Chapter 146：

midnight.

Tang Xi floated in the door like a ghost, and turned on the ceiling light in the living room with a "pop".

Suddenly, pale light illuminated the room.

A door of the room opened, and Chu Li leaned against the door frame in a house suit, and gave her a cool glance: "Come back...huh? What's your expression?"

"Ah? Hmm. I'm back." Tang Xi closed the door with her backhand expressionlessly, and continued to float away, as if her soul was out of her body.

"Wait." Chu Li walked out with an inexplicable expression, "What are you doing? Or is there something wrong with Pei Qingzhi?"

"It's okay. He didn't do anything. He is very well." Tang Xi answered questions one by one.

"..." Chu Lihei Xian, "I don't think you seem to be okay."

Tang Xi blinked and spoke for a while. The soul finally came back online. He coughed and asked curiously: "Why are you at home? I thought you would definitely be in the city bureau all night tonight."

"What's the use all night?" Chu Li sneered. "The people of the Pei family can bury a secret for twenty years, and none of them are fuel-efficient lamps. This is when they are most vigilant, and the trial will not be possible. If you can’t find decisive evidence, you can only be detained for 48 hours at most, so you must make the most of these 48 hours."

"Let's hang it first? Psychological warfare?" Tang Xi said.

"Yeah." Chu Li took two cups in the kitchen, poured two cups of hot water out, and handed her one.

Tang Xi sat down on the sofa and stretched her waist, revealing an ear-satisfying expression, very well-behaved.

"It's nothing special, just put the three of them in the three interrogation rooms and ask them casually." Chu Li sat opposite her and said casually, "During the interrogation, some phone calls and file transfers will be added. True or false, constantly tightening the suspect’s psychological defense line--"

"Prisoner Game." Tang Xi said out for him.

"Plural crimes have always been easier to investigate than single-person crimes." Chu Li grinned, "It may be difficult to pry one's mouth open, especially when it comes to death cases. Our country's review of zero confession cases is still very strict. However, if there is more than one suspect, most people will choose to betray others first rather than waiting to be betrayed by others."

"That is, do criminals still talk about loyalty?" Tang Xi took a sip of hot water, and then said, "Especially those of the Pei family are not of one mind, and they can save others by themselves, I am afraid they will all be thinking. Will the other party put all the responsibilities on me? Then it is better for me to act first and push the responsibilities to the end."

"You're right." Chu Li nodded, "So I will come back first. Now let Dayang and the others deal with it first. When they are tired tomorrow, I will go over and take over."

"I'll go too." Tang Xi said immediately.

"Tomorrow is not a weekend... forget it." Chu Li sighed halfway through the conversation, and accepted the responsibility of asking for leave with his fate.

"Then I'll go to bed first." Tang Xi put down the cup with one-third of the water left and stood up.

"Standing." Chu Li said in an unpleasant way, "Don't break the topic, answer me first, what happened?"

"Don't you think you don't know?" Tang Xi scratched his head.

"Even if you are an adult, and your household registration is under my name, I will have guardianship responsibility for you." Chu Li replied calmly.

Tang Xi stared at him.

Chu Li leaned back on the sofa, although the cigarette **** looked at her, his momentum was not weak at all.

They all know that it is not only the responsibility of the law that binds them together, but... still can't say it.

"Isn't it because the defendant has confessed." Su Huang sat on the sofa and said directly.

"..." Chu Li twitched the corners of his mouth and said with a black face, "he actually said it?"

"Say...hey, you know!" Tang Xi's eyes widened for a moment.

"Just don't you know?" Chu Li was helpless.

"I, how do I know..." Tang Xi quietly opened her eyes and muttered in a low voice, "He never said..."

"You don't know, but you are so happy?" Chu Li raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Why!" Tang Xi felt wronged.

"Have you ever seen two men and women who are not lovers wear a pair of ear studs and swagger through the market!" Chu Li said angrily, "Does the whole Jiangnan City know about it?"

"Why, why does the whole Jiangnan City know?" Tang Xi looked shocked.

Even if she and Pei Qingzhi wear the same pair of ear studs, but such small jewelry and hair cover are not everyone knows, right?

