Fire to the Abyss

Lu Jinli's effectiveness quickly passed, and the case progressed as Xia Lin expected, and no valuable clues were found.All the video surveillance data on Changning Road and the small roads extending in all directions were taken out and looked at several times, but no trace of the suspect was found. The surrounding wasteland and small woods were also searched extensively, but still nothing was found.

The case has reached this point, and it has basically reached a deadlock.Even so, it was enough to make the whole detachment exhausted and gossamer-the incident happened in winter, and the greening level of Changning Road was quite backward. There were only thin telephone poles on both sides, and occasionally a few low buildings, and the whole was quite empty. , the wind is unimpeded here.Walking on such a road, it would be weird if it was not wrapped tightly.

The key evidence, the tricycle, never appeared in the surveillance. Obviously, the murderer deliberately bypassed the camera, and the well-connected paths also provided good concealment conditions.The road was full of passers-by wrapped in zongzi. At first glance, everyone looked like a suspect, and it took a lot of effort to eliminate them one by one.

Yang Ming was also proceeding cautiously. If he wanted to secretly investigate the members of the detachment under the noses of the whole detachment, he had to pretend to be friendly on the surface, which was indeed embarrassing for him.Xia Yan followed Yang Ming and lost sleep for several days. Every time Yang Ming called, he looked as if he was facing a formidable enemy. Li took over the baton and became the word that most easily touched Xia Yan's sensitive nerves.

Although the Chengzhou detachment has not been established for a long time, it can be considered a thriving population. Counting the top and bottom, there are also a hundred or so people.Except for those with the wrong gender and those whose physical characteristics are seriously inconsistent, there are also people in their twenties.Among the twenty or so people, there are young and fresh meat who have just joined the job not long ago, and there are seniors who act like veteran cadres all day long; After staying for a few days, some criminal policemen are turned into idlers who eat and wait to die. Tea, newspapers, and commuting to and from work on time are indispensable.

What's more, they are brothers who have been through life and death with Xia Yan for many years.

Although they are not blood brothers, they will not hesitate to hand over their backs to each other in times of crisis.There is no scruple in fighting each other in normal times, and there is no ambiguity in serious matters.

Xia Yan has been the team leader for the past two years, although it can't be said that he is in good spirits, the atmosphere of the team is getting better and better.Although everyone said that the detachment team is not bad in every way, they have to work overtime when something happens, the salary level is generally low, the benefits are low, the coffee in the coffee machine is terrible, and the lesbians are worrying about their looks, etc. Like the alma mater complex, even if you say it's worthless, don't allow others to say no.

Xia Yan originally thought that his detachment leader had done a good job, even better than his predecessor Chen Zhifeng, until now.

It turned out that at some point, a poisonous needle was inserted into his side, but he didn't realize it all the time.

After returning from Sissi, Xia Yan tried to find various reasons to convince himself. For example, the person who threatened Chen Zhifeng with Sissi may not necessarily be the murderer of him. It's just going astray, the brutal murderer is actually someone else.

But he couldn't justify these reasons himself. The strange man Sici met was from the detachment, and the murderer who killed Chen Zhifeng was his acquaintance. At present, other acquaintances have been ruled out as suspects of committing the crime. In addition, the murderer has a good sense of anti-investigation. Its identity has been revealed.

After briefly deceiving himself and others, Xia Yan stopped resisting and gradually worked towards accepting the reality.As soon as he closed his eyes every night, he would turn those 20 or so people upside down in his mind, imagining the possibility of them being the murderer one by one.He just pondered over and over like this, and basically couldn't sleep the whole night, and he had to act as if nothing had happened during the day, and his whole body was about to suffer from a nervous breakdown.

Yang Ming's side is also the first and the second big. Although the range of suspects has narrowed, it will be difficult to go any further.It has been more than a month since Sissi met the strange man, and it is difficult to trace the exact date. It can only be roughly determined as the time period from the serious case to the murder of Chen Zhifeng.There was an interval of ten days, and it was too difficult to determine the whereabouts of everyone in the ten days without asking himself, and the same goes for the day Chen Zhifeng was killed.

