Ning City, Nancheng District Detention Center.

Bai Hongyao handed the lit cigarette into the iron fence, "I haven't seen you for more than ten years, and I was quite surprised to receive your call that day. ”

Wu Baoguo took the cigarette and took a puff greedily, and only took this puff after a few days, which made his brain a little dizzy. He opened his eyes and looked at Bai Hongyao and asked, "I haven't seen you for more than ten years, but it's more unexpected to meet again but in the detention center?"

Bai Hongyao nodded, "It's really surprising, I didn't expect your physical strength to be so good, you actually beat your life to death with your fists, if I knew a few days later, it is estimated that you would have already gone to prison." ”

Wu Baoguo shook his head with a sneer, took another puff of cigarette by himself, and then carefully spit out the cigarette, for fear that the speed of spitting out the cigarette would be too fast, and he would never taste the taste of tobacco again.

The process of exhaling the cigarette was too long, so that his lips trembled slightly, and after the smoke in the lobes of his lungs was empty, he raised his eyes and said, "I didn't do it." ”

Bai Hongyao saw that his eyes were firm, so he lowered his head and flipped through the file, "The fingerprints on the key, the video taken by the surveillance, and the witnesses around you, none of them are beneficial to you." ”

"Where's the killing tool?" Wu Baoguo carefully snuffed out the cigarette butt and asked casually?

Judging from the corpse spots, you have the intention of covering the other party, but the autopsy report shows that the person's throat has ruptured before you cover him, causing a blockage of the airway, and even if you don't cover his mouth and nose, he will suffocate to death. So the dead were beaten to death by you with your fists. ”

Wu Baoguo listened while holding half a cigarette in the palm of his hand, "I heard that Xiao Wang is covered in injuries?

The flesh on Bai Hongyao's face jumped, glared at the other party and said, "According to the identification of the scars, the criminal investigators have done a simulation, and you have beaten him for at least half an hour." ”

Wu Baoguo sighed when he heard this, and raised his two hands that were bound by chains, "When Xiao Wang was beaten to death, I was drinking at home, and I fell asleep on the dining table after drinking too much. My son finished his homework and drew a smiling face on my ten fingers with a watercolor pencil, and he also took a video and posted it on a certain note. Do you think that if you beat someone with your fist for half an hour, will it become red and swollen, or break the skin and bleed?"

After listening to this, Bai Hongyao lowered his head and flipped through the case file, "You didn't seem to mention it in the previous interrogations. ”

"So much direct evidence points to me, and if I am handling the case, I also feel that I am the murderer. You are an old criminal investigator, and you will not be like us, so I will wait for you to come and redress my grievances, old leader!" Wu Baoguo said with a wry smile.

Bai Hongyao turned his head and gave Wu Shuang a look behind him, Wu Shuang took out a document from his bag and handed it to the police officer who was watching on the side, after the police officer read it, he said a few words to the police officer standing behind Wu Baoguo in the fence, and then the two retreated separately.

Wu Shuang stood behind Bai Hongyao again, and when he saw that the two of them still didn't speak, he retreated with interest.

Bai Hongyao stood up, lit another cigarette, and handed it to the fence, "You have been a film policeman in Nancheng District for more than ten years, why didn't you think of contacting me? Are you afraid that I will transfer you back?"

Wu Baoguo nodded: "I'm afraid! If it weren't for Xiao Wang, I wouldn't have called you, and I didn't want to have anything to do with Yiren, including the Planning Bureau." ”

Bai Hongyao stared at Wu Baoguo's eyes and asked, "What are you afraid of?" You and Wu Zheng were nicknamed "Wu Ying" and "Wu Trace" in the bureau back then. Although I was transferred after the incident, I have checked your transcripts at the time, and Wu Zheng was really yelled at to death? What is it that makes you afraid of being like this?"

Wu Baoguo's expression, which evoked the memories, looked a little sluggish, and smoke slowly spread out of his nose.

