soldiers in front

The list obtained from the bathing center has become an important clue in the next stage of investigation, but so far no suspicious persons related to the case have been identified.

Lang Xixi has been working overtime for the past two days and checked the names of the people on the list one by one. Her usual sweet and soft temperament like a kitten has also been a little impatient by the stylized, boring and huge workload, and the way she expresses her irritability is Drink milk tea non-stop.

So Xia Bingyang has been helping her buy milk tea for the past two days. Once after helping her buy three cups of milk tea with different flavors, Xia Bingyang looked at her round, white and tender face and deliberately teased her, so he gently touched her face. I squeezed it, then nodded, and said to Lang Xixi: "I will tell the clerk to put less sugar in your milk tea from now on."

Lang Xixi stared blankly at his back as he went upstairs with a milk tea straw in his mouth, not knowing what happened.

Later, Xia Bingyang bought her milk tea again, put the milk tea on her desk and pinched her face, shook his head and said, "We need to put less sugar."

Lang Xixi: ...

Later, when Xia Bingyang walked over with the milk tea, Lang Xixi stared at him covetously, and when he put down the milk tea and was about to reach out to his face, he tried his best to make a fierce face: "What are you doing!"

Xia Bingyang didn't pinch her face this time, instead he glanced at her three-foot waist, shook his head again, and said, "Stop milk tea, and drink plain water from now on."

No matter how dull Lang Xixi was, she suddenly came to her senses at this moment. It turned out that Xia Bingyang was implying that she was getting fat.

With a small and exquisite figure, she put down the milk tea and screamed.

Satisfied, Xia Bingyang whistled and went upstairs.

Ren Erdong was reading the papers in the office, when he saw Xia Bingyang pushing the door and coming in with a smile on his face, he glanced at him and said, "You are in a good mood today."

Xia Bingyang stood in front of the window sill, took a small watering can to sprinkle water on the potted plants, raised the corners of his lips and said, "Is it not bad?"

Ren Erdong pressed the file on his chest, looked up at him for a while, and suddenly asked: "What's the matter with you and Ji Zheng?"

Xia Bingyang's skin was already fair, but now standing in front of the window sill, his whole body seemed to be soaked by the sun, and even his hair shone beautifully.He turned to Ren Erdong, leaned on the window sill, held up the watering can to spray water in the direction of the sunlight, and asked, "What happened to me and Ji Zheng?"

Ren Erdong said: "Why are you pretending to be confused, if nothing happened to you two, would you be happy?"

Xia Bingyang thought about it, and said honestly: "It's nothing, nothing happened between me and him."

Ren Erdong thought he didn't want to talk about it, so he didn't ask, and said: "If you don't want to talk about it, forget it, come and see this."

Xia Bingyang concentrated on spraying water mist on the sun, trying to create a rainbow, standing by the balcony without moving: "What?"

Ren Erdong was speechless: "Do you want to read Bai Xiaoting's information?"

Only then did Xia Bingyang put down the watering can and walked towards him, standing in front of his computer and bending over to look at a file on the screen.

Ren Erdong dodged to the side, leaving the whole screen to him, and said puzzled: "I don't know what you are looking for her information, is she related to Yu Bingjie's case?"

Xia Bingyang didn't speak, and held the mouse to pull down the information bit by bit.

Bai Xiaoting's file is mediocre, and there is nothing outstanding about it.Bai Xiaoting is not from Weining City, she was born in a small county in 1993.Her life experience was a bit tragic. Her parents died in a car accident when she graduated from high school, and both of them died in the car accident. After that, she lived with her widowed aunt in Weining City.

In the same year when her parents died, she was admitted to the Weining City Film Academy and enrolled in the film academy. Her aunt's financial conditions were not enough to support the high tuition fees of the Art Academy, so she worked and studied part-time.She is excellent in character and learning, and won the third-class scholarship from the school.Generally speaking, she is a very motivated girl. If she can successfully graduate at the pace of work-study, then she will most likely embark on the path of acting, and she may already be a well-known actress now.

Xia Bingyang had met her in person, and still remembered her delicate face that couldn't be concealed by heavy makeup.Bai Xiaoting was originally an excellent student with excellent personal conditions, but her choice of dropping out in her sophomore year changed the pace of her life.

She's not an actress now, she's a...sex|sex worker.

But Bai Xiaoting's files are not all without doubt. After flipping through a few pages of files, Xia Bingyang flipped through the files again, frowning: "It's gone?"

Ren Erdong said: "No more, that's all."

