dead innocent

The city bureau received the report at 53:[-] p.m.

At that time, Chu Xingyun and Qiao Shishi happened to be on the way back to the Municipal Bureau from the Dongcheng District Detachment. When they passed near Wangjing Road, the walkie-talkie that Chu Xingyun put on the bridge rang.

Fu Yidao: "A homicide occurred in the entertainment club of Shu Palace, who can get to the scene as soon as possible?"

Shu Palace?

Chu Xingyun observed the road ahead, and picked up the walkie-talkie with one hand: "I'll go to protect the scene first, and let Su Wan hurry up."

After finishing the call, he threw the walkie-talkie to the bridge, looked ahead and told Qiao Shishi, "Sit still."

Qiao Shishi immediately tightened his seat belt: "Boss, I think your new car is quite domineering, let's try not to get into an accident."

Chu Xingyun turned his head and smiled at her, then slammed on the accelerator to overtake three cars in a row, and turned to the right at the intersection ahead, and the tires of the car rubbed against the roadbed and turned quickly through a dangerous turn.

The Land Rover drove into the small square diagonally opposite the Shu Palace in the dark of night, and turned crookedly into a parking space.Chu Xingyun got off the car, praised the good car in his heart, the drive is strong, the brakes are sensitive, and then crossed the road with the dizzy Qiao Shishi to the Shu Palace entertainment club.

In front of the revolving door, Chu Xingyun suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the open-air parking lot.

Qiao Shishi followed his gaze to look over, raised his slender eyebrows, and asked in surprise, "Mr. He's car?"

No, that license plate number is still a series of 7 Ford SUVs, which are He Cheng's cars.

Chu Xingyun pressed his eyebrows and raised his head gloomyly to look at the glamorous top floor of the Shu Palace. Qiao Shishi seemed to grit his teeth when he saw him, and held back when he wanted to say something, and then pushed open the revolving door Walk into the lobby on the first floor of Shu Palace.

The manager waiting in the lobby on the first floor saw the powerful aura around him that was insoluble in the crowd, and rushed to meet him: "Are you the police? Please don't make too much noise and take the body away quietly. Don't disturb him." Big guy in the building."

Chu Xingyun glanced at him with a black face, suppressed a bad breath, and said coldly: "We are in charge of anti-pornography, and you are the ones who are investigating today, and the big troops will arrive later."

The manager of the lobby seemed to be stunned and stunned.

Chu Xingyun took a few steps forward, turned his head and pressed his eyebrows impatiently: "Lead the way! Waiting to be investigated?!"

The third floor is the first-floor accommodation area, which is mainly prepared for the successful crowd in the bar on the first floor and the nightclub on the top floor.Customers are self-produced and sold, and they are full every day, and even need to make an appointment in advance.

The homicide took place at the Presidential Suite No. 106 on the third floor. It seemed that the manager had cleared all the guests on this floor in order to reduce the situation.His cleverness made the inexplicably angry Chu Xingyun even more annoyed, and immediately asked him to bring everyone back to gather in the lobby on the first floor.

The third floor was not empty, there was the cleaning lady who found the body, Zou Yuheng and... He Cheng.

He Cheng lazily leaned against the wall hung with a Western oil painting, with his hands in the pockets of his suit trousers. He was looking at Room 106 with the door wide open, thinking for a while, when he suddenly heard Zou Yuheng shouting from beside him. One voice: "Captain Chu."

It's not easy, Chu Xingyun is finally willing to show up.

He Cheng tilted his head, and looked him up from head to toe in silence. Seeing that he was still wearing the clothes he had worn the day he disappeared, he knew that he didn't even have time to go home and change, so he calmed down a little.Just when he was about to walk towards him, he saw Chu Xingyun suddenly turned his eyes sideways, and stared at him for a few seconds with an extremely ugly face, like a black-faced evil spirit.

He Cheng was a little puzzled, and after a little hesitation, Chu Xingyun had already walked in front of him.

"What are you doing here?"

His face was full of solemnity, and he asked this sentence in a selfish manner, his sharp knife-like eyes scraped across He Cheng's face, and then stopped on Zou Yuheng.

