The Last Killer

In the interrogation room of the Portland Police Department, two drenched youths were curled up on chairs with their arms folded.

A middle-aged policewoman wrapped them in dry blankets and served two cups of steaming coffee. "Poor little ones, soaked and scared to death," she whispered to her colleague in a compassionate tone, "Be patient with them, Trevy."

"Patience has always been my specialty." The big black sheriff answered her, "Amanda, separate them, and I will ask them separately."

The female policeman stepped forward and kindly took the Hispanic boy to another room—his hair was wet from the rain and turned into a nearly jet-black color, and it was more curled and stuck to his forehead, with the ends dripping wet The water revealed a green and unrestrained sensuality, a temperament that aroused a woman's maternal feelings, which made the middle-aged policewoman look at him more lovingly.

"Okay," Trivey opened the seat across the table and sat down, and said to the rest of the Asian boys, "tell me how you found the crime scene and what you saw. Tell us honestly. Don’t miss any details, and don’t make up your own, as the first person to discover, your testimony is crucial to solving the case.”

His attitude was businesslike, but not harsh. Li Biqing sipped a sip of hot coffee and slowly spoke in English.However, he had difficulty pronouncing many of the words that are not commonly used, and he was unable to organize them into sentences according to grammar. The more anxious he was to express, the more he stuttered. It's Chinese.

Trivi frowned, and asked a few more questions. After confirming that the other party really did not understand the language, rather than pretending, he got up and walked out of the interrogation room and asked loudly, "Where is Tan? Tell him to come over and help translate!"

A middle-aged Chinese policeman put down the information box and walked over and said, "Sir, I can only speak Cantonese."

"It's all in Chinese anyway, go and communicate with him." Trivey turned sideways to let him in.Police officer Tan chattered, but the other party sighed in embarrassment: "You guys should speak English, at least I can understand part of it, and I can't understand a word of Cantonese."

"Damn it, isn't Guangdong China?" The black sheriff muttered angrily, "How many languages ​​do you have in your country!"

"About 129 kinds." Li Biqing replied seriously.

Trivey stared at this oriental boy who didn't seem to be joking, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Let me ask." The door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and two white men in dark suits walked in. Before Trevy broke out, he took out his ID and waved it in front of his eyes: "FBI, Criminal Investigations, Leo Lawrence, this is my partner, Robbie Simon."

"This is a case in the state. We are fully capable of solving it by ourselves. Is it necessary to alert the FBI?" Trivi was a little dissatisfied.

"It's true that it's not under our jurisdiction at the moment, but maybe we can provide some help." The black-haired, dark-blue-eyed federal agent said to him expressionlessly, and he pulled out his chair and sat down. Became fluent in Chinese: "For example, a better way to communicate."

"Okay," Trevy shrugged, "it's up to you to ask him, but I want a translated transcript."

"No problem." Leo turned his head to look at the Chinese boy wrapped in a blanket, his eyes were full of comfort: "Bi Qing, are you all right, have you been frightened?"

"Fortunately, I was a little irritated at the time, but it's much better now." Li Biqing held the coffee cup tightly with both hands, twisted his fingers while talking, and whispered: "How could this happen? I mean, with Killing a person in such a cruel way..."

"Don't think about it so much, just treat it as a movie, and just replay the scenes in your memory. It doesn't matter if you can't remember some parts, or you don't want to say it." Leo said softly.

Li Biqing shook his head, "It's okay, I'm not that fragile." Then he told the whole story from the moment he met Wayne.Of course, that part of the joke about "molesting" was completely omitted.

Leo was taking notes while listening, but Trivet was still worried and asked someone to bring a tape recorder to record.Rob sat by the side idly, watching the action of the black city police very uncomfortably.

After Li Biqing finished speaking, he let out a long breath and drank the remaining coffee in the cup in one go.

Leo handed the transcript to Trivi, "Look at it, if there is no problem, I will take him away."

Trivey took the notebook and read it carefully. It happened that Amanda came from the next room and also sent a transcript. After comparing the two sides, it was found that the testimony was completely consistent, and there was no discrepancy between the statements of the two sides.

