dead innocent

Fu Yi drove on the road for nearly 15 minutes before he spotted Yang Kaitai on a pedestrian street.

Yang Kaitai shrugged his shoulders slightly, lowered his head, and his slightly heavy steps were particularly eye-catching among the young men and women who went out to enjoy the nightlife around him.

Fu Yi slowed down to follow his pace, put down the window, and watched him honk the horn.

Yang Kaitai turned his head and glanced at the side of the road, and turned his head back unmoved, with a stubborn and sad expression on his face, innocent and confused, like a lost wolf cub among wolves.

"Don't worry about me, Captain Fu, I'm reflecting."

When he said the word "reflection" in an angry and serious tone, Fu Yi was almost laughed at by him.

Seeing that there is an intersection ahead, although the traffic flow at night is not as busy as in the daytime, an off-road vehicle driving at a slow speed on the highway still hinders the traffic. In just a short while, there was a third speed urging sound from behind. Honk.

Fu Yi simply stopped the car by the side of the road, opened the door and walked towards him, grabbing his arm: "This is not a place for introspection."

Yang Kaitai frowned, with anxious tears rolling in his eyes again, he pulled his arm hard with him: "I won't go with you, I know, you and Team Chu think I've done something wrong, you all think I'm wrong! "

Fu Yi grabbed an empty hand, frowned slightly and looked at him helplessly: "When did I pick your fault?"

Yang Kaitai raised the back of his hand and wiped the corners of his eyes fiercely, leaving a red mark on the corners of his eyes. He lowered his head and stared at the ground with aggrieved and angry words: "Although you didn't say it, I can see it. You have been hiding for the past few days. Me, don’t even look at me, I know you are angry with me.” After a pause, his tone suddenly choked up, and he said even more aggrieved: “I know that I am not qualified to participate in the relationship between you and Sister Shu Qing, that is between you. I don't have the right to intervene in the matter. But I didn't intend to tell you on my own. You kept asking me. If I didn't tell you, you kept looking at me and forced me to talk. But when I did, you If you are angry with me, what should I do!"

He yelled the last sentence while watching Fu Yi, and then wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

The off-road traffic jams on the side of the road caused dissatisfaction with the traffic, and horns sounded one after another on the road.

Fu Yi glanced at a driver who was yelling at them, then turned his head to look at Yang Kaitai and sighed heavily, his tone was gentle and helpless, and said: "You didn't do anything wrong, and I'm not angry with you. I'm not avoiding you, I'm just - I'm in a mess and I need to be quiet."

Yang Kaitai raised his red eyes and looked at him cautiously: "Really?"

The worry on Fu Yi's face was removed, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "Well, really, can I get in the car now?"

Yang Kaitai returned to his usual docile and obedient appearance, sitting in the co-pilot in a well-behaved manner, not daring to let go of his hands, lowering his head and saying, "I'm sorry, Captain Fu."

Fu Yi followed the steering wheel steadily behind a car, freed his left arm to rest on the car window, propped his forehead slightly tiredly, and glanced at him when he heard this, with the corners of his lips curled up, smiling helplessly: "what happened again?"

Yang Kaitai sat upright like a student who was making a self-criticism like the class teacher, and said in a low voice: "I shouldn't tell you this kind of thing. What I did hurt the relationship between you and Sister Shu Qing, it's very bad for you guys." Well, maybe you will also cause irreparable consequences because of my mistakes, in short, it is all my fault."

Yang Kaitai was once again immersed in guilt and self-blame.

But Fu Yi was a little distracted, Yang Kaitai was right, this kind of thing really should not be told to him by outsiders, but through what channel should he know it?

Perhaps neither method is suitable, Yang Kaitai simply showed the ring and told him that this should have been a Qixi Festival gift from Sister Shu Qing!

Although this approach was inappropriate and thoughtless, it was also the only way Yang Kaitai could choose in his desperation when he was forced to question him at the time.

So he wasn't angry with Yang Kaitai, or he wasn't angry with anyone, not even Shu Qing.

