Time: 8:00 a.m. on January 16, 2023.

In response to the murder incident in the apartment room on January 14, Li Xiaonan came to the police station on time after a two-day "failure".

Li Xiaonan sat on the chair, as usual, lit the first cigarette in the morning, and then opened the trip video of the highly recognizable Maybach that asked the traffic management department to assist in investigating the highly-recognized Maybach yesterday, as he thought, only vaguely appeared in the surveillance screen of a few streets near the police station, and then quickly turned into the rural dirt road outside the monitoring range by night, like a dark ghost, with a deck of cards, without a trace.

Zhao Yinglu continued to lead people to investigate the clues about "chewing gum" found yesterday, while Lao Zhong sent a message saying that he tried to investigate the origin of the refrigerator, maybe the buyer's information would be useful.

Li Xiaonan is now waiting for Xiao Yang, and when he is ready, he will go together to investigate the interpersonal relationship of "Coke", who is obviously helping people to take the blame, but knows the method of killing.

Faintly, Li Xiaonan felt a large net being weaved, slowly falling, just as Tamel mentioned on the phone, the battle between criminals and detectives known as the "showdown of the century".

At the same time, it was also a difficult case that Li Xiaonan still remembers to this day.

"Gone, boss." Xiao Yang knocked on the door of the office and raised his chin at Li Xiaonan with some "cluelessness".

Li Xiaonan turned off the computer, reached out and picked up the black police officer's hat from the hanger: "Eat white chopped chicken for lunch, you have a treat." ”

“...”

"Meet" – a coffee shop in the CBD of central Poland.

"This is it." Li Xiao asked Xiao Yang, the pouting police officer beside him, who was holding a diary and some printed chat records in his hand at this time.

"There was a mysterious woman who asked the writer 'Cola' to meet alone in a coffee shop with an ambiguous name, which was suspected of online dating."

This is the conclusion reached by the two men who went through a four-hour investigation including the drive.

Before investigating that "Cola" was really a writer and that there were no problems with family and interpersonal relationships, when Li Xiaonan walked out of the police station, he asked a colleague from the technical department to go to "Cola's" residence to extract this part of the information.

"For otaku, 'meeting' is ambiguous enough... He even writes a diary..."Li Xiao couldn't think about it, and pulled Xiao Yang, who was pouting, and walked in.

The warm breeze of the air conditioner was blowing in their faces, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, Li Xiaonan briefly looked around the layout of the café, found a seat located in the monitoring center and sat down, and ordered two cups of coffee.

"So boss, you take me to work to investigate the case, and my role is to empty my wallet and drive, right?" Xiao Yang scanned the QR code on the table and paid the fee under the gaze of Li Xiaonan's sharp eyes, and said angrily.

"Except for the white chopped chicken for a while, I'll reimburse you for the rest." Li Xiao looked at Xiao Yang with disgust and said, "How can there be a leader who drives by himself." ”

Five minutes later, as the hum of the coffee machine died down, a female clerk wearing an apron and a barista hat placed two cups of coffee on the small round table in front of Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan noticed that when the female clerk came with coffee, her eyes fell on the police officer's hat in her hand.

At this time, she put down her coffee, still hesitating whether to leave.

"Is there something wrong? This hat? Li Xiaonan put the police officer's hat on the side of the round table, took a sip of coffee and asked.

The female clerk nodded stiffly and shook her head quickly.

"Is there some trouble?" Li Xiaonan asked keenly in a whisper: "Are you in the back kitchen, or in the changing room." You can trust me, this hat really belongs to me. ”

"Uh... No..."The female clerk found that her actions seemed to have been misunderstood by the man in front of her, and her expression was a little innocent.

Li Xiaonan scratched his head, and he didn't know why, so he took out his ID from his pocket, held it up in front of the female clerk, and then said, "This is my ID, we are investigating a case." Now my police officer Xiao Yang will accompany you into the back of the bar and cooperate with you to retrieve the surveillance video of the past half a month, please cooperate, thank you. ”

I don't know if it's an illusion, hearing the call up of the surveillance, the female clerk's expression became softened, and she generously led Xiao Yang to the computer behind the bar.

