About half a month later.

March 6, 2045, Fenshan City.

[Fenshan South Station is about to arrive, please bring your belongings and wait at both ends of the carriage to get off. 】

Zhang Er stood up, took his small suitcase from the top of the carriage, and went down to the station after the train came to a stop.

This is his second visit to Fenshan City.

Last time I was here...... Or because I had a party with a few roommates from the police academy many years later.

After all, the distance between Fenshan and Bailu ...... It's really not close.

At the exit of the station, a man walked over when he saw Zhang Er walking out of the ticket gate.

"Yo, Lao Zhang, why did you workaholic suddenly think of coming to see me, aren't you busy for a while?"

Qin Lin smiled and patted Zhang Er on the shoulder, and then took Zhang Er to the parking garage of Fenshan South Station.

"Hmm...... Thinking about your promotion to the deputy bureau, I can't hug my thighs more, and there will be anything that can cover me in the future. ”

Zhang Er replied and lifted the backpack strap that had slipped off his shoulder.

In fact, he came here with some half-public and half-personal things this time, but it doesn't seem to be suitable as a starting point for the reunion of old friends after a long absence.

"Don't come to this, I know very well what your temperament is, besides, don't hurt me, I just happened to run into the resignation of the former deputy director, otherwise it won't be my turn in the past three years and five years."

Qin Lin waved his hand, and then looked at the flow of people around him.

After many years of friendship, he knows that the other party is not the kind of utilitarian person.

"I know that there must be no good thing for you old boy to come to me, let's go, the location of the hot pot restaurant has been booked, and I will talk about it in the car if there is anything."

Zhang Er nodded with a smile, and then followed Qin Lin all the way to the location where the vehicle was parked.

A few minutes later, Qin Lin pulled the car door and sat in the driver's seat first, and Zhang Er put the suitcase in the back row and sat in the co-pilot.

Qin Lin started the car and asked Zhang Er:

"What's going on in Bailu City?"

"It's okay, nothing particularly tricky."

Zhang Er did not choose to tell the previous incident directly.

"Your expression doesn't match what you say."

Qin Lin's sense was very keen, and he directly broke Zhang Er's thoughts.

"Hmm...... I still can't hide it from you, in fact, I came this time because I want to communicate with you about a case...... In the name of an individual, I guess so. ”

"Speak."

Qin Lin was not surprised.

"Have you heard of the 'ghost school incident'?"

Zhang Er paused and continued.

"What, you've been watching horror movies lately?"

Qin Lin glanced sideways at the roommate beside him, with a slight meaning in his eyes.

Zhang Er, who was sitting on the side, took the initiative to speak when he saw this.

Qin Lin thought for a moment when he heard this, and then replied:

"At that time, this case was not under my control, so I don't know the messy name in front of you, but I remembered it when you said this, why, there is progress or doubts?"

"Yes, these days...... There's a new development on our side. ”

Zhang Er took out a copy of the information from his bag, and just wanted to hand it to Qin Lin, only then did he realize that the other party was driving, so he took it back and prepared to dictate.

"There is a police officer surnamed Hu in our bureau who is very interested in this matter, and we all think that the murderer in this case is obviously a crime committed by the whole country, and the probability of him being caught is very small."

"And guess what...... Although the murderer didn't catch him, he really found some clues for him. ”

Qin Lin Zhang Er paused slightly, as if he was reminiscing.

"He said that it was his nephew who heard from a classmate of a friend's cousin......"

"You're a little too connected......"

Qin Lin listened to this opening statement with some embarrassment, which was obviously like a rumor in the market.

"Don't interrupt my ......"

Zhang Er waved his hand.

"That person mentioned that there was a student in their class who applied for withdrawal, and generally speaking, dropping out is not a very common thing, but that student has good grades and a very good personality, but he just dropped out so abruptly."

"The old brother surnamed Hu didn't take it seriously at first, but he became interested when he listened to it."

Then the old brother Hu was a little curious, followed the chain of relationships all the way over and asked, and finally touched the student himself.

"I don't know how to convince the student's parents, but he ended up in a psychiatric hospital."

"As the student's family said, the student was very nervous, and he didn't react in any way when he saw him, but just when he was about to give up......

Zhang Er said this, and looked at Qin Lin with some seriousness.

"The student suddenly said, 'You...... Do you know how they died?' ”

When he heard this, he grabbed the student and asked him what he knew.

"But the student just turned his head and smiled at him, and then he wouldn't say anything......"

"The thing...... That's the end of it. ”

Zhang Er suppressed his voice, and then stopped talking, as if waiting for Qin Lin's reply.

"You...... I came to Fenshan City to tell me these urban legends? ”

Qin Lin saw the other party looking at him, and replied a little helplessly:

"If that's all there is to it, I think we can actually start an instant messaging and finish the conversation, so we don't have to come here for this trip."

Zhang Er nodded.

"It's true that when he first told me, I just listened to it as a story, but you know what......"

Zhang Er looked back at this and looked at the cityscape flying by outside the window.

"The police officer surnamed Hu took two days of sick leave the next day, and when he came back, it was like a different person, and he never took the initiative to mention this matter again."

"Other colleagues thought that he had been following him for a long time, and finally his passion faded and he was too lazy to check again."

But I remember...... He looked so excited when he told me the 'story' above, like the extreme emotions of the moment before he was about to grasp the truth. ”

"And...... He said he only told me about it because he thought I was the only one in the bureau and never took him as a joke. ”

"What he didn't actually know was that I did take him as a joke before...... It's just that I didn't express my thoughts as naked as everyone else. ”

"But now it's different......"

Zhang Er turned his head and looked at Qin Lin again.

"I feel like ...... now He's not a joke anymore. ”

Qin Lin's face was as usual, and he never said anything.

Seeing this, Zhang Er looked out the window again.

"Actually, we are."

Crunch ——————

The sudden sudden sudden braking made the car where the two were sitting stop in the middle of the national highway in an instant, and then there was a sudden braking sound behind the car, and the entire lane was instantly blocked!

Qin Lin put his hands on the steering wheel and lowered his head slightly.

It wasn't until the sound of the car horn behind him became more overlapping and alternating that he looked up and drove the car into the emergency lane and flashed twice.

"Old boy, you...... Be glad ......"

Zhang Er had the impression that Qin Lin's voice was always relatively cold, and there would not be too many emotional fluctuations.

But at this moment, in addition to coldness, it is more serious, and ...... Fear that has been tried to hide.

"You have to be glad to be here and ......"

"I'm the one in the driver's seat."

Qin Lin looked at Zhang Er on the side.

"If it were replaced by another person......

"Our destination now will no longer be the hot pot restaurant."

Zhang Er's expression also sank.

"I'm well aware that that's why...... I'll think of coming to you. ”

Since that time to see Lin Sheng, Zhang Er has felt more and more that Director Huang Yue must know something.

Although he couldn't understand some of the arrangements made by the other party in many previous cases, he only regarded them as special considerations from the top.

But now judging by his actions......

The answer is clear.

Zhang Er's hand squeezing the file harder and harder, and layers of folds began to appear on the kraft paper bag.

He...... Hiding something.

And since he knows some of the so-called "truths......

Thinking of this, Zhang Er turned his vision to the side again.

So Qin Lin in front of him......

I must know, too.