Lu Jiuchuan, who returned home, was confused and messed up at the moment.

Everything that happened at the press conference always made him feel that something was wrong, and it seemed reasonable. And the old man who knocked on his car window gave him a sense of déjà vu.

He turned on the computer and found that all major platforms on the Internet were on the verge of server collapse at this time, and it had been less than an hour since the end of the Kaizen Biotech press conference, which had caused such a big sensation? Even the foreign media are reporting it, but now it's still night, right?!

"I see! No wonder so many popular online media people were called, it turned out to be hype! Lu Jiuchuan patted his thigh, feeling that he suddenly realized. But after thinking about it again, I fell into deep thought: even Director Zhu is here, without any real materials, how dare Kaizen Biotech do meaningless hype to deceive the public? Zhou Wei's genes also exist in the public security gene pool at the same time, and it is obviously impossible to cheat. Could it really be that they have researched it? ”

Human beings, in fact, are greedy animals, and they have more or less unrealistic fantasies. For example, if you fantasize about going to the past one day, you can tell yourself what the lottery numbers will be for the next draw. But Qi Yuan's remarks of "crossing is history" hit such a large part of the people, so that after a long period of time, there was still a hot topic on the Internet day and night-#时光机#.

Lu Jiuchuan himself can be regarded as a figure like "civil science", but he has not studied the time machine like his father, so he can't do substantive topics. But he didn't want to publish some deceptive remarks in order to deceive the number of views. So much so that he is indeed a little depressed now - almost no one reads regular popular science texts.

When he was bored, he thought of someone, Qin Kai. Qin Kai is a sunny young man with a dream of being a journalist, since he met him on the first day of college, he said that he wanted to be a big reporter, and now he has indeed become a reporter, although he has not reported any big news, but because of his enthusiasm for the journalist industry, coupled with diligence, he has a foothold in the newspaper. And he and Lu Jiuchuan are like brothers and like a cooperative relationship, close and intimate, and will always complement each other's resources.

"Wow! Jiuchuan, I really regret giving you the invitation last time, I didn't expect Kaizen Biotech to be so good, but all the reports were stolen by Leng Qian. Qin Kai saw Lu Jiuchuan coming to the newspaper office, and he couldn't help but start counting.

Lu Jiuchuan glanced at him and said, "I didn't force you to give it to me, I asked you to take it, you will give it, I thought you had a lot of newspapers." By the way, Leng Qian, that beautiful girl who is white and pure is from your newspaper, right? ”

When Qin Kai heard Lu Jiuchuan talking about Leng Qian, his originally small eyes narrowed into a line, and he lewdly pushed Lu Jiuchuan with his elbow and said, "Jiuchuan, don't you have a crush on her?" I advise you to give up, Leng Qian, let's just say it, if you throw her into the sea, the sea may freeze. ”

"I've seen this, she ......" Lu Jiuchuan wanted to speak and stopped, thinking about it, for fear of being misunderstood, besides, Qin Kai should not believe that Leng Qian took the initiative to add him, so he began to change the topic, "Forget it, don't mention her, I'll invite you to hot pot, as your reward for giving me an invitation." ”

"Hot pot! Why do you want to invite me to hot pot now! Or go eat it again in the evening! Qin Kai shouted.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm telling you, there's a murder in our city. I just got a message from the newspaper that they were going to send me there. Qin Kai suddenly lowered his voice and continued, "According to eyewitnesses, the deceased had no fatal injuries all over his body, but the death was terrifying, his eyes were blood-red, and he was about to stare out. ”

"Can you take me to see it?" Lu Jiuchuan immediately became interested, because in Linxin City, there are only a handful of homicides every year, and most of them are accidental homicides.

"Yes, you can, but don't talk too much." After that, Qin Kai secretly took out two documents from the drawer, one was his press card, and the other was an internship card, and he unknowingly stuffed the internship card into Lu Jiuchuan's hand - it was not the first time that the two of them had done this, usually Lu Jiuchuan was Qin Kai's encyclopedia, and Qin Kai was Lu Jiuchuan's pass to travel everywhere unimpeded.

The murder took place in an old-fashioned residential building, and it is rumored that the area was inhabited by intellectuals at the time. When the two of them came to the fifth floor, they found that there were a large number of neighbors of the deceased watching the crime scene, and the police had already set up a cordon. Through inquiry, the neighbor told Qin Kai that the deceased's surname was Zhan, and he was a scientific researcher decades ago, but then disappeared for some reason, and he didn't know that he had come back until he was killed and his body smelled and was discovered.

Qin Kai showed the police officer his press card at this time, and then used his hands and feet together, and told the police officer that he was a professional reporter and would never destroy the scene, so the police agreed to let the two go in for a while.

The heating and air conditioning in the room were on, there was no obvious dust, and there was even residual water in the electric kettle, and there was household garbage in the garbage can in the kitchen, indicating that the deceased had returned to live in the house before. There was not a trace of blood at the scene, there was no trace of a fight, and all but one of the chairs in the dining room was placed neatly around the dining table.

