Walking into the gate of the Public Security Bureau, Yu Xing was first taken to the office and listened to Gao Changan say some conclusions about Han Xinyi's case, and then received Gao Changan's invitation to assist him in the investigation.

"Our detachment still believes that Liu Ping and the throat cutting case are not completely unrelated, but they just need a breakthrough. I think you might be able to help us open up the situation, it's voluntary, and if it's inconvenient, you can just refuse me, no problem. Gao Changan took out a cigarette and was about to light it, but the lighter stopped in front of the cigarette, "Don't mind, right?" ”

Yu Xing put his hands in the pockets of his jacket at that time, and just received a message indoctrination, he seemed to be able to accept it well, and nodded: "You are free." ”

"Thank you." Gao Changan lit a cigarette and took a puff, his tone was a little tired, "What do you think?" ”

There was silence for about five or six minutes, and just when Gao Changan thought he would refuse, Yu Xingcai said, "I agreed." ”

He could have had no hesitation to participate in the investigation, he would have had the most convenient source of information, and he would have been more upright with whomever he had contacted, but a person from another city would have been suspected if he had shown himself to be too enthusiastic about the case of throat slitting.

Yu Xing secretly laughed in his heart - maybe Gao Changan had never eliminated his suspicions about him.

Agreeing to Gao Chang'an's invitation, Yu Xing signed a confidentiality agreement.

His current identity is probably similar to Gao Chang'an's informant, and he is still a temporary informant.

"So what do I need to do now?" Yu Xing asked.

"What do you want to do now?" Gao Changan didn't give him instructions, but asked with a peculiar sense of trust—or a sense of temptation.

Yu Xing squinted his eyes, without any weak expression, he thought about it and made a proposal that was not too unexpected for Gao Changan: "That...... Let me meet Liu Ping. ”

……

The interrogation room was small, stuffy, boxy, and devoid of any color.

Liu Ping sat on the cold chair with a tired expression, his hands handcuffed, and placed on the same cold table.

A white table lamp shone low on the table, not shining on his face, but it brought a sense of oppression to the entire interrogation room.

Xiao Gu in uniform and another middle-aged male policeman sat opposite Liu Ping, at this time, Xiao Gu was no longer relaxed when he made a record for Yu Xing, but with a straight face, although he was young, he also had a sense of daunting majesty.

"Can it be over?" Liu Ping's voice was a little hoarse, but he couldn't move the mineral water specially prepared for him on the table, like some kind of signal that he had not yet yielded.

"No, you haven't told the truth yet." Xiao Gu's tone was tough, and a pair of bloodshot eyes stared straight at Liu Ping.

He could see that Liu Ping was already very tired.

Not physically tired, but mental.

When a person's spirit is tired, it is difficult to continue to perform flawlessly, and after a while, Liu Ping's flawless rhetoric will definitely crack.

Many prisoners have played this trick, using language traps and half-truths and confessions to lead the police into the wrong direction. Everything they say is true, but when it comes together, it points to a lie that has been woven for a long time.

This kind of criminal is difficult to deal with, and every time you negotiate with such a criminal, it is a laborious thing, but Xiao Gu thought, Liu Ping forgot one thing-

Liu Ping is not a suspect who has a suspicion but lacks evidence for conviction, without evidence, they can only be temporarily detained for two days and then released, but Liu Ping ...... Carrying on his back is a conclusive evidence of attempted murder.

They have a lot of time to spend with Liu Ping, until Liu Ping can no longer hide his disguise.

The difficulty now is that the police are also in a hurry.

Captain Yu Jiaming has pressure, they also have it, Xiao Gu is exactly like this, he doesn't want the captain to be removed because of his and his teammates' lack of ability, so he looked at Liu Ping's gaze even colder.

"Even if I ask for another ten hours, I can't say anything I don't know, and are you suspected of extorting confessions by torture?" Liu Ping let out a chuckle from his dry throat, and finally couldn't bear the unbearable silence and took the initiative to speak.

