Humility, elegance, kindness, and gentleness are all disguises you make in order to survive, and when the world can't see through you, it's not that you have really become that kind of person, but that your disguise is thick enough, and when I peel back the layers without saying anything, your murderous humanity is as terrifying as the bloody heart in his hand.

- Innocent Sinners, Volume II

Half a month has passed since the case of the ghost castle, and it has a perfect ending, the police have made Hu Haiqing confess without much effort through my video record of solving the case, and what awaits her will be a fair capital punishment by law.

And for a while, my case-solving video was also frantically reprinted in major media, the police awarded me the "Righteousness and Courage Award", it is said that there is a bonus, although the bonus has not yet arrived, but almost instantly I became a celebrity in the city, friends, mentors, leaders, classmates' condolence calls made me extremely frightened, reporters from various media have found my door, I was turned away, but life seems to be completely monitored, and even occasionally go out to "let off" will be followed by the paparazzi, helpless, I decided to stay at home to avoid this "limelight", and wait for the "wind" to subside, and then make other plans.

When I "got it" one by one, I thought I could spend a quiet noon and take a good look at medical research in my one-bedroom rental room, but at this time, the door of my apartment was knocked again.

My spirit has been being ravaged by madness recently, the door of the apartment is exaggerated to be smashed by reporters and admirers, probably because the weather is getting hot, there is no air conditioning in the room to relieve me from the heat, my mood is particularly irritable, directly learn the barking of a mad dog towards the gate for a burst of roaring.

"What? Dr. Liu, you are so famous that you don't dare to meet people? ”

The sound outside the door was familiar and pleasant, with a hint of playfulness, and I immediately noticed that I was a little out of shape, and hurriedly walked over to open the door.

At the door, standing was the cute policewoman who solved the case in the ghost castle, Zhao Yumeng.

At this time, Zhao Yumeng was wearing a police uniform, standing straight, dressed fairly, wearing a police hat and pressing his hair to the sides, holding a briefcase in his hand, his face was natural, his breath was normal, he didn't see any sweat on his face, and the high heels he was wearing on his feet had less obvious friction on the toe of his right foot, which seemed to be coming by car, and he was driving an automatic transmission.

Compared with Zhao Yumeng's neat police uniform, I have a messy head, an otaku image, wearing the Mickey Mouse pajamas that Song Yao bought for me, and big pants...... cartoon slippers, standing opposite Zhao Yumeng in high heels, visually seems to be a lot worse.

"How...... You're going to keep me standing outside? Because of my dress and temperament, I was a little embarrassed, but I kept scanning Zhao Yumeng's whole body with wide eyes, but Zhao Yumeng smiled, looked me up and down, and asked playfully.

"No, no, no, please come in, I'm a small house, I'm a little stunned to see you suddenly dressed so formally."

Zhao Yumeng's emotional intelligence is very high, and he can immediately relieve me from embarrassment, I immediately gave way and introduced the temperament policewoman in front of me into my home, although it is smaller, but there is a room and a living room, and it can still accommodate another person.

Zhao Yumeng smiled and walked into my living room of only six square meters, sat on the sofa casually, I poured a glass of water for her, and I was embarrassed to sit directly next to this temperamental policewoman, so I simply sat on the ground.

"Dr. Liu, as a doctor, you are too ......"

Zhao Yumeng saw me sitting on the ground casually, seeing that my current appearance may not be able to integrate with the confident state when he solved the case, he covered his mouth and smiled, and he didn't know how to describe me for a while.

I smiled awkwardly and immediately said humorously: "This is to ask guests to sit down, and then I am a graduate student, not a doctor." Officer Zhao is here today? ”

"I'm here to send you money, this is your bonus, Team Chen applied for it, if it weren't for you, the ghost castle case wouldn't have been solved so quickly."

Zhao Yumeng returned to his formal suit, took out a stack of renminbi from his briefcase, which seemed to have the amount of four or five thousand, tied tightly by a red stripe, and put it on the coffee table casually, and took out a document to be signed and put it on the table.

"By the way, help me write down the proof of receiving money, the bonus is 5000, don't be too little, the public funds are nervous."

Zhao Yumeng looked at me with a smile, those big eyes revealed curiosity to me, this temperament girl showed me curious eyes, so I couldn't help but look at her a few more times, for a while, my heartbeat accelerated, in order to make Zhao Yumeng unable to see the clues, I immediately picked up the pen and documents, ready to sign.

At this moment, Zhao Yumeng's phone suddenly rang.

"Huh, Team Chen? Yes, I'll give him a bonus at Liu Xia's house. What the? Okay, I'll come over right now. ”

Zhao Yumeng's expression changed from smiling to flat to nervous, and I could guess that something had happened.

Zhao Yumeng immediately got up, threw down the sentence "I'll come back again" with a serious face, and immediately walked towards the door.

"Is there a case?"

Seeing Zhao Yumeng's mental reaction, I guessed the content at once, and before Zhao Yumeng left the hall, I hurriedly asked her to be silent in front of the door.

"Well, homicide."

"Take me with you, won't you? Maybe it can help you. ”

Zhao Yumeng's face was grim, it didn't seem to be an ordinary homicide case, when I thought of this, my blood boiled a little, and I took the initiative to ask for help again.

Zhao Yumeng hesitated for a few seconds, looked me up and down, nodded at me with a little hesitation and said, "This ...... All right. You change your clothes first, and Team Chen and I will ask for instructions. ”

Hearing Zhao Yumeng's words, Sa Huan and I seemed to run back to the bedroom, changed into a casual summer suit as quickly as possible, blue shirt and black pants, breathable leather shoes in one go, and rushed into the bathroom to pick up a wooden comb to quickly tidy up.

In three minutes, from Zhao Yumeng's face, in addition to seeing anxiety, I also saw a new surprise for me, there was no time to talk nonsense, Zhao Yumeng and I immediately left the apartment and walked towards the scene of the crime.

The scene of the crime was not far from my home, and Zhao Yumeng drove for less than 20 minutes to park in a small area called "Beijing-Shanghai-Haicheng".