"I heard that you are going to spend the night in the criminal police team, so I came to see you." The man said and sat down beside Xia Jinyu.

Xia Jinyu caught a little cold, sneezed, wrapped the blanket around her body and said, "I don't believe that you came to see me specifically." You're here to find out about the case, right? ”

The man shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, "You're right. The two children found at the scene of the crime have been brought to the criminal police team. I'd like to see them for a while, hoping that they can give the police some valuable clues. ”

"Kid?" Xia Jinyu's eyes widened and he asked in surprise, "Are there really children at the scene of the crime?" ”

The man inexplicably "Huh? "Why, you two reported the case, don't you know what the scene is?" ”

Mu Zi immediately explained: "I found the body. At that time, I saw that the door of room 103 was not closed tightly, and the crying of children could be faintly heard inside. I was curious, pushed the door in and took a look and was scared away. Later, when we waited outside for the police to come, we didn't hear the child's voice again. I thought I had misheard......"

"No, you heard me right." The man replied with a serious face, "There are indeed two children in the bedroom at the scene of the crime, and you should hear their voices." It is estimated that later on, the child was tired of crying, and it was not until the police entered that they found the two of them. ”

"So......" Mu Zi frowned thoughtfully, "When I found the body, maybe the murderer had just left the scene of the crime?" ”

"I don't rule out the possibility of this. However, the exact time of the crime will not be determined until the autopsy report from the medical examiner comes out. ”

Thinking that when he and Xia Jinyu were walking on the way home, the murderer might have just finished killing someone and was wandering around there, Mu Zi couldn't help but feel a little afraid in his heart. If she hadn't been pestered by a few bad boys in Class 4 when she got out of school, and had returned home earlier, wouldn't she have bumped into the murderer directly?

"Muzi." The man interrupted her ramblings and continued, "Are there many residents in that building?" The crime scene is on the first floor, why didn't anyone notice the anomaly before you and call the police? ”

"Huh?" Mu Zi came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "Not much." The residential buildings in that area are very old, more and more people are moving out of them, and some of the buildings are basically unoccupied. The building I live in should add up to no more than five households. ”

"Do you know anything about the neighbors in room 103? For example, do you know what they do? How long did you stay there or something? ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know very well. All I know is that they have only moved in the last six months, and it seems to be a middle-aged couple. However, I am now in my third year of high school, and I am very nervous about studying, and I go out early and return late every day, and I basically don't see them in person. ”

"Didn't you notice that they had two children at home?"

"I've never seen it, but I've occasionally heard a child crying, and I'm not sure which one it came from." Mu Zi answered the man's question one by one. When she realized that she seemed to be being questioned by the police again, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "By the way, may I ask who you are?" ”

The man was stunned for a moment, thinking that he hadn't formally introduced himself yet, so he hurriedly stretched out a hand to shake Mu Zi and said, "My name is Xia Shi, a newly transferred member of the R City Criminal Police Detachment, and I am also Xia Jinyu's brother. ”

Hearing this, Mu Zi felt even more curious. She looked with interest at the two people sitting across from her, and saw that their appearances had little in common.

Officer Xia's skin is a little dark, although he is not very good-looking, but he is full of manliness and gives people a cool feeling. And Xia Jinyu, with white and tender skin and delicate facial features, is a weak white-faced scholar no matter how you look at it. If you don't specifically state it, probably no one can tell that these two people are brothers.

In the next few minutes, Xia Shi learned some more about the crime scene from Mu Zi. After asking these questions, he called Xia Jinyu outside the corridor and whispered a few words alone.

"Jin Yu, this matter has nothing to do with you tonight, right? Why do you always like to be nosy? ”

"It's not entirely okay, is it? In that situation at that time, no one would be able to bear to leave her alone as a girl. ”

"Then why don't you go home now? Isn't the matter settled? Xia Shi looked at Xia Jinyu with stern eyes, and asked suspiciously, "Do you like that girl named Muzi?" You two can't be ......?"

"Nope!" Xia Jinyu replied impatiently, "We are not in a relationship, and it is not a question of whether we like it or not." I just can't bear to let a girl face these things alone, let alone Muzi...... The situation in her family is a bit peculiar, and I don't want to see her being bullied or hurt in any way. ”

"You've been like this for so many years. Obviously, he has suffered so much damage, but he is always thinking about the misfortune of others. Xia Shi sighed and lit a cigarette. I'm not a dad and won't blame you for anything. I just want to remind you that there are less than two months to go before the college entrance examination, so you should put more effort into your studies. After this time, no one cares what you want. ”

"I know, I'm not lazy......" Xia Jinyu turned his head sideways, trying not to think about what Xia Shi mentioned.

"Alright." Xia Shi didn't want to be too long-winded, patted Xia Jinyu on the back and said, "You hurry up and go in and rest, I'll go to work." ”

After the brothers separated, Xia Shi came to Qiao Sheng's office. The two children have been brought here from the scene of the crime, and they are temporarily taken care of by Qi Ruonan. The children had changed into brand new clothes, and their faces and hair were cleanly combed, and they did not look like little beggars at all.

