Breaking Through the Clouds

Qin Chuan, who had been searching for the source of new drugs overnight, had been running around all night. Hearing that the source of the corpse had been locked by the criminal investigation, he rushed back to the city bureau without stopping. :

"But...but is he alive?"

Ma Xiang raised his forehead with one hand: "The work of our investigation team is not in place..."

Yan Yan stood outside the interrogation room with his arms folded, and said coldly, "Why don't you go in and kill him first?"

The corner of Qin Chuan's mouth twitched, and his eyes said that he couldn't be offended, couldn't be offended.

A boy in his early twenties, wearing a light gray shirt and a white coat, was sitting in the interrogation room. He probably didn't understand why the police broke into the laboratory and took him into the Public Security Bureau early in the morning. With a very cautious expression, his hands were placed on the table, his fingers were tightly crossed, and even the veins on the back of his hands were a little protruding.

"You are Chu Ci?"

"Yes."

"How old are you, where are you from?"

"21, Guizhou."

"what for?"

"Studying in Beijing, majoring in chemistry."

"Then what is Jianning doing?"

"I'm almost graduating, and my tutor hooked me up to do an internship in a chemical company here."

The criminal police recorded them one by one, and then asked: "Which company? Which university in Beijing? What's the name of the tutor?"

To everyone's surprise, the boy in front of him reported the name of a particularly famous private chemical company in Jianning and a university that is well-known to people all over the country. The department head, tutor, class, etc. were all told in an orderly, complete and clear manner, and then Explained: "My student ID card is in the bag, and the instructor is quite famous in the industry, so you can check it out. I'm sorry I haven't had time to ask, what did I do wrong? I have been staying in the laboratory recently to make a methanol For experiments related to sodium catalysis, you should be able to retrieve surveillance video to prove..."

Yan Yan raised his hand and pressed the Bluetooth headset, and said softly, "Ask him if he knows that bag."

"At two o'clock in the afternoon on April [-]th, you went to the financial center to buy a bag. What did you do?"

In the interrogation room, Chu Ci obviously paused, and then replied: "I don't know what package."

"I lied," Yan Mo said in a low voice.

Qin Chuan didn't understand what he meant, and Yan Xie didn't explain, and ordered into the headset: "Show him the surveillance image of the deceased buying a bag."

The criminal policeman opened the folder and pulled out the high-definition surveillance image of the exclusive store in the International Financial Center. The deceased was facing the cash register, and a huge packing box had been wrapped by SA and was on hand.

The police's questioning was very oppressive: "—how else do you want to explain?"

"..." Chu Ci stared at the photo without moving.

Although it was only a few seconds, his expression changed very subtly, and Yan Xie and Qin Chuan immediately looked at each other.

"He's my roommate." Chu Ci pushed the photo against the table with two fingers and returned it to the criminal policeman, saying, "His name is Feng Yuguang, what? What happened to him?"

"The relationship between these two roommates is terrible," Yan Yan said, stroking his chin.

Qin Chuan looked at him with the eyes of "you can know this too", but Yan Xie didn't answer, and told Ma Xiang: "Let the Jingwen Security Office call their school and internship company to verify."

Ma Xiang went away in response, and Qin Chuan elbowed him: "Don't play tricks, just let the fart go."

"You're the only one who fucking farts. Even if I fart, it's the kind that is so enlightening and fragrant, understand?"

Qin Chuan: "......All right, you are the boss and you have the final say."

Yan Xie's flattery was photographed, imitating Chu Ci's gesture of returning the photo to the police just now, pushing the edge of the paper with the tip of the fingernails of the middle finger and ring finger, and beckoning Qin Chuan to look: "See? The subtext of this action It's: "I don't even want to touch this guy, you can take as far as you can."——And as roommates, I haven't seen each other for a day or two nights, the first reaction is not that something happened to him, but What happened to him, is this Feng Yuguang a master who often commits crimes in his eyes?"

"What kind of person is Feng Yuguang, and what is your relationship with him?" the policeman in the interrogation room asked without answering.