He Cheng didn't have time to speak, and Zou Yuheng hurriedly replied: "Just for fun, go in and have a look, Captain Chu, there's a dead person inside."

Chu Xingyun walked to the door and took a look inside, and saw a man lying on the bedroom carpet in the bedroom door that was concealed. He gave Qiao Shishi a wink, and Qiao Shishi walked into the room.

"Who booked the room?"

He asked the lobby manager.

He Cheng, who hadn't had time to chat with him, said first, "Qin Xiao."

Chu Xingyun looked back at him, his eyes were still so cold and stern, making people want to hide: "What about others?"

He Cheng patted a guest room on the left, and said, "It's inside. He wanted to leave here just now, so I locked him inside."

Chu Xingyun looked at the lobby manager again: "You call out the surveillance video of this floor."

The lobby manager responded.

"Boss! It's Zhou Shiyang!"

Qiao Shishi suddenly exclaimed.

However, Chu Xingyun was leaning against the door with his arms folded at this time, a little absent-minded, and he didn't retrieve the name Zhou Shiyang in his mind immediately.

"Are you still angry?"

he asked with a cold face.

Qiao Shishi sighed: "It's gone."

The dead person in the room did not attract his attention too much. Chu Xingyun held his arms in his arms in an abnormal way and was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his head and stared at He Cheng, with the corners of his lips slanting towards him with a smile that was not a smile. He walked over and asked, "Then which room did you book?"

He Cheng looked at him with lowered eyes, and said, "Me?"

Chu Xingyun suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the collar of his shirt, forcing him to lower his head, his eyes were as cold as knives wrapped in cold light, and he sneered at the corners of his lips: "Well, you, which room did you book? What about people? Take them out and let me see."

It took He Cheng less than a few seconds to sort out the cause and effect of his rage.It's strange that Chu Xingyun doesn't trust him, he should be angry, but he doesn't have much anger, but a little bit of joy.

Seeing Chu Xingyun gritted his teeth and was mad with anger, he was very shameless and wanted to laugh, but he held back, and he hid it well, and when he was about to speak, Chu Xingyun gritted his teeth and said: "It's only been two days , He Cheng, I haven't seen you for two days!"

He Cheng's eyes flickered slightly, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a while, then said: "Three days."

"……what?"

"Today is the third day."

After teasing him, He Cheng accepted it as soon as he saw it, because he could tell that Chu Xingyun wanted to fight him.

Before Chu Xingyun started, he hurriedly said: "Do you want to see him?"

Chu Xingyun looked at him expressionlessly: "Since you have said so, let's meet."

He Cheng pursed his lips and smiled, glanced at the left and right corridors, and found that at the end of the corridor on the right was a silver mirror wall cut into countless diamond shapes for decoration.So he pressed his shoulder to guide him to turn to the right, and said, "Look."

Seeing the reflection in the mirror, Chu Xingyun's cloudy eyes trembled slightly, his ashen complexion softened slightly, he waved He Cheng's hand and turned to face him, lowered his voice and said angrily: "Don't follow me to this , What are you trying to do here tonight?!"

He Cheng rubbed his red wrist, sighed helplessly, and said to Zou Yuheng who was standing aside watching the show, "Explain the reason why I appeared here tonight."

The tricky relationship between these two people was exposed too clearly at the moment, Zou Yuheng was deeply surprised, but at the same time he did not forget to help He Cheng clean up his grievances, and explained the reason why they appeared in the Shu Palace.

After Chu Xingyun listened, he doubted: "Really?"

A smile appeared on the corner of He Cheng's lips, he looked into his eyes and said seriously: "Have I ever lied to you?"

Chu Xingyun stared at his face for a moment, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, he looked at him with burning eyes and said: "Listen well, He Cheng, I am here to be true to you. Yeah, if you think I don't care what you do out there, you're dead wrong. I tell you, I do, and I don't allow it. Didn't you make me remember who I am? You too Your own identity!"

He Cheng looked at him calmly and smiled, then held his shoulders, and said softly: "Understood, Chu Xingyun's boyfriend, I know my identity very well. If you are not at ease, then I will call him tomorrow This line of words is tattooed on my heart, and it will never be erased for a lifetime."

