dead innocent

Lu Xia wanted to attack the police, but his sneak attack was unsuccessful, even though he preemptively slipped behind Chu Xingyun like a ghost, and when his eyes met his in the mirror, he hid a surgical knife hidden in the cuff of his left hand. The knife slipped into the palm of the hand, and stabbed at Chu Xingyun's waist.But Chu Xingyun turned around to avoid the vital point, and the blade only pierced a layer of his flesh.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Xingyun turned around and kicked Lu Xia's abdomen!

Lu Xia flew back two meters like a broken kite, landed more like a sack thrown to the floor, and the scalpel flew aside.

This kick almost kicked out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys. His facial features were distorted, his face was pale, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and he was still struggling to climb towards the scalpel that fell not far away.

Chu Xingyun took a step forward, tore the muscles on the left side of his waist and realized that he was injured. He gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart, then walked to Lu Xia who was about to touch the scalpel, with gloomy eyes lowered , suddenly stepped on Lu Xia's wrist!

The soles of the hiking boots on his feet are hard, and they are designed with barbs for gripping the ground. Although he didn't use much force, Lu Xia still felt that his wrist bones were about to be crushed by his hard soles, but he was still desperately trying to pick up what fell on the floor. scalpel.

Lu Xia's outstretched five fingers are like sharp and shriveled eagle claws. Even in the face of dying, she does not change her raptor nature and stubbornly attacks her prey.

Chu Xingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, put his body weight on the right leg that stepped on his wrist, squatted down, and glanced at his distorted face because of the pain, but still persisting.He reached out and picked up the scalpel near Lu Xia's fingertips, like turning a ballpoint pen. The back of the scalpel was attached to the back of his hand and turned into a beautiful arc, and then the handle fell into his palm without any deviation. .

Chu Xingyun held the knife upside down, with the blade pointing down, and stabbed Lu Xia's hand involuntarily——

"what!"

Lu Xia tore her throat and let out a terrified cry.

The expected pain did not come for a long time, and the blade in Chu Xingyun's hand stuck straight between the gap between his middle finger and index finger, and stuck into the floor.

Lu Xia's five fingers trembled as if they had been crushed and their joints were broken. The fingertips were black and blue, without a trace of blood.

Before the blood flow stopped, causing his hand to turn completely bruised, Chu Xingyun removed the sole of his shoe and stepped on his forearm, resting his left hand on the handle of the knife inserted into the floor, lowering his head and pulling the corner of his lips with a smile that was not a smile Looking at him, he asked, "Did you kill Zhou Shiyang?"

Like a fish washed up on the beach, exposed to the sun, and losing its mobility and vitality, Lu Xia twisted her body and crawled under his feet. After another round of cold sweat flowed from her forehead, her eyes appeared lax and lifeless. , he licked his extremely dry lips, and said in a hoarse voice, "Yes, I killed him."

Chu Xingyun bent down, narrowed the distance between him and him again, gave him stronger pressure and deterrence, and said coldly: "Why?"

The corners of Lu Xia's lips curled up in an unusually distorted and grotesque arc, and a hoarse laughter came out of his throat: "He looked down on me, he threw my paintings under his feet like shit, at the exchange meeting a year ago, He and that old man didn't show me any respect!"

"Which old man?"

"He refuses to reveal his name, how do I know who he is!"

"You mean the body that appeared in the freezer?"

"He's looking for death! He ran to my house and pretended to buy my paintings, but he only humiliated me and left!"

Lu Xia's words immediately reminded him of the pharmacy that 'Professor' had appeared in the opposite of Lu Xia's community the day before his death.If the facts were as he said, the 'professor' came to ask for a painting that day, which could just explain the reason why the 'professor' appeared in the pharmacy and explain Lu Xia's motive for killing people.What about Zhou Shiyang?Even if Zhou Shiyang had insulted him as he said, how did he know that Zhou Shiyang would appear in the Shu Palace?

These chain links, no matter which one can't be untied, have to be broken and reassembled.

He threw this question to Lu Xia, and the answer he got made him want to pull out the scalpel and stab the back of his hand again.

Lu Xia said, "If you inquire about it a little bit, you'll know."

Chu Xingyun bared and took a deep breath: "You fucking playing with me? You don't even have a friend or acquaintance, so ask ghosts?!"

"How do you know I can't? I followed him for several days, and I heard him talking on the phone with someone. He called that person 'Qin Xiao', and said that we will meet at the Shu Palace Hotel in two days!"

Chu Xingyun's eyes darkened, and he didn't move for a while.

He remembered that when Fu Yi described Lu Xia was found at the scene of the crime, Lu Xia blurted out the name 'Qin Xiao'.If the facts are not as he said, and he learned about 'Qin Xiao' from Zhou Shiyang, then how and through what channels and ways could he learn about 'Qin Xiao'?

