"Hello, we are from the Nancheng District Public Security Bureau. Do you usually interact with the Li Hongxi next door?"
"Not much, but that guy is very polite..." "His wife is often on business trips, and he goes in and out by himself. I haven't seen any strange people entering or leaving our building." "What happened? Hey, hey. Comrade police, it's not a big case, right?"
"How is your company's Li Hongxi doing? Is it easy to get along with?"
"It's very easy to get along with, just a normal person, very enthusiastic and responsible." "I don't really participate in group activities, maybe because his family lives far away, it's inconvenient to go back to dinner?" "Occasionally leave early, I know him There are a few times when people are asked to check in for the morning shift... Oh, but it's not a big deal, hey! Don't say this is what I said!"
"Do you think he has anything to do with that mess of religion?"
"A mess of religions—you mean a cult? How could it be possible, haha, impossible, impossible!" "This is illegal, right? Without it, our company definitely wouldn't have it!" "Manager Li is a bit of a loner, The interaction between colleagues is still very normal, we have never really found him hiding and secretly practicing qigong hahahaha..."
…
"—What did you say about my husband?" The female voice on the other end of the phone rose suddenly, almost broken because of disbelief: "Prostitution, burglary, suspected murder? Are you liars?!"
Cai Lin, like a monkey, sat on the corner of Bu Chonghua's office desk with half of his buttocks, helplessly holding his forehead: "This is the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Nancheng District Public Security Bureau, I repeat: Your husband Li Hongxi was injured because he entered the house with a knife. He is currently detained in our Public Security Bureau, please take the time to come back as soon as possible to assist…”
beep —
The phone was hung up, Cai Lin sat there with a face full of words, and hung up the phone with his backhand for a while: "Hey!"
Meng Zhao didn't lift his head: "Don't worry, she is calling her husband, and then she will call our bureau's duty room, and she should call you back later."
With a whistle, the door was pushed open, and Liao Gang poked his head in furiously: "Infantry!"
Meng Zhao and Cai Lin's eyes lit up at the same time, and Bu Chonghua turned his head from the window: "Speak."
"We searched Li Hongxi's house, his parents' house, and his company's office. All the express mails sent and received in the name of him or his wife within half a month - nothing was found. Then we went to check his old house as you ordered." Liao Gang went straight to the water dispenser to pick up a glass of water, gulped it down in one breath, then wiped his mouth and said, "His hometown, Ninghe County, is a six-hour drive back and forth from us, and the old house is about to be stripped down. , there is nothing inside except the four walls; people from the same village said that this house has not been back for a long time, but we did not give up, and took the police dog to dig three feet in and out, and even went up to look at the beams of the house. In the end, not to mention the skeleton helmet, the human bone magic weapon, and even half a pamphlet promoting the cult!"
"—But!" Liao Gang probably noticed the expressions of Meng Zhao, Cai Lin, and the others, and hurriedly patted his chest and said loudly, "I have already said hello to the procuratorate, and we will go to Li Hongxi's house in the afternoon. The ceiling, four walls, and the floor The bricks are all ripped off, I don't believe that this grandson really can't pull out his tail!"
The office fell into silence. Meng Zhao tiredly used two fingers to support his eyebrows. Even Cai Lin rarely sighed and sighed.
It was completely useless to visit the platoons. Li Hongxi in the eyes of the public had almost no shortcomings. Even with a microscope, he could not find the slightest connection between him and any messy cult.
What if you really can't get his tail out
Or even scarier—
Will the detection steps of this case have reached a dead end
"How could this be? Who the hell did she provoke?" "My miserable daughter, my miserable Linlin, who killed you!"
…
Suddenly a burst of howling came from the crack of the door, Bu Chonghua frowned, got up and opened the door: "What's going on?"
A pair of middle-aged men and women in their 40s and dressed in local clothes were crying bitterly in the corridor. It was during the shift in the afternoon and when the traffic was the largest, the police couldn't help but stop and take a look. Crying makes people's ears hurt. The back-office police were in a rush to comfort them. Seeing Bu Chonghua coming out of the office in his clothes, he hurried forward to meet him: "Bu Detachment!"
