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The location of the Bellagio Club is relatively remote, far away from the city center, and close to a vocational university in Weining City. The lover's lake in front of the school trek all the way to the south and merge into the Qijiang River.There is a lush bamboo forest by the lake, and a bright and colorful building is built where the bamboo forest fords the water. The building is six stories high and a total of more than ten meters high.The Bellagio Club is backed by a bamboo forest and is facing the lake.Although the location is remote, an entertainment venue is built in a place surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the flowing neon lights radiate from the lush bamboo forests, which has a unique wildness. Therefore, the business of Bellagio is not only tepid, but The prosperity is abnormal.

The Bellagio was originally built in the name of a hotel, but after it was built, it was reborn as an erotic place.The leaders of the nearby schools approached the city leaders and demanded that the Bellagio be banned and the students should be given a quiet learning environment.But I don't know what went wrong. The department that was petitioned by the school leaders has not taken effective measures so far, so it has been delayed day by day, and finally nothing happened.

A homicide occurred in Bellagio, and the police within the jurisdiction arrived first, protected the scene and then reported it to the Second Sub-bureau. The case finally fell on the review team led by Xia Bingyang.

Xiao Wu Yaoyao, the criminal police officer who blocked the road section, saw a black off-road vehicle approaching and parked next to the patrol car, then Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong opened the door and got out.

Xiao Wu took two steps forward and said, "Captain Xia."

The night wind was strong tonight, and Xia Bingyang's hair was blown back by the night wind, revealing his cold face, which looked younger than the two bangs hanging on his forehead.

"The survey team has arrived?"

Among several special vehicles parked on the side of the road, Xia Bingyang saw a police car with the word 'reconnaissance' printed on its body.

"Here we are, Brother Liu led them up first."

On the side of the road is a bamboo forest with rustling wind, and a winding cobblestone road leads to Bellagio by the lake.

Xia Bingyang led the way on the stone path with sloping bamboo shadows: "Tell me briefly about the situation."

Xiao Wu said: "The deceased was a sophomore in Changshui High School, female, named Yu Bingjie. We have contacted her parents with her mobile phone, and we can confirm her identity when we return to the police station later. another-"

Xia Bingyang suddenly stopped and turned to Xiao Wu, put his hands around his wind-blown messy hair, frowned and said, "Another one? Two people died?"

Xiao Wu said: "No, there is only one deceased. Another girl who was found at the same time as the deceased has been sent to the hospital, and her life should not be in danger."

Xia Bingyang pondered for a moment, then continued walking along the stone road: "Who reported the case?"

"The food delivery staff."

Walking out of the bamboo forest, you will be greeted with the fishy smell of the lake water blown by the wind, and the brightly lit Bellagio Club stands a dozen meters away.

Xia Bingyang looked to the south and saw the school that was only one road away from the Bellagio Club.The vocational college was built on a higher ground, and so far, we can see graves and tombstones in the woods in the school and on the hillsides on both sides of the playground.The whole campus seems to be built on the mountainside, and there are vague shadows of several high-rise buildings among the deep trees.Only sporadic faint lights lit up in the direction of the dormitory building.

"Is there a power outage in this street?"

Xia Bingyang asked suddenly.

Xiao Wu was about to tell him about this, but Xia Bingyang noticed it first, and said, "Yes, the worker accidentally cut the underground cable when laying the water pipe on the south side of Daxing Road. Daxing Road runs from the south intersection to the north. Except for the street lights, all the shops and residential buildings on this section of the road were without power."

Ren Erdong pointed to the glamorous Bellagio: "What's going on?"

Xia Bingyang glanced at it and said, "It's your own generator."

Xiao Wu said: "Team Xia is right, Bellagio is now powered by generators."

The first floor of Bellagio is the dining area, the second floor is the KTV, and the third floor is the hotel.After the incident, the police gathered everyone on the first floor and registered their identities one by one.

Xia Bingyang pushed open the glass door, and instantly caught sight of all kinds of beauties. It reminded him of the scene last year when he cooperated with the anti-pornography office in a nightclub and arrested dozens of prostitutes and nearly a hundred sex|service providers at once.

