sneak peek

The next morning, Mo Wang stood at the door of his house at 8 o'clock and waited for Gu Yexi. The other party was also very punctual and showed up dozens of seconds later.

"Morning, Captain Gu." Mo Wang said friendly.

Gu Yexi stuffed something into Mo Wang's hand and said, "Let's go."

Mo Wang opened the bag in his hand and took a look. It was a freshly baked sandwich, "This?"

"I did it easily." Gu Yexi thought about it, and decided to bribe Mo Wang with breakfast to resolve the embarrassment of last night.

"Thank you." Mo Wang said with a smile, his heart was relieved, it seemed that the other party didn't hold grudges against him for beating him.

Gu Yexi thought to himself, this kid is really easy to coax.

Back at the bureau, everyone else had already arrived. Gu Yexi made a cup of coffee and introduced casually, "Newcomers, Mo Wang, you should get to know each other by yourself."

Meng Ning has been staring at this handsome high-altitude guy who is probably very thin when Mo Wang first walked in. The temperament is extremely inconsistent, but it doesn't feel disobedient, but a unique feeling, which makes people want to get close to and understand him.

Meng Ning was the first to introduce herself: "Meng Ning, you can call me Xiao Meng, Xiao Ning, or Sister Ning."

Li Zi stuffed the bun into his mouth and wiped his hands on his clothes, "Li Zi, can you see if you can eat it?"

Huang Jiade smiled friendly, "Huang Jiade, welcome to the team."

Mo Wang shook hands with them one by one, "Hi everyone, please give me your advice in the future."

Meng Ning looked at Mo Wang with a smile, and was about to gossip when Gu Yexi suppressed the sign, "Look at the case! Tell me, what do you think?"

Gu Yexi has a habit of asking everyone to express their ideas like an elementary school teacher checking their homework. Although there will be no punishment if they can't say it or make a mistake, the team members will discuss it in advance every time and come to a conclusion , and then take turns talking one by one, pretending that everyone is a good student.

Meng Ning was the first to say: "The friend of the first deceased, Wang Ming, said that the two had made an appointment to go to the bar, but he missed the appointment due to something, so the deceased went by himself. The second deceased, Lin Shanyin, found him. I booked a taxi a few hours before the death, and the destination was also a bar. The bars the two deceased went to were located in the bar street area in the west of the city. It is very likely that the deceased and the murderer met in the bar, and then the deceased brought the murderer back. This would explain why there were no signs of forced entry at either murder scene."

Li Zi immediately added: "After investigation, the two deceased were found to be straight men, and they were not gay. If the deceased brought the murderer home, then the murderer is likely to be a woman. The surveillance cameras in both bars captured the deceased. I have been in contact with a girl with long black hair. Every time she and the deceased walk back and forth, she is probably our murderer. Unfortunately, the face was not photographed. The people around the deceased have been checked, and there is no suspicion of committing the crime. The murderer should be It was a new acquaintance at the bar that night."

Huang Jiade pointed to the photos at the scene and said, "Wine glasses were found at the scene of the two murders. The wine in the wine glasses was found to be poisonous to the deceased. The murderer probably put the poison in the wine while the deceased was not paying attention. The deceased did not know. He drank it under the circumstances. Therefore, there were no resistance wounds and signs of binding on the body of the deceased, because he drank it on his own initiative."

Gu Yexi nodded in agreement, then glanced at Mo Wang.The other three cast a sympathetic look at Mo Wang. It was too miserable to have to hand in homework on the first day of joining the team.

Mo Wang stared at the photo of the dead body, "With so many scars, the murderer obviously has a lot of resentment, but these beatings happened after death, so the purpose is not to make the deceased feel pain, maybe his purpose is not to beating, But to leave these scars?"

Li Zi: "What are you doing here?"

"It's to insult the deceased," Gu Yexi put away his cynical look, and said with a serious face: "The murderer was once tortured and beaten, and the scars left by her were a great humiliation to her, so leaving a scar on the corpse to humiliate them The most important thing to the murderer is the murderer's preference. The murderer's preference is obvious. A strong man who is about 25 years old and taller than 1 meters, she is likely to have been abused by such a man. A substitute for people who want to humiliate. According to our guess, the murderer is a woman. Both of the dead are strong men over 85 meters. It is almost impossible to beat them when they are awake, even if they are drugged first. Tied up, it is very difficult to take to no man's land to kill. So the murderer chose to poison the dead first, and then tortured and humiliated the dead."

Huang Jiade frowned, "So, the murderer may be a victim of domestic violence?"

Gu Yexi nodded, "Well. Look at these scars. Although they are very violent, they deliberately avoided the face and palms. They may be a loving couple on the surface, and they don't want others to see it and be pointed at."

"But if the murderer is a victim of domestic violence, is it possible to go to the bar on Saturday night?" Meng Ning doubted.

"Maybe they finally divorced recently, or maybe the person who abused her died or became disabled, and he can no longer control her." Li Zi guessed.