Bu Chonghua looked at the couple: "Who?"
"The parents and relatives of the 502 victim Gao Ling saw the announcement of the body recognition, and the Jiarui County Public Security Bureau just sent a car to bring them here." I can't help it - I can't even persuade me to leave..."
"Take the reception room, I'll go there later." Bu Chonghua said solemnly: "Don't cry at the door of the duty room, my people will make up for their sleep inside."
The police immediately answered yes and ran back quickly.
Gao Ling's original name was Gao Linlin, and he was from Fengyuan Village, Gecheng Mountain, Jiarui County. His father's name was Gao Wei and his mother's name was Xiong Jinzhi. After Gao Ling ran away from home more than a month ago, she cut off contact with her parents. It was not until the Nancheng Branch consolidated the confessions of Liu Li and Li Hongxi and asked the police stations under the Jiarui County Public Security Bureau to increase their efforts to publicize the corpse identification announcement. of her family of origin.
"—She's arrogant, she's too arrogant!" Gao Wei sat behind the long table in the reception room of the Public Security Bureau, wiping his tears and muttering: "She sees people making trouble with me when high school starts, and she wants to go to school, I say you read I can’t even think of a Tsinghua University and Peking University. It’s better to save money for two younger brothers, but she doesn’t do it. Our family is suffering. If it wasn’t for the fact that she was a girl when she was born in those days, how could she have lost her conscience when she gave birth to a boy or a cow? The house was taken away, and the brick house was ripped off? Our family is suffering... "
Meng Zhaomu asked with a face: "Before she ran away from home, did she have any idea of making a lot of money and doing big business?"
Xiong Jinzhi covered his face and cried, Gao Wei said without thinking, "Yes, yes!"
The whole room was refreshed.
"She said she was going to work!" Gao Wei said seriously: "I said that you know to send the money back after you work. Seeing that other people's daughters know how to send money to help support their younger brother, she said that we sucked her blood. , to sever ties with us! I said what's the point of severing ties, isn't every family like this? Isn't it your own brother?!"
"..." The room full of people lowered their heads, and the spirit energy just mentioned disappeared without a trace.
Xiong Jinzhi cried and said, "It's all the sins of the previous life, it's all sins!"
Gao Weitong blushed: "Hey! Linlin is dead, what's the point of saying this!"
"This person," Meng Zhao pushed Li Hongxi's photo in front of them: "Have you met?"
Xiong Jinzhi covered his face and cried, Gao Wei took a few careful glances and shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I haven't seen it, I don't know it."
"Does Gao Linlin usually have any close friends, classmates, or social figures?"
"...friend, classmate?" Gao Wei wiped away his tears again, and shook his head after thinking about it: "No, this is really not true. She has a very eccentric temper and a big idea. ran away, clamoring to go to work…”
Xiong Jinzhi suddenly burst into a sharp cry: "My hard-working daughter!!—"
The back office girl who was sitting behind the computer crackling and taking notes pouted, and was about to spit out the almost inaudible "crying is worth a fart" when Meng Zhao lightly touched her arm and raised her head to face the sternness of Shangbu Chonghua. Eyes, suddenly a shocking expression sat upright.
"Arrange accommodation nearby so that you can be inquired by the police at any time." Bu Chonghua got up and said lightly, "Let's go."
The door of the reception room opened, and the back office girl took a few steps out with her computer in her hand, and whispered against Meng Zhao's arm, "Sister Meng, do you think our captain is a cold-hearted, such a vampire parent, he was polite just now. To comfort them angrily? Gao Linlin is so pitiful, how much she wants to go to school... "
"Shh!" Meng Zhao pulled her: "What do you know, print out the transcript and eat your meal!"
"I can't despise such fake parents, what did they do when they were alive... oops!"
The back office girl had just turned the corner, and her whole body was horrified—I saw Bu Chonghua standing in front of the door of the autopsy room on the other side of the corridor, her light-colored pupils were emotionless and stared at her indifferently.
Little girl: "..."
Meng Zhao: "..."
Bu Chonghua walked into the autopsy room, and with a click, closed the door with a backhand in front of them.
