dead innocent

About 10 minutes later, he sorted out Qin Xiao's confession and printed it on white paper to form a volume.It just so happened that Chu Xingyun came back.

Chu Xingyun quickly flipped through the three pages, and then looked at Yang Kaitai, seeing that his face was tired and haggard, his eyes were in a trance, and he often lost his mind.

Chu Xingyun handed the document to Mr. Qiao, raised his hand and pressed it on his shoulder, squeezed it hard, and said with a smile: "You have worked hard, go back and rest, or—let your sister Qiao take you back, and reward you well Reward you?"

Qiao Shishi answered the question very cleverly, winked at him, flicked his hair, and said coquettishly, "My sister loves you very much."

Yang Kaitai smiled in embarrassment, lowered his head and rubbed the corners of his eyes as he walked past them: "I'd better go and see Captain Fu."

Chu Xingyun found Zhao Feng in the police office and asked him to find out his previous mobile phone.

His last mobile phone was kicked into the sea by Zheng Xihe along with its owner, and it failed for a few days.In the spirit of thrift and housekeeping, he brought the water-soaked mobile phone back to the team and handed it to Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng loves electronic products and is a small maintenance expert. What's more, Chu Xingyun's mobile phone did not damage the main board, but just entered the water. , Take it apart and blow it on.

Zhao Feng took out his mobile phone from the corner of the drawer and handed it to him. Chu Xingyun pressed the power button for a long time, and the screen was really bright, so he sighed in his heart about the power of the domestic mobile phone.

He leaned back on the table, put a calling card into his phone and asked, "How is Lu Xia?"

Qiao Shishi said: "I have made it clear, and agreed to cooperate with us."

Chu Xingyun slanted his lips and asked: "How to cooperate?"

"He said he would let us know what came to mind."

"How to guarantee?"

"He also said that he remembered that he had left something in the Shu Palace."

Chu Xingyun looked up at her immediately, his eyes were very dark: "Shu Palace?"

Qiao Shishi snapped his fingers: "That's right, the place where the crime happened."

This is indeed an important message.

Chu Xingyun lowered his head and fiddled with the mobile phone again: "I asked you to check Qin Xiao's 'friends', how did the check go?"

Qiao Shishi looked at Zhao Feng, so Zhao Feng bit the bullet and said: "We are checking according to his reservation record in the Shu Palace, and we are also collecting evidence from his acquaintances, but the identities of those people are too complicated, and there is no match yet. suspect."

That's right, even if it was a rule for Qin Xiao to stay in the Shu Palace, there was no rule at all for him to bring people to the Shu Palace.It is not impossible to find it irregularly, it is difficult to find it, and it may never be found.

Chu Xingyun could only say: "Try to find it." At the end, he asked: "Where is Fang Yu's body?"

"Team Chen took it away, and Team Fu agreed. After all, Fang Yu's case is in charge of him."

"When Fang Yu was found, were her clothes and belongings intact?"

"We searched twice and brought back everything we could. Why don't we go to the Dongcheng branch now?"

Chu Xingyun secured the phone card, turned on the phone again, and said with the ringtone: "Tomorrow, I will take Lu Xia to the Shu Palace now."

Talking about walking towards the door, Qiao Shishi wanted to follow him, but he stopped him.

"You left Zha Feng Jingcheng, the people who died at the same time as Zha and him in the same area, starting with his colleagues and friends."

Since Feng Jingcheng could create one scapegoat, he could create a second scapegoat. Yuan Pingyi wanted to avoid being chased by the police back then, so the second scapegoat was to avoid being chased by the police today.

There is no one who is more impossible to trace than a dead person, so not only is Feng Jingcheng not dead, but it is very likely that he has become another person.

Although Qiao Shishi didn't know what he was looking for, he was still working hard to prepare. Suddenly, he heard that the office door was pushed open again, and then Chu Xingyun's voice came in: "Gao Yuannan hasn't come back to work yet?"

Qiao Shishi dragged his chin and said absently: "No, I took half a month's leave, saying that something happened to my family."

Chu Xingyun stood at the door and thought for a while, without saying anything, walked to the summoning room on the second floor.

In the summons room on the second floor, a uniformed police officer was on duty, and Lu Xia was lying on a row of benches under the window.

Seeing him open the door and come in, Lu Xia got up and sat down unhurriedly. His right arm was only pierced two holes by the canine teeth. It had been sterilized and bandaged with injections, and the injury was not serious.

The police officer on duty greeted him: "Team Chu is back."

Chu Xingyun nodded, walked straight to the bench, met Lu Xia's usually unfriendly eyes, and asked with a smile: "I heard that you are willing to cooperate with us?"

Lu Xia pointed to her right forearm wrapped in gauze, and said with a sneer, "As long as you don't let the dogs bite me again, and don't treat me like a prisoner, I'll tell you everything I remember."

Chu Xingyun reached out to pull his injured arm, and was immediately resisted by him.

"what are you doing?!"

