Chasing the Mist

The photo is exactly the photo of Lu Youming and Zhang Yanchen when they were students. It is different from the well-preserved photo inlaid in a photo frame on Lu Youming's desk. The surroundings of this photo are blackened by smoke, and Lu Youming's face is crossed out and is blank.

At this moment, the village head said, "My name is Zhang Yanchen. I opened a clinic in Baicheng and made a lot of money. Otherwise, I couldn't afford to build such a big house. When I came back last year, I even donated a lot of money to the village primary school."

In an instant, it was as if a thread passed through Lin Yiran's brain, connecting those scattered thoughts together, and then everything was connected, he raised his eyes to look at Gu Xun.

The fire between Gu Xun's eyebrows was enough to start a prairie fire. He didn't look at Lin Yiran, but turned to Zheng Tiancheng and said, "The intersection of the highway, the airport, and the train station are strictly guarded, and another group of people will be sent to his house. Turn it inside out."

Suddenly, many people in police uniforms came to the small courtyard where the Zhang family had been quiet for nearly ten years. The neighbors heard the sound and came to watch.

The tracer came over with a frown, "Gu Dui, this house is basically empty, no fingerprints can be extracted, the kitchen tableware is very clean, there is no fingerprint on it, does he wear gloves to cook and wash the dishes?"

Colleagues from the team came in from the outside, "Boss, Xiao Qi (the police dog) seems to have found something, and he is staying under a tree in the backyard."

Gu Xun patted Hen Jian on the shoulder, "The house is very likely to be the scene of the first crime. The fingerprints in the house are very important. He is extremely cautious and has excellent anti-detection methods. Please pay more attention." After leaving, he said to the team members, "Dig!"

The ground was frozen in winter, and digging was laborious. The policemen dug for an hour, but nothing was dug up. Xiao Qi sniffed the excavated soil and barked wildly.

There were two groups of people indoors and outdoors. The outdoors were digging. The indoor police searched the closet and every corner where people could hide. Not to mention Meng Jia, they didn't find a single hair.

Lin Yiran looked around at the emptied furniture, making human heads into ice sculptures and freezing them. With his cautious temperament, he dared not put the human heads outside to freeze them. There was only one possibility left when they were finished—refrigerators.

There was nothing in the refrigerator in the kitchen, and the air-conditioning was blowing slightly. He frowned and looked around the refrigerator.

The double-door refrigerator is placed near the corner, with a width of about 95cm and a height close to one person. The large refrigerator looks extremely uncoordinated in a small kitchen.

Lin Yiran's eyes fell on the wheels at the four corners of the refrigerator. With a light push, the refrigerator moved. Then he pushed the refrigerator out of the corner, exposing the ground. There was a tile depression on the ground, which was a small door that could only accommodate one person. There is a password fingerprint lock by the door.

He turned around and ran out, the sky was bright, the sun was a little dazzling, and there was a thin layer of light on the snow in the courtyard, and the people in uniform who were digging the soil were stained with a glimmer of light.

Lin Yiran walked to Gu Xun's side, "What's Wu Shanshan's birthday?"

Gu Xun looked at him with doubts in his eyes. At this moment, the excavation police exclaimed, "It's been dug out. It's a white bone."

Gu Xun leaned over and took a look, "Continue digging." Then he turned to look at Lin Yiran, and said coldly, "I don't know."

"There is a secret room under the refrigerator. Fingerprints or passwords are required to open the door."

Hearing this, Gu Xun ran to the room, saw the door of the secret room, his heart was filled with light, and the fire in his eyes became lighter. He squatted down and called out to the door of the secret room, "Meng Jia?"

There was no response.

"Gu Dui, Wu Shanshan's birthday?" Lin Yiran asked again.

"..." Gu Xun couldn't remember, so he called Zheng Yuan, hung up the phone, pressed 0112 on the code lock, the door wouldn't open, and pressed Zhang Yanchen's birthday, but it still didn't move.

Gu Xun took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit it twice but failed to light it, and threw it away irritably. Both of them have different birthdays. Could it be Lu Youming's birthday?He found out Lu Youming's birthday and tried it again, but it was still wrong.

Lin Yiran stepped forward, squatted down, and pressed Gu Xun's birthday 0718, and the door lock opened with a "click".