"These two children were just unlucky enough to discover the murder scene, and this case should have nothing to do with them." Amanda whispered in Trivet's ear.

Trivey also felt the same in his heart, but he was a little dissatisfied with the two FBI wantonly interfering in the cases within his duties, but for the sake of the other party's help, he no longer cares about it.After collecting the two transcripts, he treated Leo much more politely, and even smiled politely: "Thank you for your help, the two of them can leave, but don't leave this city, and wait for our inquiries at any time."

"Of course." Leo responded, nodded to Li Biqing, motioning him to get up and follow him.

"One more question, is it necessary to bring them to your side?" Amanda couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's not necessary." Leo said, glancing at the kind-hearted policewoman, "I just want to send him home."

The policewoman showed surprise.

"Let's also send Lei Zhe off by the way." Li Biqing begged.

"Okay." The federal agent reached out and pulled the corner of the blanket hanging around his waist, and helped him wipe his wet hair with gentle movements and focused expression.

The black Chevrolet SUV parked in front of the police station roared away in the night.Trevor said to Amanda with a sense of enlightenment: "Do you understand?"

Amanda didn't respond: "What?"

"Anyway, I understand: that kid belongs to him."

After finishing speaking, Trivey turned back to the office, leaving Amanda standing alone in the corridor, thinking about this pun and ambiguous sentence.

"I met you, at the gate of the State University, when you drove to pick up Bi Qing, do you know each other well?" Lei Zhe, who was sitting in the back compartment, couldn't help but ask the federal agent in the driver's seat.

"I should ask you this sentence. He has only been in school for more than a week. Are you familiar with him?" Leo glanced at the rearview mirror of the car and glanced at him like a scrutiny.

Li Biqing felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and hurriedly introduced them to each other: "Lei Zhe, my new friend at school; Leo, my girlfriend's younger brother."

Rob interjected and called, "What? Leo's sister? Are you talking about Jasmine? You're the one...how should I describe it? I met her once last year and I was really impressed. Uh...Her Majesty's boyfriend It’s hard to imagine, so Jasmine likes this type.” He flicked his tongue and smiled, showing a face of admiration.

"If you have any objections to Jasmine's mate selection, you can mention it in front of her next time, or may I convey it to you?" Leo replied coolly, and at the same time gave Li Biqing a "This guy is an idiot!" Ignore him" look.

"No, no, I have no opinion at all!" Rob immediately changed his words and quickly changed the topic to the weather of the week.

Except for the question to Leo, Lei Zhe was silent all the way. When the other three were talking, he quietly observed them from the corner of his eyes.The car stopped in front of a certain residential area, and Lei Zhe said "see you tomorrow" to Li Biqing, then hurriedly got out of the car and left.

Back downstairs in the rented apartment, Leo told Rob to "pick me up at eight o'clock tomorrow morning", and then took Li Biqing into the elevator.Rob poked his head out of the car window and looked at their backs suspiciously: "Living together? What's the situation..."

After taking a quick shower in the shower and drying himself off, Li Biqing walked into the living room in home clothes.Leo was sitting on the sofa and flipping through a suspenseful detective novel called "Heartsick". Seeing him come out, he put down the book and handed him a paper bag: "The black olive and mushroom pizza just delivered may suit your taste .”

Li Biqing opened the paper bag, took out a slice of pizza and took a bite, "It's not bad." He sat down cross-legged on the sofa, holding the paper bag while chewing and asked, "Will your FBI intervene in this case?"

"Normally not, unless the city police ask us for help, or discover something else during the investigation, such as the murderer's serial killings, then the nature of the case will be different."

Li Biqing was thoughtful, and asked after a while: "What do you think of this murder case, love murder? Vendetta murder? Or a moment of anger..."

"These are the responsibilities of the police. You don't have to think so much. Pay attention to your own safety." Leo interrupted him, obviously not wanting him to go to this troubled water. "How about I help you change to a language school?"

"No, I won't be affected by this." After eating the last slice of pizza, Li Biqing threw down the paper bag and stretched his waist and walked to the bedroom, "It's been a day full of twists and turns... It's 11 o'clock, and I'm going to brush my teeth and go to bed , I still have class tomorrow."