After listening to everyone's "homework" report, Gu Yexi began to assign tasks, "There are no cameras in the neighborhood where the two deceased lived, so they can only attack from the bar. The murderer probably not only haunted these two bars to find targets, Li Zi and Jia De Go to all the other bars in the western part of the city and ask if there have been any people similar to the murderer, maybe there will be clues. Meng Ning, check the domestic violence report records for the past three years, and see who's boyfriends are there. Or the husband fits the murderer's preferences and has recently divorced, or the husband is dead and seriously disabled. Mo Wang and I will go to those two bars to see if we can find any new clues."

After receiving the task, everyone went about their business.As soon as Mo Wang and Gu Yexi stepped out of the office door, they saw Pan Weiren poking his head in the corridor.Gu Yexi patted Mo Wang on the shoulder very understandingly: "You report to Bureau Pan first, I'll wait for you outside."

Mo Wang seemed to want to say something, but Gu Yexi didn't give him a chance, and slipped away in a hurry.

Gu Yexi was leaning on his car, smoking a cigarette and waiting for Mo Wang to come out. The April morning was neither too hot nor too cold, and it was his favorite temperature.He doesn't like sunny or rainy days, he doesn't like sweating when he's hot, and he doesn't like shivering when he's cold. He's a weirdo who only likes cloudy days with a slight cool breeze and around 20 degrees.

He squinted and stared at a broken kite floating from nowhere in the sky, thinking that maybe some elementary school student abandoned it during a spring outing, or a couple of college students accidentally lost it while playing in a nearby park.

It may also be that he was dreaming randomly last night and didn't sleep well, and his eyes were dazzled.

After smoking a cigarette, Mo Wang also came out, saw Gu Yexi waiting for him, and ran over in a hurry.

When Mo Wang was running, the little curly hair swayed, making Gu Yexi think of Teddy inexplicably.He has been wanting to scratch this little curly hair since last night, but the two of them didn't seem to know each other very well, so they held back and didn't do it.He secretly decided that if there is a chance, he must scratch it.

"Captain Gu, I'm sorry to have you wait here." Mo Wang said with an apologetic expression.

Gu Yexi waved his hand, "It's okay. You should have reported it first. I was busy with the case and forgot about it. Get in the car."

Mo Wang sat very quietly along the way, holding the case file in his hand and reading it seriously, just like a primary school student who is studying hard for the final exam.

Gu Yexi is a talkative person, so he couldn't help teasing him, "Why does a good student see something?"

Mo Wang raised his head and looked at Gu Yexi, "The deceased had a strict plan for what kind of scars were left in which area. The two deceased were young men living alone, and the possibility of having sewing needles was almost zero. There are needles with stab and scratch marks, which I think the killer brought to the scene himself."

Gu Yexi shrugged, "So?"

"That said, the needlestick was an integral scar to the murderer."

"Well, it's 100% sure she was abused like that."

Mo Wang hesitated, "Acupuncture doesn't seem to be a common means of domestic violence?"

"Yeah." Gu Yexi tapped the steering wheel with his index finger, and he would always do this unconsciously when he was thinking.

Mo Wang's attention was attracted by the sound of tapping the steering wheel. Gu Yexi's fingers were slender and long, his nails were neatly cut, and the veins protruding from the back of his hands looked like a river in the desert.

"Not sewing needles, but other similar things?" Gu Yexi muttered to himself.

Mo Wang: "For example?"

Gu Yexi shrugged, "I don't know, I'll tell you when I think about it."

The first deceased, Wang Ming, went to a newly opened bar called Drunk Under the Peony Flower.The day Wang Ming went was in time for the one-week opening event, and a drink was free, and it was a Saturday night, so there were too many people.

Gu Yexi showed his police ID to the yellow-haired boy who was cleaning inside, "Is the manager here?"

The yellow-haired boy didn't even lift his head, "It's dawn, go home and sleep."

"Who's in the store now?"

The yellow-haired boy shrugged and continued to sweep the floor.

Gu Yexi thought that this kid would have a bright future if he shaved his hair and went to a temple on the mountain to become a sweeping monk.

He rolled his eyes inwardly, walked to the bar counter, yelled for a while, and a sleepy-eyed little brother who looked like he was in charge came out.

"What are you doing?!" the younger brother said impatiently.

Gu Yexi shook his police ID, "What do you think?"

The little brother knew it was the police, his face immediately changed, and the standard service industry put a smile on his face, "It turns out that comrades from the police are here. I said why do I feel that the store is suddenly upright!"

Gu Yexi suspected that this little brother graduated from Sichuan Face Changing University.

"Stop flattering me. We are here to handle the case. This person visited your store on Saturday two weeks ago. Do you have any impression?" Gu Yexi took out Wang Ming's photo.

While pouring water for them, the little brother said: "Didn't the police come to ask? They also took away the surveillance video. There were so many people that day, I didn't remember it. Our store was only open for a week at that time, I guess He's a newcomer."

Mo Wang opened the screenshot of the surveillance video on his phone and asked, "What about this girl with long black hair? Do you have any impression?"

