When I heard this, thousands of drafts in my heart instantly collapsed, and as soon as I heard the news, I knew that it should be Li Yan's big mouth spreading rumors in the criminal investigation team.

"Su Mian, you remember, believe it, don't believe Li Yan's broken mouth, Lin Xi and I are just a simple colleague relationship. I looked at the car in front of me and said casually.

But the strange thing is that Su Mian was relieved after hearing this, and it was this abnormal behavior that made my originally relaxed mood start to get nervous, this little girl...... Could it be...... Like me, right?

With this awkward atmosphere, Su Mian and I were relatively silent all the way, until a phone call from Li Yan made me come out of my drowsy state in an instant.

He called me from Lin Xi's office, and it was unusually quiet on the phone, but occasionally Lin Xi's coughing could be heard.

Li Yan said that Lin Xi's initial examination had been completed, and Xiao Feng's external injuries had as many as dozens of wounds, some were whipped with whips, some were scalded with a soldering iron, and the most hateful thing was that the twenty fingernails were almost all turned up, and when he said this, Li Yan's voice was trembling.

"The time of death, the cause of death, was anything suspicious found in him?" I said succinctly on the phone.

"Oops, hey, I'm on the phone. Suddenly, Li Yan's eager voice came from the microphone.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi's voice came out of the microphone again: " The time of death was February 12, that is, between 3:15 and 3:20 p.m. yesterday, the cause of death was due to the embroidery needle puncturing the respiratory tract, which caused the deceased to suffocate, I found some food residues in the lungs of the deceased, the deceased should have eaten something similar to zongzi before he died, the gastric juice was viscous, the deceased often had stomach problems before his death, and there were two knock marks on the deceased's scalp, judging from the way the deceased died, it should be that the murderer knocked the deceased unconscious with a hard object before sending it to the church, there are many places I don't particularly understand, I will do a second autopsy in two hours, and I will call you as soon as I find it。 ”

I took the phone, listened to Lin Xi's statement quietly, then nodded, and said, "Hard work, after the second autopsy, you go back and rest, don't hold on, your wound has not completely healed, be careful yourself, find Li Yan if you have anything." ”

"En......"

After she said this, she hung up the phone directly.

"Su Mian, what do you think about this case?" After hanging up the phone, I always felt that the atmosphere in the car was very awkward, because after getting in the car, I had been looking for a topic to talk to Su Mian, and she didn't seem to want to say too much to me.

I don't know if my decision to take Su Mian is correct, because her sensitivity to the case is too low, just like my mother said, some people are born to eat a bowl of rice, and Su Mian is naturally suitable for copywriting.

Su Mian glanced at me, then shook her head, and said that she felt that the starting point of this case should be in Dongshi, otherwise, I would not have chosen to rush to Dongshi overnight.

"Tell me what you think, leave me alone. I took a cigarette from my pocket, lit it, and drove away quickly.

"Then, I'll tell you, I think the murderer's mind is very delicate, since she dares to call you during the Fan case and let you hear the voice of the deceased, I think she should be very confident, feel that the police will not catch her or feel that the police ......"

"You've been eavesdropping outside the door all the time when we're in meetings. I glanced at Su Mian, and although I was a little surprised in my heart, this surprise was brought by me.

After listening to what I said, Su Mian immediately shook her hand and said that she didn't mean it, she just happened to hear it when she was outside the door.

I smiled and said it didn't matter, it was indeed a fact, the murderer did call me before the deceased died, and I didn't shy away from anyone, and even discussed this issue with Li Yan when facing Su Mian.

I said that there was one thing she said wrong, no maybe, the murderer was confident that the police would not catch her.

If the murderer has a revenge mentality, feeling that revenge, it doesn't matter whether he lives or dies, according to this mentality, it is much more convenient for her to do it in Dongshi than in this city, and she will not call me, so I think that the murderer must have killed him for the purpose of Xiao Feng's coming to this city.

I don't know why, the car is getting closer and closer to Dongshi, and this feeling is getting stronger and stronger, maybe the murderer doesn't want me to know what Xiao Feng knows, so she killed the killer.

Is it my dad's business? or is it something else about me?

I don't know, but I do know one thing.

After the case, I asked Li Yan to check the records of Xiao Feng using his ID card to travel in a car for five years, and this record shows that he has never been to the city, that is to say, the murderer is likely to follow him here from Dongshi, he called me to show off to me, Xiao Feng's death is related to me, I have a responsibility that I can't shirk, so let me feel guilty for a human life?

So, the murderer's purpose is not only Xiao Feng, but also me?

There is another inference, the murderer wants me to know something, but she can't let me know too much, so she wants me to feel that Xiao Feng's case is related to me......

Thinking of this, my brain was about to explode, and the complexity of this case was far beyond my imagination.

It may be that Su Mian saw that I was not in a good state, so in a rest stop, she suggested that she come to drive and let me take a break.

I agreed, because I was so tired that even a phone call could put my emotions in a state of high tension.

Before getting in the car, I looked at my watch, according to the current geographical location, we are still three hours away from Dongshi, after telling Su Mian to drive carefully, I closed the window, sat in the passenger seat and fell asleep.

To be honest, it was impossible to sleep well in the car, but I somehow fell into a deep sleep.

Not surprisingly, I dreamed of the man again, the man with a pale face, his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth slowly oozing blood, still the ball, but on the ball, there was a pair of bloody handprints, and a pair of shiny leather shoes gradually appeared in front of my eyes with the rolling of the ball.

