remnants

Dealing with three murder cases in a row within three days, even these "iron and steel" public security detectives are a bit overwhelmed.

On the way Nie Qing led people to the scene, he felt that the atmosphere in the car was extremely dull, as if everyone had a big stone on their hearts, stacking them together to slow down the speed of the car.

Glancing at Luo Qi who was listlessly pinching the steering wheel beside him, Nie Qing could not help but sigh silently, then turned his head and said to everyone in the car: "I know everyone has worked hard these past two days, but we can't escape if there is a case. How about a moment?"

"No problem!" Luo Qi was refreshed for a moment, and with a strong foot, the car went straight forward a lot.

Everyone else agreed, but only Zhu Zuwei sighed and said, "Team leader, it's not really hard work. It's common for a criminal policeman to stay up for a few days, but this time the cases happened too intensively." Now, it’s all murder cases again, so it’s hard to avoid feeling heavy.”

"I understand." Nie Qing looked out of the window, why didn't he feel the same way in his heart.

To be selfish, since he found Yu Sheng the day before yesterday, he has been looking forward to spending more free time with him and having a good talk.But the cases were one after another, and things piled up. He had no time to care about others, so he could only put the rest of his life aside for the time being.

I don't know what Yu Sheng will think...

Nie Qing pinched the center of her brows hard, telling herself to put away her complicated thoughts as much as possible, concentrate on the right thing, and prioritize the things at hand.

It was No.1 civilian hospital again, this time the news was controlled more properly, and the deceased was not a famous person like Su Yongdeng, so there were only a few media outlets who followed the police to hear the news, and it seemed that the enthusiasm for the interview was not high. very high.

Nie Qing asked Luo Qi to drive the police car directly into the hospital gate and stop in the yard.As soon as he got out of the car, Fu Mingjie followed.

"Another one died?" Fu Mingjie's face was filled with gloom, obviously in a very bad mood.

It's no wonder that he has maintained a daily rhythm of murders just three days after the National Day holiday. People from all walks of life in society are focusing on the performance of the criminal police team. If they are negligent, they may be caught It was embellished by those who cared about it, spread it to them, and then was reprimanded by the upper-level leaders and the masses to denounce the individual.

Fu Mingjie, as the captain of the entire criminal investigation team, can imagine the pressure on him.

Nie Qing followed Fu Mingjie to the mortuary on the third basement floor of the hospital. When they arrived, they saw a young woman in a white nurse's uniform standing at the door of the mortuary, and greeted them as soon as they came. up.

"Officers, you are finally here!" The young nurse naturally walked to Nie Qing and grabbed his sleeve, raised her face and looked at him with admiration.

Luo Qi was a little annoyed as he followed behind, thinking that I have seen many people who covet the beauty of our team leader, but it is really rare to see someone as proactive as you.

So Luo Qi squeezed up and got in between Nie Qing and the nurse, separated them and asked, "You called to report the case, right? You were the first to find the body?"

"That's right." The nurse was obviously very dissatisfied with Luo Qi's "indifferent" behavior, glared at him, then looked at Nie Qing intently and said, "Officer, my name is Liu Yun, and I'm the nurse on duty today."

"Well," Nie Qing nodded slightly to her, "Could you please describe the process of discovering the deceased?"

"Okay, okay!" Liu Yun was very excited to be able to speak directly to Nie Qing, and then pushed Luo Qi aside and said, "I came to change shifts at eight o'clock this morning, and I stayed in the nurse's room. Everything was calm. But—" Liu Yun suddenly lowered her voice, and said mysteriously, "At [-]:[-], the phone in our duty room suddenly—rang!"

"I'm talking about Nurse Liu, can you please get to the point directly?" Luo Qi rolled his eyes beside him, thinking that this person would also add drama to himself.

Nurse Liu ignored him directly, still staring at Nie Qing with bright eyes, and her tone of voice became more and more vivid, "Officer, you don't know, I was shocked at the time! Why? Because the voice on the phone— — not a human voice!"

Luo Qi: "...Huh?!"

Nie Qing stopped and turned to look at Liu Yun, "Please be more specific."

