On the weekend after the last case ended, Chen Bai took Song Anchun to the pedestrian street that had been repaired. But in fact, although it was said to be repaired, the pedestrian street was only transformed so that it could be opened to traffic.
"Chen Bai, why do you think they had to change this pedestrian street like this? Only a few shops on both sides have been demolished. I don't even know why they made it like this?"
Song Anchun was a little confused. In fact, Chen Bai didn't know why it had to be like this. When this was a pedestrian street, there were a lot of people. The pedestrian street at that time was not very high-end. The old Binhai people in the surrounding shops must have been here countless times.
But this still does not affect the fact that this is one of the busiest streets in Binhai. But now that it has been repaired and can be opened to traffic, it has become a lot deserted. There are even few people in the fast food restaurants on the street, only a few scattered people.
Walking scattered on the street.
"I don't know. I just remember that when I was eleven or twelve years old, I liked to go shopping here on Saturdays and Sundays. I didn't have any money at the orphanage at that time, but I just liked to hang out here. Later, when I got rich, I liked to come here.
There is a place called Seattle to read books here. At that time, there was only Xinhua Bookstore and Seattle where you could read books for free. Of course, sometimes I bought two books, and then bought three grilled squid for ten yuan. Later, I came here to surf the Internet.
This pedestrian street is the memory of us old Binhai people, but we didn’t expect it to be changed like this.”
The two of them didn't actually want to buy anything when they came here. They just didn't have anything to do during the May Day and subsequent holidays, but they didn't have much time, so they just strolled around.
"Chen Bai, what are you doing in front of me?"
At this moment, Song Anchun was suddenly attracted by the crowd in front of him. Chen Bai saw that the crowd in front of him was filled with water. Chen Bai stepped on the stool next to him and stood on a high place. Only then did he see that it was a super large inflatable swimming pool.
, there were several men and women in swimsuits playing with water guns. After Chen Bai took a closer look, he realized that this was an event for a swimsuit brand.
"It's just a swimsuit brand event, nothing..."
When Chen Bai turned around, he found that Song Anchun had climbed onto the stool and was standing behind him, looking inside again.
"Let's go, there's nothing to see!"
Chen Bai found that Song Anchun's eyes were actually looking at the handsome guys inside who were shirtless and showing their abs, and he couldn't help but frown.
"Get down here!"
Chen Bai directly took Song Anchun off the stool. Song Anchun saw Chen Bai's angry look and smiled and said.
"Angry? How can you be so stingy? You are a mature man and you cannot be angry over such things."
The two walked around again and finally decided to find beef noodles for dinner.
"If we wanted to eat here at this time before, it would have been impossible. It was even impossible for us to get a seat at this time."
Song Anchun looked at the time on his phone, which read: 12:10. This place must have been crowded before, but now there are many empty tables, and there are even a few waiters standing against the wall and dozing off.
"It's boring!"
Going to work on Monday morning, Chen Bai went to school very early because he had to focus on an exam. Although it was not exam week, some physical exams still had to be scheduled at this time.
"It's terrible, why did summer come so early this year?"
Fortunately, Chen Bai and the others could use the student dormitory to take a shower. Just when Chen Bai finished taking a shower and changed clothes, he received a call from Bai Hongwei.
"where?"
“Pedestrian Street, Jinding Building!”
Having been together with Bai Hongwei for such a long time, Chen Bai has already developed a tacit understanding with Bai Hongwei, because this guy will never call him when he is fine.
"What's going on at the scene?"
When Chen Bai rushed to the scene, the Jinding Building had been completely surrounded by police cordons. When the pedestrian street was demolished, news of the closure of the Jinding Building also came. This commercial building that had been glorious for more than 20 years finally ushered in a new era.
Ended his life.
"Jinding Building is going to be renovated. When the decoration workers were cleaning up the garbage in the morning, they found a body in a pile of plastic mannequins. When we rushed to the scene, we found that the deceased was buried in a pile of plastic mannequins.
There were no obvious injuries, and there was a trolley box not far from the body. It is suspected that someone used the trolley box to throw the deceased's body to this place."
Chen Bai was a little confused. If the murderer used a suitcase to throw the body away, he would usually just throw the suitcase together. But why did the murderer take the dead body out of the suitcase?
"Was the deceased strangled?"
Chen Bai looked at the marks on the neck of the deceased. Unlike ordinary people who were strangled to death, the marks on the neck of the deceased were very thick, and Chen Bai also saw something like a hair on the neck of the deceased.
"Yes, there are traces of fractures on the hyoid bone of the deceased. He should have been strangled. This should not be human hair. According to my estimation, it should be from some fur scarves. But what it is, let Wu Di go back to check
Bar!"
Chen Bai nodded. There was actually nothing interesting at the scene. This was not the first scene, and it was basically impossible to extract footprints from such a messy ground.
"Wait a moment!"
Just when everyone was about to carry the deceased onto a stretcher, Chen Bai suddenly found that the deceased seemed to be holding something in his hand.
"Is this... a button?"
Da Binzi was a little confused, because the button in the deceased's hand was very large, almost the size of an adult woman's hand, and the biggest highlight of this button was that it was made of jade.
"Buttons like this are rare!"
Chen Bai was a little excited. The deceased grabbed the button desperately before he died, which proved that the button probably belonged to the murderer.
"But these buttons don't look like summer clothes!"
