"Da Da Da-"

The crisp sound of the keyboard and mouse plunges the otherwise quiet office into a strange rhythm.

Ye Xuan looked at the computer screen motionlessly, his thoughts in a mess.

"Alas, another ...... died"

He jerked his keyboard, flung himself weakly against the back of his chair, and sighed deeply.

This is already the third victim, who, like the first two, died mysteriously in a solitary apartment.

The three cases seem to be unrelated, but the signs presented by the victim before his death indicate that it was a serial homicide case.

However, after several investigations by the criminal investigation team, to this day, there are still no clues about the suspect.

Ye Xuan froze and focused on the computer screen again.

Victim No. 1 Zhao, male, 43 years old, unemployed, no relatives, not even a friend.

He almost never goes out except when he needs to go out to buy. If it weren't for the stench of the corpse that spread outside the house, I'm afraid that no one would even find out that he was dead.

The circumstances of the second and third victims, Sun and Zhou, are similar to Zhao's, and they are also weirdos who have almost no contact with the outside world.

Their bodies were all found in their rooms, lying on the floor not far from the door in a strange position, as if they were—

"It's like struggling to escape......" Ye Xuan muttered as he looked at the comparative photos of the three crime scenes.

But the forensic doctor has already given the results, and the cause of the death of the three people is normal, even so normal that it makes people feel weird, and even the possibility of sudden illness has been ruled out.

And—

Ye Xuan called up another set of pictures, some partial close-ups of the three corpses—the faces of the three deceased froze the last expression they had before they died, and it was a weird smile.

Ye Xuan glanced at these pictures, and his mood became heavier and heavier.

"Is it ......?" he said to himself, his eyes still wandering over the picture.

Suddenly, he stood up with a smack, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed it.

The call was quickly connected.

A young man on the other side said lazily, "Hey...... It's Ye Xuan, what's the point of looking for my brother? Do you want to invite me to dinner......

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Ye Xuan interrupted him and said, "Bai Che, let Bai Xiu answer the phone, I have something urgent to find him." ”

The other party's attitude did not change because of his eagerness, and continued to say gracefully: "Oh, he...... Went out. ”

"Did he go out?, didn't you come with him?" Ye Xuan couldn't help asking.

According to his observations and summaries in the past ten years, this old man is a complete brother, and wherever Bai Xiu haunts, there will inevitably be traces of him, and vice versa.

"Look at what you said, he's an adult anyway, can I still follow him every day?"

Eccentric...... Ye Xuan thought secretly, but he didn't care. Anyway, this guy smokes from time to time, who knows what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd.

So he continued, "So where did he go?"

The other party was really anxious when he heard him, and seemed to be interested, and asked rhetorically: "What's the matter?" With my ability, I can help you cook, and that's not something that can be caught at hand?"

Ye Xuan thought to himself, although this guy is running a train with his mouth, he is also very good at kung fu.

As a result, he was about to speak, but he heard someone outside the door shouting a few times: "Team Ye! Team Ye!"

Ye Xuan was startled, and almost hung up the phone in his hand.

He scolded secretly in his heart, turned his head and shouted: "Shout soul, you! Ding Yi, if you have something, say it quickly!"

Who knew that the other party ignored him at all, but said to the other person: "Ouch, the boss is here! Bai Xiu, you go directly to the office to find him." ”

Hearing the name of the person who came, Ye Xuan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and most of the irritability in his heart suddenly disappeared.

"Hey, hey, hey, you mean!" the other party was still urging on the other end of the phone.

"It turns out that Bai Xiu came to me, why didn't you say it earlier, I hung up. Ye Xuan hung up the phone quickly, and when he turned around, he saw that a person had already walked to the door and was thanking Ding on the side.

The man was no more than in his early twenties, tall and tall, wearing a white twill shirt, which made him look extremely tall.

But there is nothing peculiar about it, but the black veil on his eyes is extremely eye-catching, and people can't help but look at it a little more.

In fact, Bai Xiu is a frequent visitor to their team, and their team often deals with the Bai family office.

Those who are familiar with Ye Xuan know that the three brothers of the Bai family are their captain's best friends, and Bai Xiu is the best buddy among his good buddies.

However, although Ye Xuan didn't say it explicitly, everyone in the team knew that these three brothers were different from ordinary people—they were cultivators.

As for the existence of cultivators, their criminal investigation team only knew a little bit about it, and further down, it was not known.

After all, there are some things that ordinary people don't need to know, and they can't get to the bottom of it.

Anyway, if they encounter a special incident that they can't solve, just reflect it, and the upper side will naturally send someone to take over.

However, how to identify it as a special event still needs to be evaluated by specialized people.

The members of the special events team are running around, and they can't be busy, so they don't have time to worry about it. As a result, an existence like the Bai family office slowly developed in secret.

That's right, the Bai Family Office, on the surface, is just an ordinary consulting company, but in fact it is a special incident assessment team in cooperation with the Qucheng Police Department.

There are also such assessment groups in other cities, and they are made up of practitioners who are hidden among the people, and they are not part of the establishment.

What kind of people are cultivators, and how many of them are, no one knows. If it weren't for the fact that they were in the criminal investigation team, they wouldn't even be aware of the cultivator's existence.

"Why did you come here all of a sudden?"

Ye Xuan glanced at Bai Xiu, although he couldn't see the other party's eyes, he still keenly captured some of Bai Xiu's emotions. Coupled with Bai Che's abnormality before, he couldn't help but speculate secretly.

