remnants

At night, everything is quiet.

The hospital is quieter than other places, and you can't even hear a sound when you walk in.

When Nie Qing got out of the car, he took a special look at the time. It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening, and there was only one nurse on duty in the lobby of the People's Hospital. a game of .

Nie Qing didn't bother her, and went directly to single ward No. 312 where Yu Sheng was.

On the bench at the door of the ward, there were two plainclothes policemen who Nie Qing arranged here, and they stood up when they saw Nie Qing approaching.

"Hello, team leader." The two plainclothes said in unison.

Nie Qing motioned them to lower their voices, walked over and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

"No." One of them replied, "There are four of us brothers watching over Ma Weiyuan's end now, so nothing will happen. Lao Zhang and Cai Cai are in the wards of Mu Xi Ze and Yu Sheng respectively, and we are guarding outside. So far I haven't seen anything suspicious so far."

Nie Qing nodded, "That's good. The shift changes at twelve o'clock, right?"

"Correct."

"Well, you call Lin Ming now and tell him that he doesn't need to come here. I will be here for the rest of my life these two nights. Let him and Xiao Liu be the guards at Mu Xi Ze's place tomorrow night, so that everyone can rest for an extra day." Nie Qing settled down softly.

"But the team leader, won't you sleep soundly like this?" another plainclothes asked.

"It's okay, I'm a light sleeper, so I'm suitable for vigil." Nie Qing smiled tiredly after speaking, "I'll go in and let Cai Cai come out. You guys should go back to rest after handing over to the next shift."

"Yes!"

Nie Qing turned the door open and went in. Sure enough, she saw a plainclothes man sitting in front of the hospital bed by the window, so she walked over and whispered to him to leave.After the door of the ward was gently closed from the outside, Nie Qing finally turned his attention to Yu Sheng who was lying on the bed.

It was dark in the ward, and Yu Sheng's face was pale.

Nie Qing took off her coat silently, then lay down carefully beside Yu Sheng, wrapping her arms around him lightly.

"Ah Qing...?" Yu Sheng woke up suddenly at this moment, and moved closer to Nie Qing in the darkness, his hoarse voice came through the gel-like air, a little ethereal. "You're back……"

"Yeah." Nie Qing said in a low voice, "I'm sorry I woke you up."

"No... I didn't fall asleep at first..." Yu Sheng said and turned his head to Nie Qing's shoulder, and Nie Qing knowingly stretched his arms under his neck and hugged him into his arms.

"The wound..." Nie Qing groped Yu Sheng's chest with the other hand very carefully. He wanted to put it down but didn't dare to let it go. He was afraid that he would hurt him if he didn't control the strength properly, so he stopped there and asked in a low voice, "Does it hurt now?" ?”

"A little bit..." Yu Sheng raised his head, his lips brushed lightly against Nie Qing's chin, "I want to kiss..."

"...Mmm." Nie Qing bowed her head and kissed him obediently.

"Ah Qing..."

"Not tonight." Nie Qing panted heavily, his lips were already separated from his, and at the same time, he took his hand and put it back on his chest.

Yu Sheng still had some unfinished business, and muttered in his mouth, "Ah Qing..."

"No, you can't even use your brain." Nie Qing's attitude was very firm, and he himself admired his own control.

Yu Sheng didn't look very happy, turned his face away as if "the baby has a little emotion".

Nie Qing couldn't help hugging him helplessly, and said in a low voice: "Do you know that you are seriously injured now? What if you continue to mess around and the injury gets worse? Be obedient."

"If you're injured, you can't have a sexual life... Who made the rule?" Yu Sheng buried his face in the quilt, moaning sullenly.

"I stipulated." Nie Qing wanted to laugh a little bit, but felt that he couldn't, so he pulled Yu Sheng's face out of the quilt, and asked him to turn his head to touch his forehead, with the tip of his nose rubbing against his nose, "Ah Sheng, I am I didn't protect you well, and I couldn't rush over to accompany you as soon as you were injured... Do you blame me?"

"Of course not..." Yu Sheng paused, "I don't know the nature of the work of a criminal police officer? I can't help myself. I understand the truth."

"You don't blame me..." Nie Qing kissed his lips again, and then let out a long sigh.

Yu Sheng couldn't open his eyes anymore. When he heard him sigh, he took his hand and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Didn't you go well today?"

"Well, I found something..." Nie Qing looked at his extremely sleepy face, his heart softened suddenly, and he changed his words: "I'll tell you the details tomorrow, go to sleep now."

"It's okay..." Yu Sheng found that every time he was around Nie Qing, he was particularly sleepy. His consciousness began to wander for a moment after speaking, his head was also groggy, and his body seemed to be placed in a void. It feels real, only the temperature from the hand is very real.

"Ah Qing..." Yu Sheng felt that he squeezed Nie Qing's hand hard, but what Nie Qing actually felt was just a slight curl of his fingers.

But this was enough for Nie Qing to understand what he meant.

Nie Qing embraced Yu Sheng in his arms, and circled him as tight as possible without pressing on his wound.

"Sleep in peace." He told him.

Yu Sheng hummed very lightly in a trance, and his breath soon sank.

At this time, Nie Qing also suddenly felt a strong sense of tiredness, her eyelids seemed to be pulled off suddenly, and they couldn't even open a crack.

In the room, there were only two even breathing sounds, which continued all night long.

***

At six o'clock in the morning on October [-]th, when Nie Qing was still asleep, she heard her mobile phone ringing very faintly.

He closed his eyes and groped back and forth by his side, but after a long time of groping to no avail, his brain finally came to his senses, and he remembered that he put his mobile phone in his coat pocket last night and did not take it out.