After he was forced to learn the truth, he was just a little dazed, a little depressed, and a little irritable. He didn't know how to face his wife for a while, so he always didn't go home until very late.In the same way, he didn't know how to face Yang Kaitai who broke his illusion of a "happy family", so he kept avoiding direct contact with him.

His wife's affair was within his expectation and outside his mental preparation.It seemed that he already knew it, but he just didn't point it out, so he was not very angry when he was officially told that his wife had another lover outside, but felt very - guilty.

He is very aware of what he has owed his wife over the years, and he has been trying his best to make up for it within his ability, but his compensation is like a drop in the bucket.It’s nothing more than being more diligent in asking about the health and well-being on weekdays, and paying wages at the end of the month. I occasionally accompany her to watch movies, go shopping and travel, but apart from these material compensations and daily companionship, I lack the part of my wife in spirit and love. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make up for it.

He couldn't fill the missing part of her delicate and tender heart.

Shu Qing is very clear that he doesn't love her, that's why she looks for the love and protection that women yearn for from others.

Fu can also start a family with her without distraction, support her a family, and protect their common daughter.But it is impossible to trust each other and love for a lifetime like other husbands treat their wives.

So he didn't hold grudges against Shu Qing, but felt that he owed her.

Fu Yi's silence made the air in the car thin. Even though the windows were wide open and the evening wind was blowing back and forth, Yang Kaitai still felt his hands and feet were cold and it was difficult to breathe.

"What are you going to do?"

Yang Kaitai carefully glanced at his cold and solemn side face, and said, "That Qiu Zhi, if you don't want to see him, I can help you come forward and talk to him. I found out that his ex-wife is looking for him Get back together, if he can get back together with his ex-wife, then Sister Shu Qing will—"

Passing the intersection, Fu Yi suddenly changed his route temporarily, turned right, and interrupted him with a smile: "Do you think I should fight him?"

Yang Kaitai didn't think so. He felt that Fu Yi was gentle, elegant, mature and prudent, and would never have physical conflicts with anyone. At most, he was in a hurry to justify a few sentences. It was impossible for him to solve problems with violence like a drunkard and reckless man. .

Fu Yi looked at the quiet road conditions at night, pressed his eyes slightly and remained silent for a moment, then said, "You don't have to do anything for me, I will find time to deal with it."

Yang Kaitai couldn't help but look at him, slightly surprised in his eyes.

What Fu Yi said was 'handling' instead of 'talking', which means that he is determined to deal with this matter to a conclusion.

Yang Kaitai immediately tangled his internal organs into a twist, as if he had a premonition that his unrestrained speech would soon cause Fu Yi and Shu Qing's marriage to break down.

If so, he will live with guilt all his life.

But Fu Yi didn't have time to think too much at the moment, because the front was the Shu Palace.

Yang Kaitai got off the station and was under a tall building, his head was a little dizzy: "What are you doing here?"

Fu Yi installed the car keys and walked towards the revolving door first: "Verify your feelings."

The Shu Palace is closed for business, so there are only two security guards in the lobby, and they let them go when they see their IDs.

A security guard followed them to room 106 on the third floor and opened the door with a spare key, but the key was inserted into the keyhole and the door opened.

"Yeah? Forgot to lock it."

Fu Yi twisted the door lock back and forth twice, and found that there was no looseness from being pried, so he said: "This room is the scene of a murder, so it must be closely guarded."

"Hey, I see."

"Did anyone come here just now?"

Fu Yi asked again.

"Several furniture delivery workers left early."

Fu Yi didn't say anything else, he touched the switch at the Xuanmen, and the lit light dispelled the darkness in the room.

The evidence that should be collected at the scene has almost been collected, and the criminal police have almost lifted the floor, so it is difficult for them to find anything when they return to the scene.

Yang Kaitai stood at the door and looked at Fu Yi patrolling the room, thinking a little discouraged, maybe he brought him here not to verify that his feeling was right, but to verify that his feeling was wrong.

But come here, don't come in vain.

Yang Kaitai walked into the outer hall, first glanced at the bedroom where Zhou Shiyang's body lay, then at the bathroom opposite the bedroom, and then slowly walked towards the bedroom covered with a layer of white fox fur carpet.

