Evil and punishment [criminal investigation]

Everyone was moved by Jiang Zhun to the side of the road near the highway intersection, facing the side of the hotel, and could see the small window of the bathroom in room 206.

They clearly saw Hu Wen being transferred to the balcony through the railings. Headed by Feng Yongqing, everyone burst into cheers, but after waiting for a long time, there was no more movement.

"Is Officer Nie okay?" Wang Xiaozhi asked anxiously.

Jiang Zhun folded his arms and kept tapping his elbows with his fingers.There is more and more smoke coming out of the balcony. The fire brigade should be dispatched soon after seeing the smoke, but how long will it take for them to arrive?

Two minutes passed, and Nie Cheng still hadn't come out.

"I'll go up and have a look, you don't move here. Qian Tong, Wang Xiaozhi, you are the hotel managers and staff, if anyone leaves without authorization, you have to take responsibility and watch them." Jiang Zhun half ordered and half threatened road.

With the guarantee from Qian Tong and Wang Xiaozhi, Jiang Zhun grabbed the rope and climbed up to the balcony in the same way as Nie Cheng.

He saved the drudgery of kicking open the glass door, and saw the room full of fire and black smoke in a blink of an eye.

Jiang Zhun took half a step back invisibly, his hands were shaking, his eyes didn't know where to look to find peace, he even forgot why he came here.

Hadn't the fire been extinguished more than ten years ago?He still remembers the scorched ruins, the cries of his parents, the burnt black corpse, and the same face that died with regret?

Why would he go back to that day?

His slamming gaze finally caught sight of Nie Cheng who was being held down by the broken beam, as if someone had poured a basin of ice water into the raging fire, and he couldn't care less about the fire anymore, and rushed in to lift the broken beam.

Under the severe pain, Nie Cheng didn't pass out, which is a blessing among misfortunes. He gritted his teeth and moved out his calf little by little.

"Okay." Nie Cheng said hoarsely.

Jiang Zhun unscrewed the broken beam and dragged him out.

"Don't!" Nie Cheng couldn't say a word in time, he immediately gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Send her down first."

Jiang Zhun looked at his bloody calf, his cheeks were tense, and his eyebrows were almost raised, but he also knew that Nie Cheng's arrangement was all right.

He unplugged the cord of the electric kettle on the long table and tied it with the mobile phone charging cord on the bedside table, wrapped it around Hu Wen's waist, passed through the rope, called Wang Xiaozhi from the balcony to straighten the rope, and slid Hu Wen safely. go down.

Wang Xiaozhi and Feng Yongqing caught her together, and then Feng Yongqing's crying came from downstairs.

He was crying because his wife survived the catastrophe, but the crying overlapped with the crying in Jiang Zhun's memory, blurring the scene in front of him again.

This is his punishment, maybe he is already dead, maybe he is not Jiang Zhun at all.

They are twins, born of one cell division, not two completely different individuals.

——"When you expose me, you expose yourself."

Jiang Huai said this to him more than once.

In fact, when he is offended, unconvinced, or unfair, he will feel that Jiang Huai is right, at least true.As for him, Jiang Zhun, his sanctimonious hypocrisy is called polite, and his exquisite self-interest is praised as his ability to advance and retreat. Sometimes it is ridiculous to think about it, maybe he is not as good as Jiang Huai.

Is it Jiang Huai or Jiang Zhun, what does it matter?

But whenever he wanted to let go of himself and this problem, the part that was Jiang Zhun would jump out and tell him: Nie Cheng likes Jiang Zhun.

He must be Jiang Zhun, the perfect Jiang Zhun, and must not be discovered.

The heat wave generated by the fire made him sweat profusely. He had no choice but to hold up this mask of unknown authenticity, and walked on in doubt, fear, and trembling.

Every time he took a step closer, a corner of the mask would be melted, and this fire might burn him beyond recognition.

However, he has no way to escape, he wants to save Nie Cheng.

Jiang Zhun tried his best to restrain his trembling hands, and rushed back to the room to set up Nie Cheng.

"Wait a minute." Nie Cheng held him back, "I have something to ask you."

"Go down and talk." Jiang Zhun said anxiously.

"Don't worry, we'll be on the balcony as soon as we turn around, I'll finish in 2 minutes."

"You said."

"You are not in the right state recently, very irritable, is it because you are afraid of fire?"

Jiang Zhun's eyes were aimed at the approaching flames, and he didn't care to cover up, and replied, "Yes."

"You're afraid of fire because you've seen it before."

"Correct."

"Your brother Jiang Huai died in the fire."

"We can go down and talk about these things!"

"But this is only one aspect. The reason for your irritability is because you sometimes suspect that you are Jiang Huai?"

