Delusional world [criminal investigation]

In a narrow, dark, and long passage, an adult man crouched forward, just to find the exit at the other end.

Pei Yin asked on the phone: "How is it, haven't you arrived yet? You won't be hypoxic, right?"

He originally wanted to go down by himself, but Jing Jue saw that the entrance was dark and the road ahead was unknown, so he ordered Pei Yin to just wait where he was.

Pei Yin was still thinking about his resignation and nursing home clients, so it was inconvenient to refute Jing Jue at this time, so he could only keep talking to him.

"Officer, make a noise. If you don't speak again, will I go down?"

Jing Jue took a heavy breath and said, "Be quiet for a while."

"Hey, I'm afraid that something will happen to you." Pei Yin muttered to himself, "What's the matter with this secret passage, shouldn't there be a big room at the back for Luo Haiming to do some shameful things? Why haven't you climbed for so long?" To the exit, officer, are you lost?"

Jing Jue had difficulty moving in the cramped passage, but he closed his eyes even more when he heard the words: "There is only one way, how could I get lost?"

Pei Yin said casually: "That's hard to say, sometimes I can't tell the left and right of a road, or how could I get lost in the mountains? You don't know, once I..."

Beep, beep.

Before Pei Yin finished speaking, he just heard the sound of knocking on the wall from Jing Jue, so he hurriedly asked, "Did you find the exit?"

"Hmm." In front of Jing Jue is a small square secret door, which is about the size of the entrance of this passage. Depending on the situation, the passage from one end to the other is not as spacious as other secret passages. Jing Jue then opened it. Twice the iron lock on the secret door and said, "The door is locked."

Pei Yin asked: "Do you know where it is? I'll go around and pick you up from outside?"

"No need." Jing Jue operated the phone a few times and said, "Add me on WeChat."

"Officer, why do you want people's WeChat at this time?" Pei Yin pursed her lips and said seriously, "Let's do the important things first."

"...add WeChat, and I'll send you a location." Jing Jue said speechlessly, "Pei Yin, what's going on in your mind?"

Pei Yin was choked by someone, her face was not very good-looking, and she immediately replied: "If Li Chengang didn't approve my resignation report, how would I drive your car."

Pei Yin kept his mouth shut, but he still passed Jing Jue's friend request in the next second.

After Jing Jue sent the location, Pei Yin clicked on it and looked at it. After a while, he came to a conclusion: "No, the distance is too close, which shows that we are at one point, and I can't find you."

Pei Yin casually clicked into Jing Jue's circle of friends, but when he saw a blank space, he said, "You should come out first, and go down with a tool to pick the lock."

Jing Jue crouched on the spot, thought for a while, and said, "Come down from the stairs."

Pei Yin didn't hesitate for a moment, and asked as he walked out, "Where are you going down?"

"Listen to my voice." Jing Jue said, "along the wall, it should be on the side next to the wall."

"Wall? What wall?" Pei Yin patted the wall covered with famous paintings on the stairs as he went down the spiral staircase, "Police officer? Police officer? Hello?"

"Stop." Jing Jue said suddenly, and then knocked on the square wooden door with an iron lock with his hand inside. When Pei Yin heard this, he immediately took half a step back in shock, "Damn!"

"...Jing Jue?"

"It's here." Jing Jue asked, "What kind of place is this?"

Pei Yin opened his mouth and said in shock, "This is a... painting."

He immediately wanted to take off the picture frame, but the picture frame was firmly nailed to the wall. Pei Yin couldn't take it off after several attempts, so he said, "I'll get a hammer."

"Wait a minute." Jing Jue didn't tell Pei Yin to go back immediately, but said, "Try to turn the picture frame horizontally."

At this time, Pei Yin listened to Jing Jue's words very much again, and immediately turned the frame to the right, but the frame was still motionless. He tried again to the left with the last hope, but this time, the frame turned slowly up.

"I'll go—" Pei Yin was puzzled, "Is the idea of ​​rich people so unique? The study room leads to the corridor, what is this saying?"

Jing Jue confirmed that this is the end of the passage, and said, "Wait for me here."

He couldn't turn around upright, so he could only use his elbows and knees to push back a little bit, and moved back to the entrance under the study table.

This passage is from the third floor to the wall of the second floor, and the whole is a slope. Jing Jue wasted a lot of energy when going backwards.

Seeing Jing Jue approaching, Pei Yin straightened his eyes, and asked dully, "Did you find time to change your clothes? Why aren't your clothes dirty at all?"

Jing Jue took off his coat in the study room. He only had a light gray T-shirt on him at the moment. He looked at Pei Yin and said, "Because there is no ash in it."

"How is it possible? No one takes care of this channel on a regular basis, unless..." Pei Yin thought of something, and his voice stopped abruptly. He looked back at Jing Jue for a moment, and his voice suddenly sank, "Unless someone has used it recently it."

"This is a blind spot." Jing Jue pointed to the bottom of the spiral staircase, and said, "The stairs go up and down, but you can't see this place from the first floor or the third floor."

