night.

After having a good meal and a few drinks, Lu Ban and Qin Tiantian walked out of the barbecue restaurant.

There are also some college students who do not plan to go back to the dormitory at night and focus on playing games in the Canyon of Heroes. They buy some midnight snacks from the small shops in the back streets that are closing one after another.

Next to Northeast BBQ is an Internet cafe, and the door is a slightly dark alley.

Lu Ban walked behind Qin Tiantian. In his words, from this angle he could observe everything around him, and if something strange suddenly appeared, he would be prepared.

As the two walked out of the store, the trash can diagonally opposite suddenly made a clanging sound, scaring Qin Tiantian so much that he quickly stepped back and hid behind Lu Ban.

"It's a cat."

Lu Ban took a look and saw that the mixed-breed cat that was rummaging through the trash can was disturbed by them and had quickly run into the back alley.

"I was scared to death."

Qin Tiantian muttered something.

"In the daytime, if you see a cat and can't walk, you call it a cute cat, but at night, it scares you to death. The difference in treatment is huge."

Lu Ban joked.

“…”

Qin Tiantian rolled his eyes at Lu Ban.

She looked at the trash can again.

It was almost all kitchen waste, but there were also cigarette boxes, lunch boxes, beverage bottles, a wet garbage bin and a dry garbage bin, and it was full of a day's garbage.

It was just a casual glance, but Qin Tiantian felt like he saw something strange.

Is that... a hand?

In the dirty trash can filled with fruit peels, meat scraps, and chicken bones, there was a palm buried in it.

The epidermis of the palm was damaged, and it was not just a scratch. It looked like it had burst due to high temperature. Despite this, the shape of the five fingers was still visible. It was definitely not a prop, but a real human hand!

"ah!"

Qin Tiantian screamed and stumbled into Lu Ban's arms.

"Take care of her."

Lu Ban said something to his air friend beside him, and then asked Qin Tiantian to stand behind.

"Ask the boss to call the police."

He ordered, moving closer to the trash can.

Lu Ban did not rashly reach out to destroy the scene, but just took a quick look around.

The hand was probably cut from the wrist, and there were obvious signs of charring on the surface, which were not normal signs of burns.

"Hot oil... frying?"

Lu Ban came to this conclusion based on his limited knowledge of cooking.

"Wait, the body is here. Could it be that the meat we just ate... Ugh!"

Qin Tiantian leaned against the wall and immediately vomited out everything he had eaten that night.

A police sirens sounded in the distance, and the dim light from the street lamps in the alley shone on Lu Ban's face, leaving a deep shadow.

…

"Name."

"Haven't we met many times before, Comrade Policeman?"

"Follow the procedure, name."

"Lu Ban."

"age."

"22 years old."

Lu Ban was being questioned in the police station. Sitting opposite him were Chen Danshen and He Youwu, whom he had met before.

"Comrade police officer, I want to ask, am I speaking to you as a witness now?"

"Of course."

"Then why are there handcuffs on your table?"

Lu Ban looked at the two police comrades who were more nervous than himself, and the handcuffs placed on the table.

"We are professional police officers and this is routine."

He Youwu sat up straight and said something.

"Tell me about your itinerary today, and how you found the body?"

Chen Danshen took a pen and began to collect evidence.

"Well, I got up this morning and had breakfast, then learned some common movie transition techniques. Then I had lunch, watched some videos, went to the balcony to photosynthesize, and chatted with my air friend for a while. Qin Tiantian asked me to have dinner with him, so I packed up and went out to eat. We ate until just now. When we went out, there was a wild cat in the trash can at the door, and we saw the hand in the trash can."

Lu Ban briefly stated his itinerary.

"Photosynthesis... is it basking in the sun?"

He Youwu muttered something and noticed another word in Lu Ban's words.

"Air friend, what is that?"

“It’s the invisible friend who’s standing there.”

He Youwu was suddenly startled when he heard Lu Ban's words. He felt the temperature in the room suddenly drop, as if someone was blowing air at him from behind.

Chen Danshen, who was standing by, also had an ugly look on his face. He felt his neck a little stiff. He slowly turned his head and glanced behind him.

Empty walls, nothing there.

"Don't say these nonsense."

I just saw He Youwu behind me and broke out in a cold sweat, so I gave him a reminder.

The two asked some more questions before letting Lu Ban leave.

After they left, the two policemen were silent for a while. He Youwu stood up, opened the door to check outside, then sat back and looked at the transcript.

"In recent murder cases, the murderer has dismembered the victim's body. This one should be one of them."

"He acted a little deliberately, especially when he said he was just an air friend. Even if he was a mental patient, it was too exaggerated."

"But if he really is the criminal, how did he find the time to commit the crime? Why did he take the initiative to call the police and make himself the first person to discover it?"

"According to criminal psychology, some pleasure criminals will return to their crime scenes and leave in front of the police. Maybe it's for this reason."

"Is there a possibility of a copycat crime? If this case is classified as a serial murder case, as long as one suspect is ruled out, it means that he will be ruled out of all the cases. If it is a copycat crime, he can get an alibi from other cases."

"But we have kept the details of this case confidential from the public. Only insiders know about it. How did he know the details?"

He Youwu and Chen Danshen discussed the possibility that Lu Ban was the criminal.

It was not until there was a knock on the door that the two came to their senses.

He Youwu opened the door and was surprised to see Lu Ban standing at the door.

“Is there anything?”

He felt a little uneasy. This was a police station. Lu Ban wouldn't do anything dangerous, right?

"I was in a hurry just now and found that my friend seemed to be locked in the office. I came to pick him up."

Lu Ban maintained a gentle smile.

"???"

The two policemen looked at each other and then at the empty room.

"Then let's go."

Lu Ban waved his hand and disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

"…Is he serious?"

He Youwu just felt a little weak and didn't know how to describe his feelings.

"I guess I just came back to check on the situation..."

Chen Danshen's cell phone rang. He picked up the call and listened for a while.

"The girl's statement has also been taken, and it's basically the same as Lu Ban's. If they didn't collude with each other in advance, then I guess these two people are not major suspects."

He told his colleague the news.

“No way…”

He Youwu felt that for someone as handsome and graceful as Lu Ban, it would be a waste of his looks if he didn't become a serial killer like in the movies.

"Is it possible... that he is really innocent?"