Chu Ci took a breath, and slowly leaned back in the chair.

——21 years old, a graduate student from a well-known university is about to graduate, he is obviously a high IQ talent who has jumped many levels, and he is also the kind of person that criminal police don't like to deal with the most.

"Our relationship is relatively ordinary." Chu Ci leaned back in the chair and made the opening remarks with this sentence: "We are completely people in two worlds."

The policeman frowned: "How do you say that?"

"Feng Yuguang is a native of Beijing, his family is very wealthy, and he has many friends in school, but he is not that good in academics." Chu Ci was silent for two seconds, and said implicitly: "He is talented."

Yan Yan said in the headset: "Let me translate for everyone: he is a scumbag, and I am a top student. I want to despise him with inhumane ultimate, yay!"

Interpol: "..."

"Although I have been a roommate for more than a year, I am not familiar with him. I usually spend most of my time in the laboratory and library, tutoring four times a week, and have less time to go back to the dormitory. Especially recently, I am trying to keep my doctorate, and the thesis task is heavy. , basically sleeping in the laboratory."

The detective asked doubtfully, "But you guys came to Jianning for an internship together?"

"We are under the same tutor." Chu Ci explained, "Although it is an internship, I am actually here to get a few key data back to Beijing to do a doctoral dissertation."

"What about Feng Yuguang, he also wants to keep his blog?"

Chu Ci's expression was a bit indescribable, "...he should be here to make soy sauce."

The criminal policeman leaned forward: "Soy sauce? Can you describe it to us in detail, how does it work? What does he usually do, does he not study at all?"

"Not really," Chu Ci said, "but the study time is basically less than eight hours, it's the same as no study."

The interrogation room fell into a brief silence.

"... Dead Xueba," Yan Yan murmured.

The criminal police exhausted all their efforts to avoid rolling their eyes on the spot, turned over a page of the transcript, and asked, "Aside from studying, what hobbies or special living habits does your roommate have? Can you tell us about it?"

Chu Ci thought about it, and it seemed a little tricky.

"What comes to mind and what to say, the more detailed the better."

"..."

Chu Ci was silent for a moment before answering: "Feng Yuguang has participated in some club activities, has many friends, and often comes home late from gatherings. He usually likes to play games, but I haven't noticed what he is playing, or I don't know what it is. I don’t like to go to the laboratory very much, all the courses are flying at low altitude, and I don’t know how he passed. I have a close relationship with several girls. I often video in the dormitory, and I don’t hang up the phone until late. Others I'm not particularly clear either."

The criminal police immediately ordered: "Give us the names of those girls."

"I don't even know each other." Chu Ci said helplessly, "Do you think I know girls?"

The detective looked up at him a few times.Even from a male point of view, Chu Ci is a very good-looking person, completely different from the rigid academic bully with bald head and glasses in the traditional sense.

But Xueba is Xueba, a person who studies less than eight hours a day is equivalent to no learning, what can you tell them.

The criminal police tapped the table with a pen and asked a probing question: "Does your roommate usually take medicine?"

Chu Ci said, "I don't know, what medicine do I take?"

"Vitamins, cold medicine, whatever. Have you ever seen him take any medicine?"

"No."

Outside the interrogation room, Yan Xie and Qin Chuan kept their eyes on his face, as if they wanted to find any abnormal clues from these two simple words.But then Chu Ci repeated it with certainty: "Not at all."

Yan Yan pressed the headset: "Ask him when was the last time he saw the deceased."

The detective asked, "When was the last time you saw Feng Yuguang?"

"I went back to the dormitory to pick up books at noon the day before yesterday. Feng Yuguang asked me why I didn't go back to the dormitory to sleep in the past two nights. I said that the reaction has reached a critical stage, and the laboratory cannot leave people."

"that is it?"

"It's just that. I have a normal relationship with him. Even if we came to Jianning from Beijing together, we didn't have much to say to each other. No matter what he did, I didn't want to know or participate in it."

