sneak peek

Gu Yexi circled around the corpse, not knowing what he was looking at, "Hurry up, tell me, don't be silly."

In fact, Mo Wang didn't think about who the murderer's target was, but judging from Gu Yexi's performance, he guessed that he thought the murderer's target was Gu Tianming. He hesitated and said, "Judging from the bloody footprints on the ground, he She went in and out of this room several times. Lin Luo might just be an accidental collateral damage."

Gu Yexi: "Well, next."

Huang Jiade: "According to the surveillance at the gate downstairs, Lin Luo arrived home at 6:8 p.m., and Gu Tianming arrived at 10:[-] p.m. Lin Luo should have died when he got home. If you leave before, there is no need to wait for Gu Tianming to come home."

Meng Ning: "In the case two months ago, the female deceased was a housewife without a job; the male deceased was a project manager of an advertising company. The two female deceased had nothing in common in appearance, background and personality, but the male deceased The dead are all middle-level people in the company, I think this is the preference of the dead, so the target is Gu Tianming."

Li Zi: "The murderer cut the female victim's throat with a knife, but the male deceased changed his killing method. The murderer could have killed Gu Tianming and left, but he knocked him out first, tied him here, and waited for several hours. , Wait until he wakes up before killing him, isn't this obviously aimed at him?"

Gu Yexi nodded very satisfied, "Well. Gu Tianming's suit doesn't fit at first glance, and the leather shoes are quite old. They should have been dusted in the corner for a long time. This suit should not be his original clothes, but the murderer's clothes. Give him a replacement."

Li Zi: "The murderer brought it himself? Or?"

Meng Ning pointed to the wedding photo on the table, in which Gu Tianming was very thin, and the suit on his body was the same style as the suit on the corpse, "The monitoring at the gate of the community showed that he was wearing an ordinary T-shirt and jeans when he came home. But it's his own clothes, it's just that he's gaining weight and it doesn't fit him."

Mo Wang: "Was the male deceased two months ago also put on a suit?"

Meng Ning nodded, "It is true that he died wearing a suit, but according to the surveillance, he was wearing that suit when he returned home."

Huang Jiade: "So the murderer's preference is management men in suits?"

Gu Yexi pointed to an empty chair opposite the deceased, and asked, "Don't you think this chair is a bit strange?"

Li Zi looked at the chair carefully, "Isn't it just an ordinary chair? What's so strange?"

Gu Yexi patted him on the head, "I didn't say it was the chair itself, I said it was placed here. In the study room of someone's house, there are chairs on both sides of the table? It's not the dining table."

Mo Wang nodded, "Indeed, the position of the deceased is directly facing the computer. This empty chair is placed opposite him. There is no office work and the backlight is on."

Meng Ning: "Look at the style of this chair. It doesn't match the desk either. It may have been taken from another room. Do you think the murderer brought it here on purpose?"

Gu Yexi sat on the chair and looked at the corpse for a while, "The murderer put the chair here to appreciate his masterpiece. In his fantasy, the dead should exist in this posture."

A scene appeared in Meng Ning's mind. In a dark room, some light shone on the face of the deceased through the window. A perverted killer sat with his legs crossed opposite the deceased, smiling and admiring his masterpiece.She couldn't help shivering, feeling creepy.

Mo Wang: "What is he admiring? The passing of the deceased's life? Or is he admiring the deceased as his own work of art?"

Gu Yexi shrugged, "It's all possible. Do you have the case information from two months ago? Show me."

Meng Ning handed over the case information and said, "Basically, the same as the scene of this case, the murderer did it very cleanly without leaving any clues, and there was no similar case after that. They will investigate in the direction of vendetta. It now appears that the murderer and all the dead were probably unknown."

Gu Yexi turned around while watching, "In the first case, according to the surveillance, the wife arrived home at 7 pm. She was cut in the bathroom with a knife, died on the spot, and was put on the bed in the bedroom. After more than an hour, the man The deceased went home and was wounded by a blunt instrument. The murderer knocked him out and tied him in the study. When he woke up, he suffocated to death with a transparent plastic bag over his head. Emmmmm, the murderer should have observed them and knew the approximate time when they arrived home What time is it? Sneak into the house ahead of time and wait for them to come back and deal with them one by one. The death time of the female deceased was around 8 o'clock, and the death time of the male deceased was 3 o'clock in the morning? What's the difference?"

Huang Jiade: "It's uncertain about the knockout. Some people fainted for a while, and some people fainted for several hours. Maybe the man in the first case woke up after being fainted for a long time."

Gu Yexi nodded, "It can be seen that in the murderer's fantasy, the male deceased must have died in the study, wearing a suit, with a transparent plastic bag on his head, and he had to watch from the sidelines. So the male deceased is the main target, but the murderer showed that he was also ready to kill the female dead, because they would hinder him from attacking the male dead. The murderer simply solved her, but felt that he was sorry for her, so he wanted her to be discovered Try to be as decent as possible, so I moved back to the bedroom, covered the quilt, and tidied up my grooming."

Mo Wang asked, "How do you know that the murderer arrived early and sneaked into the house?"

