Neverland

Startled by Xu Muzhou's reaction, the boy pointed to the door of 2403's room and said, "I'm... at home."

It has happened more than once that the murderer returned to the scene of the crime to look for potential witnesses. Once some insane murderers opened the hole, they no longer have any respect for human life, and it is not impossible to attack witnesses.

When Xu Muzhou heard of this abnormal situation, he got angry, his heart pounded up, and then fell down instantly, making him dizzy.

"Excuse me." Xu Muzhou pinched the bridge of his nose and said tiredly, "Can I have a word with her if it's convenient?"

"Ah, good." The boy tightened the dog's leash, and hurriedly agreed: "Then I'll go back and call her—you guys come in and have a seat?"

"No need." Xu Muzhou said, "It's inconvenient for us two big men."

The boy was not very old, he looked to be in his early twenties, he should still be a student, he heard that the dog would not go for a walk, he dragged the rope back to the original road, calling his girlfriend's nickname repeatedly.

"Why is your face so bad?" Yan Cen stepped forward, looked at his face for a while, and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"

"What——" Xu Muzhou was still thinking about the "female police officer" who appeared out of nowhere. He subconsciously touched his face when he heard the words, and then realized something, and said, "No, I forgot to eat."

Yan Cen was silent for a moment, then took out the box of mints that came with buying cigarettes from the right pocket of his white coat, and stuffed it into Xu Muzhou's hand.

"So caring." Xu Muzhou smiled, unceremoniously opened the package, poured out two pills and threw them into his mouth.

The mints refreshed his mind, and a gust of cold air ran down his throat and rushed to his forehead, chilling him in the cold weather.

"...What?" There was a reluctant coquettish voice from room 2403, the half-closed door was reopened, and a young girl wrapped in a large down jacket came out of the room rubbing her eyes and said, "Why?" Ask again."

"The woman who knocked on the door just now is not a policeman." Xu Muzhou said straight to the point: "What did she ask you?"

The young girl was taken aback for a moment, and the boy who came out quickly gave her a shoulder and urged, "Say it quickly."

"She, she didn't ask anything..." The young girl thought for a while: "I just asked if I have seen anyone I don't know recently, suspicious people who don't live here, etc. I said this is upstairs and downstairs. I don’t know anyone, so how can I see any suspicious people.”

"And then?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Then—" The young girl racked her brains for a long time and shook her head hesitantly: "Then it was nothing, she asked if she heard any movement from the other side before, I don't know anything .”

The young girl finally realized something belatedly, her little face suddenly turned pale, she grabbed her boyfriend's arm, and asked in a trembling voice: "Uncle policeman, is that a bad guy—"

Before Xu Muzhou could speak, the little girl slapped the boy relentlessly, and said in a crying voice, "I said something happened to the other side, let's move out quickly, and you insist that he won't return the deposit or move out." , look now—"

"No, no, not necessarily." Seeing that she was about to cry in fright, Xu Muzhou hurriedly comforted her: "No, it's just a tabloid reporter. I'm worried that they will take the information and talk nonsense."

The young girl was dubious: "...Really?"

"Really." Xu Muzhou said: "But I want to ask, do you remember what that woman looked like? Just some features are fine."

"Wait a minute." The young girl pulled her boyfriend away, ran into the house and then came out, holding a mobile phone in her hand: "There is a surveillance camera at the door of my house, which is used to catch thieves, and it happens to find the door. "

The young girl called up the previous monitoring in the mobile phone's Internet APP, slowed down the playback, and took a few clear frontal faces from the screenshots.

Xu Muzhou's first reaction to this woman who appeared inexplicably was whether Qin Huai had gone and returned, but the woman in the surveillance screen was obviously younger. She had shoulder-length short hair and plain makeup. Nothing special, just a cold expression.

Xu Muzhou accepted the two photos and was about to leave when he remembered something and turned his head and said: "But I still suggest that you don't open the door to strangers if you have nothing to do. If someone who claims to be the police comes, don't open it rashly. Remember Look at the other party's ID in Maoyan... If you feel that you can't tell the authenticity of the ID, you can call 110 to confirm."

Seeing his determination, the young girl nodded hesitantly and agreed.

This time, Xu Muzhou's sudden gain was far greater than his expectations. He parked the car on the side of the road, pinched his phone, kept opening the communication page, and closed the dialog box because there was no new news.

When he went downstairs, he sent the screenshot of the woman back to the Municipal Bureau, but there has been no feedback so far. Zhang Yue said that he had contacted Qi Yuan, and the other party had a very good attitude, and it was not because it was too late. Pushing three and four, only saying that he will rush to the Municipal Bureau as soon as possible.

The girl Zhang Yue is reliable in her work, and she has already brought her teammates to "pick her up" in person, and it is estimated that she will arrive at the city bureau in half an hour.

Yan Cen came out of the 24-hour convenience store on the side of the road, went straight to the car, opened the door and got in, and stuffed the plastic bag in Xu Muzhou's hand.

Xu Muzhou looked down and asked, "What did you buy?"

"Dinner." Yan Cen said: "Roasted sweet potatoes and yogurt... make a living. The rest of the staple food is either buns or pies. The rice balls are sold out."