So, Nie Qing was about to get out of bed to get the phone, but just as soon as he tried to get up, he felt numbness and pain in the left side of his body.

"Hmm..." Yu Sheng, who was pillowed in his arms, hummed softly at this moment, moved his body, and fell asleep still deeply.

Nie Qing was afraid of waking him up, so he moved very carefully. After half sitting up, he put one leg under the bed, and the other leg was responsible for the force on the bed, and then gave his unconscious left arm little by little. Pull it out slowly, letting Yu Sheng's head land on the pillow very gently.

After completing this set of "difficult" movements, Nie Qing couldn't help exhaling softly, and finally got out of bed, walked to the hanger and took out the phone.

On the screen, there is an unread message displayed.

Nie Qing slid away and took a look, her expression froze for a moment, and the color of her pupils seemed to darken instantly.

The message was sent by laboratory technician Li Youxin of the Municipal Public Security Bureau's laboratory: Nie Qing, the residue comparison on that pocket knife has been completed, and it almost completely matches the reference sample dna you provided us, with only one case of discrepancy.

Nie Qing stood there thinking for a moment, then turned to look at Yu Sheng who was sleeping soundly, and replied: "Okay, I'll go over right away."

After replying to the message, Nie Qing got dressed and walked to the bed, bent down and kissed Yu Sheng gently on the forehead, with reluctance, distress, and guilt in his eyes.

"I'm sorry... I will come back as soon as possible." He tried to lower his voice, probably only he could hear it.

Immediately Nie Qing went out and closed the door of the ward behind him. Seeing that the colleague who came to watch the night shift was still sitting at the door, after saying hello, he gave some instructions, and then drove to the city bureau.

Because today is the first day of school and work after the long holiday, Nie Qing drives more and more traffic jams as she goes into the city.

Although he came out early enough, the students who couldn't stand to go to school also got up early. On the road, those who rode bicycles, walked together, crossed the road in a daze, and many parents drove to pick them up, resulting in entering the adjacent school. After the lot, the traffic is congested in a mess, and other sections are slightly better, but to be honest, there is no obvious advantage.

Nie Qing was stuck all the way from Wuhua District to Panlong District. By the time he arrived at the gate of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, it was already 08:30 in the morning.

Fortunately, Li Youxin was still waiting for him in the laboratory, but he was not in a good mood. When he saw Nie Qing coming in, he slammed his face and said, "Did you crawl here?"

"Almost." Nie Qing thought about the driving situation just now, and felt that there was nothing wrong with using "crawling" to describe it.

Li Youxin looked very speechless towards him, and sighed: "It's okay, I won't be poor with you, come and see the result you want, it's all here."

"En." Nie Qing walked over obediently, looking at the test results spread out on the laboratory table by Li Youxin, her expression suddenly became serious.

"Sister Xin, are you sure that apart from this person, the other sample DNA I gave you can find a match in the residue on the folding knife?" Although Nie Qing already knew the answer, she still wanted to confirm it again.

Li Youxin put her hands in the pockets of her white coat, her face without makeup was a little tired, but this did not affect her clear and beautiful face at all, on the contrary, it made her more charming.

It's a pity that the man standing in front of her is gay.

"Nie Qing, are you questioning my test results, or my expressive ability?" Li Youxin asked angrily, raising his long eyebrows.

"No, I'm not hearing very well recently, and I'm afraid I might hear it wrong." Nie Qing reacted relatively quickly at this time, and seeing that Li Youxin was in a bad temper at the moment, he tried to be as humble as possible and said: "Sister Xin, you For the sake of the case, can you confront me face to face again?"

"Okay, how dare I say 'no' to the request made by your team leader Nie? Hurry up and I'm going home to sleep." After speaking, Li Youxin leaned over and sat on a round swivel chair, while folding the experimental table The test results on the website said: "The residue on this knife is simply a miniature version of the murder scene. The blood of several victims has not been cleaned up. The residues in the gaps are the most obvious, and they are also the most complete, which is not so complete in stamp collecting.”

Nie Qing frowned and nodded, "The traces in these places are the most difficult to clean up, not to mention the blood stains are not easy to disappear."

"That's right, so by comparing the blood stains left on the murder weapon with the DNA of the relevant victims and criminal suspects, we can accurately determine which people were killed by the murder weapon, and also lock the suspects. This method is very Easy to use."

Li Youxin pointed to the test results and said to Nie Qing: "Look, we have obtained the blood samples of Su Yongdeng, Bai Zhang, Qiu Ruimin, Yang Xuedong, He Tian, ​​and the hair samples of Ma Weiyuan and Yu Sheng before. After testing It was found that only Bai Zhang's DNA did not appear on the folding knife, and the DNA of the other six people was confirmed to be found."

"Well..." This result also confirmed Nie Qing's conjecture about the "two murderers" from the side, but he was not excited at all, because the focus of his coming today was mainly on the result of the last person.

"As for him," Li Youxin pointed at the remaining laboratory test form, "You said that he is currently missing and has not been confirmed injured or killed, right? But according to the test results, you probably need to change Searching for directions."

"Is there any blood on the pocket knife that matches the dna of his hair?" Nie Qing asked with a sinking face.

Li Youxin hummed, "Not only is there, I also found another situation." Li Youxin paused slightly, his eyes slightly hesitant, "I found that his blood stays longer on the pocket knife than He Tian's." , Yu Sheng, and Ma Weiyuan. This means—"

"He was injured by a jackknife before He Tian was killed, Yu Sheng and Ma Weiyuan were injured?" Nie Qing's uneasiness reached its peak at this moment.

Li Youxin nodded silently and looked at him.

"Nie Qing, you have to be mentally prepared. Zhou Jun is probably killed now."