"Do you think who withdrew the hot search last time you and Pei Qingzhi?" Chu Liqi said, "Pei Qingzhi immediately withdrew the hot search, but there were too many reposts. Xiao Xiao deleted an overnight post. There is no guarantee that there will be any. People keep the pictures privately. So many people have seen your group photo, let alone a pair of earrings so obvious, even the brand or color of lipstick you use will be picked up for you!"

"I knew that the paparazzi should have been thrown into the pond last time!" Tang Xi made a fist, filled with righteous indignation.

"Will you catch the point?" Chu Li stood up, poked her forehead heavily, hating iron and steel, "If you are not interested in others, don't rush and stay away from him. Did you hear that!"

"Ah..." Tang Xi pouted, pondered for a few seconds, hesitatingly asked, "Then...what if I am interesting?"

Chu Li looked at her for a while before asking, "Pei Qing confessed, did you agree?"

"No." Tang Xi covered her face.

"She froze for a while, turned her head and ran away, using her to shrink her ground to an inch." Su Huang sneered.

Chu Li helped his forehead, and it took a long time to say: "Then where have you been in these few hours?"

"Riverside, think about life." Tang Xi replied cleverly.

"What then?" Chu Li laughed and laughed, "What is the result of thinking?"

"No result." Tang Xi lamented, "It's so difficult..."

"What's the problem?" Su Huang said disapprovingly, "If you like him too, then agree to it, look everywhere, no matter how inappropriate it is. If you don't like him, tell him directly that you don't want to, if he entangles Endlessly, I will help you beat him!"

"I don't know." Tang Xi said bitterly, "No one has ever confessed to me."

Before this life, she was a minor, and she has been in the police station again. In the previous life-no one dared to confess.

Tang Xi, the first person in the Profound Clan, is so powerful that everyone can look up to her. Those who can sit on an equal footing with her are senior seniors, and her peers are suppressed to the point that they dare not have the slightest blasphemy, so... she was also confessed for two lifetimes. It's only once.

However, seeing her expression, Chu Li couldn't help being stunned.

At the beginning, Yun Qi told him that Tang Xi was affective. He tried it and found it difficult, but Tang Xi's current performance was not affective.

Heal without medicine...

So it seems that perhaps Pei Qingzhi's subtle influence has already taken effect without knowing it?

"Then, did you leave him alone in the Century Hotel?" Chu Li asked subconsciously.

"It seems so." Tang Xi nodded after hesitating.

Chu Li suddenly felt pitiful for Pei Qingzhi.

Finally made up his mind to confess, and then the subject of the confession ran faster than the speed of sound or something... It couldn't be more sad.

"Forget it, I'm in a mess now, I didn't want to think about it." Tang Xi finally gave up and waved his hand, as if he was reluctant to go to the battlefield. "First, clarify this case. We must not let them die in vain. All murderers must pay the price!"

At the end, her expression became serious.

"Wait—you said, Mr. Pei and Mrs. Pei?" Chu Li noticed the loopholes in her words and asked in confusion, "But I only saw one ghost."

"I also waited until his soul flew away to discover that those broken soul fragments came from two souls." Tang Xi sighed, "The two broken souls are connected with the same obsession to form this weird appearance. "

Chu Li was silent for a long time before saying: "There are all kinds of people in this world, who are also parents, there are scumbags like Tang Zhenying, and there are unselfish love like Uncle Fu and Aunt Pei."

Tang Xi thought for a while, walked forward, hugged him with open arms, quickly let go, and smiled: "Chu Li, you will also be a good father in the future."

"It's a pity that the police badge can't give me a baby." Chu Li replied blankly.

"Puff--" Tang Xi kicked him lightly, "I'm such a big person, the second disease should be cured long ago, I think Sister Wanyi is fine."

"I don't care about adults, children." Chu Li frowned.

"Do you think I'm willing to care about you? Duplicate adults." Tang Xi gave him a blank look, then walked around the sofa and returned to the room. "Today I am exhausted. I will sleep first. Don't forget to wait for me tomorrow."

Chu Li slowed down for a while before reacting, but she turned the subject off again, and couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.

"One or two, it's really boring." Su Huang sighed and disappeared.

In the room, Tang Xi turned on the warm light and called out, "Xie Changan?"