The deceased was lying in the living room in a brown shabby cotton jacket, with no visible injuries on the surface of his body, and no bruises on his neck, which did not look like he had died of suffocation. All limbs are stiff, the left hand covers the chest, the palm of the right hand is facing the ground in a half-clawed shape, and the legs are stretched as straight as possible. His hair was messy, his blood-red eyes were wide open, and there were many cracks around his lips, and his overall facial expression was hideous.

"I've seen him." Lu Jiuchuan looked at the deceased's face, then looked at his hair and padded jacket, and suddenly said.

"Who let you two in?" A loud and majestic voice came from behind, and as soon as Lu Jiuchuan and Qin Kai turned around, they saw a middle-aged man in a police uniform with several young policemen walking towards them with an angry face.

"We, we're journalists." Qin Kai actually stammered, his body couldn't help but straighten, and he looked more "decent".

"Reporters can't come in either, what if the scene is broken, get out!" The man scolded Qin Kai, then pointed at Lu Jiuchuan and said, "You, stay." ”

Qin Kai stuck out his tongue and walked out with an unhappy face, and when he crossed the cordon, he saw that the police officer who let them in just now had a face that was more ugly than.

"What's your name? Do you know the deceased? The man seemed to be interrogating the prisoner, asking two questions in a row.

"My name is Lu Jiuchuan, and I met the deceased after the press conference of Qiyuan Biotechnology Company a week ago. At that time, he came and knocked on my car window, and listened to what he said as if he knew my father. Lu Jiuchuan confessed what happened, but did not tell the old man's advice.

"And then?" The man didn't seem to give up.

"Nope."

"You leave a contact information, and you or your family may need to assist in the investigation in the future. We could not find the deceased's documents at the scene, and there was no such person in the gene pool, so we could not be identified. After speaking, the man asked the young policeman behind him to hand Lu Jiuchuan a pen and paper.

"Yes." Lu Jiuchuan took the pen and paper and wrote down his number, and said, "Can I be curious to ask?" Police officer. ”

"You say."

"At the scene of the crime, there were police officers guarding the door, and a cordon was also drawn, why was the body still inside, but there was not even a policeman inside?" Lu Jiuchuan also expressed his doubts.

"Because I took over halfway through. When Officer Sun saw the corpse before, he found that this murder case was very similar to the cause of death in the serial murder case I handled seven years ago, so he directly asked the boss to hand over the case to me. ”

"So what was the cause of his death?" Lu Jiuchuan is very concerned about the old man he met in Pingshui, because he may be his father's deceased.

"Don't ask so much! Leave this to our police! The man's voice became louder, and after speaking, he motioned for Lu Jiuchuan to leave.

Lu Jiuchuan was dragged away by Qin Kai when he went out, and Qin Kai kept asking Lu Jiuchuan what happened inside along the way, for Qin Kai, Lu Jiuchuan did not hide it, and told him what happened.

After saying that, he thought that his mother might know the deceased, so he was ready to call her.

"By the way, Qin Kai, I thought of something, so I'll leave first. You go back and help me find out about the serial murder case seven years ago, and send the information to my mailbox. ”

"Hey! Tonight's hot pot ......" Qin Kai wanted to go to Lu Jiuchuan to ask about tonight's hot pot, but in a blink of an eye, he found that it was gone.

In fact, Lu Jiuchuan just didn't want to call his mother in front of Qin Kai, and if his mother asked again, it was inevitable that the two would have a quarrel. He looked at the phone screen and hesitated for a long time, but finally dialed the phone: "Hey, Mom." ”

"What's wrong?" Lin Liqiong was pleasantly surprised that her son would take the initiative to contact her.

"Mom, let me ask you something, does Dad know a person surnamed Zhan? He is in his sixties. ”

"Zhan Guoxiang, Teacher Zhan! He's my teacher and your dad, he, what's wrong with him? Lin Liqiong was surprised why her son suddenly asked Teacher Zhan. When Lu Jiuchuan was very young, Zhan Guoqiang often came to the house as a guest, but how could Lu Jiuchuan, a distant memory of his childhood, suddenly remember it.

"He's dead, I've just been at his house."

"Xiaochuan, mom will book a plane ticket back right now." At this moment, Lin Liqiong was talking about business in a foreign country, and when she learned of the death of her mentor who had disappeared for 20 years, she couldn't care about other things.

On the afternoon of the next day, Lu Jiuchuan and Lin Liqiong came to the Public Security Department, and along the way, Lu Jiuchuan and Lin Liqiong told what happened yesterday.

And Qin Kai had already come to the Public Security Department to wait for them, seeing them coming, Qin Kai and the police officer on duty talked for a while, and the police arranged for the three of them to come to the interrogation room, and then, yesterday's middle-aged man brought a young policeman in and showed the relevant documents: "Hu Zhiyong, captain of the second detachment of the Linxin City Criminal Police Brigade." Thank you for your assistance with the investigation. After speaking, his eyes swept over Lu Jiuchuan and Qin Kai.

