star hunter

These few days, Su Xian has been very uncomfortable.

Not only him, everyone in Station No. [-] and the picket team worked overtime day in and day out, and they didn't even have time to go home.

In fact, being busy is nothing, but if you are so busy and still get nothing, it will be depressing.

The first is the whereabouts of Deputy Director Ren, and the people he sent out don't know what happened. In the end, the director of the Management Bureau personally sent a message to him, saying that he can prove the whereabouts of Deputy Director Ren—the case In the first three days before the release, Deputy Director Ren and his old man guarded the border line. As he can testify, he never left for a minute.

The bureau chief testified in person, Su Xian naturally had nothing to say, not only that, but also took a moment to apologize to Deputy Bureau Ren, fortunately, the latter didn't bother with him, and his attitude was as kind as ever, let him investigate the case carefully , if there is something missing, come to him again.

"Ren Ju, I will remember your words in my heart. When I come to beg you later, don't deny it!" Su Xian replied with a playful smile, and Deputy Director Ren scolded: "Bastard! Do you know?" Do you know what scene talk is?!"

Su Xian smiled, and when he saluted and was about to leave, he heard him say again: "I know you still have a thorn in your heart, so let me talk about it, that kid Ren Jie went to the training camp, if you don't Unexpectedly, you should be in the camp during this time. You can check it at any time without any worries."

Su Xian is very clear about the fact that Deputy Director Ren has a son who inherited his supernatural ability. Now that Deputy Director Ren's suspicion has been ruled out, Ren Jie, who has the same supernatural ability, has naturally become a key suspect for him. .

He was still hesitating how to inform Deputy Director Ren, but he didn't expect him to mention it first.

Since Su Xian was mentioned by him as the central matter, he admitted it frankly: "With your words, I feel at ease."

Deputy Director Ren nodded, and he quickly added: "If this matter has nothing to do with Ren Jie, don't worry, I will never wrong him."

Deputy Bureau Ren's eyes were fixed, and then he laughed again: "I see, you can go to work."

He watched the young man walk out of the office, his smile gradually faded away.

If Ren Jie didn't do it, he would never be wronged; but once he was involved, he would never be let go.

This kid has something to say.

After leaving the headquarters, he ran into another difficulty. He didn't know whether to go to the training camp to solve Ren Jie's problem first, or to return and continue to devote himself to the endless interrogation project.

He pondered for a moment. Considering that it was broad daylight, the training camp should be in full swing. If he went without saying hello, he was afraid that he would annoy those simple-minded and muscular guys.

Forget it, let's go again at night.

After he made a decision, he immediately turned around and drove towards the No. [-] office.

It's just that the three words "training camp" passed through his mind several times, so he naturally couldn't help thinking more about things over there, and then associated with someone.

I haven't seen you for a while, how is he getting used to it?I don't know... Has it grown a bit?

In fact, when he found Zou Huisheng's body, he considered asking him to help, but Zhang Jibai dismissed the idea.

"This piece of meat is almost cooked, and it has undergone a qualitative change. Even if it is his tactile power, I don't think it may be able to work." Zhang Jibai kept shaking his head facing a pile of pieces of meat, "It's like you Let him eat a piece of boiled pork, do you think he can still judge the color and weight of that pig before it was alive?"

Su Xian was silent for a while: "I admit that what you said makes sense. But your analogy is disgusting."

Doctor Zhang didn't care, he took off his gloves, and lifted the frame of the mirror: "Speaking of which, regarding the way the murderer handled the body parts, we all thought at the beginning that it was to eliminate as much as possible the clues that might exist on the body while dealing with the bloodstains. .”

Su Xian raised his eyebrows slightly: "Apart from this, do you think there are other purposes?"

"Actually, it cannot be separated from the large scope of eliminating clues. It's just," Zhang Jibai paused, "after chatting with you just now, I suddenly had a new idea... The clues that the murderer wants to eliminate may not only be ours. What about the part that the eye can see, attached to the surface of the corpse?"

