Neverland

Baolin District International High School has always promoted free education and safe accommodation as its main slogans. Now there is a murder case on the campus for no reason. One shot, like a concubine waiting to be questioned.

Fu Sihan's accommodation conditions are very good. She lives in a two-person room. It is different from the traditional dormitory layout with bed and desk. Her dormitory is more similar to the layout of an apartment. There are two bedrooms, one living room and one bathroom. mini fridge.

On the left side of the door is her classmate's bedroom, and on the right side is Fu Sihan's bedroom. Fu Sihan's body is lying twisted on the living room floor and has not been moved yet.

"Deputy Captain Xu." The criminal investigators in Baolin District waved their hands at the people outside, signaling to pull the body back, and then greeted Xu Muzhou, saying: "The deceased, Fu Sihan, just finished his third year of high school and is on winter vacation Instead of going home, he applied to stay in school... I asked the teachers, and the deceased looked like an ordinary child with good academic performance, and most of the people he knew were classmates, and I didn’t hear of any outside social circle.”

"Tonight she applied to leave the school at six o'clock in the evening. The reason for the application was to go shopping, and she returned to school before ten o'clock." The other party continued: "Her roommate was not asleep at the time, and she called her when she came back. Say hello. According to her, Fu Sihan looked normal at that time."

"Chronic poison?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"You'll only find out after a test." The policeman in Baolin District said, "But according to the student, shortly after Fu Sihan came back—about ten minutes or so—the dormitory supervisor knocked on her door and called her again. out."

"Huh?" Xu Muzhou asked, "What did you go out for?"

"It is said that someone is looking for her." The policeman said, "Because Fu Sihan was in a hurry to leave the house and even forgot his mobile phone on the coffee table in the living room. As soon as he left, the mobile phone frantically played messages, and the student didn't know Fu Sihan's I wanted to go out to give the phone password, but I just walked to the first half of the floor, before I could wait, I saw Fu Sihan folded back by himself, feeling a little bad—oh yes."

The man walked a few steps while talking, and took a can of Coke from the coffee table with his gloves and handed it to Xu Muzhou.

"This is the last thing Fu Sihan drank." The man said: "The student in the room doesn't know where it came from, but there is a vending machine downstairs, maybe he bought it from there. The things in it We've taken samples and don't know if we'll be able to detect poison."

"Didn't you say you found the playing cards?" Xu Muzhou asked, "Where are the cards?"

"Here." The man took out an evidence bag and handed it to Xu Muzhou, and said, "Actually, it can't be counted as a poker card, it can only be counted as a poker pattern, which was held by Fu Sihan."

The evidence bag contained a keychain the size of half a palm. Fu Sihan must have used a lot of strength. The metal ring on the keychain had been deformed and elongated into an oval shape.

It is a transparent pendant made of acrylic material. Only the shape is dug out on the top and filled with red to make it look like a playing card.

"Has the student seen the person who came to look for Fu Sihan?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"No." The other party shrugged and said, "The little girl was terrified, talking incoherently, and her teacher is comforting her inside."

When Xu Muzhou came, the work of the trace inspection was over. He heard that I looked at the room on the left of the living room, and found that the bedroom door was half closed, and there seemed to be a few people standing inside.

"I'll go and have a look." Xu Muzhou said, "I'll trouble you first."

As he spoke, he walked towards the bedroom door on the left, stood at the door and knocked with his fingers, and asked, "Can I come in."

There was a slight rustling sound inside, and then a female voice responded, "Please come in."

Xu Muzhou pushed the door open, and found a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl sitting on the bed with a pale face, wrapped in a large blanket, and hugged by a young female teacher.

There are also several older female teachers in the room, who should have come in to appease the frightened student.

"Hello, from the Second City Criminal Investigation Team." Xu Muzhou took out his ID card and waved it in front of several people, and asked in a business-like manner: "I want to ask this kid something, is it convenient?"

"This—" A female teacher near the door was a little embarrassed, and said: "It's not that she doesn't cooperate, the child is really frightened, and she will only cry when asked... We have notified her parents to come here, you see Otherwise, if you have something to ask us, we will definitely answer it properly?"

"Don't be afraid, just ask a few simple questions." Xu Muzhou walked to the bed, knelt down on one knee, lowered his posture automatically, looked up at the little girl, and said softly: "Little girl, I want to Ask you a few questions."

The little girl's fingers gripped the edge of the blanket nervously, her eyes widened, and she looked at him in horror, without answering.

"The police uncle wants to ask you, do you know where the vending machine downstairs is?" Xu Muzhou said.

The female teacher was slightly taken aback, as if she didn't expect him to ask such a question that had nothing to do with the case, she couldn't help but look up at the other older female teachers.

The little girl loosened her fingers slightly, this kind of trivial matter closely related to her daily life dispelled her sense of fear, and subconsciously followed Xu Muzhou's thinking about the problem.

