No such person [criminal investigation]

Shortly after Qi Zang contacted Xu Ci, Gong Nianci found a needle hole in the left arm of the deceased Qin Chunlan, suspected to be a needle hole for injecting poison.

All traces at the scene point to the fact that the deceased committed suicide by injecting himself with poison.

But Qi Zang agreed with Xu Ci's view that Qin Chunlan definitely did not die by suicide.

He requested an immediate autopsy to further analyze the cause of death.

In this way, after preliminary examination, the body was taken back to the Forensic Medicine Center of the City Bureau, and Gong Nianci left temporarily.

On the river bank, the tedious trace inspection work is still going on.

The work is undoubtedly difficult.

There are too many people coming and going to the river, and many people sneak to the river to throw garbage.In addition, this area is undergoing demolition recently, and quite a few workers are working nearby.

Finally, there was the group of media who rushed to the scene before the police. They surrounded the corpse and took pictures, increasing the difficulty level of the murderer's footprints, fingerprint extraction, comparison, and analysis countless times.

Qi Zang had to suspect that the murderer did it on purpose.

At 5:4 in the morning, the police received a report from scavengers. Five minutes later, the police from the nearby police station first went to the scene to check and found that the deceased was suspected to be Qin Chunlan.They were also paying attention to Cui Junjie's case that night, and realized that the two cases might be related, so they immediately contacted the Municipal Bureau.

Qi Zang received the news at 5:12 and quickly organized people to go to the scene.It was almost 5:29 when we reached the small river.

And one very interesting thing is that Qin Chunlan's Weibo was sent at 4:50.

Qi Zang heard about Weibo on the way before, and only had time to check it quickly.

At this moment, Qi Zang opened her Weibo picture to check carefully, only to find that the picture was taken very cleverly——

The relevant management here in Xiaohe is in a mess, and it is in a demolition zone, and there is no monitoring, but standing at the place where Qin Chunlan died, one of the landmark buildings of Jinning City, the "square minaret", can just be seen.

Although it is still far away from the minaret, and in the morning light, it is even more faintly visible and difficult to detect, but it was photographed on the photo after all, and it can be clearly seen when the photo is brightened.

In this way, according to the angle of the steeple, the environment near the small river, etc., it is not difficult for the media to find the problem and arrive within 30 minutes.

It was just a picture. At that time, the media were not sure that Qin Chunlan would commit suicide. They did not rush to call the police. They just speculated that she was by the river based on the similarity between the picture and the movie elements. rushed over.

In this way, a large number of media can arrive just before the police, causing damage to the trace evidence at the scene, and bringing difficulties to the investigation work...

This is something the murderer has carefully calculated.

The speculation in his heart became more and more certain, and Qi Zang's expression was unprecedentedly serious.

In reality, passionate killings account for the majority, and he has not encountered so-called high IQ crimes for a long time.But this time the murderer was indeed a bit unusual.

He immediately called Bai Shuwei: "Take the scavenger who reported the report back to the city bureau and ask him carefully. Focus on asking him whether the time and place of scavenging are fixed every day; at the same time, confirm his daily activities."

Bai Shuwei: "Okay! I'll go right away!"

Most likely, the murderer had observed the actions of the scavengers in advance, so that he could accurately predict when he would go to the river to pick up trash.

The Weibo at 4:50 was probably sent regularly.

Before that, Qin Chunlan should have been killed by him.

Of course, this is only Qi Zang's speculation at present, and everything will have to wait for the issuance of a detailed autopsy report and the confession of the scavengers before it can be further affirmed.

After arranging the work of carefully investigating Qin Chunlan's mobile phone, and letting trace inspectors and other personnel continue to inspect the scene in detail, Qi Zang took Wei Fan to Qin Chunlan's home again.

The community where Qin Chunlan lives is nearby, called Qingya Xianju.

Qi Zang and his party first went to the security guard at the gate to understand the situation.

