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"You guys are mistaken! I just passed by that alley last night, and I didn't do anything!" Li Liwen, with hair like a chicken coop on his head, was terrified. Stand up, "I work in the bar over there, and I often pass by that trail in the middle of the night, can't someone die inside, just rely on me?"

"Lai?" Hua Chong looked at him coldly.

The camera on the side of the trail near Tianluo Station captured the victim entering the trail at 11:14, and never came out from either side. At 11:31, Li Liwen entered the trail from the entrance on one side of Bar Street, and stayed in it for 24 minutes, until 11:55, before running away from the other side.

How could it take 200 minutes to walk normally on a trail less than 24 meters long?

The most important thing is that Zhang Mao found a wallet in Li Liwen's rented house, as well as loose change scattered all over the place. There were several bank cards and an ID card in the wallet.At present, the autopsy results and DNA comparison results have not yet been released, but the owner of the ID card——Yin Ziqiao, has a high probability of being the victim whose throat was brutally cut.

But the panic shown by Li Liwen was too real. If it was a performance, how could this acting skill be used as a waiter in a bar?But if it wasn't for the show, it's obvious that Li Liwen doesn't fit the profile of a "calm throat cuter".

The problem now is that Xu Kan determined that the victim's death time was between 11:12 and 12:24, and after the victim entered the trail until [-]:[-], the camera only captured Li Liwen.Moreover, Li Liwen stayed inside for [-] minutes. He had a grim expression when he entered, and ran all the way when he came out.If Li Liwen was not the murderer, did he see the victim's body inside?Why didn't you call the police when you saw it?Still wasting so much time?

This makes no sense.

"I don't mean to blame you police." Li Liwen was sweating on his forehead, rubbing his hands desperately, "You guys have worked very hard to handle the case. I was, I was... hey! I was wronged, I swear I didn't kill anyone, I yesterday It’s really just passing there. If you don’t believe me, you can go to the bar where I work to investigate. I usually don’t get off work until 4 in the morning. Yesterday I offended a fool...a customer, was fined, and was in a bad mood, so I asked for leave halfway Leave. If there is no deduction of money, I will never appear in that trail after 11 o'clock, how can I kill someone?"

Hua Chong glanced at Liu Zhiqin next to him, and Liu Zhiqin whispered, "I'll make arrangements right away."

"Why do you have the victim's wallet?" Hua Chong asked.

Li Liwen's eyes widened, and it took him a long time to react. His face turned pale and his voice trembled, "Then... that wallet... yes, yes..."

"You do not know?"

"Do I know I'll pick it up again?" Li Liwen hugged his head in fear, grabbed his hair hard, his eyes were reddened, "Police, Mr. Police Officer, Uncle Police Officer, believe me, I just picked up the wallet, don't I didn't do anything! I, I don't usually pick up my wallet casually, because I was fined yesterday, and I was fascinated for a while!"

"Where did you pick it up?" After Hua Chong finished speaking, without waiting for Li Liwen to answer, he added: "Tell me the exact location and the exact time."

"It's right where I just entered the trail!" Li Liwen raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead and face with his sleeve, "I haven't walked a few steps since I entered the trail, maybe it's less than ten meters away, it's dark there , the street lights are already dark, and only one light is on, so there is no light at the crossing.”

Hua Chong thought about the structure of the path, and then asked, "It took you 20 minutes to pick up your wallet?"

"Ah?" Li Liwen was puzzled, "What 20 minutes?"

"The trail is only about 180 meters long, and it took you 24 minutes from entering to exiting." Hua Chong said, "What are you doing in there?"

"I, I'm counting the money!"

"Counting money?"

"Didn't I pick up the wallet? The wallet looks very bulging. I thought I was going to get rich, but when I opened it, it was full of fucking... full of change!" Li Liwen writhed on the interrogation chair uncomfortably, " I wanted to know how much money I picked up, so I squatted on the ground and counted. Isn’t it dark there, and I was very angry in my heart, and I counted back and forth several times before I could count clearly. This is, this wasted time.”

"More than 300 yuan." Hua Chong already knew the total amount of change in his wallet.

Li Liwen immediately said: "That's right, it's more than 300 yuan!"

