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""Xuantian Mountains and Rivers", a story created by a hypocrite to deceive the superior and the inferior, and counterattack the superior."

Hua Chong looked at the Weibo that had already been deleted and thought for a moment, "Hypocrite? This word is a pun. It refers to both the protagonist of "Xuantian Mountains and Rivers" and Yi Linlang himself."

"That's right. When this Weibo was first posted, some people speculated in the comments that the 'hypocrite' he was referring to was Haolang of E. Although this famous writer is very popular, there are also black materials. Quite a few, some netizens have long said that he is a hypocrite who only knows how to fry people." Shen Xun said: "Last September, it happened to be the period when "Xuantian Mountain and River" was extremely popular on the Internet. The filming of the TV series started and the animation was launched. The public beta of the game has started. Readers have mixed reviews on the original work. There are as many voices of praise as there are voices of criticism. However, Chu Jiao is the only online author who satirizes "Xuantian Mountains and Rivers" in public. No wonder it is attracted by a large number of fans Attack. After that, he never appeared on the Internet again, and the serialized novel "Huai Zhan" also stopped. Wu Province is investigating the movements of his family, and no progress has been made yet."

Hua Chong was silent for a few seconds, and then simply stated his conjecture with Liu Zhiqin—Chu Jiao and Lin Xiaofei must have a relationship.They have known each other on the Internet for a long time.Chu Jiao killed Zheng Qi and others to avenge Lin Xiaofei.

Le Ran listened with gusto, and turned her head to look at Shen Xun.

"Very convincing inference, but now there is a problem." Shen Xun tapped his finger on the table, "We still don't have complete evidence to prove that Chu Jiao is the murderer. The scenes of the two cases of Zheng Qi and He Yitao, No evidence was collected to identify the murderer. The puppy hair lured him out, but he could not be brought to justice. At present, the three of Liang Ruier are still alive and dead. I personally think that it is impossible for them to be alive. Now We can only hope to find their remains as soon as possible and extract convincing evidence."

Hua Chong frowned, this is indeed a very difficult matter.

"I think there is hope!" Le Ran suddenly said: "Haven't we already confirmed that Chu Jiao is hiding in Linjiang Province? The province and the city are linked together, and he can't escape at all. According to my judgment, the arrest can be done within two days. matter. Once we catch him, we can ask for clues."

Hua Chong raised his head, looked at this energetic young man, and suddenly thought that he might really find a breakthrough in Chu Jiao—when He Yitao was killed, the murderer took a set of extremely bloody photos.Where are the source files for these photos?Did it leave traces on the network when it was transmitted to the hacker?After finding Chu Jiao, there will be answers to all these.

"Also." Le Ran went on to say: "As far as Brother Qin is so powerful, we will definitely be able to solve the case."

"Zhiqin?" Hua Chong was taken aback for a moment before realizing that the other party should be Liu Zhiqin's old acquaintance.

"We used to be colleagues." Shen Xun said with a smile: "Although we are not in the same department, we have cooperated several times. I thought I would see him as soon as I came here, but Team Chen said he was on a business trip."

"He's back." Hua Chong said, "I told him that someone from his 'hometown' will definitely come. He may not know that it's you who are here, and he's dealing with clues about the Internet downstairs now. Will you go down later to say hello? "

"No, the case is not solved, and we can't leave. There are still many opportunities to meet, so I won't bother him for the time being." Shen Xun cleared his throat, "This case requires the cooperation of multiple units, and my colleagues from the special operations team are already here. Jiang is saved, we will let each other know if we find anything. I still have to go to the provincial office, I am happy to stay here, and send him if there is anything to do."

Le Ran seemed to straighten her back subconsciously, and stood upright, with a bit of a soldier's air.

The homicide case has been handed over to the provincial department, and the Ministry of Public Security is still in charge. The suspect is neither in Los Angeles nor in Hanoi. The serious crime team has changed from the state of being overwhelmed and overwhelmed in the past few days, and suddenly took a break.But everyone couldn't relax. First, the case was not solved in their own hands. Although this is indeed not a case that the city bureau can handle, it still feels aggrieved when they think about it. Second, they all know what happened to Lin Xiaofei, and their hearts inevitably feel heavy.