"Hello Officer Hu, I'm Lu Jiuchuan's mother. Is the deceased's name Zhan Guoxiang? He was my teacher. Lin Liqiong looked very anxious.

"Yes, the deceased is none other than Zhan Guoxiang. We learned from the neighbors of the deceased that the deceased was a scientific researcher and a professor at Linxin University. 20 years ago, because of an accident in the laboratory in charge of it, he disappeared and left Linxin City. Hu Zhiyong said

At this time, it was determined that Zhan Guoxiang was killed, and Lin Liqiong still had red eyes after all.

Hu Zhiyong looked at Lin Liqiong and asked, "Ms. Lin, do you have any enemies of the deceased?" ”

She took a deep breath and said, "As far as I know, no! The teacher has always been highly respected, and he is also very kind to others, and my child and his father also entered the T-1 laboratory of that year under the recommendation of Mr. Zhan after graduation, and was focused on training. Later, because I gave birth to Xiaochuan, I became a full-time mother, but the teacher would often come to our house, so we were very familiar with each other, and we didn't know what enemies he would have. ”

Lu Jiuchuan heard his mother recount the past, and he was inevitably a little sad. Since he had a clear memory, his father was gone, and he only had a hazy impression of his father, but because of his father's occupation, Lu Jiuchuan seemed particularly longing. But for his mother, he only knew that his mother was a strong woman, but he didn't know that she had given up her dreams to take care of her own life.

"Could it be an explosion 20 years ago that led to the revenge of the relatives of the victims." Hu Zhiyong touched his chin full of slag and asked Lin Liqiong thoughtfully.

"No, there are two victims, one of them is Ogawa's father, and the other is a woman, and it is said that after she was killed, her husband took all the compensation money, and cruelly abandoned the woman's parents and left Linxin City. Moreover, the explosion was not caused by Mr. Zhan, who was not in the laboratory building at the time. ”

"If vendetta is excluded, then love kills ......" Hu Zhiyong seemed to be talking to himself.

"It can't be." Lin Liqiong said, "When we were still students, we often joked about Teacher Zhan, and Teacher Zhan also said that if we didn't win the Nobel Prize, we wouldn't get married. He was a madman of science, and his research on physics was in a state of madness. In his words, he can skip meals, but he won't stop researching. It's hard for such a person to get into love debts, right? ”

"Well, there's some truth to that." Hu Zhiyong was thoughtful.

"Officer, will it be ......" Lin Liqiong just wanted to say something, but after glancing at Lu Jiuchuan, she stopped talking, and said, "It's okay, it's because I'm thinking too much." ”

Hu Zhiyong was interrupted from thinking just now, but when he saw Lin Liqiong waving his hand in denial, he didn't care. He frowned, and his thoughts drifted to seven years ago: Could it really be that the murderer of the random serial murder case seven years ago appeared, and the one who happened to be killed happened to be Zhan Guoxiang?

"May I ask Officer Hu, what was the cause of death of the deceased?" Lu Jiuchuan still couldn't hold back the question he had been asking at the moment, and asked Hu Zhiyong.

Hu Zhiyong's originally unsmiling face became more solemn at this moment: "After preliminary forensic examination, the deceased had bruises on the wrists and outside of his arms, severe cracks on his lips, and bruises on the surface of his scalp, but these were not fatal injuries. The cause of death of the deceased was death caused by being forcibly poured a large amount of boiling water. ”

Hearing Hu Zhiyong's narration, Lu Jiuchuan and the others' faces turned pale, and Lin Liqiong couldn't help crying, the image of a strong woman has disappeared for so many years. Lu Jiuchuan saw his mother crying for the first time, and he didn't know what to do, so he had to take the tissue handed by the young policeman to wipe her tears, and said, "Okay, Mom, don't cry, don't cry......"

After Lin Liqiong's mood stabilized, Lu Jiuchuan thought of the last sentence that Zhan Guoxiang said to him - "It's best not to have anything to do with Kaizen, you must remember", and suddenly turned his head and said to Hu Zhiyong: "Officer Hu, I think you can investigate the main scientific research achievements of the deceased during his lifetime, as well as the research and development process of Kaizen Biotech's time machine, and if you can, also investigate the recruitment situation of Kaizen Technology's job fairs in recent years to determine the recruitment situation on their side." After all, peers are enemies, and I also met the deceased at the gate of Qiyuan. “

Hu Zhiyong felt that the young man in front of him had extraordinary analytical ability and insight ability, and he understood the meaning of Lu Jiuchuan's words.

The questions asked at the first meeting, as well as these words, made Hu Zhiyong begin to have a good impression of this young man, and he said: "This needs to be investigated, wait for me to inform you." The deceased has no family members, and you are the only person close to him, and he may trouble you a lot in the future. This is my number, you can remember it, you can contact me directly if you have something. ”

"Do your best." Lu Jiuchuan nodded.