Although Mu Zi had already rejected Xia Jinyu's kindness, the other party still pushed the bicycle and followed her all the way for a long distance.

Walking to an intersection, while waiting for the red light, Xia Jinyu patted the back seat of the bicycle and said to Mu Zi with a smile: "You better sit up, I'm tired of pushing the car all the way." ”

"Then you go back, I didn't let you follow me." Mu Zi said to Xia Jinyu duplicity, hoping that the other party would stop "pestering" her. Something like this tonight had happened to her many times, and she wasn't so fragile that she couldn't even accept the humiliation.

However, the other party seemed to follow her, shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively and said, "My family also lives in this direction, can't we go together?" ”

Deceitful! Mu Zi said in his heart. Although she has never returned home with Xia Jinyu, she often sees Xia Jinyu walking in the opposite direction when she gets out of school. However, she doesn't have the extra energy to reason with the other party now, she just wants to get home as soon as possible and lie down on a warm and comfortable bed for a good night's sleep. "Whatever you want." She sighed helplessly and said, "Anyway, it's none of my business that you came home late and were blamed by your parents." ”

The traffic lights at the intersection turned green, and the two people walked one after the other, looking like a young couple who were in love. Xia Jinyu asked Mu Zi without words, "There are still two months to go before the college entrance examination, have you thought about which university to apply for?" ”

"I want to go to Harbin Institute of Technology Architecture." Mu Zi already had the answer in his heart.

"Huh? I thought you wanted to go to school in Beijing. Xia Jinyu was quite surprised by this answer, "Your results seem to be able to challenge Tsinghua University, don't you plan to use these two months to sprint again?" ”

"Forget it." Mu Zi shook his head and said, "Although Tsinghua University is fascinating, for me, Beijing is not far away enough. I'm going to the northernmost city in China, far from home......"

Seeing a sad expression on Mu Zi's face, Xia Jinyu immediately understood what she meant. He didn't ask anything more, and the two of them fell silent.

After walking for more than half an hour, the house where Mu Zi's family lived faintly appeared in the hazy night. It was a slum-like place, with a messy environment, dilapidated houses, and a haunted feeling when you came home late at night. Fortunately, Mu Ziren is bold and has long been accustomed to the environment here, otherwise it would really be a fatal thing to go home from self-study every night.

Mu Zi was a little embarrassed to let Xia Jinyu see that he lived in such a place. Walking to the mouth of a small alley, she stopped, turned to her flower messenger and said, "Thank you, I'm here, you can go back." ”

Xia Jinyu looked at the gloomy environment around him and couldn't help frowning. "Uh......" he scratched his hair, "I'd better send you to the door." Here......" He didn't say any more, obviously feeling super uncomfortable with a girl walking like this at night.

"It's fine." Mu Zi smiled and said mockingly, "Don't worry, I've lived here for more than ten years, even if there are really lonely ghosts and ghosts around here, they all know me for a long time, and they won't come out to scare me." ”

"In the middle of the night, don't say such terrible things, okay?" Xia Jinyu swallowed nervously. He can barely cope with hooligans and other things, and ghost hunting is not his forte. "I'm worried that you're being bullied by bad people, you see how ...... you," he said, stopping his gaze on Mu Zi's slender and white thighs, and there was a slight commotion in his heart.

Mu Zi noticed Xia Jinyu's gaze that had not been taken away for a long time, and moved his body embarrassedly. "I'm really fine. I'm gone, goodbye! With that, he ran towards the dark alley.

"Hey! Wait for me! Xia Jinyu shouted, wanting to throw the bicycle aside and follow, but thinking that his relentless pursuit might make Mu Zi feel uncomfortable, so he had to give up.

When he was the only one left in the dark alley, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him was strange. When he was young, he had some terrible psychological shadows, and he was particularly taboo about ghosts and gods. Seeing that there was no one around, he hummed a song to give himself courage.

“Somewhere，over the rainbow，way up high，there's a land that I dreamed of，once in a lullabye……”

This song "Over the rainbow" is the theme song of the fairy tale musical film "The Wizard of Oz". When he was a child, Xia Jinyu often listened to his mother sing this song to him, and from time to time he would hum a couple of sentences on his lips.

The melodious singing is particularly ethereal in the silent alley. Xia Jinyu himself is a lot more relieved, but for the residents who hear the singing in the middle of the night, will this make people feel a little panicked?

A few minutes later, Xia Jinyu finally pushed the bicycle back to the brightly lit road. He breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the time, it was already past eleven o'clock. Mu Zi's family lives in completely different directions from his house, and now I am afraid that I will not be able to get home until 12 o'clock when I ride back. He patted his head in frustration, thinking to himself how he would explain to his family when he got home. Seeing that they hadn't returned so late, they must have been very worried about themselves.

