Lingqiu Lake and Saunter (1)

  "Ah, senior..." Xia Zhu panted as she caught up to him, only to see Lin Yuan Li already holding a cup and lining up.

  He looked over calmly: "What?"

  "Sorry, I think I may have misunderstood something..." Xia Zhu felt a bit embarrassed by this topic: "I don't want to live with you."

  The word "cohabitation" is too sensational, let's change it to a more moderate one.

  Lin Yuanxiao quietly looked at her, and after a long while, he let out a snort of laughter: "Cohabitation?"

  Summer Bamboo: ……

  "Who told you that not sleeping in the same bed means cohabitation?" Lin Yuanxiao stared at her, his expression somewhat mocking.

  Their discussion was so loud that the people around them were extremely curious, looking over and making Xia Zhu more and more uncomfortable, to the point where she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. But then someone said: "In addition, love is just the result of excessive secretion of dopamine and norepinephrine, secreted by the pituitary gland in the hypothalamus." He paused, looking at Xia Zhu with an appraising gaze, saying lightly: "That is to say, if I were to inject you with a shot of dopamine, you would fall in love with me right now."

  He finished speaking and picked up his coffee cup, continuing to drink slowly and calmly, without paying any attention to Xia Zhu's reaction.

  Xia Zhu stared blankly for a moment before asking: "Senior, is what you said true?"

  Lin Yuanxi finally put down his cup and looked over, with a hint of embarrassment in his eyes: "Just kidding."

  Such nonsense can be believed, it's simply stupid.

  Xia Zhu let out a breath of air, apparently overjoyed.

  For some reason, this made Lin Yuanle dissatisfied again: "You think having romance with me is a very insulting thing?"

  "Huh?" Xia Zhuo said inexplicably: "How is this possible?"

  Lin Yuanxi looked at her for a while, let out a cold hum from his nose and turned his head away: "No connoisseurship."

  Xia Zhu was silent for a moment, gazing up at the sky. After a while, he couldn't help but ask: "Senior, have you ever been in love?"

  This issue would be a bit embarrassing if it were between ordinary men and women, but for the two of them, it's not even a problem.

  "It's meaningless behavior, a complete waste of time."

  Xia Zhu lost his smile.

  "Not buying a bed?" Lin Yuan nodded: "Let's go."

  Xia Zhu's phone rang at this moment, and when he picked it up, it was Zou Muyuan.

  Lin Yuan furrowed his brow: "How is it him again?"

  Xia Zhu was somewhat crying and laughing, originally, a superior looking for a subordinate is a very normal thing, how did it become this tone when put in Lin Yuan's mouth?

  She picked up the phone and heard Zou Muyu say on the other end: "Something's happened."

  Xia Zhu: ...From now on, I should get used to taking out a pen and preparing to take notes every time Zou Mu Yuan comes.

  "Go back and check your email, I've sent the relevant materials of the case to Far's email," Zou Mianyuan said: "The evidence is not very sufficient now, and based on past experience, the suspect will soon start committing another crime. I hope you can provide some clues."

  "Alright, let's go back." Xia Zhu said without thinking, and accidentally revealed his true intentions.

  Fortunately, Zou Mu Yuan didn't think much of it and just nodded: "Alright, thank you on behalf of Yuan Qi."

  "We have a case," Xia Zhu said concisely: "Officer Zou hopes we can go back now to review the materials and provide an initial reference for the crime suspects."

  Lin Yuanxi slightly narrowed his eyes and placed the coffee cup on the tray: "Very well."

  If it was the first time they met, Xia Zhu might have felt a little resentful towards Lin Yuanxi's lack of human emotion, but now she was already used to it and could only helplessly take away the cup and follow him in three quick steps.

  Sometimes Xia Zhu thought that she might have gotten used to this kind of life, following Lin Yuan's lead every day, being his little sidekick, listening to his commands, and solving cases with him.

  Peaceful and nothing out of the ordinary, but it's really quite good.

  "Is it confirmed?" Xia Zhu flipped through the photos, feeling a chill run down her spine.

  She wasn't the first time to see the scene photos, if you count the old cases she had contact with during her previous training, Xia Zhuo had handled all sorts of photos, some were very brutal, some were very bloody. However, none of them looked as unbearable as this one.

  The scene of the crime was a vocational school, where some students were quite old, 30-40 years old, while most were young people in their early 20s. Xia Zhu flipped through online information and introduced to Lin Yuan: "This time, the victim went missing in December just after enrolling, and his body was found in March of the following year, in Lingqiao Lake, which is less than a ten-minute walk from the campus. It's said that the body was discovered by students who were out for a stroll and they were so frightened that they called the police."

  "Where is this vocational school?" Lin Yuan asked, flipping through the old case files.

  "It's just outside the Second Ring Road of A City, the location is not bad." Xia Zhu said.

  Having dealt with so many cases, what she dislikes the most is crimes targeting students. Every individual has a family, and harming a student can possibly destroy an entire family.

  Lin Yuanxi closed the case file, his expression somewhat unpleasant. He pinched the bridge of his nose with one hand and said lightly, "If there's nothing else, let's go to that school this afternoon."

  "I thought you wouldn't usually go on-site." Xia Zhu said with doubt.

  "No," Lin Yuanxi smiled: "In cases like this, going to school can often reveal some problems."

