Chapter 8
Lin Anyu went downstairs quickly and spotted the obviously larger black SUV among the official cars.
She ran over and opened the passenger door. Before she could put her legs in, she saw a thick stack of files piled on the passenger seat by Jiang Aichen.
Jiang Aichen, who was looking at the crime scene photos, gave her a look and said, "Sit in the back."
"good."
After responding, Lin Anyu hurriedly closed the passenger door and sat in the back seat of the back row.
As soon as she steady herself, the phone in her arms vibrated a few times.
The message came from the small group of three people including her, Jiang Nan and Meng Qirang.
She clicked on it and saw a short message of instructions coming to her.
Jiang Nan: [Don't sit in the passenger seat. You'll disturb Captain Jiang and the case. Be careful or he'll throw you out of the car. 】
Lin Anyu made a crazy expression.
Then he added a sentence: [Why didn’t you say so earlier! 】
Jiang Nan gloated and made a slapping expression: [You didn’t ask me. 】
Jiang Nan: [Wait, you're not really planning on sitting in the passenger seat of Captain Jiang's car, are you? 】
Lin Anyu: [I opened the car door. 】
Jiang Nan made a laughing expression: [I can already imagine what happened just now. 】
Meng Qirang couldn't help but interrupt: [Jiang Nan, just wait for death. 】
Jiang Nan: [No way, you’re going to kill me just because I forgot something? Is there any humanity left? 】
Lin Anyu had just edited a paragraph and sent it out when Jiang Aichen, who was in the driver's seat, suddenly asked, "Why do you think it was murder?"
Lin Anyu thought she might have heard it wrongly. She looked up from her phone screen and asked, "Ah? What did you say?"
This time, Jiang Aichen seemed very patient. He repeated, "Why do you think it was murder?"
Lin Anyu didn’t know how to describe how she felt when she stood in front of the whiteboard yesterday. She organized her words but still didn’t know where to start.
After a while, she said, "I don't know."
After saying that, Lin Anyu was afraid that Jiang Aichen would think that her interview yesterday was a bit rash, so she could only tell him her guess in detail: "But my intuition tells me that not only was Tang Shuang murdered, but the previous two victims were also murdered. And, if there is no accident, these three cases should have been committed by the same person."
Jiang Aichen didn't say anything, but just listened silently while driving.
Seeing that he did not stop his guess, nor did he deny it, Lin Anyu breathed a sigh of relief, and his tone became more confident: "I also think that these three people are definitely not the last target of this murderer. In the near future, he will kill another person, and it is very likely that it was last night."
Jiang Aichen, who was driving, slowly turned the steering wheel and turned the car along the roadside to another road.
On the way he asked casually: "So what?"
"So, the 48 hours I mentioned in front of the media was not the time I set for solving the case. It was the time the murderer had to re-plan after his murder plan was disrupted," Lin Anyu said firmly. "48 hours was the time I fought for the victim's life."
Jiang Aichen looked through the rearview mirror at Lin Anyu who was sitting in the back seat and asked, "Why do you think you are buying time for the next victim to live instead of creating public pressure on our police force?"
Lin Anyu put away her phone and leaned forward, as if observing Jiang Aichen's expression. She answered seriously and sincerely: "Intuition."
Jiang Aichen: “…”
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At nine o'clock in the morning, there were not many people coming and going in the downtown shopping mall. Occasionally, a few late workers walked by, but they all left in a hurry.
Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen took the elevator and went straight to a gym on the second floor.
It was morning and the lights in the gym were not on. The room was pitch black with only a few young people busy cleaning.
Jiang Aichen pushed the door open and walked in, looking around the room.
A girl who was cleaning the front desk put away the rag in her hand, walked over, and said politely: "Hello, the coach is not at work yet, can you come later? If you don't want to leave, you can do some warm-up exercises on the treadmill."
"Hello, policeman, I'm here to ask Xi Zixuan something." Jiang Aichen took out his police ID and said.
The girl took a look at Jiang Aichen's police ID and confirmed that it did have the red seal of the Beihai Criminal Police Team before she said, "Our boss won't be here for another half an hour. Mr. Policeman, can you wait a moment?"
Jiang Aichen didn't say anything, just glared at Lin Anyu.
Lin Anyu, who had been observing the surrounding environment since entering the gym, felt the coolness behind him. He turned around subconsciously and met Jiang Aichen's expressionless eyes.
Lin Anyu immediately understood what he meant, and hurried to Jiang Aichen, opened the backpack behind him, and took out his notebook.
It looks like everything is ready.
Jiang Aichen: "No need to wait, we have a few questions, we can ask you first."
"You ask." The girl said generously.
As if chatting, Jiang Aichen asked: "When did you start working here?"
The girl answered without hesitation: "I have been working as a receptionist here since the gym was founded, which is two years."
"Is the treatment at the front desk good here?" Jiang Aichen asked.
"No, it's the salary level of an ordinary front desk in Beihai."
Jiang Aichen glanced at the brown bag on the table in front of him and asked, "What's its name?"
"Yu Anan." The girl replied.
Jiang Aichen had no interest in prying into other people's privacy, so he continued to ask, "In your impression, what kind of person is Xi Zixuan?"
Yu Anan thought for a moment and replied, "Very honest, warm-hearted, good-tempered, and very patient with small animals..."
"He has a strong sense of time and is a unique good man in the world."
