The weather in the early morning was not sunny, the clouds were thick, blocking the sunlight that should have been there, and it looked gloomy.
Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan leaned on the sofa to sleep and wake up all night, but like this unfortunate weather, there was no progress.
There are a lot of contacts in the case, and there are both advantages and disadvantages when investigating things.
The advantage is that with rich experience, intuition will always be more sensitive than ordinary people. Nine times out of ten, you can hit the key point at a glance, which is probably a conditioned reflex that has been trained for many years.
The downside is that there will be a mindset.
They all know that in intentional murder-type crimes, the murderer tends to return to the scene after the incident.
Some go to see with his own eyes whether the result is what he wants, and some go to admire his masterpiece.
The murderer may take a look from a distance, or hide in the crowd, pretending to be an ordinary passerby who joins in the fun. But no matter what, there may be some clues left.
In fact, this is the detection idea that the police often use, and Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan are no exception to other professionals.
The people Joe and Eunice have followed, such as Professor Zhou, whose memory continued to deteriorate and eventually died of dementia, and Ms. Luce, who owned two mine lines and committed suicide in prison, etc...
If what happened to them was not as simple as they thought, and if there was a human factor involved, the suspect might also have "returned to the scene".
Therefore, when screening the photos, Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan each split half and half. First, they picked out the photos of Professor Zhou, Ms. Lu Si, and others before and after the accident, and circled some people with abnormal behavior from the photos, and then circled the pictures that had been drawn. Compare photos together and look for logical lines or similarities.
Unfortunately, the result was not as expected.
It was like hitting a bottleneck, unable to go up or down.
Yan Suizhi put aside the photos of the night, rubbed his neck, and said angrily, "I feel like when I went back to college, professors in several courses reached out to ask for case analysis at the same time, and there was a case stuck in my mind. , and then crashed into a ball at the intersection, with broken arms and thighs all over my eyes, I just don’t know who to pick up.”
"… "
Attorney Gu, who was about to make two breakfasts, stopped silently and looked at him numbly.
Yan Suizhi stood up and moved his muscles and bones, and when he met his eyes, he laughed, put his index finger up against his lips, and said, "I'll stop talking, lest I can't eat breakfast, it's on my head."
Pulling on his slippers, he walked unhurriedly behind the kitchen bar, occupied a pot by himself, and fry eggs.
"But I have an intuition." Yan Suizhi put the soft-hearted egg fried on one side on the plate, and turned it over for Gu Yan's.
"What intuition?"
Gu Yan stood beside him, mixed a large portion of fitness salad in a glass bowl, and put it into two plates.
"I feel like I'm about to catch the thread." Yan Suizhi said calmly, "a mess with no clues often means that we have found a lot of things. Compared with few clues, this is actually a good sign. . Just find a thread and everything will be clear."
He is always like this, no matter how troublesome things come to his mouth, it will become a lot easier, and there is no need to worry or worry. Every time he said these words, his slow and calm look was really endearing.
At least Gu Yan likes it very much.
The premise is that he does not deliberately tease people.
"Experience tells me that it's impossible to mess up again, it's almost time." Yan Suizhi said, "Those who have broken arms and broken legs should be able to be spelled out soon—"
Before he could finish speaking, Gu Yan forked a cranberry in the salad and blocked Yan Suizhi's mouth, lest the man make some nonsense metaphors that would affect his appetite.
With a fork in one hand, he quickly returned a few new emails with the other.
Yan Suizhi glanced over his shoulder a few times, and saw words such as "sorry", "no time" and "no, thank you" in succession.
Generally speaking, lawyers will not take only one case, because it often takes a long time for a case to be investigated and evidenced before being prosecuted in court. In the early days, it was normal for a year or two or even a few years. Under the current alliance mechanism and work efficiency, this process has been shortened a lot, but it can be as short as 20 to 30 days, and as long as half a year and a year.
But recently, Gu Yan has indeed pushed aside a lot of things, and the focus is temporarily on the cases related to Shao Weng, Yan Suizhi and Qiao.
The production of other first-level lawyers' reservists was reduced during the publicity period in order to reduce risks and disputes. He has also reduced production, but contrary to others, everything he participates in is accompanied by risks and disputes.
