It rained a lot last night, and it's been raining until now. In the early winter, even the rain was cold and hard, crackling on the glass windows, and the green plants on the windowsill stretched their leaves, unaffected by the ghost weather.

Hu Lai put on a cashmere coat, turned off the air conditioner in the criminal police office, lifted the suitcase and walked out, the thick heels of Chesil's boots colliding with the wooden floor with a "da-da" sound. When she arrived at the door of the police station, she held a silver bone black umbrella and looked at the signboard of the police station, where a row of black letters was on the rectangular bronze plate, which had been washed by the rain over and over again, and the corners had been rusted.

It's been two years, and I'm finally going back.

Half a month ago, a man's corpse was shot dead under an overpass in Hope City. At that time, she realized that her younger brother, who was not doing her job properly and always made her scold over and over again, was an undercover policeman. The facts were laid out right in front of me, soaked in blood.

Perhaps in order to compensate, it was decided to transfer her back to the Hope City Criminal Police Team, and today, in this biting winter rain, she is on her way home.

The office of the Municipal Criminal Police Team in Hope City is separated from the Municipal Bureau, separated by a sidewalk, a three-story small western-style building, and a large courtyard, with lush greenery and evergreen plants.

Hu Lai just drove by and didn't go in to report. The day of the report was tomorrow, and she had to go home first to tidy up her house, which had been empty since she was assigned to the criminal police team in a neighboring city two years ago.

Osmanthus community is an old community, although not like the newly built community, but also clean, basic facilities are available, there is an osmanthus tree in front of each unit, in the golden autumn of October, the fragrance is strong, refreshing.

Hu Lai's family lives on the second floor of Unit 3 of Building 15, the kitchen window is facing the branches of the osmanthus tree, she stands at the entrance of the door, looks left and right, the house has fallen a thick layer of dust, and the furnishings are the same as before.

She put down her luggage, took out Hu Zheng's tablet, walked to the shrine in the living room, opened the double small doors, placed his tablet under her parents, took out three sticks of incense, lit it, and inserted it into the incense burner.

The old house is two bedrooms and one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. The original large bedroom was for the parents, and after the death of the parents in a car accident, it has been empty, and the small bedroom is two small beds, separated by a broken flower curtain in the middle. Hu Zheng slept on the side near the door, and Hu Lai slept inside.

The upper two floors on the bookshelf are neatly arranged with the books that Hu Lai used to love, and the bottom is full of figures that Hu Zheng has been frugal and has been working all kinds of odd jobs since junior high school to save money to buy, all of which are Marvel series. The neat and tidy stack at the bottom layer is a comic book, which is a hero comic.

On the dresser near the window, there is a bouquet of dried osmanthus flowers in a glass vase, with branches and leaves, which Hu Zheng ripped from the osmanthus tree in the window on the eve of graduating from the police academy.

There was a black square box next to the vase, Hu Lai had no impression of this thing, and he thought it was also put by Hu Zheng

She tore off the curtain, uncovered the two beds, put them together, fixed them, turned around to get the black box on the dresser, and after opening the lid, there was a women's watch lying quietly inside, a very classic style, the dial was white, and the black symbol marked the time scale, probably because the battery had run out, and the hands had stopped turning, and stopped at a quarter of ten.

Fortunately, there is no power and water outage at home, and the water heater can still be used. Hu Lai spent four hours cleaning up the house inside and out, so clean that there was not a trace of dust to be found, and there were sofa covers, bed sheets and quilt covers hanging from the telescopic pole outside the balcony, as well as Hu Zheng's old clothes.

Hu Lai stood on the balcony, watching the fireworks in the community under the night, downstairs was a family of five, eating dinner around the table, laughter through the crack in the door to the second floor, fell into her ears.

Hu Lai smelled the smell of sweet and sour pork ribs, and the five organs temple was noisy, she touched her stomach and decided to go to the convenience store to get a bowl of instant noodles with pork ribs.

