"Ding Ling… Ding Ling…" A quick phone call woke me up from my sleep. I squinted my eyes and looked at the clock. It was only seven o'clock, so I picked up the receiver angrily: "Who is it? Are you looking for a fight? Is that right? You don’t want to let people sleep so early in the morning! "There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then a male voice came out: "Chuanzi, I just received a report that Lao Zeng is dead…" Hearing this I shuddered all over and suddenly came to my senses. I wiped my face with my hands, put on some clothes and rushed to the police station.
Zeng Shuyao. Yang Shuo introduced me to him when I just graduated from the police academy. His father was a coal miner, so his family was very rich. Although he was a second-generation rich man, he was a very righteous man. Over time, Yang Shuo and I We three got along well because of him. We all have been together for four or five years now. I couldn't accept the fact that he was gone.
"Lao Shuo, what's going on?" As soon as I walked into the office, I couldn't wait to ask Yang Shuo, who looked serious. Yang Shuo looked up at me, picked up a stack of documents on the table, handed it to me and said: "Read it yourself." After flipping through the information for a few times, I threw it back onto Yang Shuo's desk. "It's so unclear, what's written on it?" I said angrily.
"Ah! Actually, I don't really understand it. How about this, Chuanzi, you come with me, and we'll go to the scene and catch that bastard. He dared to touch my brother, must he be tired of living? " Yang Shuo became increasingly angry as he spoke, and while cursing he opened the door and walked out, stomping his leather shoes loudly.
At this time, a girl with fair skin and wearing dark green clothes walked by us crying with several policemen. I grabbed Yang Shuo and asked anxiously, "Do you think that girl is Lao Zeng's new friend?" Girlfriend? Why is she here? "After hearing what I said, Yang Shuo turned his head and glanced at me and said casually: "That's right, it's her Xiang Qianqian! She just had sex with Lao Zeng for a few days before the incident. She was still with Lao Zeng, and she was the one who reported the case, so she was brought here." After saying that, Yang Shuo pulled me and walked straight into the elevator.
There was no conversation along the way. Due to the traffic jam, it was almost noon when we arrived at the luxury apartment in the city center. The apartment was bought by Mr. Zeng specifically for Lao Zeng, because Lao Zeng lost his mother when he was young, and Mr. Zeng The old man spent his days drinking and partying outside and rarely came home. He only gave Lao Zeng a huge amount of living expenses every month, so the relationship between the Zeng family father and son was very weak, or even basically no relationship. He got a stepmother, so Lao Zeng moved out without saying a word.
The apartment was on the fourth floor, and a yellow cordon had been drawn in front of the door. Some curious owners stood outside the cordon, looking around and talking about something. "Okay, let's go! What's there to see?" Yang Shuo waved his hand with a gloomy face and shouted at the crowd. Seeing that some people were indifferent, Yang Shuo pulled me over and slammed the door of the apartment shut. "What kind of people are you? You're still watching the fun when there's no one around. What the hell are you looking at?" Yang Shuo cursed and pulled me towards the study.
Pushing open the door, an old policeman in his forties or fifties greeted us and said, "Come on!" Yang Shuo hummed, walked to the old policeman and said in a deep voice, "Uncle Zhang, how's the progress?" Bo said with difficulty: "The deceased was sitting on a chair when he died. His face was blue and he was foaming at the mouth. The forensic examination showed that he died of poisoning. The time of death was around 8 o'clock. There was some tea in the deceased's stomach. The mouth and throat were more black than the stomach. Preliminary identification showed that the dead man had drunk the poison. But the strange thing was that the tea in the dead man's stomach was the same as the tea on his table. There is no poison in the cup of tea!"
"What about the cup? Have you checked it?" I frowned and felt a little irritated. Uncle Zhang glanced at me and said casually, "There is no problem with the cup. Only a few fingerprints were found during the inspection. It was Zeng Shuyao and the girl who reported the case, her name seemed to be Xiang Qianqian. "At this time, a young police officer came over with a videotape in his hand and handed it to Yang Shuo: "Captain Yang, we have found the case. "The surveillance video of the time of the outbreak." Yang Shuo took the videotape in his hand and nodded. I stood aside and asked in a low voice: "Lao Shuo, why don't we take a look at this tape first, who knows what we will find." "Okay, let's take a look first." Yang Shuo agreed.