Li Xiao could not lean on the back of this somewhat comfortable chair, holding coffee in one hand and resting the other on the armrest, looking at the surveillance camera over and over again with some confusion.

“...”

The coffee bottomed out, and Xiao Yang hadn't come back yet, so Li Xiaonan unceremoniously took Xiao Yang's cup and drank it.

Finally, after drinking both cups of coffee, Xiao Yang returned with a USB flash drive and the female clerk: "It's done, boss..."

Li Xiaonan looked at him with inquiring eyes: "Why don't you continue." ”

And Xiao Yang held back the words behind him, but his eyes fell on the empty cup placed in his seat.

"Another cup of coffee." Li Xiaonan said to the female clerk helplessly.

"Hehe..." Police Officer Xiao Yang sat back in his position with satisfaction, and continued: "I backed up the surveillance back, and I also found that just a week before the crime, that is, on the afternoon of January 7, the woman and 'Coke' met here alone, and they were sitting at this table. ”

"It's almost certain that it's all that woman's trickery..."

After listening to Xiao Yang's words, Li Xiaonan fell into thinking again: "Why this table... It's clearly on the lookout..."

Soon, the third cup of coffee was brought over by the female clerk, she looked at Li Xiaonan, who was thinking, and interrupted: "If someone comes to investigate the store's surveillance, give this to him." ”

As she spoke, the female clerk took out a photo generated by Polaroid from the pocket in the center of the apron and handed it to Li Xiaonan, who was staring.

Li Xiaonan reached out to take the photo and asked, "Who said that?" ”

"A couple of guests who came this morning, they asked me to take this picture for them, and then told me that someone would come in the afternoon to investigate the surveillance." The clerk replied in a whisper, "So when you came, I was a little unsure..."

"Understood, thank you," Li Xiaonan did not embarrass the clerk, but waved her hand to signal that she could leave, and then set his eyes on the photo in his hand - in the center of the photo, there was a face that Li Xiaonan hated extremely - the squinting Shalaville, her dark slightly long hair was trimmed into a three-seven style, and the ends of her hair were dyed blue. Judging from the background and arrangement, he was sitting on the chair where Li Xiaonan was sitting at this time, wearing a dark blue suit, due to the light, he couldn't see the pattern that seemed to be modified with other materials, one hand was on the armrest, and the other hand was holding a can of black pine saxa.

Behind his chair, two women, also dressed in professional attire, sit on his left and right shoulders with their backs to the camera, with long waterfall-like black hair on the left, which is dotted with blood-red highlights; On the right is long brown and yellow curly hair, the woman's right hand is still a scissor gesture, and the rabbit-shaped ring is faintly visible.

In the middle of the two women, there was a sneaky figure, revealing only the top of what looked like a fisherman's hat, with the same right hand sticking out from behind Shalaville, with a ring on it that looked... Cattle.

In the picture, Saraville is the only one showing her face, her eyes squinting as if she were smiling, and a ring in the shape of a snake is clearly visible on the index finger of her right hand on the armrest.

Outside the frame, there should be two other people, but they are not fully in the camera, but each stretches out a hand to compare it to scissors, and on both sides of the entire photo, close to the position of the Polaroid. Due to the focal length, I can't see the decorations on my hands clearly, as if I am wearing a ring.

Li Xiaonan's eyes gradually became gloomy, he was not a "hot-blooded boy" who couldn't accept this level of provocation, he was just thinking that if he could find this an hour earlier, he might be able to wipe out this non-mainstream organization.

He exhaled a little irritably, and flipped the photograph over, and on the back of the image, there were a few words in beautiful handwriting, in a familiar font, which seemed to be the hand of Su Man, who claimed to be a lawyer.

"Greetings to the 'church,' Inspector Lee."

When Li Xiaonan looked at this line of words, a wisp of incense slid past his ears, and some familiar voices read the sentence - it was the female clerk just now.

He turned his head like lightning, and in the afterglow, he saw Xiao Yang, who had passed out on the table, with coffee stains still on the corner of his mouth.