Outside the door stood a tall man in a trench coat, his right hand raised, presumably trying to knock on the door. Just as Hu Lai opened the door from the inside, the two sides looked at each other for a moment, and the man touched his nose, obviously embarrassed.

"Who are you?"

Zhang Lele coughed sullenly, which can be regarded as relieving the embarrassment, the woman's appearance is not the type of ordinary beauty, but the high-end face that is more sought after on the Internet, the body is thin, about one meter sixty-nine, and the pear wood color long hair shawl.

"I am a police officer of the criminal police team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, please come with me." Zhang Lele showed his police ID.

Hu Lai didn't expect that she would meet her future colleagues in this way, sitting on a cold bench in the interrogation room, opposite the police officer who "invited" her to come.

She changed to a comfortable sitting position, leaned her back on the back of the chair, looked at Zhang Lele with her fingertips, and opened her mouth to say, "Tell me, what are you calling me over?" ”

Zhang Lele opened the black leather book, took out a few photos from it, and placed them in front of her one by one.

In the photo, a man in a floral shirt is lying on the concrete floor in the background, with a bright fruit knife stuck in his chest, and blood is all over the ground.

"Do you know?"

Hu Lai looked at these photos over and over again for nearly five minutes, and gave the answer, "I don't know." ”

Zhang Lele glanced outside the interrogation room, in front of the glass window, his boss was staring inside. He pursed his lips and took out a few more photos, but didn't show her, just held them in his hand.

"His name is Xu Long, and the people on the road call him Brother Long, and he was found lying on the road this morning, and the time of death was between 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning, and the surveillance of the road section was artificially destroyed, so nothing was filmed."

"Well, then what."

"The important thing is that he is...... Officer Hu, that is, one of the leaders of the organization that your brother went undercover before, because of Officer Hu's internal and external cooperation, this organization has been defeated by the police, and this Xu Long is one of the criminals who are on the run. Zhang Lele stared at her closely.

Hu Lai nodded, "But I don't know him." ”

"Don't know? Okay, I'd like to ask you to explain these photos to me. The photos in my hand were finally thrown on the table.

Hu Lai sat up straight, picked up the photos, and looked at them one by one. It's a picture of a surveillance video, and the screenshot is clear, the woman is wearing a leather coat, standing next to the locomotive, holding up a gun at the man standing opposite her.

The man is Xu Long, and the woman is Hu Lai.

She put down the photo, glanced to the side with her eyes, and finally accepted the facts, "There's nothing to explain, what about me." ”

"Then you admit that you killed the man?"

"I don't admit that the time point of the surveillance video is 6 o'clock last night, and the time of death of the deceased is between 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning, with an interval of nine hours, and I set off from the neighboring city at 7 o'clock this morning. In the video, I was riding a motorcycle, and the slowest time to get back to the neighboring city was six hours, so how did I delay the forensic doctor's judgment by nearly two to four hours in the open air? ”

"This ......"

"Okay, assuming that your forensic expertise is indeed so good that you don't have any friends, but in the photo, the handle of the knife on the deceased's chest has a slight downward angle, which means that the murderer is slightly higher than the deceased. After visually measuring the width of the deceased's shoulders, we know that the height of the deceased is about 1.8 meters, which means that the height of the murderer is at least 1.8 meters. Then I would like to ask this police officer, how did I, a girl who wears five-centimeter heels and only reaches a height of 1.69 meters, achieve the above conditions? ”

"......" Zhang Lele swallowed his saliva and looked at her blankly.

"From this, we can draw a conclusion."

"What conclusion?"

Hu Lai curled the corners of his lips, "A group of you people have nothing to do when they are full, put me in the interrogation room for a long time as a good citizen, didn't your team buy the previous case-solving rate?" ”

Zhang Lele raised his head, his eyes and expressions of despair were revealed, and he sent a distress signal to the boss standing outside the window.

Why is she obviously scolding the entire criminal police team for being a rice bucket, but he still thinks what she said makes sense?

