"I checked, those chat records are real, and the other party is indeed Lu Guangzu. Bai Yongji transferred about 50,000 yuan to him, and all the money went into Lu Guangzu's bank account."
Lu Xiaohe bit a pen and spoke unclearly.
"But Mr. Bai's behavior is a little bit subtle... Although it can be understood as 'wanting to give a good impression to the friends of the person you like', this news came at the perfect time. Xiao Yin, Xiao Zhong, what do you think?"
"Maybe it's a fishhook, hanging out to dry." "Wait a few days."
They both said in unison.
"Don't worry, Sister Xiaohe, just leave it to us." Yin Ren added cheerfully.
Zhong Cheng said more bluntly: "I will check this person's background as soon as possible."
"Not bad, you two are getting better and better." Lu Xiaohe said with satisfaction, "Come, let's wait for Teacher Lu to comment on the homework."
She pulled up Yin Ren's "interrogation report".
"Xiao Yin, you made a lot of spelling mistakes. Please pay more attention next time. Let's talk about the content first—"
Lu Xiaohe was cheered up. She glanced at the two words "Fan Yong" on the report and clicked on the connection.
"They couldn't produce any evidence and were anxious to investigate the case, so they took the risk. In theory, this is possible." Zhong Cheng said, as if hinting at something, "but looking at Yin Ren's report, this possibility is not high."
"Strange, why is the alien identification department so slow this time... Let's do this, I'll ask later, let's continue working first."
This time, the police went through a lot of trouble to contact Ding Lizi's family in the countryside. The family said they had never seen her, and Ding Lizi's phone was always turned off, and all communication contacts and payment accounts were not touched. Officer Sun immediately decided to include her in the category of "possible victims."
"If you are sure you want to investigate her, I will tell Officer Sun to include you in the police investigation team." Lu Xiaohe put the spinning pen back on the table. "Don't be too stressed. The police are the main force in background investigations of missing persons. Just do what you think..."
Lu Xiaohe then pulled out several other reports.
The young man in the photo had a delicate face and slightly long black hair. He had a blank expression and a gloomy look between his eyebrows. His eyes flickered slightly across the camera and looked towards the edge of the photo.
Having said this, Lu Xiaohe paused for a while.
"Ding Lizi, female, 21 years old, went missing two weeks ago. The Haigu City police made a record at the time but did not conduct a thorough investigation."
"… But I have another question. If Lu Guangzu was backed by the Shenming Society, he wouldn't have to go through the trouble of 'surrendering'. There are many ways to demonstrate and send a message."
Ten covers of information, men, women, young and old. Through the small photos, they look at the world outside the photos, their expressions are either stiff or gentle, but they all have the same vivid look.
"Sister Lu, I personally don't want to check Ding Lizi first."
"In fact, the final report has not come out yet, and I am also concerned about it." Lu Xiaohe clacked on the keyboard. She repeatedly checked but failed, and sighed twice.
Zhong Cheng glanced at Yin Ren and said calmly, "What if he pretended to 'surrender' but his real intention was to provide clues?"
She closed the query window angrily. The big screen beeped and the electronic versions of the ten documents that Zhong Cheng said were laid out on it.
"Assuming that Lu Guangzu is not the real murderer, then the real murderer is still in the dark. If my speculation is correct, Miss Ding is really "relatively special", the real murderer found out that Shi An was specifically investigating her, and it is possible that he destroyed the body in advance."
"Uncover the case? The kind of justice partners?" Lu Xiaohe's pen turned faster and faster. "If he has clues about the murder, why doesn't he just give it to Shi An?"
Zhong Cheng took the remote control and turned the page.
Zhong Cheng said that Lu Xiaohe was interrupted, and he shook his head firmly.
The last file was instantly enlarged, and the sweet smile occupied a quarter of the big screen. Her facial features were not very outstanding, but her smile was very sunny. Against that smile, the girl's misty eyes looked less weird and more elf-like.
Two weeks ago, a young man came to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to report that Ding Lizi was missing.