"Yo, team!" Xiaogui forensic doctor stood in front of the dissection table and turned his head: "It's done—I just typed out the report, and I was about to ask Xiao Wu to send it to you!"
Bu Chonghua hummed while wearing gloves, and asked Wu Yu without raising his head, "You're not sleeping in the duty room, what are you doing here?"
Looking at the bruised and swollen corpse on the dissection table, Wu Yu habitually wanted to raise his hand to touch his nose, but once he raised his hand, he held back and said vaguely, "I didn't fall asleep."
"Wake up?"
"Well."
"Half the floor was disturbed. Where did you get such a large lung capacity?" Forensic doctor Xiaogui handed the printed autopsy report to Bu Chonghua, and raised his chin in the direction of the reception room: "How is this family?"
Bu Chonghua didn't answer, snorted lightly in his nose, and suddenly looked at the autopsy report and asked, "Is the cause of death a skull fracture caused by severe head trauma?"
"Yes, the death process of the victim is actually quite complicated, you can see it here." Forensic doctor Xiaogui pointed to the part where the skull and the back of the corpse meet: "The skin on the wound edge is obviously scratched, indicating that the surface of the injury tool is very rough. , Combining the fine soil impurities in the wound and the bloody stone we found at the scene, it should be that the stone did not escape. The bleeding under the scalp at the occipital bone corresponds to a linear fracture, the liquefied brain tissue is bloody, and the nasal cavity and oral cavity are also bloody. Corrupted bloody fluid was also found - the blow happened when her back was caught off-guard against the killer, thus creating a hedging wound."
Wu Yu looked at the particularly powerful piece of corruption on Gao Ling's forehead: "Is it here?"
"Yes, the skin on the forehead was damaged and a hematoma formed, indicating that the blow made her swooped forward and fell to the ground. It is worth noting that the radial fracture lines did not show signs of intersecting or truncating each other, indicating that the murderer did not Repeated blows to the brain; but this is only the first step in her death process."
"—As for the second step," Xiaogui forensic doctor stood up and pressed his hands on the face and neck of the corpse: "It is relatively unusual, and it is also the real cause of death: strangling the neck and pressing the mouth, resulting in Mechanical asphyxiation."
Wu Yu nodded silently, and after a while he couldn't help but ask, "Did you find Rose Tooth?"
Usually in the process of suffocation, the capillaries of the dental mucous membrane rupture, and the blood soaks in the teeth, forming a light brown-red color. Sexual suffocation does make teeth brown, but it doesn't mean that just because rose teeth appear, it's suffocation."
He turned around and picked up an alcohol bottle from the workbench, and saw two extremely pale, slightly brown teeth soaked in the transparent liquid: "Well, the color is really obvious, right?"
"..." Wu Yu looked at Bu Chonghua, who turned over a page of the autopsy report and said calmly, "Yes, obviously."
"Because a high degree of corruption can cause the corpse's teeth to turn brown, which is more brown than suffocation." Xiaogui forensic doctor put back the alcohol bottle and spread his hands: "Unfortunately, our victim is highly corrupt, so rose teeth cannot be used as the only basis for suffocation. , Do you understand Xiao Wu?"
Wu Yu nodded, and looked at him with a slight glint in his eyes.
"You're about to enjoy the Lipton black tea bag from classmate Xiao Wu." Bu Chonghua glanced up at the forensic doctor Xiaogui from the document, and said lightly.
Forensic Doctor Xiaogui: "Huh?"
"It's nothing," Bu Chonghua lowered his head: "Go ahead."
The forensic doctor Xiaogui thought that it was because I smelled too much corpse, and I had an illusion. Why was there a faint acetic acid smell in the air
"Well, okay." He sniffed and said solemnly: "We just said that Gao Ling died mechanically, and Rose Tooth is only one of the side evidences. The key evidence is the damage to the tongue mucosa and the surrounding area of the mouth. The occult blood—look here." He took the report from Bu Chonghua and turned to the page of the image: "When the murderer grabbed Gao Ling's neck, the base of her tongue was pushed forward, and at the same time, her mouth was forced. Covering it, causing the tip of the tongue to push back. Do you know what that could lead to?"
