mind reader

"Wait," I interrupted, "the basement door was open?"

"Oh, that's right, it's open!" Yang Lin added, "After the police came, I checked my keys with me. How it was opened, the police said it was not pried open."

"Isn't there an electronic code on the door lock?"

Yang Lin waved his hand, "That was broken long ago. When Uncle Wang took over my shift, he specifically told me to ask the school to find someone to fix it earlier. He said that the electronic lock broke at the beginning of this semester. Now it's just an ordinary anti-theft lock."

"continue."

"The three of us followed the blood stains to the second basement floor, and found that the door of the freezer was also open, and the blood was coming from there. At that time, the lights in the freezer were not turned on, so we took a flashlight and shone in. I saw a person lying on the ground, surrounded by blood, and there were... intestines and so on... We were so scared that we ran up quickly, ran out of the anatomy building to catch our breath, and then called the police. "

"What did you guys do after calling the police and before the police came?"

"Informed the school personnel that Sun Qiang called the person on duty in the guard room and said that someone had died in the anatomy building and had called the police. Then the person on duty in the guard room called to report to the school. The police arrived in about 15 minutes. The school It took half an hour for the people to come. The three of us stood outside the anatomy building and waited until the police arrived before leading the police in.”

"That is to say, you guys didn't go in again during the 15 minutes before the police arrived when you came out of the anatomy building."

"No," Yang Lin's face became increasingly ugly, "How dare you go to see such a miserable scene..."

I turned my head towards the row of shelves where the lungs are placed, "Do you know what happened here?"

"I heard..." Yang Lin glanced at the shelf, and quickly turned his eyes away, "We were questioned by the police in the duty room at the time, and another policeman came and said there was something wrong upstairs, so we didn't know That... internal organs... But we didn't go up, and we don't know the specific situation upstairs."

"By the way," I pointed to the door of the book room, "the door was unlocked when I came here, is it already open?"

"The locks of several classrooms in this building can't be locked. The morning paper went up, and the school said that someone would come and replace the locks in the basement, but they haven't been replaced yet."

"When did the lock here break?"

"This... I can't remember clearly. These classrooms are usually unlocked and no one pays attention to them. Anyway, there is nothing good in them. No one except the teachers and students in class usually come to this ghostly place."

I pointed to the vacant space on the shelf, "Do you know what was there?"

"I... how would I know..." Yang Lin said hurriedly, "Although I have to check it several times a day, these specimens all look the same... so disgusting, I don't want to take a closer look."

I nodded pretentiously, and let him take me to the basement again.Yang Lin first went to the duty room on the first floor to get the keys. The duty room was very small, and there was only room for a bed and a nightstand. There was a box on the floor in the aisle, half-open, which looked like some clothes.Yang Lin's key was placed in the drawer of the bedside table. The drawer also had a lock, but it was just an ordinary lock, and it was easy to pick it open.

The first floor of the basement is an anatomy classroom, which is quite large. Yang Lin said it was used for public lectures. I just took a look outside and didn't go in again. Then I went to the second basement where Zhang Ling's body was found.There are four rooms on the second basement floor, and the innermost one is a freezer for storing corpses. When I entered, I found that although the building looked dilapidated from the outside, the settings here were considered high-end.I heard people say that the corpses are stored in a large pool full of formalin, but the equipment here is similar to that in Bai Haiyun's forensic evidence room, which is a pull-out freezer.

"The corpse is lying here," Yang Lin pointed me to the open space of the freezer, but I found it without his pointing. There was a large pool of blood on the ground, and human marks were drawn with white chalk.

The human seal was basically in the shape of a character, lying on the ground straight, with his hands spread to the side, as if he was being slaughtered.There were bloodstains everywhere on the surrounding ground. Yang Lin said that the police asked to preserve the scene, so no one cleaned it, but the blood on the corridors and stairs was cleaned up, and the specimen room was also cleaned, otherwise there would be blood everywhere in the building now .

"Is there a lot of blood?"

"Upstairs, I don't know, but we saw blood all the way up to here in the corridor."

Blood all the way?And the bloodstains extended to the specimen room on the fourth floor?

Bai Haiyun said that the police concluded that Zhang Ling's body was brought here after her death, there was no sign of a fight at the scene, and the lock of the basement door was not pried open.This shows that the murderer has the key, is familiar with the scene, and can easily move Zhang Ling's body.No fingerprints were left, and only a few vague footprints were collected, indicating that the murderer came prepared and the crime was very cautious.Extending the bloodstain from the basement to the specimen room on the fourth floor, and putting the lungs in the specimen bottle proved that he had a certain purpose.Then there is a lot of blood on the scene. I heard from Bai Haiyun that if a person is dismembered after death, the amount of bleeding will not be too large. Even if the bloodletting is done while alive, the blood should be extended from the second basement floor to the specimen room on the fourth floor. A considerable amount is required, and a relatively professional blood collection tool is required, otherwise the wound will coagulate after the blood flows for a period of time.

