Chapter 75 There is medicine
On the way back from the villa, it was already eleven o'clock at night. Chi Xia turned a corner and went to "wait for someone".
The bar was open. Chi Xia went in to take a look. Qu Bai and Uncle Gen were not there. She came out quickly and took out the sleeping soup she had prepared long ago from the milk box at the door.
In addition to the sleeping soup, there was a small box with some lychee candies and a note written by Qu Bai: "Protecting teeth is everyone's responsibility."
Chi Xia's originally bad mood improved because of these candies. Holding the thermos, he took out a candy, put it in his mouth, and walked home slowly.
She was thinking about Li Yiming.
But when she thought of some things, her mind was full of fragments that could not be pieced together. There was a large blank left, and she still hasn't found the key to open it.
Looking at her back, Qu Bai stood in the shadow. His face was pale, without a trace of blood on his lips, and beads of sweat were on his forehead.
He held the wall with one hand and the other hand was trembling slightly in his pocket. He really wanted to call Chi Xia and ask her to look back, but he opened his mouth and no sound came out in the end. He just silently shouted out three words.
"gentlemen."
A burly man stood beside him: "It's time, we should go back."
Qu Bai did not respond. His eyes kept following Chi Xia's figure until she turned the corner and he could no longer see her. His gaze was still entangled with her and he could not take it away.
"Sir." The man called again, his tone showing his worry: "If you don't leave now..."
"Let's go."
Qu Bai spoke, his voice weak. He loosened his hand that was supporting the wall and took the hand out of his pocket.
But before he took two steps, he began to stagger, and the tall man next to him quickly supported him.
Qu Bai grabbed his arm, his palms were wet.
The man lowered his head and saw a bloody red on his sleeve. His face changed: "You..."
"It doesn't matter."
Qu Bai rubbed his palms on his waist, seeming not to feel any pain. Instead, he looked at his scarred palms and laughed softly. His laughter was gentle, as if he was very happy.
"Ade." He wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, looked up at the man beside him, his eyes full of ostentatious smiles: "I have medicine."
"Your medicine..." Ade said in a hoarse voice: "Miss Chi?"
Qu Bai didn't answer. He looked up at the moon in the sky, then smiled at the man beside him: "One day, one day, you will understand."
Ade lowered his head, and in the night, he saw that there seemed to be a moon framed in Qu Bai's eyes.
He felt that he might never understand it in his lifetime.
"Um."
He didn't say anything and used his strength to support Qu Bai. Soon, the two of them got into an inconspicuous van on the side of the road and left.
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At half past twelve in the night, Chi Xia received Lin Cuo's message.
[I have sent all the relevant information that Jiang Yi could find to your email. ]
She had just drunk a sleeping soup and jumped up to turn on the computer, thanking Lin Cuo by the way.
There was no reply from the other end. I guess they were busy thanking Officer Jiang.
Chi Xia opened her mailbox and clicked on the information package sent by Jiang Yi.
Ten years ago, on the third day of the Chinese New Year, a serial murder case occurred in Dongzhou. Several women were killed. The victims were mostly between 25 and 28 years old. Autopsies confirmed that the victims all died of mechanical asphyxiation caused by strangulation.
But in this case, the most horrifying thing is the two things that appeared at the death scenes of several victims.
First, there was a mirror 155cm long and 45cm wide at the feet of the deceased. Second, there was a bloody pink rose on the body of each deceased.
Luo Xun's sister Luo Lingfei was the last victim in the serial murder case.
There were six victims in total.
Luo Xun's teacher Zheng Jinghuai was the main person in charge of this case, but in the end, the case came to a standstill after five months of investigation and was eventually sealed as an unsolved case.
To this day, no new victims have appeared, and the murderer has disappeared without a trace.
Not long after, Zheng Jinghuai retired from the police station and did not step into the police station for ten years.
He had been a police officer for more than 30 years, but the last case of his career ended in a miserable defeat. This not only became a source of worry for him, but also for Luo Xun.
The master felt sorry for his disciple, and the disciple felt sorry for his sister.
Chi Xia suddenly felt that she seemed to know why Luo Xun always slept in the police station.
He felt sorry for his sister.
After reading this, Chi Xia looked up at the case board on the wall. In comparison, she might be more cold-blooded.