Then he turned sideways and whispered to the police officer next to him. The police officer hummed and left. Not long after, the man came back with a notebook in his hand. He walked to the TV opposite the desk, It took me a while to finally connect the computer and the TV. Yang Shuo and I sat on the sofa beside each other, looking at the dark screen. I felt an inexplicable tension in my heart and clenched my hands tightly. He took a deep breath and fainted , gradually calming himself down, and after a moment, the CD in the computer started to work.
I swallowed hard. The screen was dark at first, then lit up after a while, as if someone had turned on the light in the room. Then, Zeng Shuyao walked in. I noticed the time at the bottom right of the screen. It was about It was 19:50. After Lao Zeng came in, he sat down at his desk and started surfing the Internet. After about four or five minutes, Xiang Qianqian appeared on the screen. She walked to Lao Zeng with a cup of tea, put the cup down and seemed to say After Xiang Qianqian left, only Lao Zeng was left on the screen. He sat there, typing away on the keyboard for more than a minute. Suddenly, Old Zeng began to twitch all over, and then blood foamed out of his mouth. His face turned blue, and his bloodshot eyes gave people a chill. Gradually, Old Zeng stopped struggling and his body went limp. Slumped in the chair.
Even after the surveillance video was played, I was still terrified. My clothes were soaked with sweat and my body became stiff without knowing when. Suddenly, an inexplicable sadness tore at my heart like a beast. My body was filled with a surge of discomfort, and for a moment my face turned as pale as a dead person.
Yang Shuo beside me didn't notice anything unusual about me, so I rubbed my face quickly, and listened to Zhang Bo's analysis: "The victim was sitting behind the desk and surfing the Internet in the surveillance video. Only Xiang Qianqian was there. Someone came, and then about four minutes later the victim was poisoned. There was nothing wrong with the cup and the tea, and the victim was poisoned without any warning… "Maybe Lao Zeng drank the poison before, and the drug was not toxic, so it was later "I interrupted Uncle Zhang's analysis. Uncle Zhang waved his hand to signal me not to interrupt: "The possibility you said is only one percent. I think the cup was swapped by the murderer, and the fingerprints were put on it later."
After listening to Zhang Bo's analysis, Yang Shuo nodded and said, "That means Xiang Qianqian is the most suspicious person now." "In theory, yes." Zhang Bo said. Hearing this, I became excited and pulled Yang Shuo over. He said excitedly: "Lao Shuo, let's go back to the bureau. I want to interrogate Xiang Qianqian in person." Yang Shuo hesitated for a moment, then hummed sullenly with a gloomy face.
Since there was not much traffic on the road, the car drove to the police station quickly. After parking the car, Yang Shuo and I rushed to the interrogation room without stopping. After opening the door, I pulled out a chair and sat down, then looked at Xiang Qian. Qian asked, "Zeng Shuyao died at eight o'clock last night. Why didn't you report it until seven in the morning?"
Xiang Qianqian looked at me with horror: "I didn't kill Zeng Shuyao, please believe me. Last night, after I brought him a cup of tea, he told me not to disturb him. I answered and went out. After that, I went out and didn't come back until the morning. When I came back, the bedroom door was closed. I thought he was still sleeping, so I went to the study to surf the Internet. But as soon as I opened the door, I saw him… I was shocked and Call the police.”
"Is there anyone else in the room? How do you prove that you left the house afterwards?" Yang Shuo asked calmly. "There were only two of us at home. After I served the tea, I received a call from my friend, who asked me to go out. I was just playing, seriously, I didn't lie to you." Xiang Qianqian tried to defend herself, I waved my hands and then nodded to Yang Shuo, then stood up and walked out of the interrogation room.
When I walked out of Xiang Qianqian's friend's house, my mind started to get confused again. The woman told me with certainty that she had indeed called Xiang Qianqian out at 8 o'clock last night, and there was a call record on her phone. I thought about it and always felt that something was wrong. Something is wrong. It seems that a huge conspiracy is approaching me step by step.
Lao Zeng's funeral was held three days after his accident. I still vaguely remember that it was raining heavily that day. I stood quietly beside the tombstone in a black shirt, with the rain splashing down my hair and onto my cheeks. I looked at the face on the tombstone. Looking at the black and white photo, tears suddenly welled up in my eyes. The cold rain mixed with the hot tears soaked through the clothes and soaked my skin.
I don't know how long I cried, but I know that when I came to my senses, I saw that Yang Shuo had called me many times. I pressed the call back button, and the phone beeped for a long time before it was connected: "Chuanzi, are you okay? , I was so worried, no one answered your phone, and I couldn't find you at your house. Did something happen to you?" Yang Shuo seemed a little anxious. I took a deep breath and said in a hoarse voice: "I It’s okay, I’ll go to the police station later.”
