I don't have ulterior motives

Chapter 15

A quarter of an hour later, Liao Fangyuan walked into the interrogation room carrying the lunch box, and put the lunch box on the table in front of Shu Linan.

Shu Linan had no appetite at all, so he just sat there without moving, and smiled politely at the captain of the criminal police.

Liao Fangyuan pushed the bag: "Someone bought it for you."

Shu Lin'an looked at him suspiciously, wondering when would he be treated like this when being interrogated.A little curious, he opened the lunch box containing the vegetables, a box of pickled vegetables and winter bamboo shoots, and a box of steamed sea bass, which were the dishes he ordered when he and Jin Bei were eating in the town the day before yesterday.

Shu Linan pursed her lips, revealing an imperceptible smile.He picked up the chopsticks, raised his head and said to Liao Fangyuan, "Thank you."

Liao Fangyuan always felt that he was thanking another person.

He watched the expression of the person in front of him change from doubt to surprise, and brought a little joy. Thinking that it was the first time he saw Jin Bei being so interested in someone, he inexplicably sighed that his son had been abducted.

In the afternoon, Liao Fangyuan brought Shu Linan out, and when he walked past the office door, He Chen rushed over with a USB flash drive.

"Boss! There is a breakthrough!"

Everyone in the office looked back at him.

"The people from the technical investigation team recovered the surveillance from that night and found the murderer!"

Liao Fangyuan snatched the USB flash drive from He Chen's hand and walked into the office.Shu Linan followed behind him, Liao Fangyuan glanced back, but did not stop him.

Shu Lin'an frowned: "How did you recover?" Shu Pingyuan had just been arrested, and the surveillance that hadn't been recovered for a week was restored. If the people in the surveillance were proved to be related to the Shu family, Shu Pingyuan would not have to go home.

The little police officer with a stubble on his chin rubbed his head in embarrassment: "I don't know, technical things..."

"Leave it to the technical investigation team." Liao Fangyuan shrugged and plugged the USB drive into the computer.

"Who recovered it?" Shu Lin'an asked.

Liao Fangyuan glanced at him: "For the safety of the other party, this must be kept secret."

Shu Lin'an: "..."

The USB flash drive has been read, Liao Fangyuan looked at Shu Linan, and did not open the folder for a long time.

Shu Linan spread his hands: "Okay, I avoid suspicion. Can I go, officer?"

"Yes." Liao Fangyuan said, paused, and added: "But the police may be searching your house, you go back now..."

Shu Lin'an was startled, lowered his eyes, and bit his lips. Jin Bei felt a little distressed when he saw it, and said to him in a low voice, "Why don't you wait for me and go to my house first?"

"No need, I still have something to do." Shu Lin'an thought for a while, then raised his eyebrows, "You contact me when it's over?"

"it is good."

"Then I'm leaving, officer." Shu Lin'an said, but he didn't look at him, and only winked at Jin Bei.

Liao Fangyuan felt that Jin Bei's whole person was capitalized with the words "eating inside and outside".

"It's a country and a city." Lan Hua said, looking at the closed door of the office.This is the first sentence she said from just now.

Liao Fangyuan looked at her: "Are you jealous or yearning?"

Lan Hua looked at him disdainfully, smiled without saying a word.

"Sister, you are too old." Jin Bei glanced at her.

Lan Hua: "???" She hasn't said anything yet!

Liao Fangyuan turned on the surveillance video at this time.The time display is 10:30 pm. In the video, a tall man in black clothes appeared in the corridor and entered Qiu Zhuo’s room. After that, there were sporadic people coming and going in the corridor. At 12:30, the man came from Qiu Zhuo’s room. I got out, took nothing, and went into the elevator.

But the surveillance in the lobby didn't capture him, so he must have walked by a small path, that is to say, this person has the right to pass through certain special passages in the hotel.

"The time of death is also correct. This person must be the murderer. It's a pity that he didn't show his face." He Chen said.

Nothing like the last time when Wang Lianjun's face happened to be photographed.

Liao Fangyuan stared at the video and whispered, "If the surveillance is real."

"Huh?" He Chen was a little surprised.

"Shu Lin'an's question is actually reasonable." Liao Fangyuan said, "Don't you think it's a bit of a coincidence that we got the recovery surveillance the day after Shu Pingyuan was arrested."

"The clues don't seem to be discovered, but rather paved." Lan Hua said.

"But... if it was intentional, why didn't you show the other person's face, wouldn't it be easier for us to find him?" He Chen asked.

"Yes. Is there any reason..." Liao Fangyuan was thinking.

"So the current breakthrough is this person in the surveillance." Jin Bei said, "Whether he is the real murderer or not, he has a great connection with the case."

Liao Fangyuan and Lan Hua were in charge of monitoring, and the rest of the Criminal Investigation Detachment went to investigate Shu Pingyuan's social relations. No clearer information was found.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Jin Bei stretched his waist and stood up: "It won't work this time, this person is definitely not someone I know so well that I can recognize his walking posture."

"Is there any result with Shu Pingyuan's social relationship?" Liao Fangyuan turned to ask the person on the other side of the office.