Zhong Cheng said, "Is this all the report on the 'human chair'?"
They also searched for the male who reported the case, named "Huang Jin", and found that he also seemed to have evaporated on the spot.
Ding Lizi has very weak vision, which is almost the same as that of a blind person. She comes from the distant X Province and recently came to Haigu to work with her fellow villagers. Ding Lizi works as a telephone customer service during the day and sings in a nearby bar at night. Her activities are relatively small.
The page stops at the information of the reporter "Huang Jin".
"Indeed, we conducted a polygraph assessment and the police also have an interrogation report. Lu Guangzu may not be the real murderer. But Xiao Yin, you can check the reports of other departments before writing. There may be important clues in them."
After a short break, she refreshed the internal website again, trying to refresh the final detection report of the foreign body identification department. The loading icon jumped around in her eyes, and suddenly, a new report data appeared at the top.
She twirled the pen in her hand, lost in thought.
"Since he is related to Ding Lizi, we can start with this 'Huang Jin'." Zhong Cheng said, "This way the probability of making a surprise attack is slightly lower."
So far, they have only seen the analysis of the characteristics of the evil force. Regarding the status and cause of the "human chair" itself, the report did not say much.
"Of course it's right. I swear on Brother Zhong's innocence." Yin Ren looked at Zhong Cheng meaningfully.
The police documented the girl's disappearance in detail—in a sense, it was not that the police were negligent.
"For example, the inspection department also issued a report yesterday. The contamination of the 'evil power' in Fan Yong's body is exactly the same as that in Feng Qi's case. This case is indeed the work of the Shenming Society."
Lu Xiaohe shook his head: "That's right, I just mentioned it casually. If Lu Guangzu really wanted to report the case himself, why would he help Shen Mei to recruit Xiao Yin? Xiao Yin, this information is very important, don't misunderstand Lu Guangzu's intentions?"
After all, the reporter could not produce any solid evidence and could only repeatedly explain that "she had an appointment with me" and "she would not leave without saying goodbye."
It was lunch break time, Yin Ren grabbed Zhong Cheng and said, "I'll ride away the dust, and go straight to the cafeteria." Lu Xiaohe stretched out his limbs on the chair and did a set of eye exercises.
"Officer Sun checked all missing persons reports in the past three months and narrowed down the list to ten people. All of these ten people have completely 'disappeared' without any trace."
"Just take it easy on you." Lu Xiaohe didn't think it was strange. "Anyway, the direction for our group has been decided. There are other groups following up on the search for missing persons and the investigation of the sinking. You will continue to cooperate with the police and be in charge of Lu Guangzu's line. By the way, keep an eye on Bai Yongji and see if you can dig up anything."
"Except for Lu Yuanyuan and Fan Yong, the remaining eight missing persons are now being tracked and investigated by special police forces. Which one did Xiao Zhong find special yesterday... Oh, this one."
The information of Lu Yuanyuan and Fan Yong was filed separately. Unlike the bitter text introductions, the two of them were smiling in the photo with bright eyes.
However, at that time, Ding Lizi had just lost contact, and had been in contact with her boss before that. She sent a voice message to both the customer service company and the bar to resign, saying that something happened at home and she was going back to her hometown with her fellow villagers. The man who reported the case was not related to her, so the police had to record it first and did not reveal Ding Lizi's privacy to him.
[You do not have sufficient permissions.]
Lu Xiaohe paused for a moment; she had never encountered such a situation before.
Is it a system bug
She clicked several times in disbelief, but the cold pop-up window remained in the middle of the screen, with the prompt unchanged. Lu Xiaohe took a deep breath, logged out and logged in again and again, but still could not view the report.
She stared at the pop-up window for a long time, finally opened the internal software and clicked on the three words "Hao Wen Ce".
[Lu Xiaohe: Wen Ce, what does "Insufficient permissions" mean on the report page? Report number SA8729948719]
[Lu Xiaohe: This is a case we are cooperating with the police on. We need to check the progress of the report.]
[Hao Wen-ce: Oh, that one.]
