Neverland

In the office on the 24th floor of the Chengmu Group building, a routine morning meeting on Monday just ended.

The secretary in exquisite business attire stood at the door, smiled and sent off the managers in charge of various departments, then walked in, and began to tidy up the documents and office supplies scattered in front of the main seat on the conference table familiarly.

A black leather notebook that Qi Yuan carried every day was quietly lying on the table, and somehow it was left behind.

This notebook is the size of a palm, and it is always carried by Qi Yuan, and the secretary has seen it many times, and always thinks it is a memo he uses to jot down daily affairs.

The notebook is light and thin, and the secretary accidentally rubbed it when gathering the documents. The notebook was originally placed on the side of the table, and it fell off the table with a light scrape.

The leather case was heavier than the paper, and when it landed, it flipped through the pages, and before the secretary could react, he stretched out his hand to fish it, and fell face down on the ground.

The secretary quickly bowed to pick it up, fearing that some important information would be dirty, and Qi Yuan would be held accountable in turn.

She squatted on the ground, put the packed folder on her knees, reached out to pick up the notebook that was on the ground, turned it over and wiped the floating dust on it.

The latest page of the notebook should have been turned over by Qi Yuan many times, and there is an obvious crease at the seam of the spine.The notes on it are messy, a few words are connected by various arrows, and a small circular circle is drawn on the upper half of the page.

The time is marked next to each arrow, and these times are not much different, the least is only a few minutes, and the longest is only ten minutes.And in the middle of the circular circle, there is also a small playing card drawn, which should be five of hearts according to the suit.

Under this circular circle, there are six other playing cards drawn. Except for the first blank card, three of the remaining five cards are crossed, and the suit cannot be seen clearly.There is a small question mark next to the last poker card with the drawing of club 2, which is connected to the circular circle above by a sudden arrow.

A strange time is marked with a red pen next to the arrow - January 1 (26:16-?)

The secretary didn't understand what he meant, and didn't dare to look at Qi Yuan's things. He hurriedly closed the book, folded it with the pile of blue plastic folders, and hugged him in his arms. He hurried out and got on the elevator, ready to send Qi Yuan thing.

Qi Yuan's office is on the upper floor, in the middle floor of Chengmu Building.

When the secretary went, Qi Yuan was about to go out, and the two ran into each other at the door of Qi Yuan's office. Qi Yuan's eyes moved down slightly, and he saw the black notebook on the top of the stack of documents in the secretary's arms.

"Coincidentally." Qi Yuan smiled, reached out and took the notebook from the file, and said, "I'm still wondering where it is."

"It's left in the office." The secretary said, "It's on the table. You probably forgot to take it."

"Well...it should be." Qi Yuan put the notebook back into his pocket and nodded.

Qi Yuan has no airs when he is not doing business, he turned around and walked back to the office, and joked with the secretary with a smile.

"Insufficient sleep will indeed lead to a decrease in concentration. I will tell the employees in various departments to stay up late and work overtime." Qi Yuan said.

The secretary walked in with the folder in his arms, opened the door of the file cabinet, and stuffed the reports and contracts in his hand into the cabinet by category. Hearing this, he also smiled: "Who made you pay high overtime wages?"

As the secretary said, he turned his head to look at Qi Yuan, and said, "Can I give you coffee?"

"No need." Qi Yuan was looking down at the notebook in his hand, and replied after hearing the words: "By the way, please inform the various departments that the shareholders' meeting originally scheduled to be held next Monday will be moved to [-] o'clock this afternoon. Those who cannot come on business trips should ask them to find their own representatives.”

The secretary was slightly taken aback.

Qi Yuan put a parking voucher on the table in his notebook, looked up at the secretary, and continued: "Also, call someone from the legal department. I'm going out later. I'm not in the company this morning."

"...Okay." The secretary said, "I'll notify you right away."

The good weather in Shencheng didn't last long. After nine o'clock, the pattering rain came back again, covering the entire sky with darkness.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Qi Yuan's car stopped at the gate of the Municipal Bureau on time.

This time, he didn't bring a driver or a lawyer. Instead, he drove his own car to look for it. When he entered the door, he was like all ordinary citizens who came for security, and he even took a temporary parking card from the guard.

Qi Yuan walked into the gate familiarly. Instead of looking at the reporting hall on the first floor, he found the stairs leading to the second floor and stepped up.

Xu Muzhou was so busy that he hit the back of his head with his feet. He had just received Lao Zhang's freshly released second autopsy report from the forensic doctor.

"...Deputy Captain Xu." It was Qi Yuan who spoke first, and he raised the corners of his lips, showing a very plastic smile: "Good morning."

"It's noon now." Xu Muzhou said with a fake smile: "The 'morning' of successful people may be time-lag with me—why, Mr. Qi is from the surrender?"

When Shen Shuang contacted him in the morning to summon him, Qi Yuan was naturally among them. At that time, the other party didn't even answer the phone call, and transferred it directly to the lawyer, which can be said to be very embarrassing.

