"I did see something. The lone wolf replied.

"What do you see?"

"If you look closely, isn't this picture weird. ”

The photo in the mouth of the lone wolf is exactly a photo included in the materials that Chen Mengran flipped through.

This is a homicide photograph of a man sitting on a chair with his hands down, his head tilted up, his eyes wide open, his mouth slightly open, and he looks dead.

Something hit the back of the head and blood flowed all over the ground.

The angle of the photograph is just facing the round eyes of the deceased, and at first glance, it looks like the deceased is staring at you with wide eyes, and the slightly open lips are curling from this angle, as if smiling at you. It was so weird that Chen Mengran didn't dare to look at it directly.

"It's weird. Chen Mengran said: "If it weren't for the blood in that place, from this point of view, this would not be a dead person at all, but a big living person with wide eyes and smiling at you." ”

"No, that's not what I'm talking about. The lone wolf corrected, "Look closely at the neck of the deceased." ”

Chen Mengran looked at the deceased's neck again and found that the deceased's neck was normal and there were no traces of injury. It was just a circle of blood, which was supposed to be dripping from the back of the head.

Wait, that's not blood at all, it's a rope, a red rope. It's just that the blood stain left on the back of the head is too close to the neck, making Chen Mengran mistakenly think that it is the blood flowing on X.

"It's a red rope. ”

"You finally see it. The lone wolf smiled: "The interesting part is here." ”

Chen Mengran still didn't understand what the lone wolf meant, so he listened to the latter continue: "You ask, what's going on with this rope?"

"What's going on with this rope?" Chen Mengran asked Xue Guozheng.

Xue Guozheng glanced down at the photo and said: "This rope has always been around the neck of the deceased, at the beginning, we thought that the deceased was attacked by the murderer, first strangled the neck with a rope, and then the murderer took the opportunity to hit the back of the head with a blunt object. But later we found out that there were no traces of strangulation on the neck of the deceased, that is, the murderer took advantage of the deceased's unpreparedness and directly stoned him to death with a blunt object. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Guozheng's expression also became puzzled: "As for that rope, we don't know why it was put around the neck of the deceased. Perhaps, it was put on by the deceased himself before he died. ”

"Why did he do it?"

Xue Guozheng shook his head, he didn't know why. If you say that you wear a golden Buddha and golden Bodhisattva around your neck as an ornament, then you can still say that it is in the past, but it is just a red rope around the neck, what is the use?

Seeing that Chen Mengran didn't speak, Xue Guozheng also closed his mouth. He knew that Chen Mengran must have seen something, otherwise it would be impossible to ask so much.

He waited quietly for Chen Mengran, and didn't even dare to breathe loudly, for fear of disturbing Chen Mengran's thinking.

He didn't know that Chen Mengran wasn't thinking about anything now, he was also waiting, waiting for the lone wolf.

"Hey, what did you see?" After waiting for a long time, and not seeing the lone wolf speak, Chen Mengran couldn't help but ask.

The lone wolf groaned for a moment, and then said, "I once knew a person who was also a night killer. But unlike me, he became a killer halfway through. ”

Chen Mengran didn't know why the lone wolf suddenly mentioned such a person, could it be related to this homicide?

Listen to the lone wolf continue: "He has a habit of always putting a red rope around the neck of the deceased after completing a mission. ”

"You mean, this murder was done by the killer?" asked Chen Mengran.

"I'm not sure about this, but I can speculate from the time of the murder, when did the murder happen?"

This stunned Chen Mengran, and pushed the question to Xue Guozheng: "When did the murder happen?"

Xue Guozheng glanced at him in surprise, the time of the murder was at the beginning of the information, Chen Mengran had turned over so much information about the case, how could he miss such important information, this was not in line with his detective's appearance.

I was puzzled, but I didn't take it too seriously, and replied: "It was March 14 last year, and it's been more than a year since then." ”

"In March last year. The lone wolf muttered and shook his head slightly: "No, it can't be him." At that time, I was not yet out of the organization, and I distinctly remember that he was on duty in South America throughout March. ”

If that's the case, then the murderer is someone else. ”

The lone wolf groaned again, and said, "I once asked him why he put a red rope on the deceased after killing him, and guess how he answered. ”

Before Chen Mengran could ask, the lone wolf said to himself: "He said that there is a saying in his hometown that if you kill someone, the soul of the deceased will always follow you, making you unlucky for a lifetime." If you put a red rope around the neck of the deceased, you can get rid of the entanglement of the soul towards you. ”

"And this kind of thing, why haven't I heard of it?"

"It's a small local saying, it belongs to the category of superstition, and it's normal that you haven't heard of it. After speaking, the lone wolf said again: "You say, the red rope around the deceased's neck could it be that the murderer put it on him?"

Chen Mengran's eyes lit up, and he understood what the lone wolf meant.

"You mean, the murderer believes that, and if that's the case, then the murderer and the person you know are from the same place. ”

"Quite possibly. ”

"Where is that colleague of yours from?"

"Nanming people. ”

"Captain Xue, can you show me the information of the suspect you police suspect?"

Xue Guozheng glanced at Chen Mengran: "Didn't you just flip through the past." ”

Chen Mengran's face flushed, he was just pretending, he didn't read anything at all, so naturally he didn't notice that he had already flipped through it.

Flipping back a few more pages, I found the suspect's information.

There are a total of five suspects, Chen Mengran only looks at their origins, and the others don't pay attention to anything.

When he saw the last one, Chen Mengran's eyes stopped, and he saw that the column of his hometown was Nanming.

"Found it. Chen Mengran secretly said to the lone wolf.

Xue Guozheng saw that Chen Mengran had been staring at the fifth person, and there was suspicion in his eyes, and said: "This person and the deceased are business partners, we listed him as a suspect at first, but we quickly ruled him out, because when the murder occurred, the other party had alibi evidence." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he found that the suspicion in Chen Mengran's eyes had not diminished at all.

"You doubt him?"

"Yes. ”

"On what basis?"

Chen Mengran was about to tell the lone wolf's speculation, when he heard the lone wolf stop him: "Don't sue him yet." ”

"Why?"

"If you tell him the clue, even if you really solve the case, you will only end up with the name of providing valuable clues, just like last time, and you will not get any big reward. It's better to help him solve the case. First, the bonus for solving the case is huge, and secondly, didn't the surnamed Xue say that he wants to be promoted by this case, and if you solve the case for him, it will help him a lot. ”

When it came to Chen Mengran's heart, let such a big official owe favors, and if he encounters any trouble in Pingjin in the future, he can be regarded as having a backer.

"Okay, I'll listen to you. ”