The security guards had the impression that Qin Chunlan was an Internet celebrity and knew her car.

She probably drove back in the early hours of the morning, and then went out by herself.

After reviewing the monitoring, it was found that, as the security guard had said, Qin Chunlan's car drove into the community at 1:3 in the morning, and then she walked out at [-]:[-] in the morning.

While watching the video at the property, the staff of several communities were still discussing——

"I've heard her sing, it's really nice!"

"Yes, yes, my friend and I are her loyal fans."

"Hey, this girl... I'm too old to do a live broadcast. I haven't heard her sing, but I have a good impression of her. I was recognized by someone at the gate of the community once... It seems that I recognized her through her clothes. Yes, people said she was ugly, and she was very far from her online image, and since then she has had a low self-esteem, you see, she is still wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a mask in the middle of the night."

Qi Zang watched all the monitoring with a stern expression, and ordered Wei Fan to copy it and take it away.

Leaving some people and the staff to continue to understand Qin Chunlan's situation, Qi Zang took people to the underground garage to have a look.Qin Chunlan's green car was indeed in the garage.

Finally, they went to Qin Chunlan's home.

The situation at her home was indeed somewhat unexpected——

On the tea table were sleeping pills, a knife, a pair of scissors, a basin with some pieces of charcoal, and a bottle of anesthetic.

Li Zhengzheng, who followed Qi Zang all the way here, couldn't help but said: "She must have been thinking about some way to commit suicide, right? I'll go... sleeping pills, cutting wrists, burning charcoal... What is this anesthetic for?"

A trace inspector who came over replied: "I saw a case before. The person wanted to cut his wrist but was afraid of pain, so he gave the wrist a local anesthesia first. Is this Qin Chunlan too?"

"Damn it..." Li Zhengzheng shook his head, "tsk tsk" twice, "Psychological counseling is so necessary to popularize. We have to go to see it sometime. I think we are under too much pressure from work."

Qi Zang raised his eyebrows coldly. "Why are you stressed?"

Li Zhengzheng smiled "hehe". "Without the boss, you are stressed!"

Qi Zang asked him directly: "Stop talking nonsense. Let me ask you, what can you tell?"

Li Zhengzheng knocked on those suicide tools, and said: "I don't know if I can find the syringe... I was thinking, if she really injected herself with an anesthetic and planned to cut her wrists... We saw it by the river just now." , There was no wound on her wrist, so she didn't cut her wrist in the end.

"Is it possible that she...didn't get it right and overdosed herself so that she fell asleep, or didn't have the strength to cut her wrists...so she finally chose to go to the river?"

It seemed that something was wrong quickly, and Li Zhengzheng frowned. "That's not right... If she wanted to imitate the plot of the movie, if she had a sense of ritual... She would have chosen to commit suicide by the river. Then burning charcoal is impossible first, and the river is an open space.

"If it's wrist cutting...then she should have done it by the river. Why are all these things in her house here...why didn't the knife appear by the river? Hey, all this is too deliberate, as if someone Tell us she's trying to commit suicide.

"Could it be that these things...are all placed by the murderer?"

Qi Zang looked serious. "In addition to this purpose, the murderer should still want to make a time difference by doing this."

"Time difference?" Li Zhengzheng was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"The murderer is playing games with the police." Qi Zang didn't explain much for the time being. "Take photos carefully, collect all the physical evidence and bring them back."

Then he walked to the entrance and found a car key on the shoe cabinet.

A trace inspection officer was called, and he said, "This should be Qin Chunlan's car key. Let's go to the car and have a look."

The trace inspector asked: "Qi team, which aspect should we focus on?"

Pushing open the door, Qi Zang threw out three words with a serious face: "Trunk."

·

At 9:[-] in the morning, Qi Zang was called away by a phone call from Deputy Rong.

