One day at the end of November, for the first time this year, a biting cold wind blew.Around 7:15 in the evening, in a block hundreds of meters southwest of Tama River Liuxiang Bridge, suddenly thick smoke billowed and flames shot into the sky. This neighborhood is very close to the bustling area in front of the station, full of steel mills, warehouses, and research institutes. At first glance, it looks like an industrial area.A little further south, there are various government agencies such as courts, prosecutors' offices, and municipal governments. However, only this part of the burning area is crowded with houses, hammams and motels with different appearances.

Commercial streets, government offices and factories, as well as low-level entertainment venues, are crowded in this circular area with a radius of less than one kilometer.This situation also seems to symbolize the overall structure of the town. A wisp of blue smoke first emerged from the gaps in the motel spires imitating the ancient castles in the west, and in an instant it turned into a thick smoke mixed with sparks, rushing into the night sky. Cars driving on the nearby road stopped one after another; the drivers were fascinated by the fire, and the traffic in the surrounding area was quickly blocked.Women's cries echoed everywhere.Many ran out of nearby hammams or motels, in little or no clothing.

When two fire trucks arrived, the three narrow streets around the scene of the fire were crowded with spectators in a blink of an eye.It happened to be a Saturday night, and the shops and the station were bustling with crowds.So, they rushed over all of a sudden. However, the people watching the excitement failed to see the raging fire that dyed half of the sky red.Until yesterday, it rained for two days in a row, it was very humid, and the motel was built with concrete and new construction materials, so despite the smoke and black smell, they just saw horrible It's just a tongue of flame that flickers from time to time.

The fire was extinguished in less than 30 minutes. The people gathered around the fire didn't seem to want to leave immediately.The motel is still in its original state, and the three spiers on the roof stand safely; people are guessing in their hearts that after the thick smoke dissipates, some unsightly female corpses will probably be lifted out of the building. Cars on the road, it's hard to start moving.The police have been dispatched to straighten the traffic. At this time, the most convenient thing is a motorcycle.Although the car is parked a kilometer away, the motorcycle can swim through the gaps between the cars like a fish and keep moving forward.

Especially this motorcycle, it starts a little earlier than the cars parked around it.When black smoke was rising from the minaret and the embers of fire were still appearing and disappearing, the rider on the bike had already straightened the tilted front wheel.Looking at his actions, he seemed to want to watch it again; however, he tried his best to suppress his affection.He looked ahead and started the engine. This motorcycle is a 50cc small motorcycle commonly known as "Qingqi", and the parts are all rusted and dilapidated.The person riding the bike was a thin young man wearing a set of dark green overalls.Under the white hard hat, a small nose and a lovely pointed chin are exposed.

The dilapidated small motorcycle quickly passed the still parked car, and in an instant, it had left the scene of the fire and sped away. The road is almost parallel to the Tama River, and extends eastward to the land reclamation at the mouth of the river.At the end of the reclaimed land, there is a dock for barges. The road is sandwiched between the Gongguang and Linhai railway freight lines, and the small motorcycle is speeding on the wide road with great vigor.The speed of the motorcycle smoothly surpassed the large truck on the road and galloped forward. It can be seen that the person driving the motorcycle is very skilled.

However, his appearance is not the same as those young people in the speeding gang.First of all, the motorcycle is small, and on the hanger behind the car, there is a small briefcase with a handle and a thermos bottle. In addition, the pale face of this young man who was braving the bitter cold wind cast a shadow of sadness and fatigue.This is completely different from the fanatical and intoxicated look of the young people of the Speeding Gang. At the scene of the fire at the "Galaxy" motel, a burned body of a woman was found.The body was lying down in the corridor on the second floor, and the body was barely roasted by the flames. Therefore, it was believed that it might have been smoked or asphyxiated by toxic gases produced by the burning of new building materials.

According to the testimony of the hotel desk admin, there were seventeen people in the motel when the fire broke out.There are three staff members and seven pairs of passengers in pairs.These people are all "breakers" within two hours.It happened to be a Saturday night, when motels were in for a brisk business. Among the seventeen people, three staff members and four pairs of passengers have been rescued by firefighters, while the other six people have disappeared without a trace, most of them slipped away among the spectators. The woman who died in the corridor on the second floor seemed to be one of the passengers who disappeared without a trace.

