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Liu Changran is studying in a vocational high school. He is friends with some social miscellaneous people outside the school, and often provokes troubles inside and outside the school.A week ago, Liu Changran once again got into a fight with people outside the school, but was caught by the police at the station.This incident alarmed the school, and the school originally planned to expel Liu Changran, but because Liu Changran's parents approached the school to plead for mercy many times, the school decided to record his serious demerit and stay in school for inspection.

After Liu Changran was punished, he simply refused to go to school, and his parents could not find his whereabouts.However, the school's attitude towards Liu Changran has long been laissez-faire, only keeping his student status for him and not expelling him. As for his absence rate, Liu Changran's class teacher has long been out of concern.He is already a child who was abandoned by the school.

A week ago, Liu Changran skipped class again and disappeared.He basically has no friends at school, so no one knows where he went, and his parents can only speculate that he must have mixed up with friends outside of school.As for where he is, his parents have no way of knowing.

Until today, Liu Changran's body was found in the staff dormitory building of Jinpeng Hotel on Huayuan South Road.

For the past few days, Liu Changran has been staying at a friend's house. His friend works part-time at the Jinpeng Hotel and is a helper in the kitchen.Going out from the back door of Jinpeng Hotel and crossing a street, there is a second-phase staff building for civil servants that was completed ten years ago.The owner of the hotel rented several houses in the civil servants' complex for the employees, and Liu Changran's friend lived in one of them.

His friend's name is Chen Xiaofei. Chen Xiaofei originally lived with a colleague. After the colleague resigned, he was left alone. It happened that Liu Changran asked him to stay overnight, so he left Liu Changran to live with him.Just tell Liu Changran to be careful when going out on weekdays, so as not to be caught by other colleagues in this building.

At 8:2 am on August [-], Liu Xiaofei finished work and returned to the dormitory.After opening the door, he found that there was no one in the dormitory. He didn't care, because Liu Changran often stayed up late playing games in Internet cafes.The dormitory is divided into one room. When he returned to the room after washing and was going to sleep, he found Liu Changran's body on the floor at the end of the bed.

"The door is unlocked, but...the door is open."

The sky outside the window was already bright, and the window of the inquiry room was pushed open. The iron bars on the window cut the lavender sky into regular rectangles, and the cool morning breeze and light came in through the window. , to dissipate the scorching heat from the incandescent tube of a desk lamp at the corner of the table.

"Unlocked? You said just now that you used a key to open the door. Why is it unlocked now?"

The two policemen sat behind the long table, looking at Liu Xiaofei who was sitting in the middle of the interrogation room with solemn and serious expressions.They sat one on the left and one on the right, with the middle seat vacant.

Liu Xiaofei was only in his early twenties, with a thin body and dull eyes, and his complexion looked very bad because he was questioned for more than five hours in a row. Although he was only questioned, he was always tense and did not dare to relax, so After a night, he was also exhausted.

His eyes were distracted, and he shook his head slowly and mechanically: "It's unlocked, it's unlocked, the door is unlocked, I was going to open the door, but the door opened as soon as I pushed it—"

"You saw Liu Changran's body as soon as you entered the door?"

"Yes—no, no, no, he's in the bedroom."

The interrogation room gradually lit up, and the light coming in from the window gradually merged with the incandescent light from the desk lamp, and a figure appeared on a camp bed in the southwest corner.

Xia Bingyang was lying on the bed, without taking off his shoes, his legs crossed and his feet fell on the edge of the bed. He was covered with a multifunctional police uniform, and a police cap was buttoned on his face.

The two policemen had already asked the question many times back and forth, and when they found out that Liu Xiaofei was out of spirits and physical strength, and did not get any contradictory testimony from Liu Xiaofei's mouth, they dispelled Liu Xiaofei's suspicion of intentionally killing the thief and calling for the thief to be caught.

A policeman took the confession in his hand and got up and walked towards Xia Bingyang. He was about to call him when he got to the bed, when Xia Bingyang's voice came through the police cap lightly: "Let him sign, after signing, send him Take it to the cafeteria to eat."

