dead innocent

Chu Xingyun hurriedly asked: "Who?"

Zhou Quliang walked down from the second floor, stopped in front of him, and said, "He Cheng."

He Cheng?How could it be He Cheng?He thought it would be anyone else, but he didn't expect it to be He Cheng.

Chu Xingyun felt both fortunate and uneasy, that is to say, whether he could find the person who dropped the bomb on the second floor, all hope rested on He Cheng.

He sighed and squeezed the aching brows, and asked again: "Has he been standing here all this time?"

"I was with him all the time, he was..."

Zhou Quliang is also very smart. When Chu Xingyun was looking at the timeline, he also thought that the person who planted the bomb was likely to use the time when the second floor was empty, avoiding people's eyes and ears, and taking the opportunity to commit crimes.

Chu Xingyun saw that he hesitated to speak, his face full of doubts, so he asked: "What's wrong with him?"

Zhou Quliang glanced at him and said, "It's nothing, he just went to the bathroom when the mayor's secretary was speaking."

Chu Xingyun grasped the point vigilantly: "The bathroom is on the second floor?"

Now that he had made it clear, Zhou Quliang simply expressed his doubts: "After he went to the bathroom, he didn't come back until the security evacuated the crowd, so I went up to look for him, but I saw him lying in the corridor outside the bathroom. like-"

Zhou Quliang frowned, falling into doubt again.

Chu Xingyun didn't know what kind of mentality he was holding to ask, as if it was just a conditioned reflex, the body instinct: "What is it like?"

Zhou Quliang turned to look at him, his eyes were cold and deep, and said: "It seems to be asleep."

Chu Xingyun was a little dizzy. He had never dealt with any complicated cases in the past, which brought him heavy pressure and doubts. Just now he felt that he had figured out the clue, but now he felt that he was plunged into the fog.

"Take me to see."

With Zhou Quliang's leadership, he was able to discover that the west corner where the bomb was originally placed was facing a corridor, and at the end of the corridor more than ten meters away, turn left, which is the bathroom.

Zhou Quliang pointed to a place diagonally opposite the men's toilet: "He was lying here at the time."

"What kind of posture?"

Zhou Quliang made a gesture with his hands and said, "Lie on your side with your head facing west."

The west?

Chu Xingyun stood at the position he said, turned his back to the bathroom and looked at the west, his eyebrows became more suspicious.

If He Cheng's head is facing west, it means that he didn't go into the bathroom at all, and he might even be on his way to the bathroom.He was lying on his side, which meant that the strength of his fall was buffered, at least he was not attacked head-on, so he would fall to the ground on his back, but he was lying on his side, as if——was put down by someone.

Trapped in the banquet hall with only the wreckage left, these questions will not be answered. Moreover, the purpose of this trip has been achieved, and other redundant information is difficult to find, so he said to Zhou Quliang: "Let's go, go out first."

Walking out of the State Guest Building, the armed police were still detecting explosives, and Manager Chen was still entangled with the commander of the fire brigade, insisting that he had no problems with fire safety and would not cooperate with the inspection.

Chu Xingyun walked over, raised his voice a little, and suppressed the aura of Manager Chen who was being sarcastic: "Give me a copy of the design drawings of the banquet hall on the top floor of your hotel."

Before he could react, he went to the familiar captain of the armed police and asked him to call out a few people to help take the private cameras near the two exits of the main entrance and the back entrance of the surrounding State Guest Building.

Zhou Quliang waited beside him for a while, seeing that he had no time to take care of himself, so he stepped up to him and said, "Captain Chu, then I'll be leaving first."

Chu Xingyun shook hands with him and said, "Thank you for your hard work today."

Zhou Quliang said "you're welcome", and just as he was about to lift his foot, he saw another police car driving into the congested road.

The accumulated water sprinkled on the ground by the fire truck caused the night to be very cold. Qiao Shishi got off the car, immediately wrapped up the short windbreaker on his body, and walked towards Chu Xingyun with his arms folded.

"Boss."

She stopped in front of Chu Xingyun and Zhou Quliang, first glanced at Zhou Quliang, frowned with two curved eyebrows, looking worried, and then said to Chu Xingyun: "I have seen the scene, and the situation is not optimistic."

When she said 'the situation is not optimistic', Chu Xingyun probably understood, meaning that the murderer did everything cleanly, walked smoothly, left no clues, and could not be traced.

"Are any of us staying on site?"

"No, people from Guoan sealed off the scene."

Chu Xingyun frowned: "Guoan?"

Now the word Guoan directly refers to He Ying in his eyes, but He Ying's participation added another layer of mystery to the three shooting cases.

