last case

"Who are you? Where are you, Qin An?" Xie Jibai said immediately.

The hoarse voice chuckled twice, and said, "You are Xie Jibai? I thought this call would come sooner, but you guys let me down a little bit."

A man's taste is like a homely routine, not in a hurry.

Xie Jibai's punch seemed to be in vain. Hearing his calm voice, he couldn't help feeling worried.

The hoarse voice continued: "Xie Jibai, this is not a game, but a serious ceremony. You still have 24 hours. Once the time is up, this poor child will go where he should go. "

As soon as the mysterious man finished speaking, a long beep sounded from the phone, and the phone was hung up.

Xie Ji Bai frowned, put down the phone, but didn't speak.

Chen Yancai had already recorded the phone call, and said, "Let me first analyze whether there are any voice characteristics in this recording."

Chen Wanting nodded and said, "You go first, be careful."

Tang Xin patted Xie Jibai on the shoulder and said, "We still have 24 hours, don't waste time."

"I see." Xie Ji Bai nodded immediately.

Everyone knows time is running out, but where are they going to find someone?This is really a problem.

And it wasn't just this that surprised Xie Ji Bai.If the murderer was a mysterious man in a gray trench coat, did he know the three dead?

Xie Jibai thought for a while and said, "Let's go to Qin An's house."

Tang Xin followed Xie Jibai to Qin An's house, and the others also got busy.The enemy is in the dark, and they are in the light. This in itself is an unequal contest. They have no right to say no, so they can only bite the bullet and continue, let alone give up.

The two rushed to Qin An's house. It was a rented house, a one-story bungalow, which looked a bit shabby.

Perhaps it was because Tang Xin was always dressed in flirtatious clothes, so he looked particularly eye-catching when he walked here, and several small children were secretly watching them.

Xie Jibai raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, then found Qin An's house, walked over and knocked on the door.

Qin An does not live alone, there are people who rent together, a rented house has several rooms, there is no public toilet in the house, the public toilet is in a small alley, and if you want to use the toilet at night, you have to run out in the dark .

Xie Jibai knocked on the door for a while, and soon someone came to answer the door and said, "Who is who, who is it again, are you annoying?"

Out came a woman in her 30s, unkempt and looking as if she was sleeping, yawning as she talked.

Tang Xin walked over, took off his sunglasses, smiled and said, "Excuse me ma'am, we want to ask you something."

The woman was taken aback, yawned halfway, but couldn't yawn the next half, seeing Tang Xin's eyes wide open, she quickly showed a smile, stretched out her hand to straighten her hair, and said, "That's it, then you can ask. Ah, by the way, why don't you come in and have a cup of coffee?"

Tang Xin looked polite and said, "We are in a hurry, let's drink coffee next time we have a chance."

Tang Xin immediately asked a few questions, all about Qin An.

According to the woman, in fact, Qin An is a very good child, hard-working, although he looks a little cowardly, but it is not annoying, but rather distressing.So Qin An's relationship with others here is pretty good.

Speaking of which, something is wrong with Qin An recently, he seems not energetic, as if he can't sleep well every night.

Early this morning, Qin An left without knowing where he went.The woman also said that Qin An shouldn't have to go to work today, it's his turn to retire.

About less than an hour ago, someone knocked on the door looking for Qin An.

The woman was still sleeping at that time. She was on the evening shift yesterday and came back very late, so she was sleeping soundly, but it was really annoying to hear someone knocking on the door endlessly.She has a bad temper, especially when she is not awake.

She yelled to open the door, and saw a man in a casual suit standing at the door. That outfit should be quite expensive.The man is not bad looking, but he is not as attractive as Tang Xin.

The man asked if Qin An was there, and the woman told him that Qin An had gone out.

The man seemed a little surprised, and said, isn't Qin An going to retire today?

The woman said: "Then he left. I thought it was this man who came again, so I was very impatient. Don't mind it."

Tang Xin smiled and said, "Of course not. Can you describe that man's appearance and characteristics to us?"

The woman frowned, looking like she was thinking about memories, and said, "Twenty or thirty years old? About this height, wearing a casual suit, he looks like a dog, but I think he doesn't feel very comfortable. A nervous feeling."

Tang Xin asked again: "Are there any special characteristics?"

The woman shook her head and said, "It doesn't seem to have any special features. There isn't even an obvious mole on his face. Oh, by the way, he is wearing a big gemstone ring. I don't know what kind of gemstone it is. He wears it on the thumb of his left hand. Look at it. It sounds kind of nondescript."