"I mean, that voice is not a normal human voice, but an electronic voice!" Liu Yun rubbed her chest, "You know the electronic voice? It's just like Google Girl, cold and without any ups and downs sound!"

"Google girl?" Fu Mingjie finally asked after listening for a long time.

Nie leaned toward him and explained, "It's a female voice built into Google Translate."

Fu Mingjie nodded and asked Liu Yun: "Then what did the voice say?"

Liu Yun actually wanted to say a few more words to Nie Qing, but Fu Mingjie's aura made her feel a little scared, and she didn't dare to be as casual as she was with Luo Qi, so she could only answer honestly: "It said: 'There are people in the morgue. Dead man, go and see.'”

Luo Qi: "Isn't this nonsense... Isn't it surprising that there are no dead in the mortuary?"

"That's what I told it too!" Liu Yun's eyes widened, "but it then said to me, 'It's not the ones that have been registered in the warehouse, it's the new ones'. I asked it, 'How do you know ?' But it hung up the phone immediately! I checked the call records again and found that the number it called did not have a caller ID, so I thought there might be something wrong, so I went to the morgue to check, and found the body. "

Nie Qing and the others had already walked to the door of the mortuary. Following Liu Yun's voice, they saw a young man lying on the open space in the middle of the mortuary.

He looks about 25 years old, about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a light gray fleece sweater on the upper body, a pair of navy blue denim trousers on the lower body, and a pair of Adidas black and white sneakers on his feet.

He was lying flat on the ground with his eyes closed, his hands neatly placed on both sides of his body, his delicate face was clean, and he could even see a somewhat peaceful expression—if it wasn't for the dark spot on his left chest. The red color was quite conspicuous, and he definitely didn't look like a body that had lost any signs of life, but rather fell asleep.

"Where's Xiaojing? It's her turn to work." Fu Mingjie asked.

"In the car behind, it should be there soon." Nie Qing said that she first put on a pair of gloves and walked into the mortuary, and was about to start the autopsy, when she heard a familiar voice behind her, "Let me do it .”

"Secretary?" Nie Qing was taken aback when he turned around and saw Su Ji, "What are you doing here?"

"What else can I do... Of course it's work." Su Ji's face was pale, and he was not confident enough when he spoke, but he was better than last night.

"Captain, I don't need to avoid suspicion in today's case, right? Can I participate?" Su Ji asked Fu Mingjie.

Fu Mingjie looked at him with some concern, "Are you okay? If you feel unwell, you can go home and rest for a few more days. I will allow you to leave."

Su Ji shook his head slightly, "I'm fine, I want to work. Besides, there have been accidents one after another in the past two days, and the bureau's manpower is already tight. If I take a rest, Xiaojing may not be able to bear it alone."

"That's right," Fu Mingjie sighed, "Director Luo went to the United States for further studies, Zhao Dayu followed the second team to go to the field, Sun Hai asked for leave and went back to his hometown, and there are only two forensic doctors, you and Xiaojing, left in the appraisal center. It has to be supported by the other, and the workload is indeed too great."

"Well, so you don't have to give me any more holidays." Su Ji put on her gloves and added: "By the way, Xiaojing must have been busy all night yesterday, so you can leave it to me today and let her go home and rest first Let's go."

Fu Mingjie looked at Nie Qing when he heard the words, and Nie Qing nodded at him after thinking about it, "Captain, just listen to the secretary, a girl like Xiaojing is no better than rough guys like us. Let her go home and rest, here It is enough for me and the secretary, as well as other colleagues in the technical department, to be responsible for site inspection, analysis and reconstruction.”

"Okay, I'll inform her." Fu Mingjie patted Nie Qing's shoulder, "I'll leave this to you."

Nie Qing hummed and walked to the side of the deceased, inspected it with Su Ji, and said in a low voice, "Don't force yourself, if you feel that you can't hold on anymore, tell me at any time."

"Understood." Su Ji raised his head and smiled at him, then lowered his head and touched the deceased's chin with his hands: "The temperature of the mortuary refrigerator is usually minus eight degrees Celsius, and the temperature outside the refrigerator will be slightly higher, but there is It’s only relatively speaking. At such a low temperature, it will be more difficult to determine the death time of the corpse, and a more accurate conclusion can only be drawn after an autopsy.”

