"Killed!"

The sharp female voice was like a knife, tearing through the tender night curtain made of lights and alcohol. The surrounding crowd froze, and then, as if controlled by the same remote control, they collectively turned their necks and headed in the direction of the sound.

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The two policemen who had just questioned the bar manager reacted the fastest. They rushed to the position where the female voice sounded and saw a waitress standing against the wall with her mouth open, her face blank, and her eyes blank.

Staring straight at the alley ahead, maybe he didn't even know what he was shouting.

In front of her, deep in the alley, a meandering dark red liquid slowly flowed out. At the end of the liquid, there were two black shadows. One fell face down to the ground, and the other leaned on top.

"stop!"

"lay down your weapon!"

The two policemen shouted to stop, drew their weapons and pointed forward, and turned on the strong flashlight at the same time. The light dispersed the darkness, and the situation at the scene became clear. There were no obvious wounds on the bodies of the two people at the scene, and there were weapons around them, including a fruit knife.

, was thrown five steps away from the two of them. The blade was bright and there was no blood on it.

As for the dark red liquid on the ground, it came from a damaged convenience bag on the ground. It looked like...

"Dragon Juice."

Ji Xun let go of Zeng Peng, raised his hands, stood up slowly, and faced the police: "You guys came just in time. I want to call the police. In such a dark alley, this man pulled out a knife. It's really scary."

The police did not relax. They quickly glanced at the scene and asked sternly: "Did you throw him to the ground from behind?!"

Ji Xun paused.

What happened at that moment was very simple. When he saw the light of the sword, he struck first and knocked the person down to control him. If strict liability is determined, he was the one who started the fight.

"Misunderstand."

But at this time, Zeng Peng, who was facing the ground, suddenly spoke. He stood up, with one arm hanging down, patting his clothes slowly, looking like he was injured. But despite this, he still kept saying:

"It's all a misunderstanding. I didn't pay attention to bring out the kitchen knife... Don't bother the police, we'll keep it private, keep it private."

The two policemen winked at each other. Zeng Peng lowered his head, but it was no use. When he got up, the bright flashlight clearly illuminated his face.

Just the suspect they were looking for.

"...Go back to the bureau."

In the end, both men were brought back to the police station. Ji Xun was placed in the Criminal Investigation Branch No. 2, but it was too late. No one paid any attention to him. There was only a glasses-covered detective whom he had seen at the crime scene during the day, typing rapidly on the computer.

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Ji Xun took out his cell phone, sent a message to Xia Youqing to explain the situation, and opened the game again, playing one game after another.

Suddenly, the sound of a chair being dragged reached my ears.

Ji Xun's arm was pulled up, and fingers with cooling ointment were applied directly to the wound on his wrist.

He didn't even notice this wound himself. With such sharp eyes, he couldn't see anything except one person. He didn't think so.

"Hiss—" Ji Xun raised his arm and avoided it, "Be gentle."

"There are so many words to say when I help you apply the medicine." The person applying the medicine loosened his hand, pressed his elbows on the table, and leaned his upper body slightly. When he looked over with a pair of sharp eyes, his sight naturally softened, "An ordinary person in the alley.

All the weapons are scratched, it must be too weak."

Ji Xun's eyes swept over the person sitting in front of him from top to bottom.

The opponent was wearing a jacket and Martin boots, dressed in casual clothes ready to rush to the front line at any time; he had sharp eyebrows, thin lips, and a sharp shave, so there was a hideous wound on the side of his neck under his ear that was missing a piece of flesh.

It was completely exposed, destroying his rather handsome outline, causing him to look masculine, solemn and inhumane when he didn't speak.

But those who are familiar with him know that all the hardness in his body is a shield created to protect others.

Ji Xun met Yuan Yue's eyes.

The concern in those eyes could easily pierce the time spent apart and crush the diaphragm created by their different jobs.

It's like I just went on a long vacation and then partnered with Yuan Yue when I came back.

Ji Xun thought.

Huo Ranyin stood behind the one-way see-through glass in the interrogation room. Tan Mingjiu and his partner stayed inside, urgently questioning Zeng Peng who had just been brought back. However, the progress inside was not smooth. At first, Zeng Peng seemed not to know why he was being brought back.

I brought him here, and from the beginning he acted restlessly and calmly, and in the end I didn't even want to compensate him.

"Can I go back early? If I leave without asking for leave, the store will deduct my salary. Once the money is deducted, there will be no 300 yuan bonus at the end of the month."

"Do you know Xi Lei?" Tan Mingjiu asked.

This name made Zeng Peng raise his head, just for a moment. He quickly lowered his head again, his head hooked on his shoulders, as if his spine could not support him from sitting upright.

