The car stopped in front of a single-family villa in the middle of the mountain, and I couldn't hold back the surprise on my face and looked through the car window. Not to mention, this villa is really chic, built a bit like an antique castle, with a kind of greenery planted on the exterior wall, and climbed over the roof to cover a layer. Gao Cheng turned off the engine and got out of the car, stood outside the car and paused, only to see the closed iron door open from the inside, and a face poked out.

Uh, it turned out to be Luo Jinghan.

"Brother Cheng, did you bring Xiao Xia over? Come in and stop the song from going crazy, she says she's going to cook, and the kitchen is going to be destroyed. ”

As Luo Jinghan entered the door, he found that the decoration inside was also very retro, the color was dark bronze, and the wooden floor was specially painted with paint to look old. But in such a space, there are modern electrical appliances, and suddenly the beauty is reduced.

"There is no way, we can imitate antique architecture, but it is impossible to live antiquely, and if it is separated from the products of modern science, information will become poor." Luo Jinghan explained with a smile on my side, obviously he saw the meaning of my eyebrows just now, and at this time Gao Cheng had already strode to the living room to sit down. Then he added, "Believe me, if there is no air conditioning, this place can be as cold as an ice cellar." ”

I really feel the warmth in the house when I enter the door. I asked, "Is this your home?" ”

“bingo！ Old house. The old lady thought it was deserted and moved to the city. ”

The old lady in his mouth should mean the landlady, so it seems that the landlord is not only rich, but also very rich. As far as I know, they have another apartment in the city, and the apartment I live in is rented out for two families.

There was a loud bang, which startled me and Luo Jinghan, and he rushed into a door with a low curse in his mouth, followed by a soaring voice: "Damn, are you going to blow up this kitchen?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Qu Xinhua coming out of it, his face expressionless and indifferent: "A small experiment, vulnerable." Turning his eyes, he paused to see me, his eyes swept me up and down, and a sarcastic expression appeared on his face: "Ha! Someone is homeless. I watched speechlessly as she turned and walked into the living room, sat down beside Gao Cheng, and slowly picked up the cup on the coffee table and sipped it to her lips.

And in the process, Gao Cheng didn't even raise his eyes. I had to walk over to it in a daze, and glanced casually past the kitchen, black lines popping out of my forehead. The thud just now was not small, and the debris all over the ground was a bit like the time of the Gao Cheng family. Something flashed in my heart, and I froze, and when I looked at the messy kitchen, I felt weird.

When I also walked into the living room, Luo Jinghan walked out with extremely heavy steps, with a dark face, "Brother Cheng, dinner is in the soup." Gao Cheng didn't raise his eyebrows: "Call for takeout." He seemed to think for a while, and then said, "You are not allowed to enter the kitchen again in the future." ”

Qu Xinhua was unconvinced: "You can't blame me, it's that the fire of the stove is too small, so I added some ingredients, and it exploded when I thought of it." ”

"What did you think? You just did it on purpose. I said don't use this house for your ghost experiment, I've already got a lab for you upstairs, what else? Luo Jinghan asked very annoyedly.

Qu Xinhua said: "There is no challenge, and the space is limited." Hearing this, I suddenly interjected: "What is used to add fuel to the fire?" Qu Xinhua's eyes lit up, "Are you interested?" Let me tell you, it is a new reagent developed by me, which can control the strength of fire, and when it encounters water and gas, it will expand and produce an explosion, and ah, the explosion force can also be controlled. She said this with arrogance on her face, and her tone was smug and showing off, and she had to snort disdainfully at Luo Jinghan on the side: "Pure fooling people." ”

She rolled her eyes and retorted, "Why did I fool people?" Believe it or not, I'll give you a live demonstration now, I dare to say that I will only blow up this coffee table, and not affect other positions, do you dare to bet with me? ”

Luo Jinghan roared: "I bought this Qing Dynasty coffee table for a lot of money, you dare to bring it to me for experiments!" ”

"Miserly!" Qu Xinhua commented disdainfully.

Then I asked again: "Can you control time with this reagent?" She raised an eyebrow, "Of course." How could I not have thought of such a simple thing as the oxygen in the air being the best catalyst to reach a certain level of expansion to control time? ”

Okay, I've asked everything I need to ask, I know everything I need to know, and I turned my eyes to look at the person with his eyes down.

"Han, you go upstairs with Qu first." Gao Cheng raised his eyes and commanded lightly.

They get along with each other, and they have a tacit understanding of their own, it seems that Gao Cheng usually lets it go, but as long as he speaks seriously, Luo Jinghan and Qu Xinhua will be emotionally serious. When only me and Gao Cheng were left in the living room, I didn't know where to speak. After a while, Gao Cheng said, "Don't you have something to ask?" ”

It was commonplace for him to see through his thoughts, and I stared into his eyes and told the truth: "That explosion in your kitchen used a special chemical agent for Qu Xin's painting." He replied with a shallow smile: "The first time Qu developed a liquid agent similar to an explosive, he always had to try it out." "So you test it in your own kitchen? What kind of weird logic is this?

