Chapter 8 Chapter VII Cases in Cases

There is a small commercial street near Tangzai Village. Although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of internal organs. There are convenience stores, restaurants and bars. It mainly deals with the students of the Academy of Fine Arts. There are two roads leading to the Academy of Fine Arts in the commercial street, one is a secluded road that passes through the Chen’s cemetery, and the other is a relatively spacious and bright road, but it takes more time to walk this road.Mai Qinghe's body was found on this road, about 500 meters away from the commercial street, in the grass beside the road.

When Zhen Zhen and I came to the scene, the first thing we saw was A Yang who was smoking a lot. Li Kaimin and another man and a woman were being questioned beside him.The clothes of the man and woman are very fashionable, and they should be rich and wealthy playboys.However, the boy only wore a thin silk shirt on his upper body, which looked a bit thin in this cool season. When A Yang saw us coming, he relaxed his frown slightly: "You're finally here, I'll leave it to you to deal with it here." I nodded to Li Kaimin, and then asked Ah Yang: "What's the situation?"

"At four o'clock in the morning this morning, the 110 alarm center received a call for help from Xu Zixuan." A Yang pointed to the boy next to him, "He reported that his classmate Mai Qinghe was missing. He was missing someone or something. The report center would not let us call the police, but he said that Mai Qinghe might be attacked by zombies, and the girl who responded to the police was frightened. After all, a terrible case happened here just a few days ago, so we rushed over to find out the situation. Something really went wrong." A Yang threw the fireworks on the ground and stomped them out, then lit another one: "When we arrived, it was about five o'clock in the morning, and it was still dark at that time, and there were more trees than people around here. Easy. I checked the situation with these three students first, and then called the security office of the Academy of Fine Arts to confirm that Mai Qinghe had not returned. It was around six o'clock when the sky began to light up before I started searching for work. I found more than two Hour finally found his body here."

The corpse was lying in the grass about five meters away from the edge of the road. Because the weeds grew very densely and reached knee length, I couldn't see the condition of the corpse.However, I didn't plan to go there for the time being, because Liu Nian was conducting an autopsy, and Yue Tong and the guys from the technical team were also collecting evidence around the corpse.So, my eyes fell on Li Kaimin and a man and a woman beside him. "You should have met Li Kaimin, right? These two are his classmates..." A Yang introduced a man and a woman next to me, "This is Xu Zixuan, and this is Liu Jinglan." Throwing the case upon me with both hands.

I took the three students aside and asked them about last night's situation.They were a little emotional, especially Liu Jinglan, who kept crying.This is also a matter of course, the companion who was alive yesterday is lying in the grass five meters away at this moment.Fortunately, Xu Zixuan was calmer, and after smoking a cigarette, he told me what happened—— Since Fang Shu's accident, Mai Mai has been hiding in the dormitory and refused to come out.As a friend, I really don't want him to continue to be depressed like this, so I asked him to play at KTV last night.I wanted him to relieve his boredom and stop thinking about Fang Shu, but he refused to come out, so I had to drag him out with Kai Min.

Alcohol is indeed a good thing.When he first entered the box, he was still frowning. No matter how we teased him, he would not say a word.But after a few drinks he perked up and started singing and punching along with us.After that, he drank more and more vigorously, and by the early morning, he was no different from usual. Seeing him having such a good time, I felt a little more comforted in my heart, so I told them that it was rare to be happy anyway, so I might as well play until dawn.Skip another day of class tomorrow, and you can play however you want, and I will cover all the expenses.

After I said that the fee was all inclusive, he became even more excited and kept fighting with us for wine.Maybe it was because he was too excited. Although he usually doesn't drink very much, he can drink one cup after another at this time.Kai Min and I were not as good as he was, and we died after a short period of time, and collapsed on the sofa to rest.Lanlan also drank a lot and lay limp against me, but he was still having fun alone with the bottle in one hand and the microphone in the other. Because I drank a lot, I felt a little sleepy, so I dozed off for a while.During the period, Maimai pushed me a few times, saying that the cigarettes were exhausted.I clearly remember that before entering KVT, I bought three packs of cigarettes outside the door, and I should not finish them so quickly.But I was too sleepy, so I didn't think about it that much. After dazedly taking out my wallet and handing it to him, I continued to sleep.I don't know how long it took before someone pushed me again. This time I was a little annoyed, and before I opened my eyes, I cursed: "What's missing?"

However, when I opened my eyes, I found that the person who pushed me was Kai Min, so I asked him what was wrong?He asked me where wheat was, and I said it seemed to be buying cigarettes.How long did he ask again?I scratched my head and said I don't know because I just fell asleep. I looked at my watch, and it turned out that it was already past three in the morning.In my impression, it was around 00:30 when we drank and hung up. It should not be more than a little when Mai went to buy cigarettes, and there is a convenience store outside the KTV door where you can buy cigarettes. It is impossible to go for more than two hours!

