Everyone is a lonely ghost, wandering in the time that destroys everything.————Tang Youyou
Room 402, Unit 5, Guangpu Community.
Xu Lang stood at the scene where the water stains had not completely dried up, with a complex expression on his face. He couldn't tell whether he was excited or sad, maybe a little bit of both.
Just when Xu Lang asked Chen Xiaohong about Li Ziyu and Lu Xiujie, he received a call from Wang Guofu and received a piece of news that I don't know whether it is good news or bad news. The bodies of Xu Lulu and Xu Wanzhen were found. After learning the news,
Xu Lang immediately ended his questioning of Chen Xiaohong and drove to the crime scene.
Because the door of 402 was opened by Wang Guofu and someone from the office, there were only three people at the scene, including him, another policeman, and Zeng Hongwei, a resident downstairs.
Room 402 is not big, with one bedroom and one living room. Even so, such a rental house in S City costs four to five thousand a month, which is almost catching up with Yanjing City and Lu City. However, these are not
focus.
Before Xu Lang and the others arrived at the scene, the scene remained as it was before. At this moment, Xu Lang was standing in front of the refrigerator next to the kitchen.
This is a two-door vertical refrigerator. The door of the refrigerator is open, and the situation inside is clear at a glance. The refrigerator is neatly divided into two parts from the middle. What is placed in the refrigerator is not vegetables and fruits, but dismembered corpses. The corpses have
Slight rot, but because the temperature of the refrigerator is very low, the rot is not particularly serious.
The first thing that catches the eye are two heads, to be precise, two heads with only half of them. The upper parts are placed with frozen corpses. The corpses look relatively fresh, and the flesh and blood are clearly visible. The corpses
It was cut very neatly, and it should have been dismembered with professional tools. The body parts were like pork in the supermarket, neatly stacked together, and the half of the head had become extremely pale due to freezing.
It is placed at the front. I don’t know whether it is because the deceased suffered too much pain during his lifetime, or because the deceased was frozen after death. The eyes of the deceased were so wide that they almost protruded from the eye sockets, giving people a very special feeling.
A thrilling and terrifying sense of déjà vu.
Although there was only half of the deceased's head, it was relatively well preserved, and the identity of the deceased was quickly confirmed. It was Xu Lulu who the police had been searching for.
The lower part of the refrigerator is also placed with a corpse, no, to be precise, it is half a corpse. Unlike the corpse above, the corpse placed in the lower part is relatively simpler because it takes up much less space, but
, and also much scarier, because one can no longer tell that it is a corpse. It is charred and carbonized, and it looks like a burned animal carcass in a garbage dump.
The corpse was also neatly cut into several parts and neatly stacked together. Placed at the front was half a head. Because the corpse had been burned, the eyes, skin, muscles, hair and other biological tissues on the head were all gone.
There was only half a dark head left, and the only eye left on the head was hollow. The mouth was wide and the teeth were protruding. It looked very scary.
When seeing these two corpses, their identities were already obvious. The one placed above was half of Xu Lulu's corpse, so the one placed below should be half of Xu Wanzhen's corpse.
Qin Mingyue stood in front of the refrigerator, holding half of Xu Lulu's head in her hand, observing. Fan Yang had already taken photos to collect evidence before Qin Mingyue took action. Xu Lang stood on the side of the refrigerator, looking at the horrific scene in front of him.
Xu Lulu's corpse took up most of the space in the upper part of the refrigerator. Why do I say most of it? Because in addition to the body parts, there were also a lot of ice cubes inside, and the shapes of these ice cubes were very irregular and irregular.
Knowing whether the murderer did this deliberately or whether the refrigerator formed it automatically at low temperatures, these ice cubes were not translucent but dark red. Xu Lang felt that the formation of these ice cubes should belong to the latter.
When the body parts were discovered, the head was completely stuck to the refrigerator. It took Qin Mingyue a lot of effort to take off the head. At this moment, he was holding half of the head with gloves on, his face was expressionless, and he looked particularly strange.
