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Dark clouds and cold winds.

The sky in the distance seemed to be splashed with a layer of light ink, the waves were swept more and more violently by the wind, and there seemed to be a white line split between the sea and the sky, and it looked like it was forcibly divided into two worlds.

According to the information sent by Lao Hu, Meng Xuan found the nearest beach, rented a speedboat and began to search for the so-called double-decker cruise ship that Xiao Xiaofei had just told him about on the beach. He can't contact Shang Xiaoyu now, Xiao Xiaofei has already brought someone on the way here, but he wants to find Shang Xiaoyu's whereabouts as soon as possible, he can't wait for her support.

Ten minutes passed, and a touch of white appeared in Meng Xuan's sight.

That's a double-decker cruise ship, that's right. It seems to be driving very slowly, though, and seems to be going around in circles all the time.

Meng Xuan cautiously approached the ship, there was no one on the deck or on the first floor, he could take the opportunity to climb onto the ship. Meng Xuan took out the rope prepared in advance, threw an arc and hooked the guardrail of the boat, he moved his ten fingers and then jumped up and dragged the rope and began to climb.

Crisp and neat, smooth landing.

As soon as Meng Xuan's front foot boarded the boat, the back foot was discovered by two people. As soon as the two saw him as an uninvited guest, they rushed up and wanted to do it without saying a word. Meng Xuan couldn't help but look up to the sky and wail in his heart, and at the same time, he kicked down one of the people who rushed up.

The two of them took turns to fight in a wheel battle, and Meng Xuan really didn't have so much patience to accompany these two people. He threw the man over his shoulder and kicked him to the side, stopping the other man who had just gotten up from the ground. For a while, the two of them fell to the ground at the same time, and Meng Xuan immediately slipped away.

This cruise ship is not too big and should be a small private cruise ship. There are two floors in total, but there are probably more than 100 rooms to see.

Meng Xuan's mobile phone rang, and the caller ID was Xiao Xiaofei.

"Meng Xuan, we just found out that Geng Qingguo actually has a daughter who was stabbed to death six years ago." Xiao Xiaofei looked at the information that had just been loaded in his hand and said.

Xiao Xiaofei on the other end of the phone was still talking to him about Geng Qingguo's past, but another thing gradually appeared in Meng Xuan's mind.

Hanging up the phone, Meng Xuan began to search. Eventually, I found that familiar back in the restaurant on the first floor.

A feast was already set up on the table, along with two glasses of champagne and two sets of cutlery. Geng Qingguo beckoned Meng Xuan to come and sit down, Meng Xuan waited to see the medicine he bought in the gourd, and sat down obediently.

"Xiao Ming, come, have a drink." Geng Qingguo picked up the wine glass in front of him and was about to salute Meng Xuan, but seeing that Meng Xuan didn't react, he smiled again and said, "Is that what I should shout...... Officer Meng? ”

Meng Xuan was not surprised by this, hooked the corners of his lips and threw Geng Qingguo a perfunctory smile, raised his wine glass and drank it all.

Geng Qingguo clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Officer Meng is really heroic, and he is not afraid of me doing anything in this wine." ”

"If you really want to kill me, you won't do it all the way and deliberately lead me to the ship, there should be something more important."

Meng Xuan now knew that all this was a well-planned game, and the purpose was to lure him into the game and catch him.

Geng Qingguo, who Niu Da confessed before, wanted to find someone to pretend to be him, and then get rid of Uncle Lei by the police, and then get out by himself, this plan should be his original plan. However, Geng Qingguo changed his plan when he saw the "scapegoat" that Niu Da found for him. Or rather, it's filled with plans and one more character that you want to get rid of.

Because, he recognized Meng Xuan.

A police officer.

A young policeman who witnessed a murder six years ago because of dereliction of duty.

Geng Qingguo took a fork in his left hand and a knife in his right hand and began to unravel the steak in front of him.

Yes. Deplaning.

Just because he now looks more like a calm and sane executioner.

He said, "Officer Meng, I've been a police officer for some years. I feel that this profession is very good, and it is easy to feel satisfied and enjoy the gratitude and awe of others. How nice. ”

"Geng Qingguo, I know what you're talking about." Meng Xuan said.

"You won't know." Geng Qingguo shook his head with a smile, looking like an old professor preaching, "There has never been such a thing as empathy in this world." When the needle is not pierced on your body, no matter how fierce you cry, others will not cry for you, only when you are pricked, can you experience the pain of piercing your heart. ”

Meng Xuan smiled disdainfully: "People are different, and their ability to bear pain is also different. ”

Geng Qingguo took a bite of the steak, saying that it tasted good, and stretched out his hand to ask Meng Xuan to taste it. Meng Xuan picked up the knife and fork and began to cut the steak in front of him, he looked more like an elegant gentleman.

Geng Qingguo said: "Actually, I recognized you the moment I saw you. I've been watching you for a long time. I found that your relationship with that Miss Shang is not ordinary. ”

Meng Xuan didn't speak, as if he was waiting for Geng Qingguo's story below.

"The first time I saw her, I saw your name in her mobile phone, at first I thought it was a duplicate name, so I deliberately called her in front of you, I didn't expect it to be true, your little actions can be hidden, but her little trick of losing her wallet can't hide me." Geng Qingguo wiped his mouth after eating and drinking, "There are dozens of records with you in her call records, and even her quick call just now is to call you." ”

Meng Xuan's mood, which had been unmoved, finally changed, and he frowned, as if he had guessed the second half of Geng Qingguo's plan, but he didn't seem to have guessed it through.