Xia Bingyang flipped to the front and glanced at Bai Xiaoting's ID photo, put down the mouse and dragged a chair to sit in front of the computer, and raised his jaw to the file on the screen: "The last trace of her activities in the judicial system is her 12-year Dropout record from film school, what about her post-dropout record?"

Ren Erdong spread his hands: "So far, all the information that can be found is in front of you."

Xia Bingyang looked at him and asked, "Could it be that she hasn't used her ID card, bank card or credit card since six years ago?"

Ren Erdong pointed to the computer screen: "Leader, all the information that can be found is in it, I have tried my best."

Xia Bingyang looked at the files in the computer again, frowned and said in a low voice: "Strange."

Ren Erdong didn't take it seriously: "What's so strange? She didn't die or disappeared. Didn't she still take notes at the police station two days ago? Why do you keep staring at her?"

"I always feel like I've seen her somewhere."

"She has filmed a few commercials and MVs when she was in school, maybe you have seen the scenes she filmed?"

Even though Xia Bingyang couldn't remember where she met Bai Xiaoting, she still said firmly, "No, I've seen her in person."

Seeing that he was so sure, Ren Erdong was also aroused curiosity: "When?"

Xia Bingyang recalled for a moment, and said: "The 12 police academy is on summer vacation."

"That was six years ago."

After speaking, he smiled maliciously.

Xia Bingyang glanced at him: "Speak directly."

Ren Erdong put his arms around his neck and said with a smile: "Honey, last time I saw the two of you cuddling together in the bathroom. You said you've seen her before, isn't it... the same situation? "

Ren Erdong deliberately didn't understand what he said, but Xia Bingyang could understand.Ren Erdong suspects that Bai Xiaoting started his current 'job' six years ago, so the meeting between him and Bai Xiaoting can only be about whoring and being prostituted.

Xia Bingyang grabbed his wrist and squeezed his numbness hard, then let go when he heard his wailing, and said with a sneer, "That's how I met you, have you forgotten?"

Ren Erdong flicked his wrist and glared at him: "I don't forget, I slept with you."

Xia Bingyang ignored him, and pulled out Bai Xiaoting's electronic transcript, found the contact information left by Bai Xiaoting, got up and walked aside to call Bai Xiaoting.

No one answered the first time, and someone answered when the second time was about to hang up automatically.

"Hey?"

There was a cold voice from the phone.

Xia Bingyang said: "Bai Xiaoting?"

There was a pause there for a moment, and then Bai Xiaoting laughed, her charming and indifferent voice was even more scorching: "It's you."

Xia Bingyang went to the window, sat on the edge of the window sill, picked up the watering can and sprinkled water on the potted plants: "Do you know who I am?"

Bai Xiaoting said: "Of course, I remember your voice."

Xia Bingyang smiled and said, "I want to ask you some questions, where are you?"

"Officer, I also want to live. Please forgive me for not being on call." She changed her voice and said teasingly: "If you don't come to me as a policeman, then I will accompany you at any time."

Xia Bingyang shook the kettle calmly, and continued to spray water mist on the potted plants: "I don't invite you to the police station, I'll go find you."

Bai Xiaoting smiled ambiguously: "I'm at work and skipped work, will you pay me?"

Xia Bingyang said: "I'll pay, give me the address."

Bai Xiaoting was silent for a moment, then said the name of a hotel, and said, "I'll see you in 10 minutes."

Xia Bingyang hung up the phone, turned on the spout of the kettle, and poured all the remaining layer of water into the potted plant.

Ren Erdong saw it, and said anxiously: "If you water again, you will drown!"

Xia Bingyang picked up the car keys from the table and walked towards the door: "I'll go find Bai Xiaoting and call if I have something to do."

The hotel where Bai Xiaoting asked him to meet was not far from the police station, just two streets away.

Xia Bingyang sat down at a random seat in the lobby, ordered two glasses of juice, and after finishing one glass of juice, Bai Xiaoting arrived.

Bai Xiaoting was wearing a red suspender dress, a sun hat and sunglasses. The fully armed attire covered most of her face, revealing only a pair of delicate red lips.

She stood at the entrance of the lobby and looked around, and saw Xia Bingyang sitting on a single sofa in the dining area and waving at her.She walked over and sat down opposite Xia Bingyang, without taking off her hat or sunglasses, watching Xia Bingyang curl her lips, and said, "Sorry, I'm late."

Xia Bingyang smelled the cool gardenia fragrance that he smelled in the bathroom last time. He pushed a glass of fruit juice in front of Bai Xiaoting and said, "It's okay, I just arrived."