The forensic doctor Xiaogui wanted to sell it off, but Wu Yu immediately said, "Big tooth bit the base of the tongue?"
"Oh, you are very talented, classmate Xiao Wu!" The forensic doctor Xiao Gui gave a thumbs up unexpectedly and said, "When these two pressures from different directions, front and rear, act on the tongue at the same time, her tongue is in the mouth. He was severely squeezed in the middle, and was cut by the big teeth on both sides at the same time, which resulted in very serious damage to the tongue mucosa - YES! Choke the neck and press the mouth, the iron proof is GET!"
Wu Yu and Xiaogui clapped their hands across the dissection table, and Bu Chonghua pointed at the photosensitive film in the autopsy report, and said coldly, "What's wrong with this piece of occult blood?"
"Which one?" The forensic doctor Xiaogui looked down and saw that he was referring to the middle part of Gaoling, a piece of mung bean-sized occult blood that was easy to ignore: "Oh, I didn't expect this at first, it was Director Geng of the Municipal Bureau who reminded me. —Try your breath."
Director Geng is the expert from the forensic medicine institute that Bu Chonghua invited from the city bureau. Forensic doctor Xiaogui put his index finger under his nose and said, "The murderer hit Gao Ling with a stone on the back of the head. After the victim fell to the ground, he squatted down. He came down to test if Gao Ling was still alive, and at the same time stained the blood on Gao Ling's nose under Gao Ling's nose, but no valid fingerprints were left. Later, he should have found that Gao Ling was not dead, so he decided to use a neck choking method. The victim was killed by mechanical suffocation by covering his mouth and nose."
Bu Chonghua has gone through many autopsies and seen many victims. The generosity of blood and anger at the beginning has been pressed into the depths of his soul, and he has been silent for something more fiery and dignified.
But at this moment, when he looked at the unbelievable corpse on the dissection table, the little girl who shouted "I want to go to school" and "I want to study", the little girl who was trudging to the river beach step by step in the rainstorm, suddenly came alive in his mind , and even the nerves that made him numb to the extreme had an unspeakable tingling.
"You guys study slowly, I'll fax the first inspection report to Mr. Geng for his signature." The forensic doctor Xiaogui took off his gloves and said, "Go out and help me close the door, Director Wang said that since this month, the person will not be in the autopsy room. If the door is not closed, five points will be deducted for each person in the assessment at the end of the month."
Wu Yu suddenly remembered something and asked seriously, "Do you want to drink black tea?"
"? Dear, I don't drink kiss." The forensic doctor Xiaogui said politely: "I'm going to have a cup of iced American style. Later, there will be a series of rear-end collisions, two fights in the street, and 18 people from the experimental school next door will be buried in love with their families. The case of members fighting each other is waiting for me to do an injury appraisal."
The door was closed, and only Bu Chonghua and Wu Yu were left by the iron platform. The fresh air system made a slight humming sound in the quiet dissection room.
Bu Chonghua lifted a corner of the white cloth and was carefully observing the marks on the neck of the corpse. He saw Wu Yu touching a cigarette beside him and biting it in his mouth without lighting it: "Did Brother Liao find anything?"
Bu Zhonghua let out a light breath and shook his head.
"no progress?"
"… "
The two of them didn't make a sound, and after a long time, Chonghua straightened up and said hoarsely, "—It's been half a month!"
Half a month has passed since the bloody late night of May 2020. The Municipal Bureau has gone all out, the case is stalemate, the social pressure is increasing, and the news is hotly searched all over the city...
However, they could only face the corpse of the victim who died in a wrongful way. They were empty-handed and could do nothing. There was nothing they could do about Li Hongxi in the detention room.
"Have you ever been in such a desperate situation when you were undercover before?"
Wu Yu was silent.
Bu Chonghua raised his eyes and looked at him: "How to solve it?"
"..." Wu Yu sniffed the cigarette at the end of his nose and said vaguely, "Just... I'm lucky."
Good luck.
Bu Chonghua's pupils were slightly tight, and his previous words suddenly sounded in his ears: "...he ordered the arrest, and I immediately fell into a situation of isolation and helplessness. The situation was extremely dangerous at that time... But I didn't expect it to be very lucky that time. , and ultimately did not reveal the identity..."
