shadow of crime

At this time, Lao Wang's capable generals rushed in, took off their masks, and said, "Captain Jiang, in this house..."

"How's it going in the house?" Lin An opened his eyes wide and looked at the officer, the anticipation in his eyes flooded so much that he was almost drowning.

The trace inspector Xiao Li shrank his neck, and his voice also weakened: "There is nothing special in this house. The murderer did it too cleanly."

A ladle of cold water was poured down, but it didn't extinguish the fire in Lin An's heart, on the contrary, it ignited more and more: "If you don't find it, go and check carefully, shoe prints, hand prints, hair, etc. The murderer is a human, so he has to walk. You have to grow hair, how did Lao Wang teach you?"

Xiao Li was aggrieved, the murderer loved to clean up the scene, he was so meticulous, the toilet sewer was flushed with hydrogen peroxide, but he didn't clean up the blood.He really wants to say that your criminal investigation team has also gained nothing?The words turned into "Okay" again.

After finishing speaking, he sneaked into the room on the right, and repeated what Lin An just said to his colleagues verbatim, successfully arousing a wave of hatred for Lin An.

Lin An drank the health-preserving tea, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, and handed one to Cheng Ye.Cheng Ye's eyes drooped, he didn't answer, and just said: "Quit."

"It's okay, young man." Lin An is a casual person. He doesn't care if the younger generation accepts cigarettes or not. He put his arms around Cheng Ye's shoulder and said, "When I was detained, I was asked for cigarettes every day. If you say so, you can quit. ? Enough!"

Cheng Ye pursed his lips and smiled, inadvertently brushed off his hands on his shoulders, bit his words heavily, and said, "I also quit drinking."

Jiang Bei had just finished tidying up the photos on the ground, and when he got up, his eyes were wild, as if the words "quit drinking too" were meant for him.He didn't care, turned around and went to the balcony, followed by two followers.

Due to the rain, small puddles had accumulated on the balcony, and water droplets were still hanging on the railing.Lin An exhaled the smoke and said, "The murderer of the serial murder case is cautious. Cleaning up the scene is a basic operation. I can understand this, but how did that little boy slip in while evading the monitoring and security guards? Now a little girl is too unaware of safety." Come, someone will open the door."

The Xingyuan community is well secured. Things like takeaway express are not allowed to enter, and the owner needs to go to the door to pick them up.People inside the community, including security guards and property management personnel, need to enter their work numbers to enter the unit building, and the system will record it. Moreover, the corridors are monitored, and there are only a few households in a building.

Jiang Bei didn't answer, and after walking around the balcony, he stood upright facing the balcony next door. "Lin An, go knock on the door next door to see if anyone is home."

Lin An followed his line of sight, and immediately understood. The problem that had not been resolved was instantly broken.He stubbed out the cigarette, put the cigarette butt in his pocket, and ran away like a tornado.

The cold wind in winter chills the atmosphere.Cheng Ye's hands were sweating from the glove, and the rubber film stuck to his palm. He felt uncomfortable, took off the glove, and leaned on the railing, his fingertips turned red from the cold.

Jiang Bei stared at the slender fingers. The other person seemed to have been pampered. The skin on the back of the hand was delicate, the knuckles were clear, and there were no calluses.

Suddenly, a delicate flesh flashed through his mind.

Cheng Ye felt a little bored, and flexed his fingers to pick. Digging the rust on the railing, his neatly manicured nails made a high-pitched sound.Some people are very sensitive to this kind of sound, touching their nerves is enough to arouse goosebumps all over their bodies.

Jiang Bei frowned, and offered him a wet wipe: "You are destroying the scene. Didn't the school tell you not to touch things at the scene with your bare hands? This is common sense."

"I'm a scumbag." After explaining in a simple sentence, Cheng Ye wiped his rusty fingers with a wet towel, and he wiped them carefully, even under the nails.

"Of course I know that the scene cannot be destroyed casually, but the balcony has been washed clean by the heavy rain. Even if it didn't rain, the murderer would have cleaned the balcony according to how cautious he was."

He stretched out his hand in front of Jiang Bei: "My hands are wrinkled with sweat, I just want to breathe."

His tone was like that of a child begging for candy. If an adult blamed him for this, it would not seem generous.

But who is Jiang Bei? He is a person who has been single by virtue of his strength. Let alone a child, even if a beautiful woman with soft as water and a proud figure is put in front of him, he will not be moved.He said firmly: "If you can't stand it, don't do this business, pack your things and leave as soon as possible."

He was always on guard against Cheng Ye, not only because Cheng Ye was suspicious of him, but also because Cheng Ye didn't seem to have anything to do with criminal investigation, he kept jumping back and forth between black and white, and he was only a short distance away from being completely out of line. step.

Jiang Bei didn't think that the things in Cheng Ye's stomach were learned in school, but rather like anti-investigation methods summed up after committing crimes several times.But this is a conclusion based on his intuition, and there is no evidence to crucify Cheng Ye.