Bai Xiaoting didn't even look at the glass of juice, she pushed the glass aside and said to Xia Bingyang, "Come on, officer, I'm in a hurry."

Xia Bingyang directly cut to the point: "I have read your transcript."

"something wrong?"

"If there is no problem, I won't come to you today."

"what is the problem?"

Even though she was wearing sunglasses and a hat, Xia Bingyang could see her nervousness from the corners of her lips that suddenly tightened.

Xia Bingyang took out her mobile phone and dropped out her electronic version of the transcript, while reading it, she said: "You arrived at the Bellagio at 7:31 p.m. on July 7, and then entered room 23 on the third floor and never came out again, is that so? "

"Of course, I made it clear at the police station."

"You have a date with a man named Fang Yajun?"

"Yes."

"How did you know each other?"

Bai Xiaoting pursed her lips and smiled, "A friend introduced you."

"Why did you make an appointment to meet at the Bellagio?"

"You know why, Sergeant."

Xia Bingyang was indeed clear, so he didn't follow the rigid process to force her to answer, and bypassed the question, saying: "It is written in your record that you and this Mr. Fang Yajun have been together since you entered the room and have never left. room, is that right?"

"Yes."

Xia Bingyang pressed the phone and smiled: "But I have carefully compared the notes between you and Fang Yajun, and found a discrepancy between what you said and the other party."

Bai Xiaoting gradually corrected her sitting posture, her sloppy expression disappeared, she looked at Xia Bingyang and said, "This is impossible."

Xia Bingyang said: "Don't be in a hurry to deny it, wait until I finish."

He put down his phone, took a sip of juice from his glass, and continued, "You said at the police station that you and Fang Yajun entered the room at around 23:[-], and then you chatted for about half an hour. Around one o'clock, you took a shower together until the police arrived. During this time, you and Fang Yajun never left each other."

Bai Xiaoting spread her hands: "So?"

Xia Bingyang said unhurriedly: "But we found a bottle of red wine and two goblets in the bathroom of your room. Obviously, you drank alcohol in the bathroom, but the confessions of the two of you unanimously put this I missed one detail. Later, I found your consumption list, which can prove that the time you ordered the wine was 53:10, and the time it takes for the waiter to deliver the wine to the room is usually between five and 5 minutes. I inquired I passed the waiter, although the waiter did not remember the exact time when the red wine was delivered to your room, but there were not many guests at that time, and the time to deliver the red wine did not exceed 58 minutes. In other words, the waiter delivered the red wine to your room at [-]:[-] Rear left."

Xia Bingyang stopped halfway through his speech to observe Bai Xiaoting's expression.

Bai Xiaoting crossed her legs unnaturally, crossed her arms, and turned her head to look aside, avoiding his sight.

Xia Bingyang looked at her and said, "The waiter still remembers the person who opened the door to get the wine, and that person is you."

Bai Xiaoting snorted coldly: "Drinking is also against the law?"

Xia Bingyang smiled and said: "It's not against the law, listen to what I'm going to say; the waiter still remembered that he forgot to take the ice bucket, so he went downstairs to get the ice bucket again. However, there was a power outage that day, and the power of the refrigerator in the kitchen was turned down. The speed is relatively slow, so the waiter waited for more than ten minutes to deliver the ice bucket to your room, and he still remembered that when he returned to the door of the room to deliver the ice bucket, the door of your room was ajar, and you were standing at the entrance. He also said that he thought you had forgotten to close the door, but when he pushed open the half-covered door and saw you standing at the door, he was shocked."

Having said that, Xia Bingyang stopped again, staring at Bai Xiaoting.

Bai Xiaoting seemed to lose her composure. She took out a pack of women's cigarettes from her bag, and when she wanted to smoke, she was stopped by the staff who rushed over.She stuffed the cigarette case into her bag irritably, and said coldly, "Are you finished? I'm in a hurry, officer."

Xia Bingyang asked the waiter to pour a glass of white water by the way, took a sip of white water to dilute the overly sweet taste of orange juice in his mouth, and then said: "I contacted Fang Yajun this morning and asked him to go to the police station to make a new record. Ordered a bottle of red wine at 7:53, and the waiter rang the doorbell to deliver the wine at around 8 o'clock, and you were the one who left the bathroom to get the wine. After you got the red wine, you asked the waiter to go downstairs to get the ice bucket. You didn't return to the bathroom within ten minutes of getting the ice bucket."

