never forget [criminal investigation]

- haven't slept yet?

It was already midnight when Xing Yue stood downstairs and sent this message to Xiang Hai.

When he came back from the sub-bureau, he habitually went downstairs to Xiang Hai's house to take a look, and saw that there was still a twilight in the window.

"Brother Xing, are you back?" Xiang Hai called directly, and at the same time, he also appeared on the balcony.

"Why do you always stay up late? Remind you, you get old quickly by staying up late." While talking on the phone, Xing Yue looked up at the person lying on the window, smiled and waved at him.

The people on the balcony were also waving to him, "You are not afraid, I am afraid of nothing."

"Fuck." Xing Yue pointed at the balcony, "Don't worry, God forgive me, sooner or later you will grow old."

His voice is a bit loud, and Xiang Hai can't tell whether the voice is transmitted along the current or spread in the air, "Shh... I'm not afraid of Brother Xing, when I grow old, you will still Older than me."

"Fuck, are you laughing again?" Xing Yue lowered his voice, and laughed too.

He really enjoys this real and down-to-earth feeling.No longer a one-man show, his enthusiasm can be answered at any time, even in the middle of the night.You can even be bolder and imagine growing old with that person.

The faint light hugs Xiang Hai's smile, but the laughter reaches his ears through the mobile phone.So far, yet so close.The emotions of the two people seem to be pulled by an invisible thread, pulling each other, and passing back and forth.

"Okay, you go to sleep, I'm going back." He waved his hand upstairs again.

There was a "snap" of the lighter from the receiver, and a red dot lit up in the dark night.

"Hey Brother Xing, wait for me." After speaking, the person on the balcony disappeared, and the phone was hung up.

Xing Yue smoked almost half of his cigarette, and Xiang Hai finally appeared at the door of the unit, carrying two bags in his hand.

Xing Yue went up to meet him, took the things in his hand, and supported his arm, "You say you are lame, tell me to go up."

As he spoke, he opened a pocket and looked inside, "What is this?"

"Supper. I guess you haven't eaten yet."

"You guessed it right." Xing Yue laughed and opened another bag at the same time, "What is this?"

"Clothes, for Team Zhou." Xiang Hai rubbed the tip of his nose, waiting for Xing Yue to comment on his flattery.

Xing Yue took a look and put the clothes back into the bag, "Give me this one. I'll buy another one for Zhou Xun tomorrow."

"Huh?" Xiang Hai frowned, "This is not good."

"What's wrong?"

"The clothes are...old-fashioned and not suitable for you."

"Why isn't it suitable? You don't always despise me as the youngest."

Xiang Hai was speechless, "Since when did I dislike you? Besides, this size is not suitable. You must wear fat and short clothes. How ugly."

"It's okay, it's cool to be fat, and I'll put it in my belt if it's short."

"..."

Xiang Hai imagined it for a while, then shook his head.No, it's too ugly.

"Brother Xing, stop making trouble. This is for Team Zhou, and I bought it for him for you." Xiang Hai coaxed him, "I will give you something else in the future, which is more suitable for you."

Xing Yue let out a long "Oh" exaggeratedly, "I understand, 'in the future', I understand."

But then he leaned over, "Then I represent Comrade Zhou Xun, thank you." After speaking, he leaned forward and planned to kiss Xiang Hai on the face, "Hey, that's not right."

He laughed, "Why the hell is this weird?"

"I don't represent Zhou Xun anymore, I represent myself." He kissed Xiang Hai lightly on the cheek, "Thank you."

Then he held Xiang Hai's hand again and shook it up and down, "This represents Zhou Xun."

Xiang Hai also laughed, "Brother Xing, you have a lot of drama."

Xing Yue's movements disturbed the surrounding air, Xiang Hai sniffed, "What's the smell?" He leaned in front of Xing Yue again, "Brother Xing, what's this smell on you?" He seemed to smell a puff of plastic The smell of burning.

"You have a really good nose." Xing Yue also smelled himself, "I just went to a fire scene."

"Have you found a body?"

"En." Xing Yue lowered his head and sniffed again.Xiang Hai didn't feel anything even if he didn't say anything, but now he suddenly felt that the smell was offensive.

