In the interrogation room of the Portland Police Department, two young men who were soaked were holding their arms and shrank on the chairs.
A middle-aged policewoman brought a dry blanket to wrap them, and served two cups of steaming coffee. "Poor little guys, soaked all over, and half scared to death." She whispered to her colleagues in a compassionate tone, "Be patient with them, Trevi."
"Patience has always been my specialty." The big-waisted black police chief replied to her, "Amanda, separate them. I want to ask them separately."
The policewoman stepped forward and took the Hispanic boy kindly to another room—his hair became nearly black because of the rain, and it was more curly on his forehead, dripping wet at the ends. , Revealing a green and wild sensuality, that is a temperament that very arouses the maternal feelings of women, making the middle-aged policewoman look at him more and more affectionate.
"Okay," Trevella opened the seat across from the table and sat down, and said to the remaining Asian boys, "Let’s talk about how you found the crime scene and what you saw at the time. Tell us carefully. Don’t miss a single detail, and don’t make up without authorization. As the first discoverer, your testimony is crucial to solving the case."
His attitude was business, but not harsh, Li Biqing sipped a sip of hot coffee and slowly spoke in English. However, he had difficulty pronouncing many of the uncommon words, and he could not organize them into sentences according to the grammar. The more eager to express, the more stumbling, and after a few sentences, he began to be mixed with Chinese. In the end, he used all of them. It's Chinese.
Trevi frowned and asked for a few more questions. After confirming that the other party was really unable to speak the language, instead of pretending, he got up and walked out of the interrogation room and asked loudly, "Where is Tan? Ask him to come over and help translate!"
A middle-aged Chinese policeman put down the data box and walked over and said: "Sir, I only speak Cantonese."
"It's all in Chinese anyway, you go and communicate with him." Trevi turned sideways and let him in. Officer Tan chuckled, but the other party sighed in embarrassment: "You still speak English, at least I can understand part of it. I can't understand a word in Cantonese."
"Damn, isn't Guangdong from China?" The black police chief mumbled angrily, "How many languages are there in your country!"
"About 129 kinds." Li Biqing answered seriously.
Trevi stared at the Eastern boy who didn't seem to be joking, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
"Let me ask." The door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and two white men in dark suits walked in. Before Trevi's attack, they took out their documents and shook them in front of him: "FBI, criminal Investigation Department, Leo Lawrence, this is my partner Robrie? Simon."
"This is an in-state case. We are fully capable of solving it on our own. Is it necessary to alert the FBI." Trevi was a bit dissatisfied.
"It's true that it's not currently under our jurisdiction, but maybe we can provide some help." The federal agent with black hair and dark blue eyes said to him blankly, and then he opened the chair and sat down. The next sentence changed. Become fluent Chinese: "For example, a better way of communication."
"Okay," Trevi shrugged, "you will ask him, but I want a translated transcript."
"No problem." Leo turned his head to look at the Chinese boy wrapped in the blanket, his eyes filled with soothing expressions: "Bi Qing, are you okay, are you scared?"
"Fortunately, I was a little irritated at the time, but now it’s much better." Li Biqing held the coffee cup tightly in both hands, twisted his fingers at each other as he spoke, and whispered: "How could this happen, I mean, use Killing someone in such a cruel way..."
"Don't think about it so much, just treat it as a movie, just play back the scenes in the memory. It doesn't matter if you can't remember some places, or don't want to say it." Leo said softly.
Li Biqing shook his head, "It's okay, I'm not that fragile." Then, starting from meeting Wayne, he told the story one by one. Of course, the part of the joke about "mooding" has been completely omitted.
Leo made a transcript while listening, but Trevi was still worried and asked someone to bring a tape recorder over to record. Rob sat idly next to him, watching this move of the black city police very uncomfortably.
After Li Biqing finished speaking, he took a long breath and drank all the coffee left in the cup.
Leo handed the transcript to Trevi, "Look at it, if there is nothing wrong, I will take him away."
Trevi took the book and scanned it carefully. It happened that Amanda came from the next room and also sent a transcript. After comparing the two sides, they found that the testimony was completely consistent, and there was no discrepancy between the statements of the two sides.
