The daily life of a double-faced rookie and an awkward old detective

The door of the overcrowded supercoffee just now was pushed vigorously by more than a dozen people, and even the iron door frame was shaken.

The door was originally very wide, but it couldn't hold so many people rushing over at the same time, the door was instantly blocked, and the men and women stuck in the crowd didn't care about anything, just desperately trying to escape the door.

Finally, after one person successfully escaped, a space was left, and the crowded people just poured out like a flood, finding a way regardless of east, west, north, and south, and just drilled in, as if there were prehistoric monsters behind them trying to stuff their teeth of.

Yuan Che and Ke Ran ran towards the door against the crowd, but were pushed back again and again by those who rushed out.They didn't rush to the door until people ran out and the door became an empty space.

There were still a few people inside the door who didn't run out, but ran in instead. The screams of some timid people and the cries of women surged wave after wave, as if they were being affected by something.

Yuan Che was wondering why everyone else ran out, but they hid inside. Before he reached the door, he stopped abruptly, and Ke Ran followed behind and almost bumped into his back.

I saw He Chao, who was still talking to them 10 minutes ago, staggered out of the coffee shop, reaching out as if trying to grab something but could only grab the air.

Seeing He Chao's face, Yuan Che took two steps back in astonishment, couldn't help but gasped, his whole stomach convulsed, obviously it was in extremely hot weather, but now he felt chills all over.

He Chao's handsome face was covered with blood at the moment. To be precise, the blood was coming out of his eyes, nose and ears, as if being squeezed from inside, following the flow of his mouth. The blood gushed out one after another along his neck and dyed the whole skirt of his clothes red.His eyes seemed to want to get out of their sockets, bulging outwards, feeling like they could burst open at any moment.

While trying to cover the blood coming out of his mouth with his hands, trying in vain to prevent it from flowing out, he was coughing in pain, looking around with those horrible eyes, wanting to ask for help, when he opened his mouth, there was another stream of blood Squirt out.

When he saw Yuan Che and the others, he raised his fingertips and pointed in his direction. He just took two steps with his legs dangling like noodles. The ground, after a few withdrawals, it remained motionless.

This scene was really appalling, Yuan Che stayed for a second before rushing over.

Walking to the side of the body lying on the ground, Yuan Che turned He Chao around with all his strength, looked at He Chao's appearance, and knew that this man was completely dead without snorting.

He Chao's blood-stained eyes stared forward motionlessly, his pupils had lost focus and were slowly dilated.The blood gushing from the corner of his mouth just now didn't stop, it still flowed down the corner of his open mouth to the ground, forming a puddle.

Just as Yuan Che took out the phone, a sudden scream from behind scared him so much that the phone almost fell out of his hand and fell into a pool of blood.

Lu Yirou threw down the umbrella in her hand and ran over frantically. Because she moved too fast, she ran two steps in high heels and staggered, stumbling to the ground.

Seeing her rushing over, Ke Ran opened and retracted his hand, hesitating for a moment, Yuan Che has rushed over behind him to stop Lu Yirou.

"Let go of me, Chao, wake up, get up, don't lie there, get up!"

"Mrs. He, Ms. Lu, Professor He has lost his vital signs." Yuan Che avoided the word death, as if saying it so bluntly was too cruel for the woman in front of him.Although saying that doesn't change anything.

Lu Yirou was a tall, seemingly fragile woman who became extremely powerful at this moment. Yuan Che used a lot of strength to keep her from getting close to the corpse.

After struggling for a while, Lu Yirou seemed to have run out of strength. She wept bitterly, hanging on Yuan Che's arm as if she was in a state of collapse, and then clasped Yuan Che's shoulder with one hand, crying hoarsely while shaking her head: " Impossible, how could this be? It was agreed, how could this be?"

Seeing that Lu Yirou was no longer struggling, Yuan Che let go slowly, and helped her into the cafe near the window.

When she sat down, Yuan Che turned his head and waved to Ke Ran who was still standing next to the corpse, who was a little at a loss.

"It's working time now, put away those little clean freaks of yours." Then he leaned closer to Ke Ran, ready to whisper something, he had expected that Ke Ran would hide back, and reached out his hand to grab his lapel before Ke Ran could act , so that he could not retreat, and then whispered:

"Keep an eye on her and find out about the situation by the way."

Ke Ran nodded hastily, and the moment Yuan Che let go of his hand, he immediately bypassed him and took over the position where Yuan Che was standing just now.

