crime shadow [criminal investigation]

It's raining.

The child's padded clothes were saturated with water and weighed heavily on his body.His throat was strangled, and he let out a weak whimper—someone pulled his collar from behind.

The woman went mad and dragged the child across a muddy path and ended up on a bridge.Beneath him is the rolling river, and the rolled up wild waves are like hands stretched out in hell, trying to drag people into the abyss.

"Die! Die! Ghost child!" The woman let go of her hands, and the child fell into the water. On a stormy night, even the splash of water was swallowed up.

No one seemed to find the child.Who would come to such a ghostly place at night.

The foul-smelling river water slapped his frail body, and the child reluctantly grabbed a water plant and swayed with the garbage in the water.

"Don't be afraid, give me your hand!"

Suddenly, a big shiny hand was held in front of him, it turned out that someone really would come to such a ghostly place.The child opened his water-soaked eyes and saw clearly that the person who came was a big brother, but he was so stupid, lying on the bank and stretching out his hands in vain, he couldn't catch him no matter what, everything was so out of reach.

The water plants broke with a snap, and the huge waves swept the children into the whirlpool.

Stupid brother, the child thought.

The surroundings became a vast expanse of whiteness, like a corridor of time.

It was the same night, the rain didn't stop, it crackled on the glass windows, there was lingering heat in the room, and the honey water on the bedside was completely cool.The child snuggled into a warm embrace, his body temperature made him tremble.

The child said: "I will lie in your arms, you can kill me if you love me or hate me, don't be afraid of me."

puff-

The owner in his arms pierced the blade into his skin, and the intense pain forced the child to bite the side of the other's neck tightly.

He heard the other party say stubbornly: "Good night, kid."

Bang!

The glass windows were all shattered, and a large group of people came stepping on the shards, their roars and cries almost piercing the eardrums.

"Report, the suspect's vital signs are unstable!"

"Quick! Call an ambulance! Take it away!"

"No, give it back to me!"

……

The hustle and bustle faded away like a tide, leaving only the sound of the beating heartbeat echoing in his head. The child saw a thick blackness that could not be wiped away, and the boundless darkness surrounded him from all directions, but he could still see clearly the people standing in the distance. The one who was exactly like him.

He said, "Jiangnan, go back."

"Jiangnan, we will become one."

The incessant rainstorm in the dream woke Jiangnan up, bringing the lost memory fragments back to his brain, but he didn't react too much, he just calmly opened his out-of-focus eyes, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on the tip of his delicate nose .

I don't know who covered him with a coat, sniffed it, the smell of the material was the same as in the dream, it belonged to Jiang Bei.

Jiang Nan didn't get up, curled up under his coat, and as he moved, the healed wound on his back seemed to open again, and was then stitched up by the heat from the coat.

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the inquiry room and said, "Brother, you have slept all night, and you will be charged for any further sleep. I have found your alibi, and you can leave."

"Don't call me big brother, I can't stand it." Jiang Nan got up, put his coat on his wrist, his face was a little pale.

The policeman was still standing at the door waiting for him to come back to his senses, when suddenly a steady and powerful male voice came: "Who said he can leave, 24 hours haven't arrived yet."

Jiang Nan cursed secretly.

The policeman turned his head and called Squadron Yang, thinking that there was a good show to watch, but Yang Chao stared back into the office.

Jiang Nan still dozed off, leaned lazily on the back of the chair, his long legs crossed the line arrogantly, and stretched under the opposite chair.Before Yang Chao could speak, Jiang Nan said, "I don't remember, I don't know, I don't know. I'm here as a police officer to cooperate with the investigation. If you want to ask me about the serial murder case, please make an appointment in advance."

In the serial murder case six months ago, six people died unexpectedly. The police believed that Jiang Nan was a major suspect and arrested him overnight.The person was caught and the materials were prepared, but the result was transferred to the procuratorate for the judgment that the facts of the crime were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, and additional investigation was required.The Municipal Bureau set up a task force for this purpose, and Yang Chao, the squadron leader of the First Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment, recommended himself to overthrow his boss and become the leader of the task force.

His reason was very simple. He believed that Jiang Bei, the former leader of the task force, had a very close relationship with the suspect, so he should avoid it and should not participate in the investigation to ensure fairness and justice.

Yang Chao always regarded Jiang Nan as the murderer of the serial case, but he suffered from lack of conclusive evidence. In addition, something happened to Jiang Nan on the night of the arrest. After waking up from the ICU, his mind was shattered. North Korea's investigations have posed enormous obstacles.The doctor said it was psychogenic amnesia, but Yang Chao didn't believe it, how could this rotten stalk of a fucking TV series come into reality?It's not bad to say that Jiangnan is pretending to be sick. Anyway, this kid's acting skills can win an Oscar.