"These two children were only unlucky enough to find the scene of the murder. This case should have nothing to do with them." Amanda whispered beside Trevi's ear.
Trevi felt the same way, but the two FBIs wantonly intervened in the cases within his duties, which made him a little dissatisfied, but he didn't care about the other side's help. After collecting the two transcripts, he was more polite to Leo, and even put out a polite smile: "Thank you for your help, the two of them can go, but don't leave the city and wait for our inquiry at any time."
"Of course." Leo replied, nodding to Li Biqing, motioning for him to get up and go with him.
"One more question, is it necessary to take them to your side?" Amanda couldn't help but speak.
"No, it's not necessary." Leo said, taking a look at the kind policewoman. "I just want to take him home."
The policewoman showed a surprised look.
"Also send Lei Zhe by the way." Li Biqing pleaded.
"Okay." The federal agent stretched out his hand and lifted the corner of the blanket hanging on his waist, helping him wipe his wet hair, moving softly and looking attentively.
The black Chevrolet SUV parked in front of the police station whizzed away in the night. Trevi said to Amanda with some enlightenment: "Do you understand?"
Amanda didn't react: "What?"
"Anyway, I understand: that kid is his."
After speaking, Trevi turned back to the office, leaving only Amanda standing alone in the hallway, pondering this pun, which was very ambiguous.
"I saw you at the gate of the State University, when you drove to pick up Bi Qing, are you familiar?" Lei Zhe, who was sitting in the back compartment, couldn't help asking the federal agent in the driver's seat.
"I should ask you this sentence. He has only been in school for more than a week. Are you familiar?" Leo glanced across the rearview mirror of the car and glanced at him like a scrutiny.
Li Biqing felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, and was busy introducing them to each other: "Lei Zhe, my new friend at school; Leo, my girlfriend's younger brother."
Rob interrupted and exclaimed, "What? Leo's sister? Is it Jasmine? How do you describe it. I saw her last year and I was really impressed, uh... Her Majesty's boyfriend? Really? It's hard to imagine, it turns out that Jasmine likes this type." He flicked his tongue and laughed, showing a look of joking admiration.
"If you have any opinions on Jasmine's mate choice, you can talk to her next time, or I can convey it to you?" Leo said coolly and gave Li Biqing "This guy is an idiot." Ignore him" eyes.
"No, no, I have no opinion at all!" Rob immediately changed his words and quickly shifted the topic to the weather of the week.
Except for the question to Leo, Lei Zhe was silent all the way. When the other three were talking, he calmly observed them with his eyes. When the car stopped in front of a certain residential area, Lei Zhe said "See you tomorrow" to Li Biqing, and hurriedly got out of the car and left.
Back downstairs in the rented apartment, Leo told Rob to "Come and pick me up at eight tomorrow morning", and then led Li Biqing into the elevator. Rob poked his head out of the car window and looked at their backs suspiciously: "Living together? What's the situation..."
After taking a happily shower in the shower room and drying herself, Li Biqing walked into the living room in her household clothes. Leo was sitting on the sofa looking through a suspenseful detective novel called "Heartsick". Seeing him coming out, he put down the book and handed him a paper bag: "The black olive mushroom pizza just delivered may suit your taste. ."
Li Biqing opened the paper bag, took out a slice of pizza and took a bite, "Not bad." He sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding the paper bag while gnawing and asking: "Will your FBI intervene in this case?"
"Normally, it won't, unless the city police ask us for help, or other hidden information is discovered during the investigation, such as the murderer's continuous killing, then the nature of the case will be different."
Li Biqing was thoughtful, and then asked after a moment: "What do you think about this murder? Love murder? Vendetta? Or is it a momentary indignation..."
"These are the police's responsibilities. You don't have to think about it so much. Pay attention to your own safety." Leo interrupted him, obviously not wanting him to go to this muddy water. "Should I help you change to a language school?"
"No, I won't be affected by this." After Li Biqing finished the last slice of pizza, he dropped the paper bag and stretched out to the bedroom. "It's really a twists and turns of a day... It's 11 o'clock, I'm going to brush my teeth and go to bed. There will be classes tomorrow."