The little brother took a look at the photo and shook his head, "Comrade policeman, it's not that I don't cooperate. In this photo, there are only half-faces in a mess. There are too many girls with long black hair. I really can't recognize them."

Mo Wang switched to another full-body photo of the back, "How do you look at it this way? Although there is no front face, you can see the clothes."

The woman in the photo is wearing a lotus root pink tutu skirt, which is very eye-catching.

The little brother tilted his head and thought for a while, "I'm really impressed with this skirt. One of my female colleagues secretly laughed at her for being so pretty. She wore a pair of flesh-colored pantyhose, which looked like artificial legs."

Gu Yexi raised her eyebrows, feeling that something was going on, "Then do you still remember what she looks like? Or what is her name?"

"I don't know what she looks like. She keeps looking down at her phone with her bangs covering half of her face. I don't know her name. She seems to have come here by herself. She seems to be waiting for someone, but she has been sitting by herself. It got busier and busier at night, so I didn't pay attention."

"The surveillance camera showed that she and Wang Ming had chatted and walked away. Did you see that?"

"Uh...oh! I remember that when work was over that day, that female colleague wentssip with me, saying that there was a man who didn't know if there was something wrong with his eyes. He fell in love with this woman and took the initiative to flirt with her. .Now that I think about it, it might be them!"

"Have you seen this girl in the store before?"

"I have no impression. She is really the first to come to our store wearing this cute tutu skirt." The little brother said with certainty.

Gu Yexi rolled her eyes, "Is it possible that she came here, but she was wearing other types of clothes?"

The little brother spread his hands, "Then I don't know."

The bar the second deceased went to before his death was an old bar that had been open for several years. Although the location was okay, the facade looked a bit old and the decoration style was outdated. The only competitiveness was that there were few people. queue.

When Mo Wang and Gu Yexi entered, a young girl was wrapping the glass cups one by one and putting them in a cardboard box.The tables and chairs were wrapped neatly and stacked in the corner.

Gu Yexi waved his hand at the girl and asked, "Hey, what's the matter?"

The young girl looked up and saw the police ID, put down the cup in her hand, crossed her arms and said, "Isn't this obvious? I can't keep going, I have to move."

"Isn't this area very prosperous? If you want to move, you can move?"

"Business is prosperity, but there are so many stores here, and the owner is stingy and refuses to renovate, but the charges are getting more and more expensive. Do you think you can do better than others? These few months have been supported by regular customers. Are you I came here for the person who died on the weekend! After the boss found out about this, he felt unlucky, so think about it and move."

Gu Yexi keenly captured the key words, "In the past few months, I have been supported by regular customers? Is that dead person a regular customer?"

The girl lit a cigarette and blew out a standard smoke ring, "Young Master Lin, you have been here for a year, basically once a week, and you are very familiar with us."

"Did he come by himself the night he died?"

"He comes every week, and the day is uncertain, but if it's Saturday, he basically comes by himself. Come to tease girls, and take them home when you get them."

Mo Wang and Gu Yexi glanced at each other, it seemed that the murderer had indeed met the deceased in a bar and brought them home.

"Do you still remember what the girl he brought home looked like that day? Is it the girl captured in the surveillance?" Mo Wang took out a screenshot of the store's surveillance video.

"I'm not sure if they went together. Young Master Lin went out by himself. After a while, the woman came out of the toilet and left. It is possible that Young Master Lin went to take a taxi first, and the woman went to the toilet to get her makeup done again. Go home with him. But you can tell by looking at this woman, it's Young Master Lin's taste."

"Oh? How do you say it?" Gu Yexi asked curiously.

"He likes this kind of girl, how should I put it, girls who look like college students, dressed in ordinary clothes, but pure and elegant. When he came that night, he locked the target, and I made a bet with him on whether I could get it. In the end, I lost 100. Now it seems that it is time to make platinum for him in advance."

Gu Yexi: "Why do you think he can't get it? Does he often fail?"

The girl smiled, "That's not true, Young Master Lin has almost never missed a shot. But I see that girl, sitting in the corner in a gentle manner, not talking, staring at the phone and not communicating with other people, she is not very flirtatious at first glance." .I thought she would have less birds.”

Mo Wang: "Do you remember what she looks like? Has she been here before?"

"I didn't remember her coming. She was sitting in the innermost corner, and I glanced at her from a distance, and she seemed to keep her head down. But to be honest, I didn't see what she looked like. , so I’m not 100% sure she didn’t come.”

Mo Wang took out a surveillance screen from another bar and asked, "Is it possible that the woman in the picture is the same person as her?"

The girl looked at it carefully for a while, "It's kind of like, not sure. What, this girl is the murderer?"

Gu Yexi played a sloppy eye, "She was the last person to see the deceased, we thought she might have more clues."

The girl pointed to the two surveillance screens and said: "emmmmm, look, the girls in the two pictures are wearing a ring on their middle finger, it seems to be the same style, I guess it is the same person."

Gu Yexi brought the photo to her eyes, stared at it for a while, and found that it was really the same ring.

It seems that these days, bar workers are really hidden dragons and crouching tigers, a master of face-changing, with golden eyes and fiery eyes.