Chapter 108 Chapter 21 “Well…actually…actually…”
"Well... actually... actually..."
Wei Sheng didn't have many friends in the past, so he had no experience in comforting others. He could only rack his brains to find some comforting words.
Actually, it's good to take a few days off. You couldn't sleep for a few hours the past few nights, which really affected your work. Take a few days off, and then...
He was mentally preparing this, but what he actually said out loud was, "It's okay. Whatever you want to do, I'll help you."
He was worried about Li Zheng's condition, so worried that he might do something stupid, and was ready to pull him over at any moment. Fortunately, after the red light ended, when Li Zheng started the car again, the slight gloom on his face disappeared.
He said, “I will continue.”
The first thing was that he wanted to find Li Mingyu before the people from the Municipal Bureau found him.
Of course, this was not because Li Zheng wanted to abuse his power for personal gain or bend the law. He just felt that since this series of cases had always revolved around him, he should be the one to settle it.
The first step in this process is to follow the information previously seen and go to the track that Li Mingyu has been to.
It was already quite late at night, and by the time they returned to the old residential complex where Li Zheng was renting, it was completely dark. However, even so, the old man at the door had already pulled up the boom when he saw Li Zheng's car coming in.
He smiled and greeted Officer Li, "Oh, Officer Li, you're back so early today!"
The first person to inquire was the security guard.
As a retired old man with nothing to do, the old man spends almost the entire day at the gate of the community. He almost always sees any strangers coming and going nearby. He is simply a human surveillance camera for the neighborhood.
Of course he knew Li Mingyu.
However, since Li Mingyu only came once or twice a year and didn't stay long each time, the old man actually only knew that this person existed, but he couldn't remember what he looked like.
It wasn't until Li Zheng took out his brother's photo that the security guard, wearing thick reading glasses and a flashlight, looked carefully for a while before letting out a long sigh of realization: "Ah - this young man you're talking about..."
"Why, have you seen him?"
Li Zheng asked quickly.
"Yes, it was after the New Year. It rained really hard one day, for the entire day. I was taking a nap at the time, and I heard the sound of rain. I remembered that I hadn't collected the dried vegetables drying outside, and then..."
Seeing that the old man's topic was getting more and more off topic, Li Zheng had to ask the question again to get back to the main topic.
"It was raining so hard. When I went out to collect dried vegetables, I saw him standing outside the gate, staring inside. I thought he was looking for someone, and since it was raining so hard outside, I asked him to come in and take shelter..."
"He came in and greeted me. He was quite polite and asked if there were any houses for rent nearby..."
"I thought it might be a young man who just graduated, so I helped him make a phone call and asked around. There is a house in the neighborhood next door, but he thinks the floor is too high. He said it's not suitable, so he asked if there is one in our neighborhood. You know, there's not much mobility in our neighborhood..."
Li Zheng hummed.
"Then I suddenly thought of the aunt next door. Wasn't her son taking her to a big city to enjoy life before the New Year? Her house was empty. I thought of this at the time. I called her and told her that someone wanted to rent the house..."
"You know Aunt Chen who lives next door to you? Her daughter-in-law just got pregnant, so she has to go over there to finish the confinement period and take care of the child for a few years, right? Then she thought about renting it out now..."
"I had someone move all my stuff to another bedroom that day. I paid and signed the contract the next day at noon, and then I moved in... I didn't seem to have much luggage, just a suitcase..."
"He rarely goes out. I rarely see him. The last time I saw him was... I forgot. Anyway, he said he was working online. I don't really understand..."
The old man knew Li Zheng's work and knew that he would not ask about this young man for no reason. His expression became nervous after he finished speaking.
"Did he do something online? Are you guys going to arrest him?" he asked, looking around. "Are there other police officers lying in ambush?"
He even knew about ambush. It seems that he must have learned the lines from movies and TV dramas.
However, Li Zheng was destined to disappoint the old man.
According to the recusation rules, Li Zheng no longer had anything to do with the case, so he couldn't participate in any work related to the case. So he just said vaguely, "Nothing. He's my brother. The school called me and said he skipped classes, so I came to look for him."
"Oh, so that's what happened." The old man advised with the tone of someone who had experienced it, "Young people are a bit rebellious and disobedient, but they will be fine in two years. If you find him, don't use force, just talk to him calmly..."
Relying on his familiarity with the doorman and his brother's identity, Li Zheng directly asked for the spare key to the next room.
I knocked on the door, but there was no response. I opened the door with my key. The overall layout of the room was almost identical to Li Zheng's, but it was even more empty.
One of the bedrooms had a locked door, probably where the landlord's belongings were kept. There was a sofa, a coffee table, a table and a mat on the floor in the living room.
Walking into the bathroom, Li Zheng used his hand to feel the wetness of the toothbrush and towel. At least someone had brushed their teeth and washed their face a few hours ago.
——He did live here.
Li Zheng continued to walk around the room.
Like investigating a crime scene, he meticulously examined every corner. Every time he saw a familiar object, his heart sank a little more.
He bought the bed sheets for Li Mingyu...
I also bought the slippers before school started...