The policeman asked: "Come back and ask again?"

Xia Bingyang paused for a moment, and said, "The detention room."

"Yes."

One led Liu Xiaofei to the cafeteria for dinner, leaving the other to clean up the table.

After a while, the door of the inquiry room was pushed open, and Ren Erdong walked in with a cigarette in his mouth, one eye squinted, and a mess of hair on his head.

Ren Erdong looked around in the interrogation room, but he couldn't see Xia Bingyang, so he asked the police officer who was packing up: "Where is Team Xia?"

Holding a stack of documents, the police officer glanced at the southwest corner behind him, and said in a low voice, "Sleep."

Ren Erdong disagreed: "Can he sleep?"

He walked towards the camp bed, stood by the bed and took off Xia Bingyang's police cap covering his face: "You let Liu Xiaofei go?"

The hat was lifted suddenly, and the early morning sun fell on Xia Bingyang's face. He frowned, raised the back of his right hand across his eyes, and said, "Go eat."

"What's the matter? He's not suspected anymore?"

"After asking questions all night, his psychological defense mechanism collapsed in the first half of the night, and he basically repeated what he said in the first half of the night in the second half of the night. Although it was messy, there were no loopholes."

"Since Liu Xiaofei's suspicion of being a thief calling for arrest has been ruled out, the murderer who killed Liu Changran was an intrusive killer who broke into and murdered?"

Xia Bingyang removed the back of his hand covering his eyes, frowned and looked at the pale ceiling of the interrogation room: "Killer? Are you talking about Qin Ping?"

Ren Erdong said: "It's clear that it's a serial crime. Just now, Lao Lu said that Liu Changran died between 03:30 and 08:30 noon yesterday. The investigation team found her mobile phone on Yu Bingjie's body. She died at [-]:[-]. Received a text message from Liu Changran, asking her to go to Bellagio in the evening. At [-]:[-], someone took Liu Changran’s mobile phone and pretended to be Liu Changran and called Bellagio to book a room. Liu Changran died before three o’clock, and his mobile phone Not in Liu Xiaofei's dormitory, obviously taken away by the murderer. The murderer killed Liu Changran first, then pretended to be Liu Changran and sent text messages to Yu Bingjie, and then called Bellagio to book a room. Finally, he killed Liu Changran at around [-]:[-] in the evening killed Yu Bingjie and seriously injured Ai Lu."

Xia Bingyang meditated silently for a moment, then sat up on the bed, rubbed his face vigorously, and felt that he was still not refreshed, so he spread his hands towards Ren Erdong.

Ren Erdong handed him half a cigarette in his hand, and urged, "Say something."

Xia Bingyang sat on the edge of the bed bent over, with his elbows resting on his knees, lowered his head and took two puffs of cigarettes, before saying, "Have you checked the surveillance inside and outside the civil servants' quarter?"

"In a dilapidated neighborhood, there is only one camera on the front door, and there are blind spots in all directions. If I were a murderer, I could just find a wall and jump out, without anyone noticing."

"Old Lu is still in the forensic room?"

"He is rushing to report, you are not in a hurry."

Xia Bingyang raised his hand to look at his watch, and said, "Tell him to hurry up."

After speaking, he threw the cigarette butt into the trash can beside the bed, got up and walked out of the interrogation room.

Ren Erdong followed behind him, walking all the way to the bathroom.

Xia Bingyang walked in front and stroked his bangs vigorously, nodded sleepily to several police officers who greeted him, and went straight to the men's bathroom at the end of the corridor.

Ren Erdong leaned against the door of the bathroom, looked at Xia Bingyang who was standing in front of the sink and bent over to wash his face, and asked, "Isn't it a case?"

Cold water was running from the faucet, Xia Bingyang took a handful of water and applied it to his face, the cold water stirred his skin, and the heavy drowsiness entrenched in his head was instantly dispelled.

After washing his face, he looked at himself in the mirror, supported the sink with one hand, and pulled back his wet bangs with the other, revealing his cold white face soaked in cold water, and said concisely and forcefully: " and."

