"This freezer? The freezer is specially designed for ice packs in our kitchen. The foreman called me to get ice, and as soon as I opened the door, I saw the big brother fall straight up, and hit me on the spot - comrade policeman, I really don't know anything, I'm scared to pee, don't believe me, I see I'm wet in my crotch now! ……”

The flashing lights of the trace inspectors of the sub-bureau came and went, and the technical detectives were busy collecting fingerprints, footprints and other physical evidence at the scene. Yan Yu put on shoe covers, stepped over the survey board, squatted beside the corpse, and raised his chin.

The forensic doctor of the sub-bureau called out to the deputy detachment of Yan solemnly.

"How?"

"The deceased undressed abnormally, the corpse spots were bright red, and there were small blisters at the junction between the exposed part of the corpse and the waistband of the trousers, which was preliminarily concluded to be consistent with the phenomenon of freezing to death. It is difficult to judge the exact time of death, and there are eye, ear, mouth and nose bleeding, so a detailed autopsy will have to be done after returning. ”

Yan Yu's gloved fingertips pressed the corpse spot and squinted slightly. His eyebrows were slanted into his sideburns, and because of the deep eye sockets and the high bridge of his nose, his face was a little gloomy at this angle, and he said, "No." ”

Yan Yu, deputy captain of the criminal investigation detachment of the Jianning Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the leader of the investigation team, deputy division level, third-level police inspector, Leo - well-known in the public security system, more than ten years in the police, his various legendary deeds can feed ten Zhihu jokers, and was once selected as the top ten people of the year by the city bureau because of the fight with drug dealers who copied wine bottles.

The forensic doctor of the sub-bureau did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked: "What do you think?" ”

"Abnormal undressing usually occurs when the body temperature drops, the consciousness is confused, and the cerebral thalamus temperature center sends the wrong signal, that is, the person is about to freeze to death - but our big brother who is slick and slick didn't take off his clothes in the refrigerator, could he have frozen stupidly before he got into the refrigerator?"

The forensic doctor was stunned.

The forensic doctor didn't answer at the time, and Yan Yu didn't care, so he took it easy: "Lao Wan, block the KTV and the back alley, let your team go to find the clothes and belongings of the deceased, and focus on investigating wallets, keys, mobile phones, etc., which will be of great help in determining the source of the corpse." Technical detectives call up surveillance, by the way, pay attention to the disappearance records of the alarm center during this time and in the next 24 hours, a big living person is gone, and someone will definitely find out. ”

Wan Zhenguo, the captain of the criminal investigation brigade of the sub-bureau, sent his subordinates according to his instructions, turned around and said, "I'll look at the hanging." If he hadn't sneaked in through the back door, then there were so many people in this kind of place who had drunk and undressed and picked up leaks, and it was impossible for anyone to pick up the deceased's things. ”

The two of them squatted beside the body bag, staring at the big brother who was not blind, and Wan Zhenguo pondered for a while: "Do you say that this person is a thief, and he heard someone coming in in the middle of the theft, and he hid in the freezer in a panic, and played himself to death without paying attention?" ”

The criminal police have seen a lot of cases of accidental death in burglary like this, but Yan Yu did not answer, and said after a while: "No." ”

"Huh?"

Yan Yu pulled down the waist of the deceased's pants, and raised the edge of the underwear logo with two fingers: "This fabric is genuine, and it has to be sold for four or five hundred at a discount." It's good to buy big brands for clothes and shoes worn outside, but buying this grade of underwear is a problem of consumption view. If you are so rich and still come to be a 'craftsman', it is too much pursuit, right? ”

Wan Zhenguo said "hey-", crossed his arms and squinted his eyes, and looked at Yan Yu for eighteen times before he said slowly: "I said Deputy Yan." ”

"What Deputy Yan, it's called Deputy Yan's detachment, who is your deputy as the captain of your first team."

Wan Zhenguo said: "Okay, Deputy Yan, you are really a Conan." ”

Yan Yu's face did not change: "It's easy to say." I know that the comrades of the sub-bureau have always respected me and admired me......"

