last case

The waiter was very sure, after all, it wasn't every day that people left things behind in the store.They also have strict rules about not taking things left behind by guests.

The waiter had a clear impression of the guest, and it happened that the video tape was at hand, so they fell back to Tuesday, four days ago.

Many eyes were staring at the screen, and the waiter couldn't remember the time, it was around ten o'clock.The videotape was played at a fast-forward speed, and everyone seemed a little nervous.

"Back back, back up." Xie Ji Bai suddenly said in a calm voice.

At 21:[-], a woman in a white dress and a white bag walked into the door of the restaurant.The welcome guest at the door opened the door for her. She didn't know what to ask, but the woman shook her head.

The woman came alone, and her clothes and backpack looked very similar to Liu Yingbei, almost identical, but the video was too blurry, so they couldn't just confirm that the woman was Liu Yingbei.

The woman walked into the restaurant, and she didn't seem to be planning to eat. She waited for a while, and soon a waiter came out and handed her something, which was the makeup mirror.

The woman got the things, didn't stay for long, and hurried away.

It took her a total of 2 minutes to come in and go out.

Tang Xin rarely showed such a serious expression. He stared at the screen and suddenly said, "Can you describe to me what this lady looks like?"

The waiter was taken aback, a little embarrassed, and said: "I don't remember very clearly... I didn't pay much attention to her appearance at the time. She said that she left something behind when she ate here last time. I don't remember her name clearly. But that mirror should be hers. The makeup mirror is a bit old, and it is quite worn. I thought the customers would not come back to look for it. There is a word "Bei" engraved on the back of the makeup mirror. So when she said her own Name, I gave her the mirror."

The case suddenly became strange. The deceased suddenly appeared after his death, and there were witnesses.

Xie Jibai and Tang Xin took the video tape and the waiter back to the police station, and made notes for the waiter before letting him leave.

Xie Jibai looked at the record in silence, the others hadn't come back yet, only Xie Jibai, Tang Xin and Chen Yancai were in the office.

Chen Yancai seemed excited after hearing this, and said, "Did you cheat on the corpse?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Xie Jibai said.

Chen Yancai stuck out her tongue and said, "Deputy captain, why do you sound more and more like the boss, it's terrible to get old before you get old."

"What are you talking about?"

As soon as Chen Yancai finished speaking, Chen Wanting grabbed her braid. Chen Wanting walked in with long legs, found the nearest chair and sat down, looking a little tired from running.

"Alas," Chen Yancai hurriedly poured a glass of water for Chen Wanting, and said, "Boss, drink water!"

Chen Wanting said: "As soon as I got off the elevator, I heard Chen Yancai calling you a fake corpse. You should close the door so that the A team next door can hear it. It's enough for them to laugh for a year."

Chen Yancai: "..."

"What's going on?" Chen Wanting said.

Chen Yancai rushed to repeat what she had just heard, and Chen Wanting immediately frowned and said, "The dead are alive?"

Chen Yancai wrinkled her nose and said, "Boss, what you said is deceiving me, there is no difference at all."

Chen Wanting: "..."

Xie Jibai sorted out his thoughts and said, "Now there are several possibilities. First, the body we found was not Liu Yingbei at all. Second, someone pretended to be Liu Yingbei to get the mirror. Third, there was a problem with the time of death."

It is really impossible to cheat the corpse and resurrect, so there are only a few real problems left.

It is hard to say whether the deceased was Liu Yingbei, because Liu Yingbei was an orphan, and there was no way to determine her identity through DNA testing.

Chen Wanting said, "Chen Yancai, go and find out if there are any cases of missing persons recently, both in this city and in several nearby cities."

Chen Yancai said, "Okay."

Xie Jibai looked at Tang Xin and said, "Forensic Doctor Tang, is it possible that the murderer misled us about the death time of the deceased?"

Tang Xin rubbed the bridge of his nose, frowned and said, "There must be an error in the time of death, but such a long time error is really too strange. Captain, I apply for a re-examination of the corpse. The previous autopsy did not check There is no factor that misleads the time of death."

Chen Wanting said, "Okay, you can go."

Tang Xin stood up immediately, then turned around and went out.

