"Can I do it now, Captain Zhu?" I asked with a smile.

Captain Zhu nodded, "Okay, I'll write a report later." ”

"Thank you." I motioned for him to step away, but he only took a few symbolic steps back and stood still.

I held the rune paper in my right hand and drew a talisman in the air with my left hand, recited a complex incantation, threw the rune paper on the car, and then folded my hands together and quickly recited the incantation.

With a "boom-" sound, the sea engulfed the truck, blazing, and the fire was dazzling, but there was no particularly burning and hot feeling.

I kept chanting the incantation, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger, fortunately it was some distance from the office building, otherwise I was really afraid of alarming those colleagues, after all, Zhu Chen had never greeted them.

After a minute, I stopped chanting the mantra and walked over to Zhu Chen.

He looked at me with a look of amazement, "How long does this have to burn?" ”

"It's not about melting the wagon completely, it's just burning off the evil aura that remains on it."

When I explained this, he nodded in surprise, "I see, I thought I was going to burn the whole car." ”

I couldn't help but smile awkwardly, but I blamed myself for not explaining it at the time, because it would be a big project to burn the whole car down, and it was completely unnecessary.

After a few minutes, the fire disappeared instantly, as if someone had pressed the pause button, and there was no transition process as the fire gradually weakened.

"It's okay here, can I go and see Mike's body?" I turned my face and asked Zhu Chendao.

Zhu Chen nodded, "Let's go, let's go over and take a look, it should be okay, the forensic doctor has also finished handling it, and the formalities have been completed." ”

When I saw Mike's body in the forensic lab, my heart felt like it had been torn apart.

His head was separated from his body, and because the impact was so violent that his head could not be stitched together completely, the medical examiner had tried his best to reluctantly sew them together, but the abruptness was still visible at a glance.

I think we've been working together for the past few days, and I made an appointment with him to go to dinner last night, so now I feel very uncomfortable to see him lying in front of me like this.

Zhu Chen sensed that I was in a bad mood, and he silently patted my back to comfort me.

I turned around and smiled at him, eased my emotions and said, "I really didn't expect that after only ten hours of separation, he would become like this, I really can't bear such a picture." ”

Zhu Chen frowned and nodded.

"I'll see if his soul is under control, but I think it's about the same as the truck driver." I frowned and walked over to the side and sat down cross-legged, beginning to sense his soul.

Soon I stood up and said to Zhu Chen in disappointment, "Sure enough, as I expected, his soul has also been controlled, it seems that the other party has already made all the preparations to cut off all the clues, their souls are controlled, and it is estimated that they will be completely destroyed soon, that is, they will be beaten by demons, and they will not even have the opportunity to be reincarnated." ”

"What a terrible trick!" Zhu Chen said angrily, "Those guys don't know where they are hiding now. ”

"Clues will emerge little by little, let's deal with the current situation first, I think we will be able to find their traces soon."

At this time, a policeman came in and said that the family had also signed the formalities, and asked Zhu Chen if he could let them go back first, after all, he had been here for a day, and he was worried that their bodies and emotions would not be able to bear it.

Zhu Chen said to me, "Why don't you go over and meet his family, and you might be able to get some other clues from them." ”

I nodded and followed Zhu Chen and the police, and went out.

In the reception room, I met Mike's parents, as well as his sister and brother-in-law, all four of them were crying with red and swollen eyes, and they still can't believe that Mike died in a car accident, and his body is separated, which is really miserable.

I expressed my regret and sorrow to them, and then tried to communicate with them, asking them to recall if there were any unusual behaviors or words or actions in the past.

But they recalled that Mike had been busy working on the design of my bar all this time, working late every day and coming back, but even later he would talk to his parents, and his sister and brother-in-law lived somewhere else, and they would talk to them on the phone these days.

In short, knowing that Mike did not have any abnormal behavior before the accident, this proves that Mike's accident was planned a long time ago, and the truck driver was selected temporarily, even if there was no car accident, Mike would have been killed in other tragic ways.

After chatting with the family members for a while, Zhu Chen and I sent them out of the police station, and it was almost 12 o'clock in the evening.