"I have never seen this woman. However, it may be the companion of the room No. 7 on the second floor." When the body was identified in the morgue of the police station, the hotel manager replied honestly.He had learned where the woman had lain when she died. "What kind of person is her companion?" asked the policeman. "I haven't looked at it carefully...but it seems to be quite old, wearing black sunglasses." As a rule of thumb for motels, the less contact between guests and staff, the happier travelers will be. The same is true for the "Galaxy" hotel. There is only a dim fluorescent light on at the small window.When going through the procedures for renting a house, the waiter just asks about the time of the passenger's stay, then arranges the room number and hands over the key.

"You said the guest is not young, how old is it?" "Maybe around 50, no, maybe a little younger." "Did you come by car?" "No, it seems not." In the parking lot of the "Galaxy" hotel, the number of cars that can be parked is less than the number of rooms.Due to the convenient location, there are many couples of men and women who come to flirt on foot.Although it is a motel, it may be more appropriate to call it a "tryst hotel". "Then that person brought this woman along?" "Yes. I remember that." The administrator's gaze stayed on the woman's dark brown sweater, and he nodded hesitantly.Judging by her attire, this woman seems to be a simple housewife.Her age also seemed to be middle-aged, in her early forties.

"From this point of view, among the couple, the man escaped the fire smoothly, while the woman was burned to death on the spot before she could escape in time. Will the man disappear without a trace?..." The female corpse was unidentified and was transported to the Medical University, where a doctor conducted an autopsy. This was originally due to suspicion of being involved in the crime, but the woman's lungs clearly showed a suffocation reaction, so the doctor concluded that it was the suffocation death caused by choking on too much smoke. At the same time, the police also investigated the cause of the fire. It turned out that the source of the fire came from the guest room on the first floor. The cause of the fire was inferred to be caused by smoking while hiding in bed. Thirty to forty minutes before the hotel caught fire, a young man and woman settled the bill and quietly left the room.After the guests left, the waiter checked the room.At that time, no abnormalities were found.But sometimes it falls under the pillow, there are cigarette butts that are not completely extinguished, and there are cases where they catch fire after 30 minutes or even an hour. The female body is kept in the cold room of the Medical University, and its identity has not yet been ascertained.The police compared the fingerprints at the scene with the fingerprint files of the prisoners collected by the Metropolitan Police Department, and concluded that none of them matched. The police were expecting the man who went to the hotel with him to claim it, but that hope was also dashed. Therefore, the police listed age, clothing, blood type, etc., which can be clearly judged, and published an announcement in the newspaper.At the same time, the County Police Headquarters also compared it with other reported runaway applications. Four days after the newspapers published the notice, it had been a full week since the fire broke out.Just one night in the twelfth lunar month, a middle-aged employee living in this city came to the police station and suggested that the currently unidentified body might be his wife. The police immediately accompanied him to the Medical University and showed him the frozen body.He immediately confirmed it, saying it was true. "On the morning of the fire, my wife said she was going to Odawara's mother's house, so she left the house in a hurry. She said that her 80-year-old father was not in good health, and she had to take care of him for about a week. When I saw the newspaper, I didn’t know why, but I felt flustered, but I didn’t think it would be like this, so I gave up the idea at the time. But this morning, there was still no news about my lover, so I called my father-in-law’s house to inquire. Only then did I realize that she didn’t go back to her mother’s house at all. The father-in-law’s house just heard that she was going, but they didn’t say when, so they didn’t mind. I was afraid that if it was really her, so I came to you.” The man murmured weakly, and it was hard to hear his voice clearly: "...It's really unimaginable. I have no clue about the man who was with her. In retrospect, my lover used to look back a lot. My natal family, I left home for a few days. But no matter what, I never thought that he would be like this..." He twisted his face in pain, as if he didn't dare to meet the policeman's eyes. "Maybe he noticed it right away when he saw the newspaper." After the middle-aged man finished the procedure of claiming the body in the police station and left in a hurry, the criminal director, who was about the same age, shared his impression. "He knew it in his heart, but he didn't come to claim it until today. This is probably out of the dignity of a husband on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is too embarrassing." The surrounding policemen also had pitiful wry smiles on their faces, and nodded in agreement.