She knew that she had to find out the truth, but she had never been so harsh on herself. But what was the point of being harsh on herself?
Feeling sleepy, Chi Xia turned off the computer and went to sleep. However, before falling asleep, he had a vague feeling that he had originally wanted to try to find out Captain Luo's secret, but now there was a gas stuck in his throat that he could neither swallow nor spit out.
I'm definitely not going to sleep well tonight.
Sure enough, even with the effect of the sleeping soup, Chi Xia slept very badly in the first half of the night. In her dream, she was moving east and west, sometimes in Dongzhou, sometimes in Qincheng. Before she even landed on the ground, she was blocked by Luo Xun again.
This time she stared at Luo Xun and saw no disdain on his face, only deep sadness. She no longer had the urge to kick him away. Chi Xia was just about to say a few words of comfort to him, but she was sucked away again.
I was in a daze for most of the night and only fell into a more peaceful sleep in the second half.
In the morning, Chi Xia took the thermos to the bar. The door of the bar was still closed. When she put the thermos away, she added a small bag of pine nuts to the milk box. She had just bought them casually, but they tasted good, so she thought of it as a gift from the other party.
Not until Chi Xia disappeared did Ade go to the milk box to get the thermos. When he saw the small bag of pine nuts, he was stunned for a moment, looked around, then put the thing in his pocket and took it back.
When Chi Xia arrived at the police station, Luo Xun was eating breakfast at the breakfast stall.
He was halfway through a bowl of tofu pudding and two trays of steamed dumplings when a tall, thin man in trendy clothes came and sat opposite him.
Luo Xun raised his eyes to look at him, picked up the steamed bun and dipped it in vinegar: "Where's the food?"
The tall and thin man held the document bag and said, "Master Ba said that we need to pay with one hand and deliver with the other."
Luo Xun shook his phone.
Soon, the tall and thin man received the news and happily handed him the file bag: "Brother Xun, Master Ba said that you two still have a fight to fight."
"I know." Luo Xun raised his head and slurped up the tofu pudding, then wiped his mouth with a tissue: "I'll contact her."
The tall and thin man completed the task and was about to leave when he was stopped by Luo Xun again.
He pointed to the stall next to him, retracted his arm and looked at the things in the file bag: "Well, please pay for my breakfast."
The tall and thin man rolled his eyes speechlessly, and while scanning the QR code, he complained to him: "Brother Xun, you are a government employee, can you please stop bullying people like me who do odd jobs?"
Luo Xun kept his eyes on his hands and said confidently: "All the money was given to your boss. I don't have any."
The tall and thin man left angrily.
Luo Xun curled his lips and looked at the information in his hand. From the information given by Mr. Ba, it showed that Chi Xia was adopted at the age of twelve. His adoptive father Lin Yushan was a well-known psychology professor in the country, and his adoptive mother Yang Shujun was a French professor. Both of them had taught at Dongzhou University.
Five years ago, just two days after the Pingjiang Road massacre, another fire broke out in the villa area where the Zhou family lived. Many people were injured in the fire, but most of them were slightly injured. Only Lin Yushan and Yang Shujun died in the fire.
But there is another saying that Lin Yushan and Yang Shujun were murdered.
Judging from the relevant information in Luo Xun's hands, the police have always concluded that it was a fire, but what is somewhat strange is that Baye did not find any relevant reports of this fire on the Internet. It stands to reason that a fire broke out in the community where a family was murdered and in such a close range, it is impossible for the media not to report it.
Luo Xun put the information into a file bag and called a friend in the area to inquire about the fire five years ago.
The other party told him: "I know what you are talking about. It is death from suffocation caused by fire. This is confirmed. There were two such incidents in the same community. The owners of the community and our superiors did not want to make such a big fuss. It was best to keep things quiet, so this matter was not reported much. Later, we launched a fire prevention propaganda, and the Lin family only mentioned it vaguely."
"What about the source of the fire? What was the source of the fire?" Luo Xun asked again.
When it comes to this, the other party hesitated: "Hey, I really don't know what you are talking about. How about I ask for you later and then reply to you. By the way, why are you asking this?"
"Just asking."
Luo Xun kicked the stone under his feet and said, "This is just right. I saw the newspaper back then and was curious, so I just asked."
After hanging up the phone, Luo Xun felt that things were not that simple.