Gu Yexi pointed to the photo, "The body of the first female deceased was wearing 10cm high-heeled shoes. Generally speaking, you would change into slippers as soon as you get home, right? Especially with such high-heeled shoes, wouldn't you be exhausted wearing them when you go home? Of course , it is also possible that the murderer helped her put it on, but there was a lot of blood on the instep and the shoes, but the toes blocked by the shoes were not stained with blood, which means that the deceased was wearing these shoes when he died. Then only One explanation is that she was killed before she could change her shoes when she got home. She was killed in the bathroom. I guess she got her hands dirty when she came back from grocery shopping, so she planned to wash her hands first and then change them. Slippers. After entering the bathroom, the murderer suddenly appeared and cut her throat with a knife. This time, the deceased was also not wearing slippers. She probably planned to put things in the kitchen first, but before she could leave the kitchen, she was killed by the murderer by surprise. .So the deceased is waiting at home, and will strike as soon as the mistress returns."

Everyone nodded repeatedly, and Li Zi took the opportunity to flatter him, "So, the boss is really careful, he can see through the murderer at a glance."

Gu Yexi waved his hand, telling him to save his flattery, "There is surveillance in this building, right? We should be able to find the murderer."

Meng Ning looked distressed, "Yes, but only at the gate of the community. There are more than a dozen buildings here, and you don't need to register to enter, so it's hard to find."

Gu Yexi pretended to be deep and said: "The murderer should have left with a rather big bag."

Meng Ning: "Why?"

Gu Yexi: "There will be a quiz with prizes. If you guess correctly, you will be rewarded with an ice cream from a convenience store."

Huang Jiade: "Tsk tsk tsk, so picky."

Gu Yexi glared at him, "You, deprive you of the right to win the award, and won't buy it for you if you guess right."

Huang Jiade: ...Do you think everyone is as greedy as you? ? ?

Meng Ning: "The spoils? He took the original owner's clothes?"

Li Zi rubbed his chin, "I think it contains the stick used to stun the dead."

Huang Jiade: "I have been deprived of the right to win the award, so I don't want to guess."

Mo Wang: "Uh...uh...his own clothes?"

Gu Yexi said with a smile: "The waves behind the Yangtze River drive the waves ahead, you old fritters will be eliminated sooner or later."

Li Zi refused to accept, "You are the oldest here?"

Then he was beaten by Gu Yexi.

Gu Yexi hugged Mo Wang's shoulders, "Come on, little Momo will explain to them."

Mo Wang was a little embarrassed, "The female deceased was killed by cutting her throat, shed so much blood, there must be a lot on the deceased's body. Judging from the bloody footprints here, there are also a lot of stains on the shoes. If he walks out like this , at a glance it would be seen as the murderer, so he had to replace everything. No bloody clothes and bloody shoes were found at the scene, nor were any trash cans nearby. Then there is only one possibility, he took it away by himself.”

Gu Yexi: "The murderer's cautious personality probably won't make it so easy for us to find him around."

Mo Wang added, "It should also contain the stick that knocked the dead unconscious."

Li Zi shook his finger at Gu Yexi, "Look, I'm not wrong."

Gu Yexi rolled his eyes.

Meng Ning: "Then focus on the suspicious-looking man who left after 11:[-] p.m. with a big bag? I'll go downstairs now."

Gu Yexi nodded, "I will go back to the bureau later, and the surveillance of the case two months ago will also be taken out, and the two will cross to see if there is the same person. Li Zi and Jiade, you follow, and after locking down the suspected murderer, take a screenshot , ask the management office and the people in the community to see if they have seen it recently. Since the murderer has observed the couple for a while, it is likely that he has frequently appeared in this community recently."

Mo Wang continued to wander around the house, looking for any missing clues.Gu Yexi stayed in the study all the time, sometimes staring at the empty chair in a daze, sometimes sitting on it and looking around, sometimes moving the chair back, sometimes moving the chair left and right, as if a primary school teacher was doing a variable control experiment Yes, I don't know what I was thinking.

On the way back to the office, Gu Yexi seemed to be a little absent-minded. The journey was surprisingly quiet, and Mo Wang couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

"Do you want to eat popsicles?"

"...I just don't think I can figure it out."

"Chair?"

Gu Yexi turned his head and glanced at Mo Wang quickly, "Do you have an idea?"

"No, I just saw that you were staring at the chair just now, as if you cared."

"Well, why would the murderer do that?"

Mo Wang didn't understand what Gu Yexi meant, "Didn't you just say that the murderer was sitting there admiring the death of the deceased?"

"I know, but why? Because of what to appreciate his death? Where is the beauty of the whole death scene? Although he is a murderer, his taste may be different from ours. But why is it in the study, while Isn't it in the living room or the dining table? Why is the chair placed just in front of the desk instead of a little further back? Or why doesn't he just stand and admire it?"

Mo Wang didn't know the answers to Gu Yexi's series of questions. He was a little frustrated. He hoped that he could help a little bit and solve problems side by side with Gu Yexi, instead of being a little apprentice behind him.