There is an obvious mark on the wall connected to the next door. I think the original sofa was placed here, but unfortunately it was moved away due to people surrounding it.
The place where the sofa was originally placed was now covered with a simple mat and the quilt was neatly folded.
Li Zheng's adoptive mother had taught him that the first thing to do after getting up was to fold the quilt. Later, he passed this rule on to his younger siblings. Li Mingyao ignored her advice and was too lazy to fold the quilt every time. Only Li Mingyu listened to his brother obediently.
So he slept here before?
The soundproofing in the old neighborhood was always poor. He could actually hear any movement or talking next door. But before, when he was at home, he didn't hear a single sound.
But according to the old man, he has been living here for several months. That means his brother has been living next door and listening to his movements for several months?
It was difficult to describe Li Zheng's mood at the time. He felt as if he had never understood this younger brother with whom he had been for many years.
He had no idea what he was thinking.
I don't understand why he did that.
Although Li Zheng wanted to tell himself that the surveillance might have been an accident, and that he just happened to be at the scene, and that Wei Lele might have mentioned that he had misunderstood, when he really saw the dense movement tracks in the internal computer records of the network investigation, it was indeed difficult for him to say the word "accident".
time.
Place.
They all fit together too well.
Li Zheng stood quietly in the middle of the living room with a normal expression, showing no anger or sadness. He just stood there quietly and watched.
Wei Sheng, who was standing by, felt as if his entire chest was blocked by something and he couldn't breathe.
He felt that if Officer Li had a mood index like other conquerable NPCs, his mood index would have been constantly falling.
So Wei Sheng instinctively wanted to make him happier.
I instinctively wanted to do something for him.
Instinctively, I moved closer to him.
He walked up to Li Zheng, patted his shoulder, put on a smile, and took the initiative to share the information he had extorted from the system, saying that he had obtained it himself.
"Actually, I've been searching for it before, but it's been intermittent. I just got a signal. It's in... an internet cafe... in Mingzhu Plaza?"
It's a fifteen-minute drive.
Along the way, neither the driver nor the co-pilot spoke a word.
When we arrived at Mingzhu Square, there were already densely packed barbecue stalls set up on the roadside without the supervision of urban management, and many fried noodle and fried rice stalls were also lined up in a row.
The Internet cafe is called Feiyue Internet Cafe. It is located down a small path next to Mingzhu Square. It has been open for more than ten years and is quite famous locally.
The decoration has changed several times and it has been expanded twice, but the name of the Internet cafe has never been changed.
When Li Zheng and Wei Sheng were about 20 steps away from the door, the first thing they heard was a series of exclamations. Men and women, young and old, all rushed to the door at the same time, as if there was a flood or a beast chasing them from behind.
"Ahhhhhhh, there's a ghost!"
“Ahhh…”
“Ahhhhhh…”
Because there were so many people, Li Zheng, standing against the flow of people, couldn't see what was happening in the internet cafe. But Wei Sheng might have seen it through some other means, and subconsciously blocked Li Zheng's way.
Li Zheng naturally noticed it as well.
As an experienced criminal policeman, he had a keen sense of smell. He could detect a faint smell of blood coming from the Internet cafe. Combined with the screams, he had guessed what had happened.
Is this another case?
Don’t know who the victim is?
Perhaps it was because Li Zheng had seen too many criminal cases in recent days, one after another, leaving him no time to breathe, so that he had become a little numb to the occurrence of cases.
Thinking of those strange methods, those supernatural ones, those means that he could not even imagine, and thinking of the suspect that all the clues pointed to.
Whenever he encountered any case in the past, he always stood in the front. This time, he was actually protected behind him, which made Li Zheng a little uncomfortable.
"I'll go," Li Zheng sighed, "If he is really Mingyu, he shouldn't hurt me."
People kept running out of the internet cafe, and one of them almost bumped into Li Zheng because he ran too fast.
"You wait here, I'll go in."
"Let me handle it next. Don't worry, I'll be fine. This is hilarious. It's like who doesn't have props or skills..."
"It only takes a moment."
Li Zheng still didn't speak.
"I'll go in and take a look at the situation. If there's anything going on inside, I'll report it to you immediately. If there's nothing else, you can come in later, okay?"
Li Zheng suddenly realized that Wei Sheng had held his hand tightly to prevent them from being dispersed by the crowd rushing out of the Internet cafe. Now, most of the people had left, but Wei Sheng still didn't let go of his hand.
He himself didn't seem to realize there was anything wrong with holding his hand. He was looking at him intently, with deep emotions in his eyes almost overflowing.
Li Zheng discovered that there was a very small mole in Wei Sheng's eyebrow. The width of his double eyelid folds was not the same, and the right eye was obviously narrower.
"Hmm? How's it going?"
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent."
"Okay." Li Zheng finally compromised, but he quickly added, "I'm just outside the door. If you need anything, send me a message."
"I know," Wei Sheng muttered, "I don't know whether this game of mine is considered PVP or PVE..."
The hand loosened.
Li Zheng's palm still seemed to retain the feeling of being tightly grasped just now.
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