Time rewinds to more than ten years ago, when he and Wu Zheng had just returned to Ningshi from their mission in the field, they saw that the headquarters of the Planning Bureau was in chaos, with countless casualties.

The two of them didn't have time to rest and rectify, so they were ordered to lead the team to track down the whereabouts of the murderer Ah Xiu.

The two of them were also familiar with Ah Xiu because of Bai Hongyuan's relationship, but later Ah Xiu was trapped in the underground Shenliu cover by the scientific research team and never met again.

At this time, I heard that Ah Xiu had killed so many people, and as policemen, they had to arrest the murderer Ah Xiu, and even if they couldn't catch people, they had to find out where the other party was located.

Following the trajectory of Axiu's entry into the mountain, a team of police officers from the investigation team went into the dense forest of the reserve.

Because Ah Xiu has a special ability, he jumps and moves in the forest, leaving not many footprints.

After deliberation, the team dispersed and began to search in pairs.

In a vacant lot, the two of them found a pair of lonely footprints, Wu Baoguo looked around, and sighed at Wu Zheng: "This Ah Xiu is only afraid that he can fly!"

Wu Zheng carefully examined the footprints before saying: "You see that there is a footprint in her dozens of meters apart, even if she can fly, she can't fly far." ”

"Actually, Ah Xiu is quite pitiful, she was trapped inexplicably, killing people in a daze, she ruined herself this time. Wu Baoguo sighed.

"I also sympathize with her experience, but we are policemen, since she has killed someone now, she is a murderer in our eyes, and how she should be tried will be handed over to the law!" Wu Zheng said calmly, chasing all the way forward.

The two of them guessed that Ah Xiu would flee to his hometown in the southwest of Ning City, so they scattered left and right, searching along the way dozens of meters apart, and the sporadic traces on the way also confirmed their guess.

So the two quickened their pace and chased until noon the next day.

In a dense forest, Wu Baoguo found Ah Xiu in the distance, and he hurriedly leaned down and made a gesture to Wu Zheng.

Ah Xiu, dressed in white, seemed to have lost his direction and stood under the tree, looking up and looking around, as if he was discerning his direction.

The sun avoided the thick clouds, and a beam of light hit Ah Xiu's body through the gap in the leaves.

Her complexion was pale, her long hair was disheveled, and her white clothes hung with a stain of bright red blood on her chest.

She raised her hand to cover her eyes, looked at the sun to discern her direction, lowered her head and was about to run into the distance.

Wu Zheng suddenly flashed out from behind the tree, raised his pistol and shouted: "Don't move! You are already surrounded by us, surrender quickly, don't resist stubbornly!"

Ah Xiu glanced at Wu Zheng blankly, raised his feet and continued to run into the distance, ignoring Wu Zheng's warning shots.

Without waiting for Wu Baoguo to stop him, he saw Wu Zheng press down his wrist and shoot twice at the woman in white.

At this moment, a figure appeared out of thin air in front of Wu Zheng, and two bullets were shot in the man's chest.

The person who came was unkempt, ragged, and sloppy with a face that could not see the age of the face at all, only a pair of blood-red eyes, like a demon appearing in the world.

The blood hole in the man's chest healed quickly, his unkempt head stretched forward, and he opened his mouth and roared at Wu Zhen: "Get out!"

The sound was like thunder, the valley trembled, and the sound waves visible to the naked eye sprayed towards Wu Zheng's head in circles.

Wu Baoguo wanted to pull out a gun, but he couldn't raise his hands, he wanted to step but couldn't lift his legs, as if he was carrying a thousand pounds of burden, and his skeleton was bent to the ground.

When he woke up, his whole body was aching, and his mind was still buzzing like it was about to crack.

He pressed his ears with both hands to stop the buzzing, didn't bother to get up, and crawled in front of Wu Zheng, only to see him bleeding and his eyes closed.

I hugged his head, but I couldn't wake up.

He shook his body desperately, but heard the sound of water swaying in his head......