The technical department has already taken the child's DNA to compare it with the two victims, and the results will have to wait for some time. It is estimated that the child was injured like this, and it is unlikely that it is the victim's own flesh and blood, and it should be the missing child that they obtained through illegal means.

The little girl was blind, and when the crime occurred, she only heard some voices, and did not see the murderer's murder, so her heart was not affected too much. She lay on the couch and fell asleep peacefully, but the boy who witnessed the terrible scene did not feel sleepy at all. He curled up in the corner of the couch, his eyes staring at the fruit bowl on the coffee table, his gaze glazed over.

"How's it going?" Xia Shi walked in lightly, looked at the two children on the sofa and asked.

Qi Ruonan yawned, with an unconcealable tiredness on his face. "Xiaofang is okay, she fell asleep after coaxing for a while. But what about Xiaojie......" She turned her head to look at the boy beside her, sighed helplessly and said, "He was frightened, he refused to sleep no matter how he coaxed, and I can't do anything about him now." ”

"He must have seen the murderer, right?" Xia Shi dragged a chair over and sat down across from the boy.

"I guess I saw it. But he couldn't speak, he couldn't write, and he couldn't describe to us what the situation was like. ”

"But children usually draw, right? We can try to ask him to draw what he saw at the time, and maybe it will give us some hints. ”

"Do you mean now?" Qi Ruonan said worriedly, "Xiaojie hasn't recovered from the fright yet, and it's probably not easy for him to cooperate with our work." I'd like to get a child psychologist to help me figure it out when it's dawn. ”

"You go get me a pen and paper, I want to try it first."

"What?" Qi Ruonan was stunned for a moment, a little unbelieving his ears. In her impression, Officer Xia is a cool brother who is not good at talking, and such a careful and considerate errand to coax a child should not be able to fight him, and she didn't expect him to take the initiative to make this request.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear me? Seeing that Qi Ruonan hadn't moved for a long time, Xia Shi urged her again. The latter responded, and hurriedly went to Qiao Sheng's desk and took a blank piece of paper and a signature pen.

"Xiaojie." Xia Shi touched the boy's hair, and a smile appeared on his face that was rarely seen on weekdays. "Why don't you sleep at such a late hour?"

Xiao Jie curled up in the corner of the sofa, and when he heard someone talking to him, he raised his head and stared at Xia Shi with a pair of bulging eyes. Xia Shi continued to ask him, "Did you not sleep because you were afraid?" ”

Xiao Jie nodded slowly, and the whole person was still as wooden as a stone.

"Brother, can you teach you a magical magic now?" Xia Shi said to him mysteriously, "As long as you use my magic, you can forget all those terrible things in your mind, do you want to try it?" Xia Shi said and handed over the pen and paper, patiently explaining: "These two items have been very powerful by me, as long as you draw the things you are afraid of on this paper, they will never trouble you again." How about we, let's try it? ”

After saying this, Xia Shi and Qi Ruonan were nervously waiting for Xiaojie's reaction.

After a stalemate for a moment, Xiaojie suddenly reached out and took the paper and pen handed by Xia Shi, lay on the coffee table and began to draw as he wanted.

Qi Ruonan looked at this scene in surprise, and couldn't help but be impressed by Xia Shi. Sure enough, people can't be seen, she never dreamed that this usually cold man would have such a gentle and lovely side.

Ten minutes later, Xiaojie put the signing pen on the coffee table and held up a very messy painting for Xia Shi to see, and Qi Ruonan also came over curiously.

Because Xiaojie is too young and has received a very limited education, the things he draws are not very recognizable. But after careful observation for a while, Qi Ruonan still saw what Xiaojie was drawing.

It was a room with a wardrobe standing by the wall and a large bed in the middle. There was an adult and two children lying on the bed, and that was the scene when he was sleeping in the bedroom with Xiaofang and the victim.

There was a man standing next to the bed, and in Xiao Jie's painting, it was impossible to see what the proportions of that person's body looked like. However, what is more striking is that the person painted by Xiaojie has very strange facial features. It didn't seem to be a human face, the eyes were like two bottomless hollows, and two rows of huge teeth were exposed, extending to the ears, taking up half of the face.

"How can anyone look like this?" Qi Ruonan looked at Xia Shi in surprise and asked, thinking that even if the painting doesn't look like it, it should be able to see the human facial features.

Xia Shi touched his chin, shook his head slowly, and said, "No, what Xiaojie saw was not the murderer's face, it might just be a mask." ”

"Masks?" Qi Ruonan took a closer look at the painting again, and suddenly said with an "oh" of realization, "This face seems to be a bit like death." ”

"That's right." Xia Shi said approvingly, "Judging from this situation, the murderer probably wore a mask of death when he committed the crime......