Yang Shuo was silent for a while and said, "Alas! Du Zheng, the president of our city's court, has died. When Du Zheng died, he was chatting with his family. His wife poured him a cup of hot tea, but the old man was poisoned after just a few sips. , but after testing, there was no poison in the tea or on the cup. "
I hung up the phone absentmindedly, thinking that the two cases were too similar. After thinking for a long time without any clue, I decided to go to the police station first.
Since two murders had occurred in succession, the superiors paid special attention to it. The director Ma Shoushan was also under great pressure, so he transferred some personnel from various departments to conduct a thorough investigation of the case. I was really shocked when I first arrived at the bureau. The police station gate, which was originally deserted, was now bustling with people and vehicles coming in and out.
Yang Shuo was also sent out to investigate. I couldn't find anything to do, so I sat in the office and looked through the photos taken at the scene of Lao Zeng's crime. Suddenly, I seemed to have discovered something. I saw that the photo was The glass on the desk was only half full of water, and there was a small circle of water stains on the outside of the bottom of the glass. Just as I was lost in thought, a man walked up to me and said in a deep voice, "Xiao Cheng, The autopsy report just came out. Your friend's case may be a little tricky." The person who said this was Uncle Zhang, who worked with us on the case that day. He looked serious and said, "The autopsy report said that the deceased Zeng Shuyao had taken a deadly poison. So the situation you mentioned is impossible. But after our investigation, we found no other cups at the crime scene, and there was no sign of a third person. "After listening to Uncle Zhang's words, I looked at the The photo was in deep thought.
I met Yang Shuo in the afternoon. As soon as he came back, he handed me a transparent plastic bag. I took it and glanced at it casually, then asked in confusion: "Lao Shuo, why did you give me dentures?"
"It's Du Zheng's." Yang Shuo took a big sip of tea, wiped his mouth and continued, "Look carefully."
Uncle Zhang beside me also came over to take a closer look at the denture in my hand. "Hey, why is it empty?" I looked in the direction of Uncle Zhang's finger, and saw that every tooth in the denture had no bottom. The middle is also empty, and what's even more strange is that the inside of the tooth is black. I pointed it out to Uncle Zhang, who looked at it for a while and shook his head: "How about I take this denture to check?" Seeing that Yang Shuo didn't show up, I nodded in response.
Soon after Uncle Zhang left, Yang Shuo was also called away. I was so bored that I watched the surveillance video of the incident over and over again. Suddenly, I found that there seemed to be a few white spots floating in Xiang Qianqian's teacup on the surveillance screen. The image was too blurry so I couldn't see what it was.
Photos, yes, photos! I suddenly remembered the photo I saw this morning, taken at the scene of Lao Zeng's crime. In the photo, there was a circle of water stains around the bottom of the glass. At that moment, I seemed to think of something.
At this moment, a knock on the door woke me up suddenly. "Come in." I took a deep breath and tried my best to suppress the huge fluctuations in my heart. A young policeman opened the door cautiously, but before he could say anything, the door "banged" "What's wrong?" Yang Shuo walked in and looked at us, pulling out a chair and sitting down.
"Captain Yang, the chief asked me to invite you and Deputy Captain Cheng to his office." The police officer said with a smile. Yang Shuo glanced at me, raised his eyebrows, turned his head and asked, "What's the matter? The young police officer scratched his head and said awkwardly: "I don't know much about this. The chief didn't tell me. He just asked me to tell you and Deputy Captain Cheng a message. I don't know anything else." I stood up and straightened my clothes. "Okay, we'll be there right away, you go and do your work first." The young policeman smiled innocently and responded before going out.
When we arrived at the director's office, there were already a lot of people inside. I looked around and saw that they were all the main investigators of the two cases. The director saw us standing at the door and waved for us to come over to him.
I was about to walk over when Yang Shuo beside me gently tugged at my sleeve and winked at me. I understood and followed his gaze. My body suddenly trembled. It was a bit strange, until Yang Shuo half-pulled and half-dragged me in front of the director, and I came back to my senses. I heard the director smiled and said, "Xiao Yang, Xiao Cheng, it happens that you are the persons in charge of Zeng Shuyao's case. This Miss Xiang wants to If you want to understand the case, why not give her a general explanation?" Yang Shuo nodded with a smile and looked at Xiang Qianqian meaningfully, then gave a brief explanation to the two people in front of him.
