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Another girl who was found at the same time as the deceased Yu Bingjie was also a sophomore in Changshui High School.When found by staff, she suffered serious head injuries and was in a coma.

The police who arrived first took her to the hospital. After being pushed out from the operating room, she was still in a coma and did not wake up until ten minutes ago.

After she woke up, the police contacted Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong rushed to the hospital overnight, and arrived outside the girl's ward on the 16th floor of the inpatient department.

Two policemen stood guard outside the ward. After checking their identity with Xia Bingyang, they said, "We called the child's guardian, but no one came."

Xia Bingyang patted him on the shoulder, only said "hard work", then pushed open the door of the ward and walked into the ward.

In the single ward, the nurse was adjusting the speed of the IV drip. Seeing Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong walk in, she asked them, "Are you also the police?"

Ren Erdong took out his police officer ID: "The Criminal Investigation Squadron of the Second Sub-bureau of Nantai District."

Xia Bingyang walked straight towards the hospital bed, and saw the girl sitting on the head of the bed.

The girl had long black hair, a gauze tied around her forehead, and a melon-seeded face with a pointed chin, bright eyes, delicate facial features, and was very beautiful.Her face was pale due to excessive blood loss, and she was as weak as a delicate flower hit by the rain.There was a layer of tears in her eyes, and there were signals of panic and help in her eyes.

Xia Bingyang could see that she was overly frightened, so he slowed down his movements as much as possible, moved a chair and placed it in front of her hospital bed, looked at her and said softly, "Don't be afraid, I'm a policeman."

The girl's tears flowed down instantly: "Yu Bingjie, how is Yu Bingjie?"

Xia Bingyang deliberated for a moment calmly, and chose to tell her the truth: "She died."

The girl was stunned, her face paler, she lowered her eyes in panic to look at the thin white quilt covering her body, her hands tightly clutching the quilt were trembling uncontrollably.

Xia Bingyang looked at her watch, let her relax for a few minutes, and said, "I have a few questions for you."

The girl was still in a daze, Xia Bingyang repeated, and then she looked at Xia Bingyang blankly: "What, what's the problem?"

Xia Bingyang hugged his arms habitually, trying to make his usually emotionless voice sound softer: "Let's start with your name, what's your name?"

The girl took a deep breath slowly, choked up and said, "My name is Ai Lu."

"Ai Lu? It's a nice name. Are you and Yu Bingjie classmates?"

"Yes, we are classmates and good friends."

"Why did you and Yu Bingjie go to the Bellagio Club?"

Ai Lu lowered her head, with a guilty look gradually appearing on her face, and said with a sob: "My friend said it was fun there, please let us play."

"Which friend? Also your classmate"

"His name is Liu Changran, and he is studying in a vocational high school."

"What is the relationship between this Liu Changran and you, and Yu Bingjie?"

"Liu Changran and I have been good friends since childhood."

Xia Bingyang caught the part she intentionally concealed, his face sank slightly, and he asked again: "What's the relationship between him and Yu Bingjie?"

Ai Lu slightly turned her body towards the window, avoiding the source of pressure Xia Bingyang created for her, and said in a low voice: "Yu Bingjie is his girlfriend. Originally, he only asked Yu Bingjie to go to Bellagio, and Yu Bingjie wanted me to go to Bellagio with her." go together."

Now the phenomenon of high school students falling in love has become a rotten street, so Xia Bingyang is not surprised, he is just a little tired of two such young girls entering the sensual scene prematurely because of a boy's induction, regardless of the appointment How transgressive is the "girlfriend"'s behavior of going to a sex|sex place to open a house.Ai Lu and the dead Yu Bingjie in front of them were too innocent, and they had no intention of defending against Liu Changran, which was also the irreversible factor for their victimization.

Xia Bingyang wanted to reprimand her a few words, but also realized that her current mental state was very fragile, and she was already grieving and blaming herself for the death of her friend, so she endured it, pinched the center of her brows wearily, and asked: "What do you do in a hundred years?" Is Liu Changran also the person who booked the room in Le Palace?"

