"Call Officer Hu quickly!" Guo Hongyi, who was the first to regain his composure, said, Officer Hu, who had been investigating for a day, had already closed the team, and I was the only one who had his phone, so I quickly took out my mobile phone to find Officer Hu's number, I felt that my fingers were very stiff, were they frozen? Was it frightened by Xin Yi's corpse? Is it panic knowing that the murderer will continue to kill? I didn't know the answer myself, so I finally dialed Officer Hu's phone

"Hey, Officer Hu, I..."

Before I could finish speaking, Officer Hu interrupted angrily

"Boy, I just went to the police station to make a report, and then I came home, you can tell me anything, if you dare to tell me that there is another dead person over there, I will beat you!"

"Officer Hu, there are dead people here again, come here!"

"! Don't spoil the scene again this time! Officer Hu scolded, looking very impatient, but he still said that he would come over soon.

Officer Hu's home was far away from here, and it took us a 30-minute drive to get there, during which time we were very obedient and motionless, and did not destroy the scene.

We were really motionless, standing for half an hour in the cold wind of the northeast winter night, but no one felt cold, because fear has made us experience the chill from the bones, just a cold wind, it is nothing, to my surprise, Xin Yi is not unimportant to Ke Hezi, she cried for 30 minutes, her makeup was spent, and her eyes were swollen, but her crying, mourning but not complaining, did not seem to be crying a lover, but crying a friend with a very good relationship.

When Officer Hu arrived, he did not express impatience with the case as he did on the phone, but first asked us seriously

"There wasn't a broken ring scene this time, did you?"

After receiving our affirmative answer, Officer Hu decisively asked people to cordon off the scene and began to investigate, and when he noticed the "i" on the root of the tree, he asked vigilantly, no, should say suspiciously

"Did you tell anyone the details of this morning's case?"

All four of us in the detective group guaranteed that there was no at all, Guo Hongyi said

"Officer Hu, if you tell us not to disclose the case to others, of course we won't talk nonsense."

Jiang Junqian also said

"Yes, and even if you don't have that order, we wish we had forgotten about this kind of thing, how could we tell anyone else?"

Bai Zhi, Wang Jing, and Qu Lian also said that they were absolutely not talking nonsense, and Officer Hu rolled his eyes and said

"Outsiders don't know that there was a K next to Roy's body at that time, and this case has a letter i, so there is no possibility of imitating the murder, and the murderer is the same person."

Officer Hu hesitated for a moment and said again

"Or rather, this case was done by someone who knows the details of the case, and deliberately left letters here to confuse the attention of the police, so that we think that this case and the first case were committed by the same person, so as to clear the suspicion."

"I guess the second inference is impossible." Zhang Kexin said

Officer Hu glanced at Zhang Kexin, who was still holding Ke Hezi, and asked with a little suspicion

"Why do you say that?"

Guo Hongyi explained for Zhang Kexin

"Because we knew that there was a letter "K" in that case, only a few of us, even Xia Nanxing didn't know, but the deceased's girlfriend was still on the phone with him at about 7 o'clock, and each of us heard it, he was an hour away from here at the time, so the time of his death should have been after 8 o'clock, but between 7 and 8 o'clock, we people have been partying together all the time, and we have never left, until Xin Yi's body was found just now. ”

Officer Hu asked a little puzzled

"Why did you hear her on the phone with the deceased?"

I told Officer Hu about Ke Hezi asking Xin Yi to buy smoothies and calling for speakerphone, and Officer Hu glanced at Ke Hezi with dissatisfaction after listening, which shows that he is also very disgusted with this wayward eldest lady.

Officer Hu glanced around Xin Yi's corpse and turned his head to ask

"So, what about smoothies? How not? ”

Hearing what Officer Hu said, I noticed that there was indeed no smoothie near the corpse that Ke Hezi wanted, I shook my head blankly, and Officer Hu called Xiao Li and said

"You, now drive to the store they said and ask what's going on!"

After Xiao Li agreed, he hurriedly drove to the Western District, and Officer Hu looked at the depressed appearance of a few of us, and said comfortingly

"It's hard for you, too."

