sincerity of lies

"Is there any more?" Huo Ranyin asked after thinking for a moment.

"It's gone." Ji asked.

"Really?" Huo Ranyin didn't quite believe it.

"Really, not a single drop." Ji Xun almost rolled his eyes.

Huo Ranyin's expression became dangerous.Ji Xun put on an appearance that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water—anyway, Tan Mingjiu was beside him, so he hid behind Tan Mingjiu.

He looked at Tan Mingjiu, evaluating how to use the other party's not-so-stalwart body to cover himself.

Huo Ranyin followed suit.

Tan Mingjiu, who had been baptized by the eyes of the two people, couldn't hold it back, and felt hairy in his heart: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Huo Ran felt bored, so he took the lead to look back: "Since there is nothing more, then wait at the side, Tan Mingjiu, go search the room."

"?" Tan Mingjiu.

Do I take it for granted?I...forget it, you are the captain and you are right.

Tan Mingjiu worked hard and started working.

Ji Xun took two steps back and stood against the wall. He watched Tan Mingjiu search all the way from the drawer to the wardrobe, his lips moved halfway, but before he could make a sound, Huo Ranyin's gaze swept over him.

The feeling of the lips being pressed by the thumb reappeared, and Ji Xun immediately closed his lips tightly.

That gaze was still circling on his lips, until Tan Mingjiu in the search room let out a "ha", and regretfully retracted it.

Ji Xun felt his lips numb, and thought with lingering fear:

This guy is really oppressive anytime, anywhere.

"What's wrong?" Huo Ranyin asked.

"I've touched something." Tan Mingjiu said, pulling out his hand that was under the bed, and there was a golden button in the palm.

Ji Xun touched the phone with his fingers, and before he could do anything, he met Huo Ranyin's meaningful gaze again.

"..."

He showed a polite and charming smile at the other party, and put the phone into his pocket, "I still have something to do at home, I'm leaving first, no need to send it off, see you two sirs later!"

"Eh--"

Tan Mingjiu only had time to call out, but Ji Xun had disappeared.He is inexplicable:

"What are you doing running so fast? It's like someone is chasing him."

"Who knows." Huo Ran was careless, stepped forward to take the button and looked at it.

The round button is a little bigger than a round coin, and the outer layer is gilded. When placed in the sun, you can see the obvious blue peacock feather pattern. There are patterns carved on both sides, a wine glass and a human head.

"It looks like Tang Jinglong fell down, do you recognize this thing?"

Tan Mingjiu thought for a long time: "I seem to have some impressions, I have to go back to the bureau to check."

After returning home from Lizhu Community, Ji Xun turned on his mobile phone and sent a group message to his "friends":

"Who knows where the blue peacock has moved to now?"

Everyone who engages in criminal investigation has his own two brushes. Ji Xun's brush, in addition to his wild guessing skills, is that his memory is barely worth boasting, and it is hard to forget what he has seen.When he saw Tan Mingjiu take out the button from under the bed, he immediately recognized what it was - a chip with a face value of 1 yuan from an underground casino called "Blue Peacock".

But after a while, people responded one after another.

"do not know."

"Have not heard."

"Didn't Brother Tiaozi stop being a Tiaozi a long time ago? It's useless to care about these things. The blue peacock was swept by you three times in a row, and his vitality was seriously injured. He quit."

Most of these friends are "ideas" that Ji Xun made when he was a policeman in the past. Without these people, his work would not be so easy to carry out.However, this happened many years ago, and it is only natural that it is perfunctory now.

Ji Xun picked the person who called himself "Tiao Zi" to chat with.

It's pockmarked.There has always been only a wrong name, but no wrong code name. You can tell from the code name that this is a guy with a pockmarked face.Also because of this ostentatious pockmarked face, whenever Ji Xun led a team to raid the place where he was, Ji Xun would always be able to catch him among the fleeing crowd.

He got caught too much, and he was also afraid, so he became Ji Xun's informant without saying a word, and became a nail driving into the enemy's interior.

"Tell me about the current situation of the blue peacock." Ji Xun asked directly.

"It's been said that the blue peacock was swept away by you long ago..." The pockmarked face slapped haha.

Ji Xun sent a red envelope directly.

The red envelope was received in seconds.

