Lin Shuyue jumped out of bed, washed up, grabbed the car keys and went out.
The place that was burned this time was in a park in the city center.
This park is called Central Garden. In addition to the stage, there is also a garden in the park. There are small bridges, ponds, slopes and tall trees in the garden.
The place where the burned body was found was beside a pond deep in the dense forest. When Lin Shuyue arrived, the edge of the small pond was already full of people watching the excitement. Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng waved to Lin Shuyue after seeing her. Lin Shuyue squeezed in. The crime scene was still the same as yesterday, an irregular firebreak with a wheelchair in the middle that was burned to only the skeleton, and carbonized bones scattered around the wheelchair.
"This was discovered by someone who came for morning exercises today. Because the burning case in the western suburbs had been reported in the newspapers, when he saw this scene on the roadside, he called the police immediately." Most of the people who come for morning exercises are elderly people who sleep little and go out to exercise at dawn. The central garden has mountains, water and ponds. It is the best place for morning exercises in the minds of some elderly people living in the city center.
"Did no one notice any signs of burning here last night?"
If the crime scene yesterday was in the western suburbs, where there are few people and it was raining heavily, it is normal for a fire to break out at night.
But today's incident happened in the city. Even if it had rained last night, it's impossible for it to have caught fire and no one have noticed.
Huang Qiang said: "No one has discovered it, so we guess that the body was burned in the middle of the night, around two or three in the morning."
It was two or three in the morning, when normal people were asleep and the rain was heaviest, so there were not many people in the park.
The police who came back this time were still led by Wu Dongyan, and her expression was even more serious than yesterday. They had not found any clues in yesterday's case, and today there was another identical murder case, and it was seen by so many people, which undoubtedly increased the pressure on them a lot.
In the short time that Lin Shuyue had been here, Wu Dongyan had received at least four calls, and several policemen were wearing gloves and searching around.
Lin Shuyue turned on the good and evil radar and observed the people around her, but still found nothing.
Just then, a police car drove up and two people got out of the car. One of them was Hang Jiabai. Beside him followed a man in his twenties wearing glasses, holding a silver box in his hand.
Once he arrived at the crime scene, he opened the box and looked around.
As Wu Dongyan was talking to Hang Jiabai, she was looking around. Suddenly, she stopped and walked a few steps toward the pond. She put on gloves, bent down, and quickly picked up a transparent plastic bottle. She put the plastic bottle under her nose and sniffed it: "It's gasoline."
"Take it back, and send someone to the crime scene in Wangsan Village to see if there is another bottle of the same kind."
This is a mineral water bottle. If it weren't for the fact that it was too new and the residual liquid inside didn't look like water, Wu Dongyan would not have picked it up to look at it.
Wu Dongyan placed the bottle of mineral water in a transparent bag containing physical evidence, took off her gloves, took out her mobile phone and called the bureau.
At the same time, the police patrolling here also began to look for mineral water bottles like this. After all, the maximum capacity of a mineral water bottle is one kilogram. One kilogram of gasoline is not enough to burn the body completely.
The appearance of the mineral water bottle was a huge breakthrough, and soon the police found four or five identical bottles in the nooks and crannies around the pond.
The forensic doctor had already cleaned up the things around the ashes, and the crowd watching around slowly dispersed. Lin Shuyue and Huang Qiang did not leave, and Wu Dongyan walked towards Lin Shuyue.
Lin Shuyue got her a bottle of water from the car. After drinking it, Wu Dongyan gave Lin Shuyue a bitter smile: "I really don't have any clue at all."
The results of the forensic identification yesterday came out, and just as they thought, the bones were too severely carbonized, and the forensic doctor tried every possible method but was unable to extract a complete genetic chain from the bones. They only knew roughly that the body yesterday was a male, about sixty years old, and nothing else was known.
Yesterday, Wu Dongyan and her colleagues went to hospitals and nursing homes throughout the city, but did not find any missing persons. They also checked all the communities for the rest of the people in wheelchairs, but found no missing people.
Wu Dongyan has been a police officer for so many years, but this is the first time she has seen such a difficult case. No information was given at all. They now put their hopes on the mineral water bottle they just found, hoping there will be traces left on it.