"We provided you with water and food, and plenty of sleep, and we didn't touch you, where did we get the torture?" Xiao Gu blinked slowly, "You tell me, when did you have contact with the murderer of the throat-cutting case, and what he said, you don't have to go on anymore." ”

"I said I don't know!" Liu Ping's eyes were red, and he slammed the interrogation table, but he was blocked by the confinement on the chair and couldn't make more drastic movements.

Suddenly, the door of the interrogation room opened, and Xiao Gu, the middle-aged policeman, and Liu Ping all subconsciously looked at the door.

Gao Chang'an who came in.

Xiao Gu stood up, let out a long breath, and said with annoyance, "Deputy team...... I haven't asked yet. ”

"It's okay, you go out first, and then Yu Xing and I will judge it." Gao Changan's voice fell, Xiao Gu's mind was dull and stunned, and he thought in his heart:

Yu Xing? A familiar name, by the way, isn't that the enthusiastic citizen who saved Han Xinyi?

The next moment, he saw a tall and superior young man walking in behind the vice-captain.

It's really that enthusiastic citizen.

Yu Xing said hello to Xiao Gu, and saw Liu Ping, who was sitting in the chair, leaning back with a big change in face, as if he was a little scared.

He smiled at Liu Ping, Liu Ping's expression distorted for a moment, and he felt that the injuries on his body began to hurt again.

"You go out and watch." Gao Changan saw Liu Ping's reaction, and immediately urged Xiao Gu and another police officer to leave, and when the door of the interrogation room closed, a smile appeared on his face.

"Liu Ping, I have persevered for so long, I have a lot of perseverance."

Liu Ping said: "I don't know, I didn't insist. ”

He watched Yu Xing sit down opposite, and couldn't help but ask Gao Changan, "Why is he here?" Didn't you say that he was just passing by? ”

Liu Ping asked the police about Yu Xing's origin when he was first arrested, and he thought that he had provoked someone like a plainclothes special policeman, but the police told him -

This is an enthusiastic crowd, it's your bad luck!

Choked him out.

Before Gao Changan could answer, Yu Xing stretched out his hand and waved it, and greeted him with a smile: "Hey, meet again." ”

"......" Liu Ping really didn't dare to say anything to him, and Yu Xing's sudden arrival also caught Liu Ping off guard.

After that, Yu Xing began a very strange questioning, Gao Changan listened to the whole process, and the more he listened, the more energetic he became.

Yu Xing asked, "Do you like people who are weird in yin and yang?" ”

Liu Ping had a question mark in his head, he looked at Gao Changan, and found that Gao Changan had no meaning to speak, so he had to hold his breath and answer: "I don't like it." ”

"Then do you like people who are cold to you and look down on you at first glance?"

“…… Dislike. ”

Yu Xing became interested and looked very puzzled: "Since you don't like it, why do you have so many people in your company who don't let you like it, and you just set your target on Han Xinyi, who greets you with a smile?" ”

Liu Ping suddenly tensed up and returned to his original attitude of not advancing with oil and salt: "She laughs at everyone, and I want to destroy her when I look at it." ”

"Oh~" Yu Xing stretched his tone, and couldn't tell whether he believed it or not, "Then change the question, I heard that on the day you started, you deliberately asked for leave." ”

"Hmm." Liu Ping responded briefly.

"Then I'm surprised, as an office worker who has to take leave for murder, and lives not close to Han Xinyi's house, when did you find out all the surveillance on the road from the bookstore to Han Xinyi's house?" Yu Xing seemed to see through him, holding his chin with one hand, and his tone was calm and cheerful, "The police have checked the surveillance here, and on that day, you did not appear under any cameras, and all avoided them, which means that you are clear about the distribution of cameras." ”

"There weren't many cameras on that road, so it's not hard to remember." Liu Ping said in an incomprehensible tone, "I'm not mentally retarded, I have decided to kill someone, can't I even do this little thing?" ”

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows, looking sly: "In this way, then how do you explain that you were not in the surveillance in the previous month?" ”

Liu Ping was stunned.