Shen Xun handed Le Ran over to Hua Chong, and Hua Chong had no choice but to take the young man back to the office of the crime team, and learned that the other party was 23 years old and had served in the army before.

No wonder.Hua Chong thought to himself, with this body and aura, it can be seen that he came from the army.

But when talking about the things in the army, Le Ran didn't want to talk more, and changed the subject after laughing twice.

Hua Chong didn't follow up and asked, remembering that the other party knew Liu Zhiqin, he simply said: "You, Captain Shen and Xiao Liu met at the Ministry of Public Security?"

"A little earlier." Le Ran said: "Brother Xun and I were not transferred to the Ministry of Public Security before, Brother Zhiqin helped us a lot. But I hadn't met him at that time, he was a friend of Brother Xun. Later I only met him for the first time when I went to the Ministry of Public Security.”

Hua Chong let out a "hmm".No need to ask, Liu Zhiqin must have intercepted some key evidence for them online.

"Until Brother Qin's sudden transfer, I'm still a little bit reluctant." Le Ran continued, "It feels like he slipped away after not working with him for long."

Hua Chong remembered asking Liu Zhiqin why he came to Los Angeles, and Liu Zhiqin said that he had committed a crime.Le Ran must know something, and Shen Xun may know more.He opened his mouth slightly, hesitated for a moment, but swallowed the words back.

Forget it, Liu Zhiqin didn't say there was a reason why he didn't say it, so he didn't need to ask around.

Le Ran didn't seem to mean to gossip about Liu Zhiqin, and said: "The case was reported to the Special Operations Team yesterday. Brother Xun saw that it was the Luo City Bureau, so he brought me here. Brother Zhiqin helped me back then, and I also want to Do your part for him."

"Thank you." Hua Chong patted Le Ran on the shoulder, "When the case is solved, we will treat you and Team Shen to dinner."

"I can't let you spend money." Said happily.

"It's okay." Hua Chong smiled: "Does Team Chen know? It's the one in the office just now. He is very rich. Let him hire him."

Le Ran thought for a while, "My brother Xun is also rich, so let me invite you."

Hua Chong couldn't help laughing, "Is there anyone who sells the captain like you?"

Le Ran laughed and pointed to the glass door in front, "That's the serious crime team?"

"En. Let's go." Hua Chong stepped forward quickly, pushed open the glass door, and let Le Ran in.

Qu Zhi only knew that someone from the Ministry of Public Security was coming, but he didn't see him. When he saw that Hua Chong brought back a young man who looked younger than Zhang Mao, he immediately rushed over, "Hey, there's a newcomer again?"

Le Ran saluted generously, "Hello."

"What newcomer?" Hua Chong said intentionally, "The leader from the Ministry of Public Security."

Qu Zhi was startled, "Damn it! So young?"

"No, no!" Le Ran said quickly, "I'm not a leader, I, I'm here to work with you."

Hua Chong stopped teasing him, "Sit whatever you want, don't be restrained. I'll go and see Brother Xiaoliu first... Has Xiaoliu made any progress?"

Le Ran didn't ask to follow, "Okay, you are busy with the flower team."

The newly installed curtains in the lounge were opened wide, and the sunlight illuminated the whole room like a lantern.

Hua Chong pushed the door open and entered, Liu Zhiqin looked at him after hearing the sound.

"Did you find any clues?" He closed the door and walked to the sofa.

Liu Zhiqin frowned slightly, with some confusion in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" he asked again.

"I have..." Liu Zhiqin's voice was a little hoarse, and he coughed twice before saying: "I have captured all the traces in Lin Xiaofei's computer, and I have also checked his multiple pseudonyms and online names."

Hua Chong quickly sat down, "Then what? What did you find?"

"He has never made friends on the Internet, and has always been writing alone. The novel is published on a special serialization website, and the post-reading reflections are posted on his own blog. It can’t be called making friends.” Liu Zhiqin said: “He has neither an author friend to discuss writing with, nor a reader friend who has followed him for a long time. We speculated last night that the murderer was an Internet author and his ‘confidant’, but So far, that doesn’t seem to be the case.”

