sincerity of lies

The moment the answer was said, the fist that was ready to catch and was about to drop with enough strength turned into a fist-shaped bubble, and when it hit the body, it shattered into an illusory streamer before feeling any pain.

Although the heavy heart was relieved for a moment, it was also helpless in the scattered light.

Ji Xun saw Huo Ranyin straighten his back for a while, then slowly relax, curled up on the rest chair in the hospital, the shadow of a leaf passed through the window, covering him gently, as if even the person standing on the street The big trees all cast a sympathetic glance.

However, pity seems to be an emotion that should not appear in Huo Ranyin.Before Ji Xun was about to walk up, the fragility reflected by the shadow had disappeared in Huo Ranyin's hard face like beryl.

"There is another way."

Ji Xun looked at Huo Ranyin.

"It's been 27 years, all kinds of clues have disappeared, but if I want to know who my father is, there is another way..."

Huo Ranyin also looked directly at Ji Xun, his eyes were like two bloody blades unsheathed.Such a sharp knife was stained with the blood of the enemy and also with his own blood.

"I."

"I am the biggest criminal evidence in that case."

Ji Xun was shocked for a moment.

"Why do you think so?" Ji Xun asked Huo Ranyin.

"Someone in the United States made a game where they uploaded their DNA to the website to track their paternal relatives. The police also used this method to find unsolved cases that have not been solved for many years and arrest criminals..." Huo Ranyin answered irrelevantly.

"Answer my question first." Ji Xun interrupted Huo Ranyin.

"It's a fact. I'm a criminal witness. There's no need to discuss it. There's no defense."

Huo Ran continued to speak because of his impatience.

"However, domestic and foreign countries are different. In China, only the police station has a shared database of criminals. Therefore, to realize this idea, it is not difficult to go through a process within the police station."

The faster Huo Ranyin spoke, the sharper the sharp edge in his words became. He not only forced others to make up his mind, but also forced himself to make up his mind.

"Well." Ji Xun, "Then how do you describe this matter to the bureau? Let the bureau go through this process? Could it be written in the report, 'My mother was gang-raped, I don't know who my father is , I want to use the police system to investigate my paternal relatives and find out my real father'? That's quite touching."

"Ji Xun—"

Ji Xun saw that Huo Ranyin's pupils shrank quickly, and the other party was irritated by him, so the invisible blade in sight came towards him.

This is exactly what Ji Xun wanted.

What Huo Ranyin said was of course the solution to his mother's case—one of the solutions.

But there must be other ways, not so cruel, not so cruel to Huo Ranyin... a way to know the truth.

What method?

Why did Wen Chenghu die?

These characters are too closely intertwined with each other, but besides the relationship between characters, there are other ways of logical derivation.

Think fast, think fast.

There must be a way to find the criminal's blunder, and there must be evidence that can convict him!

"Leave your case to me to investigate." Ji Xun could not refuse, "Don't forget our agreement, in your case, I am the one who finds out the truth. Besides Huo Ranyin, calm down, you Is it possible to investigate the case based on the current state?"

"Why not?" Huo Ranyin sneered.

"Then what are you looking for? Checking your biological father?" Ji Xun asked.

"Of course not, I'm looking into the abdomen to hide the corpse—" Huo Ranyin suddenly stopped speaking.

"Yes, you are investigating the hidden corpse in the abdomen." However, Ji Xun has already picked up at a very fast speed, "Now, in order to investigate the hidden corpse in the abdomen, you decide to use the resources of the police station to check your father's Y chromosome -"

"You don't think..."

The staring person was replaced by Ji Xun.

Huo Ran's eyes were like a knife, and Ji Xun's words were like a knife.

There are many ways to get along, and so is love.

"Did you confuse the point because of your own emotions?"

After a long time, Huo Ranyin turned his gaze away from Ji Xun's eyes.

He closed his eyes, a trace of dizziness rushed into his mind.

Maybe it wasn't dizziness, but a layer of fog.

He was walking in the mist, but he saw the faint phantom of the truth in the mist, so in an instant, everything was in chaos.But the phantom of the truth faded away that alluring light, and the place became empty again, with nothing...

"My case is different from yours. I don't follow evidence, I follow intuition and logic."

