Chapter 117: The Approaching Dark Shadow
Gu Rong was very good at cooking, Li Ya stood aside like a stake, the only use was to taste, and then told Gu Rong very seriously that it tasted very good.
Gu Rong put the pickles and sauced beef into the crisper and packaged them.
"Do you know how to cook?"
Li Ya shook her head.
Gu Rong's eyes were bent, "Ah Xu's skills are very good, you can taste it when you have a chance in the future." β
"Will he?"
"This kid seems to know a little bit about everything." Gu Rong laughed twice, "Auntie is not a princess who sells melons and boasts. β
"I think he can do anything, too."
It may be a little cheesy to say, a hero of the world, Li Ya thinks it is used to describe him.
It was already evening after Gu Rong finished cleaning the kitchen, the afterglow was fading, the clouds in the west were magnificent, the burning clouds stretched for thousands of miles, the light shone in through the window, and the entire kitchen was dyed with a layer of crimson.
Li Ya helped her put the dishes and chopsticks into the cabinet, the sound of the porcelain bowls colliding was crisp and pleasant, and her hands were still wet with water.
She spread out her hand, and the red light flowed in her palm, and the water beads were shining.
She doesn't do housework in the United States, and her fingers don't touch the spring water, and the current peace and comfort have never been there.
Gu Rong's mobile phone rang, she wiped her hands and walked to the living room to answer.
"Okay, I see, come here now."
"Twenty minutes."
Gu Rong returned to the kitchen and said, "I have a few students who have been working on a scientific research recently, and something happened to the paper, I will go to school, and I may not be able to come back later, please help my aunt run a trip and send the side dishes over." β
Li Ya was naturally happy.
Gu Rong stuffed Zhao Liexu's address and the password of the door lock to her, "You can just go in and put the dishes on the top layer of the refrigerator." β
"Okay."
The school and his residence are in opposite directions, Gu Rong hurriedly drove away, Li Ya took a car at the gate of the community, went around, and when he arrived at the community where Zhao Liexu lived, it was already early in the day.
The city is bustling, and everywhere you go, you can't see the stars in the night sky, and even the night color is dark blue.
Maybe it was an illusion, Li Ya always had a feeling that Gu Rong deliberately stuffed her to him.
The area where Zhao Liexu's community is located is not very central, it is a community of a bit of age, even the street lights are pitiful, this area is as black as ink, and the neon street outside the two roads is in contrast.
There are dog walkers, walkers, and square dancers around the community, most of whom are elderly, and there is an inexplicable sense of quiet and leisure.
The winding path is lined with plane trees, the broad-leaved ones grow luxuriantly, and the street lamps are lonely in the middle, and the summer nights are cool because of the flocks of plane trees.
12 buildings and one unit.
Li Ya looked for it according to the sign in the corridor as she walked.
Boom - she walked and didn't notice that she bumped into someone head-on, and a bag of side dishes rolled to the ground.
"I'm sorry." Li Ya apologized, squatted down to pick up things, and the side dishes were well sealed and did not spill out.
When she picked up the last box, the man was still standing in front of her.
Wearing a pair of worn-out pull-back shoes, red. The bare calves are soy sauce-colored and skinny.
Li Ya slowly stood up and subconsciously took a step back, the man didn't move.
Her gaze shifted upward.
I saw that the man suddenly lifted the coat that wrapped his body, formed a large font, and grinned with his teeth and claws.
He didn't have anything in there.
Li Ya was stunned for a second, and those clips flashed like a marquee, and her stomach suddenly turned upside down.
She took two steps backwards, turned around and ran.
The wind whistled through her ears, like a dense net enveloping her, trapping her, and her breathing became rapid.
The footsteps of the men behind him kept approaching.
Li Ya looked back, and the man was chasing her with a grin.
There were a few old people exercising in the fitness equipment area in front, and Li Ya ran over.
When I looked back, the man was gone.
Seeing that she was panting and pale, several old men asked kindly, "Is the little girl okay?" β
Li Ya gasped and couldn't speak, just shook her head.
The man was red. The naked body came to mind, and there seemed to be a thread in her throat, Li Ya covered her mouth and turned her head to retch at the lawn.
"What's going on? What's uncomfortable? β
"Lao Zhang, give saliva to drink."
Li Ya couldn't control herself, her legs were weak when she vomited, she couldn't hold it and knelt on the grass, and the mud stained her white skirt.
The kind grandmother handed her water, and her hand trembled, and she spit it out as soon as she took a sip.
The cool water was sprinkled on her hands, and her nails were dug into the mud, and the mud was terrible.
She propped her hands on the ground, her back trembling, and the old woman next to her helped her to calm down.
I don't know how long it took for Li Ya to come back, her eyes were unusually calm, as if she was used to it.
The old man helped her up, "Little girl, you didn't-"
Li Ya shook her head lightly, with the same smile on the corner of her mouth, "Excuse me, which side of the twelve buildings are?" β
The old woman pointed to the west, "There are a few buildings next to the car parked in front." β
"Thank you."
Li Ya picked up the bag and walked to the west, her heart palpitating, and her pace unconsciously accelerated.
There was a rustling sound in the bushes.
She didn't dare look back.
"Meowβ" A cat came out of it.
There was silence all around, and even the cat's meow was particularly eerie.
She almost trotted into the building, the building was a five-story old apartment, there was no elevator, Li Ya climbed to the top in one go, found room 501, turned out the note given by Gu Rong, and pressed the password.
Bangβthe moment the door closed, she leaned against the back of the door and froze there, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath.
The room was pitch black, quiet except for her breathing.