Chu Xingyun found that although Lu Xia's words described the process of the murder case too simply and his motives were too absurd, his confession could be connected back and forth without any loopholes.At least as of now, it is the closest to the 'perfect crime' as a way of committing crimes.

That's right, if Lu Xia was the murderer, then Zhou Shiyang's death was a perfect crime. Although Lu Xia has been arrested now, the reason for his arrest was an accident.If Lu Xia hadn't collided with Yang Kaitai after escaping from the Shu Palace, if he hadn't temporarily lost his memory due to a head injury in a car accident, he wouldn't have left clues for the police to investigate the real culprit.If he hadn't been injured and left no clues, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for the police to decipher the murder scene he set up.

Chu Xingyun had to admit that the arrest of Lu Xia at this time was entirely due to Lu Xia's own key evidence that he was the murderer - the painting of the Statue of Liberty.

"You also killed that old man?"

"It's me! It's all me! I admit it, please don't use violence against me, officer!"

Chu Xingyun stood up, removed his right foot that was on his forearm, stared at him coldly and said, "When did you remember it? These murderous memories."

Lu Xia sat up clutching the arm that was almost broken by him, her unfocused eyes fell on the floor, and she described it as depressed: "The second time I came back to this room, I remembered it."

"But you are hiding it from everyone, are you looking for a chance to escape?"

Lu Xia hummed a low laugh, that laugh was still cynical and aloof.He said: "Yes, I ran, but I didn't expect to be found by you again."

Chu Xingyun stared at him indifferently for a moment, twisted his stiff neck, and sneered: "So you brought me to the Shu Palace today, not to cooperate with the police in investigating the case, but to attack the police and wait for an opportunity to escape?"

At this moment, Lu Xia is like a criminal who accepts the judge's verdict in court. Although he still has a desire to survive in his heart, he has no way to defend himself.More importantly, Chu Xingyun couldn't see the slightest desire to defend himself in his expression, even if it was sophistry.

He didn't, he just nodded calmly and sadly, with a smile of relief on his face: "Yes, I want to attack the police, I want to run away."

Walking out of the Shu Palace building, Fang felt that the night wind was picking up speed. The tree-lined belts on both sides of the road were swayed by the wind, and clusters of fallen leaves fell like falling snow.The gust of wind rolled the yellowing leaves on the ground, rolling them, and didn't stop until they hit his instep.

Chu Xingyun looked up at the boundless night that was getting thicker and thicker above his head, zipped up his coat, and stuffed Lu Xia into the back seat of the police car.

Back at the Municipal Bureau, he put handcuffs on Lu Xia himself, sent him to the torture room, and stood at the door and told Qiao Shishi: "If you don't let him spit up tonight, you won't be able to go to work tomorrow."

Before leaving, he asked for Fang Yu's autopsy report and the complete case file that could be filed so far.

Afterwards, he hurriedly left the Municipal Bureau, hailed a taxi and prepared to go back to Jiuli Jinting to have a look. More than two hours later, not only did he not receive any text messages from He Cheng, but He Cheng's mobile phone was already turned off. state.

After getting into a taxi and driving one street ahead, his mobile phone finally rang, and the sound quality was as noisy as an 80s stuck phonograph.

"I called you six or seven times, why didn't you answer?"

Chen Zhiyang was very annoyed, his loud voice with a northeast accent was harsher than the noise.

Chu Xingyun pinched his eyebrows irritably: "There is a problem with the mobile phone, the signal is not good, is there any progress on your side?"

He formed an alliance with Chen Zhiyang and Political Commissar Chen. Political Commissar Chen checked Director Qin's public and private accounts inside the police department, and Chen Zhiyang went outside to find gangs that Qin Xiao might be involved in drug trafficking.Otherwise, Yinjiang did not have a comparable high-ranking official to check and balance Director Qin, how could he bring He Cheng back recklessly.

Chen Zhiyang said: "My second uncle has been checking his accounts for the past few days, and indeed found that there are a few transactions of unknown origin, the amount is large, and there are inflows and outflows. I just found the pattern today. The inflows come from Hong Kong, Macao and overseas, and the outflows are basically It was remitted to the border of Yunnan. There is also Director Qin’s wife, who is the vice president of Huaxia Bank. She has registered several leather bag companies overseas. In all likelihood, it is a money laundering company.”

Chu Xingyun rolled up the information in his hand, and tapped his thigh slowly in a slow rhythm, with an elusive smile on his face.

People can't stand the investigation, maybe no one is innocent, so as long as someone with a heart pays attention and pays attention, they can find evidence of a crime that cannot be hidden or erased.

