The slaughter of the bones [criminal investigation]

More than a week passed, and the murderer didn't stop at all. Instead, he rushed to kill the two people—a bit faster than his previous speed.

People are staring at all the places that should be watched, but the murderer always takes advantage of the loopholes that are smaller than the crack of the door.

Thinking about it carefully, dozens of people have been killed so far. No matter how you say it, this number is too abnormal.

"How's the case? I don't think you're busy with Captain Nie, so you don't look like you have time to spend a day here?" Qiao Xiaozhi drank the water in the water glass and looked at Yu Lu who was staying at his place again. , "You are not afraid that your team Nie will be jealous."

"Captain Nie won't be jealous. He's very busy today. He probably has to stay in the police station for a day. I'm free too." Yu Lu tilted his head a little lazily, as if he was depressed. He glanced at an empty place like a cupboard, "Oh, by the way, what about the snacks I kept here before?"

"Huh?" Qiao Xiaozhi was stunned for a moment, "Oh, the ones you snatched from the gangsters before, I gave them away to those who came hungry."

Yu Lu stared straight at him: "...Doctor Pig, are you ashamed to give away the food that others have worked so hard for?"

"You have gained love because of this, are you still short of a few packages?" Qiao Xiaozhi rolled his eyes at him.

There were several thunderclaps outside, and then the sound of rain that had always been there became louder. Qiao Xiaozhi hurried out of the door of the clinic to take a look—the water had already flowed down here.

He hurried up and closed the door above, and found something to fix there to block it, and finally no water came in.

He made sure that the door was closed tightly, walked down leisurely, and sat back in his original position.

"Hey Doctor Pig," Yu Lu suddenly sat up from the half-lying state, "Why did those gangsters chase me all the way with a dagger for a few packs of worthless snacks?"

Qiao Xiaozhi tapped the table with his fingers, he seemed not very interested, and looked a little absent-minded: "Maybe it's someone's dinner?"

"In the middle of the night?"

"Then supper." Qiao Xiaozhi looked at his fingernails and fiddled with them twice.

"But it's really unnecessary. I've been eating outside all these years, and I've never seen anyone who wanted to kill me just for a few bags of food." Yu Lu was still struggling with this problem.

Qiao Xiaozhi sighed, thinking to himself, what's the use of mentioning such old things: "Can't you just pay attention to the... case in front of you?"

"The case... the case is still the same, there is nothing else except people dying one by one," Yu Lu stared at the ceiling in a daze, "Speaking of which, you should have been in the dark when Team Nie was stabbed. Street? Didn’t you ever think about saving him?”

"I live underground, how do I know it's so thrilling up there?" Qiao Xiaozhi stretched his neck a few times, glanced at his feet, and imagined the plaster cast that was just removed two days ago, "It's not like when you knocked on my door It will affect the business, so we have to pull it in for rescue."

Yu Lu: ...

"Although it's not the first time I've heard it, I still feel that Doctor Pig's reasoning is just nonsense."

"Then tell me, what should I do if there is a burning corpse in front of my house?" Qiao Xiaozhi said angrily.

Yu Lu closed his mouth, thinking that this reason was acceptable, he sighed, and casually sighed a few words about how clueless this case is now, and did not mention the latest developments and guesses.

"Doctor Pig, do you know Lin Hao?" He checked Moments on his mobile phone a few times, and when he saw the message he had posted by chance, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Xiaozhi touched his stethoscope on the table.

"Ah, I see that Lin Bo replied to your comment under my circle of friends." Yu Lu said casually.

"Yes," Qiao Xiaozhi nodded, "I treated him many times in the past, and then he added me for the convenience of communication." He glanced at the phone, and the chat history between him and Lin Hao was completely blank, probably because the cache was cleared deleted when.

"Wow," Yu Lu raised his eyebrows, "It's an old acquaintance."

"Well, recently... No, I haven't communicated for a long time," Qiao Xiaozhi put on the stethoscope and listened to his own heartbeat, "It's actually quite a coincidence, not long after I became the surgeon, he fell ill frequently every three days." come over."

Yu Lun nodded, stretched his waist and slowly got up from where he was sitting, and moved his somewhat stiff body with his waist supported.He took a deep breath and looked at Qiao Xiaozhi with his hips on his hips: "Doctor Zhu, I think you are also quite amazing, Lin Zhi, Shen Yu, Lu Bin...and me, how come I know so many people related to the current case? "

"Bad luck," Qiao Xiaozhi took off the thing around his neck and put it aside, "It happened to be chosen by the damn fate."

Yu Lu laughed, there was another thunder outside, a loud noise made both of them tremble, Yu Lu soothed the goosebumps on his arms for a while, and complained a few words about the horrible weather today.

"Then Doctor Pig, I'm leaving first." He held the door frame with one hand, adjusted his posture, and opened the door to go out.

Just as Qiao Xiaozhi was about to wave his hand to say goodbye to him, Yu Lu suddenly stopped and turned around: "Doctor Pig, do you think it was meaningful to save me back then?"

"Huh?" Qiao Xiaozhi was stunned for a moment, and slowly lowered his hand that was stuck in midair, "At least now, I think it's useless to save."

Yu Lu hooked the corners of his mouth into a smile that was not a smile, and turned his back: "When I gave you the whole package of snacks, I kept a package for myself, which was not sealed."

