Netherworld Investigator

On the sixth floor of Chaoyang Police Station, Forensics Department.

"Death was confirmed at 12:17 on December 8." Qiao Kejun in a white coat stood beside the stainless steel autopsy table, holding a scalpel in his hand, and methodically cut out an upside-down "human body" from the shoulder blade of the deceased. ” glyph cut.

The sharp blade submerged lightly into the layers of blood, and his eyes exposed outside the mask seemed to be colder than the blade.

The white thorn light dimmed suddenly, Qiao Kejun lowered his eyes, and slowly took off his blood-stained gloves. "At 11:30 in the morning, the stitching was completed, and the report asked them to come and pick it up within tomorrow."

"On the morning of December 12th, what time did it come... Well, in short, it is suspected of intentional arson..." Before the words fell, the handcuffs were only handcuffed on one side. The elbow came at him.

Fortunately, Wang Yu, who was not far away, had been keeping an eye on the situation here. He strode forward to catch up with him, kicked the man to the ground neatly, and with a few catches, the suspect was pinned to death on the spot.

"...and arresting you for the crime of obstructing official duties." Wen Baifan rubbed his knees in agony, jumped forward and managed to finish the dialogue.

"Hanfu, take him into the police car." Wang Yu handed the suspect to his colleagues, turned around, and a grinning smile came into view.

Wen Baifan scratched his face, with a pure expression on his face: "I have caused trouble for everyone again. This time it is also thanks to Xiao Wang."

Wang Yu turned a blind eye to the car and mouthed two words when passing Wen Baifan: "Trash."

Xiao Jia from the Propaganda Department next door turned into the office of the special investigation team familiarly, looked around, and as expected, the man was dozing off on the table again, covered with a puffy white down jacket, like a hibernating bear .

"Brother Bai, aren't you going to attend the search meeting in the afternoon?" She poked the man's shoulder, and her furry head moved in response.

Wen Baifan rested his chin on the table, did not open his eyes, and blew his bangs sadly.

"Don't say it first, I want to answer quickly! The reasons you skipped the meeting this month include but are not limited to, it's a shame to be late because of motion sickness on the way to the site survey, it's a shame to fall into the river while catching a thief, and you fell on the ground while chasing the prisoner. It's so embarrassing to fall..."

Wen Baifan opened his eyes in shame, and closed them again in shame.

"There's more!" Xiaojia continued to count with her fingers, and the long list was not out of breath, which made people suspect that she had specially practiced Guankou. "I'm not happy that I didn't buy cocoa milk at noon. I’m 29 years old and I feel like I’m going to become an old man, and I’m so unhappy that I still haven’t bought cocoa milk on my 29th birthday…”

"Why do I have to remember this kind of thing so clearly." Wen Baifan sighed helplessly, and looked up at Xiaojia from the bottom, with a bit of pitifulness, "But I really can't buy cocoa milk recently, why? ? I suspect Brother Xiong simply forgot to buy, but he claimed that it was indeed sold out, and even scolded me for touching porcelain. Is there anyone else with the same taste as me in this compound?"

It is well known that the leader of the special investigation team loves cocoa-flavored milk drinks on the 23rd, and the vending machines in the cafeteria are basically bought for Wen Baifan alone.

"Who knows, maybe." Xiao Jia put a cup of hot drink in front of Wen Bofan's nose, "Here, your favorite Tuyin Mocha, cheer up and call my brother!"

Wen Baifan covered the cup with both hands, and replied listlessly: "Okay, I got it."

After a while, Wang Yu stepped into the office and knocked on Wen Baifan's desk, "The arsonist has been recruited, and the case can be closed."

"So fast." Wen Baifan straightened up slowly, and cheerfully praised, "Xiao Wang's work efficiency is really high."

Wang Yu has never been used to this man's foolishness, so he couldn't help but sarcastically said: "If you don't always hold back, my efficiency can be even higher."

Outside the door, Luo Fei, who happened to be passing by, rolled his eyes when he heard this.He turned around when he was going to the tea room, and walked into the office of the special investigation team, "You can put it down, if Brother Bai hadn't found the key evidence, the three of you would still be buzzing like blind flies Going away."

"Who do you call a fly?"

