Fire to the Abyss

Xia Yan was woken up by being poked by a piece of grass stalk. The man poked inhumanely on such sensitive parts as his ears and neck. It was itchy and painful, as if ten thousand ants had crawled over his body. bite him.Xia Yan decided that even if that person was the President of the United States, he would press him on the ground and beat him up first.

As a result, as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xia Lin holding up half a grass stalk expressionlessly.

In front of my younger brother, what is the President of the United States?

Xia Yan sat up straight like a carp, and laughed himself into a flower: "Baby, why are you here?"

Xia Lin gave a "tsk" with a look of disgust, and threw half a grass stalk on him casually: "It's really useless to bring personal feelings into work."

Xia Yan scratched his head in embarrassment, opened his mouth, then closed it again, but still didn't give any explanation. It seems that he still doesn't know about Zhong Qing's disappearance.

Xia Lin took a cup of hot water for Xia Yan and put it by his hand: "Get up and work when you wake up, there is someone you have to meet."

"Oh? Who is it?" Xia Yan picked up "Brother's Love Water" and rubbed it gently in his palm.

"I'm waiting for you in interrogation room No. [-], maybe it's...the key." Xia Lin smiled mysteriously, and closed the door of the lounge.

As soon as Xia Lin left, Xia Yan's calm expression turned ferocious - even though Liang Song claimed to act with discretion and would not leave sequelae, no matter what he did, pain was inevitable.

Xia Yan took a sip of the precious water of love, and planned to ask Liang Song to have a good talk about life when he was free, when the phone in his arms suddenly buzzed.He answered the phone in a hurry, and Zheng Xing's calm and unquestionable voice came from the opposite side: "Xia Yan, Liang Song has full authority over Zhong Qing's case, just leave it alone."

Xia Yan only said the first half of the word "wait", and was buried in the rhythmic "beep".

Xia Yan threw the phone aside, and walked out of the lounge after smoking a cigarette to clear his mind.

In the interrogation room, Xia Lin sat side by side with a girl with shoulder-length hair waiting for him.The girl doesn't look like a key at all, her facial features are very ordinary, there is nothing eye-catching, the kind that is hard to find again if thrown in the crowd.

Xia Yan was unfamiliar with the girl, and after entering the door, she unconsciously cast her eyes on her. The girl was already a little nervous, but Xia Yan's cold and serious gaze added fuel to the fire. She straightened her back involuntarily, letting go The hands on the lap folded back and forth unnaturally, making a small "rustling" sound.

Xia Lin glanced sideways: "Brother, don't stare at him like that, they will get nervous."

Talking about Xia Lin's way of getting along with female classmates, Xia Yan had only seen him and Liu Xiran in the past, and thought that he got along with other female classmates in the same way—probably just a picture that no one would pay attention to. Smelly face, the kind that speaks to people with its nostrils.Never thought that among the tens of trillions of cells in my brother's body, there are still one or two rare cells that are sympathetic to each other, so he stared at Xia Lin with wide eyes in amazement, as if he hadn't seen his brother in ten years. With his eyes, he dissected his whole body in detail.

"Your brother?" The girl was also a little surprised, her eyes flicked back and forth between Xia Lin and Xia Yan, and after a while, she seemed to see some clues from their looks, and commented: "It seems that they do look alike."

"Little girl, let me introduce myself. I'm Xia Yan, Xia Lin's true brother, the captain of the Chengzhou detachment and the leader of the team."

Xia Yan smiled softly, the corners of his eyes slightly raised, and his smile really showed a bit of brotherly kindness.

The girl didn't dare to look directly at his face, she slightly raised her head to take a look, probably infected by Xia Yan's loving smile, she timidly called out: "Captain Xia."

It's just that this kind smile hindered the eyes of the lord Xia Lin. He shot Xia Yan angrily, lowered his tone and said to the girl in a gentle voice: "Chen Mubai, tell my brother what you just said to me, Don't be afraid, he's a good cop, I promise."

As soon as Chen Mubai looked up, he saw Xia Lin's deep and quiet eyes, and Xia Yan who was facing her also smiled and nodded towards her, then she stopped the movement of folding her hands, and spoke slowly and stumbled.

"Captain Xia, on the afternoon of Christmas last year, I... I was in the coffee shop next to the east gate. It's been a long time, and I can't remember many details. I just remember that I went there alone, and then there I saw Xia Lin. Since I was... an acquaintance, I paid more attention. Later, a girl came in and sat opposite him. After a short chat, I saw that girl... kissed Xia Lin forcibly , I thought it was very strange, so I took a picture and sent it to Xu Luo, oh, Xu Luo is Xia Lin's roommate. I swear I was only out of gossip mentality, and I didn't know that the girl who died that day was her... "

Chen Mubai stopped here, looked back and forth between the two of them, wondering if he should continue.

Xia Yan nodded slightly: "Don't worry, the cause of her death has been found out, I know it has nothing to do with you, do you still have the photos taken at that time?"

Chen Mubai took out his phone, slid his fingers on the screen with some stiffness, and quickly found the photo at that time, and handed the phone to Xia Yan.

Xia Yan took a look at the phone, the photo was taken from the side, the light in the cafe was dim, because it was a snapshot, the whole picture was a bit blurry.In the middle of the picture, the faces of the girl in white and the boy in black are very close, and their postures are quite ambiguous. It should be the moment when the girl just got her hands on it.

Although several months had passed since this case, because Xia Lin was also implicated, Xia Yan had a particularly deep impression on this case. He remembered that the victim in that case was wearing a white fur at that time.As for the boy in black, even though his face was almost smeared into a pot of porridge, as a true brother, he could still recognize his brother at a glance.

Xia Yan suddenly remembered another photo of his brother kissing someone, and tapped twice on the solid wood table with his fingertips: "Honey, why are you always being photographed like this?"

