The slaughter of the bones [criminal investigation]

After receiving the patients, Qiao Xiaozhi sighed, stretched himself, and took out his mobile phone.

He stared at the chat record with Nie Zheng for a moment, then clicked on Yu Lun, and told him roughly what he had told Nie Zheng.

Yu Lu after listening: ...

Yu Lu: Doctor Pig, why do I feel like I'm dead.

Qiao Xiaozhi: Really?Good.

Yu Lu: And hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I told you about my dark history of drinking, can you give me some privacy? ? ?

Qiao Xiaozhi: Oh, by the way, I also told Team Nie your previous address.

Yu Lu: Doctor Pig, go buy a lottery ticket. The world is so big, how the hell did you win it?

Qiao Xiaozhi: Where are you?

Yu Lu: I just planned to go back.

Qiao Xiaozhi: Then you go there, Team Nie will definitely come to look for you tomorrow at the latest.

Yu Lu: Believe it or not, I'll dig a deeper basement for your clinic to hide in...

Yu Lu: Didn't I say that I parted ways with Captain Nie? What about you? I just want to be quiet for two days.

Qiao Xiaozhi: I don't know how much you love me.

Yu Lu was speechless, put down his phone and looked at the bottle of wine in front of him, thinking for a moment.

Yu Lu: You look in a hurry.

Qiao Xiaozhi: Huh?

Yu Lu: It seems that Team Nie and I are more anxious to solve the case than Team Nie.

Qiao Xiaozhi: ...you can say whatever you want, yo, here comes the patient, please leave.

Qiao Xiaozhi turned off his mobile phone and ignored the news. He subconsciously went to find his pocket, only to realize that he had just taken off his white coat.

……

Although the people in this team were too busy to turn their heads in the afternoon, considering that Nie Zheng shortened his hospital stay from one to two months to one or two days, everyone would still take care of him a little bit. inconvenient.

Jiang Jiu knew that it would be hopeless to persuade this person to go back to the hospital, so he could only compromise.

"The case a month ago... [-] dead people plus Shen Yu [-], the crime lasted for about half a year," Wu Wen recalled the information that had been read countless times, "The case three years ago, hey, how many people died? Someone here?" She looked up at the ceiling.

"Including the college student who is the part-time remedial class teacher, there are a total of 12 people, and the duration lasted for more than a year and a month." Nie Zheng looked at the computer screen. The time was approaching [-] pm, and he and Jiang Jiu were almost ready to meet Lin Zhi.

"The No. 1 deceased in the first case..." Tai Mingming was just about to continue with the laziness of a few people, when Nie Zheng's cell phone rang.

Nie Zheng took out his phone and looked at it. It was Qiao Xiaozhi calling. He was afraid that something important would happen, so he kept everyone quiet for a while, and ran to the side to look at the wall and answer the phone.

"Is there something wrong?" He asked softly without turning on the speakerphone.

"Well, Team Nie," Qiao Xiaozhi recalled Yu Lu's extra impromptu exhortation just now, "I also have some old clues on my side of the case three years ago, and that bastard Yu Lu forced me to tell you now."

Nie Zheng said good, walked quickly to his seat, turned on the hands-free mobile phone and placed it in the middle of the office, and signaled Jiang Jiu to start a recording.

"I can roughly imagine how many people are listening now..." Qiao Xiaozhi wiped off his cold sweat, "Okay, let me tell, and you guys keep records."

Nie Zheng quickly introduced Qiao Xiaozhi's identity in a few words, and then arranged his white shirt solemnly: "Tell me."

"The first person who died in the serial murder case recorded by the police officers three years ago was a gangster on the street." Qiao Xiaozhi paused, and it took a moment for everyone in a daze to give an affirmative reply, "but um... okay I can't say for sure, but there's a good chance it wasn't the first."

Nie Zheng recalled what Yu Lu had said to him before, frowned, and asked cautiously, "The patient?"

"Yes," Qiao Xiaozhi was moved that Yu Nie Zheng still remembered what Yu Lu had mentioned a long time ago, so he didn't need to tell him everything from the beginning, "You know, Team Nie, there are so many strange things that are illogical." He let out a long breath.

The other four people in the office stared blankly at the mobile phone and then moved up to look at Nie Zheng, all five senses were asking him the same question: Why can't I understand what you are talking about.

Then Nie Zheng narrated the whole story at a very fast speed: when the hospital had a power outage, Qiao Xiaozhi’s patient who had just completed the operation was found dead on the hospital bed due to suffocation, and the syringe was later found in his office.

Jiang Jiu listened to this more and more mysterious story, and checked it with his hands. The news information of that year was wiped out, but the information recorded by the police is still there: "Team Nie is right, the power outage time is probably enough to kill the scene." There is nothing wrong with the confession of the patient in the next bed, and there should be little discrepancy between the closed case and the truth."

