Forensics

Penang, 30 years ago, in the early morning.

It was a seemingly ordinary dark night.

A pregnant woman appeared on the streets of Penang.

Her name is Yu Yue, and she used to be a container.

In the four years prior to this, she had been imprisoned, and under coercion, she gave birth to three children one after another, and she was pregnant with the fourth.

She is only 24 years old this year. She has a pale face and disheveled hair. She has just escaped from hell, but her family has moved away from the home she remembers.

She has no mobile phone, no ID card, and no money.

In just a few short years, everything in my hometown has changed, the streets have become different, and new buildings have been built nearby.

Her heart was full of fear, the long-term captivity had degraded her body, and her mental state was on the verge of collapse. She walked all the way from the port to this place, her feet had been worn out in many places, and she had reached her limit.

Yu Yue was cold and hungry, and felt that she might faint at any time.

She stood blankly at a nearby intersection, her eyes looking into the dark distance, trying to recall which relatives and friends she had.

She didn't know where she should go, and who to look for.She thought for a moment that she should ask the police for help, but then she remembered what the woman said, that she could not call the police...

Where else could she go?

Yu Yue stood by the roadside, her nose sore, tears streaming down her face, and she began to sob softly.

Just when she felt hopeless, a big car suddenly and slowly stopped in front of her.

Yu Yue raised her head, a few snowflakes were painted on the car, it was a refrigerated car.

The driver of the refrigerated truck was a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a middle-aged woman beside him.They looked sideways at her, and the middle-aged woman asked her, "Girl, it's so late, why don't you go home?"

Yu Yue knew that she was wearing a dirty hospital gown, which looked a little strange.

She wiped the tears from her face, not knowing how to tell what happened to her, so she could only make up a lie: "I...I had a fight with my family."

The eyes of the middle-aged woman moved down and landed on her swollen belly: "Girl, then you can't still walk on the street so late, you can get in the car, I still have a spare room in my house, you can live with us One night."

She hesitated a little: "Thank you, but it's still not necessary."

After going through those things, she no longer dared to trust others casually.

Yu Yue walked to a bench by the side of the road and curled up on it.

She was in a daze, and seemed to fall asleep for a while, and then she felt someone tap her on the shoulder.

Yu Yue opened her eyes and found that the refrigerated truck that had driven out turned back and stopped not far from her at some point.The middle-aged man got out of the car to smoke, and it was the middle-aged woman who woke her up.

The woman stuffed her with some food and a can of milk: "It doesn't matter if you don't leave with us, you must be defensive, but you should eat something. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the child in your belly."

Yu Yue took the milk, and she heard the care for her from the woman's words.

The other party did not stubbornly say that they would pick her up, but instead gave her the packaged food, which made her let go of her guard.

The other party should not be a bad person.

Looking at the plain faces of the couple, she finally opened the milk. The milk was in the car and it was not too cold. She drank it in a few sips, and then ate a few biscuits.

The middle-aged woman sat aside and chatted with her for a while, saying that her home has a cold storage and that she has two lovely children.

In the end, the middle-aged woman said: "I know it's not easy to be pregnant. You are still alone now. Everyone needs help when they encounter difficulties. If you don't want to live in our house, we can lend you money and give you money nearby. You find a small hotel."

Yu Yue was moved. A couple who had never met before thought so much about her.

I am already penniless, the child is still several months away, and the other party has nothing to gain.

Maybe, it's okay to go to their house, as long as you trouble them to stay for one night.

Tomorrow morning, she can cheer up, find a way to go to her father's previous unit, and try to contact where they moved.

Moreover, not being able to call the police does not mean that she cannot seek help from the police. She said that she has lost her memory and those people will help her find her family.

She has escaped from that devil's lair and returned to the mortal world.

She seemed to have seen the dawn when the sun rose tomorrow.

There are still good people in this world.

Like number 15, like the boatman willing to take them away, like...

The front of the refrigerated truck was wide enough to seat three people. The husband and wife moved to make room for her.