Wan Zhenguo said: "Wherever you go, you can kill people wherever you go, you can sing a K and you can run into someone who freezes to death in the freezer, shouldn't this person be killed by you?" Quickly confessed so that the brothers could go home and sleep. ”

Yan Yu slapped him on the back of the head and scolded with a smile: "Phew! - With your Brother Yan's methods, if I kill someone, can I still let you find out? As he spoke, he took out his cigarette and went out.

"The monitoring of the back door of the kitchen connecting to the back alley is always bad, except for illegal parking, there is usually no one at all, just two garbage cans, and over time I am impatient to fix it...... No, comrade policeman, why do you think I'm fixing it, waiting to shoot illegal parking? That's the traffic police! ”

"Lost something? We all keep the expensive drinks in the special wine cellar, and the pots and pans in the back kitchen are so stealing - yes, I've never met this man, and I'm certainly not a regular customer. Our store consciously abides by the law, operates in a standardized manner, and does not even sell blended liquor with an alcohol content of more than 40 years. ”

The KTV has been emptied and cordoned, and the police of the criminal department of the sub-bureau are making notes for Yang Mei in the hall. Yan Yu walked over with a cigarette in his mouth, and the police immediately got up: "Deputy Yan, sit." ”

Yan Yu hummed, and was just about to sit down, when suddenly his eyes caught a glimpse not far away, and the action was a pause.

A young man in a wheelchair, facing them sideways, is being questioned by the police.

The hall that had just been cleared was full of messes, the smell of fat powder and tobacco and alcohol had not yet dissipated, and the lonely stage lights came from the other side, making the man's dark hair, eyebrows, excessively pale skin, and temperament extremely incongruous with the surrounding environment particularly abrupt.

Yan Yu lit it with a cigarette butt: "Who is that?" ”

The people warned Yang Mei to reply.

"......" Yang Mei, who was still anxious about whether to lose money just now, swallowed her saliva, her voice was slightly lightened, and said, "It's my fiancé." ”

The policeman's pen fell with a click.

Yan Yu's expression remained unchanged: "How do you sit in a wheelchair?" ”

"I used to be in the county seat...... Later, he went to Jianning to look for me, and there was a car accident on the road, and I was in a coma for a while. I only woke up recently, and it's not very convenient to move for the time being......" Yang Mei stroked her long hair unnaturally, and said, "I just got out of the hospital today and temporarily settled in the dormitory upstairs." ”

Yan Yu looked at Jiang for a moment: "Which county are you from?" ”

Yang Mei said the name of the underground county, Yan Yu hummed and said, "Your county is quite outstanding. ”

Yang Mei felt weak in her heart, and she didn't understand what he meant, so she saw Yan Yu get up and walk over.

"You saw the dead wandering in the back alley?" The police asked while taking notes: "How did you see it, what was the deceased doing at that time?" Hey, Deputy Yan's detachment! ”

The policeman was just about to get up and give up his seat, Yan Yu pressed his shoulder back, took the half-made transcript in his hand, and did not raise the cigarette butt and ordered: "Go on." ”

Jiang Zhu's gaze turned to Yan Yu, and he took it back calmly.

“…… He seemed to be waiting for someone. ”

Policeman: "Oh? ”

"We didn't talk, we just met. He wears a pullover blue shirt with black shoulders, a bit like a school bag. I only glanced at him from afar, and he walked away immediately, looking very wary. ”

The detective of the sub-bureau came with a bag of evidence: "Deputy Yan's detachment!" This is what we found by the back alley dumpster, let us show you first! ”

Yan Yu took it and saw that in the evidence bag was a blue linen jumper, "No wallet, mobile phone or keys?" ”

The agent shook his head repeatedly.

"Did you find a black backpack?"

The detective was puzzled: "I searched back and forth several times, but only this sweater." ”

"Okay." Yan Yu picked up the evidence bag and handed it to Jiang Zhu, "Do you see this is it?" ”

Jiang stopped not answering, just looked at his hand and nodded.