He recalled the night when the fourth victim was killed. He had been sorting out information at the bureau until midnight, and it was past one o'clock in the morning when he returned to the community.There is no law and order in the old community. Only an old man over half a century old guards the iron gate. If you want to enter the community after 12 o'clock, you have to give the old man one yuan to open the gate.

The unit building he lives in is the first building on the left hand side of the gate, which is the building where the crime occurred. There is no elevator, so he can only take the stairs.As soon as he reached the second floor, there were hurried footsteps upstairs, and the voice-activated lights were turned on.

The corridor was cramped. The person who came was wearing a white down jacket and smelled of alcohol, but rushed down on the ground. When he rubbed shoulders with Jiang Bei, he staggered and rolled down the low steps.

The man suddenly screamed, and Jiang Bei kindly pulled him. The moment his hands touched, Jiang Bei felt blood on his hand.Only then did the man raise his head, his eyes were covered with water mist, his cheeks were blushing, and under the dim light, there was an astonishing beauty.

The man was dazzled by the alcohol, and mumbled in his mouth: "Ah~ you caught me."

Jiang Bei recognized this person as an intern who had just arrived, and he was still drinking in the middle of the night, thinking that it would affect tomorrow's work, so he spoke a few words in a neither soft nor hard tone.

Cheng Ye leaned against the dusty wall, nodded and said "yes" persistently, and wiped the wall with his hands, wiping off the blood, revealing a hideous gash.Maybe because he felt the eyes glued to his palm, he took the initiative to explain: "Well, I was drinking with my friends, and I was cut by a beer bottle."

At this time, there was the sound of the door opening upstairs, and a man shouted: "Ah Ye, take care of the wound and remember to bring a case of beer back, congratulations on your graduation! Work!"

There was a lot of noise upstairs, obviously there was more than one person, and they were all drunk from the sound.Cheng Ye giggled, with a childlike expression on his face, he yelled "Okay" upstairs, and went downstairs holding onto the railing.

At the same time, the door upstairs was also closed, and the corridor fell into silence for an instant.Jiang Bei stood on the steps, took out a white handkerchief and wiped his hands before going upstairs.

The house he rented had a bad orientation, and the living room was facing the gate of the community, so the rumble of motor vehicles entering and leaving could be heard clearly.But this is the closest neighborhood to the city bureau, and compared to his own house, living here can save a lot of time.

The sound of footsteps downstairs stopped when they reached the gate. He heard Cheng Ye say "open the door" to the old gatekeeper. Perhaps he was disturbed and dozed off.

"How many times do you want to come in and out? The door is opened for you all night, can you buy everything at once? Why didn't you develop a good habit at a young age, and you still make fools in the middle of the night!"

Cheng Ye was drunk and couldn't keep his mouth shut. After arguing with the old man for a while, he grabbed the railing and flipped out.

Early the next morning, Jiang Bei received a call from the bureau, saying that the murderer committed another crime, and a fourth victim appeared, and the scene of the crime was upstairs in Jiang Bei's building.

Jiang Bei didn't have time to tidy up, so he rushed to the sixth floor with his slippers on.The door of the scene was wide open, and the smell of blood wafted out and filled the corridors. The victim's neighbor was holding his mobile phone tremblingly, his face was already pale, and he couldn't speak a complete sentence.

Fortunately, the victim had a dog at home, and a surveillance camera was installed to watch the dog anytime, anywhere. Jiang Bei also saw the familiar down jacket on the surveillance camera.

However, he did not see the murderer showing his face, and the bloodstains that Cheng Ye wiped on the wall did not belong to the victim. The reason why he said the bloodstains belonged to the victim earlier was to deceive Cheng Ye, but only he knew that the clue was broken.

The time of Cheng Ye's appearance coincided with the time of the victim's death, but apart from the down jacket, there was not enough evidence to prove that Cheng Ye killed him.

After all, it is normal for different people to wear the same style of clothes, not to mention that the murderer's next target is Cheng Ye.Suppose he followed Cheng Ye and imitated Cheng Ye before committing the crime, so as to divert the attention of the police to Cheng Ye.

But in this way, there was a contradiction. Cheng Ye would become a high-profile target of the police, and it would be even more difficult for the murderer.

So what is the murderer up to?play games?Killing people under the noses of the police can bring him twisted pleasure?

Jiang Bei fell into deep thought, always feeling that this series of events had an indescribably weird feeling.He glanced at Cheng Ye's raised hand, the wound on the palm was still horrifying, the scab that had finally formed was soaked with sweat, and white appeared on the edge.

Cheng Ye lost interest, and put on his gloves obediently: "Why don't you do this? I'm just inexperienced. The officer will teach me, right?"

Jiang Bei didn't answer, he pulled the glass door on the balcony and opened and closed it several times.

At the same time, next door.

Lin An's mouth was worn out, and he showed the girl countless times the ID card, before the girl allowed Lin An to enter the door.

The living room of the house was divided into two bedrooms, leaving only a small area for the dining room.The air was not circulating, and all kinds of smells accumulated together. If Lin An hadn't smelled many carrion corpses, he would have vomited long ago.