What he said was very pleasant, but Chu Xingyun was concerned about the case at the same time, and was not moved by him, but stared at him blankly for a few seconds, seemingly considering the meaning of these words Authenticity.

Qiao Shishi suddenly ran to the door and called him: "Boss, come in quickly."

So Chu Xingyun left He Cheng and walked towards Room 106. When he was at the door, he turned his head and pointed at him, and said, "Don't go, I will make a record later."

The deceased, Zhou Shiyang, male, was 24 years old. Due to his young age, he had not made any achievements yet, so the only thing worth recording in the files was—the younger brother of Zhou Quliang, the chairman of Huafeng Group.

Chu Xingyun still remembers him, and the impression Zhou Shiyang left on him is still on the young man whose neckline is covered with pollen and who is smiling docilely and kindly around.However, at this moment, he was lying on the bedroom carpet in the 106 presidential suite of the Shu Palace Entertainment Club, and was attacked from behind.

The body was found by the cleaner who cleaned the room. When the cleaner cleaned Room 106, he did not find the body, but when he cleaned Room 107 next door, he found that the disinfectant water had fallen into the bathroom of Room 106.So she went back to pick it up, just in time to see a man rushing out of room 106, and then she saw a bloody man lying on his stomach inside the half-covered bedroom door.

When Qin Xiao was about to escape, he was bumped into by He Cheng and Zou Yuheng who were passing by by chance, and was then brought back to the scene of the crime by He Cheng.

There was no evidence around Zhou Shiyang, and he had only one fatal wound. After examining the body, Su Wan reported the time of death: "The time of death was between [-]:[-] and [-], less than an hour from now."

Su Wan opened the wound that was clogged with thick blood, and said, "The cause of death was severe trauma to the back of the brain, and she died of excessive blood loss after shock and coma. The fractured surface of the skull was neatly formed, as deep as two fingers' width, and the diameter of the fractured part of the skull was about two centimeters." , it can be seen that it is a regular arc, so I think the murder weapon should be a sharp weapon with a spoon in hand."

As she said that, she held up the dark brown powder, which was the size of a bean, on her blood-stained fingers with white gloves, and showed it to Chu Xingyun: "And it's iron."

Chu Xingyun pondered for a while: "Hammer?"

Su Wan nodded: "Similar."

But no murder weapon was found in the room, including Qin Xiao, and no similar iron weapon was found either.That means that the murderer had premeditated and did not use local materials. It is very likely that the murder weapon was taken away from the crime scene after the murder. So Qin Xiao, who has no weapon in his hand, is the murderer?

Several criminal policemen scattered in the room to take pictures and search for evidence. Chu Xingyun asked people to remove the bed in the bedroom, and found no deadly iron under the bed or in the wardrobe.

He left the bedroom, stood in the outer hall and looked towards the bedroom. From this angle, he could only see Su Wan and the two criminal police who were busy around the corpse.Then the murderer started from where he was, and walked towards Zhou Shiyang in the bedroom with the murder weapon in his hand. Taking advantage of his unpreparedness, the murderer swung his anger from behind to the back of his head, killing him with one blow.

Chu Xingyun called the cleaning lady in and asked her to check if there was anything missing in the house. The cleaning aunt was frightened and walked through the suite tremblingly, and finally said to Chu Xingyun: "Comrade police, nothing is missing."

Chu Xingyun couldn't help frowning, and asked, "Didn't you find the body when you first came in to clean the room?"

The cleaning said: "No, we only have the key to the main entrance, and the bedrooms of each guest room have locks. In order to respect the privacy of the guests, we are not allowed to enter the bedrooms to clean without direct requests from the guests."

Standing in the outer hall and looking around, Chu Xingyun suddenly noticed a closed window in the south. He walked to the window and found that the window was large enough for one person to go in and out, and the terrace outside the window was narrow and strong, leading to the rooms on the left and right sides , but at this time the windows are closed tightly.

He called the cleaning over and asked, "Can this window be opened from the outside?"

Bao Jie said: "No, it can only be opened from the inside."

"Were the windows locked when you came in to clean the room?"

"Yes."

"Does the guest have a key?"

"No, only we have the key to the window lock."