Luo Fei was shocked by Wang Yu's ability to capture information: "Did your elementary school teacher never teach you what rhetoric is?"

In recent years, Wen Baifan has solved many cases and has been recognized by his superiors. So at the beginning of this year, a special investigation team was established and four new police officers were recruited: Wang Yu, Tang Huanyan, Liu Hanfu, and Zhang Tao.It is said to be a special investigation team, but the daily cases involved are no different from ordinary criminal police, the only difference is that they have higher autonomy in the process of handling cases.

Both Liu Hanfu and Zhang Tao have actually worked for several years, and among the four, only Tang Huanyan and Wang Yu are really inexperienced newcomers.Among them, Wang Yu was born in a police family, and his father was the leader of the provincial department. Even Liu Hanfu and Zhang Tao had the opportunity to join the group because of his blessing. In fact, Wang Yu's father chose to accompany the prince to study.

Luo Fei nimbly turned Wen Baifan and the office chair around, pushed aside, bent down and dragged out a small box from under his desk, carefully picked it up, "Hey, you still have Is there any sugar?"

"There are yogurt fudge, which is very delicious." Wen Baifan didn't bother to turn around by himself, so he kept his back to Luo Fei, and answered seriously into the air.

Wang Yu, who was left on the sidelines, was a little annoyed, as if he had punched the cotton with his fist. He smashed a document on the table, and ordered Wen Baifan: "You can file the case report!"

Luo Fei buried his head in unpacking the soft candy, but kept talking, tsk-tsk twice: "Mr. Wang is so bold, he actually ordered the boss to report."

Wang Yu sneered: "If you don't make a report, do you expect our boss to catch the criminal? He is the master who can almost let the prisoner escape with half of the handcuffs..."

At this moment, the landline suddenly rang "Bell -", breaking the tense atmosphere in the office. .

Wen Baifan stepped on the swivel chair and stretched, "I'm going to work again."

Wang Yu put down the microphone and walked out in a hurry, "There was a murder case in Chaoyang Elementary School, I'm going to show up."

Accompanied by a harsh screech of the brakes, the police car finally wobbled to a stop.Wen Baifan pushed open the car door with a livid face, took a trembling step, walked quickly to the trash can, and bent down solemnly.

Taking advantage of the glimmer of the setting sun, Tang Huanyan turned the steering wheel, turned the rear of the car onto the sidewalk, backed up again, turned onto the sidewalk, backed up again, and after a few rounds, it fell into the curb in a crooked manner. , and almost ran into a sports car next to him that was worth a lot of money at first sight.

Hearing the heart-piercing retching sound coming from behind, Tang Huanyan couldn't help explaining herself in a low voice: "We all ride in the same car, so I don't feel it at all. It's because your balance nerves are too bad, Brother Bai."

When the two entered Chaoyang Primary School, the police had cordoned off the entrance and exit of the east section of the teaching building, and the flashing red warning lights spread an ominous atmosphere in the dim night.

The layout of Chaoyang Primary School is square. The main body of the teaching building is a back-shaped building, which is divided into the south area and the north area.The south area is a row of classrooms that is closer to the front door and parallel to it.

The north area is the upper part of the word "Hui", separated from the south area by a small atrium full of green plants, and connected by two air corridors extending from the fourth floor on the east and west sides of about ten meters.

From the first floor to the third floor in the south area are classrooms for grades [-] to [-], and the first to third floors in the north area are classrooms for grades [-] to [-].The fourth floors of the two areas are laboratories, painting rooms, chess rooms, orchestra rooms and dance rooms. Chaoyang is the most famous local educational institution covering kindergartens to primary schools, and students have a rich after-school life.

The fifth floor is full of old classrooms waiting for renovation, and they are temporarily unoccupied.

The crime took place in an abandoned dance studio, on the far right side of the South District.Judging from the structure of the room, this classroom has only two windows on the east and south walls, and the only door in the north that can be accessed.

When Wen Baifan and Tang Huanyan arrived, the door was already crowded with technical personnel conducting on-site protection and investigation.

The name of the deceased was Xu Shilin, 53 years old, the principal of Chaoyang Primary School, and the time of death was less than four hours from now.The fire brigade received a call at [-]:[-] p.m., saying that a ten-year-old girl was trapped in the classroom, but the spare key corresponding to the security department was missing.Firefighters rushed to the scene and broke in, only to find Xu Shilin lying on the ground, already dead.

