As a real wine, I developed a bottle of fake wine

The problem of Jiang Guling treating guests to dinner was finally solved.When he first moved to the police academy, the 5 yen shopping coupon reward he had been given at the end of the mission was still useless, and he could just use it to pay the bill.

"I thought this kind of shopping coupons could only be used to buy appliances or something." After being reminded by Nanasheng, Jiang Gu Ling took out the paper coupons that were pressed at the bottom of the box, and looked at the golden amount on the top and the small note on the bottom.

[Can be used in any consumption occasion...]

Amazing……

Is this a reward coupon issued by a big chaebol?

"The shopping voucher I gave is definitely different from the ordinary ones." Nana was so proud that her tail was raised up, she wanted to say something else, but when she saw Jiang Gu Ling pushing the recycling box, she conveniently took another box out of it. The bottom of the bed was dragged out, and the smile was put away.

"zero……"

Nanao fixed her eyes on the cardboard box in front of Furutani Rei, watching him remove the tape on it.

"I went to pay back the rest of the money before." Jiang Gu Ling said, with a normal tone, looked up at the photo with his parents on the desk, then lowered his head and continued to tear off the tape, "Didn't I tell you before I promised to pay back the money?" thing?"

Nanasheng never found the right time to ask, but Furutani Rei brought it up by himself.

He will not break his promise, and he will really work hard to do what he promised her.

I had been worrying about potted plants for a long time before because I promised her to take good care of them.

Although that was basically a commission that she was half-forced to accept.

Jiang Gu Ling opened the cardboard box, and the mysteries that had been with her since the early days of the game were finally revealed to her, but they were far more ordinary than imagined.

There are some old clothes, razors, books and other things in the cardboard box. It looks like the sundries left over from the moving house. They have been carefully collected and stacked neatly and meticulously. It looks very interesting. Furuya zero-packing style.

The things in the original three boxes were combined into one, and there was no clutter. Nanasheng almost kept hanging it during the days of moving, and I don't know when Zero tidied it up while she was not paying attention.

Just picked some?

Nana recalled those three boxes.

The things that belonged to zero in the original small apartment may not fit three cardboard boxes together.

Listening to Furutani Rei's seemingly calm description, Nana just wanted to sigh.Quietly listen to Zero continue to speak.

"Ah, there's a photo album here." Jiang Gu Ling dug out an old photo album, "Want to see it?"

"want……"

Jiang Guling then spread the photo album on the ground, opened it and told her one by one.

In fact, there is nothing to see.Compared with Jiang Gu Ling's book, this book has much less content belonging to his parents, and most of it is a group photo with Ling's family of three.In addition, what takes up the most space is the group photo of the annual class reunion.

"My parents both graduated from Dongdu University, and they have always been very proud of it. My father once wanted me to go to Dongdu University."

Jiang Gu Ling rubbed his nose and pointed to the group of people in the photo who were holding wine glasses and smiling brightly.Zero's parents were also among them, and the two were close to each other, obviously close.

"These people are actually friends from the tennis club during their college years, and their majors are different. But they have a very good relationship, and they meet almost every year." Zero explained.

"It turns out that your playing tennis is also related to your parents?" Nanasheng was thoughtful, looked at the photo album, and laughed again, "But they don't look like they can play tennis at all."

Among the group of middle-aged people in the photo, most of the men are potbellied, only Ling's father and a few other two or three are still in good shape.

"However, those who graduated from Dongdu University should be in high positions later on. It's normal to lack exercise." Nanasheng found an explanation by himself.

Jiang Gu Ling: "Well, my parents are both doing technology research and development in the enterprise. There are not so many dinners, and they usually have time to exercise. Others are probably much busier than them."

When he mentioned his parents' company, the relaxed smile on his face disappeared.

Nanasheng remembered that Fugu Ling had mentioned to her before that the money he owed was owed to his parents' company.

"What happened to that money?" She asked carefully.

Jiang Guling had expected that she would ask, so he exhaled slowly and said in a low voice: "A few days after the funeral, my parents' company sent a lawyer to the house, saying that they were suspected of leaking the technical secrets in the company's research and development. It should have been leaked by accident. But it still caused a lot of losses to the company...so they asked me to use my parents' property to make compensation, otherwise they would have to sue."

"The inheritance plus the house is almost enough. They didn't ask me to increase the interest on the remaining 100 million. I just need to work and pay it back slowly."

