Fire to the Abyss

Xia Yan chose the most comfortable position to lean against the bed, starting from Chen Zhifeng's reckless finalization of the Chengda poisoning case, all the way to his murder.

"Old Chen, he is good or bad, useless, incompetent, he is considered an old senior in the team, but no one in the team dares to offend, no one likes or respects him. It seems to be the same with him or without him. At that time, I was assisting in handling the case outside, and after working for a month, I heard about the Chengda case, and my brother was also implicated. There were so many suspicious points in the case, but Lao Chen Self-assessment turned into an accident. I was just angry at him for his incompetence at first, and I didn't think too much about it. Who knew that Yang Ming would tell me that he was missing the next day, and the real culprit of the poisonous murder case was the puppet master. Anyone would suspect that he deliberately shielded the murderer.

"At that time, everyone was gnashing their teeth to find him. His wife also came to the detachment every day to spit on me, and our people were also investigating, but there was no clue. In fact, everyone in the detachment, including me, thought that Mr. Chen is very likely to be a member of the puppet master. But the higher-ups don't think so, and they don't even approve a search warrant. If they were approved at that time, they might be sure that he was killed.

"Three days ago, Chen Zhifeng's wife reported to the police and found him in the freezer in the cellar of his house. When I arrived, he hadn't thawed yet, and his face had been smashed. I couldn't even see him...

"This case is a deliberate murder, so I can't run away. Now I'm investigating in the direction of vendetta, but secretly, I'm digging for the connection between the puppeteer and this case.

"I thought about it later, Chen Zhifeng is basically an idiot, and he has always been timid in doing things, but he was quite decisive in Chengda's case, which is very abnormal and does not seem to be due to his active behavior.

"So, I have two simple inferences: one is that he has always been a puppet master, and when the organization wanted him to come forward, he did so;

"But both of them are unreasonable. Since he is a puppet master who has arranged for the police, he should be more effective in lurking for a long time. Such a hasty appearance will only arouse suspicion and expose himself in advance. Wouldn't the gain outweigh the harm? Of course, it does not rule out the possibility that the decision maker is brain-dead. Besides, according to the situation at the scene of the crime, the murderer is not as simple as just trying to kill someone. The murderer deliberately stabbed him three times. The knife is fatal, it seems to be for some purpose of revenge, the general direction of vendetta should be right. I have never heard of the practice of stabbing people three times by puppet masters, what do you say?"

After Xia Yan finished speaking a long list, he stared sideways at Lu Yuan, hoping that he could give him some advice.

Lu Yuan stared down at the small piece of gauze exposed under Xia Yan's trouser legs: "Why did you hurt your ankle?"

His eyes were too sticky, and Xia Yan felt a little uncomfortable staring at him, so he quickly moved his feet back to avoid Lu Yuan's sight: "It's just a bit of an accident, cough, cough, let's get down to business Woolen cloth."

Lu Yuan propped his head up and looked at Xia Yan, his expression seemed to say "I'm just talking about business".

Xia Yan's scalp was numb from his staring eyes, and he felt that he couldn't get better without saying something, so he replied in a soft voice: "I will pay attention in the future..."

Only then did Lu Yuan turn his head in satisfaction, and slowly began to talk about the business: "It is true that I have never heard of this practice... I think the possibility of your first inference is very low. You said that he is useless and incompetent. He is a weak person. Although people with this kind of character are relatively easy to control for the organization, they often don't play a big role when encountering troubles. They are not a good choice for the organization. Of course, if It's another matter if his weakness is just pretending..."

"No, no, no, it's impossible," Xia Yan sat up straight and hurriedly interrupted, "The detachment is full of criminal police, if he really pretends and can fool the whole team, then he can rely on his acting skills for a living. Fuck the police!"

Lu Yuan continued: "That's why I said the possibility is extremely low. If you don't consider that Chen Zhifeng is a puppet master, then his actions in the Chengda poisoning case were coerced by someone in the organization. I think you can Start with how he was coerced. You said that the murderer had a personal enmity with him and that there was a contradiction between him being killed and silenced. I don’t think this contradiction is a problem at all. Have you ever thought that the person in the organization who went to silence him happened to be with him? What about people who have personal grudges?"

"It's not impossible, but is there such a coincidence?" This theory is too bold, Xia Yan never thought about it.

