Early the next morning.

After receiving the message early in the morning, Xu Luo went downstairs and got into the familiar car.

As soon as the person sat firmly on his seat belt, the warm aroma of food filled the interior of the car that was illuminated by the sun.The driver next to him thoughtfully put the sun visor in place, and then handed over breakfast and soy milk.

However, the driver was using a bluetooth headset to talk about business on the phone, so he didn't have time to say good morning to him.His handsome outline was gilded by the morning sun, and his fingers were hitting the edge of the steering wheel anxiously, feeling irritable...maybe a little anxious or shy.

Because although he didn't look at himself, his eyes were always paying attention to his fingers and movements.

Xu Luo took it back and yawned. He unexpectedly slept well last night and was in a good mood. Obviously Gu Nianyi didn't stay behind in the end, but the power of words still gave him an inexplicable sense of security, not to mention that this seemed to be nothing at all. The fool who didn't know how to say goodnight to him before going to bed.

Xu Luo began to wonder if it was true that he had never been in a relationship before, and every swipe just hit his point, no more, no less.

During the month of separation from Gu Nianyi, Xu Luo didn't think about his feelings for Gu Nianyi.Those things were very small and messy, scattered in the smell of Gu Nianyi's body, every time he was stabbed for himself, there was still that scar on Gu Nianyi's tiger's mouth, Xu Luo could see it just by turning his head.

Most of his memories of scars are bad.Whether it was Wu Li pointing at his waist every time and forcing him to look at him and telling him to save his life, or every trace that Wu Li made on him because of his mistakes, but this one on Gu Nianyi was the only one. Every time Xu Luo watched it, his heart ached and itched.

She clearly thought it over, the last case was over, she broke up with him, and never had any contact with him again.

But why did he come to find himself?

Xu Luo looked at his chin and Adam's apple, feeling that he wanted to clean him again, but couldn't help getting dirty, over and over again.

He looked at the bag of steamed buns, grabbed one and gnawed slowly, thinking that bringing breakfast is the most tried and tested trick in the ambiguous period.It doesn't cost too much to please the other party, making you look very caring. Xu Luo would be speechless and scoff at this kind of trick when he was in school, which would be quite enjoyable.

Just as he was thinking, Gu Nianyi stopped the car, reached out, grabbed a bun from his bag and stuffed it into his mouth.

He vaguely said: "No way... If it is really highly similar, then contact the gear adjustment and matching now... Ah yes, our investigation approved it, so how was the block yesterday?"

Xu Luo muttered about the soy milk, and leaned closer to him to listen.

"Everyone says they haven't seen it?" Gu Nianyi took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, "How is it possible..."

Not knowing what the person on the other side of the phone said, Gu Nianyi finally let out a long sigh and said, "Understood, I'll come over in a while and meet at the door."

When he hung up the phone, Xu Luo said, "Xiao Sun?"

"Well, I talked about something." Gu Nianyi wiped his hands with a wet tissue after eating, and said, "Didn't the identities of the two corpses in the freezer have not been confirmed? You are a little interested in the two people who are a little close now." Unexpected... so now the technology and forensic side are actively confirming and contacting."

"Forget it, let's not talk about this." Gu Nianyi waved his hand, pulling Xu Luo back to his thoughts, "Yesterday our people went to investigate the nearby routes, and it is said that Zheng Chenglong has not appeared for at least a month. Neighbors, small vendors The people in the shop also said that they had a little impression of him before, and they haven't seen him for a long time." Gu Nianyi said, "So the kid is lying?"

"Not necessarily, his father brought the woman back and showed it to the neighbors?" Xu Luo opened the laptop.

"That's right." Gu Nianyi said.

Gu Nianyi opened the window and lit a cigarette, while Xu Luo rested his chin on his hands and looked at his computer.

"Zheng Chenglong is violent, his job is not fixed, his partner is not fixed, it is not known whether the child is his own, and there are not many similarities in the photos. He has not changed places in the past few years, but even so, he has not caused too much trouble for the police. Attention, consciously avoiding the camera, anti-reconnaissance ability and vigilance are quite strong. However, if you live in this area for a long time and form a habit, no one will associate him with criminals." Xu Luo slowly settled in his seat Shake it up and zoom in to look at his photo, "What I find most strange is that he looks like an old smoker, how could he not come out to buy cigarettes..."

"..." Gu Nianyi smoked the last few puffs, put out the cigarette in the ashtray in the car, put his hands on the steering wheel and said, "Go, I think he still needs to check his son Zheng Min."