"Captain Fu and the others are a step late, Guoan has already—"

In the middle of speaking, Qiao Shishi suddenly remembered something, and looked at Zhou Quliang silently.

Zhou Quliang and her looked at each other, smiled politely, and prepared to leave.

Qiao Shishi suddenly reached out to stop him: "Wait a minute, Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Quliang stopped according to his words, and looked at her calmly: "What's the matter?"

Qiao Shishi found a photo from his mobile phone and held it up in front of him: "Jiang Wei, do you know him?"

Zhou Quliang frowned and carefully identified his eyes: "I don't know."

Chu Xingyun also became suspicious: "Qiaoer, what's going on?"

Qiao Shishi looked at Chu Xingyun, and finally looked at Zhou Quliang, and said: "This person was killed at home just now, he was an intern in your company, and when he reported the crime before he was killed, he left this sentence talk."

As she spoke, she found a recording from her mobile phone and played it in front of him and Chu Xingyun.

Chu Xingyun listened attentively and heard a young male voice calling for help. The last sentence ended with "It's Huafeng Group Zhou——" Afterwards, a scream ended the recording before the death.

Is it Zhou Quliang of Huafeng Group?

He subconsciously turned his head to look at Zhou Quliang, only to see that Zhou Quliang frowned slightly, also looking puzzled.

The temple suddenly jumped, Chu Xingyun pinched his brows irritably, raised his hand on his shoulder, and said helplessly: "Mr. Zhou, although I am willing to believe you, but since you were mentioned in the message of the deceased, why not Please cooperate with our investigation."

Zhou Quliang still maintained a calm demeanor, his eyes moved away from Qiao Shishi, and fell on Chu Xingyun's face, his eyes gradually condensed and cooled down: "So now I have been summoned by the police?"

Chu Xingyun looked at him carefully, and sneered: "It's not that serious, just a simple question."

A smile appeared on the corners of Zhou Quliang's lips, and he opened his arms to show him that he was in a mess, and said, "Then please give me time, let me go home and change my clothes."

Chu Xingyun smiled: "Then forget it tonight, and I will wait for you at the Municipal Bureau tomorrow morning during work hours."

Zhou Quliang thanked him, took two steps forward, stopped suddenly, turned around and said, "If you want to send someone to guard the door of my house, I understand. What I want to say is that there are many guest rooms in my house, and I can help you provided a bed."

Chu Xingyun slanted his lips, looked at him calmly, admiring his calmness and demeanor, openness and chic in his heart.

Suddenly, he pushed Qiao Shishi forward: "Qiao Er, take Mr. Zhou home, don't cause too much trouble to him tonight."

Qiao Shishi was in a daze when he pushed him unexpectedly and almost bumped into Zhou Quliang, but Zhou Quliang held onto his shoulders to keep him from falling.

With a flash in her eyes, she quickly stepped back half a step from Zhou Quliang's arms, then turned her head to stare at Chu Xingyun.

Chu Xingyun raised his eyebrows and smiled at her, took a blueprint from Manager Chen who had been waiting for a long time, then left the Guobin Building first, and quickly disappeared along the dark night pedestrian street.

Qiao Shishi can fight three or four hooligans by herself, and ordinary women can't compare with her, so he really doesn't worry that this girl will be taken advantage of by anyone.If something really happened tonight, it would be because she took advantage of Zhou Quliang.

"Then I will trouble you, Officer Joe."

After Zhou Quliang finished speaking, she took the lead towards the police car she parked on the side of the road.

Compared to Zhou Quliang's magnanimity, Qiao Shishi was like a villain. Standing on the side of the street in the dark and foggy night, gritted his teeth and cheered, trotted to the car, opened the driver's door and sat in. Say something stupid: "Where are you going?"

As soon as the words came out, she almost bit her own tongue, she put up her palms to cover her face, and covered Zhou Quliang's gaze.

Zhou Quliang suddenly smiled, the laughter was so soft that it was almost negligible: "If you don't mind, I want to go home and rest."

Since the identity of this trip has been dismantled by Chu Xingyun, Qiao Shishi remained silent along the way, and Zhou Quliang didn't care to talk to her, and looked out the window thoughtfully along the way.

"There seems to be a lot going on tonight."

On their way to the villa area, although the panic and gunpowder smoke that filled the city had gradually dissipated, they remained on the faces of passers-by on the street, on the damaged cornerstones by the roadside, and those who were still doing good things on the street. on special vehicles.

Zhou Quliang propped his forehead, looking solemnly at the several wrecked private cars parked on the side of the road, as well as the owners of the private cars who were quarreling with the traffic police.