The pockmarked face turned 180 degrees: "Brother Ji, you also know me. The scene is mixed, the head is familiar, the shell of the blue peacock can be changed, and the person who has been raised can't be completely changed, right? So you, find me. It's-"

Ji Xun sent another red envelope, and said impatiently, "Tell me something dry."

Money is the boss, the money is in place, the pockmarked face is not talking nonsense, it is full of dry goods: "As far as I know, the city is very strict, and Blue Peacock is really afraid to do the underground casino business now, but they opened a KTV, It's called Jingjingjing KTV."

Liangjingjing KTV is a KTV that has been opened in the old city for the past two years, next to Chentang Lane.

Chentang Lane is an old alley in the old city. It is long and deep, with many exits. For those who are not familiar with it, it is like walking in a maze. Over time, it has become a gathering place for some illegal activities.

Of course, it’s usually a small fight, otherwise it would have been caught by the police. In the first two years of being a policeman, Ji Xun made dumplings here. go back.

When Ji Xun came to the neighborhood, it was already dark. After many years, he revisited the old place, and he walked in the alley.

There are no lights in the alley, and one can hear rustling sounds when walking alone.Don't think it's a ghost, it's a person who sneaks like you through the wall of an alley to engage in pornographic gambling.

But it's kind of weird.

This time, the sound of Xixisuo didn't seem to be coming from next door, but more like coming from behind.He looked back, the alley was still an alley, long and empty, and the moon couldn't even illuminate it.

After another corner, Ji Xun stopped, put one hand in his pocket, and tapped his thigh with his fingertips in the pocket.

一

two

three……

A mouse sprang out from the shadows and trotted to stop at Ji Xun's feet. Its two front paws were holding food that looked like vegetable roots, and its two huge front teeth rustled as it gnawed.

Nervous.

It's just going for a walk, who else will be followed?

Ji Xun stopped tapping his fingertips, pulled his hand out, and strode forward.

"Liangjingjing KTV" is not difficult to find. After walking for about 10 minutes in the criss-crossing lanes, after the third exit from the east, there is a three-story commercial building on the left. There is a lot of people in the alley. The first floor is a licensed chess and card room called "Lao San Chess and Cards". The second and third floors are all shiny KTV sites.

But at the moment, there are no lights on the second and third floors.

Is it closed today?

Ji Xun murmured, and took a few more glances, seeing the light through the gap in the curtain.

There are people upstairs, and there is also the sound of KTV vaguely.It's not that there is no business, it is that there is no external business.

Ji Xun thought to himself, when he entered the commercial building, he was facing the front desk and canteen of the company, and the elevator on the left was the direct passage to the shiny KTV.

He was not in a hurry to go upstairs, and turned into the old third chess and card room. This chess and card room is not small, with a total of more than a dozen tables, and there are all people playing mahjong and cards, but there are not many people at the moment, and only half of them are seated.

Ji Xun randomly chose a seat by the window and sat down, thinking about the way to go upstairs, and the most important thing - went upstairs to find something.Having chips in Tang Jinglong's hand can only prove that he was once Blue Peacock's guest. As for whether the other party has anything to do with Liangjingjing KTV now, and whether there are any useful clues about Tang Jinglong in Liangjingjing KTV, only God knows.

There is no way, the conditions are limited, so I can only pick up some scraps to check.

Ji Xun was thinking absently, but he didn't come up with a solution, but he heard a welcome sound of "ding dong", and someone came in again.

Ji Xun raised his eyes, glanced casually, halfway through, his eyes froze.

The person who came in was wearing a woolen overcoat, pure black, which made his skin whiter.

His hair, which was always fixed back with hairspray when he was working, was also loose, and the broken hair fell down to cover his forehead, and pressed his brows and eyes. The pure breath of the belt is revealed.

He went to the counter first, took two bottles of beer and a deck of poker, and then went to the table where Ji Xun was, and sat opposite Ji Xun.

He put down the beer, shuffled the cards, and with a flick of his fingertips, the cards drew an arched bridge between his hands.

The person sitting raised the corners of his eyes and smiled: "Two games?"

Purity turned into charm.

It is said that men are not bad and women do not love, but this is at least half the truth.Ji Xun thought.

Men are not bad, and men are not loved.

"Captain Huo, let me ask you a question before we get down to business."

