Chapter 42
"Dead?" Meng Qirang exclaimed in shock, "Song Luo is dead?!"
Meng Qirang's voice was so loud that it sounded like a loudspeaker in Lin Anyu's ears.
Lin Anyu, who had accidentally fallen into a trance, was abruptly pulled back by her shocked voice.
She tried her best to calm Meng Qirang down: "He's not dead, he's still alive."
Meng Qirang: "Then what did he say..."
Lin Anyu didn't know how to explain. She glanced at Xu Jinshu, as if silently blaming him for making things difficult for her. She roughly comforted him, "He lied to you."
Xu Jinshu's eyes stayed on Lin Anyu. He asked, "How do you know I'm lying?"
"Nonsense," Lin Anyu knew that she couldn't tell anyone else that she was Song Luo. She said, "Didn't you call me Captain Song the first time you saw me last time? If Song Luo was really dead, how could you call me that?"
"That's right," Xu Jinshu didn't know how much he believed, he explained nonchalantly, "Yes, I lied to you just now."
Meng Qirang was obviously frightened by his joke just now, and now he was a little annoyed: "Why do you make such a joke?!"
Xu Jinshu: "Anyway, Song Luo himself doesn't know, right, Officer Lin?"
Lin Anyu looked up and blinked innocently: "Whether Song Luo himself knows or not, how can I know? Why are you asking me?"
"That's right." Xu Jinshu murmured, and then suggested, "Would you like to come visit my Sound of Sleep? I heard that Officer Lin was injured three years ago. I have some new scented tea that can help you sleep better."
Lin Anyu thought deeply for a while, then asked cautiously, "Do you have longan lilies?"
Xu Jinshu said: "Yes, longan and lily are good for helping you sleep, and we always have fresh ones in our store."
"Okay," Lin Anyu's intention was obvious, and she agreed immediately, "Let's go together, Qi Rang."
Meng Qirang looked at Xu Jinshu for a long time. She didn't know if it was because of the inexplicable joke just now, but she had a bad impression of Xu Jinshu.
But since Lin Anyu had already agreed, and they were just going for a walk, Meng Qirang could only agree: "Yes."
Xu Jinshu and the others took the elevator and slowly reached the floor where [Sound of Sleep] was located.
Along the way, Xu Jinshu enthusiastically introduced the various specialty shops in the central shopping mall. Almost every time he went up a floor, Xu Jinshu could accurately tell the main business of each shop.
Even for many women's clothing stores, he can quickly tell you the style of their stores and the best-selling styles.
A real moving map.
The sleep-aid shop named "Sound of Sleep" was opened by Xu Jinshu in a corner of the fourth floor. Compared with other women's clothing stores around it, the store area of "Sound of Sleep" is not large. Just looking from the side, you can see all the furnishings inside through the screen placed at the front desk. At the entrance, a large white sign hangs in the center of the entrance, and on both sides are two large tree-shaped potted plants, which are growing lushly and obviously have been carefully cultivated.
Xu Jinshu introduced: "This is the store I opened. The area is a bit small, please don't mind, officers."
"It's okay," Lin Anyu said nonchalantly, "I came here last time when I was investigating Xi Zixuan's case."
Xu Jinshu smiled and said, "Oh, yes, I remembered it wrong."
Xu Jinshu led Lin Anyu and Meng Qirang into the store. The little girl who was sitting at the front desk playing with her mobile phone stood up and straightened her body as if by reflex.
"Welcome."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Anyu raised his head slightly and their eyes met.
She was the little girl who had always protected Xu Jinshu in her words when they came here to investigate.
"Hello," Lin Anyu said politely, bowing carefully.
The little girl turned her gaze to Xu Jinshu blankly, as if asking for help, or as if asking what was going on.
Xu Jinshu explained calmly: "My friend is here to visit our store. If you have nothing to do today, you can leave work early."
The little girl was surprised and happy: "Can I get off work now?"
"Yes, sure." Xu Jinshu said.
"Thank you, boss." After saying that, the little girl picked up the bag next to her and rushed out from the front desk. She rushed to Xu Jinshu and bowed exaggeratedly, then said, "I hope you have fun."
"Yeah." Xu Jinshu nodded with satisfaction.
The little girl unceremoniously pushed aside the space between Xu Jinshu and Lin Anyu and ran out.
Seeing the childish behavior of his receptionist, Xu Jinshu shook his head helplessly and explained: "Don't mind it, kid."
"It doesn't matter," Lin Anyu said with a clear purpose, "Where are the longan and lily?"
Xu Jinshu: "Wait a moment in the store, I'll go to the basement warehouse to get it for you."
Meng Qirang seemed to be full of curiosity about this room. She pointed to the room behind her and said, "Can we take a look?"
"Okay." Xu Jinshu agreed readily.
After Xu Jinshu walked away, Meng Qirang and Lin Anyu slowly walked around [Sound of Sleep].
Passing by a trophy wall, Meng Qirang sighed: "Wow, there are so many trophies. It's so popular to have both good looks and skills."
Lin Anyu tilted his head and joked, "You are also a person with both good looks and ability. If you start a live broadcast, you may also win so many awards."
Meng Qirang continued: "What am I broadcasting live? Is it the autopsy of the victim or the reassembly of the body parts?"
"I dare to broadcast it live, but the key is whether anyone dares to watch it?"
Lin Anyu joked: "Me, I dare to watch."
Meng Qirang complained: "Do you think everyone has the same heavy taste as you? You like to watch people dissect corpses while eating, and you can eat it too."
