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Chapter 6 Ritual

Gu Ci finally drank the glass of juice that Han Nuoshang gave him, until he threw the glass away, he still wondered if he was sick, and he would finish the juice that Han Nuoshang had drunk, but the taste was still the same. good.

Back in the office, Wang Gu was already in the interrogation room.

Strictly speaking, Wang Gu was just a victim, but the rest room on this floor of the criminal investigation team had already been occupied by the families of the two deceased, so there was really no other place to put Wang Gu.

"Team Han." Gu Ci suddenly called out to Han Nuoshang who was about to go in for questioning.

Han Nuoshang turned around, "What's the matter?"

Gu Ci frowned and glanced at Han Nuoshang, thinking about the more important things over there, "Forget it, you can talk to Wang Gu first before talking about it."

It's not for nothing that Han Nuoshang has been the captain for so long. He can tell that Gu Ci must have found some clues, but he's not sure about it personally, and he doesn't know whether he should say it or not.

"Chen Yi, you and Hongxue go in and ask, we will watch from behind." Han Nuoshang hoped to give Gu Ci more trust, so that he could trust himself earlier, "If you have any clues, tell me."

Gu Ci was a little dazed after reading Han Nuoshang's arrangement. He felt this person's trust in him, but such trust made him want to escape.

"I want to go back and have a look at the place where Xu Heng was found."

"Do you think there is something that we missed?" Han Nuoshang thought for a while, it shouldn't be, the forensics department has already checked everything that should be checked.

"I can't tell, but I just want to go and take a look, maybe I have a clue."

"Okay, after asking Wang Gu later, you and I will go over and have a look."

"..."

This person didn't ask why he wanted to go there, what if he missed it?

Ying Hongxue and Lin Chenyi sat in front of Wang Gu.

In any case, Wang Gu was not a suspect, so he couldn't follow the interrogation procedures, and the two had to be more gentle and enthusiastic.

"Hello, Wang Gu, I'm Lin Chenyi." Lin Chenyi is a nerd, and when he leaves the computer, he has the appearance of a gentle big brother next door, who is more likely to gain the trust of teenagers.

"Student Wang Gu, I'm the psychological counselor of the criminal investigation team. My name is Ying Hongxue. I'm here to ask you about the situation, is that okay?"

Wang Gu helped his glasses, with a nerdy nasal voice, "Yes, you can ask."

Ying Hongxue took out two photos, Xu Heng and Su Cheng's photos to Wang Gu, "Do you know these two people?"

Wang Gu took the photo, examined it carefully and shook his head.

"Then what about these two people?" Lin Chenyi gave him two more photos, which were Xiao Yang and the one named Su Zhi who had been monitored by the government.

Wang Gu then picked up the two photos, put down one of them, and handed the other to Lin Chenyi, "I seem to have seen this person before."

Lin Chenyi took the photo, it was Su Zhi.

"When did you meet him?"

"Just a few days ago, when I went home, I sometimes bought some daily necessities in a roadside store. I saw him several times when I just left the store. I thought it was a coincidence, but he It's scary to look at me."

"What kind of look, can you describe it?"

"There is a kind of that, the feeling of eating blood, as if he hates me very much, and he looks at me like he is looking at a corpse."

"We found a group discussing suicide in your mobile phone, can you tell me about it?" Lin Chenyi turned his computer over, and it contained Wang Gu's chat records on that group.

"I'm actually not very clear. One day I woke up and saw that I was already in this group. I just thought it was interesting to chat with them, so..."

"Okay, we all understand, the last question, do you have any special hobbies?"

"This..." Wang Gu hesitated for a moment, and glanced at the two of them.

"It's okay, just say it, I won't tell others."

"I like to hear the screams of birds, which can calm me down quickly when I am irritable."

Gu Ci stood behind the monitor and looked at Wang Gu, who was still in a stable mood, thinking of the first two victims.