Yuan Chekong took the initiative to dial the phone: "Old Zhao, come here, in front of the supercoffee on the campus of T University, bring your guy, and someone who will help me call the trace inspection department." I made two phone calls to the surrounding police stations and asked them to call in the police force to assist in the investigation.

After hanging up the phone, Yuan Che looked at the people around him.Some of the people who were in this coffee shop just now ran away without a trace, and those who were more daring ran into the crowd and stopped, their bodies were trembling, and they dared to look at this side.From time to time, they were asked what happened, and these witnesses were all shocked and dazed, not knowing what happened just now.

Yuan Che turned his head, and saw a fat man wearing the same work clothes of the coffee shop standing blankly at the door, holding the door frame tightly with his hands, his face was pale, his lips trembled, his body was like sifting chaff, and he could only barely support himself by relying on the hands on the door frame It didn't spread out on the ground.

Just now when they entered the door, they saw him busy next to the cash register, calling the waiters to do this and that from time to time, he should be the owner of this coffee shop.

If someone dies in his own coffee shop, it is still this way of death, which is almost like a seal of closure.Those who witnessed the scene today probably won't be able to sleep in the past few days.

Inside the door, some people who hadn't escaped in time huddled together, the bold ones looked sideways at the corpse on the ground, the timid ones covered their faces, and meowed through their fingers.One of the waitresses had blood splattered on her body, and she was standing stiffly with tears on her face, her eyes peeping at the corpse on the ground from time to time, and she was holding a crying girl tightly in her arms, as if she had already petrified.

Standing among these people, the waitress whom he paid special attention to just now was standing helplessly alone, with her hands in the pockets of her apron, and her body was tense.

The waitress was the only one who stared straight at He Chao's body lying on the ground.

Yuan Che walked up to the boss with trembling legs:

"Are you the boss?"

"I am, I am. This is not a problem with our coffee." The boss hurriedly cleared himself.

"Is it your coffee problem? We will investigate it. I am the police. Is there surveillance in your store?"

"Yes, yes, comrade policeman, I'll let you go now."

"No hurry, I think your store has been open for some years, right?"

"Yes, yes, it has been three years, and the reputation has always been very good, and there is not even a shoddy report."

Yuan Che believed that he was telling the truth. At this time, his brain probably stopped, and the rest were instinctive answers. Even if he was asked a private question, he would tell the whole story.

"Are the customers who come to your store mainly students and teachers here? Are there many regular customers?"

"Yes, yes, they are all regular customers. Repeat customers." The boss was a little incoherent, and his lips were still trembling.

"In this way, you should first look at the monitoring for yourself, and list all the people who came from Professor He Chao to the incident just now, and don't miss any of them. If you don't know them, ask your clerk, or take pictures and save them. In short I want the full list of personnel. I have been in contact with Professor He, whether it is direct or indirect contact, it is marked."

"Okay, I, I'll do it right away." He finally let go of his whitened fingers, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and turned around stiffly. Yuan Che reached out and grabbed him and added: "The machine tools in the shop I'm optimistic about it, don't use it anymore. It will be investigated in a while."

The boss whimpered and nodded, calling the shop assistants who were still sober to work separately.

Yuan Che called some people who ran out just now but didn't leave together, and brought them together with the few remaining guests to a corner of the coffee shop.He pointed to a bloody road on the ground from where He Chao was sitting to the door: "Empty this passage, don't step on the provincial one and trouble you later. Find a place to sit first, I guess you won't be able to go here for a while , we need to inquire one by one. Now ask the boss for a paper, and write down your name, department, and relationship with the deceased."

This group of college students had never seen such a battle before. They stared at the corpse on the ground stiffly, motionless as if the soles of their feet had taken root.The few students who ran out and were called back all had expressions of knowing that they would not watch the excitement, and some were going to put oil on their feet and sneak away when others were not prepared.

Yuan Che squinted his eyes and raised his voice: "What are you still doing in a daze? He won't jump up anymore, move quickly!"

Hearing what Yuan Che said, these people seemed to be really afraid of the corpses on the ground jumping up, so they walked into the coffee shop with a hush against the door frame, and went to the boss for paper and pens like headless flies.

Those who wanted to get away were pushed halfway into the coffee shop.