The director looked very pale, but I didn't pay much attention to him. Then the three of them started discussing some issues related to the case. I was dozing off while listening, so I made up an excuse to leave. I heard a sudden commotion behind me when I was at the door. I turned around and saw that the director, who was fine just now, had fallen to the ground, his face pale and breathing heavily. Xiang Qianqian squatted down and frantically took out the He took out a white bottle and sprayed it into the director's nose a few times. The director's nose moved and he took a few deep breaths. Then his eyes rolled back and his whole body twitched.
Everyone was shocked at this moment, and they only breathed a sigh of relief after watching the ambulance drive away. "What happened?" I asked Yang Shuo, who had a gloomy face, only to hear Xiang Qianqian at the side take over and say, "He I have asthma.”
There was no conversation that night. The next day when I rushed to the police station, the first news I heard was that the chief, Ma Daoshan, had died after failed rescue efforts. I was somewhat shocked, and when I stumbled to the office, Yang Shuo was looking at me with a gloomy face. At this time, Uncle Zhang also came. When he saw us, he said hurriedly, "The dentures yesterday were filled with pesticides, so they turned black." Hearing this, I stood up suddenly and ignored Zhang Bo looked at Yang Shuo with a surprised look and ran out.
"What's the matter? What's the matter?" Yang Shuo asked in confusion while sitting in the car. "You'll know in a moment." Seeing that I had no intention of telling him, Yang Shuo had no choice but to shut up. I drove at high speed, then parked the car in front of a dilapidated building on the outskirts of the city and walked straight into the building.
I went up to the second floor and knocked on a door on the left. Xiang Qianqian was standing inside the door, looking at me in surprise and exclaimed, "Cheng… Cheng Chuan?" I pushed her aside with a gloomy face and walked into the house. , and then Yang Shuo followed in, and immediately shouted at Qian Qian angrily: "What on earth are you going to do?"
"What? Huh, don't you know? Xiang Qianqian, oh, no, I should call you a murderer now." In an instant, Xiang Qianqian and Yang Shuo changed their faces at the same time.
I sneered, walked slowly to Xiang Qianqian, stared at her and said quietly: "On the night when Lao Zeng died, I guess it was like this: at 19:50, Lao Zeng went into the study and started surfing the Internet. Five minutes later, you I gave her a cup of tea and left. At around 8pm, Lao Zeng suddenly got poisoned. This has always been a puzzle to me. How could a healthy person suddenly get poisoned? Later I found out From the time you put down the cup until Lao Zeng died, he had not drunk a sip of tea. However, when the police investigated, there was only half a cup of water in the cup. Later, I went to the identification department to ask in person, and there was clearly Lao Zeng's blood on the cup. Saliva, so I guess someone tampered with the surveillance footage. Xiang Qianqian, you are very smart. You used the loop to make the video of Lao Zeng keep typing on the keyboard from the time you left until he was poisoned, thus eliminating the moment when he drank water. The police investigation came to a standstill .
Xiang Qianqian was a little surprised, and then almost roared: "You are talking nonsense! Cheng Chuan, you are slandering me! I have evidence…" I snorted coldly and interrupted her: "Xiang Qianqian, don't deny it. , your friends have admitted it. She asked you out that night, and you arranged it in advance, just to create an alibi for you, right?"
Xiang Qianqian sat on the ground without answering. I looked at the woman in front of me with disgust and continued, "I have never understood how you poisoned me. That day, I was sitting there watching the surveillance video of the crime. I found a few white spots in the cup you were holding in the video, but there were none in the photo I took later. There was only a circle of water stains. I was puzzled for a long time before I realized that the white spots were actually ice cubes. The water stains are caused by the fact that the temperature inside the cup is lower than outside the cup, so a layer of water droplets condenses on the outside. We were wrong from the beginning, because you were not serving tea but water. You know Lao Zeng's love very well. He has a habit of eating ice cubes, so you know he will eat them!"
I squinted my eyes, trying to suppress the anger in my heart, and glared at Xiang Qianqian in front of me. She lowered her head, and her long hair fell down to cover her face, so I couldn't see her expression at the moment. After a short while, she actually looked up and said with a smile: "I admit that I killed him. Since you already know everything, why don't I tell you more."
