Dangerous Personality

"The autopsy report came out. The fatal injury of the deceased was the knife wound on the wrist. The cause of death was excessive blood loss. The time of death was about the same as our preliminary guess, between three and five o'clock at night. Except for the knife wound on the wrist Besides, there are no other wounds."

"The deceased Guo Xingchang, born in 48, was [-] years old and lived alone. His wife divorced him ten years ago, and his son died unexpectedly. We just called his wife, and his wife was silent for a while on the other end of the phone and said, 'I I have nothing to do with him, whether he is dead or alive has nothing to do with me, I don’t know about him, it’s been ten years, and I haven’t had any contact with him in these ten years.”

Someone commented on this: "Even if it is a divorce... this is too cold."

At first, there were still people discussing the case in low voices.

Until more details are released, there are several photos taken at the scene on the screen. These photos are a blood-stained fruit knife with a black handle and a comparison of fingerprints.

"Only the fingerprints of the consultant and the deceased were found at the scene."

"No one else has been on the scene other than knowing the consultants."

……

There was silence in the conference room.

After the silence, someone asked, "Where is Xie Lin now?"

Another moment of silence.

After a while, someone replied: "It's gone."

"Furthermore, the gate guard and the community monitoring obtained can prove that he drove out last night. He left the community at 02:30 in the morning and arrived at Guo Xingchang's house at exactly three o'clock. The time of his death was consistent."

All the evidence points to unraveling.

Among all the people in the conference room, some of them have worked with Xie Lin for so long, and have a deep filter on Xie Lin. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is regarded as a male god—after all, in so many moments when they were at a loss, Jielin is like a divine soldier descending from heaven.

But there are also some people who have opposed Jielin's joining from the very beginning.

"I said it at the beginning—he is a double-edged sword. You may not know who the knife is pointed at in the next second," someone said. The murderer's location."

"Xie Lin is very dangerous, no one can control him, I warned you from the beginning!"

The dark clouds outside the window pressed down, making it almost impossible to breathe.

Chi Qing was not allowed to enter the meeting room this time.

But he can mostly guess what details they will announce at the meeting.

The details of the case ten years ago were not even known to the criminal police, and the level of secrecy was too high, so Guo Xingchang's son could only know the extent of "accidental death".

But Chi Qing, as the party involved in that old case, knew what this "accidental death" meant, he couldn't be more clear.

The concrete rooms that looked like prison cells flashed before his eyes. Although he had never met, the boy in the bedroom photo was also in one of them ten years ago.

Suddenly, the sentence sounded in his ear again:

【...How could Xie Lin know. 】

Sitting on the corridor outside the meeting room, Chi Qing took off a glove and took out her mobile phone to check the time.

Then he clicked on the WeChat chat software, found Xie Lin's name, and looked at the chat box for a while.

Due to the "special relationship" between Chi Qing and Jie Lin, he could not enter the meeting room. Ji Mingrui was worried about his current emotional state, so he opened the door and sat down beside him.He said in his heart that this birthday present was given in a wicked way. As soon as he gave out a copy of "Criminal Law", the owner of the gift was probably about to "enter".

Although the weather is not so cold now, Chi Qing still doesn't seem to be afraid of the cold, only wearing a thin sweater, and her exposed hands are whiter from the cold.

His eyes were lowered, and the emotions in his eyes were hidden by the overly long eyelashes.

In the end, without saying a word, without typing anything on the screen, he kept his original posture and turned off the screen again.

Ji Mingrui opened his mouth, and was about to say "Are you okay", when the cell phone in his hand rang, and when he hung up the phone, what he wanted to say before was interrupted by the new task assigned to him: "The director told you to go over there for a while. Come on, I have something to ask you."

The sandalwood in the incense burner has been half burned.

Chi Qing sat opposite the middle-aged man.

He didn't meet the director of the General Administration much, but he had noticed that the other party would occasionally cast silent glances at him, and there were too many things he couldn't understand and didn't really want to understand accumulated in the short stares.

In silence.

The pot of hot water on the side just boiled, and a cup of hot tea was pushed to Chi Qing.

"Thank you," Chi Qing said, "Has the tea bowl been sterilized?"

The person opposite did not expect that the first sentence the two of them would say in this office would be this sentence.

"...Sterilized."

After hearing this answer, Chi Qing took off his gloves to prevent the bacteria and dust on the gloves from entering the tea, then took a piece of tissue paper from the side and wiped his hands carefully.

When he took a sip of tea and gently put the tea bowl back on the desk, the conversation finally got to the point.