What's scary and even more uncomfortable is that, perhaps because the temperature in the room is relatively high, some of the crushed ice on the head has begun to melt. The original blood-red ice cubes have now turned into dark red blood, flowing along the skull.
Slowly dripping to the ground.
Xu Lang looked at it for a while, then turned and went to the bedroom.
The bedroom was very clean and tidy, and it was a bit ridiculously clean. According to the reporter Zeng Hongwei, room 402 was rented by someone. However, except for a bed and two wardrobes, there were no extra things in the bedroom. The bed was
It was empty. Xu Lang also saw the closet. There was nothing in it except a few clothes hangers. Obviously, the tenant who rented 402 did not live here.
After finding no clues in the bedroom, Xu Lang went to the bathroom. Like the bedroom, no daily necessities were found in the bathroom. There was nothing on the sink. However, Xu Lang noticed that there was a layer of dust on the edge of the sink.
It should have existed for a long time, but on the table near the outside, the dust was gone. In addition, the mirror on the sink was also covered with dust, but an area was artificially wiped out in the middle of the mirror. Many people stood there.
From the direction of Lang, you can just see your own face.
Xu Lang frowned and called Fan Yang, asking him to conduct a detailed inspection of the bathroom to see if he could find some fingerprints and the like. However, Xu Lang had no hope for this. From the traces on the mirror,
It looks like it was the murderer, and there are no fingerprints on it. I think the murderer must have been wearing gloves or something like that.
thing.
After checking the scene, Xu Lang walked out of Room 402.
After walking out of Room 402, Xu Lang came to the corridor and found that there were residents watching the excitement outside. Xu Lang frowned subconsciously.
Perhaps because they saw Xu Lang frowning, the onlookers subconsciously took a few steps back. However, they did not go far, but pointed at Room 402 and whispered about something.
Watching the excitement is a common feature of people. No matter where they are, this situation will happen. Although they know that after seeing it, they will feel very uncomfortable or even leave a shadow, but there are still many people who want to come over and take a look to satisfy them.
Curiosity, Xu Lang didn't know what to say about this.
After Wang Guofu discovered the body in the refrigerator, he was very shocked. After calming down his inner emotions, he immediately drove everyone out of the room, and then notified Xu Lang as soon as possible to protect the scene.
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After seeing Xu Lang come out, Wang Guofu walked over with a grimace, handed Xu Lang a cigarette, and said: "Team Leader Xu, this case still belongs to you..."
Hearing Wang Guofu's voice, Xu Lang turned his head and glanced at Wang Guofu. Seeing his mournful face, as if his father had died, Xu Lang raised his eyebrows, then moved his eyes down to look at the gift Wang Guofu handed over.
Cigarettes, they were good cigarettes, forty-five in a pack. Xu Lang hesitated and took them, holding them in his mouth.
Wang Guofu was older than Xu Lang. Logically speaking, it was Xu Lang who should light the cigarette for him. However, after Xu Lang took the cigarette and put it in his mouth, Wang Guofu immediately took out a lighter and helped Xu Lang light the cigarette.
, and then directly lit one and smoked with Xu Lang.
Xu Lang took a long drag on the cigarette and glanced at Wang Guofu again, knowing what the last half of Wang Guofu's unfinished sentence meant.
Now that the identity of the body found in Room 402 has been confirmed, it is the mutilated body of Xu Lulu, who was previously killed in the Hyatt Hotel, and the case of Xu Lulu’s murder was taken over by CSY, then CSY should also take over this case now.
In this way, there will be nothing wrong with Wang Guofu.
For the veteran Wang Guofu, he will not rush to the front when encountering a case like those young people who have just entered the police force. What he thinks about is how to avoid getting into trouble. If it is an ordinary murder case, the deceased is an ordinary person.
If it were a person, Wang Guofu would have immediately organized manpower to investigate. Ordinary murder cases could not be murders of love, vendettas, killings for property or beauty, or killings of passion or manslaughter. Such cases are easy to detect and solved.
