92 Lexington Avenue, St. George

The police car drove through the bustling Lexington Avenue and stopped in front of room 92, a pedestrian was walking the dog, the beagle looked at Adam who got off the police car, and barked unfriendly at Adam, the owner of the beagle hurriedly apologized, Adam waved his hand and said that he didn't mind, and the two shook hands amicably.

Adam stopped in front of house 92 and saw that there was still a cordon outside the house, but the door was closed, and the police who were busy at the scene of the crime the night before had also withdrawn.

Adam took out his cell phone and retrieved the deceased's information from it, he had already investigated Eric Jackson's background from the police department's population system, but he still had to do some homework before engaging in specific personnel interviews.

It is said that on the night the body was found, the police contacted Eric's daughter who was participating in a field training camp by phone, and intercepted her back to St. George's state, but the 16-year-old girl did not seem to be very cooperative with the police investigation, and did not know anything about the questions asked by the police.

Adam flipped through the profile of the girl named Xiao Qihan, a 16-year-old student at Bronxville High School in St. George, who had average-to-average grades and no impressive honors, but a notable record — she had fought with her classmates; He once had an argument with his father at home and injured his father's forehead with an ashtray, which also alarmed the neighbors at the time and called the police; In addition, she has been recorded as a minor frequenting the dark bars in the neighborhood and even staying in the recognized red-light district......

Adam was puzzled by the cycle of headlessness.

Although he didn't know Eric, as a senior financial consultant on the financial street, how could he raise such a daughter?

Aren't people at the top of the society very concerned about the education of their children?

What's more, after the eldest daughter was imprisoned, Eric only had one daughter, what made Eric not play the role of a good father's teacher?

Adam put down his phone and looked at the white door in front of him, he instinctively realized that the family's situation was very complicated, and perhaps today's investigation was not easy.

But no matter what, he has to continue to work.

With that in mind, he raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Knock knock."

He waited for a while, but no one opened the door for him.

He opened the text message on his mobile phone and confirmed the message sent to him by his colleague, Eric's only daughter has returned to the house, and there is no sign of moving out, and it should still be in the house.

It's creepy, isn't it?

A young girl, living in the room where her father's corpse was presented, alone.

"Knock knock."

Adam put down his phone and knocked on the door again, and this time, he heard someone coming downstairs on the other end of the door.

Then someone opened the door and saw a sixteen-year-old girl, thin and with black hair, but with outdated dreadlocks, red, green, and blue rubber bands tied at the ends, making her look very unruly. She has the facial features of an oriental beauty, slender willow eyebrows, round eyes, but she has black eye makeup, and looks like a member of a heavy metal band in the last century. Her face was a little pale, and her black lipstick made her look like a vampire who had just woken up from her slumber. She was wearing a black T-shirt, wide, stretched jeans, and several openings in her trouser legs, which seemed to have been deliberately torn by her to highlight her personal style.

This is Eric Jackson's only daughter, Xiao Qihan.

Xiao Qihan looked at Adam and frowned puzzledly: "Our family doesn't subscribe to smart bulletins." ”

Adam was embarrassed: "Well, no, I'm not a door-to-door salesman, I'm a police officer with the State Police Department, Adam Smith." ”

As he spoke, he showed his ID.

(Officer?) ）

Xiao Qihan took Adam's certificate with half a doubt, and seriously compared Adam's photo and the real person on the certificate, but there was still a little doubt in his eyes: "This is you?" It doesn't feel like much. ”

"Uh...... Maybe I've been tired and thin lately, but it's not hard to eat fat. Adam shrugged.

He muttered inwardly, the girl in front of him with death makeup is completely different from her ID photo in the police system, okay.

Xiao Qihan returned the document to him: "So, officer, what do you have to do?" ”

“…… You won't invite me in and sit down? ”

"Is this necessary?" Qi Han seemed to be very repulsive.

"Understanding the situation should not be done in one or two sentences, and we hope that you will cooperate with our work." Adam moved out of the official language.

After thinking for a few seconds, Xiao Qihan reluctantly turned sideways and made way for a gap.

"Thank you."

Adam finally entered the door, and Xiao Qihan closed the door after he entered.

"Do you have slippers?" Adam asked politely.

"In the shoe closet, take it yourself." Xiao Qihan said, and walked into the restaurant on the left side of the corridor by himself.

Adam had long seen the three-dimensional image of the crime scene on the system, and knew every detail of the house, so he easily found the shoe cabinet and took out the slippers.

He once saw in the investigation report that there was no shoe print of the second person at the scene of the crime, which means that the murderer was likely to be a guest invited into the house by the deceased, and the deceased had the habit of letting guests change their shoes, but to Adam's surprise, the girl in front of him walked around the room wearing her heavy boots as she was, not caring at all about the rules that his father had set.

He was even more curious about how the father and daughter got along.