Lin Shuyue looked around. This was the city center. There was a high-rise hotel and several tall buildings nearby. "Didn't the hotel executives and these residential buildings see any signs of burning last night?"
"The police have already visited the house to investigate. The rooms in this location of the hotel were not occupied last night. There were people living on other floors, but they were sleeping with the curtains drawn. They didn't even look over here. The situation in the residential building was similar." In addition, the rain was heavy, and all traces of the crime were washed away.
Lin Shuyue also frowned: "Didn't the street cameras see anyone in a wheelchair coming in here?"
"Jiangzhou has been watching the surveillance video for two hours. It seems like the people involved in this case appeared out of thin air."
Hang Jiabai called Wu Dongyan, and Wu Dongyan walked over quickly. Hang Jiabai nodded to Lin Shuyue and left.
It was time for Lin Shuyue and the other two to retreat. They walked out along the tree-lined path while talking.
Li Weisheng: "In this technological age, how could these people hide so well? Not even a surveillance camera could capture them?"
"So, the murderer this time was very cunning. Not only did he kill the person, he also burned him into this horrible state. Nothing was left. Even if the forensic doctor wanted to extract something, he couldn't. I'm sure this is definitely a highly intelligent crime."
Lin Shuyue walked and looked around. When Huang Qiang finished speaking, she didn't say anything, so he asked, "Ah Yue, what are you thinking about?"
Lin Shuyue said: "I was wondering if there was a place in this garden where people could be hidden. I mean, is it possible that the people were killed first, then transported to a place where people could be hidden, and then they were pushed out and burned when it got dark or when it rained heavily?"
Lin Shuyue had seen too many homicides in her previous life, so she couldn't help but let her imagination run wild when she thought about this kind of unsolvable case.
This time, Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng both stopped.
Lin Shuyue took a few steps and saw that they didn't catch up, so she turned around and looked at them in confusion.
Huang Qiang said to Li Weisheng: "If you really say so, there really is a place for Tibetans here, right, Ah Sheng?"
Li Weisheng also said: "Yes, there is indeed one. A few years ago, a haunted house was opened in this garden, but due to poor management and small space, the haunted house was left idle. Usually, no one went there. Later, that place became a toilet."
Lin Shuyue's eyes widened: "Is there really such a place? Should we go and take a look?"
Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng were both adventurous, and the three of them hit it off immediately and turned to walk towards the location of the haunted house they mentioned.
It became more and more bustling as they walked, and then they appeared in the stage area in front of the garden.
The central garden is very large. The open space under the stage is about three to four hundred square meters, surrounded by flowers and green plants. A basketball court is on the left side of the stage. A little further to the left of the basketball court is the haunted house that Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng talked about.
From the outside, the haunted house looks like a large rockery. The entrance to the haunted house has been locked. Huang Qiang, Li Weisheng and Lin Shuyue went around to the back door. There was a lawn at the back door. Three or four hundred meters ahead of the lawn was the pond where the crime occurred.
The lock on the back door was hanging loosely. Huang Qiang put on a pair of gloves from his pocket, pulled down hard, and the lock opened.
Li Weisheng told Lin Shuyue, "When the Central Garden was first built, it was quite lively. In addition to the haunted house, there were many entertainment facilities, such as carousels and bumper cars, but they gradually closed down. Those entertainment facilities were made of iron sheds and could be dismantled after cleaning up. Only this haunted house was connected to the park's facilities when it was first built."
"My girlfriend and I went to explore the haunted house after it closed."
Li Weisheng's words made Lin Shuyue look sideways: "You still have a girlfriend?"
Li Weisheng looked at Huang Qiang's actions in front of him expressionlessly: "What do you mean?! I'm already 24 years old and I've never had a girlfriend?"
Lin Shuyue let out a long "oh" and said, "So you don't have a girlfriend now, right?" After all, having a girlfriend is different from having a girlfriend before.
Li Weisheng didn't want to talk, so Huang Qiang called out to them, "Stop arguing, are you going in?"
"Let's go, let's go." The two stopped arguing and followed Huang Qiang. Before going in, Lin Shuyue took out three masks from her bag, gave one to Huang Qiang, one to Li Weisheng, and put the remaining one on her own face.