Yuan Che looked at the girl with blood on her body who was still standing at the door, and there was no reaction when people walked by and touched her.He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, trying to attract her attention and bring her back to her senses, but it was useless. He could only call the people next to him to help calm her emotions, help her change her clothes, put her After wrapping the clothes and explaining something, he returned to the corpse, staring at the blood that was gradually spreading on the ground and slowly congealed.

What on earth can cause a person to bleed to death?

Ke Ran, who was arranged next to Lu Yirou here, looked at Lu Yirou, a woman who was so elegant even when she was crying, and rubbed his hands on his pants, his palms were sweaty.

Lu Yirou's crying disturbed him, but Yuan Che still put her in a place where he could see the dead body.From Lu Yirou's heart-piercing cry to the current sob, the makeup on her face was blurred by the tears, the meticulous bun became messy, and some strands of hair hung down her cheeks, and she didn't care to put them away. Stirring it away, her panting chest rose and fell, making a few lilies on her body tremble.

Ke Ran stood for a while and really didn't know how to comfort the woman, and finally he just said:

"You take a rest here, please forgive me." Then he turned around and was about to go out.Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, his pants were pinched by Lu Yirou's fingers, so scared that he immediately stood still and did not dare to move again.

Lu Yirou begged in a low voice with a somewhat hoarse voice:

"Can, can you sit down. I don't want to be alone."

Ke Ran looked around for help, and found a few calm women who whispered as if they saw a rescuer:

"Ms. Lu, can I find a female classmate to accompany you? I have something else to do." Ke Ran moved to the side, trying to free his pants from the woman's hands, but failed.The two fingers, which were obviously slender, were clenched tightly like pliers at the moment.

Lu Yirou shook his head, choked up and looked at the students gathered there, then shook his head affirmatively.

Ke Ran looked at Yuan Che, catching Yuan Che's gaze.Yuan Che made a gesture, signaling him to find a chance to ask Lu Yirou.Ke Ran looked at Lu Yirou's pear-faced face in embarrassment, then at Yuan Che's gesture again, and nodded helplessly.

"Ms. Lu, can you let go first? Don't worry if I won't leave." Lu Yirou raised her tearful eyes and looked at Ke Ran with pity. It was not until Ke Ran made another promise that the white fingers let go .

Ke Ran sat on the sofa with half his buttocks, took out a few tissues and handed them to Lu Yirou, and sat quietly beside her, waiting for her to stabilize, while thinking about how to speak so as not to cause her discomfort.

They had treated Lu Yirou as an object of suspicion before, but after all, there was no evidence, and it couldn't be like an interrogation.Facing women, he couldn't even speak with his tongue. Fortunately, when he went to visit with Yuan Che yesterday, he still felt that he was self-taught and knew how to ask questions.

Lu Yirou sobbed repeatedly, stroking the glass window with her fingers, looking at He Chao, then couldn't bear to close her eyes slightly and turned back, holding her chest with her hands and breathing heavily again.

Then there was a burst of sadness and a burst of sobbing.

It took a while for this ups and downs to gradually calm down.Ke Ran finally found a cutting question, and just as he was about to speak, a male waiter walked over.He took two bottles of bottled drinks in his hand and put them in front of Ke Ran and Lu Yirou: "The boss invited you." He looked outside timidly and asked Ke Ran, "Well, when can I take it away?"

Lu Yirou, who was already calm at first, looked at him sadly after hearing what he said, and started to cry again.

"It looks like it will take an hour anyway." Ke Ran looked at the time, the forensic doctor should be here soon.

Even though the incident happened just now, because it was a coffee shop, it was still the most crowded noon, so the work of obtaining evidence was quite difficult.Except for the coffee cup used by He Chao, the books he read, and the place where he sat, all the utensils in the cafe were marked and sealed.

It took quite a long time to collect the fingerprints and footprints of a dozen people alone.

Zhao Chenguang looked at the corpse on the ground and listened to Yuan Che's explanation of the situation at that time, and wondered, "Why does this scene look familiar?"

"What? Can you see the cause of death?"

Zhao Chenguang reached out and groped He Chao's body from head to toe, lifted the dead man's clothes and looked at some lumpy bruises on his body: "It is certain that it is not an external injury, and whether there is an internal injury is still uncertain. According to what you said, it is very likely that he died of poisoning. Judging by the amount of bleeding, it is likely that he took anticoagulant drugs, which caused a large area of ​​​​hemorrhage in his body to death."

"Anti-coagulant medicine? You mean rat poison? Is it so serious?"