Xie Jibai continued: "Actually, I think the possibility of someone impersonating Liu Yingbei is quite high."

Chen Wanting nodded and said, "Assuming it's true, someone pretended to be Liu Yingbei, so why did she suddenly appear in the restaurant and insist on taking back the makeup mirror? The makeup mirror is very important?"

"Perhaps." Xie Jibai said, "From the surveillance video tape, I can't see anything special."

Chen Wanting leaned back in the chair, crossed his arms and sighed.

Xie Jibai said, "Boss, how are you doing?"

Chen Wanting shook his head and said, "There is no progress at all. The driver has sufficient alibi, and the murderer really doesn't look like him."

When Xie Jibai heard this, he fell silent.

Chen Wanting said again: "How are Xiao Qin and Xiao Liu?"

Xie Jibai said, "I'll make a call and ask."

Liu Zhihui and Qin Xu had been running all morning. They first went to the place where Liu Yingbei lived. It was a small rental house. They rented a room. The furniture was very simple, and they didn't find anything very useful.A calendar was hung on the wall, and a circle was drawn on the days thirteen days ago, which was the day when Liu Yingbei and Lin Letian got together.

They were at Liu Yingbei's house and received a previous call from Xie Jibai.Xie Jibai told them that someone had witnessed Liu Yingbei appearing four days ago, and asked them to verify it there as well.

Liu Zhihui was startled, the deceased had been dead for thirteen days, how could it be possible that he appeared four days ago?Quickly asked Liu Yingbei's neighbors.

The people next to him are all renters, and they have lived there not long ago. They have no contact with Liu Yingbei, and they are not very familiar with her.

However, the person in the master bedroom next to Liu Yingbei said that when Liu Yingbei made a phone call earlier, she indeed heard something about going to a certain restaurant for dinner.

Because Liu Yingbei looked like a vagrant, and her clothes were very cheap, so she listened a little more, thinking that Liu Yingbei was just talking big.

The person also heard that Liu Yingbei and that person planned to go hiking together the next day after dinner.

She originally thought that Liu Yingbei was calling her boyfriend, but the other party was obviously Lin Letian, not a boyfriend.

But it was many days ago that she saw Liu Yingbei, and Liu Yingbei never showed up four days ago.

Going on an outing the next day?

Liu Zhihui and Qin Xu immediately became suspicious. Lin Letian and the others searched, but never mentioned the outing. She said that she hadn't seen Liu Yingbei after the party.There's obviously something wrong with this.

The two ran to Lin Letian's rented apartment, but there was no one at home, and they couldn't get through on the phone. They didn't know where they went.Seeing that it was already afternoon, Lin Letian's cell phone was not answered, but turned off, which made people even more anxious.

Chen Wanting heard Xie Jibai say a few words into the phone, and couldn't help asking: "Is there something wrong with Lin Letian?"

Xie Jibai shook his head and hung up the phone, while Liu Zhihui and Qin Xu were still looking for Lin Letian's whereabouts.

"Go to eat?" Chen Wanting knocked on the table and said.

Xie Jibai looked up at the time, it was already past one o'clock, I am afraid that if it was later, there would be nothing left of the food in the cafeteria.

Xie Ji Bai shook his head and said, "I'm not hungry yet."

"Rice is something to eat," Chen Wanting said, "I'll bring it for you. No carrots or tomatoes, right?"

"Thank you, boss." Xie Jibai said.

Chen Wanting raised his hand, stood up and left.

Xie Jibai was sitting alone in the meeting room, and there were a bunch of photos on the blackboard opposite, all of which were related to the case. Chen Yancai had already printed out the two pictures in Xie Jibai's phone, as well as the phrase "The Ceremony Begins". , also posted above.

At first glance, the four bold characters are so eye-catching, making the other photos feel strange.

Xie Jibai lowered his head and opened volume No.11 of the novel.

"knocking"

It wasn't too late for Chen Wanting to come back, their captain always does things so quickly.

"You move like this when I leave, and you still move like this when I come back." Chen Wanting said with emotion.

Xie Jibai took the lunch box and thanked him.

