remnants

On the morning of October [-]th, when Nie Qing opened her eyes, she suddenly realized that six days had passed since the first murder.

During these six days, three more people died one after another, and according to the murderer's prediction, there should be three potential victims left.

So, have the police made any progress in cracking the case?Could they save all three before the killer strikes next?

What are the identities of these three people?Where are you now?What kind of grievances did the murderer have with them?What will be the next step?

The old problems have not been solved, and the new problems have come one after another, piled up layer by layer, like jigsaw pieces randomly scattered on the floor, in the case of not being able to see the whole picture in advance, it is messy and confusing.

It would be great if we could find the correct splicing method as soon as possible...

Thinking this way, Nie Qing couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Ah Qing...?" At this moment, Yu Sheng's slightly hoarse nasal voice came from beside him, "What's the matter? Are you going to wake up?"

"Yeah." Nie Qing turned his head and glanced at the electronic clock beside the bed. It showed that it was [-]:[-] in the morning. Go to the bureau first, and you can go to sleep."

"No, I'll go with you..." Yu Sheng said as he was about to struggle out of the bed, but Nie Qing pushed him back and pulled up the quilt to wrap him tightly.

"Stop trying to be brave. With your current physical condition, you should rest as much as possible." Nie Qing tucked in the quilt and got off the bed. Seeing Yu Sheng still staring at him sleepily, he couldn't help but smiled softly and said: "Call me when you sleep well, and I'll tell you where to find me."

"Okay..." Yu Sheng really felt top-heavy at the moment, he didn't want to expose anything in front of Nie Qing because of his hard work, so he could only pretend to respond obediently: "Then I will continue to sleep, remember to keep the phone unblocked .”

Nie Qing raised the corners of his mouth and nodded, "I know." After speaking, he went to the bathroom to wash up.

Yu Sheng closed his eyes and fell asleep again amid the intermittent dizziness, he didn't even hear the sound of Nie Qing going out.

***

It's October [-]th, six fifteen in the morning.

Nie Qing rushed to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, entered the criminal investigation hall, walked to her seat, and found Su Ji's autopsy report and a note for him on the table.

On the note, it was written in a handsome handwriting: It has been confirmed that it is the same murder weapon, and there are no other special circumstances.

Unexpected result.

Nie Qing put the note aside, picked up the kraft paper envelope containing the autopsy report, looked at it twice, thought about it and put it down again.

Since Su Ji said that there are no other special circumstances, it proves that he did not get more clues from the autopsy results, and he probably won't gain anything at the moment.

In addition, compared to this point, Nie Qing is more concerned about another matter at the moment - the matter of leaking secrets.

No matter how you look at the timing of yesterday's action, it was too coincidental.

Besides the time, the murderer's behavior of suddenly abandoning the previous anonymous phone and switching to a new anonymous phone to contact Yang Zhengdong was also very suspicious.

Although it is not impossible for the murderer to attack just before them, nor is it impossible for the murderer to have a strong sense of crisis and change the phone specially before the crime, but the possibility of these two things happening at the same time is really too small, little Even if Nie Qing didn't want to doubt the people around him anymore, he didn't dare to take this little possibility to bet that the murderer must have nothing to do with his own people.

He began to think carefully about what happened yesterday since he received Yu Sheng's call.

……

After hanging up the phone with Yu Sheng, Luo Qi called him back to the criminal investigation hall to listen to Mu Xize's explanation of the anonymous phone call.Afterwards, Su Ji and Luo Qi went out to buy coffee for everyone, but at this time Nie Qing hadn't said that Yang Zhengdong might be the next victim, so the suspicion of the two of them should be ruled out.

Then Fu Mingjie came, and Nie Qing also told everyone about Yang Zhengdong at this time. There were five people present, including Fu Mingjie and Nie Qing himself, as well as Liu Jinghua, Zhu Zuwei and Mu Xize.

Then, Fu Mingjie left and asked him to ask Chi Xiaofei to borrow someone to protect Yang Zhengdong, so Nie Qing called Chi Xiaofei.There is one more insider.

And the last hurdle is the group of four police officers sent by Chi Xiaofei to protect Yang Zhengdong, namely: Zheng Tian, ​​Zhao Zhizheng, Huang Ying and Cao Wenxu.The range of insiders was expanded to ten people.

As for among these ten people, whether anyone has inadvertently disclosed information to others, or was accidentally overheard by others when communicating, is beyond Nie Qing's control.

At present, the time left by the murderer to him is very limited. It is impossible for him to spend a lot of effort to investigate all the actions and contact objects of everyone yesterday. He can only lock down the individual.First determine who is most suspected, and then conduct detailed investigations with goals and directions.

As for how to determine the biggest suspect, Nie Qing decided to adopt the method of "inference of guilt" for the time being.

That is to say, he first assumes that each of the ten people in the know is a leaker, and then finds evidence to the contrary through actual objective conditions and developments, and finally proves that this person cannot leak the secret.

To be honest, if this method is really adopted, the workload will not be small.Especially for the group of four people, Nie Qing didn't know their whereabouts before they rushed to the No.1 civilian hospital yesterday. Chi Xiaofei asked for help.

Thinking of this, Nie Qing couldn't help pinching the center of her brows, and took another deep breath.

"Eh?! Team leader!" A rash voice suddenly appeared at the door.

Nie Qing looked up, and it couldn't be anyone else except Luo Qi.