"I didn't think about that at the time. My relatives helped me read all the certificates they provided, and finally persuaded me to follow through. They said that it would be very difficult if I went to court, and it would not be good for my parents' reputation."

Jiang Guling was a little tired as he spoke, he was too lazy to recall these things, in fact, he couldn't remember exactly what happened during that time.

"So I ended up leaving it to them."

Nanasheng frowned when she heard this, she looked down at the things in the box, there were several jewelry and watches inside.

They are all well-known luxury brands.

Even if it is second-hand, if you sell these, it should be enough to pay back the 100 million.

Zero is probably reluctant.

The heirs of the estate do have the obligation to repay the debt, but isn't the amount of compensation just right?

It was as if he was just stuck on Jiang Gu Ling's acceptable limit, so that he would not be cornered, and he could just take away all the property left by his parents.

Most importantly, is the leak of company secrets real?

Rei Fuguya was only 17 years old at the time. Even if he is 19 years old now, he is still a minor in Japanese law. It is normal for relatives to handle such matters.

But Nanasheng thought of Zero's group of relatives who hadn't been seen before... why does it always feel unreliable.

She didn't express the suspicion in her heart.After all, they are relatives of Zero.

But not long after the car accident, the company came to ask for compensation, which was just too coincidental.

Nana forced herself not to think about conspiracy theories, maybe because of something they found in the materials left behind by Zero's parents...but she couldn't help but think about it.

Just at this moment, Jiang Gu Ling pulled out an old mobile phone from the bottom of the box.

Nanao saw that Rei's movements were obviously stagnant, looking at the mobile phone, his breathing gradually became a little short.

Furutani closed his eyes, calmed down, and handed the phone to Nanasheng.

"Inside, are the photos I took after I called the ambulance and called the police, before they came."

Nanasheng was taken aback for a moment, and then reacted.

It's a photo of the crime scene!

She didn't answer immediately, but asked in a low voice, "Can I watch it?"

"Can……"

Jiang Gu Ling sat on the ground leaning against the bed, and scratched the hair on the back of his head, "This case has been published in newspapers many times, if you really want to investigate, you can actually find out."

Nanasheng took it carefully, and long-pressed to turn it on.The battery of the old-fashioned mobile phone is quite good, and it can still be opened after such a long time. There is a battery left in it. She didn't dare to waste time, and quickly opened the photo album.

There are about [-] photos at the bottom.

She started to look at the first picture, the more she turned back, the colder her heart became.

She understood why Zero wanted to change her phone.

Such photos are stored in the mobile phone, and probably just seeing them accidentally will make people feel suffocated.How did Zero come up with the idea of ​​filming the scene?

The photo is obviously after the accident. It seems to be late at night, and the lights in the surrounding residential areas are sparsely lit, with only a little light provided by the street lamps overhead.

Snowflakes fell from the sky, and the ground was covered with white. It is rare to see such a large amount of snow in Tokyo.

Snow will allow more tracks to be preserved, but it will also cover them up.

This is probably the reason Fugu Rei thought of shooting.

Nana couldn't count how many times today she wanted to sigh.

Zero, he can still keep his mind clear at such a moment...

turn back...

One of them took a panoramic view of the road from afar.

It is not a wide road, only enough for one car to pass, if a car comes at a high speed, there may not even be a place to hide.Zero's parents faced a situation that made people feel hopeless just by imagining it.

There were two people lying on the left and right sides of the road. Nanasheng bit his lip and looked at it. The man's hand was still struggling to stretch forward until the last moment. If he looked at the ruts, the direction he stretched out his hand was probably the direction in which the vehicle that caused the accident was leaving. Tell the fugitive driver not to go, and call an ambulance for them?

The woman lying on the other side seemed to be asleep quietly. The surface of the long skirt was soaked in snow and dyed dark brown, and the large skirt spread out on the snow.She was holding a purse in her hand, Nanasheng zoomed in to see, it was Fusae's purse.

Zero's mother is also blond, and Fugu Zero's hair color and eye color are probably inherited from her, but it's a pity that the woman in the picture has her eyes tightly closed, and she never has the chance to open those beautiful and clear purple-gray eyes.

Nana turned to the next sheet in silence.

Jiang Gu Ling took several photos of the traces on the road.

Ruts, footprints, and bloodstains were mixed together, because it was winter, the clothes were thick, and there was not much blood, so other traces were more clearly discernible.

This alley is very remote, no one seems to have passed by in a short period of time, and there are only four kinds of footprints on the snow.