Hua Chong was also surprised.The Ministry of Public Security has made it clear that "Wang Chuang", whose pen name is Tan Feng and whose real name is Chu Jiao, is an Internet author who had conflicts with Hao Lang of E. This confirms his and Liu Zhiqin's speculation from the side, but suddenly, Liu Zhi Qin told him that Lin Xiaofei didn't have such a friend.

It's like drawing conclusion B from the clue of A, but going back, B can't go back to A, but draws conclusion C instead.

Hua Chong seemed to see a complicated maze, with one dead end after another in front of him.

He calmed down for a moment, told himself that he must have made a mistake, and then informed Liu Zhiqin of the arrival of the Ministry of Public Security and the confirmation of "Wang Chuang"'s identity.

"Really?" For a moment, Liu Zhiqin frowned even tighter, "If that's the case, then our guess shouldn't be wrong. But why doesn't Lin Xiaofei have any contact with him on the Internet?"

"Could it be, but it hasn't been found yet?"

Liu Zhiqin looked at the computer, and said after about half a minute: "I'm recovering and grabbing with a network layout. It stands to reason that there will be no omissions."

Hua Chong took a deep breath and couldn't figure it out for a while.

After a while, Liu Zhiqin shook his head, "By the way, when I was looking for traces just now, I found that Lin Xiaofei didn't step on other authors' novels on the Internet, and he didn't recommend his own novels after stepping on others. About him five years ago The screenshots mocking other authors are all forged. He has limited time online, only posting novels, reading novels, and writing thoughts. He has never participated in disputes in the online literary circle. As we imagined, he can’t manage himself at all. Don’t The author usually has a few friends in the circle, and is very likely to develop friendship with readers, but either because of limited time online, or because of his personality, he has not made friends online."

"Where's the editor?" Hua Chong asked: "He signed a contract with that fantasy literature network, so it stands to reason that there will be an editor."

"There is indeed one, but there is a lack of communication between them."

"why?"

"Lin Xiaofei is not popular, and he doesn't know how to 'make trouble'. An editor has dozens or hundreds of people, and they don't care about him at all."

"So, he's 'the loner' online?"

Liu Zhiqin pursed his lips, and answered after a while: "It seems so."

Hua Chong inserted his fingers into his hair and rubbed it vigorously, "This is fucking weird. Chu Jiao had conflicts with Haolang of E, but he didn't know Lin Xiaofei. He killed the person who attacked Lin Xiaofei because of Haolang of E... It doesn't make sense at all!"

Liu Zhiqin said nothing, groped on the sofa with his left hand, and picked up half a pack of cigarettes.

"Want to smoke?" Hua Chong asked.

"Ah."

Hua Chong took out the lighter, and the two lit cigarettes together.

The lounge was smoky, luckily no alarm was installed.

After a while, Hua Chong asked: "Then what about the thing Granny Chen said? Who wants to buy the copyright of "The Shining Place of Eternal Night" from Lin Xiaofei? Could this be a clue?"

"It's a small-scale IP acquisition company. It's actually a studio. It buys works with potential and sells them to other companies at a high price." Liu Zhiqin shook off a piece of soot, "This studio was taken over by another company three years ago. An acquisition. Back then they contacted Lin Xiaofei through Fantasy Literature Network, and it seemed that they really wanted to buy "The Shining Place of Eternal Night". Nothing suspicious."

Hua Chong propped his chin, "It's strange. Then the current situation is—in fact, no one 'revenged' Lin Xiaofei?"

After a while, Liu Zhiqin said: "Flower team, could it be that our direction was wrong from the beginning?"

The lounge fell into a heavy silence, the sun was overcast, and a hot wind poured in.Hua Chong put his hands on his temples, thought for a long time, and said, "No, it's impossible. Chu Jiao must be related to the case, otherwise why would he hide? On the other hand, the only link between the two dead and the three missing is Lin Xiaofei. Take Lin Xiaofei out of it, and the five cases will have nothing to do with each other."

Liu Zhiqin took a deep breath, leaned on the sofa, and rubbed the center of his eyebrows wearily, "Then I'll start with Chu Jiao to check."

Hua Chong turned his head, his eyes fell on Liu Zhiqin's eyebrows.

Liu Zhiqin also just raised his eyes and met his gaze.

"Ok?"

