The on-site investigation and evidence collection have been initially completed. The body must be transported back to the police station first, and some physical evidence is gradually coming out of the house.

One of the pieces of evidence was a bird, alive, in a cage, pure white except for a little red on its beak.

The cooing cry that Ji Xun heard when he saw the corpse was caused by this munia. While being taken out of the house by the police, Ji Xun noticed that there was too much water in the birdcage, which was falling as the police carried it.

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This is obviously not the style of the neat and meticulous deceased in the house.

The birdcage had been tampered with by the murderer.

The murderer killed the man, let the bird go, and gave it enough water to ensure it could survive.

Cruelty and mercy are once again contrasted sharply, but this time the contrast is extra ironic.

He went downstairs to find Xia Youqing.

The people downstairs were all discussing Xi Lei's affairs, and the rustling voices contained not only surprise but also regret. They seemed to know the deceased woman very well, and everyone was talking about her politeness, kindness, and willingness to help others.

A very gentle woman was killed.

Everyone has begun to curse the murderer.

Ji Xun saw Xia Youqing. She had not left. She was watching the body being carried into the car with other people in the community.

The sky is bright, the sun is strong, and it is also very cold.

She held her belly and stood stiffly. The little energy she had when we first met in the morning disappeared. It was as if her body had opened an invisible opening, and the things that maintained the body's vitality came out of this opening.

Grains of sand generally pass away gradually.

Ji Xun's expression changed slightly, he squeezed into the crowd and walked quickly in the direction of Xia Youqing.

Complaints came one after another from all around. Ji Xun apologized repeatedly, but did not slow down his progress. When he finally came to Xia Youqing's side, the pregnant woman lost her last strength and slowly fell down.

There was chaos after that.

Call an ambulance, arrange a check-up, check-in.

Xia Youqing woke up once during the journey, and Ji Xun tried to call her twice, but the woman seemed dull and numb. She just stared blankly ahead for a while, and then slowly closed her eyes.

The female doctor accompanying her was very unhappy: "Why is the mental state of pregnant women so bad? Don't think that just maintaining nutrition during pregnancy is enough. Long-term depression of pregnant women will affect the development of the fetus, and in serious cases it may damage the health and intelligence of the fetus.

!Is there any problem that cannot be solved properly and will lead to conflicts during pregnancy? "

Ji Xun felt that he had changed from a "scumbag" to a "unparalleled scumbag" in the eyes of others. He once took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Yuan Yue, but finally gave up.

He sat on the bedside chair in the hospital, pulled up the headphones hanging around his neck, listened to music and played games, waiting for Xia Youqing to wake up again.

The sky gradually turned dark, and when the light in the room changed from bright to dim, Xia Youqing, who was lying on the hospital bed, opened her eyes blankly. Ji Wen put away her mobile phone to prevent the cold white light from the screen from irritating Xia Youqing's eyes.

"Are you awake? You fainted in the community, and I sent you to Sunshine Hospital - I saw a tissue with the hospital's logo printed on it in the bag you brought with you, and guessed that this is the hospital you usually come to.

"

"Lei..." Xia Youqing's lips moved, and her voice floated like a wisp of wind, "Xi Lei..."

"Huo Ranyin is investigating. The person you met at my house today is called Huo Ranyin. He is the new captain of the Second Criminal Investigation Branch. He has only taken office these two days and is now in charge of this case. He is not an easy person to deal with."

When Ji Xun said this, he paused slightly.

"For the criminal police profession, the more difficult a person is to deal with, the stronger their professional ability is. You don't need to worry too much for the time being. Maybe the case will come to light before you are discharged from the hospital."

The woman's dilated pupils focused on Ji Xun's face.

"Ji Xun..."

"Drink a glass of water." Ji Xun said, helping Xia Youqing sit up and giving her another glass of water.

Xia Youqing took the water and took a sip. Some blood appeared on her dry lips.

"……Feel sorry."

This apology surprised Ji Xun.

Xia Youqing's face still showed confusion and fatigue: "I was a little too anxious during the day. I know that you and Yuan Yue just have a good relationship. What I said... I just want to stimulate you. I don't know what I can do now.

Who to call? Maybe it would be better to call the police directly, but Leilei is my last friend. I think...Ji Xun, I think you are more trustworthy."

Originally Ji Xun wanted to mention Yuan Yue, but at this time he couldn't.

The matter between Yuan Yue and Xia Youqing was vague to others, but he knew it clearly.

Around April last year, Yuan Yue was bitten off a piece of flesh from his neck by an AIDS suspect while on a mission. During the fight, he fell off a high platform and broke a leg. At that time, Yuan Yue and Xia Youqing had a good relationship. Because

They had a good relationship, but they didn't dare to let Xia Youqing know about these things, so Yuan Yue called him, and he went to take care of Yuan Yue, and by the way, he helped Yuan Yue hide it from his family and Xia Youqing.