Chen Wanting sat across from him again, and took out a small exquisite box as if offering a treasure.

Xie Jibai suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, he didn't need to look to know that it must be the cake from the cake shop next to the police station.

Xie Ji Bai has never been to that cake shop, he is always dispensable for sweets.But I heard that the owner of the cake shop is surnamed Su. He is in his 20s and looks good. The female students from the nearby university like to run over to buy cakes and look at the handsome guy by the way.

Of course, female students are not the only ones who like to go, Captain Chen has been patronizing for a month...

Chen Wanting said: "You eat, I will tell you something personal."

Xie Ji Bai raised his head curiously, and asked, "Boss, what's the matter?"

Chen Wanting coughed and said, "I heard this morning that you and Forensic Tang... live together?"

Xie Jibai was very troubled by Chen Wanting's words, and said, "He borrowed from me."

Chen Wanting coughed again, and asked, "He didn't do anything to you, did he?"

"What?" Xie Ji Bai looked at him a little confused.

"It's all right." Chen Wanting said, "I'm just asking casually. That boy Tang Xin looks a little..."

Xie Jibai finally understood what he meant, and said, "Boss, that's the private life of Doctor Tang, and it has nothing to do with me. I've already made an agreement with Doctor Tang, and he won't bring back his date."

Chen Wanting was silent for a while, wondering if that could be called a date?It's almost like being a friend with guns.

Chen Wanting scratched his chin in distress. Xie Jibai is a workaholic, with a smart mind and good physical fitness, but his life skills are too poor, and he has never talked about relationships, so he doesn't know much about it.Chen Wanting looked at Tang Xin and Xie Jibai with something wrong, afraid that Tang Xin would hit Xie Jibai with his brain.

Chen Wanting and Xie Jibai used to be neighbors, and the relationship between the two families is very good.But then Xie Jibai's parents passed away, so he had to move away.Chen Wanting's parents felt that Xie Jibai was pitiful and took good care of him. It was as if Chen Wanting had an extra brother.Xie Jibai is really distressing, and Chen Wanting has always taken good care of him.

Xie Jibai was eating, and suddenly said: "Boss, I also have something to tell you."

"What?" Chen Wanting was flipping through volume No.11 of the novel.

Xie Jibai said, "Can I stop buying cakes?"

Chen Wanting: "..."

Chen Wanting scratched his head in embarrassment.

Xie Jibai said: "Although it is delicious, I have been eating it for a month, and I am tired of eating it no matter how delicious it is."

Chen Wanting grinned, and said: "This is a new cake made by Xiao Su. It hasn't been put on the shelves yet. I made a piece specially for me. Let me try it. Uh, how about changing it to biscuits tomorrow? Xiao Su The biscuits at home smell delicious and must be delicious."

Xie Jibai: "..."

Xie Jibai buried his head in his meal and decided to resist passively.

Chen Wanting said: "I said Xiaobai, you have to help me, it's not like you don't know, I'm allergic to cream, but Xiaosu owns a cake shop, I can't eat anything from his shop."

Xie Jibai: "..."

Chen Wanting said: "The bunch of bastards outside, they got tired of eating it for a week, and I don't know who robbed it desperately when they ate it for the first time. Xiaobai, if you don't even eat it, how about buying it?" Wouldn't it be a waste to come?"

Xie Jibai: "..."

After talking for a long time, Chen Wanting never thought about not buying it!

Chen Wanting left quickly to support Liu Zhihui and Qin Xu, but they haven't found Lin Letian yet.

Xie Jibai finished his lunch box, looked at the cake box on the table, picked it up and walked out.

Chen Yancai was still checking things on the computer. When she saw the things in Xie Jibai's hands, before he could speak, she said, "No, I don't want it. I've gained five catties from eating rice tofu! It's a sin. Boss just now You asked me when you came in."

Xie Jibai: "..."

Chen Yancai's eyes sparkled, she turned her head brightly, and said, "By the way, Forensic Tang has never eaten it, why don't the deputy team give this to Forensic Tang?"

Xie Jibai blinked, and really went out the door with his hands, going to Tang Forensic Doctor's studio.

Chen Yancai showed a snickering face from behind the computer.