What the three of them have in common is a wealthy family, excellent grades, and unknown special hobbies.Or to put it in more detail, they have all harmed birds to some extent.

Gu Ci thought of it, and Han Nuoshang naturally didn't think of it, "This murderer can't be a bird lover. If he sees someone hurting a bird, he will kill that person."

Gu Ci spread his hands, who knows.

"Boss, Wang Gu's parents are still out of town, and they probably won't be here until tomorrow night." Lin Chenyi had already come out of the interrogation room. I just want to play with those monitors, there is no other reason."

Ying Hongxue is giving psychological counseling to Wang Gu, Lin Chenyi is not interested in this, and if she is not careful, she may be taken away.

"After the family members in the rest room have left, you can arrange for Wang Gu to rest there, and let the person on duty take a look at it. You can get off work around the same time. As for Su Zhi, close it first, I want to see him." How long can you bear it?" Han Nuoshang said, pulling Gu Ci away, "I have something to do with your deputy team, so I'll leave first."

Han Nuoshang left the office without looking back, while Lin Chenyi made faces at him from behind.

Gu Ci got into Han Nuoshang's car and drove towards the south of the city, but did not go to Xu Heng's crime scene, and stopped at a restaurant.

Gu Ci looked at him suspiciously.

Han Nuoshang stretched out his hand and pulled Gu Ci out of the car, "I haven't had dinner yet, no matter how important the work is, I can't starve myself, let's go, brother invites you to eat."

"Why did you invite me?" Gu Ci seems to have been inviting others since he was a child, and he has never been invited to dinner by others.

"Why didn't I invite you?" Han Nuoshang asked back, Gu Ci was choked and stopped talking, Han Nuoshang smiled and put his shoulders on him, "I'm the captain, of course I have to take care of my team members."

After Han Nuoshang ordered a bunch of messy things, he handed the menu to Gu Ci.

Gu Ci took the menu and struggled for a while before saying, "Give me a cup of coffee."

"You don't like the food here?" Han Nuoshang frowned. He brought people over for dinner, so it would be embarrassing if he was the only one eating.

"No, it's enough for you to order those." Gu Ci himself often skips dinner, so he has become a habit, and it doesn't matter whether he eats or not.

"You can easily hurt your stomach like this."

"fine."

After a while, the food Han Nuoshang ordered was served, but Gu Ci still didn't seem to want to eat much, he just picked up his cup of coffee and drank it silently.

Han Nuoshang couldn't stand it anymore, and put a piece of meat into his bowl, "Hurry up and eat, no more coffee."

Gu Ci looked at the contents of the bowl as if he was facing an enemy, and the Han team on the opposite side said quietly, "You have to eat what others put in your bowl, and you can't live up to their intentions."

Alright, Vice Captain Gu admits, who made Han Nuoshang the captain?

But what Gu Ci didn't expect was that just after he finished eating that piece of meat, Han Nuoshang immediately added something else to him...

Gu Ci hasn't eaten so full for a long time, and he doesn't want to move.

"Let's go to the West Alley, and we can digest it after a meal." Han Nuoshang suggested.

The night in Yuancheng is also bright. High-rise buildings herald the beginning of nightlife, and people are more active than during the day.

Different from the hustle and bustle outside, this alley is dark, and there are dangerous buildings on both sides that are about to be demolished.

In the alley where you couldn't see your fingers, the two walked in one after another, the flash light on the mobile phone scattered a faint light.

"Which way are you going?" Han Nuoshang followed Gu Ci, and he still didn't know what Gu Ci was doing here.

"Look at the top of the building here, I always feel that there will be clues left behind." Gu Ci pointed to the building on one side.

Han Nuoshang relied on the light of his mobile phone to take a closer look at the building.

It's about seven or eight stories high. Generally, such buildings don't have elevators, and they can only use the stairs. I don't know what people who live here will stuff into the stairwells, making firefighting more difficult.

The two walked up carefully. Fortunately, they were lucky. These families just piled up some dispensable sundries in the stairwell, and did not throw any embarrassing things.