In the lobby on the first floor, together with the waiters and guests, men and women were divided into two groups and sat in different areas. The police from the police station assisting the investigation were registering the identities of these people one by one.A few inexperienced young hostesses were afraid that their disgraceful business would be known by their families, and they dared not tell the police their real names. After seeing their names registered by the police, they were frightened to tears. Stop asking the police not to notify their families.

The policeman who was registering their names was a serious and domineering person. He compared their ID cards while registering and shouted: "Go, go, go! Contact your principal and parents quickly!"

After copying one ID card, he threw the ID card aside and was about to pick up the next one, but was suddenly held down.

Xia Bingyang held down the ID card, pulled it out from under the police with a little force, and saw a girl named Xue Jiaqi who just turned 19 this year.

"Xue Jiaqi?"

He raised his eyes and looked at the girls in tight and revealing clothes opposite him, and asked.

A girl in a black low-cut dress took a step forward and said anxiously, "It's me."

Xia Bingyang sized her up, pressed his ID card face down on the dining table at the policeman's desk, and asked, "Students from the Vocational University of Light Industry?"

The girl nodded.

Xia Bingyang glanced at the girls behind her: "How many of you are classmates?"

A girl with short hair said: "We just make some money in our spare time, not specifically...specially..."

There was a sneer and a 'bitch' from the crowd behind them.

Xia Bingyang looked in the direction of the sound, and saw four or five girls sitting around a round table near the window. They lowered their heads to avoid Xia Bingyang's sight, and only one had a streak of red hair The girl was smoking, seeing Xia Bingyang looking at her, eyes with black eye makeup also looking directly at Xia Bingyang, slowly exhaling a puff of white smoke.

Xia Bingyang and her stared at each other for a moment, then scanned all the girls in the hall, and said loudly: "Students at school stand to the left, social personnel stand to the right."

There was a slight commotion in the crowd, and the girls who were being registered for ID cards looked at each other hesitantly.

Xia Bingyang said again: "Don't contact your school and parents, as long as you cooperate with us to make the transcripts, we can eliminate the suspicion, and we will let you go after completing the transcripts."

After a sound of high heels trampling on the tiled floor, the crowd divided into two groups, and more than [-] school students separated from the crowd.

Xia Bingyang called Ren Erdong to his side, and said in a low voice: "You leave it for them to take notes, whether they are students or not, as long as the suspicion is eliminated, they can be let go."

"The police station will come to take people away later, let them go now, what will the police station do?"

Xia Bingyang pinched Ren Erdong's chin, turned him to the girls, and asked with a low, mocking smile, "Are they all murderers?"

"……no."

"Then you won't let him go?"

He put his hand on Ren Erdong's shoulder, pushed Ren Erdong to the vacant seat next to the police officer who registered his ID card, and then led Xiao Wu upstairs.

The crime took place in Room 304 on the third floor. The entire floor had been cleared by the police, and the corridor was empty.Xia Bingyang turned a corner, and at the end of the U-shaped corridor, he saw Room 304, where the police frequently come and go.

A policewoman in police uniform is questioning the person in charge of Bellagio and the staff who first discovered the body.Seeing Xia Bingyang coming, the policewoman stopped writing, turned to Xia Bingyang and said, "Captain Xia."

Xia Bingyang took the slate away from her, and realized that she had just started, so he returned the slate to him, glanced at the person in charge and staff of Bellagio standing by the wall, and looked at the young man in a black vest. The young man asked, "You reported the case?"

The young guy's eyes were still open, Mu nodded blankly: "Yes."

Xia Bingyang looked at the person in charge again and asked, "Is the surveillance system turned off?"

The person in charge hurriedly shirked responsibility: "Today, there was a power outage, and we also shut down some unnecessary places that use electricity to ensure the normal supply of electricity."

Xia Bingyang said to the policewoman again: "Take them all back to the bureau to make detailed records, and then investigate all the people who have entered and exited this building. Whether they are registered or not, as long as they can be found, they will all be listed. give it to me."

"Yes."

The policewoman and Xiao Wu took the hotel manager and staff away.

In room 304, the police officers of the investigation team were busy collecting evidence.Xia Bingyang stood at the door, put on the footmuffs handed to him by a forensic doctor, and walked into the room.