  The vocational school wasn't that far away. After lunch, they drove for just half an hour in the afternoon and arrived at their destination.

  This place was originally an industrial area and later transformed into its current state. There aren't many residents living nearby, but it's not particularly quiet either.

  Lin Yuanxi stopped the car and looked around, his expression somewhat bewildered. Xia Zhu rarely saw Lin Yuanxi with such an expression, so she slightly furrowed her brow and asked: "Senior?"

  "If it were me, I wouldn't choose a place like this to abandon a body. Also, I need you to call Lin Yuan, why was this case assigned to the homicide unit?" Lin Yuan said.

  Xia Zhu called over, but the line was busy.

  Lin Yuanqi was apparently not very satisfied with this result, but he didn't say anything else and just followed Xia Zhu into the house.

  Among the two, Lin Yuan was exceptionally handsome, while Xia Zhu was also quite good-looking. However, he wore casual clothes and looked no different from a student.

  Lin Yuanxi found a basketball court, sat down on a long bench, and said to the girl next to him: "Hello, I want to ask you a few questions."

  The girl was staring blankly at the boy on stage, startled by the sound, and upon seeing Lin Yuan's appearance, she sat back down: "Oh? You don't look like a freshman, who are you..."

  "It's just a few words," Lin Yuan said, apparently somewhat impatient.

  Xia Zhuang hastily followed up, squeezing Lin Yuanbai to one side and smiled: "Sorry, we're planning to enroll next year and wanted to ask about the situation here."

  The girl took a look at Xia Zhu, then glanced at Lin Yuanbai beside her, and pouted slightly: "Are you two together?"

  "Ah, he usually doesn't admit it." Xia Zhu helplessly spread out her hands.

  The girl shook her head and chuckled, saying "Don't come again."

  "I heard something happened over there, was it the Lake Fall incident?" Xia Zhu asked in a low voice.

  The girl smiled: "If you've already heard about it, why bother asking?"

  Seeing her getting up to leave, Xia Zhu hurriedly asked: "My parents have always hoped that I would learn accounting. If other universities don't accept me, the accounting major here is the best in this specialty."

  The girl stopped for a while after hearing the voice and sat back: "What you want to ask me, I can only tell you, don't come again."

  Xia Zhu's eyebrows and eyes were slightly stunned, and she couldn't help but ask: "Why?"

  "Some people are staring at this school, he said it's just the beginning," The girl's voice was a bit uncomfortable, she paused for a while before barely stabilizing her tone: "I'm leaving, if I wasn't graduating this year, I would have dropped out already."

  Xia Zhu looked at her for a long time, and couldn't help but say: "Thank you." She saw the girl's suspicious expression, and felt increasingly uneasy in her heart. She stood up, bowed slightly, and said: "We will catch him."

  "Who are you?" The girl looked at her distrustfully and waved her hand: "Take care of yourself."

  "You too." Xia Zhu lightly breathed out.

  Lin Yuanxi stood with his arms around him for a while, waiting until the girl was far away before asking faintly: "Do you think revealing your identity to her will make her feel at ease?"

  "Hmm." Xia Zhu's expression was serious and warm.

  Lin Yuanxu shook his head: "Immature."

  Xia Zhu didn't make a sound, she just smiled slightly.

  She has her own persistence, and sometimes Xia Zhu feels that those ideas may not be able to convey all of them to others, but it's enough.

  She wants to use her own hands to protect more people and prevent them from being as helpless as she was in those years.

  Lin Yuan stepped out in big strides: "Go take a look at Lingting Lake."

  The place where the girl's body was found, if it weren't for the intervention of the Major Crimes Unit, perhaps this case would have been closed hastily once again.

  As soon as they arrived at Lingqiao Lake, Zou Mu's phone call came: "You want to ask why the major crime unit is involved in just one case?"

  "Hmm," Xia Zhu asked: "This school is a bit strange."

  "It's not just strange," Zou Muyu sneered: "There is an old building in that school, they just won't demolish it, and there have been two murder cases inside."

  "What old building?" Xia Zhu was taken aback.

  "Where are you?" Zou Muyuan flipped through the materials and said: "It's called Xue Lou, you can go take a look."

  "Is it Xue Lou?" Xia Zhu repeated, nodding and saying: "We'll go there now."

  "Officer Zou said there's a haunted building over there and hopes we can go take a look," Xia Zhu told Lin Yuan.

  "Looking for a haunted house?" Lin Yuan's eyebrows flashed with surprise, and he sneered, "All the talk about gods and ghosts is just people's wild imagination and misconceptions. Instead of saying that this school has ghosts, it's better to say that there are too many people with ulterior motives."

  "It's precisely for this reason that we need to go and investigate."

  Lin Yuan took out his binoculars and looked into the distance, asking: "There must be people passing by here in winter, why didn't anyone see anything? The floating ice won't be very deep, and the case file says the victim was tied up...no fingerprints, no witnesses saw it...only one possibility, throwing the body in the dead of night, why would a girl walk to this place at midnight?"

  "We need to find the victim's friends or classmates." Xia Zhuyu's eyebrows furrowed in concentration.

  "That's right," Lin Yuanxiao smiled slightly: "This is what you're best at."

  For some reason, Xia Zhu felt that Lin Yuan's tone was a little bit uncomfortable, and her mood improved.

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