This person seems to be able to attribute all the near-deaths and all the saving graces to two words, luck.
He endured hardships and was covered in bruises, but he still naively believed that there was a god of luck who could protect him in the dark.
"...What do you think I'm doing?" Wu Yu took the cigarette between his nose and lips and tilted his head back slightly uncomfortably.
Bu Chonghua's tongue was mixed with sourness, pity, and an indescribable complex taste, but at that moment he was forcibly suppressed by himself, and suddenly looked away: "I... I was just thinking about the interrogation of Li Hongxi last night, what did you do? See he lied?"
"Oh, that." Wu Yu lowered his head and played with the cigarette, and waved his hand embarrassedly: "I didn't see it, but I felt that Li Hongxi's voice, expression, and eyes were all wrong. It should be performing. Maybe because I had to Think about people all the time, and over time, it becomes a habit... As for the details of the sanitary napkin, I really did not expect that not everyone can have your talent."
Wu Yu gave a thumbs up, and Bu Chonghua looked at him with a teasing smile in his eyes, and nodded to the anatomy bed: "Then you will think about this murderer?"
"How do I know this, I won't solve the case..."
"It's okay, talk about it?"
Wu Yu refused but he hesitated for a moment before slowly saying, "I... can't tell. I just feel... "
He paused, stretched out an index finger and gestured sideways in front of Bu Chonghua's nose: "Why when he found out that Gao Ling still had energy, his first reaction was not to hit her head with a stone, but to face her face to face. Cover your mouth and choke your neck?"
Bu Chonghua was startled: "Because the murderer had already threw the murdering stone on the ground..."
"I know, but the impact injury proved that Gao Ling was facing the ground at the time. Why did he turn her over first?"
The two of them looked at each other, and Wu Yu rubbed his nose mockingly: "I don't have enough experience in solving cases, but I have quite a lot of experience in killing people, so I feel that his murderous actions... don't seem to be very convenient."
Wu Yu's eyes were black and white, but Bu Chonghua's eyes had obvious bloodshots, and he muttered: "Because Gao Ling was... Gao Ling..."
"—she's mad, she's too mad!"
"When you see people starting high school, they make trouble with me! Make a fuss about going to study!"
"I said that if you go to work, you know to send the money back to support your younger brother, but she is making a fuss to cut off ties with us?!"
…
The tiny scab on Li Hongxi's left thumb, the inconspicuous occult blood on Gao Ling's nose in the photosensitive film, the two light brown rose teeth in the alcohol bottle—
All the strange details emerged from the innumerable clues, and they were connected like lightning in Bu Chonghua's brain.
This little girl with "too much temperament" didn't let the mermaid's flesh, she didn't just lie there, waiting in vain for the murderer to drop a fatal blow - the toughness and stubbornness in her bones made her a weak but desperate resistance at the last moment , When the murderer stretched out her index finger to test her breath, she suddenly bit her hand!
Because of this resistance, the murderer pushed her away and strangled her neck in a state of extreme panic!
"There is no murderer's DNA in her fingernails, only the blood between the teeth. Because it merges with the bleeding of her own tongue mucosa, the forensic doctor will miss it!" Come back, hurry up! Li Hongxi has a scar on his thumb, as long as Gao Ling's DNA is found in his mouth, his grandson will be nailed to death by us!"
The lights in the detention room suddenly brightened, and Li Hongxi, who was sitting beside the bed with his hands down, raised his head in shock, only to see Cai Lin personally lead someone through the door, holding the phone to his ear: "Yes, I know, we have already arrived in the detention room. Now, wait for the comparison results at any time..."
"... What?" Li Hongxi's blue-black eye circles were particularly obvious under the pale light, but his tone was provocative: "Have you been officially arrested?"
Several criminal policemen stared at him, but no one answered.
Li Hongxi laughed, raised his hand and rubbed his eyes amid the sound of handcuffs. The scar that was about to heal on his left thumb was particularly dazzling under the light.
In just one day of detention, he changed a lot. His lips were chapped and bleeding, and the blood formed black and red scabs.
"Give it up, you have no chance of catching me."