"Shu Pingyuan's is not there, but there is something wrong with Qiu Zhuo." He Chen said, "We checked Qiu Zhuo's identity. He is the vice president of a pharmaceutical group in Province J. He has done a lot of transactions with Shu Pingyuan's companies in recent years. And, almost every time he comes to G City, he will go to Yuntian Evernight City. You know, Yuntian's underground business has been repeatedly banned, and his subordinates even suspect that it is a love murder."

"Love killing?" Liao Fangyuan laughed, "Why doesn't she suspect it's a supernatural event?"

Lan Hua wrinkled the tip of her nose: "Don't take women's intuition seriously."

"Why, you also think it's love killing?"

"It's possible," Lan Hua shrugged. "Don't forget the tattoo on his abdomen. It's very symbolic. Maybe this person is also a lover."

After the dismembered corpses were put together, the forensic doctor found a mark of an Ouroboros ring on Qiu Zhuo's lower abdomen, below the navel, about the size of a palm, and the tattoo was very delicate.

"Okay, let's not talk about love killings. Pharmaceutical Group, why do you have so many contacts with Shu Pingyuan's companies? Hotels, restaurants, what kind of medicine are they selling?" Liao Fangyuan said.

Several people looked at each other and thought of another answer.Yuntian's underground business is not just about sensuality, the boss behind it, Ke Tanmeng, is really in charge of the drug chain in G City.

During an anti-drug operation a year ago, they had approached the center of Ke Tanmeng's group, but they were finally escaped by the other party.

"Perhaps the investigation should involve people from the anti-drug team." Liao Fangyuan said to himself.

"Like who?" Lan Hua smiled ambiguously.

Jin Bei remembered what she said last time, the question that the anti-drug team disagreed with.

Liao Fangyuan's cell phone rang at this moment.He looked at his mobile phone: "The search of Shu Pingyuan's house did not find anything useful, and of course there is no call record. His contact with that person must be quite confidential, unlike Xia Qiming."

"So it's much more difficult." Lan Hua said.

"The search is over?" Jin Bei asked.

"Hmm." Liao Fangyuan glanced at him, "Are you going to leave?"

"Yeah." Before leaving, Jin Bei turned his head again, "Well... I was thinking just now, could the tattoo on the lower abdomen of the corpse be the mark of the murderer?"

"A special killer with a lot of personality? This kind of problem can only be seen through serial killings." Liao Fangyuan waved his hand.

Lan Hua gave Liao Fangyuan a cool look, as if saying, I hope it's not a crow's mouth.

"Okay." Jin Bei shrugged and closed the door.

At the gate of the police station, Jin Bei took out his mobile phone and pressed a series of numbers.

The music was the movement of the summer of the four seasons, and it was connected after a while.

"Hello. Is it over?" Shu Lin'an's voice sounded more magnetic than usual on the phone.

"Hmm. Where are you now?"

"Nanhu Park." Shu Lin settled down, "with friends."

"Friend." Jin Bei's voice sounded a bit disappointed, but he also breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good to have someone to accompany you."

"Ah."

There was silence on both ends of the phone for a while, and Jin Bei said, "If you need any help, please contact me."

"it is good."

"The police should have left, go back early."

"Yeah." Shu Lin'an couldn't help but raised the corner of his mouth, why are there so many warnings.

"Then I hang up..."

"Well. Goodbye." Shu Lin'an said softly.

Hearing the sound of the phone being disconnected, Shu Linan slowly put down the phone.He was the only one on the bench in the park. He was indeed with someone else just now, but now the other party has left, with the task he gave—to investigate the people who Shu Pingyuan's subordinates have recently used.Now the surrounding area is empty, only the shadow of the forest when the sun is about to set.

But in Shu Lin'an's eyes, that's not the case.

Countless black shadows surrounded him, as if surrounding an emperor, or besieging prisoners.He tore open the collar of his shirt, feeling suffocated.

The slanting daylight shone from among the trees into the clearing, and the light was like a rope around the throat of everything.

It was so noisy, the sound made by these churning black shadows.Unable to discern meaningful characters, he just yelled vaguely and hoarsely.Shu Linan felt that if he made a sound, it must be like this.

So he bit his lip and tasted blood in his mouth.

He lowered his head and clutched his phone, as if holding the only connection with the world.The other party said that it is good to have someone to accompany you.

Shu Lin'an was thinking in his heart, but I just want you to be with me.only want you.

Shu Lin'an didn't know how he got back. When he woke up the next morning, he lay in bed and spent a long time remembering that today was his appointment with the doctor.

Early morning makes him feel better.He turned over, picked up his phone to see the time, it was already 09:30, he rarely got up so late.He has no memory of when he fell asleep last night. Anyway, he was still struggling between half-dream and half-awake in the middle of the night, and finally fell asleep thinking of Jin Bei's voice unconsciously.

Didn't get a good night's sleep.That voice was mixed with other voices and became indistinguishable.

Shu Lin'an sent a text message to the doctor, telling him that today's appointment was cancelled, then threw the phone under the bed, turned off the wall lamp, sat up slowly sideways, put on his slippers and left the room.He still has work to do today.

The author has something to say:

Liao Fangyuan: Are you jealous or yearning?

Lan Hua: It's not because I'm yearning that I'm not interested in underage boys, okay Jin Bei, you don't need to talk.

Jin Bei: ...