The murderer should have held blood with some tools and left bloodstains along the way, but why did he do such a complicated thing on purpose?Not only will it take a lot of energy and time to do these things, but it may also alarm the security guards on duty.Or, does he have a method that will not alarm the outside world?Can it just whizz away like a ghost?

I looked around, but I didn't find anything of value. If there was one, it would have been taken away by the police.But I can't just read it hastily and leave, it's too unprofessional.So I bite the bullet and check around, wishing I could get a magnifying glass out of my pocket.

Suddenly, my eyes drifted to the number of a freezer: 209.

Hey, isn't this what Wu Fan told me nervously when we were outside just now!

...The second basement floor, freezer number 209... I wanted to thank him...

Is this the "he" that Wu Fan mentioned?

I stretched out my hand to pull the box, but Yang Lin hurried over to stop me, "Comrade police, this... this is not allowed, there... there are... dead people..."

I looked around and asked, "There are so many here, are all the dead people released?"

"It's not... some are empty, but this one..."

I sneered and said, "I remember what you said just now, you said, you haven't seen what's in the basement, but you know...Since you haven't seen it, how do you know there are dead people in this box?"

"Comrade police, you don't know, this number... this number has been spread in the school..."

"What's the background?"

Yang Lin looked nervous, "...a new batch of specimens came from the anatomy building last week... I heard that this is a death row prisoner, or died unjustly, and the students are spreading the word."

"The donated material is all anonymous. Even if it is a body donated by a prisoner, neither the police nor the hospital will specifically explain it to the school. Who says he is a death row prisoner? Or did he die unjustly?"

"I don't know who spread the news... I was smoking on the stairs on Monday, and I heard two students say that the newly donated corpses are death row prisoners, and they must have died unjustly. It's this expression..."

expression?

I opened the box all at once, and Yang Lin jumped aside in fright and covered his eyes.The corpse was packed in a bag. I unzipped the bag completely, and the frozen gray corpse was exposed to the scorching light.Unexpectedly, according to Bai Haiyun, this death row prisoner who killed someone without repentance did not have the vicious face of a murderer as he had imagined. On the contrary, he looked good, with a well-proportioned naked/exposed body, well-proportioned muscles, and strong limbs. He is slender and his visual height is around 175. Although his hair has been shaved, it is still conceivable that he should have been a pretty handsome guy during his lifetime.Bai Haiyun was right, this was almost a perfect corpse, no wonder that necrophile was willing to spend money to euthanize him, the pervert might have done something to this corpse before it was brought over.

The only thing that spoils this beauty is the expression on the corpse's face.Even ordinary people can easily distinguish this kind of expression - unwillingness and resentment, with a little sadness.Seeing such an expression, it is not surprising that he has grievances.

Leaving such an expression on the world at the moment of death, is this person still worried about something until the last moment?Is it a grievance?No, looking carefully, there is no such element in this expression. He didn't complain about his fate. He killed someone, but he didn't feel guilty. So, should the person he killed deserve to die?What was the expression of the other deceased before he died?

"Police...comrade policeman..." Yang Lin said tremblingly, "That...close, close...this corpse has nothing to do with the school case..."

"It's okay, why are you so nervous?"

"Comrade policeman, there are some things...it's better to believe it...if this is really an unjust death...you provoke him, maybe...maybe..."

"He didn't die unjustly,"

"what?"

"It's nothing."

It's pointless to talk too much here, I'd rather believe it, if he really has it, even if the corpse comes to me, I won't wrong him if I let him die again.

Just as I was about to close the box, I inadvertently glanced inside and stopped immediately.I just pulled the zipper from the top of my head to my feet, so I didn't pay attention to my feet.When I looked into the bag again, I found that there seemed to be something dirty on the feet of the corpse.So I simply unzipped the zipper and looked at the feet of the corpse. This was terrible, my scalp was numb, my whole body was frozen into ice, and I was about to become one of the corpses here.

Under the feet of this corpse, there were dark red stains. Although it had solidified, I was very familiar with this color.

is blood!The soles of the feet of the clean body were actually stained with blood!

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3rd suspect

Xiao Ran came very quickly, dragging the half-dead Bai Haiyun, probably dug up from the bed, staring at me with the eyes of killing my father and enemy.After taking photos and taking samples at the scene, Xiao Ran took three security guards, Yang Lin, Guo Xing and Sun Qiang, back to the bureau for questioning, including me and Bai Haiyun.

