C28 Helpless

Jian Chenyi nodded, "No, thank you."

"That day, I went to your assembly line to take a look, and I gained a lot of knowledge. Do you know about elastic ropes?" Xiao Chennai stretched out his hand and passed a cigarette to Lian Peng, as if he was chatting.

Lian Peng had already reached out his hand, but when he heard this, his hand suddenly stopped.

However, this pause lasted for only a second.

After a second, he quickly recovered and reached out to take the cigarette, "Of course I know. I'm afraid you guys have never seen it before, but it's very common here."

He took out a lighter and looked at Hua Ning, asking for her opinion, "Beauty, can I smoke?"

Hua Ning nodded, "Feel free."

Lian Peng first lit Xiao Chennai's cigarette, then lit his own, and took a deep puff, "Good smoke."

Jian Chenyi's eyes moved slightly. He looked at Xiao Chennai and gave him a look, hinting for him to pay attention to Lian Peng's hand.

Looking carefully, Lian Peng's hand was trembling. It was very subtle, and it was almost impossible to see it with the smoking posture.

"Do you guys often come into contact with elastic ropes? Are there any regulations?" Xiao Chennai smiled.

"There are, but they are very loose. If you want to take it, it's quite easy." Lian Peng said lightly.

After that, Xiao Chennai asked a few more questions, and Lian Peng answered them flawlessly.

He secretly glanced at Jian Chenyi, and when he saw her nod, he ended the conversation.

When the three of them went down to the first floor, Cheng Sheng and Ding Yu also finished their questioning.

Just as the group was about to leave, Xiao Chennai suddenly felt a gaze staring at him from behind. It was like a leopard hunting for its prey, its eyes were especially sharp.

Xiao Chennai turned around, but he didn't see anything.

Hua Ning asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Chennai shook his head, "Nothing."

He retracted his gaze and turned around to walk out with the others.

After the few of them had walked far away, Lian Peng slowly poked his head out from the corner of the first floor.

His gaze was staring at Xiao Chennai's back, his eyes were a little strange, he couldn't tell if it was curiosity or anger. Someone passed by and happened to meet Lian Peng's gaze, he was shocked and quickly avoided Lian Peng's gaze, and ran away like a wisp of smoke.

Only then did Lian Peng realize that something was wrong. He quickly retracted his gaze from Xiao Chennai's body, turned around and returned to the dormitory.

Xiao Chennai and the others returned to the police station and immediately held a small internal meeting.

On the meeting table in the conference room, other than Xiao Chennai, the other four people were sitting on the two sides of the table. Xiao Chennai stood in front of the conference table, with a small blackboard on his right hand, and a marker in his right hand. Behind him was a screen, and it was currently in the start-up state.

While it was in the start-up state, Xiao Chennai wrote down Lian Peng and Lian Xiangsheng's names on the blackboard.

"Everyone, raise your hand and vote for Lian Xiangsheng!"

After Xiao Chennai finished speaking, the other three people, other than Jian Chenyi, looked at each other and slowly raised their hands.

Seeing that, Xiao Chennai wrote a number on the back of Lian Xiangsheng's name.

"Then, vote for Lian Peng."

After asking, everyone looked at Jian Chenyi in unison. After all, in the last round of voting, only Jian Chenyi did not raise her hand.

Since they did not vote for Lian Xiangsheng, everyone thought that Jian Chenyi would vote for Lian Peng.

However, Jian Chenyi shook her head and said, "I forfeit, no one else will vote."

Hua Ning looked at Jian Chenyi strangely and asked, "Is there anything unusual about Lian Peng today?"

Jian Chenyi smiled bitterly and said, "From Lian Peng's performance, I can't be sure if there is something wrong with him."

Even if he was a psychologist, there were still some areas that he could not help with.

Sometimes, psychologists could not be used, so they needed to combine it with criminal investigation.

Xiao Chennai nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's start sorting out today's clues."

Ding Yu felt a little strange. What clues could there be today? Didn't they find nothing today?

As he thought about it, he looked up and found that the projector was already turned on. On it was a photo of Lian Peng's dormitory.

Ding Yu was surprised. When did they take the photo?

Hua Ning saw Ding Yu's puzzlement and went up to him and whispered, "I took the photo when Lian Peng was not paying attention."

After pausing for a moment, she continued, "The Leader asked me to take the photo."

At that time, there were only four of them in the dormitory. There were three pairs of them. It was impossible for Lian Peng to see them, so it was easy for him to take a photo when he was not paying attention.

"Do you guys see anything?" Xiao Chennai asked.

No one said a word. They were puzzled.

They had seen it with their own eyes when they went there today. Other than the exceptionally dirty bed, there was nothing strange about it.

However, the Leader must have had a reason for asking that.

Ding Yu rubbed his head and said weakly, "Other than the exceptionally dirty bed, there is nothing strange about it."

The others also nodded in agreement.

Xiao Chennai pointed at Ding Yu and said, "You are right. It is exceptionally dirty."

Ding Yu pointed at himself with a face full of disbelief.

He pointed at a corner of the photo and said, "According to my observation, this bed should be Lian Peng's bed. I can see that Lian Peng never had the habit of cleaning up. All his clothes were piled up on the bed, and the socks he wore were piled under the bed. The basin was also dirty."

As he spoke, he bent down and operated the computer. The photo on the screen turned into another one.

"It's the house at the crime scene." Hua Ning had been there a few times, so she recognized it at a glance.

She immediately understood Xiao Chennai's meaning, "I know, this room is Lian Peng's room, and it is especially clean. The dormitory is also Lian Peng's bed, but it is especially dirty. So, one of the rooms must be fake, and Lian Peng intentionally showed it to us."

Ding Yu also understood, "It's the scene of the crime. Not only is it clean, but it is also very strange."

Xiao Chennai nodded his head, "Yes, you are right. From this photo, we can see that Lian Peng's bedroom is very clean. On the bedside table, there is a clock, a tissue, and a cup of water. On the computer desk, other than the computer and mouse, there is nothing else. On the chair beside it, there is nothing else."

It was impossible to do this in life. The cup would be randomly placed everywhere, and the tissue would also be randomly placed everywhere. The chair would quickly grow a pile of clothes, which was what a house should look like.

And Lian Peng's bedroom was like a model room. It was deliberately arranged like this, waiting for them to visit.

Hua Ning said thoughtfully, "Could it be that there is something in the room that Lian Peng didn't want us to see, so he cleaned up the room before coming to report the crime?"