Yu Yue sat in the car happily, the car was warm and quiet, she was extremely tired, and finally felt a moment of peace.

She touched her belly with her hand, and could feel the baby's movement. This baby was already six months old, and he had already lived in her belly and became a life.

Even if the men are guilty, the children are innocent.

Yu Yue thought that she had already lost three children, maybe this one could be kept.

At that time, she did not expect that after escaping from the wolf's den, she would enter the tiger's mouth.

Since that day, no one else has seen her, and she, who lacks social experience and is pure and kind, just disappeared on the streets of Penang City.

Four months later, she gave birth to a full-term boy.

Seven months later, on the day of the [-]th day of the child, this poor woman who was the container ended her life.

Since then, she has turned into a corpse, sleeping in a corner of the cold storage.

The sun rose as usual every day, more and newer buildings were built in the city, and the roads were built wider.

People's makeup, hairstyle and clothing have all changed.

Times have changed, and vicissitudes have passed.

30 years on...

30 years later, Penang.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a team of criminal police quickly assembled and drove towards Zhang Zhaoxin's home.

Within half an hour, three police cars stopped in front of their house.

It was a small villa on the second floor, and the situation inside could be seen at a glance from the outside. All the traces indicated that there had just been a struggle here.

The light was on, but the room was in a mess. There were broken plates on the floor, and mooncakes that fell on the floor and were stepped on.

There was also a small amount of blood on the floor.

Shen Junci put on gloves, squatted down and took a closer look: "The blood volume is very small, and it hasn't completely solidified yet. The estimated time will not exceed half an hour."

Gu Yanchen also looked at the scene: "Judging from the footprints, he should have kidnapped his parents."

Wuliang also sniffed inside for a while, put away his tail, and looked at the door.

The person in charge of the property checked the nearby surveillance with Bai Meng, and they saw the scene of Zhang Yunwei driving away from the surveillance.

Bai Meng looked up: "Zhang Yunwei drove the car out, and I don't know where he went. I will contact Skynet to track it."

Gu Yanchen thought for a moment: "There are not many places he can go. Does their family have any other houses or properties?"

Now that Zhang Yunwei has kidnapped and controlled the two elderly people, it is impossible to find a random place.And he didn't kill people directly, otherwise what they found would be two corpses.

Bai Meng searched on the computer for a while, and said: "Their cold storage business has been doing very well in recent years, and they bought another smaller cold storage."

Gu Yanchen: "The specific location."

Bai Meng: "In the west of the city, the decoration has been completed, and the official business has not yet started."

Gu Yanchen said: "It should be there, let's rush there as soon as possible to search."

At this time, in a small cold storage in the west of Penang.

The cold storage has not yet been used, and the inside is very empty, only a few chairs left over from the renovation.

It was set to minus ten degrees here, and the refrigerator was humming.

Opposite Zhang Yunwei sat two elderly people with their feet bound.He was wearing thick protective clothing, but the two old people were only wearing ordinary clothes.

The thin clothes were completely unable to resist the chill in the cold storage. The faces of the old people turned blue from the cold, and their lips began to turn purple.

Zhang Zhaoxin's beard was covered with icicles, and his hand was broken in the previous fight with Zhang Yunwei. He was so cold that he kept sucking his nose and shaking his body.

Ji Meiying was leaning against him, crying, her tears fell and condensed on her face, she stretched out her hand to wipe, the tears formed frost marks on her face, her nose was very red, it looked like Like a clown in a circus.

They have been here for 10 minutes, and initially Zhang Zhaoxin and Ji Meiying refused to speak or answer.

But Zhang Yunwei took out some clothes, and whoever told the truth would get a piece of clothes.

As the temperature drops, the hands and feet are the first to lose sensation.

Zhang Yunwei frowned, his voice trembling: "Tell me, who is that woman!"

Zhang Zhaodao: "That is a woman of unknown origin."

"Do you know her?"

Ji Meiying said: "Well, I know... She doesn't know where her home is and who else is there. We... kindly took her in for a while."