Hua Chong didn't speak for the time being, but stared at Li Liwen sharply.Li Liwen couldn't bear it, he didn't open his eyes for a few seconds, and didn't dare to look at him.

"Since you often pass by the trail, you should be very familiar with the situation in the trail." Hua Chong asked again: "When you passed by last night, did you find anything unusual in the trail?"

Li Liwen kept pursing his lips, wrinkled the bridge of his nose, and looked hesitant.

Hua Chong snorted coldly, "You know, based on the clues we have so far, you are the most suspected person."

"But I really didn't kill anyone!" Li Liwen panicked even more, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and said falteringly: "When I passed by yesterday, look, I saw a place not far from the lit street lamp, lying, laying down a person .”

Hua Chong frowned, "Did you see the victim?"

Li Liwen's eyes almost popped out, "Damn, he was the one who died? My God! I thought it was someone who passed out drunk! Occasionally someone in that alley got drunk and vomited all over the floor! I think it's dirty , and deliberately ran away against the other side of the wall!"

Hua Chong doubted: "Do you think that puddle on the ground is his vomit? He is not far from the streetlight, so you can't tell it's a puddle of blood? Also, can't you tell the difference between the smell of vomit and blood?"

"No!" Li Liwen grabbed the edge of the table with both hands anxiously, "At night, you can go to the alley and see! It's very dark there. It is said that there is a street lamp, but in fact it is barely illuminated, and the brightness is very low. He lay The location was basically in the shadows. I glanced at it and left. I didn't look carefully, and I didn't smell it deliberately. I ran away holding my breath. I really thought it was a drunk person. This kind of person cares No, if you don't mind it, you'll make a fuss..."

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When Xu Kan came to Hua Chong with the autopsy report, Hua Chongzheng was sitting alone in the interrogation room, calmly sorting out the known clues, tapping the notepad with the pen in his hand.

The victim entered the trail at 11:14, Li Liwen entered at 11:31, and left at 55.The victim arrived at the trail before Li Liwen, with a time difference of 17 minutes, but this does not mean that Li Liwen was innocent—the victim might have been waiting for Li Liwen in the trail for some reason.Li Liwen was the only one captured by the camera during the time of the victim's death, and his expression and movements were a bit abnormal. He was very suspicious, and the idea of ​​squatting on the ground and counting money sounded absurd.However, although he was trembling and stuttering nervously during the interrogation, there was no inconsistency in what he said.

This is important and probably means he wasn't lying.

If he didn't lie, the murderer must be someone else.Who will it be?

The cameras on both sides of the trail have blind spots. If the murderer is familiar with the scene, it is not impossible to avoid the cameras.But the trail was not completely free of obstructions, and according to Li Liwen, the street lights were very dim.Then the murderer may have hidden somewhere in the trail beforehand after avoiding the monitoring, waiting for the victim to appear.

As for why Li Liwen picked up the victim's wallet and documents, it might have been deliberately arranged by the murderer.

People have curiosity and greed, and people who pass by that dark and dangerous path in the middle of the night are most likely to be people with less affluent financial conditions. When they see a wallet on the ground, they subconsciously pick it up, and may take the money inside. Throwing down the wallet may also take the wallet away. Even if nothing is taken in the end, putting the wallet back in place will leave fingerprints on the wallet.

The murderer is not only calm, but also very shrewd.

Hua Chong heaved a sigh of relief and dropped his pen, only to find Xu Kan leaning against the door.

"Why don't you scream when you're here?" He got up from his chair, leaned against the edge of the table, his eyes fell on the document in Xu Kan's hand, "The autopsy report came out?"

Xu Kan nodded, "I can tell you're thinking about the case at a glance, so I dare not disturb you. Where's Brother Xiaoliu? Why aren't you with me?"

Hearing the words "Brother Xiaoliu", Hua Chong's eyelashes trembled slightly.In the past, everyone always mentioned "Brother Xiaoliu" in front of him. If they had something to do with Liu Zhiqin, and they couldn't find it for a while, they ran to him and asked, "Flower Team, where is Brother Xiaoliu?" It seemed that Liu Zhiqin should be there wherever he was. Well, even if Liu Zhiqin is not with him, he is "obligated" to know where Liu Zhiqin is.

In the past, I didn't feel what it was like to be asked "Where is Brother Xiaoliu", but now I savor it, but I feel a strange and special feeling.

