Xu Xincha closed the car door and hurriedly walked directly to the gate of the city bureau. This time, he changed into a slightly thicker jacket with golden yellow and white as the main tone, with pointer-patterned shoulder pads on his shoulders and the English "FromTime" on the back.

He passed by the gate of the city bureau, took out his investigation card from his pocket and showed it to the doorman, and then dragged Lu Jijiang, who insisted on coming over, and pointed to the badge on the other party's chest: "Uncle Chen, this is a newcomer in our institute, and he is still a student, bring him over to familiarize himself with the work." ”

After speaking, Xu Xincha collected the investigation certificate handed back, and took Lu Ji all the way to the city bureau. It was working hours at this time, and everyone was wearing police uniforms, but the two of them were very different. Especially Xu Xincha, the bright coat almost makes people notice him at a glance.

But the logo on his chest is a pass all the way.

Xu Xincha explained to Lu Yijiang casually as he walked: "Although the Institute is a scientific research institution to the outside world, it is an auxiliary police force to the municipal bureau, but only high-level criminal investigation personnel can accurately understand the capabilities of our Institute of Time Studies. The nature of the investigation warrants we have is the same as theirs. Oh yes, the assessment standards for your newcomers are not much different from those of the city bureau. ”

He knocked on the office of Wei Fei, the captain of the criminal investigation team, and Lu Jijiang followed him in, and saw a middle-aged man sitting inside. The man was wearing only a blue long-sleeved police uniform, and his sleeves were rolled up, and he was frowning deeply, holding the mouse in one hand and pressing the keyboard in the other, staring at the computer intently.

Seeing Xu Xincha coming in, Wei Fei's frowning brows loosened slightly: "Here, who is that?" ”

"Lu Jijiang, a newcomer in my office." Xu Xincha picked up the coat on the small sofa as he walked, "Guard, although it is said that spring is coming, the weather is still cold." ”

Wei Fei waved his hand and draped his coat on his body casually. Xu Xincha walked over and saw a surveillance video playing on the computer, which was the video before and after the death of the man in Tang Ji's wonton shop this morning, but it was extremely blurry. Wei Fei said: "Our investigators didn't see anything back and forth in this section of monitoring, you were also at the scene at the time, how was the situation?" ”

Xu Xincha subconsciously glanced at Lu Jijiang, who was standing silently next to him: "There is no conflict at the scene, I have already gone out when he died." Was the stomach contents of the deceased examined? Is it possible to be poisoned? ”

Wei Fei handed Xu Xincha an appraisal certificate in his hand: "It's not poisoning." Both the stomach contents and the food on site were extracted and identified without any problems. ”

Xu Xincha flipped through the appraisal book in his hand, lowered his eyes, and there was a hint of imperceptible indifference in his voice: "Is it possible that the deceased has his own problems, such as cardiac arrest, cerebral hemorrhage and the like." ”

Lu Jijiang stood aside, silently watching Xu Xincha. He suddenly felt that this man had changed - he felt that Xu Xincha was trying his best to make this deceased "die for a reason".

"Xiao Xu." Wei Fei's tone suddenly became serious, and his eyes finally moved away from the blurry surveillance video and fell on Xu Xincha. Lu Jijiang found that this man's eyes were very sharp, like an eagle soaring in the sky, "The deceased was carrying documents, and we easily determined his identity, and then investigated that he had gone to the hospital not long ago for a full body physical examination, and there was no problem with the results of the physical examination." What is eaten is not poisonous, so to speak, death for no reason. It's not the first time you've or I been like this—"

"I see." Xu Xincha suddenly interrupted Wei Fei's words. He stood up and pressed the appraisal on the table in an uproar, "After determining the nature of the case, the logistics department will come over today to do a good job of transferring the case to the city bureau." Guards, where is the body, I'll go and see. ”

Wei Fei was silent for two seconds, and seemed to sigh slightly: "In the dissection room." Minister Song of your Field Support Department has already gone. ”

Xu Xincha stretched out his hand and patted Lu Jijiang's waist: "Gone, what are you still doing in a daze?" ”

Outside the autopsy room, several forensic doctors wearing bloody gloves looked at each other, sitting on stools outside, bewildered, while the door to the autopsy room was closed.

