remnants

It was past eleven o'clock in the evening when Nie Qing came home that day.In fact, if it weren't for thinking about the rest of his life, he would usually sleep in the bureau under such circumstances.

When he walked to the door of the house, seeing the faint light coming from the crack of the door, Nie Qing suddenly felt that the exhaustion and tension all over his body seemed to be relieved instantly, and his heart was finally at ease.

He was afraid that he would not see him when he came back.

Fortunately, he is here.

Nie Qing took a deep breath, raised her hand and knocked on the door twice.Yu Sheng inside the door seemed to agree from a distance, and then a series of footsteps approached, until the door stopped, and when the door was opened, Nie Qing felt a shadow rush towards him, and subconsciously stretched out his arms to hug him.

"Ah Qing, you're finally back! I'm so bored waiting alone!" Yu Sheng's arms were tightly wrapped around Nie Qing's shoulders, hanging almost all of his weight on him like a fool.

Nie Qing couldn't help being helpless, but he didn't push him away. He picked him up and walked into the house with all his strength. He turned his head and locked the door and said, "I thought you would stay in sin for a long time."

"No, I went back to make a fuss, and then rushed to your house in a hurry, for fear that you would come back early and not have the key to enter the house." Yu Sheng had just been put back on the ground at this moment, so he took a step back and waited for Nie. Take off your clothes and change your shoes.

However, when Nie Qing was about to unbutton the windbreaker, his hands suddenly stopped, and he put it on again after waiting.

"Ah Sheng, I have to go out." Nie Qing said with a serious expression.

Yu Sheng looked at him, "Do you want to see that Su Ji?"

"Well... I don't trust him." Nie Qing said in a low voice. "You go to bed first, I have the key, and I will open the door by myself when I come back."

Yu Sheng couldn't help staring at him for a moment, then sighed suddenly, turned around and took out his overcoat from the closet by the door, and said to Nie Qing, "Let's go, I'll go with you."

"Are you going too?" Nie Qing frowned slightly.

Yu Sheng knew what he was thinking, so he held the corner of his mouth and said, "Don't worry, I'm not here to follow, I just don't want to see you worry about your friends by yourself."

"But you don't know him well, so how can it help if you go?" Nie Qing asked hesitantly.

"Ah Qing, why did you forget that I have more say than you in this matter." Yu Sheng put on his coat and shoes and stood at the door, shrugging at Nie Qing, "The experience of suddenly losing a loved one, you No, but I have."

Nie Ting was taken aback after hearing this, but Yu Sheng had already opened the door first and went out.

"Let's go, if you don't go, it will be even later." Yu Sheng said in a low voice in the corridor.

Nie Qing took a deep look at his back, then locked the door and followed, hugged him and walked to the garage together.

Su Ji's house lived some distance away from the city bureau, but it was very close to Nie Qing's house, within a 10-minute drive.

Like Nie Qing, he left Pingcheng home and would not return, but went out to rent a house by himself.This community called Jinxiujiayuan is also a mid-to-high-end community in Pingcheng, but compared with Su Yongdeng's three-story villa in Xishan District, it looks much more simple.

Now it was the dead of night, there were very few brightly lit rooms in the buildings of Jinxiu Homeland, and there were even fewer pedestrians on the road.Yu Sheng walked beside Nie Qing and looked around. When he passed a building, he asked, "By the way, Ah Qing, you didn't tell him about your coming, did you? Then he has already rested?"

"No." Nie Qing replied very positively, "He hasn't slept very well all along, he usually sleeps very little, and today something like this happened, he will definitely not be able to sleep even more."

"You understand it very well." Yu Sheng answered with a half-smile.

Nie Qing wasn't thinking about this at the moment, so he didn't notice the slight sourness in Yu Sheng's voice.

"Here we are." After walking for another 2 minutes, Nie Qing stopped at the door of a unit building.

"House number?" Yu Sheng approached the place where the doorbell was ringing and asked.