Bai Xiu was stunned, and then smiled: "Have you forgotten what day it is today?"

Ye Xuan couldn't think of a reason after thinking about it for a while, so he had to ask suspiciously, "What day?"

Bai Xiu shook the box in her hand, and said with a smile: "Wei Wei's birthday, brother, why did you even forget your girlfriend's birthday? And it wasn't discussed last week, Wei Wei is going to come from Decheng to celebrate our birthday with us? She bought today's ticket, calculate the time, it should be soon." When you get off work, we'll pick her up at the station. ”

Ye Xuan slapped his forehead and screamed, "I actually forgot about this!" It's over, it's over, if that girl knows that I haven't even prepared a gift for her, she won't eat me!"

Ye Xuan secretly complained in his heart. His girlfriend Wei Wei is also a childhood sweetheart who grew up with him. He knew her even earlier than he knew Bai Xiu - he watched Wei Wei be born.

His family is a neighbor of Wei Wei's grandmother's family, and he has known that she has a pair of children for a long time.

But before Wei Wei was born, he had hardly met her mother and uncle, only that they had settled far away in Decheng. Wei Wei's grandmother was reluctant to live in an old house for decades, so she didn't follow the past.

Later, when Ye Xuan was about six years old, Wei Wei's mother suddenly returned to Qucheng with a big belly. Not long after, Wei Wei was born. Since then, they have been living in Qucheng, but they have not said a word about Wei Wei's father.

Within a few years, Wei Wei's mother died of illness, leaving her and her grandmother to rely on each other.

Because of this, Wei Wei has developed an extremely hot personality since he was a child. As a boyfriend, Ye Xuan is sometimes a little unbearable.

It is said that Wei Wei's grandmother died four years ago, and Wei Wei went to Decheng to study after being sad, saying that she wanted to take a closer look at the city where her mother had stayed.

Ye Xuan originally didn't agree with her going to such a far place, but Wei Wei's temper came up, and she didn't care about it. In the end, she packed up her things, didn't even say goodbye to him, and left Qucheng directly.

Then the two began a four-year long-distance relationship, although they were separated and reunited countless times during the period, but finally persevered.

In the past four years, Ye Xuan has been to see her a few times, but because of time, he left in a hurry and didn't stay for a few days.

And Wei Wei, this is the first time he wants to go back to Qucheng.

Seeing that Wei Wei has graduated, if she continues to stay in Decheng, I am afraid that the future days will be the cycle of the previous four years.

So Ye Xuan was a little breathless, and hurriedly beckoned the Bai family brothers to discuss together.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that they would take this opportunity to persuade Wei Wei to return to Qucheng for development.

He was still thinking about behaving well this time, but as soon as he started this case, he forgot about it directly.

Fortunately, he is not fighting alone.

Sure enough, Bai Xiu shook the things in his hand again, and said with a smile: "It seems that what the second brother said is right, you really forgot." But we've got you ready, and you'll have to thank him for that. ”

Ye Xuan hurriedly took the things, and after only looking at them for a moment, he knew what was inside—all kinds of Qucheng specialty snacks.

He suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, and said angrily: "How reliable I am that Bai Che is this guy, he actually came up with this kind of gift! I think he wanted to eat it himself, and he deliberately bought it to fool me, right?"

Bai Xiu couldn't help but smile and told the truth: "Actually, this is what I bought...... Wei Wei hasn't been back to Qucheng for a long time, so she should miss these snacks very much. I remember she used to love to come. ”

Ye Xuan was stunned, but fortunately, he reacted quickly, coughed dryly, and said vaguely: "Well, think about it carefully, this idea is really good, and sure enough, you are more careful." ”

Bai Xiu became more and more unable to hide his smile when he heard this, and said, "Forget it, I won't tease you, in fact, what we have prepared for you is this." ”

As he spoke, he shook something in his other hand.

Ye Xuan looked at it, chuckled in his heart, and said hesitantly: "This, I'm afraid this won't work......"

Bai Xiu didn't say a word, and directly stuffed the thing into Ye Xuan's hand, and said, "We have analyzed, this is a good opportunity, Wei Wei will definitely not refuse you." ”

Ye Xuan shook the small box in his hand, and his heart was also a little eager to try, and finally nodded violently, and said: "Okay! Just do it, it's a big deal that you will be a good man again in eighteen years!"

Bai Xiu couldn't help but be happy, and said: "It's just a marriage proposal, you don't need to treat death like home, right? Even if Wei Wei doesn't agree, she will beat you up at most." ”

Ye Xuan didn't answer, he carefully put the ring away, and then said, "If this thing is really done, I have to thank you well." You don't know, I've been living in dire straits for the past four years. ”

Bai Xiu found a place to sit down, still smiling: "This is the second brother's idea, thank him more." ”

Ye Xuan couldn't help touching his chin, and said thoughtfully: "His kid has always boasted of being a prodigal son in love, and it seems that he really has two sons, and I will learn more from him in the future."

By the way, you had a quarrel with him? I called you just now, and he answered, and he didn't know what he meant. Moreover, it is really strange that he is relieved that you come alone. ”

Bai Xiu paused, shook his head, and said disapprerovantly: "What can our brother do...... Tell me what you're going to say. ”

Ye Xuan couldn't help but glance at him, and the melancholy look that flashed on Bai Xiu's face still allowed him to catch it. However, Bai Xiu obviously didn't want to continue the topic, so he had to stop asking.

"It seems like our team has had a special incident this time. Speaking of business, Ye Xuan's expression couldn't help but be a little more solemn.