After the guests left, Xie Chen stayed behind, saying that he would not go home in the evening, and would have a few drinks with Chai Yu and Tan Yi, and then play some billiards tomorrow.

Back in the house, they looked at the messy living room and dining room, and they worked together to wash the dishes, mop the floor, and sort out the fruit peels and garbage. After half an hour of hard work, they finally restored the room to order.

Everyone sat down on the sofa.

Tan Yi took out a bottle of high-end red wine from the wine cabinet, opened it, and poured it into five high-foot glasses.

Ordinarily, one should listen to classical music when tasting red wine, but Chai Yu did not. He took out a CD from the drawer of the coffee table and stuffed it into the VCD player.

Xie Qing then realized that although Tan Yi was busy, he was still well-dressed.

After the classic music of the horror movie sounded, Tan Yi turned off the headlights in time.

The dimming of the light made up for the defect of the insufficient screen size, and the atmosphere was full.

Chai Yu said proudly, "What do you think? The equipment I bought is pretty good, right?"

Chai Xuan said, "Brother, why is the equipment you bought in Brother Tan Yi's house?"

Chai Yu said, "What's the point of watching it alone? Good things should be shared, right, Old Tan."

Tan Yi took a sip and put down the red wine glass. "Actually, someone is timid and dares not watch horror movies alone, so he has to drag others to watch it together." Before

he finished speaking, a long and white face suddenly flashed on the TV screen. His eyes were pitch black without whites, and his mouth seemed to be split open by an axe, all the way to under the ears, blood red, and streaks of blood slowly dripped between the jagged teeth...

"Ah!" Chai Xuan let out a horrible scream.

Before Xie Qing had time to get scared, she felt the two men around her suddenly shrank back. One of her arms was grabbed by Xie Chen, and the man hid behind her shoulder.

This is scarier than a horror movie. It's scary to scare people to death, okay?

She glanced at Tan Yi.

Tan Yi's face flushed, and he stood up like a spring, and said to Xie Chen: "The company needs you to sign a contract. Come to the study with me."

"Okay." Xie Chen took the opportunity to pull up Xie Qing, "You check it for the eldest brother."

Chai Yu said: "You guys go ahead, Xuanxuan and I will watch the movie."

Chai Xuan also waved her hands. She was the kind of person who was addicted to horror movies. She liked horror movies, and the more scared she was, the more she watched them. But she huddled behind Chai Yu, holding Chai Yu's shoulders with one hand, and looking at the screen with one eye, ready to hide and find cover at any time.

Xie Qing followed Tan Yi upstairs. She knew that Tan Yi was going to show her the follow-up of the SQN case.

As soon as she entered the room, Xie Chen was shocked by the simplicity of Tan Yi's study, "Captain Tan, hasn't it been renovated?"

Tan Yi smiled and said, "The simplicity here reminds me that my brother has died in vain for fifteen years, and I am not qualified to enjoy it."

His smile was dazzling, not because he was handsome, nor because he was miserable, but because of the sense of disharmony that extreme pain would not cause any waves.

Some sadness can never be felt.

A casual sentence of "I don't blame you" or "Let it go" can't solve any problems.

Xie Qing and Xie Chen chose to keep silent.

Xie Chen sat down at the desk without looking around, picked up a newspaper and started reading.

Xie Qing glanced left and right, and her eyes stayed on the east wall - the west wall was An Hai's case, which she had handled, and the east wall was Tan Yi's accumulation over the years.

Fifteen years, about eight cases, the opponents were very restrained, the cases were not very similar, and there was no Sao Qingniang. There were

only two points that could be used to merge the cases. One was the identity of the deceased. Among the eight cases, six were the sons of someone, and two were someone with a high status. Moreover, these someones were not only big leaders, but also town mayors and company bosses; the second was that six of them were related to kidnapping, extortion and murder, and the methods of committing the crimes were sophisticated and difficult to detect.

There was only one reason why it was difficult to detect, and that was that there were not enough clues.

There are not enough clues, and it is difficult to merge the cases. The conclusions drawn based on the appearance of the cases will definitely not be very accurate - that is, these cases cannot necessarily be classified as the SQN case.

This is also the reason why Tan Yi mastered this information alone and did not discuss it with the task force.

Xie Qing analyzed it from top to bottom and said: "True and false, false and true. It looks like a twisted revenge, but it seems to be related to taking money to do things. If it is indeed done by the same gang, the other party can be said to be scheming and calculating."

- She did not intend to talk about a specific case. Tan Yi was a smart man. Although she was not stupid, she might not be able to crush him in terms of IQ. It was almost impossible for her to find the flaw in a case that he had been studying for a long time.

Tan Yi stood side by side with her, "What was your first instinct?"