"It's... by the wall inside the door of the dormitory building." The little girl said in a voice like a mosquito, "As soon as you enter the door, it's on the right."

"Oh, is there any Coke in the vending machine?" Xu Muzhou said, "The kind of cans."

"Yes." The little girl nodded: "It's just a little more expensive than outside, you can buy a can for three yuan."

"Then where is your auntie's duty station?" Xu Muzhou said, "I want to ask her some questions."

Perhaps this "uncle policeman" never asked her about Fu Sihan's affairs. The little girl didn't look as nervous as before. She stretched out a finger from the blanket and pointed in the direction of the floor.

"The dormitory aunt is at the main entrance." The little girl said, "It's opposite the vending machine."

"Thank you." Xu Muzhou smiled at her: "Thank you for your help."

As he spoke, he stood up, told the young female teacher beside him to take care of the child, then turned around and walked out.

"Is there any school leader here?" Xu Muzhou told Zhang Yue: "Go and check Fu Sihan's school situation - she is an orphan, if no one has adopted her, she can't afford such good learning conditions. I just asked After that, Fu Sihan lived in the best double room in the whole school, and the accommodation fee for one semester was only 5000 yuan, plus water, electricity, management fees and other messy things, it would cost 1 yuan to live in this semester alone. International The high school scholarship is evaluated once a year, and the amount is only [-] yuan. In addition, her grades are not top-notch, so it is impossible to support herself on her own."

Zhang Yue responded quickly, turned around and left.

In fact, when it came to this, Xu Muzhou himself felt strange, he found playing card elements around Xu Kang and Fu Sihan, the only difference was that Xu Kang's one was drawn by the murderer, while Fu Sihan's was indeed her own.

Xu Muzhou didn't believe in coincidences, and when he thought about it carefully, besides being orphans, Fu Sihan and Xu Kang had another level of similarity.

—They are not short of money.

Xu Kang seems to be down and out, but because of Qi Yuan, he has a stable source of income enough to support his "art creation" at home, let alone Fu Sihan, as an underage orphan with no financial means, where is she from? The money to go to a private international middle school.

——And what is the meaning of the poker cards whose suits are squares, and why they appear at the scene of crimes one after another.

Xu Muzhou pressed his forehead with a headache. Because of Fu Sihan's appearance, this case was definitely going to become a serial murder case. When the second case happened, Xu Kang died less than 24 hours ago, so the murderer was too anxious.

But Xu Muzhou also knew that this meant that he had to speed up the pace of the investigation in order to solve the matter as much as possible before the third victim appeared.

Senior high school students like Fu Sihan are more valued by the school, and they live on lower floors.The dormitory building of the International High School has a total of eight floors. The first floor is used for various activity rooms. The second, third and fourth floors are occupied by high school seniors and some repeat students. Fu Sihan's dormitory is on the second floor, which happens to be directly above the downstairs duty room.

The first person found at the scene of the crime was Fu Sihan's roommate, but the person who reported the crime was the housekeeper's aunt.

The duty room was brightly lit, and the dormitory aunt who had finished taking notes was fidgeting and wringing her fingers, and looked up at her head from time to time, her face full of worry.

The middle third of the wall facing the building door in the duty room was smashed open to form a 1.5-meter-long glass compartment, which was just enough to see the situation inside and outside.

Xu Muzhou walked to the window, bent down and knocked on the window.

"After Fu Sihan came back at night, she was called out again. You were the one who told her the news, right?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"I, I called you." The dormitory aunt stood up helplessly, lowered her head, her face full of remorse: "I didn't know that this would happen, Comrade Police, I really just wanted to tell her .It's vacation time now, we often have parents come to see the children—”

"I know, don't be nervous." Xu Muzhou made a calm gesture, and continued to ask: "What kind of person came to find Fu Sihan, do you remember what the other person looked like?"

"The other party didn't come in." The dormitory auntie shook her head, pointed to a landline on the table and said, "She called directly and said she was waiting outside the door. But the voice was a young woman, so I asked more In a word, I said that there is no one in classmate Fu's family, what kind of relative is she? She said that she is the sister that classmate Fu met in the orphanage when she was a child. I didn't dare to let her in rashly, so I went to ask classmate Fu. He said he knew, and ran out to meet him in a flash, who knows..."

Xu Muzhou looked back at the door, and asked again: "Is there surveillance at the door?"

"There is one at the gate." The dormitory aunt nodded: "But several police officers came over to look at it just now, but they didn't get any pictures, only the way student Fu ran out. Looking at the direction, that person should be standing Under the flower bed at the door, it’s just blocked by trees, so it’s too dark to see.”

Xu Muzhou pondered for a moment, and thanked him.The battery of his mobile phone was a little low, and he had to keep it to contact his colleagues, so he borrowed a flashlight from the duty room, and followed the instructions of the dormitory auntie, going to try his luck at the flower bed at the door.