"Don't lie, if you don't tell me the truth, you will freeze to death here!" Zhang Yunwei continued to ask, "Is she born?"

The two old men were silent again.

After a while, Zhang Zhaoxin closed his eyes: "Yes."

He has been in the cold storage for half his life, knowing that if he keeps freezing, his fingers and toes may turn black and purple, and they will be amputated.

Zhang Zhaoxin's honesty was exchanged for a thin dress.

Zhang Yunwei asked again: "You kidnapped her because of the child in her belly?"

Ji Meiying sobbed and nodded, she also got a dress.

Once there was this beginning, the two old men began to tell the secret things for the sake of warmth.

Under the stimulation of the cold, their brains were like a machine that was shut down. They trembled, and they didn't even cover up too much in words.

Ji Meiying cried and said: "We don't want to do this either. We also thought about adopting a child, but we waited for a long time, but we didn't get a healthy child."

"Your mother was already a little abnormal at that time. She would sit up suddenly in the middle of the night, sit on the bed and cry all night. One day when she was in the park, she saw a girl who looked like your sister. Let's go. Later, the child's mother chased him up and explained for a long time before he was taken away by the police."

"My body is no longer capable of assisted reproduction. We just want a child. It doesn't matter whether it is biological or not. We used to think about buying a child, but we couldn't find a child to buy in that part of the city when there was a crackdown on trafficking. place, so your father said, we can look for pregnant women and see if we can find a single mother."

They talked about their helplessness, as if they were the poor people who were forced to be helpless by fate.

But from Zhang Yunwei's ears, he only thought they were lunatics.

After hearing these words, Zhang Yunwei threw each of them a thin coat, and the two of them put it on, and finally regained some consciousness.

"Let us go, don't you remember the kindness of nurturing us for so many years?" Looking at his "son" who has been raised for more than 30 years, Zhang Zhaoxin said.

Zhang Yunwei's face was as solid as ice, and he was not moved at all. He held up the clothes: "I will not let you go, I still want to hear more truth."

The two old men fell into despair, and they told him what happened that night.

The moment they saw Yu Yue, they all had evil thoughts at the same time.

Stealing a baby is a bit difficult, so what about kidnapping a pregnant woman?

In the womb of a woman there is an unborn child whose existence is not recorded anywhere.

That child belongs to them completely.

As for that woman, after giving birth to a child, her mission is over.

"Son, that woman must have provoked someone outside. At one point, someone was secretly looking for a woman with a cup drawn on her shoulder. She has it on her shoulder."

"That woman was crazy, she was screaming every day, let us let her go, so she will be found sooner or later. Later, she died of illness."

"Lies!" Zhang Yunwei yelled, "The police will conduct an autopsy, so don't try to fool me!"

Zhang Zhaoxin sighed: "We had no choice but to kill her."

"We used a charcoal fire. After burning the charcoal in the house, she fell asleep without pain at all."

They speak of sins sunk beneath the ages.

Zhang Yunwei looked at the two shivering old men in front of him, gritted his teeth, and handed each of them a piece of clothing.

He remembered that when he was a child, he wanted to eat a kind of candy, so he pestered Zhang Zhaoxin to buy it for him. He thought that when he was sick, Ji Meiying took care of him all night long.He thought of the taste of Ji Meiying's pimple soup, and Zhang Zhaoxin bought him a house and a car, and gave him his cold storage to operate.

But these are not the reasons for their killing!No matter how beautiful all this is, it cannot cover up the evil. This should not be his life!

He seemed to be standing in the center of the balance, one side was the grace of nurturing, and the other was the revenge of killing his mother.

He frowned and asked, "Is the child that important to you?"

Ji Meiying cried: "Son, you are our life. Mom can't live without you."

Zhang Zhaodao: "Son, you don't have children yet, you don't know how important children are to a family. How sad it is to lose a child. A home without children is a grave."

"There are so many old people who have lost their only child, and they are not like you. They become murderers. I don't have children, and I live very well!" Zhang Yunwei said disgustedly, "Also, don't call me son, I feel disgusted."