Looking at his frightened and angry face, Chu Xingyun looked at him expressionlessly for a moment, then sneered: "With such great strength, it seems that your injury is not very serious."

For him, Lu Xia is still a mystery, even a 'time bomb'.Chu Xingyun doubted his motives for agreeing to be "zhaoan", so he had to guard against him, and at the same time he had to give him some trust.

"Let's go, go to Shu Palace, you'd better remember something."

Taking Lu Xia out of the office building, Chu Xingyun led him to a police car, and Lu Xia sat in the back seat, a blind spot he couldn't see.

Chu Xingyun drove the car on the road, and the traffic flow at night did not decrease. Even though the evening rush hour had passed, it was difficult to drive at a speed of [-] miles in the city center. The police car without lights stopped and stopped behind the traffic flow. Fast and slow.

Lu Xia's angle was chosen very well. Chu Xingyun tried to observe him from the rearview mirror, but he couldn't find anyone.So he put all his eyes on the road ahead, and lowered the car window. Outside the window, some sultry and cool wind entered the car.

"My people found a dead body in your villa."

Chu Xingyun freed one hand to support his forehead, put his arm on the car window, and said lightly.

Lu Xia didn't respond to him, as if he had never heard of it.

Chu Xingyun habitually glanced at the rearview mirror, only seeing his half silhouette.

"Not going to explain why there are dead bodies in your house?"

Lu Xia was silent.

"Forgot? Still haven't remembered?"

Lu Xia was silent.

There are currently three corpses, Fang Yu's case is considered solved, but Qin Xiao's motive for killing Fang Yu involved a 'professor' who died at Lu Xia's home, and Lu Xia was the potential suspect in Zhou Shiyang's murder case eyewitness.

This is currently the only relationship between the characters that he can smooth out. The relationship between them seems to be unrelated, but in fact they are all related to the same person - Fang Yu.

The cause of the case was Fang Yu, so Zhou Shiyang's death must have something to do with Fang Yu. As for the 'professor', he was also related to Fang Yu before his death, but Lu Xia—what does he have to do with Fang Yu?

Chu Xingyun looked at the rearview mirror again, and there was no light in his deep eyes.

According to the information they have now, Lu Xia not only has nothing to do with Fang Yu, he also has nothing to do with the 'Professor'.But he always had a feeling that Lu Xia was a crucial figure in this puzzle.It is even possible that he will be the one to solve the mystery.

Lu Xia seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly raised her head to look forward, and immediately bumped into Chu Xingyun's eyes printed in the rearview mirror.

He seemed to be taken aback, his eyes trembled a few times, and then he turned his head and looked out the window hastily.

There was another 2-minute red light ahead. Chu Xingyun parked the car behind the buttocks of a car, took out a cigarette case and took out a cigarette. As soon as he lit it, he heard someone call him: "Captain Chu."

Following the sound, he turned his head and looked to the left. A former colleague was sitting in a sleeper car driving beside him in the next lane.

"Wang Zhi?"

Chu Xingyun took off the cigarette holder from the corner of his lips, and greeted him: "Didn't go to work today?"

"It's my turn to rest today."

The young man also put the car window down, lay facelessly on the steering wheel, turned his head and looked at him with a smile and said, "Are you still on business at such a late hour?"

This Wang Zhi used to be a staff member of the Municipal Bureau, the logistics department, because his hands and feet were not clean, he was always short of money and short of accounts at the end of the season, and was fired two years ago.After being expelled, he got an A1 driver's license and is now driving an ambulance in a hospital.

Just halfway through the red light countdown, Chu Xingyun chatted with him a few words.From his point of view, he happened to see Wang Zhi's handbag on the co-pilot. Although he didn't know much about luxury accessories, he recognized the logo on the handbag. He Cheng had one of the same brand, which model it seemed They all cost five-digit RMB.

"The package is good."

Chu Xingyun smiled and said: "You are doing well."

Wang Zhi let out a 'Yo', picked up the bag and threw it on the back seat, and said with a chuckle, "Did I scare you? A-grade, conscientious A-grade, here's one?"

The traffic ahead began to surge, and Chu Xingyun waved at him bluntly: "See you later."

When he arrived at the Shu Palace, Chu Xingyun parked the car in the open-air parking lot, got out of the car and walked to the back seat, opened the door, put his hands on the roof of the car and lowered his head with a smile: "Be honest, I won't handcuff you anymore. .”

Lu Xia nodded.

Although it is said so, it is still necessary to be on guard. Chu Xingyun held his arm and walked to the first floor of Shu Palace.

The manager has changed to a new one, and the new manager heard his reason for coming, and first complained: "This matter will never end, you come here every now and then, we can't do business." The key leads the way, and wants to send the police away as soon as possible.

Chu Xingyun asked him to open all rooms 106 and 107, and asked, "Has anyone come in these days?"

"No, it was just last time you came here for a walk."

Chu Xingyun stopped talking, pushed Lu Xia into 106 with a little force, and then closed the door with his backhand.

