It was Lu Yong, and he seemed to have known that we were coming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

I wasn't surprised by his presence, I just didn't expect us to meet here.

"I'll talk about it when I have something to say."

Lu Yong opened the door for us, and then turned to enter the house, and I suddenly felt a dilemma, what kind of mysterious whirlpool did I find myself in?!

This is an ordinary two-bedroom house, the furnishings inside are so simple that people can ignore it, Lu Yong is standing by the windowsill and looking out the window waiting for us.

"Team Lu." Xu Long walked behind him and shouted softly.

Lu Yong let out a faint "um" sound, turned around, and his gaze stayed on my face, with a complicated look in his eyes.

"You already knew I was coming?" I asked coldly.

"Yes, to be precise, I asked Lao Xu to bring you here, no matter how you made yesterday, you will see me here today. However, I am sure that you will never come empty-handed. ”

Lu Yong's tone was calm, not at all sorry for the actions I had taken these days, and he didn't even have an explanation, which annoyed me a little.

"Shouldn't you give me an account of what happened these days?" I said in a bad tone.

Lu Yong sat on a couch in the center of the room, motioned for me to sit down, lit a cigarette, and said in a calm tone: "Actually, before I called you to the police station that night, I had already arranged the affairs of the next few days, otherwise, when I was in Happy Manor, how could it be so coincidental that someone was fighting next to you, creating an opportunity for you to enter the secret room?" Not to mention that you can escape from the heavily guarded revenge chamber on your own, in which case our police will be in vain for so long. ”

"Hmph~" I snorted coldly, "I still have to thank you according to what you mean?" I shouldn't have been curious to go there, I didn't eat the mutton and got into a fuss, and if I didn't go to your whole plan, it would be ruined. ”

"No, you will definitely go, that's not curiosity, it's your instinct, the instinct to investigate the case."

"What does this mean? I'm just an ordinary designer, how can I have that instinct? ”

Lu Yong didn't seem to hear my words, and continued to himself: "And even if you really didn't go to the revenge room that day, I have a way to get you involved, anyway, you can't get out of it." ”

"Why?" Lu Yong's domineering was far beyond my imagination, I resisted the urge to beat him, my fists clenched tightly, "What is the purpose of your this?!" ”

"Test you to join our team, I said on the first day we met at Happy Manor, with your observation and analysis skills, you can come to the Criminal Investigation Brigade in the future. It's not a joke, you can really help us a lot. ”

His explanation made me a little crying and laughing, I couldn't imagine that this kind of hooliganism by forcibly pulling people into the gang would happen to the police, "Even if this is the case, you can tell me directly, why use such unsightly and barbaric methods?" ”

"Would you agree to be outright?"

I was speechless, yes, if Lu Yong really made this kind of request in person, he would definitely be rejected by me, he knew his disgust for the police, and he never concealed it.

"But I can just as much refuse you now." I'm still holding on, but my tone has softened a lot.

Lu Yong smiled, he looked at me with interest for a while, shook his head and said, "You won't, if you do that, you will miss a lot of things, even some forgotten memories." Besides, if the murderer is not caught for a day, your safety will not be guaranteed, not to mention that you are not a person who sits idly by, as the saying goes, the best defense is offense. ”

I have to say that Lu Yong's words are very convincing, I am moved, whether it is for myself or for Nie Qian, it is a good thing to solve the case as soon as possible.

I met Lu Yong's eagle-like eyes and said solemnly: "Although I don't know where your confidence in me comes from, I agreed, but before I can do that, I still have a question, why do you always look like you know me very well?" Did we know each other before? ”

When Lu Yong heard this, he glanced at Xu Long beside him, turned to look at me and said, "Have you forgotten the case three years ago?" ”

"Three years ago!"

I got up from the couch all of a sudden, and the case from three years ago had become a thorn in my heart that I couldn't pull out, "You guys...... Are you the ...... back then?"

Lu Yong raised his hand and motioned for me to sit down, "Don't get excited, we didn't handle the case back then, and I only learned about you through this case." ”

I gradually calmed down, I don't have any impression of Lu Yong and Xu Long myself, in fact, not to mention them, the police who have been in contact with me these days are the same, if it is really someone who has dealt with it back then, there will be some impressions.

Thinking of this, I tried to recall the police officers who interrogated me back then, and suddenly, I froze, and my pupils constricted violently.

I was horrified to find that I couldn't remember the police officer in that case at all, even though it had been three years, I hadn't forgotten it so thoroughly, right? It's as if these memories have been completely lost!

"Luo Jun? Are you okay? Luo Jun. ”

I was pulled back to reality by Lu Yong's shout, forget it, forget it, anyway, I have long wanted to forget that unbearable past, I comforted myself like this.

Taking a deep breath, I straightened my clothes and sat back on the sofa, "I'm fine, but I have one last request, you must send someone to protect Nie Qian's safety before you catch the prisoner." ”

"No problem, it is our police duty to protect the personal safety of the masses." Lu Yong readily agreed.

I rearranged my thoughts and repeated what I had told Xu Long in the van before I talked about what I had found at Irene's house yesterday.

"Messy footprints, strange sandbags, as well as a mysterious diary and the identity of the owner of the small building, in fact, I didn't find many clues, and I didn't have a clue until Zhao Hong, that is, Grandma Irene, appeared, and I connected these clues."

Suddenly, as if I had thought of something, I looked at Lu Yong with wide eyes, and the other party seemed to see through my thoughts, shrugged and said, "I know what you want to say, this Zhao Hong was not arranged by me, she can appear at this time, I can only say that your luck is not bad." ”

"Luck also depends on strength." I craned my neck, "Erin is a very quiet person in her state of mind and life, which can be seen from her study, this kind of person will not hold such a noisy large party, even if the other party is her friend, so the messy footprints in the small building were left by the police investigation after her death." ”

"You're right, it's true that she wouldn't throw parties for herself and her friends, but what if she's a boyfriend? From the words of the diary, it can be seen that she should belong to the kind of person who loves passionately, maybe she can make an exception for him, right? Xu Long, who had been silent, spoke.

