Doctor entering the police gate

Chapter 31
"What...here, these little kids actually punctured my tire!" Yan Junli ran over furiously, but the group of kids had already disappeared, "How can I go home without a car!"

"Isn't it okay to use a police car?" Yang Wenbin asked.

"No, the police cars were driven away by the Narcotics Division today." Yan Junli put his hand on his forehead irritably, "There were not many police cars. Today is really unlucky. It takes at least 10 minutes to drive from my house to the police station. Do you want me to stay in the office for another night?"

"Actually..." Yang Wenbin hesitated for a while, then cleared his throat, and said, "My house is relatively close, and I can walk there in ten minutes. I think I can stay with you for one night."

"Really?" Yan Junli didn't expect to get such an answer, and asked in surprise.

"Hmm." Yang Wenbin just shrugged and said flatly, "It's just two big men huddled together for one night, and I'm not that petty."

Yang Wenbin's apartment was indeed very close to the police station, but the doctor didn't leave quickly, perhaps because he, like Yan Junli, was thinking about various possibilities of the case.Yan Junli found that Yang Wenbin's legs appeared to be a little more limp during such a slow walk, but the person involved obviously didn't realize it, but was immersed in thinking about the case.

Yan Junli suddenly realized that Yang Wenbin rarely showed such a sense of vulnerability in front of others.Sometimes this man is too calm, too wise, sometimes so courageous, to work with him, and sometimes to forget that he is a man who has experienced both psychological and physical trauma.

"What are you thinking about?" Yang Wenbin noticed Yan Junli's distraction and asked.

Case, what else can it be. "Yan Junli said casually.

Yang Wenbin nodded, "I think maybe we were all distracted by Xia Baiyan. We all thought he should know something inside, so we subconsciously pinned our hopes on him, but he didn't know anything at all. And no matter he What he thought was the truth before, now Huizi's death and Liu Yang's escape are beyond his expectations."

"Beyond all of our expectations, I should say." Yan Junli frowned, "And why did Liu Yang kill the two of them? I can't find his motive, or any connection."

"But maybe this is not Liu Yang's motive at all, have you ever thought about it?" Yang Wenbin retorted suddenly.

"Are you still talking about the theory that Liu Yang is not the murderer?" Yan Junli said helplessly, "I told you, the evidence at the scene is clear, plus we caught him on the spot, the murderer cannot be someone else."

"I didn't say that Liu Yang wasn't the murderer." Yang Wenbin smiled and shook his head.

"what?"

"Sometimes, there is more than one truth." Yang Wenbin said, "I have a hunch that this time we are going to face such a case."

"What? Wait..." Yan Junli took two steps to catch up, "What did you say?"

"Huizi." Yang Wenbin turned his head and said, "Huizi's body. I feel strange in many places. Blood and tears, hair, and the clothes that were sorted."

"What? How to say?" Yan Junli frowned.

"Do you still remember seeing Keiko shed blood and tears when we were in the aquarium?" Yang Wenbin said, "When we were in the forensic room, before you told us to leave, I saw blood flowing from the eye sockets of the corpse again. Li Hong told That’s because not long after the body was taken out of the freezer, melted blood seeped out from the eye sockets that had lost the protection of the skin. Did you think of anything?”

"You mean—" Yan Junli said hesitantly, "the body was frozen before we found it?"

Yang Wenbin nodded, "In other words, someone may have used this method to confuse the death time of the corpse. Maybe Keiko didn't die when we found her at all."

"But when we found Keiko, Liu Yang was blocked by us in the aquarium and had no time to escape."

"That's the suspicious point I'm talking about. If it's true that Keiko died before we found her..." Yang Wenbin paused, then said, "It's not that Liu Yang didn't escape in time, but let us find out on purpose. "

"Why did he do this?" Yan Junli asked in disbelief.

"Maybe someone wants him to be discovered." Yang Wenbin whispered, "Have you noticed Keiko's clothes?"

"clothing?"

"Her clothes were arranged by the murderer."

"Yes, you said it out of repentance." Yan Junli said, "What's wrong?"

"The problem lies in Keiko's clothes. The knot on the kimono is very strange." Yang Wenbin frowned and said, "Li Hong said he couldn't tie it. If Li Hong didn't know how to tie that kind of knot How could Liu Yang know? He is still a big and rough man."

"So you're saying... there's a manipulator behind Liu Yang?" Yan Junli reacted quickly.

"There must be this person." Yang Wenbin said calmly and forcefully, "We don't know this person, neither does Xia Baiyan, nor do all the people involved in the case. He is an 'invisible person'."

Yan Junli suddenly opened his eyes wide, and murmured, "The third person. This person who manipulates Liu Yang behind the scenes is the third person we are looking for who can connect all the stories!"

"That's right." Yang Wenbin raised the corners of his lips, "He must have encountered something that forced him to push Liu Yang out as his own shield. aware of his presence."

"...Sometimes I really love you to death." Yan Junli sighed sincerely.

"What?" Yang Wenbin's brain short-circuited.

"Your reasoning ability." Yan Junli pointed out solemnly, "I don't like your people very much."

Yang Wenbin rolled his big eyes and mocked, "What a coincidence, I am the same."

It didn't take long for them to come to the unremarkable apartment, and then Yang Wenbin took out the key and opened the door.

Yang Wenbin's house was the same as when Yan Junli came last time, it was still clean and deserted, but this time Yan Junli noticed that the wall that was originally bare was now covered with photos, newspaper clippings and other pieces of paper as soon as he entered the gate. Between the photos and the materials, there are some strings of different colors that go around the nails to connect them in series.

"Wow." Yan Junli sighed, "Very clever, Sherlock Holmes."

(Note: The usual method of Sherlock Holmes investigation.)
"Helps me clear my mind." Yang Wenbin took off his shoes in the hallway, and threw a pair of slippers to Yan Junli, "I'm trying to figure out the identity of that third person."

Yan Junli stood in front of the wall and looked at it. He found that Xie Fengming's photo was connected with Xia Baiyan's photo with a blue line, and Xia Baiyan was connected with Huizi's photo with a green line, and Liu Yang was connected with Xie Fengming and Huizi. It is the red line.There are thin lines of different colors between photos and photos, photos and materials.

(End of this chapter)