Lu Yuan didn't look at him again, stared at the floor in front of him and said in a low voice: "There is no practice of stabbing people a few times, but there are many things that can be done by acquaintances, whether it is revenge or affection."

A few words from Lu Yuan gave Xia Yan a breakthrough, he immediately got up and walked out the door, all he could do was to go home and catch up on sleep, so that he could work with full energy tomorrow.

If he could pay more attention at this time, he would find that the tone of Lu Yuan's last half sentence was almost desolate.

I don't know what kind of lucky star Lu Yuan is, since I went to him, there was a breakthrough in the case, Xia Yan decided not to retweet Koi when something goes wrong in the future, but to retweet Lu Yuan instead.

The next day Xia Yan went to work early in the morning, and Xia Lin found out.

"Brother, I found out how the murderer came in and out of the scene, come and see."

From afar, Xia Yan saw Xia Lin walking over with a pair of panda eyes, with a displeased expression on his face, and handed Xia Lin a bag of warm milk in his hand: "If I have nothing to do at night, why don't I stay up late at night, why can't I take care of my body?"

Xia Lin took the milk, curled her lips and said nothing, poked open the milk and took a deep breath, not daring to think what would happen if my brother knew that he had been boiled for three consecutive nights.

He Rong on the side was very dissatisfied with Team Xia's blatant discrimination, and said aggrievedly: "Captain Xia, what about me? I've stayed up with you for so many nights, and I haven't heard you say a heart-warming word, and I haven't had a drink." Take a sip of milk!"

Yang Ming immediately squeezed his way, and gave He Rong a flattering smile: "Rongrong, what are you doing with that stuff? If you want milk, I'll buy it for you every day!"

He Rong rolled his eyes at him.

Xia Yan glanced at the two of them indifferently, not wanting to see Yang Ming's dog-legged appearance, and finally set his sights on He Rong, his tone couldn't be more perfunctory: "Oh, then you are also great, now I officially appoint Comrade Yang Ming to replace you." I'll give you warmth, is there any objection?" After speaking, he pulled a stool and placed it next to Xia Lin, sat down arrogantly, and added the second half of the sentence: "If you have any opinions, hold back."

Before He Rong could start the next round of grievances, Xia Yan waved his hand, "Let's get down to business", and then patted Xia Lin on the shoulder: "It's time to start."

Several people immediately restrained their expressions and gathered around Xia Lin.

Xia Lin put down the milk and turned to face the crowd: "If you want to enter and leave Chen Zhifeng's house, the small road at the door is the only way for the murderer to pass, so the traffic camera at the intersection must have caught the murderer. I have been researching the crime with Sister He Rong recently. The surveillance video of that day was close to the Chinese New Year, and there were a lot of people coming in and out, but after checking all of them, they were basically ruled out. Last night, I suddenly realized that we had been trapped by inertial thinking before. The murderer completed the murder, disposed of the body and cleaned up the scene This series of actions is conservatively estimated to take three hours, so we have been focusing on people who enter and leave the time interval of three hours. What if the two actions of the murderer and dealing with the scene were not completed together?"

Xia Lin paused at this point, and Xia Yan was the first to react: "Yes, it's entirely possible! As I said before, the murderer knew Chen Zhifeng well and knew that Chen Zhifeng was alone at home, so it's entirely possible for him to know Chen Zhifeng's wife won't be able to go home until half a month later, so he has plenty of time to deal with the scene. Besides, the corpse decomposes slowly in winter, and the smell dissipates slowly. question."

Xia Lin nodded: "That's right, so anyone who left the path after 06:30 that day may be the murderer, no matter when he entered. Based on this idea, I posted the surveillance video of the few days after the incident last night. After reading it all, I found a suspicious person, and it was this person."

Xia Lin moved the mouse, and the screen was fixed on a man dressed as a cleaner. The man was wearing a cleaner's uniform, with a wool cap on his head, and was riding a small tricycle commonly used by road cleaners. with cleaning tools.

"This is the picture taken at 06:30 p.m. on the day of the crime. He was riding in his car. Chen Zhifeng came home at 42:[-]. This is when he came out, [-]:[-], the time before Chen Zhifeng went home. It’s so close, I didn’t think about him at all at first. Comparing these two pictures, it can be seen that the arrangement of the cleaning tools on the small tricycle has not changed, which shows that he has never used these things at all.”

