heart poison

In the early morning, Los Angeles experienced the worst fog since the beginning of winter, half of the case team was late.Li Yichao was the youngest in the group, as soon as he got off the bus, he rushed to the office in a hurry.

Everyone else is old-fashioned, it doesn't matter if you are late or not, you can just find a reason to prevaricate, he is not used to this, he hurried to the backlog team, before wiping off the sweat on his face, he looked at Xiao Chengxin seat.

Xiao Chengxin is the team leader, the one who came first and the last to leave. He is in high spirits all day long. He is either busy with the cases of the crime team or helping the serious crime team. He seems to have inexhaustible energy.

Li Yichao's seniority was low, and he was a little afraid of Xiao Chengxin, so he didn't dare to leave work too early, because Xiao Chengxin was still busy.But my colleagues say in private that Lao Xiao has taken the wrong medicine recently, so don't worry about it, what to do at work, and withdraw when it's off work time, there is no need to spend time with Lao Xiao.

Having said that, Li Yichao still did not dare to arrive late and leave early like his predecessors.I was really late today because of the foggy weather. I thought about a lot of excuses on the way, but when I arrived at the office, I found that Xiao Chengxin was not there.

"Where's Team Xiao?" He adjusted his breathing, and when his heartbeat calmed down, he pretended to ask calmly while receiving water.

"I'm stuck on the road." A colleague was eating steaming wontons. "It's such a heavy fog, it's no wonder I'm not late."

"But Lao Xiao shouldn't be late." Another police officer snorted, "Didn't he leave the house an hour or two earlier every day? Even I'm here, but he hasn't arrived yet?"

"Overslept? Tsk."

"He also overslept sometimes? Isn't it very exciting? He wanted me to work overtime with him the day before yesterday!"

"Man is not a machine, there will always be times when he gets tired."

"Hey, everyone knows where our accumulated crime team is. Isn't it good to live a good life? You must make everyone so busy. It doesn't count if you are busy with the tasks given by your superiors, and you just go to the serious crime team to help. The serious crime team is Hua Chong's site, Team Chen's favorite site, what can we do to help, we might as well hang out honestly."

"Who says no? If I want to rush to the front line, why do I stay here? I said that this old Xiao is just confused for a while, and he is so tired because of his addiction to solving crimes. He wants to be a hero himself. Go ahead, don't drag me. I just want to retire here!"

There are not many people in the office, and colleagues are chatting nonchalantly.The topic about Xiao Chengxin was obviously provoked by Li Yichao, but the more he listened to it, the more unpleasant it became.

After returning to his seat, he looked at Xiao Chengxin's position again, feeling an inexplicable sense of unreliability in his heart.

It turns out that the Xiao team will also be late?

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Compared with the idleness of the accumulated crime team, the serious crime team is a different scene.No one is late, and no one talks about the boss.The sudden heavy fog was not the reason for being late. Qu Zhi arrived first, thinking that someone might not have time to eat breakfast because of the heavy fog, so he bought a bunch of egg pancakes and threw them on the conference table.

Holding a toothbrush and a towel, Zhang Mao came in from the door yawning, his eyes half-closed, and he didn't sleep well when he saw it. After taking two egg pancakes, he started to chew, and said, "Thank you, Deputy Qu. .”

"Didn't you go home yesterday?" Qu Zhi asked.

"The network at home is repaired, so I can't access the Internet." Zhang Mao said: "Going home is like returning to primitive society, so it's better to stay here."

The team members arrived one after another, and Hua Chong bought honey cake and milk toast, which were thrown together with egg pancakes.

Liu Zhiqin went directly to the technical investigation team, and did not follow Hua Chong to the serious crime team.

Zhang Mao pushed back his curled hair, and shouted, "Flower Team, where's Brother Xiaoliu?"

"What do you need from him?" Hua Chong took off the scarf wrapped around Liu Zhiqin's neck, before he could sit down.

"There is a video I want to show him." Zhang Mao walked up to Hua Chong, "I have nothing else to do these two days, so I checked the surveillance camera of the steamed vegetable restaurant where Guo Shu worked. The conditions of the restaurant It’s too bad, there is only a bad camera at the cash register, and the picture is not clear.”

Hua Chong raised his eyes, "What did you find?"

"Seeing a person is a bit familiar, but I really can't see it clearly." Zhang Mao said: "It may need to be refined by Brother Xiaoliu or the technical investigation team."

"Familiar?" Hua Chong asked, "Who?"