Yan Yu returned the evidence bag to the detective: "Take it to the technical detective, and by the way, don't forget to print the fingerprints on the inside of the freezer door and compare it with the deceased, if it is right, the deceased is the freezer that he drilled himself; If it doesn't work, and the freezer door is closed for him, then the nature of the matter changes. ”

The detective was busy running away, Yan Yu turned around, but didn't say anything, and looked at Jiang Zhu condescendingly.

The policeman who made the transcript was a little stunned, Jiang stopped and didn't speak, and the space around him suddenly became extraordinarily quiet. After a while, Yan Yu lit a wheelchair with a cigarette butt: "What's the matter?" ”

"Car accident." Jiang Zhu replied calmly, "I hit the truck at speeding." ”

"Can you still stand up?"

"The doctor said I would have to rehabilitate for a while."

Yan Yu nodded, narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "Have I seen you somewhere?" ”

Jiang Zhu met his inquiring gaze and made a dazed expression just right.

"What's your name?"

"Lu Chengjiang, the transcript says."

Yan Yu repeated: "Lu, Cheng, Jiang. ”

The atmosphere became very strange for a while, Yan Yu's face was hidden behind the cigarette, no one knew what the criminal investigation team leader was thinking about, and even the criminal police of the sub-bureau blinked, stunned at a loss.

Not far behind them, Yang Mei finished taking notes and walked towards this side nervously.

"The clouds are stopped, and the rain is wet; Eight tables are the same as dusk, and the flat land becomes a river. Yan Yu rubbed his chin and suddenly said, "Good name." ”

Yang Mei's footsteps slammed suddenly.

Jiang Zhu replied steadily: "Thank you, officer." ”

"Okay, let you guys get ready to close the team." Yan Yu took the transcript back to the police, turned around and walked back: "The body is transported back to the sub-bureau for autopsy, and all the people involved in the case will be summoned at any time, pony!" ”

Ma Xiang, who was under him, was talking to the technical detective of the sub-bureau, and when he heard the words, he ran over: "Hey! Brother Yan! ”

"Drive away, go home."

"—Hey, officer?" Yang Mei was very surprised, and subconsciously stretched out her hand to stop him: "This is going home?" ”

Yan Yu said coldly: "Hey, yes, I haven't paid you yet." Bring the POS machine, give me a □□, Ma Xiang, you remind me to call the 315 Consumer Association tomorrow......"

"Don't be handsome!" Yang Mei, who loves money like her life, immediately coaxed: "It's already embarrassing to trouble you three to go out of the scene in the middle of the night, how can I ask for your money!" No, no, no, don't, don't! Take it back, get it back! No! Take-back-go——! ”

Yang Mei forcibly pushed the card back to Yan Yu with the posture of the affected people stuffing boiled eggs into the PLA, with a hot smile on her face: "Oh, you look at your life...... In fact, I just want to ask, when will the results of the investigation be out, and how sooner or later will there be an explanation for this? ”

Yan Yu took out a few banknotes and threw them on the bar: "Ask the sub-bureau." ”

"You don't care?"

"If you don't have guns or drugs, you can't get into the city bureau if you die." Yan Yu waved his hand and walked straight to the door, without looking back: "Of course, if you are involved in guns and drugs, your black shop will be finished-Ma Xiang, leave!" ”

·

Yang Mei stayed where she was, watching the police carry the body away, the scene was blocked, and when everyone was gone, she wanted to cry without tears: "What's going on." Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang? ”

Jiang stopped crossing his fingers and didn't say a word. Under the light and shadow of the end of the gold cave, I saw the sharp line of his chin, along the side of his neck, winding all the way into the collar of his shirt.

After a while, he said hoarsely: "I've seen him." ”

Yang Mei didn't react: "What? ”

"Yan Yu."

Yang Mei was stunned, only to see Jiang Zhu's eyebrows frowning slightly, and said slowly for a long time: "Five years ago, in a major case jointly handled by Gongzhou and Jianning, which I commanded, this person went deep single-handedly, encountered a gun-wielding drug dealer, and killed someone on the spot with the bottom of a wine bottle. At the celebration meeting, he sat on the stage, and I sat under the stage, taking a picture from afar. Later, because of this, he was promoted to deputy detachment leader. ”

Yang Mei sighed in her heart.