Although Ren Erdong had already made a judgment in his heart and kept urging Xia Bingyang to make a decision, he still had a different feeling when he heard that Xia Bingyang agreed to investigate the two murder cases together.

Two high school students died in one day, and another high school student narrowly escaped death.The murderers are all locked on the same person, which means that they ushered in a "serial murder case" that they haven't seen for a long time.And it is very likely that this murder has not stopped, because Ai Lu is still alive.

The suspect, Qin Ping, will definitely attack the only survivor, Ai Lu.

The atmosphere between the two suddenly became a little heavy, and they didn't speak for a while, only the water was running from the faucet.

Xia Bingyang put his hands under the faucet, and the cold water rushed to his hands, flowing from his palm to his fingers, dripping down along his fingers, and said: "I tell the brothers who stay in the hospital to protect Ai Lu to cheer up and be sure to We must protect the last child. If something happens to Ai Lu, I will lead them to resign together."

Ren Erdong clicked his tongue: "This is too serious."

Xia Bingyang glanced at him from the mirror: "It's because this case is too serious. In the serial murder case, three people died, and all of them were students. If this case is not solved in time, how will the public opinion be controlled? Public security agencies How can I restore my credibility? Now the last survivor is Ai Lu, if something happens to Ai Lu too, I will have to take the lead and resign without being held accountable by the higher authorities."

While trembling with fear, Ren Erdong also caught the number of the dead that he said just now: "Three people? Didn't Ai Lu come back?"

Xia Bingyang turned off the faucet, looked in the mirror and straightened the collar of his shirt that was wet with water: "The third person I'm talking about is Wang Yao who died six years ago."

Ren Erdong said: "No way, you want to investigate Wang Yao's case together?"

Xia Bingyang nodded and said without further ado, "Transfer Wang Yao's case from the first sub-bureau."

Ren Erdong held his forehead with a headache: "I have to deal with Dang Hao again."

It may be that the work schedule is too irregular these two days, the work intensity is too high and he always stays up late. Xia Bingyang found that a pimple broke out on his clean forehead. He usually has two pieces of bangs in front of his forehead , now that the bangs are wet with water and he strokes his head back, a pimple on the forehead is exposed.

He leaned closer to the mirror, and lightly pressed his finger on the pimple on his forehead: "The matter between me and him has nothing to do with you, what should you do, there is no need to be afraid of him. Let Xiao Sun go to the first branch now."

Ren Erdong responded, but did not leave, but stood at the door and stared at Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang spotted it out of the corner of her eye, and asked, squeezing the pimple, "What are you looking at?"

Ren Erdong stared at him for a while, and then said with an unhappy face: "Everyone also stayed up all night, why only you are fresh like a radish just pulled out of the ground, even Lang Xixi and the others This little girl's face is as brown as a radish."

Xia Bingyang squeezed the pimple on his forehead, turned on the faucet, took a handful of water, and washed his face. He didn't agree with him, and directly changed the subject: "Notify the group of bran radish, half an hour later in the meeting room on the fifth floor meeting."

After speaking, he walked out of the bathroom refreshed.

It was time to go to work, and the office area of ​​the technical team on the fourth floor resumed being busy. The benches next to the rectangular office area were filled with girls who had been detained all night.The office area is filled with the smell of various perfumes and powder filled with sweat.

As soon as Xia Bingyang showed up, two policemen greeted him and handed him three selected transcripts: "Captain Xia, the three escorts from Bellagio|Miss Jiu met the suspected suspect before the incident, which is based on the Portraits of suspects drawn from their descriptions."

Xia Bingyang took it and only glanced at it before handing it back to the police officer: "We will make a unified report later when we have a meeting on the fifth floor."

"Ok."

Xia Bingyang patted him on the shoulder, then glanced at the dozen or so girls lined up on the opposite sofa, and said to him, "Those who have nothing to do with the case can be released, and those involved in the case can be brought to the cafeteria for dinner."

After instructing the police officers, he walked into the office area, waved to several policewomen who wanted to say hello to him, and mysteriously pointed to Lang Xixi who was lying on the table and taking a nap.