"It was Chen Chen that you asked me to check before." Zhang Mao fiddled with the mobile hard drive, "Do you still remember his mother? In Lu Ke's case, the younger brother of the suicide nurse Chen Juan."

Hua Chong's heart suddenly tightened.

"Chen Chen was studying abroad. After Chen Juan committed suicide, he returned to China to study at university. After graduation, he disappeared for no reason. Brother Xiaoliu also said that he was either killed or deliberately concealed his whereabouts." Zhang Mao continued: "Before we arrested Guo Shu, a person who looked like Chen Chen appeared in steamed food restaurants many times. Every time, he ordered a table of dishes by himself, but he didn't eat much."

Hua Chong immediately said: "Show me the video."

As Zhang Mao said, a young man who looked somewhat similar to Chen Chen appeared in the steamed vegetable restaurant, and behaved strangely, not as if he was eating, but as stalking.

Hua Chong felt a chill.

If the young man in the video is really the missing Chen Chen, what does he have to do with Guo Shu?Why did he appear at the place where Guo Shu worked?

Guo Shu and Chen Chen are both related to "disappearance". What does this mean?

"I saw this person in the middle of the night last night." Zhang Mao frowned tightly, "I don't know if it was because it was too late and I was the only one in the office, so I felt very uneasy. Chen Chen disappeared too strangely It suddenly disappeared out of thin air. I didn’t investigate carefully last time, and the more I think about it now, the more wrong I am.”

Hua Chong had more doubts in his heart, stood up, and ordered: "You go to the technical investigation team immediately, you can find Brother Xiaoliu, Yuan Hao or others, and process this video first."

"Yes!" Zhang Mao asked, "Flower Team, where are you going?"

Hua Chong put on the coat he just took off, "See Guo Shu."

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Guo Shu is currently detained in the detention center, and his mental state is different from before.

The physical examination report proved that he did not show the initial symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and he was healthy.

It's damn healthy!

He stared blankly at Hua Chong and said in a hoarse voice, "What do you want to use to hit me again? Just shoot me dead."

Hua Chong took out Chen Chen's photo, "Do you have any impression of this person?"

Guo Shu took the photo and looked at it for a long time, his expression gradually changed.

"You have an impression." Hua Chong had a very bad premonition.

Guo Shu raised his head, "What do you mean? Does this person have anything to do with me?"

Hua Chong didn't answer his question, "You just met him recently, he has eaten at the steamed vegetable restaurant many times."

"Really?" Guo Shu scratched his cheek in distress, "But what I want to know is, officer, why did you come to me with this person's photo all of a sudden."

Hua Chong leaned on the back of the chair, raised his chin slightly, and stared at Guo Shu indifferently.

He knew what Guo Shu was planning.

Guo Shu is not an ordinary criminal suspect. This person has some understanding of psychology, and his logical thinking ability is not bad. He must have thought that he appeared at this time, and he also brought a photo of a young man with him. He wanted to get something from himself. Answer.

For Guo Shu, this may be a bargaining chip worth fighting for.

But he was not willing to let Guo Shu get what he wanted.

The two confront each other, Hua Chong doesn't speak, and Guo Shu doesn't speak either.Shaoqing, Hua Chong squinted his eyes, stood up with a sneer, "It seems that you don't plan to tell me the truth, that's fine, go back to your room and stay."

Guo Shu leaned forward and said nervously, "Wait!"

Hua Chong laughed, "Why, do you want to tell me something?"

Guo Shu was sweating on his forehead, and scratched the edge of the table with both hands, "If I tell you..."

"Are you talking about conditions with me?" Hua Chong dismissed, "Guo Shu, see where you are now, what qualifications do you have to negotiate conditions with me?"

His voice was not loud, and he even had a smile on his face, but Guo Shu couldn't help shrinking his shoulders due to the power he exuded.

"Do you think I'm here to cooperate with you today?" Hua Chong held the photo between his fingers, "You think too highly of yourself."

Guo Shu was upset and shook his head in panic, "That's not what I meant."

Hua Chong stared at him for a few seconds, saw that he looked away, and then threw the photo on the table again, "Who is this man? Why did he come to the steamed vegetable restaurant to look for you?"

Guo Shu's pupils shrank suddenly, "I don't know this person, and he hasn't looked for me either!"

"Really?" Hua Chong suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and his face was still at ease, "But your reaction just now doesn't seem like you don't know him."

"I really don't know him." Guo Shu said, "Do I need to deceive you?"

