crime shadow [criminal investigation]

The man stood at the intersection for a long time.

The rain in late summer falls as soon as it is said, wrapped in a few muffled thunders, and takes away the little heat left by the way.The rain hit the glass window, leaving a criss-crossed and messy water mark, cutting the night view of the city outside the window into fragments, blurring a puddle of confused and treacherous light.

Opposite is the busiest business district in Ning'an City. Rows of luxury stores with big LOGOs are ruthlessly mocking ordinary people who work hard in this city... At least they are laughing at the down-and-out man standing at the intersection.On a rainy day, he didn't even have an umbrella, and he smoked a non-combustible cigarette, as if he was waiting for someone.

Jiang Nan had been watching him for a long time, and the man looked up from time to time, but when Jiang Nan drew the curtains, the man immediately lowered his head, wrapped his drenched windbreaker tightly and walked around the corner.

The wall clock on the wall struck three times, it was eight o'clock.

Jiang Nan turned around and put on a smiling face. His porcelain-white skin glowed with luster under the crystal lamp, his eyes were curved into round arcs, and he smiled with a bit of youthful air.

He said to the girls sitting at the bottom: "Come here today, homework is due tomorrow, don't be lazy. It's raining, I suggest students go home together, or ask their parents to pick them up."

The "rustling" sound in the studio stopped instantly, and a girl jumped out from behind the canvas with her hairy head, staring at Jiangnan eagerly: "Teacher, I don't want to finish class yet."

Jiang Nan wrinkled his nose: "But I want a date."

There was a sigh in the classroom.

This is an art training institution. All the students who come to the class are high school students who are preparing for the art exam at the end of the year. After the culture class every day, they squeeze out time for training.Jiang Nan wasted 23 years of his life, and was finally awakened by a thunderbolt on a rainy night with lightning and thunder, thinking that he should find a serious job to do, and maybe he could make a fortune and marry a wife before the age of 30.So I made serious preparations and looked for a job casually. It didn't matter what I did, as long as the salary was high.

Whenever Jiangnan looked at the group of young girls who came here to admire his beauty, he felt that he was one step closer to becoming a success.

Compared with old-fashioned or bookish teachers, students prefer the young and cheerful Jiangnan.Whether it's Jiangnan's half-familiarity between a man and a boy, or his good temper without getting annoyed no matter how much he asks questions, they all satisfy the secret fantasies of adolescent girls.

"Okay," Jiang Nan took off the paint-dropped apron, "Go home, be careful on the road, don't take the path, and remember to ask the nearby store for help if you meet a suspicious man."

There was a rustle in the classroom, and the girls lined up to wash their paintbrushes in twos and threes, and responded to Jiangnan with a smile, and imagined which beautiful woman Jiangnan was going to date later.

After tidying up, the swaying skirt went away with the brisk footsteps of the girls.Children probably don't have a long relationship. They just complained that they were reluctant to part with the teacher, but they ran away in a blink of an eye.

The rain didn't stop, it was getting bigger and bigger.Jiang Nan stayed to tidy up the classroom. Before leaving, he opened the curtains and took a look. The man had disappeared.

Withdrawing his gaze, the raindrops on the glass window were reflected in his pupils again, and there were fragments of light shining in his eyes.He sent Jiang Bei a message with three simple words - it's raining.

About ten seconds later, Jiang Bei replied: I will pick you up in half an hour.

There was a smile on the corner of Jiangnan's mouth that he didn't notice.Yes, he also needs a parent to pick him up.

Taking an umbrella and turning off the lights, Jiangnan went downstairs and saw a female classmate wearing a backpack, standing at the door and looking towards the road, her little black dress fluttering gently in the night wind.

"No umbrella?" Jiang Nan asked her.

The girl turned her head, her face turned red, she raised her hand and pulled down the fisherman's hat on her head: "I have a hat."

"But it's not rainproof," Jiang Nan laughed, "Where do you live? I'll see you off."

"No, no, no," the girl flustered and waved her hands, "I... will go back by myself, thank you teacher."

"You're welcome."

In the end, the girl didn't get past Jiangnan, and cautiously got under the umbrella eaves.Xu was afraid of taking up space, so he hugged his arms tightly and tried to curl himself up very small.

The distance between Jiangnan and the girl was a punch, and the umbrella was not big enough. His left shoulder was completely wet, and the material of the clothes was close to the skin, outlining lean and powerful muscles.

"Turn left." The girl pointed forward, feeling a little weak under her feet.She really didn't want the teacher to take her home.In her heart, the teacher is not a crudely made plaster statue in the studio for people to copy, but a work of art carved out of ivory. She can't step on the sewage pit in front of her house, and she is even more afraid that the teacher will find that she lives in a dilapidated house. in the house.

