Neverland

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Qi Yuan closed the document in his hand, and smiled at the shareholders on both sides of the long conference table.

"The meeting ends here, do you have anything else to ask?" Qi Yuan said softly.

Most of the shareholders looked at him with different expressions, and cautiously did not speak.

Sitting on Qi Yuan's left and right hands were two deputy directors, a man and a woman. They exchanged glances vaguely across the table, and at the same time saw puzzlement and caution in each other's eyes.

Qi Yuan didn't give them too much time to react, he paused for a few seconds, seeing that no one spoke, so he knocked the document in his hand on the table twice, then stood up.

"That's it." Qi Yuan said: "If you have any questions later, just email the two deputy directors."

After he finished speaking, he nodded at everyone, didn't explain anything, put the document in his hand on the corner of the table, turned and left the meeting room.

The shareholders behind Qi Yuan were still digesting the meeting information, and they looked at each other for a while, but no one moved.

Qi Yuan's secretary looked away from the conference room, closed the door for Qi Yuan, and trotted a few steps to catch up with him.

"President Qi." The secretary caught up, a little hesitant to speak.

"What?" Qi Yuan looked in a good mood, and asked, "You think I've lost my mind?"

"That's not true." The secretary smiled and said, "It's fine if you want to rest for a while."

Qi Yuan smiled, but did not speak.He stepped into the exclusive elevator and swiped his card to light up the 25th floor.

The conference room was only one floor away from the president's office, the elevator door opened again after three seconds, Qi Yuan walked out of the elevator, turned his head and looked out the window.

Chengmu Building is located in a prime location in the financial district of Shanghai. It is very tall. Looking out from Qi Yuan's office, you can see most of Shanghai.

The weather seemed to be cloudier than at noon, Qi Yuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly said: "Is it going to rain?"

"Well, yes." The female secretary said, "The weather forecast says there will be heavy rain today."

Qi Yuan sighed softly, and said to himself: "...the umbrella on the car seems to have been left in the coffee shop last time."

"Are you going out?" The female secretary said quickly, "I'm going to help you buy an umbrella now."

"Well, no need." Qi Yuan said, "Since it's going to rain, you should get off work early—notify the personnel department that everyone will have a half-day holiday this afternoon."

The female secretary was taken aback: "Huh?"

"Go." Qi Yuan said, "You can leave work now."

Shencheng seems to be a city that has never been down and down. It has never been short of money since the last century. It is backed by the wharf and the port. The trade and goods are filled with gold and silver, and there is a sense of shrewdness in its breath.

The streets are always full of traffic, and the red brake lights and signal lights are intertwined, like a dense net, enveloping the entire city.

Xu Muzhou's car turned out of a small lane and followed the traffic flow from the right lane to the main lane.

Half an hour ago, he grabbed the trace inspectors who were halfway there and went back to check Yan Cen's car again.In addition to looking at fingerprints and blood stains, this time the investigation was a little more detailed.

The trace inspection results were similar, but Xu Muzhou rummaged through his car for a long time, but couldn't find Yan Cen's driver's license.He instinctively felt that something was wrong, and went back to the apartment to search, but couldn't find it.

A driver's license is not as sensitive as an ID card or other things. It is usually placed in the car for easy inspection, and it is logically impossible to disappear out of thin air.

What's more, Xu Muzhou has always been extremely sensitive to such details. Once the seeds of doubt in his heart are planted, it is difficult to remove them. After having the idea that "Yan Cen may not be the ultimate murderer", all abnormal information that appears is undoubtedly true. It all deepened his imagination.

But he searched all over and only found so much. Compared with those "iron evidence", this information is not enough to explain anything.

——I still have to go back and ask Yan Cen, Xu Muzhou thought.

For some reason, the inexplicable uneasiness and panic in his heart didn't seem to dissipate over time, but instead became more intense, like a cluster of continuously burning flames, which were now burning more and more intensely.

Xu Muzhou knocked on the steering wheel, and asked a little irritably, "What time is it?"

"It's three o'clock." Shen Shuang looked at the traffic information on the navigation software, and said, "Fortunately, there is no traffic jam now. I guess we still have 15 minutes to reach the city bureau?"

Xu Muzhou felt that these 15 minutes were a bit like a year.

Dark clouds pressed down heavily, and thin raindrops fell from the sky, patting on Xu Muzhou's car window sporadically.

—It started to rain.

The irritability in Xu Muzhou's heart reached its peak, he suddenly remembered something, took advantage of the idle time at the red light, put his mobile phone on the car mount, unlocked the screen lock with one hand, called up a phone number from the address book and dialed past.

"Hello." The other end of the phone answered quickly, Xu Muzhou adjusted the headset and asked, "Do me a favor, can you check the track of a car for me."

He was wearing a bluetooth headset, Shen Shuang couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the phone, but it was expected that the other party refused.

"That's right, that's right, it's that one—I know it." Xu Muzhou said, "No, I'm talking about the whole night... I want to know where this car came from and where it went."