Driving directly to the neighborhood, Sun Chengming was calling for someone to watch the surveillance in the bureau and come later, so Gu Nianyi and Xu Luo could only wander around the neighborhood for the time being, and first check and ask about the main places the other party had passed by.

This time they decided to change their minds and asked directly about Zheng Min and Zheng Chenglong, and sure enough they got something out of the question.

"I'm in my third year of high school. I know how to study. Before that, I used to run to the game room of Internet cafes, and his father would catch him. Now I go home after school, and I went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables a while ago." A neighbor was chattering, "His father didn't see much."

"His father doesn't care about him now, and he used to urge him to study."

"The child is very smart..."

Gu Nianyi was still chatting with the neighbors here, when he saw Xu Luo suddenly running, he glanced sideways and shouted, "Where are you going?"

Xu Luo ran quickly and caught up with a child carrying a schoolbag in front of him.

"..." Gu Nianyi quickly followed, saw Xu Luo squatting down, and said to the child, "Hi! Do you remember me?"

Gu Nianyi was slightly taken aback when he saw the child's face clearly.

Such a coincidence?This is actually the child in the toilet on the top of the building in Lu Fan's case.Gu Nianyi remembered him because his mother put him in the toilet and locked him. He witnessed the dead people in the pool full of blood in the rainy night, and later he became aphasia because of this, but he didn't expect to be here. saw him.

Speaking of which, this kid was one of the opportunities for him to talk to Xu Luo. Gu Nianyi had a deep impression on him, thanks to Xu Luo's sharp eyes, he could see him running downstairs at a glance.

"Do you live here?" Xu Luo asked softly, "I remember you, your name is Chen Weiwen, right?"

"Yeah." Chen Weiwen nodded, "You are! Brother doctor! He is! Brother policeman!"

The child who was obviously more lively than before made Xu Luo slightly relieved and patted his head.

"Go to school?" Xu Luo said, "You are only in the first grade now, right?"

"Second grade." Chen Weiwen compared "2", "I'm already in the second grade."

"That's good." Xu Luo patted his head and said, "But what about your father? Doesn't your father send you off?"

"Dad..." Chen Weiwen shrank back, "Dad is on a business trip..."

When Xu Luo heard this, he frowned and said, "There are no adults in your family? How dangerous is it to cross the road to and from school..."

——"Wenwen!"

Someone yelled his name between the conversations, Xu Luo and Gu Nianyi raised their eyes and saw Zheng Min who was walking over, Zheng Min looked at the two of them, and obviously became irritable and said, "It's you again? "

"You know each other?" Xu Luo asked.

"He's my neighbor, and I'll take him to school when Dad is on a business trip." Zheng Min grabbed his hand, "Isn't it police uncles, I broke the law by sending him to school?"

Gu Nianyi immediately wanted to say something, Xu Luo waved his hand to stop him, and said to Zheng Min: "Well, it's getting late, you two go quickly."

"Go." Zheng Min took his hand and walked away, telling Chen Weiwen, "Didn't I tell you not to talk to strangers..."

The two gradually walked away and disappeared at the corner of the street.

"What a coincidence." Gu Nianyi folded his arms and looked into the distance, "I still have a little memory of that kid. At that time, he said that I kissed his mother, which shocked me."

"Pfft." Xu Luo covered his mouth and smiled, "I also remember him, and I have the impression that his father treated him well, and his mother and lover must have been held accountable in the end."

Gu Nianyi nodded, shaking his hands: "I remember what kind of test you gave him..."

"But it's really not reassuring to put one of his children here alone. Even if one of these two children has just grown up, he doesn't have the ability to survive alone. Look at his house in such a mess. It's nothing but instant noodles. .” Xu Luo said.

Although Gu Nianyi agreed with his statement, he felt that he had no position, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Some people don't like to clean up, so don't laugh about it, maybe it's not as good as a child who has just grown up."

"Teach me?" Xu Luo glared at him.

"How dare you." Gu Nianyi stroked the back of his head and said, "Let's go, look around."

"He may know that we are checking him recently. If there is his eyeliner here, he will probably hide." Gu Nianyi said, "I didn't find any special clues yesterday. Maybe we should try to change our thinking."

Sure enough, as Gu Nianyi said, after yesterday's relatively smooth progress, the case entered a calm period. Gu Nianyi and Xu Luo had to start doing some repetitive things, such as knocking on the neighbors' doors Ask about them.

Several households reported that no special incidents were found, and there was no substantive progress after Sun Chengming's arrival.