Hua Chong supported the edge of the table, his body blocked some of the light, casting a rather oppressive shadow.

Guo Shu involuntarily stepped back a little, "He has been to the steamed vegetable restaurant a few times, ordering more and eating less, I have paid attention to him."

Hua Chong tapped twice on the photo with his index finger, "Are you sure it's him?"

Guo Shu nodded, a little impatiently, "Sure, if you don't believe me, then adjust the surveillance, he is sitting close to the cash register, maybe he was photographed."

Hua Chong straightened up, eyes drooping.

Guo Shu raised his head, and as soon as he met Hua Chong, he frowned, "That's all I know, I have nothing to do with this person. I know how many people I killed, but people who have nothing to do with me, Don't put it on me."

Leaving the detention center, Hua Chong leaned against the car and smoked.

The surveillance video was not clear enough to tell whether the person who appeared in it was Chen Chen, but what Guo Shu saw just now was a photo of Chen Chen himself.

According to Guo Shu's description, Chen Chen was the young man who behaved strangely in the video.

So Chen Chen didn't actually disappear, but came to Los Angeles from Qin Province?

If Guo Shu didn't lie, he really didn't know Chen Chen, then what was the purpose of Chen Chen going to the steamed vegetable restaurant?

In the surveillance, Chen Chen only appeared when Guo Shu was working, and after Guo Shu was arrested, Chen Chen never went to the steamed restaurant again.

Chen Chen went for Guo Shu.

At this time, the mobile phone in the coat pocket rang.Hua Chong picked it up and saw that it was Liu Zhiqin.

"The video sent by Zhang Trade has been processed." Liu Zhiqin said, "It should be Chen Chen."

Hua Chong let out a chill, "I'll be right back."

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"It can only be refined to this point." Liu Zhiqin sat on the armchair, holding the mouse in his right hand, "I just compared with the image data of Chen Chen we have, and I can basically be sure that it is him. Guo Shu What do you say over there?"

Hua Chong stared at the display screen with black eyes, and put a recording pen on the table.

Liu Zhiqin stood up, put on the earphones, and walked to a corner of the police room.

After a long time, he raised his head and looked at the display screen.Hua Chong was still standing there watching the video, and realizing that he had finished listening, he turned around and asked, "Any thoughts?"

Liu Zhiqin rolled up the cable of the earphones, frowning slightly, "What Guo Shu said may be true, he just noticed Chen Chen, but he didn't know Chen Chen."

Hua Chong nodded, "I think so too. And when we investigated the case a while ago, we have found out every secret about Guo Shu. He has nothing to do with Chen Chen and the Chen family behind Chen Chen."

"But the 'missing' Chen Chen has his eyes on him..." Liu Zhiqin's voice lowered, "Two irrelevant people, under what circumstances would one be followed by the other?"

"On the way just now, I have been thinking about this." Hua Chong said: "If Chen Chen went to the steamed restaurant for a purpose, and Guo Shu was his purpose, then Guo Shu was targeted for no reason. wrong?"

"Well. It seems so now."

"Do you remember that Yin Ziqiao's death was also inexplicable?"

Liu Zhiqin's eyes turned cold, and the coldness spread all over his body.

"Yin Ziqiao's throat was cut in the middle of the night. We investigated for so long, but found that all those with motives were innocent." Hua Chong leaned against the table, his head slightly lowered, "Then the person who killed him may not have normal motives at all. His wounds are similar to the wounds of the deceased in Wutong District, we discussed last time——Yin Ziqiao and Huang Caihua may have been randomly selected by the murderer, and the murderer killed Yin Ziqiao in preparation for the attack on Wutong District."

Hua Chong paused for a moment, and the ink in his eyes deepened, "The more I think about it, the more I feel that Guo Shu and Yin Ziqiao are similar. It's just that Yin Ziqiao has been killed, and Guo Shu is now in our hands."

"If we were one step late, Guo Shu might have already been killed?" Liu Zhiqin quickly digested Hua Chong's thoughts, "The mantis is catching the cicada, and the oriole is behind. Guo Shu has no idea that when he commits the crime, there is another person behind him." Want your own life."

"Chen Chen is this person. He disappeared suddenly last year. He didn't disappear, but was absorbed by a certain organization." Hua Chong fisted his right hand and tapped his chin, "It seems that we need to investigate Chen Chen in detail. He appeared in the steamed vegetable restaurant, near The public surveillance of the public may have photographed him..."