Li Ya gradually slid down the back of the door, her hands on her knees and her head in her head, her ten fingers clasped her arms desperately, and the mud in her palms stained her.
The evening breeze poured in through the window, blowing a few strands of her hair.
The smell of the dirt is amplified.
"Li Ya, you're such a wretch......" she murmured softly.
......
Because it was summer vacation and the school was on vacation, Chen Ji contacted Guo Ting's homeroom teacher through the school, and then the homeroom teacher found the contact information of Guo Ting's roommate and visited the two, but found nothing.
Living in a dormitory does not mean that the relationship is harmonious, they all shook their heads about Guo Ting's usual dynamics and said that they were not clear, and the one who was closer to Guo Ting was another girl in the dormitory, but that one returned to his hometown and could not be contacted for the time being.
The decoration company is small in scale and only installed surveillance at the gate, and Zhao Liexu spent an afternoon checking the surveillance video of the temporary workers hired that day.
The manager of the decoration company said that the five temporary workers who came that day were all over 40 years old, perhaps because they were from the bottom class, and they were all relatively old after working hard all year round, but there were no particularly abrupt people.
The surveillance only captured the moment they entered the door, just a few seconds.
The workers wore blue uniforms and looked natural when they talked, except that the one who walked at the back wore a camouflage hat and a long-sleeved jacket, and had no face at all.
The police checked the identity information of the temporary worker again, contacted me and made a record, and one of the men named Chen Guofeng said that he had not been to the decoration company.
"According to the description of the manager of the decoration company and other temporary workers, this person is about 50 years old, with a thin physique, a large mole on the right side of his face, and the technical department is reconstructing the portrait according to the description of eyewitnesses." Looking at this again, the camouflage hat and camouflage jacket worn by this person are relatively common on the market, but a man who is nearly fifty years old, would he buy such clothes himself? β
Chen Ji touched his chin, "This dress looks really familiar." β
Zhao Liexu smiled lightly, "All major colleges and universities in our country will have military training at the beginning of the school year, and students will dress uniformly, the most common are green and blue military uniforms. Usually, after military training, students throw away their clothes, and school cleaners and other employees in similar positions pick them up and wear them. β
Chen Ji slapped the table, "Don't say it, my aunt who sells wontons downstairs also passed through." β
Zhao Liexu: "This person has a mediocre appearance, a big gap between his age and Guo Ting, low economic ability, doing some inconspicuous work, being around Guo Ting, knowing Guo Ting very well, maybe... They can be met every day. β
He wrote two words next to the photo: campus.
"Maybe it's on campus, maybe it's outside campus, but it's not far from ten."
Jiang Ping: "Team Zhao, what you said in the morning that you won't stop ......"
Zhao Liexu threw down the oil pen and looked sideways at the person in the photo, "Like you said, if you were just an ordinary person, you would panic when you saw the corpse, but he didn't." β
Maybe Guo Ting was the target he had been aiming for a long time, but Guo Ting's death was unexpectedly advanced in his plan.
Zhao Liexu turned around, "Tomorrow you will go to Zhongji University with me and end the meeting." β
Chen Ji stretched his waist, "Do you want to go to dinner together, how about coming to my house to eat hot pot?" β
Several colleagues nodded.
Jiang Ping: "Team Zhao, you come too." β
Zhao Liexu: "Forget it, I didn't have a good rest last night, so I won't join in the fun." β
Chen Ji shook his eyebrows, "I've heard about it, Deputy Hall Liu introduced you to a beautiful woman, did you go back in the early hours of the morning yesterday to continue dating?" β
Belle?
Chen Ji didn't mention this stubble, he almost forgot that he received a text message from Zhang Yun in the morning.
The woman was blunt and asked if she wanted to have dinner together.
Several people walked out of the police station together, Zhao Liexu lit a cigarette, and he would habitually frown when he smoked.
Chen Ji also nodded and said: "I am also born and died with you, as a good brother, I really have to remind you that being single for too long is not a good thing, facing corpses and unsolved cases all day long during the day, there is a woman waiting for you at night at home, seeing the lights and meals, this heart is warm, no matter how hard and tired you are, there is a support." The girl introduced by Deputy Liu is sure to be good, and the brothers are all thinking about drinking your wine quickly, and then I am afraid that I will break the record of the longest single dog in the police force. β
Zhao Liexu smiled indifferently, "It's better to lack than to excess." β
"Oh I'm going, I'm getting goosebumps all over the ground."
Chen Ji graduated from the same class as him at the police academy, although he was not in the same class, but later became a colleague by chance, Zhao Liexu heard it when he was in the police academy, and the tests will always be No.1.
At that time, he had just joined the team, and someone was sent down a task to smuggle guns and ammunition, and he still remembers that a total of 78 criminal policemen were dispatched to chase them all the way from Huaicheng to the border of Yunnan.
During the battle, Zhao Liexu captured the leader in one fell swoop, and only when he caught did he find that he had been shot twice, one in his left arm and one in his shoulder, and one in his lower leg.
This man's perseverance and endurance were extraordinary.
Since then, Chen Ji really admired him, and his thinking to solve the case was quicker than ordinary people.
This city is also deeper than ordinary people.
No one could guess what he was thinking.
It's no wonder that the girls in the bureau are so obsessed with death.
Chen Ji and his group left with a war song.
Zhao Liexu sat in the car and smoked a cigarette.
Zhang Yun sent another text message, and the time was very good.
She said, maybe I'm a little abrupt, and it's okay if it's inconvenient.
He quickly typed a line of words and sent.
'I've been busy lately, sorry. β
Zhang Yun replied in seconds, "Pay attention to your body." β
Zhao Liexu started the car and walked away.