Chu Ci leaned her upper body forward, leaned over the edge of the table and asked, "If I have nothing else to do, when can I leave? The sodium methoxide catalysis experiment is very important, and I really can't leave people easily."

"Brother Yan!" The door was pushed open, and Ma Xiang hurried in: "The cultural security office has called to verify, and the identities of the deceased Feng Yuguang and roommate Chu Ci can be confirmed!"

Yan Yan nodded, but only listened to Ma Xiang's rapid fire: "We contacted the two people's internship managers, school department heads, and professional tutors, and basically confirmed the authenticity of most of the transcripts. But isn't there still that package? , the fact that the deceased used cash and the roommate's name to buy a luxury bag would not explain it at all if the two were really in a relationship, so I contacted their class counselor again - guess what?"

Yan Yan raised his eyebrows: "Is there something wrong?"

Ma Xiang opened the shorthand notebook confidently, and the ground suddenly lit up: "It's a big situation."

One minute later, the door of the interrogation room was pushed open again, and Chu Ci looked up.

The five-digit RMB is not for nothing. The white shirt that was crumpled from staying up all night on Yan Xie’s body is still very stylish and stylish. The simple action of putting one hand in his pocket and pulling out the chair with the other hand to sit down is very impressive. The style of painting is completely different from that of the entire criminal investigation team, as if a piece of American crime scene investigation was suddenly inserted into the domestic series "Story at the Police Station".

The criminal police hurriedly greeted: "Deputy Yan."

Yan Yan nodded without saying a word, took the transcript and flipped through a few pages. No one knew what he was looking at, but he rubbed his chin with great interest, and suddenly asked without raising his head: "Are you with your roommate?" cooked."

Chu Ci said, "Yes."

"Isn't the well water the river?"

"you can say it this way."

Yan Yan asked: "Then why did you make several reports from the beginning of the year to April to apply for changing dormitories?"

Chu Ci paused.

"On April 12, you applied for the last time. After the counselor refused on the grounds that the postgraduate dormitory could not be changed, he gave you the access card of the laboratory building and told you that if you really don't want to go back to the dormitory, you can sleep in the laboratory at night. April NO .[-], several other graduate students have to do hydrothermal reaction experiments all night, in order to continue to sleep in the laboratory, you also helped them burn a reactor."

Chu Ci said: "The laboratory is constantly powered on at night and has air conditioning..."

"April No. 15, you and Feng Yuguang came to Jianning from Beijing. In the afternoon of No. 16, Feng Yuguang went to the International Finance Center mall and bought a [-] luxury backpack in your name."

The interrogation room was unusually quiet, and Chu Ci didn't say a word.

Yan Yan propped his elbows on the edge of the table, and said lightly: "If I use someone else's name to buy something, there is only one possibility, that is, I want to give this item to him, and I am worried that if he doesn't like it, he will turn around and buy something. You can also take it to the store and exchange it yourself.”

"—But you didn't ask for that bag in the end." After a pause, Yan Mo raised his eyebrows slightly: "I think you and Feng Yuguang have really serious conflicts, and you really don't want to see this person."

Chu Ci rubbed the center of his eyebrows with his knuckles, and when he raised his hand, the two detectives noticed that his little finger and ring finger were covered with Band-Aids.

"Yes." After a few seconds, he finally put down his hand, looked at Yan Yan and admitted: "There are indeed some conflicts between my roommate and me."

Yan Yan said coldly: "Just some?"

Chu Ci crossed her hands in front of her chest, staring at Yan Mao.Ordinary people would be a little embarrassed or anxious when being questioned by the police like this, but this young high-achieving student has better self-restraint than most people, at least on the surface, there is not much unpleasant expression, just repeating clearly: "Just some. "

Yan Mo's eyes flickered slightly, but no emotion could be seen.

"—Okay." After a long while, Yan Yan leaned back in the chair and shrugged nonchalantly: "Then tell us what the contradictions are, and why he gave you a bag of 10 yuan? Forgive me Presumptuously, I only gave away such things as luxury goods when I first fell in love in my life, but I don’t care if I give them away. I only give them a good face for [-] minutes and then I don’t have anything to say. They are all meat buns, so they never return... ..."

