Zhao Mingkun's motorcycle was still running through the streets and alleys, like a homeless bird flying around. But when I probed to see the oil gauge of the motorcycle, it was still full of oil. If you think about it, you can know that Zhao Mingkun must have gone to refuel while I was asleep.
It's just that Zhao Mingkun was always with me during the day, and he didn't know what to do at night, so he could still wake me up early the next morning. Sometimes I even doubt whether this woman is human and whether she needs to sleep.
We came to this community and found Liu Ruijie's unit along the address. Liu Ruijie rented a three-unit 901, but when we came here, we found that the door was locked. Whether knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell, there was no response from inside.
"Have you moved away?" Zhao Mingkun glanced at me.
I stood back and looked carefully at the door of 901.
After a while, I opened my mouth and said to Zhao Mingkun: "Look at the insole at the door. It can be clearly seen that there is a lot of dust on the sides, but there is not much dust in the middle. This shows that people often enter by stepping on the middle of the insole. There is a lot of dust on both sides, which shows that the people who live here don’t pay attention to hygiene. Look at the wall, there is no other place, but this wall has small advertisements all over the wall, and no one has cleaned it either.”
I pointed to the door frame and said, "Do you see something missing?"
"What's missing? Zhao Mingkun looked at it, but didn't give an answer.
I turned around and pointed to the door frame of the opposite door, and then said: "Couple! There are no couplets on the door frame of his house. Look at the door frame of his house, there is no trace of tape or paste, which means that he has never pasted it. Spring Festival couplets. It hasn’t been long since the Spring Festival, and you can see that the couplets in other people’s houses are still the same as the new ones.”
"What does this explain?" Zhao Mingkun asked suspiciously.
I put my chin in my hand and said, "This means that there is a careless person living in this house. If I had to guess, it must be a man. He has lost interest in life, so even if It's Chinese New Year, and he doesn't post couplets, he must not be a young guy."
I lightly tapped my chin: "From the comprehensive analysis of these points, there is a man living here, and he is a middle-aged man in his forties. He lives here alone, and his wife and children are not by his side. .He is fat, with little hair, and has a habit of drinking."
Zhao Mingkun nodded, and said, "You mean, Liu Ruijie still lives here? Seven years ago, Liu Ruijie was in his thirties. Now, it just fits your description."
"That's right." I said, "That's what I meant."
Zhao Mingkun was silent for a moment, then said, "What if it's not?"
I shook my head and said, "Impossible not. I'm not a traditional person. I don't dare to speculate without collecting enough evidence. What they have to do is based on a lot of evidence. Speculation to solve the case. For me, it's different."
I pointed to my head and said, "I guess first, and then I look for evidence. If I can't find evidence, I'll make another guess. And this is my biggest difference. Perhaps, this is why Team Leader Shao put The reason why I fished it out. Guess and evidence corroborate each other, Liu Ruijie definitely still lives here."
"It's just." I shook my head: "It seems that Liu Ruijie didn't remarry his wife. What do you think is the reason?"
Zhao Mingkun knocked on the door and said, "His wife didn't forgive him. Or, he took the money but didn't repay the debt?"
"Not likely," I said. "It is possible that his wife did not forgive him. But there is another possibility."
"What?" Zhao Mingkun said.
I slowly said: "Liu Ruijie killed someone seven years ago. In order not to hurt his wife and children, Liu Ruijie was actually unwilling to go back. This is also a possibility, based on the possibility that Liu Ruijie killed someone. But What is the reason, Liu Ruijie is indeed still living here. Now at seven o'clock, Liu Ruijie may not have woken up yet."
"Bang, bang, bang" knocked on the door a few more times, but there was still no response.
Zhao Mingkun glanced at me and said, "Let's find a property. The longer we stay in one place, the more dangerous it will be."
Half an hour later, the people from the property came. I still showed my ID, and the real estate agent didn't say anything. After knocking on the door many times to no avail, they took out a spare key. But after using the key to open it for a while, there was no way to open the wooden door at all.
"Change the lock?" I asked, frowning.