Hua Chong stretched out his hand, covering Liu Zhiqin's forehead with his palm, "Are you tired?"

"It's okay." Liu Zhiqin smiled, "The case hasn't been solved, so even if you want to take a rest, you don't feel at ease."

"It doesn't matter if you don't stop, but you have to eat when the time comes." Hua Chong said, "Are you hungry?"

Liu Zhiqin pressed his stomach, but he didn't notice it when he was busy, but only now did he realize that he was really hungry.

"Let's go, let's eat first. Your former colleague seems to have a big appetite, let's not let him starve."

Liu Zhiqin was surprised, "Who?"

Hua Chong: "I didn't tell you just now who is here from the Ministry of Public Security?"

Liu Zhiqin shook his head.

"Look at my brain." Hua Chong smiled, "Shen Xun and Le Ran from the special operations team. I heard from Brother Le Ran that you are not only their former colleague, but also a friend."

Liu Zhiqin's eyes brightened slightly, and his expression relaxed a lot, "It's actually them."

"Well. Captain Shen went to the provincial office, and threw Leran to me, saying that he was doing whatever he wanted. I think the child is very energetic, and he must be very good at eating."

Liu Zhiqin smiled: "If you look energetic, you can eat well?"

"Why not?"

"Brother Ran is very good at eating." Liu Zhiqin stood up, put the things back together, and said in a low voice, "I can compete with you."

Hua Chong didn't hear clearly, "What are you mumbling about?"

"No, you heard wrong."

Hua Chong raised his eyebrows suspiciously, and said, "Le Ran is only 23 years old, you call him 'Brother Ran'?"

"Mr. Shen Xun called it that, and I occasionally reflexively called him 'Brother Ran'." Liu Zhiqin thought to himself, you still call me 'Brother Xiao Liu', am I older than you?

"I see." Hua Chong thought for a while, "Then I also call him 'Brother Ran'?"

"No, just call him 'Lele'. They all call him 'Lele'."

Hua Chongle said, "This name is really festive."

"Yes, people are also festive."

Liu Zhiqin opened the door and saw Le Ran at a glance.

Le Ran also saw him, and said loudly, "Brother Qin!"

Hua Chong lowered his voice and said, "Look, aren't you super energetic?"

Liu Zhiqin also lowered his voice, "He's usually louder, but now he's in a new place, so he's not used to it."

Le Ran walked over quickly, looked Liu Zhiqin up and down, and patted him on the arm vigorously, "Brother Zhiqin, how are you doing recently?"

"Don't hit me with your punching strength." Liu Zhiqin said with a smile.

"Is it heavy?" Le Ran looked at her hands, "No, I'm hungry, so I can't use much strength."

Hua Chong laughed when he heard that, and blinked at Liu Zhiqin, "See, I'm hungry."

Liu Zhiqin nodded, "Well, the reception is not good."

Le Ran understood, and hurriedly argued, "That's not what I meant."

Hua Chong liked this energetic "little leader" a little bit, and smiled and took his shoulders, "We are hungry too, let's go, let's eat."

It was meal time, Le Ran thought he was going to the cafeteria, but he was abducted to the alley opposite the City Bureau.Hua Chong was like when he brought Liu Zhiqin to dinner for the first time, the east family bought a bunch, and the west family bought a bunch.But Leran's reaction was completely different from Liu Zhiqin's at that time. Liu Zhiqin said "do you order so much?" Leran said "there is another store over there".

Hua Chong felt that he had found a perfect fan friend.

During the dinner, Hua Chongcai knew that Le Ran was not a criminal police officer but a special police officer when he first put on the police uniform, and he felt cordial.

"Flower Team, you used to be a special police officer too?" Le Ran put down the skewers in her hand and said sincerely, "It's amazing!"

Hua Chong didn't understand what he meant by "really powerful", but Liu Zhiqin understood.

"You were transferred from the special police to the criminal police, and you have become the leader of the serious crime team in just a few years." Le Ran said, "It's amazing."

Hua Chongxiao said, "You have been working in the Ministry of Public Security at such a young age, you are truly remarkable."

"I'm just following Brother Xun." Le Ran touched her forehead, feeling a little embarrassed, "It's Brother Xun who helped me."