The results of the blood comparison came out soon, and the blood on the soles of 209's feet was actually Zhang Ling's!The most bizarre thing is that after comparing the footprints of 209 with the two fuzzy footprints found at the scene, they can basically match!

"Damn it!" Xiao Ran stared at me with dark circles under his eyes, "You are really capable, you have dug out the dead!"

"I'm not helping you improve your progress."

"What's the progress?" Xiao Ran pointed to the file as if he wanted to pierce the table and said, "This case is already weird enough, once this clue is added, it will become more of a mess?!"

"Then you mean to say that you don't know?"

"Of course I didn't say that!" Xiao Ran turned the topic to Bai Haiyun again, "And you, it's okay to tell him some shit, people are dead, and you get involved in another case, it's really unsettling!"

"You didn't ask me to cooperate with him!"

"Hey, stop." Seeing that the situation was wrong, I hurriedly interrupted them, "Captain Xiao, what's wrong with you today? You're very angry! Don't use us as cannon fodder if you get angry! We didn't hire you again!"

Xiao Ran usually has a cold face, even I can't see his inner activities from his face, his voice is always calm and composed, today he lost his temper at us for no reason, and there is a lot of anger accumulated between his brows, This is strange, could it be the days of each month?

"Hmph, you still have the nerve to say it," Xiao Ran stretched out his hand, "Bring it!"

"what?"

"Police card!"

It's over... it's over!

Unlike Zhao Tiancheng, who is fooling around, Xiao Ran takes a serious line!Although he has done a lot of illegal operations such as giving some files and telling some inside information, but forging a police certificate is not a violation, it is illegal!I must have known it when they were inspecting the security just now. This time I was too arrogant, and it was my own fault.

I slowly took out the police card from my pocket, Xiao Ran snatched it away, opened it and looked at it a few times, "It's still an imitation, this steel seal is...huh?"

Xiao Ran's eyes fixed on the certificate, and after looking at it carefully for a while, his face suddenly darkened.

"Who gave you this thing?"

"Those who handle... certificates..."

"fart!"

Hey, the civil servant is swearing!

Xiao Ran took out his own ID card, turned it over to the ID photo, and threw it in front of me together with mine, "Which company can make such a similar stamp? It's an internal operation! Who gave it to you?"

Bai Haiyun said sourly beside him, "Who else is there, isn't it Zhao Tiancheng?"

Xiao Ran's face was so dark that it was the bottom of the pot. Although this was the first time I could clearly see emotions from his face, it was really... so scary!

"I, I, I... I was wrong..."

I hurriedly lowered my head and pretended to be obedient, but Xiao Ran didn't speak. After a while of silence, I took out the certificate from the leather case, took out the lighter and burned it.

"I don't know this time. Zhao Tiancheng has his way of doing things, but that's him! Don't learn these messy things from him! You can't ask for this kind of thing, let alone take it out! Do you know that if you find out, you will go to jail?!"

"understood……"

Why should I have a guilty conscience!It was obviously given to me by Zhao Tiancheng himself, and I didn't ask him for it... But it's only natural that it's been used for so long, and it's cheap to be scolded.Bai Haiyun was in a good mood seeing me being scolded, and there was a smile on that perennially pale face, it was... so scary!It's like seeing a dead body laughing. Hey!

As expected of an old fox, Xiao Ran didn't ask me about the situation until he gave me a scolding.I had no choice but to tell him the whole story honestly, including the frank confession that I knew Zhang Ling, the deceased, plus some additional inferences and people who might be related to the case.

"Zhang Ling has conflicts with Wu Fan, so there is currently a suspect. It seems that Wu Fan also needs to be interrogated."

"A suspect?" I asked, "Is Yang Lin not a suspect?"

"Zhang Ling died at 10 o'clock on Thursday night. Yang Lin had diarrhea on Thursday night. He went to the school doctor's room at 9 o'clock and received an infusion. He didn't leave the school doctor's office until 10:10. Testified. On the way back to the anatomy building, I met Guo Xing, who was on duty in the guard room that day. Guo Xing said that he was going to buy supper at the canteen. He happened to meet Yang Lin. Yang Lin went to the canteen with him. All the time proved that he was still in the canteen at 45:11, and it was almost 12 o'clock when he returned to the anatomy building. Yang Lin said that after eating supper, he went to check the doors and windows on each floor, and then went to bed before [-] o'clock. "

"That is, the time of Zhang Ling's death, he happened to have a perfect alibi? Don't you think it's too coincidental?"

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, anyway, there is no flaw at all now."

"Then is there any way to advance or delay the time of death? For example, freezing, isn't there a freezing room in the anatomy building? After killing Zhang Ling, put the body in the freezing room and take it out in the middle of the night, etc.? "

Bai Haiyun quit, "Do you think I'm stupid? I can't tell whether the corpse has been treated or not?"