Walk through a living room in the suite to the bedroom where the homicide occurred.

When the busy police officers in the bedroom saw him coming in, they all stopped what they were doing and called out 'Captain Xia'.

Xia Bingyang nodded hastily, and went straight to the female corpse lying on a carpet at the foot of the bed.

The old forensic doctor was putting his hands on the girl's back and checking the rigor. Seeing Xia Bingyang's arrival, he said, "Here you are? Let's take a look."

Xia Bingyang squatted down next to the girl, put on a pair of gloves handed to him by the forensic assistant, and took the lead in turning the face of the girl who was crawling on the floor, and asked, "How long have you been dead?"

"It has been 27 minutes since the report was reported. The time when the deceased was discovered was 22:34. The dead man's lower jaw showed rigor, and there were corpse spots on the lower body. He is currently in the period of accumulation, and the color recovery time is——"

The old forensic doctor turned his head and wanted to ask his assistant about the time recorded just now, but Xia Bingyang said flatly, "About six seconds."

The old forensic doctor said: "Yes, six seconds. The girl's death time did not exceed two and a half hours, and the preliminary judgment was between 20:20 and 30:[-]."

Xia Bingyang called a police officer from the investigation team over, and the two police officers turned the girl's body upright, lifted the hem of the girl's T-shirt and turned it down below the chest. No obvious subcutaneous tissue contusions and other scars.This was within his expectation, because he found that the scene of the crime was very 'clean' from the moment he entered, without any trace of blood, or even obvious signs of tearing.

Xia Bingyang tidied up the girl's clothes and asked, "What is the cause of death?"

The old forensic doctor put his left hand on the back of his right hand, pressed down with both hands at the same time, and said, "Mechanical suffocation."

Xia Bingyang heard the words, and immediately opened the neckline of the girl's T-shirt, but found no strangulation, strangulation, or traces on the neck. The girl's neck was clean, and there were no visible scars.

"Suffocation caused by inhalation of liquid into respiratory organs?"

Xia Bingyang asked.

The old forensic doctor shook his head, put the girl's body in the same position as it was lying on the carpet when the body was found, and lifted the hem of the girl's T-shirt.

Xia Bingyang finally found two pieces of dredging on the girl's back, below the bra buttons.

The forensic doctor said: "There was a large area of ​​soft tissue contusion below the ribs and above the chest, and contusions were also found on the back of the deceased's neck. It is initially suspected that the deceased died of suffocation caused by strangling the back of the neck and compressing the chest."

Xia Bingyang looked at the posture of the girl lying on the floor with deep eyes. The carpet is very thick and soft. If the girl's face is buried on the carpet, and the back, chest and back of the neck are forced to be pressed by man, it is indeed very dangerous. May cause suffocation.

Xia Bingyang looked at the girl's lower body in denim shorts, and said in a deep voice, "But this kind of posture is often accompanied by sexual assault."

The old forensic doctor said: "This problem will be known after the autopsy at the bureau."

Xia Bingyang got up and took off the gloves to the forensic assistant, saying: "Move the corpse back to the bureau." Then he looked at the old forensic doctor and said, "Old Lu, you are troubled, the autopsy report should be released as soon as possible."

The forensic team left with the body, and only five police officers from the investigation team and Xia Bingyang were left at the scene.The investigation team's collection of evidence was also coming to an end, and the team leader brought the list of evidence to Xia Bingyang for review.

Holding the list, Xia Bingyang took two steps back and leaned against the wall, quickly scanned the physical evidence records numbered one to ten, and said, "Didn't you find any direct and effective objective evidence?"

The police officer asked carefully: "Fingerprints, footprints and body fluids?"

Xia Bingyang glanced at him impatiently: "Otherwise?"

The policeman said: "Because the crime scene has been cleaned, no direct and effective objective evidence has been found yet."

Xia Bingyang took the pen from him, scribbled his name on the bottom, then patted the evidence sheet into the arms of the policeman, saying: "Take the blanket under the corpse too."

"Yes."