[Hao Wen-ce: That report is the work of the Emergency Management Department. You don’t need to follow up. The Appraisal Department will give you a separate report later. Please read that report when the time comes.]
[Lu Xiaohe: Wen Ce, it’s hard for us to do our job if you guys are like this.]
[Hao Wen-ce: I understand, and we will try our best to balance the two.]
[Lu Xiaohe: Can I ask about the direction of your investigation? I have an idea in mind.]
[Hao Wen-ce: Looking for the victim.]
[Hao Wen Ce: I'm going to do something else now. Contact me if you need anything.]
Looking for the victim? Lu Xiaohe's fingers froze on the keyboard. She had never come across a case where "hunting down a murderer" and "looking for a person" were separated.
Instead of leaving the search for the murderer to the police and a few low-level investigation teams, the Emergency Management Department went to look for him themselves? What was the cause of this evil power contamination
She lowered her head, hesitated for a while, and finally opened the pinned "Shian-Group Work Group".
[Galaxy: The Emergency Management Department has followed up on the matter of the human chair. We have to wait for the report from our department.]
[Galaxy: You two should be careful when you are out on the field @水果刀@finally succeeded]
[Galaxy: This case is not easy. Our opponents are the Shenming Society. Who knows what bad tricks they might use.]
at the same time.
Fu Xingchuan and Li Nian were standing in the elevator. Fu Xingchuan was wearing dark clothes, which was rare. His deep red clothes looked like a pool of dried blood. Li Nian was also dressed very neatly, without a wrinkle on his collar.
Unlike usual, this time there were eight buttons lit in the elevator, and an extremely strange pictographic symbol was shown on the digital display.
"You should have transferred those two people out." Professor Li said as he rushed towards the elevator door. "There is a risk of leaking secrets."
Fu Xingchuan didn't hold a cigarette in his mouth. He even sprayed some air freshener on himself. "Well, maybe I'm more sensitive to fate. They've checked everything. If you're worried about Lu Xiaohe... Hao Wence is still a reliable person and won't make mistakes."
"Have you checked everything?" Professor Li snorted and laughed.
"Let the police handle the open matters. They are more professional than us in investigating cases, and it's a good opportunity for us to train the new recruits." Fu Xingchuan didn't look at his partner. "We old guys have to find another way and do it on two fronts."
As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator suddenly started to flash, and it started to shake wildly. A burning smell filled the elevator compartment. A few seconds later, the elevator made a hoarse "ding" sound and stopped at an unknown floor.
The elevator door slowly opened.
The view outside the door was surprisingly normal. If it were someone else, they might have thought this was the corridor of a high-end hotel.
The corridor was decorated with dim and warm lights, and was covered with patterned camel-colored carpets. Soft music and fragrance floated in the air. On both sides of the corridor, doors were tightly closed, with only lonely number plate numbers on them.
The two walked on the soft carpet towards the end of the corridor. When they were almost at the end, Fu Xingchuan finally stopped in front of a door.
Perhaps it noticed the visitor, but there was a dull sound of bones rubbing against each other from the door behind them. Something huge was approaching the door, and the old man's soft humming and laughing flowed out from the crack of the door. The room they were facing was silent, and there was only pure darkness in the crack of the door. Fu Xingchuan ignored the abnormality behind him. He held his breath and knocked on the door three times respectfully.
"Minister Jiao, sorry to bother you." He said in a low voice.
With a click, the door lock popped open by itself.
The room was very large and furnished very much like a hotel - if it weren't covered in scary looking wires it would be no different than any other presidential suite in a hotel.
But at this moment, those strange wires were crawling all over the wall and drilling into the wallpaper. At first glance, they looked like mutated blood vessels or some kind of neural network. In the middle of the sticky "wires", there stood something... something hard to describe.
At a quick glance, it was a woman leaning against the head of the bed, holding another petite woman horizontally.
But it was only a vague shape.