When I was not around, did other people catch Liu Zhiqin and ask——Brother Xiao Liu, where is the Flower Team?

Thinking of this, the corners of his lips involuntarily pulled upwards.

Noticing Xu Kan's gaze, he coughed and said, "Brother Xiaoliu went to investigate Li Liwen. Report to me, is there any difference between the autopsy and the preliminary examination?"

Xu Kan passed the report forward, "The fatal injury was a sharp wound on the neck, there is no doubt about it. Judging from the length and depth of the wound, the murder weapon excluded ordinary folding fruit knives, with a blade length of about 10 centimeters and a A high-hardness straight knife with a width of about 4 cm, plus the handle, the total length of the knife is more than 23 cm. This kind of knife is basically an outdoor military knife, which can cut off the throat and artery neatly. If the hardness and sharpness of the knife Not enough, it is impossible to cause the kind of wound on the victim's body."

Hua Chong read the report while listening.

"The victim's DNA information is in the library, and the comparison results have come out." Xu Kan continued: "His name is Yin Ziqiao, he is 23 years old, and he is from Wenming Township under the jurisdiction of Luocheng. What occupation, family status, and interpersonal relationship, these are all necessary. It's up to you to investigate."

Hua Chong nodded, "Yin Ziqiao's chest, back, neck, left upper arm, elbow, and right leg are all injured? How did this happen?"

"Beat." Xu Kan said: "Judging from the appearance of subcutaneous bleeding points, Yin Ziqiao was beaten by blunt objects before she was alive—but not last night, and the injuries were not serious. I judge that these blunt object injuries were a week ago Formed. Plus, he has a marijuana habit.”

"A drug addict?" Hua Chong raised his head, his eyes darkened a little, "A drug addict had his throat cut and was beaten for some reason a few days ago, it seems that we must investigate this case... By the way, Yin Ziqiao's nails Can the dander tissue be found out from whom?"

"It's a male, but the comparison can't find the result."

"The DNA information has not been entered?" Hua Chong thought for a while, and closed the autopsy report, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, we will leave the rest to us."

After speaking, he walked towards the door.

Xu Kan turned around, "Hua'er."

"Ok?"

"you……"

Hua Chongxiao, "Just say whatever comes to mind, mother-in-law and mother-in-law are not your style."

Xu Kan lowered the corners of his lips and shook his head, "It's nothing serious, I'm just a little worried about you."

Hua Chong pointed to his head, "Here? Don't worry, there's no pain or burning, it's all over."

"No." Xu Kan was worried, "Qu Zhi hasn't found out why Huang Caihua hit you yet, and you're outside investigating the case all day, I'm afraid..."

"I will be careful." Hua Chong said solemnly: "Brother Xiaoliu and I will pay attention, and the members of the Korean team will follow us. Anyone who wants to do something to me now is purely self-inflicted."

"But they are in the dark, you are in the light." Xu Kan said: "I may be more pessimistic. I think many things in this world are unpredictable."

"So it's no use worrying too much, is it?" Hua Chong walked back a few steps and patted Xu Kan on the shoulder, "Someone is coming after me, but I have to go to the case, and I can't just because someone is watching from the dark Me, I won't keep an eye on the case, will I?"

"That's what it says."

"Thank you, Teacher Xu." Hua Chong raised the corners of his lips, clenched his right hand into a fist, and beat his chest, "I remember."

Xu Kan smiled wryly, "I'll talk nonsense here, and I can't send people to protect you like Team Han. If something really happens to you, I..."

"It's not nonsense." Hua Chongwen said: "Caring is also a kind of power. It cannot be seen by the eyes, but it can be felt by the heart. Don't worry, we will not lie on your workbench to increase your workload."

"I'll go!" Xu Kan was startled, "Brother Xiaoliu isn't here, are you just talking nonsense?"

"Brother Xiaoliu isn't there?" Hua Chong's forehead twitched slightly, and he began to think seriously.

——When Liu Zhiqin was here, I didn't talk like I do now?