The two came from leather shoes and high-heeled shoes respectively. Judging from the footprints, the two walked side by side without any turning back or wandering. They should come from Zero's parents.

The remaining two are traces of sneakers, one of which wandered the crime scene many times and was taken by Zero.

"Ling, why were you there that day?" She asked softly while watching.

Jiang Guling twitched the corner of his lower lip, "I'm going to deliver an umbrella."

It was snowing in Tokyo that day, and his parents worked overtime until late at night. He was worried that it would be unsafe for them on the way back, so he decided to deliver umbrellas on the spur of the moment.

Walking from the station to the company, I found that my parents couldn't get through on the phone, so I heard from the guard that they had left 10 minutes earlier.

And did not go in the direction of the station.

Jiang Gu Ling followed the direction pointed by the guard and walked for about 10 minutes before hearing the muffled sound of a vehicle hitting an object in the distance.

He turned the corner and saw a man running towards the car in a hurry.He was dressed tightly in winter, and the driver who caused the accident was wearing a thick hat, so he couldn't see his facial features clearly.

Before he had time to stop him, he found that those lying on the ground were his parents.

"In the end, I only remembered the license plate number of the car that caused the accident." Jiang Guling said, "But the police said it was a stolen car, and the real owner had an alibi that day."

Nanasheng was quiet for a while before speaking: "Zero, you have done a good job. Have you shown these photos to the police? There should be a lot of useful information in them."

"No..." Jiang Gu Ling's voice was a little hoarse, "They gave me back after a quick glance. Later, during the on-site inspection, they said that there were no useful clues left at the scene. So they will go from the direction of the license plate and road monitoring check."

And these two directions later disappeared.

All the evidence was lost in the heavy snow, and only these photos taken by Jiang Guling can help her restore the original scene.

The police officer in charge of this case actually ignored these important evidences. Could it be that the incident was investigated as a traffic accident?

An unknown fire rose in Nanasheng's heart.

Looking at Fugu Rei's expression, she could even imagine the police officer's reaction when he saw these photos on his cell phone.

What kind of person would immediately think of taking pictures after finding out that their parents had an accident?

At the beginning, there was probably a serious misunderstanding.

Nanasheng clenched his phone tightly, took a deep breath, and carefully observed the last footprint left on the photo.

That was the footprint of the driver who caused the accident.

Jiang Gu Ling saw the back of him fleeing in a hurry, and it was true from the traces. The footprints in the direction of the vehicle's departure were very wide, which was proof that he ran with all his strength after hearing Jiang Gu Ling coming.

But the footprints in the opposite direction...

Nanasheng's pupils shrank, and after looking back and forth several times, the blood all over his body seemed to freeze.

"Zero, the footprints in the opposite direction, that is, the footprints left by the driver who caused the accident when he got out of the car to visit your parents, the distance tends to be the same, and the stride span is not large, indicating that he..."

She couldn't speak.

It means that he... is very calm...

Unhurriedly, he walked towards the two people who were crushed by him step by step.

……

Is this the reaction of a driver who hurriedly got out of the car to check after he accidentally bumped into someone?

Nanao stared at the traces in the photo, as if he could imagine that person getting out of the car and walking here leisurely, and then stopped in front of Fugu Rei's parents, overlooking the two of them condescendingly.

She tried her best to make her voice sound normal, but what she said just now probably made Ling Gu Ling realize something, "Ling, you just said that the police checked the surveillance later, what happened?"

"The driver did not appear in any surveillance footage. The car was later found in a warehouse by the sea and had been parked there for a long time."

Furuya Rei paused for a long time before answering.

Nanasheng recalled that more than ten years ago, there were not as many surveillance cameras as there are now, and it was really not easy to find out.But it should also cover a lot of major road segments and intersections.

It was definitely not a coincidence that that person was able to avoid all monitoring.

Plus the stolen car, and the driver's reaction after getting out of the car...

This car crash couldn't have been an accident.

She has more questions.

For example, why didn't Ling's parents go home directly after overtime work, but took a road different from the direction of the station?

Where did that lonely alley lead?

What are they going to do on this bad night?

Is there any urgent matter that must be done on that day?

……

【Ding--】

The reminder that popped up suddenly interrupted Nanasheng's train of thought.

[Completion: The Past of Main Task Zero (Stage 1)]

【任务目标：听降谷零讲述父母身上发生的意外（1/1）；亲密度达到200（1/1）】

[Unlock: The Past of Main Quest Zero (Stage 2)]

[Mission goal: joint reasoning, restore the truth of the case back then (0/1)]

[Current stage mission completion: 1/3]

【Please make persistent efforts! 】

>【Reminder: The rewards for this mission will be distributed after the completion of all stages, so stay tuned. 】

The task of the second stage really requires reasoning.