Xia Lin stretched out his right hand to cover his face: "Brother, please stop talking."

"Hey..." Xia Yan had an intriguing smile on his serious face.

Chen Mubai's curiosity was also aroused, and half of his body leaned forward: "Xia Lin, who else have you kissed and been secretly photographed?"

Xia Lin felt that his patience in the next life was about to be exhausted, and said in a bad tone: "It's none of your business, just keep talking, hurry up."

If Chen Mubai knew that that person was Xu Luo, the revolutionary friendship that had been built so hard would be broken, and I don't know what stupid things she would do.You must know that it took him a cup of milk tea and half an hour just to coax Chen Mubai to come to the detachment with him - although it was only a matter of a few words for Xu Luo to go out, he didn't want to create any chance for Chen Mubai to get in touch with Xu Luo.

Chen Mubai had a bad nose at Xia Lin, and turned to Xia Yan for help, but Xia Yan just propped his head and looked at her calmly: "Girl, let's continue."

Chen Mubai's curiosity couldn't be satisfied, so she could only continue to organize her words, but because of this little episode, her nervousness disappeared by more than half, her tone became more natural, and her speech speed became lighter.

"I remember that Xia Lin left soon. After he left, I didn't pay much attention to the girl. Later, I went to the bathroom. As soon as I got to the door of the bathroom, I saw a man and a woman bump into each other. The woman was all in one body Bai, it should be this girl, the guy is very ordinary, nothing special, I can't remember what he looked like. The girl dropped her things on the floor, the guy squatted down, picked them up twice, then got up and left, I was so far away Not far away, originally I also wanted to help the girl pick up things, but I don’t know if it’s because the man’s attitude is not very good or what, the girl started cursing at his back, as if telling him not to touch her things, I feel that this girl is not good It was too annoying, so I went straight to the bathroom, and when she came out, she had already left.

"When I went back the same way and passed there, I felt that I stepped on something. I picked it up and saw that it was a chip-like thing wrapped in a plastic shell. The shell had been crushed in half by me. I thought it was The girl forgot to pick up something and hurriedly chased it out, but unfortunately she has long since disappeared. I want to give the things to the coffee shop clerk, let the store help keep them first, and return them to her when the girl comes back, but the clerk said I I broke someone else's things. If they found it, it would be difficult to explain, and they refused to accept it. I had no choice but to keep it by myself. I was afraid that the girl would go back to the store to look for it, so I left my phone number there. But no one contacted me all the time, and I went to work later, so I forgot about it. Today, when Xia Lin asked me, I just remembered... I, I just found out after listening to Xia Lin, so she It's Li Xueen...she has been unable to contact me for a long time..."

Xia Yan still remembers that the surveillance in the coffee shop did indeed capture Li Xueen colliding with someone, but the location happened to be at the very edge of the camera's imaging range. The man who collided with him never fully appeared in the camera, so he also It was impossible to determine whether that person was Zhao Yang. At that time, he was worried that it would be difficult to convict him if he was caught, but it turned out that his troubles were unnecessary-the person was never caught.

After talking for a long time, Xia Yan still didn't quite understand what Xia Lin meant. How could a neglected relic of Li Xueen become a key?Besides, the case has already been settled, so what else is there to solve?

Xia Yan: "That... where is the chip now? Do you know what it is used for?"

"It's right here with me," Chen Mubai took out a bunch of keys from her bag. A metal car decoration was hung on the keys. She lifted the "chassis" of the car and used her nails to dig out a black sheet from the inside. "Plastic The outer shell fell off by itself, so I put the contents here and carried it with me, and if I saw her one day, I could return it to her immediately."

Xia Yan took the flake, turned it over and over in front of his eyes, but didn't see a flower, so he stretched out his hand to beckon the criminal police next to him, and asked him to take it for He Rong to study.

The interrogation room suddenly became quiet, Chen Mubai held his breath and dared not speak, Xia Lin had a pensive expression, Xia Yan wanted to ask too many questions and didn't know where to start.

The three of them were silent together, Chen Mubai stared blankly at the hollow metal car, only felt that the metal body glowed coldly, like a person whose heart had been cut open, and invisible blood was gurgling out from the empty heart. She poured it all over.

The things kept close to him turned out to be the relics of a dead person, and the person died abnormally.In all kinds of ghost stories, there are legends about unjust ghosts attaching to objects in life and killing people. Chen Mubai is not a firm materialist, and various violent images with great impact have begun to appear in his mind.

Chen Mubai took a deep breath, and forcibly pulled her thoughts back from all kinds of weird legends. She felt that her psychological quality was better than she imagined. Wet——Xia Lin didn't ask her to take out the chip to look at it just now, and took her to the detachment after hearing her description. She hadn't had time to think about it before, and only then did she feel creepy.

"Little girl, are you alright?" Xia Yan noticed that Chen Mubai's shoulders had been trembling slightly, his face was frighteningly pale, and a layer of fine beads of sweat had formed on his temples.

Xia Yan took a cup of hot water and handed it to Chen Mubai, and also took out a pack of wet tissues from his pocket, opened it and handed it to her.

Chen Mubai drank several sips of water, and then regained his senses under the moisturization of warm water, his face turned slightly pale, and then he finished talking about the second half of the suspected stalking.

After the two paragraphs were put together, even Chen Mubai herself realized that something was wrong. She covered her face with her hands, widened her eyes and said in disbelief: "Could it be that those who followed me want this chip?"

"I'm afraid it is." Xia Yan lowered his eyes and added the second half of the sentence in his heart - those people are probably puppet masters.

At this time, Xia Lin, who had been playing the sculpture of "The Thinker" at the side, suddenly said, "I don't think that thing belongs to Li Xueen."