Chu Xingyun fell into deep thought. Since the windows are locked, there seems to be only one exit in this room, and that is the main entrance.In other words, the suspect was locked on Qin Xiao, who entered and left the room during the time of Zhou Shiyang's death.Besides, suite 106 was reserved by Qin Xiao, and only Qin Xiao knew that Zhou Shiyang would enter this room, but—where is the murder weapon?

Chu Xingyun walked to the door and looked at Qin Xiao who was squatting in the corridor with a dejected and terrified expression.His handsome face was distorted and pale, as if he had encountered a nightmare, not only that, Chu Xingyun also saw the cold light and deep meaning hidden in his dark eyes.

Qin Xiao noticed a heavy gaze staring at him, he raised his head and saw Chu Xingyun standing in Room 106.His pupils tightened and opened rapidly, as if he was extremely afraid of him, but the next moment he rushed to him as if he was a life-saving straw, and grabbed his hand tightly: "I didn't kill anyone, Captain Chu, Zhou Shiyang is not me!" Kill me, trust me, trust me!"

Chu Xingyun pulled out his hand unmoved, his tone was cold and calm, and his eyes were sternly scrutinized: "This room has only one exit from the main entrance, and only you can enter and exit. If Zhou Shiyang was not killed by you, would it be Zhou Shiyang?" who?"

Qin Xiao seemed to realize that he was in a desperate situation and was about to be charged with murder and thrown into prison.

As if being swept by a strong wind, Qin Xiao trembled all over, and all the blood on his face faded.In his eyes, Chu Xingyun saw the extreme fear and powerlessness in the eyes of those sentenced prisoners after they learned the bad news.

"but--"

Qin Xiao's teeth kept chattering, and he looked at Chu Xingyun with tears and bloodshot eyes, and said with all his strength: "I am not the murderer who killed Zhou Shiyang."

Chu Xingyun is still very calm. He has seen too much fear and despair. Qin Xiao's panic and help are far from enough to arouse his sympathy.

"This is the room you reserved. Did you invite Zhou Shiyang here?"

The color in Qin Xiao's eyes changed violently, he seemed to be hysterical, or he seemed to have entered a maze, or he couldn't understand Chu Xingyun's question, and the whole person seemed to have fallen into a fantasy.He groped around in the illusion, but bumped into walls everywhere, until he lost his direction and looked around in a daze.

However, Chu Xingyun felt that he was not as innocent as he seemed on the surface. With the insight of seeing many crimes, he could see at a glance why Qin Xiao refused to tell Zhou Shiyang's reason for coming here. There must be a huge hidden secret buried in it.

He was hesitating whether to handcuff Qin Xiao and take him back to the police station, because since just now, his cell phone has been vibrating non-stop, and the caller ID is - Director Qin.

At this time He Cheng came back, and he took back the mobile phone left at the counter on the seventh floor and handed it to Chu Xingyun, saying: "Zhou Shiyang's mobile phone."

Just as Chu Xingyun was about to take it, Qin Xiao suddenly snatched the phone away.

Chu Xingyun frowned suddenly, grabbed his wrist and cut it behind his back and lifted it vigorously. Qin Xiao suddenly lost strength and the phone fell to the ground.

"Cuffed up!"

Chu Xingyun pushed him towards Zhao Feng.

He Cheng picked up the mobile phone that fell on the ground, wiped off the dust that did not exist on the screen, and handed it to Chu Xingyun: "I met Zhou Shiyang in the lobby, and then he followed me to the nightclub on the top floor to sit for a while, and when he left—— It was about ten past nine. At that time, he told me to hold a banquet on the seventh floor to invite friends to dinner, but I asked just now, and he did not book a box on the seventh floor, nor did he invite anyone."

Zhou Shiyang's mobile phone has a password, and he couldn't open it for a while. Chu Xingyun put the mobile phone into the evidence bag: "That is to say, he lied?"

He Cheng nodded: "Zou Yuheng and I do not pose any threat to him. Today's meeting was also a coincidence, but he lied to us. This is actually a habit of thinking. When you go to a place, the purpose is not simply to deceive others. , the vast majority of people will be in a state of self-protection, lying to those who don’t need to lie, but will reveal more information.”