"How could it be?" Qi Yuan said with just the right doubts on his face, "An ordinary citizen like me would not dare to make such a joke."

Xu Muzhou was so busy that he wished he could be broken into eight pieces by himself, so he didn't have the heart to fight with him here.He sneered: "But Mr. Qi came just in time, I just happened to have something to ask Mr. Qi—"

"I refuse." Qi Yuan smiled unabated, but his words were not so polite: "If Vice Captain Xu wants to ask me any questions, after the 24-hour interval has passed, I will answer them at the next summons time of."

Fortunately, the time is awkward now, and there are not many people in the city bureau strolling in the corridor, otherwise, seeing Qi Yuan and Xu Muzhou confronting half of the stairway, the air would smell of gunpowder.

Xu Muzhou was not annoyed either, he rolled up the autopsy report in his hand, looked Qi Yuan up and down, and said, "Then ask Mr. Qi, why did you come to the police station for no reason—if there is no valid reason, I can count You provoke trouble."

"I'm here to release a person on bail." Qi Yuan said.

"No matter who it is—I'm telling you, it's impossible." Xu Muzhou guessed that he was here for the few people inside, and said nothing: "I was summoned through the formal process, and I want to pick up people, after 24 hours .”

"Then it's okay for me to meet." Qi Yuan took the next best thing: "I'm worried about her mental state, I just want to meet - you can send someone to watch."

He asked to put it so low, Xu Muzhou couldn't help muttering in his heart.

"Who do you want to see?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"I want to see Qin Huai." Qi Yuan said.

Now, one of the survivors on the sponsorship list counts as one, and Xu Muzhou is considered to be a suspect. What's more, with the conjecture that "there is more than one murderer", the remaining few people may be involved in this murder. what role did it play.

As long as people have desires, there will be flaws, and concealment itself is also a kind of truth.Xu Muzhou didn't want to take risks, but he didn't want to let go of the clues that might appear.

Suddenly, Xu Muzhou nodded.

"Yes." Xu Muzhou took out his mobile phone and called up Zhang Yue's dialogue box, and said without raising his head, "I'll arrange it for you."

The girl Zhang Yue is cautious and meticulous, and she is very reliable in her work.Xu Muzhou succinctly conveyed to her the three key points of "keep an eye on it, record the video, and pay attention to Qi Yuan", and then ordered Qi Yuan without raising his head: "Turn right in the corridor and enter the innermost door, and find a police officer."

"Thank you." Qi Yuan nodded slightly, then turned and walked in the direction directed by Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou stood on the spot and stared at his back for a while, the other party looked calm and walked calmly, no matter how you looked at it, he looked very open-minded.

"...Brother Xu, what are you looking at?"

Xu Muzhou came back to his senses, and found that Shen Shuang was coming down the stairs. He was standing in the middle of the stairs, lying on the handrail, stretching his body and waving in front of his eyes.

"I see." Xu Muzhou tapped his wrist with a scroll: "What's the matter?"

"The investigation results of Stephen Langch came out." Shen Shuang said: "There is also the whereabouts of that car. The traffic police team has also received news. Now we have found part of the whereabouts information. The video is uploaded and it is upstairs—— —Which one do you want to hear first?"

Xu Muzhou was overjoyed, stepped up the stairs in three steps at a time, put his arm around Shen Shuang's shoulders, picked him up and walked upstairs.

"Come one by one." Xu Muzhou said, "Then what does Stephen Langch do?"

Shen Shuang was staggered by him, hurriedly stood up, and then said, "It's a psychologist."

"Huh?" Xu Muzhou looked at him strangely. He originally thought that being able to sponsor so many children at once would be a special profession even if he wasn't a rich man. He never thought about it in this direction.

"Very famous - of course, it is very famous in their industry." Shen Shuang said: "If the old man is alive, he will be 76 years old this year."

Xu Muzhou keenly grasped the point: "Dead?"

"He died last year." Shen Shuang said, "It was a sudden death from a heart attack. He died very suddenly. From Qi Yuan to Fu Sihan are all children he sponsored, and the order of age from oldest to young is the order of his sponsored... Well, I called Over the phone, only Fu Sihan's orphanage still has a little impression of him. When Fu Sihan was funded back then, the old man personally picked people. A child was picked."

"How did you choose it?" Xu Muzhou said, "Look at your eyes?"

"That's what I'm talking about." Shen Shuang said: "I heard from the teacher of the orphanage that when the old man went there, he asked all the children under the age of ten and over the age of six to enter the room one by one behind closed doors to test , the teacher refused to let in. Anyway, when most of the children came out, they looked bad and cried hard, only Fu Sihan was fine. No one knew what was tested at the time, and Fu Sihan didn’t say anything when he came out. It was still a long time later , a seven or eight-year-old child accidentally said it when he was drawing with his teacher."

"She said that the old man played a video for the child." Shen Shuang said, "From the description...it feels like a video of torture and killing."