The roof is open, only in the center there seems to be a small house standing there strangely.

The two walked over and looked at each other. After Han Nuoshang signaled Gu Ci to retreat, he took out the gun from his waist and kicked the door open.

Gu Ci glanced at the back, there was no one inside, but there was a faint smell of dye, which should have dried up.

The two carefully turned on the lights and walked in. The room was splashed with dye, and there was a small space in the middle, with two bundles of ropes in the corner.

"What do you think?" Han Nuoshang's hand waved in front of Gu Ci.

"Xu Heng died here, and the murderer used the rope there to hang his body down."

"Why did he do it? Isn't it troublesome?" Han Nuoshang was puzzled.

"Maybe he wanted the body to be discovered. Remember what Ying Hongxue said? The murderer was showing off. He let us find the body, but we couldn't catch him. He was very happy to play games with us."

Han Nuoshang frowned, "Can this be called a game, playing with people's lives?"

"So he's a pervert?"

"I'll make a phone call and ask someone to come over to collect the evidence. We don't need us here anymore. Let's go back and rest. We'll talk about it tomorrow if we have anything to say."

"Okay." After a busy day, Gu Ci was indeed tired, and he was well fed!

……

Han Nuoshang still woke up early, but this time Gu Ci didn't take his car and insisted on driving to the police station by himself.

The forensics department rushed to work overnight, and Xu Heng's DNA was left on the rope brought back from the rooftop, which could confirm Gu Ci's speculation.

Ying Hongxue thought of many ways to get Su Zhi to speak, but found that it was useless. She is a policeman and cannot use hypnosis on him, so our beautiful Miss Ying was very irritable early in the morning.

"Hongxue, don't worry, there will always be a solution." Lin Chenyi patted Ying Hongxue's shoulder. In fact, he was also quite depressed. It's been the third day and he only found so many clues. Detain Wang Gu at the police station, and there is no guarantee that the murderer will suddenly change his mind and go to hurt others.

"Captain, everything has been arranged." Seeing Han Nuoshang walking in from the outside, Chu Han hurriedly greeted him.

"Arrange what?" Bai Yinchen came out of the forensic room.

He and Hua Xiaolu are the most free now. After all, there is no third victim yet, so he doesn't need to dissect anyone.

"The captain asked me to send some people to follow the eleven people in the photo. Although Wang Gu is now the key protection target, other people should also pay attention to prevent the murderer from suddenly going crazy."

"Is Su Zhi still unwilling to say anything?" Han Nuoshang asked.

Ying Hongxue shook her head, she felt depressed when she thought of him now, and she couldn't get into it.

"I might have a solution." Gu Ci said.

The entire criminal investigation team looked at him.

Gu Ci smiled, and held up his mobile phone, "Wait for me to make a call first."

In the interrogation room--

"Su Zhi, hello." Gu Ci smiled at him politely.

Gu Ci's eyes are extremely beautiful, as if he has the ability to confuse people's hearts, he immediately attracted Su Zhi.

"I've answered all the questions you asked, why do you come to me." He also seemed to feel that he had stared at Gu Ci for too long, so he turned to the beginning.

"I know you have an elderly father, right?"

Su Zhi suddenly raised his head and looked at Gu Ci, his voice trembling.

"How do you know?" He kept his father well hidden, no one should have found out, even they, those people thought his father was dead.

"Not only do I know this, I also know that your father has bone cancer, right? Do you want to save him?" Gu Ci tapped the table lightly, as if on Su Zhi's heart, "I know where your father is." , and my friend has gone to him."

If Su Zhi was attracted by Gu Ci's eyes just now and thought he was like an angel, then now Gu Ci has turned into a complete demon, black.

"You, what do you want to do? You are a policeman, you do this..." Su Zhi supported the table, as if he would explode at any moment.

"Don't get excited yet." Han Nuoshang pushed Su Zhi back.