When he came to the scene of the crime again, Lu Xia still seemed at a loss, shrinking his head and tail, lowering his eyes nervously and scanning the surroundings, not even daring to lift his head.

Chu Xingyun leaned against the wall of the bathroom door, crossed his arms and said impatiently: "Say, what did you leave? Are you in this room? If you are not in this room, let's go to the next door."

Lu Xia's rolling eyes and rolling Adam's apple from time to time made him look like a thief entering the room, because he was too nervous and didn't know how to start.

Chu Xingyun looked at the time, it was 08:30 in the evening, an hour had passed since the last call with He Cheng.He told He Cheng on the plane to send him a message every 10 minutes, obviously He Cheng didn't intend to follow through, because He Cheng only sent him a message 10 minutes after he left, and there was no further action after that.

"If you can't remember, let's sit down and have a good chat."

Chu Xingyun said.

Lu Xia obviously didn't want to sit down and chat with him. After standing still for a long while, she finally made a move. She walked around the room and said, "My memory is very vague. Please give me time to recall."

Chu Xingyun leaned against the wall, looked at his figure turning around in each room, and planned to give him 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, no matter whether he is sincerely cooperating or deliberately devious, he must be allowed to experience a formal torture.

The pointer moved forward for 2 minutes, Lu Xia was still wandering around in the room, Chu Xingyun gradually lost his patience, stopped looking at him, and took out his mobile phone to call He Cheng.

No one answered the phone, so he called Xiao Shu again, Xiao Shu said that He Cheng was seeing a psychiatrist at the moment.

Although there is nothing wrong with He Cheng seeing a psychiatrist, Chu Xingyun is suspicious at this moment, wishing to isolate him from the whole world and prevent anyone from having contact with him.But this obviously couldn't be done. At this time, He Cheng had already gone to see a psychiatrist without knowing him.

"Go pick him up now, lock him up at home, and stop letting him run around."

Chu Xingyun felt bad because He Cheng was out of control, and his gaze unconsciously fell on the opposite bedroom where Zhou Shiyang's corpse lay——

He didn't hear what Xiao Shu was saying, because he suddenly noticed a silver mirror standing beside the bed in the bedroom.

As mentioned earlier, the decoration style of the Shu Palace is 'mirror reflection', and many silver mirrors are installed for the sake of pretense.

At this moment, the silver mirror standing on the head of the bed can only reflect half of his side because of the angle problem. His left hand holding the mobile phone next to his ear entered the mirror, but through the reflection of the mirror, the person in the mirror was the opposite of him, with his right hand Hold the phone and talk on the phone.

He suddenly hung up the phone and walked towards the bedroom. As the distance got closer, his figure in the mirror became clear and complete.Chu Xingyun stopped in front of the steps of the bedroom door and looked at the silver mirror that was only less than fifteen degrees away from him. The position he was standing at the moment was where the murderer committed the crime, and what was reflected in the silver mirror was him. own appearance.

Chu Xingyun's flat eyebrows slowly frowned, looking at himself in the mirror with a pair of thick black eyes that can't see a glimmer of light like looking at a stranger——

Suddenly, he raised his left arm, and in the mirror he raised his right arm.In the mirror, he is like a puppet being restrained, following the instructions from his body, he makes exactly the same and completely opposite movements.

Chu Xingyun's pupils shrank suddenly, and he sucked in a breath of air-conditioning silently. Looking at the eyes in the mirror that were also burning with fire, he seemed to sense that there was a wave of air-conditioning circling from the place where the murder happened, like a lonely He breathed in his ear like a cold wind, and said to him——you are wrong.

Immediately, his scalp exploded, and his hands and feet were numb.

He was wrong, he was wrong.

At that time, because I trusted Lu Xia's 'memory fragments', I trusted the painting he drew, the portrait of the Statue of Liberty.The goddess in the painting is the murderer that Lu Xia witnessed. The goddess raised her right hand, so the murderer must have raised her right hand when she committed the crime. Lu Xia was ruled out because he is left-handed, so Chu Xing Cloud is positioned as an 'eyewitness'.

But he ignored that there was a mirror in the room, and the murderer who stood at the door could just see the mirror and be seen by the mirror.The murderer raised his left hand instead of his right hand when committing the murder. If the element of mirror reflection is taken into account, then the left hand raised by Lu Xia is the right hand raised by the Statue of Liberty, that is to say——

The murderer Lu Xia saw was actually himself.

And the real 'witness' is this silver mirror, 'it' witnessed and live-streamed a murder.

Chu Xingyun could almost see how Lu Xia approached Zhou Shiyang with the murder weapon and smashed it at his head!When Zhou Shiyang fell down, he stood beside the corpse, cast blood-colored and fierce eyes at the mirror, and stared at himself in the mirror from abyss to abyss.

In an instant, Chu Xingyun really saw those phantom eyes—those gloomy, dark, and murderous eyes passed through his shoulders and met his eyes in the mirror.

At this moment, Lu Xia was standing behind him, staring at him silently——