They hugged each other tightly, their skin and flesh stuck together, their bodies made of something like metal or plastic. Screens of varying sizes were embedded in their bodies, covering up all biological features, and abstract patterns that no one could understand flashed wildly on the screens. Looking only at the outlines, they—it—looked like a piece of pyrite that had taken on a human form.
Only those "wires" with the texture of flesh and blood still reveal their identity as "living things".
The moment they walked to the bed, Fu Xingchuan's cell phone began to vibrate wildly. Minister Fu gently placed it at the foot of the bed and turned on the speakerphone.
"There is indeed a newcomer over there."
A strange voice, like a synthesized voice, came out of the microphone.
"But, the person is incomplete and the location cannot be determined."
Professor Li restrained his sharpness and said in an almost gentle tone, "How many people are there?"
"Seven, or so, they are too far away, incomplete, and can't be found."
These words seem to be taken from different people's mouths and roughly put together, which makes people feel uncomfortable.
"They are all alive and shouldn't be here, but I have no anchor."
Fu Xingchuan frowned: "So having Fan Yong isn't enough..."
"It's useless, you're a lunatic." The voice in the receiver immediately replied, "Your thoughts are too fragmented, too fragmented. You guys, read the report."
"Give me the complete spirit. Then I can translate your coordinates over there."
"What?" Fu Xingchuan looked a little confused.
"We have to sync the victim's 'exact thoughts' to her. That way she can find the victim's location 'over there' and then work backwards to deduce the location in the 'real world'."
Professor Li stepped on Fu Xingchuan's foot and gritted his teeth while translating for his partner.
"By analogy, it is similar to keyword index positioning."
"Yes." There was a hint of approval in that strange voice.
As long as they can determine the victim's real location, not only can they rescue the victim as quickly as possible, but they can also easily track down the real culprit. But to analyze the victim's real-time thoughts...
"To find the victims, we must first understand their thoughts. But without contact with the victims, we cannot be sure of their thoughts. This is a paradox." Professor Li frowned, but kept his tone gentle.
"Haha, useless thing." The voice mocked.
Fu Xingchuan: "Uh, Minister Jiao..."
"Try out 'Grandpa's' key idea?" Professor Li pushed Fu Xingchuan away without showing any anger.
If Lu Yuanyuan were still alive somewhere, this is what he would most likely be thinking about.
The flashing of countless monitors suddenly accelerated, and the meaningless and strange images gave rise to a fatal temptation. The two watched in fascination until they were interrupted by a bursting headache.
They quickly looked away, but were still a step too late. When they turned their heads back, they both had bloodshot noses on their faces.
Some fragments of information rushed directly into their brains. Dizziness and nausea rolled over their bodies. Li Nian covered her mouth and almost vomited. If they stared any longer, their brains might boil in their skulls.
But they did feel that strange sensation—the presence of someone flickering, like a candle in the endless darkness.
"Not enough, the target is too fragile." "Minister Jiao" explained, "Lu Yuanyuan, hurry up, it collapsed and cannot be located."
"Okay, then let's go check for the contamination points of the evil power." Fu Xingchuan wiped the blood off his face and sighed fiercely, "Minister Jiao, please continue searching. If you need anything, just tell me."
"Chocolate and ice cream. I want to eat chocolate and ice cream."
Fu Xingchuan smiled weakly: "Okay."
Jiao Lian, the current head of the Foreign Object Identification Department, obviously no longer has a mouth to eat. But every time they asked this question, she always gave the same answer.
"The murderer's ability is similar to mine, but not strong enough."
Just when Fu Xingchuan was about to hang up the call, Minister Jiao spoke again.
"He actually sent innocent people here. Fortunately, he only sent half of them here."
"I will definitely let them go home."
"I will definitely let them go home."
"I will definitely let them go home."
"You two should come back soon too." Fu Xingchuan patted the "wires" at the foot of the bed. "We're leaving first. See you later."
Yin Ren did not run to the police immediately.
Similar to yesterday, Yin Ren persuaded Zhong Cheng to go to a nearby restaurant for a sumptuous dinner. But unlike yesterday, Bai Yongji did not show up this time, and everything was normal.