A lot of media came to the Municipal Bureau, on the one hand, to understand the case, and on the other hand, some people really complained about Qi Zang.The other party didn't know what it was, and was a little bit reluctant, and even called the mayor's hotline, saying that Qi Zang handled the case in violation of regulations and detained reporters indiscriminately.

"Director Zhang called me to ask about this matter. You really locked up a reporter, right?"

"I'll be right back to deal with it." Qi Zang hung up the phone and returned to the Municipal Bureau with a cold face.

Deputy Director Rong went on a business trip and was not in Jinning City. After all, he was looking for Qi Zang, and he specially found someone to pick him up from the back door, avoiding the media.

Qi Zang had just arrived at the city bureau when he called again. "Hurry up and let people go, and take care of this matter—"

"There are still a few suspects in the city bureau, I have to find them to confirm things, and I will deal with the reporter's affairs later." Qi Zang said.

"No, you kid—"

"I'm in charge of solving cases, not in public relations. The person who was detained was suspected of interfering with the police's handling of the case and disturbing the current evidence. I did not make a mistake."

Rong Yong, who was holding the mobile phone, felt that he was about to suffer from high blood pressure, so he quickly took a sip of health-cultivating tea, and became angry when he couldn't hold back. "Qi Zang, you are not a young boy who just entered the police station in your early twenties, and you are now the captain of the detachment. Need me to explain the stakes for you?"

"The murderer this time is very tricky. It's hard to say that he is not behind the media's actions. Once I appear in front of those reporters, I might be completely entangled. Master, you have to trust me."

When Qi Zang explained such a sentence, Rong Yong also understood. "I see. You are busy with the case first. I will figure out the rest."

After hanging up the phone, Qi Zang went directly to the forensic center. After thinking of something, he turned to the office building on the way, went up to the fourth floor, and went to 401.

Qi Zang stopped at the door of 401, and didn't go in immediately.

After standing outside the glass door for a while, he heard that there was no sound inside, so he swiped his card lightly, pushed the door open, and then saw Xu Ci who was resting on the back of the chair with his eyes closed.

It is rare for Qi Zang to see Xu Ci like this.His head was a little tilted, and he didn't know how to wear the wig, but it was very firm, and there was no abnormality at all.

The black-rimmed glasses were taken off and placed on the table.Without the cover of the glasses, Xu Ciqian's frown can be clearly seen, as if even in a dream, he is still vigilant and never has a chance to relax.

Soon Xu Ci opened his eyes.Meeting Qi Zang's eyes, the latter mouthed him.Xu Ci stood up, put on his glasses again, and followed him to the corridor and then to his office.

When he brought Xu Ci into the office, Qi Zang received a lot of attention along the way.After all, this incident is quite unusual, let alone taking someone to the office, Qi Zang seldom stays in his office.

His office has basically become a storage place for sundries, and he usually prefers to work with everyone in the large office area outside, which is also convenient for discussing things.

On the way, Qi Zang nodded, as a greeting to his colleagues, but he didn't explain a word.

When he went to the office and asked Xu Ci to come in, when he stepped forward to close the door, he heard a slight inhalation sound unexpectedly.

"What's the matter?" Qi Zang turned his head and met Xu Ci's slightly surprised eyes.

Xu Ci was very honest. "Your office is too messy."

Qi Zang: "..."

After three seconds of silence, Qi Zang immediately said: "No, although this is my office, I don't usually use it! Then what..."

Putting down the backpack, he took out a few paninis, a few cups of coffee, and a few bowls of porridge, and arranged them one by one. Qi Zang pushed them to Xu Ci. "Passing by KFC, I bought some casually. Can you make do with it? So what... Did I quarrel with you just now?"

Xu Ci shook his head: "I didn't fall asleep at all. I didn't take any medicine."

Qi Zang frowned. "Can't sleep without sleeping pills? How long has it been?"

Xu Ci casually took a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, opened the lid, stirred it with a spoon, and said, "I don't remember."