"I thought you were not in the mood to listen to me today." Xie Changan appeared in front of her.

"Then I want to hear more about business." Tang Xi sighed, only then did she show the bewilderment and helplessness on her face.

"Are you sure? You don't need to take a break?" Xie Changan asked with concern.

"No, let's talk, I need something else to clear my mind now." Tang Xi said.

"Okay." Xie Changan's expression also became solemn.

In an instant, Yun Qi, Su Huang, and Peony all appeared beside him.

"I found the leak of Yin Qi." Xie Changan's first words refreshed people.

"Where? Are you sure?" Tang Xi's eyes lit up.

"Yes, but that place... is not going well." Xie Changan said.

"Not so good... go down?" Tang Xi froze, "What do you mean? Where to go down? The bottom of the lake? The bottom of the sea?"

"Neither." Xie Changan shook his head, seeing her expression a little sympathetic.

"Hey..." Tang Xi also turned dark.

"It's the one you think." Xie Changan nodded.

"..." Tang Xi's face was completely black.

"So what are you talking about? Where?" Su Huang puzzled.

"Sewer..." Tang Xi had no love.

"..." Suddenly, not only Su Huang and Shaoyao, but also Yun Qi's face was gloomy.

"Don't look at me, I don't want to either." Xie Changan spread his hands helplessly.

"Where is the sewer." Tang Xi sighed.

"It's okay, it's in Jiangnan City, over there in the new district." Xie Changan said.

"That's fine." Tang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, "There are few people in the new district, especially at night, when the factory is off work, and many areas are unmanned. If an accident occurs, it will not cause major casualties."

"Do you want to tell Chu Li?" Xie Changan asked.

"I always want to say that this kind of thing requires official cooperation." Tang Xi nodded, thought about it, and then said, "How is the situation? Is it urgent?"

"It's acceptable." Xie Changan thought about it for a while. "The leaked gap is not too big. After all, my strength and Yin Qi originate from the same source. I will temporarily seal it, and it won't continue to expand for at least half a year."

"Have you been in to see it?" Tang Xi asked.

"I just tried it for a while and didn't go deep." Xie Changan said solemnly, "The yin inside is too strong, even I can't bear it. I quit soon after I entered, but I have a guess."

"What speculation?" Tang Xi asked.

"I suspect that the crack leads all the way to Jiuyou Dique. If you pass through it, you can return to the underground palace." Xie Changan's words seemed to be shocked.

"As far as I know, even a ghost can't get in and out of Jiuyou Dique, right?" Yun Qi said coldly.

"No." Xie Changan shook his head, "Our strength comes from Jiuyou Dique, but the Yin Qi inside is too deep, enough to assimilate the ghost into a part of Yin Qi."

"Then you actually want to go through there!" Su Huang screamed.

"However, if you don't pass through the ghost gate, then it is the only possible way." Xie Changan said, looking at Tang Xi.

Tang Xi rubbed her eyebrows, and then said for a long time: "It's impossible for ghosts to pass through Jiuyou Dique, nor for ghosts. It is possible for a living person to pass this path. ."

"It's too dangerous." Yun Qi disagreed, "Don't say Jiuyou Di is dead, there has never been a precedent for a living person to enter the underworld in the ages. Guimen Pass is a dividing line. Someone has strayed into Huangquan Road, but at Guimen Pass. I will definitely be sent back."

"There is no precedent, I will make this precedent." Tang Xi snorted coldly, paused, and then said, "However, I won't mess around. Xie Changan can withdraw after feeling unsuitable to move forward, so can I. , There’s no need to smash one way. It’s best to get in. If you can’t, you can do something else."

"Are you sure you won't take it hard?" Yun Qi looked at her distrustfully.

"The world hasn't been destroyed yet, why should I take it hard?" Tang Xi was wronged, and then said again, "Besides, if the world is really going to be destroyed because of this one day, then it will be a death if you don't use it. It's better to fight it. Bo a little bit of life. I'm not used to putting my life and death in the hands of others."

After a long time, Yun Qi sighed softly and acquiesced.

"Then, when will you go?" Shaoyao asked.

