Wei Fei had been waiting for Xu Xincha in the office for a long time. At this moment, the weather is gradually warming, and Wei Fei, who is in the prime of life, has already changed into a neat summer police uniform, and his upright hat is placed on the edge of the table, which seems to indicate that his master is about to leave at any time.

"Guards." Xu Xincha didn't talk politely to him, and went straight to the point, "I know the victim this time." ”

Wei Fei was stunned for a moment: "I was about to tell you this." He took out a piece of paper from the table and handed it to Xu Xincha: "When we went to the scene, we found that the victim's mobile phone was turned off, and the investigator went to the telephone hall next to it to print a recent call record. ”

"You called the victim several times until her phone was turned off because of a low battery."

Xu Xincha helped his forehead: "This girl is my blind date." ”

He briefly explained the whole story, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Guard, I have a feeling. ”

Wei Fei looked at him silently.

"In the past, even when there was a time for thieves to commit crimes, the number was very small." Xu Xincha said slowly, "Not long after Yuan Qi's case, another case appeared, which is really abnormal. ”

"The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light." Wei Fei patted Xu Xincha on the shoulder, "After the case is solved this time, you probably will be called away by your superiors for questioning, so write the review in advance." ”

Xu Xincha pinched his eyebrows in annoyance: "I'll go to Song Ming to have a look." ”

"Then I'll go and apply to the director for secondment to you." Wei Fei picked up the hat on the edge of the table, "Some things are still done by our professional scouts, which will be more handy." ”

The most intuitive way to determine whether a person was killed by a time thief is to check whether the timeline is complete. These Song Ming had already had a lot of experience, and he held this timeline of gradually fading light, and the ability of "time extraction" resonated with this timeline, telling Song Ming that this timeline was incomplete. Only this time the timeline break he took out was a little strange

The fracture is extremely smooth, and there are no traces of human tearing.

"That's weird." Song Ming muttered, turned back to his entourage and said, "Take the storage device." ”

Hearing this, the accompanying members of the Field Support Department hurriedly took out a small silver box from their backpacks that looked only the size of a cigarette case. Song Ming pressed the control panel, and the memory automatically opened. The timeline in Song Ming's hand also entered the memory.

This thing is the latest equipment researched by Wan Qizhe of the Technology Department and the Air Research Institute next door, although the storage is small, the various structures inside make the small space close to the time realm. Putting the timeline in it will ensure that the activity of the timeline is extended for at least three days.

Xu Xincha went to meet the victim He He He for the first and last time. It was a beautiful young girl, whose face was bloodless at the moment, and who had lost all life and lay flat on the bed. Xu Xincha was a little unbearable, took the white cloth with both hands and gently covered it, and looked back at Song Ming.

Song Ming nodded at him.

"Let's go, then."

As soon as Xu Xincha stepped out of the door of the city bureau, the whole person was hit by something and almost fell. Lu Jijiang hugged him next to him and dragged him to the side. Xu Xincha fixed his eyes and saw that it was He He's parents.

They couldn't suppress their tears and the huge grief in their hearts, but they still apologized to Xu Xincha, and then rushed to the place where their daughter's body was parked.

Xu Xincha originally wanted to call his uncle and aunt, but then remembered that they would most likely not recognize him, so he gave up. He wordlessly looked at the stumbling backs of He He's parents, and the intense sadness in his heart permeated his limbs.

He is not a doctor, and he cannot face life and death every day; He is not a police officer, and he does not see the grief of so many relatives. Encountering it once in a while, Xu Xincha didn't feel good in his heart, and he couldn't fully appreciate it.

"I'm suddenly a little glad." In the car, Xu Xincha suddenly said. Lu Jijiang, the main pilot, glanced at him, "At least compared to other killing methods, time killing can at least ensure that the body is intact." ”

It's just that I don't know if it's painful or not, Xu Xincha thought, no matter what he's doing or where, as long as time comes to the breaking point, then all the functions of the body will stop working at that moment, and the person will be gone.

- Of course, being alive is the best.

"The best thing you can do now is to solve the case as soon as possible and bring the suspect to justice."

Lu Ji, who had been driving quietly, suddenly spoke. Xu Xincha looked over in surprise, this man who was always expressionless and indifferent comforted himself with rare words, which made him feel a little novel and moved for a moment, and his heart warmed up.

"yes. When you go back, you must first formulate a direction for the investigation. ”

Xu Xincha said this, and suddenly realized that the corners of his mouth were uncontrollably slightly upturned, he hurriedly coughed twice and adjusted his sitting posture.

The car drove smoothly all the way back to the Shiyan Institute, and with it came the case materials transmitted back from the city bureau. The people led by Fu Chuanchuan's logistics department have completed the formalities for the transfer of the case and transmitted all kinds of documents back.

Song Ming had already returned with the storage device in advance. He handed the storage to the technical department, Wan Qizhe, and explained the strangeness of the timeline break: "It is extremely flat, as if someone had cut it straight with a knife." ”

"Did the Air Research Institute detect any discrepancies in the time field?" Xu Xincha then asked.

