You die and die

Things related to Sheng Guangnian were what Yuan Che urgently needed now, and he readily agreed.

Editor Wang went out for a while, and came back with a cardboard box in his hand.

Yuan Che hurried up to take the cardboard box, which was very heavy.

"so much?"

Wang Shuang clapped his hands, brushed the dust off his body and said, "This is just a part. He works at home most of the time. I guess there are many more at home."

When he returned to the parking lot with the cardboard box and put the cardboard box in the trunk, Yuan Che raised his eyebrows at Ke Ran: "Do you want to see what the writer's manuscript looks like?"

"That's not good. We are entrusted by others."

"That's why I want to see it. Maybe there is a clue in it. Where can I find him?"

"If you say that, maybe you can take a look." Ke Ran rarely smiled playfully.

The two unwrapped the sealing tape in twos and twos, opened the box, and saw that there were neatly bound printing papers inside.Each book has a cover, and each cover is like the title of a novel, but the content is only a rough outline.It seems that they are all the prototypes of novels that have ideas but have not been written.

Looking at the handwriting in these manuscripts, seeing the words is like seeing a person, every word seems to be about to break out of a cage, unrestrained and flamboyant.

After flipping through several manuscripts in a row, Yuan Che threw the one in his hand into the box. If the other manuscripts have similar content, there is really nothing to see.

No wonder, Sheng Guangnian wasn't very popular in his early years, but just when he was about to become popular, something happened in his family and he disappeared from sight.

Unlike Yuan Che, Ke Ran was reading a manuscript with relish, as if the content was very attractive.

"What did you write in this book?" Yuan Che leaned over to read it.

"It's nothing, just some essays." Ke Ran said without raising his head.

Yuan Che took out the manuscript from his hand: "Then you are still reading it so enthusiastically. Let's go, let's go eat something first." He threw the manuscript into the cardboard box.

Ke Ran picked up another copy when he turned around, and got into the co-pilot.

The two drove for a while, found a noodle shop, sat down in a corner, and ordered two bowls of noodles.

While waiting, Ke Ran picked up the manuscript, and Yuan Che called Liu Hecheng and Gu Huayu to ask how they were progressing.

Liu Hecheng is already narrowing down the scope, because not many people use ice picks, and there are fewer sellers.The police assisted in the investigation and registration, and there was only one physical store that sold ice picks. The number sold in a year was 42, which can be traced back to the ones needed for purchases in hotels and restaurants.The ones bought by other individuals cannot be verified now.The in-store monitoring can only be kept for one month, and no one buys ice picks during this month.Liu Hecheng is going to those hotels and restaurants with scorpions to see if the ice picks they bought are still there.

There is bad news for Gu Huayu.

Although the scavengers seem to have no fixed place on the surface, they actually have their own relatively fixed chassis.Gu Huayu visited several places provided by the police in the photo area, and someone recognized the scavengers in the photo, saying that they lived in a tin box in an abandoned factory.When they sent people over there, there was no one there, not even garbage.

They asked some waste collectors. This waste collector sold a large amount of waste yesterday morning, and his residence should be emptied.

At night, he will more or less bring back some garbage, so that he can slowly save it.

But there was no rubbish in his place, only some worn bedding and dishes.

He may not have been back yesterday.

Now Gu Huayu can only cast a net and start looking for someone within the scope of his activities, hoping that he has money, so he can buy wine, drink too much, and stay elsewhere.

Then Liu Lingling called and said that the photos seen at Luo Meijiao's residence were very similar to the simulated head portraits. It was almost certain that the unnamed female corpse was Luo Meijiao. They have now sent back the DNA collected at the scene for comparison.

Luo Meijiao's residence was clean and tidy, although it was small, it was comfortable. The search was over quickly, and nothing related to Yu Guang was found, not even a book.However, it can be judged from the few leaflets she kept about store discounts that she worked in the 24-hour supermarket that Wang Liang mentioned.

Yuan Che asked her if she had found anything related to Sheng Guangnian.The answer is also negative.

Liu Lingling was going to the supermarket to find out about Luo Meijiao's situation, and asked Yuan Che if he could contact Luo Meijiao's family.

Yuan Che pondered for a while. Although the case is urgent, if he knows the victim's situation earlier, he may find clues earlier.But in view of the oolong in Qu Jing's case last time, he still decided to wait a few more hours.Yuan Che asked Liu Lingling to contact the police station where Luo Meijiao's hometown was, and asked them to assist in the investigation.The key point is to understand the situation of Luo Meijiao's family ten years ago from the side.

Ke Ran finally put down the manuscript and slowly ate the noodles that had been served.After Yuan Che hung up the phone, he asked in a low voice, "Do you still want to check Luo Meijiao?"

"Everything needs to be investigated. It's not too late." Yuan Che also replied in a low voice.

"Just now, you heard the question you asked the editor. It seems that you knew it in advance? Do you know that Sheng Guangnian?" Ke Ran asked curiously.

"I don't know him, but I'm interested."

"If what the editor said is true, then the man with half of his face exposed is very likely to be Sheng Guangnian. They look so alike."

"Do you think two people who are not related by blood will be so similar?"

"It's not impossible. The world is so big."

"Now the problem of plagiarism has been solved. If the person in the photo is Sheng Guangnian, it has nothing to do with Yu Guangnian. Even if there is, a photo of a down-and-out time can't explain the problem. So, I still can't find Yu Guangnian now." What’s more, he has an alibi.” Yuan Che gobbled up two mouthfuls of noodles, “In this way, we have to go back to the original point and start the investigation from Chou Shuang and Luo Meijiao.”