However, Nie Qing shook his head, pulled him away and said, "You don't need to ring the doorbell, I have the key to his house. Go up later and keep your voice down, and check the situation at the door first. If he really falls asleep, I don't want to wake him up." .”

Yu Sheng listened to Nie Qing's thoughtful words, and suddenly felt a little bored in his heart, as if someone had snatched something away.

However, Nie Qing still didn't notice that his expression was not right, took out the key and opened the door, walked into the corridor and called him in a low voice: "Don't be dazed, get on the elevator."

"Oh." Yu Sheng hurriedly followed, but he would glance at Nie Qing's expression from time to time as the elevator ascended.

He really cares about that Su Ji.

What kind of person will he be?Yu Sheng silently guessed in his heart.

The elevator finally stopped on the fourteenth floor, and turned left when exiting the elevator room. The house number was 1404. Nie Qing stopped in front of this door.

The room was very quiet, but the lights were on. Yu Sheng turned to Nie Qing and asked, "It doesn't tell if he's awake or not. Do you want to go in directly?"

"Well, be careful not to make too much noise." Nie Qing said again.

"Understood. How many times do I have to say it..." Yu Sheng couldn't help muttering in a low voice.

Nie Qing glanced at him and said nothing, carefully and slowly inserted the key into the lock, turned it lightly, and pressed the doorknob to gently open the door after hearing a "click".

In the living room, Su Ji was sitting on the carpet in front of the sofa with his knees bent, in a daze.

Hearing the sound of someone entering the door, Su Ji glanced towards the door subconsciously, he didn't see the rest of Nie Qing's life behind him, thought that Nie Qing was alone, so he turned his head and asked softly: "It's so late, why are you here? "

"Secretary..." Nie Qing approached him slowly, went to the edge of the carpet and squatted down, and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Su Ji's reaction was very calm, and he nodded slightly, "It's okay. I haven't been close to him since I was a child. After my mother left, we became more and more distant. The last time we met seemed to be two years ago. What happened before. If it hadn’t happened today, I would have almost forgotten that I still have a father here.”

"Hey, so Ah Qing's worries are superfluous?" Yu Sheng also walked in from the door at this time.

Nie Qing couldn't help staring at him, Yu Sheng stretched out his hands at him, Su Ji turned his face and stared at him for a few seconds before asking, "Are you Yu Sheng?"

"You know me?" Yu Sheng looked at him and then at Nie Qing, squatted down and smiled, "Ah Qing told you? Does he often mention me?"

"Yu Sheng." Nie Qing gave him a warning look, his expression clearly accusing him of being "inappropriate".

But Su Ji didn't seem to take these performances of Yu Sheng to heart, nodded and answered him seriously: "He told me. But he rarely mentioned you, and it can be seen that the more you don't talk about it, the more you miss it in your heart."

"Really? Yes, he has this kind of temperament." Yu Sheng asked and answered himself with a smile.

Nie Qing couldn't stand it anymore, pushed Yu Sheng aside and said "Shut up first", then looked at Su Ji carefully and asked: "Are you really okay? Don't bear the pain alone, even if I can't help You share it, but it should make you feel better, it’s better than holding it back all the time.”

"Nie Qing, thank you, but I'm really fine." Su Ji looked at him, forced a smile from the corner of his mouth, and said, "Tell me about the case. The captain is considerate of me and won't let me go to the scene, but I I still want to know the details."

Nie Qing: "...Secretary, you should not get involved in this case—"

"Group Leader Nie, don't think I'm so vulnerable." Su Ji smiled at him a little more clearly, "As a forensic doctor, I know better than you what I'm about to face. Believe me, I can bear it." .”

When Su Ji said this, his voice was not loud, but his tone was extremely firm, and Nie Qing couldn't hold back him.

"That's good...if you've thought it through, I'll tell you everything I know." Nie Qing said seriously.

Su Ji nodded, "I've figured it out, tell me."

"it is good."

Nie Qing took a deep breath after answering, and then told Su Ji everything about the scene where Su Yongdeng was killed.

