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Ou Yuan District.

This place is in the south of the old city center. It was relatively prosperous at first, but later the economic center shifted to the east, a new city center was established, young people left, and Ouyuan District gradually became depressed.

Ji Zhisheng and Xi Jin brought Xiao Liu, and the police officers in the two cars behind them, they were the second batch sent to participate in the case. The first batch who came here two days ago had almost figured out the situation, and put the whole A person named Zhou Qing from Ouyuan District made a superficial investigation.

There were better hotels in Ouyuan District before, but they either closed down or were not located in the police station area. Ji Zhisheng and the others ended up staying in a relatively ordinary overnight hotel.

Ji Zhisheng and Xi Jin's rooms are next to each other, there are not enough big bed rooms, so Ji Zhisheng's room is a double room.

After he took the room card, he went back to his room.It has been raining in Ouyuan District recently, and the room is a bit damp. Ji Zhisheng frowned slightly, and reached out to touch the sheets

Good thing the sheets were dry.

He first took out all his things, and then sat by the bed to watch the news about 'Zhou Qing' sent by the local police station.

Eight people, five men and three women, including a 12-year-old girl.Apart from some basic family information and some recent events, nothing else was found, let alone anything unusual.

Today is the third day, and it is almost night, and there are still seven days before the ten-day time limit given by T.If the murderer cannot be identified within these seven days, then the sixth victim of rose thorn will appear.

Ji Zhisheng looked at the eight people in the phone, silently rubbing the edge of the phone, as if in a trance, until he heard Xi Jin calling him through the door: "Professor Ji, open the door."

This guy no longer cleans up his own room, what are you doing here with him.Ji Zhisheng opened the door and adjusted his glasses: "What's the matter?"

Because he was out on the job, Ji Zhisheng was rarely dressed properly, with a light gray suit and vest wrapped around his body, his waistline was narrow and powerful, his face was handsome, his silver-rimmed glasses made him look a little cold, and his refined and ascetic temperament came over his face.

Ji Zhisheng: "Is there something wrong?"

He took a look at Xi Jin, and his eyes fell on the backpack behind Xi Jin, "...you don't go to your room, why are you looking for me?"

Xi Jin coughed lowly, her eyes were a little erratic: "Then what... just now I saw a cockroach in my room, I was afraid, isn't your room just a double room? Please take me in for a few days~"

Ji Zhisheng laughed: "Deputy Captain Xi is just joking, there are cockroaches in your room, so it's fine to change to another one, what's the matter if you're squeezed together with me, the budget is not enough?"

"I have it in my room, which means that other rooms may also have it." Xi Jin raised her voice a little bit, pretending to be cowardly, feel wronged, "What if cockroaches jump on my face when I sleep at night..."

He rubbed his arms, feeling cold.

Ji Zhisheng frowned slightly, and loosened his fingers blocking the door frame. After a while, he turned sideways, "It's okay to go in first to make do with the night."

Xi Jin suddenly smiled, "Alright."

In fact, he wasn't afraid of cockroaches, but when he first arrived in Ouyuan District, he saw the message Qin Yan sent him like a mother:

Qin Yan: [Deputy Captain Xi, during the few days in Ouyuan District, please take good care of senior brother and try not to leave him alone, especially at night. ]

Qin Yan: [Also, don't put any knives in the room, sharp things should be placed where the senior brother can't find them. ]

Qin Yan: [If he is drowsy after taking medicine, don't force him to wake him up. It's better to wear a rubber band on his wrist. Please confiscate the rubber band if you see it. ]

Qin Yan: [What's more, senior brother doesn't like to eat, don't force him to eat, but he should eat some every meal...]

Xi Jin only sent these messages from Qin Yan to him when he was in his room next door. In fact, the entrustments were all small things, but the content of these entrustments made him unable to help but have some bad associations. Something was wrong, and I finally broke out in a sweat.

He simply came over with his bag.

Fortunately, Ji Zhisheng did not refuse.

Xi Jin put the bag on the bed inside: "It is impossible for the police station to lock up these eight people for seven days, but they have already sent people to watch them 24 hours a day."

"Ok, I know."

Ji Zhisheng's figure sounded a bit unreal, he was washing in the bathroom.This is just an ordinary hotel, the bathroom is a layer of frosted glass, and there is no curtain to block it, Xi Jin can see his shadowy figure.

Ever since he clearly realized that he likes Ji Zhisheng, when Xi Jin and Ji Zhisheng get along, they always feel inexplicably awkward.

He coughed a few times, and his eyes accidentally fell on the small table between the two beds. Besides the ashtray, there was a box of condoms on it.

"..."

Xi Jin stared at the box for a long time, moved his eyes away and back again, thinking that this hotel is really not serious, looking at it, his ears turned a little red for no reason.

Hearing the movement in the bathroom slowly diminish, while Ji Zhisheng pushed the door open, Xi Jin suddenly trembled, and guiltily stuffed the indecent little box into the drawer below.

Ji Zhisheng wiped his face with a towel, and gave him a strange look: "What's wrong with you? What are you hiding?"

Xi Jin laughed and said, "Hey, it's nothing, you read it wrong."

Ji Zhisheng came over: "I really saw you hiding something."

"Really do not have!"

"...Oh," Ji Zhisheng didn't expect such a big reaction from him, and he said slowly, "If you don't have it, you don't have it, so what, I'm done washing, you go quickly."

Xi Jin wiped her face, suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and hurried to the bathroom to relax.And Ji Zhisheng sat by the bed, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Just now Xi Jin clearly hid something, could it be information about the case?Ji Zhisheng bent down suspiciously, stretched out his hand and opened the drawer, after a while,

He closed it casually.