"Yeah, I know. Don't mention her. We had a quarrel and broke up long ago. My affairs have nothing to do with her."

"Does it have nothing to do with you if she dies?!" Tan Mingjiu shouted.

Zeng Peng was stunned for a moment. The timidity on his face turned into confusion, and confusion turned into disbelief. The mouth he had just opened closed again, closing tightly like a clam shell. At this time, his face turned into confusion.

Revealing three points of stubbornness to resist.

He felt that the police were tricking him.

Until Tan Mingjiu took out the photos of Xi Lei’s death scene.

This photo defeated Zeng Peng. The man who just couldn't get a fart out of three sticks actually fell into a meaningless roar and struggle on the chair for a full minute. Then the power disappeared, and he was like a pile of rapidly burning people.

Ashes fell onto the chair.

The inquiry proceeds normally.

"Have you been to Xi Lei's house on the evening of January 11th?"

"Been there."

"What to do?"

"take money……"

…

The sounds in the interrogation room reached Huo Ranyin's ears, and more clues began to appear.

The medical examiner concluded that the time of Xi Lei’s death was between 9 and 11 pm on the 11th.

On the evening of the 11th, Xi Lei appeared in the community surveillance at 7:52 and returned to the community.

On the evening of the 11th, the camera at the gate of Qing'an Community showed that the suspect arrived at the community at 7:03 and left the community at 7:21. He complained that he took the bank card at home, then returned to the rental house and went downstairs to eat noodles at 8 o'clock.

After 8:30, I withdraw money from an ATM near my residence. I changed to four banks and withdrew a total of 30,000 yuan.

Huo Ranyin lowered his eyes slightly and entered the suspect's perspective.

The moonlight shone coldly on the sparsely populated alley. He was ready to return to the back door of the community again. Xi Lei's residence was in the first building inside the back door. The wall was only two and a half meters long. He could climb over it at will.

Wall, or sneak into the back door where the surveillance has been broken for a long time...

He knocked on his girlfriend's door...he went in...he tore off the mask and revealed his ferocious prototype...he pushed her down on the sofa...he covered his girlfriend's face with a pillow...covered it and crushed her to death.

,Pinch! Pinch!...until the twitching body stopped moving...She softened and lay softly...

wrong.

Huo Ran frowned slightly and switched back from the suspect's perspective.

Where's the rope?

Why do people have to be tied up with ropes and then their mouths and noses are covered until they die? Is it because they are afraid that the deceased will struggle?

……No.

Zeng Peng is over 1.8 meters tall and has a strong build. When facing the petite Xi Lei, there is no need for a rope at all.

In the interrogation room, Tan Mingjiu was aggressive: "What are you doing with the money? This money is Xi Lei's deposit, right? You asked her for money and she refused to give it to you. She also scolded you and ridiculed you, calling you useless, right?"

"There is still a tax left."

"What tax?"

"Deed tax." Zeng Peng, who was looking down at the ground, slowly raised his eyes, "I bought her a house. I only prepared the house payment, not the tax. I wanted to give her a surprise..."

But everything is meaningless.

Ten minutes later, Tan Mingjiu walked out of the inquiry room, holding a crumpled slip in his hand. This was the slip that Zeng Peng took out of his pocket. It was the slip for Xi Lei's abortion at Sunshine Hospital three months ago.

"Zeng Peng said that the child is not his." Tan Mingjiu gasped with toothache, "The child is not his and he still wants to buy a house and want to reconcile with the deceased? No matter how honest and good-tempered he is, he will not be happy to be a father.

Isn’t this how you are so obedient and dedicated?”

"If you want to live a decent life, you have to have a little green on your head." The recorder who worked with Tan Mingjiu joked, "I think Zeng Peng is sincere. At least the name of the house actually says Xi Lei."

Huo Ran did not participate in their conversation. He was looking through tonight's records. When his eyes glanced at one place, he stopped: "Ji Xun appeared at the platoon scene and had a conflict with Zeng Peng?"

"Ha." Tan Mingjiu looked over, "Why can I see him everywhere in this case? Have you finally had enough sleep after three years of hibernation?"

"There's nothing to worry about. In the past year-end physical fitness test, I won the championship again. Let alone an ordinary person without training, even if there are three or five, they can still run away if they can't beat it."

In the second branch's office, Ji Xun responded to Yuan Yue's concern in a few words.

Yuan Yue is not a person who is good at small talk. After the initial concern, he went directly to the topic: "Is the deceased your friend?"

"...sort of."

"Is the person you brought back today a murderer?"

"How do I know? I'm not a detective. I can tell who the real culprit is at a glance." Ji Xun laughed at first, and then casually said in a tone of discussing whether the fruit is sweet or not, "Probably not. If so, wouldn't it be too boring?