He remembered that Chu Xingyun said that Fang Junhai entered Room 105 from Room 106 next door with the help of Liu Ru, so Fang Junhai must have sneaked into Room 106 in advance, and did not ambush in the bedroom, because Zhou Shiyang fell at the door of the bedroom and was attacked from behind , then the murderer must be lying in ambush where Zhou Shiyang's back is pointing, the closest and easiest place to hide from the bedroom is the bathroom——

Yang Kaitai turned around, looked at the half-hidden door of the bathroom, and the darkness leaking from the crack of the door, and thought that maybe the murderer was waiting for Zhou Shiyang in the bathroom without the light on, and felt more and more that at this moment, the murderer was waiting for Zhou Shiyang from the bathroom door. The coming darkness hides inside like a figure.

'He' hides in the darkness, stops at the edge of light, and hides a long-planned murderous intention under the quiet and deep appearance.

Yang Kaitai wanted to open the bathroom door to find out, so he stepped out of the bedroom, but his attention was all on the bathroom door, and he forgot that the bedroom floor was nearly [-] centimeters higher than the outer hall, and he missed stepping on a step .

Yang Kaitai was caught off guard, and his feet were empty, and he immediately fell forward on the floor, and led Fu Yi, who was checking the window, over with a roar.

"what happened?"

Fu Yi hurried to his side, trying to help him up.

Yang Kaitai lifted his face stuck to the floor, revealing his reddened nose and nosebleeds gushing out.

"Paper paper paper paper!"

Seeing that the nosebleed was about to stain the scene, Yang Kaitai quickly covered his nose with his hands, and hurriedly stretched out his hands for tissues.

Fu Yi took out the wet tissue that he carried with him to help him block his nose, looked at his embarrassed and flustered look, and said with a smile: "You are always like this, you never look at the road when you walk."

But Yang Kaitai didn't care about this little injury, but got up in surprise and looked at the first step connecting the bedroom floor and the outer hall floor, his eyes were flustered and focused, he suddenly wiped his nose hard, took Pointing to the step with a finger stained with a bloody tissue, eyes filled with unbearable excitement and excitement: "Captain Fu, where is there a step!"

Yes, there was a step there, they had discovered that long ago, and it wasn't even a clue.

But the lively and warm surprise on Yang Kaitai's face is rare. For a moment, it makes people feel that the man in front of him has gleaming brows and eyes, fresh and vigorous like a teenager.

"Well, you said."

Fu Yidao.

Yang Kaitai suddenly grabbed his palm and led him to the steps, pointed to the blood left by Zhou Shiyang on the carpet, and said: "I remember that Zhou Shiyang was lying on the carpet, and his feet were about thirty feet away from the edge of the steps. about centimeters."

Fu Yi gently pushed his hand away calmly, put his fingers against the frame of the mirror and looked down at the picture of Zhou Shiyang's dead body in his memory. After a moment of serious meditation, he said, "That's right, is there a problem?"

Yang Kaitai suddenly grabbed his hand and pulled him up the steps, stood on the bedroom carpet, pushed him to the place where his toes were firmly attached to the edge of the steps, then he went down the steps and stood face to face with him, saying: "You Look, Captain Fu, Zhou Shiyang should have been killed standing where you are standing now, but he turned his back to me, not facing me."

Fu Yi held the mirror frame and frowned and asked, "You? Who are you?"

Yang Kaitai went to the wall and turned off the lights in the outer hall, only a dim wall lamp in the bedroom was left in the suite, and the light lingering like water smoke sprinkled a light that faded into mist in the bedroom.

Yang Kaitai went back to stand in front of him again, because the light in the outer hall was turned off, so he was leaning against the darkness, and the light in the bedroom was too weak to print his face, only the light in his dark eyes could be seen Two ghostly flames, and his blurred face.

At this moment, Yang Kaitai looked like a criminal who walked out of the night, with cold stars in his eyes, and a murder weapon in his hand, dripping with blood.

"I am a murderer," he said.

Fu Yi couldn't help being startled, Yang Kaitai who was hiding in the darkness at this moment actually gave him a chill in his heart and a chill down his spine.

