side edge

Hearing this, the expressions of the two became serious instantly.

"... Li Guo?" Yan Cun asked, "Are you sure it's her?"

"Probably, I don't know her name," Lu Xiaorui raised her eyes and recalled for a while, "When she was on the set of "Forbidden Zone" two years ago, she often went to the set to find Director Zhou, and went back to the hotel room with Director Zhou after work was over. Come on. At that time, other people in the group said that she is the kind of...compensated|dating female college students."

"Two years ago? How old was she two years ago..." Jiang Huai was stunned for a moment, then immediately came back to his senses, "What the hell?"

Sophomore?scholarship? ?

And this one? ? ?

""Restricted Zone"?" Yan Cun missed the point, "Slightly familiar..."

Jiang Huai held his forehead, leaned close to his ear and whispered: "It's the criminal investigation film I mentioned in the communicator before I came here! The beautiful actress I mentioned is..."

Yan Cun: "...Okay, I know."

He coughed lightly, and then asked Lu Xiaorui: "The person you saw, did she have any interaction with Luo Qingsen before?"

Lu Xiaorui: "I'm not too sure about this either. Mr. Luo and I only met a few months ago."

Yan Cun nodded and recorded the content of the question.

After confirming some other details with Lu Xiaorui, he and Jiang Huai left the hotel room and returned to the 21st floor without a word.

Investigators stepped forward to report that there were no traces of fighting near the banquet hall and the stairs, except for the 5-minute monitoring that was cut off, no one approached the floor where the incident occurred during the rest of the time.

Temporary employee Ji Liao found several sets of fingerprints at the scene, and Yan Cun arranged for someone to cooperate with him in transferring the body to the Criminal Investigation Technology Section of the detachment.

"Accordingly," Yan Cun speculated, "if Luo Qingsen killed Zhou Hongxin's lover Li Guo, if you consider the option of 'have a grudge', it should be that Zhou Hongxin is dissatisfied with Luo Qingsen... What's wrong with you? smoked?"

"No," Jiang Huai slumped on the chair, "I'm disillusioned."

Yan Cun: "?"

"Lu Xiaorui! Lu Xiaorui, who just met you a few hours ago! How could she be with Luo Qingsen..." Jiang Huai looked hopeless, "Ah—I'm disillusioned!"

Yan Cun helplessly raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Chasing stars is risky, investment needs to be cautious."

Jiang Huai howled a few words, and immediately returned to the topic: "But Zhou Hongxin had never touched the phone at that time, and the moment he saw Luo Qingsen jumped from the window, his expression of shock did not seem fake."

Yan Cun: "There are no traces of fighting around the banquet hall or near the stairs. I think the perpetrator is likely to be Zhou Hongxin's trust and undefense, or someone who does not need to fortify, for example..."

Jiang Huai answered: "For example, the perpetrator is obviously weaker than himself, does not appear to be aggressive?"

"Correct."

Yan Cun yawned, got up and said, "The results of the test will be available tomorrow at least, you should go back and rest first, and you will have to keep spinning for several days."

Jiang Huai glanced at him: "What about you?"

"I have to go back and stare at that person," Yan Cun said, "How can it be possible to leave him alone to go back to the game for testing? After all, he is not part of our team. It's okay to use it temporarily as a tool."

Jiang Huai asked again: "...do you really not need me to accompany you?"

"No," Yan Cun said with a smile, "I'll go back to the detachment to watch the surveillance video a few times, maybe I can find some breakthrough."

Jiang Huai nodded and stood up: "That's fine."

After the case was handed over to the detachment, the investigators of the 719+721 case have been busy almost from 6:[-] pm until now, so after the floor where the incident occurred was sealed off, Yan deposits them off work, bought two cups of coffee and returned to the detachment.

Except for the policeman on night shift next door, only he and Ji Liao, who was conducting tests in the technical department, were left in the criminal investigation office.

After hesitating for a while, he hung one of the cups of coffee on the doorknob of the technical office, and turned back to his desk.

The incidence of criminal cases in Qinjiang City has not been high in recent years. It is rare for two cases to be related to each other within a week or less.

Yan Cun took a sip of his coffee and tried his best to watch the surveillance video.

The process of solving the case was boring. He stared at the video in a daze for a while, and finally got some clues when he watched it for the second time. Not long before the banquet started, Li Wenxin slowly turned his back to the surveillance camera. He threw something into Luo Qingsen's cup.

He quickly dialed the phone number of the person in charge of the Dongcheng branch.

"Luo Qingsen's autopsy report has come out," the branch forensic doctor yawned uncontrollably, "the deceased had obvious fractures and marks of violent impact. It is obvious that he died from excessive blood loss due to a fall from a height."

"...More than a dozen people watched him fall, can't it be obvious?" Yan Cun asked, "Have you inspected the tableware and cups at the scene?"

Branch medical examiner: "No."

"Are there traces of drugs in the body of the deceased?"

Sub-bureau forensic doctor: "No way."

"Have you seen the blue and white porcelain necklace?"

Sub-bureau forensic doctor: "Not at all."

Yan Cun breathed out softly: "...that's fine."

Have to go back to the scene again.

Yan Cun's house is just in the middle of the connecting line between the Municipal Bureau and Chengfeng Hotel, so in a sense, it can be regarded as three times without entering the house.

He hung up the phone, and hesitantly knocked on the door of the forensic office next door.