"Yes."

Xia Bingyang looked up at her, and said in a strict voice: "Yu Bingjie is dead, and died in Room 304 that Liu Changran reserved. So Liu Changran who asked Yu Bingjie to go to Bellagio is suspected of committing the crime—"

Ai Lu looked anxious: "Uncle policeman, Liu Changran is not the murderer."

Xia Bingyang's eyebrows twitched, and she wanted to touch her face subconsciously, so as to feel if her skin was so loose that she would be called uncle by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.He raised his hand halfway, and pressed his palm down a second before he almost touched his face, so as to stop Ai Lu from continuing to say: "Don't worry, if I ask you anything, you should say it first. You won't No chance to speak." After a pause, he still couldn't hold back: "My surname is Xia, call me Officer Xia."

Ailu nodded, shocked by his seriousness, and looked at him timidly.

Xia Bingyang continued: "You just said that Liu Changran asked Yu Bingjie to go to Bellagio, is there any evidence?"

"Yu Bingjie's phone should still have the chat records between her and Liu Changran."

"Why didn't Liu Changran call Yu Bingjie directly?"

"Liu Changran has a stutter and doesn't like to make phone calls."

Xia Bingyang recalled the physical evidence signed in Room 304 earlier, and clearly remembered that there was an entry of 'the cell phone of the deceased'.

This point is easy to check, so he pressed the question temporarily, looked at Ai Lu seriously and said, "Let's get to the point, do you know who the person who attacked you is?"

When the police arrived, Ailu was found lying in the bathroom, the back of her head was injured by a sharp object, and she fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss.She seemed to recall the scene when she was attacked, her eyes suddenly became dizzy, she grabbed the quilt tightly, and said in a trembling voice: "I know who he is."

Xia Bingyang was really surprised. He didn't have too much hope that Ai Lu could remember the murderer's face, because he had seen many cases where the murderer faced the murderer, or the surviving child completely forgot the murderer's face due to traumatic stress disorder. .Unexpectedly, Ai Lu remembered the murderer's face, and it seemed that Ai Lu not only remembered the murderer's face, but also knew the murderer's identity.

Xia Bingyang looked at her and repeated: "Do you know who he is?"

"Yes, I know who he is."

Xia Bingyang's expression froze, and suddenly he saw a calmness beyond her age on the face of the girl in front of her, which was very different from her panicked just now.

"Who is he?"

Xia Bingyang asked.

But Ai Lu hesitated, hesitated, and said, "It's... Qin Lisi's father."

Xia Bingyang frowned: "Who is Qin Lisi?"

Ren Erdong stood beside Xia Bingyang, listening silently, holding the mobile phone and searching for the two names that Ai Lu said, first Liu Changran, and then Qin Lisi.

Ai Lu said: "It was a friend of ours a long time ago."

Xia Bingyang was stunned, and suddenly remembered seeing Ai Lu's information on the way to the hospital, and asked sternly, "Are you from Bailu Town?"

Ai Lu looked at him and nodded, "Yes, I used to live in Bailu Town."

At this time, Ren Erdong put the mobile phone in front of Xia Bingyang, and whispered: "They are all from Bailu Town."

Ren Erdong mentioned them, including the victim Ai Lu, the deceased Yu Bingjie, and the suspected murderer Liu Changran.

Looking at these names, Xia Bingyang's heart suddenly sank: "What about Qin Lisi?"

Ren Erdong took the phone away and pressed it a few times, and when he put it in front of Xia Bingyang again, his face was very ugly: "She is also from Bailu Town, and she disappeared in 12."

Qin Lisi originally lived in Bailu Town. She disappeared on March 12, 3 six years ago and has not been heard from since.

Another missing child...

Xia Bingyang remembered the child Huang Lizhu had participated in abducting and trafficking. The mute boy was also from Bailu Town, and he disappeared in late March.