Yin Ren stuffed himself with a mouthful of honey yogurt and squinted his eyes - he strolled back and forth on the street yesterday and went to the tallest indoor restaurant for dinner, but the strange sense of voyeurism in the Feng Qi case did not appear again.
He and Zhong Cheng said they have been in charge of this case for some time. Could it be that Shen Mi has not targeted them this time
He was happily fishing, but ended up only catching Bai Yongji, whose motives were unclear. It was a pity.
Come to think of it, Bai Yongji was also in trouble. Yin Ren did not sense any aura of a cultivator from that person, nor did he even sense any hostility from him. He was really unpredictable.
"Brother Zhong, have you read Bai Yongji's file?"
Yin Ren was too lazy to open his phone to check, so he chose to bribe Zhong Cheng with a small piece of raisin dessert. The latter stared at him with a complicated look.
"Don't stare at me. I can't tell the difference between those job-hopping and job-changing people. This matter still depends on you, the scientific post."
"There's nothing wrong with his file."
To be precise, Bai Yongji's experience is a replica of what Zhong Cheng said. Bai Yongji had excellent grades since childhood and had a harmonious family. After graduating from high school, he went abroad to study and became very successful after returning to China. Unlike Comrade Xiao Zhong, Mr. Bai is very sociable and has a good relationship with people - even in his two love experiences, he broke up peacefully and his ex-girlfriends never said a bad word about him.
A typical young talent.
"He came to Haigu last year and had psychological counseling at the end of the year. Due to privacy issues, the counseling agency only gave him rough information... I took a rough look and found that he was worried about some work-related issues, which were very ordinary."
Zhong Cheng said as he scooped a spoonful of vegetarian rice.
"He had just joined the company and had taken over a very failed project. He was under great pressure to achieve results. But Bai Yongji finally managed to pull it off and brought the project back to life. Because of this, he has a very good reputation among his colleagues."
This man was dating my precious daughter, and Officer Sun might have known more about him than An. Since Bai Yongji was able to stay at Sun's house for dinner, it can be seen that his experience is indeed spotless.
Mr. Bai didn't even have a car fine.
"Since his problem is so common, how did it get connected to Lu Guangzu?" Yin Ren asked when he didn't understand.
"Lu Guangzu said he could help him transfer his project, and he may have used 'some means' to prove it later." Zhong Cheng said as he scooped a spoonful of dessert, not seeming to be very interested in Lu Guangzu's topic. "Since he is an intermediary, he must have his own channels."
"You don't seem to be very interested in Lu Guangzu."
"He has been caught. The most urgent task is to identify the real culprit." Zhong Cheng answered in a serious tone.
"Oh—huh, I'm sure it's the real murderer."
Yin Ren ate and drank his fill, then stretched himself.
He looked at Zhong Cheng with burning eyes, like a beast watching its prey in the bushes.
"Lu Guangzu" is a fake, and Zhong Cheng said it is unlikely to find more "clues to the real murderer" from him. After exerting pressure on him, Yin Ren does not think that "Lu Guangzu" still has the energy to deceive King Yan.
Then the so-called "special" Ding Lizi identified by Zhong Cheng during the trial and Huang Jin who is related to her are worth pondering.
Zhong Cheng said that he probably knew something, but he also chose to remain silent about Shi An.
What a perfect match, Yin Ren thought. The timing was right, and he could move on to the next step.
They would have made the perfect accomplices.
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Xiao Zhong’s innocence is gone! (×
By the way~
This volume is only halfway through, and there are many actors (including the protagonist) in it, and many of their performances also foreshadow some of the settings in the later part. Under this premise, I will not make clear everyone's behavior and psychology.
As for the analysis in the article:
① Sometimes the reason for foreshadowing is not pointed out;
② Everyone’s questions are varied. Some ask on point, while others misread the original text/forgot the previous text/have different understandings. If everyone can understand, the article will become a thesis;
③Due to the plot arrangement, many analyses will be placed in more appropriate plot descriptions.
A little explanation↑
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