Having a mask was not enough, Huang Qiang took out a strong flashlight from his bag, led the way, and Lin Shuyue and Li Weisheng followed behind him. She also took out her weapon, a brick, from her bag, and turned on the good and evil radar. However, there was no one in the radar range who was the most evil.
She originally thought that when they entered the haunted house, they would see feces all over the floor, but it was unexpectedly clean, as if someone had cleaned the place thoroughly.
The haunted house was not big. All the original things that could be taken away were taken away. All that was left were some strips of cloth and the like. There was nothing special. But within two minutes, they returned and got out.
"There's nothing in there." Li Weisheng took off his mask and took big gulps of fresh air.
Lin Shuyue took off her mask and said, "We definitely won't find anything, but if we hand it over to professional police, it will be different. Maybe they can find something."
Lin Shuyue had already sent a message to Wu Dongyan, and Wu Dongyan was already rushing over here. As soon as she finished speaking, Wu Dongyan arrived with two policemen.
She didn't even have time to talk to Lin Shuyue before she entered the haunted house. She stayed in there for half an hour. After half an hour, she came out and took off her mask.
"There are a lot of traces inside, all of which were left recently. We can preliminarily confirm that the murderer stayed in here until nightfall." Behind Wu Dongyan, her two colleagues came out with three or four transparent evidence bags.
Lin Shuyue, Huang Qiang and Li Weisheng looked at each other with confusion on their faces.
Obviously, they didn't see these things when they went in just now.
"Ah Yue, thank you. We'll leave first. I'll treat you to dinner when this case is over."
Wu Dongyan patted Lin Shuyue on the shoulder and followed her colleagues.
This is also a breakthrough. They only need to investigate the surveillance during this period to basically identify the perpetrator.
Lin Shuyue and the other two also planned to return to the newspaper office.
After a busy morning, Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang went to the cafeteria to eat at noon. As soon as they sat down, Li Mingfang couldn't help herself.
"I just got home last night and my third aunt was there too. She was very embarrassed about introducing Zhou Xiang to me and kept apologizing to me and my parents." Li Mingfang's family has a harmonious relationship with their relatives, especially her third aunt. When Li Mingfang was a child, her third aunt helped her improve her academic performance.
"To be honest, I felt so bad seeing my third aunt like that. I copied all the moves that Zhou Xiang made on his blind date, and my third aunt told me that she really didn't expect Zhou Xiang to be that kind of person. Since Zhou Xiang started working at the high school, he has been very serious and responsible, and he usually speaks in a generous manner. She didn't expect him to be that kind of person."
"Some people are like this. They act very nice to others, but only their family members know what kind of person they are." Lin Shuyue had seen such a person before. He was also a teacher. He was gentle and elegant, and always spoke softly. But who would have thought that such a person would beat his wife to death at home.
"Indeed, I'm really glad to say that he laid all these things out on the table during the blind date. Otherwise, if he had pretended, I might have really started dating him." Li Mingfang trusted her third aunt very much, and that was why she chatted with Zhou Xiang on Penguin for so many days.
And there was no resentment at all.
"You should be thankful, otherwise you would not know these things until you are talking about marriage, which would be very upsetting. Come on, let me treat you to a big chicken leg." Lin Shuyue picked up a chicken leg from her bowl and gave it to Li Mingfang.
Li Mingfang happily began to eat: "It's strange, after I deleted his Penguin account last night, he sent me a verification message not long after. I didn't agree, and I thought he would continue to pester me, but in the end, there was only a verification message, and nothing happened after that."
"Maybe he knew you wouldn't be attracted to him, so he gave up. What kind of work are you doing now?" Lin Shuyue asked Li Mingfang.
Li Mingfang thought for a moment and said, "Recently, the advertising department has accepted an advertisement for a gynecological hospital. We are currently working on the slogan and designing peripheral products for the advertisement."
In addition to the city newspaper, the Pengcheng Metropolitan Newspaper also publishes the Pengcheng Metropolitan Evening News and the Entertainment Noon Newspaper. In addition to these newspapers, they also accept some of these small advertisements and turn them into small magazines, add some small fans and the like, and put them on the market without marking the name of the newspaper. These small magazines pay a lot of money, which is also a major source of income for the newspaper.
