Chapter 122: Partnering Again
Those eyes as clear as the autumn sky, the honest and straightforward familiarity in the eyes came to me, was it an accident?
"Hello Officer Nalan, we're meeting again. Yan Ranxi greeted Jian Tan as usual, Bingshan's temperament was still the same as always, she was wearing the clothes of an assistant police officer at the moment, obviously she was the new female assistant police officer in the bureau.
"Xiaoran, you actually got here, I'm ...... What a surprise. "This should be Nalan Yu's performance, right? Jian Tan really didn't know what to say at the moment, the more he wanted Yan Ranxi to leave the danger, but there seemed to be a hand in the dark that pushed Yan Ranxi to his side and pushed him into a dangerous situation. Could it be because of her cold physique, so she is destined to go through this?
"Let's go out and talk? I'll invite you to coffee? No, please drink juice?" Jian Tan invited, Nalan Yu would still retain his gentlemanly demeanor in front of Yan Ranxi.
Yan Ranxi nodded and walked out behind Jian Tan.
Listening to the footsteps of the people behind him, there was an inexplicable peace of mind in his heart, and he became a colleague with her again in this way, which made Jian Tan miss the first job he had just come to this world and done, how could he have thought that he would be here today, and she would be here.
Came to a drink shop not far away and sat down, looking at Yan Ranxi who was sitting opposite him, Jian Tan felt that he couldn't take his eyes off, it was okay when he couldn't see it, and when he saw it, all his thoughts were surging up, becoming a sour warm current, filling his heart.
"Why did you choose this job?" Jian Tan finally asked.
Yan Ranxi's eyes were a little indifferent, her eyes turned slightly, she looked at the street, and said slowly: "Actually, I don't know, I have never tried, or I just want to feel the righteousness here and do something to uphold justice." ”
Yan Ranxi's answer surprised Jian Tan: "Do you remember what I told you before I left last time?
"I'm afraid I won't come. Yan Ranxi's answer was very crisp.
"That thing...... Do you know what I'm referring to, I used a security incident to close the case, will you blame me?" Jian Tan looked at her calmly, and unconsciously wanted to explain.
"I don't blame you, I'm sure you have a hard time. ”
"Why believe me?"
Yan Ranxi looked directly into Jian Tan's eyes, "Because you said a word, this matter is not as simple as an ordinary jumping incident." ”
Jian Tan looked at Yan Ranxi's slightly moving lips, and suddenly felt an urge to laugh, she must have guessed that there were unnatural factors in this matter, "It seems that you have really experienced something terrible." Jian Tan's words can be regarded as acquiescing to Yan Ranxi's guess.
"Hmm. Yan Ran took a sip of juice and looked at the orange juice in the cup in a daze.
"It's not easy, it's more dangerous and harder than your previous job. Jian Tan said.
"Actually, I'm not afraid of hard work at all, and I'm not afraid of danger, and it's impossible for others to do work that I can't avoid because I've experienced something. On the contrary, I feel that I am much luckier than others, there are some things that I already know, and I am more steadfast in my heart. Yan Ranxi's words were full of persistence, obviously she didn't want to hear Jian Tan persuade her to consider other jobs.
"When I first entered the door, I saw you and thought you came in because you liked me. Jian Tan deliberately made a joke of "Nalan Yu's tone".
"Don't worry, I'm not going to be that boring. Yan Ranxi spoke so directly.
I was relieved to hear you say that.
Of course, Jian Tan knew that Yan Ranxi's vision was not so bad, what kind of work should be assigned to her?" "I happened to be working with a missing person recently in a case, and I just happened to have some clues today, your memory is so good, will you follow up the clues with me tomorrow?" ”
"Yes. Yan Ranxi did not refuse.
Yan Ranxi felt that Nalan Yu in front of her seemed to be different from before, Nalan Yu always liked to show herself in front of her in the past, although now she still can say something out of tune, but it is not annoying, in fact, the assistant police officer who took the exam by herself never imagined that she would be assigned here so coincidentally, but she didn't want to explain so much.
In the early morning of the next day, Jian Tan and Yan Ranxi made an appointment to meet at the pier, Jian Tan was still wearing the black coat, and Yan Ranxi changed into a casual outfit, which looked fresh and beautiful, which was pleasing to the eye.
After buying two and a half tickets, Jian Tan took Yan Ranxi to the ferry, and after getting on the ferry, Jian Tan and Yan Ranxi did not sit down leisurely like other passengers, enjoying the scenery, but began to wander around the boat, Jian Tan seemed to be looking for something.
Jian Tan had already roughly told Yan Ranxi the clues and process of the case, Yan Ranxi saw that Jian Tan seemed to be looking for something, and she vaguely guessed a little possibility, "Officer Nalan, do you feel that the contents of those boxes are suspicious?"
"Suspicion is certain, but I'm confirming, will those boxes be thrown into the river by him?"
