After my words came out, no one was persuading me, Shen Cheng was expressionless, turned around and left, Tang Yingxuan followed, Jiang Jun seemed to want to say something more, but in the end he only sighed, and Liu Jia helped him out slowly. In the ward, only Shen Nuo and I were left.

Shen Nuo held my hand tightly, her upper teeth biting her lower lip, her lips bright red as if they were about to drip blood. After a few days of rest, Shen Nuo's body has recovered a lot, her face is no longer as pale as before, and her sunken face has slowly returned to its original appearance.

Shen Nuo, it's beautiful.

It's just that the weak person has changed one, and this person is me.

"Li Ke, I don't want you to die." Shen Nuo choked up and said to me.

I stretched out my hand and wiped away the tears on Shen Nuo's face, I gently patted Shen Nuo's head, and at this moment, the memory that I had forgotten seemed to have a faint sign that I was going to remember. At that time, Shen Nuo was only seventeen years old, and I seemed to, once did, gently pat her on the head.

"Everyone has their own ending, and the ending cannot be changed, only the road to this end can be changed. We have all embarked on the road of no return, on the way, there will be people who fall, there will be people who will bleed, and there will be people who will be able to reach the end safely, no matter how everyone chooses to reach the end, life is gorgeous. I raised the corners of my mouth helplessly: "I have done too many wrong things, the glory of the past has disappeared, I don't want to die like this, blood will make my life look more brilliant." I said to Shen Nuo.

Shen Nuo shook his head: "If you die, there are many people who will be sad." ”

"When everyone leaves, someone will be sad, this is the helplessness of life." I closed my eyes, the corners of my eyes moistened slightly: "I won't necessarily die, I believe in you, and I believe in myself, and we will find out the truth soon." No one wants to die, and I don't want to, Shen Nuo, if you understand me, don't persuade me anymore, I want to make the last contribution to this task force, for the people who have sacrificed, even if it's just the power of ants. ”

It was quiet, I couldn't hear anything, I fell into a slumber again, another dream, this dream, very long. I saw that we were all on the same road, and that road, leading straight into the vast sky, seemed to have no end. We walked very slowly, and no one knew how long.

The number of people walking on the road has decreased one by one, but everyone has unswervingly moved their steps.

When I woke up again, it was late at night, and the moon was hanging high outside the window. Shen Nuo was still lying on the side of my bed, I gently rolled out of the bed, put on my clothes, my head was still a little groggy, look at my watch, it was almost dawn. I walked out of the ward gently, Liu Jia and Jiang Jun were asleep, and the policemen on duty outside at night were very energetic.

They don't dare to be lazy, lest something happen.

I didn't find Shen Cheng and Tang Yingxuan, I asked the policemen where they went, and the police told me that Shen Cheng and Tang Yingxuan didn't come back all night. I was a little worried, so I called Shen Cheng, and when Shen accepted the call, my heart relaxed.

I asked Shen Cheng where he was, and Shen Cheng said that he and Tang Yingxuan were in the block where the headless female corpse was found, and Shen Cheng told me that he might find out something. My heart sank and I said that I would go over immediately, and Shen Cheng did not object. Put away my phone, and under the leadership of several criminal policemen, I rushed to Shen Cheng's location.

There were a lot of policemen here, but they were all standing, only Shen Cheng and Tang Yingxuan were sitting on the steps in front of the house where the crime occurred, and they were smoking. The sky was slowly starting to light up a little, the dim street lamps cast everyone's shadows on the ground, and the morning air was a little humid and fresh.

I walked up to them and asked them what they had found.

Shen Cheng put out the cigarette and stood up, and he told me that in the past few days, their focus has been on finding potential witnesses. I nodded, I knew that. In the case of the woman in red, there were no direct witnesses, this is for sure, because I searched for a long time at that time, and Zhao Da also searched for a long time, but there were no clues. However, this does not mean that there are no potential witnesses.