Chu Xingyun looked at him with interest: "Go on."

He Cheng looked at the criminal police walking around in Room 106 with calm eyes, and said, "He has a guilty conscience, and the purpose of coming here is not pure. Perhaps, he died not so innocently."

In the last sentence, he looked at Chu Xingyun and said, the dark light in his eyes floated.

Chu Xingyun's gaze once again shifted to Qin Xiao, who was controlled by Zhao Feng's twisted arm: "Today is a scene where a person gets all the stolen goods. If you didn't kill the person, then you can explain to me clearly why Zhou Shiyang appeared in your In the designated room? Does he have a date with you today? What is the reason for you to meet?"

Qin Xiao neither struggled nor explained, as if blocking everyone, and fell into his own space again.Chu Xingyun can see the struggle and thinking hidden in his eyes, and what he needs to do is to dig out the deep meaning that Tan Xiao tried his best to cover up.

Two people suddenly ran over from the stairs at the end of the corridor, Yang Kaitai ran wildly in the corridor in panic, Fu Yi also quickened his pace and followed behind him.

Yang Kaitai seemed to be injured, Chu Xingyun saw him clutching his forehead, with blood oozing from his fingers.

In a blink of an eye, Yang Kaitai had already broken into room 106, and Fu Yichi walked up to Chu Xingyun a few steps later, took off his glasses and frowned and asked, "Is the person dead?"

Chu Xingyun nodded heavily, looked at the door of 106: "What's wrong with him?"

Fu Yi was a little depressed, he pinched his eyebrows and said: "I was in a hurry on the road, and I crashed."

Yang Kaitai panicked after hearing the news, and drove all the way to the Shu Palace.When passing through the central intersection of Wangjing Road, he collided with a car rushing from the opposite side. The other party was driving as recklessly as he was, and the person hit by Yang Kaitai fell into a coma on the spot.

Fu Yiqiang grabbed him, handed over the unconscious man to the accompanying police officers and sent him to the hospital before taking a taxi.

Seeing Yang Kaitai's appearance, Tan Xiao's eyes lit up with hope again. He wanted to break free from Zhao Feng's control to find Yang Kaitai, but Zhao Feng held him tightly, so he shouted at the throat: "Three treasures! Three treasures!"

Yang Kaitai was really called out by him, but it didn't seem like he was helping him, but rather seeking revenge from him.

Yang Kaitai's eyes were red, water was shining in his eyes, his dark eyes were wide open, he rushed to Qin Xiao and smashed his curly head on his cheekbone: "Bastard! You killed Zhou Shiyang? Did you kill Zhou Shiyang?" killed him?!"

Qin Xiao was stunned by his punch, half of his teeth were almost broken by him.

Seeing that Yang Kaitai's eyes were full of murderous intent and he was about to make a move, Fu Yi rushed over to block him and hugged him.

"Why did you kill him?!"

Yang Kaitai frantically tried to push Fu Yi away, the tears in his eyes accumulated to the limit, streaming down his face violently, and roared at Qin Xiao hoarsely: "He and everyone Make friends, don't want to offend anyone, aren't you friends with him?! Why did you kill him? Tell me, Qin Xiao, what the hell did he do, and why do you take his life? !He's so good--he's so good!"

In order to prevent them from fighting, Zhao Feng also stood in front of Qin Xiao.Qin Xiao covered half of his swollen face, gasped for a few breaths, his eyes suddenly became fierce, raised his head to look at Yang Kaitai, gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "So what if he's dead? It's just a cheap life, since you are so I can’t bear him, let’s die with him!”

Yang Kaitai suddenly stopped for a moment, a trance flashed across his face, and then his madness deepened, wanting to rush towards him like a wild beast: "Qin Xiao! You are a fucking beast! Zhou Shiyang is upright and kind, he is a hundred times better than you!" A thousand times! If you die ten thousand times, it's not enough to pay for his life!"

Qin Xiao looked cold, determined, and sneered, "Don't think I don't know. Why did you refuse him to be with me at the beginning? Isn't it because you were greedy for our family's power? Zhou Shiyang can help your family, but you still kick him? If you package yourself as a discounted gift in the supermarket and sell it cheaply, where the hell are you going?!"