Lin Shuyue nodded, and the two of them ate and went back.
There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so after get off work, Lin Shuyue drove to Pengcheng Experimental High School, where Lin Shuyang, Zeng Xiaoyi, Zhou Bingrong and Ah Hao all went to school. According to Lin Shuyang, they were in the same class.
When Lin Shuyue arrived, it was just the time for them to get out of school. Lin Shuyue saw four people walking side by side in the crowd at a glance. Lin Shuyue honked the horn, and Lin Shuyang looked at them, his eyes lit up.
"My second sister is here to pick us up." Lin Shuyang's words made the other three people look in her direction, and then the four of them ran towards Lin Shuyue together.
Lin Shuyue unlocked the car door, and the four of them quickly opened the door and got in. As Lin Shuyue's younger brother, Lin Shuyang sat on the passenger seat on his own accord. Lin Shuyue glanced at Zhou Bingrong and Ah Hao through the rearview mirror inside the car.
She hadn't seen Ah Hao and Zhou Bingrong for a long time.
"I haven't seen you two for a long time, how are you doing?"
Zhou Bingrong adjusted his glasses and said, "It's still the same. My parents are still not home for ten days or half a month. Now I stay at Ah Hao's house every day after school. I've been staying there for ten days and they haven't noticed."
Zhou Bingrong now speaks of his parents in a very calm tone. In the past, he would still feel resentment and hatred when talking about them, but now he has nothing left.
He neither love nor hate them, so he can look at them with a normal mind.
Ah Hao said: "Ah Rong and I go to the Internet cafe to play every weekend. We study on weekdays." After visiting the Internet addiction school, Ah Hao is no longer as eager to make money as before.
Just as his grandmother wished, he focused all his energy on studying. Especially after knowing that the village had applied for a minimum living allowance for his grandmother, Ah Hao felt more relieved.
Zhou Bingrong said: "I sometimes play computer games at home. I found that the Haijiao Forum has been very popular recently. There are many more posts recently, all of which are very interesting. Sister Yue, you can take a look at them when you have time. Especially the recent interview "Two Rural Primary Schools and a Volunteer Teacher", which was reported by the Capital Media Station."
Lin Shuyue had never really paid attention to these forums. In her previous life, when she grew up, these forums had gradually faded out of the public eye, except for that big-eyed guy who had successfully transformed himself.
Lin Shuyue has read the article Two Rural Primary Schools and a Volunteer Teacher. This article has aroused everyone's attention to the rural volunteer teaching industry, and many schools in remote mountain villages have also received a lot of donations from the society.
Lin Shuyue felt that she needed to spend more time on these forums. After all, China would enter the Internet age.
She couldn't look down on the simple porridge and side dishes in this world just because she had eaten delicious food in her previous life.
"Okay, then I'll go home and take a look in the evening. I'll treat you to whatever you want to eat." Lin Shuyue said.
Lin Shuyang and the other three looked at each other, and Lin Shuyang spoke first: "Second sister, we want to eat hot pot."
Zeng Xiaoyi followed closely behind: "My classmates said that a Chongqing hotpot restaurant opened recently on Wangchun Road. It's really delicious. We want to try it."
Ah Hao and Zhou Bingrong looked at Lin Shuyue with sparkling eyes.
Calculating the time, Lin Shuyue hasn't eaten hot pot for a long time. It would have been fine if she didn't say it, but now that she said it, she really wanted to: "Okay, let's go eat hot pot."
Lin Shuyue turned the car around and drove towards the hot pot restaurant on Wangchun Road.
After getting off the car, the five of them walked inside together.
It was not yet dark, but the hot pot restaurant was already bustling with people. The five people were led to a private room by the waiter and ordered a shabu-shabu hot pot. Because they were all ready to eat, Lin Shuyue ordered a lot of meat dishes, including the essential ingredients for hot pot, such as duck intestines and tripe.
