The magician in the city

Chapter 217 Corpse

Chapter 210 Five

At the end of April, walking from the north to the south is like falling from early spring to summer.Roach, who grew up in the north, already felt that the heat was unbearable. After getting out of the car and walking for a few steps, he felt that his clothes were damp. He didn't know whether he was sweating or the air was too humid.

There was a cordon around the water, and there were more than people coming in and out, about half of them were wearing police uniforms, but Luo Qi could tell that the other half were also policemen without uniforms, and their eyes and demeanor showed that they were not ordinary. citizens.Two cars without police lights, one of which looked like a funeral car, Roach walked nearby just in time to look down and see a stretcher carrying a body bag.

Today is a rare sunny day, but the sunny day at this time is no more comfortable than the rainy day. The sun evaporates a steady stream of water vapor from the wet ground, moistening the air.The clothes on Roach's body quickly clung to him uncomfortably, and he walked slowly towards the police, who he believed must have noticed them.

He scanned the crowd, looking inside.Finally, he noticed a middle-aged man with sharp eyes among a group of policemen. Across the crowd and the river, the man looked at him for a moment.Roach turned his eyes away, and walked towards the car pulling the corpse like a good-for-nothing, pretending to spy.A few policemen in uniform politely asked him to go away.

The middle-aged man was talking to several people who looked like criminal policemen, and pointed in the direction of Roach.Two policemen came over, one was very burly, the other was lean and capable, with dark skin.Roach pretended not to notice them, and walked slowly along the cordon by the river, observing the operation in the river.Several policemen were fishing at the bottom of the river wearing water. Roach knew that the river here was not deep, but fishing in the water was definitely not a good job.

The two policemen finally caught up with Roach and stopped him. The thin one first taught him about civic duties, such as why the cordon is called a cordon.

Roach cooperated with the police's persuasion and education with a good attitude, but it was inevitable that he would look like an older bear who went in one ear and out the other. As soon as the police's education came to an end, he immediately asked, "Comrade police, what's wrong? Someone Died in the river?"

The burly policeman glared at him, "It has nothing to do with you, you know? What are you doing here?"

Luo Qi smiled slightly, as if he was listening to the sound in the wind. It took him two seconds to respond to the police's question, "I traveled here by car with my family, and I heard that there is an unknown seat here. It is said that the ancient town is not like a hot spot like Zhouzhuang Wuzhen. It is full of tourists everywhere, so it is impossible to play. As soon as we came here, we saw that you blocked the road here. Are we unable to play today? Why did someone jump into the river here?"

The two policemen looked at each other, and the burly one asked fiercely, "You guys just got here today?"

Luo Qi was delayed for another two seconds before laughing, "Yes, I went to the Confucius Temple in Nanjing last night. I don't think the water is deep. Can someone really commit suicide here? Suicide, right?"

The policeman ignored his question and ordered sternly, "Show me the expressway toll bill."

Luo Qi smiled for a while, as if the reaction was to slow down, "That's no problem, the toll bill should still be in the car. Do you want me to get it?"

"Wait a minute, don't worry." The skinny policeman stopped him suddenly.Roach saw that the policeman was paying attention to his ears, but he didn't see anything unusual. The policeman smiled and walked around him, "You are interesting, why are you talking to you? It's like the network is delayed. You must slow down Two seconds, is it possible that you still need to find a 4G signal to get your brain online?"

Roach smiled, "You haven't investigated the cause of death yet?"

The policeman snorted and thought about Roach carefully. Roach suddenly unbuttoned his collar to let him see that he was indeed not wearing any earphones, and no one gave him orders in the air.

"The identity of the deceased has not been investigated yet?" Roach said while re-tying the collar, "Where did you park the corpse at night?"

No one answered Roach's question, but Roach looked clear, as if an invisible person had already answered his doubts.The criminal policeman, who was also experienced in many battles, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He raised his head and looked around, but there was still empty and humid air.

The sound of opening and closing the car door was heard a little farther away, and the policeman immediately turned his head to look behind him. A tall and slender man got out of the car and was leaning on the car door to look around.

Roach raised his arm and waved that way.

"Come with you?" asked the policeman, watching the man before him carefully.

"My brother." Roach said with a smile.

"Model?" The policeman took another look at the man standing by the car, but even he didn't quite believe his own judgment.It is rare in his experience to judge people's occupations.He had a vague feeling that that person was very dangerous, and if the person in front of him didn't send out a safe signal, things would be very difficult.

But speaking of which, doing something in front of dozens of police officers?He felt that it was absurd, he looked at his brothers, no one thought there was any problem, they were still by the river on a sunny day.

Unexpectedly, the young man in front of him suddenly laughed, "Uncle Policeman, you are really a sensitive person."

He was taken aback, and looked at the person in front of him in astonishment, as if a dark flame was burning deep in his pupils.He looked like a pretty boy next door, not a brutal gangster, but the fire in his eyes made him very uneasy.

"Why don't you take me to talk to your boss?" Roach suggested.

I don't know why, but he thinks this matter is feasible, and if he pushes people to the boss's side, the boss can solve it better.He and his partner looked at each other, as if it was a routine, and no one thought it was wrong.

Roach bypassed the small bridge on the river and reached the opposite side of the river bank. Two police officers led him straight through the cordon. The middle-aged criminal police captain looked at him suspiciously.

He said hello and came over familiarly, "Hey Uncle Policeman, have you found out the identity of the deceased in your bureau?"

The middle-aged criminal policeman held a mobile phone in his hand, looked at him in confusion for a while, and said, "So far, no such person has been found."

"What about the cause of death and physical characteristics of the deceased?" Roach asked casually.

"The cause of death is preliminarily judged to be drowning." The middle-aged criminal policeman seemed to hesitate for a while after speaking, but he continued, "The deceased was a woman, about 20 years old, and should be less than 30 years old..." He suddenly He was stunned, as if some force made him hold back the words behind him.Luo Qi smiled, leaned close to him and hugged his shoulders like a good buddy, and said in a low voice, "Needless to say. Think about it carefully, have you seen her before?"

He saw the dead man's face in his mind, and he could picture the young woman, who hadn't been altered too much by death and the river, and she wasn't quite scary yet.

"Hmm." Roach whispered, "It's not worth following the clues that ordered takeaway here, and there's nothing in the ancient town, so it's not worth going in at all."

(End of this chapter)