"This guy doesn't play cards according to common sense, I used to ......"

Yang Mei asked, "What was it?" ”

Jiang paused for a long time before saying, "I don't approve of him being promoted to deputy branch because of this, but I still appreciate this person himself." ”

I don't know why her intuition as a woman made Yang Mei feel that Jiang Zhu seemed to have hidden some inside information, but what exactly was hidden, and why she didn't mention it, Jiang Zhu didn't say. Yang Mei waited for a long time, and had to say: "Fortunately, fortunately, this case can't fall into his hands......"

Jiang Zhu turned around with his hands pushing the wheelchair, as if he had foreseen something, and shook his head: "Maybe I should listen to you and stay in the hospital for a few more days." ”

The Grand Cherokee turned off the police lights and sped through the slightly empty streets in the middle of the night. Yan Yu sat in the co-pilot, turned on the roof lights and looked at the photos of the scene one by one, and suddenly looked up and looked ahead, thoughtfully.

Ma Xiang glanced at him on the steering wheel: "What's the matter, Brother Yan, let's go eat a bowl of noodles and sober up the wine?" ”

Yan Yu didn't answer, and suddenly asked, "Did you see that wheelchair user?" ”

"Ouch, Brother Yan, I knew you were going to say this. I'm worried, that kind of sick beauty lamp is not the type that is popular now, you will always be the first police grass of the Jianning Municipal Bureau in our hearts......"

"Don't you think he looks familiar?"

Ma Xiang was stunned, "No wow." ”

"But I always felt like I'd seen this person somewhere."

Yan Yu closed his eyes and opened them again after a moment. He searched in his mind but found nothing, and in the chaotic memory, a trace of indescribable palpitations accompanied by strange tastes spread from the root of his tongue, as if there was a looming back close but unattainable, only a flash of thought, and then sank into the abyss of memory.

After a while, he took a deep breath and muttered, "But I can't remember it for a while." ”

·

At the same time, the outskirts of the city.

At the end of the wasteland is a sea of city lights, the night breeze blows over the mountaintops, the stars shine in the distance, and the gauzy Milky Way stretches across the sky overhead.

"Tianshu, Kaiyang, Shaking Light, Big Dipper. Going down the arc of the bucket handle is the star Arcturus, the first bright star in the constellation Pastor, and then looking down, the white star is the horn of the one. ”

The girl turned her head and looked at her lover, her beautiful eyes full of admiration: "It's so bright!" ”

"Yes, Edelias is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, two hundred and sixty light-years from Earth."

Her lover paused slightly, not knowing what to remember, and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips:

"In ancient times, the Horned Star was the first of the twenty-eight constellations, brave and decisive, and able to fight well. But you know what? Whenever observed, Kakuju-ichi was pure white, like a maiden, completely pure white without a single blemish. ”

His voice was low, mellow and gentle, like a drunken night breeze. The girl was bewitched by a trace of courage in her heart, suddenly stepped forward half a step, raised her head, and said in a trembling voice: "You ......"

At this moment, the on-board satellite phone rang not far away.

The man smiled and motioned for her to wait, turned around and walked to the SUV, and picked up the phone: "Hey? ”

The girl hesitated for a moment, but followed. Her lover was half hidden in the shadows, and she couldn't see what expression was on her face, only to hear the words coming out of the microphone on the other side: "...... 538 bed case after ......"

After a moment, he said, "I see." ”

He hung up the phone and stood by the car door for a moment.

In the distance, the long and short chirping of insects sounded among the grass, and the fragrant air of spring and early summer swept across the plains and rivers, and brushed the girl's soft long hair.

After some time, the man turned to look at her and said, "It's time to go back." ”

"But I said I was ...... tonight."

Her lover is still very gentle: "Get in the car." ”

The girl pursed her lips, but she couldn't and didn't dare to refuse, so she stepped forward sullenly.

Under the night sky, a modified H2 drove through the undulating wasteland towards the vast sea of human lights at the end of the horizon.