I don't care about that, I care about, "What is your real purpose?" He raised an eyebrow, silent. It can't be just to satisfy the experiment of Qu Xin's painting, and the goal is my ...... He wants to be in my field, but I can't figure out why he did it.

Suddenly, Gao Cheng stretched out his hand to me: "Sit down." I didn't move, he added weights: "Just ask if you want to know anything about the case." The temptation was not small, and after thinking about it, I got up and sat down next to him around the coffee table. Glancing at the notebook on his lap, he found that there were several photos of the scene on the screen, which he had been studying just now.

But he didn't want to be detoured from the topic again, so he turned sideways and looked at his face and asked again: "First of all, why do you want to live in my house?" "He did not hesitate to destroy his own kitchen, blame me for the crime, and naturally walked into my house.

This time, he didn't avoid changing the topic again, but looked at me with bright and dark eyes: "I want to confirm something." I asked, "What's the matter?" About me? He shook his head, "No, it's me." ”

I paused, and said a little weakly: "It's really to test whether I am qualified to be your apprentice." "I had this idea just now, but then I vetoed it, and I always felt that Gao Cheng would not be bored to such a point. But in fact, he was so boring and uninteresting, I saw him bend the corner of his eye and smile lightly: "It's okay if you think so." ”

Meaninglessness is entangled in this, no matter what the origin and result are. I was more concerned about the doubts that had no answers when the case was concluded just now, so I sorted out my thoughts and asked: "You said that the Shen family was the first death scene of Jiang Hongxiu, how did you come to this conclusion?" He rolled his eyes to the computer screen in his knee again: "What do you think?" ”

I recounted what I had inferred before, but I saw him point to the photos of the scene on Huya Mountain and said: "If Tong Ziqi is the only one left in the end, and the car spontaneously combusts and catches fire, will the scene still be what it looks like after obvious control?" "I immediately understood what he meant, that at least one person was at the scene after the car caught fire and stopped the fire from spreading to the surrounding bushes. As a result, the murder was not discovered until Sunday afternoon, when the traveler went up the mountain, otherwise the fire could have turned into a wildfire. And, ID documents! Tong Ziqi's documents were put in a prominent position, and Jiang Hongxiu had no identity-related objects, and his too deliberate behavior meant that he deliberately suppressed the time when the murder case was discovered and the time when the relevant evidence was investigated.

Do you want to hide it or do you want to cover it up?

I only heard Gao Cheng say in his ear: "Look at the terrain again, under the marked trees, the gasoline seeping into the soil." ”

As soon as he reminded me, I had an epiphany that the car was burned at a low position, but the gasoline seeping under the tree on the cliff side was at a high place, and the gasoline was mixed into the soil, but it could not burn the tree, which I was puzzled at the time. From low to high, it is naturally impossible for the car to leak oil, so it can only be man-made.

After the rain, the soil is loose and becomes slippery when gasoline seeps in. I understand! "You're saying that the man drew attention by the mark, and when the man was trampled on by a number of people, the earth on the edge of the cliff loosened, and someone would inevitably slide down from that place with an unsteady foot. So...... That fake arm was deliberately thrown under the cliff to let people find it, and even more so that people could find Jiang Hongxiu's body? ”

Gao Cheng looked at him with admiration: "Go on." ”

I paused, whispered, "I can't figure it out later, what is the motive?" Since this murder case has been manipulated, shouldn't we try our best to hide it? ”

"Good question!" Gao Cheng suddenly praised, "The key is here, motivation is the cause of everything." From the first time the mark appeared to the second time, and then to the third appearance of Tong Zihan's death, each time it was more obvious than the first. ”

"What's the idea?"

Gao Cheng narrowed his eyes and said word by word: "For specific people and things." ”

My heart sank, and I thought of that teenager in Gao Cheng again, was it really for him?

After a moment of silence, I turned my mind back to the original question: "I still don't understand what these messages have to do with Jiang Hongxiu's first death scene?" This can only prove that in the end, Jiang Hongxiu was pushed off the cliff without resisting. ”

Gao Cheng shook his head, looking at him with disgust: "Didn't I teach you before?" Think about how Wu Yan died? ”

"Fell to his death." I blurted out a question, "Is it ...... Jiang Hongxiu is not at the right distance at the foot of the mountain? "Wu Yan jumped from the eleventh floor and committed suicide and fell to the ground, with a specific distance and posture, which Gao Cheng had already analyzed with me before. So the basis for his judgment is here? The angle and distance of Jiang Hongxiu's fall to the ground must have informed him of the message, I remember that when he came up, there was an excited light in his eyes and said that the person fell to death, and I still wondered, why was he so excited when the person fell to death? Co-authored at the time, he actually saw the problem? <