——From the inexplicable inferiority complex of an adolescent girl.

It's funny to say that behind the bustling business district there is a piece of old and small, just separated by a road, but it seems like a moat across the sky.The concrete floor was crushed by trucks, and water accumulated. If you accidentally stepped on a "bomb", the sewage could splash on your face.

"Do you live here?" Jiang Jiang asked casually when he saw that the alleys in this area were like spider webs, with a few dim street lights that could not reach the end, and the surveillance cameras were just decorations.

"...Mmm." The girl buried her head even lower.

Jiang Nan's reflex arc went around and came back, only to see her embarrassment. "I mean, try to let your parents pick you up after school in the future, it's dangerous to be alone."

The sound of the rain hitting the umbrella was loud, drowning out the girl's reply as soft as a mosquito.Passing by a canteen, the girl finally raised her face and said, "Teacher, I'm a little cold, can you buy me a bottle of hot drink?"

As a female friend, Jiang Nan naturally would not refuse. He went into the canteen alone and bought hot milk tea and milk. After paying the money, he came out only to find that the girl had disappeared.

"..."

I think he Jiangnan is also a leader in the field of bluffing and deceiving. He once replaced his twin brother and sneaked into the city bureau without being discovered. Tonight, he was bluffed by a little girl.

Just as he was thinking, Jiang Bei sent a message saying that he had set off and asked where he was.Jiangnan hid from the rain under the eaves of the canteen, fixed a seat and sent it over.Seeing the bad weather, the boss closed the door early and went home. Before leaving, he moved a plastic stool to Jiangnan.

When it rains, the sewers on this dilapidated street are blocked, and the sewage keeps pouring out, and the whole alley is filled with a rancid smell.

Someone came treading water, and the footsteps were hurried.

"Oh, is this shop closed so early?" The visitor was a woman, and she craned her neck to look inside the canteen unwillingly, "What kind of business do you do here? The community deserves to be poor." The woman's mouth was like the sewer cover that ran away, she babbled for a long time, turned her head and squeezed Jiangnan again, and asked, "Young man, when did the boss leave? Last time he overpaid me. Haven't settled with him yet."

Jiang Nan smiled at the woman, and the light not far away cast a sly light into his eyes: "The boss said that he filed for bankruptcy. Usually, in such cases, the debt cannot be recovered."

The woman reacted for a long time, and finally ended her trip to ask for debts with a sentence of "Bah", and then twisted the waist of the bucket and sneaked into the alley.Within 2 minutes, a scream that pierced the eardrum was infinitely amplified by the long alleyway, cutting through the dark night sky like a sharp knife.

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woo woo woo woo——

The sound of sirens woke up the sleeping old and dilapidated community. Several police cars came through the rain and stopped suddenly at the entrance of the alley. The dark alleyway was illuminated by red and blue police lights.

Jiang Bei opened the car door, got out of the car wrapped in cold air, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt to his elbows, and raised his hand: "Protect the scene, hurry up."

Several police officers cordoned off the narrow alleys filled with police and melon-eaters.The on-site inspector held up the camera to take pictures, and every time the exposure was exposed, the girl's face was pale.

"Irrelevant personnel, please step back, don't destroy the scene, it's you! Don't pull the cordon!"

"Deputy Jiang Detachment!"

The torrential rain hit Jiang Bei's tough face. His complexion was not pretty, and the straight bridge of his nose cast a sharp shadow on his side cheek.He originally planned to come to pick Jiangnan home, but halfway through he received a call telling him to show up at the scene, saying that someone called the police that a homicide had occurred on Yulin Road, and what was even more annoying was that it was Jiangnan who called the police.

Others might get a pennant after reporting the case to the police, but Jiangnan can't, he will only be dragged back to the city bureau for detailed questioning.

Jiang Bei put on his hands and feet gloves, pulled up the cordon and sneaked in: "How is it?"

The forensic doctor wiped the rainwater from his face and said: "The dead body has not yet shown corpse spots, and the mandibular joint is not fixed. It is estimated that the time of death was within two hours. The dead had a blunt force trauma to the back of the neck, with little bleeding and cyanosis of the mouth and face. , There are bruises on the neck, and no occult blood in the mouth and conjunctiva has been found for the time being, and it may also be because the death time is too short. Hey! Did you take a good picture? The corpse is about to be released."

The girl was fixed on a signboard post, and the wet little black dress outlined a young and exquisite figure. The neck, waist, and legs were tied with fine hemp rope, and then tied to the post.Seen from a distance, the girl looks like she is waiting for someone in the rain.

The forensic doctor untied the rope, and the girl's neck immediately hung down, folded at a strange angle, and the black fisherman's hat on her head fell down.

Jiang Bei put the hemp rope into the evidence bag, and lightly touched the bruise on the girl's neck: "The ditch is so shallow."

