

The case meeting this time was more silent than before. Everyone lowered their heads and said nothing, as if agreed.

Gu Xun patted the table and said, "Come on, find the murderer. I'm sad here, and I can't solve any problems."

Hearing this, everyone looked up at the screen.

Forensic doctor: "It is preliminarily judged that the death was caused by mechanical suffocation. The death time did not exceed 24 hours. There were many bruises and skin trauma on the surface of the body. There was a violent physical conflict before death. A button was found in the mouth of the deceased and under the tongue." Forensic doctor Another photo showed a dark blue button the size of a fingernail in front of everyone, "According to the professional judgment of the deceased, this should be the button bitten off during the game with the murderer. It is made of dark blue glass and is as delicate as amber. , it is rare in the market, it should be some high-end clothing, or custom-made clothes."

Lin Yiran stared at the dark blue button, vaguely familiar with it, but couldn't remember where he had seen it again, so he had to stop thinking about it for a while and said, "Not long ago, a fishing boat in the reservoir fished out two things." He pointed to the button on the screen with a laser pointer. Photos, a bundle of hemp rope, and a shovel. It is initially suspected that the hemp rope is the murder weapon, and the shovel is a tool for burying the body. No fingerprints have been found on these two things for the time being. "

He took a breath and paused, "The hemp rope is the same as the rope that strangled Shen Yici, and the shovel was also found in Shen's house. It can be basically concluded that the murderer's two tools came from Shen Liqiang's family. It is initially suspected that the murderer knew Shen's family. Or there is some kind of relationship."

He changed a photo of the Shen family's door lock, "The Shen family's courtyard door is old and old, this golden new lock is incompatible with the old courtyard door, and it is easy to attract people's attention.

Usually, the murderer is afraid of being discovered and will try to cover it up, but the murderer in this case is obviously not. He deliberately changed the lock to attract attention. I think the murderer guessed that we would go to Ningshui Village and deliberately lured us to Shen's house, that is, To say that he deliberately let us know what he did can be interpreted as provocation and showing off to the police. "

"Is the murderer the same as the one who killed Miao Mi?" someone asked.

"It's not sure yet, I'm inclined to be the same person, and this person is very familiar with the previous cases, and even knows some details that only the murderer and insiders know."

"The murderer also killed Miao Mi to show off to the police?"

"No, the broken body was thrown into the sea, hoping that the body would be swept away by the waves, so that no one would find it and get away with it."

"The murderer killed two people. The first one wanted to cover it up, but the second one took the initiative to tell the police that I had killed them. These two points are contradictory."

"Something may have happened during the period that caused the murderer to change his mind, or there may be other secrets."

After everyone discussed, the colleague in charge of network tracking said: "The user chatting with Zheng Tiancheng is called Jingxue Yimeng, the IP address is in this city, the real name information of the other party, and other people's ID cards are used. , I registered when it was not particularly strict, the last time this IP logged in was at [-]:[-] last night, and the location traced by the network is the McDonald's on the first floor of Wanhui Plaza."

Gu Xun nodded, "First: send someone to McDonald's to check the surveillance cameras last night, check all the surveillance cameras inside and outside the store, and check those who meet the characteristics of the murderer one by one. Second: Find out the source of the buttons. Third: Participate in Shen Yici's relatives and friends in Shen Yici's case, investigate again."

Everyone dispersed, Gu Xun sat in the office without moving, rubbing his elbows on the table, wanting to smoke, felt his body was empty, not even candy, when he was about to give up, the person next to him handed him a cigarette and put it in his In the mouth, by the way, get angry.

Gu Xun looked up and fell into Lin Yiran's eyes, "Sorry... I am today."

Lin Yiran: "I said earlier that you don't need to quit smoking."

Gu Xun smiled, "Thank you, how is Meng Jia?"

"The psychological counselor is with me, and my mood is much more stable now."

Gu Xun: "Give her a few days off, and don't let her participate in the case for now."

"Well, I'll tell her.

By the way, there is one thing I didn't say just now. The handcuffs and guns on Brother Cheng have never been used. The murderer used Meng Jia's encounter to provoke and lure him to Ningshui Village. He brought these things to explain that he wanted to catch the murderer.

For what is about to happen, he was mentally prepared and brought tools, plus Brother Cheng's physical fitness is not bad. In this case, it is impossible for one person to strangle him. I suspect that there are more than two people at the scene. Brother Cheng fought with the murderer At that time, another person strangled him with a rope from behind. This person appeared when he was unprepared. The incident happened so suddenly that he did not have time to take a gun. "

Gu Xun picked up the lighter on the table and rotated it regularly on his fingertips, round and round. He thought for a while, and was about to speak when Lin Yiran's cell phone rang. He looked down and got up to go out.