Thinking about Fang Shu, we all panicked and planned to check out immediately and go out to find Mai.But then I realized that I had given him my wallet just now, and I didn't even have any money on me, so I had to let Lanlan pay for it. We went to the convenience store outside the KTV and asked the owner if a man wearing glasses had come to buy cigarettes just now.The owner said that a man with glasses came to buy cigarettes, but it was two or three hours ago.Afterwards we went around looking for Mai Mai, and Kai Min called the students in the dormitory, but he neither returned to the dormitory nor found him nearby.In desperation, we had to call the police...

According to Xu Zixuan's narration, Mai Qinghe should have bought cigarettes at a convenience store outside the KTV at about one o'clock in the morning, and no one has seen him since then, so it is inferred that he was probably attacked after buying cigarettes.However, he had always been afraid that Shen Tingyue would seek revenge on him, so he didn't dare to step out of the dormitory door, so how could he run to a secluded place alone at this time? Although compared with the small road outside the Chen Cemetery, this road with street lights is much brighter.But it is a remote area after all, except for the students of the Academy of Fine Arts, few people would take this road, and in the middle of the night, there were not even a ghost.It stands to reason that Mai Qinghe shouldn't have come here independently. Could it be that his body was moved here after his death?

Random speculation without evidence is just a waste of time. To know the truth, the most direct way is to find evidence, so I walked towards Mai Qinghe's body. "Is this the first scene of the murder?" I asked Fleeting who was doing the autopsy, and at the same time observed the corpse. Similar to the previous deceased Fang Shu, Mai Qinghe's corpse was also horrific. His upper body clothes were torn to pieces, his body was covered with scratch and bite scars, and the blood hole in his throat was obviously fatal.Although it was just a simple observation, it was basically the murderer who killed Fang Shu with certainty.The murder methods of the two are basically the same, both of which are brutal and bite like wild beasts, which is difficult for ordinary people to do. "Just look at the blood around you." Fleeting Nian pointed to the frozen blood on the nearby weeds. I carefully checked the surrounding weeds and found a bloody road about 20 meters long, extending crookedly from the edge of the road. There was a lot of blood in one of them, and a pile of blood-stained blue cloth strips were scattered beside the bloody road. . It can be inferred from this that the murderer should have attacked the deceased on the road, and the deceased fled to the grass in a panic.However, the coat was ripped off by the murderer before he went far, and was immediately torn to pieces.The deceased fell under the action of inertia, got up in embarrassment and continued to escape, but unfortunately, he was thrown down by the murderer again soon, and could not get up again. This goes back to the question I just raised—why did the dead come here alone? If he was being chased by a murderer in a commercial street, he would definitely run into a KTV or other crowded places.Although there are few passers-by in the middle of the night, at least the convenience store opposite the KTV is still open. How could you run into the grass more than 500 meters away from the commercial street? He started out to buy cigarettes before leaving everyone's sight. The problem should be here. Maybe I can get some information from the owner of the convenience store. Just as I was about to go to the commercial street with Zhen Zhen to investigate, Yue Tong who was talking to Xu Zixuan suddenly stopped me.I went over to her and asked her what she had found, and she showed me a soggy purse in a clip: "Found in a nearby creek." "It's my wallet." Xu Zixuan said. I put on the gloves handed over by the technical team guy, checked roughly, and found that the wallet was empty, with nothing in it, so I asked Xu Zixuan: "What was in the wallet?" "About 2,000 yuan in cash, three credit cards, student ID cards, KTV VIP cards, etc..." "And our headshot!" Liu Jinglan murmured and added, "I like this headshot..." "Don't you also have one? Just copy one if you have time that day." Xu Zixuan hugged his girlfriend in his arms to comfort him. Liu Jinglan took out the wallet from her handbag, opened it to check, and said with some comfort, "Fortunately, I still have this one." I suddenly felt that in this girl's mind, the loss of her favorite profile picture seemed to make her feel more sad than the sudden death of her companion.So I couldn't help feeling curious, and secretly glanced at her wallet.The headshot in the wallet is actually nothing special, it's just that she and Xu Zixuan are making unorthodox expressions at the camera. Yuetong put the wallet into the evidence bag with a clip, and asked, "What do you think?" "The possibility of robbery is not ruled out." I said as I walked out. Yuetong and Zhenzhen followed behind me knowingly, pulling a little distance from Xu Zixuan and others, she whispered: "I don't believe your nonsense." I smiled and said, "The murderer's purpose is definitely not to rob money, but he deliberately created the illusion of robbing money." "Since it's not for money, why do you take the money in your wallet?" Zhen Zhen asked puzzled. "Then I don't know, but if it's just asking for money, there's no need to take anything other than cash and credit cards. And I don't think cash and credit cards will do much for zombies." "Do you still think the murderer is a zombie?" Yue Tong seemed to have something to say. "Have you found anything?" I looked expectantly at him. "Not yet." She smiled slyly, "I'll call you later." When Yue Tong finished collecting the evidence at the scene, Liu Nian had also completed the preliminary autopsy work and was