Sitting in the police station, Li Jing and I explained the incident to Team Xiao in detail. "Then the most suspicious thing now is the man who claimed to be Guo Dong who asked you for help at that time?" Team Xiao concluded after listening.

Li Jing nodded: "That's right." We can't be sure of his true identity right now, but the only thing we know for sure is the connection between him and the six corpses. He should have come to the police station yesterday to report to the police, and the police station surveillance should be able to find him. ”

"He came to call the police?" Team Xiao frowned.

Li Jing's eyes widened: "Yesterday, I asked Shi Hao to help me confirm that there is a record near the art village." ”

"That's a lot of guts." Team Xiao sighed, then turned to look at me and asked, "Xiao Zhizhi can't invite your friends to come over and assist us in investigating the case, after all, the Guo Dong in your mouth was entrusted to you by your friends." ”

Although I was a little reluctant, I still nodded and prayed secretly in my heart: Zheng Min, you must not be involved in this matter. Luckily, Zheng Min answered my call, and when I asked him about the gallery owner, Zheng Min was also completely surprised.

"What's going on?" Listening to the voice, I felt that Zheng Min had also received a lot of fright on the other end of the phone.

"Don't you know that gentleman named Guo Dong? Based on our two-day investigation, he is now involved in the disappearance of our spread. No, it has now escalated into a murder case, and Mr. Guo is now our number one suspect. ”

"Isn't it? Are you mistaken? Zheng Min was particularly surprised and confirmed with me again, "I have known Mr. Guo for several years, and nothing like this has happened, you can't be mistaken, right?" ”

The sincerity of the tone really made me have the illusion that we had misunderstood Mr. Guo, but thinking of the strange encounters in the past few days, I still insisted that she come over to assist in the investigation. Could it be that Zheng Min was also deceived by Mr. Guo?

After informing Mr. Guo again, we went to the database, all the collected video records have been adjusted, Li Jing and Shi Hao are sitting in front of the screen watching the surveillance video, I see that Li Jing has not stretched his frown. I walked over and asked him what was wrong. He turned sideways and pointed to the person on the screen who was calling the police and asked me, "Xiaozhi, who do you think this is?" ”

I looked at it and screamed, "Ahhh This man is the boss who sent me home yesterday. "Boss" I feel like my lips are trembling, what's going on? Why the boss appears on the screen.

Li Jing's eyes are complicated when he looks at me now. He tried his best to stabilize his emotions and asked me in a low voice, "Xiaozhi, what's going on?" ”

I shook my head and looked at him confusedly, "I don't know. ”

Li Jing saw my panic and patted me on the shoulder to comfort me: "It's okay, don't be nervous yet, maybe there is some misunderstanding." ”

"I, I'll tell the boss to come over right now. My boss is usually fierce. But it's definitely not going to mess around. "No matter what he says now, I'm completely panicked. But I couldn't get through to my boss. "I'm sorry, the phone you made is off." A mechanical female voice came from the phone and replied, what the hell is wrong with my world, it seems that it is all messed up because of a case. I collapsed and squatted on the ground, Guo Dong, Zheng Min, the boss, the three of them were hovering in my mind, I always felt that I missed something, but I didn't know what I needed to think of, I always felt that a terrible thing was slowly kicking off.

"What should I do?" I looked up with tears in my eyes and asked Li Jing.

Li Jing stood next to me and did not speak. After a while, he sighed and ruffled my hair, "It's going to be okay in one qiē." I saw his lips squirm, as if he had said this, as if he had said something else, and I was so sad that I didn't listen to anything.

finally waited for Zheng Min to come, Zheng Min saw me with red eyes, and immediately became anxious with Li Jing: "You said her?" Zheng Min questioned Li Jing.

Li Jing shrugged his shoulders with a look of disdain, and he raised his chin. In a cold tone, he asked rhetorically, "You should know better than me why she is crying." ”

Zheng Min was obviously stunned by Li Jing's question, and opened his mouth to choke: "How would I know." She turned her head and asked me, "Xiaozhi, is Li Jing embarrassed you because he thinks I have something to do with the case in your hands?" ”

I shook my head. A little tired, he said, "No, it's just that too much has happened." The case was entrusted to us by you and the boss, but the current results show that the boss and Mr. Guo have unexplained places, but this case is related to you, I don't know how I can explain it clearly. Because now my mind is messed up. ”

Zheng Min was not as surprised as I imagined after hearing this. Just looking at me calmly, she took my hand and asked me, "Xiaozhi, do you believe me?" ”

I looked at her and finally nodded, "I believe in you." ”

Zheng Min breathed a sigh of relief at this time and said, "I think it is necessary for me to explain everything clearly. And thank you, Xiaozhi. ”

I looked at her incomprehensibly: "Why thank me?" ”

Zheng Min just shook his head and smiled.