When he was in elementary school, he was bullied by his classmates. A fat man who lived in the same community as him pointed at him and said, "You are not born to your parents at all. Our parents are young. Your parents are so old. My mother said that she has never seen your mother with a big belly, you are a wild child they picked up from the garbage dump!"

Since then, he has discovered the difference between himself and others.

He rummaged through the photo albums in his home, but he didn't find a photo of his mother pregnant with him, only a photo of her pregnant with her brother and sister.

Even two months before his birth, the mother was slender and not at all pregnant.

In high school, he studied biology.

Zhang Yunwei dug out his parents' physical examination reports, and their blood types proved that he could not be their biological child.

A year ago, a man found him.

That man's name is Meng Shi.

He talked to him once.

It was a strange man who said strange things.

"I found a private investigator and searched all the people of the same age in Penang. Among them, I am not sure about some, but you, I am sure. You should not be the child of Ji Meiying and Zhang Zhaoxin. You are the child of a container. I I think you were taken away by the Guhuo Bird."

He lowered his face and asked him, "What do you mean?" He couldn't understand the man's riddle.

Meng Shi looked at him and smiled: "I just came to see you and see what kind of life you live."

He stood up and said, "I don't know what you're talking about. I don't care about that. My life is good now. My adoptive parents also love me very much."

"You're not curious, where will your biological mother be?" Meng Shi smiled, with the corners of his mouth raised, "She won't be killed by your adoptive parents, right? Killing the mother and seizing the child, if you don't have your own child, just rob her." other people's children as compensation."

Zhang Yunwei's eyes widened instantly, and Meng Shi's words planted a seed of doubt in his heart.

He got out of there quickly.

From that day on, the doting of his parents changed in his eyes.

Will the person who raised him be his mother-killing enemy?

He moved out from home, did not dare to eat the food they gave him, and refused the blind date arranged by his parents.

He went around looking for insiders and clues.But he never dared to ask Aunt Qin who might know the truth.

until today……

He watched the policemen handle the corpse from a distance, and felt a chill from the soles of his feet.

Why would anyone do such a thing?

He has never been so eager to seek proof, he wants to know the truth, he wants to know his own life experience.

Is my biological mother really the woman who was frozen in a cold freezer for 30 years by the person in front of me?

He knew everything now, but he didn't feel relieved.

Zhang Zhaoxin and Ji Meiying cried bitterly in front of his eyes, saying that they knew they were wrong, and begged him to leave them a way out and let them surrender.

He threw all the clothes on the ground and watched them fight desperately for the few clothes.

Zhang Yunwei walked out of the cold storage and lit a cigarette for himself.

His eyes were red, looking at the darkness in the distance.

Was it the same with his mother on that night 30 years ago, looking at the end of the city.

Before finishing a cigarette, Zhang Yunwei didn't seem surprised, a car stopped at the door.

Gu Yanchen got out of the car, Shen Junci also opened the back door, Wuliang jumped out of the car, and ran towards the man in front of him.

Several other police cars also drove in and parked around, blocking his escape route.

Zhang Yunwei didn't say much, he threw away the cigarette butt, raised his hands, let them be handcuffed, and then he said: "The phone is in my pocket, I recorded the audio just now."

Gu Yanchen asked: "Have you found out the truth?"

"For this kind of thing, it's better to ask yourself the answer." Zhang Yunwei smiled wryly.

The two elderly people were finally rescued from the cold storage, and they were handcuffed by the police.Although there is no danger of life, they have varying degrees of frostbite and will be sent to the hospital.

Zhang Yunwei looked at all this with cold eyes: "I didn't want to kill them, but I didn't want to make them feel better either. They froze my mother for 30 years, and I have to let them have a taste of this."

If the police don't come, he will also release them later.

Gu Yanchen said: "If they die, then you will be the same as them."

Zhang Yunwei nodded, his eyes regained clarity: "I know, killing them is not worth it."