Jiang Zhun's gaze finally turned from the flames to Nie Cheng's face, and he was surprised to find that there was a faint smile on Nie Cheng's face. He turned his face away to hide the panic in his eyes.

"Are you afraid of fire because you think fire will reveal your secret, let others know that you are Jiang Huai, or let others know that you think you are Jiang Huai?"

"You...stop talking."

"It's not yet 2 minutes, hey, don't worry." Nie Cheng stood up and accidentally pulled his injured leg, gasping for breath in pain.

"I heard something about Jiang Huai from what you told me, and from Pan Hongyue. He... how should I put it, he is the embodiment of evil in your opinion? Do you remember when we were in high school, we talked about 'because the actor played Do you like the character you like and want to curse him' discussion, I think Jiang Huai is at this level, right?"

"Different!"

"We've been fighting crime all along, and there are thieves, robbers, murderers, drug dealers, all kinds of criminals, and they're all criminals, and they don't get the same punishment."

"What do you want to say?" Jiang Zhun frowned tightly, clasping Nie Cheng's wrist tightly.

"At first I thought you must be Jiang Zhun, no matter how cunning Jiang Huai was, he couldn't have lied to me for so many years, but then I thought, is it ridiculous for Feng Yongqing to question her being possessed because of Hu Wen's gaffe, if I do the same Thinking, isn’t it the same as him? It is an indisputable fact that one of your brothers died in the fire 15 years ago, and now you are the one who survived, Jiang Huai or Jiang Zhun, it doesn’t matter.”

Jiang Zhun slowly opened his eyes wide, looking at him in disbelief, his Adam's apple twitched several times, and his usually stern face showed an unconcealable emotion.

"If you are Jiang Huai, be Jiang Huai. This fire is fierce, but it will not hurt you. You will survive and save me. I will not break up with you just because you are afraid of fire, no need I'm worried." Nie Cheng smiled.

Facing the fear and pulling out the cancer, he hopes to help Wei Yuan make up the last step of treatment.

He still chooses to believe in Wei Yuan's professional ethics and believes that he is treating Jiang Zhun. If he didn't intend to hurt Jiang Zhun in the first place, then it would make sense for him to choose to kill other people.No matter what Lu Xiao committed, whether it was because of He Peiyi or not, if he was arrested for murder, it was equivalent to avoiding these troubles in another way, although this method is not advisable.

Even if he really wants to shape Jiang Huai's personality, it won't be too long before he receives the request from the people behind him. This personality is not stable, and he still has room to save.

Jiang Zhun let go of his wrist, slowly encircled his shoulders, and buried his head in his neck without saying a word.

Nie Cheng hugged him with one hand, and hesitantly turned his head to the side to find out whether the warmth on his neck was his lips, but Jiang Zhun's head blocked it, and he just pressed against his side face, as if rubbing his ears and temples.

Nie Cheng sighed inaudibly, without breaking away, the hand holding him patted his back, and then pinched his shoulder and neck.

"Okay, my 2 minutes are up."

Reluctantly, Jiang Zhun stood up straight with his eyes downcast, took another look at the sea of ​​flames, turned around, picked up Nie Cheng on his back, and slid up the rope to the first floor.

The people who had waited for a long time gathered around them. Seeing that Nie Cheng was injured, they automatically made up the rescue scene, ignoring the question of "why did you stay for so long?"

Jiang Zhun found that Feng Yongqing stopped crying, but Qian Tong was sitting on the side of the road crying, and looking back, the two-story small hotel had burned down to the first floor.

He supported Nie Cheng and sat on the side of the road, and could hear the siren of the fire truck echoing at the foot of the mountain from a distance.

"Everyone is here, let's start to solve the case and talk about the instigator of these things," Nie Cheng sighed, "Now you confess yourself, I will give feedback to my colleagues, maybe it can be considered a surrender."

Before Nie Cheng finished speaking, Jiang Zhun had already walked behind Pan Hongyue, watching her every move.

Pan Hongyue herself hadn't reacted yet, and the people around her had consciously stepped back half a step, leaving a space for her on the snow.

Her smile was a bit forced, "Officer Nie, what are you talking about?"

Xu Jianjun, who was squatting in the back row, kept away from Jiang Zhun with his hands behind his back, looking up and down at Pan Hongyue, "Can this woman kill a big man?"

Pan Hongyue straightened her neck, as if agreeing with Xu Jianjun's question.

"What if Zhen Sizhe is kneeling on the ground and she strikes quickly?" Nie Cheng asked.

Xu Jianjun stroked his chin and thought for a while, "It's possible, but why did Zhen Sizhe kneel on the ground?"