Lang Xixi's computer was still on, but she couldn't hold on any longer, and was dozing off on her desk.

Xia Bingyang walked over, turned around and leaned against the edge of her desk, picked up an oil pen with a red feather stuck to the cap in the pen container, and gently teased Lang Xixi's earlobe with the feather.

Lang Xixi raised her hand to chase her away, Xia Bingyang stopped first, and when she calmed down, she went to fiddle with her earlobe again.

Lang Xixi suddenly raised her head, saw Xia Bingyang, and gave him an angry and smiling look: "I only slept for ten minutes."

Xia Bingyang smiled, and threw the ballpoint pen back into the pen holder: "Have you found Qin Ping?"

"found it."

Lang Xixi took a deep breath, quickly returned to work, and called out a video intercepted in the computer: "At 7:31 p.m. on July 5, the camera installed on the gate of Changshui No. 13 Middle School captured Qin Ping. Two hours Afterwards, Ai Lu came out of the school and was blocked by Qin Ping at the school gate."

After speaking, Lang Xixi paused the screen, pointed to a man's figure in the middle of the screen and said, "He is Qin Ping."

Supporting the back of her chair, Xia Bingyang bent down to look at the screen.

The summer was hot, but Qin Ping was wearing a sewing hat that covered his upper eyelids, and he was wearing a very bulky black jacket with a pair of half-worn jeans underneath.Outfits that clash with the seasons make him stand out.In the picture, Qin Ping is standing at the school gate, very close to Ai Lu.

Wearing the school uniform of Changshui No. [-] Middle School and carrying a schoolbag, Ai Lu stood in front of Qin Ping with a slightly panicked expression.

"Put it forward."

Xia Bingyang said.

Lang Xixi continued to play the video. In the video, Qin Ping and Ai Lu said a few words, and Ai Lu always wanted to keep a distance from him.But Qin Ping approached her relentlessly, and even reached out to grab Ai Lu's arm.

Ai Lu couldn't shake off his hand, and was about to shout towards the security room of the school, but Qin Ping said something to prevent her from asking the security guard for help.Later, Ai Lu was taken by Qin Ping to the fast food restaurant opposite the school.

Lang Xixi said: "The position they sit in is the blind spot of the cameras in the store."

Xia Bingyang was silent for a moment while watching the frozen ending screen, and then asked: "Can't find any clues in the surveillance around the civil servants' quarter?"

"I haven't found it yet, but I will expand the scope of the investigation."

Xia Bingyang straightened up, put his hand on her shoulder and was about to speak when the cell phone in his trouser pocket rang suddenly.

He thought it was Bureau Chen calling to ask about his situation, but he didn't expect it to be Ji Zheng.

Looking at the name of 'Ji Zheng' on the caller ID, Xia Bingyang was slightly taken aback, and before leaving the technical team office area, he said to Lang Xixi, "We will have a meeting upstairs in the conference room in half an hour."

He took his mobile phone and walked to the end of the corridor to find a quiet place, pushed open a window at the corner of the stairs, stood in front of the window and connected the phone.

"Good morning."

Ji Zhengdao.

Xia Bingyang looked out the window at the green grass in the backyard of the police station, curled his lips, and said, "Good morning."

Hearing Ji Zheng's voice, he immediately relaxed. At the same time as he relaxed, the fatigue from the whole night also emerged from the bottom of his heart, and the sourness flowed through his body, which made his tense and serious tone all night suddenly soften. down.

Ji Zheng was driving to work, with a bluetooth headset on his left ear, his eyes focused on the road ahead and keeping a distance from the car in front, but it still didn't affect his keen awareness of Xia Bingyang's hoarse and deep voice.

"what happened?"

Ji Zheng asked softly.

Xia Bingyang leaned on the window sill with his left arm, bent down to look at the lawn downstairs, and sighed: "I stayed up all night last night, so tired."

"Are you working on a case?"

Forgetting that he couldn't see it, Xia Bingyang nodded and said, "Big case."