"Little frightened, run ......"

"Xiaoyi, what are you going to do when you grow up?"

"Xiaoyi, take good care of your mother, wait for your father to ......"

The man squatted down in front of me, he opened his arms, he had a pair of dimples when he laughed, he was talking to me, but I couldn't hear anything, and when I tried to walk forward and embrace him, the face that had been smiling instantly became the face of a dead man that appeared in my dreams every day, bleeding from seven holes, and grabbing me with both hands, as if he was going to eat me alive.

"Don't ...... Don't kill me......"

In a panic, I opened my eyes suddenly, only to realize that the horrible scene just now was actually my dream.

But the dream was so real that every pore on my body stood up, and I swallowed and wiped my forehead with a tissue in front of the car.

"What's wrong, have a nightmare?" Su Mian looked at me sideways, and then looked ahead, looking worried.

I picked up a bottle of white water and drank it, then shook my head and said, "I'm fine, where are we?"

"It's already in Dongshi, when you were sleeping, Li Yan sent the address of Xiao Feng's detective agency to my mobile phone, probably because he sent you and you didn't reply, it's almost there, you can rest and rest, do you want to get out of the car and eat something?"

I pressed my temples and shook my head to let her continue driving, while I, with my eyes closed, fell into silence.

For as long as I can remember, I've been dreaming the same thing, the man bleeding from the seven holes, the shiny shoes, and the embrace that I seem to be embracing, everything as if it were real.

But in my memory, there is no such scene.

Fifteen minutes passed, the car slowly stopped in a high-end office building, and after Su Mian parked the car, the two of us went upstairs together.

Maybe it's because I've been away from the East Market for too long, but I've found that this place has changed a lot, and along the way, I'm wondering if this is the East Market I stayed in four years ago.

According to the address given by Li Yan, we came to the fourteenth floor of this building, I just looked at the street sign on the first floor, which said all kinds of studios and companies, I counted them, there are more than two hundred in total, and on the fourteenth floor, I also saw the sign of Xiao Feng's detective agency.

"Ding-dong......"

The elevator door was slowly opened, and a cleaner with a certain peaked cap pushed a garbage truck past me and Su Mian, and Su Mian and I also came to the door of this Xiaofeng detective agency in the east city center.

"Because Xiao Feng doesn't have any relatives, we don't know who to notify, so by now, the people in the office should not know about Xiao Feng's death. Su Mian said as he knocked on the glass door of the office.

I patted Su Mian on the shoulder, and then pointed to the chain below with my finger, indicating that the office was locked, so there would be no one inside.

Just when I smiled and told Su Mian about her unprofessionalism, I was suddenly stunned, and then glanced left and right at the doors on both sides, this floor was wrapped up by Xiao, that is to say, this floor is this detective agency, that ...... Who did the cleaning just go by, and for whom did he clean the house?

Thinking of this, I suddenly turned around and ran towards the elevator suddenly, I glanced at it, and the elevator had reached the thirteenth floor at this time, probably because it was working time, there were a lot of people getting on and off the elevator, and the elevator was running slowly.

I didn't stop at the elevator entrance for long, just opened the security door on the side and rushed down.

But when I ran down the floor and rushed into the elevator, the elevator was empty, not to mention the cleaners, not even a person.

"Miss, may I ask, did any cleaners go out just now?" I came to the front desk on the first floor sweating profusely, pointed to the door and asked the two front desk ladies who had just come to work and seemed to be on shift.

The latter shook his head and said that he didn't know, they were busy just now, so they didn't see it.

In desperation, I had to find the property on this floor and ask them for the key to Xiao Feng's office, of course, when I took out my police ID card and explained my intentions, they didn't ask much, but just sent a security guard to follow us upstairs.

In a building like this, almost every company's key is backed up in the property, so after going upstairs, the security guard took the key and opened the glass door of Xiao Feng's office.

But when Su Mian and I followed the security guard into this little-known office, the three of us were stunned, a total of more than 200 square meters of office, data paper can be seen everywhere, and those desks, there are folders piled up one after another, and the drawers have also been turned over, obviously, someone should have taken away the information we need to find one step ahead of us.

Of course, I don't know what information we are looking for here, I only know that a person like Xiao Feng, who is not good at talking and doing things very delicately, will definitely leave a way back for himself, of course, this will be when he realizes that his life is in danger.

Think about it, Xiao Feng called me as soon as he came to the city, if it wasn't a very serious matter, he wouldn't be in such a hurry.

Therefore, Xiao Feng should have known at that time that someone was looking for him at that time.

We also went to the hotel where Xiao Feng lived at the time to investigate, and according to the hotel owner, he stayed there for two hours and left in a hurry, so at that time, ...... Xiao Feng......

"Fang Yi, come over for a ......" At this time, Su Mian, who had already entered another glass room, suddenly stretched out his head and shouted at me.

I glanced at the security guard and told no one to enter the office, not even him, so I turned around and walked towards the glass room where Su Mian was.

In this whole office, there is such a separate office, so I think this should be Xiao Feng's office, and with a photo of him and a woman in front of that messy desk, I am even more certain.

Xiao Feng's desk is as messy as the desk outside, but what is unbelievable is that the drawer in this office is empty, as if the materials and everything inside have been taken away.

On the side of the desk, there is a bookshelf, on which are all some classic cases of the world, and some novels similar to how a detective is raised.

Just as I was looking up and scanning all the books here, suddenly, a black novel came into my eyes.