Tens of seconds later, the door was pushed open, and the distance between the two was less than half a meter. At the same time, they watched helplessly as the coffee packaging bag slid down the door handle quickly and fell to the ground with a "slap".

Only then did Yan Cun understand a truth - staying up late was a waste of time.

The hot coffee dripped out from the mouth of the cup, and Ji Liao took two steps back quickly with a cold face: "..."

Yan Cun jumped to the side in fright: "..."

The slightly bitter fragrance permeated the air, Yan Cun woke up instantly, and hurriedly said: "This is an accident..."

Ji Liao glanced at him in disgust, backed away without saying a word, and closed the door with a backhand.

Yan Cun: "???"

...Is there something wrong with this person?

Has this professional attitude really not been beaten to death by the boss? !

He frowned and sighed slightly. He looked around to find a rag to clean off the coffee stains. The next second, the door of the technical office was pushed open again.

The person in front of him pushed the stick-shaped object in his hand forward and threw it into Yan Cun's arms.

Yan Cun looked at the mop in his hand in bewilderment.

"...Why are you there?"

"..." Ji Liao said helplessly, "I also want to know why your bureau treats the technical office as a utility room?"

Yan Cun was stunned for a few seconds, then immediately raised his eyes and looked behind Ji Liao——I saw the forensic office was covered with dust, there were large and small foam boxes and courier boxes piled up in the corner, and all kinds of cleaning tools were leaning against the wall .

???

No wonder the office feels a lot tidier recently, are all the feelings piled up here?

Yes, quite awesome.

Ji Liao glanced at him: "Why are you knocking on the door?"

Yan Cun came back to his senses, and tentatively said in a low voice: "... I want to ask if you know how to drive."

Ji Liao was startled: "Is there anyone who can't drive now?"

Yan Cun: "..."

"It's not that I can't drive, it's just that I'm a killer on the road, and I tend to drift when I'm sleepy..." He took a deep breath, "Forget it, you get back, I'll take a taxi."

He looked up at the wall clock on the wall, it was three o'clock in the middle of the night, a fucking car.

On the first day without the little driver Zhang Jingze, I miss him.

Ji Liao stared at him for a while without saying a word: "Where is the car?"

Yan Cun looked at him in surprise, paused for a while and said, "Ah, the car is here..."

……

Where is my car?

Yes, my car is gone.

Goodbye Zhang Jingze, a stumbling block on the road to saving money and getting rich.

Ji Liao glanced at the embarrassed Yan Cun, immediately understood, turned back to the office, grabbed a car key, and said 'go'.

Yan Cun let out a sigh of relief, silently praised "sensible" in his heart, quickly cleaned up the coffee stains on the floor, threw the mop away, and followed Ji Liao's pace.

Returning to Chengfeng Hotel for the third time, the two found the place where Li Wenxin was facing away from the camera before, carefully extracted the liquid in the cup, and returned to the Municipal Bureau.

——However, tests showed that the glass contained only ordinary lemonade.

"It doesn't make sense..." Yan Cun recalled the surveillance camera and poked Ji Liao, "I can't be wrong, right? Look, doesn't it look like you're throwing something into a cup?"

Ji Liao took a closer look, and stretched out his hand to drag the time bar back and forth. The monitoring showed that Luo Qingsen hadn't touched the water glass from the time he took his seat to the time he fell from the building.

"Didn't it mean that the monitoring was cut off for 5 minutes," he said, "Will someone replace it?"

Yan Cun frowned and pondered for a while, then asked, "Have any traces of drugs been detected in Zhou Hongxin's body?"

"Not yet," Ji Liao got up wearily, "Go now."

Yan Cun pretended to be sorry and glanced at him: "Ah...it's a special situation, thank you for your hard work first," he added cautiously, "How about I make you a cup of coffee?"

"No." Ji Liao resolutely refused.

Yan Cun breathed a sigh of relief, pretending to forcefully said: "That's fine."

After the coffee cup irono incident just now, he didn't want to see coffee again for a while.

Besides... who's going to make coffee for you with this ice cube? !

Think beautifully.

Ji Liao frowned and glanced at Yan Cun, stepped into the forensic office without looking back, and closed the door behind his back.

Yan Cun also walked to his desk and began to investigate the social relations of the persons involved in the case.

Originally, he thought, to sort out all the clues of the case first, and wait for the other people to hold a small meeting after work the next day to find suspicious points. The speed of solving the case is comparable to that of a rocket.

The idea is beautiful, the reality is cruel.

He has been busy for the past few days, so he didn't sleep well at first, and tonight, the stack of cases caused his brain to crash and explode. He hadn't started to draw the character relationship diagram yet, his head sank, and he couldn't control himself and fell asleep in front of the keyboard.

Then he wandered back and forth between half-dream and half-awake—from Luo Qingsen falling from a building to dreaming of wax gourd and crucian carp soup, from winter melon and crucian carp soup to ice ballast, and from ice ballast to hot pot barbecue crayfish.

He dreamed some meaningless scenes intermittently. The dream was long and chaotic. At the end of the deep sleep was a tall figure.

The figure stretched out its big hand towards him, leading him along the boulevard.

Immediately after, the piercing ringing of the bell dragged him out of the dream, the sky suddenly appeared outside the window, and the hour hand of the clock on the wall pointed to the number '7'.

Drowsily raising his head from the table, he dazedly made eye contact with Ji Liao who was staring at him not far away, unable to realize where he was for a while.

After groping to find the source of the piercing ringing, and seeing the caller ID clearly, he pressed the connect button.

"Hey?"