For him, it is performance, and the current situation is obviously not an ordinary murder case. The first person to die is a public figure, which is already very troublesome. What's more, the murder of Xu Lulu seems to have more to do with Sun Wenyao, who suffered a thousand knives, and Wang Guofu.
He doesn't want to touch it anymore. Now he doesn't seek merit but seeks no fault, and this is also the mentality of many people at his age.
"We, CSY, have taken over this case." Xu Lang exhaled a puff of smoke and said slowly.
"Team leader Xu, those who are capable work harder, thank you for your hard work."
Hearing what Xu Lang said, the stone in Wang Guofu's heart finally fell to the ground. A smile subconsciously appeared on his face, and he hurriedly said compliments.
Xu Lang was actually very disgusted with this. If it were in the past, Xu Lang would definitely not want to talk to Wang Guofu. However, I don’t know what happened this time. Xu Lang patiently chatted with Wang Guofu for a few words, and then asked him how he came here.
When they arrived in Room 402, how did they find the body? Wang Guofu relaxed after knowing that CSY took over the case, and told Xu Lang everything he knew.
In fact, everything is very simple. Wang Guofu received a call from the command center, saying that someone in Guangpu Community called the police and asked people from the police station to take a look. Because Wang Guofu was idle, he thought of coming over and taking a look. Unexpectedly,
But he unexpectedly discovered Xu Lulu's body. If he had known this earlier, he would definitely not have come.
Xu Lang completely ignored Wang Guofu's final complaints.
After smoking one cigarette, Wang Guofu handed over a second cigarette. This time Xu Lang did not take it, but said to Wang Guofu: "Although the body of the deceased has been identified, as you know, we at CSY are busy at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
I’m here, so I’d like to ask the people in your office to help protect the scene of 402.”
"No problem, this is no problem at all." Wang Guofu said hurriedly.
Xu Lang ignored Wang Guofu and walked towards Luo Jiayan.
Opposite Luo Jiayan stood a man in his thirties. The man's face was extremely pale and he was holding half a bottle of mineral water. He didn't know whether he was nervous about facing the police or because he saw the corpse in the refrigerator.
He was so frightened that his hand holding the mineral water kept shaking, and the bottle of mineral water was deformed by him.
Seeing Xu Lang coming over, Luo Jiayan stopped asking, and the man immediately looked at Xu Lang. Like most people who saw Xu Lang for the first time, the man's eyes first focused on Xu Lang's hair.
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Xu Lang glanced at the man, then took the interrogation record from Luo Jiayan's hand and read it.
The inquiry record was very simple, similar to what Wang Guofu said. Xu Lang took a brief look at it and returned the workbook to Luo Jiayan.
"Contact the landlord and ask for the identity information of the tenant in Room 402," Xu Lang said.
"I have just contacted the landlord. His family was traveling in the northwest. After learning that a murder occurred in their rental house, they also bought a car as soon as possible.
Tickets, ready to come back."
Xu Lang nodded and asked, "Have you visited all the surrounding residents?"
"I'm going to go." Luo Jiayan said.
Xu Lang nodded and didn't say anything. When Luo Jiayan saw that Xu Lang stopped talking, she continued her work.
It's still cloudy today, the sky is gray, and it seems like it's going to rain. However, there has been no movement. I don't know if God is preparing for a heavy rain, or if it is hesitating about whether it will rain again.
Xu Lang raised his head, glanced at the gray sky for a few times, then turned around and walked back to the crime scene.
The water stains in the room have gradually dried up, and the body parts in the refrigerator have been taken out one after another and placed on a nearby dining table. There is a number plate next to each body, which is used.
The purpose of determining the location of the corpse was to facilitate Qin Mingyue's work during further autopsy.
Xu Lang walked to Qin Mingyue and looked at the body parts on the table for a while. He found that although the body had been dismembered, it was relatively complete, with half a head, a right arm that had been cut into three parts, and a right leg.
Of course, there is also the torso part.
"What are the results of the preliminary autopsy?" Xu Lang asked.