Pulling open the door, the door is very small, only the ladder and the dim light in the distance can be seen, Gu Xun climbed in along the ladder, and Lin Yiran followed behind.

Borrowing a moment to press the switch on the wall, the secret room is instantly brightly lit. The room is not big. As far as the eye can see, there is a naked girl covered in whiplash lying in the northwest corner. Her lower body is covered with blood. Her head is facing the wall and she cannot see clearly. face, lying motionless on the ground.

"Hey!"

The girl didn't respond.

Gu Xun went over, his feet were as heavy as if they were tied to iron, his heart was hanging in the air every time he took a step, and he even prayed absurdly: Don't be Meng Jia.

The closer he got, the slower his steps became. One meter away from the girl, he saw the face clearly. He stopped, his heart throbbing, and he immediately took off his clothes and covered Meng Jia.

After wrapping tightly, he squatted beside her and stretched out his index finger, which had grabbed the hands of countless sinners. At this moment, he was trembling like sifting chaff. The index finger stayed under Meng Jia's nose for a moment, and the heat flowed to the skin between the fingers. Use all your strength.

Pairs of eyes waiting for the result stared at him.

Gu Xun took a deep breath, stood up, "Call an ambulance."

The others hugged Meng Jia out tightly, Gu Xun calmed down and went back to work.

Less than two meters away from Meng Jia, there was a dining table with burning candles, knives and forks, and plates. There was half a piece of leftover meat in the center of the plate. The meat was not completely cooled. Zhang Yanchen just ate here. After dinner.

Gu looked for a shock, thought of something, and immediately ran out to make a phone call, "He hasn't gone far, search the mountain immediately."

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The dining chair is facing the northwest corner, sitting on the chair facing Meng Jia. Lin Yiran stood at the table thinking, Meng Jia curled up in the corner, trembling, and watched him eat with horror. Meng Jia has received professional training and will not easily Panic, unless Zhang Yanchen kills someone in front of her, or——

Lin Yiran lowered his head and smelled the meat on the plate. It was only boiled with water without any seasoning. He casually called the forensic doctor beside him, "Can you tell what kind of meat it is?"

The little forensic doctor is an intern, wearing black-rimmed eyes, bent down and looked down at the plate, and his face changed instantly when he looked up. Seeing this, Lin Yiran understood, turned around and opened the refrigerator door behind the dining table, and there were pieces of red and white The meat came into view, and on the top layer of the frozen, there was a pair of women's boobs.

The victim's private organs and buttocks are neatly placed on the second floor, and the minced meat with indistinguishable parts is placed below it, arranged in order according to the size of the meat pieces, from small to large.

Some of the surrounding policemen vomited directly.

Gu Xun came back and stood in front of the refrigerator to take a look.

Lin Yiran said indifferently: "The body of the disappeared victim is here, and some of it may have been eaten by him."

Gu Xun closed his eyes, then opened them again, "Take them all away."

Next to the refrigerator, there is an operating bed with knives of various sizes placed beside the bed.

The trace inspection that has been unable to find traces has yielded a lot in this underground secret room. The fingerprints of the same person were found on the refrigerator, the dining table, and the victim's corpse|meat|piece.

Lin Yiran climbed up the ladder, and when his upper body climbed out of the ground, he lowered his head and looked down. This small and dark underground room, like a boa constrictor walking in the dark night, quietly opened its huge mouth, bared its fangs, and followed behind the woman .

His upper body was bathed in the sunshine and white snow, and his lower body was entangled by a python. Suddenly, he remembered the fire in the Zhang family a few years ago, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

The work of collecting evidence in the afternoon was coming to an end, but Zhang Yanchen himself was missing.

The mountain was covered with snow, the snow covered the knees, and the severe cold weather brought great inconvenience to the mountain search. The helicopters roared overhead. All the policemen in Lu County, regardless of police types, were all engaged in the search work until night fell. Zhang Yanchen who had fled was found in the dilapidated thatched cottage.

Back at the City Bureau, Zhang Yanchen in the interrogation room kept silent, until the early hours of the interrogation, before saying the first sentence, "I want to see Gu Xun."

The author has something to say: I haven't saved the manuscript, so I will write these today, and the motivation for the crime will be discussed in the next chapter.