Chasing the Mist

In the elevator of the office building, Li Shengzhou was wearing a white shirt, with a row of nail-sized round dark blue buttons on his chest. This scene finally broke through layers of fog, and popped out of Lin Yiran's mind, "Li Shengzhou."

Gu Xun raised his head blankly after hearing the sound, "What does it have to do with Li Shengzhou?"

"On the day I went to Gu Yuan's company, I saw the buttons on his body in the elevator, which were exactly the same as the ones Brother Cheng bit off. Let's go, let's meet him."

"With Li Shengzhou's current income, he wouldn't be able to find a rich woman to take care of him. Moreover, Zheng Tiancheng had participated in Gu Jingjing's case. He was the one who helped his girlfriend find the murderer. Why should someone benevolent be the one to do it? With just a similar button, It's so presumptuous and subjective."

"If it's a coincidence, it only costs fuel for one trip and doesn't lose anything. Otherwise, I don't feel at ease. This kind of button is not money. I don't believe in such a coincidence."

Gu Xun looked at the time, "It's not appropriate to rush to his house suddenly in the early morning, just squint for a while, and go after dawn."

At 08:30, the two arrived at Li Shengzhou's company, and were told by the HR receptionist that Li Shengzhou resigned and left the day before yesterday.

Gu Xun's hazy eyes suddenly brightened, he no longer believed that all this was a coincidence, and rushed over immediately after getting Li Shengzhou's home address.

The door was open, and a woman was cleaning when she saw them and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Hi, is this Li Shengzhou's house?" Gu Xun said.

"Oh, he rented my house before, but he canceled the rent the day before yesterday. He said that his hometown had urgent matters and he had to leave Baicheng for a period of time. The house has not expired yet, and the deposit and the rest of the rent are not required. It is very urgent."

Gu Xun showed his ID, "Does he have anything left here?"

The woman pointed to the big box at the door, "He said he didn't take the things, let me throw them away for him, and you can look at them for yourself."

Gu Xun squatted down and opened it. Inside were some winter clothes. He went through the whole thing, but found nothing useful.

Lin Yiran bent down and took out a black padded jacket with cartoon stickers on it. The one Li Shengzhou wore the first time he went to the police station. He casually rummaged through the pocket of the padded jacket, and there was a yellowed photo in the inside pocket. In the photo, a man and a The girls and the two children held hands and laughed happily. Li Shengzhou didn't change much when he was a child and he became an adult, but Gu Jingjing changed a lot.

Gu Xun pointed to the photo, "Take it back first."

Leaving Li Shengzhou's rented house in Baicheng, the two rushed to Li Shengzhou's hometown, but they didn't go back to their hometown, so they were in vain.

At the entrance of the convenience store, Lin Yiran bought two bottles of water, got in the car, unscrewed the cap, and handed a bottle to Gu Xun, "Do you still think I'm subjective?"

"The behavior of resigning and checking out is indeed suspicious, but you can't judge him as the murderer based on this. Find someone first." Gu Xun drank his saliva, started the car and drove towards the city bureau.

Lin Yiran held the water bottle with both hands, and leaned on his chin with the bottle cap, and murmured in a low voice, "Weird."

"I'm also surprised. The chief financial officer's salary must be quite high, and he's not short of money. Why does Li Shengzhou make ducks? Or does he only cook ducks for Miao Mi?

It would be even more strange if Miao Mi was the only one. He is young and knowledgeable, why didn't he find a woman of the same age? "Gu Xun temporarily changed his route and turned to Zhang Lan/Lan.

"You mean, he intentionally approached Miao Mi?" Lin Yiran turned his head to look at Gu Xun.

"Assuming that's the case, what is his purpose? For money?"

"In this case, living is the cash cow, and people don't kill people for money."

"Hate women?" Gu Xun asked again.