"Hey." Xu Muzhou let out a short exclamation, and said strangely, "How do you know that I don't eat noodles?"

Yan Cenxin said that not only do I know all the things you don't eat, but I also know that you don't like warm curtains and bed sheets.

But Yan Cen is facing a lover who has been formatted and restarted, so he can only swallow these complaints with humiliation.

Fortunately, Xu Muzhou hurried back to the city bureau, this kind of emotion that had nothing to do with the case could not enter his mind at all, even if it was scattered in the wind, the ending sound did not fall.

Xu Muzhou and Zhang Yue entered the gate of the city bureau one after the other, and when Qi Yuan got off Zhang Yue's car, Xu Muzhou just pressed the button to lock the car.

Qi Yuan wore a black windbreaker and an expensive-looking black scarf, got down from the back seat of the police car, and met Xu Muzhou in the parking lot.

"Officer Xu, we meet again." Qi Yuan put his hands in his pockets and smiled at him.

Xu Muzhou didn't know if it was because he had a different impression of him because of his preconceived ideas. He always felt that the other person's eyes were wandering, as if they didn't fall on him, and there was no deep meaning in that gentle smile.

"Does Mr. Qi know what you are invited to do?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Miss Zhang told me a little bit, but it's not very clear." Qi Yuan raised his left wrist to look at the watch on his hand, and said with a smile, "I have an early meeting at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Before that, I will There is time to cooperate with the investigation."

——A needle hidden in the cotton.

Xu Muzhou squinted his eyes, and said with a fake smile: "Then let's hurry up."

In this world, Yan Cen has always been adhering to the principle of keeping a low profile. He has been standing behind Xu Muzhou, waiting for the other party to walk out with Qi Yuan first, and then walk out from the shadow beside the car.

He walked a few steps forward, and stood in the white line of the parking lot, looking sideways at Qi Yuan's back. After a while, he moved his fingers and lit a cigarette for himself.

In the interrogation room on the third floor, Xu Muzhou put a paper cup in front of Qi Yuan, turned around and sat down behind the opposite table.

Zhang Yue set up the camera, pulled the keyboard from under the monitor, and signaled to Xu Muzhou that he was ready to record.

"Straight to the point, Mr. Qi." Xu Muzhou said, "Please repeat how you reported the crime."

"I've already said it once." Qi Yuan said: "—I'm going with Miss Qin."

"Mr. Qi." Xu Muzhou interrupted him: "You don't just knock on the door, do you?"

Qi Yuan was interrupted by him for no reason, pursed his lips, looked at him silently for a while, and then said: "I don't know what you mean."

Xu Muzhou didn't want to talk nonsense with him, he opened the drawer, took out the inspection report and spread it on the table, and held up the two obvious photos of footprints under Luminol's reaction.

"We found your footprints in the house, which are exactly the same as those of the leather shoes you wore this morning." Xu Muzhou said, "In other words, you stayed at the scene for a long time after the crime happened, and you left your footprints afterwards. footprints have been erased—how are you going to account for that?"

Contrary to Xu Muzhou's expectation, Qi Yuan did not show any panic or guilty conscience, he glanced at the photo twice, and suddenly sighed softly.

"Okay—I'm really sorry, Officer Xu, I lied before." Qi Yuan crossed his index fingers on his knees and said, "I did enter Xu Kang's house."

Zhang Yue's hands paused while typing, and she turned to look at Xu Muzhou with a wandering expression on her face, with complex information written all over her eyes, "Are criminals so worry-free now?"

But Xu Muzhou was not that optimistic. Qi Yuan's ability to admit it so simply meant that there must be a "but" after the admission.

Sure enough, Qi Yuan continued: "But——I do have a reason."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, took out a silver door key from his coat at a very slow speed, and placed it on the table in front of him.

"This is Xu Kang's house key." Qi Yuan said: "I'm not lying, I really wanted to see him today, but he didn't open the door for so long, so I went in on my own initiative—Miss Qin was there at the time, She can testify against me."

Xu Muzhou winked at Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue cut out the page knowingly, and exchanged this information to Shen Shuang who was in charge of the Qinhuai line.

"After I entered the door, I saw the living room was covered with blood... I was also shocked at the time, thinking that Xu Kang couldn't think about it, so my first reaction was to go into the room to find him. But to be honest, I regretted it after entering the bedroom Now—" Qi Yuan smiled wryly: "Officer Xu, to be honest, people like me are different from ordinary people. If I get involved in such vicious murders, my company's stock price will drop tomorrow... So I can only clean up my traces, and call the police as if nothing happened. I admit that this is a last resort, and I don't want to cause this trouble."

In all honesty, although this answer sounds more like sophistry, from a logical point of view, it is much more credible than Qi Yuan's previous report testimony, which was full of loopholes.

But from the moment he concealed the situation, Qi Yuan's credibility was completely wiped out with Xu Muzhou. No matter how gaudy he said, he was only a criminal suspect in Xu Muzhou's eyes.

"Last night from three to five in the morning, where were you?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"I know you have doubts." Qi Yuan said calmly, "But I dare to do this because I have the confidence to be innocent—Officer Xu, I can produce evidence that I didn't kill anyone."