"Forget it, let's not talk to you, you, a workaholic, don't know how to take care of yourself, and you don't know how to joke around." Xu Kan waved his hand, "It's a good thing that your serious crime team now has a brother Xiaoliu, I think you still drink The dendrobium leaves are served, brother Xiaoliu made it for you, right? Do you remember that before Brother Xiaoliu came, you were too lazy to boil the water and just ate the chrysanthemum tea that Team Chen gave you?"

of course I remember.Hua Chong sank into the memory briefly, but quickly came back to his senses, and waved: "Let's go, it's working time, we'll talk about gossiping next time."

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The trail remained closed as the afternoon peak approached.The white-collar workers who got off work early left the office building in a hurry, some ran directly from the main road to Tianluo Station, some habitually walked to the trail, and some were curious to see if the corpses in the trail were still there.

Liu Zhiqin and several other criminal policemen came out of the bar where Li Liwen worked, and were about to call Hua Chong when they saw Hua Chong standing near the path and beckoning to him.

"The trace inspection came to do a second survey, and I followed." Hua Chong explained, "When it gets dark at night, I want to see what happens after the street lights are turned on. How is the bar inspection?"

"Li Liwen did have a conflict with a customer yesterday, and was deducted a week's wages, so he left work early. This shows that his appearance in the trail after 11 o'clock was an accident. The bar is monitored, and he left at 11 o'clock in the evening 25 minutes, it's normal to spend 6 minutes walking to the crossing." Liu Zhiqin said after a pause, "But I still learned something."

"Ok?"

"Some of Li Liwen's colleagues said that Li Liwen has a bad personality and low quality. If anyone really provokes him, he will stab him with a knife and kill him."

Hua Chong frowned, and took a few steps back and forth, "Practitioners in the service industry, getting angry is the most common thing. Li Liwen works in a bar, and maybe he often encounters unreasonable customers. People' talk about it, but that doesn't mean he's really going to kill."

"En." Liu Zhiqin nodded, "If Li Liwen is the murderer, we must at least find out his motive. In the current situation, Li Liwen only has time to commit the crime, but no motive."

At this time, Cao Han ran out from nowhere and shouted, "Flower team!"

Hua Chong and Liu Zhiqin were taken aback at the same time.

"Hey!" Hua Chong responded, and turned around to ask Liu Zhiqin, "He's been here all afternoon?"

"Yes, this time the sub-bureau is acting with us." Liu Zhiqin said: "Team Cao's business ability is actually quite good, but the accent is a bit..."

"No one is perfect." Hua Chong raised his hand and signaled to Cao Han that he was coming, "I have adapted to his accent now anyway, you just met him, don't let him lead you astray, the song value is determined I can’t do enough, after working with him, I said ‘well, yo’ for a week.”

Liu Zhiqin smiled, "I will try my best."

Cao Han's face was flushed when he investigated the case—probably because of the heat, "I found a fellow from Li Liwen's hometown who also works as a waiter in this area. He said, Li Liwen usually carries an outdoor knife with him!"

At this time, Li Xun called, "Flower Team, we found seven controlled knives in Li Liwen's rented house. One of them was tested by Luminol and it was confirmed that it had been heavily stained with blood. But we need to extract the blood after cleaning. It takes a lot of time to determine whether the DNA in it is fresh."

Hua Chong said calmly: "Bring Li Liwen to the scene. In this murder case, he is either the murderer or an important witness. I want to see his reaction at the scene."

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As night fell, the only street lamp in the alley came on.

Hua Chong stood under the street lamp and looked up for a while.As Li Liwen said, the light from the street lamps was very dim.Yin Ziqiao's body was not far from the streetlight, but it was indeed in the shadows.If passers-by don't look carefully, they really can't tell whether it's a drunken person or a dead body.

"This is where I picked up my wallet." Li Liwen squatted on the ground anxiously, making a gesture of picking up something, "I wasted my time here too. I'm not lying, it's so dark here, and you wouldn't mind counting your money." You must be able to see each one clearly, right?"

He spoke carefully, but also with a hint of anger.Hua Chong has seen a lot of people involved in the case, and is very familiar with his reaction—cautious and angry emotions, which often appear on people who have not committed crimes but become suspects for various reasons.

Li Liwen stood up and walked forward while recalling, "I was at about the same speed yesterday. I caught a glimpse of a person lying on the ground over there, and I didn't look at him at all. If I knew it was a dead person, I would call the police and I wouldn't take his money. That's 'dead money', no matter how poor I am, I will never be greedy for that kind of money! I ran those last few steps because the night bus runs every hour, and I figured it was almost the same, so I let go of my pace."