Ke Ran lowered his voice, leaned closer to Yuan Che and asked, "What if no one around them has a motive? Then should we handle it as a serial murder case? Will the victim show up again?"

"Even if they were, there was a reason for these two people to be killed. Let's find them out."

"So where are we going next?"

"Let's go to the two places to see." Yuan Che looked at the time, "Go to Ugly Shuang first, and Luo Meijiao after dark." He glanced at half of Ke Ran's bowl of noodles, After comparing his own bowl, which was about to bottom out, he began to slow down and ate one by one.

They came to that path again, almost at the same time yesterday when Chou Shuang was killed.

Yuan Che found a place to park the car, and then walked along the sidewalk.While walking, he took a selfie with his mobile phone, as if imitating Ugly Shuang.

On the way here, Ge Xing called and said that he saw the scavengers following in that video.At the end of the video, Ugly Double does say that they have a date.At that time, the scavengers were about ten meters behind him.

Yuan Che asked Ge Xing to take a photo of the scavengers and send it to Gu Huayu so that he could find someone more easily.

Yuan Che stopped at the intersection, and asked Ke Ran next to him, "I want to simulate the process of Ugly Shuang being killed, can you?"

"Me?" Ke Ran looked at the path and hesitated for a moment.

"You are the murderer, I'll be the ugly pair." Yuan Che thought of the dirty ground and Ke Ran's clean clothes, thinking that he was worried about getting his clothes dirty, so he dispelled his worries.

"Okay, then, let's try." Ke Ran was worried about another thing.

Yuan Che looked at the time again: "According to the testimony of the dishwasher, Chou Shuang was alone at first."

Ke Ran looked at Yuan Che's clothes and asked, "Are you following the scene exactly?"

"Well, you'll treat me like a corpse after a while." Although Ugly Shuang is not as tall as Yuan Che, they are slightly chubby and probably weigh about the same as Yuan Che.

Yuan Che went in and came to the place where the dish washer said he saw Ugly Shuang. After turning around twice, he started counting.

Ke Ran walked in quickly from the intersection, he walked very fast.

Yuan Che looked at Ke Ran. According to their analysis, Ugly Shuang and the murderer should know each other, so he found out his usual feeling of being drunk and waved at Ke Ran.

Ke Ran walked to Yuan Che's side, without delay, took out something from his pocket symbolically, and covered Yuan Che's mouth with his hand.

In order to prevent Ugly Shuang from making a sound, the murderer had to press Ugly Shuang's mouth and nose firmly, and Ugly Shuang was leaning against the gray-stained wall.

It was the first time for the two of them to be so close, their eyes met, and they felt the heat of each other's breath.

Afterwards, Ke Ran quickly made a stabbing motion on Yuan Che's heart.

With the stabbing in the heart and the drug reaction, Ugly Shuang should have no strength to resist, so Yuan Che completely relaxed himself.

This was a bit beyond Ke Ran's expectation. He instinctively reached out to help Yuan Che not let him fall to the ground, then dragged his whole body flat, put on the ugly pair's final posture, and began to draw numbers on his forehead, Then spread a white silk scarf, as if holding a backpack out of thin air and placed it beside Yuan Che's head.

After finishing everything, Ke Ran took out the murder weapon, wiped it with a paper towel, and walked towards the intersection.

Yuan Che got up from the ground and watched as Ke Ran reached the intersection and stopped the timer. The whole crime took 5 minutes.

He stood up and looked carefully at the place where he was standing just now. On the ground beside the wall, there was some gray-black dust left over from years of not being exposed to light.The dust in this corner was not found on Ugly Shuang's face and clothes, so it probably didn't fall directly on the ground, but was caught by the murderer.

When he spread his whole body down just now, the position of his chest was almost near Ke Ran's arm.Even if the murder weapon doesn't have a gun and blood doesn't spray out, but with such contact, the murderer will inevitably get bloodstained.Unless, the murderer is stronger than Ugly Shuang, he can easily support Ugly Shuang, and can complete the whole action without touching it.

Ke Ran ran back and said eagerly: "That bag, I forgot there was something green on it. He was still by the trash can."

Yuan Che walked to the trash can and squatted face outward. Ke Ran followed and watched his movements, his brows raised thickly: "It doesn't seem right."

"What's wrong?" Yuan Che stood up and looked back at the right-angled space.

"The green thing on that bag is on the left side, not in the center. If you are in a posture like yours, carrying a backpack, it should be in the middle. His position is more like..." He said, doing He made a one-handed backpack movement, and then squatted in the corner.

"You mean that Ugly Shuang was wearing a single-shoulder backpack when he was here, and a double-shoulder backpack over there. No, according to the order in which the traces were left, he should be leaning against the wall first, and then he was wearing a single-shoulder backpack. Hiding here. Seems like he's hiding from something?"

"What if the murderer is next to the trash can with the bag on his back? Shouldn't we ask the dishwasher again?"

They've been messing around here for a while, and no one has shown up on this road.

Yuan Che and the others walked to the back kitchen of the restaurant where the dish washer was working before, and saw people walking back and forth through the open door, very busy.

But there was no sign of the dishwasher in the crowd.I asked the head chef, and said that the woman was scared yesterday and asked for a day off today, so the back kitchen was extremely busy today.

Ke Ran finally asked a question: "Is there a fixed time for the dishwashers to take out the trash every day?"

The head chef looked up at the time and said, "Almost, at noon, the garbage has to be taken out when it is full. If it is a weekend, it will be earlier."

Ke Ran walked back to the trash can in thought, staring at the corner.

"Something doesn't make sense here."