"Officer Hu, if we are not suspicious, can we find a warm place to rest first? I feel that Miss Kohko is already very weak. Zhang Kexin asked.

Officer Hu nodded, let's go back to the gymnasium to warm up our bodies first, and when the results of the investigation come out, we will still ask us something, Zhang Kexin walked back to the gymnasium directly with Ke Hezi in the way of a princess hug, Ke Hezi cried, his hands were tightly wrapped around Zhang Kexin's neck, it seemed that now for her, Zhang Kexin is the only one to rely on, and the others also walked towards the gymnasium, Guo Hongyi noticed that I was still standing motionless, pulled me and asked

"Yang'er, why don't you leave?"

"You go back first, and I'll discuss the case with Officer Hu."

Guo Hongyi looked at me, then at Xin Yi's corpse, nodded understandingly, and said

"Okay, I got it."

After the others returned to the gymnasium, Officer Hu also noticed that I hadn't left yet, lit a cigarette and said

"I know you're not leaving, let me ask you, did you hear that wayward woman on the phone with the deceased just now?"

I didn't speak, just nodded.

"Are you sure it wasn't a pre-prepared recording?"

I nodded again

"It definitely won't be a recording, I'm sure the deceased was still alive at 7 o'clock."

"Okay." Officer Hu asked, pointing to the "i".

"Do you have any thoughts on this letter?"

I didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically

"Officer Hu, do you know King?"

Officer Hu said with a smoke ring

"When investigating the first case this morning, someone seemed to have said that this one was called King, and in a sense he was killed by the deceased Roy."

"Well, the first murder appeared K, and the second murder appeared i, if the murderer is really the same person, it means..."

"It shows that he wants to kill four people and get together King."

What Officer Hu said is what I am most worried about at this time, although I don't know what the relationship between the murderer and King is, but if he really intends to kill two more people, I must catch him no matter what.

After discussing for a few minutes, Officer Hu asked me to go back to the gymnasium to rest first, don't be too reluctant, I didn't refuse too much, when I was about to leave, the police officers were almost done with the scene investigation, they slowly put down Xin Yi's body, my body walked in the direction of the gymnasium, but my head was twisted, my eyes stared directly at Xin Yi's body, and when he slowly landed, my heart was also heavy to the extreme.

After returning to the gymnasium, everyone was like a frosted eggplant, silent, at this time Ke Hezi was not crying as seriously as before, I carefully observed her, her eyes were already very swollen, clenched her fists, she couldn't be wrong, this pain, those tears, were not pretended, she really felt sad for Xin Yi's death.

After I sat down, Guo Hongyi took the initiative to ask

"Hey, Yang'er, the previous K, this time's i... Could it be a King? ”

After Guo Hongyi asked, the others also looked at me expectantly, it seems that they have also thought of this layer, but Qu Lian, who has always been thought to be able to avenge King, has no time to commit the crime at all, so who will it be, and the relationship with King is good enough to kill for him?

Wang Jing asked timidly

"Is it possible that Big Brother King's fool around has come back for revenge?"

This kind of nonsense makes me a little disgusted, if it weren't for Wang Jing's mouth, I might have scolded her, Ke Hezi said even more emotionally

"There are no ghosts in this world! Even if there really is! Senior King has no grievances with Xiaoyi, why kill him! It must be some madman who stupidized Xiaoyi! ”

Wang Jing was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak anymore, and lowered her head and was silent.

I was a little surprised by Ke Hazi's words

"Senior? Xiaoyi? Such respectful and intimate words actually came from the mouth of Ke Hezi? Could it be that her usual high-minded attitude towards others and all kinds of difficulties for Xin Yi are all pretended? "Me

After Wang Jing stopped talking, the room fell silent again, only Ke Hezi couldn't help sobbing a few times from time to time, and after a while, Officer Hu came in with a notebook.

Officer Hu first explained to us why there were no smoothies around Xin Yi

"According to Xiao Li's investigation, because the weather is too cold, fewer and fewer people drink smoothies, so that store doesn't make smoothies."