In the blink of an eye, the helpless traffic policeman and the citizens demanding compensation were left behind along with the street scene, and the electrician who rushed to repair the cable overnight ushered in the front.

Qiao Shishi carefully watched him from the corner of his eye, and said: "It is true that many things happened, Jiang Wei is not the only one who died tonight."

Zhou Quliang couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "Who else? Are they all my employees?"

Qiao Shishi said: "No, the other two deceased were not from Huafeng Shipping. We haven't found any connection between these three deceased."

Zhou Quliang turned his head to look at her, the smile on his face was a little uncertain, and he couldn't tell the truth, and said: "Since you suspect that I am related to one murder case, then you also have reasons to suspect that I am related to the other two murder cases, so now I am Has the police focused their investigation on the suspect?"

Although he concealed it well, Qiao Shishi still saw on his face the angry look on his face because his younger brother was unfairly questioned when they came to search Zhou Shiyang's car.

Qiao Shishi suddenly smiled harshly, and said jokingly: "How dare you say that, we don't dare to think like this, our captain asked me to watch you, just to find the connection between you and the deceased Jiang Wei .”

Zhou Quliang nodded in silence for a moment, then turned his head to look out the window, and said with a faint smile: "Huafeng Shipping was managed by Shiyang before, but now it is handed over to my vice president, Qiu Zhi, and I will ask him to assist you in the investigation tomorrow."

He was so frank, and he looked like a good citizen who was eager to provide clues and actively cooperate with the investigation.

She almost wanted to call Chu Xingyun and tell him; Boss, let's stop staring at Zhou Quliang, he is mature, stable and handsome, he must be a good citizen who abides by the law!

Taking the good citizens back to the Banshan villa area, she parked the police car in the garage of Zhou Quliang's home.

Seeing him closing the garage, Qiao Shishi felt very complicated, thinking of her staying with the suspect countless times, the suspect understood the hard work in the field, and it was the first time in the world that he was invited to stay at home overnight.Not only her, but the entire criminal investigation detachment had never encountered it.

Zhou Quliang closed the garage door, not paying attention to the changing expression on her face, took out the key from his suit pocket and walked towards the door of the villa.

They stood under the door, and the sensor light turned on by itself. Zhou Quliang turned on the door and the light in the living room, and said, "Please come in."

As soon as Qiao Shishi entered the door, he was bumped into his arms by the big golden retriever, and was almost knocked out of the door by it.

"Dumplings."

Zhou Quliang lowered his voice slightly as if scolding a disobedient child, and called the golden retriever.

The golden retriever just took its claws off Qiao Shishi's body.

Qiao Shishi squatted at the door and rubbed Jin Maofeng's head happily: "Shui Dumpling seems to like me."

"Well, it's rare."

While Zhou Quliang was chatting with her, he opened a room on the left hand side of the living room on the first floor, and said loudly, "The third compartment in the kitchen cupboard is its dog food, please feed it for me."

Qiao Shishi responded, and smoothly took out a bag of dog food at the place he said, and found a dog bowl in the corner of the living room, took the big golden retriever there, sat cross-legged on the ground, and poured it out without restraint. A whole basin full.

"what are you doing?"

She asked while looking at the dumplings and eating.

"The guest room has been unoccupied for a long time, so I'll clean it up."

Zhou Quliang took out a set of clean quilts from the top floor of the closet in the guest room, spread the sheets with his own method, and then walked to the window, opened the window, and opened the window so that the air in the room could be replaced as quickly as possible. fresh.

"Forget it's too much trouble, I'll just sleep on the sofa in the living room."

Qiao Shishi didn't care.

Zhou Quliang adjusted the curtains, smiled, and said in a much lower voice, "How can that be done?"

He wiped off the dust on his palm, and was about to put a new quilt cover on the quilt, but his figure stopped suddenly while turning around.

There was someone outside the window. At this moment, a tall man stood outside the window on the first floor.This person was leaning against the wall with half of his arm exposed, and there was only a wall between Zhou Quliang who was standing indoors...

When they came back just now, the yard was completely dark except for two light sources in front of the garage, so it was difficult to see the figure hidden in the darkness.At this time, it was also a coincidence that he entered the room where the 'visitor' was hiding behind the wall, and found this sudden visitor inadvertently.

It took only a few seconds for Zhou Quliang to accept the danger at this time, then his eyes darkened, he turned and walked out of the guest room, and said calmly: "No trouble, it's just that there has been no ventilation for a long time, it will be better to sprinkle some freshener. "

Qiao Shishi in the living room wanted to get up to help: "Where is the freshener? Where can I go?"