?"

"Then, do you want me to discuss with the second branch and take over the case?"

Ji Xun saw Yuan Yue's slightly lowered eyebrows. There was a kind of quiet gentleness in this man. This kind of gentleness might not be revealed in ordinary times because of his clumsiness in words, but as soon as it reached the critical moment, it suddenly turned into

The vast ocean is boundless.

Sometimes Ji Xun feels that Yuan Yue looks like an old-fashioned winter coat.

Foundation, show the soil.

It is always indispensable.

Xia Youqing really should have come to see Yuan Yue. Ji Xun thought. Yuan Yue would never let her down. Yuan Yue would never let anyone down.

"Why, we haven't seen each other for half a year, and you've learned how to open the back door for private use?" Ji Xun used a joke to get rid of the other party's concern. This joke made Yuan Yue feel slightly embarrassed, and even pursed the corners of his mouth a little deeper, revealing a small hole on his cheek.

Vague dimples.

Yuan Yue's appearance is actually very sunny. He has a square personality, but he is not rigid. The reason why he looks a bit serious is not only the wound on his neck, but also because his natural dimples are exposed when he smiles. No matter how he looks, he looks young.

A criminal police captain who looks like this is really not mature enough. Whether it is arresting criminals or leading his police officers, he seems to be at a disadvantage, so Yuan Yue is less and less fond of laughing.

It's a bit of a pity.

Ji Xun thought.

When he joined the police force, Yuan Yue was serious about his work, and he also laughed and joked a lot.

But maybe from now on, Yuan Yue won't have to bear this kind of grievance alone. Huo Ranyin of the second branch is also a man who cannot convince others just by his appearance...

"What are you thinking about?" Ji Xun was tapped on the shoulder. He came back to his senses and heard Yuan Yue say, "I'm not joking with you. It's not strange for the two criminal investigation detachments to change the case at hand.

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"Come on, others don't know, but I don't know either? The above sentence means your legs are broken when you run away. Who dares not to use all their strength to solve the case?" Ji Xun laughed.

In recent years, Ning City has become more and more strict in this regard. It has long issued the slogan "Unless the murder case is solved, the scene will not be evacuated." Although this has stretched the police force of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, almost every criminal policeman has to work overtime to make every effort.

The results have indeed been achieved. Excluding cases in the early years, the detection rate of major criminal cases remains above 92%.

This data made Ji Xun repeatedly suspect that Yuan Yue would die suddenly at work without knowing when. He gave people two words of advice:

"You have time to go home and rest early, so as not to die young in the office and not even be called a martyr when you look back, thank you?"

"You're so worried about me, why not come back and partner with me."

"No." Ji Xun refused flatly.

"Inquiry——"

"I said three years ago that I am no longer suitable for this job."

"No, you are suitable." Yuan Yue retorted, "You are the most suitable person I have ever seen for this job."

Ji Xun remained silent.

He didn't want to answer, and the atmosphere fell into a stalemate. Yuan Yue remained silent for a while, then put his hand into his pocket, took out a candy, and stuffed it into Ji Xun's hand.

Ji Xun was stunned for a moment, pinched the candy, and remembered what happened when he first joined the company.

After all, not many people are born completely immune to death and corpses. When he first joined the criminal police team, he had a very squeamish little habit. He would eat a candy and squeeze it before looking at the corpse. Later, he forgot to bring it when he showed up at the scene.

I carried it that day. It was so hot in the summer. It took another two months for the body to be discovered. The smell of the scene and the appearance of the body were difficult to describe, and his state was also difficult to describe.

After that time, Yuan Yue discovered his little hobby. Then, Yuan Yue always had two or three candies in his pocket. He would give him one before going to the scene, and if he was in a bad mood, he would also give him one.

They had a dispute with different opinions, so I gave him one afterward... It's like a universal elixir, so it's considered "Yuan Yue's" kind of thoughtfulness.

Ji Xun played with the candy but did not eat it.

Yuan Yue simply took out another one, peeled off the candy wrapper this time, and stuffed the candy into Ji Xun's mouth. He said: "Forget it, if you don't want to talk about it, we won't talk about it. But at that time, you said you wanted to talk about it.

I will be a policeman for the rest of my life."

Ji Xun held the candy in his mouth and licked his lips. It was so sweet that it was almost bitter.

It's what I said. He answered in his heart. He was young and frivolous at that time, and he didn't know that no one could be with whom for the rest of his life.

"You should understand," he was in a daze, and the words in his heart spilled out of his lips, "I can't get over that hurdle..."

Yuan Yue wanted to say something else, but his eyes suddenly turned and stopped behind Ji Xun: "Captain Huo?"
Chapter completed!