Lin Yiran shook his head lightly, "Only a few people who are close to each other will know about being unfaithful to their partner. Li Shengzhou and Miao Mi have nothing to do with each other, let alone the relationship between Miao Mi and Wan Tian. If he betrayed him because of Gu Jingjing If you are stimulated by the incident and hate women who betrayed their partners from then on, then you should start with people you know, not strangers who have nothing to do with you."

Gu Xun let out a long breath, "Don't think about it for now, let's talk about it after finding someone. By the way, what did you say was strange? Is that what I thought too?"

Only then did Lin Yiran think of the doubts just now, and said: "Gu Jingjing betrayed her boyfriend for money. From this point of view, Li Shengzhou is considered a victim. Then Gu Jingjing was killed on New Year's Day. The murderer was not Li Shengzhou, but after nine months, Li Shengzhou became the murderer again. , Going around in circles and back to the starting point, don't you find it strange?"

Gu Xun didn't continue the conversation, and waited for the car to reach the red light at the intersection before he said: "Our current thinking seems to determine that Li Shengzhou is the murderer, or we should wait until we find someone."

The speed of the car was so fast that it took only 20 minutes to get downstairs to Zhang Lanlan's house.

Zhang Lan/Lan went to the coffee shop early to wait. When he saw Gu Lin and the two of them, he said politely: "The two police officers have worked hard. Sit down and rest for a while and have a cup of coffee."

Gu Xun didn't have time to drink coffee with her, so he directly took out Li Shengzhou's photo, "Have you seen this person?"

Zhang Lan/Lan took the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, "I haven't seen it before."

"Has Miao Mi ever mentioned a person named Li Shengzhou to you?"

"No." Zhang Lan/Lan took a sip of coffee leisurely, "Every time the staff is not fixed, so we don't mention specific people, just talk about feelings."

Gu Xun and Lin Yiran looked at each other and realized that they had missed the opportunity again.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Zhang Lan/Lan took the initiative to say something else, "There was a strange thing recently, someone chatted with me privately in the group, asking if they could find Miao Mi.

Out of curiosity, I asked him why he was looking for Miao Mi.

He said that Miao Mi borrowed money from him on September 9th, and said he would pay him back in three or two days, but he still hasn't paid back the money, and he didn't reply to the message. The person sent me all the chat records and remittance information between him and Miao Mi. . "

Zhang Lan/Lan dug out the phone chat records and handed them to Gu Xun, "Miao Mi was killed on the [-]th, and the person on the [-]th is gone. How could she borrow money from others? Did you find her phone?"

Gu Xun lowered his head to read through the chat history, and returned the phone to Zhang Lan/Lan, "I didn't find her phone."

"Did the murderer use her mobile phone to cheat money, or was the mobile phone picked up by a passer-by?" Zhang Lan/Lan showed the spirit of asking if she didn't understand.

"It should be the murderer. If the phone is picked up by passers-by, it is impossible to imitate Miao Mi's chat tone so much."

Zhang Lan/Lan stared, "This man is so bold. He dared to use the other party's mobile phone to cheat money after killing someone. Hurry up and arrest him and eliminate the harm for the people."

"We tried our best, this is an important clue, thank you."

Zhang Lan/Lan said with a smile: "It should."

Lin Yiran and Gu Xun got up to leave, but Zhang Lan stayed behind and said, "You work so hard, drink a cup of coffee before leaving."

They were pressed for time, and they had no time to drink coffee, waved their hands, and left without looking back.

Gu Xun said while driving: "The netizen who was cheated sent money to Miao Mi's account, and asked someone to check Miao Mi's bank account information immediately."

The other side responded quickly, and Lin Yiran replied to Gu Xun after listening: "Miao Mi has a China Merchants Bank card. In recent days, people have frequently sent money into it, and the money came from different accounts. The murderer used Miao Mi's card. The mobile phone has deceived more than one person."

"Has the whereabouts of the money been checked?"

"I checked, at two o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday, 2 yuan was withdrawn from the China Merchants Bank ATM in Huimin Street.