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Bingyang pushed Ren Erdong's cell phone aside, looked at Ai Lu and asked, "You just said that the person who attacked you and killed your friend was Qin Lisi's father?"

Ai Lu looked excited: "Yes, he was hiding in—"

Xia Bingyang raised his hand to interrupt her, and said in a strict voice: "From the moment you enter the room, you must not miss any details."

Ai Lu lowered her head and took a few breaths, her face calmed down, and said while recalling: "Liu Changran made an appointment with us at 08:30 in the evening, and Yu Bingjie and I went right after school. We had some food in the restaurant on the first floor." Things, it was still early at that time, we wanted to go to the room booked by Liu Changran to rest first, so we asked the front desk for the key card, but the front desk said the key card had been taken away by the person who booked the room, we thought it was Liu Changran who had arrived early. Then I and Yu Bingjie went to the third floor. As soon as we got out of the elevator, Yu Bingjie said that her mobile phone was left at the front desk. She let me go in first and go down to get the mobile phone by myself. I went to the room by myself first. The door was ajar and it was not closed. I thought it was Liu Changran who forgot to close the door. After entering the room, I closed the door and went directly to the bathroom. When I came out of the bathroom and stood in front of the sink to wash my hands, I heard something behind me. When I looked up, I saw the mirror in front of me. see in-"

Speaking of this, Ai Lu grabbed the corner of the quilt suddenly, her face turned pale as if she had applied powder, and her whole body trembled nonstop.

Xia Bingyang saw that she recalled the key point and started to get nervous, but he has never had the experience of comforting others, telling her 'don't be afraid' gently was not his style, so he rang the bell to call the nurse.

The nurse poured a cup of hot water for Ai Lu, sat beside her and comforted her softly, and left when her mood gradually stabilized.

Xia Bingyang leaned his elbows on the armrest of the chair, and waited patiently for a while with his hands on his forehead. Seeing that Ai Lu's face softened a little, he asked, "Can we continue?"

Ai Lu looked at him, took a deep breath, and said in a trembling voice: "I saw in the mirror that Qin Lisi's father suddenly stood up from behind me, and hit me with something like a hammer in his hand. come down."

Ai Lu stopped again, panting heavily with slightly parted lips.

Just when Xia Bingyang was considering whether to call the nurse in again, Ai Lu restrained her emotions and said: "I wanted to hide, but I didn't. He hit that thing on my head, and my eyes went dark. I fell down. I was still fainting when I heard someone knocking on the door outside, it was Yu Bingjie’s voice. Then...then I heard Yu Bingjie struggling, and he dragged Yu Bingjie into the bedroom."

"and after?"

"Then I passed out and didn't know anything. I was lying in the hospital as soon as I opened my eyes."

Xia Bingyang lowered his head in thought, habitually wanted to smoke, took out the cigarette case and remembered that he was in the ward, so he put the cigarette case back into his pocket, looked at Ai Lu and asked, "Are you sure that person is Qin Lisi's father?"

Ai Lu is very sure: "I'm sure, he also looked for me a few days ago."

Here's another message.

Xia Bingyang raised his hand and snapped his fingers at Ren Erdong. Ren Erdong put the mobile phone in front of him, and on it was the information of Qin Lisi's father that was called out.

Qin Lisi's father is named Qin Ping, who is also from Bailu Town.To Xia Bingyang's surprise, this Qin Ping turned out to be a suspect who was being chased online.

Xia Bingyang took Ren Erdong's mobile phone, and while browsing Qin Ping's files, he asked Ai Lu: "Liu Changran who asked you to meet at the Bellagio has not shown up?"

"No."

"Do you remember what the murder weapon was like?"

"Like an axe, but smaller than an axe, I don't recognize it."

Xia Bingyang tore off a blank page from the medical record on the table and handed it to her, and then handed her a ballpoint pen: "Draw it."

When Ai Lu drew the image of the murder weapon based on her memories, Xia Bingyang led Ren Erdong to the door of the ward, avoided Ai Lu, and whispered to Ren Erdong, "You take someone to find Liu Changran immediately."