"Good night," said the federal agent who was living with him, and then walked into his room. After taking a cold shower in the bathroom, he stood in front of the washstand wearing wet water drops, opened the cabinet on the wall, habitually took out a small white medicine bottle, opened the bottle cap with his thumb and poured it into his palm. .
The medicine bottle is empty.
Leo was taken aback, and then he remembered that he had eaten the last two pills last night. He planned to buy them after get off work today, but he was delayed because of the sudden campus murder.
… Forget it, quit again, anyway, long-term eating is not good. He made up his mind for the Nth time and threw the empty medicine bottle into the trash can.
When he lay down on the bed, the simulated portraits of "killing" were watching him deeply on the wall. Leo turned sideways, with his head resting on his arm, and said helplessly to three handsome faces of different looks: "Welcome to continue to harass in my dreams, old man."
After the homicide, the state university campus was obviously more nervous and uneasy than usual, and countless topics and rumors related to this were quickly passed on among the students. People seemed to remember the murder in the forest park five months ago where no murderer could be found overnight. Some people linked them and created an atmosphere of panic intentionally or unintentionally to satisfy their curiosity. He even gave the murderer a nickname: "Rose Slayer" on the grounds that rose petals were found at the two murder scenes.
As the first person to discover the murder scene, Lei Zhe naturally received the attention of many students. No matter where he went, he was surrounded by people and asked him about all the details of the murder. In fact, Li Biqing is also concerned by others, but because he is a new face and has language barriers, he walks on the campus with much less gaze and gossip.
During the lunch break on the third day after the incident, under a tall black walnut tree in the woods, Li Biqing saw Lei Zhe surrounded by four or five male students, occupying a circle of benches for people to rest enthusiastically. What is being discussed, from the sitting position, the Hispanic boy seems to be the core figure of this small group.
"Hi, Bi Qing!" The sharp-eyed Lei Zhe found a new friend, got up and waved at him: "Come here, come here!"
Li Biqing didn't want to join such a gathering, because of the face of his friends, he had to walk over.
"I heard that you found it together? That corpse..." A red-haired boy with freckles on the bridge of his nose immediately asked him, eyes flashing with curious heat.
Li Biqing was very reluctant to participate in this kind of boring gossip, so he pretended to be a language barrier, shrugged inexplicably, and cast a slightly condemning look at the instigator.
"He understands, but he doesn't like to talk." Lei Zhe seemed to have a mischievous attitude towards the annoyance of new friends, raised his eyebrows and smiled at him, as if to say: I'm too annoyed, and you can't even think about it. easy.
The red-haired boy lost interest when he saw that he was not talking, and turned to another tall black young man to inquire: "Quentin, I heard that you peeked at the autopsy report yesterday? How is that guy's cause of death? what?"
"Yes, it's in my dad's office." Quentin said in a ostentatious tone. "You know, that hapless ghost died so miserably that he was almost half bloodied. That's nothing, he got stuck in his body. With eleven branches, chest, belly, lower back, thighs, everywhere, the most pitiful is the one in the asshole, the intestines are all stabbed... The final conclusion of the forensic doctor is that he was stabbed to death with a branch alive. In other words, this was a complete killing, and in the end he died of excessive blood loss caused by ruptured internal organs."
There was an uproar around, Quentin smothered his big white teeth triumphantly, as if enjoying the feeling of being noticed.
"You said that if his decent dad knew about this, would he take care of him?" Lei Zhe asked in a low voice in Li Biqing's ear.
"If it is Police Officer Trevi, it is very likely." Li Biqing replied.
This time it was Lei Zhe's turn to be surprised: "You know?"
"Look at him, he is a young and frivolous version of Trevi."
Lei Zhe laughed, "It's really similar! And the word'young and frivolous' is also used quite well, it seems that your English has improved a lot!"