Xia Bingyang raised his eyes suddenly, and stared at Bai Xiaoting with his dark and quiet eyes: "In other words, Fang Yajun can prove that you are not in the bathroom between 8:8 and 20:10, and you have been separated for about [-] minutes. But you have concealed it." This fact, and Fang Yajun's caliber, let him also hide from the police that you left the bathroom. Why did you do that?"

Bai Xiaoting's breathing was a little messy, but she sat on the sofa without moving a muscle, and after a moment of silence, she said: "Because this is my private matter, I don't want to expose too much of my private matter." As she spoke, she looked at Xia Bingyang and smiled sarcastically: "Unless you police are also obliged to check my business level."

Xia Bingyang looked at her for a moment and said, "You are very good at sophistry."

Bai Xiaoting smiled at him: "Thank you."

Xia Bingyang smiled and said: "Since you are not willing to tell the truth, then I will tell you for you."

He found a design drawing of the hotel from his mobile phone, put the mobile phone in front of her, and said, "Did you see it?"

"what?"

Xia Bingyang said in a deep voice, "That's why you lied."

Bai Xiaoting's eyes hidden behind the sunglasses took a slow breath of air when she saw clearly that what was in his phone was a floor plan of the third floor, her jaw trembled slightly, but she remained silent.

Xia Bingyang said: "The corridor on the third floor is designed in an inverted 'U' shape. Coincidentally, room 304, where the homicide occurred, is at the bottom center of the letter 'U', and towards the side of the wall where the stairs are. And where you are Room 317 is just opposite to room 304. Because of the special location of 304, only your room 317, room 317 opposite to 309, and room 304 next to room 306 can see room 304 from the door. I checked, and on the day of the incident, rooms 304, 306, and 309 were all empty, that is to say, only you have the opportunity to see room 304 from the door."

"So what? Just because I live in a room that happens to have a view of Room 304, do you suspect me?"

Xia Bingyang put down his phone calmly, leaned back on the back of the chair, looked at Bai Xiaoting and said, "At first I didn't doubt you. After all, just because I was able to see the murder scene, the objective evidence for doubting you is not enough. Let me doubt it." Your reason is because, you lied."

Bai Xiaoting said impatiently: "I've already said that I don't want to—"

Xia Bingyang interrupted her coldly: "You and Fang Yajun have the same caliber, let him help you hide that you left the bathroom for more than ten minutes, just like you said, this is an insignificant matter, if you truthfully tell this matter Tell the police, I may not focus on you, but you lied to the police and concealed this small matter. Then the significance of this matter becomes very different.”

Bai Xiaoting couldn't keep up with his train of thought for a while, and stared at him blankly.

Xia Bingyang took a sip of water, and then said: "Let me guess the reason for your lying. It is an objective fact that the waiter gave you red wine. You can't hide the fact that the waiter gave you red wine. The only thing you can hide is when you are lying. During the ten minutes when the waiter went downstairs to fetch the ice bucket, what was your real movement." He rested his forehead, looked at Bai Xiaoting leisurely, and said with a smile, "something happened in those ten minutes, right?"

Bai Xiaoting was silent for a long time, Fang sneered and said, "You suspect me of murder?"

Xia Bingyang said: "No, I don't doubt that you have something to do with the murder case, because the person who ordered the red wine was Fang Yajun, and the person who asked you to leave the bathroom to get the red wine was also Fang Yajun. It was an accidental act that you left the bathroom, and the waiter forgot to take the ice bucket. A sudden act, you were pushed to your current position by two consecutive coincidences. You do not have all the conditions for objectivity and subjectivity in committing crimes."

"Then what do you mean?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Although I have no evidence to suspect that you are the murderer, I have sufficient reasons to suspect that you are... an eyewitness."

Bai Xiaoting pretended to be calm, and said with a smile, "I'm a witness?"

Xia Bingyang also smiled: "Didn't I just say that when the waiter went upstairs to bring you the ice bucket, he found the door was ajar and you were standing in the entrance. Now I have reason to suspect that you have never left the door. Pushing down along this line of thought, why are you standing at the door and not leaving? Waiting for the waiter? I don’t think so, the waiter told you in advance before going downstairs, the refrigeration speed is relatively slow that day, so you are not standing at the door to wait Waiter. To take a step back, even if you are waiting for the waiter, what reason do you have to wait at the door? Can’t you wait in the room? So you are not waiting at the door, but because you are affected by something. Not standing in the doorway. Or, you saw something. So you standing in the doorway is a kind of—”

Xia Bingyang paused as he tapped his temples with his fingers to search for a suitable word in his mind. After a while, he snapped his fingers, pointed at Bai Xiaoting, and said with a smile, "'peeping' behavior. Of course, this kind of peeping is not You planned it, but it happened by accident. That is, you saw something by accident, but you lied about it and pretended not to see it."