Out of nothing, a hand was stretched out.

Ji Xun stretched out his hand, holding the hotel room card.

"...What do you mean?" Huo Ranyin frowned.

"Wen Chenghu is missing something."

Maybe Ji Xun is right, he is a little confused now, this sentence is spinning in his mind, but he didn't grasp the deep meaning of the words.

But Ji Xun didn't wait for him, and continued.

"key."

Just two words, Huo Ranyin suddenly seemed to be enlightened, and his head was cleared.

"Everyone has a place to live, and if there is a house, there should be a key." Ji Xun walked to the door of the hospital and tapped the lock with his finger, "Even if Wen Chenghu is going to another city soon, he still has to sleep and live In the house. His younger brother only lived with him for a while. At the last moment when he was preparing to leave Qinshi to develop in other cities, he probably lived alone. Since he lived alone, how could Wen Chenghu not bring the key? ? But at the autopsy, he only had a Tamagotchi in his pocket, where did his key go?"

"It was taken away by the murderer." Huo Ranyin answered softly.

But the murderer took away Wen Chenghu's house key, but did not enter the door—otherwise, the police would not have found all this when they came to investigate.

So it can be imagined that the murderer took Wen Chenghu's key not to enter Wen Chenghu's house, but to...

"Daye Temple is not in the downtown area. How did Wen Chenghu get to Daye Temple back then?"

"...Drive." Huo Ranyin.

"Yes, he has a car. A lone car parked at the foot of the mountain is very suspicious. So after killing Wen Chenghu, the murderer drove Wen Chenghu's car away. I think the murderer..."

Ji Xun closed his eyes and opened them again.

Start to conceive frame by frame, and reintegrate a series of logics.

His eyes are bright and full of wisdom:

"Vehicles are not easy to dispose of, especially without disturbing Wen Chenghu's family and the police who may come to the door. I think that rather than selling them or sinking them into the sea, the murderer is more likely to choose..."

"Drove the car back to Wen Chenghu's house, pretending nothing happened! As long as we find this car, as long as this car is still there, this case will definitely be solved!"

If he wanted to know about this car, he had to contact the family of the deceased first. Ji Xun called Wen Chengbao.While the phone was still connected, Ji Xun heard his own rapid heartbeat, superimposed on the long waiting tone, like an uneasy sonata.

20 years.

This car can produce too many reasonable ownership changes in this long period of time.

Whether it was sold, sent away, or scrapped...it was all natural.

But this car is the only way he can think of to break the case so far.

Is this car still there?

The call was finally connected, and Wen Chengbao's voice came from the phone: "Hello—"

"I'm Ji Xun." Ji Xun said quickly, "Your brother, Wen Chenghu, did you have a car back then?"

"Yes, a small truck, a car that usually pulls goods and does errands."

"Then—" Ji Xun was amazed by his nervousness at the moment, he actually stumbled a bit before he finished his sentence, "Is that car still there?"

Huo Ranyin also came over.

A thin phone, Ji Xun listens to the front and Huo Ranyin listens to the back.Hearing Wen Chengbao's voice, caught in the current, he rushed over.

"Yes, I kept it in my hometown. I wanted to sell it. Later, I saw that there were photos in the car, but I couldn't bear it, so I kept it as a thought! What's the matter, do the police want to see it? Then I'll take you there..."

The phone hangs up.

Ji Xun's highly concentrated mind relaxes. He obviously didn't do anything exhausting, but he seemed to have sprinted several hundred meters in a short period of time. He was paralyzed on the rest chair in the hospital like a liquid cat, unable to move.

Until a hand was stretched out from the side, brushing away the broken hair on his forehead.

Huo Ranyin took a seat next to Ji Xun, and looked at it intently: "Your head is a little hot."

Ji Xun: "The brain speed is too high."

Huo Ranyin: "Shall I find you an ice pack?"

"No ice pack." Ji Xun, "Snacks required."

A toffee was handed to Ji Xun.

On the blue and white wrapping paper, there was a big white rabbit. The wrapping paper was turned away, and sugar was fed into Ji Xun's mouth.He took another one out of his pocket and ate it by himself.