Zheng Xihe did express his sincerity, Chu Xingyun thought to himself, Zheng Xihe said that Qin Xiao had a one-way contact with the "professor" who practiced drugs, and Director Qin remitted the money to the border land, the golden triangle paradise of drug lords. Is it self-produced?

With the convenience of police work, he can avoid all customs, escort a gangster-related drug trafficking road, and hold up an extremely strong protective umbrella.

"Have you found any substantial evidence?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

Chen Zhiyang said impatiently: "The investigation has been too tight these days. The accounts that my second uncle only found out have been canceled one after another since yesterday. It is estimated that Director Qin also felt that something was wrong and wanted to put Wipe your ass clean."

Chu Xingyun pondered for a moment, but still decided not to participate, and said: "I am in a state of desperation and have no idea, and the matter of Director Qin will be handed over to you and Commissar Chen. We have a clear division of labor."

Because he didn't want to invite the He family to gamble with him this time, it was rare for Chu Xingyun to show his official tone to him, and at the same time, he also expressed his position.

Fortunately, Chen Zhiyang trusted him enough, otherwise, if it was anyone else, he would suspect that he had been caught in a trick.

"Okay, by the way, didn't you come back from the waves? Why don't you come and see Fang Yu's body?"

Chu Xingyun spread the documents on his lap, and glanced roughly at the outline: "It's enough for me to read the file, I don't have that time."

As he spoke, he directly turned the file to the second half, including the part of Fang Yu's autopsy report.

Not surprisingly, Fang Yu died at the hands of Qin Xiao.Qin Xiao's fingerprints were almost all over the girl's body, and Qin Xiao's skin tissue was left under the nails. After DNA confirmation, it really belonged to Qin Xiao.This time, Qin Xiao's lawyer wanted to exonerate him, unless he really played a trick in court to reverse black and white, otherwise, Qin Xiao would be finished.However, whenever Qin Xiao is convicted, it will be much easier to convince the procuratorate to file a case against Director Qin for investigation——

He was doing two things at once, reading the report while setting up conspiracies and tricks in his mind. When he saw a few photos of the deceased's belongings attached, he calmed down for a moment and quickly discovered a suspicious point.

"When you found Fang Yu, was she carrying a schoolbag?"

Chu Xingyun raised his eyebrows and looked at the dusty beige schoolbag printed on a photo, his voice suddenly became dark.

"No, the schoolbag was thrown beside her, and our people took it back when they were collecting evidence."

Chu Xingyun didn't say a word, and lowered his head to get closer to the photo, his eyes were darker.

He had seen Fang Yu in the video, she was carrying such a beige schoolbag on the night of the accident, and she was carrying this beige schoolbag when she was robbed at the entrance of the stewed meat shop.

This schoolbag is very ordinary, very ordinary, since Qin Xiao has already taken her away, there is no reason not to search her schoolbag, so he does not have a fluke mentality, hoping that there is some evidence in the schoolbag.It's just that young girls like to adorn their personal items with some beautiful ornaments, and Fang Yu is no exception. From the ribbon made of five-color silk rope on the left side of the schoolbag in the photo, it can be seen that Fang Yu was also in the schoolbag when he was alive. Embellished with ornaments.

This is nothing, the important thing is that the broken surface of this ribbon is very smooth, as if it was cut off by someone...

Suddenly, he raised his head and said to the driver, "Go to Sanfu Road Night Market!"

The night market on Sanfu Road was the black market he visited last time, where there was a mix of fish and snakes, where the rogue Zhatui, the pornographic venues were full of corners, doing all kinds of shady business.To put it simply, it is the Shu Palace visited by common people.

Sun Hai's bony, frightened and salivating smiling face flashed before his eyes.Chu Xingyun felt funny and angry from the bottom of his heart; this scoundrel is so courageous, he even dared to steal Qin Xiao's things!

At the beginning when he was interrogating Sun Hai, Sun Hai said that he followed Fang Yu for two streets because he fell in love with the gold pendant on Fang Yu's schoolbag. Judging from the actual schoolbag he found at this time, the ornaments on Fang Yu's schoolbag were indeed missing.But Sun Hai said that he had no chance to make a move, and the fact before his eyes at this moment was that the gold pendant had disappeared——

Chu Xingyun stared at the rapidly passing night outside the window, with his arms resting on the car window, covering his lips and chin, which also covered the unexplained sinister smile on the corner of his lips.

It's ironic that the black mobile phone that Qin Xiao didn't find on Fang Yu's body, which is the evidence of Director Qin's involvement in drugs and gangsters, has already fallen into Sun Hai's hands——

These people are all lying!

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For the little rogue Sun Hai, and the gold pendant on Fang Yu's schoolbag, please refer to Chapter 82, First Degree Murder [6].