"Flower team." Liu Zhiqin interrupted, "Yin Ziqiao's death may be related to a terrorist attack, but now it seems that Guo Shu and Yin Ziqiao have similarities, and it is Chen Chen who is staring at Guo Shu. When we investigate Chen Chen, we are investigating terrorist organizations."

Hua Chong looked solemn, "Yes."

"The higher authorities do not allow us to intervene in the case of Wutong Community." Liu Zhiqin said.

Hua Chong was silent for two seconds, "But we never really let go, did we?"

Liu Zhiqin smiled, "I'll make arrangements now."

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The case is complicated and confusing, and Hua Chong dare not trust the people around him easily, nor does he want to drag innocent people into danger.Zhang Mao was excited about his discovery for a long time. When he saw Hua Chong came back from the technical investigation team, he went up to him and said, "Flower team, why don't you let me go to Qin Province? Chen Chen's hometown is there. Last year After he disappeared, the police also filed a case, maybe they can find out something."

Hua Chong said: "Contact his parents first. I remember you said last time that his parents have lived abroad for a long time and haven't been back for many years."

"Yes, after Chen Juan committed suicide, they rarely returned to China." Zhang Mao asked, "Aren't they going to Qin Province? Qin Province may have clues."

"We have to go, but I want to discuss it with Team Chen." Hua Chong said, "Team Chen is not here again today."

Zhang Mao opened his eyes wide, as if he suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Dui Hua, what did Dui Xiao ask you for yesterday?"

Only then did Hua Chong realize that he had forgotten about Xiao Chengxin.I still have to find an opportunity to report to Chen Zheng. Xiao Cheng wanted to be transferred to the serious crimes team, so he did. Anyway, the serious crimes team is currently short-staffed, and there is nothing wrong with having one more person who is willing to focus on the case.

But at this time it is inconvenient to disclose to the players.

"Bring me to dinner, what else can I do?" Hua Chong waved his hand, trying to drive Zhang Mao away.

"Only eating?" Zhang Trade didn't quite believe it, "Hey, why didn't Team Xiao come today?"

"It's strange that he doesn't come?" Hua Chong said, "If he wants to come to our place every day, the brothers in the accumulated case team will not be happy."

"But he just runs to our place every day." Zhang Mao said cheerfully, "He also likes to drink Qu Fu's iced tea!"

Hua Chong casually looked at the door of the office, and realized that Xiao Chengxin had been reporting to the serious crime team every day since Cha Shen Nonghan.

Why didn't you come today?

You just expressed your determination yesterday, but you suddenly backed down today?

This doesn't seem normal.

At this time, a member of the backlog team came over and asked, "Is our team Xiao here with you?"

Hua Chong took a look and vaguely remembered the other party's name was "Li Yichao".Xiao Chengxin also once said that Xiao Li is so young, it is a pity that he was assigned to the backlog team for some reason.

Zhang Mao was a little surprised, "I was wondering why Team Xiao didn't come today. Why, he's not in the backlog team?"

Li Yichao said in a panic, "I'm still here to look for you? Team Xiao hasn't come, and the mobile phone can't get through. I thought it was nothing this morning, but it's already afternoon. He has never been absent from work without reason."

Zhang Mao was stunned, "Isn't it? Didn't come all day?"

Hua Chong frowned, remembering what happened last night when he parted with Xiao Chengxin.

Xiao Chengxin's behavior was normal, and he even said "see you tomorrow".

"I thought you had arranged some mission for him." Li Yichao was worried, "What happened to him? I heard that the serious crime team is very dangerous..."

Hua Chong immediately picked up the phone, found Xiao Chengxin's number, and dialed it.

Unable to connect.

"Can't get through?" Zhang Mao asked.

"En." Hua Chong looked at Li Yichao, knowing that the little policeman couldn't help him, so he said to Zhang Mao, "Go and check Xiao Chengxin's address."

"Yes!"

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As night falls, the dark night heralds romance in summer, but only depression in winter.

The community where Xiao Chengxin lives is very ordinary.Because the garage capacity in the community is not enough, many residents park their cars outside and then walk home.

Judging from the monitoring of several gates and unit buildings in the community, Xiao Chengxin didn't go home at all yesterday.

An elderly guard said: "Xiao Xiao? He didn't come back, I'm sure he didn't come back. Every time he passed by my guard, he would greet me, especially at night. I happened to be on duty last night. If He came back, I must know."

The night fell in Hua Chong's eyes, and the chill was completely present.

Xiao Chengxin, a criminal policeman, suddenly and quietly disappeared.