Neverland

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After Yan Cen finished reading the novel in his hand, he closed the book carefully, stroked the cover carefully, and put the book back on the table.

The half cup of warm water at the corner of the table was completely cold, Yan Cen reached out to take the cup and drank it down, then squashed the disposable paper cup, got up and threw it into the trash can in the corner of the room.

After finishing all this, he had enough time to pat the non-existent floating dust on the hem of his clothes, turned around and looked up at the surveillance camera above his head.

Yan Cen is not quite sure if anyone is looking at the thing on the other side.But this thing hung too high, and it was too big to cover the target hastily, so he could only endure it for the time being.

——Forget it, it’s almost over, it’s not too late, Yan Cen thought.

Counting the time, Xu Muzhou should almost get the information he wanted, but the mobile phone with the positioning device is not in Yan Cen's hands now, so he is inevitably still a little bit hesitant to approve Muzhou's movements.

Lin Yi had already left the summoning room an hour ago, but there was still no movement from Qin Huai's side.Yan Cen reviewed the whole thing in his mind, and rationalized his thoughts, and felt that the heat was almost ready.

So he stretched the hem of his clothes again, and walked to the door with seemingly unintentional steps.

A summons is not a seizure, and the door is not locked. Yan Cen reached out and pressed the doorknob, and slowly pressed down half a circle.

The door lock clicked lightly, the lock cylinder came out of the copper buckle, and the door of the summons room was pulled open a small gap by inertia.

Yan Cen took advantage of the opportunity to open the door, but before he could take a step outside, someone stopped him with his hand.

The female police officer at the door seemed to be waiting for him here, looked at Yan Cen vigilantly, and asked, "Where are you going?"

Her attitude was very different from when she sent the novel in, her eyes were full of resistance.She pointed her toes outward, and her upper body leaned back slightly, in an unconscious gesture of distance.

The female police officer's attitude changed so quickly, Yan Cen didn't need to think about it to know that it was probably because Xu Muzhou had sent a message back and got angry with these people.

——The speed of the little fox is quite fast, Yan Cen thought in a good mood.

Yan Cen was in a good mood, and even his attitude became pleasant. He bowed slightly and discussed, "I want to go to the bathroom."

The policewoman looked at him suspiciously for a while, then turned sideways to get out of the way.

"...Go to the end of the corridor." The female police officer seemed worried, and added: "The summons period is not over yet, you can't leave without permission."

"I know." Yan Cen smiled and nodded.

He passed by the female police officer, and just after taking two steps, he turned his head and asked casually as if he suddenly remembered something.

"When will Vice Captain Xu come back?" Yan Cen said, "I have something to ask him."

"I don't know." The female police officer said coldly, "He will look for you when he comes back."

Yan Cen shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Okay."

He turned around and walked towards the end of the corridor.

There are three summoning rooms in total. The second summoning room where Lin Yi was originally locked is now empty. Qin Huai in the third summoning room is still staying in the room. The armchair came in, and now he was playing mobile games without any psychological barriers under the surveillance.

Yan Cen only glanced at her, then looked away, turned around and entered the men's toilet next to him.The door lock of the toilet door is the most common kind. If you want to lock the door, the lock cylinder will hit the metal plate hard, and the movement of the door will only be loud and not small.

At this point, Yan Cen didn't want to call the female police officer who was watching over him, he looked around, took the mop from behind the door, propped one end against the wall, and the other end against the doorknob.

After doing all this, he took a step back and looked into the toilet. The two compartments inside were empty and no one was there.

Yan Cen patted the ashes on his hands, stood at the door and looked at the layout of the toilet.

The area of ​​the men's toilet is small, and you can see the whole room at a glance. Yan Cen looked up and down, then reached out and knocked on the glass. After confirming that there was no space behind the glass, he focused his attention on the two rooms. place - sink and cubicle.

Yan Cen took advantage of the situation and squatted down, and touched the gap under the pool with his backhand.He touched it very carefully, inch by inch, and got his hands full of sticky dirt.

But he didn't give up. He patiently touched the entire cement slab, and then bent down to confirm that there was nothing underneath. Then he stood up, clapped his hands, and turned to walk into the compartment.

Yan Cen seemed to be looking for something big. He didn't even look at other places. He went straight to the water tank with a clear goal, making sure that one of them hadn't been changed immediately, and finally found a handful of plastic bags in the inner compartment. A solid pistol wrapped in cloth.

Type 54, police model.

Very good, good luck, Yan Cen heaved a sigh of relief.

Hiding things in public places is a matter of knowledge. The target of the trash can is too big, people come and go, and the risk of revealing the stuff is also high, but the toilet tank is different. Except for special cleaning personnel, most people will not dismantle the tank when they are free. play.

Fortunately, Lin Yi still has some brains, Yan Cen thought—it's also fortunate that he only has one "point".

Yan Cen found what he was looking for, and he was in a good mood. He didn't reach out to grab it rashly, but closed the water tank cover, turned around and walked out of the compartment, removed the mop blocking the door, then turned around and turned on the faucet. Rinse off the dirt and limescale on your hands.

He washed very carefully, and when he slowly reached the third finger, the bathroom door was pushed open again.

Yan Cen glanced at the mirror indiscriminately, and saw Lin Yi rushing to the cubicle.

Yan Cen flicked the water off his hands, suddenly feeling amused.The seven sponsored children on the list are obviously brothers and sisters, but in fact everyone looks like a murderer-everyone is doing their best to protect themselves.