Qi Zang: "My mother also suffered from insomnia before, but she was cured in the insomnia department of the People's Hospital. I'll introduce you to that specialist later? Don't rely on medicine."

Xu Ci smiled lightly. "good."

"Then have the porridge. After you finish the porridge, tell me if you found anything." Qi Zang said.

Xu Ci glanced at him. "Shall I also tell you about the murderer's modus operandi I imagined?"

Qi Zang: "Have you thought of a trick so quickly? That's a good thing."

Xu Ci asked him: "I've been working voluntarily all night, and you still ask for so much... Will you pay me?"

Qi Zang smiled, put down the coffee in his hand, looked at Xu Ci and said, "You can take care of my salary directly. It depends on whether you want to take care of it or not."

Xu Ci: "..."

Seeing Xu Ci pursed his lips and raised his eyelids to look over with displeasure, Qi Zang seemed to be relieved of the dryness of a busy night.

He said: "Okay, okay, seriously, did Bai Xue say anything?"

For the time being, he didn't tell Qi Zang about Shang Boran's business, but Xu Ci talked about everything else.

"So these three people have emotional entanglements with the deceased Cui Junjie?" Qi Zang frowned, "Except for the three of them... Qin Chunlan doesn't know if he has any relationship with Cui Junjie."

After thinking for a while, he looked at Xu Ci. "What do you think of the relationship between them? For example, Bai Xue and Cui Junjie, she really has no possibility of love and hatred? What did she say?"

After being silent for a while, Xu Ci repeated Bai Xue's words to Qi Zang. "Bai Xue said that she has no feelings for Cui Junjie at all. It's just a one-night stand, nothing can be proved by a hot fire, a momentary impulse."

Qi Zang: "..."

He almost crushed the coffee cup in his hand after listening to it.

Xu Ci: "I think she's right."

Qi Zang immediately reprimanded: "What is right? Where is it right?! This kind of concept is wrong!"

The air froze for a while.

After a while, Xu Ci raised his eyes and stared at him. "I mean, I don't think Bai Xue is lying. This is how she, Bai Ling, and Li Hai treat this kind of thing."

Qi Zang touched his nose: "Cough, that..."

Xu Ci ignored him, and said to himself: "Besides, these three people have no time to commit crimes since 10:[-] in the evening. They will not be murderers."

"Aren't you referring to them as the murderers who killed Qin Chunlan or—" Qi Zang understood Xu Ci's meaning before he finished speaking, "Do you think the one who killed Cui Junjie and Qin Chunlan was the same person?"

"Yeah. But I can't say that completely. I was quite suspicious of Qin Chunlan before. I think she and Shang Boran are too strange. Most of them participated in the murder, or at least they were the ones who knew about it."

Xu Ci said, "For example, before and after the 'blackout', Shang Boran seemed to be tied up, and there seemed to be no chance of committing a crime. But what if Qin Chunlan let go of him during the 'blackout'?"

Qi Zang frowned: "So, it is possible that he and Qin Chunlan conspired to murder Cui Junjie. Afterwards, Shang Boran killed Qin Chunlan to silence the story."

"Yes. When did Shang Boran come to the Municipal Bureau?" Xu Ci asked.

Qi Zang: "I arrived at 1:3 in the morning. But I have already asked the nurse. After Shang Boran arrived at the hospital, he did leave for a while, but he returned to the hospital at [-]:[-] in the morning, and did not leave the hospital until [-]:[-]. bureau."

"Then, is the time of Qin Chunlan's death confirmed?"

When Xu Ci asked this sentence, Qi Zang had already sent a message to Gong Nianci at the same time.

Gong Nianci returned soon. "The time of death is preliminarily speculated to be between 3:5 am and [-]:[-] am."

Qi Zang frowned even tighter, and then directly raised the phone in front of Xu Ci, allowing him to see the screen as well.