Ren Erdong said: "Liu Changran? Isn't the top priority now to catch the suspect Qin Ping? The case is already very clear. This girl saw with her own eyes that the person who attacked them was Qin Ping."

Xia Bingyang said in a deep voice: "If Qin Ping was the murderer, would he stand at the gate of the police station and wait for you to arrest him? It has been nearly two hours since the incident happened, and in all likelihood, he has escaped. But Liu Changran, Liu Changran Asked the two girls to the Bellagio, but he never showed up, and it was Qin Ping who showed up. Do you think Liu Changran's situation is optimistic?"

Ren Erdong was stunned, and a coldness rushed to the back of his head: "Liu Changran can't—"

Xia Bingyang also felt that there was a lot of crisis in his heart, and interrupted him with a gloomy face: "Hurry up and find someone."

Ren Erdong left in a hurry.

Xia Bingyang stood at the door for a while, only to turn around when Ai Lu called him 'Officer Xia' and sat down beside her bed.

Ai Lu handed him the drawn picture, and said, "I don't remember very clearly, it probably looks like this."

She was drawing a very common hand-axe with square ends.It's a little smaller than the general hitting equipment, but it's enough to hurt people.

Xia Bingyang folded the drawing and put it in his pants pocket, looked at her and asked, "You just said that Qin Ping asked you?"

"Yes."

"When?"

"Just a few days ago, he stopped me at the gate of our school and took me to a fast food restaurant opposite the school."

Xia Bingyang pondered for a moment, then asked: "Why?"

Ai Lumeng was stunned, and said, "Huh?"

Xia Bingyang said calmly: "If the facts are as you said, Qin Ping came to you a few days ago and tried to kill you and your friend tonight, maybe something happened to your other friend Liu Changran. Since He has already decided to get rid of you, so why did he find you before? It can be seen that his original purpose was not to kill you, maybe it was to—”

Xia Bingyang paused for a moment, and chose a softer word: "Ask you a certain question, or in other words, he wants to obtain a certain answer."

Ai Lu lowered her head, her long hair fell from the side of her face, covering her face, Xia Bingyang could only see her fingers constantly tearing the snow-white quilt cover.

"Uncle Qin came to me to ask me where Qin Lisi was."

Xia Bingyang's eyes turned cold: "Do you know Qin Lisi's whereabouts?"

Ai Lu threw away the quilt, turned her head to look at Xia Bingyang and said anxiously: "I don't know! Uncle Qin thought we knew, and he has been pestering us, forcing us to tell Qin Lisi's whereabouts, but we really don't know! But Qin Uncle doesn't believe it, he killed Wang Yao six years ago!"

"Who is Wang Yao?"

"It's our friends. I, Yu Bingjie, Liu Changran and Wang Yao are very good friends."

"You just said that Wang Yao is dead?"

As Xia Bingyang asked, he took out his mobile phone to contact the technical team.

Ai Lu choked up and said, "Yes, Wang Yao died six years ago."

When the phone was connected, Xia Bingyang turned slightly to avoid Ai Lu, and asked Xiao Li of the technical team to pull out all the archives of the suspect Qin Ping who was chasing and fleeing online.

"Did Qin Ping do it?"

Xia Bingyang asked while looking at the information Xiao Li sent to his mobile phone.

Ai Lu gave a low 'hmm'.

Xia Bingyang quickly scanned the information at a glance and came to the concise conclusion that 'Qin Ping is the major suspect in the murder of Wang Yao'.But now that Wang Yao, who died six years ago, is involved, the focus has undoubtedly shifted again.So he temporarily let go of the unsolved "Wang Yao murder case" because of Qin Ping's absconding six years ago, and brought the focus of the inquiry back to Yu Bingjie who died tonight.

Xia Bingyang put the phone away, quickly sorted out all the known clues in his mind, and said to Ai Lu: "To sum up, you are friends with Yu Bingjie, Liu Changran, and Wang Yao. Qin Ping killed Wang Yao six years ago. , kill Yu Bingjie six years later, and attempt to kill you. Right?"