The so-called potential eyewitnesses generally refer to people in criminal cases who have seen the process of committing the crime or the murderer without seeing the direct crime. It is likely that even the witnesses themselves did not know that what they saw had anything to do with the case, and that what the eyewitnesses saw was nothing more than ordinary.

"What did you find?" I asked.

Shen Cheng: "I found a drunk. ”

"Drunkard?" I asked rhetorically.

Shen Cheng nodded: "That drunk man said that in the days before and after the case of the woman in red, he would pass by here late at night. ”

"And then?" I continued to ask.

"He could be a potential witness." Shen Cheng said again.

Shen Cheng saw the drunk man when it was dark. The drunk man was sitting on the ground, holding a telephone pole and spitting, at first, Shen Cheng and the others didn't care, it was the police who followed Shen Cheng who were afraid that the drunk would have an accident too late, so they went over to check. Who knows, the drunk man said that he walked around this street every day, what could happen.

The drunk man had obviously drunk a little too much, and he pushed and shoved the policeman who helped him up, and when the drunk man saw that it was the police, he was so frightened that he immediately went limp, and apologized to the police. Shen Cheng noticed the drunkard's words, so he walked over and talked to the drunk.

Once again, the drunk admits that he walks around the neighborhood every day and never has an accident.

At that time, the drunkard's mouth was full of alcohol, and Shen Cheng helped him aside and patiently listened to the drunkard's stammering. The drunk man is alone, lazy to eat, likes to drink, often works for a period of time and quits for a while, earns money, and drinks with friends. The drunkard's home lives at the end of this block, and the place where he drinks is on the other side of the block, where it is cheaper to drink.

Often, drunks get drunk with their friends, sometimes waiting until dawn to get home drunk.

Shen Cheng immediately felt that something was wrong, so Shen Cheng tentatively brought up the case of the woman in red. The drunk man was so frightened that he woke up a little, and he asked Shen Cheng if they were still investigating the case of the woman in red. After all, Zhao Da announced to the public that the case of the woman in red had been closed, and the murderer was the bad-faced Taoist Xiong Wancheng.

However, there is no belief in the community at all. Because it was so weird, people were more inclined to believe that someone had provoked the evil spirit and had their lives taken.

Shen Cheng inquired further and found that a few days before the headless female corpse was found, the drunk man was also drinking with his friends, and he didn't help each other home until late at night. After the headless female corpse was discovered, the drunk began to be afraid, and he did not dare to go out at night for a long time, for fear of provoking something unclean.

After a few months, after the calm and calm, the drunk man became addicted to alcohol, and then slowly returned to his old life.

"During the day, there are too many people for the murderer to do it, otherwise it would not have escaped everyone's eyes. The best time to get your hands dirty is late at night, and it's late at night when you flee the scene. Shen Cheng analyzed to me: "This is the downtown area, there are people passing by at every time period, what I think is, why no one will see it, it is pure luck to find this drunk, it stands to reason that the murderer can't be airtight, there must be eyewitnesses, but I have been looking for so many days, and I haven't asked anything." ”

Shen Cheng said he had found a lot of people who had walked at night a few days before the bodies were found, but they didn't see any strange people. Shen admits that whether the murderer kills someone first and then moves the body into the scene of the secret room, or after killing someone, he creates a scene in the secret room and escapes, it is impossible not to hold anything in his hands, after all, crimes need tools, and tools are also needed to clean up the scene.

Although it is a downtown area, it is a relatively poor downtown area.

Shen Cheng thought about it, maybe the murderer got into the car as soon as the crime was over, and then drove away.

However, in such a dilapidated neighborhood, if the murderer really did this, the night walkers would definitely notice. If one person didn't mention it, it might be an omission, but Shen Cheng found so many people, and none of them mentioned it, so it was no longer an omission.

"What about the drunkard?" I asked.

"I was sent to the hospital to sober up." Shen Cheng replied.