The phone call ended only 10 minutes later, and Lin Yiran entered the door again, his face obviously darker than before, "Take me back to sleep, I'm tired."

Gu Xun didn't ask any more questions, picked up the car keys and went downstairs, and Gu Yuan wasn't there when he got home.

Usually, when he comes back in the early morning, Gu Xun is also used to taking a shower. Today he was very tired and fell headfirst on the bed, not wanting to move. Lin Yiran sat at the desk, didn't organize his notes, sat for a while thoughtfully, and said, "Brother ,let's break up."

Gu Xun was thinking about the case, his heart was in a mess, and he didn't listen carefully to what he said, "Huh?"

Lin Yiran turned around and raised his voice, "Let's break up."

This time Gu Xun heard it clearly, sat up from the bed, and said word by word: "You, again, give, me, say, once."

Lin Yiran repeated it expressionlessly.

Gu Xun sneered, "Zheng Tiancheng just left, and you want to leave me too? Have you made an agreement?"

Lin Yiran didn't speak, but his eyes were firm.

"Go away, don't keep any of them." After Gu Xun yelled, Lin Yiran didn't coax him, but took out the box and put clothes in it.

Gu Xun got out of bed and pulled the clothes in Lin Yiran's hands, threw them aside, and pressed his neck against the wall, "Lin Yiran, you are the one who wants to be together, and you are the one who wants to be separated. Isn't it fun?"

Lin Yiran looked at the stretched veins on Gu Xun's forehead, turned his face away, looked away, and didn't speak.

Gu Xun calmed down for two seconds, and said, "Why did you break up? If you fall in love with someone else, I promise, don't even think about other reasons."

Lin Yiran still didn't speak.

Gu Xun suddenly remembered the phone call tonight, and understood, "What did Gu Renli say to you again?" Lin Yiran didn't say anything, and he replied, "If we don't separate, he will die? I have figured it out these days, he I won't die, I can't bear his money and company."

Gu Xun squeezed Lin Yiran's chin, turned his face away, and softened his voice, "Don't worry, even if our whole family is gay, he won't die, but he may kick me out of the Gu family and sever the relationship between father and son."

"Do you know the cause of grandma's death?"

"Gu Renli is also a gay man. His grandparents wanted to change his sexual orientation, but they tried everything to no avail. His grandma jumped off the building impulsively. Gu Renli attributed his grandma's death to homosexuality. He hated homosexuality but couldn't change himself, so his personality became more and more serious. The more twisted it is."

Lin Yiran was startled, "When... did you know?"

Gu Xun let go of him, and sat down on the bed, "Grandpa chatted with uncle after an hour. I overheard it. Gu Renli didn't love my mother. Before they went to the south, my mother and I shared a room at night. Sleeping one, if he didn't start a business and become a rich man, they would have divorced long ago, my mother can bear it until now, just for his money.

He has a twisted and extreme personality. On the day I returned home, I was really afraid that he would die. It was my uncle’s words that reminded me that he dared not die. He was more afraid of death than ordinary people. "

Lin Yiran's tense nerves relaxed a bit, but he was still a little uncertain, "Really? I don't want you to live in guilt for the rest of your life, and I have already planned to break up."

Gu Xun hooked his neck and fell down together, "What do you think of me? Bend if you want, straight if you want? Sorry, I'm not that smart."

Lin Yiran: "..."

Gu Xun rubbed his head, turned over and pressed on him, "Zheng Tiancheng can't leave so unclearly, concentrate on investigating the case, and break up again, so you won't be able to get out of bed."

Lin Yiran pushed him away, opened the bedside drawer, took out something and threw it on the bed, "Whoever can't get out of bed, you'll know if you try, huh? Team Gu."

Gu Xun: "You..."

"Take it lightly, trust me."

……

The two of them didn't sleep afterward. If it wasn't for Gu Renli's sudden phone call, they would still be working in the bureau at the moment, and after going home to resolve internal conflicts, they would think of the case at the same time.

Gu Xun: "Among the clues we have now, the murderer has two characteristics, the wound on his body and the special blue button."

Dark blue buttons, Lin Yiran had two images of buttons overlapping in his mind, he sat up suddenly from the bed, "Go back to the game, I want to take another look at the buttons."

Gu Xun: "..."

"I seem to have seen this button somewhere." Lin Yiran said to himself.

"The buttons are only the size of a fingernail and look like those on a shirt. The murderer was still wearing a high-end shirt when committing the crime. Two things can be seen. The first murderer's appointment with Zheng Tiancheng was a temporary act, and the second murderer's financial conditions are good."

Returning to the City Bureau, Lin Yiran stared at the button in the evidence bag, looked again and again, and suddenly a scene appeared in front of him, remembering where he had seen that button.

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