"General anticoagulant drugs will not have such a situation even if they are taken in large quantities, but if it is the mother liquid of rodent control drugs, the high-purity extracted drugs are different. The lethal dose and time are different due to different human constitutions. Why is this?" The professor looks like he has been exercising regularly and has well-developed muscles. With a physique like this, it is likely that he has taken rat poison for a day or two or even a few days before he appears today. When you saw him today, you didn’t notice anything. Strange place?"

Yuan Che squinted his eyes and recalled: "When I saw him just now, I really felt a little strange. The air-conditioning wind was blowing so cold, and his nose was still sweating, and his arms were tightly hugged. At that time, I thought he was guilty. Or it’s because of our resistance that he behaved like this, now think about it, could it be that he was already feeling uncomfortable at that time, just pretending to be okay?”

Zhao Chenguang nodded: "If you say that, he should have been in pain today, why didn't he go to the hospital?"

At this moment, Ke Ran came out of the coffee shop, and he handed Yuan Che a dozen sheets of paper, the top one being a list in handwriting.Hearing what Zhao Chenguang said, he said softly: "He said that he has stayed up all night working these days, did he think that this inappropriateness is the result of staying up all night?"

Yuan Che didn't rush to look at the names above, but interrupted Ke Ran's statement:

"I didn't ask you to watch her, why did you come out to join in the fun?"

Ke Ran avoided Yuan Che's eyes, lowering his gaze:

"We talked a lot just now. She is much more stable now, and she should be fine."

Yuan Che pursed his lips and said nothing, acquiescing to Ke Ran's words.While watching Zhao Chenguang carefully inspecting the subcutaneous condition of the deceased, he asked Ke Ran: "When we asked him about the situation just now, did you notice anything other than his strange behavior?"

Ke Ran: "He was not prepared for our appearance, but he seemed to be prepared to answer our questions."

"anything else?"

"He knew about Qu Jing, and even knew about her death. He didn't even ask us what happened to Qu Jing. Even if we had never met, he was his future student after all. It shows that he knows Qu Jing, but he just deliberately distanced himself from his relationship with Qu Jing."

"Why did he do this?"

"Could it be that he already knew about Qu Jing's work? He felt that ignorance with the hostess would affect his future, so he pretended not to know. Or he knew who the murderer of Qu Jing was, and he was even protecting that murderer? " Ke Ran said, looking at Lu Yirou who was sitting by the window, leaning against the glass.

After the examination, Zhao Chenguang stood up and stretched his waist, looking at Ke Ran with a smile in his eyes:

"That's not bad, you think about it comprehensively." After checking his mouth, he squatted down and took out the things on He Chao's body one by one, while the forensics department took pictures without stopping at every blind spot.

Although Yuan Che agreed with what Zhao Chenguang said, he only thought about it in his heart, with a deliberate indifference on his face:

"We first need to verify whether what he said about staying up all night is true, and rule out the possibility that he himself is the murderer."

"You mean he might have committed suicide in fear of crime?"

"The possibility of suicide is unlikely. He is a person who pays attention to appearance and details. Even if he wants to commit suicide, he should choose a way to die quietly and decently, leaving the whole body."

"How do you know he cares about appearance?" Ke Ran asked suspiciously.

"Forensic doctor Zhao said that he should have felt uncomfortable a long time ago, but when we came, he still pretended to be reading with a book as if nothing had happened. I even suspect that he just held the book but didn't read a word at all. Tell me, why is he pretending like this?"

"That's right. When we came, we asked the students and teachers on the way where He Chao was. Everyone knew that he was here. It seems that his habit has not been a day or two, and it is unshakable. It is so uncomfortable to stick to his habit. See It turns out he takes his image very seriously at this school."

"The most important thing is that when he talked to us just now, he didn't look like a person who committed suicide in fear of crime. If it wasn't for his physical discomfort, he might be able to act arrogantly."

Ke Ran nodded: "It doesn't look like it, and it doesn't look like a murderer when facing the police. Only when he has excellent psychological quality can he not leak any traces."

"Look, what is this?" Zhao Chenguang, who was inspecting, was startled and brought a piece of paper folded in half to Yuan Che's side.

Yuan Che looked at Zhao Chenguang holding the paper in gloves. He didn't care about his exposed abdominal muscles and the newly bought shirt. He lifted up his skirt and held the paper, and unfolded it. There was only one line of bold English words on it:

CATCH MEIF YOU CAN!