In the conference room, facing Team Xiao, Li Jing and me, Zheng Min just smiled and explained: "Jin Hao, Guo Dong and I have been friends for a few years, but this time he took the initiative to find us. Seeing that I wanted to ask a question, Zheng Min motioned for me not to speak yet, "I did say that I was going to visit Mr. Guo's gallery that day, but in fact it was just a meeting of friends. During the dinner, Mr. Guo took the initiative to raise the topic. ”

Team Xiao asked, "Did you meet earlier?" ”

Zheng Min tilted his head sideways and thought, "The last time we met was three years ago. Jin Hao went to Germany at that time, and we saw him off. We haven't seen each other individually since. ”

"It was the three of you last time?" Li Jing didn't know why he asked this question.

Zheng Min didn't seem to want to answer this question, she glared at Li Jing, turned her face to me and said, "No, there are still friends, but he is no longer in this world, I understand, right?" Although the tone was a little tough, the sadness in her eyes could not deceive me, and for a moment I didn't know whether to comfort her first or say something else.

Li Jing coughed awkwardly and then asked, "Then did he do business in the art village before?" ”

Zheng Min shook his head: "No." His previous studio is not far from the city center. Business has been good, so high rents are nothing to him. I don't know how he could have given up such an area and moved to such a remote place, probably because of the whimsical ideas that the artist could not make the world's people understand. I don't know when he moved there, after all, we haven't seen each other for three years. ”

"How did Guo Dong start talking to you about this topic?" Team Xiao asked her.

Zheng Min spread his hands and said innocently: "It's just that the parents are short, Jin Hao talked about what he saw and heard in Germany, and then Guo Dong was embarrassed to ask us for a favor." He said that some of his friends were missing, so let's see if there is any way to help him find him. I thought of Xiaozhi, isn't there a detective next to her all the time, maybe she can help? So out of this thought. We took the boss to Jin Hao's company, which is where Xiaozhi now works. I don't know the rest. Ever heard that Higashi got into trouble? ”

I don't know why Zheng Min's attitude today is a little frivolous, there is too much difference from her usual seriousness, maybe it's because I'm too careful, I comfort myself like this in my heart. But she makes me feel so strange, but also very familiar. Xu Li Jing discovered my doubts, and he secretly typed on his mobile phone to show me: Are you uncomfortable?

I shook my head and wrote on my phone: No, it's just a bit confusing by this kind of thing.

"Is this boss's real name Guo Dong?" Li Jing shifted his gaze from the screen to Jung Min.

Zheng Min pouted, and said with some confusion: "No, I don't know why he changed his name?" ”

"What was his name before?"

"Guo Ming."

Team Xiao took a look at me, and I immediately took the name information to find Shi Hao to check the information.

"Brother Shi Hao, can you help me check the identity of this person named Guo Ming?" I handed the paper to Shi Hao, who was staring at the screen.

"Any other clues?" Shi Hao took my note, a little dissatisfied with the only name on it.

I hurriedly explained: "He should be the legal person of a cultural enterprise in the city center. It should be found on the business website. ”

Shi Hao logged in to the industrial and commercial background, and called up the registered addresses of all cultural enterprises, narrowed the registered address to within the third ring, and narrowed the sales companies in the business scope among thousands of large and small cultural companies, and finally found Guo Ming's company, but now he has changed the address to the art village. The change was made 5 months ago, and it seems that the gallery in the Artist Village is indeed run by him. But the name is definitely not Guo Dong that he sued us, at least in the identity information of the police station, he is still called Guo Ming.

I told Li Jing about his current situation, and Li Jing asked me to check Jin Hao's information again, because it was my own boss. The two-month experience made me a little resistant to tracking down his information, but his unknown whereabouts now deepened everyone's suspicion of him. "Boss, don't get involved." I said silently in my heart, although I didn't particularly like the boss. But I still don't want him to ruin his future for this.

"What did Li Jing say?" Shi Hao's culture woke me up all of a sudden. Although there is some resistance, if a detailed investigation may not be a bad thing for the boss, on the contrary, it is possible that the current investigation can prove that she has nothing to do with the whole thing. I settled down and said to Shi Hao: "A man named Jin Hao. Yesterday, I reported the case in Guo Dong's name, and Li Jing hopes that you can check his details. And he's my boss, so I can give a lot of leads. ”

Shi Hao saw the fluctuations in my feelings. He gave me a tissue: "Wipe your tears." ”

Only then did I feel the damp touch on my cheeks, and I took the tissue gratefully: "Don't tell Li Jing that I cried." ”

Shi Hao didn't speak, and crackled the boss's name on the keyboard, "Li Jing should know." Shi Hao stared at the screen and didn't look at me, "The tone of your voice when you answered the phone just now was crying. I know you're uncomfortable, and if you were me, I would be sad if the people around me were involved in the case. However, if you are panicking right now, emotions will blind your eyes, make you unable to see the truth, and miss the best time to help your friends. If he does something wrong, only stopping can save it; If he has not done anything wrong, only finding out the truth can save him. So Xiaozhi don't cry anymore, tears are the most useless thing. ”

I wiped away my tears and stood behind Shi Hao: "Thank you." ”

"Alright. Let's take a look at what we found, if we look at this information alone, your boss is still a person with a very clean background, what a coincidence, your boss graduated from the same school as you. Your boss worked for a manufacturing company in Germany for three years, and I'll take a look at this company. Shi Hao tapped on the keyboard. A piece of German popped up.

