shadow of crime

"Xiao Jiang, I will take you with me when you become a full-time member." Xu Shiqing said gently standing in the night, "When this case is over, I will go home to accompany my wife to have a baby."

The torrential rain fell without warning, and Xu Shiqing's figure disappeared into the rain curtain.A weak call for help came from behind, Jiang Bei turned around, and saw the child standing by the river, the water covered his calf, as if it could take him away at any time.He raised his pale face, with tears in his eyes, and said in a trembling voice:

"help me……"

Jiang Bei started to run, but when he reached out his hand, he couldn't catch the child who was close at hand. He was always close.

The child waited for too long before someone came to rescue him. He became a little impatient, his face collapsed, and he looked coldly at the people running wildly in the rain.

"You're so stupid," he said, "why can't you catch me?"

He laughed, revealing his white teeth, and a nearly crazy and distorted light flashed in the bottom of his eyes, which looked strange and cold against the backdrop of his immature face.The child didn't wait any longer, broke through the rain curtain and ran towards Jiang Bei.

A pair of black eyes suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Bei, like an abyss, and Jiang Bei's bewildered face was reflected in the depths.

"Giggle," the child laughed, "let's play a game..."

"call--"

Jiang Bei woke up from a short and hasty light sleep, and exhaled a hot breath.The aftermath of the nightmare broke out in a cold sweat, as if drenched by the rain.Half asleep and half awake, Jiang Bei mechanically pulled the toilet paper to wipe his sweat, but his mind was full of that ghostly child.

Bang-!

The door of the office was suddenly knocked open, and Wang Zhipeng came in hurriedly, dispelling Jiang Bei's sleepiness as soon as he opened his mouth.

"The autopsy report you want, read it before Lao Xu comes, I have to return it after I finish it."

"So fast?"

"That's right, you don't even think about who is in charge, my face card is also easy to swipe, okay?"

A few pages were still warm, and the ink was still dry. Jiang Bei could probably imagine the scene where Wang Zhipeng pestered the forensic doctor to perform an autopsy overnight.

Wang Zhipeng pulled up a chair and sat next to Jiang Bei, drank tons of water, and after he recovered, his mouth couldn't hold back: "The autopsy report is here. Let me tell you, Cheng Ye definitely committed suicide! You see." , There were no traces of fighting on the body, and there was no sign of poisoning. It wasn't suicide. What was it? Also, Cheng Ye's fingers had no strangulation marks or damage. If it was homicide and he was hung up, he should have grabbed the rope to let himself breathe Well, so what on earth are you still doubting?"

Jiang Bei's gaze stayed on the second page of the autopsy report for a long time, and his eyes that had been silent for a long time finally flickered for a moment: "What if he was powerless to resist at that time?"

As if hearing a big joke, Wang Zhipeng said "haha" twice without pain, and his old face sank: "You think Cheng Ye is a three-year-old child, he dares to beat you, and he is powerless to resist. As you do In other words, I can only think that Thanos flew to Cheng Ye's house overnight and snapped his fingers."

Jiang Bei: "..."

Someone outside the door shouted "Captain Xu", and Wang Zhipeng was like a mouse touching a cat, and he was shocked instantly: "Old Xu is here, have you finished reading it? You have been looking at these big characters for so long."

Our allies guarding the door were talking loudly, talking to Xu Zhengyuan: "Okay! I'll tell Deputy Jiang to go to the interrogation room immediately! Captain Xu, please rest assured!"

A minute later, a generous face squeezed into the door frame and said, "Captain Jiang, I told you to go to the interrogation room."

"Understood." Jiang Bei took the autopsy report and walked away step by step under the eyes of our allies.

Wang Zhipeng looked at the slender figure, reacted suddenly, and ran after him: "Give me the autopsy report, and if I don't return it, that old man who digs corpses every day will dissect me!"

10 minutes later, the interrogation room.

Outside the one-way see-through glass, Wang Zhipeng nervously grabbed Lao Li's hand, and Lao Li slapped his backhand, and then sipped Bobo milk tea gracefully.

Wu Zichuan on the side looked sad and worried: "Will Brother Jiang be punished?"

"I don't know," Wang Zhipeng said, "I just know that I will be punished."

Wu Zichuan pursed his lips: "Forget it, I'm going to ask Lin An to save Brother Jiang."

The air in the interrogation room was heavy and heavy, the lights were not too bright, and the two shadows cast on the ground were at odds with each other, and there was a sense of oppression in the shadows that could make others flinch again and again.

"Cheng Ye committed suicide," Jiang Bei spoke first, "The murderer disguised himself as suicide after killing the victim."

In the past two days, Xu Zhengyuan heard too many interesting things. First, there were two murderers in the serial murder case, and then Jiang Bei insisted that Cheng Ye was a homicide, so that he heard Jiang Bei calling Cheng Ye a "victim". No wonder.

"In this case, let's go through the process." Xu Zhengyuan was still wearing the old jacket, leaning back in the chair sickly, but there was an undeniable dignity in his voice, "The last person Cheng Ye saw before he died was you. According to Cheng Ye's call records and the monitoring of the underground parking lot, you went to Cheng Ye's house at around 1:25 p.m. on January 9th and stayed for about an hour. What were you doing during this time?"

Jiang Bei heard something else, and when facing Xu Zhengyuan's questioning eyes, he hid. "Get the drowning case file."

"Oh," Xu Zhengyuan said slowly, "a deputy team went to the intern's house to get the file for an hour."

Jiang Bei was stymied, he couldn't explain it.

