Personal protection

[Don't touch Officer Li's hair]

Seeing everyone's bewildered faces, Zhou Cheng cleared his throat, "Cough, Xiao Ran, explain in detail?"

Li Xiaoran tried his best to calm himself down and organized his words, "There are two murderers. One stood on a ladder and ordered the other to draw the "0" outside the corpse in a very symmetrical way. The person who directed it must have a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Otherwise, there is no need to go to such lengths to do so.”

"If there is only one person, then the ladder has no value. Of course, this is just one of the speculations, and it is also the most likely speculation I can think of at present."

"Other than that, what is certain is. We have been lied to and caught in a wrong way of thinking."

"Mistakes in thinking?" Not only Xu Qin was at a loss, but everyone began to look at the previous investigation work. What kind of misunderstandings did they fall into?

"When Zhang Chunyi died, the countdown was 0. We all thought it was over, but Du Ruo said that the countdown hadn't ended at all. According to what she said, the day when the countdown card began to be sent back, today is actually the second last day."

"In other words, when we received the 14-day countdown, it was actually the 17-day countdown that Du Ruo thought it was."

"Then what kind of misunderstanding did we fall into? In fact, it happened when we arrived on the set. We followed the murderer's thinking. When he sent the 14-day countdown card, we thought that day was the 14-day countdown. No One person checks or remembers which day the previous countdown cards were received."

"In addition to the fact that Zhang Chunyi died in Room 1414, and Su Yue said that she moved there temporarily, we are convinced that the number 14 has a lot of meaning to the murderer."

"Whether the number 14 has meaning or not, I think this meaning is also for Du Ruo, not another murderer."

"That's why Du Ruo, who was pushed in front of us, couldn't hide the ladder alone, and couldn't subdue and kill an actress who was born as a martial artist...because there were more than one murderer."

"And this murderer who has not yet surfaced has been using Du Ruo's actions to cover himself."

Sun Xian raised his hand and asked: "Boss, isn't this person afraid that Du Ruo will betray him?"

"You think Du Ruo's mental state..." Li Xiaoran shook his head, the strange feeling he felt when he first met Du Ruo finally had an answer, this girl is not mentally normal.

"However, what if..." Sun Xian still couldn't agree, "Another murderer would take too much risk."

"This is just my inference based on the current clues and evidence, but based on this inference, we can also use Du Ruo to identify the identity of another murderer-this person must be very familiar with Du Ruo, understand Du Ruo's mental state, and even be able to control it. Du Ruo."

"Control..." Zhou Cheng murmured, an extremely uncomfortable feeling welling up in his heart.

Li Xiaoran clapped his hands, recalled the thinking of the people present, and said seriously: "The murderer we are looking for is very dangerous, and this person has a high probability of obsessive-compulsive disorder and is very paranoid. The countdown is not completely meaningless to him, I don't think so. I understand his state of mind, but there must be a purpose behind such a big circle." He paused, turned around, took a pen from Zhou Cheng's hand, drew a big circle on the writing board, and wrote a word inside. --"male".

"According to the situation at the scene, I am more inclined to be a man."

"Xu Qin, you're investigating Su Yue's matter and communicating with the doctor carefully. I think it might not be an accident." Li Xiaoran continued to order after announcing the end of the meeting: "Sun Xian, follow me to ask Du Ruo."

"I'm going too?" Seeing that Li Xiaoran didn't let go of his intentions, Zhou Cheng tickled his palm.

"You go too." Li Xiaoran pursed his lips, but still didn't express his worries.

His eyelids were twitching, and he had a bad feeling.

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"Du Ruo, did you kill Zhang Chunyi?"

Du Ruo tilted her head to look at him. Her hair was untied by herself and tied into two braids. She wrapped her hair around the ends with one hand and suddenly laughed, "No."

"Did you go to see Zhang Chunyi the night the case happened?" Li Xiaoran continued to ask.

Du Ruo was silent.

Li Xiaoran winked at Zhou Cheng, Zhou Cheng understood and repeated what he said.

Du Ruo scratched the surface of the table with his fingernails, and said after a while: "No, I can't say it."

"Who won't let you tell?"

"Brother, brother don't let me talk." Du Ruo's voice became smaller and smaller, and she huddled on the chair. In fact, her movements were not large, but Li Xiaoran could clearly feel the change in her mood.

Sun Xian caught an important message from her words, "Boss, she said brother, which means that person is really a man."

Li Xiaoran didn't doubt his reasoning, but he was not happy to see this scene, which proved that the man's control over Du Ruo was stronger than he imagined.

The subsequent inquiries were not smooth. The information in Du Ruo's words was fragmented, but a few words also supported Li Xiaoran's speculation.

Du Ruo said that she wrote the countdown card early in the morning and gave it to her brother for safekeeping.

Why write with lipstick?It's because my brother said that girls should wear lipstick when facing someone they like.

Mentioned Siming to her, but Du Ruo ignored the question.

And Li Xiaoran asked Du Ruo the penultimate question, when is the last day of the countdown?

Du Ruo gave him an answer that no one wanted to face - "You guys are so stupid, of course it's tomorrow."

Li Xiaoran clenched Zhou Cheng's hand, gritted his teeth and forced himself to be rational, "What will happen when the countdown ends?"

Zhou Cheng heard the same answer again.

Du Ruo stared straight at Zhou Cheng and suddenly smiled, showing the rose tattoo on his left wrist—"I like you, can I send you a red rose?"

-

Li Xiaoran left the interrogation room, his face turned completely cold, "Sun Xian, apply to the procuratorate for the arrest of Du Ruo. Also, arrange for the evacuation of those who are not suspected of being suspected."

After confessing, Li Xiaoran dragged Zhou Cheng away without looking back.

Sun Xian scratched his chin, the boss seemed very angry.

"What's the matter?" Zhou Cheng stretched out his hand and patted his head, feeling that the hairy texture was nice, and touched it again.

"Aren't you worried?"

"What am I worried about?" Zhou Cheng laughed, "My Black Cat Sheriff is so capable. You have reasoned about such a complicated case. I should be happy."

"Zhou Cheng..." Li Xiaoran took a step forward, resting his head on his shoulder, "You must have nothing to do..."

"Yeah." In a place where Li Xiaoran couldn't see, Zhou Cheng's smile also narrowed, his eyes fell deep into the distance, and his knuckle fingers pressed on Li Xiaoran's police uniform.