Sense of smell

When Lin Chuan hurried over with a piece of whole wheat bread in his mouth, the others had already gathered by the artificial lake and started searching and investigating.

During the investigation in the artificial lake yesterday afternoon, no dead bodies were found, and the whereabouts of the three students who fell into the water were also unknown. As a result, at [-] o'clock this morning, they received a call to the police from the cleaners of Haicheng Middle School.

The body had been salvaged ashore, and Lin Chuan ran towards the scene after swiping his ID.He smelled a sickening stench as he approached, so he stuffed the bread in his mouth.

Jiang Yue knelt on one knee next to the corpse, wearing rubber gloves and observing quietly.It was a male corpse, 178 cm tall and 56 kg in weight. His body was edematous, with fungiform foam in the mouth and nostrils, cyanosis on his lips and fingertips, partial shrinkage of the skin, and sporadic light-colored corpse spots all over his body.

Typical signs of drowning.

Jiang Yue looked at the corpse's right eye, and suddenly felt a person standing beside him, and asked without raising his head, "Have you had breakfast?"

Now ask me this?Lin Chuan frowned, and replied in a harsh voice, "I ate it."

"What to eat?"

"Bread...can you stop asking me at this time?" Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows in displeasure and asked strangely.

Hearing this, Jiang Yue stood up and said casually, "Then it's not appropriate to ask you during lunch."

Lin Chuan sighed helplessly, took out a pair of rubber gloves from the police robot and put them on, then turned on his watch and looked at: "The deceased, Qin Peng, was 16 years old, a student in Class One (2) of Senior High School, not that One of three missing students."

Jiang Yue didn't speak, and Lin Chuan continued to read: "The monitoring that night did not record any relevant clues. The corpse was soaked in water for more than three hours. Because it was winter, there was no extensive decay."

"How long is it until class time?" Jiang Yue clasped his hands and lowered his head to think for a moment, then said.

Lin Chuan looked at the time and said, "One and a half hours."

"Team Tang." Jiang Yue suddenly turned his head and shouted, and Tang Zhengfeng turned back in response, "First seal off this area, let's take the corpse back to the headquarters, and don't disturb the students in class."

The meeting room of the fact-finding team.

Tang Zhengfeng flipped through autopsy reports one after another on his watch, and said irritably with a cigarette in his mouth: "Is this school bewitched? Three people disappeared two days ago, and one died today. This perpetrator is going to heaven! "

Lin Chuan silently flipped through the medical examination sent by the forensic doctor: there were foreign objects such as drowning in the respiratory tract, water emphysema appeared, drowning and other foreign objects in the gastrointestinal tract, and bleeding symptoms in internal organs. It is true that he drowned in the artificial lake.

"One thing is very strange." Jiang Yue frowned and said: "The three falling into the water we found in the surveillance video all happened at the same time and at the same place, but the person who fell into the water seemed to have evaporated. But this time he died directly. It's not like before, pretending to fall into the water naturally."

Lin Chuan pondered for a moment and asked, "You mean, the two cases were not committed by the same person?"

Jiang Yue stroked the stubble on his chin, and said slowly, "Not necessarily..."

"Tang Zheng's younger brother is in Class One (2) of this high school." Huang Mao said, "After Tang Zheng died, he was not inspected, and there were no supervisors in the school. Maybe he did it. .”

Lin Chuan nodded in agreement and said: "Before Liang Yue also said that Tang Cheng and Tian Zhongyu had quarreled with the three missing students. Even if this murder case has nothing to do with him, the previous drowning case still needs to be interrogated."

Everyone agreed in agreement, Jiang Yue frowned, and after a while, he said: "Interrogating Tang Cheng and Tian Zhongyu, it is better not to have too many people, and there is one more thing."

Tang Zhengfeng extinguished the cigarette butt and asked, "What?"

Jiang Yue seemed uncertain and said, "It's best to let the medical examination department analyze the composition of the drowning fluid in Qin Peng's body."

At the end of the meeting, Lin Chuan packed his things and followed Jiang Yue out.Tang Zhengfeng listened to Jiang Yue's proposal and asked Lin Chuan and Jiang Yue to interrogate, while the rest searched for clues around the artificial lake, so everyone parted ways at the moment, and they all prepared to return to Haicheng Middle School again.

"Why do you want to check the composition of the drowning fluid in Qin Peng's body?" Lin Chuan asked, following Jiang Yue who was striding forward.

Jiang Yue turned to the underground garage and said while looking for the vehicle: "First, no one died in the drowning case. It should be said that even if someone died, we didn't let us find the body; second, the perpetrator of the drowning case was very concerned about 'disguised' as Naturally falling into the water, I deliberately found a good angle to muddle through."

He finally found the magnetic car parked in the first area, unlocked it and got into the driver's seat. Lin Chuan immediately followed and sat in the co-pilot. He continued to ask, "What does that have to do with the composition of Qin Peng's drowning fluid?"

Jiang Yue started the engine, stared at the front intently, and said, "If he died in this artificial lake, why didn't he pretend to fall into the water as usual, but instead escaped surveillance and committed the crime?"

Lin Chuan frowned thoughtfully, only to hear Jiang Yue continue: "It's possible that Qin Peng didn't die in the artificial lake at all, he was transported here!"

Jiang Yue stepped on the gas pedal suddenly, Lin Chuan couldn't help gripping the handrail, he was thinking about what Jiang Yue said in disbelief.Dawn has penetrated the clouds, covering the city resurrected from the night.