Thinking about it, he took out his mobile phone from his schoolbag and found that there were two missed calls from home on it. He just wanted to call back the phone and tell his family that he was safe. At that moment, he heard a sudden rush of panicked footsteps behind him. He glanced back in surprise and saw Mu Zi running towards him in a panic, with a frightened expression on his face and undried tears hanging from the corners of his eyes.

"What's ......" Before Xia Jinyu finished speaking, Mu Zi threw himself into his arms and said to him incoherently: "Dead, dead...... The eyes are bleeding...... It's horrible......"

"Who died? What's going on? Xia Jinyu grabbed Mu Zi's shoulder, removed her from his arms, looked nervously into her eyes and asked, "What did you see?" ”

"I, I just went home......" Mu Zi breathed two breaths of relief, and his mood gradually stabilized. When I got home, I saw that the door of my neighbor's house was not closed tightly, and the sound of a child crying could be faintly heard inside. I was curious, so I went to the door and took a look, and it turned out ......"

"How did it turn out?"

"It turned out that there were two dead people in the house, and they looked so horrible."

"You're on-site?"

"Hmm." Mu Zi nodded, "I went in and took a look out of curiosity......" She paused, and the panicked expression on her face showed again. "I've never seen a murder scene before, it turned out to be like that, it's terrible......"

"Are you sure they were killed?"

"Of course, suicide doesn't look like that."

"What's the matter with the child's cry?"

"I don't know, I was scared and didn't pay attention to it."

"Did you call the police?"

"Not yet, I ......" Mu Zi lowered his head in shame, feeling that his performance was too uncool. At this time, Xia Jinyu reached out and touched Mu Zi's head, smiled at her gently, and comforted her: "It's okay, with me, it's fine." After saying that, he dialed the police.

Mu Zi raised her head and glanced at Xia Jinyu, and the other party's composure made her feel very relieved. She was a little surprised at the maturity of a boy her age in the face of such a horrific thing. Then she thought that Xia Jinyu was the son of the director of the R City Public Security Bureau, and the tutor she received since she was a child must be very different from her......

Twenty minutes later, a group of people from the criminal police detachment of R City hurriedly arrived at the scene of the crime.

Xia Jinyu and Mu Zi had already stood guard at the door of Room 103, where the body was found, to prevent others from entering without permission and destroying the traces of the scene. During the waiting period, Xia Jinyu always held Mu Zi's hand, which made Mu Zi feel at ease and was also grateful for his company.

While Qi Ruonan, Forensic Doctor Chen and others entered the indoor investigation scene, Qiao Sheng strode towards the two informants, intending to get a preliminary understanding of the situation from them first.

Seeing that one of the two informants turned out to be Director Xia's son, Xia Jinyu, Qiao Sheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then looked at Mu Zi with a puzzled gaze, revealing an incredible expression and asking, "Jin Yu?" How did you end up here? ”

Xia Jinyu hadn't seen Qiao Sheng for a long time, and after reacting for a few seconds, he squeezed out a hint of an embarrassed smile and said, "Brother Qiao, it's been a long time." ”

"I remember you're still in high school, right? Why didn't you come home in the middle of the night and come to this place? ”

"Well...... Xia Jinyu scratched his nose a little embarrassedly and explained, "I sent my classmates home, and I just happened to encounter this...... Oh, her name is Mu Zi, and she is a student in the third and second classes of the No. 1 Experimental Middle School in R City. Xia Jinyu added.

Suddenly, Qiao Sheng leaned into his ear and whispered, "Shouldn't you two be in love?" ”

"Nothing like that." Xia Jinyu smiled and waved his hand. Although he did not deny that he had some affection for Mu Zi, in front of his elders, he did not dare to show the truth easily. In case Qiao Sheng told his parents that he was in early love at school, it would not be easy for him to deal with it.

Qiao Sheng said "um" suspiciously, and did not continue to investigate the matter of the two little ghosts, but said to Mu Zi: "You were the first person to find the body?" The victim is your neighbor? ”

Mu Zi looked at Qiao Sheng a little nervously, and then turned his head to look at Xia Jinyu, who nodded at her, meaning that she should not be afraid, and it would be okay to say one thing at a time.

Mu Zi roughly recounted the discovery of the body to Qiao Sheng. Hearing that there had been a child's crying at the scene of the crime, Qiao Sheng suddenly felt that the situation was not good. At this time, Qi Ruonan suddenly leaned out from the door of room 103 and shouted: "Team Qiao, we found two children in the bedroom at the scene, this case may be a bit troublesome......"

Qiao Sheng frowned, called one of his subordinates and said, "Xiaolin, you take them back to the team to make a record first, and I'll go inside to see the situation." ”

"Yes, Team Joe." Zhao Xiaolin responded, and then said to Mu Zi and Xia Jinyu, "You two should go with me first." ”