Xie Qing said, "I overestimated the mastermind. He is not that persistent and dedicated. His targets are not always people like Shen Yi, but anyone with a price. He is just more willing to kill the second generation for some reason. And this reason is likely to be directly or indirectly related to your family, such as that war."

It was the war that took place in the early 1970s.

Tan Yi said, "But that war was not advocated by my grandfather."

Damn, what a Tan!

Xie Qing verified her thoughts, her heart jumped up, and then she dived back to the original place.

She said softly, "Although what I said may not be correct, I still want to refute it. The tragedy of you and your brother may not be that the mastermind only hates your grandfather, but hates the level that your grandfather represents, and hates why he failed to stop the war. Another possibility is that for some reason, the mastermind hates the rich and hates power, and he knows the patterns of your activities very well. The reason why he took action is just because it is easy to do, or you can add one more reason, because your parents are in business and have a rich family background, you can kill two birds with one stone."

Tan Yi was silent.

He also thought about it, but because there was no evidence and the scope of the investigation was too wide, he was afraid of going the wrong way, so he never dared to try.

Now it seems that starting from the case and the evidence itself, there are too many limitations, so why not try to break through from this aspect.

He said, "You're right. We now have a task force and can consider this aspect."

Xie Qing nodded. "The mastermind knows that Sao Qingniang is related to the island country. As long as we are willing to patiently sort out the clues, we can still find clues. The only problem is that the workload is a bit large, and it still needs to be kept confidential to a certain extent."

Tan Yi said, "It doesn't matter whether it is kept confidential or not. The other party dares to provoke because we can't get evidence."

"That's true." Xie Qing said, "But I still like to solve big cases quietly and let the other party fight unprepared."

Tan Yi smiled and looked at her profile, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Xie Qing suddenly felt pressured, and her smile froze on her face.

She thought, it could have been a simple smile, why did it suddenly become so awkward today?

Because I can't respond for the time being?

Or...

forget it, it's better not to think about this kind of thing. The more you think about it, the more you think that the other person likes you. If you jump in, you'll be the fool.

She hypnotized herself quickly, turned around, and faced the west wall. "Assuming that the SQN case is related to the war, we need to re-examine the relationships between these characters and study the ancestors of these deceased people to see if they were in the army."

Tan Yi suddenly realized, "Great. Qingqing, you have completely opened up a new line of thought. If we can't find a unified pattern in their fathers, we can look at their ancestors."

This call was so familiar that Xie Qing couldn't help but turned her head to look at him.

Tan Yi immediately knew that he called the wrong name, but there was nothing wrong with it.

He also resisted the urge to look at her, and continued, "Although it may not be correct, it is worth studying. After all, I have spent too much time on Shen Moyan."

If Shen Moyan is the most dazzling one in the Shen family, then the focus will naturally be on him, just like a blind spot.

The entire task force, including Jiang Hanzhi, has the same idea.

Xie Qing was no exception before.

But Tan Yi was still a little curious, "Most of the cases are kidnappings, and the fathers of the victims are mostly outstanding, while their grandparents are mediocre. How did you come up with this?"

Xie Qing said, "Not all of them are mediocre. Mayor Jiang and Shen Moyan can survive to this day, so their families cannot be ordinary people. If you don't want some people to die too abruptly, you have to use more deaths to confuse the public. Also, this is just an irresponsible guess of mine, which may not be correct and needs to be verified."

"It still makes sense." Chai Yu came up at some point, "But I don't understand why they suddenly sped up. Are they really just provoking Old Tan?"

Tan Yi said, "Is there a reason for this, or it may be because they are old and sick and can't wait, so they speeded up."

"Captain Tan's logic is correct." Xie Qing glanced behind Chai Yu, "Where's Xuanxuan?"

Chai Yu said, "The movie was scary at the beginning and boring at the end. She fell asleep because she was too tired during the day."

Tan Yi said, "Tsk," and his face turned ugly.

Chai Yu said, "Don't worry, I'll carry her back later."

Tan Yi bluntly exposed him, "I don't believe you. You said before that she had a boyfriend."

Chai Yu touched his nose embarrassedly, "That doesn't mean we broke up. Don't worry, I won't leave if she doesn't leave."

Tan Yi said, "That's fine. You two can have a bed each, and I'll sleep at your house."

Chai Yu said, "Not really. I'll sleep in the same bed with you."

Tan Yi glanced at Xie Qing with his peripheral vision and said a series of "get lost".

...

The two childhood friends had a few words, and soon returned to the topic, and together with Xie Qing, they re-analyzed the new ideas put forward. Finally ,

they reached a unified new idea, which is to find patterns through the ancestors of the victims and re-infer the murder motives of the murderer.