Before he and Qin Peng returned to the sub-bureau, they went to the forensic doctor first, and ran into Lao Wu who came from home.

This is a big case, so Lao Wu went into battle in person.When they arrived, they saw Old Wu putting on a white coat, followed by the two apprentices.

Xing Yue told Lao Wu about the suspected drugs found at the scene, and reminded him to check whether there were drug residues in the blood of the corpse.

Old Wu agreed, looked at the coke-like corpse again, and shook his head, "If it is burned like this, if the DNA database fails to match the results, it may be difficult to determine the identity of the deceased."

Xing Yue nodded to express his understanding.

Old Wu told him to go back first, "I won't be able to come up with a result for a while, so don't waste your time here. When the report comes out, I'll ask someone to send it to you."

"Okay. Thank you, Mr. Wu."

After bidding farewell to Old Wu and returning to the office, Zhang Xiaowei and Zheng Shuanghe also came back not long after.

The two of them drilled back and forth among the crowd of onlookers for a long time, and the only news they heard was that the warehouse had been idle for many years, but more than a week ago, the lights suddenly turned on in the house.But no one paid attention to any people or cars ever coming in and out.

The next thing to do, besides waiting for the forensic doctor's report, is to investigate the origin of the warehouse, and to send the evidence collected from the scene to the laboratory.

After Xing Yue briefly arranged the work for tomorrow, he asked everyone to disperse.

"By the way, Brother Xing, let me tell you something." It is not convenient to inquire about the case on Xing Yue's side, so Xiang Hai told Xing Yue about the two strange women he met at night, "I have been Follow her and know where she lives."

Xing Yue was alert immediately, he thought of that "Sister Yun".

"Did you take a picture?"

"I took it, but it was dark, so I don't know much about it." Xiang Hai took out his mobile phone, clicked on a photo and handed it to him.

Xing Yue zoomed in on the photo. It was a woman in her 50s, not tall and slightly fat. She was standing on the side of the road, calling and waving to stop a car.Due to the low light, only her outline can be seen vaguely in the photo.

"I didn't dare to disturb her, so I followed her to the place where she lived, waited for about half an hour, and no one came out, so I left." Xiang Hai reported seriously, "Anyway, I think it's quite suspicious. Xing Brother, what do you think?"

Xing Yue returned the phone to him, and then patted him on the shoulder, "You are right, Comrade Xiang Hai, the situation you respond to is very important." He shook his hand as he spoke, "I represent the organization, Thank u."

Tsk, this is an official accent.Xiang Hai curled his lips, "Brother Xing, what organization do you represent? Has the organization agreed to let you represent it?"

Xing Yue was overjoyed, and rubbed his head, "Just let me represent it once, will it be enjoyable?"

Xiang Hai also laughed, and scratched his messy hair, "Then what are you going to do with this man?"

"You send me the photo first. I will try to bring someone to find you tomorrow, and then we will go and have a look together."

"Yeah." Xiang Hai nodded.

"Then you go up, what time is it?" Xing Yue gently pushed him towards the door.

"Hey, Brother Xing," Xiang Hai hesitated, "Well, the book you mentioned last time, please lend me to read it later." He always remembered Xing Yue's words.

He knew that there was a big gap between himself and Xing Yue, whether it was theory or practice, whether it was the past or the future.He didn't want Xing Yue to feel that he was fooling around.

He wants to catch up, he wants to get better, and he already has a direction.

"Okay." Xing Yue crushed the cigarette butts that fell on the ground, was silent for a while, then raised his head, "Xiao Hai, don't take what I said that day too seriously. You never let me down, never, really. You are very nice, it's the best."

Xing Yue didn't know how to explain it for a while.He hoped that Xiang Hai could let go of his past, and wanted to pull him out, but he was afraid of pushing him too hard and pushing him to another extreme of self-doubt.

Maybe it was too impatient.Ever since that idea took root, it became a part of him, nourished by enthusiasm, and grew wildly.

But this is just his wish, what is Xiang Hai thinking in his heart?Whose wish is it that I want to work hard to realize?

"That won't work, I have to take it seriously." Xiang Hai took his hand and squeezed his fingers, "Brother Xing, I'm not as good as you said, but if I work hard, maybe I can be better than now Son."