When Li Xiaonan wanted to stand up, a slender jade hand lightly pressed his shoulder, and a strong sense of coma followed, he shook his head suddenly, and saw that the female clerk had taken off the barista hat on her head, and the long brown and yellow hair that he had just seen in the photo was sliding down Su Man's beautiful cheeks.

When Li Xiaonan was slumped in the chair, Su Man took out the half-rimmed glasses out of nowhere and put them on his face.

Before losing consciousness, Li Xiaonan saw with her own eyes what Su Man had drawn on her face with her lipstick, and she whispered in her mouth: "Massive, drank two cups." ”

“...”

Waking up again and returning to the car, Li Xiao struggled to sit up, but he almost fell from the back seat of the car, and the sound startled Xiao Yang in the main driver's seat.

"Wake up, sir." Xiao Yang's face was a little wrong.

didn't say anything, Xiao Yang just took out his mobile phone, drew a photo from it, and handed it to Li Xiaonan.

The photo shows Li Xiaonan, who is asleep with his eyes closed, his face is drawn in the shape of a pig with lipstick, a hand like a scissor is stretched out from the back of his head, and a ring with a snake pattern is worn on his index finger...

After a while, Li Xiao sighed heavily, stretched out his hand to wipe his face, and after making sure that the traces of lipstick were still there, he told Xiao Yang an address.

“...”

The Ancient God Research Society.

Li Xiao quickly pushed the door in, and then quickly rushed into the door that looked like a bathroom, and then the sound of the door being locked came.

"Li Xiao's difficulty!" A man's voice came from the back room, and then the footsteps of slippers pulling on the floor came to the ears of Xiao Yang, who was staying at the door at this time, and froze into a knocking posture.

"I really hate a friend like you who has no sense of boundaries!" The owner of the voice, who appeared a few seconds later, was a tall man in a black suit with a somewhat messy hairstyle.

His skin was a little pale under the suit, he looked at the locked bathroom door, and beckoned to Xiao Yang, who was still in a posture and didn't dare to move: "Come and sit in the living room, your boss is running away again?" ”

A few minutes later, with the sound of flushing, Li Xiao walked out of the bathroom and walked into the living room.

His gaze swept over Xiao Yang, who didn't dare to move, and then stayed on the pale-skinned man's face, and said, "Brew me a cup of coffee... Orange juice..."

“...”

With the man's chatter, two glasses of orange juice were placed in front of Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan unceremoniously picked up one cup and handed the other cup to Xiao Yang, who seemed a little nervous.

"Boss..."Xiao Yang's voice trembled a little: "I thought you were going to kill my mouth..."

Ignoring the nervous Xiao Yang, the man stared at Li Xiaonan's face with some wistful eyes, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"There is a case, please ask your 'Big Three' to help." Li Xiaonan's tone was a little relaxed: "Why didn't you see Xiaokui?" It's been years and you haven't come back? ”

"I said that I was still driving for the previous boss, and the treatment was good, including food and accommodation, and I could watch cartoons after work." The man took a sip of the coffee that had been on the table and continued, "Just over the phone the other day, he said he had been watching SpongeBob SquarePants and His Friends lately. ”

"So why didn't Tamel and Meiya go out to handle the case? The wind is buried. Li Xiaonan asked again.

Feng Beifu smacked his lips, and in Xiao Yang's wide eyes, he took out a clove of garlic from the jar at hand and put it into his coffee cup: "tamel is busy upgrading to grade A, Mei Yan can easily be promoted to grade B, and I..."

He took another sip of the cup, revealing a satisfied look: "I'm busy researching the ratio of garlic coffee, so I don't have time." ”

“...”

At this point, the other side.

Zhao Yinglu was busy all day following the clues, even the temperature in January made her look a little embarrassed in the evening when she didn't have time to rest.

"That's it... 222 Baker Street..."Zhao Yinglu's eyes moved away from the navigation on her mobile phone, she raised her head, and what caught her eyes was four big words - "Jinli Piano Company".

After stumbling back a few steps, Zhao Yinglu sighed: "Damn, it's been a day for nothing." I should have known that guy wasn't going to leave me with useful clues... Sarah Ville of Dog Day. ”