"Do you have the habit of collecting knives?" Liu Zhiqin asked.

Li Liwen's expression changed slightly, "This, is this breaking the law?"

Hua Chong squinted at him.

"It's just my hobby. I like to buy some cheap imitation military knives and outdoor knives. I, I know that controlled knives can't be brought on the subway or something. I usually put them in my bag and basically never take them out." Li Liwen was very flustered. , "I really didn't kill anyone."

Hua Chong took out a physical evidence bag, which contained the outdoor knife that responded to the luminol test, "Have you used this knife recently?"

Li Liwen's pupils shrank, and he instinctively wanted to grab it.

Liu Zhiqin blocked it with one hand, "What do you want to do?"

"No, no!" Li Liwen gasped, "It's just a knife! I bought it online! If you don't believe me, you can look it up online. There are many such knives!"

There are indeed many such knives, but after technical modeling, it has been confirmed that this knife can cause fatal injuries to Yin Ziqiao's neck.

But since the Trace Inspection Division has not successfully extracted DNA, it cannot convict a person hastily.Hua Chong put away the evidence bag and said, "Answer my question just now, have you used this outdoor knife recently?"

Li Liwen shook his head blankly, gritted his teeth, "I didn't!"

"Do you think everything will be fine if you wash off the blood on it with water?" Hua Chong's expression turned cold, "You're still refusing to tell the truth at this point?"

"I didn't!" Li Liwen was trembling all over, his lips turned dark purple.

"You young man! What are you stubborn about?" Cao Han roared, "You said you didn't kill anyone, but you didn't cooperate with our investigation. What good does that do you? Let me tell you, I never You have wronged a good person, and you have never spared a bad person. If you don’t cooperate, you will be the one who suffers!”

Li Liwen still didn't speak, but the fear in his eyes gradually became more obvious.

Liu Zhiqin turned around, "Flower team?"

"Take it back, hold it." Hua Chong said.

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"Li Liwen's reaction to knives is very strange." On the way back to the City Bureau, Hua Chong held the steering wheel with one hand and groped by his side with the other, "There must be something wrong with that knife."

Liu Zhiqin asked: "What are you looking for?"

"Water." Hua Chong said, "I remember there is a bottle of mineral water here. Where did it go?"

"Thirsty?"

"A bit."

"I have." Liu Zhiqin said, took the backpack on the back seat, pulled out the crimson thermos, and unscrewed the cap.

"Your water..." Hua Chong said, "Is it watered this morning? It's been about ten hours."

"I changed it. The current one was just picked up at the police station. I've already finished drinking the morning bottle." Liu Zhiqin poured hot water into the bottle cap when the traffic flow was completely blocked by the red light. Yes, he handed it to the left, "Here."

Hua Chong took it, and asked for a second cup after drinking one.

Liu Zhiqin laughed when he fell down.

"What are you laughing at?" Hua Chong leaned towards him, "Is it funny to drink two glasses?"

"No." Liu Zhiqin said: "It turns out that my feeling is not wrong."

Hua Chong's brows trembled, "Huh?"

"I said in the morning that I felt you looking at me. You didn't admit it. But if you didn't look at me, why did you say that I filled the pot in the morning?"

Hua Chong turned his head, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart, but didn't show it on his face, and commented: "Well, the logic is rigorous, and it would be nice to apply such rigorous logic to criminal reasoning."

At this time, the red light turned into a green light, and the traffic began to move forward. Hua Chong finished drinking the warm water in the bottle cap, and returned the cap to Liu Zhiqin.

Liu Zhiqin put away the thermos and said, "Flower Team, do you remember where we discussed where this pot came from this morning?"

"Remember, you said you bought it." Hua Chong drove forward, "You also said that our conversation was interesting."

I don't know what's interesting.

"Of course it's interesting." Liu Zhiqin smiled and said, "'Where did this pot come from?' 'When did you buy it?' Except for interrogating suspects, you never ask other people such detailed questions."

Hua Chong came to his senses, and couldn't help but feel the heat in his ears, he snorted and said, "Are you treating yourself as a suspect?"