"Yes," the forensic doctor snapped the girl's mouth, "the deceased's tongue receded slightly, which doesn't meet the characteristics of mechanical asphyxia, and here," the forensic doctor pulled down the girl's collar, revealing the slender collarbone and thin chest. "The supraclavicular fossa, suprasternal fossa, and intercostal bone are sunken inward. This usually occurs in patients with dyspnea, that is, the three-concave sign will appear when inhaling forcefully. I only preliminarily deduce that the specific cause of death must be done after an autopsy. Know."

"That is to say, she was tied to a post with a rope after she died. How can a healthy person have difficulty breathing?" Jiang Bei pressed the injured back of the deceased's neck, and followed the small protrusion on the cervical spine with his fingertips. Up: "It is suspected that the blunt force blow caused the fracture of the first and second cervical vertebrae, and the autopsy should pay attention to whether it is respiratory failure caused by the compression of the posterior medulla oblongata by the fracture fragment."

The forensic doctor responded, thinking that what you said was yes.

As the deputy head of the criminal police detachment of the Ning'an City Bureau, Jiang Bei has rarely stumbled in his ten-year career, except for a serial murder case capsized half a year ago.The boat turned over, and the image of the golden bachelor he worked so hard to create was also overturned.

"Old Wang," Jiang Bei raised his hand in greeting, "Have you found the tools for the crime?"

Wang Zhipeng is most annoyed when people call him Lao Wang, which sounds like the one next door.He wanted to slap Jiang Bei on the head with the brick in his hand: "Tell Lao Wang again, believe it or not, I will kill you? A group of shabby brats in the bureau learned from you. Every day, Lao Wang and Lao Wang yelled, It’s not big or small! I found a brick, and the fracture coincided with the wound on the back of the victim’s neck, but the rain was too heavy, and the scene was almost destroyed. It’s best if I can extract DNA. Up for auction! I also found a schoolbag with a broken zipper, and the cash, mobile phone, and student ID card inside were all intact. The victim is Wen Yu, a high school student. It seems that the murderer did not seek money."

Jiang Bei squatted on the ground and stared at the deceased. The girl's eyelids were half drooping, revealing half of her dark pupils. With the little black dress on her body, there was an indescribably weird feeling.

"Take the corpse back." Jiang Bei got up and walked towards the police car parked at the entrance of the alley, "A team is investigating the victim's social relationship, pay attention to those who study medicine. Lin An, have you contacted the victim's family? "

Lin An, the first-line criminal policeman, was fighting wits and courage in the car with the caller Jiang Jiang and the woman who was the first to discover the victim.

"When I found Wen Yu, she still had a temperature. I guess the murderer hadn't gone far." Jiang Nan rubbed his forehead, looking tired, "When I call the police, I'll ask you to check the surveillance cameras near the community, maybe you can catch him." murderer."

"Be correct, I asked you to take notes, not to guide the work." Lin An tapped the folder with a pen, "I ask you, why did you appear here?"

The main reason why Lin An didn't deal with Jiangnan was because Jiangnan kidnapped his boss.Usually, the two can smell the smell of gunpowder within three sentences, and they are both thinking about how to kill each other.

Jiang Nan simply leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes and fell asleep: "Wen Yu doesn't have an umbrella, I'll take her home."

"After that, what are you doing at the entrance of the canteen?"

"Wait for Ah Bei to pick me up."

"Call Vice Captain Jiang!" Lin An couldn't take it anymore, so he slapped Jiang Nan on the head with the file folder.The woman on the side was already scared out of her wits, but when she saw the police beating her, she quickly moved her position.

Jiang Nan raised his eyelids and gave Lin An a "you're dead" look.

"What are you looking at, talk about it! Don't you know who you are?" Lin An was furious, and then asked, "How did you find out about the deceased?"

Jiang Nan said: "I heard my aunt screaming, I ran over and found it."

The woman nodded frantically at the side, and squeezed out a voice from her throat: "That, that... so what, Wen Yu is my neighbor's daughter, I, I... thought she was waiting for someone, went over and saw, she was dead! This young man Don't be afraid, call the police. Oh my god..."

Just as the woman was about to have a seizure, there was a bang, the door was pulled open from the outside, and wind and rain poured in at the same time.The three of them heard the sound and saw Jiang Bei standing at the door, his soaked shirt showed broad shoulders and a strong waist, and the coldness emanating from his body made the woman shrink back in fright.

Jiang Nan sat upright in an instant, his eyes wandered over Jiang Bei for a moment, his eyes bent, and all the affection was locked at the end of his charming eyes.

Jiang Bei stretched out his hand and pointed at Jiangnan, and said in a deep voice, "Get in my car and follow me back to the City Bureau to cooperate with the investigation."