After asking Wang Zhi, Qi Lin did not leave the school in a hurry, but walked around the school, making sure that there were no more holes to sneak out of the school except the gate, and then walked out of the school with Shi Le.

Qi Lin still had doubts about Wang Zhi. Although Wang Zhi's actions just now showed that he didn't know about this matter, he didn't have an alibi, and he was the most intensive intersection point of the deceased's and Chen Wen's network. is the most likely suspect.

"Could he be hiding his panic?" Qi Lin asked Shi Le when he walked out of the school gate.

"If you ask me, of course I tend not to. There is no flaw in his micro-expression. But it may also be that I didn't pay attention. After all, I watched him grow up..."

"In this line of work, you have to abandon your emotions when facing a suspect," Qi Lin looked at Shi Le, "How about it objectively?"

"Maybe, I don't know, I can't see it. Wang Zhi's behavior couldn't be more normal - there are some abnormal ones, but they all make sense."

Qi Lin nodded and stopped asking questions, but sat in the car, turned on the air conditioner, rolled down the seat, and leaned against the window to monitor the school gate.

He firmly believed that if Wang Zhi had a ghost in his heart, he would find an opportunity to sneak out.

But such monitoring time is always long and boring.In a daze, the scenery in front of him became heavy.

Qi Lin tried hard to find himself in the lost consciousness, but the sleepiness was as turbulent as a flood.

Struggling to open his eyes, the rusty school gate in front of him gradually moved away and deformed, replaced by darkness.

It was an iron door locked with a huge chain. Behind him was the sound of heavy footsteps, step by step, slowly echoing in the cold stairwell.

It was too late, no light could hit Qi Lin from a tricky angle.He tugged on the iron chain vigorously, but there was no result other than the collision of the cold iron chain.

Drip—drip—

At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, there was a gleam of light in the stairwell.It was a safety warning sign hanging above his head, emitting a gloomy green light.

It clearly says the safety exit, but now it is so tightly blocked that not even a fly can fly out.

The sound of footsteps near my ear was getting closer, followed by the sharp feeling of a sharp object rubbing against the ground, as if the knife had scratched not the floor, but the dusty blackboard at the back of the classroom that had not been used for a long time.

"Qiqi, don't hide. I'll find you soon." Sharp laughter came from downstairs.

Qi Lin had no choice but to hold his breath and hide under the guardrail.

Calling for help is useless here.There was no one in the laboratory building at this point, only Qi Lin and the men were playing a life-and-death cat-and-mouse game in the empty building.

His chest rose and fell violently, Qi Lin knew that if he didn't move, the man would find him sooner or later, but if he moved, where could he go?

Simply close your eyes, waiting for that moment to come.

But what Qi Lin ushered in was not death, but a pair of warm hands.Opening his eyes, a boy took his hand and made a quiet gesture to him.

The boy's face looked familiar.

……

"Senior, senior, wake up, Wang Zhi is out!" Just a second before Qi Lin was about to see the boy's face clearly, Shi Le's violent shaking interrupted his dream.

He opened his dim sleepy eyes, forcibly stripping away his memory and consciousness, and Qi Lin finally found his body.

After stretching his muscles and bones, he opened the door and got up, "That brat really has a ghost in his heart, I knew he..."

Standing up with the mentality of catching people, and suspecting that he was blinded, he sat back in his seat.

There are huge crowds of people outside the school gate.The setting sun stretched the shadow of the telephone pole.

"It's evening now?"

"Yes, six o'clock in the afternoon." Shi Le stared at Qi Lin, "What's wrong?"

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Didn't you tell me to call you when I saw Wang Zhi before going to bed?" Shi Le looked a little innocent, "Wang Zhi didn't come out before, and I saw that senior was sleeping soundly, so I didn't have the heart to wake him up."

Qi Lin: ...I actually slept for so long?

But since it was known that Wang Zhi hadn't found a reason to sneak out of school all day, it wasn't a good choice to use Wang Zhi as a breakthrough point.Qi Lin decided to re-examine the relationship network to find other possible perpetrators.

Unfortunately, Shi Le didn't give Qi Lin this chance.

"Senior, let's go to the front and buy a pancake fruit." Shi Le pointed to an old man selling pancakes in front and said.

"No." Qi Lin naturally refused him, opened his notebook and began to reorganize the clues of the case.

The senior partner has spoken, and Shi Le is not self-willed, so she can only bear it with her mouth pursed.But his will was firm, but his stomach didn't listen to the command, and he growled twice in disappointment.

"Senior, I'm so hungry." Shi Le said, "I waited here for a whole day and didn't eat anything. I just ate a steamed stuffed bun at first."

Qi Lin didn't look up, and wrote and drew in his notebook, "Then you go buy it, anyway, you don't have to watch it anymore. Don't buy mine, I'm not hungry."

Shi Le let out an ah, but didn't move.

"Why don't you go?"

"No money."

Then, in order to convince Qi Lin, he opened his wallet, "Look, it's empty."

"Don't have a mobile phone to pay?"

"I just ran out of battery while playing games."

Qi Lin was speechless to Shi Le, so he had no choice but to agree, and brought Shi Le to the stall, "Here comes a pancake fruit."