"Since there will be no problems in half a year, let's let it go. I want to finish this case first." Tang Xi said, "When the time comes, I will tell Chu Li that in the new district, we must strictly cooperate with Shifei."

"Alright, don't call me if there are no major issues in the past few days." Xie Changan said, "This trip is not completely unproductive-I was about to disappear, but the yin energy leaked by Jiuyou Dique just happened to supplement me. Strength can keep me for a while, and I need to digest it."

"That's a good thing," Tang Xi said happily.

Finally there is good news. Xie Changan is the impermanence of the imperial palace, the highest level of ghosts, but it is really a last resort to use it as a memory modifier. If he can restore his strength, even half of it will be a powerful help. Didn't you see that powerful ghosts like Lingji and Bakuxiong were chased by him in panic all day long?

Xie Changan nodded and returned to the bracelet.

"Let's go to bed first." Su Huang pulled the peony and retreated immediately.

"What else?" Tang Xi blinked, looking at Yun Qi in front of him.

"Don't plan to say something?" Yun Qi said.

"Say what?" Tang Xi looked innocent.

"The life you think about." Yun Qi stared into her eyes.

"Uh..." Tang Xi sat down on the edge of the bed, leaned back, and paralyzed on the bed in a large font, indicating that he refused to communicate.

"It's useless to escape." Yun Qi said indifferently.

For a long time, Tang Xi stared at the ceiling, and said in a puzzled manner: "Yun Qi, what makes you like it?"

"What do you think?" Yun Qi asked rhetorically.

"Hmm..." Tang Xi frowned, "I like you, Su Huang and Shaoyao, and Chu Li... I like many people."

"Then Pei Qingzhi is in your heart, like everyone else?" Yun Qi asked.

Tang Xi froze for a moment, thinking carefully.

It is the same? I like it all. Different? Uh...It seems that I definitely wouldn't say anything to Chu Li or Cheng Yihang about life-saving grace.

"Like someone, when you see her, there is light in your eyes; when you think of her, your heart is warm; when you lose her, the world is gloomy when you lose your heart; when you miss her... even hurt To the extreme, I still don't want to have never met." Yun Qi's voice was very ethereal.

Tang Xi sat up, curiously: "Are you thinking about that'her'?"

Yun Qi sneered, leaving a sentence, "When do I think about my own affairs clearly," he returned to the bracelet.

"Stingy!" Tang Xi rolled her eyes.

Then she rolled on the bed.

What to do if I can't sleep more! Hate! Blame Pei Qingzhi! What to say... I like it!

Early the next morning, Tang Xi woke up with two big dark circles under her eyes.

"Did you not sleep all night?" Chu Li was speechless.

"Can't sleep." Tang Xi's face was resentful.

However, after a pause, she carefully looked at Chu Li's expression, and couldn't help but said: "I can't sleep, but why do you seem to have not slept all night?"

"Do you think I'm as idle as you?" Chu Li didn't change his face. "Pei Yuanli and the others stayed at the Municipal Bureau all night. I also want to pay attention to the progress."

"Really?" Tang Xi is still suspicious, wanting to say that you care so much about the progress of the interrogation and you don't even sleep. Then why are you going home? Can’t you just stay at the city office? It's not that there is no lounge! Then the reaction can be faster when something is wrong, you can't just come back to see my jokes!

"Hurry up and eat breakfast, and then leave." Chu Li knocked on the table.

"Oh." Tang Xi scratched his head and walked over.

The breakfast made by Aunt Zhang is on the table. Today is Western-style ham toast, fruit salad with milk.

Chu Li staggered his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.

Is it because he doesn't want to sleep well? It can't be said that it was the unlucky ghost who put the pigeons in the confession object and pulled him out of the trash can all night! It's better to stay in the city bureau, or at least be able to hang up the phone confidently with the excuse of having an official business.

Gee, it's really troublesome!

If it weren't for the fact that someone had just been hit by a double blow, it would have been blacked out long ago.

After breakfast, Chu Li confiscated the car keys directly on the grounds that Tang Xi did not sleep well.

Tang Xi protested to no avail-obviously you didn't sleep yourself, bastard!

Entering the city bureau, the aura full of anger caused Xiao Liu to shrink back in shock.