"No!" The person in the property said, "You see the anti-theft door has been opened, but the door inside can't be opened. The key can't be turned, which means he locked the door. Hey, don't sleep, open the door , open the door!"
But no matter how much he yelled, the people inside did not respond at all. A bad premonition arose in my heart. I was afraid that the residents in other buildings would have heard the knocking on the door and shouting so hard, but the people inside were indifferent. But since the door is locked, it proves that there must be someone in the house.
There are people, but there is no way to open the door, I don't want to continue thinking about it now.
"Let's hit it!" Zhao Mingkun looked at the two of us and said, "There must be someone inside, and moreover, it's more dangerous than good."
The few of us looked at each other, shouted one, two, three, and then started banging on the door. When I felt that my shoulders were burning hot, I heard a "click", and we finally opened the wooden door. knocked open. I'm thankful that it's a normal latch and not a fancier lock.
Just when the door was knocked open, there was a foul smell wafting in front of me. The smell was so strong that it almost didn't smoke a few of me out. At the same time, my heart sank. This mixed smell is often smelled before, and it is really not a good smell.
When we looked around, we saw a person lying on his back on the ground.
Judging from this person's body shape, he is of medium build, with a bloated belly. It was almost certain that this person was Liu Ruijie. But what he didn't expect was that Liu Ruijie had already died.
"Stand here and don't move." I said to the person in the property: "The two of us go over to see the situation."
The person in the property management nodded, and Zhao Mingkun and I walked forward.
As soon as I approached the corpse, I could smell a stench. Zhao Mingkun took out his pocket and handed me a disposable mask and gloves.
"You have a lot in your pockets," I said.
Zhao Mingkun shrugged, and said with a pun, "I'm in this line of work, of course."
The two of us squatted down and finally found the source of the stench.
I pointed to the feces and said, "It's not that the incontinence is caused by the rotten gas in the abdomen after death. But a middle-aged man is not young enough to suffer from the incontinence symptoms of the elderly."
Zhao Mingkun's willow-leaf brows were frowned, and he blocked his nose with his wrist, making her voice "buzzing": "A big man, if he is not sick, tell me, what is the condition that makes him suffer?" What about his incontinence?"
I looked at the traces on the ground, a slipper was near the door, and a slipper was worn on my foot. The mouth of the slippers was facing the direction of the house. From this point of view, Liu Ruijie should have walked backwards, causing the first slipper to stay near the entrance.
And at this moment, due to some reason, Liu Ruijie accidentally slipped and fell to the ground during the process.
"Scared." I said decisively: "If there is anything else that can make a middle-aged man incontinent, the only thing I can think of is shock. Look at the clothes Liu Ruijie is wearing, ordinary pajamas, his shoes , are slippers. This shows one thing, when he got up in the morning or was about to fall asleep at night, he heard someone knocking on the door."
Zhao Mingkun nodded.
I continued: "When he opened the door, someone came in, and this person should be the murderer. When Liu Ruijie saw the murderer, he suddenly felt extremely scared. He backed away, and at this moment, he Incontinence, and then fell to the ground. You see him covering his eyes with his hands, psychologically, this is an evasive action."
"That is to say." I continued: "Liu Ruijie was very afraid of seeing this person who came in, he was very afraid of this person who came in."
Zhao Mingkun stood up, looked at me and said, "You mean, this person was also scared to death? But I have a question to ask you, do you think the murderer is human?"
"Of course it is." I said almost without thinking, "Of course the murderer is a human being, otherwise, could it be a ghost killing people?"
Zhao Mingkun nodded and said, "I'm not such a staunch atheist as you are, but if someone killed someone, how did the murderer escape? This is the ninth floor. The murderer can't escape from the window after the murder. This place is basically a secret room, as you can see, the door is locked."
As he said that, Zhao Mingkun pointed to the lock on the door for me, and it could be seen that it was indeed locked from the inside out.
"If it was done by a human." Zhao Mingkun said word by word: "How did the murderer leave this room after locking the door? If he was a human, how did he do it? Or , Liu Ruijie was the only one in the room all the time. It's not a person, but something else that scares him like this."
It was clearly broad daylight, but after hearing Zhao Mingkun's words, he still felt a little shuddering.