Good man?
As if she had grasped the key point, Lin Anyu, who was recording, paused for a second at the right time. She looked up and stared at Yu Anan who was being questioned without leaving any trace.
Compared with Tang Shuang in Lin Anyu's impression, Yu Anan is a little fatter, but her skin is as white as fat, so delicate that no pores can be seen even at a close distance. Her eyes are beautiful doe eyes, full of spirit and innocence.
Jiang Aichen didn't notice that Lin Anyu was not right. He continued to ask, "I heard that your boss Xi Zixuan has a girlfriend. What does she do?"
"I haven't heard that our boss has a girlfriend recently," Yu Anan said. "He did have an ex-girlfriend, but they broke up two years ago."
"That girl is not pretty. I heard that when they were dating, she had low self-esteem and went abroad for plastic surgery."
Jiang Aichen didn't know what he was thinking about writing. He asked briefly, "What's your name?"
Yu Anan answered without hesitation: "Tang Shuang."
Lin Anyu immediately looked up and exchanged a glance with Jiang Aichen, which seemed to convey a tacit understanding that they knew each other well.
As if he had caught up, Jiang Aichen asked, "Where were you from 9pm on May 22nd to 5am on May 23rd?"
Yu Anan asked again: "The night before yesterday?"
Jiang Aichen: “Yeah.”
Yu Anan seemed to have thought about it seriously for several times. She hesitated for a minute before saying, "I'm in the gym with our boss."
Lin Anyu was halfway through recording when he looked up at Yu Anan's calm expression. She stopped writing and said, "If you give false testimony, you will be held legally responsible."
"I'm telling the truth!" Yu Anan said hurriedly.
"Okay," Lin Anyu said, not caring, "Then don't be nervous and try to control your voice. I can't hear you clearly because you're shaking all of a sudden."
Hearing this, Jiang Aichen, who had not shown any emotion when asked, was in a trance for a second.
An extremely arrogant woman's voice flashed through my mind -
"If you want to lie, you have to control your voice. Your voice is shaking so much that it can send a telegram. If you don't know, you might think you are using sound waves to send Morse code to your accomplices."
Seeing that Jiang Aichen in front of her had no reaction for a long time, Yu Anan felt completely guilty.
If Lin Anyu's suspicion just made her feel guilty, then Jiang Aichen's silence made her feel uneasy.
She looked up and asked tentatively, "Comrade police officer, I don't know anything else. Why don't you wait for our boss to come back and ask him?"
"Um."
Lin Anyu:? ? ?
Um! ?
You won't ask this?
She just found out that the receptionist was lying!
Before Lin Anyu could question it, Jiang Aichen asked first, "Where is the surveillance camera?"
Yu Anan replied: "In the property on the first floor."
"Okay," Jiang Aichen said, and then instructed, "Xi Zixuan, come back and let him wait for us here."
Lin Anyu did not give up: "Captain Jiang, I think we can ask again."
"No need, let's go check the surveillance."
Lin Anyu was a little disappointed. She put away the notebook and said, "Okay."
Before leaving, Jiang Aichen stopped and turned around to add, "If a suspect in a case escapes, he will be put on the Internet wanted list by our police force. I don't think you want your parents to see that you have a suspect boyfriend."
With just one sentence, Lin Anyu and Yu Anan were both stunned.
Lin Anyu stopped putting away the notebook. She turned her head to look at Yu Anan, whose eyes were wide open in shock, and instantly realized that it was Jiang Aichen.
She immediately broke into a big smile and followed.
She quickly followed Jiang Aichen and said, "Captain Jiang, you've already noticed that Yu Anan and Xi Zixuan have an unusual relationship. I thought you didn't notice it."
Jiang Aichen didn't even spare her a glance. He walked quickly and said, "From what you said, you also know it?"
"Well," Lin Anyu said proudly without hiding anything, "I realized it when she said Xi Zixuan was the best man in the world."
Jiang Aichen asked in a cold voice: "What's wrong here?"
Lin Anyu pretended to be mysterious: "If I ask you now, who is your master, how will you answer?"
Jiang Aichen paused for a second and said, "Genius, omnipotent detective, criminal investigation expert..."
In the middle of his words, Jiang Aichen turned his head to stare at Lin Anyu's face, his mind drifting away. After a while, he rolled his Adam's apple and added, "Good Master."
Lin Anyu, who was immersed in her own reasoning, did not notice that Jiang Aichen was abnormal. She said, "Right? Normal people don't care about a person's gender when evaluating him. Especially when faced with sudden questions from strangers, they will think carefully and find a few words in their vocabulary that they think are the most accurate and appropriate to describe that person. Instead of emphasizing that he is a man or a woman."
"If she emphasized it, it means that in her heart, she has a very deep concept of that person's gender. Or his gender is very important to her," Lin Anyu said casually, "In this case, it either exists between lovers or between a mother and son who extremely favors boys over girls. It is obvious that Yu Anan is not old enough to be the biological mother of an adult."
"What's wrong with your voice shaking?" Jiang Aichen asked.
"Didn't you hear it?" Lin Anyu asked back.
Jiang Aichen answered honestly: "No."
For a moment, Lin Anyu didn't know how to explain it. She could only say everything: "In fact, Yu Anan's voice didn't sound shaky. It was just that my intuition told me that she was so nervous that her voice was shaking, and then I said it out."
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