Later, Xia Youqing found out, and he and Xia Youqing took care of Yuan Yue.

This incident obviously frightened Xia Youqing. When taking care of Yuan Yue, Xia Youqing always hoped that Yuan Yue could step down from the front line to the second line and get a more stable job.

Speaking of which... the reason why Xia Youqing made this request was the leader of the bureau.

When Yuan Yue was recuperating from his injuries, the bureau leaders came to see him. While expressing concern for Yuan Yue's leg injury, he also made similar vague remarks.

He understands Yuan Yue. As long as he is still breathing, Yuan Yue will not want to step down from the front line. This man naturally has the heart of a deputy hero. If he does not patrol the case, read the files, and search for clues to solve the case every day, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

During that time, Yuan Yue was in great pain, from Xia Youqing, from internal considerations, and from himself.

He didn't know if he also had AIDS.

neither knows.

He has no way to refuse his girlfriend who will never leave him at this time.

He agreed to Xia Youqing's retreat.

After the examination results came out, fortunately, Yuan Yue was not infected with AIDS. At the same time, his leg that was broken during the fight also recovered well, and there was no root cause of the disease.

After receiving the two test results, Xia Youqing was extremely happy. Yuan Yue was also happy, but there was always a hint of melancholy in the happiness.

A few days later, Yuan Yue took him to drink alcohol all night long.

Later, the news from the bureau also came down, and Yuan Yue still stayed on the front line and took credit at the same time.

Paper could not contain the fire, Xia Youqing soon learned that Yuan Yue took the initiative to report and strongly requested to stay on the front line.

She smashed everything in Yuan Yue's house, slammed the door and disappeared.

As Yuan Yue's brother, Ji Xun always knows Yuan Yue's heart and cannot accuse Yuan Yue of anything. This is a natural thing for him - even if Yuan Yue is hesitant and soft-hearted, in the end he will only make one choice.

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But as far as Xia Youqing is concerned, Yuan Yue did indeed lie to her to the letter.

Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Both parties promised to love her and take care of her. However, in just one year, they started their own families and had a new child, and no one wanted her anymore.

She has been living on campus since she was in elementary school, and has been working in winter and summer vacations during her junior high school holidays. Sometimes her boss doesn't even want to pay her a salary, but as long as he can give her a place to live, she has grown like a weed until now.

She hates everyone who lied to her.

"Youqing, if you don't want to be with Yuan Yue anymore, why," Ji Xun asked carefully, "don't you abort the child?"

"If you have a bad pregnancy, you may not have children for the rest of your life." Xia Youqing said concisely and concisely.

Ji Xun had nothing to say.

Xia Youqing looked at him again, her eyes that should have been bright were bloodshot, and she was filled with hesitation.

Her black hair was winding on the bed, covering her body. She was as thin as paper.

"Ji Xun, you will help me, right?" She murmured softly, "I have been thinking about it, and I have been thinking about who else to ask for help. Maybe it would be better to call the police directly... Ji Xun, I finally thought of you.

.It's strange, I thought of you. We didn't talk much. I really shouldn't bother you. But I seem...I can't find anyone else anymore."

There is a moon outside the window, which is round and covered with a layer of colorful halo.

Perhaps it was due to the halo of the moon that his eyesight was blurred. Xia Youqing's face was blurred and turned into another young face that he was more familiar with and more immature. That delicate face faced him like a flower.

That familiar face was looking at him helplessly.

She stood alone, with nothing left, her face full of sorrow, crying to him.

A gust of wind blew in from the window.

call--

The flowers withered and flew away like sand.

Xia Youqing's pale face reappeared.

The hesitation in his heart turned into trembling. Ji Xun took a deep breath and pressed his forehead: "Tell me about your friends."

Xia Youqing's eyes lit up, and energy poured into her body.

"Xi Lei -" she said two words. They had known each other not long ago, only two or three months, but there were many things they wanted to say. The most important thing to say was the time when she and Xi Lei had just met.

She licked her chapped lips.

"Ji Xun, do you know why I chose this hospital? Because I met Xi Lei here..."

That day she was in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital. The doctor sitting in front of her had a blurry face. She had forgotten his appearance, but every word he spoke was strangely clear:

"It's over 14 weeks and the only option is abortion. Why didn't you come earlier?"

"You're already 30. It's the age to start a family. Let's discuss it with my boyfriend and keep it."

She came out of the hospital in a daze and came to the edge of the road.

The vehicles coming and going gathered into a mottled torrent. She stood outside the torrent and gradually felt numbness creeping into her heart.

His parents have long since cut off contact with each other, and he resigned from the company because of Yuan Yue's incident.