But there seems to be a hypocritical and weak family relationship between them, but they are separated by the seeds of doubt, dragged and entangled, and can't find a way out in the chaos.

People in absolute darkness can't find an exit, even if they open the door, they will turn a blind eye to the exit in front of them, they will just circle around in vain, obeying the only "effective" instructions.

There was the sound of flushing water in the cubicle, and Ji Dong should have confirmed that the things were still in place, and his face became less ugly when he walked out.

But he still didn't seem to want to have any communication with Yan Cen, he pursed his lips, the corners of his jaw were tense, he didn't even think about saying hello, and walked out the door in silence.

But Yan Cen was not prepared to let him leave like this.

——It is not enough to add oil to the fire, Yan Cen also wants to add fire to the oil pile.

"Old five—" Yan Cen grabbed Ji Dong's arm.

Ji Dong's entire right arm tensed subconsciously for a moment. He looked at Yan Cen, and when he realized that the other party hadn't made any next move, he relaxed his body suspiciously, and squeezed out a hmm from his throat.

"I..." Yan Cen lowered his head, hesitated for a while, and finally seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said: "Old Five, you go... I will go too, we all change cities—or change countries That's fine, Brother Guan wants a sum of money...we won't meet again in the future."

Yan Cen paused three or four times for this sentence, speaking with extreme difficulty, as if he had experienced a long and tragic psychological struggle in just a few seconds.

Lin Yi looked at his face carefully - Yan Cen's body was younger than his original body, because he didn't go out very often, so he looked a little sickly pale, and his body was thin, so it was easy to give people An illusion of "seems kind of useless".

Xu Muzhou was deceived by his harmless appearance at first, and even gave him a cup of milk tea on a rainy day.

Thinking of Xu Muzhou, Yan Cen's thoughts drifted a little, and he began to think about how to groom the little fox after the task.

Ji Dong didn't know what he was thinking, he looked at it for a while, but didn't see any flaws in Yan Cen's expression, so he sneered, not accepting his good intentions.

He pushed away Yan Cen's hand and said flatly, "Third Brother, where are you hiding...and where can you hide?"

Yan Cen's face became a little embarrassed.

Ji Dong didn't look at him again, but turned around and opened the door to leave.

As soon as he left, Yan Cen stood up straight on his back, and the embarrassment on his face disappeared immediately. Instead, he took out a tissue from the box next to him with great interest, and wiped off the water droplets on his hands.

Yan Cen waited in the toilet for a minute and a half before opening the door and going out.He calmly returned to his summoning room under the gaze of the female police officer, and even closed the door behind him.

At this time, Xu Muzhou, who was on his way back to the Municipal Bureau two kilometers away from the Municipal Bureau, was blocked at a T-junction.

Probably because of the cold weather and the slippery road, a small truck turning left at the intersection collided with an SUV coming from the opposite side.

Xu Muzhou tapped the steering wheel with his fingertips, with a preoccupied look on his face.

"Still thinking about it?" Shen Shuang was sitting in his co-pilot, smiling and abducting him with his arm: "Cracking a vicious case in 48 hours, is it too hot to take credit for?"

"No." Xu Muzhou said, "I always feel that something is not right."

"You want to go all the way." Shen Shuang clicked his tongue, stretched out his hand impatiently and snorted his back, and said, "Okay, okay, there are so many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in the world. It's Yan Cen's own car. Unless he's an idiot, lent his car to the murderer and said nothing."

Xu Muzhou ignored him, he was not very talkative when he was thinking.

At the intersection not far away, traffic policemen in fluorescent vests were struggling to direct the traffic at the intersection.Among them was a small car. The owner of the car probably had just obtained the ticket and was unable to bypass the accident car through the narrow T-junction. Get in the car and drive for him.

Xu Muzhou's gaze was originally just casually falling there in a daze, but at this moment he was suddenly taken aback, and finally figured it out.

"...No." Xu Muzhou sat up straight suddenly and said, "There is a problem with those two sets of fingerprints."

"What's the problem?" Shen Shuang was exhausted by his surprise, and said, "It's indeed his. The fingerprints for the control group were collected by myself this morning. There will be no mistakes."

"Those two sets of fingerprints are from the grip, not to mention the fact that his fingerprints were not extracted on the steering wheel." Xu Muzhou turned his head seriously, and he reached out to hold the shift lever, saying: "— —If it were you, would you drive like this?"

It was a very distorted posture, and Xu Muzhou had to flatten his entire forearm to achieve that angle of grip.

Shen Shuang's face also changed slightly - normal people hold the shift lever with five fingers down and hold the head of the stick, and it is true that no one will hold the shaft.

"Also..." Xu Muzhou said: "In Xu Kang's autopsy report, the wound that destroyed the corpse was torn open by a sharp weapon. The fingerprints extracted from the umbrella were concentrated on the handle... Shen Ergou, if you When you chop someone with an axe, do you hold an iron axe?"

Of course not, Xu Muzhou was right, Xu Kang's wounds even broke several ribs, if Yan Cen was really holding onto the handle to commit the crime, then he would not be able to use his upper strength.

If you want to maximize the force, the grip point should be in the middle of the umbrella, not the handle.

"Then..." Shen Shuang felt a little chill on his back: "So this is a directional misleading clue...?"

"I don't know." Xu Muzhou hung up the turn signal with a sullen face, turned around on the spot, and returned the same way.

"Since the point of determining whether Yan Cen has an alibi is this car, let's check this car again." Xu Muzhou said.