Guo Bai rolled his eyes, unscrewed the doorknob, and walked into the interrogation room. The woman's long hair glowed haze in the light of the incandescent light of the interrogation, and she turned her face to look at him when she heard the door opening and footsteps.

The man looks like he is in his early thirties, his hair is slightly long, the left lock of hair is curled and the right lock of hair is curly, and his hair covers his eyebrows a little.

Uncle Mei wears a leather motorcycle jacket with a dark shirt, loose black jeans, and a pair of dark brown Martin leather boots on his feet.

"Boss, I can't go down the trial, why don't you try it?" Zhang Lele pulled a bitter gourd face, eager to hug Guo Bai's thigh and cry that he was bullied by others.

Guo Bai ignored him, he escaped from the interrogation room as if he had received a holy decree.

"Captain Guo?" She tilted her head sideways and looked up at him.

Guo Bai pulled out a smile and stretched out his right hand to her, "Officer Hu, you were very violent just now." ”

Hu Lai didn't shake hands with him for a long time, just looked at him with a smile, Guo Bai laughed a few times, and slapped his left and right hands crisply.

"Boss, how can I say that I am also your colleague, the police handled the case and arrested the police, and I only hope that the city's criminal police team can do this."

"This can be regarded as a fine tradition in our team," Guo Bai stretched out his long legs, sat sideways on the table, grabbed a photo of the deceased casually, looked at it carefully, and said: "But I'm also curious, you say, who can remember to destroy the camera in advance when committing a crime?" ”

"Someone who has planned in advance." Hu Lai blurted out.

"Bingo, then the question arises, who can guarantee that the deceased will be at the scene of the murder he set up at that point in time? Make an appointment. Guo Bai slowed down his tone, quite earnest.

Hu Lai nodded, "Well, it's an appointment." ”

"Could it be a gang crime, you see, there is a person who goes to make an appointment at a time and place, and then creates an alibi for himself, and the accomplice will kill him."

Hu looked at Guo Bai, who was smiling brightly, and also showed a smile, "Is there any evidence?" ”

Guo Bai's face changed in an instant, with a fierce face that could scare people to death, "Then can you tell what you said to the deceased last night?" Also moved the gun. ”

Seeing that she was silent, he took a deep breath and put the photo in his hand in front of her, "You were the last person to see him, what do you know?" ”

"I don't know."

"How can you not know, I know, Ah Zheng's death hit you very hard, and you won't go to privately sanction the outlaws, but I'm wondering, you, a policeman, found the criminal who killed his brother and didn't arrest him, and let him go?! Comrade Hu Lai, as your boss, I must remind you that covering up a crime is also a crime! ”

Guo Bai knocked the table loudly, in exchange for only a fluttering glance from the other party and a fluttering answer.

"It stands to reason that you will be my boss from tomorrow onwards, and ......"

"And what?"

"What is cover-up, and what is crime? Who am I sheltering? What sin have I committed? The birth of this animal is called the cycle of heavenly principles, and the retribution is unpleasant. Also, if you really think that the murderer is me, then you will handle the case with zero confession, the key is that you have evidence? Do you read the closing report for yourself? ”

"I ......" Guo Bai was choked by her and could only look at her dryly.

"What are you, I'll talk about it tomorrow." Hu Lai stood up and walked out on his own. When I walked to the door, I found that the door was really disobedient, and I couldn't open it no matter how I pulled it, so I could only look at Guo Bai who was sitting on the table and bowing his head to think about life.

Sensing the gaze of the little aunt and grandmother, Guo Bai pursed his lips and barely showed a smile. He jumped off the table, walked over to her, then stretched out his arm, and with a gentle push the door opened.

Hu Lai moved his eyes and glanced left and right, and walked out with a muffled sound. The interrogation room was on the second floor, she quickly went down the stairs, and when she walked to the gate on the first floor, she raised her head sideways and found Guo Bai lying on the railing on the second floor looking at her.

Seeing her coming, Guo Bai smiled and waved his hand gently.