He also had a falling out with Yuan Yue.

Now, even if I want to abort a fetus, I am unable to do so.

What else can I do?

She asked herself, and took a gentle step towards the direction of the torrent. Before her raised feet landed, a strong force tied her arms and pulled her back.

She staggered back, the fog cleared, and a woman shorter and thinner than she grabbed her arm.

The other party was so petite, but extremely powerful. Her arms seemed to be tied in iron rings, unable to move.

That woman has very long hair, tied into a high ponytail on the back of her head. Her skin is dark and yellow, her lips are plump, and her eyes are small. She is not beautiful, but she gives people a good feeling, maybe it is her face

The blush on her face, perhaps the sparkle in her little eyes, all give people a sense of high-spiritedness.

Her confused eyes looked into those shining eyes.

"Be careful." The man said, "You look a little tired. What's your name? My name is Xi Lei."

Xi Lei!

After Ji Xun finished listening, he asked again: "Does Xi Lei usually post on Moments? Does it contain information about her boyfriend?"

Xia Youqing looked at him in confusion: "Do you doubt Zeng Peng?"

Ji Xun was noncommittal: "The situation at the scene seems to be that an acquaintance committed the crime, and he is highly suspected."

"She has hair, but not much. It's mainly for work." Xia Youqing opened her phone and handed it to Ji Xun.

Ji Xun took over, and the situation was just as Xia Youqing said. Xi Lei mostly posted about work matters, and she posted them very regularly: a pregnant woman would send a message to celebrate a successful birth, and a message would be sent after the child is one month old. This is

With photos, sometimes the mother is holding the child, sometimes the child is alone.

The total number of these children is seventeen or eighty, but there are boys and girls, which does not match the fact that Xi Lei's family is full of girl dolls, and the two should have nothing to do with each other.

With this in mind, Ji Xun flipped through the information and found Xi Lei and her boyfriend mixed in the information, as well as a forwarded recruitment letter about the Dolphin Bar, half a month ago.

The straight-line distance between the Dolphin Bar and the Raccoon Bar where he plays drums is less than two hundred meters.

"One more question." Before leaving, Ji Xun asked again, "What's going on with the dolls in Xi Lei's house?"

"I'm not sure about this." Xia Youqing shook his head hesitantly, "I was also scared when I saw it at first. Then I asked Leilei, and she just smiled and didn't do anything weird. She just loved them.

Take them off and wipe them from time to time..."

"The dolls without eyes should be specially customized. Do you know where she ordered these dolls?"

"She mentioned it to me, let me think about it..." Xia Youqing racked her brains, "It seems to be a carpenter named Master Lu?"

The bar street in Ning City is always the last place in the city where the lights go out.

Here there are fireworks, trees, flowers, and crowds of people. Even in the dead of winter, it still looks warm and full of spring wine.

When Ji Xun walked to the Dolphin Bar, he happened to see two uniformed police officers talking to the bar manager.

Ji Xun didn't go up to join in the fun. He made a small circle and came to the back door of the bar. He often goes in and out here and knows all the terrain in this area. He also knows where the back door of the Dolphin Bar is.

At the back door of the bar, there is an alley where garbage is dumped. Although there are bright lights in front of it, it is so dark and unclear. Wild cats and dogs that don’t know where they came from are entrenched on the garbage cans, piercing them with their yellow and green eyes.

Rather than saying they are living things, they are more like biological monitors, monitoring everything quietly.

Ji Xun passed by these and counted one, two, three silently in his mind.

There are police at the front door. If Zeng Peng is at the Dolphin Bar, if he has a guilty conscience, then...

With a "clang" sound, the back door of the Dolphin Bar opened, and a man wearing a baseball cap, slightly fat, not short, and visually quite significant walked out.

This man was obviously quite tall, but he was hunched over, with his head hunched and shoulders hunched over, and he walked a little staggeringly. He looked like a miserable person who had been bent down by a cruel society. He met Ji Xun face to face.

The alley is deep and dark, with only distant lights and the omitted shadow of the moon in the sky.

Darkness is a good protective color, it creates a safe distance between people.

Just as the two of them were passing each other, by coincidence, a passing car illuminated them with two high-distance lights.

Ji Xun looked at the baseball cap with his head lowered and suddenly said: "Zeng Peng?"

The man's body trembled and he didn't look back. He held a large black plastic bag in both hands and took it to the trash can in front.

Ji Xun added: "Xi Lei."

The car lights left and the darkness closed again.

When light and dark alternate, the baseball cap puts down the garbage bag in his hand, bends down, lifts his clothes, and exposes his waist.

In the darkness, a cold light flashed, it was the tip of a knife!

The cold tip of the knife brings scalding heat. The heat does not come from outside the body, but from within.
Chapter completed!