Bai Xiaoting lowered her head and twisted her fingers nervously.

Xia Bingyang said: "Now please answer me truthfully, Ms. Bai Xiaoting, what did you see?"

"I...I didn't see anything."

Xia Bingyang smiled leisurely: "Don't tell me, I have a way for you to tell."

He paused to take a breath, looked at Bai Xiaoting indifferently and said, "Back to the original question with the question of why you lied, you obviously saw something, but pretended not to see it, not because you were related to the murder case, It's because you have a guilty conscience, so you hide it from the police. Would an outsider feel guilty and scared when he witnessed a murder? Fear is normal, but you want to escape. The reason you want to escape is because you don't want to be involved in the murder. Please note that I used the word 'involve', only if you have a connection with the person involved in the murder case, can you be involved in the murder case, who is the person connected to you? The murderer or the victim? I don't understand ? Then let me ask in another way."

Xia Bingyang suppressed the ending, looked at her aggressively and asked, "Who is that person you saw hiding in room 317? The murderer or the deceased?"

Bai Xiaoting twisted her fingers hard, bit her lower lip, but still did not speak.

Xia Bingyang smiled coldly, and said, "Don't tell me, okay, then follow me back to the police station for investigation."

Bai Xiaoting suddenly raised her head and looked at him: "Investigate me? Why investigate me?"

"Because the reason you hide that you are a witness is to avoid the attention of the police, you know very well that if you tell the police what you saw, then you become a witness, and then you will completely It was exposed in the judiciary. But you lied to avoid your own exposure. So I have reason to suspect that you have some secrets hidden in you, which cannot be known by the police."

He stood up, walked around the table to Bai Xiaoting, leaned on the back of her chair and bent close to her ear, and whispered: "I will give you a choice now, either tell what you saw, or tell what you have seen." If you go to the police station, not only will you have no choice, but you will have to tell all the things you keep in your heart, unless you are confident that you can survive the interrogation."

After speaking, he put his hand lightly on Bai Xiaoting's shoulder.

Bai Xiaoting trembled all over, quickly turned around to avoid his hand, and said with a trembling voice: "I said, don't take me to the police station!"

Xia Bingyang sat down beside her and said, "Say."

Bai Xiaoting took a few breaths before saying in a low voice, "I saw two girls in room 304."

"Be clear, what did you see?"

"As soon as the waiter who delivered the red wine left, I saw a girl with long hair coming up the stairs, knocked on the door of Room 304 and walked in. After about 5 minutes, another girl also came up the stairs and entered. Room 304."

The girl with long hair should be Ai Lu, and the other girl is Yu Bingjie.

"that's it?"

Xia Bingyang asked.

Bai Xiaoting said: "I only see these."

If, as Bai Xiaoting said, she only saw Ai Lu and Yu Bingjie walk into room 304, then this clue is useless.

Ai Lu said personally that Yu Bingjie entered room 304 later than her because she was delayed returning to the front desk to get her mobile phone, and they thought that the person waiting in room 304 was Liu Changran, so...

Xia Bingyang's thoughts froze for a moment, and she froze for a moment, then suddenly asked Bai Xiaoting again: "You just said that the first girl who entered the room knocked on the door and entered?"

"Yes, I saw her knock on the door twice, and then the door opened, and a shadow of a person appeared at the door."

"Are you sure someone is going to open the door?"

"I'm sure."

A simple sentence made Xia Bingyang's heart beat twice, and a layer of cold sweat quickly oozed from his palms.

Ai Lu said that they thought that the person waiting in the room was Liu Changran, so they entered the room unprepared.But Bai Xiaoting said that she saw someone rush to open the door after Ai Lu knocked.

There is no doubt about this, but the murderer identified by Ai Lu after the incident was not Liu Changran, but Qin Ping.

If Bai Xiaoting didn't lie, and someone really opened the door for Ai Lu, then Ai Lu must have seen the face of the person who opened the door and knew who it was.She had already learned that the person waiting for them was not Liu Changran, but Qin Ping, who had killed Wang Yao and fled for six years.Would she still enter the room unsuspecting?

Or is it that the person waiting for them at 304 is not Qin Ping, but Ai Lu is lying?