Xia Bingyang turned and walked out of the bedroom, and saw two criminal policemen standing in front of the living room window, measuring half a shoe print found on the balcony.They knew that although Xia Bingyang didn't swear often, Xia Bingyang's way of dealing with problems was to deal with them coldly. Being cold-faced by him would test his psychological quality more than listening to him swear.

So they didn't wait for Xia Bingyang to ask, and took the initiative to say; "Captain Xia, the murderer should have left the room through this window, and then fled the crime scene through the bamboo forest."

Xia Bingyang pushed open the window, looked down from the window, and there was a bamboo forest like a black shadow underneath.

This room is located at the bottom of the U-shaped corridor, and the window is closely connected with the bamboo forest. It is about 15 meters from the ground to the third floor.But there is no monitoring in the corridor, so it is impossible to know whether the murderer left through the main entrance or through the window after committing the crime.If the murderer climbs down the outer wall, it is also a way to leave the crime scene smoothly.

Since the investigation team found an incomplete footprint on the window sill and found the window was wide open when they arrived at the scene of the crime, he had no reason not to suspect that the murderer took the second route to leave the scene of the crime.

Xia Bingyang looked at the bamboo forest under the window that was blown by the wind, like a surging black wave, and thought for a moment: "Go down and have a look in the bamboo forest."

Several policemen went to the bamboo forest to continue their investigation, and Xia Bingyang quickly left the room where the crime happened and returned to the lobby on the first floor.

Excluding the cleaning staff, there are a total of more than 50 girls working here and more than [-] male customers.

Xia Bingyang exchanged information with the forensic doctor just now, and basically pinned the murderer on a man, so he asked several criminal policemen to take all the male guests present back to the police station for detailed questioning, and asked the girl who accompanied the male guest to follow them to the police Take notes.Because he couldn't rule out that the footprints on the window sill were just a cover-up, and the murderer might leave the murder scene through the main entrance, so the girls who accompanied the wine needed to prove their alibi to the men.

Due to the large number of people, there was no room for the police car, so Xia Bingyang called the traffic bureau and asked his acquaintances from the traffic bureau to find a way to drive two buses and divide more than 100 people into two groups to send them to the police station.

The last bus took more than [-] girls and headed south along Dafeng Road to the Nantai District Bureau.Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong escorted the car and followed the bus.

It was Li Zhiming's job to register the identities of the people involved in the case, but in order to avoid seeing a dead body, Lou Yue took Li Zhiming and drove to Nanyou overnight.In the absence of police force, Ren Erdong filled in the vacancy of the recorder, and his right hand was flying around, and his fingers were swollen from holding a pen.

He massaged his right hand and asked Xia Bingyang, "Have you chatted with Lao Lu?"

Xia Bingyang drove behind the bus not far or near, and said, "It's half done."

"What else is wrong?"

"We'll know when the autopsy report comes out."

Ren Erdong noticed that his tone was a bit low, so he turned his head to look at him, and saw him looking at a girl sitting in the last row of the bus ahead.

The lights were on in the bus, and the car was brightly lit by the lights. The last row of seats was connected, but only one person was sitting.The girl sat cross-legged on the seat, opened the window, stretched out a bare arm to block the evening wind, and held a cigarette between her fingers.

She leaned sideways against the glass window, her long hair was blown back by the wind, revealing a delicate face with heavy makeup.She seemed to be aware of Xia Bingyang's gaze, and she turned her eyes slightly back. She looked at Xia Bingyang with her silent eyes for a moment, then closed the window, and turned her back to him.

Ren Erdong asked: "What's wrong? Why are you staring at her?"

Xia Bingyang asked back: "What's her name?"

Ren Erdong: "There are so many people, how can I remember them. But I remember that her surname seems to be Bai."

Xia Bingyang was silent for a moment, then thoughtfully said: "I think she looks familiar, as if I've seen her somewhere before."

"The last time you cracked down on pornography?"

Xia Bingyang carefully recalled the faces of the girls who cooperated with the anti-pornography office to arrest them last year, and found that he could not recall the huge amount of information, and said, "I can't remember."

Ren Erdong said: "If you want to find out who she is, go back to the bureau and check."

Xia Bingyang said, "I won't go back to the police station now."

"Then where are we going?"

"There was a call from the hospital just now, and another girl woke up."