I shook my head, "Judging from the content of the diary, Erin has experienced a complete relationship, from love to falling out of love, this is nothing special, but the problem is in time, the day she fell out of love happened to be the 18th, which was the day of the murder in the revenge room, so that the identity of her lover was about to come out." ”

"It's Li Qing." Lu Yong said lightly.

I nodded, changed my seat, and continued, "Yes, so the kind of vice captain just said probably doesn't exist, and the footprints stretch from downstairs to upstairs and get denser and denser, and finally all converge on Irene's bedroom, which proves that she was killed there." As for the punching bag in the room, to be honest, I've pretty much surrendered to it until I see you. ”

"Me?" Lu Yong looked at me in surprise.

"Because I remembered what you said at the police station that night, Erin hanged herself at home, and this sandbag replaced the dead Erin, this is actually a homicide case disguised as hanging suicide, the reason why you didn't tell the truth is because you don't want to cause us to panic, and you also want to use this to secretly investigate to see if the murderer is among us, am I right?"

"It's not bad, you can't pull these out without any hints, and you can barely pass the test, but the next thing is not a joke, you have to work harder."

Lu Yong said as if he had been playing a game with me, and I rolled my eyes angrily and said, "You guys really took great pains to get such a detective game to test me, okay, then let's get down to business." ”

"You misunderstood what the captain meant, although it was a test, it was also based on a real case, and it was by no means a game, except for Irene's body, nothing else at the murder scene was moved." Xu Long explained.

"The diary hasn't been touched either?" I asked.

Xu Long said with certainty: "No, to be precise, we put it back in its place." ”

"Why? Why would the murderer let go of such important evidence? I muttered to myself in confusion.

Lu Yong touched his chin and showed a thoughtful expression, "We have also thought about this question, but it is still a mystery. ”

"Also, I didn't understand the last entry of the diary, what did she mean by this very different style?" I feel that what I can see now is only the tip of the iceberg of the whole case, and grasping every detail is the key to victory or defeat.

"Could it be that Erin had a premonition that someone was going to harm her, so she wrote this kind of metaphorical diary?" Xu Long reminded on the side.

Metaphor? Xu Long's reminder gave me some eyebrows.

"Owl... Unknown Bird... Strange gaze... Staring at me... By the way, What was Erin's time of death? My mouth was retelling the diary like a dream.

Xu Long replied without even thinking about it: "On the evening of the 19th, between 5 and 7 o'clock, and we only found the fingerprints of Erin in this small building, I think the murderer should have been wearing gloves when he committed the murder, but this clue also shows that the deceased lived alone and did not have many friends." ”

"I thought of it, the precursor of death, tracking!"

My eyes suddenly lit up, remembering that I and Lin Hui had been followed not long ago, could Irene's diary be the same thing?

"What did you say?" Lu Yong asked.

I cleared my somewhat tired throat and explained, "Remember what I told you two days ago when I was at the police station? After the revenge room murder, Lin Hui and I both felt that we were being followed by the murderer, and at that time I deduced that the murderer wanted to kill people, and Irene's death also happened to verify this, so the owl in her diary refers to the murderer, and the day and night indicate that Erin was monitored or followed by the murderer at night, that is, on the night of Li Qing's death on October 18, or in the early morning of the 19th! ”

After hearing me say that I was being followed, Xu Long glanced at Lu Yong with a strange face, and his reaction naturally did not escape my eyes, "Are you hiding something from me?" If that were the case, I don't think there would be any need for us to work together. ”

Lu Yong stared into my eyes, as if he wanted to peek into my heart through it, but unfortunately this time it was going to disappoint him, these days experience made me change unconsciously, as if I would sit here and talk to a few policemen, which I had never even thought about before.

"Concealment? If you really can't let you know, I'll tell you directly, and I don't need to hide it from you at all. Lu Yong always looked aggressive, "Actually, your feeling is right, you are being followed, but it is not the murderer who is following you, but the police I sent." ”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt, and it took me a long time to react, and I roared, "What?! You say stalking me... It's your people! ”

I swear that if it weren't for the fact that the other party was a policeman and so old, I would have beaten him up severely, and I didn't think that the people who terrified me all the time these days were not murderers, but these policemen!

Damn cops!

Xu Long saw that the atmosphere in the room was a little awkward, and said to mediate: "Actually, the captain is also doing this for the sake of your safety, and the reason why I don't let you know is also to see if the murderer will be among you, after all, if you want to kill people in that secret room, you present are the easiest to start." ”

I snorted coldly, "You guys have plenty of people in your bureau. ”

"Of course not, on the contrary, we have limited manpower, which is why we send people to follow you at night. It's a pity that nothing was found for a few days, but Erin still died. Xu Long said.

I didn't bother to ask them how they knew everyone's whereabouts, the police had a lot of explanations waiting for me, and even if I did let me know the truth, it wouldn't help the case.

However, I was relieved to know that it was not the murderer who was following me, so that everyone's safety was at least one less threat.

Xu Long raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist, muttered a few words in Lu Yong's ear, the latter nodded to indicate that he knew, and then looked at me and said, "Lao Xu and I are going back for a meeting first, will you go back with us or ......?"

Before he could finish speaking, I hurriedly interjected, "You guys are busy, I'll go by myself." ”

I was happy to be able to stay with them for a second less, but this happiness didn't last long before it was broken by Lu Yong.

"Then I'll call you after the meeting, and when you come to the bureau, we'll talk about it."