"I found traces of transparent tape on the wall where the hallway of 204 connects with the bedroom. Recently, there is a prank circulating on the Internet, where transparent tape is stuck to the door frame, and people who don't know will be stopped and lean back. You Lay out the tape, hide in the bathroom, and wait for him to be tricked before rushing out to strangle her, your crime tool is probably also tape." Nie Cheng said.

"This sounds reasonable, but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny at all. How can I lurk in his room, and how can I be sure when he will come back?"

"You only remember your own layout, have you forgotten the question I asked before? Room 204 is not Zhen Sizhe's room, but yours. During the 1 minute when the signal was briefly restored, Zhen Sizhe's mobile phone popped up a notification whether to continue the backup. There is a text message in the backed up content, asking him to meet at 8 at 204 o’clock. You delete this text message, but you don’t know that his mobile phone has a backup. The way to lure him is also very simple, you can see that he is waiting for someone, Very anxious, you spread out your loan contract on the long table like no one else, and he will rush over to see what happened."

Pan Hongyue clasped her hands on her chest, "I don't even know what text message it is, how can you prove that it was me who sent it?"

"Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't prove it. You probably didn't use your own number to send it. Maybe it was a number bought on the black market, or maybe it was a stolen mobile phone. It doesn't matter, you still have a lot of loopholes. Wang Xiaozhi is indeed assigned according to the order of the visitors The room, but it should be from 206 before, but today it is from 203. The boss has been away for the past two days. He has been absent-minded about work and has been playing games. Did you lock the door? You observed it and took advantage of it. You deliberately asked Wang Xiaozhi to send biscuits upstairs and put them at the door of 206, in order to let him form wrong memories. By the way, Feng Yongqing and Hu can be ruled out from this point. Wen, they are in a double room, so there is no way to complete this operation."

"It's indeed a flaw. According to what you said, what if the door of 206 opens? I remember I asked to knock on the door to remind me." Pan Hongyue looked at Wang Xiaozhi.

Wang Xiaozhi nodded in confusion, then shook his head suddenly, "No, the door won't open. Zhen Sizhe was downstairs all that time."

"Then how would I know, I've been in the room!"

"You can lie." Nie Cheng laughed.

Not to be outdone, Pan Hongyue said, "You can be wrong too!"

"204 is very close to the stairs. Although you can't see the situation in the hall, you have been paying attention. It is not difficult to know that Zhen Sizhe is downstairs. You even heard Jiang Zhun and him have a conflict. I do have information about Hu Wen. The closer you are to the crime, the more suspicious you are. Sometimes the greater the suspicion, the less likely you are to be suspicious. But logically speaking, you were the only one with her at the time, and I was at 204 at that time. If other people would She's knocked out, she'll at least be down before you find it, the hallway floor is uncarpeted, I'll hear her down, or she's about to pass out when you come out, then you should at least see the attacker's back , not at all, it's strange isn't it?"

"Did you hear how I knew? I didn't even dare to come out of the room easily. There was a murder in the hotel. I was very scared. I don't understand all the nonsense you said!"

Nie Cheng smiled, and looked at her stubbornly with admiration, "You started to guide me that there may be other people in the hotel. To be honest, it is not impossible. Until now, Zhen Sizhe and others have not appeared. But maybe you have noticed that Hu Wen found What, or deliberately to create more panic, so the second attack. The only thing you should be grateful for is that Hu Wen didn't die, and you lost a life.

"You still have a loophole. After getting the key to Zhen Sizhe's room, you left a briefcase while carrying his things, and then secretly put it back after the incident. Among the people who left the hall and went up to the second floor are you, Hu Wen, When Qian Tong and Wang Xiaozhi, Qian Tong and Feng Yongqing went upstairs, I was also on the second floor because I had to re-search 204. Although I went back to my room first and then went to 204 and found the briefcase, they couldn't have expected it. Then only you And Hu Wen, combined with the problem of double rooms and single rooms just mentioned, you personally ruled out Hu Wen."

"No evidence! This is all your inference. What if it is Hu Wen's own trick?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Feng Yongqing shouted.

"There is no evidence." Nie Cheng glanced at the burning hotel, "Your fingerprints may be stuck on the wall of 204."

"Then ask Police Officer Nie to collect the evidence." Pan Hongyue looked at the half-collapsed hotel, revealing a slight sense of satisfaction.