The detachment has a fingerprint punching machine, which clocks in at [-]:[-] am and [-]:[-] pm. There is a monitor above the punching card machine, but the equipment has not been updated, and it can only store half a month's image data, and the time period to be checked is one month. before.Besides, this is within the detachment, so it is not difficult to copy a fingerprint at all, and the check-in record has no reference value.Although there is a special attendance record for going out to work, it uses the most primitive method of manual recording, and the cost of falsification is quite low, and there is no reference value.

Yang Ming had no choice but to take out the personnel file and chew it over and over again, while Xia Lin cooperated with him to do some investigations outside. Of course, both of them had to pay attention to avoiding people's eyes and ears.It was the first time Yang Ming investigated the case like a thief. Xia Lin said that life needs these novel experiences.

So it was the Lantern Festival.

Xia Yan's complexion looked like a malnourished left-behind child.He was unshaved, and his hair was scratched casually as usual, and his appearance when he entered the detachment wrapped in a military coat was a bit cruel, so that when He Rong laughed at him like a dog, he didn't refute, and even smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yeah , indeed quite similar."

After being surprised for a while, He Rong tremblingly handed the remaining half of the bread to Xia Yan: "Captain Xia, what, there is no grass anywhere in the world, why bother to love only one flower? If you feel uncomfortable, my shoulder I can borrow from you at any time..."

Xia Yan replied kindly: "The door is over there, so it's easy to leave."

Before Xia Yan's butt was warm on his stool, Zhou Hengyu rushed in, and said something that made Xia Yan puzzled: "Leader, the leader is here!"

Xia Yan: "What?"

Zhou Hengyu is Zhang Xiaowu's classmate, the two of them entered the same detachment, and they were also a duo of brothers and sisters who were beaten up by Fatty Xia Lin.This person is slightly fat, with dark skin, and a mouthful of leaky teeth.The face is as round as a biscuit, with round eyes, short nose bridge and thick lips. The whole face is quite joyful. It basically belongs to the mascot category in the team.Different from the mature and steady Zhang Xiaowu, Zhou Hengyu has an impatient personality, just like a strengthened version of Yang Ming.Everything in the team is done by running, as if the soles of your feet are not broken sneakers, but a pair of Hot Wheels.

Zhou Hengyu saw the leader with his hips on his hips, shrugged his shoulders, seemed to be holding back a laugh, and then realized that the other party probably didn't understand what he meant, and said again with his hands gesticulating: "Leader, I mean the district police. The leader is here!"

It's a big holiday, the leader is not at home eating Lantern Festival and watching TV for the elderly, what are you doing here?

Xia Yan restrained his smile: "What are the district leaders doing here?"

Zhou Hengyu: "They said they came to offer condolences, but several of them came, and the leader seemed to be a secretary surnamed Liu."

In Xia Yan's impression, there seemed to be only one secretary surnamed Liu, Party Secretary Liu Yaowen, and Liu Xiuyun her cousin.According to the past urine behavior of this person, Xia Yan would not believe that he was here to send warmth even if he was beaten to death.

Xia Yan: "When will it arrive?"

Zhou Hengyu: "There are still 10 minutes left just now. Now, let me see, there should be 15 minutes left. Bureau Zheng asked me to come in quickly and let you know. Also, Bureau Zheng told you to pay attention to your wording..."

Zhou Hengyu got stuck in the middle of speaking, stretched out his hand and scratched his forehead, and didn't know how to convey euphemistically, "Tell him not to jump out of all the shit, don't say what he shouldn't say".

It's not been a year or two since Xia Yan dealt with Zheng Xing, and he has keenly figured out the "sacred will": "Don't say what you shouldn't say?"

Zhou Hengyu nodded as if he had been pardoned.

Facts proved that Xia Yan's guess was quite accurate. After 15 minutes, Liu Yaowen really entered the gate of Chengzhou Detachment surrounded by a group of people.Zheng Xing led the way in front, followed by several uniformly dressed men, and at the end there was a photographer with a camera.

Liu Yaowen is about fifty years old, wearing a well-tailored smoke-gray suit, neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, in stark contrast to Zheng Xing, who is in the shape of a Maitreya Buddha.Xia Yan was very worried about the precarious button on Zheng Xing's suit, for fear that if he didn't pay attention, it would collapse in front of the secretary.