"How does it taste?" Ji Xun chewed his own candy, raised his eyebrows and looked at the one in Huo Ranyin's mouth.

"Too sweet." Huo Ranyin snorted.

"Huo Ranyin." Ji Xun called him again.

"What are you doing?" Huo Ranyin was already calling Zhao Wu. At present, Wen Chenghu's car is the most likely place to find evidence. It is impossible for him and Ji Xun to go alone. Of course, he must call Zhao Wu and bring a professional. The instruments were carefully searched from beginning to end.

"Utopian reasoning is something I'm good at. I said I can bring you the truth—"

Ji Xun raised his hand, put his index finger and thumb together, and waved handsomely from the corner of his forehead.

"How about it, are you not talking big?"

Huo Ranyin looked back, the madness and loneliness hidden in his body, at this moment, finally faded away.

He smiled slightly.

"I believe you."

The clues were sent to the police station, and Zhao Wu, who was struggling with the case, was overjoyed, and immediately called out a group of people, brought Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin, and followed Wen Chengbao to his hometown in Xiazhu County.

As soon as I entered the courtyard of my hometown, I saw a small truck that was well preserved as a whole, although it was covered with an inch of dust from head to toe.

A clue like a single seedling was in front of them. Everyone gathered around the car, looking up and down the car with their eyes rubbing. If the car felt a little bit, it would have been shivering already.

Of course, Ji Xun was also a member of the carefully observed crowd.

Through the gray window, he saw the tiger doll hanging on the rearview mirror of the car. The tiger doll folded its arms around its chest, and there was a photo of Zhang Wenchenghu stuffed on its chest and abdomen.

Looking at the passenger seat, there is also a cute dinosaur doll. In addition, there is an Ultraman stuffed on hand.

The trace inspection experts quickly entered the car wearing shoe covers and gloves. Fortunately, it didn't take long for them to find a drop of blood on the corner of the driver's seat.

This may be Wen Chenghu's blood.

Wen Chenghu's skull was crushed to death, and his genitals were cut off after his death.In the process of killing Wen Chenghu, the murderer probably got Wen Chenghu's blood, and then rubbed the blood on Wen Chenghu's car while driving Wen Chenghu's car.

In addition to this drop of blood, all the hair and dander in the vehicle were also put into the evidence bag one by one by trace inspection, and were prepared to be taken back to the police station for DNA testing.

After the inspection, it is the conventional case-handling and investigation method.

First, enter the DNA detected by the police into the police's internal crime database for comparison and confirmation, and then visit all relatives and friends related to Wen Chenghu one by one to determine whether they have the motive and time of committing the crime.

Chapter [-] Behind the murder after scene, there are twisted love and hate, and mistakes that are often only in the blink of an eye.

Wen Chenghu's pickup truck was driven back to the police station. In addition to the hairs found in the car earlier, the police also found some bills sandwiched in the sunshield of the passenger seat.

There are car washes, spray paints, and various decorations.

Judging from the date on the receipt, Wen Chenghu washed and painted the car on October 97, 10. On this day, he seems to have refurbished the entire pickup truck from inside to outside.

Not only that, the dinosaur doll, tiger doll, and Ultraman all showed that they bought them together on October 10. In other words, he not only bought the doll, but also took a new photo with the doll and hung it on the in the car.

Because the car was cleaned by Wen Chenghu, and the Wen family didn't use it much, only 9 types of hair were found on the car.

Excluding Wen Meihua and the three brothers Wen Jia, and including the two policemen who handled the case at the time, there are still three hairs whose attribution is temporarily unknown.

The first time I got all the results, it was already late at night, and there were not many people in the bureau. The only ones left were Zhao Wu, the deputy team, Huo Ranyin, and Ji Xun.

Three of the four were beside Wen Chenghu's car, and Zhao Wu naturally brought the documents to the front yard of the police station.

Walking into the yard and looking, good guy, the deputy team is holding a cup of freshly made instant noodles and gurgling. stir up.

Then turn around and look at Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin. They are sitting on a small mat, and there is a small mat in the middle. There are two plates on the mat, one is plum and melon seeds, and the other is plum shells and melon shells. .

Huo Ranyin was peeling melon seeds, and looked up at him.