After hearing what he said, Nie Qing suddenly remembered that when he was in Su Yongdeng's office yesterday, Yu Sheng also said something about the influence of ambient temperature on judging the time of death, and couldn't help being a little dazed.

"Nie Qing, what's wrong?" Su Ji looked at him.

Nie Qing came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "It's okay, I just want to ask, can you guess an approximate time frame now?"

"Yes." Su Ji touched other parts of the corpse with his hand, opened his eyelids to look at it, then turned the corpse over to check the back of the neck and back, and then said: "The cornea of ​​the deceased is wet, and the pupils are a little white ;Mandibular, neck, shoulders, elbows and lower limbs have experienced varying degrees of rigor, but the overall degree is relatively weak; the corpse spots on the skin of the lower parts of the corpse are not obvious, appearing in the form of streaks, fading when pressed, and changing the color of the corpse The location will be shifted later. Based on these characteristics, combined with the temperature in the morgue, I estimate that the time of death was about seven to eleven hours ago, that is, between ten o'clock last night and two o'clock this morning."

Nie Qing pondered for a while, then suddenly turned to Liu Jinghua and asked, "Do you know the identity of the deceased?"

"It has been confirmed." Liu Jinghua squatted down next to Nie Qing with the notebook he had just written, and stated one by one: "The name of the deceased is Bai Zhang. He was born on April 1990, 26. He is 230 years old this year. He is from Heilongjiang Province. Born in Harbin, province. In September [-], he was admitted to Pingcheng University of Electronic Science and Technology majoring in information technology. After graduating in July [-], he joined Pingcheng Tianyou Technology Development Co., Ltd. as a game developer, responsible for code development. Writing and debugging have been in business for four years. The current address is Room [-], Unit [-], Building [-], Ninghe Community, No. [-], Shuangqiao Road, Guandu District, Pingcheng City."

"Find so many so quickly?" Nie Qing was a little surprised.

"Uh...Actually, we found his ID card in his wallet, so we asked colleagues from the technical department to check it." Liu Jinghua scratched his temples, "By the way, team leader, we also found it in the deceased's cell phone. He has a quick contact person, and someone from the hospital has already called this person before arriving just now, and now he has arrived at the hospital, so he is waiting outside. Do you want to see him?"

Nie Qing pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go out for a while, Secretary, you go ahead first."

Su Ji: "Well, you can go."

Nie Qing stood up on his knees, walked out of the mortuary with Liu Jinghua, and saw a tall and handsome man standing outside the cordon at a glance. And still very young.

Nie Qing had a strange feeling in his heart. He couldn't explain why, but his whole body became inexplicably vigilant.

Nie Qing couldn't help but took a deep breath silently. After steadying his mind, he walked towards this person and asked politely, "Hello, who are you from Bai Zhang?"

"I'm his friend!" The man answered very eagerly, his eyes were red, he stared at Nie Qing and asked, "Officer, may I ask Bai Zhang...is something really wrong?"

"...Well, I'm sorry, please express my condolences." Nie Qing looked at him intently.

The person in front of him burst into tears when he heard this sentence, he retreated to the wall and leaned against the wall blankly, his eyes were confused, as if he couldn't believe it.

Nie Qing waited on the spot for about 3 minutes, feeling that the buffer time was almost up, and then walked up and said: "I know you are in a very sad mood, but I still hope that you can cooperate with our investigation and try to catch the murderer of your friend as soon as possible. murderer. Okay?"

"Okay..." The man's slack gaze gradually focused, and he nodded deeply after looking at Nie Qing, "I will definitely cooperate."

"Thank you." Nie Qing hesitated, but reached out and patted his shoulder, "Can you tell me your name first?"

"...Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself just now."

The man seemed to come to his senses suddenly, and stretched out his hand to Nie Qing, "My name is Mu Xi Ze."

Nie Qing shook him lightly, "My name is Nie Qing."

After the introduction, two seconds later Nie Qing suddenly remembered that he seemed to have heard the name "Musize" somewhere.