"Let's go."

The person who spoke was Lin Chen.

The torturer was patted on the shoulder by him, and then saw that Mr. Consultant did not turn his head and walked upstairs, as if the reunion had come to an end.

The criminal conglian hurriedly chased after him, and Lin Chen had already walked up the electric escalator.

"That's?"

"A friend."

Xing Conglian wanted to look back at the "friend" in Lin Chen's mouth, but Lin Chen grabbed him in advance and said, "Don't look at him, don't pay attention to him." ”

"So, friend, why would you be interested in our case?" He asked tentatively, although Lin Chen's friend is probably not a vicious bad person, but he is not necessarily a good person, at least Su Fengzi must not be a very good person.

"I don't know, but he wants to say, and naturally he will catch up and say."

Lin Chen rarely turned his face like a book like he did now, so probably after talking about Photoshop, Consultant Lin suddenly thought of something, so he decided to start getting angry.

Sure enough, when the escalator drove them to the second floor, the convict caught a glimpse of the friend in the smoky gray suit standing on the escalator, seemingly ready to go upstairs.

"What's wrong?" The torturer asked with a smile.

"We always thought that whether it was Wang Shishi or Xu Haozhen, or even Jiang Liu and Jin Xiaoan, they all met in school......"

He wanted to ask Lin Chen why he suddenly started to turn his face, but the other party cleverly used another answer to prevaricate, and then avoided his question.

He had no choice but to ask, "Actually, not?" ”

"Su Fengzi is right, to paraphrase the ABC model, Wang Shishi has always kept Xu Haozhen's signature book, which shows that the mythologized C is Xu Haozhen, so the person who deceived Wang Shishi into the organization cannot be Xu Haozhen......"

The criminal conglian roughly understood what the problem was.

Lin Chen continued: "This is something that Xu Hao misled me before, she said that she and Wang Shishi had both participated in the literary club, and Jiang Liu was the secretary of the student union, so they both knew each other...... It's natural to think that they did all know each other at school. But if this is a premeditated criminal organization, it cannot have chosen its members so hastily and ......"

"And it's just the words of ordinary classmates, and suddenly one day someone mysteriously said to you, 'Do you know XX, classmate?' This seems to be selling Amway, and at the same time arouses suspicion. Torture Conglian said.

"Yes, you asked me how they picked out their loyal victims, and why no one had defected or reported them for so long, and the first thing to do was to be very careful when it chose its members, and it chose people with certain personality traits."

"But they can't give everyone a personality test like you...... right" Xing Conglian touched his chin, but thought of another possibility, "Won't it hack all the students' psychological files like the dynasty?" ”

"Whether it's stealing information or using other methods to sift through guò, it's only the first step, it's not enough...... The best way to do this is to first identify the target group, lure them into the trap, and then choose those who will step into the trap themselves. Lin Chen walked faster and faster, bypassing the two rows of shops, and walking towards the depths of the shop pù and the shop pù, "Initiative is very important,"

"Oh...... It's just waiting for the rabbit, which is a process of mutual attraction. He followed behind Lin Chen and said, "In other words, somewhere in this university city, there is a trap that a certain student will take the initiative to step into...... Like a bookstore? ”

"It's not a bookstore."

Lin Chen stopped abruptly, his face filled with a look of disappointment after his speculation had been disappointed.

Siyuan Inspirational Bookstore is located at No. 19, Area B, on the 3rd floor of Phoenix Book City, and the convict Lian raised his eyes and examined the target of their trip.

At nearly 8:50 a.m., the shutter door of the bookstore was pulled down most of the time, but the lights in the store were still on.

There are piles of unopened parcels in front of the store, all of which are new books from major publishing houses, and the situation in the bookstore is much worse than outside.

He pulled the roller shutter up a bit and stooped in, barely finding a place to stay.

Books were stacked almost to ceiling height, colorful novels and magazines were on the table and under the table, and the inner part of the shop was filled with books ranging from "The Three-Year College Entrance Examination" to "Cambridge IELTS Questions", and he was deeply worried about the possibility of finding clues here.

I heard someone enter the store, and the employee who stayed at the end to clean up the store pù came out from behind a pile of magazines, frowned, and said, "It's closed, what do you want to buy, come tomorrow." ”

Without hesitation, the criminal company showed his police badge, and then said: "There are some problems that require your assistance in the investigation. ”

"How...... What's wrong? The young man hurriedly stood up, carefully walked around the books on the floor, and came to the prisoner company.