Shen Junci thought of something, and showed Zhang Yunwei the photo of He Wenlin saved in his mobile phone: "Have you seen this person before?"

Zhang Yunwei recognized it for a moment: "I've seen it, it's this person who told me that the person who raised me may be my mother-killing enemy."

Not all people will go to hell after being tempted by the devil.

Between man and beast, he still chooses to be a man.

The law will punish them, and those two people will pay the price for killing someone.

After DNA testing, the police confirmed that Zhang Yunwei had a parent-child relationship with the female corpse.

A frozen corpse case was finally solved. Gu Yanchen searched the information provided by Zhang Zhaoxin and found Yu Yue's identity.

Yu Yue's parents were still alive, and when they found out that their daughter had gone to the old house to look for them, the two old people hugged each other and cried.They are also willing to recognize their grandchildren.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Yu Shen found Gu Yanchen and dragged him into the corridor with a solemn expression.

"Captain Gu, I discovered something."

"What's the matter?" Gu Yanchen asked him.

Yu Shen said: "Before this time, we searched the police information, but we couldn't find the police records of Yu Yue's parents."

Gu Yanchen hummed, and he also discovered this, because of this, they were not able to confirm Yu Yue's identity in the first place.

But according to the confession of Yu Yue's parents, they called the police after their daughter disappeared.

The Penang City Council has realized the electronicization of all case files, data networking, and computerized office work more than ten years ago.

The old materials and cases have been scanned and sorted out, and kept in the police archives.

Gu Yanchen asked: "Is it possible that the records were lost?"

Yu Shen shook his head: "This is not the only file that disappeared. I searched the police system, and I didn't find any records of my parents' disappearance."

He was the reporter of that case, and for so many years, that case has been a scar in his heart that cannot be erased.

After entering the criminal police team, he never took the initiative to search for that case.

Until the case of Yu Yue's disappearance did not match the file.

Gu Yanchen frowned.

This is impossible. Although it was a case more than ten years ago, it was investigated by the Municipal Bureau. Lu Ying was still the policeman in charge of that case. Not only should there be a police report, but there should also be police investigation and visit materials.

Yu Shen said: "I looked it up based on the case number, and the number is different, but it is the same as that of another case. So when browsing the number, I can't find any missing records."

Gu Yanchen comforted Yu Shen and said, "I know about this, and I will verify it. Find the file of your parents' case."

Yu Shen hummed, turned and left.

Gu Yanchen returned to the computer. After thinking for a moment, he turned on the police system, and then he entered Mo Xueqing's name.

Back then, after my mother disappeared, my grandparents also reported to the police.

According to the normal operation, as long as the name is entered, the related case will pop up in the system.

Gu Yanchen pressed the enter key.

A few words appeared on the screen: No related records found.

He entered another name: "Lin Luo."

This time the case information popped up. This is the case Gu Yanchen is most familiar with. He has memorized almost all the confessions in it.He turned to the bottom and saw the monitor's testimony: I saw Zhou Chen stabbing Lin Luo.

But he remembered that the original file was: I didn't see what happened in that room.

At that moment, Gu Yanchen felt a chill coming from behind. He remembered another function of the scavenger, which is to eliminate network data. When people trust the electronic system too much, loopholes will appear.

Occasionally, it is found that a case is missing, and it is only thought that the file is lost or the system is wrong.

It is even more difficult to find out that the records inside have changed a few words.

Who will stare at the old cases or the cases that have been solved and sealed every day?

They handle cases and trust these electronic messages.

Gu Yanchen looked at the computer screen, lost in thought.

Those people have long discovered that erasing a piece of information is far easier than erasing a scene.

Especially when the time is old, the witnesses are dead, or even those who witnessed it have given up or forgotten.

After five years, ten years, 20 years, can you still find the truth?

The world they see is only the world others want them to see.

False information formed a maze before his eyes.

Gu Yanchen called Shen Junci.

After listening to him, Shen Junci's voice was cold: "I see, then let's find a way to get rid of these obstacles."