Qiao Xiaozhi heard these words clearly, and after being speechless for a few seconds, he yelled: "I am a victim! Stay in the office for no reason! And how did you know that I have The motive for killing patients? Do I think I have too much money or too much life?!"

Nie Zheng spoke for him: "If what is recorded is the truth, Dr. Qiao shouldn't have to deliberately tell us."

Tai Mingming spoke for Nie Zheng: "That's right, team Nie is trustworthy. People are always particular about what you are questioning, why are you doing this?"

Xiao Kai looked timidly at Nie Zheng and then at Jiang Jiu: "Officer Jiang, don't deny it in such a hurry, listen to what the doctor has to say."

Wu Wen was about to answer Xiao Kai's words, and wanted to grab a bottle of Jiang Jiu's Coke, but the next second Jiang Jiu picked up the bottle, he knocked on the table very depressed and took back the drink: "Go on, I'll be nice Be an listening machine."

Qiao Xiaozhi on the other end of the phone swallowed a mouthful of ice water and calmed down for a while, then calmly said to the phone again: "I stayed in the office when the power went out. Little things like throwing things."

"I admit that I'm not a nice person, but I can't do murder, especially this kind of inexplicable and no reason," he let out a breath slowly, telling himself that he must not get angry again because of what happened just now. "At that time, the matter was rather hasty and ended. After all, it was not beneficial to anyone. After losing some money, the family members also compromised, and that's it."

Jiang Jiu was reluctant to trust a person who jumped out of nowhere, but he had defended himself to this point, and it was unlikely that he wanted to lead everyone into a pit.

"And then?" He stared at Nie Zheng's phone and the note on it - "Doctor Qiao".

"Then?" Qiao Xiaozhi was taken aback by the familiar voice, "I'll help you figure it out, assuming, because of various complicated reasons, it's just a hypothesis, the murderer is the murderer you are investigating now, this may not be No."

"There is evidence," he continued before everyone questioned him, "the patient was 17 years old when he died, and Yu Lu was 17 years old when he was almost killed in the ruins of the warehouse three years ago. Shen Yu was planted and killed I was 17 years old when I was there, and the kids who attacked Team Nie were also 17 years old... Anything else, welcome to add."

Wu Wen finally found a place where she could speak: "Lin Zhu, I'm 17 years old now."

Qiao Xiaozhi said "hmm": "So is there a possibility that the age of all the people used by the murderer in the future is to commemorate the first person he killed."

As soon as these words came out, the audience fell silent.

After a long time, Nie Zheng nodded in agreement: "It's possible."

Jiang Jiu leaned on the back of the chair, shaking Coke in his hand: "But how do you know that the murderer is the one who killed your patient? Also, our inference is that Lu Bin killed Shen Shu because of the threat of the murderer, but Lu Bin is not 17 years old."

"This is unexpectedly easy to explain..." Xiao Kai scratched his chin and looked at him awkwardly, "Because the murderer must have never expected Shen Yu, who looks so rebellious, to report his whereabouts to his sister at that time Bar."

"Because it was an emergency, it was too late to find a suitable scapegoat." Nie Zheng rubbed his tired eyes, "Is that so?"

"The only possibility I can think of." Qiao Xiaozhi replied leisurely.

Jiang Jiu was still thinking that these inferences were too subjective, but he recalled that Nie Zheng could guess right every time, and silently closed his mouth.

"By the way, who is the next door to my dead patient? Team Nie, please tell me when you find out. I have to die to understand." Qiao Xiaozhi hung up the phone without waiting for anyone to respond to him.

……

Nie Zheng and Jiang Jiu sat in the taxi heading to Lin Zhi's house, and Jiang Jiu sat in the co-pilot's seat.The two were suffocatingly quiet.

Nie Zheng had many other things on his mind besides the case. He looked at the night scene outside the window, and at the crowds of smiling people on the sidewalk, he always felt that his surroundings were a bit deserted.

In the past, when he was investigating, he was still alone. Today, he took Jiang Jiu with him purely because he was worried that one hand would be inconvenient.

But without the person who has been chatting with me since a few months ago, there seems to be a piece of emptiness in my heart.

Nie Zheng felt a little uncomfortable in the whole person, and tried to take out his mobile phone with his left hand, staring at the chat records with Yu Lun up to three days ago in a daze.

He sent a lot of words to Tai Lun today, "Where are you?", "Tell me where you are and I will come to you", "I was wrong, can you forgive me", "I believe you".

There are many more besides, and I don't know how Yu Lu felt when he received these dozens of messages.

He struggled for a long time, looking at the screen, as if this person would reply to him in the next second, but he didn't.

He couldn't figure out whether Yu Lu was angry or simply because he was seen meeting the murderer, but now he really didn't care about Yu Lu's past at all, and even regretted that he shouldn't have asked a second time.

I edited many times, from words that almost exceeded the word limit to only one sentence, then wrote it back, and deleted it again, and continued many times, and finally only issued four words:

I miss you.