Xia Lin clicked on another video: "This is the surveillance on the third day after the incident. This is a rest day, and there are very few people coming and going. Here, at 28:[-], it was still dark, and he entered the path again , the dress is exactly the same as that of three days ago, and it can be confirmed that it is the same person, so when did he come out?"

Xia Lin smiled strangely, and dragged the progress bar back a lot: "Here, at ten o'clock, the arrangement of cleaning tools has changed, which means that he has indeed worked. But this one is only 200 meters long. Small road, I really don't think it will take more than three hours to clean."

Xia Yan stood in front of the computer screen, staring at the picture on the screen, as if he wanted to make a hole in the person on the screen: "Yang Ming, please contact the Environmental Sanitation Bureau and get that area cleaned as soon as possible." job list."

Xia Lin: "Oh wait..."

Yang Ming was more impatient than Xia Yan. Before Xia Lin could finish speaking, he grabbed his phone and turned around in the direction of the door. While rushing out, he flipped through the phone's address book with his thumb.

When Yang Ming was looking for the phone number and was about to dial it, he bumped into Zhang Xiaowu who was walking in.There was not much difference in height between the two of them. Yang Ming was seriously speeding, and the collision happened in the blink of an eye before he had time to step on the brakes. There was a loud noise immediately, and both of them staggered and covered their foreheads and howled.

"Tsk", Xia Yan put on a earnest expression, and leaned into Xia Lin's ear and said, "This story teaches us not to look at our mobile phones while walking."

Xia Lin nodded, expressing that she must be educated.

"The vehicle involved in the accident" Yang Ming, on the other hand, was the villain's first complaint: "Stinky boy, why don't you watch when you walk!"

Zhang Xiaowu is famous for his good temper. Although he is a rookie who has only joined the team for more than a year, his temper and temperament are much more mature than Yang Ming's. arrive.Although the current experience is still inexperienced, he will definitely become a reliable talent in time.Xia Yan often looked at Zhang Xiaowu and thought about his younger brother. If Xia Lin had someone who was half sensible, his children might be able to make soy sauce. How could he be an old bachelor like he is now?

The accident was clearly Yang Ming's full responsibility, but Zhang Xiaowu still sincerely apologized to Yang Ming.His attitude was too modest, even Yang Ming, who was as thick as a city wall, was a little embarrassed. Yang Ming waved his hand: "It's alright, alright, I'm fine... Sigh, who is this?"

Standing behind Zhang Xiaowu was a middle-aged woman who was poking her head out and looking into the door cautiously.

Zhang Xiaowu led the middle-aged woman into the door: "This is Li Cuie, the cleaner in charge of Yaning Road."

Ya Ning Road is the road in front of Chen Zhifeng's house.

Xia Yan directed Sun Fangfei and He Rong to lead the person to the reception room for questioning, then turned to Xia Lin and said, "It is obvious that she is not the person in the surveillance."

"Yeah," Xia Lin said looking at the screen, "she's twice the size of this person."

Zhang Xiaowu completed Yang Ming's task in a blink of an eye, and the two sat down face to face to treat each other's wounds.

Xia Yan looked at Zhang Xiaowu and then at Xia Lin: "I remember you just beat him up not long ago, it's terrible, now you can order him to do things."

Xia Lin pursed her lips and smiled: "Brother Xiaowu has a big heart, how could he hold grudges for such a trivial matter. Besides, I didn't instruct him to go. I told him what I found in the morning, and he went there by himself."

"Oh," Xia Yan nodded, and suddenly the conversation changed, "What time did you come to the detachment?"

"It's almost six o'clock, not too early, just three hours earlier than you."

"It wasn't dawn at that time, don't come so early in the future."

Xia Lin keenly caught a trace of anxiety in Xia Yan's words, and looked up at Xia Yan: "Brother, what are you worried about?"

Xia Yan stared at Xia Yan uncomfortably. He stood up from the table and said impatiently, "Brother is worried about what's wrong with my brother?"

After finishing speaking, he strode towards the office, thinking as he walked: Is it so obvious, do I have the word worry written on my face?

This is not to blame for Xia Yan's excessive sense of protection. Last night Lu Yuan also mentioned a piece of information: Zero may have made moves recently. Zero has always shown an excessive attachment to Xia Lin. The two people's model is a bit like Sherlock Holmes and his mortal enemy Moriarty, but Xia Lin is not Holmes. The detachment carries the handle to guard.