chasing the dark

Chapter 104 Shadow
Qi Xiu wept and narrated her past with Qiu Zhixin. The reason why she chose the barbecue restaurant was because once when she went to open a room, she saw an acquaintance come out of the hotel before entering the hotel.

The work of the two of them determines that they have too many acquaintances in the hotel circle, and they didn't think about it before. They were so frightened that they realized that the risk of going out to open a room was too great.

Later, the hot pot restaurant and barbecue restaurant were forced to close down, and Qiu Zhixin secretly kept the keys.Due to the limitation of the water source, it is impossible to rent it out for a while, so it is suitable as a place for tryst.

"There is blood in the kitchen, how do you explain this?" Lao Yang asked suddenly.

Qi Xiu was stunned, then shook her head: "I don't know, how could there be blood?"

Jiang Yu put a photo in front of her: "It's on the kitchen wall, the blue one in the photo is it."

Qi Xiu looked blank: "I really don't know. I didn't go to other rooms except the staff's rest room and the bathroom. The kitchen is quite dirty, so I never went in at all."

She didn't look like she was lying.

"Do you two have trysts often?" Lao Yang asked.

Qi Xiu buried her head very low, and gave a soft "hmm".

"When was the last time?" Lao Yang asked again.

"Ten days ago." Qi Xiu replied.

"Drink some water." Lao Yang pushed the mineral water on the table forward and asked, "Is it longer than usual?"

"I'm on a business trip and I just came back yesterday." After speaking, Qi Xiu unscrewed the water bottle and took a big sip.

After drinking some water, she seemed to calm down a bit, and looked at the two opposite people with pleading eyes: "Officer, I was also confused for a moment... I will definitely break up with him in the future, can you let me go?"

Lao Yang smiled: "That depends on whether you cooperate with us or not."

His smile looked kind, but Jiang Yu felt treacherous.

The police have no right to detain the affair as long as it is not mixed with other illegal activities. Lao Yang is purely taking advantage of her fear of scandal being publicized.

Qi Xiu really took the bait: "I cooperate, I will definitely cooperate! As long as you don't tell this matter, let me do anything!"

Lao Yang nodded: "Then let me ask you, has anyone been to an auto repair shop recently?"

"Auto repair shop?" Qi Xiu didn't know why, "What happened there?"

"Answer whatever you ask." Jiang Yu said seriously.

Interrogation requires the cooperation of two people. Since Lao Yang's attitude is amiable, she has to be strict, lest the other party think they are easy to talk to.

Qi Xiu snorted: "There is no one there who was closed down together with the restaurant."

"When you two were in the barbecue shop, didn't you hear any movement in the backyard?" After Lao Yang finished speaking, he added, "You don't need to rush to answer, just think about it."

Qi Xiu's eyebrows were all screwed together, she smoothed back the hair on her forehead, and recalled carefully.

After a while, she seemed to suddenly think of something, and tentatively said: "One time when I went to the bathroom, I heard a sound in the backyard, like the sound of digging. I secretly looked out the window, but there was nothing. Watch."

"There are no windows in the staff lounge and bathroom, where did you see it?" Jiang Yu questioned.

"There is a window in the kitchen, and the auto repair shop is outside." Qi Xiu said naturally.

Lao Yang raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say that you have never been in the kitchen?"

"I didn't go in, so I just watched at the door." Qi Xiu quickly explained, "There are no lights outside, it's quite dark, and I didn't look at anything."

"Have you told Qiu Zhixin?" Lao Yang asked.

Qi Xiu nodded: "Tell me, he went to see it and said it might be a wild cat."

Lao Yang took out his mobile phone and asked casually, "Are you two going to spend the night there, or should you leave when you're done?"

This question made Qi Xiu lower her head again, and chose a less embarrassing way to answer: "Not overnight."

"What time do you usually go and leave?" Lao Yang swiped his finger on the phone.

"It's always past eleven or twelve o'clock, leaving at one or two o'clock." Qi Xiu replied.

Lao Yang finally put down his phone, looked up at her and asked, "Have you ever met anyone? Even if they were passing by."

Qi Xiu pursed her lips: "Occasionally we will meet people passing by, but we only enter the house after people pass by, and we will be very careful when we come out."

Lao Yang asked the previous question upside down and asked it twice, Qi Xiu's answer did not change much, so it can be concluded that she was not lying.

……

The interrogation of Qiu Zhixin was not so simple. After all, he has been in the society for many years, so he can be regarded as someone who has seen the world.When I was at the barbecue restaurant before, I was only frightened for a while, so I was taken away without saying a word.

It was not until three o'clock in the morning that Ye Zhanzhou and Zhao Lei came out of the interrogation room.

The entire office building was quiet, and the two of them walked back while discussing the matter of the interrogation just now with a light footstep.

After entering the office, Ye Zhanzhou suddenly put his index finger on his lips and made a silent movement.

Zhao Lei looked around, Jiang Yu was the only one in the office, and fell asleep lying on his desk.

He raised his eyebrows, yawned, and muttered in a very low voice that he was sleepy and was going to sleep.Immediately, he walked out of the office.

Ye Zhanzhou went into his cubicle and took a coat and put it on Jiang Yu. Although it was summer, the air conditioner was turned on in the office, so he would inevitably catch a cold if he slept like this.

The little girl was resting her head on her arm, holding a document in one hand, apparently fell asleep after looking at it.

Jiang Yu's posture was a bit awkward, and he didn't sleep soundly. He heard footsteps in a daze, and felt like he was dreaming.His eyelids were as heavy as glue, and after several efforts, his consciousness finally returned to the cage.

"Are you back?" He just woke up and spoke with a nasal voice, which made Ye Zhanzhou suddenly feel like the other party was acting like a baby to him.

The Adam's apple rolled, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, he asked, "Why don't you go to the rest room?"

The bureau has prepared lounges for police officers who cannot go home after working overtime, and there is a separate room for female police officers.

Jiang Yu rubbed his eyes and sat up straight: "The transcript is almost not finished yet."

Ye Zhanzhou reached out to catch the slipped jacket: "Work can't be done in one go, staying up all night is not good for your health."

"How are you doing there?" Jiang Yu ignored his preaching and asked with his head tilted.

Ye Zhanzhou pulled a chair from the side and sat down: "Qiu Zhixin said that he did see a dark shadow in the backyard one night, which flashed past the passageway of the auto repair shop. He thought it was a wild cat and didn't pay much attention to it. Looking back now, I think the shadow is bigger than a cat, it might be a person."

"Can't tell a cat from a human?" Jiang Yu snorted.

"His nearsightedness was more than 300 degrees, and he didn't wear glasses at the time. The main reason is that he didn't think about people at all, otherwise he wouldn't dare to go there again."

Ye Zhanzhou shrugged, and said: "However, he provided a date, which is the third day after the hot topic on the Internet was released."

(End of this chapter)