Xing Yue looked at him, squeezed his hand hard, didn't say anything, just kissed him, "Go back. Go to bed early."

Xiang Hai nodded, "Brother Xing, you should go to bed early, too."

"Yeah." Xing Yue watched him walk into the unit door.

Xiang Hai entered the house and lay down on the balcony again, and sure enough, he saw Xing Yue still standing where he was, looking up at him.

He waved his hand, "Go back, Brother Xing."

Xing Yue didn't make a sound, didn't wave at him again, just stood there quietly for a while, then turned around and opened the car door.

The next morning, Qin Peng took a stack of materials and handed them to Xing Yue.Xing Yue flipped through it, it was a copy of a house sales contract.

"The owner of that warehouse has been found out. His name is He Kun, a native of Dongjiang, but he committed a crime a few years ago and is now serving his sentence in the No. [-] Prison."

"He Kun?" Xing Yue raised his eyebrows, his eyes were on He Kun's signature at the end of the contract.

"En." Qin Peng observed his expression, "Why, do you know this person?"

Xing Yue raised his eyes, stroked his chin, and shook his head slowly.

He didn't know the person, but he was familiar with the name.

Isn't this exactly He Xionghui's own father who folded in?

"What crime did this man commit?"

"The crime of leading a black social organization, plus intentional injury causing death." Qin Peng said, "Sentenced to life, but later commuted to 20 years."

"When did he go in?"

Qin Peng thought for a while, "It should be ten years..."

Xing Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering.

He intuitively felt that this was a bit strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong now.But he trusts his instincts.

He was about to ask the forensic doctor if the report had come out, when he saw one of Old Wu's two apprentices coming in with two big dark circles under his eyes.

"Captain Xing, the autopsy report is out. Mr. Wu asked me to bring it for you."

Xing Yue stood up and took the report, "Thank you!" Looking at the man's misty eyes again, "Thank you. That... you, why don't you sit here and rest for a while?"

The little forensic doctor shook his head dully, "No, I'm going back, I'm going home to sleep."

After speaking, he wobbled and turned around, drifting away like a wandering spirit.

Seeing this, Qin Peng tutted his tongue and said, "Our Mr. Wu is really strong and strong."

Xing Yue flipped through the two autopsy reports.

The first report showed that the deceased had suffered excessive blood loss due to injuries to multiple organs, accompanied by traumatic brain injuries, which eventually led to death, rather than death in a fire.In addition, there was a small amount of drug residue in the body of the deceased, but not in excess.

However, due to the fire, the body was severely deformed, making it unrecognizable, and there was no comparison result in the DNA database. The identity of the deceased is still uncertain.

Xing Yue handed the report to Qin Peng and began to read the second one.

The second report indicated that the main cause of death was an injecting drug overdose, but the deceased was still breathing when the fire was ablaze.

Unlike the first deceased, this individual's identity was confirmed by DNA database comparisons.

The deceased was named Yuan Jie, 39 years old, and had just been released from No. [-] Prison a week ago.

The reason for serving the sentence is that he participated in a black social organization, plus intentional injury causing death, and he was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Xing Yue closed the report and handed it to Qin Peng.

Hehe, interesting.Didn't this strange thing come up on its own?

After reading the report, Qin Peng also frowned, "Captain Xing, this person is not with He Kun, is it? Isn't this a coincidence?"

Xing Yue thought for a while, then looked at the time, "Get ready first, let's go to the No. [-] Prison later."

"Yes." Qin Peng agreed and left with two reports.

Xing Yue called Tian Xiang and Zhang Xiaowei, forwarded the photo that Xiang Hai sent to him yesterday, and asked them to take the photo and ask Hou Qiang to see if they could recognize the woman in the photo if it was Sister Yun.

Then he sat back in his seat, put his legs on another chair, and swayed his toes slightly.

He felt that the death of Yuan Jie was definitely not a coincidence.Because often the more it seems like a coincidence, the more intentional it is.

But who was the other deceased?What is the relationship with Yuan Jie?

What role did He Kun play?

He reached out and opened the bottom drawer, took out the old mobile phone, twirled it between his fingers for 5 minutes, put it back, and locked the drawer again.

It's better to meet that father first, and then ask this son later, maybe there will be unexpected gains.