"If you want to find out the monitoring position, at least step on it, right? Before you do it, you must have personally checked it a few times, but within a month, your figure has not been photographed by the surveillance, you...... I've never been to that street at all. Yu Xing stared at Liu Ping's expression for a moment of panic, and laughed, "Explain and explain? ”

……

In the end, Liu Ping gave a vague reason, and Yu Xing asked a lot of strange questions, and left the interrogation room with Gao Changan.

"Okay, you seem to have a greater deterrent power against Liu Ping than we do." Liu Ping, who had been biting to death and didn't speak, had a flaw, Gao Changan was very happy, and came out and patted Yu Xing's shoulder hard.

"People like him are not afraid of the police, and they are even more afraid of people like me who have beaten him." Yu Xing spread his hands and said to Gao Chang'an, "Today just made him panic, and if I ask again tomorrow, I should have a harvest." ”

Gao Changan nodded and calmed down. He felt that his decision was correct, and this person named Yu Xing, no matter what he did, could indeed bring him good news in this case.

Yu Xing touched his chin, and a picture flashed in his mind: "Next, I want to contact Han Xinyi again." ”

"Oh?"

"Liu Ping and Han Xinyi really haven't been in contact with the company? Of course, it is not enough to just listen to Liu Ping's words and the testimony of their colleagues in the company, Han Xinyi, as a victim, may have a unique perspective. Gao Changan agreed with his words very much, and if Yu Xing asked Han Xinyi, Han Xinyi would definitely not be resistant.

Gao Changan said: "Okay, remember to notify me as soon as you find anything." ”

Yu Xing planned to go to Han Xinyi, but as soon as he got out of the Public Security Bureau, he saw Han Xinyi standing on the side of the road, waiting for someone.

He looked at the kung fu in the past, Han Xinyi also looked over, and between the four eyes, Han Xinyi's eyes lit up little by little, she waved her hand at Yu Xing, and shouted happily: "Finally waiting for you!" ”

Yu Xing walked over, a little surprised: "Are you waiting for me?" ”

"Hmm!" Han Xinyi's eyes were crooked and she smiled sweetly, "I was going to go shopping in the mall today, but when I passed by here, I happened to see you enter the Public Security Bureau!" I just walked around the boutique across the street and wanted to wait for you to come out. ”

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows, as if he was a little surprised: "What are you waiting for me to do?" ”

"I ...... You saved my life, I haven't thanked you yet, I just went to work, I don't have any savings, I can't send you anything, I thought, can I invite you to drink a cup of milk tea. Han Xinyi blushed, "On the day of my accident, I entered a bookstore to hide from the rain, and the milk tea in that bookstore was super delicious!" Can you ...... Come with me. ”

She cautiously glanced at Yu Xing's face, and said, "Hmm...... I heard you have a girlfriend, could she be misunderstood? It's okay, she misunderstood that I can explain it to her, I just want to thank you! ”

Listening to this tea-filled speech, Yu Xing laughed secretly, and wanted to find an opportunity to ask Han Xinyi something, so he agreed immediately.

……

No matter how undercurrent is surging between the police and the murderer, and how-for-tat there is, the lives of ordinary people continue, except for the shadow of murder in their hearts, there is no other difference from before.

It's a sunny day, and the wind chimes in front of the bookstore make a pleasant sound from time to time, which is enough to see that this remote bookstore also has a lot of customers.

The male clerk went to the toilet, and when he walked to his place, the new front desk stopped him: "Zhang Yu, can you do me a favor and bring these two books to the criminal investigation area." ”

The little girl at the front desk handed him the two books and nodded politely.

Zhang Yu took it in silence and walked to the area where he worked with the book.