Ai Lu trembled all over, stroking her right arm with her left hand, a frightened expression appeared on her pale face.

Xia Bingyang got the tacit answer from her silence, and said again: "Then let me make a bold guess, Qin Ping wanted to kill you all because of Qin Lisi?"

She pulled the quilt and curled up to a corner of the hospital bed, buried her head, shivered like a weak little flower, and cried, "We really don't know where Qin Lisi is, we really don't know."

In Ai Lu's intermittent narration, Xia Bingyang learned about the relationship between Qin Ping and the four children, and everything started from Qin Ping's missing daughter, Qin Lisi.

Qin Ping is a security guard at the middle school in Bailu Town. His daughter Qin Lisi is studying in this middle school, and four children headed by Liu Changran are also studying in this middle school.Qin Ping's daughter was eight years old when she disappeared and was in the second grade of elementary school.Liu Changran and others are already in the second year of junior high school.

There was no intersection between the children of different grades, but the arrangement of fate had a special meaning. Just after an ordinary school day, the fate of the four children and Qin Lisi were tightly intertwined.Qin Ping became a lingering nightmare for the four children for six years.

On March 12, 3, an ordinary day, Ai Lu remembered it so clearly because it was Yu Bingjie's birthday. They made an appointment to go to Yu Bingjie's house to have dinner together after school to celebrate her birthday.

That day happened to be the turn of Liu Changran's duty team to clean the entire corridor. The three girls stayed in the school for about 10 minutes to wait for him. Get out of the teaching building.At that time, the sky was already dark, the sun was hanging low in the sky, and there were large expanses of blue clouds in the sky with pink edges.

It was very windy that day, and there was a low hillside behind the school. The egrets that Bailu Town is famous for inhabited on that hillside with abundant water and grass.The wind blows the vegetation all over the mountain to roll like a wave, and the other side of the mountain flows through a branch of the sea. The sea water stirred by the wind rumbles against the shore, which sounds like the humming of a big ship before it leaves the port.It seems that a huge ship is sailing on the sea behind the school.

I don't know who was the first to propose an adventure in the mountains. An atmosphere of excitement and novelty quickly infected every child.They decided to disregard the warnings of their parents and teachers that "don't go up the mountain alone".

The back door of the school is a shortcut to the mountain. The back door of the school is a boiler room, which is guarded by the janitor who is in charge of burning the boiler.The elderly janitor dozed off in the duty room, not paying attention to the four children sneaking into the path up the mountain through the back door, and also not paying attention to a small tail following the four children.

Qin Lisi is that tail.

Every day, Qin Ping checks the locks of the classroom doors one by one after all the students leave. Qin Lisi stays in the security room after school every day and waits for her father to get off work.When Liu Changran and his group were discussing going up the mountain, she was catching weeds and insects behind the bushes.The child's playful nature made her secretly follow them up the mountain together.

Liu Changran was the first to discover Qin Lisi. Seeing the school security's daughter secretly following them up the mountain, Liu Changran was very upset and wanted to drive her down, but was stopped by Yu Bingjie.Yu Bingjie was worried that Qin Lisi would get lost when she went down the mountain by herself, and she was too lazy to go back to take her back to school, so she had to take her up the mountain together.

The mountain was not as interesting as they expected. They did not see the beautiful egret, nor did they find the huge ship slowly approaching the sea.There are only boundless vegetation and cold wind on the mountain.They quickly decided to go back, and the sumptuous dinner prepared by Yu Bingjie's mother looked particularly attractive in the quiet mountain wind of the four fields.

However, an accident happened on the way down the mountain; Qin Lisi sprained her ankle, and she accidentally stepped on a moss-covered stone and slipped her foot.

Although Liu Changran thought she was in the way, he still carried her on his shoulders, and the five of them went down the mountain together.

When they went down the mountain, they still returned through the back door of the school. The janitor who burned the boiler had already woken up. He saw them sneaking in through the back door from the window of the duty room, and immediately rushed out to curse people.