Hua Chong's thoughts changed, and he realized that Le Ran seemed to be "wrong" with Shen Xun.

Liu Zhiqin divided the remaining grilled lamb chops into two portions, "You are both amazing, with such a strong fighting force, you have eaten up a whole table of dishes."

In summer, it got dark late, and the three of them finished their supper, and the sky was still bright.Hua Chong bought some suppers, but they were all snatched up as soon as he got back to the office.

Hua Chong wanted to drive the team members back to rest. After all, all the investigations were concentrated on Liu Zhiqin's side. Even if Zhang Mao and the others stayed, they couldn't do much.In this case, it is better to go home and sleep.

But no one left.

Qu Zhi hugged a large bottle of iced black tea, "Forget it, I've been busy for so many days, and these two days are too many. Anyway, I'm going back to play games, so I might as well contribute my spare energy here."

Others mean the same thing.

That being the case, Hua Chong no longer insisted.

Liu Zhiqin closed the door of the lounge, staring at a pile of electronic equipment in a daze.

Zheng Qi's computer has not been repaired yet, but it is no longer necessary.When the computer was shipped back, it was thought that evidence of Zheng Qi's participation in a serious cyber violence incident in high school could be found in it, but now it has been found in another way.There are clear traces in Lin Xiaofei's computer. Just by looking at his past Internet records, words and deeds, one can tell that this is an honest, down-to-earth, and somewhat idealistic person.Does he really have nothing to do with Chu Jiao?Is there anything else I haven't found?

As night fell, the surroundings became silent.

Liu Zhiqin rested his index finger on his chin, and the dim light of the monitor was reflected in his eyes.

If you don't check, you don't know that this Chu Jiao actually has a very close connection with Yi Linlang.As early as six years ago, he was the "gunner" of E Haolang, who hadn't become popular at that time. He wrote a small part of the "Dark Star Return" that caused a lot of trouble. Hao Lang polished it and finally published it on Yinhe Wenchuang.Afterwards, while working as a gunman for E Zhihaolang, he changed his pen name and created his own novels until he disappeared in October last year.

No, not really disappearing.

He is investigating Fengfei 78.

Meetings in the middle of the night are always frustrating, so Hua Chong went to Chen Zheng's office to look for black tea for the guests, but couldn't find it, so he had to dig out his own chrysanthemum tea, made two cups and handed them to Shen Xun and Le Ran.

"Yi Linlang now lives in Canada, and the Yi family is very rich, but what he has set up for himself is a 'common people'." Shen Xun said: "I just got the news that in all the articles he published over the years, the main characters, important Clues and plots are bought with money. He has spent a lot of energy and financial resources on writing. It can be said that he should love writing. But because of lack of talent, he can only use the two methods of "buying and selling" and "hype". In this way, let yourself become the author of the "Great God" that everyone looks up to."

"That's right, Chu Jiao is also one of his 'gunners'." Liu Zhiqin looked serious, "The known clues are that Chu Jiao started to create when he was 17 years old at the latest. The time is almost the same as that of Lin Xiaofei, and the situation is similar. , not many people read it. After graduating from junior high school, he stopped studying and worked in an auto repair shop. Because no one read the novels he wrote, he began to be a "gunner" for some well-known authors at that time. This His income far exceeded what he earned from writing under his own pseudonym, and was also higher than his salary as an auto repair worker. After that, he became a professional "gunner". Six years ago, as Yi Linlang's exclusive "gunner", I got their Confidential contracts and transfer records. Yi Linlang paid him a large commission, which is not only a buyout fee for ideas and articles, but also a hush money. But after Chu Jiao became financially affluent, he recreated his own novel under the pseudonym of 'Chan Crazy' , and became popular last year. I have not found out the specific reason for the breakup between them, but it is probably related to the novel that Chu Jiao was serializing at the time, namely "Huai Zhan"."

Hua Chong flipped through the report quickly, raised his head, "Yi Linlang still wants to buy it, but Chu Jiao doesn't want to sell it anymore?"

At this time, Shen Xun's mobile phone vibrated.He glanced at it and said in a deep voice, "News from the special operations team."

Hua Chong took a breath and looked at Liu Zhiqin.

Liu Zhiqin nodded lightly.

The call at this time is probably a breakthrough in the case.