In addition to Song Ming, there were also two staff members of the Field Support Department. Without exception, they are all wearing the work clothes of the Shiyan Institute, and the two slightly younger staff members are fine, but for Song Ming, who is already in his thirties, the color of this dress is really lively, and he is a "steady and mature" old man, who really can't control it.

However, at this moment, he didn't care what kind of clothes he was wearing that matched his age, and more importantly, the corpse in front of him.

The deceased looked very young, in his early twenties, and was supposed to be a recent graduate. When Song Ming first arrived at the city bureau, it happened that the parents of the deceased were helped to the reception room. Both of them were about to faint from crying.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and Song Ming sighed in his heart.

He slowly raised his hand towards the corpse on the dissecting table. As the arm was gradually raised, Song Ming's hand and the deceased's body were simultaneously filled with a layer of golden light. This layer of light gradually brightened from faint to dazzling, and soon surrounded the corpse, Song Ming's hand immediately flipped over, and a golden thing shaped like a movie film slowly emerged from the corpse's heart and floated to Song Ming's palm.

When Lu Jijiang followed Xu Xincha in, he happened to see this scene. The pupils of his eyes, hidden under the filament-rimmed glasses, shrank slightly, as if he was surprised by the scene in front of him. He glanced at the other two people present and found that none of them reacted much, as if they couldn't see what Song Ming was doing at all.

Xu Xincha didn't stop, and walked straight over: "How is it?" ”

"Xu Suo, this case has to be handed over." Song Ming turned sideways slightly and handed the things in his palm to Xu Xincha. Lu Jijiang stood behind Xu Xincha and also saw this "film" with a faint golden light, and he noticed that this "film" was connected to the heart of the corpse at one end, and the fracture at the other end was extremely uneven.

Seems...... It was torn apart by someone's life.

Song Ming said: "There is a time thief who steals his time. ”

"What is a time thief?"

While waiting for the traffic light, Lu Jijiang, who was sitting in the co-pilot, suddenly asked. Xu Xincha was almost silent along the way, although there was no expression on his face, but Lu Jijiang was keenly aware that the easy-going emotions that lingered on Xu Xincha were gone, replaced by a little boredom and anxiety.

This kind of emotion seems to have started with Wei Fei's unfinished words.

"Just now in the dissection room, you also saw Song Ming using his own abilities." Xu Xincha spoke, seemingly a little careless, "This ability is given by time, and only a few people can have it, and we who have this ability are called 'time managers'." The so-called time thieves refer to those who have the ability from time, but use this ability to satisfy their own selfish desires, vainly seek immortality, financial status, and do not hesitate to harm others. ”

He tightened the steering wheel in his hand, his eyes were a little gloomy, and his tone sank involuntarily: "The young man lying on the dissecting table was killed by a time thief." ”

Lu Jijiang frowned slightly.

Whether it's a time manager or a time thief, or time ability, as a graduate student in the time department, he never knew that such a thing existed. He only vaguely knew that he had a special ability, and in the end, in the interview assessment of the Institute of Time Studies, the special ability in his body was excavated, and a certain amount of training was carried out to enable him to control this ability freely.

"Lu Jijiang, I'll send you back to school." Xu Xincha suddenly spoke up, pulling Lu Jijiang's thoughts back, "Now the logistics department should have gone to the city bureau to do the work of transferring the case, I'm sorry, I should have introduced you to the relevant current research institute." By the way, remember to fill in the information I gave you, those of us with special time ability, the identity information must be collected into the secret file. ”

Lu Jijiang pondered for a moment: "My tutor recently went to F University to give a speech, so I don't have to go back to school for the time being." ”

"Then you go and bring all the documents first, and go to the office to fill in the information first." Xu Xincha was not reluctant, he watched the red light for two minutes finally turn into a green light for more than ten seconds, and hurriedly put up gear and stepped on the accelerator, "Your mentor...... Is Professor Chang Hanping, who is currently the most famous time researcher in China? ”

Lu will nod his head slightly.