"He's too loud."

"Ok?"

"My roommate," Chu Ci said in a very flat tone, "five nights a week, we watch videos until two o'clock in the evening, watch dramas and play games until five o'clock, and keep the lights on all night. There are also two days when we have parties outside until three or four o'clock." Turn on the light and wash loudly as soon as you enter the door, no matter how soundly you sleep, you will be woken up, I don’t remember the last time I slept until dawn.”

"I'm a very poor student. If I don't get the highest scholarship every year, it's tantamount to committing a crime. I can bear it normally, but I can't bear it during the exam period, and it's hard to concentrate on doing experiments during the day. You know that some experiments in chemistry are It's dangerous, I almost had an accident several times..."

Yan Xie interrupted suddenly: "You have a nervous breakdown?"

Chu Ci didn't answer.

"You mentioned turning on the light twice just now, because you are very sensitive to light when you sleep, right?"

"..." Chu Ci finally sighed, and said wearily, "When my last roommate was here, I didn't have a nervous breakdown."

Outside the interrogation room, Qin Chuan said softly, "This kid has a complete motive for committing the crime."

Yan Yan asked: "Then since your conflicts are already so serious, why didn't he move out, instead, he bought gifts as—sorry, I can only think of the word retention—he wants you to move out of the laboratory after you return to Beijing." Go back to the dormitory, don't you?"

Chu Ci said: "I really don't know why, but I guess, his graduation thesis should not go on."

Yan Xie raised his head, condescendingly sizing up Chu Ci who was in the shadows across the interrogation table, with undisguised scrutiny and cold suspicion in his eyes.

"Officer," Chu Ci seemed a little helpless: "Everyone has conflicts with their roommates to some extent, but this is not the reason why I have been interrogated here for a long time without any reason. Can I ask, what happened to Feng Yuguang? If If yes, would you like to check the surveillance records I have been in the laboratory for the past two days?"

Ma Xiang's cell phone rang outside the interrogation room. He gestured "sorry" to Qin Chuan, and hurried to the door to answer the phone.

Ten seconds later, he pushed the door open and entered. Qin Chuan turned his head and asked what's wrong with his eyes.

"...Brother Qin, Brother Yan." Ma Xiang swallowed his saliva, his expression was not very good: "Something happened to the internship company..."

Yan Xie let go of the headset, looked up at Chu Ci, and said sincerely, "I'm sorry."

Chu Ci: "?"

"Your internship company just came to report that the monitoring of the laboratory was broken for a while not long ago, and it was not repaired until yesterday. That is to say, there is no monitoring record on the day you went back to the dormitory to see Feng Yuguang for the last time on May [-]."

Chu Ci: "..."

"And you may not know that May [-]nd was also the last time you talked with Feng Yuguang. A few hours later, he was carrying the backpack that you rejected, and died at the back door of the KTV in Fuyang District—" Yan Mao Pressing the record on the table with his backhand: "That day."

Chu Ci's steady expression finally changed:

"……What did you say?"

Yan Xie's voice was not harsh, but each word contained a more threatening force, which echoed in the interrogation room.

"You'd better tell us honestly what Feng Yuguang said to you when we met for the last time, classmate. The victim died of chemical poisoning, and you have sufficient motives, the ability to make poison, and no alibi. If you If you still try to hide it, then you are the only suspect in this case so far."

Yan Mao folded his hands, leaned his upper body back, and said lightly: "You should know what that means."

Extreme silence filled the air, Chu Ci seemed to be frozen in the shadows, not even blinking.

"……how is this possible……"

No one answered, all eyes were on his face.

I don't know how long it took before Chu Ci finally spoke in a few burning gazes, and said in a very soft and hoarse voice, "When I went back to pick up things at noon that day..."

"Feng Yuguang was reading in the dormitory. When he saw me coming in, he suddenly insisted on making a bet with me."