"3, not many, is there any direction for investigation?"

"Among the three, the car wash worker in the past probably left his own hair. Fortunately, the ticket has a name on it. It is not difficult to find the person. At worst, we have to line up all of them. Through the police database, we compared one with the hair. The criminal named Xu Zhili who has the same Y chromosome, ideally, expect to get some clues from here."

Zhao Wu hooked a horse and sat down, and asked the deputy team: "Is there any instant noodles?"

"Yes." The deputy team replied while eating noodles, kicked another box of instant noodles under the stool to Zhao Wu.

Zhao Wu didn't bother to care about the deputy team's shoes, which hadn't been brushed for several months. He tore off the plastic wrap and poured hot water down.

In the sudden heat, Huo Ranyin whispered:

"May?"

But the voice was so low that neither Zhao Wu nor the deputy team heard it.Ji Xun heard it.He raised his head and moved his gaze to Huo Ranyin's face.

For a moment, the same question flashed through their minds.

Xu Zhili.

Xu Chengzhang.

Could the two be related?

About Xu Chengzhang and Wen Chenghu's friendship, Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin haven't informed Zhao Wu and others yet.

Of course, it is not deliberately concealing important clues.

In fact, although they have found the car so far, this case has made a breakthrough to a certain extent, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that they are still in a very passive state of sitting on the wax about this case from 20 years ago——

The hair that fell on the car does not directly prove that it is related to the killing of Wen Chenghu, but only proves that it may have appeared in this car.

And there is another possibility that cannot be ignored:

What if the murderer drove the car, but didn't drop any hair on the car at all?

Ji Xun asked this question.

Zhao Wu paused for a while with his hand stirring the instant noodles with a fork, and then stirred again at a constant speed.

"It is very likely to happen. But now there are no more clues, so we can only check a little bit. In the case of 20 years ago, it is the majority that cannot be found out, and it is the minority that can be found out."

Any competent policeman, in the face of a vicious murder case, would try his best to find the murderer.

But in any case, there are indeed situations where no conclusion can be drawn after exhausting all efforts.

Several people did not speak again.

Huo Ranyin ate melon seeds, Ji Xun ate plums, Zhao Wu and the deputy team ate instant noodles to pad their stomachs.

No one spoke, everyone was using their brains, and Ji Xun was also thinking hard.

The murderer killed someone and got into the car...

Does TA have something in hand?Maybe there was...the murder weapon that I didn't have time to dispose of on the mountain... Maybe not, the murder weapon was disposed of directly on the mountain...

But Wen Chenghu bleeds.

A lot of blood.

TA smashed the back of Wen Chenghu's head, and cut off Wen Chenghu's genitals...

I'm afraid he has some blood on his body...

Did TA take some precautions?Such as wearing a raincoat, plastic clothing?

No, on the mountain, in the evening, the weather was fine that day, and the strange clothes were too eye-catching, which would only increase the vigilance of Wen Chenghu who was not prepared. He would not choose this way...

TA was wearing normal clothes, which were stained with the blood of the deceased, but it didn't matter... yes, it didn't matter, TA was already prepared, he brought a new coat to replace the blood-stained one...

So where would the blood-stained coat go?

On the mountain?

impossible.

Definitely take it down and dispose of it.

TA took a coat and got into the car, the coat was put into a plastic bag, and TA put the plastic bag on the passenger seat...

Ji Xun suddenly stood up from the saddle.

He put on the necessary protection, opened the door, and got in.

There are only two things in the passenger seat, the green dinosaur doll, and the Ultraman model.

A murderer who has just killed someone will normally have an unusually excited state of mind. If he is in a state of excitement, excitement...or even anger at this moment...then what will he do?

Fiddle with the steering wheel?

Pulling hard on the seat belt?

or……

Ji Xun picked up the two toys in the passenger seat and looked back and forth in his hands. Looking around, he suddenly turned the green dinosaur doll with its head inward and its tail outward, and said to the three people who were still outside:

"Dinosaur tail, was it re-sewn?"

The three were stunned.

Then Zhao Wu was the fastest, rushed to the side of the car, took the evidence in Ji Xun's hand, and squinted at it.