"You will think of it, you can think of what the murderer is thinking every time." Mo Wang could only comfort him.

Gu Yexi said proudly, "I know."

Mo Wang: ...This person doesn't seem to need comfort.

Afternoon, bureau.

Gu Yexi sat on a messy table with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, with a gossip magazine from somewhere pressed on his buttocks, and said, "Come here, let's analyze the case."

Meng Ning: "I checked the monitoring here. At 11:4 last night, there was indeed a person who came out with a big sports bag, and at 30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, there was a person who was dressed differently but was carrying the same style of sports bag. I went in, I guess it was the same person, as the boss said, the murderer went into the house ahead of time, waiting for the couple to go home. I also compared the surveillance of the case two months ago, and found the same person carrying the bag People. But I didn’t take a photo of the face, and there is nothing characteristic, I only know that it is a man who is about 1 years old and about 75 meters tall.”

Gu Yexi: "Well, did you take a picture of where the man went? Can you find it through road monitoring?"

Meng Ning shook his head, "You know, that district is a new district with many small roads, and once he leaves the district, he doesn't know where to turn."

Huang Jiade: "Li Zi and I have asked many times, but there are no useful clues. Most of the people living in the community are young people. They have no leisure and time to go shopping in the community. Nothing. The administrator said that he hadn’t seen such a face-faced person appearing in the community recently. I also asked about the restaurant and convenience store opposite the community, and they all said that there were no suspicious people appearing many times.”

Li Zi: "Or, didn't he observe them in the community? There is a subway station within 10 minutes' walk of this community. Both husband and wife take the subway to work. As long as he knows this, he can wait for them at the subway station." When commuting to and from work, you can find out their time of entry and exit.”

Gu Yexi nodded, "Well, it makes sense. However, in the first case, the home was not next to the subway, the male deceased was driving to work, and the female deceased was a housewife. To find out their time of entry and exit, they had to be near the community Bar?"

Meng Ning: "It's been two months, I don't know if they still remember."

Gu Yexi: "Jade and Li Zi go ask, maybe there is a clue."

Huang Jiade was a little frustrated, "At present, there are too few clues, and the murderer is so clean."

Meng Ning said with some hesitation: "Emmmm, actually, I have a case here. I think it may be related to our murderer, but I'm not sure."

Gu Yexi raised her eyebrows, "Tell me?"

Meng Ning opened up the information of another case, "The deceased was also a couple. The female deceased cut her throat with a knife and was put back on the bed by the murderer and covered with a quilt. It was the same as in our two cases. But the male deceased was beaten with a blunt object. He was wounded to death, and he died in the hall, lying on the ground. He didn’t change his suit or put on a plastic bag.”

Li Zi: "The overlap between these two cases is very high."

Meng Ning: "Yes, that's why I thought it might be done by the same person."

Gu Yexi's eyes lit up, "Did this case happen after the first case?"

Meng Ning: "A week after the first case happened."

Gu Yexi: "Are there any similar cases in the future?"

Meng Ning: "Not anymore."

Gu Yexi raised the corner of his mouth, everyone knew that the boss had an idea.

Mo Wang: "The murderer killed the male victim by mistake, and he couldn't watch him suffocate to death. It didn't fit his fantasy. He couldn't complete his masterpiece completely according to his own ideas, so he just left. , That's why I didn't change clothes and put plastic bags on?"

Gu Yexi snapped his fingers, "Yes, in the first case, the male deceased arrived home at 8 o'clock, but died at 3 o'clock in the morning. The male deceased last night also arrived home at about this time, but died at 11 o'clock in the evening. .As Gard said, the knocking out is a very ingenious thing. Sometimes with a stick, some people may not faint, some may faint for hours, but some people may just be knocked to death. Yes. The murderer committed the crime for the first time, and he was inexperienced in knocking people unconscious, so it took a long time for the deceased to wake up. The second attack, he directly knocked the person to death. Although he wanted to kill the male deceased, it had to be The kind of death he conceived must be suffocating to death in the study wearing a suit and wearing a bag over his head. He couldn't complete his conception, so he ran away and stopped killing, so in the past two months, There have been no similar cases."

Meng Ning: "Then why did he come back last night?"

Mo Wang answered quickly, "Because he learned how to knock people unconscious and not kill them."

Gu Yexi: "Not only that, but he also shortened the time of dizziness. In the first case, he stayed at the deceased's house for at least 9 hours, and last night for more than 6 hours. The longer he stayed at the scene, the easier it was He was caught, so he needs to control it so that he doesn't knock people to death and don't make people stunned for too long."

Huang Jiade got what Gu Yexi meant, "So, in the two months since he disappeared, did he go to practice?"

Li Zi: "Where are you going to practice? There won't be any knock-out clubs, right? Didn't Meng Ning also say that there is no similar case?"

Gu Yexi: "He won't do such a complicated thing when practicing hands. It is likely to find passers-by or homeless people on the street. Meng Ning, you can report all the cases of being injured or killed by blunt objects in the past two months. Call it out, it should contain the masterpiece of our murderer. Li Zi and Jiade will go to the vicinity of the first case and inquire about it to see if there are any clues."