"You need money urgently, so you choose to help them, right? You are right, I am a policeman, but I can help you."

"Help me with what?"

"I can invite the best doctors at home and abroad to treat your father's illness." Gu Ci said slowly.

"Why should I trust you?"

"You don't have to believe me, I don't care, but my friend should have found your father." Gu Ci picked up his phone and flipped through it a few times.

Gu Ci clicked on a photo and held it up for Su Zhi to see.

The one in the photo is Su Zhi's father, lying weakly on the hospital bed. Su Zhi stared straight at Gu Ci with red eyes.

"What exactly do you want to do?"

"Don't do anything!" Gu Ci put the phone back, and just smiled, "I want to make a deal with you, you tell him what you know, and I will save your father."

Gu Ci pointed to Han Nuoshang who was sitting beside him.

Su Zhi struggled for a while, but finally nodded decadently.

"My father was diagnosed with bone cancer the year before last. Our family was actually doing well, but in order to treat his disease, we spent all our family savings."

Su Zhi was only in his 20s at that time, in his prime, not to mention handsome, but not bad.

But his father suddenly found out a serious illness, so he started working day and night, just to treat his father.

Irregular work, rest and diet at the same time, coupled with excessive fatigue, Su Zhi appeared premature aging phenomenon.But even so he still has to work, his father is still waiting for his life, he can't fall down.

At this time, the hospital gave him a new order. If he didn't raise enough medical expenses, his father would never come back, but what could he do? To so much money ah.

So when those people came to him at that time, he agreed without hesitation, no matter what, as long as he could get money and save his father.

Those people taught him hacking skills and taught him how to use computers. They asked him to monitor Wang Gu and follow Wang Gu. Wang Gu was Su Zhi's target.

Those people treated him very well, but he knew in his heart that those people were not trustworthy, and he didn't want to hurt the innocent child, so he hid his father and pretended to be obsessed with money to deceive them.

"Then do you know where those people are?" After listening to Su Zhi's story, Gu Ci didn't have much emotion in his heart, just like listening to other people's common words and forgetting them after they finished speaking.

Han Nuoshang is different from Gu Ci, he is more heavy in his heart, he walked on such a path for his father, although he did not directly cause harm to the victim, but he is also an accomplice!

Su Zhi shook his head, "They have a fixed point of contact, but I don't know where it is. I'm not actually one of them. Those people have various ways to trick the victims into willingness. Die, and I'm just helping to cover up the monitoring!"

"Very good." Gu Ci packed up his things and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute, you said..."

"Don't worry, someone will take care of your father, and I will fulfill my promise."

"Thank you."

"...This is just a deal, you don't need to thank you." Gu Ci left the interrogation room and closed the door behind him.

Han Nuoshang took one last look at Su Zhi and walked away silently.

The criminal investigation team surrounded Gu Ci.

"Deputy team, how did you know about Su Zhi's father? I checked his information from beginning to end and found nothing." Lin Chenyi widened his eyes and looked at Gu Ci in surprise.

"Don't forget that he is also engaged in technical work. Even if he is not as strong as you, it is still easy to change his identity information. However, Gu Ci, I also want to know how you know." Han Nuoshang put his hand on Gu Ci's On the shoulder, this time he directly called Gu Ci's name, which seemed closer.

Gu Ci found that Team Han liked to put his hands on him more and more.

"Uncle Huang called me yesterday and he told me."

"Who is that Uncle Huang? I really want to know him." Ying Hongxue couldn't help but licked her lips as she remembered yesterday's snacks and the day before yesterday's takeaway.

"You just want to eat." Lin Chenyi knocked on Ying Hongxue, and then looked at Gu Ci eagerly, "Deputy team, when can you introduce him to us?"

Ying Hongxue rolled her eyes at him, obviously you want to see him too, okay?

"I will definitely introduce him to you guys when I have a chance." Gu Ci still smiled at everyone, and there will be a chance to meet him.

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