It's just that when they were about to leave, a neighbor's grandmother suddenly stopped them in the corridor and said, "Hello, Comrade Police."

"Hello." Gu Nianyi looked at her sideways and remembered, "Are you the grandma who lives in 302?"

"Yes." Grandma said, "I just listened here for a while, and I remembered something. I was awakened by a sound at around twelve o'clock last night. In fact, I didn't sleep well, and I often heard the noise from upstairs. Footsteps."

"Footsteps? Then I've heard them too." Zheng Min and his neighbors who were facing downstairs also came over and said, "Our place is not well soundproofed, so footsteps are normal!"

"I saw the child upstairs was still in the corridor after twelve o'clock at night." The neighbor's grandmother said, "I wandered around the stairs for a while, and then went downstairs with something."

"After twelve o'clock?" Gu Nianyi and Sun Chengming glanced at each other, "Is it heavy?"

"The big package may also be garbage." Grandma said, "I don't know, but the sound of their footsteps upstairs sometimes really makes me sleepless."

"I'm directly above them, and you are on the side, so it's because my place is more noisy. Why are there footsteps on your side?" The neighbor downstairs said, "The footsteps you mentioned must be yours." Upstairs. The child is very small, jumping and jumping all day long."

The neighbor's grandmother immediately waved her hand and said: "Don't talk nonsense, the boy upstairs is very quiet! He is obedient and not noisy, how could he jump at night, it is the bigger one next door, he made noise."

"My baby is in her third year of high school..."

"Your ears are so sharp, you can hear everything."

"Ha ha ha ha--"

The neighbors didn't realize anything, and they quickly forgot what you said, and started the daily chat during the day. Gu Nianyi and Xu Luo said hello and left, just as Sun Chengming and other police officers also arrived .

"Gu Zai." Sun Chengming said, "We have deployed manpower in the area under our jurisdiction. If Zheng Chenglong appeared recently, he should be within the surveillance range of our police force."

"Okay." Gu Nianyi said, "But I still have to ask that child again."

"I think so too." Xu Luo said, "What was he moving last night?"

……

It's past six o'clock in the evening.

Zheng Min strode out of the campus with his schoolbag on his back. It was already dark, and the National Day holiday was about to come, but the long holiday did not exist for the senior year.The students went out in twos, but Zheng Min was always walking out alone.

He raised his eyes and saw Gu Nianyi standing at the door, his face contorted.

"What are you doing going out after twelve o'clock?"

Gu Nianyi put his hands in his pockets and followed Zheng Min who was walking fast: "Hey, walk slowly, you..."

"Don't follow me!" Zheng Min turned back impatiently, "Are you sick? I told you that I don't know where my dad is! I followed me once, twice, three times. Do you know that I am a senior in high school? I didn't pass the college entrance examination. Come out, are you the police responsible for sending me to college?! Can you blame your police for my mood swings? Will you help me with my homework at night? root!"

"When were you young, do you have memories of being with him all the time?" Gu Nianyi ignored his words, and was still asking his own question, "How was the relationship between your father and your mother before? Answer these questions I won't waste your time."

Zheng Min was so angry that he turned his head, pointed to the distance and said: "...I was born in that hospital, that old bastard gave birth to me, and I won't raise me! If I'm a fucking kidnapper, I'll admit it!"

Gu Nianyi stopped in his tracks.

Sun Chengming stood not far away waiting for them, Gu Nianyi gestured to him, motioning him to continue, then turned to look for Xu Luo.

"You really guessed that he would say that." Gu Nianyi lit a cigarette and walked side by side with him.

Xu Luo walked slowly, looking at the phone from time to time: "You are too impatient, but you are right, he is much smarter than you think. The three sentences attack you precisely and crucially, and every sentence is a moral kidnapping."

Gu Nianyi said to Xu Luo: "This kid has a problem."

"What did you hear?" Xu Luo looked up at him.

"I didn't say anything, he just told me the words 'abduction and trafficking'." Gu Nianyi said, "It means he knows what we are looking for?"

The two of them always kept a certain distance from the front, Xu Luo said: "It's easier for him to disguise his hidden emotions with aggressive words, but it's also easy for him to lose track of his brain. After all, he is a half-grown child, and he can't control himself. Emotions."

"Why are we both biting him?" Gu Nianyi squeezed his chin, "He just gives me a bad feeling, but I can't tell."

"The sense of smell of a police dog?" Xu Luo raised his hand and touched his head, but his eyes were fixed on the boy's back, and his tone became cold, "The current disguise makes this kid feel very hard, but I'm starting to be curious about him. What the hell was he hiding at such a young age?"