So Xu Ci also frowned.

Then he hooked the corner of his mouth and looked at Qi Zang: "The murderer this time is a bit interesting."

Before Qi Zang took back his phone, Xu Ci did not miss a few more lines of text from Gong Nianci——

"The strange thing is that Bu Qingyun has been tested, and there is no poison in Qin Chunlan's blood. After discussing various possibilities, we now have some doubts whether she choked to death by choking on water. But I haven't had time to dissect her yet, and I will tell you when I have a conclusion. You can think about the needle hole in her arm if she hadn't been injected with poison."

After getting back the phone, Qi Zang saw this text and knew that Xu Ci had read it, but he didn't shy away from it, and sent back to Gong Nianci. "An anesthetic was found in her home. Check whether there is an anesthetic in the blood."

·

About half an hour later, Qi Zang took Xu Ci away.

As soon as he pushed the door out, Qi Zang keenly noticed that the atmosphere in the big office outside was not right, the silence in the early morning was as chilling as cicadas, and there was no sound at all.

Among them, Li Zhengzheng seemed to have been guarding the door for a long time. Seeing that he was going out, he quickly winked over.

Qi Zang noticed something, took a few steps forward and turned a corner, and found the reason——

Zhang Yunfu and Zhang Ju from the Municipal Bureau came in person.

He probably guessed what was going on, but Qi Zang didn't react at all, he stepped forward and called out politely: "Ju Zhang."

Unlike Rong Yong who can get along with everyone laughing and joking, Zhang Yunfu keeps a straight face wherever he goes, making all his subordinates fearful like King Yama.

He is stern and has always been tolerant. When he looked at Qi Zang, the first sentence he asked was: "The editor-in-chief of Fengyang Daily has come to your door, saying that you let people take away their reporters for no reason!"

"The reporter disturbed—"

Qi Zang's words were quickly interrupted by Zhang Yunfu: "What did you disturb? It was nothing more than being used by the murderer! They didn't know that Qin Chunlan had committed suicide when they went there, right?!"

Worthy of becoming the Iron Triangle of Yunhai Province with the two directors of the Provincial Department, Zhang Yunfu did not participate in the front-line investigation, and he has been able to keenly judge what the murderer did.

Qi Zang said: "That's right, I also think that they were indeed used at the beginning. But later they refused to leave and did not listen to persuasion at all. The reporter even tried to touch the body of the deceased for a close-up—"

His words were interrupted again.

"Qi Zang, I know that your original intention in handling the case is good. But please pay attention to your own handling methods and behavior, especially in front of the media! It is because of policemen like you who do their own thing and don't care about anything. Relationships will become tense.

"People don't see your case handling process, they don't care if you stay up late to solve the case, or don't care about food, all they see is the picture of you arresting people randomly! They will think that these policemen are holding chicken feathers When the arrow is on the line, you are playing the official power, thinking that the police can detain an innocent person casually!

"It's even more inappropriate to fight directly with these media. Even if they don't attack on the surface, they show off their spring and autumn brushwork is enough for us to eat a pot! Last year we had a misunderstanding in a case...it took so long , We have established a good image in the hearts of the citizens, do you know how many people's efforts have been ruined by your reckless actions?!"

From not supporting the establishment of the third criminal investigation team, to disagreeing with Qi Zang as the team leader, to filling Qi Zang with the most newcomers...

Qi Zang knew that Zhang Yunfu never looked down on him.

This night, he worked so hard to run around, he couldn't take care of food, and the stitches on his shoulder hadn't been removed yet. In the end, he had to be taught a lesson by a so-called leader who now sits in the office all day. Qi Zang became angry, and immediately Open your mouth to shout out the following words that offend the leader.

But before he could speak, he heard a sneer behind him.

Who is behind him?

This sneer can only be made by Xu Ci.