"Why? I cannibalize?" Chu Li shouted.

"Team Chu, consultant, morning." Xiao Liu Gan said with a smile, "The prisoner from Chengbei Prison has been brought back, so he can recognize him. He has no response to Pei Yuanli and Pei Yuan."

"Where is the Fu family? Did you recognize it too?" Chu Li asked.

"I showed the photos, and they all said no." Xiao Liu shook his head.

"Normal." Chu Li said as he walked, "With the wealth of the Fu family, it is impossible to communicate with the kidnappers in person-to check the bodyguards, drivers, and assistants who worked in the Fu family 20 years ago, all of whom are close to the three brothers of the Fu family. But those who left soon afterwards, especially those whose whereabouts are still unknown."

"Why did you leave?" Tang Xi asked puzzledly, "Is it impossible to stay with me forever? If you let people go, don't you feel comfortable. If I were, I would definitely be the most at ease under my nose. Otherwise, what if something happens, such as getting drunk, gambling and debts, shake things out."

"If it's for reassuring, isn't there another kind of person who is more reassuring?" Chu Li glanced at her.

"Who?" Tang Xi was taken aback and didn't react.

"Dead!" Chu Li dropped two words.

"..." Tang Xi stopped abruptly.

Dead man——The first reaction was horror, but when you think about it carefully, the Fu family can even kill his sister and nephew. It doesn't seem impossible to kill someone or something?

"Consultant?" Xiao Liu hesitated, looked at her, and looked at Chu Li who hadn't stayed there. He didn't know which one to follow.

"Where are the kidnappers? I'll go and see." Tang Xi said.

"In Interrogation Room No. 4." Xiao Liu took her over.

Tang Xi stood outside the one-way glass, took a look, and curiously asked, "Just one person?"

"That's it." Xiao Liu explained, "There were four kidnappers back then, but after all, there were no lives. Only the principal was sentenced to a heavier sentence. Of the three accomplices, two were released after serving their sentences seven years ago. There was also a sudden kidney disease shortly after being in jail, and he was on parole for medical treatment. He died within three years. The principal culprit, Liu Jun, would have served his sentence after the new year if it hadn’t happened to yesterday.”

"Fortunately, it was discovered in time." Tang Xi sneered.

It is only a matter of formalities to bring people out of prison, but if they have already been released, it means that the case has already been exposed. It would not be so convenient to bring an ordinary citizen back for interrogation.

The time and place are right and the people are right. If you can't dig out the messenger behind this time, I am afraid that even God will not be able to stand it anymore.

"Consultant, the camera is on." Xiao Liu reminded him in a low voice.

"Why, I don't know how to torture to extract a confession." Tang Xi glanced at him, and said in a bad mood, "A formal interrogation requires two people, you come with me."

"Oh." Xiao Liu smiled.

Isn't this... last time in the hospital he almost thought that the consultant would teach the foreigner who handled the case?

"Crack." The sound of the door opening and closing awakened the sleepy person in the chair.

"Police officer, I have said it, I don't know." Liu Jun slumped in his chair and said lazily.

Tang Xi ignored him and sat down calmly.

She is very clear about the psychology of this kind of person: If you don't explain anything, you can survive the last few months and be released after serving your sentence. What was not said 20 years ago will not be said anymore after 20 years.

"I haven't asked yet, don't answer so quickly." Tang Xi said coldly, "What's your name, who is in your family, don't you know it? Are you stupid in jail?"

"..." Liu Jun's face was distorted.

Xiao Liu bit his lower lip and suffocated his smile. He lowered his head, opened the notebook, picked up the pen and prepared to record, while deliberately turning the paper over and rattling, to increase his psychological pressure.

"Why, I really don't know?" Tang Xi raised an eyebrow.

"Liu Jun, I have no family." Liu Jun tilted Erlang's legs, with an expression of "how can you do me".

Tang Xi curled the corners of her lips, her eyes shifted.

Shaoyao appeared beside him and asked with a smile, "Xiao Xi, what do you want him to see?"

"The eighteenth floor **** sightseeing spree?" Tang Ximan said, "whatever."

There is no torture to extract a confession, mental shock...Anyway, there is monitoring to prove that she did nothing, right?