He talked for almost 10 minutes, during which Su Ji didn't interrupt him at all, and listened attentively all the time.

And just when Nie Qing was about to talk about the strange part of the scene, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something missing in this half day—the voice of Yu Sheng.

Nie Qing raised his head all of a sudden, only to find that Yu Sheng was standing against the wall, watching him silently.

"What's wrong with you? It's so quiet." Nie Qing asked strangely.

Yu Sheng pursed his lips and bulged his cheeks, and said sullenly, "You told me to shut up, and now you're asking me what's wrong."

Nie Qing didn't expect him to be interested in what she said casually just now, she was so angry and funny, she said to him, "Come here first, let's talk business. What do you think about the situation at the scene?"

When Yu Sheng heard Nie Qing's call, his face immediately brightened again, and he trotted three steps in two steps to sit on the wooden floor with him, and said solemnly: "I think from the situation at the scene, the murderer who killed Dean Su should be a Someone who knows crime well and is very professional."

"Why do you say that?" Su Ji asked staring at him.

"Wait a moment." Yu Sheng took out his phone at this moment, unlocked it and pulled out the photo album, "This is the live photo I secretly took in the morning, you can take a look."

Yu Sheng said and put the phone on the carpet between the three of them, ignored Nie's condemning gaze towards him, and continued: "This scene is too clean."

Su Ji changed from sitting to lying down, and put his face close to Yu Sheng's cell phone to observe carefully, "This scene...what's going on..."

"You also find it strange, don't you?" Nie Qing temporarily gave up on pursuing Yu Sheng's candid photos, and took over from the side: "When we arrived at Dean Su's office, we saw that all the furnishings in the room were neatly arranged. There was no trace of dislocation or shifting of the furniture, and no sign of fighting. In addition, according to the feedback from the on-site inspection team, the ground on the site was also cleaned very cleanly. Not to mention footprints, not even a single hair was found. The murderer had carefully cleaned up the scene after the attack."

"Not only that," Yu Sheng went on to say, "the murderer's method of killing is also very clean and neat. Not to mention the one-shot kill, the treatment of blood stains is also very clever. According to the general situation, the murder weapon is directly pierced into the heart and then pulled out|most likely It will form a splatter-like bloodstain, even if the degree of splatter is not obvious, it will inevitably leave traces on the murderer's body and the surrounding environment, which can be seen through non-specific identification using the luminol reaction, but there was no such trace left at the scene at the time. kind of trace."

Su Ji's face paled slightly, "To prevent the blood from the victim's wound from splashing out, it is likely that a shield was added around the murder weapon..."

"Regarding this point, we have basically determined what the occluder is." Nie Qing suddenly interjected.

After he finished speaking, seeing Yu Sheng and Su Ji staring at him seriously, he said softly, "It's medical gauze."

"Gauze?" Su Ji was stunned for a moment, then repeated in a murmur, "Why is it gauze..."

"Have you thought of anything?" Nie Qing asked.

Su Ji reacted for a few seconds before shaking his head, "It's nothing, I just feel strange..."

"Is it weird to use gauze?" Yu Sheng leaned his elbows on his knees and rested his head on his palms, tilting his head and said, "The advantages of gauze as a cover are obvious. First, it is light and soft, easy to carry; second It absorbs well and has a good effect on preventing blood from splattering; thirdly, it is not difficult to obtain, and it is easy to destroy afterwards, and it can be completely burned with a fire.”

"Yu Sheng is right, using gauze is a good way." Nie Qing echoed, and he said while thinking: "Today, Chi Xiaojing will take the residue extracted from the outside of Dean Su's wound to the laboratory for testing. The reference opinion given by the laboratory is that the residue of gauze remains, which is suspected to be left when the murderer pulled out the murder weapon. But correspondingly, there is no such debris inside the wound, so the murderer should have removed the gauze before doing it. Put on the murder weapon."