"Do you have a record of the books in your store?"

"Yes, yes."

Xing Conglian patted the young man on the shoulder and said, "Don't be nervous, help check the outbound ......records of a book," he said, showing the book copyright information page sent by Wang Dynasty to the young man in the bookstore.

The young man nodded and hurried to the computer.

"Ye Wenzhong's 'Discrete Mathematics' is ......," he said, knocking down the search entry, and soon, a line of outbound records appeared.

The outbound time is 17:44 pm on August 19, 2011.

Xing Conglian's gaze fell on the final number of shipments, and he was stunned for a moment.

Quantity: 300.

"More than expected." Lin Chen's light voice sounded behind him.

"I'm here this year, I don't know about it!" The guy quickly dissociated.

"Can you find the person who picked up the goods?" The criminal servant asked.

The young man shook his head: "There is no record." ”

"What about □□?"

After the criminal servant finished asking, he saw the young man raise his head, and said with a smile: "Mr. police officer, unless we have special requirements from customers here, we will not open □□ retail here......

"Call your boss." Torture Conglian said.

The young man hurriedly hung up the phone to the boss, and after briefly explaining the situation, he handed the mobile phone to the criminal slave company.

"Hello, I'll make a long story short, do you still have an image of the batch of Discrete Mathematics that came out of the library in November 2011?"

"Hey, Mr. Officer, you see that I come and go every day, and you suddenly asked me about a batch of books that came out of the warehouse five years ago, I really can't remember."

"Even if you are a regional distributor, it should not be common for you to suddenly ship 300 copies, not to mention "Discrete Mathematics" and not "Three-year College Entrance Examination and Five-Year Simulation", please recall it carefully."

"To tell you the truth, I didn't manage this store before, but now my partner and their family have emigrated, and I took over...... And if you want to look up the book from eight years ago, I can't even ask you where the clerk was at the time. ”

"Send your former partner's phone number and contact information to this phone." After Xing Conglian finished speaking, he simply hung up the phone, and then shook his head at Lin Chen.

Lin Chen's attitude was even more relieved: "It would be strange if he could leave such an obvious clue." ”

"I bought 300 copies five years ago, how long has this organization been in existence...... "Xing Conglian almost began to think about whether to tell Captain Jiang, who has recently become extremely nervous, to the extreme.

"At most, it's happened in the last five years, and it's not too far away." Lin Chen said suddenly.

"You just started saying, what do you mean by not being a bookstore?" Xing Conglian changed the topic and continued the unfinished conversation about the trap with Lin Chen.

"What he means is that this place is too broken, and it is difficult for people to have a sense of love or trust at first sight, after all, whether you like it or not, the main thing is to look at the face." A slightly lazy tone came from the door of the store again, and the torturer didn't even need to look back to know who was speaking.

It's just that this time, Lin Chen didn't give any good looks to the person who interjected, he didn't even turn his head back, and he didn't even bother to say anything to the other party.

"If I am the mastermind behind the scenes, I want to pick my target, of course, I will first use the most scientific method to screen those who are most likely to be accused by me, such people are characterized by introversion, low self-esteem, lack of friends, but at the same time, they have a strong yearning and longing for a better life in their hearts...... So, if I'm going to entice these people to take the bait, I'm going to make sure to set up a very nice place, it's beautiful and elegant, it's relaxing but there's no unattainable sense of alienation...... It's not too secretive, it's not too secretive, it's too suspicious, and it's probably in the ordinary streets, and it's unsuspecting. The members of the organization can lure the victims very easily, and even those potential people will take the initiative to come to the door......"

"A shop." Torture Conglian said.

Lin Chen nodded: "This is just an assumption, if we want to find a store, it must be in this university town first, the audience it attracts is students, maybe most of them are girls, in the categories of catering and entertainment, it is most likely to be a drink store with a petty bourgeois atmosphere or a women's clothing store and bookstore......"

The criminal conglian motioned for Lin Chen to pause, and then dialed the king's phone.

"Hello Mr. Xing, I will serve you wholeheartedly."

The criminal conglian handed the phone to Lin Chen.

"Dynasty, can you search the registration records of all the shops within the Yongchuan University Town, I need to find a store within the Yongchuan University Town."

"It means to go into the backstage of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, right, it's a little meaning......"