"Are you thirsty?" Seeing that Sun Chengming was chatting with the child in front of him, Gu Nianyi couldn't help asking Xu Luo.

"There is water." Xu Luo shook the water bottle in Gu Nianyi's hand.

"Oh." Gu Nianyi glanced around, "I'm a little thirsty, I'm going to buy water."

"Drink mine." Xu Luo put it in his hand, "Hold it for me after drinking."

"..." Gu Nianyi sighed helplessly.

"What, you hate me?" Xu Luo said.

"Can't we kiss directly in the future?" Gu Nianyi whispered.

"Give it back to me if you don't drink. It's up to you whether you want to kiss or not." Xu Luo didn't forget to say when she took it back, "I declare first, I'm terrible at kissing."

Gu Nianyi is now a paper tiger, he unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, his eyes turned away, and the tips of his ears were a little red.

He took the water all the way to the door of the other party's house, watched the child go upstairs, Sun Chengming shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he didn't ask anything: "I have been telling me not to follow him, it's too fierce, and I was scared by him. "

"Let's go like this first, he probably won't say anything." Gu Nianyi said.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I want to go up and see the kid." Xu Luo said, "I haven't seen him for a long time, and I don't know how he is doing."

"Then I'll go back to the bureau first." Sun Chengming glanced at his watch and said, "I still have something to do, Gu Zai, please accompany Dr. Xu. We will meet up in the bureau tonight. Regarding the two corpses in the freezer, Their physical evidence center may give the result at night, then we will discuss it at night."

"No problem." Gu Nianyi said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

After Sun Chengming left, Gu Nianyi and Xu Luo wanted to go upstairs to Chen Weiwen's house, they went to his door and knocked twice, but no one answered.

Just as he was thinking about what to do, the door of Zheng Min's house next door opened suddenly, and there was a "bang" sound.

Zheng Min shouted: "Hello."

"..." Gu Nianyi looked at him, but he didn't expect that he was knocked out next door.

"You guys are never finished." Zheng Min said angrily, "After harassing, I will harass others!"

"Brother." Chen Weiwen poked his head out of the room and said obediently, "Hello."

Xu Luo said: "I'll come and see you. Has your father come back yet? Give me his phone number, and I'll have a word with him."

"Father is not here." Chen Weiwen shook his head and said with a smile, "Dad has been gone for many days."

"That's why I want to call your father." Gu Nianyi said, "I can't leave you here alone like this, although your mother is not reliable, but at least she is an adult, if we really can't, let's contact your teacher. "

Zheng Min squeezed the doorframe tightly with his fingers: "Are you finished?"

"Father is not here!" Chen Weiwen repeated again, "Not here!"

Zheng Min looked at Xu Luo and Gu Nianyi vigilantly, then pushed Chen Weiwen into the room, and closed the door with a "bang", not giving them a chance to say a word at all.

Gu Nianyi: "..."

The sensor light in the corridor went out because the corridor was quiet, and when Gu Nianyi was about to step on it, the door opened again with a "bang".

"I have something to tell you." Zheng Min said, "Come in."

……

Zheng Min's home is still as messy as yesterday, but as he said, most of the garbage in his home is bagged and thrown away.

Chen Weiwen was put in the room by him to do his homework, leaving only Gu Nianyi, Xu Luo, and Zheng Min on the opposite side of the sofa.

"Are you going to study by yourself at night?" Gu Nianyi asked.

"I'm not going." Zheng Min said, "I said my stomach hurts and I'm asking for leave."

"Have you had dinner yet?" Xu Luo said, "Let me order a takeaway, I'm hungry."

Zheng Min looked at Xu Luo and said nothing.

"Do you want to eat KFC?" Xu Luo asked, "McDonald's? Pizza?"

"Pizza." Zheng Min said, "Wenwen likes pizza and Orleans chicken wings."

"Okay." Xu Luo said and went to order food, while Gu Nianyi leaned forward and looked at him.

He was like an oppressive lion: "What are you going to tell us?"

"I..." Zheng Min swallowed, "Is there... any smoke?"

"?" Gu Nianyi's face twitched, "Where the hell did you learn to smoke, no! Keep talking!"

Zheng Min's hands trembled a little, and he seemed to be a different person from the arrogant and domineering person just now, and he was very nervous.Xu Luo's finger was sliding the takeaway, but his peripheral vision was still on his body.

Gu Nianyi said: "Just tell me."

Zheng Min rubbed his hands, and finally said: "Actually... I lied, Wenwen's father is gone."

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