Yan Suizhi knew his philosophy, and the two had the same nature, so they didn't say much. He just asked casually, "Rejected a new commission?"
Gu Yan shook the screen in front of him, shook his head and said, "No, it's an email from Horace Ji."
"Oh?" Yan Suizhi scanned the contents of the email at a glance, and found that their client, Mr. Horace Ji, had been left hanging in the hospital for several days, and finally couldn't hold back a little, and asked Gu Yan when he was going to see him again. .
Yan Suizhi hummed, "When did you send it?"
"One letter yesterday morning, one letter last night," Gu Yan said.
"midnight?"
"To be precise, it was in the early morning, just when I was asleep." Gu Yan said lightly, "I just saw it when I checked my email. It's been more than two hours. I don't know if that Mr. Ji is asleep."
Yan Suizhi asked, "What do you say?"
Gu Yan said: "I said that there are still some things to deal with today, and I can't make time to go to the hospital. I will see the progress of the police tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
What he said was to let Mr. Horace Ji not be in a hurry, be calm, and speak politely and calmly, as if it were true.
But both sides were actually very clear in their hearts that he didn't want to listen to Horace Ji's nonsense and make up little stories anymore, he just wanted to hear the truth.
It just depends on when that Mr. Horace Ji compromises.
When the two sat down to eat at the dining table, the soothing music of 7 o'clock sounded on the clock on the wall. It was Qing Lingling's piano sound, accompanied by a few distant birdsong.
"Is it still telling the time at 7 o'clock? I don't seem to have heard of it before." Yan Suizhi ate breakfast slowly and chatted.
"If you don't refuse my invitation for a morning run, you can hear it every day."
During the speech, the birdsong became clearer, and changed a few tones tactfully, making it very special.
"What bird calls were recorded?" Yan Suizhi had no research on this.
"It's a bit like a shepherd." Gu Yan said, "I saw it on a business trip to Nest Star before. I mistakenly thought it was a common gray sparrow. It looks very similar. I heard the call and realized it was different. The local guide said this It is a kind of working bird, suitable for domestication, and it is very family-friendly. On the small island where I lived at the time, the aborigines liked to domesticate this bird to tell the time, and maybe the producers took materials from there.”
The reason why Nest Star is called Nest Star is because there are too many birds on that planet, so many that no one can recognize them all. It seems that the people there are pitiful, more like temporary guests.
Just catch a bird there, except for the aborigines of Nest Star, few people in the entire alliance can name it.
After all, no one else pays attention to the birds overhead all day long...
"Wait—" Yan Suizhi listened to these words and was stabbed by some of the descriptions, and was stunned for a moment, "This bird is very similar to the gray-spotted finch?"
He casually searched for the shepherd on the Internet, and the comparison between it and the gray sparrow came out. He picked a random point and scanned it roughly, and found that the only difference in appearance between this bird and the gray sparrow was the dark red edge of the tail feathers.
In addition, the gray sparrow is very common on all planets in the alliance. It is the bird with the strongest vitality, adaptability and fecundity. Nine times out of ten, it is the one that flies in the sky. But shepherds are uncommon, and they are rarely seen on other planets, unless they are brought there for a short stay by their tamers.
This reaction also reminded Gu Yan, the fork in his hand paused, suddenly remembered something, and pulled over the photo floating above the sofa.
Those photos have been sorted into two piles after they have been sorted overnight. One pile is repeated by the scene staff, either the angle is not good, or it is a little blurry. Another stack was sketched by them.
Seeing his actions, Yan Suizhi boasted, "Are you living in my head? The reaction is so fast."
Gu Yan raised his eyebrows, and quickly used "bird" as the image search source, and instantly screened out a batch of photos.
They spent the night in a mindset, and subconsciously focused all their attention on people, but they forgot that there was another type of living thing that often appeared in the photos—birds flying in the sky.
And if I remember correctly, Jim Benchy has some official photos with captions, and some of them mention rare birds coming from those places. The time of the photo coincides with the time when Professor Zhou was admitted to the hospital with physical problems.