The three girls ran quickly with their schoolbags covering their faces. Because Liu Changran was carrying Qin Lisi on his back, he ran behind them, but his speed was still very fast.On the way, he turned back a few steps and retrieved Qin Lisi's hat that was blown off by the wind.

It was Qin Lisi's new gift, a small goose yellow straw hat with silver thread on the brim, dotted with daisies cut from tweed fabric, the color splicing is warm and beautiful.

The janitor chased them a few steps, but they ran so fast that they had to give up.

At that time, Qin Ping was still inspecting the teaching building. They sent Qin Lisi back to the security room, and told Qin Lisi not to tell her father where they were going tonight, otherwise they would be greeted tomorrow with a report of criticism from the whole school.

After sending Qin Lisi back to the security room, they went home.But unexpectedly, when Qin Ping finished his inspection and returned to the security room, only Qin Lisi's goose-yellow straw hat was waiting for him.

Qin Lisi disappeared.

Qin Ping reported the case, the police intervened in the investigation, and soon found the four children who had last contact with Qin Lisi.But the janitor testified for the four children. He saw the four children take Qin Lisi down the mountain, and the boy named Liu Changran carried Qin Lisi on his back.

Five children went up the mountain, five children went down the mountain, and no child was left out on the mountain.After searching the mountain, the police found nothing.The four children also confirmed that they had nothing to do with Qin Lisi's disappearance because they had school work permits.

But Qin Ping didn't believe it. He pestered the four children like a demon, thinking that they must know the whereabouts of his daughter.Ai Lu said that Qin Ping followed her on the way home for a week.Yu Bingjie and another girl, Wang Yao, also received the same treatment.

The parents of the four children reported the incident to the school and asked the school to expel Qin Ping, but the school leaders saw that Qin Ping was an old employee who had never made mistakes in his work and had just lost his only daughter, so he was not expelled. Instead, he was given a stern warning.

After Qin Ping was warned, he stopped following the four children. When everyone thought he had returned to normal, a murder case occurred in the school.

Wang Yao died, and the murderer was Qin Ping.

Three months after Qin Lisi disappeared, Qin Ping no longer looked for her daughter, but began to take revenge on the four children who had last contact with her daughter.

On June 12, 6, Qin Ping killed Wang Yao.

After the incident, the police quickly locked down the suspect, Qin Ping. Qin Ping escaped from Bailu Town the day before the police arrested him. The police immediately included him in the online pursuit of suspects. They searched for him for six years, but there was no news. .

To this day, Qin Ping sneaks back to the children like a ghost.

Now that things have happened, Xia Bingyang has reason to believe that Qin Ping is maliciously retaliating against Liu Changran and others and murdering them deliberately.

After Ai Lu finished talking about their final contact with Qin Lisi, her physical strength was a little weak, and the wound on the back of her head was throbbing with pain.

Xia Bingyang called the nurse in to take care of her, and asked Ai Lu one last question before leaving: "Why didn't your guardian come?"

Ailu was lying on the bed, the pillow covered with a white pillowcase was very soft. When she lay in it, half of her face was eaten away by the pillow, and her pair of sad eyes were particularly conspicuous.

She said lightly: "My mother is dead, and I have been living with my uncle and aunt. They are very busy."

Xia Bingyang held the doorknob of the ward and looked at her silently for a moment, then said: "I will send someone to protect you, take a good rest."

Walking out of the ward, Xia Bingyang happened to see Ren Erdong walking from the other side of the corridor.

Ren Erdong lowered his head, looking gloomy, and his face was very ugly.

Seeing his expression, Xia Bingyang already noticed something in his heart.He stood at the door of the ward and waited for Ren Erdong. When he approached, he asked, "How is it?"

Ren Erdong stood in front of him, before he could speak, he sighed first: "You hit the mark."

Xia Bingyang's eyes turned slightly cold, and he looked at him calmly: "What happened to Liu Changran?"

Ren Erdong said: "He is dead."