"The body has been frozen for at least a week. Based on the temperature of the refrigerator and the degree of rigor mortis on the body, the body should have been placed in the refrigerator ten days ago." Qin Mingyue said without raising her head.
After hearing this, Xu Lang pondered for a moment and said, "Does that mean that after Xu Lulu was killed, she was dismembered by the murderer and then put into the refrigerator for freezing?"
Qin Mingyue nodded.
"What are the tools of the crime?"
Of course, Xu Lang was not asking about the weapon that killed Xu Lulu, but the tool used to dismember the body.
"Judging from the wounds on the body, the crime tool was not an ordinary murder weapon."
"What kind of murder weapon is that?" Xu Lang asked subconsciously.
Qin Mingyue raised her head, glanced at Xu Lang, and said, "This was not cut by humans, but by a machine."
"Inflicted by a machine?"
Xu Lang frowned.
"It is difficult for manpower to achieve this level. The wounds on the corpse are too smooth, without any trace of tearing. No one can cut a person in half with one knife." Qin Mingyue continued.
Hearing what Qin Mingyue said, Xu Lang frowned and said, "Could it be a professional slaughterhouse?"
Qin Mingyue nodded and said: "If it is a slaughterhouse, there are large machines inside, so it can be done."
Seeing that Qin Mingyue confirmed his idea, Xu Lang didn't ask any more questions. He took out his mobile phone and called Su Liangde's mobile phone, asking him to take someone to visit S City, especially the slaughterhouse in the center of the city, especially the meat products.
Processing plant.
After making the call, Xu Lang looked at the wounds on the corpse on the table and frowned.
As the case is being investigated, Xu Lang feels more and more that Xu Lulu's case has nothing to do with Sun Wenyao.
In the several cases that Sun Wenyao worked on in the past, although the death conditions of the deceased were very miserable, they were all done by Sun Wenyao with a scalpel. However, the bodies of Xu Lulu and Xu Wanzhen were not like this. The other party used a machine.
This means that either the murderer is not a student of Sun Wenyao, or that the murderer is not confident in his anatomy skills, or that this is a man who has a certain understanding of human body structure, but cannot do it as perfectly as he does now, so he has to borrow a machine
to assist.
Qin Mingyue seemed to know what Xu Lang was thinking. He pondered for a moment and said: "Based on my understanding of the Sun Wenyao series of cases, the murderers of Xu Lulu and Xu Wanzhen should be imitating crimes."
"Copycat crime?"
Xu Lang raised his brows subconsciously and looked at Qin Mingyue to wait for the next step.
"In the cases that Sun Wenyao worked on in the past, every victim's death, no matter how miserable the death was, had a sense of punishment. In fact, Sun Wenyao was not familiar with the deceased, so he was just using his own power to do this.
However, the corpses of Xu Lulu and Xu Wanzhen were not like this. Seeing their corpses gave me an intuitive feeling that the murderer did this purely for revenge. The reason why the corpses were made like this was to vent their anger.
"
Hearing what Qin Mingyue said, Xu Lang looked at Qin Mingyue, then at the body parts, thought about it, nodded, and agreed with Qin Mingyue's view.
Qin Mingyue didn't say anything and continued to work silently. Xu Lang couldn't help him much, so he didn't stop next to the body and walked to the balcony.
When he came to the balcony, Xu Lang subconsciously looked around. As soon as he raised his head, he saw a familiar building. It was the office building of Baiyou Entertainment Company. From here, you can directly see most of Baiyou Entertainment Company.
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This unexpected discovery made Xu Lang frown subconsciously. He seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and asked Fan Yang, who had just finished investigating the bathroom, and walked out: "Is this the scene of the first crime?"
Fan Yang raised his head and looked at Xu Lang, a little surprised, and said subconsciously: "No, didn't you see it, Brother Lang?"
Xu Lang remained silent and did not ask any more questions. Instead, he turned his head and looked at the office building of Baiyou Entertainment Company, frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.
Fan Yang looked at Xu Lang with confusion, wondering what was wrong with Xu Lang.