I thought it was just an ordinary incident of a child being locked up, but it turned out to be a bizarre murder.

"The trapped girl's name is Gao Kui. She is a fourth-grade student in Chaoyang Primary School. She was knocked out by drugs and was frightened. She has been sent to the hospital for examination." He recounted the incident, "The people who called the police were the school security guard Zhang Gui'an, the teachers Bai Xue and Li Xiaohui. At 05:30 this afternoon, Teacher Bai Xue received a call from Gao Kui's parents, saying that the child should go home at this time, but today The parents were very worried. The scene of the crime was an abandoned dance studio, and Teacher Bai Xue knew that Gao Kui would practice ballet alone here after school, so she went to this classroom to find someone accompanied by Teacher Li Xiaohui."

"This kind of door lock has a special shape. Many schools use it. It cannot be locked without the corresponding key. It is to prevent students from locking themselves indoors when they are fighting." The firefighter pointed to the evidence bag. Picked off the lock, explained, "But the students themselves cannot hold the key. After finding that the door was locked, one of the two teachers stayed outside the door, and the other went to the security room for help."

Wen Baifan simulated the scene at that time in his mind, while asking for details: "The door was locked at that time. The two teachers went downstairs to find the security guard after hearing Gao Kui's call for help? Didn't Gao Kui pass out? ?”

The firefighter was stopped by his question, so he had to answer ambiguously: "I should have woken up by then."

"Should?" Wen Baifan scratched his face, "Are you sure?"

"Not sure." The firefighter answered honestly, pausing, "Anyway, he woke up before I arrived, because the first time I came in, I saw her huddled in the corner over there crying."

"Okay, okay, don't get entangled in such insignificant details." Wang Yu pricked up his ears and listened for a long time, and finally interrupted Wen Baifan impatiently, "The little girl has been sent to the hospital for examination. It’s nothing serious, let’s focus on the murder itself first.”

"Got it." Wen Baifan replied obediently but perfunctorily, put on his gloves, and squatted down next to the corpse.

The forensic doctor's preliminary judgment on the cause of death was that the impact of the corner of the chair resulted in the death of the basilar skull fracture.

The deceased had undergone craniotomy due to brain artery tumors before his death. The sequelae of such operations are that a light impact on the head can cause fatal injuries, so the possibility of accidents cannot be ruled out.

At the same time, the forensic personnel put a white mask near the head of the deceased and a white cloth held by the deceased's right hand into the evidence bag, and found a mobile phone and a bunch of keys from the trouser pocket on the same side. One fits exactly with the classroom door lock.

Wang Yu picked up another evidence bag. Inside the transparent sealed bag was a plate of blue pills, and the small print on the aluminum foil package read "Sildenafil".Sildenafil is a common aphrodisiac drug on the market, also known as "Viagra".It's hard not to imagine a primary school principal carrying around a drug for this purpose.

He took another look at the corpse on its back. It was of medium build. The buttons of the shirt on the upper body and the belt on the lower body were almost completely undone. The pants were baggy, revealing half of the label on the edge of the underwear.

Wang Yu couldn't help showing a disgusted expression on his face, and thought: If this person really died accidentally during the process of raping a girl, it would be regarded as a sign of heaven.

Wen Baifan stood up, walked around the room slowly, and looked out the window for a while.

The winter night is very long, it is only 06:30, the sky has completely darkened, the lights of thousands of households are turned on, and there are lively sounds in the distance, transpiring into huge clouds and entrenched in the sky above the city.

Chaoyang Elementary School is located in the old city, and the surrounding buildings are densely packed. It coincides with dinner time, and there is a faint smell of smoke and detergent in the air.Looking out from the east window, it happens to be opposite to a residential building.It's a pity that it faces the side of the outer wall, and the classroom where the incident occurred is out of the residents' sight.The window on the south faces the street, on the same side as the school gate, and downstairs is the busy Chaoyang Avenue.

This room was originally a dance classroom, with a wooden floor on the floor, a row of cabinets for storing dancing shoes and sundries on the east wall, a huge mirror and a leg press bar on the west side, and the entrance door is located on the north side of the room.There is plenty of light in the room, and the twilight outside the window, the window hanging high opposite the mirror is dark, like the entrance of a mysterious passage.