Before he saw the result, the deputy team squeezed him out: "Show me, I'll do all the sewing work for my family!"

He didn't talk too much, just took a look and said firmly: "It's mending, you can see that the stitches at the junction of the tail and the body are all messed up, probably made by a novice."

"The doll was only bought on the 8th. According to Wen Chenghu's attention to the decoration of the car, the probability of him not discovering such a big flaw is very small. So..." Huo Ranyin said in a deep voice.

"It's very likely that the murderer got into the car that night, broke the doll, and couldn't find a completely new doll to replace it, so he sewed the stitches back on himself!" Ji Xun finalized.

After a brief moment of excitement, Zhao Wu calmed down first.

"No, if it's a recent case, you can visit the canteen and ask who buys needles and threads, but it was 20 years ago..."

Time is indeed an existence that can annihilate everything.

The good, the bad, the just, and the evil, all have fair passage in front of time.

"What's the use of going around like this! Just check the end of the thread!" The deputy team hurriedly interrupted.

"Check the thread?"

"Haven't you ever done needlework?"

The three of them really didn't do it.

"I don't know that when threading a needle, unskilled people have to squeeze the end of the thread with their mouths, so that it is easier to pass through?"

That's right!

After being reminded like this, several people also came to their senses.

As long as you sip it with your mouth, the thread will be stained with DNA!

The green dinosaur was instantly treated differently.

It was carefully put into an evidence bag and sent to the police laboratory, but it was too late after all. The experimenters got home from work, and if they wanted to get the answer, they had to wait until everyone came to start the experiment tomorrow morning.

Another new clue was drawn, and today was not in vain.

After they finished eating, they packed up the remains of the food along with the chairs, left the police station and went back separately.

That night, although I was tired, I didn't sleep well.

Ji Xun woke up three times in one night. During the first two times, in the dark, he saw Huo Ranyin sleeping beside him on his stomach. It merged with the lines on Huo Ranyin's back, and gradually became indistinguishable from each other, as if the night had melted Huo Ranyin, and it seemed that Huo Ranyin had hidden in the night.

When I opened my eyes for the third time, there was no one around.

The quilt was neatly laid out on the other half of the bed, but there was nothing under the quilt, as if the person who was supposed to stay here was really swallowed by the darkness.

Ji Xun rubbed his head and sat up with the quilt.

He touched the phone by the bedside, turned on the screen and took a look, it was 04:30 in the morning; then he touched the mattress beside him, it seemed to be still warm, and he hadn't been gone for long.

Huo Ranyin arrived at the medical institution where the paternity test was done before at [-] o'clock in the morning.

This kind of institution always opens at nine o'clock.

He was carrying a bag in his hand, and was about to enter the door, but the transparent glass door sensed his figure, and it slid silently to the left and right, but he turned around, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and dialed Ji Xun phone.

The phone was connected, but the ringing sound was indistinct, coming from the hall of the institution behind.

Huo Ran followed the sound, and was surprised to find a man with a yellow-green coat covering his head sitting in the rest area of ​​the hall.

This coat looks familiar enough.

Both of them are out of town, only one or two pieces of clothes are going back and forth.

He walked up, pulled down his coat, and looked at Shang Ji with sleepy eyes.

"Guess I'm coming?" Huo Ranyin didn't talk nonsense.

"uh-huh."

"I didn't intend to leave you alone." Huo Ranyin, "I just went to find something. I'll contact you when I'm done looking."

"I know. You just said you trust me before, so it's not that the captain of the criminal police can't even last the 48-hour shelf life." Ji Xun straightened his back and sat up straight to speak.

After he finished speaking, his eyes slipped down to the bag in Huo Ranyin's hand.

"Found something?"

"should."

"Then let's do the important things first."

Handing things over to the service desk, filling out forms, expediting, and paying fees are all things that have been dealt with once, and they are done again, just like yesterday.

Then Huo Ranyin returned to Ji Xun's side.

The two sat side by side.

Compared to last time, they seemed to be much calmer this time.

Ji Xun stared at a mirror in the hall. The mirror reflected the window behind him, and the window reflected the street scenery. His eyes were separated by two layers. After watching for a long time, the shadows of people and trees all added streamer light, and he was fascinated. Hazy, not real.

