After briefly talking to Li Ye about the current situation, Zuo Ling threw the phone on the table and closed his eyes and began to rest.

It was impossible to sleep for a while, only for a short time.

Of course, it would be false to say that you are not sleepy. After staying up for so long, although Zuo Ling was a little energetic, he was still very tired. If you don't take a break now, you won't have any time to be lazy today.

……

It wasn't too late to wake up at dawn, and the first thing I did when I opened my eyes was to look at my phone.

An hour ago, Zuo Ling sent him a message. He tried to call her, but he didn't get through, and he didn't call again.

Zuo Ling's work is special, and Li Ye also knows that if she can't get through, she is busy, there is no need to play anymore, she will come back when she is free.

Recently, he didn't have a lot of trips, so he simply got up and cleaned up, and drove back to the compound to accompany the old man at night.

At eleven o'clock in the morning of the imperial capital time, Zuo Ling walked out of the scene of the crime. She lifted her hand, took off her gloves, opened a piece of toast that had been left over from the morning in her pocket, and held it in her mouth.

Team Cheng came out after her, and when he saw that she was eating like a little hamster, he was amused: "Hungry?" Why don't you go for lunch first? ”

The breakfast he brought to Zuo Ling in the morning was eaten by Zuo Ling on the way here, but he didn't seem to have eaten much.

Zuo Ling waved his hand, took the bread from his mouth, and said, "It's important to get down to business." "Time is tight now, so let's just eat first.

Although Team Cheng admired her, he felt that he had to take care of his body, and he teased while holding his wallet: "It's not okay for you to start a case without dying, I'll go to the stall opposite to see what to eat, and buy some to fill my stomach." ”

Zuo Ling glanced at his back, then withdrew his gaze and did not speak.

Autumn has arrived, the imperial capital belongs to the north, and the temperature drops very quickly as the weather is cold.

Team Cheng bought some snacks and beckoned Zuo Ling to get in the car, don't blow the wind outside.

Co-pilot, Zuo Ling didn't know what she was thinking, her eyes were staring at one place, she didn't move, she bit the straw in her mouth, and the preserved egg and lean porridge in the cup didn't move.

Team Cheng sighed, helpless: "Let's eat first, I look at this case." "After so many years as a police officer, he has never seen any kind of person, and this is the first time that Zuo Ling has done this. I've always heard of it before, and I also took a look at it from a distance at the last commendation conference, and this is the first time I've handled a case with Zuo Ling.

"Yes." Zuo Ling does not deny it.

Hearing this, Team Cheng raised his eyebrows, "You don't think it's okay too?" ”

Zuo Ling rubbed the back of his sour neck, and his voice was faint: "If it is a person who commits the crime, then it is easy to say, but it is not one." The week is given, and we are not sure if the suspect will commit another crime during the week. ”

"At present, it can be determined that the modus operandi of the two murders is similar, and the murderer must be known, but it is not ruled out that the next murder will be a new suspect. If the gang had committed the crime, I was now wondering if they would have a steady stream of people who would show up and kill people. ”

"If that's the case, we can catch the murderer, but we can't catch the mastermind behind it."

"Then if you can't catch the person behind you, won't it never stop?" Team Cheng frowned.

"Quite possibly." Zuo Ling responded, "The murderer kills people randomly, the purpose is to take revenge on the society and cause panic, which proves that they probably don't have any attachment to this world, even if they are caught, they can't hear the truth in their mouths, and they won't expose the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

Zuo Ling's index finger tapped on the cup, and the rhythm became faster and faster. Team Cheng wanted to say something, but seeing that she was thinking so seriously, he closed his mouth and didn't bother.

I don't know how long it took, the percussion suddenly stopped, and Team Cheng subconsciously turned his head to look at the co-pilot.

Zuo Ling raised his eyebrows, "Let's start with the person whose parents are dead." ”

"How do you check this? Although the population of the imperial capital is not the largest in the country, it is the most densely populated. ”

"So, check the local ones." Zuo Ling's expression was a little helpless, as if he was questioning his IQ.

"Locked in males, between the ages of college graduates and 30 years old, unmarried, and both parents have died within half a year." Seeing that Team Cheng was about to say something, Zuo Ling spoke first: "I understand that this range is also very large, but this is the only clue I can determine." Now we don't have anything, so since we have a direction, let's check, it's better than sitting back and waiting to be fired. ”

Zuo Ling smiled and teased: "I'm only in my twenties, my career has just begun, and I still have dogs at home to be fed, so I can't be unemployed like this." ”

Team Cheng couldn't laugh or cry.

"Then why must both parents be dead?"

"Because then there is no concern. Because of this, even if we catch them, we can't pry them open through their parents or their wives and children. ”

For dinner, the whole team ate a take-out box lunch in the office, and no one picked it, so it was good to be busy like this.

Zuo Ling flipped through the information on the table, and with the other hand, he held the chopsticks and put the rice into his mouth.

"Hurry up, everyone! The meeting room met five minutes later. The director knocked on the glass door with the papers, his face a little ugly.

The crowd looked up in response, and the pace of their meals quickened.

Five minutes later, everyone showed up in the room on time.

The director breathed a sigh of relief and asked someone to bring the news out.

"Although the news has been blocked, there are still netizens who have uploaded videos, which have been wildly spread by everyone on various social software, and people are panicking, and everyone is afraid that they will be next."

"The meaning of the above is clear, we have to see progress quickly."

"I know you're all stressed, but lives are at stake, and we can't know for sure when the next murder will happen, who the victim will be, or where it will be. We are currently only looking for a needle in a haystack. ”

"Zuo Ling, tell me if there are any new discoveries at the crime scene today."

Hearing this, Zuo Ling spoke: "The scene is still the same as the last time, and nothing has been found." We are now working hard to check the information and find people who meet the profile criteria, and 500 people have been screened so far. Returned in the afternoon just in time for the autopsy report, blood stains were found on the fingernails of the second deceased, and DNA comparison is currently being performed. We have reasonable suspicions that the victim scratched the killer while struggling, but the final result is still to be reported. ”

"That's good news." The Director breathed a sigh of relief.

Zuo Ling pulled his lips helplessly and continued: "But according to inference, we have a high chance of catching the murderer, but the chance of catching the mastermind behind the scenes is very small. ”

……

The day after the report came out, one of the murderers was arrested.

But as Zuo Ling said, the murderer was caught, but it did not play a role in promoting the whole case.