While talking and laughing, another group of students came over, headed by a blond white young man, handsome in appearance, but with a malicious and provocative face, standing in front of Lei Zhe condescendingly. The small group in the chair said: "Why do you still dare to sit here and chat? Shouldn't you hide in the bedroom in fear, get into the bed and shiver? Don't you know that the one who died a few days ago was five months ago? Those who die are all Indian dingoes, niggers, and boars like you? It won’t be long before it’s your turn!"
"Clyde, you barking mad dog, a Nazi who is not enough to die a hundred times, a racist scumbag who deserves to go to hell! Go back and mess with your mother to keep your blood pure!" The red-haired boy takes the lead. He jumped up aggressively, pointed at his nose and cursed.
The blond young man sneered, and hit back viciously and harshly: "Your asshole is itchy again, do you want to get a branch in, Colin? Would you like the Rose Killer to satisfy you? Oh, you probably don’t know yet. Well, those two short-lived ghosts are dead gays. This is really a way for heaven to clean up your dirty garbage, and even the global air pollution index will be lowered!"
As if completely irritated by the insulting name "Homo", Colin roared and clenched his fists and rushed at him.
Clyde fought back, not to be outdone, and the two groups suddenly screamed and scuffled into a ball, and the rapidly escalating violence scene was chaotic.
Li Biqing took a few steps back, wanting to break away from the battle circle formed by the confrontation between racism and reverse racism, homosexuals and anti-homosexuals. This bad thing has nothing to do with him, so why bother to join in the fun. It's a pity that the sky failed. The yellow skin made him one of the targets of the opposing group's painful hands. In the chaos, his fist slammed into his face, and he quickly avoided it, and then a sultry leg severely kicked the opponent's abdomen. The unlucky white youth was bent over to cover the vital parts and screamed, tears and nose burst out.
"—The security is here!" I don't know who screamed, and the two groups of people who were jealous one after another got out of the fight. Before leaving, Clyde was extremely unwilling to make a threatening action at Colin: "Wait, you will be the next one to die!"
Colin raised his middle finger contemptuously at him.
Lei Zhe picked up Li Biqing with one hand and dragged Colin with the other, and escaped the scene smoothly before several security guards who were blowing the police rushed over. The three men rushed out a thousand yards away before they stopped panting. Colin akimbo his hands on his hips, leaning on his side and panting, and said, "Mom, one day, I will beat this mad dog until my head blooms..."
"Okay, don't be angry, it's not worth it to be with that kind of person." Lei Zhe comforted him.
"He threatened me, did you hear that, he dared to threaten to kill me! Damn, I'll find someone to turn him!" Colin flushed angrily, and even the tips of his hair trembled excitedly and began to brew His plan of revenge: "Ask him out as a fake girl, and then we fucked him, took nude photos and uploaded videos to the Internet, how about it, why not?"
Lei Zhe wanted to wake him up, and patted his head hard: "Be sensible, Colin, it doesn't matter what you want to do or fuck with a willing guy. If you are forced to do it, you will be breaking the law. Is this scum in jail? Besides, don't get involved with me, I can't be tough on men."
Colin slapped him, seemingly discouraged, and said bitterly: "I will never let him go like this... Just look!" He slapped on the ground and walked away angrily.
Lei Zhe sighed silently towards his back and turned to apologize to Li Biqing: "I'm sorry, I almost hurt you. These guys are always so impulsive, especially Colin."
The one who fought the most fiercely just now is obviously you. Li Biqing complained secretly, but said politely: "It's okay, I'm not injured, it's just an accident."
Lei Zhe was even more guilty after hearing this: "We are arrested at most a warning and punishment. If you are caught, you will be miserable, and you will probably be expelled from the campus... I will never deliberately pull you into the circle again. Don't hate me."
Li Biqing smiled tolerantly, "What are you talking about, a little thing, why take it to your heart, mother-in-law."
Lei Zhe pressed his lips hard, did not hold back the agitated emotions for a moment, gave him a sudden hug, patted his palm comfortably on his vest, and then turned away without looking back.
"It's a disaster." Thinking of the melee that he had just experienced, Li Biqing felt that he was a pond fish that had been hit. Fortunately, that punch didn't hit him in the face. Otherwise, he would go back to the apartment with black eyes. How to explain to the Federal Police.