Recounting the scenes of that day, Wu Baoguo still couldn't help but feel cold.

Bai Hongyao also felt incredible after hearing this, after tracking down the stranger for so long, the entire National Security Bureau did not have the slightest information about the red-eyed stranger, thinking that it must be a very deep city, but why did he show up to save Ah Xiu from the predicament?

"With your recollections, do you know what abilities he used?" asked Bai Hongyao.

Wu Baoguo pulled back his thoughts from his memories and said: "I don't know, I just think that he looks like an ancient demon, and it can't be summed up by a simple sentence. ”

Bai Hongyao deliberately calmed his mind and asked, "How many heads, how many hands, how many pairs of eyes, and how many mouths do you have?"

Wu Baoguo raised his drooping eyelids, looked at Bai Hongyao and said, "No, the real demon, the moment he appeared, I felt that my heart was being dragged by someone, and all my internal organs were going to be dragged into the ground. I've seen murderers, I've seen villains, and I'm not afraid of death. But I was afraid of what I felt at that moment, not mentally afraid, but physical, and every organ in my body told me that I was going to be devoured in hell. Can you understand?"

Bai Hongyao listened to his detailed description, and he had to agree with his point of view. Because he can imagine that feeling, imagining someone grabbing your heart, every cell in your body will tell you what it means to be afraid.

There was silence for a long time.

Bai Hongyao asked, "What doubts do you have about your own case?" ”

"Suspicious?" Wu Baoguo turned back to his thoughts, "There are a lot of them! Now in the eyes of others, I am already a murderer with conclusive evidence, and they don't care about the doubts I raise at all." ”

After a pause, he looked at Bai Hongyao and continued: "But I believe in you, and only you can help me." ”

Bai Hongyao nodded solemnly, "You talk about it first, what are the doubts." ”

"Let me talk about Wang Baoyong first, he is my apprentice, and I am familiar with my usual living habits and family situation.

After he went to the planning bureau, his parents called the Linjiang police station and said that their son could not be contacted.

I had a bad premonition in my heart, so I called you to find out about Wang Baoyong's news.

When I saw him in the hospital, I always felt very strange, and I felt that he was not the Wang Baoyong I knew, but there was no deviation in his demeanor.

”

Bai Hongyao frowned, "I don't feel like I can do evidence, does he have any actual flaws?"

"Yes!

Wang Baoyong never smoked,

But in my car, he pumped and his movements were very sophisticated.

The terrace of his house, the property is allowed to be remodeled, he mentioned it to me before.

But when I asked him deliberately,

But he replied hesitantly, completely unaware of the situation of the property.

After the Qingming Festival, his mother gave him a few catties of tea fried by hand.

He gave me two pounds at that time.

But when I asked him in a cliché, I deliberately said that her mother fried tea after the rain in the valley, and promised to invite me to tea.

Wang Baoyong actually admitted it vaguely.

”

"With so many suspicions, why didn't you start investigating?" Bai Hongyao asked.

"I wanted to go to his house and try it again, but he said that the key was in the planning bureau. I didn't want to rush too much, but I went back to the office to check the security and make sure that he went to the planning bureau at the time. As a result, my move is now used as evidence to spy on Wang Baoyong and wait for an opportunity to commit murder. ”

Bai Hongyao combed through the information given by Wu Baoguo, and asked again: "Then how do you think you should check it now?"

After I returned home that day, where did the reappeared "Wu Baoguo" appear and disappeared? Although he may not be able to investigate carefully, at least he can know his movements. ”

"Do you suspect someone pretending to be you?"

A glimmer of golden light flashed in Wu Baoguo's eyes, and he said with a solemn expression: "No!

Bai Hongyao nodded contemplatively, "Wang Baoyong's activity trajectory must also be re-arranged. Since it is related to aliens, then I have the right to meddle in your case. ”

The two discussed for a long time, exceeding the detention center's visiting hours and the detention center's rule that it was not allowed to exchange cases.