"Do you know German?" I asked Shi Hao.

Shi Hao turned around with a regretful expression: "No." But we can get into his English interface. ”

The company's main business is the repair and construction of underground waterways, mainly for the public systems of European countries. 'Sewers? 'I remembered the underground tunnels of the Art Village, where six bodies were carried out.

"Let's see if this company offers a service to decorate bunkers." I urged Shi Hao, and I always felt that the last piece of the puzzle of the truth was getting closer and closer.

Shi Hao pulled down the introduction page: "There really is this item." "I felt like a nerve in my head snapped off.

Without lingering too much in the reference room, I ran back to the conference room with the printed materials. I pushed open the door of the conference room and panted and said, "Li Jing, boss." Tunnel. "I was running so fast that I couldn't say my thoughts coherently.

Team Xiao took the information in my hand and looked at it with Li Jing, and Zheng Min also looked curious. I didn't care about the other two people in the conference room walked straight to Zheng Min, looked into her eyes and asked, "Zheng Min, you don't have anything to hide from me, right?" ”

Zheng Min looked at me and shook his head seriously: "Trust me." ”

I nodded. Sit back where you are, and believe in Zheng Min, she is your most important friend, I said silently in my heart.

"It looks like your boss may have encountered two situations." Li Jing said after reading the information.

"Two scenarios?"

Team Xiao nodded: "One is that he may have actively participated in the whole case, and we can't find him because he fled because he was afraid; There is also a possibility that he may have been inadvertently implicated in the case, and now he may be facing hijacking. We haven't found any motive for the time being, and the timing is not right, so I prefer the second possibility. Li Jing, what do you think? ”

Li Jing just frowned, and after a long while, he said, "It's hard to say now." Kim Ho has returned to the time when these artists have been missing for a while. In these strange paintings, we don't find any shadow of the stone unicorn, indicating that the unicorn stone sculpture must have been built after the disappearance of these artists, and as for the underground space, I have to find someone to confirm again. However, I have seen the previous satellite image, and there are no statues at the entrance on the map, so whether these missing people were placed here first and killed, or whether the bodies were just transported underground, it is up to the doctor to conclude. ”

"Stone Qilin?" Zheng Min suddenly screamed.

"You know?" Team Xiao turned his head and asked Zheng Min.

Zheng Min pursed his lips and nodded: "You know, is it the stone qilin who can move his front legs?" ”

Li Jing and Team Xiao's eyes lit up, and Li Jing stared at Zheng Min: "Have you seen this?" ”

"That's Jin Hao's college graduation work. Jin Hao is from the Department of Sculpture. When I was about to graduate, I once helped a developer make a decorative sculpture, if I remember correctly, his sculpture was used to help the developer make a bunker at the entrance to the underground garage, a bit like a mechanism for the Mo family. The specific process was made by Jin Hao after checking some ancient documents. But then the developer changed the plan, and he didn't use this work, so Jin Hao used it for his graduation project. Later, when he went to Germany, he also went to a company that made that kind of underground tunnel bunker. In addition to working there, he also studied a major in footwear manufacturing, so after returning to China, he opened a human company. Seeing that we were all staring at her, she stepped back and looked at me and added. By the way, if there is no accident, Shi Qilin should still be in our school. ”

"You're from a school?" Shi Hao asked me.

"I just found out, so I'm going to ask where the school sculptures are."

Ten minutes later, I returned to the conference room: "I confirmed with the teacher just now that Shi Qilin was bought by a developer a few days ago, and the teacher will call me back after finding the information of the payer." The teacher was quite surprised that I knew Shi Qilin's whereabouts, but he didn't expect that I would care about the news of other departments. ”

"That's because you even go to the field to investigate cases with the detective at the class reunion of your major." Zheng Min complained about me silently on the side.

As soon as the words fell, a police officer knocked on the door and walked in, holding a stack of materials in his hand: "Team Xiao, my aunt asked me to send these materials over." ”

Forensic identification of the six corpses was more than three months of death, and they were actually placed in the underground space after being murdered, because it was late winter and early spring, the temperature was very low, and the air was relatively dry, so the corpses had basically weathered into a state of dry corpses, but judging from the corpse spots of the corpses, these victims should have been moved after their deaths, so the underground space at the entrance of the third phase of the art village was not the first crime scene. The DNA of the six corpses has now been extracted and compared with the DNA of the missing in previous databases.

"Any dirt information?" Li Jing asked Team Xiao.

Team Xiao has turned to the last page: "The information sent by the on-site investigation team shows that the soil quality is different from that of the underground space of the art village found in the sole of the victim's shoes, and some seeds are also entrained, and where the soil comes from is being analyzed." (To be continued.) )