After Da Binzi finished speaking, Chen Bai also frowned. Da Binzi was right. The buttons on the deceased's hands didn't look like summer clothes at all. So what happened to the buttons on the deceased's hands?
"Okay, let's take the deceased back first!"
The questioning of witnesses was left to Da Binzi. Of course, Chen Bai also knew that the witnesses in this case could not provide any clues.
"Chen Bai, the biggest problem now is that this is an abandoned building, and it has just been opened to traffic. There is no surveillance on the entire street. I'm afraid I can't help you with the surveillance."
Chen Bai nodded. In fact, from the moment he knew the scene was here, Chen Bai knew that the murderer must have noticed that there was no surveillance here.
"Go and look at the shops next to and opposite, and ask them if they have surveillance cameras outside. Investigate missing persons and find out the identity of the deceased as soon as possible."
As soon as he returned to the police station, before Chen Bai could sit down, a young police officer led a woman to find Chen Bai.
"What do you want from us?"
Chen Bai was a little confused. Although the woman in front of him had been trying her best to maintain her elegance, Chen Bai could still see that the woman was a little anxious.
"Comrade police, I have something to trouble you about, but you must ensure that this matter never becomes a hot search topic."
Chen Bai was a little confused. What was this woman talking about that was so mysterious? She also had to promise not to be on hot searches?
"Tell me what you want first!"
"Comrade police, our artist is missing."
The woman is an agent of an agency. Recently, their agency took over a brand promotion project to promote a windbreaker. Yesterday, they happened to shoot a promotional video. It was supposed to be shot for two days in a row, but I don’t know why today they
When the time came, the model did not call or answer the phone. Even when she went to the hotel to find someone, they were not there. They were anxious, so they came to see the police.
"What's the name of the missing person?"
Chen Bai was a little nervous. He was reported missing just after the death. It couldn't be such a coincidence, right?
"Lu Xinyu!"
Chen Bai glanced at Li Huan, and Li Huan immediately searched for Lu Xinyu's photos on the computer.
"When was the last time you saw Lu Xinyu?"
After Song Anchun's preliminary autopsy, it was determined that the time of death of the deceased was between eleven and one o'clock in the evening. After hearing Chen Bai's question, the woman thought for a while and said.
"It was eight o'clock when we finished work last night. At that time, we said we would go to have a meal together, but Lu Xinyu did not follow us to eat. Instead, she went back to the hotel by herself. I never saw her again after that."
After the woman finished speaking, Li Huan turned the computer screen to Chen Bai. Chen Bai recognized Lu Xinyu at a glance as the deceased they found in the morning.
"Ma'am, I have something to tell you, but I want you to stay calm first."
"What's wrong?"
The woman was a little nervous. Chen Bai looked at the woman and took a deep breath and said.
"We found a body in Jinding Building this morning, it was Lu Xinyu."
Hearing Chen Bai's words, the woman almost fell off the stool. Chen Bai grabbed the woman and it took a long time for the woman to say.
"Can you let me take a last look at Xinyu?"
Chen Bai took the woman to the forensic laboratory. When she saw the corpse on the autopsy table, the woman turned around and covered her mouth with a painful expression.
"Comrade police, what on earth is going on?"
"Madam, we are also investigating now, and we will notify you as soon as the results are available."
After Chen Bai finished speaking, he took the woman back to the office and comforted the woman for a while before she stabilized her mood.
"Madam, I want to ask you, has Lu Xinyu offended anyone?"
After hearing Chen Bai's words, the woman wiped her tears and said.
"Actually, Lu Xinyu was just a small 18th-tier model a month ago, but this time the people we work with asked Lu Xinyu to join our company, but Lu Xinyu didn't look like a newcomer at all. Join us.
The company has been arrogant since then, and Lu Xinyu has a sharp tongue. Basically, many people in our company have been scolded by her. But after all, she brought capital into the group, so we can't say anything."
"So, you mean Lu Xinyu has offended many people in the company?"
Chen Bai was a little helpless. If this was the case, it would be difficult to handle.
"Lu Xinyu is not a very good person, but even if she is like this, it is not to the extent of killing people!"
Chen Bai shook his head and smiled bitterly. The complexity of human nature is far more than that. Many times you don't know where to offend someone.
"Have Lu Xinyu had any quarrels with anyone recently?"
"Arguing? That's Lu Xinyu's daily routine. She basically scolds her directly if she can't stand it. Sometimes she even takes out her anger on the people around her just because she's in a bad mood."
Chen Bai nodded, asked a few more questions, and sent the woman away first.
"Teacher Chen, if this is really what this woman said, how many people will we need to investigate?"
Da Binzi was a little helpless. If Lu Xinyu's social relations were really like what the woman said, then they would have to investigate a lot of people.
"Yes! If this is really the case, then we really have to investigate a lot of people."
Feng Qianqian was also a little helpless. Chen Bai looked at the screen on Li Huan's computer thoughtfully. Suddenly, Chen Bai was attracted by the clothes worn by the person next to Lu Xinyu on the screen.
"Wait a minute, look at the buttons on this man's clothes. Are they the ones we found at the scene?"
Everyone gathered in front of the computer screen. Wu Di held the buttons in his hand and compared them carefully before speaking confidently.
"Yes, these are the buttons on the clothes this woman is wearing."
"Could it be that the murderer is this woman?"
Chen Bai shook his head. The murderer deliberately chose an abandoned building without cameras and avoided surveillance. Would he make a mistake in a place like this?