"So the murder weapon should also be identified?" Su Ji asked in a very soft voice, his lips were already white and bloodless.

Nie Qing looked at him worriedly, and said solemnly: "Judging from the diameter of the stabbing entrance and the length and shape of the stab wound, the murder weapon should be a sharp weapon such as a pocket knife. The stab wound was from the left side of the corpse to the upper right. For piercing, the total length of the Chuang Dao is 74 mm, and the angle of the base is about 45 degrees. When we compared this information with the knives sold on the market, we found that there is an outdoor folding knife that matches the information very well.”

"Folding knife for outdoor use..." Su Ji's eyes looked a little confused.

He looked around aimlessly, and suddenly made a movement to get up, but before he could lift his butt completely, he fell back again.

"Secretary!" Nie Qing immediately hugged him nervously, only to see that Su Ji's complexion was pale, his eyes were tightly closed, and his slender eyelashes were still trembling.

"Don't worry, he just passed out." Yu Sheng climbed to the other side of Su Ji, stretched out his hand and said, "Let me help him, go and get him a glass of water."

"Okay..." Nie Qing supported Su Ji's back and handed him over to Yu Sheng, then got up and went to the kitchen to fetch water, and when he came back, he saw Yu Sheng was pressing Su Ji with his hands, and at the same time called him softly: " Su Ji, wake up, Su Ji."

"How is he?" Nie Qing quickly approached and squatted down.

Yu Sheng called out two more times, and suddenly heaved a sigh of relief, "Here, I'm awake."

"Secretary?!" Nie Qing saw Su Ji's eyes slowly opened, and his dilated pupils gradually condensed, and then slowly turned his gaze to him.

"I...I'm fine..." Su Ji said weakly, leaning on Yu Sheng's arms.

"You still say it's okay? It's okay, why did you faint!" Nie Qing was a little angry, but she was angry with herself.

He felt that he had lost his mind just now, and he talked about his father's murder without any scruples in front of Su Ji.

Even if Su Ji himself said that he had nothing to do with him and could bear it, ordinary people would never do such a careless thing.

Nie Qing now realizes that Fu Mingjie's words do seem to have some truth. Since he found Yu Sheng, his judgment seems to have been affected to some extent.

At this time, Yu Sheng muttered like "adding insult to injury": "If you don't have diamonds, don't do porcelain work. If you can't listen to it, you should have said it earlier. Why pretend to be calm."

"Yu Sheng!" Nie Qing couldn't help but glared at him fiercely, "Has your EQ been eaten by a dog?"

"Why did you scold me? Did I say something wrong?" Yu Sheng raised his head and stared at him seriously, "What good would it do him if he persisted even though he couldn't do it? I was just teaching him a principle of survival."

Nie Qing listened to Yu Sheng's words as if he was deliberately finding fault. The anger against him that was simmering in his heart just now involuntarily shifted his target, and he couldn't help but sternly said to Yu Sheng: "If you don't know how to speak well, leave immediately. Don't stay here to disturb others."

"...Leave and leave!" Yu Sheng pushed Su Ji to Nie Qing as he spoke, rolled to the edge of the carpet and stood up, strode to the door and said, "I'll go first, no one will give me any more." You are annoying, you stay well."

"Hey Yu Sheng!" Nie Qing didn't expect him to leave as soon as he said, but when he was about to chase out, he saw Su Ji who was still in a trance in his arms, gritted his teeth, but still didn't leave.

Su Ji gently tugged at his clothes, and said in a low voice, "Why are you arguing...go after him..."

"Don't chase, just go if you want." Nie Qingyan said insincerely, and helped Su Ji to sit on the sofa. "I'll stay with you at your house tonight, or I won't worry about leaving you alone."

Su Ji shook his head involuntarily, but he seemed to have no strength to speak, and fell asleep again after closing his eyes.

Nie Qing looked at him, then raised his head to look out the window, only to see the pitch black, wondering if Yu Sheng had gone far.

Without the key, he will definitely not go home again...