Su Xian's thoughts changed sharply, and he immediately understood what he meant, and his face turned pale in shock: "You mean the one who strikes... is still guarding against such abilities as Zhong?"

Zhang Jibai shrugged: "It's just a guess, there is no real evidence."

Su Xian didn't speak. There was no way to find evidence for such a thing, but he felt that Zhang Jibai's speculation was not unreasonable.

As far as he knew, besides Zhong, there were no other people with this kind of ability to grab the memory of the dead.

At least none of the supernatural beings registered in the Administration Bureau.

But in that case, a terrifying possibility appeared—the murderer might know Zhong Yuncong.

Once this conjecture is confirmed, it will not only be acquainted... maybe even know him quite well.

But it was precisely here that it was difficult. Before catching the murderer, Su Xian couldn't think of any other way to prove this conjecture.

After returning to Office No. [-], the first thing he did was to ask his subordinates: "Have Zou Huisheng's head and internal organs gone?"

Everyone looked at each other, and shook their heads in unison with a bitter face: "Not yet."

Su Xian pursed his lips into a stern straight line. He shouldn't be disappointed with his subordinate's reply, but he was still disappointed.

That's the second thing that bothered him.

These people, dare not relax for a moment, and devote themselves to the interrogation project all night without sleeping and eating. Yes, it is not just a job.Because of the wide scope involved and the large number of people involved, it is completely a big project.

Residents around the corpse dumping site, chefs, butchers, and doctors, as well as the suspects who confessed from their mouths, these thousands of people are all the targets of their investigation.

So far, only a small part of those they have investigated and determined to rule out suspects.

There are countless unknown factors hidden in this city.

"By the way, boss, what about Deputy Director Ren? Didn't you say that the murderer probably took Zou Huisheng away with the ability to control time?"

He was about to reply, but he didn't expect that the word "murderer" was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, causing the originally silent air to explode.

"Who is it!" Zou Huisheng's mother suddenly rushed in from the door, grabbing Su Xian's arm with red eyes, "Who is the murderer?!"

Su Xian was dragged by her arm, carefully trying to comfort the family members of the deceased, but in the end he found that he couldn't say anything, and could only shake his head dejectedly: "We haven't found it yet."

Zou's mother's reaction was very intense. Compared with the time when she saw Zou Huisheng's body, her sharp voice almost toppled the roof, and the fear of supernatural beings in the past also disappeared under the grief of losing her beloved daughter. no trace.

"You promised me! You promised me!" She had disheveled hair, her face was haggard, and her dry eye sockets were flushed, but she couldn't shed a tear anymore, she just stared at him, and said word by word, "You promised me that you would seek justice for my daughter!"

Her husband rushed to catch up, trying to stop his wife's radical behavior, but he couldn't stop Mother Zou who was out of control.

The other magistrates frowned, Su Xian avoided her sight, and said with difficulty: "I will...but it will take a little time..."

Just when he thought Zou's mother would continue to pester her so persistently, the latter stopped making noise without warning, and even let go of him. She suddenly calmed down, but the ending sound was still trembling: " Well, I'll give you time...but not too long."

This kind of calm was the prelude to the storm. Su Xian knew that if he couldn't explain to this poor woman alone, she would collapse even more completely.

He can't promise more, he can only do his best.

"Exactly, madam," he sent the person back to the reception room, and invited him to sit down on the sofa, "I have something to tell you."

Mother Zou's cloudy eyeballs moved under her messy hair: "What?"

"According to my investigation, your daughter didn't disappear on the way home that day... In fact, she hasn't been able to set foot on the way home yet."

Mother Zou looked at him puzzled.

"She went to Yunfei Road because she wanted to buy some notebooks." Su Xian explained, "She also..." brought a classmate with her.

He hesitated for a moment at the last half sentence, and finally chose to swallow it back. Sun Yali is certainly hateful, but he can't guarantee what this grief-stricken mother will do after learning what Sun Yali has done.

Zou's mother hurriedly asked: "How is she?"

"I mean, she was taken away on Yunfei Road. It is basically certain that the other party is a supernatural being."