He lowered his head and quickly glanced at his feet, with candles flickering in the night faintly in his eyes, and slowly said in a deep voice: "You mean, Zhou Shiyang was standing where I am now, and was attacked by the murderer. ?”

Yang Kaitai was unusually calm and sharp at this time, and analyzed without haste: "He usually wears size 42 and a half shoes, but when he found the body, he fell on the carpet, and the distance between the toes and the edge of the steps was about [-] centimeters, which means He should have been killed standing on the edge of the steps."

As he said that, he looked down at his feet: "But look, Captain Fu, I can't stand up."

Fu Yi understood that Yang Kaitai was deducing the murderer's process and method of killing.

"Go on."

Fu Yidao.

Yang Kaitai's eyes seemed to be immersed in deep water. At this time, they were unusually deep and clear. Looking into his eyes, his voice was calm and calm like him: "The height of the steps is 32 centimeters, and Zhou Shiyang is 1.8 meters tall. The murder weapon has a long handle. 45 centimeters, the comfortable position of the human body is two-thirds of the way, and the usable weapon length is only 24 to 26 centimeters."

As he spoke, he stopped suddenly, then slowly raised his left arm, slightly bent his elbow as if he wanted to strike, and then said: "Your height is about the same as Zhou Shiyang, now you are him, you stand on the steps It's almost two meters two. And I'm 1.7 meters nine, at the height of my arms raised now, holding the murder weapon is just right for hitting your head with force, but—”

Fu Yi silently looked at his solemn and contemplative face, and added to him calmly: "But Fang Junhai is only 1.7 meters zero, unless he straightens his arms in a straight line, otherwise the murder weapon in his hand will touch the back of Zhou Shiyang's head." Can't even touch it."

Yang Kaitai nodded: "That's right."

Fu Yi was a little stunned: "That is to say, the murderer's height is at least 1.7 meters seven?"

"Well, Fang Junhai is only 1.7 meters zero, he has no chance of killing people."

This detail was not discovered until now. At first they only looked for the suspect's footprints in the room to infer the murderer's height and body shape, but ignored the secret about the murderer's real body hidden at Zhou Shiyang's feet.

Yang Kaitai looked at Fu Yi with his big bright eyes, waiting for his nod of affirmation.

But Fu Yi pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

If Fang Junhai is not the murderer, then all the inferences made by Chu Xingyun and the murder methods deciphered are all untenable.Although Fang Junhai's motive for committing the crime is established, according to the latest information at this time, Fang Junhai is not the murderer.

So who will the murderer be?

At this time, the light in the outer hall was dim and dark, and the light coming in from the window covered the air with a layer of transparent colorful glass cover. Although there was only a faint layer, the blurred outline of the outer hall could still be vaguely seen.

Fu Yi suddenly noticed that the bathroom facing the door of the bedroom was also behind Yang Kaitai at this time. If the murderer was standing where Yang Kaitai was standing, then the bathroom might be a convenient place for the murderer to hide.

The reason why he noticed the bathroom was not accidental, it was because the door of the bathroom was automatic without wind, although the magnitude was slight, but the swaying light flowing on the door exposed the bathroom, either there was something strange or there was a ghost——

Fu Yi's eyes sank, and he immediately stared at the half-open door of the bathroom calmly. His two eyes searched hard in the dimness, and sure enough, he found half a bird that was almost perfectly hidden in the darkness behind the wall. Men's sneakers.

Fu Yi's heart suddenly stopped beating, and his eyes moved up quickly. The next second, his face froze, his body's hairs suddenly rose, and his back felt cold.

There is an eye hidden behind the bathroom wall, that eye is dark and deep, and there is a sharp cold light in the pupil, flowing with hostility and murderous aura that perfectly blends with the surrounding darkness——

That eye was looking at them, and for how long it had been there.

The author has something to say:

Sanyang means that Zhou Shiyang added steps, and the overall height reached 170 meters.And Fang Junhai is 24, plus the available murder weapon is 194 cm, it is only [-], and the arm must be bent when the human body exerts force, so unless he jumps up to hit Zhou Shiyang on the head, or stretches his arms straight like a zombie, otherwise he will die. No chance of committing a crime.

Thoughtful and terrified——