"This must be hard to find, right? After all, it's been so many days. Yan Ranxi also followed the hull to take a closer look.
"Not necessarily, it's a wooden box, there should be scratches, if he throws it away, he doesn't want to be found so quickly, he should also put stones in it, so that the box sinks to the bottom of the river, in this way, the box is even heavier, he is an old man in his eighties, he can only drag the box, in an inconspicuous ......" Before the words were finished, Jian Tan came to a small space under the stairs in the middle of the hull, and she seemed to have found something.
Yan Ranxi followed behind him and walked down as well. I saw that there were several obvious scratches on the soft rubber floor of that small space, although there were water marks on it, but this mark was not dirty at all, indicating that the scratch would not be made for too long. "Officer Nalan, is it ...... This case is really ......" Yan Ranxi was still a little afraid to say the result of that judgment in her heart.
"I'm afraid it's a case of killing people and dismembering corpses, and then throwing corpses, and it's still a person in his eighties, killing someone in his sixties, it's really incredible. A hint of fierceness flashed in Jian Tan's eyes.
"Where will that old man go? Maybe he has already left the city?" Yan Ranxi's face finally changed a little, she frowned slightly, such a vicious incident really existed in her own living space.
"I don't think so, he should just be hiding, if we want to confirm this matter, we have to ask the marine police to salvage it, we still have to go to the shore to find some clues." ”
"You're such a lucky star, and as soon as you come, my case is much clearer. After Jian Tan finished speaking, he was shocked to realize that he had forgotten that his current identity was Nalan Yu, forget it, Nalan Yu was already good at sweet words.
Yan Ranxi just smiled faintly, obviously not taking it to heart.
Departing from the West Causeway Pier, the piers that the half ticket passes through are the Fishing Port Pier, the Riverview Pier and the South Causeway Pier. Jian Tan took Yan Ranxi for a whole day, inquired about the entrance and export shops of the fishing port wharf and the riverview wharf, and checked some of the wharf monitoring that had not been damaged, but did not find the old man.
"That old man shouldn't have jumped into the Z River with him, right?" Yan Ranxi's thoughts suddenly startled, and he said a hypothesis.
"This possibility is not ruled out. However, if he had jumped into the Z River, his body might have washed somewhere else, unless he had tied a very large rock to himself and caused his body to sink to the bottom of the river, which he had no good reason to do. Jian Tan analyzed.
"I'm wondering, if that box is really a corpse stump, what would be the reason for an old man who is approaching his twilight to kill a woman who has been with him for so long? The key is that the information we have on hand is not clear about the origin of the two of them, and we don't even know their names. ”
Yan Ranxi listened carefully to what Jian Tan said.
"What's even more strange is that after the disappearance of these two long-neglected people, we still don't know who reported the case, and the phone number that reported the crime was just an empty number. ”
"Could it be that it's another weird case. Yan Ranxi unconsciously thought about the special aspect.
"Everything must start from the direction of normalcy first, and then pick out the unusual places for analysis, we still have a dock that has not been checked, maybe the old man really went there. ”
It was already dusk, the ferry was gradually approaching the wharf of the west embankment, the river was constantly lapping against the embankment, and the orange light of the slanting sun was reflected on Yan Ranxi, who was concentrating on her thoughts, integrating into her own thinking space, until she was awakened by a loud whine of the ship docking.
Jian Tan took Yan Ranxi and immediately asked the dock to assist in looking through the surveillance, and now the two of them are sitting in the monitoring room looking at the screen intently, I have to say that the monitoring facilities of this wharf are much better than the two wharves just now.
"It's okay to fast forward a bit. "Because the monitoring time is too long, Jian Tan has watched too much monitoring today, and he is also a little impatient, so he is no longer so low-key to hide his ability, and let the person in charge of monitoring speed up the progress.
Yan Ranxi turned his head to look at Officer Nalan, he couldn't even see the picture clearly with such a fast progress, how could he see if that person was in and out, Officer Nalan wanted to rush the case again?
"Stop, replay the first two minutes. When Yan Ranxi was not at ease with Jian Tan's behavior, he heard Jian Tan's affirmative tone.
The monitor began to rewind the video back to two minutes ago, and he also felt that this officer was a little strange, so Yan Ranxi immediately stepped forward and looked at the picture carefully with Jian Tan.
Thirty seconds passed, and the picture was the exit of the ferry, an old man who looked to be in his eighties, wearing a shabby thick cotton coat, pulled a trolley out of the ferry slowly, he walked at the back of the crowd, looking cautiously around.
At this time, Yan Ranxi, who was looking at the screen, suddenly said, "Officer Nalan, look, his trolley is really empty, there is nothing!"
"It seems that our guess should be good, we can call up the surveillance here and let the marine police start salvaging. Jian Tan immediately picked out his mobile phone and explained it to his colleagues in the bureau.
"Officer Nalan, what an amazing thing you were just now. Yan Ranxi suddenly turned her head and stared at Jian Tan's eyes and said.