Zou Huisheng's mother focused all her attention on her daughter, and what she wanted was the result rather than the process. When she heard the word "supernatural person", her dead lips trembled: "Why... My daughter is just a child..."

"I don't know yet." Su Xian couldn't answer the unconfirmed matter, so he substituted one question for another, "Speaking of which, does Huisheng always go to that stationery store on Yunfei Road to buy things?"

"What?" Zou's mother asked back in surprise, "Huisheng hardly ever bought stationery by herself. I bought it for me. She didn't even go to the stationery store near her home a few times. How could she go all the way to Yunfei?" Way to go? She is not in good health, I feel sorry for her, and always want to help her do everything well, her parents always say that I am too spoiled for her..."

The heartbroken mother couldn't help but fell into the memories of the good old days, but Su Xian was shocked by her answer - if Zou Huisheng didn't have the habit of buying things in that stationery store at all, why did he have a sudden attack that day? Want to go to Yunfei Road to buy a notebook?

notebook……

Sun Yali's words suddenly echoed in his ears: "She said she was going to buy some notebooks after school, and asked me to help with them."

It's just a notebook, why do you ask your classmates to help you take it together?

Unless—there is a lot of them, she can't carry them by herself.

But why does she need so many notebooks?

The image of the boy in the third and fourth grades of junior high school proudly holding up a notebook with a red cover suddenly floated in front of his eyes.

is a prize.

The large number of notebooks that Zou Huisheng plans to buy are prizes for the winners of the sports meeting.

So, who told her to buy these prizes?

He suddenly got up, turned around and ran outside.

"Sorry ma'am, I'm in a hurry! You should go back first!" He said to the bewildered Mother Zou, and then called a security officer: "Drive, let's go back to Qingshan Middle School immediately!"

They returned to Qingshan Middle School in the shortest possible time. Principal Li was obviously surprised that the people from the Management Bureau had gone back and forth, but after he went down from the principal's office to the first floor, he found that the police officer Su and him His subordinates have long since disappeared.

The third and fourth classes of junior high school.

"Prize?" The young man was very excited to see Su Xian again, but his question made him a little confused. He scratched his head, "It was given by the class teacher, and everyone who won the sports meeting will have a share."

"It's all notebooks?"

"Correct!"

Su Xian took a deep breath, and then asked, "Where is Teacher Lin Xue?"

"She's gone." The boy's answer made Su Xian's breath stagnate, and what surprised him even more was what he said next.

"Sun Yali has been crying for the past two days. I don't know why. After class just now, Teacher Lin saw that she was not feeling well, so she said to send her home to rest."

"...She took her away?"

"Yes, when you first arrived."

Su Xian took a breath, it was still a step too late.

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"Xiang Yu, hurry up and notify the picket team to send people to search for the whereabouts of Lin Xue and Sun Yali! As for Xiao Zhang, come with me later." Su Xian quickly assigned tasks, and then turned her head to stare at Principal Li, who was still out of breath, rushed over, "Principal Li, I have to trouble you again, I want to know Lin Xue's address."

The people from the Management Bureau turned out to be a teacher of our school, and even the female teacher was suspected of kidnapping a girl. Principal Li was sweating profusely, and nodded while wiping his sweat: "Hey!" , I'll let someone find it!"

Not long after, the people in the archives found out the information registered by Lin Xue when he joined the job. Su Xian directly took the registration book from the other party, tore off that page, turned around and left: "Let's go!"

The address recorded in the employee file is a certain building on Sajin Street. On the way there, Xiao Zhang, who was driving, suddenly muttered: "Boss, speaking of which, isn't Sajin Street just next to Yunfei Road?" ?”

"Oh?" Su Xian was immediately attracted, "Is it very close?"

"Near! I have been to Sajin Street before when I was on duty. It is not a few steps away from Yunfei Road. The two streets are next to each other."