Pei Yin frowned and recalled: "On the occasion the day before yesterday, everyone was neatly dressed. If someone got dust all over because of climbing the passage, even if they put on a coat later, they still couldn't avoid the police who searched them one by one the next day, right?"

"What if he doesn't have to be searched and has a legitimate reason to be disheveled?"

The lines in Pei Yin's mind connected at once, and he immediately said, "Chu He!"

"He fell into the snow after falling from the building. No matter how dirty his clothes were, no one would suspect him, and he was sent down the mountain early the next morning by the medical staff, so he didn't need to be searched at all." Pei Yin asked, "Did he How dare you jump off the third floor to cover up the fact that your clothes are covered in dust?"

Pei Yin shook his head: "It's still wrong, I'm sure I saw the arm that pushed him."

"I'm going to ask Luo Jin about that." Jing Jue shook off the ashes that didn't get on his body, and said, "He should have his own explanation."

"The modus operandi has been clarified, and if the motive is found, the case will be almost clear." Jing Jue breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Let's go, go back and ask someone to extract the fingerprints in the passage."

"Don't be in a hurry." Pei Yin stood on the spot and said thoughtfully, "Just call and ask someone to come over. We'd better wait."

Jing Jue asked, "What are you waiting for?"

"Didn't someone say that someone went to investigate Chuhe's relationship?" Pei Yin said, "If it was the murderer, why would he know that this passage is also suspicious. We'd better wait for someone in your team to contact you at that time. The construction team, see if there are other secret passages, and by the way, find out who ordered these passages to be dug and built.”

"I really can't figure it out—" Pei Yin casually picked up the oil painting blocking the exit of the passage, "What's the use of this thing leading from here to the study? Is Luo Haiming mentally ill? Or is he still childlike and likes to play at home?" hide and seek?"

Jing Jue's expression froze when Pei Yin casually touched the painting, Pei Yin didn't feel it at first, but after playing with the frame enough, he realized something, and asked embarrassingly, "Is this painting... expensive? "

""The Massacre of the Innocents"—" Jing Jue looked at Pei Yin's finger slowly moving away, and said, "In 2002, it was sold at Sotheby's auction house in London for [-]..."

"Don't." Pei Yin swallowed his saliva and said without blinking, "Stop talking."

At this time, Jing Jue was in the mood to make a joke. He looked at Pei Yin's dumbfounded expression, raised the corner of his mouth, and said, "If it's an authentic work, the price is about the same as the inheritance you can get."

"Then..." Pei Yin asked Jing Jue to stop, but couldn't help asking, "Is this the real work?"

Jing Jue deliberately frowned, and said, "I don't know, my artistic attainment is not that high, so I can't tell the difference."

Pei Yin fell silent, and fell into the calculation alone. He wanted to divide the price of the painting by his salary to see how many years he had worked so hard to afford a painting.

As a result, Pei Yin's brain was about to short-circuit, and the number was not calculated.

"Forget it." Pei Yin shook his head and gave up the cruel comparison, and asked Jing Jue instead, "Is this painting famous? How did you know? Could it be that you were also in the auction house at the time?"

Jing Jue's frown that had been deliberately frowned was really froze at the moment, his expression didn't seem to have changed, but Pei Yin felt that Jing Jue seemed to have changed in an instant.

When Jing Jue looked at him again, his tone was no longer as relaxed as it was a few seconds ago. The line of his jawline collapsed, and then his tone became gloomy, and he said, "I heard, let's go."

Pei Yin was taken aback, he clearly felt that he had unintentionally stepped into Jing Jue's minefield.

But he didn't know what was in the minefield, and he didn't know what the mines were made of, so Pei Yin didn't dare to do anything, and could only quietly follow Jing Jue upstairs.

An hour and a half later, Li Hao called Jing Jue for the second time. Jing Jue and Pei Yin had just transferred from upstairs to the lobby. Li Hao said on the phone: "To make a long story short, Luo Jin refused to admit that he killed Luo Haiming. What should I do, apply for an arrest warrant?"

Jing Jue was silent for a while: "Ask him about Chu He, tell him directly about someone seeing him pushing Chu He down the stairs, and see what he says."

Li Hao: "It's probably a dead duck's mouth. As long as we don't have conclusive evidence, he will definitely not admit anything."

Jing Jue said, "That has to be asked."

"Okay, then I'll go." Li Hao hung up the phone in a hurry, while Pei Yin looked at Jing Jue and asked, "Officer, did you find that Luo Haiming's study carpet has no traces of moving the desk for a long time? He Have you changed the carpet recently?"

Jing Jue knew the purpose of Pei Yin's question, so he told him directly: "No, Luo Haiming may not know the existence of this passage."

Jing Jue looked at Pei Yin's proud face, and said again: "Your reasoning is valid, you really should confirm with the construction team who suggested digging the tunnel."

"Well, my sixth sense has always been accurate." Pei Yin boasted, twirled his fingers, and said, "But the observation ability is stronger."

Jing Jue raised his head and asked "what do you mean" with his eyes.

"Officer, I saw something you secretly hid in your handbag." Pei Yin stopped twisting his hands, looked at Jing Jue fixedly, and asked, "What is it, can't I see it?"