Neverland

Xu Muzhou's great career of laziness was forced to die.

At 07:30 in the morning, his mobile phone rang suddenly, as if urging him to death. Xu Muzhou was awakened abruptly from his deep sleep. He subconsciously sat up from the bed, and reflexively reached out to touch the phone under the pillow. .

He fumbled around but couldn't find the target, and finally found his mobile phone from the carpet following the direction of the ringtone.

The call application whose caller ID was "Shen Ergou" was jumping on the screen, Xu Muzhou swiped the call button, closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose.

He didn't sleep well last night, and now he is even more dizzy.He rubbed his temples, hummed into the microphone, and signaled that he was listening.

"Brother, your vacation is wasted." The male voice on the other side of the phone said bluffing, "You have to come to the scene."

The sound of rain on the other end of the phone was obvious. Xu Muzhou looked out the window subconsciously. The sound insulation of the double-glazed glass was very good. He slept all night without knowing that it was raining so hard outside.

——No wonder it's still so dark, Xu Muzhou thought.

Who doesn't have a good eye to choose to commit crimes when it rains in the winter, Xu Muzhou thought in a bad mood, he originally planned to take advantage of this Sunday to go home and visit his parents - he just brought someone to do a case last month A large-scale cross-provincial fraud case, working overtime until dark, and not going home for more than 40 days, now I finally got a full night's sleep, and the result is nothing.

Xu Muzhou took the phone from his ear, pressed the speakerphone and threw it on the bed, got out of the bed with bare feet, and picked up his clothes and pants from the carpet beside the bed.

"What case." Xu Muzhou asked, "When did it happen?"

"Just this morning, the murder case." The sound of the rain on the other side of the phone was quieter, and the other party should have chosen a secluded place.Without the interference of the sound of the rain, the man's voice became very real. He said in a low tone, "There is only one person who died...but the case is a bit nasty."

Under normal circumstances, when a criminal case occurs, it will be assigned to the nearby criminal investigation detachment for initial processing, and non-major cases will not be directly reported to the general team.

In other words, Xu Muzhou was transferred to be the deputy captain three years ago, and he has handled eighty or one hundred murder cases, and almost all of them were not "bad".

——So there is obviously only one deceased in this case, so why should it be singled out to express emotion.

Xu Muzhou knew it in his mind, he frowned, put his pants on indiscriminately, and picked up his bluetooth headset from the bedside table.

"Address." Xu Muzhou said.

The answer on the phone was very neat: "Jiahe Community, Linsan Street, Shanyuan District."

The geographical location of Shanyuan District is a bit embarrassing - Shanyuan District is located in the southwest of Shencheng, close to the center of Shencheng City, because most of the viaduct ports in the city are located here, it is very convenient to go anywhere, and it is only half an hour away from the suburbs drive.When the city planning was first carried out, Shanyuan District was originally included in the development scope of the city center because of its convenient transportation. Unfortunately, the development plan never took shape, so it was shelved.

Five years ago, Shencheng re-planned the city area, and the Shanyuan District, which was originally counted as the city center, was also divided.

The small apartment rented by Xu Muzhou is separated from Shanyuan District by an entire urban area. The population base of Shanghai is not small. Even the morning rush hour on Sunday is very scary. Xu Muzhou blocked two traffic lights at the same intersection. Before they passed, the car horns in front of and behind them kept honking one after another, and no one could get through.

The car radio was playing the congested section of the morning rush hour. Xu Muzhou pressed the window and looked out, only to find that there was a small car accident at the intersection not far ahead. The tricycle driving illegally was scratched by the car going straight The tricycle was turned sideways, and the people surrounded by it couldn't see the specific situation inside.

It was cold and windy outside, and the rain hit his cheek sorely. Xu Muzhou hissed, retracted his head and rolled up the car window, shook the water droplets from his hair, and turned up the heat.

The wiper on the front windshield was still swaying left and right to fight against the water droplets. Xu Muzhou picked up the phone from the co-pilot's seat to unlock it, and clicked on the WeChat "New Message" on the screen.Xu Muzhou's social circle is very narrow. There are two work groups, one big and one small, on the top. They are all quiet and there is no news. Shen Shuang" new dialogue window.There was a row of addresses in the dialogue window, probably Shen Shuang was afraid that he would go to the wrong place, so she carefully typed a text version for him, with a specific location attached at the bottom.

Xu Muzhou casually set this location as the navigation destination, turned down half a page, and clicked on the dialog box marked "Mom", wanting to tell the other party that he couldn't go home today.

The last call on the dialog box was a week ago, and the other party sent a message asking Xu Muzhou to go home when he was free, and take back a portion of the bacon made in his hometown.

This conversation is homely and warm, but for some reason, Xu Muzhou's eyes fell on the rose emoji that comes with WeChat at the end of the conversation, and he felt a little weird.

【Mom—】he wrote in the dialog box.

He paused his typing fingers, frowned, and somehow felt an inexplicable awkwardness, so he deleted this line of words again.