"You can go back and rest, you've been going back and forth here all day." Zhu Chen said with concern.

I shook my head and frowned and looked into the distance, "I'm going to go over to the studio and have a look." ”

"To the studio?" Zhu Chen raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Yes, that's where he works, and I'm going to see if there's any evil aura, and if the mysteriously missing manuscript is hidden in the studio, or if there are some hints in the studio that will allow me to find out the whereabouts of the design manuscript."

"Alright, I'll come with you."

On the way, Zhu Chen called his colleagues in the studio and wanted to ask them for the keys to the studio, but he didn't expect that the members of the three studios stayed in the studio and never left.

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Chen looked at me and said in a deep voice, "It seems that Mike's sudden death is also a big blow to the members of the studio." ”

"Yes, he's the core of the team, and although he didn't show them the blueprints in advance for the sake of rules, it didn't affect their working relationship at all, and they all said that Max's people were very good."

The studio is located on a street close to the suburbs, where the rent is cheaper, so it is very suitable to do a studio.

Zhu Chen drove for a long time before we arrived, and it was already past 12 o'clock at this time, and the whole street had been quiet, only the street lights illuminated the calm road.

When we arrived at the studio, I saw those three tired and painful faces, and my heart immediately became sour.

"I've worked hard for you guys to stay here, and I'm saddened by Mike's sudden death, but I still have to say a word of condolences."

The studio man nodded at me, pulled out a chair for us to sit down, and poured us hot water.

They said that Mike always carried the design with him, and he was a very serious person who would take out the design drawings from time to time to revise and compare, and sometimes when inspiration came suddenly, he would immediately return to the studio and call them all together for a meeting.

But now that he's gone so suddenly, they only know the general framework of the bar's design, and if they want to continue his design, it will take them at least two days to rearrange and piece it together.

I said that I will continue to use their team to do the design, and there is no limit to their time, and they are very grateful.

"Where do you think that design manuscript is going?" When I asked this question, the three of them immediately shook their heads blankly.

"Could it be that after a car accident, the design fell to the scene and was picked up by passers-by, or the police accidentally lost the design manuscript while cleaning up the scene?"

As soon as his guess came out, another member immediately retorted, "It's impossible, the police, the inspector won't even shed a hair when investigating the scene, how can he lose a design manuscript, not to mention that if someone passes by the scene and is already scared, how dare they come and pick up something?" ”

The mustachioed member next to him, who had rarely spoken, opened his mouth faintly, "I wonder if this is a conspiracy?" Someone who is jealous of his talent, and who knows that he is now designing a bar, wants to cause a car accident to kill him, take his manuscripts, and completely make his rival disappear from the face of the earth forever. ”

As soon as he said this, the other two members looked at him in surprise, but soon their expressions became calmer and they nodded.

"Makes sense."

"And who do you think is the one who competes with him? Can you make a list, I call the police, and the police will help me investigate? ”

"Okay, the list can list a lot, but I don't know if the specific is reliable, and it is estimated that you will waste a lot of time in the investigation."

Zhu Chen smiled, "No, the investigation work we do is often to select one person from tens of thousands of people, or even more, the list you provide is nothing more than dozens of people, and we will be able to find out soon." ”

The members nodded, took a pen and paper and wrote down the names of what they thought might be their competitors.

Ten minutes later, they handed in the list, and I counted it, and there were 26 people in total.

I was secretly surprised, sure enough, it is that sentence, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, in the circle of design, Mike a designer has also set up so many competitors, it seems that his talent has indeed threatened many people's jobs and futures.

After chatting with them for a while, Zhu Chen and I drove away, and they also returned home.

In the car, Zhu Chen suddenly turned his face to look at me, "Do you really think this list is useful for investigation?" I mean, these are ordinary people, and even if it turns out that they are indeed jealous, or even hateful, towards Mike, it doesn't connect them to the murderer. ”

I smiled, "But don't forget that if these people are jealous of Mike, then he's probably going to be used by the devil." ”

Zhu Chen suddenly realized, "How did I forget this, and I owe it to you to remind me, okay, okay, I'll let them investigate as soon as I go back, and sort out the most suspicious person overnight." ”