According to the woman's narration, the man's dress was not very high-profile, and the big gemstone ring on his thumb looked very eye-catching.

Xie Jibai and Tang Xin heard that someone came to Qin An just now, but they didn't know who it was.At that time, it happened to be the time for them to rush to the puppet hall, so no one saw the man's appearance.

Xie Jibai said: "There is no monitoring here, it is really..."

Tang Xin put his hands in his pockets, put on his big sunglasses, and said, "Xiaobai, do you think that man is the murderer?"

"Why do you say that?" Xie Ji Bai asked.

The mysterious man in the gray trench coat has already taken Qin An away. How could the man in the casual suit be the murderer?

Tang Xin said: "I'm a little concerned about his nondescript big ring."

Xie Jibai frowned.

Tang Xin said: "Maybe you watch less TV. It's a rogue's little trick. There are small needles hidden in the ring. According to the woman's narration, if the inside of such a large gemstone ring is hollow, it will be filled with hydrogen cyanide. If it's sour, it's enough to kill several people."

Xie Ji Bai immediately opened his eyes wide and said, "But... I can't figure it out. Aren't the murderer and the man in the gray windbreaker the same group?"

"Who knows." Tang Xin said, "Now we have to continue trying to figure out who this man who came to Qin An is."

"I think there are still people who can tell us something." Xie Jibai said.

Xie Jibai waved as he spoke, and Tang Xin watched him walk towards the group of children squatting in the corner.

Tang Xin took off his sunglasses, couldn't help muttering, "I'm the worst at dealing with children..."

The two walked over, and the children immediately looked at them vigilantly.

Tang Xin turned his head to look at Xie Jibai, Xie Jibai still had a serious face, which would frighten children.

Tang Xin quickly raised a smile that he thought was perfect, and could be regarded as a universal smile for all ages.

But for those kids, it seems...

Not very useful.

There was a little girl with twin ponytails, almost cried when she saw Tang Xin's smiling face, she wrinkled her nose and pouted her mouth.

A little boy next to him immediately jumped out with his eyes wide open, and said, "Who are you?"

Tang Xin touched the bridge of his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

Xie Jibai said, "We are police detectives."

"Detective?"

The little girl who was about to cry opened her eyes wide, looked at him a little enviously, and said, "Brother Detective, you are so beautiful."

Xie Ji Bai was taken aback by what she said, and couldn't help but smile.

Tang Xin coughed next to Xie Jibai, and said in Xie Jibai's ear, "The little girl is quite knowledgeable?"

Xie Jibai said, "May I ask you a few questions?"

Xie Jibai added: "There are rewards."

"Ah?" The little girl said with a look of anticipation, "What's the reward?"

Xie Jibai touched his body, it seemed that he didn't bring any gadgets except for wallets and pistols.

Xie Jibai looked back at Tang Xin, and suddenly saw the sunglasses in Tang Xin's hand, reached out to take it, and said, "This is it."

Tang Xin: "..."

his sunglasses...

Sure enough, pretending to be struck by lightning...

I knew that he would not wear sunglasses when he came out to handle the case. Those were the limited edition sunglasses he asked someone to buy...

Tang Xin felt a little distressed, but he still smiled to make himself look... more natural, so as not to frighten the children again.

"It's so cool." The little girl exclaimed.

The little boy said sourly: "It's nothing good."

A man came and knocked on the door of the previous house. Not only the woman was present, but the group of children were also present.The children were all squatting in the corner digging the sand, so someone noticed the man too.

The man was a stranger, and his clothes were different from them, so the children took a second look.

When Xie Jibai asked, the children rushed to answer for the reward of sunglasses.

Suddenly, the little boy stood up and ran away, but he ran back quickly and said, "The sunglasses are mine."

He looks proud, holding a sketchpad with a pre-painted sketch of a bouquet of flowers clipped to it.Such a good painter, it is hard to imagine that it was drawn by a five or six-year-old child.

The little boy clipped a piece of white paper and said, "I can draw him."

Xie Jibai was surprised for a while, and exchanged a glance with Tang Xin, the little boy had already started to draw.

"Shh..."

"Brush brush..."

With just a few strokes, the little boy outlined the image of a man.

The boy said while drawing, "His tie is very ugly, that's what it looks like."

"Tie?" Tang Xin said, "The style of this tie looks familiar?"

Xie Jibai said, "It's him!"