The person opposite said in a deep voice: "The night Guo Xingchang died, I called him, but no one answered."

Chi Qing said calmly, "Maybe he's dead."

"Last week, Xie Lin asked me for the file of the kidnapping case, and then he went to find Guo Xingchang. The two of them talked about something, but Guo Xingchang crashed into a car because of 'wandering mind' the next morning."

What he said is true.

"Do you know why Jie Lin looked for him?"

"..."

Before Chi Qing could answer, the director said, "I guess it's because of Xie Feng."

"You seem surprised. In fact, this matter is not difficult to guess. Ten years ago, Lao Guo was one of my subordinates. As soon as the kidnapping case was closed, he suddenly resigned. I have never known the real reason for his resignation until now. The next time I come to find him."

On the night of Guo Xingchang's death, the complete words of the director in the telephone recording were: "Old Guo, the real reason why you resigned back then...what is it?"

Ten years ago, Guo Xingchang solved strange cases repeatedly and his position rose rapidly. He was also at the most energetic age at that time.

After the kidnapping case ended, he could have been promoted to another level, but Guo Xingchang, who was wearing a police badge, refused, saying: "I want to resign."

Guo Xingchang had deep dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept well since the kidnapping case.

"Resign? Why do you want to resign?"

At that time, Guo Xingchang said that he wanted to stop and think about it on the grounds that he missed his son every day when he returned home, and that his wife's departure also made him feel painful.

But at that time, he didn't tell the real reason at all—because he couldn't and couldn't be a criminal policeman anymore.

Because he did not choose the right side.

Wouldn't he know that the "thing" he was asked to do was not easy.

Doesn't he know that doing so may cause the mission to fail?

Doesn't he know what he was thinking or looking forward to when he didn't hang up immediately because he received the call.

He knew it all, but he still did it by mistake.

So every night after that, he stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, and his memory kept being pulled back to that day.

The director said slowly: "You may have never met Xie Feng, and you don't know what kind of person he is. I can only say that in the past ten years, there has not been a day when I have not felt sorry for his death. I can't even dream of it." I hope he is still alive in this world."

"Xie Lin likes to cling to Xie Feng since he was a child, but Xie Feng is always very busy. Two months before Xie Feng's death, he just promised Xie Lin that he would take him to a camping event when this case is over. "

"..."

The stick of incense on the table was about to burn out.

The conversation finally ended with these few words: "Do you think Jielin will kill someone?"

The color of Chi Qing's pupils was so dark that it was lifeless, like a pool that would not change no matter how others stirred it, and those deep pool-like eyes looked straight at each other.

"Back then...in such 'rules of the game'," the director also looked back at him, his voice was very deep, as if he was talking about an extremely secret thing, "how did you survive, you the only one One of the survivors should know better than anyone."

Half an hour later, Chi Qing stood on the side of the road waiting for a return taxi.

He stood on the side of the road, the sky was dyed into a gray mist, the raindrops fell on the umbrella, and the faces of passers-by on the road were covered under the umbrella.

The rain and the dark sky pressed down together, and the umbrella in Chi Qing's hand became heavier after being wet by the rain.

——"Back then, how did you survive?"

These words fell heavily together with the rain, overshadowing all other sounds. In an instant, the sounds of cars, rain, walking, and conversations of people around gradually faded away.This sentence is obviously not a distorted voice, but it is still uncontrollably amplified infinitely in his ears.

He and Xie Lin talked about the old case ten years ago, how they got in together, and their "secrets", but they avoided the same topic, which was "survival".

Ten years ago, in order to get enough people, that person divided them into two groups - this is also the rule that Chi Qing had paid special attention to at the beginning. It must be two people in one room, and the reason why one person is missing is to watch them play games .

"It's full now."

There were footsteps coming from the dark corridor, and a man's hoarse and vicissitudes of life.

He pushed the dining cart into the depths of the first room, and while distributing today's meals to them, he muttered something in his mouth.

Chi Qing saw half of the man's face through the crack of the door, and the corner of the man's mouth was raised slightly, as if he was smiling.

Chi Qing tried his best to distinguish the sound of each word from his muttering, and finally he found that it was a sentence: "Now that everyone is here... the game can begin."

At that time, everyone naively thought that they were just being locked up, and they were even naively waiting for rescue.

But they never thought that a cruel game would befall them.

"Children, let's play a game."

"The rules of the game are very simple - after a week, there will only be one person left alive in the room you are in. I don't care what method you use, after a week, only one person will survive out of the two people."

"If both of you live, you have to die together."

"So... the game begins."