Xu Xincha raised his eyes and looked at the expressionless man sitting next to him from the front mirror. He was dressed in a neat suit, but he still had the badge he handed him on his chest, which was a little funny. Lu Jijiang was looking out the window with his face sideways, and the sun shone into the passenger seat at ten o'clock in the morning, soaking most of Lu Jijiang's face in this light.

At this moment, the pupils of the other party's eyes moved slightly, and they met Xu Xincha's gaze in the front view mirror with great precision.

"Follow Professor Chang and study hard."

As soon as Xu Xinchafu stepped into the Shiyan Institute, he collided with Wan Qizhe, the two of them took a step back with gold stars in their eyes, and Lu Jijiang followed behind Xu Xincha, and quickly helped Xu Xincha's lower back, and then quickly retracted his hand.

"Lao Wan, are you going to get new glasses again?" Xu Xincha choked Wan Qi Zhe enough, and thought that this person had researched some new equipment and excitedly planned to go out for a lap.

Wan Qizhe's collision almost knocked off the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose, and seeing that Xu Xincha was back, he didn't care about holding his glasses, and hurriedly said: "Xu Suo, just now the Space Research Institute next door said that they monitored signs of life activity in the time field at about eight o'clock this morning!" ”

Xu Xincha immediately retracted his footsteps as soon as he stepped into the Institute, and then he didn't know what he thought of, and turned to the Institute again. He rushed to Lu and said, "Lu and general, you follow Minister Wan to the Space Research Institute to have a look." ”

Lu Jijiang bowed slightly, and when Xu Xincha saw that he agreed, he also nodded lightly at him, and then walked quickly to his office.

The Space Research Institute is right next door to the Time Institute. The so-called time and space are not separated, and the research institute is naturally not far away in order to better communicate. Wan Qizhe rushed all the way into the door of the Air Research Institute, as if he was an old acquaintance, and went straight to the director's office of the Air Research Institute on the third floor.

The director of the Air Research Institute looks about the same age as Wan Qizhe, but he doesn't have glasses on the bridge of his nose. He was frowning and explaining to Wan Qizhe, who rushed in: "The time realm has not been stable recently, and another black hole has appeared, and our side has begun to work overtime to strengthen stability!" Don't forget, there are more than two entrances to the Time Realm! ”

Wan Qi Zhe was very worried: "You also know about the case that came out this morning." Just now, our institute has determined the nature of the case and started the transfer work. The deceased's timeline was torn apart by time thieves, resulting in the deceased's death due to lack of time left, and you detected someone entering and leaving the time realm before the crime this morning, so it is very likely that this person stole the deceased's timeline! ”

"I said, when will the Air Research Institute be able to collect the remaining biological activity aura in the time realm to lock down the identity!"

Lu Ji will lean against the door and listen quietly to the exchange between the two people. After going back and forth, he probably understood what the "timeline" they were talking about was. It was probably the thing that looked like a movie film on Song Ming's hand that he had seen in the dissection room just now, and this timeline existed both in everyone's body and in that mysterious "time realm". The time thief enters the time realm and tears the timeline of the deceased, which is equivalent to erasing all the decades that the deceased will live for the next few decades, and when the time of the deceased advances to the breaking point, it cannot continue, which directly leads to death.

"Since you can't lock your identity, let's start with the social circle around the deceased." During the debate, Lu Jijiang, who had been silent, suddenly opened his mouth. His voice was very cold, and it was very pleasant. He dusted off the dust on his shirt and said nonchalantly, "The deceased looks young, maybe a college student who has just stepped into society. Why did the time thief target a young man who had just entered society for no reason? Or does someone want to ......"

He paused, and his thin lips opened lightly: "Spend money to buy your life? ”