Just finished speaking, Shi Le interrupted, "I want two."

"You eat two by yourself?"

"No, I'll be alone with you, otherwise I'd be embarrassed to let you watch me eat." Shi Le smiled, took Qi Lin's mobile phone to scan the code, entered ten yuan and pressed Qi Lin's finger to pay .

"Since you're embarrassed, you should spend your own money." Qi Lin sighed, snatched back the phone, and stuffed it into his back pocket.

"Stingy ghost, it's not that I won't return it to you." Shi Le snorted, then turned to the old man and said, "Please add more spice to me."

"Okay!" The old man sprinkled a handful of chili noodles, turning the wooden shovel in his hand, the batter turned into pancakes packed in a bag.

Shile took a big bite.

"Senior, this is super delicious!" Shi Lexi smiled, and Qi Lin said.

Qi Lin also bit off a small piece.

Indeed, the pancakes here are really good. The moment you bite into it, the aroma of chopped green onion and the tenderness of the flour melt on the tip of your tongue, turning into a hot wave that hits your taste buds.

He took another big bite.

"Chen Wen! Pancake fruit!" Suddenly, the old man selling pancake fruit shouted.

It was just a simple yell, but it made Qi Lin think of something.

He hurriedly turned his head, trying to find Chen Wen's figure.But now it was the end of school time, groups of students flooded the streets, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

The old man who sells pancakes also didn't know the difference.

"Oh, I read it wrong, I thought it was Chen Wen." The old man continued to lower his head to make his pancakes, "It's so strange, I would come here every day, why didn't I see anyone today?"

"Every day?" A flash of light flashed through his mind, and Qi Lin seemed to have grasped a clue.In the timeline, Chen Wen did say that he came to buy pancakes.

"Did he come yesterday?"

"Come on, he comes every day." The old man who sold pancakes and fruit didn't even look up.

Shi Le glanced at Qi Lin.

"Then was there anything unusual about him yesterday?" Shi Le tentatively asked.

"No, it's exactly the same as usual." The grandfather spread out the cake and handed it to the guests next to him, "But Wang Zhi didn't come yesterday, usually the two of them would come one after the other. Yesterday Chen Wen said that Wang Zhi asked for leave, but Then... let me think about it."

He put down what he was doing, "Yesterday I was standing here looking down at pancakes, and this kid suddenly called Wang Zhi and ran back."

The old man turned around and pointed to the alley behind, "It seems to be that street."

Qi Lin looked along the old man's fingertips.

There is Qijiang Old Street, and the scene of the crime is at the end.

"So where did Chen Wen go?" Qi Lin looked at the school gate again, "Have you seen Chen Wen come out?"

"I didn't notice. Just now I was paying attention to whether Wang Zhi came out, but I didn't see Chen Wen." Shi Le said, "But if Wang Zhi and Chen Wen have a good relationship, Chen Wen should go out with Wang Zhi."

But when he saw Wang Zhi, Chen Wen was not by his side.

"Wait a little longer." Qi Lin put his hands in his trouser pockets, leaned against the school fence, and quietly watched the students coming out, but he didn't see Chen Wen until seven o'clock in the evening.

An uneasy premonition spread in Qi Lin's heart.That's right, if the person was really killed by Wang Zhi, then Chen Wen would turn himself in for Wang Zhi, which means that Chen Wen was the original witness.

As a murderer, he definitely wanted as few witnesses as possible.

Although there are many people in the school, but if a 13-year-old child can kill a 40-year-old adult without using drugs, it is definitely not difficult to kill him in the school.

"Go to the school and find Chen Wen!" Qi Lin took the lead and ran into the school, followed by Shi Le.

Qingcheng Qizhong is a small junior high school without a dormitory.At seven o'clock in the evening, the inside was already empty, and even the students who were on duty had put away their brooms and returned home.

Class 9 of the first grade of junior high school also fell into silence like other classes. The seats were neat and orderly, and there was no sign of Chen Wen.

"Two police officers, is there anything else?" The bald teacher in class 9 was about to go home with his briefcase in his hands. As soon as he walked to the door of the class, he saw the two strange police officers from this morning looking around.

"We are looking for Chen Wen, has Chen Wen returned home?"

"Should go back. But he should be on duty today, and he didn't seem to see him when he was on duty." The teacher touched his bald head, "Is there something urgent? If not, tomorrow morning..."

"Urgent, very urgent." Shi Le was a little incoherent, "We have been guarding the door all day, but we didn't see Chen Wen go out. He is probably still in a corner of the school now."

The bald teacher panicked too.He quickly called Chen Wen's home.Chen Wen didn't go home.

"Two police officers, the surveillance room is next to the office, I'll take you to have a look."

After all, the teacher trotted all the way to the monitoring room, but did not turn on the computer.

"The monitor is unplugged," he said to the two, holding up the loose plug.

Qi Lin quickly dialed the number of the Criminal Team, and called everyone who could be called, and prepared to search for Chen Wen throughout the school.

He didn't dare to hesitate for a moment. If he hesitated for a while, Chen Wen might be in more danger.

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