Qi Zang turned to look at Xu Ci, only to see him standing half a meter behind him, leaning slightly against the door.Xu Ci's expression was cold, his eyes were indifferent, but there was a slightly mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.

Qi Zang felt the hostility in him almost immediately.

Suddenly, Qi Zang thought of what Rong Yong said not long ago——

"At that time, their team's actions were directly directed by Director Zhuang Qiangzhuang of our Provincial Department. Only he, Deputy Director Li, and the director of our Municipal Bureau, who is my immediate boss, knew the specific action plan of this team. The boss Zhang Yunfu.

"...Which of these three people is not a great hero who devoted himself to death?

"The three of them and Xu Ci, who do you think is the one who leaked the information?"

At this moment, the anger of being criticized by the leader immediately dissipated, Qi Zang frowned and took a step closer to Xu Ci, and said in a low voice, "I'll take you away first—"

But Xu Ci directly pushed away Qi Zang's outstretched arm, walked up to Zhang Yunfu step by step and stood still.

Then he said: "I don't know if you have been sitting in the position of director for a long time, staying in the back for a long time, completely forgetting what the environment is like in the front line?

"Is it because you have forgotten the duty of the police, and only curry favor with the media, build up a so-called image, and use bureaucratic accents in front of ordinary people and even in front of comrades?

"Or, your position is simply exchanged for the bones and blood of your sacrificed comrades and comrades-in-arms. Is this position comfortable to sit in? Do you usually have nightmares?"

Xu Ci is still "Xie Shan" and still uses a female voice.

But this female voice was obviously hard and deep, and when she asked questions, she carried a coldness and sarcasm that could not be ignored. If you closed your eyes and listened, it was like a ghost crawling back from hell to the world, torturing the person who killed him.Weep blood every word.

Qi Zang was obviously taken aback when he heard this.

The others didn't expect this to happen, and they looked over in stunned at this moment. Some gods came from who dared to talk to Zhang Ju like this, and the whole office fell silent.

Zhang Yunfu was also stunned.In his opinion, it was unbelievable that he was being scolded.

He frowned and looked at Xu Ci: "No... who are you?"

who are you.

eight years.

It has been eight years since I watched my teammates being shot in front of me one by one.

By accident, I finally walked in front of one of the parties, and what I got in exchange was "Who are you?"

The moment Xu Ci heard these three words, Xu Ci began to feel ringing in his ears and a sharp pain in his head.

"Bang bang bang", the sound of gunshots seemed to linger in his ears constantly.

At the same time, on the road between him and Zhang Yunfu, suddenly drops of red blood kept falling.The blood fell faster and faster, and finally gathered into a blood-colored waterfall. Suddenly, a pair of blood-red hands stretched out from inside and grabbed Zhang Yunfu, dragging him further and further away.

Zhang Yunfu is about to disappear.

Together with the truths that I have been looking for, all of them are about to completely sink into those bloody colors and never see the light of day again.

Xu Ci clearly knew that all of this was an illusion.

He stayed outside for a whole day today, so he didn't take the medicine in time.

Reason told him that he should stop, otherwise eight years of hard work might be in vain.

But another voice made him restless.

—Go up, go up, force him to tell himself the truth.If you don't walk over, he will disappear... Hurry up, hurry up!

Clenching his fists with both hands, Xu Ci took a deep breath, and strode forward as expected.

The next moment his hand was held.

An arm stretched out, wrapping him tightly in his arms.The warm palm first grabbed Xu Ci's shoulder, then slowly moved up, touched his cold cheek, and then placed it on his head, patting him lightly and comfortingly.

Subconsciously, Xu Ci wanted to break free, but Qi Zang stopped him with all his strength, leaned over and pressed against his ear, and said in an extremely gentle tone: "It's me. I'm Qi Zang. I'm Qi Zang. Remember? I'm Qi Zang .

"This is my office now. You are safe. I am safe.

"Xiao...little 'ci',, Shan, can you hear me?"