"Good night," said the federal agent who lived with him, and then walked into his room.After taking a cold shower in the bathroom, he stood in front of the washstand covered in wet drops of water. He opened the cabinet on the wall and habitually took out a small white medicine bottle. He opened the bottle cap with his thumb and poured it into his palm. .

The medicine bottle is empty.

Leo was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he had eaten the last two pills last night, and he planned to buy them after get off work today, but was delayed because of the sudden murder on campus.

...Forget it, let’s quit again, it’s not good to eat for a long time anyway.He made up his mind for the Nth time and threw the empty medicine bottle into the trash can.

When he was lying on the bed, the simulated portraits of "killed" were watching him deeply on the wall.Leo turned sideways, resting his head on his arms, and said helplessly to the three handsome faces with different looks: "Welcome to continue to harass me in my dreams, old man."

After the murder, the state university campus was obviously more tense and uneasy than usual, and countless topics and rumors related to this were quickly passed among the students.People seemed to recall the murder in Forest Park five months ago with no murderer found, and some people connected them, intentionally or unintentionally, to create an atmosphere of panic to satisfy their curiosity. , and even gave the murderer a nickname: "The Rose Killer" on the grounds that rose petals were found at the two murder scenes.

As the first person to discover the murder scene, Lei Zhe naturally received the attention of many students. No matter where he went, he was surrounded by people asking him for all the details of the murder.In fact, Li Biqing also attracts attention, but because he is a new face and has a language barrier, there are far fewer pointing eyes and gossips when walking around the campus than him.

During the lunch break on the third day after the incident, under a tall black walnut tree in the woods, Li Biqing saw that Lei Zhe was surrounded by four or five male students, occupying a circle of benches for people to rest and warmly Discussing something, judging from the sitting position, the Hispanic boy seems to be the core figure of this small group.

"Hi, Bi Qing!" The sharp-eyed Lei Zhe spotted his new friend, got up and waved to him: "Come here, come here!"

Li Biqing didn't want to join such a party at first, but because of his friend's face, he had to walk over.

"I heard that you guys discovered it together, right? That corpse..." A red-haired boy with freckles on the bridge of his nose immediately questioned him, his eyes sparkling with curiosity.

Li Biqing was very reluctant to participate in this kind of boring gossip, so he pretended to be a language barrier, shrugged inexplicably, and at the same time cast a slightly condemning look at the perpetrator.

"He can understand, but he doesn't like to talk much." Lei Zhe seemed to have a mischievous attitude towards his new friend's annoyance, and raised his eyebrows and smiled at him, as if to say: I'm so annoyed, so don't even think about it easy.

Seeing that he didn't talk to him, the red-haired boy lost interest, and turned to another tall black youth: "Quentin, I heard you peeked at the autopsy report yesterday? How is that guy's cause of death? What?"

"Yes, it's in my dad's office." Quentin said in a showy tone, "You know, that unlucky guy died a miserable death, almost half of his blood was bled. There are eleven tree branches on his chest, stomach, back, and thighs, and the most pitiful one is the one in his ass, with his intestines pierced... The final conclusion of the forensic doctor is that he was stabbed to death with a tree branch Yes, that is to say, it was a complete massacre, and in the end he died of excessive blood loss caused by internal rupture."

There was an uproar all around, and Quentin proudly bared his big white teeth, as if he enjoyed the attention of everyone.

"You said that if his serious father knew about this, would he punish him severely?" Lei Zhe asked in a low voice in Li Biqing's ear.

"If it's Police Officer Trivi, it's very possible." Li Biqing replied.

Now it was Lei Zhe's turn to be surprised: "You know?"

"Look at him, he's a teenage, frivolous version of Trivet."

Lei Zhe laughed, "It's really similar! And the word 'young and frivolous' is also used quite well. It seems that your English level has improved a lot!"