Jiang Nan got up and was about to leave, Yang Chao said coldly: "Do you think that the evidence is insufficient, and everything will be fine if Captain Xu and Deputy Captain Jiang bail you out? Don't forget, who insisted on arresting you back then."

Jiangnan froze for a very short time, it was a tense movement that was not easy to be noticed by others, then he leaned over, and the black shadow that was dormant under the table crawled out and easily covered Yang Chao: "It doesn't matter who wanted to catch me at the beginning. , but if you want to arrest me, you have to produce evidence. The time limit for the first supplementary investigation has passed. If the second supplementary investigation still fails to produce evidence, you can only do not prosecute. You are here when you are free Talk nonsense to me, it is better to do something serious."

Yang Chao looked back at Jiangnan, he had seen the eyes of countless criminals, sinful and dirty, but no one was like Jiangnan, straightforward and naked, like the surface of black and calm water, but there was an undercurrent hidden in the depths.

He didn't go around the corner, and said directly: "Six people were killed in the serial murder case, including your brother Cheng Ye. On the night of the fourth victim's murder, the surveillance camera captured a blurry figure from the back, dressed in the same clothes as you, and Deputy Jiang was at the scene of the crime that night. The unit building saw you. At first, everyone didn’t know that Cheng Ye had a twin brother, so they naturally suspected Cheng Ye. But when the fifth victim was killed, Cheng Ye stayed at the city bureau and had no time to commit crimes. How do you explain this?”

"You can explain it any way you want," Jiang Nan leaned back and changed into a comfortable position, "But you said it all, Cheng Ye and I are twins, and you didn't notice that I replaced him at work. Can you see what, see through my DNA?"

"What about Cheng Ye?" Yang Chao's eyes were tightly pressed, "You forced Cheng Ye to change identities with you and replace him. You stayed at his house the night Cheng Ye was killed. Cheng Ye was a suspect at the time. You killed him and pretended to be afraid of crime." Suicide, I thought the case was over, but I didn’t expect the police to find clues from Cheng Ye’s stomach contents, and learned that you two are identical twins. After your identity was revealed, you ran away, how should this be explained?”

"You first suspected Cheng Ye. After his death, as a younger brother, I inherited his mantle as a 'suspect'. Isn't it reasonable to run away?" Jiang Nan said, "I don't deny that I replaced Cheng Ye. You guys have settled accounts with me. But if you say that I killed someone, you have to produce evidence, such as fingerprint DNA at the scene of the crime. I don’t remember the past. If I kill someone, when the evidence comes out, I will When will I stretch out my hands to handcuff you, but you don't want to catch me with a surveillance video."

Jiang Nan raised his hand to look at the non-existent watch, and said, "Have you finished asking? My brain is broken, and I have an appointment with a doctor, and I have to go for a reexamination."

Since Yang Chao became the leader of the special case team, he had summoned Jiangnan many times, but was finally complained by Jiangnan on the grounds that "continuous subpoenas were suspected of being detained in disguise".

"Don't give up on treatment," he said.

"..." Jiangnan walked to the door, paused, and said, "My driver's license was confiscated, and I have to report when I move and change jobs. I can't run away, so can you save me trouble, thank you. "

These two people don't like each other, in Yang Chao's heart, Jiangnan is a street bastard with a mother but no mother's education, a social cancer, and sooner or later he will have trouble if he doesn't shut him in.And Jiang Nan felt that Yang Chao was pedantic and a stick with justice as his weapon.

The two reached a high degree of unity in their evaluation of each other.

After seeing the club, Jiang Nan was not in a good mood, so he avoided the crowd and strolled to the second floor.Jiang Bei was standing at the end of the corridor on the phone, and before Jiang Nan came over, he had already hung up.

"Your clothes." Jiang Nan handed him the jacket, touched the other's index finger lightly with his fingertips, and split it instantly, "I thought about it last night and figured out why Wen Yu's death was so weird."

He was like an ordinary citizen who provided clues to the police, if his gaze hadn't fallen on Jiang Bei's side neck.

Jiang Bei made him stare uncomfortably, and pulled up the collar of his shirt to cover the bite marks on the side of his neck: "Why?"

"Like..." Jiang Nan tilted his head and seemed to be thinking, "Like a painting called "Girl in the Rain". The picture was sent to your mobile phone. You can compare the photos taken at the scene. The girl in the painting is the same as Wen Yu. Same, black clothes and black hat, standing in the rain, eyes half closed."

Jiang Bei looked at the phone screen, and a depressing painting came into view.In the painting, the girl in black stands in the rain, her pale face blending into the background, and the paint smeared by the water represents rain, dripping from the brim of the girl's black hat.

Many artists are good at using cool colors to render a gloomy and heavy atmosphere, but this painting is a bit different.The girl's right eyeball is like a colored contact lens slipped out by girls, hanging on the half-closed eyelid. She is staring at you, and it seems to be staring into the distance, which adds a bit of paradox.