Adam put on his slippers and raised his eyes to see the dried blood stains in the corridor, little by little, one drop, from the living room on the left side to the study at the other end of the corridor, Adam stopped in front of the living room, and saw that the living room was still the scene of the crime, the sofa, lamps, and fruit bowls overturned to the ground, and even the peanut shells that had fallen to the ground and the apples that had eaten a few bites were left on the ground intact. He carefully bypassed the bloodstains and walked to the study, the body had been removed, but it turned out that the place where the body fell was painted with a humanoid white line, and it could be seen that the body fell down, and everything in the study was almost the same, except that the documents on the table had been taken away by colleagues in the technical department, and the data were compared to see if there were any missing pages, and some documents related to the confidentiality of Eric's company were also taken away by the company's people. The only physical evidence that can be investigated in the study is the bookshelves and antique shelves.

Adam walked into the study, he first walked to the bookshelf, carefully looked at the neatly arranged books, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he walked to the other side of the room, looking at the antique vases from China, and looked at them with fascination.

Suddenly, he noticed that the body of one amphora vase was clean and seemed to be wiped down frequently, while the other antiques were visibly covered in dust.

There is an abnormality.

Adam frowned, holding the thin vase in his left hand, and just wanted to pick it up, only to find that the vase was fixed to the shelf!

It's not easy.

He grasped the vase in both hands and tried to turn it from side to side.

"Gela. Gla......"

The wall behind the antique shelves slowly turned, and Adam took a step back, seeing the wall rotate 180 degrees, revealing the dark lattice behind the wall.

It was a clear glass box, and inside the box, it was empty.

Why hide an empty box behind a wall?

Adam looked at the transparent empty box suspiciously, the box was not a hollow tetrahedron, there were some depressions and bumps inside the box, obviously the box was tailor-made, designed to hold something, but now the contents of the box were gone, only the empty glass box was left in place.

Adam took out his phone and filmed the transparent box.

He remembered that his colleague's investigation report did not mention the wall behind the antique shelf, let alone the hidden compartment and glass box, and he found a new suspicion, which may become the biggest breakthrough in this case.

Thinking so, he took a few more photos from different angles.

Then, he heard footsteps coming from the restaurant, "Da." Click. Click. It was the sound of thick black boots stepping on the wooden floor, and he hurriedly turned the amphora again, and sure enough, the wall turned back and returned to its original state.

The next moment, he heard Xiao Qihan's voice.

"What are you doing here?"

“…… Take a look at the investigation site and see if there are any overlooked details. Adam deliberately pretended to look at the rows of vases and exclaimed, "Your father is still a collector?" ”

"Come on, he just wants to pretend, I guarantee he can't even tell the difference between blue and white porcelain and firewood kiln porcelain bottles." Xiao Qihan rolled his eyes and took a bite of the apple in his hand.

Adam turned her head, she met his eyes, and raised the apple in her hand, "Eat apples?" ”

“…… No, thank you. ”

Adam glanced at the congealed blood on the ground, wondering why this dark girl was still able to live here as if nothing had happened.

Xiao Qihan turned around and left the study, and Adam followed.

"You live here by yourself?"

"Do you think there's a second person, Sheriff?"

"I'm not a sheriff, I'm just an ordinary police officer."

"Oh." Xiao Qihan replied nonchalantly, she walked through the living room, walked to the stairs, and went up the stairs to the second floor.

Her boots had thick soles, and the heavy soles made a "squeak" sound on the wooden staircase.

“…… Aren't you afraid? Downstairs is the scene of the crime, and the bloodstains are still there. ”

"Scared?" Xiao Qihan glanced back at Adam, "The police should all be atheists, do you believe in ghosts?" ”

“…… Unbelief. ”

"I don't believe it either, so what's there to be afraid of? The corpse had been removed, and the blood was just a dried liquid, and I thought it was beautiful when it fell to the ground. Xiao Qihan said nonchalantly, she pushed open a door, and Adam followed her into a room.

Xiao Qihan put the apple in her hand on the table casually, took out a piece of paper and wiped her hands, and threw it back into the trash can in the room, she lowered her head, picked up the freshly washed underwear and underwear that were originally stacked on the bed, and stuffed them into the messy closet.

Adam's cheeks flushed: "I'm sorry, I'...... I should have asked if I should have come in. ”

"It's okay, you've seen more lingerie than this when you go to the mall." Xiao Qihan said, picked up the apple again, she sat in front of the drawing board at the other end of the room, it was a virtual painting system developed by [Cole Company], called [Imagination], by drawing on the virtual drawing board, the content of his painting can become three-dimensional, this painting software was snatched up by painting enthusiasts when it first came out, and the price was once fried to a jaw-dropping degree, but I didn't expect Eric to buy this sky-high intelligent painting software for his daughter.

Adam silently took out the tablet of the case, and wrote "Eric loves his daughter very much" in the notebook.