"I thought I would be the first to arrive today! I didn't expect the team leader to arrive earlier than me!" Luo Qi rushed to Nie Qing as he spoke, with a bright smile on his face, "I saw the team leader early in the morning. ! It indicates that today's mission will definitely be successfully completed!"

Nie Qing was already familiar with his bluffing personality, and reminded him a few words when he was in the mood, and when he was not in the mood—such as now, he just nodded at him lightly and asked: "What are you talking about?" Why are you here? Didn’t you ask you to check the list of personnel today?”

"Yes! I'll go right away! Come back first to get some things, and a recorder!" Luo Qi said enthusiastically.

"Any plans?" Nie Qing asked.

"Yes!" Luo Qi smiled mysteriously at Nie Qing excitedly, lowered his voice and said, "Leader, I have already made up my mind, since we are looking for someone who worked in the cardiothoracic surgery department seven years ago. , then just ask the patient who was treated in the cardiothoracic surgery department seven years ago! The hospital may be able to hide its staff information, but it is not so easy to hide the patient information! And because of the large number of patients , and it’s impossible to buy through the seals one by one, I don’t believe I can’t find a loophole!”

Nie Qing finally smiled slightly when he heard this, and nodded to look at him, "It's a good idea, let's try it like this first. There should be a lot of distance to run today. You drive the car away and pay attention to your own safety."

"Understood!" Luo Qi suddenly stood up straight, saluted Nie Qing with a wave of his hand, then ran to his seat and quickly packed his things, greeted Nie Qing and left in a hurry.

Nie Qing continued to sit quietly in the criminal investigation hall alone, but felt at ease.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around at this moment, he didn't have to worry about the embarrassment his guess would cause, so he let go of his thoughts and considered the ten people he had just listed on the list of "suspects of leaking secrets".

Of course, he himself can be ruled out first.

Among the remaining nine people, if they take turns, let's assume that it was Liu Jinghua who revealed the news that Yang Zhengdong was about to be protected by the police...

——Wait, no!

Nie Qing suddenly realized something, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

How could he have forgotten... If there was indeed an information leak, there would be at least two pieces of information that were leaked.

The first one is that Yang Zhengdong has been locked up by the police and is waiting for protection.

The second one is that Mu Xi Ze has tracked down the anonymous phone call.

If the murderer had only learned about the first item, then he probably would not have reacted and wanted to switch to an anonymous phone to contact the victim.At least, not so fast.

But Chi Xiaofei and the people under him didn't know the second news.

The fingertips of Nie Qing's ten fingers became icy cold in just a few seconds, and the blood all over his body seemed to cool down in an instant, and he felt only waves of chills all over his body.

The only people who knew these two pieces of information at the same time were him, Liu Jinghua, Zhu Zuwei, Fu Mingjie, and Mu Xize.

Although Luo Qi and Su Ji also learned about the situation after they bought coffee, judging from the time, they learned about Yang Zhengdong after Chi Xiaofei sent someone.And at that time, because the anonymous phone was turned on suddenly, and Nie Qing wanted to take people to follow up, the rhythm was very tight, and the manpower was also very strict, and they would not have the opportunity to notify outsiders.

Therefore, the only suspects were those four people except Nie Qing.

how can that be possible……

Both Liu Jinghua and Zhu Zuwei have been with Nie Qing since he joined the Criminal Investigation Detachment. They are capable and willing to endure hardships, and their personalities are much calmer than Luo Qi. Nie Qing has always trusted them.

Fu Mingjie?This is even more impossible.He has been in the Criminal Investigation Detachment for nearly ten years, and he has been the captain for almost four years.Although he doesn't seem to have any outstanding talents on the surface, he has never missed a case that should be handled, and he also has a certain prestige and popularity in the bureau.For such a person, Nie Qing couldn't imagine any connection between him and the murderer.

As for Musizer...

Mu Xi Ze was originally the object of Nie Qing's most suspicion.

But after a short contact last night, Nie Qing seemed to have touched his more real side, but he didn't doubt him much.

Because Nie Qing had a feeling that Mu Xize was hiding himself deeper than he had imagined before.And to pretend to this level, this person must be very smart.He wouldn't deliberately leak information when he knew he was suspected, he wasn't that stupid.

What's more, he didn't look like a person who would ruin his life by killing someone.

Nie Qing felt that the more she thought about it, the less she understood.

Just at this moment, his cell phone rang, his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and Nie Qing felt a burst of relief.

He glanced at the screen and it was Su Ji calling, and he answered, "Hello Secretary."

"Nie Qing, are you up?" Su Ji asked in a very sober voice.

Nie Qing hummed, "I'm in the bureau now, and I've seen the note you left for me. You got it late yesterday, why did you get up so early?"

"I can't sleep, it's uncomfortable to lie down." Su Ji paused, "I'm going to go home later to find my dad's notes."

"Okay, then I'll pick you up and go with you." Nie Qing said and stood up.

But Su Ji suddenly paused for a few seconds with some hesitation, and then asked softly: "Do you mind picking up two people?"

Nie Qing: "...Two people? You wouldn't—"

Su Ji: "Well, Caesar is here with me. I saw it was too late yesterday, so I asked him to stay. He said he would come with us later."

Nie Qing: "..."

Su Ji: "Nie Qing?"

Nie Qing: "Okay... I see. I'll be there in 10 minutes."

"Well, then we'll wait for you at the gate of the community." Su Ji finished speaking and hung up the phone.

At this moment, Nie Qing finally couldn't help cursing inwardly, and he threw the phone on the table in disgust.

This Muxi Ze really pushed his nose on his face.