While talking and laughing, another group of current students walked over. The leader was a young white man with blond hair and blue eyes. The small group on the chair said: "How dare you sit here and chat, shouldn't you hide in the bedroom in fear, get into the bed and shiver? Don't you know that the one who died a few days ago was still alive five months ago?" The dead are all wild dogs, niggers, and yellow pigs like you? Soon, it will be your turn!"

"Clyde, you barking mad dog, Nazi who can't die a hundred times, racist scum who deserves hell! Go back and fuck your mother to keep your blood pure!" The red-haired boy took the lead He jumped up aggressively, pointed at his nose and cursed.

The blond young man sneered, and shot back viciously and meanly: "Your asshole is itching again, do you want to find a branch to stick it in, Colin? Do you want to let Killer Rose satisfy you? Oh, you probably don't know yet Well, those two short-lived ghosts are dead gays, this is really doing justice for the heavens, clean up your dirty garbage, and even the global air pollution index will be lowered!"

As if completely enraged by the insulting title of "Homo", Colin growled and lunged at him with clenched fists.

Clyde fought back not to be outdone, and the two groups immediately scolded and wrestled into a ball, and the scene of rapidly escalating violence was chaotic.

Li Biqing took a few steps back, wanting to get out of this battle circle formed by the confrontation between racism and reverse racism, homosexuals and anti-gays. This kind of shit has nothing to do with him, why bother to join in the fun.It's a pity that the sky didn't come true, and his yellow skin made him one of the targets of the opponent's group. In the chaos, a fist hit him in the face. He quickly dodged sideways, and then kicked the opponent's lower abdomen fiercely with a flirtatious leg.The unfortunate Caucasian young man bent over and clutched his vital parts and kept screaming, tears and snot pouring out.

"—The security guard is here!" Someone yelled, and the two groups of people who were afraid in their hearts broke away from the battle.Before leaving, Clyde threateningly cut Colin's throat with great reluctance: "Wait, you will be the next one to die!"

Colin raised his middle finger contemptuously at him.

Lei Zhe pulled Li Biqing up with one hand and Colin with the other, and fled the scene before several security guards rushing over with whistles.The three of them ran for a thousand yards before they stopped panting. Colin put his hands on his hips, leaned over and panted and said, "Damn it, one day, I'm going to beat this mad dog until his head explodes..."

"Okay, don't be angry, it's not worth being with that kind of person." Lei Zhe comforted him.

"He threatened me, did you hear that? How dare he threaten to kill me! Damn, I'm going to find someone to take his turn!" Colin blushed angrily, even the tips of his hair were trembling with excitement, and began to brew His revenge plan: "Ask him out in the name of a fake girl, then we fuck him, take nude photos and videos and upload them on the Internet, how about it, do you want to do it?"

As if wanting to wake him up, Lei Zhe patted him hard on the head: "Be rational, Colin, it doesn't matter if you find a willing guy to fuck you however you like, if you fuck a forced one, it's breaking the law. Is this scum in jail? Besides, don’t get me involved, I can’t be hard on men.”

Colin slapped him, seemed a little discouraged, and said bitterly: "I will never let him go just like that... just wait and see!" He spat on the ground and walked away angrily.

Lei Zhe sighed silently towards his back, turned his head and apologized to Li Biqing: "I'm sorry, I almost got you into trouble, these guys are always so impulsive, especially Colin."

The one who hit you the hardest just now was obviously you.Li Biqing complained secretly, but said politely: "It's okay, I'm not injured, it's just an accident."

Lei Zhe felt even more guilty when he heard this: "If we are caught, we will be given a warning and punished. If you are caught, it will be miserable, and you may be expelled from the campus... I will never deliberately drag you into the circle again , don't hate me."

Li Biqing smiled tolerantly, "What are you talking about, why worry about such trivial matters, mother-in-law and mother."

Lei Zhe pursed his lips hard, couldn't hold back the agitated emotions for a moment, hugged him abruptly, patted his palms on his vest in comfort, then turned and left without looking back.

"What a disaster." Thinking of the scuffle he just experienced, Li Biqing felt that he was the Chi Yu who was hit by the disaster. Fortunately, that punch didn't hit his face, otherwise he would go back to the apartment with dark circles at night. I really don't know what to do. How to explain it to the federal police.