dead innocent

The character 'Professor' given by Zheng Xihe disappeared on August 28, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

In addition, Zheng Xihe also told Chu Xingyun and Qin Xiao the hotel where the professor stayed.

Baijing Hot Spring Hotel.

A code name and an address. Although the identity of the target person is a mystery, the two clues are enough for the police to investigate.

The criminal investigation team of the Municipal Bureau is under unprecedented pressure. Chu Xingyun assigned them an overloaded workload and mobilized all the field members to run around to collect evidence. Suddenly, the police station was empty, and only Fu Yi was left behind.

Zhou Quliang rushed to the Municipal Bureau within 10 minutes after receiving the notification from Yang Kaitai. It is said that the police found witnesses and direct evidence to prove that Zhou Shiyang was the culprit suspected of kidnapping Fang Yu and causing her disappearance.

Yang Kaitai was in the corridor, sitting on the ground with his back against the wall, holding a watch in an evidence bag in his hand.

His expression was slumped, his face was full of sadness, his eyes were both helpless and sad, and he didn't know who he was angry with until now.

Up to now, he can't believe that Zhou Shiyang is really related to Fang Yu's disappearance. He has been trying to find evidence to prove Zhou Shiyang's innocence.To prove his kindness, to prove his integrity, to prove that he was not the one who took Fang Yu away.

Until the testimony of eyewitnesses, the evidence presented, witnesses and physical evidence, he insisted on resisting under heavy pressure and shattered him.Tell him, don't be stubborn, Zhou Shiyang is not kind, he is a murderer, and he died not innocently.

But before meeting Jiang Yi, he still firmly believed that Zhou Shiyang was so innocent.

Now he had to face reality and convince himself that no one was innocent, no one.

The corridor was empty, only a few police officers from the technical team passed by from time to time, and all the field members were sent off to work. Those who followed Lu Xia followed Lu Xia, those who were looking for Fang Yu looked for Fang Yu, and those who searched for drug dealers searched for drug dealers.Chu Xingyun directed them as busy as the big exercise years ago.

The rare quietness in the police station is like the dawn lurking in the dark night, and the dawn will never emerge from the darkness.The sky and the earth were still in darkness, and the sun forgot to rise.Everyone was trapped in the long night, no matter how hard they searched and tried, they couldn't find the exit.

Yang Kaitai looked at the watch in his hand, as if he could turn the slowly moving second hand back to the starting point, the night when he gave this watch to Zhou Shiyang——

The joy and emotion that gushed out of Zhou Shiyang's face are still very vivid in his memory, but his vivid smiling face was gradually covered with a thick layer of blood, and turned into a lifeless one with stiff eyes. , dripping with blood, the face of death.

Zhou Shiyang's crime made him feel desperate, and this sense of despair that he could not see the light made him feel suffocated even more.He felt that he had experienced the longest suffering in 24 years, and suffered the most disturbing period since he was a police officer.Zhou Shiyang's conviction was a calamity for him, but this calamity refused to go away for a long time, and he refused to exchange for the clouds and rain after the storm.

The guilty Zhou Shiyang entrenched like a curse on the pure land built for Zhou Shiyang in his heart, making him trapped in the abyss forever and lost his freedom.

Suddenly, the hurried and heavy sound of men's leather shoes stepping on the floor tiles sounded in the corridor.

Yang Kaitai stood up from the ground, lowered his head and clenched his fists, not looking at Zhou Quliang who was walking in front of him.

"Where's the evidence?"

Zhou Quliang asked out of breath because he was in a hurry.

Yang Kaitai raised the evidence bag in his hand, choked up and said, "I'm sorry, Brother Zhou."

Zhou Quliang took the watch over, held it in his hand, and asked in a puzzled way, "Why is this watch here?"

"He was the one who handed it over to the witness Jiang Yi. Jiang Yi can prove that he was the one who picked up Fang Yu in the Ruitu on the night of September [-]st. Jiang Yi's testimony is—"

"impossible!"

Zhou Quliang's low growl made Yang Kaitai startled, and looked up at him blankly as if he had been awakened.

As if he had suffered a heavy blow, Zhou Quliang, who was extremely emotionally unstable, stepped back a few steps in a pretentious manner, and then supported the wall. His eyes showed the deepest sadness and anger he had ever maintained. His red eye circles wrapped With the messy tears like a torrential rain beating the sea.

"Didn't you give this watch to Shiyang? He wore it all the time these years and never left it! Until he lost this watch a few days ago, he thoroughly cleaned the house inside and out. I searched and looked for this watch but couldn’t find it. He also asked me to bring back an identical watch from Los Angeles. He regarded this watch as extremely important. You said, how could he give it to someone else! "

Yang Kaitai seemed to be experiencing the torrential rain in his eyes, the rushing raindrops ruthlessly and noisyly hit him, causing him to be in a trance for a while, then awake for a while, his whole body was stiff and cold, and his face was dazed like he was frozen.