Xu Zhengyuan took a sip of tea and moistened his throat: "Okay, just treat it as a subordinate who cares about you. But I saw you in the early morning of January 1th, and you were still carrying a gun. I went to check the records of the property management department , you did not register, so what does it mean that you brought a gun to Cheng Ye's house? If Cheng Ye committed suicide, you are the most suspected, please explain, why did you carry the gun privately?"

Jiang Bei didn't want to discuss this, and tried to bring the interrogation back to the original topic: "I didn't kill him, but Cheng Ye did. The autopsy report..."

"You can't tell," Xu Zhengyuan interrupted him. "Using guns without consent is a serious problem. Maybe you didn't kill Cheng Ye, but you did in your head. Tell me, the reason why you want to kill him What is it?"

Outside the window, Wang Zhipeng opened his mouth into an O shape, and Wu Zichuan was also shocked. Only Lao Li looked calm and said leisurely: "Save your expression, the fun has just begun."

Jiang Bei couldn't answer, and he never looked directly at Xu Zhengyuan from the beginning to the end.

Xu Zhengyuan answered for him: "Everything happens for a reason. The reason why you want to kill Cheng Ye may start from a week ago."

Jiang Bei's pupils suddenly shrank.

Only Xu Zhengyuan said in a deep voice: "A week ago, you went to Cheng Ye's house, and you stayed at his house overnight. At that time, Cheng Ye said that he might be the next victim, and you should protect him. I can understand that."

Wang Zhipeng outside the window couldn't calm down any longer, and pressed his headset and said in surprise: "What, they spent the night together?!"

Lao Li made a "tsk" sound, and said in disgust: "Can you not make protecting the victim look like prostitution? Vulgar."

"No, a week ago... How did Lao Xu know that Jiang Bei went to Cheng Ye's house a week ago?" Wang Zhipeng realized, "Old Li, did Xu Zhengyuan ask you to check the surveillance?"

Lao Li didn't answer, looked at the interrogation room with a smile, and said inscrutablely: "Old Xu is an old fox."

Xu Zhengyuan was not in a hurry to listen to Jiang Bei's answer. He got up and turned off the sound transmission and video recording, then sat back in the chair, looked at Jiang Bei for a while, and then said: "I am not interested in the private affairs between you young people, but Xiao Jiang , I want to tell you, no matter what you think in your heart, don’t be impulsive. The villain will be taken in by someone, even though this person is not you. Okay, now let’s talk about why you insist that Cheng Ye killed him? Don’t worry, the outsider A few listeners in the corner can't hear anything."

Jiang Bei loosened his clenched fingers slightly, his face burning.Just now, he was stripped clean by Xu Zhengyuan, those dirty and filthy things were unreservedly exposed in front of his most respected elders, every word Xu Zhengyuan said was too late for him.

He took a deep breath and put the autopsy report on the table. Xu Zhengyuan was not surprised, Jiang Bei was not obedient.

Jiang Bei said: "On the night of January 1th, I did go to Cheng Ye's house. The reason why I stayed for an hour was because Cheng Ye asked me to accompany him for dinner."

"Did you eat?"

"No," Jiang Bei said, "Cheng Ye said that he would give me the file of the drowning case after he finished his meal, so I watched him finish his meal with my own eyes."

He bit the word "rice" very hard.

Xu Zhengyuan sat up straight unconsciously, his cloudy eyes contained a bit of brilliance when he was young.

姜北接着说:“程野的死亡时间在1月26号、也就是昨天早晨的5点到6点之间，距离他吃饭已经过了8到9个小时。按食物的消化速度，这个时间段食物应该在小肠内进行再吸收。但法医没有在程野的小肠中发现食物，甚至胃、十二指肠、盲肠里也没有食物。”

Even an old fox like Xu Zhengyuan was shocked after understanding the meaning of these words.He took a look at the autopsy report, with deep wrinkles between his brows, and asked Jiang Bei, "Are you sure you saw Cheng Cheng eating wild on the night of the 25th?"

"Do you believe me? Cheng Ye...Cheng Ye really committed suicide," Jiang Bei frowned, as if he didn't want to accept the result.He said, "Cheng Ye's throat mucous membrane is not damaged, which can rule out the possibility of him vomiting after eating, so the person I saw that night was not Cheng Ye at all, and it is more likely that the person who worked in the bureau during this time was not Cheng Ye either. Cheng Ye was powerless to resist under the condition of extreme hunger, was hanged under the crystal lamp, and then pretended to commit suicide, or this is the murderer's "self-judgment".

Xu Zhengyuan sat back in the chair, clasping the armrest tightly with his fingers.

Jiang Bei said tremblingly, "I always thought that the murderer was trying to divert the police's attention to Cheng Ye, so that Cheng Ye could take the blame for him, but that's not the case. At that time, I had already targeted Cheng Ye. After the case of Li Zhenzhen However, Cheng Ye was cleared of the suspicion, which is contrary to my guess. Li Zhenzhen is not a loophole, it is the other party's intention, because only by using Li Zhenzhen to help Cheng Ye clear the suspicion, the other party can use the identity of "Cheng Ye" to appear in front of me The murder is most likely committed by an acquaintance, and the other party has Cheng Ye's face on his face, so he can enter the victim's home at the same time as Cheng Ye."

"The director of the Sun Welfare Institute said that Cheng Ye was thrown away because his biological mother couldn't afford to support him. But he was a boy, and few boys were thrown away in the late 90s, unless his mother gave birth to two boys and really raised him. The only way to throw away a child is if there is no live child.”

The game isn't over yet.

Jiang Bei's face turned pale, and after a long while, he struggled to utter a sentence: "The murderer... is Cheng Ye's identical twin brother."