Nanasheng was not surprised. She turned off the system notification and decided to review all the photos.

There must have been details she had overlooked.

Nana went back and forth between the photos.

The twenty or so photos almost captured the corners and details of the entire crime scene, occasionally a few were blurred, and new photos from the same angle would be added immediately afterwards.

Jiang Gu Ling did not miss any details, completely and clearly engraved the entire scene in the photo, spanning nearly two years, and once again presented that cold and dark snowy night in front of her.

Nanasheng remained silent, with a straight face unconsciously, reading every detail over and over again.

She must help Zero find the murderer at that time.

Since that winter, Fugu Ling's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.And the culprit of all this is still at large, don't you think it's too unfair?

With suppressed anger, Nanasheng was in a state of concentration, and she failed to notice that Fugu Ling hadn't made a sound for a long time.

However, until the sight was almost numb, and no new details could be discovered, a lot of unresolvable doubts accumulated.

Nanasheng closed his sore eyes, rested for a while and opened them again. From the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a few tiny round holes in the snow at the bottom of a certain photo.

Why are there such traces?

Finally discovering new clues, Nanasheng was refreshed.

The mark is really too small, but the little finger is wide, and the pixels of the mobile phone ten years ago are too bad. If it wasn't for Jiang Guling who bent down to take the picture, it probably wouldn't be left at all.

Nanasheng swipe the screen with two fingers, zoom in, zoom in again.

The trace became more and more clear, and she also noticed the edge of the white sneakers below the trace.

Those small holes were very close to where Jiang Gu Ling was standing, so it was really lucky that he didn't accidentally step on and destroy them.

"Hey, Zero, what about you..."

A thought flashed across his mind like lightning, and the question Nanasheng was about to ask suddenly stopped.

The guesses popping up in her heart made her scalp tingle.

No, not luck at all.

Because those marks were not left by the murderer in the first place.

Nanasheng stared closely at the suspicious round holes on the side of the sneakers. The snow on the side was clean and white, only the dark road buried under the snow was exposed there, which looked quite abrupt.

It was the traces of tears falling and melting.

Her heart sank along with it.

[Use photos to bring her back to the scene of the crime that night] or something, it's impossible.

No one can empathize with Jiang Guling that night.

Before the ambulance came, I stood in the bitterly cold night, stepped on the snow, and used my mobile phone to take pictures of the entire crime scene bit by bit.

The one or two blurry pictures that occasionally appeared, and the clear pictures from the same angle immediately after it...

Nana closed her eyes and felt a lump in her throat.

When Jiang Gu Ling shook his hands again and again, and re-shot again and again, trying his best to leave the last-minute evidence, what was he thinking in his heart?

How can I boast that he didn't miss any details.

He was obviously not calm at all.

More than half of the messy marks left on the ground at the scene came from the pair of white sneakers, but she turned a blind eye to them.

Nanasheng has acquired a lot of relevant knowledge from childhood to university, bloodstains, fingerprints, footprint identification...enough for her to restore the entire scene with those.

But none of them taught her how to empathize with the person involved.

It wasn't until the person involved turned into zero and taught her a lesson in an almost cruel way that Nanasheng suddenly woke up.

She gritted her teeth, and in the midst of the sudden boredom in her heart, she masochistically recreated the scene at that time in her mind.

Only 17-year-old Fugu Rei, holding an umbrella, went out on a snowy night, would he have thought that from this day on, his whole life would change?

She has been to the crime scene many, many times, and she thought that she could face any scene with a calm mind.

But facing the extremely low-pixel game screen on the mobile phone screen, I felt the urge to cry after a few years.

Filled with anger that turned into bitterness, Nanasheng was silent for a few seconds, and when he spoke again, even though he had tried his best to endure it, he still trembled a little at the end.

"Zero, I don't want to watch it. Okay?"

She turned to look at the boy sitting on the ground.

Jiang Gu Ling sat quietly with his knees hugged, not knowing what he was thinking, he raised his head a little bluntly when he heard the words, the broken hair on his forehead had grown a bit, casting a shadow between his nose and under his eyes.

The shadow made his eyes darker.

Nanasheng squeezed himself hard, holding back all the sourness.

She found herself wanting to hug someone so much for the first time.