"Come on, my broadsword is already hungry and thirsty!"

"This store does not have a specific name and address, so it will be relatively difficult to search, first of all, it may be a drink store, a clothing store or a bookstore, and if you have a drink store, you can exclude all the bubble tea shops and large coffee chains on the street, and the area of the store is about 50-150 square meters...... It is more difficult for clothing stores, first exclude all the clothing and branded clothing in the mall, exclude men's clothing stores, and the area of the store is within 20 to 80 square meters...... The approximate size of the bookstore is the same as that of a clothing store......"

"There's certainly no bookstore like this in Phoenix......" said the smiling writer leaning against the door.

Lin Chen glanced at the door, and then said to the dynasty: "Exclude all bookstores in Phoenix Book City...... Sue me how many similar shops are there. ”

"There are 12 beverage shops, 3 bookstores, and ...... clothing stores," Wang Chao paused and said with some embarrassment: "92 ......"

"The book was purchased in November 2011, and if someone had planned for it early in the morning, the store would have opened ......."

"There is not too much difference between the opening time and the time of book purchase."

Xing Conglian suddenly approached the microphone and said to Wang Chao, "The store was opened between June 2011 and June 2012, and it has not been registered for closure. ”

"Damn, boss, you didn't say it earlier!" Wang Dynasty talked to him, obviously not as well-behaved and obedient as Lin Chen, and the young man complained angrily: "There are 3 drink shops in total, there are no such bookstores, and there are 27 clothing stores." After Wang Chao finished speaking, he suddenly shouted in surprise as if he had discovered a new continent: "Boss, do you know that the first floor of your Phoenix Book City is the largest underground pedestrian street in the Yongchuan University Town...... The 2 drink shops and 20 clothing stores on the list are all at your feet, and it is said that the closing time is 10 pm, so why don't you try your luck? ”

"I remember that Lao Jiang's subordinates stared at Cheng Weiwei for a few months, and asked him to check the records, whether Cheng Weiwei had been to these stores, and first checked whether she had been to the underground pedestrian street of Phoenix Book City. Then send me the address. After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

"It's already ten past nine." Lin Chen said.

"Fifty minutes to go." The criminal congregation looked at Lin Chen and said so.

Lin Chen nodded, and then said to him, "You wait for me here for three minutes, and I'll see you on the escalator in three minutes." ”

Before he could say yes, Lin Chen had already taken the lead in striding out of the bookstore, he looked at the writer at the door coldly, and then turned around, as if he was looking for a secluded place.

Xing Conglian couldn't help but laugh.

―――

Lin Chen stood still at the back staircase of the book city, turned around, grabbed the collar of the person behind him, and pushed the person directly against the wall.

"What the hell are you doing here!"

"If you want to come back, you'll come back."

Su Fengzi's eyes still had a smile in his eyes, and Lin Chen was even more angry: "To be honest, Fengzi, why did you come!" ”

"I said I'd help you solve the case, but you don't believe it, right?"

"I don't believe it."

"Criminal detective, what good material, handsome criminal police, cool psychology expert, isn't it interesting?"

"Get out."

"Tsk...... So angry, let me guess...... You are angry, because you suddenly realize that I have been interested in this case for a long time. Su Fengzi spoke very softly and gently, as soft as freshly baked bread, "Of course you are angry not because I suddenly appeared to look for Fu Hao and not you, but because you thought that it is very likely that I had mastered the key evidence of this case earlier, so I appeared in Phoenix Book City, and you are angry because I didn't tell you the clues I know earlier, right?" ”

"Speak well." Lin Chen pursed his lips and said coldly.

"Hey......" Su Fengzi stretched out his hand, gently broke his fingers one by one, and then said: "I can only answer, the reason why I will come back and pay attention to this case is because of some very personal reasons, the reason why I know this is because it is completely the clues you have found, and I will appear in Phoenix Book City today, this is really a signing meeting, you have to believe in fate, after all, I am really a writer." ”

Su Fengzi said this to him, and then the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a sly smile appeared in his eyes.

Seeing him laughing like this, Lin Chen took a step back, and suddenly had a bad premonition, he turned around to leave, only to hear Su Fengzi say behind him.

"But I didn't expect it, it's rare for me to come back, but it's so sad to see you empathize and don't fall in love."

Su Fengzi's voice was melancholy, as emotional as the kind of opera singer who cries on the stage about the negative man.