Fu Chuanchuan interjected again: "Don't expect me to clean up the timeline when you bring it back, I can't break through the restriction that I can only view the content on the timeline based on the trust value." ”

A few of them, you and I almost provoked Wan Qi, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to the middle, signaling to stop: "Come one by one." Sister Chuan's restriction really can't be broken. Xu Suo, there is no news from the Air Research Institute - who knows what those group of dry rice are doing all day long. ”

"Finally, this timeline." Wan Qizhe put the storage on the display table, and the perspective device was immediately activated on the table

The dimly lit timeline is projected 360 degrees onto the display. Wan Qizhe kept turning the angle to observe the timeline, and zoomed in on the fracture to take a closer look, and for a long time, he frowned.

"How?"

"You're right." Wan Qi nodded at Song Ming, "But the tool that tore it so smoothly, I don't think it's a knife." We all know that this kind of aggressive thing can't be brought into the realm of time. So it should be that the suspect used something new to tear it apart. ”

Fu Chuanchuan asked, "Is it possible to extract the remaining material on it and find the murder weapon?" ”

Wan Qizhe shook his head: "We only know now that there are no fingerprints left on the timeline." However, if there is a residue on it, the display table analyzes it and displays the analyzed data on the display. Now it seems that there should be nothing left on the timeline and there is nothing left behind. ”

Xu Xincha lowered his head and wrote the word "murder weapon" on the notebook, then put a question mark on the side, and said without raising his head: "Start the linkage communication system and ask the Air Research Institute if it has detected vital signs." ”

As soon as he finished the first half of his sentence, Wan Qi's operation immediately followed, and almost at the moment when his voice fell, the linkage communication system was activated. Wan Qi said, "Director Qiao, Xu asked if you have recently detected the discrepancies of vital signs in the time domain?" ”

The voice of Qiao Ge, the director of the Air Research Institute, quickly came: "No, there is no fluctuation. He paused and asked, "Something happened again?" ”

Wan Qi Zhe looked at Xu Xincha, Xu Xincha nodded at him, and Wan Qi Zhe said, "Yes." Another victim appeared. ”

There were several electronic sounds coming from the communication system, as if Georg was activating some kind of device, and then his voice came again, re-emphasizing: "No, no fluctuations in vital signs have been detected in this week. ”

Xu Xincha's brows furrowed deeply, and he motioned for Wan Qi to close the communication. Then he stood up and said, "Now let's sort out the information we have." ”

"The suspect is unknown, and the presence of a high-tech murder weapon — something we've never seen before, something we've never touched before — can tear the timeline apart without having to enter the realm of time. It proves that this suspect is by no means an ordinary person, and it is not yet known whether this murder weapon is unique to him. Xu Xincha paused and said, "The night before the victim He He was killed, that is, when we had a celebration banquet last night, he should have come to go on a blind date with me. ”

"Huh?!"

Xu Xincha had long expected this reaction and the strange and gossip eyes of these three people, and bent his fingers and knocked on the table: "Ah what, people can't deal with the marriage urging at home when they reach their thirties?" He changed his words: "The Field Support Department, secondment of the police department, find out what the victim did two days before the murder and who he came into contact with; The logistics department continued to send people to the police station to do a good job of clue exchange; Technical Department, what exactly is the murder weapon, I will leave it to you. ”

"Don't go into the realm of time to search for clues unless you have to. Meeting! ”

As soon as his voice fell, the three of them immediately entered the working state and went out in an orderly manner, leaving only Xu Xincha and Lu Jijiang in the conference room.

In the meeting just now, Lu Jijiang didn't say a word, but did his job as an assistant to the director dutifully - make meeting minutes. With Xu Xincha's dismissal, Lu Jijiang also stopped his pen, closed the meeting notebook, and said, "What do you do next?" ”

Xu Xincha leaned back in the chair, the sequelae of the hangover and the complexity of the case and the emergence of new situations made him have a little headache at this time. After the work was arranged, the pain in the forehead was even more intense, and it suddenly throbbed as if he was dancing a tango. He closed his eyes, raised a hand and rubbed his temples, trying to make himself feel better: "Waiting for their report, we leaders don't have to do everything ourselves, reasonable management and deployment are very important." ”

When he said this, he suddenly thought of something, tilted his head and laughed briefly: "Go tell Director Qiao Ge of the Air Research Institute in a while, and ask him to hurry up and prepare the review." In the past of this case, the two of us are probably going to be questioned. ”

He heard the sound of the clothes rubbing against him, and then someone approached him and stood behind him. Before Xu Xincha opened his eyes, he first smelled a crisp cold fragrance into his nose, and for a moment he felt that the smell was very familiar, and when he was about to open his eyes, a warm hand gently covered his eyes, and the other hand held his wrist that was rubbing his temples and pulled it away.

A deep and pleasant voice sounded softly in his ears: "Don't think about anything now, rest for a while." ”