She just made a move when she saw Zhou Quliang come out of the guest room with a serious face, raised her index finger and gave her a "shh".

Zhou Quliang pulled out a baseball bat from the tube standing by the wall, and briefly gestured to her: Don't move.

Qiao Shishi keenly sensed the dangerous atmosphere from his body and expression, so he quickly stood up and watched him walk towards the door with a baseball bat in his hand. He didn't stay where he was as he said, but followed him lightly. past.

Just when Zhou Quliang was about to walk to the door, Dumpling thought that the owner was going to play catch with him in the middle of the night, and suddenly barked and rushed into the yard. Not only that, but also knocked Zhou Quliang down with his hands.

There was too much movement on their side, Qiao Shishi clearly heard that just as the dumpling rushed out, there was a sudden noise from the oblique rear of the room, presumably it was Zhou Quliang warning her of the 'danger'.

Without any hesitation or thinking, she rushed out of the door, leaving Zhou Quliang who was hit by the golden retriever and didn't know where she was injured, and ran in the direction of the sound.

Zhou Quhao accidentally hit his waist, only one step behind Qiao Shishi, stood up from the ground with a baseball bat in his hand, and ran over.

Although Qiao Shishi was very fast, the golden retriever got into trouble first, and the people ambushing by the garage had already noticed his exposure, so when Qiao Shishi rushed to the back of the house, he only saw the back of a man under Yue Xingxing. Climb up the garage, then up the towering fence, and jump down without stopping.

Not to be outdone, Qiao Shishi climbed up to the two-meter-high garage with bare hands, stepped on the wall and was about to jump down when Zhou Quliang called her: "Officer Qiao!"

Qiao Shishi slammed on the brakes, and the recoil in his body almost sent him out.

"what happened?"

she said anxiously.

Zhou Quliang threw away the baseball bat, walked to the window where the man was hiding just now with one hand on his waist, picked up something from the ground, then looked up at her, and said in a deep voice, "He has a gun."

have a gun?Her first reaction was that the escaped person was the bait for her to leave, and there were other people ambushing around Zhou Quliang, after a little thought, she stopped chasing, and it was important to stay and protect Zhou Quliang.

Qiao Shishi jumped down from the garage, took the things in his hands, and looked through the light from the guest room window, only to find that it was a set of magazines, which were full of six bullets.

Her heart tightened first, then loosened, she couldn't control her mouth for a while, and cursed with a sneer: "Fuck, it's not petty theft."

After following Chu Xingyun for many years, this girl is also a bit evil.

Zhou Quliang glanced at her, and said calmly, "I don't know if it has anything to do with the shooting that happened tonight."

Qiao Shishi put the magazine in his pocket, folded his arms and looked at the moon in thought. After careful consideration, he said: "I was suspicious of you at first, but now your suspicion can basically be erased. On the same day, almost at the same time, multiple shootings will not happen by accident. , it is very likely that there is planning and premeditation, since Jiang Wei is the target, and you are also the target, then your situation should be the same, we should find the common ground between you and Jiang Wei—"

As she said that, she suddenly realized that she regarded Zhou Quliang in front of her as a colleague, so she quickly ended her speculation and said neatly: "Tomorrow you have to cooperate with our investigation."

Zhou Quliang said: "Of course, I also wonder why I was targeted by dangerous elements with guns."

He looked at her and asked, "Then do you go back first tonight, or stay here?"

Qiao Shishi wondered, "Why should I leave?"

Zhou Quliang: "...I am not safe here anymore."

Qiao Shishi said with a look of reason: "Then I have to stay even more. You are already in a very dangerous situation, and now you are injured again. Who will protect you when I leave?"

Zhou Quliang never dreamed that he could hear the words "I protect you" from a girl in his lifetime. He curled his lips as if he wanted to laugh, and looked at Qiao Shishi with complicated eyes hidden in the darkness.

Qiao Shishi only noticed that he was clutching his lower back all the time, so he asked, "Are you kneeling down?"

"I accidentally fell down just now."

Qiao Shishi bent down and slapped the golden-haired head squatting beside her legs lightly: "Look at what you've done." After speaking, he said with concern: "Let me take a look for you, if it's not serious, massage it It should be fine."

Zhou Quliang waved his hand and declined without thinking: "No need, I—"

Before he finished speaking, Qiao Shishi gave a careless oops, grabbed his wrist and walked into the house instead: "What's the matter, I pressed all the gentlemen in our team. Our captain praised me for being a superb technique !"

Zhou Quliang: ...

The words are good words, and the meaning is also good, but these words come out of a beautiful girl's mouth, no matter how awkward they sound.