Suddenly, he saw Chu Xingyun holding sunglasses in one hand and a coat in the other, walking up from downstairs with a tired face.

He frantically ran towards Chu Xingyun, held his arm tightly, and his voice was choked with sadness: "Captain, Zhou Shiyang definitely didn't kill anyone. He couldn't have given that watch to Jiang Yi. Someone must have framed him." , he is innocent!"

Chu Xingyun was not moved by his determination and sadness, looked at Yang Kaitai quietly with exceptionally quiet eyes, then moved to Zhou Quliang who was standing by the wall, and drove away the wind and rain in his heart with a single sentence.

Chu Xingyun said: "Then you bring Tan Xiao here, and I will verify your conjecture, whether it is true or not."

Twenty minutes later, Qin Xiao was brought into the underground garage of the Municipal Bureau by Yang Kaitai.

The garage was very quiet, and there were several police cars parked that were not on duty, and the one parked in the middle was Zhou Shiyang's blue Ruitu.

Qin Xiao walked proudly and confidently in the aisle of the parking lot like a prince patrolling the country, and walked towards Chu Xingyun, who was leaning on the front of a police car and looking down at the documents, without squinting.

With a calm expression, he passed the blue Ruitu parked in the middle calmly, and regarded the witness who carried the dead souls of Zhou Shiyang and Fang Yu as nothing.

"coming."

Chu Xingyun raised his head and smiled at him as if greeting an old friend, then lowered his eyes and then flipped through the information in his hand, saying: "Wait a while."

Qin Xiao frowned slightly, and stood opposite him impatiently, in front of Zhou Shiyang's car: "If you want to ask me questions related to the case, you can ask my lawyer directly."

Chu Xingyun lowered his head and let out a deep laugh. The laughter from his chest was very short and perfunctory, and it dispersed before falling to the ground, leaving room for endless reverie.

"Don't worry."

Chu Xingyun said with a smile: "This matter has been dragging on for a long time, and we are all trapped and unable to get out. I called you here today because I want to settle with you."

Then she looked up at him and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"

Qin Xiao looked at him with strong vigilance: "Yes."

"Just right, I'm in a hurry too, to catch the plane this afternoon."

Chu Xingyun looked around the parking lot casually, then stood up from the front of the car and walked towards the blue Ruitu: "Since we are all in a hurry, let's start quickly."

He opened the door and sat in the co-pilot, then waved to Qin Xiao in the car, motioning for him to come up.

Qin Xiao hesitated for a moment, looking at Chu Xingyun's fake smiling face, it was hard to figure out his intention.

Seeing this, Chu Xingyun leaned over and opened the driver's door, and said with a smile: "Come on, Mr. Tan, there are no ghosts in this car, what are you afraid of?"

I don't know which of the two words 'ghost' or 'fear' stimulated Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao's face changed, and he opened the door as if to counterattack and got into the car.

Chu Xingyun's gaze stayed on his stiff and cold side face for a few seconds, then he retracted it and put it on the damaged windshield, his tone was flat as if he was chatting with a friend: "I want to hear what you said about Zhou Shiyang. people's impression."

Sitting in the driver's seat, Qin Xiao folded his arms and said coldly, "I don't have any impression, I'm not familiar with him."

"Unfamiliar? Then why did he ask you to meet in Shu Palace?"

"I don't know, I made a reservation in advance, and it's just for the appointment when it's time. As for why he asked me out, only he knows what it is?"

Qin Xiao did not refute the fact that he and Zhou Shiyang had agreed to meet in advance, but turned the initiative into a passivity, shifting all the right of interpretation to the dead.

Chu Xingyun can even think of how his lawyer taught him to keep these words in his mind before he came to the police station, exercising the magical power to reverse black and white.

"Your lawyer is very professional."

Chu Xingyun praised so much.

Qin Xiao didn't shy away from it, he accepted his compliment openly and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Chu Xingyun lowered his eyes, opened the materials spread on his lap, flipped through the pages like a revolving lantern, and sighed with regret: "There is a specialization in surgery, this sentence is really true, like Xu It is reasonable for a lawyer, a criminal defense barrister who is at the pinnacle of his profession, to lack astronomical common sense."

From his words, Qin Xiao heard the roaring beast hidden under the calm sea, and unconsciously straightened his back, fully armed and ready to go.

Chu Xingyun threw out a bait, but the topic suddenly turned around and shot a feint.

"At eight o'clock in the morning on September [-]st, you flew to Bali by plane, and returned to Yinjiang on the evening of the [-]rd?"

Qin Xiao listened carefully to every word he said, and said solemnly and solemnly, "Yes."