"It's not that I have any doubts about your professionalism. It's just that it's often shown on TV. What buried in the soil and then dug out can delay the time of death or something..."

"You've watched too much Conan!"

Xiao Ran asked, "I think what you mean is to doubt Yang Lin? Why do you think Wu Fan is impossible?"

Can I say that Wu Fan didn't see any clues to the murder?

"Well, I didn't say that it must be Yang Lin, but Yang Lin is also suspected from a conventional point of view. As for Wu Fan, I currently think he is unlikely to be the murderer. How can a person see that the corpse is made like this?" Can a person who can spit out a lung specimen do it?"

Xiao Ran showed me the photos of the scene, it was really horrible.Zhang Ling's coat and top were thrown aside, her upper body was naked, and her trousers were unbuttoned to reveal her lower abdomen.The belly below the chest was slashed several times in a row, the belly was turned outward, and the internal organs were pulled out and thrown beside him.Contrary to this tragic state, she had a calm expression on her face, as if she was asleep, and she didn't know the pain at all.

Bai Haiyun said that the cause of Zhang Ling's death was hemorrhagic shock, and a large amount of diazepam was detected in the body. It should be caused by drug coma before being killed, and then a laparotomy was performed in the basement.

"Since the coma is the first, it is entirely possible that the basement is the first scene, and the transport of the unconscious person will not leave traces of resistance."

"After the drug test report came out, we also thought that the basement might be the first scene. In this way, Zhang Ling was likely to be moved to the basement before 10 o'clock, where she was killed and cut open. But Yang Lin said that he died at 11:[-] o'clock. The basement was locked during the inspection..."

"It's just a one-sided statement. Besides, even if Yang Lin is not the murderer, it is not ruled out that he is an accomplice!"

Bai Haiyun said, "Why do you keep holding on to Yang Lin?"

"He has the key, and the perfect alibi feels like it was done on purpose."

"He's not the only one," Xiao Ran added. "There are three sets of keys to the anatomy building. Except for Yang Lin's, one is in the main monitoring room and the other is in the teacher's office. The key to the main monitoring room has not been touched, but the teacher's office As long as the key is signed, teachers with authority can get it. The door lock in the basement is just an ordinary anti-theft lock, and the electronic combination lock is broken, and that kind of key can be distributed anywhere outside."

"But now apart from him and Wu Fan, we can't even find a single suspect. It can't be said that 209 ran out of the freezer and killed the person?"

After I finished speaking, there was a strange silence in the interrogation room.

"Hey, you civil servants don't believe in these superstitious stories, do you?"

"If there is no match between these two footprints, I think the prisoner may have deliberately smeared blood on 209's feet."

The photo Xiao Ran picked out was part of the blood splattered on the wall at the scene. It was only half a meter away from the head of the corpse, and the two blurred footprints were right on the edge of the wall. This position looked like a person standing Between the head of the corpse and the wall, and the front facing the corpse, this situation is beyond the imagination of the murderer.

"There are traces of similar footprints in other places, but they have been obviously cleaned up, and it is impossible to sample at all. The footprints here are relatively blurred, and the blood is only splashed here, and it happened to be stepped on. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to be ignored. , may have been missed by the murderer."

Don't say such things, it was missed by the murderer... Didn't you say that this is 209's footprints!Is there another suspect?

"I'm sure 209 died completely," Bai Haiyun said, "I wrote the death report."

I absolutely believe it!Compared with the living, Bai Haiyun is more interested in the dead, even if he is not completely dead, he will find a way to make 209 completely dead.

"Okay, everyone is tired today, let's go back and rest early," Xiao Ran said, "There are too many doubts in this case, it looks like it will take a lot of energy, Hai Yun has worked hard, don't stay up late and go to bed early. As for you kid ,"

Xiao Ran put the file on the table into the file folder, and threw it directly at my face, "Make up for your mistakes, and I won't hold you accountable for pretending to be a policeman."

You burned all the certificates, so you still plan to catch my pigtail?

"This is not good," I muttered, "This is a big case, and let me and an outsider participate?"

"Tell me about the recent major cases, which one did you not participate in? Which one did you not know the deceased? Which one did you not go to the scene of the crime?"

It's not what I want!

"Whenever you don't get excited when you see a dead person, you wish you were Sherlock Holmes."

Of course I wish I could be Sherlock Holmes, but Bai Haiyun is the one who gets excited when he sees a dead person!

After leaving a sentence "Let me know if you have a clue", Xiao Ran drove me out of the interrogation room.To be honest, I really don't want to worry about it this time. The combined suspicions of the two suspects, Yang Lin and Wu Fan, are not 209. How do we investigate this?It can't be said to be a corpse, can it?

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