Geng Qingguo stared at Meng Xuan tightly, his eyes suddenly widened, and he said, "It seems that I made the right bet." ”

Niu Da handed over a computer, which was the one that Shang Xiaoyu had used just now. Geng Qingguo tapped a few times, then turned to Meng Xuan.

Above is a surveillance footage, which shows a dark room, but you can clearly see a woman tied to a chair.

"There are one hundred and twenty-five rooms on this ship, and when this candle burns this rope, the dumbbell on her head will fall down, and the knife will stick in her head." In the picture, Shang Xiaoyu is hanging a knife and a dumbbell vertically on his head, and a candle is burning at the fixed place of the rope.

Once the rope is burned, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Where is she?" Meng Xuan was clearly enraged. This is a result that Geng Qingguo is very willing to see.

"You know, I'm not going to tell you, and you don't have anything to threaten me. Because the only threat to me is my daughter, who died six years ago. Geng Qingguo smiled, a look of joy of success.

Meng Xuan didn't dare to delay with him any longer, time waited for no one.

He rushed to the first floor like crazy and began to search room by room. But every time you open a layer of doors, you get an ethereal air.

Every time he opened the door, he felt as if he had been punched in the chest again.

Meng Xuan knew that Geng Qingguo was taking revenge.

Six years ago, the first case he was involved in was a serial murder case, and they locked on the suspect who was supposed to be one of the male actors in a small theater troupe, so they sent out people to keep an eye on him, ready to wait for an opportunity to arrest him. As a result, I don't know if the murderer found out about their existence or temporarily changed his plan, and actually stabbed to death his part-time partner in the troupe on the spot with a pre-changed murder weapon - an eighteen-year-old female college student.

When the murder happened, everyone didn't react, thinking it was a stage effect, and it wasn't until she was locked in the cabinet that there were still blood stains seeping out, and Meng Xuan felt a little bad.

At that time, the captain arrived in time, but the victim died on the spot because the major artery was severed and blood loss was excessive.

Meng Xuan still remembered the scene when his boss pointed at his nose and scolded angrily, and he blamed himself for a long time, so that he had such an abnormal behavior when he went to the haunted house in the playground with Shang Xiaoyu and Gou Yimo before.

And that female student is Geng Qingguo's only daughter - Geng Wenci.

It was not a way to find them one by one, and even if the rope was strong, it would not be enough to hold him through the more than 100 rooms.

Meng Xuan tried to calm himself down, and he began to carefully recall the scene he had just monitored.

In the picture, the bed is in an east-west direction, the door is on the east side, and the south window has a faint amount of sunlight pouring in. In this way, the rooms in the east row can be excluded, because the rooms in it are arranged in the opposite direction.

Shang Xiaoyu was facing the window sideways, directly facing the door, while her shadow was shorter, diagonally behind her. Based on the intensity of light in the room, and the length of the shadows, it should be possible to tell that the room is on the second floor.

After the general screening, there were still about forty rooms waiting for him to find one by one, which was too difficult.

Meng Xuan scratched his head, breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted, "Shang Xiaoyu! ”

He had to do it in such a stupid way, but it should be an effective method. When Shang Xiaoyu heard it, he should have given him a little response.

However, no.

Until Meng Xuan sweated profusely and rummaged through the remaining forty or so rooms, he didn't see any trace of Shang Xiaoyu. But he was convinced that there would never be her in the remaining rooms he hadn't seen.

"You're fooling me!" Meng Xuan returned to the restaurant and questioned Geng Qingguo by the collar.

Geng Qingguo gave him the computer. On the screen, the candle just burned the rope, and Meng Xuan's eyes widened, but nothing happened.

There wasn't any bloody picture, nothing that Meng Xuan was worried about.

It's just a fake video that has been recorded a long time ago.

A play for his amusement.

"How's the warm-up?" Geng Qingguo broke his hand and stood up to look at the sea.

Countless white waves converge here, and this is like the center of a whirlpool.

Meng Xuan followed Geng Qingguo's gaze, and he knew that it was Xiao Xiaofei who was coming.

"Officer Meng, you have to catch me with your own hands." Geng Qingguo patted Meng Xuan on the shoulder, "Only if you catch me, I will hand over the documents." ”

"Where is Shang Xiaoyu, you name it, I can also help you hire a good lawyer." Meng Xuan gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"Officer Meng, pay attention to your situation." Niu Da took a gun from behind and put it against Meng Xuan's waist.

Xiao Xiaofei and others have already surrounded this cruise ship, and it looks a little difficult to get out. However, Geng Qingguo did not panic at all, he gave his subordinates a look. Soon, that subordinate appeared in front of everyone with Shang Xiaoyu, who was tied up by five flowers.

Geng Qingguo picked up the knife he had just cut the steak and wiped it on the cloth, and then pressed it against Shang Xiaoyu's neck.

He said, "You can empathize with her when she dies." ”

Shang Xiaoyu wailed: "Uncle Geng, you misunderstood, we don't know each other." ”

"He's annoying me." Shang Xiaoyu added.

"yes, I'm annoying him too. He always asked me to go to their bureau and didn't reimburse me for the taxi money, and he always robbed me of instant noodles when he had nothing to do. ”

"Yes, he doesn't put seasoning in instant noodles."

Shang Xiaoyu kept talking to herself, she could feel that Geng Qingguo after she was born was pulling her to move to the side of the boat, and her mouth was talking about some strange words while giving Meng Xuan a look, and Meng Xuan's eyes were tightly locked on Geng Qingguo's body.

Now is the time!