Immediately afterwards, Officer Hu explained the results of the investigation to us: the deceased was strangled alive and hung on a tree, and the time of death was between 6:30 and 8:30, but according to your statement, the deceased was still on the phone with his girlfriend at 7 o'clock, and you found the body at about 8:05, so the time of death of the deceased can be determined to be between 7:00 and 8:05, and the footprints at the scene have been buried by the murderer with snow, and the only suspicious thing is the letter "i"

Ke Hezi asked with a crying voice

"Why can Roy's time of death be so accurately calculated, and small... But can't? ”

Officer Hu explained

"Because the cold weather and strong winds outside will affect our judgment of the time of death of the corpse, we cannot give an accurate answer."

After hearing this, Ke Hezi said as if his heart was broken

"He's so pitiful, not only has he been killed, but he's going through this kind of torture..."

Officer Hu was also a little unbearable, feeling indeed a little miserable, closed his eyes lightly, looked up for a few seconds, as if he was silently mourning Xin Yi, after opening his eyes, he began to ask us with a straight expression

"Excuse me, where are you between 7:00 and 8:05?"

Zhang Kexin said with some disgust

"Officer Hu, didn't we say it, we've been partying together all the time."

"No one has left?"

Jiang Junqian took the initiative to say

"Between 7:05 and 7:25, I, Xiao Zhi, Wang Jing, and Qu Lian have all left, but each of us left for no more than 20 minutes, Xin Yi was near the Dinosaur Museum at that time, Xin Yi would never be able to return here within 20 minutes, and it was even more impossible for us to go there in such a short time to kill people, and then transport the body back, that Officer Li just drove there, he should know very well."

Officer Hu glanced at Xiao Li and asked him if it was true, Xiao Li nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

Jiang Junqian is right, from the current point of view, the murderer will never be among us, unless Wang Bai and Jiang Qu are the four of them, who can use magic techniques to turn an hour's journey into 20 minutes.

Officer Hu nodded in understanding

"Well, what you said does make sense, but for the sake of insurance, let's please tell me what you're going out for."

Wang jing

"I forgot to ask for disposable gloves for the snacks I bought before, so I went to pick them up, and the distance was relatively long, so it was a little slower."

Jiang Junqian

"I received a call from the hospital, discussed my condition with my colleagues, and then came back with some tissues."

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"Sister Qu Lian and I went to the bathroom."

Officer Hu asked suspiciously

"Took 20 minutes to go to the bathroom? Isn't it a little too long? ”

Bai Zhi glanced at Qu Lian and said with some embarrassment

"Sister Qu Lian came to have a period, so she asked me to go with her, she was waiting for me in the bathroom at that time, and I went to a nearby convenience store to buy sanitary napkins for her, so it took a long time."

It turns out that this is the meaning of their eyes to each other, Qu Lian's face turned red after brushing it, and she said softly

"I had a vague feeling at the time, so I asked Xiao Zhi to go with me, and after I entered the bathroom, I asked Xiao Zhi to wait for me outside, I was sure that I was really popular, so I asked her to buy it for me."

Although Officer Hu is a middle-aged uncle, after all, there are differences between men and women, and he doesn't want to say too much about these things, so he briefly recorded it and said

"Okay, it seems that there is really nothing suspicious about a few of you, the murderer should be someone else, you go back to rest first, and then hand it over to our police to deal with."

"That's not right! There is a contradiction in what two people say, who is lying? What is the reason for lying? Could it really be that the murderer was one of the two? However, what kind of miraculous tricks did the murderer use to make the impossible possible? No, maybe I'm just too sensitive for the murderer to be among us, maybe..."

After getting Officer Hu's "release order", our group left the gymnasium again, and a few of us boys sent the girls back to the dormitory first, Zhang Kexin specially instructed Bai Zhi to take good care of Ke Hezi, and Jiang Junqian sent the three of us downstairs to the hotel and left.

The three of us dragged our heavy bodies and moods, and returned to the room dejectedly, and found that Su Yong was sleeping like a dead pig in bed, we really envied this guy's mentality, and I don't know how many times I tossed and turned throughout the night before I barely entered the dream.