Ji Zheng wants to remind Xia Bingyang to pay attention to rest, take good care of his body, etc., but he knows very well that Xia Bingyang's work is of a special nature, and it is difficult to have a regular life.What's more important is that he is not around Xia Bingyang, all the exhortations seem very pale, so he can only save his useless concern and just ask: "Have you had breakfast?"

Xia Bingyang held the mobile phone in one hand, took out a cigarette case from his trouser pocket with the other, lit a cigarette in his mouth, and then said: "We only have steamed stuffed buns for breakfast in the cafeteria of our unit, or plain steamed stuffed stuffed stuffed stuffed stuffed vegetables. Eat. Let’s talk after the meeting.” After finishing speaking, he put his cigarette out the window to dust off the ash, and asked, “What are you doing?”

Ji Zheng smiled and said, "On the way to the company."

Xia Bing lay lazily on the window sill, twitching the corners of her lips, smiling lazily and mischievously: "Calling while driving, driving irregularly, be careful, I will complain to you."

Even through the mobile phone, Ji Zheng can still see the sly look in Xia Bingyang's smiling eyes.

Ji Zheng's heart moved, and he suddenly lost his mind, and even almost drove past the office building.He drove the car to the open-air parking lot, turned off the engine, calmed down and smiled softly: "It's late, I'm already here."

Xia Bingyang raised his eyebrows, let out a soft 'hum' from his nostrils as if feeling pity, and changed the subject contentedly: "I gave the little thing a name."

Ji Zheng got off the car and walked towards the office building, followed the glass revolving door into the lobby, just about to ask him 'which little thing', when he remembered the little milk cat that boarded at Xia Bingyang's house.

He asked, "What name?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Egg yolk."

Now is the time when the elevator is busy. A woman on a different floor from Ji Zheng saw Ji Zheng approaching on the phone, enthusiastically pressed the elevator door that was about to close automatically, and shouted to Ji Zheng: "Doctor Ji!"

Ji Zheng looked up and saw her, but he didn't enter the elevator, but smiled and waved to her, then turned around and stood by the wall next to the elevator, and said, "Egg yolk? Why is it called egg yolk."

Xia Bingyang stuck an arm out of the window, with a cigarette between his fingers.He lowered his eyes, raised the corners of his lips, pressed his index finger down on the cigarette butt, knocked off a piece of ash, and said, "It likes to eat the egg yolk you fed it last time."

Ji Zheng laughed: "So it's called egg yolk?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Isn't it good? Then you come and get it."

Ji Zheng thought about it seriously, and said with a smile: "It's pretty good."

Xia Bingyang held the cigarette and twirled it between his fingers a few times. After a moment of silence, he asked in a low voice, "When are you coming to see the egg yolk?"

The elevator went up and down twice, and the commuters kept scrambling to squeeze in. Only Ji Zheng stood quietly by the wall, leaned back slightly, leaned his back against the wall, and lowered his head slightly. Silently staring at the marble with figures on the ground.

Before he could give an answer, he heard a familiar voice calling him: "Doctor Ji."

He raised his head and saw Xiao Jiang standing in front of him with a cup of coffee in each hand, and said with a smile, "What are you doing here?"

Ji Zheng was about to speak, but she preempted him: "I bought coffee for you."

Ji Zheng smiled at her, then lowered his voice and said to Xia Bingyang: "Let's talk next time, Bingyang."

The phone was hung up, Xia Bingyang listened to the busy tone on the phone, and put the phone down from his ear and put it back in his pocket after a long delay.

He stood in front of the window and finished smoking a cigarette, then rubbed out the cigarette butt with his fingers, threw it into the trash can, turned around and walked back.

Ren Erdong pushed the door out of the meeting room, just in time to see Xia Bingyang walking this way, and shouted at him: "Captain Xia, everyone is here."

Xia Bingyang walked into the conference room, sat at the first place on the left side of the long table, glanced around the eight or nine team backbones sitting around the conference table, and pointed to the old forensic doctor sitting opposite him with his chin: "Lao Lu, starting from you .”