He was in a bad mood these days, and many things piled up in his heart that he couldn't understand, which made him upset.

Because of the sick leave of a day, Ran Ran did not come back to work the next day as the strange substitute female clerk said, but submitted her resignation to the boss and never came back again.

It is said that she came to the store to resign in person, and when she resigned, she was in good health and spoke naturally. So, Ran Ran didn't have an accident, but why resigned?

Zhang Yu didn't see Ran Ran that day because of the shift system, and after that, whether it was WeChat or other social software, all his information was lost in the sea, as if Ran Ran didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore.

Of course, it's self-inflicted to think so, because he asked other clerks, and there was no response to everyone's messages to Ran Ran, he was not special, he was just one of the former "colleagues".

Ran Ran has not updated her circle of friends recently, and she has never even returned to the address that Zhang Yu knows, so she moved directly.

It was as if she had evaporated from the world.

This is one of the worries, and there is another thing that makes Zhang Yu have to distract his attention from the people he comes into contact with every day.

On the day of Ran Ran's sick leave, the strange substitute female clerk inexplicably said to him, "You are very good-looking", and then when he saw a report about a throat-slitting killer at the door of Ran Ran's old residence, the phrase "The murderers killed young men with superior appearance" lingered in his mind.

He is indeed very good-looking, and the people who chased him in college can make a window in the cafeteria.

Ever since he knew the common characteristics of the victims of the throat-slitting case, the female clerk had taken root in his mind.

Zhang Yu, who has read a lot of crimes, always fantasizes in his heart that if the female clerk who doesn't know her name is the murderer of the throat cutting case...... Was what was said to him at that time a death threat?

In the same way, if the female clerk is the murderer, Ran Ran's abnormality can also be explained - she can be threatened or coerced by the murderer, or she can ...... Because you're friends with the murderer, it's become some kind of helping relationship?

Zhang Yu did not rule out this idea just because he liked Ran Ran, he never felt that the girl he liked was a pure white rabbit, on the contrary, every girl with deep thoughts has a more or less multifaceted personality.

He only prayed that Ran Ran would never go astray, and if he could stop in time, maybe everything would have room to turn around.

…… However, he also knew that all the speculations were unfounded, just his own whims.

Zhang Yu sighed, put the detective back in his hand, and then stood still by the bookshelf.

Just then, he caught a strange sight of color.

Before he could realize what it was, his scalp was already numb, and he turned his head in surprise to see that the side of the bookshelf, where he could only see for the time being, had scribbled a few words with a pencil.

"You'll be next."

The childlike brushstrokes brought Zhang Yu a creepy feeling, and he looked around like a fried cat, just at this moment, the wind chimes shook, and a slender back flashed from his sight.

It was a female customer who had just walked out of the store, and for some reason, Zhang Yu's eyes were glued to this back, and his heart was pounding because of nervousness - this back was so familiar.

The female guest seemed to feel something, and half of her face turned back.

The black mask covered her face below her nose, but those eyes with strange emotions were too impressive for Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu's pupils shrank, and he involuntarily took a step back.

He must have read it right, this is the substitute female clerk!

What is she here for? She was also dressed in the clothes of a regular customer and wearing a mask, avoiding everyone in the store who might recognize her.

Before she left, the threatening words "You'll be next" appeared in his work area!

The woman seemed to smile, stopped looking at him, and disappeared from the door of the shop.

The next moment, Yu Xing and Han Xinyi walked in through the glass door that had not yet closed.

Han Xinyi's whole person looked excited, pointed to the criminal investigation area and introduced Yu Xing: "This is it, the milk tea here is very delicious, the books are also good, I like to sit there and watch the detective ...... Hey? ”

She paused in her tone, and Yu Xing followed her finger and just saw a male clerk who seemed to have just been frightened.

The corners of Yu Xing's mouth slowly hooked, and his eyes were full of interest.