"As a professional who has worked in the forensic field for ten years, I dare not watch people dissecting corpses while eating, for fear that I will not be able to eat and will be forced to lose weight."
"But you ended up treating the forensic anatomy class as a TV show to watch while eating."
"Are you a pervert?"
Lin Anyu bumped into her in a flattering way: "I'm a pervert, do you love me?"
Meng Qi got goosebumps because of her disgust: "I love you so much, it's so cheesy. Also, I beg you to be normal in other people's shops."
Meng Qirang looked at Lin Anyu next to her with a squint. She asked in confusion, "Why do you say more abnormal things when you are in someone else's territory? Be careful not to be recorded by the cameras here and become a laughing stock."
Lin Anyu looked up at the ceiling above her head, she turned up the volume and said, "This is a sleep aid room, customer privacy is the most important, who would install a camera here? Even if Xu Jinshu is a bad person and installed a camera here, will he still be able to do business in the future?"
As if he had sensed that Lin Anyu was deliberately saying something abnormal, Meng Qirang said, "I'm not going to talk to you anymore. I'm going to go check out the trophy."
"I'll go too. I'll go too." As he said that, Lin Anyu stood next to Meng Qirang and took a closer look.
I saw a few words written on the trophy in front of me - 20xx, Kuhu Platform's Most Popular Male Anchor Award.
The one next to me reads: 20xx, Kuhu Platform's Most Charming Male Anchor Award
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Most of the other trophies also come from the Kuhu live broadcast platform.
Lin Anyu watched quietly, but suddenly his eyes noticed that on the wooden trophy wall, where the trophy was connected, there was an obviously clean area and a completely different color from the surrounding areas.
It's like it was left there intentionally.
As if she hadn't noticed anything, she slowly withdrew her gaze, and then pretended that she hadn't noticed anything and continued to observe and pace around the room.
On the other side, Xu Jinshu had just opened the door of the underground warehouse when a beam of dim light suddenly came out from inside the house, shining steadily on the face of Xu Jinshu who was standing at the door of the basement.
The lights in the warehouse were dim, and an old-fashioned round bulb was hanging in the middle of the warehouse. At this moment, a man in a vest was sitting in front of a monitor, quietly slurping instant noodles.
He was thin, and the skin exposed to the air seemed to be tightly attached to his skeleton. His body was without a trace of flesh, which made him look a little unhealthy.
It was Chu Yanbo, whose arm was broken by "Song Luo" at the elevator entrance of the city center shopping mall.
Hearing the noise, Chu Yanbo turned around and looked at Xu Jinshu at the door. He shouted, "Boss."
Xu Jinshu's gaze naturally fell on the silver-glowing surveillance camera in the warehouse.
His eyes deepened: "What did the two policemen say?"
Chu Yanbo knew a thing or two about the two policemen. He said, "They didn't say anything. The female police officer just sighed and said, 'You are pretty.' Then Song Luo asked, 'Who is perverted, her or you?' Then she asked the female police officer if she loved her since she was perverted. Then the female police officer told her to get lost."
Chu Yanbo recounted what he saw on the surveillance camera using these two tones.
"The other one is a forensic doctor. Don't worry about her. She's not a threat." Xu Jinshu's eyes passed through Chu Yanbo and fell on the thin figure of Lin Anyu in the surveillance video. He continued, "Just focus on observing Song Lue."
Chu Yanbo was obviously a little hesitant. He asked, "Boss, since you know that Lin Anyu is Song Luo, why don't you just kill her?"
Xu Jinshu slowly walked towards the surveillance video and looked down at the two people who were fighting in his store from a high vantage point.
He corrected her, "She is not Song Luo, she is Lin Anyu."
"Hmm?" Chu Yinbo didn't understand what his boss meant. "Boss, you know how fierce Song Luo was last time. If she hadn't had a sudden headache, she would have taken us to the police station right there and then."
"So don't deceive yourself. Song Luo is really still alive. She is Lin Anyu."
"She showed up to catch us!"
Xu Jinshu said: "If she wanted to arrest him, she would have done so long ago."
"She didn't arrest us because three years ago, we hacked into the Public Security Bureau's network system and deleted all the evidence and information she had previously investigated," Chu Yanbo said. "She didn't arrest us now because there is no evidence!"
Xu Jinshu said nothing.
Seeing Xu Jinshu was indifferent, Chu Yinbo became anxious: "Boss, let's run quickly. When Song Luo returns to the police station, he will check the records and find out that you are lying to her. We did not surrender at all. We will be sentenced to death."
Xu Jinshu retracted his gaze and said calmly: "Are you still afraid of death?"
Chu Yanbo said anxiously: "Who is not afraid of death? Boss, I have been with you for more than ten years. We were the ones who smuggled the fish back from abroad..."
Before Chu Yanbo could finish the rest of her words, Xu Jinshu glanced over at her.
His eyes were calm and bloodthirsty, as if he would twist his head off if he said one more word in the next second.
Chu Yanbo shut up immediately.
But he was still a little anxious: "Yes, Boss, I know you have different feelings for Song Luo, but she is a police officer, you are..."
Even if Xu Jinshu didn't glare at her, Chu Yanbo still felt that he couldn't say the following words. He could only say, "Boss, don't forget how you met her four years ago."
How did you meet?
Of course he remembers.
Xu Jinshu turned back calmly, looked at him and said, "Of course I knew him when I killed another policeman."
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