The room was full of busy colleagues, only Wen Baifan stared at the mirror in a daze, until someone whispered something behind him.

Wen Baifan raised his eyes in confusion, just in time to meet the speaker's gaze in the mirror.The man was a few centimeters taller than Wen Baifan, and a camel-colored cashmere sweater was exposed under the collar of his white coat. He was wearing a mask, so he couldn't see his face clearly, but he could tell that his nose was straight, his eyes were curved and upturned, and his pupils were like dots. The paint is average.

The moment the eyes met, Wen Baifan seemed to feel a slight electric current rushing from the tailbone to the back of his head, and an inexplicable shivering sensation rippled through his mind like a tide.

"What did you say to me just now?" Wen Bofan asked.

Through the mask, the vague and deep voice made people's ears sharp, only to hear the other party say three words slowly: "Blocking the way."

The embarrassing smile on Wen Bofan's face has not faded, Tang Huanyan followed the sound after finishing the recording, she quickly guessed the identity of the white coat, "You are that Joe, Joe..."

"Yes, this is the new director Qiao Kejun from the forensic team of the forensic department." Luo Fei thought she was too embarrassing, so he hurried over to introduce her, "This is Tang Huanyan from the special investigation team, and this is their team leader Wen Baifan. "

"Hello." Wen Baifan stretched out his hand to him, but Qiao Kejun signaled that it was inconvenient for him to wear gloves, nodded to them, then turned and walked away.

"...This is too indifferent." Tang Huanyan couldn't help muttering.

Zhang Tao walked into the office with the report: "The evidence test results came out, and the white cloth on the deceased's hand was found to be positive." As we all know, this is a drug that will cause general anesthesia after acute heavy exposure.

Wang Yu glanced at Liu Hanfu, who quickly added: "The key on the deceased's body has also been confirmed to match the door of the crime scene, and only his fingerprints are on it, which means that the crime scene is a secret room."

Wang Yu put the two reports in front of Director Liao: "It all makes sense. The principal knew in advance that Gao Kui would practice dancing alone on the fifth floor. Out of an unknown hobby, he ambush in that room. Gao Kui was stunned, locked the door, and then tried to commit crimes, but unexpectedly, an accident happened, and the wrestling caused the old trouble to die."

He concluded quite confidently, "I think this matter can be handled as an accident."

Director Liao fell silent.

"But, it's so strange..." Wen Baifan leaned on the back of the chair with his hands behind his head and sighed.

Director Liao quickly asked him, "Bai Fan, what do you think?"

"The deceased had originally arranged a video conference this afternoon, but when it was approaching noon, he suddenly sent a message to ask the assistant to temporarily cancel it. The reason was that he was unwell." The mobile phone in the bag, casually tossed in the air, and then caught it firmly. "It's so strange, if Gao Kui always appears at that time and place..."

"This is evidence, what if it breaks!" Wang Yu was furious.

Wen Baifan was yelled at by him, and quickly put down the phone, raised his hands to his ears, and stuck out his tongue, "Even if the principal has been waiting for the opportunity for a long time, why can't he act on another day? Why do you have to set aside this afternoon? According to common sense In other words, the meeting time should have been revised in this way because of more urgent matters at the moment, right?"

Liu Hanfu nodded thoughtfully: "The team leader makes sense."

Wang Yu gave him a sideways look, and Liu Hanfu shut up wisely.

"So, do you think this is a murder case?" Wang Yu's deduction was questioned by Wen Baifan in front of everyone, and he felt quite ashamed.

Wen Baifan replied ambiguously: "Not necessarily."

Wang Yu tutted, "Don't forget, the scene of the crime is a secret room."

Wen Bofan scratched his face, "Not necessarily, the spare key is missing."

"It's not just the keys at the scene of the crime that were lost. Didn't the security guard say that several keys on the same floor were lost? This is just a management error."

"But if there is still a key, the secret room will not be established."

Wang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then you mean, whoever has the key is the murderer?"

"Not necessarily..."

"you!"

Liao Chu, who was silent for a long time, interrupted the argument between the two: "I think so..."