"So it's like this..." Su Xian sighed deeply, "Ever since I found out that Zou Huisheng was kidnapped on Yunfei Road, I've been thinking about a problem—Sun Yali confessed that it was just after school , I specifically asked Principal Li, and he told me that Qingshan Middle School ends at five o'clock in the evening. In this way, by calculating the time, when the two girls arrived at Yunfei Road, it was just after five o'clock, and there was no sky. Completely dark."

"So I don't understand. Even if that guy can control time, I have inquired with Director Ren. This kind of ability cannot last for too long. It is not easy to take a girl away without attracting others' attention. " Su Xian glanced at the rapidly changing scene outside the window, "And the people we sent to investigate Yunfei Road did not find any witnesses, and Yunfei Road is narrow and cramped, vehicles and other means of transportation cannot enter... ...So I am even more puzzled, how the hijackers managed to hide Zou Huisheng in the shortest possible time. However, now I have some clues."

Xiao Zhang asked blankly: "What clue?"

"Lin Xue's residence is very close to Yunfei Road, the hijacker must have hidden Zou Huisheng at Lin Xue's home." Su Xian's eyes were as deep as water, "There must be something wrong with this Lin Xue."

Xiao Zhang's scalp tingled when he heard this: "So, the murderer is that Teacher Lin Xue? After all, she is also her student. She is really good at it..."

"It's definitely not her who kidnapped people, and it may not be her who killed people, but she is at least an accomplice."

Xiao Zhang was confused by him: "How do you know it wasn't tied by her?"

Su Xian gave him a blank look: "Are you stupid? At that time, she was participating in the sports meeting with the students of Class [-]. Don't need too many witnesses."

Xiao Zhang was dejected: "So, there is more than one person to be arrested?"

Su Xian also shook his head: "Lin Xue is the only one who can be caught now, but she was allowed to slip away first... If she is not caught, it will be even more difficult to find the rest of the prisoners."

As soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped suddenly. Su Xian glanced forward and found that there was a small alley ahead, and the car was a bit reluctant to drive in. Sure enough, Xiao Zhang explained: "Sajin Street is just ahead, and Yunfei Same, they are all old streets with narrow roads, we can only walk in."

So I got out of the car and walked to Sajin Street. Su Xian spent most of his time on duty in the West City, and this was the first time he came here.Walking along the road, I found that this is a typical old street in the old city. The houses have been in disrepair for a long time, and they look like dilapidated buildings; Yes, the disgusting smell is everywhere.And those piles of rubbish also attracted a large group of skinny stray dogs. They were placed in the rubbish dump, trying hard to find food. After they found strangers on the street, two of them barked at them uneasily.

After Xiao Zhang drove away the dirty dog ​​impatiently, seeing Su Xian frowning, he explained: "This Sajin Street is used to being dirty and messy, and it has been like this for many years. People who live here Generally, it’s not a good thing, all kinds of ruffians, thieves and robbers go here...it’s just a dump.”

Su Xian sighed: "Why didn't you say it earlier? If we knew we were coming to this kind of place, we should have changed our uniforms."

Xiao Zhang has not been in the management bureau for less than a year, and he is still a rookie. When Su Xian asked him this question, he immediately became a squib.

"Forget it, it's too late now, just go in."

As soon as they walked in, they really attracted a lot of attention, and their eyes, open or dark, fell on them uncertainly. Su Xian could sense the hostility and fear hidden in those eyes, but he didn't pay attention to them.

He didn't come here for these mobs today, and as long as these people are safe enough, he doesn't want to cause trouble.

What's more, people in the Governing Bureau generally don't deal with ordinary people very much, and their opponents are usually aliens and other abilities.

To put it bluntly, it was a bit too bullying for him to deal with these guys.

It seems that these unscrupulous people at the bottom also have a bit of insight. It is probably due to the double constraints of the uniforms of the Administration Bureau and the supernatural beings, which made them have scruples. Therefore, the unfriendly eyes accompanied them all the way, but they never looked back. People dare to stand up and block the way, and even some people who wander on the road will automatically back away.

Although Xiao Zhang has supernatural powers, he is not known for being aggressive. To a certain extent, he is not much better than these ordinary people, and his face turned pale slightly from the shock of the line of guards .