Chu Xingyun's quiet eyes glanced at him, and he said laxly and casually: "Why are you so nervous? You have already taken out the air tickets and hotel receipts, who can overturn your evidence?"

This seemingly unintentional sentence hit Tan Xiao's heart, making him even more anxious and anxious.

Chu Xingyun didn't seem to see the sweat oozing from his forehead, he still turned over the information spread on his lap unhurriedly, and said to himself: "The time to check in the hotel is [-]:[-] noon domestic time Min, check out at [-]:[-] p.m. on the [-]rd."

Qin Xiao listened to his narration as if he was reading a book, as if he had cut the flesh of his body back and forth with a red-hot slow knife, his face became even more anxious.

Chu Xingyun glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and lamented in his heart that the young master of the rich family, a high-ranking official, just didn't have any tempering, and he really couldn't stand the toss.

Suddenly, he closed the document, his fingers jumped several times on the cover of the document as if he were playing a piano, and finally he tapped heavily on the document with his index finger, and said, "Huh? Where did you just say that?"

Tan Xiao's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and glared at him: "If Captain Chu is fine, then I—"

"Oh."

Chu Xingyun rolled up the document in his hand with a look of surprise, tapped it lightly on his forehead, and said with a smile, "I remembered, it was said that Lawyer Xu lacked astronomical knowledge."

Qin Xiao was impatient: "What the hell are you trying to say?!"

Chu Xingyun turned his head, his clear eyes swept over his face, the corners of his lips were raised, and he said in a hurry: "I said, Lawyer Xu lacks astronomical common sense, otherwise, how could he not know about the rainstorm? How does the weather affect flights?"

Qin Xiao froze for a moment, with a trace of anxiety in his eyes.

Chu Xingyun touched his chin and looked at him with interest, and said slowly: "The flight to Bali at 10:[-] am on September [-]st was delayed for an hour, [-] minutes due to heavy rain, which means that your flight time needs at least Eight hours, from Ngurah Rai Airport to the hotel, you have to fly for half an hour. So please tell me, how did you check into the hotel at [-]:[-] in the afternoon?"

With that said, Chu Xingyun took out his mobile phone and quickly clicked a few times to find Bali Island in the world weather map, and then put the mobile phone in front of him: "See clearly, September [-]st, domestic time from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] Twenty minutes, heavy rain in Bali."

His sudden approach made Qin Xiao subconsciously lean against the back of the chair, his eyes carefully and quickly browsed through the web page, his Adam's apple rolled with difficulty, he licked his dry lower lip, and tried his best to keep calm and said: "Four o'clock It's not me who boards the plane and stays in the hotel at [-] points, but my friend, just using my identity information."

Chu Xingyun seemed to be easily persuaded by him, nodded suddenly, and explained for him: "That is to say, your flight was delayed and you were stranded at the airport for an hour and a half. Your friend used your identity information to help you Check in?"

Qin Xiao took a deep breath, and nodded hurriedly as if he was in a desperate situation.

Unexpectedly, the smile on Chu Xingyun's face narrowed, put his arms on the back of the chair behind him, leaned towards him in a posture of besieging him, and said coldly: "But the one who flies to Bali at eight o'clock on September [-]st The flight is not delayed, why are you lying?"

Qin Xiao suddenly turned his head to face him, the pupils in his eyes shrank suddenly, showing a panicked look on his face, he growled angrily, "What are you talking about?!"

Chu Xingyun smiled reassuringly, and put the phone in front of him again: "See clearly, this is last year's weather map, and the flight you took was not affected by the rainstorm. In other words, your lawyer is very professional, He didn't leave any loopholes." Then, Chu Xingyun smiled slightly: "You should really believe him."

Qin Xiao was stunned, Xu Zhe's face flashed across his mind, and what Xu Zhe had warned him before he entered the police station.Xu Zhe told him that their evidence was perfect, and if the police couldn't find a breakthrough, they would definitely create "perjury" that contradicted their evidence. He just had to stick to his confession and not give the other party any chance, and they would win. .

Therefore, Qin Xiao quickly adjusted his mental state, and once again showed the confidence of arrogance, with a haughty and frivolous smile on his white face, he said to Chu Xingyun: "So what? I remember wrongly." Is it possible? You also said that the evidence I provided is conclusive and has legal effect, and you cannot overthrow it."

Chu Xingyun looked at his face with deep eyes, and suddenly opened a superficial smile: "Don't worry, let's push it according to the logic of your lying, why are you lying? Because you don't even know if there is any magic in Bali that day. It rained, did the flight delay, or you didn’t leave Yinjiang at all from September [-]st to [-]rd. But why did you create the illusion that you left Yinjiang? You are making an alibi. What alibi? Very Obviously, the alibi for Fang Yu's disappearance, why did you make an alibi for Fang Yu's disappearance? Because you have a guilty conscience, and you are worried that the police will find you sooner or later, and you are worried that we will investigate sooner or later. It wasn't Zhou Shiyang who picked up Fang Yu in this car—"

Chu Xingyun leaned closer to him again, attached to his ear in a very intimate posture, and smiled softly: "It's you."