going to transport the body back to the forensic office for further autopsy.It seems that there will be no discovery if we continue to stop at the scene, so Zhenzhen and I moved to the commercial street, hoping to find some clues here. Perhaps because it was still early, the commercial street with dozens of shops seemed very deserted. Except for a few breakfast shops, most of the shops were not open yet.Fortunately, our trip was not in vain, the convenience store that Xu Zixuan mentioned is still open. When we entered the convenience store, we didn't see the owner. After calling a few times, a middle-aged man crawled out from behind the cash register.He was the owner, and he had been sleeping on the cot behind the cash register. After I identified myself to him, I asked him what happened last night. "My name is Chen Feng, and I'm a villager in Tangzai Village..." His answer was the same as what A Yang said. At about one o'clock in the morning, a man with glasses came over and bought two packs of Soft China. more information. During the conversation, occasionally a student came to buy things like cigarettes or drinks. After he was free, I laughed and said, "It's not easy for you to take a break." "I can't help it. A bumpkin like me who hasn't studied for a few years can only work hard to eat." After he yawned, he showed me a simple and honest smile, "Don't think I'm just a room. Small shops, if there is no special event, they will not be closed all day long.” Afterwards, he told me a lot of trivial things, including the origin of the commercial street. It turned out that the commercial street was not planned and built by the government, but was built spontaneously by the villagers of Tangzai Village.Since the completion of the Academy of Fine Arts, many students have rented rental houses in Tangzai Village. Some villagers saw the business opportunities and opened shops on the way to the Academy of Fine Arts. Over time, it has become the current commercial street. After chatting with him for a while, I didn't get any useful information, so I decided to leave. However, just as we were about to leave, a fifteen or six-year-old boy walked into the store and said to Chen Feng, "Dad, did something happen after I went back last night?" Chen Feng nodded and said: "Yes, someone died on the way to the Academy of Fine Arts, so you didn't go there because you were fine." The boy opened his mouth wide in surprise: "Damn, I just went back to sleep, why did I die again?" "Is this your son?" Zhen Zhen asked Chen Feng. "That's right, this useless brat is my son Ah Guang." Chen Feng nodded honestly. "Who are they?" Ah Guang looked at Zhenzhen and me with unfriendly eyes. Chen Feng reached out and knocked on his head vigorously, cursing: "What kind of attitude is this, he is a policeman." "You know how to hit me." Ah Guang rubbed his head and stared at his father, "Hurry up and feed the pigs, the pigs will starve to death, let's see how Mom will deal with you!" Chen Feng raised his hand and wanted to hit him again, but he cleverly escaped behind Zhen Zhen, and asked Zhen Zhen for help: "He hit someone, he hit someone, I want to call the police and arrest him." Chen Feng was so angry that his eyes were wide open, and he cursed: "I'm going to call the police to catch you, you brat, you steal my money every day to go to Internet cafes, how long did you fool around last night?" Ah Guang poked his head out from behind Zhen Zhen, and glanced at him with disdain: "Last night, my RP broke out, and I exploded two pieces of top-quality equipment, and I went home to sleep around one o'clock." Originally, it was inconvenient for outsiders to talk more about the fight between father and son, but when I heard Ah Guang say that he would go home around one o'clock, I couldn't help asking: "Did you see this boy when you came home?" I took out Mai Qinghe's photo for him to identify, and he glanced at it and said, "Oh, it's Mai, I saw him last night!" "So you still know him?" I was a little stunned. "I've thought of him for a long time. He belongs to the same union as me, and he's always pestering me to take him to fight the boss. It's annoying." He raised his head proudly, "However, I heard that something happened to him a few days ago. I haven't seen him come to the Internet cafe to level up for several days, and he popped up again last night." "When did you see him, and did something special happen at that time?" That's the thing I'm most concerned about. "It was about one o'clock at the time. I just came out of the Internet cafe and saw him coming out of here, and then walked towards the KTV." He took us outside the store and showed us the location at that time. "When he walked to the entrance of the KTV, there was a Someone came out and put his arms around his shoulders, and he didn't know what he was talking to, and then they walked towards the Academy of Fine Arts." "Who was with him at that time? Do you know him?" The impetuous Zhen Zhen asked this crucial question for me. "I just came out of the Internet cafe at that time, and the distance from the KTV was a bit far." He pointed to the Internet cafe a hundred meters away, "And the man kept his back to me, so I didn't see what he looked like. But his back It looks familiar, it should be one of the group of people who often hang out with wheat!" It's strange, when Mai Qinghe went to buy cigarettes, all his friends should be lying drunk in the KTV box, so who came out to look for him?Judging from Ah Guang's narrative, Mai Qinghe voluntarily left the KTV with the other party, and then probably went to the murder scene.With his mental state, it is impossible to go to a secluded place with others, unless the other party is someone he trusts very much. Although Ah Guang didn't know who took Mai Qinghe away, I didn't want to give up this key clue, so I asked, "Do you still recognize the clothes that person was wearing at that time?" Ah Guang thought for a moment and said, "He seems to be wearing a blue coat."