Lin Chen only felt creepy.

At that moment, he seemed to be suddenly brightened by a beam of light in the dark night, and the sudden bright light made him just want to find a place to hide himself, he didn't even have time to explore this inexplicable shyness, he only felt that hiding was the first priority.

Trying his best to control his feelings, he turned around and said to Su Fengzi, "Is it time to talk about this?" ”

As if to stop at a certain point, Su Fengzi straightened his clothes and said with a smile: "Yes, I was wrong, can I leave now?" ”

Walking out of the corner, Lin Chen saw the captain of the criminal police waiting by the handrail at a glance.

Seeing them come out, Xing Conglian just swept Su Fengzi from beginning to end, put down the mobile phone in his ear, and said, "Lao Jiang confirmed, Cheng Weiwei has gone to the pedestrian street below us." ”

After he finished speaking, he went downstairs without a superfluous word.

In fact, Lin Chen was really not very familiar with the underground pedestrian street downstairs in Phoenix Book City.

After all, when he was in college, the pedestrian street was still being built, and all similar places in college towns were for girls, and boys probably rarely walked from beginning to end except for shopping with their girlfriends.

When he really went underground, Lin Chen realized that this place was even more exaggerated than he imagined.

The dazzling lights, the endless shops, the air pressure underground, and the air are unusually turbid.

Although it was night, there were still students walking, stepping on the bright tempered glass floor, Lin Chen thought that he had walked into some two-dimensional space for a moment.

"It's such a unique place." Su Fengzi walked at the end and said lightly.

Lin Chen didn't mean to say another word to him at all, and at this moment, Xing Conglian spoke.

"I just spoke to the administrator here, let's go directly to the property office."

Showing a good sense of direction underground, he walked through a pile of colorful shops and led them directly to the property office.

It was almost half past nine in the evening, and there was only one employee on duty in the property office.

The man seemed to have predicted the arrival of the criminal slave company in advance, quickly got up, and said, "Captain of the criminal team, our manager arranged for me to receive you." ”

"I'm tired, I need a floor plan of the pedestrian street below."

"The drawings are hanging on the wall!" The employee pointed to the wall.

The torturer turned sideways and made a way.

Lin Chen followed to the floor plan, looked at the general layout, and wanted to find a marker, but at this moment, the criminal Conglian took an oily pen from the pen holder and handed it over.

Lin Chen nodded, said sorry to the staff, and then marked the locations of all the stores on the drawings one by one according to the information from the dynasty.

There were many black dots on the paper in an instant, and Lin Chen looked at the marked shops and began to think.

If there is really such a store as zài, then it can't be in a too eye-catching position in the first place, it can't be in a prime location, it will be relatively hidden.

He quickly swept away all the popular shops at the entrance of the passageway.

It was not possible for a shop on the main line, because he was coming from the main line, and it was too noisy and not comfortable enough.

With this in mind, he rowed out the four shops on both sides of the main line.

As a result, the remaining stores became 10.

Lin Chen let go of the position in front of the map, and said to the only property employee in the office: "Please take a look at these shops, which one is more fresh and refined, its decoration is not necessarily luxurious, but it is very chic, although there are not many customers, but it has been open for several years, sometimes you even wonder, what does this store rely on to make money, why is it not closed......"

When Lin Chen said this, even he himself felt that such an inexplicable speculation was a bit crazy, and this qiē's reasoning was based on a hypothesis of a possibility, and only Xing Conglian would quickly help him start looking for it when he couldn't even be sure if there really was such a shop.

"When you say that, the D15 store seems to be very similar to you before, I remember the name is French, it's a café, it sells books, it's very quiet......"

Like the dawn on the horizon, Lin Chen heard this, put down the pen and left, but at the moment when he stepped on his legs, he suddenly stopped.

"You say...... Before? ”

"Yes, a few days ago, when the door was opened, the clerk of the store suddenly ran and said that the store was stolen and wanted to adjust the video, we went over to take a look, I relied on nothing in the store, and the thief directly emptied the store, it's just, there is nothing in the store."

"Did you call the police?" The criminal servant asked.

"Of course I did!"

"So, what about surveillance?"

"It's weird, after the waitress and the boss watched the video, the entire D-zone video dropped."

"What does it mean to be dropped?"

"It's gone, it's gone, I don't know if it's a problem or someone deleted it by mistake, it's all gone anyway......"