After a while, there was a knock on the door, and Xiao Liu shouted from outside: "Consultant Ji, I have bought all the things you want me to buy, you can go out and get them."

Ji Zhisheng opened the door, and Xiao Liu handed him the whiteboard he bought, a few blue and red punctuation marks, and a thick marker.

He actually has these things at home, but they are not convenient to carry, so he simply bought them here, Ji Zhi said: "Thank you, thank you for your hard work."

Xiao Liu: "It's not hard." He hesitated for a moment, then looked in the direction of the restroom, "Are you... the deputy team leader?"

Ji Zhisheng snorted: "He said there were cockroaches in his room, he was afraid, so come over and squeeze with me."

When Ji Zhisheng closed the door, Xiao Liu still had an unbelievable expression on his face.

Is Xi Jin afraid of cockroaches? !Why didn't he know, and, if he remembers correctly, this is the north, and the hotel is cleaned every day, so where is it so easy to have cockroaches...

Ji Zhisheng set up the whiteboard, took out his mobile phone, and simply listed the information of the eight "Zhou Qing" on it, and found that the residential locations of these eight people's homes happened to be in the shape of a rose like a skeleton.

His eyes dimmed slightly.How could it be such a coincidence.

But if T is also doing a replica in Ouyuan District, it should also be the bone nodes of seven roses, corresponding to seven talents, then this extra person...

Ji Zhisheng took a closer look, and according to the order of the police investigation, there were two people exactly overlapping the center of the rose in the middle.But this is not in line with his previous speculation, why there is one more person.

Is this extra person T wants to get rid of?

Ji Zhisheng put another rubber band on his wrist at some point, and kept pulling the rubber band on his left wrist with his right hand, pushing and pulling, as if he didn't feel any pain, his wrist soon turned red.

The irritability in my heart is getting stronger and stronger.

Want to try Immersive Total Empathy...

Anyway, with medicine.

It shouldn't be a big deal.

Ji Zhisheng pursed his lips, and slowly closed his eyes under the lens, but before he could completely relax, someone grabbed his right hand, and then Xi Jin's slightly angry voice came: "Ji Zhisheng, didn't you talk to me last time?" Did I say there is no next time?"

"..."

Ji Zhisheng opened his eyes, a little dazed.

After a while, he lowered his head and looked at the rubber band on his left wrist.

Xi Jin had just finished washing, her hair was slightly messed up, her clean and fresh breath carried an inexplicable sense of aggression, and it smelled of a different kind of peace of mind.

He frowned deeply at this moment, and with the other hand he pulled off the rubber band Ji Zhisheng was wearing, "Why is Professor Ji still acting like a child, so disobedient."

He straightened up, snapped off the rubber band in front of Ji Zhisheng, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's confiscated, do you still have it? I'll destroy it all at once."

"Don't look at me, this is what you promised me before, besides, your junior brother also asked me to look at you."

Ji Zhisheng: "..."

He subconsciously looked at his bag, which contained a small box of plastic rubber bands.

Suddenly feel guilty.

He pressed his lips and coughed lightly: "No more."

This is more or less the same, Xi Jin sat next to him, looking at the whiteboard with many lines drawn by Ji Zhisheng, "This is... what you drew just now? It looks like the rose skeleton you showed me before, but why are there eight dots?"

Ji Zhisheng temporarily gave up the idea of ​​complete empathy, and told Xi Jin his speculation just now, "The original Huaxin only had one point, but now there are two overlapping points, obviously there is a redundant one."

"But this is T's sixth goal, so the person at the sixth node, and the extra person in Huaxin's heart, is very likely to be T's goal."

The No. 12 Zhou Qing in Huaxin is a 28-year-old girl, the No. 17 Zhou Qing is a [-]-year-old courier brother, and the sixth node Zhou Qing is a [-]-year-old rebellious boy in high school.

There are more and more red and blue lines intertwined on the whiteboard, and the complexity is dazzling.

I haven't seen these 'Zhou Qing' yet, just pure analysis. Ji Zhisheng finally locked these three people and listed them as the key protection objects. The rest can only be further locked after meeting them tomorrow.

The night gradually became darker, and Ji Zhisheng had maintained an analytical posture for a long time, without any expression on his face, without a rubber band, his right hand subconsciously pinched back and forth at the wrist of his left hand.

Xi Jin didn't notice his small movements. He looked at the time, hesitated for a moment, reached out and patted Ji Zhisheng's shoulder, "...it's late, go to bed."

Hearing this reminder, Ji Zhisheng came back to his senses, he straightened up, rubbed his sore shoulders, and only then remembered that there was another person beside him.

"……it is good."

The hot water Xi Jin poured for him was on the small table beside the bed, Ji Zhisheng took a look at it, but didn't drink it.

He took off his coat tiredly, and lay on the bed with his eyes closed: "...wait a few days, or tomorrow, the hotel has a new vacant room, so the deputy team leader can go, or I can go to another room."

Xi Jin tilted her head when she heard the words, "Why?"

Ji Zhisheng: "It's not very convenient."

This or that line?

Xi Jin immediately said: "You can take a shower and change clothes and I can go out, Professor Ji, I'm really afraid of cockroaches."

Ji Zhisheng didn't speak any more, turned over and covered himself with a quilt, with his back to Xi Jin.

In fact, he didn't really feel inconvenient, but Xi Jin was here...he couldn't enter a state of complete empathy with T.

He has not been in a state of full empathy with others for a year.

The innate talent will also degenerate if it is not used for a long time.Coupled with the interference of drugs this year, Ji Zhisheng doesn't know if he can still reach the height he was a year ago.