"Hey, have you heard? Someone died in our school!"

"I know! It seems to be drowned. I just came back from the cafeteria and found several policemen in the artificial lake!"

"It's so scary, who died?"

"I don't know, I heard it's from Class 2?"

"Hey, keep your voice down, Class 2 is here..."

……

Tang Cheng listened to the discussions and gossip in the corridor expressionlessly, and frowned displeasedly. He quickly walked past this group of noisy crowd like crows, returned to the familiar door of the class, and opened the door "swiftly". The voice of the discussion inside quickly subsided with the sound of him pulling the door. Everyone turned their heads to look at Tang Cheng who was standing at the door, and turned back to whispering.

"You know, his brother..."

"Will the disappearance and homicide cases..."

"It's hard to say, he usually looks very gloomy..."

"But Qin Peng is not very good at ordinary times."

"Be quiet..."

Tang Cheng returned to his seat without saying a word. The class bell finally interrupted the gossip. The teacher approached leisurely, turned on the holographic projection and said, "Class is over, don't make any noise."

There was silence in the classroom, only the teacher coughed a few times, and continued: "There have been a lot of things happening in the school recently, and the students must have heard of them, so the artificial lake is temporarily under surveillance by the police, and no one should approach it. .”

After he finished speaking, he took a meaningful look at Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng looked at him nonchalantly. After a while, the teacher adjusted his glasses and continued, "Okay, turn on your computers, and continue yesterday's content today..."

【Tang Cheng, are you okay? 】

As soon as Tang Cheng turned on the computer, he found a message from the lower right corner of the screen. The sender was Tian Zhongyu, who was his front desk and one of his few friends in this school.

【fine. ] He casually typed two words to reply.

Tian Zhongyu's message came soon again: 【Let's have dinner together at noon. 】

【Um. 】

Tang Cheng's hand rested on the screen for a moment, and finally bit the bullet and typed: [I have something to ask you. 】

Tian Zhongyu didn't reply for a long time, Tang Cheng was about to continue chatting, only to see Tian Zhongyu turned sideways from the front seat, and said to him quietly: "I know what you want to ask."

"Tang Cheng!" The teacher flicked the pointer a few times, and asked sternly, "What are you doing whispering!"

"I'm sorry, teacher, I asked Tang Cheng what I learned yesterday." Tian Zhongyu replied with a smile.

The teacher glared at the two of them again and continued teaching.Tang Cheng bit his lips hesitantly, bowed his head and nodded to today's study task.

Ever since Lin Chuan entered the police academy, he has rarely seen "normal" girls, either the indifferent technical type or the wild fighting type, so when he followed Jiang Yue into the teaching building of Haicheng Middle School, he couldn't help being a little excited.

But he forgot that even though he was not bad looking and tall, he was still inferior when standing next to Jiang Yue. Middle school students who were not familiar with the world saw a man like Jiang Yue, and even the boys looked straight at him, silently I made a wish to become such a handsome guy in the future.

Lin Chuan gritted his teeth and scolded Jiang Yue a hundred times secretly, thinking about how to make Jiang Yue lose his figure.Soon, I found the classroom of Class One (2) of Senior High School.

It was already the end of get out of class time, and there was a loose crowd in the classroom. Jiang Yue peeked in and caught a figure sitting alone in the corner, so he stopped a female classmate at the door and said, "Student, please call me Can Tang Cheng do it?"

The female classmate's eyes were shining brightly: "Okay, okay!"

Lin Chuan: "..."

"Tang Cheng, is that right?" Jiang Yue casually lit a cigarette, and motioned to the middle school student in front of him. Tang Cheng hesitated for a moment, then took a cigarette from the cigarette case and held it in his hand.

Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows, and just wanted to dissuade middle school students from smoking, but Jiang Yue said: "I don't know how to smoke, but I don't refuse, why?"

Tang Cheng was slightly startled, he lowered his head, and replied in a weak voice: "Because it was someone else's kindness..."

Jiang Yue took two random puffs, then extinguished the cigarette, threw it into the trash can beside him, and said, "No matter what kind of kindness you have, I will accept it all, because for you, kindness is too little, right?"

Tang Cheng's hand holding Yan trembled slightly, Jiang Yue caught his tiny reaction, and asked unhurriedly, "How is your sister?"

Tang Cheng raised his head and glanced at Jiang Yue, and after a while, he replied, "It's still the same."

Jiang Yue nodded and continued, "It's our fault for not being able to come to express condolences to you sooner."

Tang Cheng shook his head lightly. He leaned against the corridor and said lightly, "I know why you came to me."

"Then I'll get straight to the point." Jiang Yue paused for a moment, and then said, "The three students who disappeared a few days ago are in the same club as you. You have had quarrels, right?"

Tang Cheng pursed his lips and nodded.

Jiang Yue narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, and continued to ask: "The student who drowned in the lake last night was a classmate in your class, do you have any disagreements?"

Tang Cheng raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Yue. After a long time, he nodded slowly.

Lin Chuan frowned and thought, the victims of these two cases are actually related to Tang Cheng?

"Officer," Tang Cheng withdrew his gaze, and said calmly, "I said I didn't do it, do you believe me?"

Jiang Yue watched Tang Cheng silently. The tall, lanky boy was standing on the side of the sunlit corridor. The light cast from his side cast half of his body into shadow.

He stepped forward and patted the boy on the head lightly.

"I believe."

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The summary is selected from "The Devotion of Suspect X".

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