"You are calculating this moment. As you said, there are too many variables in your modus operandi. If you are lucky enough to be met in the corridor, you will not be able to clear up your suspicions. In fact, your modus operandi is not from the beginning. It was decided. The reason why Zhen Sizhe was lying on the long table was related to the chair pulled out beside him. You wanted to pretend that he hanged himself in fear of crime, but with your physical strength, you could barely drag him to the long table. Lift him up to pretend to be hanged. So I guess, you are ready to set fire from the beginning. If you don't find the opportunity, you can also stun him and burn him. Although you succeeded in killing, you didn't expect to stay in the hotel I was watching two policemen, so I still had to set fire. When I finally came down from the second floor, you and Feng Yongqing followed me. Feng Yongqing missed Hu Wen, and his attention was not on you. 204 is next to the stairs, and setting fire is just a matter of opening the door , You intentionally walked last and took the opportunity to set fire, burned the body to destroy the evidence, and then poured fire oil on the floor. Am I right?"

"Officer, you need evidence! I said that I didn't know Zhen Sizhe, and I didn't attack Hu Wen. What evidence do you have for what you said above?" Pan Hongyue said coldly.

"Doesn't your husband know him? I saw the contract, and the address on it is the same as that on your ID card. Are you afraid that you won't find him here? We'll know when we find him."

Pan Hongyue's complexion turned pale, her lips faded, trembling in the panting white steam, her resentful voice gritted out between her teeth, "Then you go find him, I hope you find him!"

Nie Cheng was slightly stunned, and there were many speculations in an instant. It was not until Pan Hongyue burst into tears that he suddenly said: "He died? You are avenging him!"

Pan Hongyue kept her mouth shut. She no longer questioned Nie Cheng, nor did she defend herself anymore, but her tough posture showed that she would never plead guilty.

The siren was approaching, the fire truck appeared at the intersection, and the firefighters came running with water guns, telling them to back up again.

Nie Cheng used the intercom on the fire truck to call the police, and the police car arrived 10 minutes later under the muddy snow.

The policeman and the criminal policeman on duty introduced each other, shook hands, and went straight to the point. Nie Cheng briefly explained the cause and effect, and took out an empty mineral water bottle full of gasoline from the trunk.

"There are her fingerprints on it, at least the crime of arson can be confirmed," Nie Cheng said.

Pan Hongyue has been observing their communication all the time, noticing the eye of the new policeman looking at her, and the mineral water bottle appearing between their arms.

She was stunned for a moment before she figured out the function of the mineral water bottle. In an instant, the blood faded from her face. The hatred and fear completely took away her sanity. She opened her arms and flew towards Nie Cheng.

She's going to take the water bottle, touch it again, confuse them as to why the fingerprints are there, and then crush it and destroy it!She wants to kill this troublesome cop, goug out his eyes and snap off his fingers!

Just as Pan Hongyue took half a step angrily, Jiang Zhun behind her grabbed the down jacket and hat and dragged her back.She staggered backwards, as if suddenly stopped by duct tape.

"I knew you would go crazy." Jiang Zhun sighed, and then directly pushed her into the police car, and gave Nie Cheng a dissatisfied look by the way, since there is evidence, it is too early to show it.

Nie Cheng waved to him, indicating that everything is fine here.

Behind them, the fire in the hotel was almost extinguished, with only sporadic small flames resisting. The previous wind and snow moistened the air and prevented the fire from spreading.Not only the surrounding woods, but also the vehicles next to it were not affected.

The others were temporarily transferred to a nearby police station for investigation. Before leaving, Wang Xiaozhi wrapped himself in a blanket and sniffed his nose to thank Nie Cheng for returning his innocence.

At 07:30, a smear of white appeared on the horizon, and the clouds that had been gloomy for many days were blown away by the wind and snow, finally willing to let out the sky, giving a little warmth in the cold winter.

Jiang Zhun drove Nie Cheng's car with ease, and asked, "Since when did you suspect her?"

Although Nie Cheng was tired this night, he was not sleepy yet, and he hadn't completely recovered from the tense atmosphere. He said, "It started when she mentioned Jiang Huai."

"why?"

"When you come up, you throw the pot away, with ulterior motives."

Jiang Zhun laughed softly, "You haven't been involved in such a case for two years, right?"

"Don't underestimate the work of the police."

"Do you want to come back, Team Nie?"

As far as work is concerned, Nie Cheng is not convinced as the captain of the criminal investigation, Jiang Zhun, and never refuses to call him "Nie team", and always calls him by his first name.

When Nie Cheng heard this strange address from his mouth, he couldn't help but chuckled. He rested his elbow on the side of the car window, but when his palm covered the smile around his mouth, he thought of someone, and hesitation appeared in his eyes again.

In the opposite lane next to them, a black car sped by, pulled up to the intersection leading to the hotel, passed the fire truck coming out of it, paused, and continued on its way.

Case [-]: Alcohol, lust and fortune