Quiet night.
Jin Xi and the others were busy sorting out documents and confessions. Han Chen walked out of the office alone and stood in the corridor, looking at the stars in the sky and the lights adorning the city.
After a moment of silence, he took out his phone.
On the phone, there is a text message from Ji Bai tonight.
Ji Bai was the friend he asked to help investigate the murder case in Beijing five years ago.
"Details have been sent to your email.
Whatever you want to do, be cautious and protect yourself and those around you.
Season White. "
Han Chen opened the mailbox.
The email began with a paragraph written by Ji Bai: "From January to December of that year, there were 64 deaths in Beijing and its surrounding areas, which were not included in the crime statistics report of the Ministry of Public Security. The cause of these cases is unknown and the murderer is unknown. However, according to an internal document of the Ministry of Public Security, these murders have been sealed and handled as "closed", and the families of the victims have also been appeased by officials. The specific closure report is classified as confidential. Permissions, can't see it either."
Han Chen looked at these words and remained silent for a long time.
Scroll down further to find the details of the 64 victims, the cause of death identified by forensics, and more.
After reading it, Han Chen put the phone back in his pocket and clasped his hands on the railing. After a while of silence, he reached into his arms and touched the cigarette.
Touched empty.
So his expression became even more silent.
Until, light footsteps sounded behind him.
Bai Jin Xi walks to his side, leaning against the railing with him, looking into the distance.
"What are you thinking?" she asked.
Han Chen didn't answer, just stretched out his hand and put his arm around her shoulder.
Jin Xi immediately turned around and saw that everyone was working with their heads down, and they didn't bother to care. In the cold night, she leaned into his arms and rubbed his chin.
After a while of silence, she said, "Han Chen, I think it's weird. Why do I feel so much about perverted serial killers?"
"Maybe you were a great expert in the past." His deep voice was very soft in the night, as if he was coaxing her.
Jin Xi curved the corners of her mouth and said as if she was talking to herself, "It really feels different, it seems that something familiar to me is recovering little by little. Some vague things in my mind are slowly becoming clear. ."
"I also felt this way." Han Chen replied, "When I first woke up four years ago, I came across some major cases, and I felt both unfamiliar and familiar. But after a few cases, everything went smoothly."
"Recovery?" The word jumped out of Jin Xi's mouth.
Han Chen glanced at her sideways.
"You've been staying in a place like Guanhu Police Station where birds don't shit. Every day, you scan pornography and deal with trivial cases. It's normal that you've been ignorant and recovered slowly in recent years."
Jin Xi is delighted: "Fuck you! We're not a place where birds don't shit! You look down on people too much."
Han Chen also smiled, looking up at the front.
After a while, the smile on Jin Xi's face slowly faded.
Han Chen's words just now, like a small stone, gently disturbed her originally quiet heart lake.
You have been staying in a place like Guanhu Police Station where birds don't shit, and it is normal for you to recover slowly.
But if it is precisely because she is at the grassroots police station, her so-called "recovery" has slowed down. So where did her sensitivity and related knowledge about perverted murders come from
Shahu Police Academy, which is not ranked in the country
Isn't this what Han Chen usually calls "logical paradox"
A strange sense of doubt came to mind. But Jin Xi couldn't understand the clue for a while. He could only raise his head and look at Han Chen.
And Han Chen also looked at the woman in his arms.
The starlight dimly reflected her face, and the long hair in his palm was as soft as satin. Her brows were so clear, her clear eyes were dark and deep, as if they contained a thousand words.
And she was still wearing the same clothes she wore to the clubhouse. The royal blue skirt outlined a smooth curve, which made her face fairer and more vivid.
Han Chen was silent for a moment.
"Kiss."
Jin Xi smiled instead: "You know where we are? We're still kissing."
Han Chen looked back, and as expected, someone in the office quickly shrank their heads back. He turned his face expressionlessly, pulled her hand, and walked to the other end of the corridor.
"Where are you going?" Jin Xi muttered.
"Find a place where no one else is." He answered succinctly.
When Jin Xi heard this, she turned her head and was about to leave, but was dragged into his arms by him, and the two of them fled to the corner of the dark and uninhabited stairs. Jin Xi laughed softly, Han Chen leaned his back against the wall, hugged her, bowed his head and kissed her.
"We're not children anymore, why do such a thing!" she said vaguely.
As a result, he held her lips, took a deep breath, and whispered, "Our promise has not been fulfilled."
Jin Xi's heart skipped a beat, and after a while she replied softly, "I didn't forget. But... I didn't deliver that day, wasn't it because of your lack of physical strength?"
Han Chen's lips moved away immediately, staring at her.
Jin Xi also looks at him with a smile.
Then he pinched him hard on the buttocks again.
"Si..." Jin Xi gasped, "What are you doing!"
"Is your physical strength good..." He lowered his head and bit her ear, "You know without trying?"
These words were so explicit that Jin Xi's face became hot. But he has blocked her lips again, not to tell her to talk nonsense any more.
The stairs were dark, and the sky above was sparsely lit. The two are so close, but it seems that no matter how close they are, it is not enough. In a trance, I only feel this situation and this scene, it seems familiar. How many times at sunrise and sunset, they were like this too, avoiding the interruption of others, and kissing passionately and presumptively. They are equally proud and equally crazy about love. Such a fiery youth, without a trace of hesitation, without the slightest hesitation, only know that you must, only know that you must grow old with this person in front of you.
The emotions that were awakened deep in her heart were too strong, kissing and kissing, Jin Xi's tears fell.
"Han Chen... Why did we separate in the first place?"
Han Chen's fingers caressed the tears on her cheeks, and stopped kissing, instead he held her in his arms. The two of them stayed like this, snuggling together for a long time, motionless.
Until, the lights under the stairs suddenly turned on.
Footsteps sounded, and someone came up.
Han Chen let go of her, but still held her hand. And because her eyes were a little uncomfortable, Jin Xi didn't turn around, turned her back to the person who came, and looked at Han Chen's chest.
Xu Bai, dressed in leisure, climbed the stairs. Looking up to see the two of them, he was slightly startled, his eyes stopped on the hands they were shaking, and he smiled: "Team Leader Han, Junior Sister."
Jin Xi pulls her hand back, turns to look at him, and smiles without change: "Senior brother, why are you here in the middle of the night?"
Xu Bai didn't seem to see anything. He smiled and walked to the two of them. He replied, "I've been busy with school during the day. I heard that you have locked up the suspect. I guess the interrogation will be overnight, so I rushed over."
Han Chen and Jin Xi took him to the interrogation room and looked at Situ Yi who was still "hanging" through the glass.
"So..." Xu Bai asked, "Now we just use the portrait to identify the suspect, but his criminal evidence still needs to be collected?"
Jin Xi nodded.
Xu Bo smiled slightly, glanced at them, and said, "Then let me provide you with a circumstantial evidence first."
Han Chen's brows are still, but Jin Xi smiles, "Okay."
Xu Bai turned his head to look at Situ Yi again: "After you have finished the interrogation, I will conduct a polygraph test on him."