companion ghost

When Casey was holding the sandwich and wondering whether to eat it, Dino chatted with the owner in a very natural manner: "Tough day, huh?"

The shop owner is a middle-aged man with a puffy stomach. He scratched his head and smiled innocently: "It's nothing to do. Today is not a working day. Everyone has gone out to play."

"Well," Dino nodded, "I think your store is quite big, and there should be a lot of people during rush hours."

"Oh that's true," the owner laughed. "Do you know what a can of sardines is?"

Dino hooked the corners of his lips. From the corner of his eyes, he saw that Casey was still holding the sandwich in a daze. He took the sandwich from his hand, and while chatting with the boss, he tore open the outer packaging of the sandwich, leaving only the hand to hold it. At that point, he stuffed the sandwich back into Casey's hand: "Then there are so many people here, and you don't even have a single camera installed?"

The shopkeeper pointed to the top of the counter: "Isn't there one here? It works 24 hours a day,"

Dino looked at the monitor above the counter, and looked in the direction of the monitor. The monitor from this angle can be seen from almost everywhere except the tables at the door.He smiled and took out his police officer's ID from his suit pocket: "New York police, please cooperate with the case and give us a copy of the surveillance video."

The owner agreed very happily, but he said that the video tapes from two years ago may not be available anymore, anyway, there are no customers now, so he went to the back to flip through the video tapes.Leaving Kathy and Dino awkwardly standing in front of the counter.

Casey was biting the sandwich, his cheeks bulging, Dino pulled out a napkin from the counter, lifted his chin with one hand, and gently wiped the salad dressing off his mouth with the napkin in the other hand.

Casey backed away slightly, trying to take his chin out of his hand, but unexpectedly, Dino no longer had the gentle attitude before, and was extremely tough. Casey couldn't hide, so he could only stand there obediently and let him wipe.

Casey heard a deep laughter vibrating from Dino's chest, the sound was not loud but seemed to burst his eardrums: "I've done it wrong before."

Casey frowned suspiciously, but Dino didn't mean to explain. Just at this time, the store owner came out with a large carton of video tapes, and he scratched his head: "Officer, these are all from two years ago. There is no specific time." I'm not too sure about the label—”

"It's okay," Dino smiled gently, and took the cardboard box. "Let's go back and take a look, thank you for your cooperation."

After finishing speaking, he didn't mind the dusty cardboard box dirtying his expensive clothes, so he dragged Casey out of the store with the cardboard box in his arms.

Sitting in the car, Casey pointed to the big cardboard box in the back seat with a sandwich in his mouth, and asked vaguely: "Go back and watch every plate? Are you serious?"

Dino turned to him slightly, smiling at him with dark brown eyes: "I've always been serious."

Casey: "..."

Come on, I'd better turn around and sit down and shut up.

Dino held the steering wheel, the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

I've done it all wrong before.

For someone like Casey, blindly giving in and letting go will only push him further and further away.In the past, Dino couldn't bear to force him and let him hide deeper and deeper in his shell, but now he decided to change his method.

NYPD Manhattan Homicide Squad

"You came here in the middle of the night just to watch the video?"

Shen Lie silently looked at Casey and Dino who were already twisted and twisted in front of him, and rubbed his temples with a headache.

"I can't help it, brother," Casey rubbed the back of his hand, his eyes that were already tearing up from yawning, "There's a big box of video tapes, I can't fast-forward yet, my eyes are doubled now."

Ning Yuan looked at him sympathetically, reached out and took out a cold can of coffee from the coffee he brought them, and stuck it on Casey's face: "Where are Jerry and Gloria?"

"They stared at three o'clock and couldn't stand it any longer. Let's take a nap in the lounge." Dino said, reached for a can of iced coffee and opened it to take a sip.

At this time, Ning Yuan felt someone tugging at his trousers. He looked down and saw that it was the lovely Carl, who was looking at him with a tilted head and a smile.

Ning Yuan cried out in surprise, knelt down and hugged Karl, pinched his soft little face: "Why are you here?"

Carl pointed to Casey cheerfully: "I'll accompany Casey and Dino!"

"No, you didn't come to accompany me," Casey twisted the tip of his nose, "you obviously came to accompany Dino."

Carl grinned.

Ever since Dino rescued the puppy, Carl, who was already dizzy from Dino's sugar-coated bullets, was led away by Dino.

Casey carried Carl from Ning Yuan's arms and turned upside down: "Let's go to sleep!"

"Yeah!" Carl nodded obediently.

Dino also rubbed his eyes, and patted Shen Lie on the shoulder to signal him to cheer up.

Shen Lie pulled Ning Yuan to sit down on the chair. He took the remote control and clicked to continue playing.

Two hours have passed.

Ning Yuan couldn't do it anymore, his eyelids were fighting with sleepiness, and he fell on Shen Lie in a daze. Shen Lie put his arms around him, gently rubbed his soft hair, and watched the surveillance video carefully.

Suddenly he frowned, pressed the remote control back for a few seconds and began to look seriously.

the next morning

Everyone was yawning, and the dark circles under their eyes were serious, but at least they found evidence, so it wasn't a waste of work.

The phone rang, and Kathy sat on the table, pulled the landline back, and picked up the receiver: "Manhattan Homicide-ah James, what's wrong?"

James didn't know what to say over there, and Casey's eyes widened.

After hanging up the phone, Dino asked him what was the matter softly, and Casey opened and closed his lips a few times before saying: "James called up the medical records of everyone in Sean's school, and found that two people were also in the same situation as Sean. had gonorrhea during the period of time."

Shen Lie asked: "Can it be detected that Xiao En and these two people are the same type of gonorrhea that was transmitted to each other?"

Casey nodded: "James said he just got tested and it's the same type of gonorrhea."

"That's right, call these two people for questioning—" In the middle of speaking, he stopped abruptly, thought for a while and said: "If these two people are students, the presumption of legal rape can be overturned." .”

"I don't think it's that simple," Casey said. "These two people are a man and a woman. One is Oleg and the other is Oleg's girlfriend."