The psychological defense that Qin Xiao had picked up just now was gradually broken down like dripping water through rocks, with endless panic and anxiety on his face, he gritted his teeth and said stubbornly: "It's not me, it's Zhou Shiyang!"

Chu Xingyun smiled slowly as if he had never heard of it: "Is it Zhou Shiyang? I don't think so, until now we have not found surveillance video to prove that the person in the car is Zhou Shiyang. How can you be sure that even the police can't confirm it?" Is it Zhou Shiyang?"

"Didn't you find Jiang Yi? He is an eyewitness!"

"Oh? You mean Jiang Yi? Empty words have nothing to prove, and he has no evidence to prove that the person in the car is Zhou Shiyang."

"You are covering Zhou Shiyang! Jiang Yi clearly gave you physical evidence! That watch is the evidence!"

Chu Xingyun's eyes turned cold, and he smiled: "The news that we found Jiang Yi and obtained physical evidence is only known to my deputy team and a team member. Your news is too well-informed, Mr. Tan."

"In short, this matter has nothing to do with me, Fang Yu's death has nothing to do with me!"

Chu Xingyun's face froze, and he almost gritted his teeth and said, "Fang Yu is dead?"

"So what if he's dead? Zhou Shiyang killed him!"

"Are you sure you didn't pick up Fang Yu in this car on September [-]st?"

"No! I have never driven this car!"

Chu Xingyun stopped talking, suddenly opened the car door and got out of the car, then went straight to the front of the car, lifted the hem of the jacket and pulled out the pistol attached to the back waist——

Under Qin Xiao's pale gaze, Chu Xingyun stood upright in front of the car, holding the gun with both hands in a standard shooting posture, his right arm and the barrel of the gun formed a straight line, and aimed slightly at Qin Xiao in the driver's seat. Xiao.

Qin Xiao's eyes, which were stretched to the extreme by fear, burst into panic. He saw that Chu Xingyun's raised right arm formed a perfect ninety-degree angle with his straight body, and tilted his head slightly to the right to aim at it. Own.His dark eyes were full of murderous intent, as if he was aiming at a target, and he might pull the trigger at any time——

Suddenly, Chu Xingyun's right index finger rested lightly on the trigger, pulled the corner of his lips very lightly, and said: "Bang——"

It was as if Qin Xiao was being hit by a falsely fired bullet from his gun, and the blood in his body was instantly cold. Before the bullet pierced his heart, he quickly and nimbly put down the car window and opened the car door from the outside, rolling and crawling to escape. out.

He climbed out of the car and fell to the ground, his limbs were weak and trembling all over. He watched Chu Xingyun put away his gun and walked towards him, trying to escape, but he couldn't exert any strength.

Chu Xingyun put the gun back into the holster, squatted on one knee beside him, gently brushed off the dust stained on his shoulder shirt, looked at his pale and panicked face, and smiled unhurriedly Smiling, he said: "We have verified with Zhou Quliang that Zhou Shiyang's car has problems when it leaves the factory, and the driver's door can only be opened from the outside. Since you have never driven this car, how do you know that the door of this car was opened from the outside?" What about the one that was opened outside? You are lying, you said you never drove this car, did not pick up Fang Yu, and then you are going to say that you did not deliberately frame Zhou Shiyang? But you showed your feet, tell me what you did , You drove Fang Yu away in this car, you killed Fang Yu, and tried to blame Zhou Shiyang, you are not innocent, Zhou Shiyang is the innocent person."

That's right, Zhou Shiyang is the innocent person.

"You have no evidence!"

Qin Xiao roared hoarsely: "This is all your speculation, so what if I drove Zhou Shiyang's car? You have no evidence to prove that I picked Fang Yu up!"

Chu Xingyun suddenly grabbed his shirt collar fiercely, and approached his face, his dark eyes aimed at his eyes again like a muzzle full of sparks, and his lips were addicted to a ferocious smile: "You forgot Jiang Yi."

Qin Xiao was startled, cold sweat rolled down his forehead like beans.

Chu Xingyun grabbed his collar, sneered and said word by word: "You just want to use Jiang Yi to prove Zhou Shiyang's crime, have you not had time to silence him? Unfortunately, my people have already protected him , Jiang Yi witnessed you get off Zhou Shiyang's car with his own eyes, he is the witness you left me."

After finishing speaking, Chu Xingyun patted him lightly on the face twice, and said with a smile: "You are done playing, Young Master Tan."