"Say."

"You don't have twins, don't you have dual personalities?"

"Ah."

"This is puzzling." Ji Xun continued, "Look, your appearance has changed a little before and after, and your attitude has also changed a little before and after. Just a few days ago, you still suspected that I was involved in Zeng Peng's attack on Tang Jinglong. I intervened in something that shouldn't be meddled, and once expressed displeasure with my private knowledge of this case. Even today, during the day, I have a cold and inviolable appearance. How come tonight, I made a special trip to meet..."

"On purpose." Huo Ranyin corrected, "I took the initiative to follow you here."

"Not at all."

"You don't know why I'm looking for you, so why not?" Huo Ranyin said.

"The purpose is not hard to guess. Team Huo's search for me is nothing more than Tang Jinglong's business, but I think the police can find what I can't find, and the police can find things that I can find, so Team Huo followed me. It's tantamount to seeking fish from a tree, it's meaningless..."

"Too modest. I've looked for information about you when you were in the police force."

"Oh——" Ji Xun's drawn out voice showed a little displeasure.

"Three years ago, the average number of days to solve a murder case in Ning City was 3.24 days, and the average number of days to solve a murder case you handled was 1.46 days; the same three years ago, the detection rate of murder cases in Ning City was 93.1%, and the detection rate of murder cases you handled was... …100%. Fantastic stats.”

"A hero doesn't mention his bravery in the past." Ji Xun lost interest, "To use what Old Tan said, it's all guesswork."

"Every guess must be right?"

"If you can't guess right, guess again." Ji Xun said casually.

"I'm interested in your approach to handling the case, and I think your approach can greatly save the time to solve the case, and at the same time, I'm sure that at least you are serious about this case." Huo Ranyin pointed out directly, "We might as well cooperate. "

"Huo team has fallen in love with me? From what you said, it seems that they are going to have all-round, multi-angle and high-depth contact with me." Ji Xun said with a smile.

"Taking me personally as an example, people don't have only one side. I still don't like your contempt for the case, but this does not hinder our cooperation. In addition—"

Huo Ranyin put away the poker in his hand, but he didn't see him do anything. The chip found in Tang Jinglong's rented house had already appeared at his fingertips.

"You came here to look for the blue peacock. The blue peacock is dead, and now it has changed its skin to become a shiny KTV. This is a membership-only KTV. Even if you go up, do you know what to look for? Grab a waiter and ask if you recognize him Tang Jinglong? But with the police, it is easy to find out things that you have to work hard to get. For example, whose ID card and bank card Tang Jinglong used, and what account does this bank card have money transactions with. And——the police are in What was found in Tang Jinglong's house."

If Huo Ranyin was not a policeman, Ji Xun would have been persuaded by Huo Ranyin.

But Huo Ran was not a policeman, so he couldn't come up with such cooperation conditions.

It can be seen that sugarcane is not as sweet as the two ends, and life is embarrassing and embarrassing.

Ji Xun thought about a reason for his refusal. Ever since he took off his police uniform, he didn't want to have any contact with the police for a long time. Just a little commotion happened outside the window. At the stairs of the back door of the commercial building, a security uniform People, stop a social youth, the sound of disputes can be heard indistinctly.

"They can go up, why can't I? They can go up, but I can't?"

From arguing to fighting is an instant thing.

Moments later, the social youth was pushed to the ground by the security guard.

This push seems not to be light. It took a long time for the social youth to get up, and he staggered after getting up, like a drunk person—maybe he was already drunk, and he was arguing with a security guard here. Go up, no one can go up.

Ji Xun's thoughts diverged, and suddenly he noticed that Huo Ranyin who was sitting in front moved.

"Go out for a while and be right back."

After Huo Ranyin finished briefly, he went out and circled around, which only took 2 minutes.

The window has an advantage in vision, and Ji Xun clearly saw that Huo Ranyin, who had gone out, came to the drunk young man and bumped into him - just this time.

After that, Huo Ranyin didn't do anything else, he went back to the chess and card room and sat in front of Ji Xun.

The two sat by the window at the same time and saw the same scene.

He didn't find anything wrong with the drunk youth, but Huo Ranyin did?

The little bit of disobedience that remained in Ji Xun's heart revived.He directly asked:

"Is there a ghost in this person?"