Xu Muzhou deleted a sentence, typed and deleted it, no matter how he felt it was wrong at the beginning, in the end he simply omitted the greetings at the beginning and went straight to the point.

[I have a case today, so I won't go back for dinner. 】

The online status over there quickly changed to "talking", and then a whole 60-second long voice popped up.

"Another case? You don't always go on vacation. Originally, I invited your Uncle Liu's family to come to my house tonight. His daughter said last time that she wanted to get to know you, and you are never free. The little girl is very thin-skinned." Yes, it’s not good for you to put pigeons like this... Hey, if you really can’t make it tonight, remember to tell Uncle Liu.”

The woman spoke a soft dialect, even if she complained, she didn't seem aggressive.

Xu Muzhou rubbed his phone, feeling a little headache.

Maybe all parents in the world have a grand plan of "urging marriage". Xu Muzhou's inexplicable emotions just now disappeared, and he looked at this "huge" voice note with a headache, thinking about how to push this matter away. thing.

Before Xu Muzhou could come up with something, the car horns behind him rang one after another. Xu Muzhou looked up, only to find that the vehicle that caused the accident blocking the intersection had moved to the side of the road and could pass.

Xu Muzhou thought for a while, pressed the lock screen, and did not reply.

Fortunately, the green lights went smoothly for the rest of the journey, and the security guard box in the old community was empty. Xu Muzhou drove the car directly into the community, and parked in the public parking lot next to Zone D.

Building 3 is separated from the parking lot by a flower bed about one meter high and three wide. Xu Muzhou was too lazy to detour. He bowed and raised his hands to shield himself from the rain. jumped over.

Downstairs in the 3rd building, a small group of grandpas and aunts gathered from nowhere, and each of them was holding an umbrella and poking their heads in, looking like a group of colorful and colorful mushrooms.

Xu Muzhou walked past the group of aunts while saying excuse me, and he heard "Oh, what's going on in the boy?"

Fortunately, the uniformed policeman in the cave saw him and hurried out to relieve him.

Xu Muzhou had time to get away. He patted the water off his body, walked to the elevator, and looked inside.

One of the elevators had a "under maintenance" sign on it, and a young police officer inside half-kneeled on the ground and drew a white line on the ground. After spotting Xu Muzhou, the officer raised his head and greeted him. : "Deputy Captain Xu, are you here?"

"Traffic jam, I'm late." Xu Muzhou pointed to the direction of the ceiling and asked, "Which floor is it?"

"Floor 24." The other party said, "2401."

Xu Muzhou nodded, turned his head and walked up to the normal elevator next door, raised his hand and pressed the floor button on the 24th floor.

The old-fashioned elevator is covered with a thick layer of wood, which creaks and creaks when it is in operation.On the wooden board near the door was a mess of small advertisements, and in the blank space was written "heavy money for a child" written in black oil-based pen.

Xu Muzhou glanced at it casually, wrote down the phone number on it, and planned to tell the matter to the District Public Security Bureau later.

The elevator stopped on the 24th floor, the elevator door opened, and the outside suddenly became lively.

Xu Muzhou lifted his foot and stepped over a metal box, nodded his head to greet him a few times, and walked to the corridor inside. He first looked at the two doors of 2402 and 2403 next door, and saw that there was no movement, then turned his head and walked towards 2401.

The door of Room 2401 was wide open, and a cordon had been drawn outside the door. People from the technical investigation team arrived one step ahead of Xu Muzhou, and had already gone in to collect evidence.

Shen Shuang happened to come out of room 2401 and saw Xu Muzhou, so she greeted him and waved to him.

"Brother Xu, here we come."

Xu Muzhou hummed, walked over to wipe off the mud and water stains on the soles of the shoes on the cushion at the door, and took a pair of thin plastic gloves from Shen's hands.

Shen Shuang helped him raise the cordon and let people in.

"The deceased lived alone and was a freelancer. He should be a painter. I don't know if he is famous or not." Shen Shuang spoke quickly: "This house is rented. The owner has gone abroad. For the time being, I only contacted the agency. The deceased I have checked my life and social circle and social relations, and there should be results in a while. One of the monitors in the two elevators is broken, and the other has been transferred to the property... But this kind of old community is difficult."

"Where's the corpse, have you sent it away?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Not yet." Shen Shuang's expression was a bit embarrassed: "This corpse is a bit special, and we have to wait for the forensic doctor to see it before sending it back."

"Where is it?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"The bedroom." Shen Shuang said and pointed to the inside, walking in front Xu Muzhou pointed the way, and said, "Come here."

The living room of the rented house was small, but it was in a mess, with broken picture frames and blood stains all over the floor. The police officer of the technical investigation carefully took the evidence, and Xu Muzhou stood on tiptoe, struggling to find a clean foothold to enter. Walk.

The bedroom was at the innermost part of the house, and the door was wide open. As soon as Xu Muzhou walked to the door, he saw the "corpse" inside.

—or, “a lump of minced meat” would be more appropriate.