Liu Yaowen's facial features are not very three-dimensional, the bridge of his nose is a bit flat, and his face is a bit long, but his eyebrows are extremely thick, as if drawn with a brush.The eye shape is relatively round, but not Zhou Hengyu's lovely round, with a bit of a tiger's eye.Probably because of the proper maintenance, there are no dimples on his face, but his face looks radiant.The corners of his mouth are slightly raised, but due to the shape of his face and aura, he always has a natural majesty.

As soon as a group of people entered, the detachment hall was almost full.

Xia Yan slandered: You always think of yourself as the country's prime minister?

The slander is the slander, Xia Yan still showed a standard smile, stepped forward and shook hands with Secretary Liu.

Zheng Xing introduced in a low voice beside him: "This is our team leader, Xia Yan."

Liu Yaowen nodded upon hearing the words: "I know, it's the comrade who captured Nine. He's well-known in our district. I didn't expect him to be such a handsome young man. He's really young and promising."

When Liu Yaowen said this, he hadn't let go of his hand, and when Xia Yan was about to withdraw his hand calmly, Liu Yaowen put his other hand on it, and patted Xia Yan's back lightly twice, expressing his approval and appreciation. affim.

It successfully aroused goosebumps all over Xia Yan's body.

Even though there was already a serious physical resistance reaction, Xia Yan's face was still not revealing, he smiled modestly: "Don't dare to be or not, it's because of everyone's cooperation."

Zheng Xing glanced at Xia Yan secretly, then raised his neck to look in the big office, and after making sure that nothing seemed abnormal, he breathed a sigh of relief.His over-full belly undulated obviously, like a puffer fish that just leaked air and was irritated, Xia Yan almost laughed at him.

Within 15 minutes, Xia Yan successfully turned the wilting carrot heads lying on the desk into blossoming healthy sunflowers, all of them full of vitality, with a look of "overtime makes me happy, artificial Live ideally".Everyone's desks are well-organized, and all kinds of items are neatly arranged. Taking a photo can be directly used as a picture of the best civilized unit of the year.

Among them, the most unhandy item - Xia Yan, also looks like a dog.

He first sent Zhou Hengyu to the big office to send a message: "The district leaders are coming soon, and all of them have to be resurrected on the spot within 15 minutes. If you perform well, you will get off work on time in the afternoon, and please go to Yanxi Building to wash your hands later." Then he quickly went to the bathroom to wash He wiped his face and took He Rong's dressing tools to tidy up his appearance, then took off the military overcoat he had washed in unknown years of the monkey, and changed into a special coat for reception from the dressing room.

Zheng Xing and Xia Yan led Liu Yaowen into the big office from left to right. Everyone smiled and greeted. Liu Yaowen looked around with his hands behind his back, and then stood under the background wall of "serving the people", holding the posture of a leader, He said in a steady tone: "Comrades, today is the Lantern Festival, which should be a good day to reunite with relatives, but everyone is still working overtime because of the case, and sometimes they can't even have a warm meal. Say thank you. I am here today, not only to express my condolences on behalf of the district police, but also to express my gratitude as an ordinary family member of the victim. I brought the Lantern Festival to everyone, and I have ordered the cafeteria to prepare it, at least so that comrades can Eat a bowl of warm Yuanxiao. The Chengzhou detachment was established under my watch. It has grown rapidly in the past few years. Now it is a very good team. I am very pleased..."

After all, a leader is a leader, if you open your mouth at will, you will be able to talk endlessly.The photographer immediately found a good angle and started shooting. Xia Yan took out his mobile phone and quickly sent a message to Yang Ming: Don't go back to the detachment today.

Poor Yang Ming was blowing cold wind outside with his nose running, he didn't know who he had offended, and wanted to ask why, but thinking of Xia Yan's haggard appearance recently, he didn't dare to say more.He took back his phone and returned to the car with Xia Lin.

As long as Xia Yan thinks about it, he will never mention a word that should not be said, but Yang Ming can't guarantee it.This guy turns into a coward when he sees the leader, and it's hard to guarantee that he won't reveal a key word or two under pressure.

Liu Yaowen and Yiduo Sunflower had a cordial and friendly exchange, and after providing the cameraman with a wealth of photographic materials, he called Zheng Xing and Xia Yan to sit down in the conference room and started today's topic.