"Yes, yes, yes, I know it's troublesome." Xu Muzhou said repeatedly: "It's a very important case. The owner of the car, Yan Cen, is suspected of committing a major crime. I'm checking whether his alibi is true. What do I need?"

His voice suddenly raised, startling Shen Shuang who was drowsy.

"Revocation?" Xu Muzhou asked in disbelief: "When was it revoked...Friday night? Driving dangerously?"

He was more and more confused, Shen Shuang was confused, and couldn't help but turned to look at Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou hadn't finished this call yet, when a new call alert popped up on his phone like crazy, Xu Muzhou glanced at the phone screen and found that it was Zhang Yue calling.

And the other party didn't hang up because Xu Muzhou was on the phone, but relentlessly hit him three times in a row before he died down.

Xu Muzhou was wondering why she was in such a hurry when Shen Shuang's phone rang.

Shen hurriedly took out his mobile phone with both hands, and just after connecting it, he pressed the hands-free function, and Zhang Yue's voice came from the opposite side.

She was out of breath, and her voice was frightened.

"Is Brother Xu by your side?" Zhang Yue asked eagerly.

It sounded chaotic on the other end of the phone, with loud voices and sirens.

"Where are you?" Xu Muzhou didn't have time to hang up the phone, and quickly asked, "What's going on over there?"

"Brother Xu!" Zhang Yue seemed to have caught the savior, and quickly raised her voice: "Something happened in the city bureau——Lin Yi killed Qin Huai in the city bureau."

"What—?!" Xu Muzhou raised his voice and asked, "Didn't I tell you to watch them separately!"

"Who would have thought that he would kill people in the city bureau!" Zhang Yue's voice sounded like it was torn apart, and his voice was hoarse with anxiety: "He just said he wanted to go in to see Qin Huai, but in the end he shot him dead. The action was so fast that no one expected it."

"Then where is he now?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"After he killed Qin Huai, he took advantage of everyone's reaction to enter the No. [-] summons room and took Yan Cen away." The siren on Zhang Yue's side became louder: "He directly led the people to jump from the back window. , climbed over the outer wall and got into a black car, and I don’t know who picked it up there—I checked, it seems to be the bus of Chengmu Group.”

Xu Muzhou slammed the steering wheel hard, the little jeep honked harshly, the car in front was rushed into a rage, the driver poked his head out of the window and spat back in dissatisfaction.

"He held such a big living person hostage, so it's impossible to move easily, and in the end, he ran away under your noses like this?" Xu Muzhou said.

"I—" Zhang Yue knew he was wrong, so he couldn't say anything.

Xu Muzhou hadn't hung up the phone yet, the man on the other end of the phone could only hear what he said, as if something had happened.

"Mu Zhou, what can I do for you—"

Before the man finished speaking, a new caller record suddenly popped up on Xu Muzhou's phone. The number was very unfamiliar, and it looked like the most common harassing call.

But Xu Muzhou's heart skipped a beat for some reason, and he hastily reached out and pressed the answer button.

The previous phone call was automatically transferred to the background waiting mode, but was hung up manually by Xu Muzhou.

The whistling wind came from the other side of the microphone, but no one spoke for a while, Xu Muzhou didn't dare to act rashly, he held his breath, the steering wheel was about to be crushed.

After an unknown amount of time, a human voice finally came from the phone.

"Third brother."

It was Ji Dong's voice, which sounded far away, and was blurred by the wind.

Xu Muzhou quickly realized that this call was made by Yan Cen - this was not a call, but a very simple monitor manually dialed by the person involved.

He subconsciously breathed lightly, and carefully and difficultly identified the voice on the other side.

"Third brother." Ji Dong's breathing sounded very unstable, his emotions fluctuated greatly, and his words seemed to squeeze out from between his teeth: "...you lied to us...you lied to us all."

"Really?" Yan Cen asked lightly.

Although the roof of the high-rise building is surrounded by a waist-high protective fence, that height is almost nonexistent for the psychological pressure brought by the high-rise building.

When the wind and rain are coming and the dark clouds are overwhelming, standing on half of the city, just standing upright is very oppressive.

"You lied to us...you lied to us!" Lin Yi was very emotional. Standing two steps away, he pointed a gun at Yan Cen's chest and shouted: "I clearly killed my sister, why is it not over yet?" !"

Yan Cen put his hands in his pockets, he didn't seem to care about pointing at his murder weapon, and he didn't care about his precarious life.

The cold rain fell, rubbing his side face and falling on his shoulders, like a cold needle.

The face of "Forensic Doctor Yan" was a little pale by the cold wind, he tilted his head indifferently, and slowly made several mouth shapes towards Lin Yi.

——Don’t you know everything, Yan Cen said.

Ji Dong's hand holding the gun trembled, and the muscles on his face twisted, showing a kind of anger that was too painful to live.

"You killed my sister." Yan Cen suddenly said: "You still want to kill me now, don't you--then, do you still want to kill elder brother?"

"You fart!" Lin Yi roared angrily, "I won't kill Big Brother! It's you, it's you—"

"Oh, you respect elder brother." Yan Cen interrupted him coldly: "So in your eyes, it doesn't matter whether other people die, right?"