Yesterday at one o'clock in the morning, Yongning Street took out another [-] yuan, and then it was gone.

He didn't dare to go to the counter to get it, so he could only use the ATM machine to get it bit by bit. "

After missing nothing several times in a row, he finally found some useful clues. Gu Xun lifted his spirits and said, "Go and check the surveillance video of the ATM machines in these two locations immediately."

When I returned to the City Bureau, the surveillance video was called up. In the ATMs at the two locations, at the same time period, a person dressed in black, wearing a black mask and hat entered, and his face could not be seen clearly. He looks like Li Shengzhou in terms of height and shape.

Lin Yiran stared at the screen, "The walking posture is Li Shengzhou."

Gu Xun turned his head to look at the busy traffic outside the window, "Where is he? Have you checked the airport, train station and other places?"

Lin Yiran: "I checked, and there is no information about his ticket purchase. It seems that he has never left Baicheng."

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, instead of running for your life, you stayed behind. Why?

Think the police can't catch him, blindly confident?

Knowing that you can't escape, feel disheartened?

If overconfident people don't have to quit and run away, what do people who know they're dying do?

Lin Yiran suddenly had an idea - nostalgia.

When saying goodbye to life, the beauty or regret hidden deep in my heart will always emerge.

What makes him miss or regret the most in this city?A life of plenty?The relationship between childhood sweethearts?

Li Shengzhou kept the clothes from his student days and the photos of Gu Jingjing, which shows that he has never forgotten Gu Jingjing.

Thinking about the lover in the past, the most likely thing to do is to meet the other party, but Gu Jingjing is no longer alive.

People are gone, things are still there.

He is likely to revisit the commemorative places of the two people's love period, Lin Yiran has no way of knowing the intimate things of their love, and he can't think of places Li Shengzhou can go to.

"Ice and Snow World, Gu Jingjing's last place in the world, he will definitely go." After Gu Xun finished speaking, everyone immediately went to Ice and Snow World.

From winter to spring, the world of ice sculptures has already changed. The ice sculptures and white snow have already melted, leaving an empty wasteland, and the knee-deep snow around them has also turned into a piece of gold.

Everyone searched carefully around the world of ice and snow, but failed again.

Lin Yiran walked to the place where the lover's bridge used to be, and stared into the distance, why didn't he come?Which step is wrong?Doesn't he love Gu Jingjing?Just as he was thinking about it, a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, the cold operating bed in the basement of Zhang Yanchen's house, and he suddenly remembered that the ice and snow world was the second crime scene, and the first crime scene was in the basement of Zhang Yanchen's house.

Lin Yiran shouted: "Let's go to Zhang Yanchen's house".

When they arrived at Zhang's house, it was getting dark. People in the village knew that Zhang Yanchen had killed someone at home, and no one dared to move in. The once decent farmyard was dilapidated, and the doors and windows were smashed. The signboard of the haunted house is hung on the gate of the courtyard.

Everyone consciously lined up behind Gu Xun, and quietly walked into the house. The doors and windows were broken. When the draft blew, the musty smell entered the nostrils along with the cold wind, and a gloomy chill crept up the back.

The policemen who entered did not dare to make any noise. After looking around the room, Gu Xun made a gesture towards the basement, and then he took the lead to climb down.

In the dark basement, the musty smell was even stronger. Gu Xun stepped on the ladder in the dark and walked down. When he reached the ground, he leaned against the wall and did not move. Everyone came down one after another and fought against the wall one by one. It was as quiet as a ghost.

The silence spreads in the dark night, like a poisonous snake entrenched in the basement, the criminal police dare not speak out, and all actions rely on sensory judgment.

After a while, Gu Xun heard that there was no sound in the basement, so he moved forward slowly, groped for the switch on the wall with his hand, felt the light switch and was about to press it, suddenly, there was a crisp sound from the opposite corner, the sound of metal falling to the ground, In the darkness, everyone clearly realized that there was someone in the opposite corner with a murder weapon.