It's just that Mu Zihan seems to be a little absent-minded at the moment, and after Fang Ling asked twice in a row, he suddenly came back to his senses, and replied with an embarrassed smile: "The time of the crime was around 7:15 yesterday evening. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" said, casually pointing to the wall clock hanging on one of the walls of the study and said: "The key is in this wall clock." ”

This is a wall clock that looks like a wall clock made of children's building blocks, probably for aesthetic reasons, there is no glass cover on the dial of the wall clock, so its hour and minute hands are directly exposed.

But while the clock looks new, it's not unusual, I've seen anything more bizarre in some malls, and I don't see any clues about the time of the crime. Because, the whole wall clock is still running normally, and the display time is 6:37, which is the same as the time on my phone.

Fang Ling was also like me, after looking at the wall clock for a while, she obviously didn't find anything strange in it, so she had to look at Mu Zihan with curious eyes again with me, waiting for his explanation.

This time, Mu Zihan didn't make us wait long, and quickly began to explain: "Maybe because the dial is brown, the minute hand is black, and both of them have been matte, so they are not very conspicuous." However, if you look closer and look closely, you can see that there is a little blood on the minute hand and on the dial. ”

After he said this, I looked at the wall clock again, and finally even went under the wall clock to stare at it, and finally realized that it was really as he said, on the minute hand and dial of the wall clock, there were some slight stains, which should be bloodstains.

Thinking about it carefully, there should be a drop of blood that happened to splash on the minute hand when Inspector Chu Hengyu was attacked. And because the minute hand of this wall clock is designed to look like a narrow oval slit in the middle. So, when this drop of blood splashes onto the minute hand, a trace of blood spills through the gap in the middle of the minute hand and also splashes on the dial.

And if the minute hand is adjusted to the point where the blood stain is intact, it refers to the position of about 3 o'clock, that is, the position of 15 minutes, so the time of the crime should be 15 minutes at a certain point.

After understanding this, I asked again, "But why does it have to be 7:15 p.m.?" ”

"It's very simple, the police station gets off work at half past five in the evening, and it takes about 10 minutes to walk from Inspector Chu Hengyu's office to the police parking lot. From the police station, it usually takes about 40 minutes to drive here. And at that time, it was the evening rush hour, and the time spent would only be more, not less. Therefore, even if Inspector Chu Hengyu rushed home as soon as he got off work, there was no delay in the middle, and when he arrived home, it was already past 6:15. Therefore, there is only one possibility left at 7:15. Mu Zihan replied with a natural look.

"It could have been 8:15, or 9:15, or even later." I asked, "Why does it have to be 7:15?" ”

"The meeting scheduled for 8 o'clock, everyone has already arrived, but Chu Hengyu, the main person who temporarily represents Uncle Wang's position, has not appeared, and he is not at the police station. The person who is the moderator of the meeting should call him soon to ask why and if the meeting needs to be rescheduled. Mu Zihan explained: "And the way to confirm this is even simpler, isn't Fang Ling already checking the call records of her mobile phone?" ”

Sure enough, as soon as Mu Zihan finished speaking, Fang Ling took his mobile phone and said, "At 8:09, this is the first time I have seen Inspector Chu who has not come to the meeting for a long time, so I will call him for the time." At that time, his mobile phone was already unanswered. ”

"Because at that time he had been attacked and fell into a coma." Mu Zihan took over the conversation: "Actually, I've been thinking about a question since just now: from half past five to eight o'clock, there are only two and a half hours in between, about 150 minutes. Why did Chu Hengyu rush all the way back home? After all, this round trip takes about 100 minutes, to say the least. What is it that is important for him to come back even if he is so pressed for time? ”

Yes, when Mu Zihan said it, that's really what happened. Knowing that there was going to be a meeting at 8 o'clock, why did Chu Hengyu rush home? After all, he doesn't have a family and needs to go home to eat with his family. He could have settled dinner in the unit and then went home to rest after the meeting in the evening.

Or is it because of the relationship with the murderer who agreed to meet? If so, then what kind of important person is this murderer, so that he will not hesitate to rush back all the way to meet him when time is so urgent.

Imagine that even if you rush back, there will only be less than 50 minutes of free time left in the middle, and it is not enough to even go to a restaurant to eat together.

Even if Chu Hengyu has a strong personality and may be more righteous, it doesn't mean that he has no brains, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be in the criminal police industry for so long.

"Forget it, it's useless to think about these things now, as long as we find the murderer, everything may be clear." After Mu Zihan spread his hands helplessly, he turned to Fang Ling and said, "Forensic Doctor Fang, you dragged the two of us out in the middle of the night, and now that it's dawn, shouldn't you at least invite us to breakfast?" ”

"No problem, we'll eat together later. It's just that you have to wait for me, and I have to tell my colleagues in the Evidence Collection Division what you just said, and ask them to arrange for the collection and storage of evidence and the screening of suspects. Fang Ling said and hurriedly ran out.

Seeing her anxious look, Mu Zihan and I looked at each other and smiled, and then set off to leave. In fact, Mu Zihan just said a casual joke, to be honest, compared to going to breakfast, what we want to do most now is to go back to the office immediately and then get a good night's sleep.

Anyway, by now, Chu Hengyu's case has come to an end. Next, you can only continue until the police find the suspect.

Of course, Lin Shixuan's matter has always been like a big stone, pressing on our hearts, making us feel breathless when we think about it. However, as Mu Zihan said before, we can't meddle in the affairs of the Commission for Discipline Inspection at all. And now that Uncle Wang is hospitalized, Chu Hengyu has happened again, and we are even more helpless.

So, now I don't know what else we can do except go back to rest, recuperate, recover and wait patiently for news.

(To be continued)