At this point, she stood up and walked to the sofa and sat down lazily. Then she lit a cigarette and took a puff and said, "Do you know how Du Zheng died? Haha, I killed him. You still don't know how to kill him?" You know, I am actually a dentist! That day, the old man came to get his teeth fixed, and I was so happy that I replaced his dentures with a new one. The dentures were all filled with pesticides, and the bottom was blocked with rock sugar. As soon as I got home, I drank such hot tea that the rock sugar melted and the pesticide flowed out, and I died."
After hearing this, I felt cold and a sense of gloom rose up. I couldn't accept the tone of Xiang Qianqian when she said this, it was as casual as if she was saying that the weather was really nice today. I looked at Yang Shuo behind me. , suddenly glanced at Qianqian and said contemptuously: "Cheng Chuan, do you want to know how your director Ma Shoushan died?"
She stubbed out the cigarette in her hand with a grin and said, "It was not a coincidence that I showed up in Ma Shoushan's office that day. I went to find him on purpose. My purpose was very simple – to kill him. So I used the excuse of understanding the case. I begged him to call you all here. Who would have thought that I would do it at this time when there are so many people here?" "So that means the drug you gave him was also fake?" I asked.
Xiang Qianqian smiled and said nonchalantly, "The medicine is pollen. Ma Shoushan has asthma. I knew it when I first became his mistress, so I deliberately sprinkled a lot of pollen in his office that day, and then he got sick. . "
"Why?" I roared.
But Xiang Qianqian just looked at Yang Shuo beside her with a charming smile.
In an instant, I lost my mind. With red eyes, I pointed the black muzzle of the gun at the woman in front of me who was still smiling like a trapped beast.
Suddenly, Yang Shuo walked up to Xiang Qianqian with a sneer, and a silver blade flashed. The woman looked up in astonishment and grabbed Yang Shuo's arm tightly.
Yang Shuo smiled sinisterly: "All three of them are dead, there is no point in keeping them, and you know too much." "Didn't you say that if I help you, you will marry me?" Xiang Qianqian Her throat was cut, and she was leaking air while she was talking. Yang Shuo snorted coldly, raised one hand suddenly, and fiercely shook off Xiang Qianqian's hands. At the end, he brushed away the clothes she had grabbed with disgust. sleeve.
Yang Shuo turned his head and sighed: "Chuanzi, don't blame me. I don't want this to happen to you as a buddy, but you know too much. If you don't die, I will be the one to die." Hearing this, I My heart suddenly became calm and indifferent, and I asked: "Why, we are brothers!"
After hearing this, Yang Shuo became excited: "Chuanzi, you mentioned brotherhood to me. If you are a brother, you will not rape my sister!"
At this moment I was stunned and my mind went blank.
Then, Yang Shuo grinned and said, "Five years ago, my sister came to the city to see me for the first time. I didn't bother to pick her up, but she was raped by a drunk man in an alley on her way. Soon after, she committed suicide. Later, I accidentally found out that the man who raped her was Lao Zeng, so I went to the police and the court to sue, but it was useless. Ma Shoushan and Du Zheng were bribed by his father. So I became his buddy, just to kill him one day and avenge my sister!"
I was about to open my mouth when Yang Shuo suddenly raised his head and grabbed my neck and said viciously, "They deserve to die! All of them deserve to die!"
After saying that, Yang Shuo took out his gun and said with a sinister smile: "Cheng Chuan, since we are brothers, I will give you a quick death!"
With a "ping" sound, bullets whizzed through the air. I touched the gun in my hand and stood up quietly. I looked at Yang Shuo lying in a pool of blood with pity and said with a smile: "In fact, there were two people who raped your sister back then. Lao Zeng and I…"
After watching Lao Shuo gradually stop breathing, I quickly arranged the scene to make it look like Xiang Qianqian and he would die together. Yes, I don't want to die yet. After doing everything, I took a deep look at Yang Shuo for the last time and left. .
I didn’t know if there would be any flaws in the scene I had set up, nor did I know how my colleagues in the police station would arrest me. I didn’t dare to think about it, nor did I want to think about it. I ran, and when I got tired, I walked away, aimlessly, not daring to stop. But for some reason, my nose was always filled with that disgusting smell of blood.
I don't remember what happened next, I just fainted on the street, but when I woke up, I found myself lying on my bed, alone in the room.
Suddenly, a rapid phone ring woke me up from my daze. I hesitated for a while and finally picked up the receiver. There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then a male voice came out: "Chuanzi, I just received a report. Lao Zeng Dead…" Hearing this, I shuddered all over, and then habitually wiped my face with my hands, put on some clothes and rushed to the police station…