Qiao Xiaozhi said "Oh": "Then? Did you eat?"

"I didn't eat it," Yu Lu shook his head, "I opened it to feed stray dogs when I was in a bad mood."

Qiao Xiaozhi closed his eyes and raised his eyebrows, crossing his arms.

"Then I wandered around and returned to the original point," Yu Lu watched as his exhaled breath gradually diffused and rose, and finally disappeared, "I found that the dog died at the original position, foaming at the mouth, and the body had hardened .”

"So you're unlucky?" Qiao Xiaozhi tapped his fingers on the table, "I happened to pick a package that was poisoned." He had an expression that had nothing to do with me.

"Maybe," Yu Lu laughed awkwardly, "It's true that I asked you to return me a few packs of snacks, and I ate them too."

The atmosphere became eerily quiet, and the sound of the rain outside mixed with the sound of exhalation and inhalation became indistinct.The two didn't have a rapid heartbeat or unsteady breathing, but both seemed at ease.

"And then?" Qiao Xiaozhi looked at him and asked.

"Then?" Yu Lu's voice seemed to hang on purpose, very soft, not like the original voice, "I recalled it carefully in the past two days, and I remember that the whole package didn't seem to have the kind of inflatable package you gave me. potato chips."

Qiao Xiaozhi looked at him for a long time, smiled and spread his hands together: "Haha, who knows, I probably bought it myself, and I just gave you a bag at that time, why do you care so much, maybe I will buy it again." Saved your life."

Yu Lun nodded, thinking that it would be impossible without an umbrella in such a heavy rain, so he asked Qiao Xiaozhi for an umbrella.

Qiao Xiaozhi handed it to him with the handle of the umbrella in one hand, and he took it with the body of the umbrella and said thank you.

The door was slowly closed, Qiao Xiaozhi sighed helplessly, and Yu Lu went upstairs with complicated emotions.

……

Walking out of the underground clinic, Yu Lu carefully held the umbrella and took two steps to a place where there was no rain. A big black and white umbrella was placed on his head, and the person holding the umbrella pulled him to a place where he could barely avoid the rain. corner.

"Captain Nie," Yu Lu lowered his head and took out his mobile phone, hung up the phone that had been on the speakerphone all the time, "Did you hear it?" He looked at the person holding the umbrella - Nie Zheng.

"Well," Nie Zheng looked at him seriously, "I heard everything."

Yu Lu smiled wryly, as if he was in a bad mood, for a moment he didn't know how to continue.

"Captain Nie, I want to confirm again," he continued after a long time, "Are you sure that Dr. Qiao was watching when you were stabbed by those people?" He stared persistently at the other side Frowning slightly, it is rare to reveal 100% seriousness without slack.

"I don't want it to be true either." Nie Zheng patted his head as a comfort, "But you have seen the surveillance...the camera also captured it, and it has his face." When he was seriously injured, Qiao Xiaozhi was hiding not far away, with his hands in his pockets, his expression seemed indifferent, and he didn't intend to step forward to help.

Before Yu Lu came to Qiao Xiaozhi today, he followed Nie Zheng to that angle to confirm that it was indeed a place where he could clearly see the whole process of Nie Zheng's injury.

"Is it true what you told Dr. Qiao about the snacks?" Nie Zheng didn't remember Yu Lu telling him.

"It's true...but it's a bit half-true and adulterated," Yu Lu rubbed his cold hands, "It's true that the stray dog ​​was poisoned to death and that I handed over the snacks to him for safekeeping."

He lowered his head halfway, and approached Nie Zheng a little closer, almost touching his chest: "It's the packaging problem, but I don't remember it for a long time. I haven't even glanced at the snacks in that bag. It's just because you know that you can't poison the inflatable packaging, but it seems that Dr. Qiao has something to do with this matter."

"But," Nie Zheng looked at him hesitantly, "If it's true what you said before, those gangsters were recruited by the murderer to kill you, and snacks are a backup strategy, why would Dr. Qiao know? save you?"

"I don't know..." Yu Lu smiled wryly, and glanced at the umbrella in his hand, "Actually, I started to feel that something was wrong with him a long time ago, and I also observed him for a long time without telling everyone... because he knew There are too many people involved, and they were injured for unknown reasons before.”

He sighed, not knowing whether to be skeptical or grateful for Qiao Xiaozhi's attitude.

"Team Nie," he took the umbrella that Qiao Xiaozhi gave him and handed it to Nie Zheng. "You want it. His fingerprints must be on the handle of the umbrella." Nie Zheng took the umbrella and put it in a special plastic bag.

In fact, fingerprints are not very useful for now, but just in case, maybe they will come in handy in the future. It is better to solve it in a subtle way than to ask for Qiao Xiaozhi's fingerprints openly. It will not complicate the relationship between the two parties.

Nie Zheng looked at Yu Lu who seemed to have been hit by something, and thought that it was inevitable that he would be like this. The person who had saved him several times in the past suddenly became an existence that could not be separated from the case. There will be a sense of reluctance and unspeakable guilt.

He hugged Yu Lu: "It's hard work, you go back to rest first, I will try to solve the matter quickly and come back to accompany you. It's okay."

Yu Lu pursed his lips and said "hmm".