Jiang Bei remembered Wen Yu's death, except for the thin hemp rope used to fix her body, she was seven points similar to this girl in terms of dress and demeanor.

Is it a coincidence?If not, then the murderer was imitating the painting.

Jiang Bei asked: "What special meaning does this painting have?"

"Paintings are banned," said Jiangnan, ""Girl in the Rain" is a portrait by a Ukrainian artist because the girl's eyelids are so overpainted that they cast shadows under her eyes at night, making it look as if she was walking with her eyes open. Look at you. Coupled with the depressive use of colors, the three customers who bought it felt that the painting hung at home like a ghost monitoring life, and even had hallucinations. But later it was found that the painting was coated with hallucinogenic drugs, The painting was banned. But the rumors either disappeared over time, or intensified, and some people said that anyone who saw the real work would die."

Jiang Bei didn't believe in the theory of strange powers and chaotic spirits, but Wen Yu did have many doubts, such as why the murderer didn't hit the head, but the cervical spine?Assuming that the murderer is imitating the painting, smashing the cervical spine can preserve the integrity of the "protagonist"'s body to the greatest extent, and will not splatter blood like smashing the head.The medulla oblongata above the back and upper part of the first and second cervical vertebrae is the center of life. Compression may cause acute cardiac arrest and respiratory failure.

To solve a case does not rely on imagination, otherwise it is not called investigation.When his thoughts diverged to a certain extent, Jiang Bei stopped it in time and said, "Wen Yu's autopsy results have not yet come out, and the specific cause of death is still unknown. I will refer to what you said as appropriate."

"Well, you can figure it out." Jiang Nan changed the subject, and his eyes were on the side of Jiang Bei's neck again, "I have always wanted to ask, who bit the bite mark on your neck?"

The question was so abrupt that Jiang Bei's hand gripping the phone was sweating.But Jiangnan was not unusual, as casual as asking "Have you eaten yet?"

Jiang Bei took a deep breath imperceptibly, and said, "The cat bit me."

Jiang Nan wrinkled his nose at Jiang Bei and softened his voice: "It's so fierce."

Jiang Bei looked at him: "It's fierce."

"Don't bite back?"

As if thinking of something, Jiang Bei's eyes flickered: "I bit it back."

Jiang Nan teased him: "How did you bite, and where did you bite?"

For some reason, Jiang Bei thought of the stray cat lying in front of the city bureau. The cat was cleaned up white by the policewoman. bite.

He's pretending to be obedient, but he's actually very wild.

Seeing that he was silent, Jiang Nan stopped teasing, put his hand into Jiang Bei's coat on his wrist, and ran his fingertips along Jiang Bei's forearm for a while: "I'm going to the hospital, don't miss me."

He is always like this, after tickling the tip of his heart, he finds various reasons to escape.Jiang Bei was familiar with his routine, so he didn't stay, put down his shirt sleeves, turned and walked into the office.

It seems that Wang Zhipeng has been here for a long time. The pancakes and fruits have been gnawed until only a piece of dough is left. There are two reports next to the greasy plastic bag.He said to Jiang Bei: "Here you come? You only came in when my butt was numb. It seems that it's time to suggest to the higher-ups to put up a sign at the entrance of the Municipal Bureau, and just say 'Evil spirits and Jiangnan are not allowed to enter'."

As a middle-aged and elderly person whose reflex arc can circle the earth five times, Wang Zhipeng once saw that Jiang Bei could not get a wife, so he introduced all the unmarried daughters of distant relatives who could not reach him to Jiang Bei, but none of them succeeded.Only then did Wang Zhipeng realize that something was wrong, and he concluded overnight that it must be the reason for Jiang Beiying. The small appearance and temper are like Jiang Beiying's illegitimate child, and the girls must not want to be stepmothers, so it can't be done. Therefore, Wang Zhipeng has a lot of opinions on Jiang Bei.

"Old Jiang, I'm not talking about you. Everyone knew about the case back then. Although it's all your fault that Jiang Nan lost his mind, he can jump up and down now. The child is old enough to learn to let go."

Jiang Bei: "..."

Lin An on the side looked at Wang Zhipeng with a look of caring for the mentally retarded, and felt that this old man was not a question of whether the reflex arc was long or not, but that he didn't have a reflex arc.At the same time, Lin An was also very envious of Wang Zhipeng's clean eyes that had never seen any horror scenes.

After eating the pancakes, Wang Zhipeng said, "I went to the forensic doctor to get the inspection report, and it was confirmed that the brick was the tool used to commit the crime, and there was a strand of Wen Yu's hair stuck to it, which should have been brought down when Wen Yu was smashed on the back of the neck. As for the others, there is nothing. .I also brought you the results of the autopsy, please take a look."