The original three-unit house was changed to a five-unit house. Needless to say, this is the "masterpiece" of the chartering company.The charter company rents a house from the landlord at a low price, and then renovates the house and rents it out in the form of a single room. The rent for a room is 800, and it can make a lot of difference every month.

When Lin An just graduated, money was tight, and he lived in this kind of house. The tenants were very mobile, and men and women lived together. When he went home and closed the door, no one knew anyone.

He even looked at a few rooms, but no one lived there, so he couldn't help but ask, "You live here alone?"

"Yes," the girl looked young, probably just graduated, and timidly followed Lin An's buttocks, and immediately changed her words as if remembering something, "No, they just moved out in the past few days, next door... People next door died, and they all left."

Lin An heard that the girl wanted to clear up the suspicion, so he didn't say much.Although the current little girl has never been in a police station, she has watched a lot of police and gangster movies. In reality, whenever she encounters such a thing, she wants to learn TV dramas and clean herself up immediately.

He asked: "Then why don't you move, aren't you afraid of living here alone?"

The girl huddled her thin shoulders and said weakly: "Move, I've already found a good house, and I'm planning to move, but the tenant over there hasn't returned the lease yet, so... just move in a few days."

Lin An turned around abruptly, and covered the girl with his huge body: "Why don't you find someone who has already quit the lease? Someone died next door, and you still look for the one who hasn't refunded the lease, is life too long?"

The girl had already suffered a nervous breakdown from the murder case, and she hadn't slept well in the past few nights, and she was yelled at again, tears welling up in her eyes.

Lin An immediately panicked, feeling that he had worked with Jiang Bei for a long time, and he was becoming more and more like Jiang Bei, but he didn't like it, which scared the little girl to tears.

He hurriedly took out the crumpled toilet paper, stuffed it into the girl's hand, and comforted him firmly: "Don't cry, I'm just worried that it's dangerous for you to live here alone, nothing else."

The girl wiped away her tears, and said with a sob: "I have found the house before... I paid the deposit, and the deposit will not be refunded if I don't rent it."

Graduates don't have much money, and they feel ashamed to ask their parents for money at such a young age. The deposit may be one month's living expenses. It's a pity not to, Lin An can understand.

He said: "Special treatment in special times, tell your family about this, move as soon as possible, and it won't be too late when you pay your salary back to your parents. Your family will definitely not feel at ease if you live here alone."

The girl nodded, her sobs became much quieter. Under Lin An's supervision, she took out her mobile phone and called home, telling her everything about the situation.

Lin An could hear the terrified voice of the woman across the phone, telling her daughter to move quickly.But Lin An is not someone who likes to eavesdrop, so he turned around and walked around the rooms, and finally entered the master bedroom.

The master bedroom has its own bathroom and a balcony. Next to it is the balcony of Li Zhenzhen's living room. You can see Jiang Bei and Cheng Ye fighting with their eyes.

Lin An wanted to say hello to them, when the girl finished the call and stood at the door and knocked on the door: "That..."

"You said."

The girl felt relieved when she told her family about this, and she started to talk more: "I want to say, I called the moving company on the 17th, and the tenant there agreed that I would move the things and put them away first. I had a lot of luggage, so I moved. Afterwards, the security guard came to ask me, so I think it’s better to tell you in person.”

"Your idea is correct!" Lin An boasted, and then asked, "How many people came to the moving company that day, and how many people left when they left?"

"Two." The girl remembered clearly.The room she rented was cheap, but there was no wardrobe, so she bought a second-hand one at her own expense, and wanted to move it out together.At that time, the two employees shook their weight and said that they would need to pay more to move them, so she argued for a while.

Lin An nodded, what the girl said was the same as what the security guard at the door said, and temporarily ruled out the possibility of the moving company committing the crime, then the closest thing to the truth now is in this house.

The fifth floor belongs to the middle floor, and there is a decorative railing on the outside, which happens to connect the two balconies. Although it is relatively narrow, how can a pervert like a murderer be afraid?

The girl was about to go back to her room to pack her things, but Lin An stopped her and asked, "Have you seen the tenant in this room?"

"No," the girl said, "this man comes back very late every night. I live next door to him, and I am often woken up by him in the middle of the night." The girl pointed to the toilet and explained it in detail, lest she be suspected, "His toilet It's next to my room, and every night he would flush the water for a long time, which would wake me up."

Lin An didn't find it strange that he had never met his neighbors. After all, when he lived in a single room, he didn't know whether the next door was a man or a woman, but the girl's words touched his sensitive nerves.

Toilet, flush.

A flash of light flashed in Lin An's mind, and he turned around and yelled on the balcony, regardless of what the two people opposite were doing.

"Brother Jiang, this house has been taken over by the rental company, and there is only one girl living here."

Jiang Bei didn't torture the glass door any more, patted the ashes on his hands, and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"No," Lin An said with a smirk, "It's just that he didn't find it, which is in line with the murderer's style. The little girl said that the tenants of this room only come back at midnight, and they flush the water every night. I'm not saying that That flush, that flush..."

Jiang Bei hurriedly interrupted him: "Understood, wait for me over there."