While waiting for the food, Lin Shuyang took out a book and discussed a high-level math problem with Zhou Bingrong. Zeng Xiaoyi sat next to Lin Shuyue and talked to her about their upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival party.
"Sister Ah Yue, our music teacher found me today and wanted me to sing at the party." Zeng Xiaoyi's face flushed.
"So do you want to go?" Lin Shuyue asked Zeng Xiaoyi.
"Sister Yue, I kind of want to." Zeng Xiaoyi likes singing very much, and has loved it since she was a child. She has a lyrics book, and she can sing all the songs in the lyrics book, and many classmates say that she sings well. This semester, she and Lin Shuyang transferred to Ah Hao and Ah Rong's school. Because of her good singing, she is very popular with the music teacher.
"Then go." Lin Shuyue had heard Zeng Xiaoyi singing. This girl looked weak, but had great explosive power. She could easily sing the high notes of the song "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" just by sitting there. Not only that, her voice was also very ethereal.
She also loves singing. Lou Fengqin likes watching TV dramas. She doesn't watch them much, but when the opening or ending song comes, she will listen very carefully.
Lin Shuyang and the other two had already persuaded Zeng Xiaoyi to sing on stage. With Lin Shuyue's support, Zeng Xiaoyi finally nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to the music teacher tomorrow."
The two sat together and talked in private. Zeng Xiaoyi told Lin Shuyue all the embarrassing things that happened to Lin Shuyang and the other two at school: "The girls in our class all say that Ah Yang, Ah Hao and Ah Rong are the three most handsome boys in school. There are many people who like them, and some even send them love letters."
Zeng Xiaoyi covered her mouth and laughed.
Ah Hao, who had just come back from getting some dip, happened to hear this and sat down to tell Lin Shuyue, "She is still the most beautiful girl in class. A few days ago, someone stopped Ah Rong and me and told us to stay away from her."
"When did it happen? How come I didn't know about it?"
Zhou Bingrong and Lin Shuyang also raised their heads from the table: "How can I let you know that?"
The waiter brought the soup base and meat. The two put away their books and started talking to each other about the inside stories. After a while, Lin Shuyue had a general idea of the four people's situation at school.
The hotpot was very delicious and the five of them finished all the dishes they ordered.
When leaving, Ah Hao and the other three were waiting for Lin Shuyue on the roadside, and Lin Shuyue went to the parking lot to drive.
They don't know when Zeng Xiaoyi stopped smiling. Her eyes drifted towards the western restaurant opposite, where a family of four was sitting happily.
Lin Shuyue drove the car in front of them. Zeng Xiaoyi got in the car first and didn't say much along the way.
Lin Shuyue didn't notice it. She sent Zhou Bingrong and Ah Hao to Ah Hao's house. After going back to wash up, she turned on the computer and searched the Haijiao Forum.
After registering, she started browsing the Internet while drying her hair with a dry towel.
As the night deepened, Lin Shuyue exited the current affairs forum and entered the emotional forum.
Half an hour later, a post caught Lin Shuyue's eye.
"Do you have someone you want to kill? Yes, I do, and I hate him so much! "
Lin Shuyue is now particularly sensitive to the word "kill", so she clicked on it without thinking.
Browsing the post from the beginning, the poster wrote down on paper her decades of hardship. She is already in her sixties, and from the day she got married, she has been spending her days serving her husband, her parents-in-law, and her children.
She doesn't have any time for herself, and her man has been mocking her and ridiculing her every day for ten years.
Recently, her husband, who had just retired a few years ago, became fond of surfing the Internet and joined a chat room. Since then, his suppression of her at home has intensified. From the moment she opened her eyes, she could hear his suppression and ridicule.
Her children turned a deaf ear to her. If she called to complain, her children would listen to a few words and then hang up the phone impatiently.
She felt that her life was a failure, especially when her man kept saying that a loser like her should die.
The pain of the poster could be felt between the lines; even Lin Shuyue took several deep breaths after reading it.
The replies in the post were mostly consoling, and many people also talked about the difficulties they faced after getting married.
But what caught Lin Shuyue's attention was one of the replies: Do you need my help?
It was three days ago, and just yesterday morning, the poster of the thread replied to the host of this thread: Thanks, hahahaha.
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