Su Xian couldn't understand his cowardice: "I said, it's not the first time you have come here, so why are you so scared?"

Xiao Zhang quietly moved closer to him: "When I came in last time, there was a large group of people. Those guys all hid like turtles. I didn't see a few people. It's not like today..."

Su Xian hooked the corners of his lips: "What's the matter, are you still worried that I won't be able to protect you?"

The little rookie hurriedly smiled: "How can it be? It's just that I heard a lot of comments...not very friendly."

Su Xian glanced over from the corner of his eye, people in twos and threes gathered together, glanced at this place, and whispered to each other, but the voice was so low and fragmented that he couldn't hear it clearly.

But this is easy for Xiao Zhang.

"Don't pay attention to them, let's go our way."

Xiao Zhang responded, and took a few sneak peeks at those guys covered in scars and tattoos, and couldn't help muttering: "That Lin Xue is really suspicious, otherwise she is a female teacher, how could she live in such a place?" A smoky place?"

"She's a single woman, she dared to live in such a place where ghosts and snakes gather." Su Xian smiled, with a hint of sarcasm in that smile, "it shows that she has some skills."

Xiao Zhang was speechless: "That's true."

Su Xian's heart was sinking slowly, and he had a worse guess - could that weak-looking woman also be a supernatural being?

Thinking about it, this land has been neglected for many years. The situation of illegal construction and private wire pulling is very serious. The wires hanging above their heads are like a big messy net. The attic of the house turned the originally neatly planned residential buildings into deformed monsters with "tumors".

And the road, which was not wide enough, became more and more cramped because of these obstacles.

"Seven... ah, we're here!" Comparing each building, they finally arrived at their destination. It was a six-story low building with mottled exterior walls and a dark interior.

"Let's go." When Su Xian was speaking, he picked up a piece of rusty wire from the garbage pile at his feet, and then the two walked into the seventh building together.

The stairwell was very dark, but it didn't hinder Su Xian's speed of climbing the stairs. Xiao Zhang struggled to follow, his round face flushed.

"Room 405, is this room?" Su Xian stood in front of the paint-stained door, beckoning Xiao Zhang to come over, "Listen, is there any movement inside?"

Xiao Zhang understood what he meant, and immediately put his ears on the door, closed his eyes and listened for a while, he shook his head at Su Xian: "Except for the sound of water dripping from the faucet, there is no movement inside." He paused, and deliberately added He said: "No breathing, no one."

The extraordinary sense of hearing is Xiao Zhang's supernatural ability, he can hear everything, and he is the one who is talking about it.

Su Xian patted him on the shoulder approvingly: "Good job." Immediately, he took the wire and poked it into the keyhole. He didn't know how he did it. There was a "click", and the door swung open.

Xiao Zhang was dumbfounded: "Boss, your door-opening skill is probably sharper than the thief who lives here... You didn't become a thief before you entered the industry, did you?"

Su Xian smiled lightly: "It's all forced by life."

After he finished speaking, he opened the door and walked in. Xiao Zhang just took it as a joke and followed suit.

90.00% of Lin Xue would not go back to her place. If she did, it would be like throwing herself into a trap. The other party was not a fool, and he didn't have such expectations of sitting on the sidelines.

The reason why he came here was to confirm one thing.

Lin Xue's house is not big. The space of [-] square meters includes the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. He quickly went around every place. Finally, he stopped in the small bathroom and looked around: "Kill people here. Isn't it inconvenient to dismember the body?"

Xiao Zhang only felt that it was difficult to turn around in this small broken room, so he shook his head decisively: "It's not just inconvenient, it's quite inconvenient!"

"But we can't rule out the suspicion that this is the first scene, right?" He said as he twisted two long strands of hair from the white porcelain floor tiles. "Lin Xue has short hair."

Xiao Zhang has never seen Lin Xue, but he has seen Zou Huisheng's photo, and he exclaimed: "The deceased has long hair! This must belong to Zou Huisheng!"

Then he jumped out in panic: "Damn it, this might really be a murder scene!"