"This case, from the point of view of reasoning, has been solved."

Ji Xun spoke slowly, but he didn't ask Huo Ranyin.

Huo Ranyin would leave in the middle of the night to find something, so he must have guessed an answer.

It's not complicated, but the truth that I didn't dare to think about at first.

"Hiding the corpse of the Buddha statue requires the murderer to know the work and rest of the construction site. This is not a temporary murder, but a well-planned murder. Therefore, Wen Chenghu's coming to Daye Temple is not a coincidence, but a necessity. He is going to a A date crafted with lies."

"To this end, he sold the shop, sold the house, painted the car, took pictures, put up dolls, and brought the rare Tamagotchi.

"He's going to meet someone who he imagines would like these—

"child."

Ji Xun said the most crucial words in this case.

"Wen Chenghu is not married and has no children. His younger brother once said that there were two hundred thousand banknotes under his brother's bed from nowhere. He was surprised and followed his brother secretly. In my arms, I still look very happy..."

"If you connect this matter with a child, make a guess.

"The 20 is a reward. Of course he is happy to buy a child who does not belong to him.

"Wen Chenghu gave the money to the murderer, and after the murderer took the money, he told him that the child can be given to you, but there is a condition that you must take the child and move out of the city.

"Wen Chenghu thought that this was an inoculation to prevent the child from thinking about his former family members, so he readily agreed, but he did not expect that this was the murderer cutting off his social relations, making his disappearance difficult to detect.

"It's the same as meeting on the mountain. Everything is a cage that the murderer used the child to set up for Wen Chenghu, waiting for him to jump into it with great anticipation and joy."

Ji Xun said simply.

He finished the part about Wen Chenghu, and then the part about the murderer.

"After the murder, the murderer got into Wen Chenghu's car that was not in his plan. The reason why he chose to vent his emotions on the dinosaur doll was because he cared about that child just like Wen Chenghu. In fact, he was caught by Wen Chenghu. The tiger's courtship and covetousness towards the child angered him."

"Who is this kid? Why do both the murderer and Wen Chenghu care so much about him?"

Ji Xun turned to Huo Ranyin with flickering eyes.

"We once speculated that Wen Chenghu was the criminal in the Huo Qiyu case, so you also took a DNA paternity test."

"However, 20 years ago, there was no DNA test. If the child's mother did not violate the law of blood type inheritance, the two gang rapists themselves would not know who is the child's biological father.

"In those quiet nights, when they look at the abyss-like sky outside the window, and the starlight in the sky spying on their crimes, they may think and struggle countless times——

"That child is his.

"That child is not his.

"Wen Chenghu and that accomplice raped Huo Qiyu together, and the accomplice gave him a lot of money, which is the reason for the two hundred thousand that came from nowhere.

"He returned the money to the accomplice, because he longed for the child to be his child. Compared with children, money is not important. People are always like this, yearning for greed. Emotions are enriched by material desires, and they start Looking forward to the blood of human relations, and wanting to pay emotionally.

"When the accomplice got the money, he was not happy, only angry, because Wen Chenghu's coveting of the child was a slap in the face, and it reminded him again that the child might not be his.

"The accomplice, that is, the murderer has much more possession, hatred, or—"

Ji Xun paused for a moment, and said with some difficulty:

"Love."

"He hasn't thought about killing Wen Chenghu for many years, but at this moment, because of this blatant covetousness, he has moved."

The answer is exhaustive.

Behind each murder, there are twisted love and hate, and mistakes that are often only in a flash.

Together, they brew a page of madness in the world.

"This is a murder that started with a child, and it's a murder that is ultimately revealed by a child."

"That green dinosaur doll told us everything."

After the truth was deduced, they were silent for a long time.

When Huo Ranyin didn't know, a fight started because of him; when Huo Ranyin didn't know, he buried the truth of the fight.

This crime, which is related but not related to Huo Ranyin, has come to an end today.

The laboratory sends a report.

Huo Ranyin opened it, and there were black characters on the plain white background:

According to the results of the DNA test, the possibility of establishing the relationship between Huo Ranyin and Xu Chengzhang is 99.9999%.