Su Xian glanced at him helplessly: "I just found the hair, or it seems... It's not that I found the fragments of her body, why are you panicking? This at most shows that Zou Huisheng stayed here... Maybe it was Lin Xue and her accomplices locked people up here."

"Then how do you know if this is a murder scene?"

Su Xian half-jokingly said: "You can smell the smell of blood or something."

Xiao Zhang scratched his head and smiled wryly: "Don't embarrass me, I'm not a dog... Speaking of which, if you're going to investigate the site, you should bring another one with you, right?"

"The woman drowned in her own vomit." Su Xian shrugged. "As for you, there are not many people in the institute. I catch whoever I see."

Xiao Zhang looked disheartened: "So it's like this..."

Su Xian smiled, and took out a small bottle from his coat pocket: "Although the poodle didn't come, I asked Dr. Zhang for this thing before I left. He likes to play with these things."

Xiao Zhang's eyes widened: "This is..."

"A reagent for detecting traces of blood." While speaking, Su Xian had drawn the curtains, and the room was darkened suddenly. He walked back and forth and sprayed several times in every corner of the bedroom, including Lin Xue's bed.

His subordinates moved closer to him timidly: "It's so dark, I'm a little scared..."

Su ignored it, he was seriously observing the reaction of the reagent, he waited patiently for a while, but the reagent did not emit light.

"There's no blood in the bedroom." He simply walked out of the bedroom and headed for the kitchen, but the result was the same.

This time, Xiao Zhang walked into the bathroom first, and he happily asked for a spray bottle from Su Xian: "Boss, let me try it?"

Su Xian had no objection, handed him the reagent, and helped close the bathroom curtain.

After Xiao Zhang sprayed it a few times, he anxiously waited for the result. Unexpectedly, those reagents really glowed!

"Here is really..." Su Xian interrupted him with a terrified scream, "Okay, don't make a fuss, this kind of reality not only reacts to blood, but also reacts to excrement. Please observe carefully," he pointed to the urinal: "The range of light is only limited to the urinal, and the range is very small... If this is really the first scene, murder and dismemberment, how could there be only so little blood?"

After he finished speaking, he opened the curtain, and the light reappeared. His subordinate rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "Uh... that may be that the other party forgot to flush the toilet after going to the bathroom."

"Probably." Su Xian was a little disappointed, he put the bottle back in his pocket, "It seems that this is just a 'transfer station', not a murder scene."

Although this is not the first scene, it does not mean that her suspicion of murder has been ruled out.

Before leaving, he moved his mind slightly, and went back to Lin Xue's bedroom to search. Xiao Zhang also helped to rummage through the cabinet, and finally found a photo in a drawer.

"Boss!" Xiao Zhang handed over the photo as if offering a treasure, "Look, is the woman in this photo named Lin Xue? Maybe it's a very important clue!"

Su Xian took a look and was speechless for a moment. It was clearly a group photo of two children—the girl's profile and facial features in the photo had a bit of Lin Xue's shadow. Combined with the oldness of the photo, it should be from her teenage years. .

And standing next to her was a young man, short and thin, with his head half down, unable to see his face clearly.

The photo of the young couple was taken under a tree. The photo was taken in winter. The branches were intertwined and the leaves had fallen off. There was only a bare trunk left, and it was impossible to tell what species it was.

Su Xian glanced at it for a while, but didn't see any mystery, and turned it over again. The back of the photo was clean, and there was no handwriting left.

"Probably just an ordinary photo."

With his usual expression, he put the photo in his coat pocket and patted Xiao Zhang on the shoulder: "There are no clues here, let's go."

They had just walked out of Lin Xue's room, but as soon as they went out, they bumped into a person who was watching him through the crack of the door, and the other person closed the door immediately after being spotted.

Xiao Zhang moved his ears and told Su Xian, "There is only one man inside."

Su Xian walked over and knocked on the door opposite.

"I'm not here to trouble you." He stated his purpose bluntly, "I just want to inquire about someone."

A moment later, the closed door reopened.